Make sure to complete the previous step in our migration guide: Integrate your store with Mailchimp.
Important considerations
Before you start migrating email templates, there are a few things to note:
 - At this time, Mailchimp has two drag-and-drop email builders that simplify email creation. They recommend rebuilding an email template with one of their builders instead of importing an HTML template.
 - HTML templates cannot be imported on the Free or Essentials account plans. You must upgrade to the Standard plan or higher.
 - HTML templates require advanced knowledge and if you're unfamiliar with the language, it's recommended that you work with a developer.
 - Jilt and Mailchimp use different merge tag syntax. Each tag must be swapped out in order to include the correct personalized details.
Export email templates
 1. Go to the Automations list.
 2. Click on the automation that contains the email(s) you wish to export.
 3. Click on the action menu (button with three dots) next to the email you'd like to export, then select Export HTML.
4. In the modal window that appears click the Start export button.
Once you've confirmed the email you'd like to export, Jilt will start preparing the ZIP file. You'll receive an email with a link to download the file, which will be available for 14 days. After which, the file is removed from our system and no longer available to download.
 1. Go to the Broadcasts list.
 2. Click on the action menu (cog icon) of the broadcast that you'd like to export.
 3. Click on Export HTML.
Then follow step 4 in the instructions for Automations.
Pro tip: You can also export the HTML template from the broadcast report page. Open the report page for a sent broadcast and click on the Export HTML button in the email banner.
Order receipts
 1. Go to the Order receipts list.
 2. Click on the order receipt that contains the email(s) you wish to export.
 3. Click on the action menu (button with three dots) next to the email you'd like to export. Then click Export HTML.
Then follow the step 4 instructions for Automations.
Exporting from the email editor
For each email type (Broadcasts, Automations, and Order receipts) you can also export the template directly from the new email editor.
While in the email editor, click on Actions > Export HTML.
How do I export an email on the old editor?
To export an email that is still on our old email editor, please follow these instructions.
Swap out merge tags
Before you import a template you'll want to replace all of the merge tags that are used by Jilt to insert personalized content, such as the contact's first name. Below is a list of the common Jilt tags and the corresponding Mailchimp tags.
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{{ customer.first_name }} or {{ contact.first_name }}
{{ customer.last_name }} or {{ contact.last_name }}
{{ }}
{{ }} or {{ }}
For a complete list of merge tags, please see the following resources:
For identifying and modifying merge tags in Jilt templates, please see the section Dynamic content and merge tags in our article How can I export the HTML of one of my emails?
Import an HTML template into Mailchimp
Mailchimp provides a step by step guide on importing an HTML template in their article Import a Custom HTML Template.
Next step
Continue to Step 8: Export additional Jilt assets.
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Hollywood shines spotlight on mental impairments once again
| Apr 5, 2013 | Social Security Disability Benefits For Mental Conditions
Hollywood has produced many movies highlighting inspiring characters with mental disabilities and is likely about to do so again with the sequel to "Finding Nemo," called "Finding Dory." As anyone who has watched the Nemo version knows, Dory is a little fish with short-term memory loss, a condition that many Americans suffer from.
In the past, Hollywood has introduced society to memorable characters with mental impairments in Rain Man, Forrest Gump and Radio. As you probably already know, Rain Man starred Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman, who plays an autistic savant. The movie helped to raise public awareness about autism, and the amazing skills people with autism can have.
Forrest Gump is another well-received movie about a mentally impaired man who makes incredible accomplishments in his life, forcing countless Americans to re-consider their preconceptions of people with mental impairments. Radio starred Cuba Gooding Jr. and was based on a true story of a man with intellectual disabilities who inspired an entire town with his love for football and life.
Next, it will be interesting to see how Hollywood portrays Dory's short-term memory loss in Finding Dory. On the one hand, the movie could demonstrate that Dory struggles to live alone because of her memory impairment. But at the same time, the movie could also highlight the character's zest for life and ability to live in the moment.
So far, Hollywood has done a good job at demonstrating both the challenges and positive traits that often go along with mental impairments. While the movies are sometimes criticized for stereotyping people with mental impairments, all of the movies mentioned helped to shed a positive light on extremely inspirational characters, both real and fictional, who were mentally disabled.
Source: Hollywood, "How 'Finding Dory' Can Work: More Mental Disability," Michael Arbeiter, April 5, 2013
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text: Serious concerns have been raised about the ecological effects of industrialized fishing, spurring a United Nations resolution on restoring fisheries and marine ecosystems to healthy levels. However, a prerequisite for restoration is a general understanding of the composition and abundance of unexploited fish communities, relative to contemporary ones. We constructed trajectories of community biomass and composition of large predatory fishes in four continental shelf and nine oceanic systems, using all available data from the beginning of exploitation. Industrialized fisheries typically reduced community biomass by 80% within 15 years of exploitation. Compensatory increases in fast-growing species were observed, but often reversed within a decade. Using a meta-analytic approach, we estimate that large predatory fish biomass today is only about 10% of pre-industrial levels. We conclude that declines of large predators in coastal regions have extended throughout the global ocean, with potentially serious consequences for ecosystems. Our analysis suggests that management based on recent data alone may be misleading, and provides minimum estimates for unexploited communities, which could serve as the'missing baseline' needed for future restoration efforts.

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Tom from CA asks:
When saving a picture, Windows always calls it a bitmap. How can I change it so it saves as a jpeg?
The real question here isn't how your computer is SAVING the picture, rather in what format the picture was UPLOADED.
Many times, website creators will use.bmp rather than.jpg or.jpeg, simply because the quality of the picture is higher. A bitmap (.bmp) is an uncompressed photo, whereas a jpeg is a compressed format, which means some quality sacrifice. It may not be obvious to the naked eye, but it IS there.
Your best bet is to save a picture like this in its original format and then use a photo editing program to save it in whatever your preferred format is. I like jpeg because, although it takes up less space than.bmp, it is still a good quality image.
Here's a.bmp of a mandrill that I found through Google images.
My options for saving this are.bmp or "all files". The latter isn't recommended, because you are not specifically defining an extension.
Once you've saved the image, open it in your photo editor. In this example, I'm using Paint, because I know that everyone has Paint.
When you open the image, it will look like this.
You can use the tools at the left of the image to tweak or modify the picture however you want. Above the image you can see your color palette. Now you simply click "file" and then "save as" to choose your format of choice.
Another way to save a picture is to use screen capture. To do this, make sure that your image looks the way that you will want to save it (no pointers over the picture, etc.,) and then, while holding down the "ctrl" key, press "print screen/sysrq" on your keyboard. This will save the entire contents of your screen as an image on your computer's clipboard.
Open Paint, and click "edit" and then "paste" to import the image. Use the "select" function (the box at the upper left of your toolbar) to frame the section of the image that you want to save.
Click "image" and then "crop" to get rid of any extraneous information, and then use "save as" to save your new and improved image.
Hope this helps.

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Annual Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the State of the Finances
The Department of the Treasury was established in 1789. These annual reports also contain the reports of the many departments of the Treasury, including the Bureau of the Mint, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Bureau of Customs, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Secret Service, and the Internal Revenue Service.
Statistical Appendices for the years _PHONE_ are included.
Most of the reports for the years _PHONE_ were bound together into four volumes with combined indexes at the end of each volume. The index for the volume and table of contents listing the reports contained in that volume are included in the pdfs for the applicable years. Additionally, reports for the years 1789, _PHONE_, and _PHONE_ were downloaded from the American State Papers, digitized by the Library of Congress.
In the report for 1842, there is a notation that an act to establish a fiscal year for the United States was approved on August 26, 1842.
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Collection of Duties on Imports and Tonnage
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server product in an organisation, no matter which device they use to gain access. In other words, if you run five copies of Windows Server 2008 on five separate servers, you only need one User CAL for each person in your organisation who access those servers (or any software installed on those servers), whether they access a single server, all five servers, or some number in between. Each user with a single CAL assigned to them can access the server software from as many devices as they want (for example, desktop computers, laptops, smartphones, etc.). User CALs are a popular licensing option.
Device CALs: Device CALs allow access to all instances of a particular server application from a single device (for example, a desktop computer, a laptop, etc.) in your organisation. Device CALs only make sense when multiple employees use the same computer. For example, in 24-hour call centres different employees on different shifts often use the same machine, so Device CALs make sense in this situation.
Choosing a licensing mode for your Windows Server CALs: With Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008, you use a CAL (either a User CAL or a Device CAL) in one of two licensing modes: per seat or per server. You make this decision when you're installing your Windows Server products, not when you acquire the CALs. The CALs themselves don't have any mode designation, so you can use either a User CAL or a Device CAL in either mode. Per seat mode is the default mode, and the one used most frequently. The description of User CALs and Device CALs above describes the typical per seat mode. In "per server" mode, Windows treats each license as a "simultaneous connection." In other words, if you have 40 CALs, Windows will let 40 authenticated users have access. The 41st user will be denied access. However, in per server mode, each CAL is tied to a particular instance of Windows Server, and you have to acquire a new set of licenses for each new server you build that runs Windows. Therefore, per server mode works for some small organisations with one or two servers and limited access requirements.
You don't "install" client licenses the way you install software. There are ways to automate the tracking of software licenses indirectly, but the server software can't refuse access to a user or device on licensing grounds. The licenses don't leave any "digital footprint" that the server software can read. An exception to this occurs when you license Windows Server in per server mode. In this case, if you have 50 licenses, the 51st authenticated user will be denied access (though anonymous users can still access services).
Some key points to remember about client licensing:
The licensing scenarios described in this section arise less frequently, and are too complex to cover completely in this article, so they're described briefly below along with more comprehensive resources.
You don't need client licenses for anonymous, unauthenticated external users. In other words, if someone accesses your Web site, and that site runs on Internet Information Server (IIS), Microsoft's Web serving software, you don't need a client license for any of those anonymous users.
If you have any authenticated external users who access services on your Windows-based servers, you can obtain CALs to cover their licensing requirements. However, the External Connector License (ECL) is a second option in this scenario. The ECL covers all use by authenticated external users, but it's a lot more expensive than a CAL, so only get one if you'll have a lot of external users. For example, even if you get your licenses through the CTXchange donation program, an ECL for Windows Server 2008 has an £76 administrative fee, while a User CAL for Windows Server 2008 carries a £1 admin fee. If only a handful of external users access your Windows servers, you're better off acquiring User CALs. Also, an ECL only applies to external users and devices. In other words, if you have an ECL, you still have to get a CAL for all employees and contractors.
Even though Terminal Services (TS) is built into Windows Server 2003 and 2008, you need to get a separate TS CAL for each client (i.e. each user or each device) that will access Terminal Services in your organisation. This TS license is in addition to your Windows Server CALs.
Microsoft's System Centre products (a line of enterprise-level administrative software packages) use a special type of license known as a management license (ML). Applications that use this type of licensing include System Center Configuration Manager 2007 and System Center Operations Manager 2007. Any desktop or workstation managed by one of these applications needs a client management license. Any server managed by one of these applications requires a server management license, and there are two types of server management licenses – standard and enterprise. You need one or the other but not both. There are also special licensing requirements if you're managing virtual instances of Windows operating systems. For more information, see TechSoup's Guide to System Center Products and Licensing and Microsoft's white paper on Systems Center licensing.
Some Microsoft server products have two client licensing modes, standard and enterprise. As you might imagine, an Enterprise CAL grants access to more advanced features of a product. Furthermore, with some products, such as Microsoft Exchange, the licenses are additive. In other words, a user needs both a Standard CAL AND an Enterprise CAL in order to access the advanced features. See Exchange Server 2007 Editions and Client Access Licenses for more information.
With virtualisation technologies, multiple operating systems can run simultaneously on a single physical server. Every time you install a Microsoft application, whether on a physical hardware system or a virtual hardware system, you create an "instance" of that application. The number of "instances" of particular application that you can run using a single license varies from product to product. For more information see the Volume Licensing Briefs, Microsoft Licensing for Virtualization and the Windows Server Virtualization Calculator. For TechSoup Stock products, see the product description for more information.
There are a lot of nuances to Microsoft licensing, and also a lot of excellent resources to help you understand different scenarios.
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Chris is a former technology writer and technology analyst for TechSoup for Libraries, which aims to provide IT management guidance to libraries. His previous experience includes working at Washington State Library as a technology consultant and technology trainer, and at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as a technology trainer and tech support analyst. He received his M.L.S. from the University of Michigan in 1997.
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Modern candles are mainly decorative and there are various to choose one that suits you best. You will find in this article basic information on different types of candles:
- container candles
- pillar candles
- votive candles
- taper candles
- tealight candles
- floating candles
- rolled candles
Container candles are very common. They are not made to be free standing but are rather made in a jar (container) to be used. Hence, their name. The containers used are mostly round. However, nowadays one can find containers of various shapes: rectangular, square, even hexagonal etc. These candles can be purchased, and can also be homemade. For homemade candles, you will still need to purchase jars or tins online or at local craft shops. Otherwise, you can also make use of used empty glass jars at home. If you will be making your container candles yourself, make sure that you use a thick and heat-resistant glass. This is because of the hot melted wax that would be poured in. Hot wax (especially gel wax ) has been known to shatter glasses so you have to be careful in this regard.
While using your container candles, you can be assured that melting wax will not drip onto the surface the candle is placed on. Container candles are also very versatile. They can accommodate all kinds of wax. This is important because it means you can even use waxes with low melting points and get effective scent throw. Besides, they are safe. Since they are housed in jars, you can be assured that flammable materials around the candle will not catch fire. Also, containers are reusable. With container candles, you are good to go.
Unlike container candles, pillar candles are free-standing candles. They are not made with jars but rather with special molds. The molds are first of all used to form the candles which are then removed and are made to stand alone. Metal molds are very common, though you would find plastic and silicon molds okay too. Silicon molds particularly come in various shapes and are cool to use if you are making the candles yourself. However, most pillar candles come in round shapes. You would find them in various colours but mostly unscented. Hard waxes are most suitable for making them. This is because pillar candles have no support, so they need to be strong. Paraffin wax works well while palm wax is a good natural alternative.
One advantage with this type of candles over container candles is that you can make various designs on the surface of the candles themselves. This is a luxury one cannot get with their container counterparts. Also, they hold more wax than container candles and therefore burn for a longer time. But a source of concern is that they drip on whatever surface they are placed on and really create a mess around the candle. You should not keep flammable materials around pillar candles as this can be terrible in case the flame goes wide or the candle falls over.
If you are a very religious person, chances are that you have seen or used votive candles before. They are especially common in some Christian denominations. Votive candles are very small candles widely used in religious circles but can also be used in home decor. They are typically only two inches tall and about an inch wide. They are meant to be used with special candle holders made of glass, metals, ceramics etc. When used with glass holders, they can be very similar to traditional container candles, with the main difference being size. The candles are made separately and placed in the holders.
When using votive candles, make sure that the holders fit the candles tightly. If not, you will waste wax and reduce burn time aside from the messy surface you will get. Apart from being versatile and inexpensive, they also burn for a long time (some up to ten hours). Votive candles are very beautiful particularly when they are grouped together and lighted.
These are tall, slim candles. They are similar to pillar candles in most respects except that they are meant to sit in a candle holder. Votive candle holders are different from the ones used for taper candles. They are usually a little wider at the bottom than at the top. A slightly wider bottom means they can fit into standard candle holders. You will find them in different sizes from 6 inches to even about 16 inches long. They are also called 'dinner candles' since they are mostly used as centrepieces on dinner tables. Like pillar candles, they also drip wax and can easily fall over, which can result into a fire. Therefore, they should not be left unattended.
Taper candles provide a long burn time and come scented and unscented. Most taper candles are unscented though. The scented ones do not throw scent well because they have a small melt pool. Also, most of them are made with paraffin wax and are coloured with candle wax dyes which make them even more beautiful. They can be made with a mold or traditional dipping method or one can simply wrap beeswax sheets around the wicks to make them.
These are another type of small candles. In size, they are usually about an inch and half in diameter and an inch in height. They are very popular and are made in metal or plastic containers. Like votives, arranging many tealight candles in a group is really a cool way to light up the room. They can be used to keep food warm or to warm scented oil in oil diffusers and let the scent spread through the air. The scented ones do not throw scent effectively because they have small melt pool. They are also less likely to create a mess since they are in their own containers. Though small tealight candles are more common, slightly larger ones provide longer burn time.
This can be surprising but yes, there are candles that float on water. Floating candles are small candles about two to three inches wide and can be used anywhere there is water. Some tealight candles also float but nothing beats a traditional floating candle. You need to be careful when placing a floating candle in water. The wick has to be dry so that it can burn well. To effectively do so, you can hold the wick gently so that the water will not splash onto it. They are usually made in round shape, and unscented.
We agree they are special candles but nonetheless are also affordable. You can use them to decorate dinner tables. For an extra touch of beauty, if you are placing a floating candle in a glass jar filled with water, you can put decorative objects such as flowers and so on in the water. They are nice for parties but they need to be monitored regularly.
Candles are very beautiful objects. With the types mentioned above and others, you can decorate your home to your taste. Choosing a particular type of candle for your home, parties or even as a gift should be very easy now with the information given.
Rolled beeswax candles are the easiest to make of all candle types. Even children can make rolled candles without difficulty. They are made by literally rolling the wax sheet around the wick. Rolling candles are a method of making taper candles which are similar to pillar candles but are placed in special holders to burn.
Apart from the fact that making them comes without stress, they are also the quickest to make. There is no need for melting wax, waiting for it to cool and all such processes associated with other candle making methods. You would find it very interesting to make your own DIY rolled beeswax candles, especially with friends or family.
Because they are quick and easy to make, several rolled beeswax candles can be made at once and kept for future use or even packaged as gifts. The major shapes they can be easily made are round and square.


Archbishop denounces damage done to Buenos Aires Cathedral by homosexual radicals
.- Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, issued a statement this week denouncing the damage done to the Archdiocesan Cathedral by a group of homosexual activists, who smeared the front wall of the church with insults against Catholics.
Last weekend the Argentinean version of the so-called â€œGay Pride Paradeâ€ brought together 4,000 transvestites, lesbians and homosexuals for a march through the main streets of the capital city. Homosexual activists carried out threats they had made earlier that they intended to defame the Cathedral of the Archdiocese.
Cardinal Bergoglio denounced the actions and said, â€œIn a pluralist society, when minority groups wish to express themselves, it seems logical they would do so respecting the religious feelings of the majority. If the majority of people here are Catholic, the graffiti smeared all over the exterior of the Cathedral is an offense against the religious sensibilities of the Argentinean people.â€
He also lamented the â€œlack of respect for a church which, besides being a place of worship and belonging to Catholics, has been a privileged witness to the history of Argentineans, and is a National Historical Monument where our founding father is buried. Therefore this violent attitude helps deteriorate a public, religious and historical building which ought to be restored again.â€
The statement expresses the Archdioceseâ€™s desire that â€œit be understood that when we speak of the doctrine concerning sexual conduct as expressed in Magisterial teaching, we do so based on the truths that we believe, but never apart from an attitude of respect and understanding towards the person. One would hope therefore that in a free country one could dissent from these ideas without injuring others or the institutions which they represent.â€
Premeditated attack Although parade organizers, with the help of some local officials, claim no involvement, ACI-Prensa has acquired the parade announcement that explicitly called on participants to deface the Cathedral.
Authorities were informed by pro-family groups of the intention to damage the church but they claim they were unable to control the outbreak of aggression. Homosexual activists marched to the Cathedral door a few minutes after the parade began and spray-painted the front of the church.
Some of the graffitti read, â€œThe Church is a dictatorshipâ€ and â€œThe Holy Inquisitionâ€™s repression is here.â€
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Restriction of variance interaction effects and their importance for international business research
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A recent Journal of International Business Studies editorial on interaction effects within and across levels highlighted the importance of and difficulty associated with justifying and reporting of such interaction effects. The purpose of this editorial is to describe a type of interaction hypothesis that is very common in international business (IB) research: the restricted variance (RV) hypothesis. Specifically, we describe the nature of an RV interaction and its evidentiary requirements. We also offer several IB examples involving interactions that could have been supported with RV arguments. Our hope is that IB researchers can use this paper to bolster their arguments for interaction hypotheses by explaining them in terms of RV.
Keywordsrestricted variance interaction interaction hypothesis moderation cross-level interaction international business research
RESTRICTION OF VARIANCE INTERACTION EFFECTS AND THEIR IMPORTANCE FOR INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS RESEARCH
As international business (IB) research matures, it is only natural that we should seek more nuanced explanations of phenomena of interest. JIBS authors often seek to place boundary conditions on additive effects by introducing interactive effects via moderators. While there are myriad papers that walk us through methods for testing all sorts of interactions, far less guidance is available regarding the conceptualization and defense of such effects. The recent editorial by Andersson, Cuervo-Cazurra, and Nielsen (2014) provides precisely these kinds of instructions to help authors prepare their submissions to JIBS.
Their instructive discussion and specific recommendations as to how to theorize and justify interactions within and across levels of analysis drew attention from scholars from other disciplines who pointed out another type of interaction effect, the restricted variance (RV) interaction, that requires its own sort of justification and testing. As we outline below, RV interactions are particularly relevant to IB research, especially for commonly hypothesized cross-level relationships between variables. This follow-up editorial serves as a complement to the editorial by Andersson et al. (2014) and seeks to explain the what, why and how of the RV interaction.
WHAT IS THE RV INTERACTION?
In an RV interaction, the effect of a predictor variable X on a dependent variable Y depends on the level of moderator variable Z because the variance of X or Y changes as a function of Z. If, for example, Y has very little variance when Z is high, then the slope representing the relationship between X and Y (or between anything else and Y) will be lower when Z is high. Because Y doesn't vary much when Z is high, then it cannot co-vary much with X. We will offer some detailed IB examples shortly. For the time being, the reader is encouraged to think of the variance restricting properties of strength of host market institutions on foreign direct investment, or of government ownership on willingness to invest in volatile foreign markets. At certain levels of these moderating variables, low values of FDI or willingness to invest are relatively rare. Because these variables have less variance under these conditions, they have less covariance with other variables. This is the essence of the RV interaction.
RV interactions are most commonly connected to the situational strength arguments of Mischel (1973, 1977). Mischel argued that the relationship between personality and behavior depends on the strength of the situation. In situations with well-defined and monitored norms for behavior (e.g., funerals), people tend to behave in the same fashion regardless of personality. In less well-defined situations (e.g., sitting alone in one's office writing a description of a proposed JIBS submission), behavior varies as a function of personality. In the weak situation, there is variance in behavior, and that variance can be explained by personality, among other things. For a general conceptual discussion of situational constraints, we direct authors to Peters and O'Connor (1980); for descriptions of different types of constraining moderators and their use in organizational science research we point to Meyer, Dalal, and Hermida (2010).
Both figures (and their corresponding data) reflect the relationship between the personality trait extraversion and loquacity (i.e., chattiness). The data for Figure 1 are intended to contain a full range of values on both variables and represent the extraversion–loquacity relationship in a weak situation, that is, one in which there are few norms for behavior.
The data for Figure 2 were created by compressing the values of the dependent variable upwards and are meant to represent the extraversion–loquacity relationship in a situation with strong norms for behavior, such as a funeral. The reader will notice that the rank order of the subjects on the dependent variable remains the same, as does the range of values on the predictor variable. Nevertheless, the compression, or variance restriction, on the dependent variable serves to reduce the slope representing the relationship between personality and behavior. And indeed, even with this very small sample, the personality–situation interaction is significant at 0.01, that is, at the 1% level.
The distinction between RV interactions and traditional interactions is a useful one. The raison d'être of the Andersson et al. (2014) editorial was that interactions can be difficult to justify without thorough explanation of underlying theoretical mechanisms. RV arguments allow one to specify in an intuitive way why a relationship between an independent variable X and a dependent variable Y varies across situational contexts by more clearly identifying the mechanisms that drive the variability in the independent variable–dependent variable relationship.
IMPORTANCE AND PREVALENCE OF RV INTERACTION EFFECTS IN IB RESEARCH
Many of the interactions hypothesized in published IB research can be considered RV interactions. While published IB research does not usually make RV arguments, the way that authors of these papers approach the rationale for their hypothesized interaction effects is often consistent with, and perhaps better explained as RV interactions. To get an idea for how common RV interactions might be in research published in JIBS, we went through all of the articles JIBS published in 2014 in order to identify those that hypothesized and tested interaction effects. Out of 21 papers that hypothesized and tested interaction effects, we determined that 11 (53%) in fact described RV interaction effects. However, just to be clear, none of these papers made an explicit case for a RV interaction or provided a specific test for RV.
Providing a few specific examples for typical RV interaction effects in published IB research should allow us to demonstrate their commonality. IB research frequently hypothesizes the moderating effect of contextual variables such as market regulation, strength of existing legal structures, and government ownership. Typical arguments are that a given relationship between an independent variable X and the dependent variable Y exists in countries with little market regulation or weak legal structures, but not in countries with strong market regulation or strong legal structures.
For example, Lu, Liu, Wright, and Filatotchev (2014) argue that prior experience with the target market is beneficial for FDI, going on to propose that when host countries have strong market-supporting institutions, these institutions can act as a sort of substitute for prior experience. Market-supporting institutions can create links to customers and business partners, and they can help navigate the local market landscape. As such, when there are strong institutions in the host market, the predictive power of prior international experience with regard to FDI entry becomes weaker. This is, in essence, an RV argument. Strength of host market institutions acts as a "strong situation" that suppresses the variance of FDI. Where there are weak host institutions, there is a great deal of variance in FDI, and this variance can be explained by prior experience with that market. Where there are strong institutions, FDI is (relatively) uniformly high, and this restricted dependent variable is less strongly predicted by experience, or by most anything else. Other scholars (e.g., Jory & Ngo, 2014) make the related argument that foreign direct investment is more positively related to profit in countries with weak legal structures as investors can find more creative ways of reducing their operating costs in such countries as compared to countries with strong legal structures that limit the options that foreign companies might have.
Another common example revolves around the moderating effect of government ownership. For example, Pan, Teng, Supapol, Lu, Huang, and Wang (2014) argue that perceptions of favorability of the institutional environment predict whether or not a company decides to acquire or invest in companies in a volatile foreign market. This relationship, however, should be moderated by government ownership such that companies that are government owned are backed up by the government and hence their risk tolerance in general is higher. As a result, perceptions of favorability of the institutional environment are less relevant – if things go wrong when they enter a volatile market, their government will intervene or bail them out. Therefore, the degree to which perceived favorability predicts decision to enter a volatile foreign market is weaker for government-owned companies than it is for non-government-owned companies, simply because there are fewer negative consequences associated with an unfavorable environment.
RV EFFECTS IN CROSS-LEVEL MODELS
Andersson et al. (2014) also make the important distinction between within-level and cross-level interactions and highlight the particular importance of multilevel models in IB research. RV interactions are, if anything, more common in cross-level models than in within-level models.
Consider the following example of a cross-level RV interaction. Foreign companies are likely to vary in the extent to which they invest in state-owned enterprises (SOEs) vs non-SOEs. A moderating factor here could be the country in which the acquisition target is located. In countries in which legal structures and employment laws are weak and financial markets are underdeveloped, there might be a stronger positive relationship between investment in SOE targets and company performance (e.g., Jory & Ngo, 2014). In these countries


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One of the longest-running debates in a relationship is often who is lazier, the man or the woman. Scientists have officially declared that women are LAZIER than men. The study is based on the percentage of each gender that is considered INACTIVE. That's defined as doing less than 30 minutes of moderate activity five days a week or 20 minutes of vigorous activity three times a week.
Lancet published a paper this week examining which countries have the most and least active citizens. For example, only 4.7 percent of Bangladeshi citizens are rated as inactive, while Malta has the highest rate of inactivity, 72 percent of its residents. The findings showed that 34 percent of women in 122 countries are inactive, as opposed to 28 percent of men.
Worldwide, 31.1 percent of adults rank as physically inactive, which is defined as less than 30 minutes of moderate activity 5 days a week or 20 minutes of vigorous activity three times a week.
The scale of physical activity varies greatly from country to country. Interestingly, the results correlate very little to data regarding national life expectancies, despite recent proof that prolonged sitting may shorten life spans. But you didn't win this one completely, guys. Women still have a higher IQ and they also live longer.


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Falcon researcher Dr Donna Falconer (photographed by a
motion-activated camera) uses a walking pole to protect
herself from attacking falcons, at Ferintosh Station, near
Mt Cook. Photo supplied.
There is no room for complacency over the future of the
endangered New Zealand falcon, researcher and falcon advocate
Dr Donna Falconer says.
Dr Falconer, who recently gained a University of Otago PhD in
geology, and has had her distinctive name since birth,
swiftly found herself inspired by a series of close
encounters with New Zealand falcons after moving to Twizel
six years ago.
Her subsequent research and close-up photography involving
falcons will feature in a talk she will give at the Orokonui
Ecosanctuary at 1pm tomorrow.
Dr Falconer said she was seriously considering going back to
Otago University to study for another PhD, on these birds.
It was a good time to be raising awareness about the karearea
or New Zealand falcon, as the latest season's fledglings were
''starting to make themselves known''.
Chicks from the Eastern falcon subtype, in the mid/southern
South Island, started fledging from early December until the
middle of this month and were easy to tell from their parents
because they had white/grey feet and soft fleshy body parts,
whereas adults were all yellow.
Two of the biggest threats inexperienced falcons faced were
being electrocuted by power lines or hit by cars when eating
Falcons were ''a bit of a double-edged sword'' where
ecosanctuaries were concerned.
''As majestic as they are, it's only natural they'd put all
those incredible hunting skills to good use given the
veritable smorgasbord of fine dining opportunities at their
wing tips in such places.''
Orokonui Ecosanctuary general manager Chris Baillie said two
falcons and a hawk overflew the ecosanctuary from time to
She was not aware of having lost any birds or other animals
through falcon predation, and birds and lizards had places to
hide if needed.
''Falcons are part of the ecosystemthey deserve
conservation as much as any other native species.''


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Publishing assets: Sequential vs Parallel
A few days ago, we quietly deployed a change that nearly doubled publishing speed for the vast majority of Unbounce pages.
Our publishing process involves two main steps:
 1. Render the page, and publish it to S3
 2. Find all the assets referenced by the page, and publish them to S3 (where they are served by Cloudfront)
The second step can only be done after the first step is done, because it needs the rendered page to find all the assets. The first step is quite complex, with little room for optimization. However, we recently discovered that there was some low-hanging fruit for optimization in the second step.
We realized that time spent publishing pages is split pretty evenly between those two steps. It takes about as long to deal with all the assets as it does to render the page for publishing. This meant there was an improvement we could make: publishing the assets in parallel.
Sequential vs Parallel
If you were to write out some pseudo-code of what step 2 looks like, it might look something like this:
for each asset in the rendered page, do the following, one at a time:
 download the asset from wherever it's stored
 upload the asset to S3/Cloudfront
A really simple diagram of the flow of this code looks like:
Sequential diagram
This probably seems pretty straightforward, and it is. It's how we've been doing publishing for years. The problem (or potential for improvement) is that it downloads the first asset, and uploads it completely, before it does anything with the second asset. And it does the same with the second asset, before looking at the third one, and so on.
There's a nifty little thing called Amdahl's Law that applies here. It's a bunch of math that, when applied to the situation here, effectively says that if half the publishing time is spent in something we can parallelize, then we can nearly half how long publishing takes. Uploading the assets is a perfect candidate to parallelize.
Here's some pseudocode for the newly parallelized asset publishing:
for each asset in the rendered page, do the following, all at the same time:
 download the asset from wherever it's stored
 upload the asset to S3/Cloudfront
It looks easy when it's pseudocode, but trust me when I say it's not nearly as easy in real code. A really simple diagram of this parallel code looks like:
Parallel diagram
Instead of uploading the assets one at a time, we do them all at the same time. If there were 50 assets, uploading the assets should take about 1/50th the time. That seems like a huge speedup, but when it's applied to the whole publishing time, there's still that pesky rendering to do first.
Also, sadly, running 50 of these at the same time doesn't always mean a 50 time speed up. 50 at the same time means 50 downloads (or uploads) at the same time. If the network connection can't handle that much traffiic, maybe you'll only see a 40 or 30 times speed up. Additionally, if 1 of those 50 is a big file, it probably accounts for more than 1/50th of the time overall, so we still have to wait for it.
So what does all this mean in the end, for our customers? What I've seen from our measurements so far is that for 90% of pages, publishing takes only 58% as long as did before.
This graph shows the median (50 percentile), 90, 95, and 99 percentile numbers for each 3 hour window, over the last 7 days. As you can see, they all drop significantly on the afternoon of the 21st, when we deployed this change.
A page that previously may have taken 13 seconds to publish, now takes less than 8 seconds, and a page that took 7 seconds to publish now takes only 4. This depends on the page, however. Pages that use very few assets, but still take a long time to render won't show as much benefit from this improvement.
I'm really happy with these changes, and I hope you will be too.
Derek Lewis
Senior Software Developer


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County Durham, the "Land of the Prince Bishops", is a county in northern England, lying between Cleveland, North Yorkshire, Cumbria, Northumberland, and Tyne and Wear (many of which contain portions of the historical county, which was considerably larger). Historically, the Bishop of Durham ruled the county as his personal principality, a custom only ended in 1836.
The county town is Durham, also the site of a famous cathedral and university; other important towns are Bishop Auckland, Easington, Consett, Chester-le-Street, and Barnard Castle. The traditional county of Durham includes Gateshead, South Shields and Sunderland (since 1974 in Tyne and Wear), and Hartlepool and Stockton (since 1974 in Cleveland); Darlington was removed from the county to become a Unitary Authority in the 1990s.
Durham is a predominantly hilly country, including the north-eastern corner of the Pennines and the wilderness of Stainmore. The rivers Wear and Tees flow through it, and the largest waterfall in England, High Force. is in the county.
People from County Durham
- David Jenkins, Bishop of Durham from 1984-94 was a controversial Anglican churchman, making statements that were widely construed as denying the Resurrection. Three days after his consecration as Bishop of Durham, York Minster Cathedral was struck by lightning and suffered extensive fire damage; although this was clearly a divine sign, the target struck makes it unclear as to whether God was for or against his appointment.


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Technology Fee Advisory Committee Funding
Technology Fee Focus Group
Technology Fee Committee
Focus Group of Students
Results (February 17, 1999)
Conducted and Prepared by:
NDSU PRSSA: Bobby Prevost and the following members:
Lisa Sedlacek Jill Carlson
Angie Nelson Brigid Ryan
Heidi Guggisberg Tracie Popma
Bipasha Ray Beth Sagsveen
Most Prevalent Themes in Student Focus Group:
Students feel the modem pool/access is a vital technology at NDSU and should remain a high priority for funding.
Printing is another vital technology that students have access too, and this should remain a priority for funding.
All classrooms should all be equipped with efficient and adequate technology to make the students experience as positive as possible.
Discussion on General Technology
What is technology?
The students defined technology as anything that improves our way of life or makes our lives easier. Most felt that technology is a tool that makes what we do faster and more efficient. The most common technologies that were mentioned were: computers, modem access, and modem pools.
The group felt that technology goes far beyond computers and modems however. Cars, and advanced medical drugs were also mentioned as types of technology.
How does technology affect your educational experiences?
The group felt their educational experiences at NDSU have been greatly affected by technology. The technology most beneficial to the group was:
1) E-mail communication between students and professors.
2) Computer clusters available in the residence halls so you don't have to own your own computer.
3) Instructors who have web sites where you can retrieve notes and get class syllabi. The group also felt however, that some professors move too fast in class because they put so much information on the web.
What technology experiences will be necessary for your career?
The group discussed themes they felt were relevant regarding technology and their future careers. The three most prevalent themes were:
1) Access to the Internet. The group felt that the Internet would become more of a necessity as they move into their careers.
2) Knowledge of basic computer functions such as e-mail and word processing was also mentioned.
3) Knowledge of basic navigation functions of the Internet was mentioned as a necessity as well. These experiences they felt applied to everyone because they ease the complexity of many situations and speed the time it takes to do calculations.
What technologies do you see being used by faculty in the classroom?
The technologies that students mentioned most are:
1) Microphones for presentations
4) Use of links/networking on the Internet
5) Instructors' notes on the web/printed notes
6) Projectors with LCD
7) PowerPoint instruction
8) Assignments on the Internet
The students mentioned that sometimes the use of technology doesn't seem worth it because it takes so long for the instructor to figure out how to work it, wasting class time. They felt either they all need to know how to use it effectively or an instruction manual should be available to them. It was agreed that it is the professors' responsibility to know how to work the technology they are using.
What technology experiences should the student bring to the classroom?
The group felt there are specific experiences the students need to bring to the classroom. They are:
1) knowing how to search the web, because some students have never used computers before,
2) Computer system training,
3) Students should have knowledge of Windows 95, which could be taught during orientation,
4) The students prior to classes should know basic computer skills such as typing and math calculations.
It was also mentioned that there should be different levels of computer classes offered and placement test should be available. The group felt that there should be some type of overall requirement to get into some classes and there should be some courses for students with no prior computer experience. It was mentioned that the current levels of computer classes offered are confusing.
What technologies are necessary for supporting student learning?
Students felt that use of the web for posting class syllabi, notes and assignments is very useful and makes the material much more accessible. However, there were several complaints including:
1) Instructors often waste valuable time trying to figure out the equipment (such as PowerPoint),
2) Some professors go too fast because they put so much on the web and go over less in class,
3) Students have to cram because so much information is on the web.
It was also mentioned that having so much information on the web makes it easier to skip classes.
Discussion on Funded Projects
Which of the funded Technology Fee Projects are you aware of?
This question spurred a large discussion, most, of which included questions regarding where the money is spent. Some students however, were aware of several of the projects. Projects that were mentioned include:
Outfitting of 2 classrooms each year with computer hook-ups and LCD's
Residence Hall clusters
Money to pay assistants in clusters
Some students mentioned that the residence hall clusters are extremely beneficial because students can easily access their e-mail accounts. They also felt that having clusters in different buildings was beneficial because it made the computers more accessible.
Some of the complaints included:
1) There needs to be an increased number of assistants in the various clusters. There was also a concern as to how well the assistants were trained. Some felt that they were often unable to answer the students' questions when asked.
2) It was also mentioned that too much money goes into laptop funding. The students believed there are not enough students using laptops to justify the amount of money that is spent on them. They also stated that the price for an Ethernet card is too high. It was voiced that during high-usage times, it is difficult to get a line.
3) Some felt that the University Village and Bison Courts should have computer hook ups.
4) Some people come into use the Stockbridge computer cluster from across the street even though they don't live there.
What projects affected your campus experience?
The group agreed that there were several projects that had a significant impact on their campus experience. These projects include:
1) Residence Hall computer clusters
2) Laser Printing
3) Scanning Machines
What effect did these projects have on your campus experience?
The students agreed that many of the funded projects have made for a positive campus experience. Accessibility to the latest equipment was the most common theme of the discussion. Projects the students felt have impacted their campus experience included:
1) Residence Hall clusters which made it easy to access the computer programs and e-mail accounts.
2) Classrooms equipped with the latest computer technology. Participants felt that more classrooms should be better equipped.
3) All students agreed that Laser printing is vital because it gives them access to quality printouts every time. More printers in the clusters were also suggested.
Which projects should be continued?
The group felt that most all the projects were worthwhile. The ones that most of the students agreed on were:
1) Laser Printing
2) Modem Pool
3) Residence Hall Clusters
4) Multi-media carts
It was suggested that the modem pool be upgraded to 56k. The reason for this would be that it would minimize the downloading time and people wouldn't be on the computers as long.
Which projects should not again be funded?
There was only mention of one project they felt was not as worthy of tech fee dollars. That was the money allotted for the laptop hook ups. The reason cited for this was that there are such a small number of students using them. There was a fair amount of discussion however, regarding the fact that Architecture students are required to have laptops making the laptop hook-ups necessary.
Although not directly related to the question, some students felt that the information on campus regarding where the technology is located is very poor. They felt that many students don't know where things are such as the data ports in Morrill. It was suggested that the information be included in orientation and be posted in the buildings.
Discussion of the Funding Process
Was the funding process fair last year?
The discussion on the funding process was quite brief. The students felt they had limited knowledge regarding the process and therefore could not make an entirely accurate judgement. However, as far as they knew, the process was relatively fair.
Have any of you been involved in a grant or applied for a grant from the tech fee committee?
No members had been involved or applied for a grant from the tech fee committee.
What kind of information would you like to receive after the grant application process?
This question was not applicable to the group.
If you were denied funding from the tech fee committee, were you provided with enough information to understand why you weren't funded?
This question was not applicable to the group.
Discussion of Future Changes
How would you rank the target areas for last years fund cycle?
The group discussed two areas they felt were very important to the funding cycle:
1) Printing is vital to students, although there is far too much waste,
2) Technology should be made more handicap accessible.
It was discussed that printing waste is a huge problem in the clusters. Suggestions to stop this waste were to possibly have scanned cards students used when they printed. It was also mentioned that maybe there could be more people employed to look after this problem.
Would you eliminate any target areas from this year's request for proposals?
This question did not generate much discussion either because the students felt that they were not knowledgeable enough to make a judgement.
What new target areas would you add?
This question did not generate much of a discussion. The students felt that some areas that need improvement (some non-technology) were:
1) New screens to pull down for overhead projectors because many are dirty and ripped (specifically in Minard),
2) New desks are needed in many of the building as the current ones either need to be repaired and in some cases, are too small,
3) Technology for students with disabilities.
How would you change the funding process?
The group did not


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Surviving Sepsis Campaign updated its guideline regarding new evidence (ProCESS, ARISE, ProMIS). It is required to do a series of actions within first 3 hours and 6 hours of patient presentation(time of triage):
The first 3 hours:
1. Measure lactate level
2. Obtain blood cultures prior to administration of antibiotics
3. Administer broad spectrum antibiotics
4. Administer 30ml/kg crystalloid for hypotension or lactate ≥4mmol/L
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TPWD News Release — Jan. 3, 2012
While much of the park retains the same tall grasses that helped hide the Texian army as it approached Mexican Gen. Santa Anna's encampment during the Texas Revolution, portions of the historic battleground have become overgrown with a canopy of alien Chinese tallow trees. A large area of the battleground has been cleared of this invasive tree imported from Asia and is now ready to be seeded with native grasses and wildflowers.
Since very few areas of Texas today retain native prairie consisting of a landscape rich in plant diversity because of loss of habitat caused by farming, overgrazing and development. TPWD had been having a difficult time finding the coastal region type of prairie plants that once grew across the battleground. In addition, the site's existing prairie was too small and patchy for a successful harvest.
Fortunately, League City's Benoit Prairie Park holds 44 acres of one of the highest quality remnant prairies left on the Gulf Coast. Likewise, U of H's Galveston County coastal property contains roughly 100 acres of prairie grasses. TPWD worked out an agreement that allows Junction's Native American Seed Company to harvest native grass and wildflower seed from their prairies to use to reseed 110 acres of the San Jacinto Battleground late this winter or early next spring.
The work is being accomplished with the same type of combines most farmers use, but the machines have been modified to harvest the especially diverse and fluffy native plant seeds. The combine work is similar to mowing the prairie; a practice now done annually at the prairie parks, except that the cut portion of the plants is retained and the attached seed is collected. This material is then brought back to Native American Seed's facility where it is cleaned and tested for viability.
The diverse species harvested so far include such beautiful plants as blue mist flower, purple gay feather, switchgrass, little bluestem, Indian grass and Texas coneflower. More than a hundred different types of seed will be collected in all and planted into the restored battleground by Native American Seed once the ground becomes dry enough this winter or early spring.
This project emphasizes the importance of the conservation work League City and Harris County have been doing to retain portions of Texas' native landscape. Native American Seed specializes in conducting large-scale conservancy seed harvests on Texas' last great prairie remnants. This seed is not available elsewhere and the San Jacinto Battleground restoration would not be possible without it. These preserved coastal tall-grass prairie parks not only provide beautiful and historic landscapes, but also provide a home for such prairie-dependent wildlife as marsh hawks and meadow larks.


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How to find a MRS for three goods.
Consider the Cobb-Douglas utility function U = U(X,Y,Z) for the case of three goods X,Y and Z defined by
U = (X,Y,Z)=(X^1/3).(Y^1/3).(Z^1/3)
What are the marginal utilities and marginal rates of substitution for this utility function?


Antos Antler Dog Chew - Large
Antos Antlers are healthy chews for dogs. Antos antlers satisfy a dog's natural urge to chew, whilst also helping to strengthen and clean teeth.
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Antos antlers are a naturally grown chew so don't contain nylon like some long-lasting chews. They are not an 'empty' chew like rawhide and contain important minerals.
Even dogs who are losing weight can enjoy Antos antlers because they only contain a tiny amount of fat. Naturally, they don't contain additives or preservatives.
Antos antlers are sourced from naturally shed Red Deer and Fallow Deer antler, much of which is from Scottish highland herds.
Please Note:
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What are the benefits of using Antos Antler Dog Chews?
Naturally shed antler
Contain important minerals
Leaves no stains or mess
Helps with dental hygiene
No additives or preservatives
What is in Antos Antler dog chews?
100% Naturally shed deer antler
What size Antos Antler is best for my dog?
Just like with any chew, buying the right size for your dog is important. For example, whilst a toy dog could take on an extra large antler, it would serve no benefit at all and would be quite overwhelming for the dog. Likewise, a giant breed should not be given a small antler.
Size Guide:
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Medium (75 - 150g)- suitable for small to medium dogs
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Extra large (220 - 270g) - suitable for large to giant breeds or dogs with strong jaws
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text: Irregular Pyramids are defined as a stack of successively reduced graphs. Each vertex of a reduced graph is associated to a set of vertices in the base level graph named its receptive field. If the initial graph is deduced from a planar sampling grid its reduced versions are planar and each receptive field is a region of the initial grid. Combinatorial Pyramids are defined as a stack of successively reduced combinatorial maps. Combinatorial maps are based on half edges named darts and the receptive field of a dart is a sequence of darts in the base level combinatorial map. We present in this paper preliminary results showing how to define regions from the receptive fields of the darts.


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S: Seasons of Change
FC: 4 Jobs of a Computer
1: Natalee Heiser 1st Period
2: Input | Receives information and makes it available to the computer the "i" of "I/ O (input and output)
3: mouse | microphone
4: Process | Happends in the central processing unit (cpu). The CPU is where the computer does its work, where the processing takes place. On a microcomputer the CPu is on one single chip.
5: Cpu | Microprocceser
6: Memory | Is where data is stored until needed.
7: Microprocceser | Flash drive
8: Output | Is the job (and a device) that gives data back in a useable form. The "O" of I/ O (input and output).
9: Printer | Camera


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The following articles, written in 1997 and 2000, are a tribute to Demetria Martinez and her life craft. Martinez book, Mother Tongue, documented the reasons at the foundation of the Sanctuary Movement, founded in Tucson.
They Hang Poets Don't They
"Silencing the Mother Tongue"
By Brenda Norrell
When Demetria Martinez was on trial, charged with administering illegal assistance to El Salvadoran women at the United States border, her poetry was used against her in court. The trauma silenced the voice of the writer.
Acquitted on first amendment grounds, Martinez later attended a poetry reading which unleashed a new voice within. It was El Salvadoran refugee Jose Luis, fleeing torture in his homeland. The book became the award-winning "Mother Tongue."
When ten women were hanged in Iran for refusing to recant their belief in the Baha'i Faith, to deny their belief in the oneness of God, religion and humanity, Khomeini's Revolutionary Guards hoped to silence their voices. Instead, the noose that brought an end to their lives, served to magnify the voices of these poets, writers, singers and professionals.
Olya Roohizadegan, author of "Olya's Story," shared prison cells with the women hanged in 1983. Mona Mahmudnizhad, a lover of writing and singing, was only 17 years old. Her crime was teaching Baha'i childrens classes.
Speaking during July to gatherings at the Hopi Cultural Center, Navajo Nation and in Albuquerque, Roohizadegan recalled the torture of Baha'is in prison and the severance of human rights for Baha'is in Iran.
She brought the voices and dreams of ten women, college students, mothers and grandmothers, voices the government of Iran believed would never be heard. These are the voices of young Mona and women in their twenties, Shirin, Mitra, Roya and Mashid. In a country where it is forbidden for women to allow men to hear their footsteps, they believed in the equality of men and women. They were charged with the additional crime of not being married.
"In prison, the most important thing in the world was to be free," said Roohizadegan, who escaped overland to Pakistan. Now living in England, she remains under a death sentence in Iran.
"The ten women passed the test of their faith and they are free. But I am not free until the truth is known."
Nigeria hoped to silence another voice when it hanged poet Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight fellow human rights activists in 1995. Saro-Wiwa campaigned against pollution and exploitation by multinational oil companies in his homeland.
Favoring humor and satire, Saro-Wiwa said, "The satirist holds up a distorting mirror before the people who get scared when they see their reflection. There are many scared people in Nigeria."
Fear and torture are the enemies of truth and freedom. Martinez wrote about the disappeared, the vanished, and El Salvadorans whose tongues were cut out and limbs severed. Martinez named and honored the disappeared. It left her with a personal understanding of post traumatic stress syndrome. She persevered, however, and the voices grew stronger within.
"You just hear the voices and you go with it," Martinez said at the Las Cruces Book Festival.
When Roohizadegan spoke, the voices of ten hanged women transcended the distant, cold and dirty prison cell and the hangman in Iran.
Saro-Wiwa's voice called out from Nigeria and joined the voices of fighters for freedom and justice everywhere, "They hang poets don't they?"
In the year 2000, Demetria Martinez and Jose Matus were among those speaking out at a border summit in Tucson.
"The immigration policies are racist in themselves," said Jose Matus, Pascua Yaqui documenting abuses for Coalicion de Derechos Humanos (human rights)organization.
"Immigration policies are made to keep out the poor people. And who are the poor people? The people of color."
Yaqui and other Indian nations whose families and Aboriginal lands are divided by the internationalborder, gathered for the summit, "From Border to Border: Building a Human Rights Movement," Dec. 8-10.Demetria Martinez, poet, award-winning author and
member of Derechos Humanos, said the summit turnout of more than 600 people was a welcome surprise.
"Something is in the air. People want change and they are willing to work for it. They are becoming fluent in the vocabulary of globalization."
Martinez said young people, including those protesting the World Trade Organization in Seattle, are aware of the globalization, the effect that huge corporations
and corporate dollars have on the economies of the world.
Martinez' work of fiction, "Mother Tongue," reveals the underground railroad which brought refugees to the United States fleeing torture from the Americas. While
a reporter for the Albuquerque Journal, Martinez was arrested and acquitted on federal charges of aiding El Salvadoran women crossing the U.S. border.
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Safe Ceremony Essentials
How to find a psychedelic ceremony provider that's safe, qualified & good
In the Wild West of the Psychedelic Renaissance, increasing numbers of unqualified and unscrupulous providers are entering the market due to lucrative demand.
- A short training video outlining my research methodology, including how to identify the most aggressive marketers
- The Essential List of Facilitator Questions & Screening Worksheet
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- Psychedelics, Shamanism & Potential Risky Admixtures, with José Carlos Bouso, Scientific Director at ICEERS and Clinical Psychologist with a PhD in Pharmacology
- White Vampires and the Globalization of Ayahuasca, with Jeremy Narby, anthropologist and author of The Cosmic Serpent
Deep in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, Lorna "Liana" Li discovered her purpose and her divine calling while drinking visionary plant medicines with indigenous shamans. She was given a mission:
With the explosion of interest in the West, coupled with inadequate preparation and integration, there is an alarming phenomenon of Westerners emerging from shamanic experiences worse than when they started.


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A new study suggests that copper, the trace mineral is critical in metabolism of adipose cells.
The study was conducted in the University of California, Berkeley and it studied the link of copper levels with increased or decreased fat metabolism. This study found that copper is not only restricted for its role in nervous transmission but also plays a critical role in signaling for initiation of fat metabolism.
It was found that an enzyme called phosphodiesterase 3 (PDE3) that blocks cAMP and thus prevents fat metabolism is blocked by copper resulting in breakdown of adipocytes.
Copper is one of a relatively small group of metallic elements which are essential to human health. Copper combines with certain proteins which then acts as catalyst and perform several biochemical reactions.
Copper also helps in collagen synthesis and melanin production thereby increasing skin elasticity and boosting heart functions. Researchers suggest that this breakthrough will help in dealing with lifestyle related diseases like obesity, stroke and diabetes.
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Lingua::Identify version ======================== =head1 NAME Lingua::Identify - Language identification =head1 SYNOPSIS use Lingua::Identify qw(:language_identification); $a = langof($textstring); # gives the most probable language or the complete way: _USER_ = langof($textstring); # gives pairs of languages / probabilities # sorted from most to least probable %a = langof($textstring); # gives a hash of language / probability or the expert way (see section OPTIONS, under HOW TO PERFORM IDENTIFICATION) $a = langof( { method => [qw/smallwords prefix2 suffix2/] }, $text); $a = langof( {'max-size' => 3_000_000 }, $text); $a = langof( { 'extract_from' => ( 'head' => 1, 'tail' => 2)}, $text); =head1 DESCRIPTION C identifies the language a given string or file is written in. See section WHY LINGUA::IDENTIFY for a list of C's strong points. See section KNOWN LANGUAGES for a list of available languages and HOW TO PERFORM IDENTIFICATION to know how to really use this module. If you're in a hurry, jump to section EXAMPLES, way down below. Also, don't forget to read the following section, IMPORTANT WARNING. =head1 A WARNING ON THE ACCURACY OF LANGUAGE IDENTIFICATION METHODS Take a word that exists in two different languages, take a good look at it and answer this question: "What language does this word belong to?". You can't give an answer like "Language X", right? You can only say it looks like any of a set of languages. Similarly, it isn't always easy to identify the language of a text if the only two active languages are very similar. Now that we've taken out of the way the warning that language identification is not 100% accurate, please keep reading the documentation. =head1 WHY LINGUA::IDENTIFY You might be wondering why you should use Lingua::Identify instead of any other tool for language identification. Here's a list of Lingua::Identify's strong points: =over 6 =item * it's free and it's open-source; =item * it's portable (it's Perl, which means it will work in lots of different platforms); =item * 33 languages and growing; =item * 4 different methods of language identification and growing (see METHODS OF LANGUAGE IDENTIFICATION for more details on this one); =item * it's a module, which means you can easily write your own application (be it CGI, TK, whatever) around it; =item * it comes with I, which means you don't actually need to write your own application around it; =item * it's flexible (at the moment, you can actually choose the methods to use and their relevance, the max size of input to analyze each time and which part(s) of the input to analyze) =item * it supports big inputs (through the'max-size' and 'extract_from' options) =item * it's easy to deal with languages (you can activate and deactivate the ones you choose whenever you want to, which can improve your times and accuracy); =item * it's maintained. =back =head1 HOW TO PERFORM IDENTIFICATION =head2 langof To identify the language a given text is written in, use the I function. To get a single value, do: $language = langof($text); To get the most probable language and also the percentage of its probability, do: ($language, $probability) = langof($text); If you want a hash where each active language is mapped into its percentage, use this: %languages = langof($text); =head3 OPTIONS I can also be given some configuration parameters, in this way: $language = langof(\%config, $text); These parameters are detailed here: =over 6 =item * B When the size of the input exceeds the C'max-size', C analyzes only the beginning of the file. You can specify which part of the file is analyzed with the 'extract-from' option: langof( { 'extract_from' => 'tail' }, $text ); Possible values are 'head' and 'tail' (for now). You can also specify more than one part of the file, so that text is extracted from those parts: langof( { 'extract_from' => [ 'head', 'tail' ] }, $text ); (this will be useful when more than two possibilities exist) You can also specify different values for each part of the file (not necessarily for all of them: langof( { 'extract_from' => { head => 40, tail => 60 } }, $text); The line above, for instance, retrives 40% of the text from the beginning and 60% from the end. Note, however, that those values are not percentages. You'd get the same behavior with: langof( { 'extract_from' => { head => 80, tail => 120 } }, $text); The percentages would be the same. =item * B By default, C analyzes only 1,000,000 bytes. You can specify how many bytes (at the most) can be analyzed (if not enough exist, the whole input is still analyzed). langof( {'max-size' => 2000 }, $text); If you want all the text to be analyzed, set max-size to 0: langof( {'max-size' => 0 }, $text); See also C. =item * B You can choose which method or methods to use, and also the relevance of each of them. To choose a single method to use: langof( {method =>'smallwords' }, $text); To choose several methods: langof( {method => [qw/prefixes2 suffixes2/]}, $text); To choose several methods and give them different weight: langof( {method => {smallwords => 0.5, ngrams3 => 1.5} }, $text); To see the list of available methods, see section METHODS OF LANGUAGE IDENTIFICATION. If no method is specified, the configuration for this parameter is the following (this might change in the future): method => { smallwords => 0.5, prefixes2 => 1, suffixes3 => 1, ngrams3 => 1.3 }; =item * B By default, C assumes C mode, but others are available. In C mode, instead of actually calculating anything, C only does the preparation it has to and then returns a bunch of information, including the list of the active languages, the selected methods, etc. It also returns the text meant to be analised. Do be warned that, with I, the dummy mode still reads the files, it simply doesn't calculate language. langof( {'mode' => 'dummy' }, $text); This returns something like this: {'methods' => {'smallwords' => '0.5', 'prefixes2' => '1', }, 'config' => {'mode' => 'dummy' },'max-size' => _PHONE_, 'active-languages' => [ 'es', 'pt' ], 'text' => $text,'mode' => 'dummy', } =back =head2 langof_file I works just like I, with the exception that it reveives filenames instead of text. It reads these texts (if existing and readable, of course) and parses its content. Currently, I assumes the files are regular text. This may change in the future and the files might be scanned to check their filetype and then parsed to extract only their textual content (which should be pretty useful so that you can perform language identification, say, in HTML files, or PDFs). To identify the language a file is written in: $language = langof_file($path); To get the most probable language and also the percentage of its probability, do: ($language, $probability) = langof_file($path); If you want a hash where each active language is mapped into its percentage, use this: %languages = langof_file($path); If you pass more than one file to I, they will all be read and their content merged and then parsed for language identification. =head3 OPTIONS I accepts all the options I does, so refer to those first (up in this document). $language = langof_file(\%config, $path); I currently only reads the first 10,000 bytes of each file. =head2 confidence After getting the results into an array, its first element is the most probable language. That doesn't mean it is very probable or not. You can find more about the likeliness of the results to be accurate by computing its confidence level. use Lingua::Identify qw/:language_identification/; my _USER_ = langof($text); my $confidence_level = confidence(_USER_); # $confidence_level now holds a value between 0.5 and 1; the higher that # value, the more accurate the results seem to be The formula used is pretty simple: p1 / (p1 + p2), where p1 is the probability of the most likely language and p2 is the probability of the language which came in second. A couple of examples to illustrate this: English 50% Portuguese 10%... confidence level: 50 / (50 + 10) = 0.83 Another example: Spanish 30% Portuguese 10%...


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Claytile redesigns for sustainability with new rotary kiln
Claytile recently revamped its entire production process. This included the replacement of its tunnel kiln with a rotary kiln and the installation of variable speed drives in factory equipment. The revamp also provided the opportunity for Claytile to reconsider its material flows and redesign its clay milling process with dematerialisation and sustainability in mind.
Replacement of the tunnel kiln with the new rotary kiln has led to lower thermal energy, electricity and maintenance requirements. The rotary kiln is more efficient at using thermal energy than the previous tunnel kiln. It also relies on the natural convection of air, requiring less fans to operate. This has led to a significant decrease in electricity use which is usually required to drive fans. Claytile also decreased its electricity use by installing energy efficient variable speed drives in its conveyer belts and other factory equipment. Maintenance requirements have been reduced because the new rotary kiln is carless.
Milling & Extrusion
At the start of the production process, clay milling operations were changed to include screening before and after crushing. The inclusion of screening before crushing eliminated the need for electricity to be used on crushing approximately 30% of the raw material that was already small enough to be used in production, leading to significant monetary savings.
Considering that Claytile's screening is particularly fine for its multi-perforated products, the pre-screening practice would likely provide similar value to a number of brick makers. The layout of the crushing process was also improved to minimise handling and three-day souring applied to allow water to penetrate the clay better, leading to increased wetting and energy savings at extrusion as a result. This also reduced wasted raw materials and improved brick quality.
Heat recovery and ambient drying
As part of Claytile's recent production process overhaul, the company also implemented ambient drying, heat recovery measures and installed a scrubber to drastically reduce air pollutants.
Ambient drying is used to decrease the water moisture content in extruded bricks. This reduces the amount of energy needed to remove moisture during drying, decreasing the energy required to dry and fire each brick. Although natural drying is common practice with clamp kilns, it is less common with the use of tunnel kilns where bricks are usually moved from dryer to kiln within half a day. This is because the firing energy savings from reduced brick moisture are not usually deemed enough to outweigh the kiln car expenses and space required to move and ambient dry extruded bricks.
However, Claytile was able to implement ambient drying by packing bricks on the ground inside the factory's semi-open building structure, allowing bricks to dry for two days after extrusion before being fired in the kiln. Minimising the handling required for ambient drying and protecting the bricks from rain conditions, made it worthwhile financially to use ambient drying which reduced the water moisture in bricks from previous levels of 15% to 10%.
Claytile also reconfigured its production process to recover waste heat for reuse in drying. This included full recovery of both exhaust gas heat from brick firing and waste heat from cooling, which together provided enough energy to power the dryer. A scrubber was also installed on the factory's only exhaust stack to capture 90% of the sulphur dioxide and particulate matter that would otherwise be expelled from the dryer exhaust into the air.
The heat recovery measures and natural air drying practice, have together led to a 40% reduction in thermal energy requirements for both drying and firing. These reductions have yielded the benefits of lower firing fuel costs and decreased air pollution.


The Secret To Cleaning Your Metal Detecting Finds
In general, larger searchcoils will give better depth with larger targets and better ground coverage. However, sensitivity to smaller objects may be sacrificed. Smaller searchcoils will offer greater sensitivity to smaller objects and improved target separation in trashy soil. There are certain features needed for certain places the device is going to be used for. If you intend to use it on the beach, the terrain wont be that rigorous. But you are going to need waterproof protection.
A recent study proves that hand-held metal detectors are just as accurate as x-rays in finding coins and other metallic objects swallowed by children. They are cheaper and radiation-free, are usually lightweight, highly sensitive and require little maintenance. The special shape of the sensitive surface makes operation of the device easy, unlike portable metal detectors with ring transducers.
In 1881, Alexander Graham Bell constructed one of the world?s first metal detectors in an attempt to find an assassin's bullet in President James Garfield. Fischer patented a portable version in 1931.
The Secret to Cleaning Your Metal Detecting Finds
Metal detecting is considered to be one of today's most sought-after hobbies. In fact, nearly 80% of people who are into treasure hunting love metal detecting as well. Many people have tried metal detecting, but only those who know what it takes to become successful in metal detecting accomplish something. People who persevere the most tend to find more treasures than any other person does, even if they have been doing metal detecting for many years.
This goes to show that metal detecting is not just any "finder's keepers, losers weepers" game. The valuables that people find are not appraised just because they are rare. Most importantly, their values depend on the perseverance people use when finding metals.
However, metal detecting is not just plain what you see is what you get activity. Since most of the treasures are buried beneath the earth, you can expect layers upon layers of sand, mud, or dirt on the items. Now, the question is: Is it safe to clean these items?
There are some manufacturers of cleaning solutions that suggest you clean your items. However, if your metal detector finds include coins of high value, it is best not to clean them.
In older parks check in front of bandstands or areas where people would sit, to listen to bands playing in the summer. Another good place is baseball diamonds. Check the infield and the area where the players would wait to play. Also look in the area that the families and fans would watch the game from. As with other electronic equipments, innovations seems to always happen overnight. If you are going to buy a metal detector today, try to know that technologies are currently employed. You do not want to be behind the technology line, right?
Metal detectors using PI (Pulse Induction) technology often makes use of a single coil or even a series of coils that works as a receiver and the transmitter. The short bursts of electricity are allowed to pass through a coil or wire which causes magnetism. This means that coins classified as "key collector's items" should never be cleaned. This is to preserve the mint mark and the date on the coins.
If you have found non-key collector's items, or those with the typical "face values," you can clean them using mild solution. However, the cleaning process will depend on the kind of coin you have found. For example, copper and nickel can both be cleaned with the same process. Other coins are cleaned using a different cleaning process and techniques.
Here are also some tips on eliminating stains on your coins. You can try using the salt and vinegar solution. This will remove stubborn stains or those that were not removed with the usual cleaning solution. The key here is to evaluate, analyze, and appraise your metal detector finds before you start cleaning them. This way you will be able to detect if a certain item is more valuable when preserved and kept the way you have found it, or if it has to undergo a special cleaning process to make it more appealing and presentable.
Indeed, cleaning metal detecting finds may or may not be advantageous, depending on the kind of items that you have. So to ensure quality, always evaluate your items first. There are many different types of metal detectors, some are more complicated then others. Find out how you can go treasure hunting today!
Hand-held Metal Detectors are designed to safeguard security-sensitive areas like schools, courtrooms, corrections facilities, sports events, businesses, nightclubs, bars and other public areas and events. They are used along with walk-through metal detectors. It is responsible for receiving frequencies that bounce back from the object that the coil detects. This type of detector is best for identifying different types of metals.
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Commuters in Virginia got a shock when a deer ran through a metro station. Main surveillance cameras captured the galloping deer.
It is not clear how the mammal made it into the subway, but eventually it managed to make it back out unharmed.
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During the recent Idul Fitri holidays the Bali Safari and Marine Park (BSMP) in Gianyar opened two new exhibits showcasing two of Indonesia's most prized animal species.
Komodo Dragons - the Varnus komodoensis are found in nature only on the islands of Komodo, Runca, Flores, Gili Motang and Gili Dasami. The largest monitor lizard in the world, the "ĒKomodo Dragons" can grow to 3 meters in length and weigh 100 kilograms. First discovered in 1910, the dragons survive a predators surviving on buffalos, deer and small mammals. While attacks on humans are rare, there have been several known fatalities tied to Komodo encounters with humans.
Bali Starling - the Leucopsar rothschildi, also known as Rothschild's Mynah, is now a critically endangered species with only a limited number of these magnifienct birds still living in the West Bali National Park. The official mascot of Bali, the Bali Starling is being aggressively bred in captivity with 1,000 birds now believed to be held in private collections.
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Magnet Words for a Landing Page – How to sell, or how to fail
When creating web content, there are many tricks you can use to improve CTR (Click Through Rate). For example, you can include a call to action – this prompts customers to do something and explore your site further. Using the correct magnet words and phrases is another example. This may seem basic, but words are extremely powerful. If you use the right words, you can sell your products and services effectively.
This especially holds true on a landing page. A landing page is the first thing a customer will see when opening a website URL. The wording used here, therefore, is so important. What keywords you include, and the phrases you use could influence how your customers progress from this point onward. To that end, you must get it right first time and do your research! In the below text, we look at how to sell, or how to fail when using words for a landing page:
Avoid making these common mistakes when choosing magnet words
First, we look at the mistakes businesses often make. Below is four common mistakes that are made. These mistakes will reduce the overall effectiveness of your landing page and CTR rates:
Don't concentrate on one type of word or phrase exclusively
Your landing page text should ideally be varied. Some businesses use only long tail or short tail keywords – this can limit their effectiveness. Consider using a mix of both types i.e. specific keywords to your business, and generic keywords to attract a wider audience.
Underestimating competition
Failing to analyze your competition can have repercussions. Looking at the words and phrase your competitors are using can give fantastic insight. Look at what other businesses are doing. Which phrases are effective that they use? Are there any words that seem to yield a poor result? Never underestimate the importance of your competition.
Choosing words that have no relevance to your customers
A landing page must contain words that are relevant to your business. A car dealer such as Seat, for example, wouldn't use phrases relating to motorbikes or boats. They would use specific language relating to cars and their own products. If your words are relevant, your customers will have a greater understanding of your business and thus be more likely to click through.
Failing to localize your magnet word selection
To build on the above point, your word selection must also be localized. By localized, we mean specific to your physical location, or target region. Some businesses simply use generic wording that isn't targeted. This may attract a wider audience, but it will also yield fewer results. For example, a business based in Nottinghamshire, the UK using keywords such as "garden tool supplies" could attract customer from the whole country. If they used words such as, "garden tool supplies in Nottinghamshire" however, their CTR would increase as the words used are localized to their physical store.
Secondly, we can look at the things you could be doing to improve your CTR. There are certain tricks that can increase the effectiveness of your landing pages:
Research words and phrases beforehand to maximize potential
Research is paramount! This is the most important thing you can do. Without research, you are stepping into the unknown. Research what keywords are effective. Which historically give higher CTR rates. Are there particular words in your area of business that consistently perform well? Gain as much insight as possible so that your choice of words is effective.
Using straightforward and simplistic language Customers do not want to spend hours reading complicated text. Whatever words you choose, ensure the language used is short and simple. Your sentences should be less than 20 words and contain limited technical jargon.
Use magnet words that are emotionally engaging
Although simplistic language is beneficial, also consider using emotive language. Emotive language can create a psychological reaction from your customers. They will become invested and therefore be more likely to take action.
Consider creating a sense of urgency in your wording
Creating limitations or urgency is another fantastic tactic for a landing page. Something such as, "Click here now to check out our 25% off limited time offer on summer clothes". This creates a sense of urgency – it is another psychological trick that can improve the CTR of your landing page.
A landing page is an important tool. As it is the first thing customer will see, it must be carefully crafted! You must do research, think about your words, and create something that will boost your CTR rate.
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