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In developing countries scholars as well as economic, civic, and government leaders face two critical challenges. The first concerns how to explore the archeological treasures of great civilizations without doing damage to current and future material culture and living communities. The second concerns how to promote archeological research and educational tourism in a way that protects fragile ecosystems from unplanned urban and rural development. While internationally there is a growing consensus about these threats to both living communities and ecological treasures, to date few models have been developed or tested to meet this challenge. A new model is needed before these cultural assets are destroyed beyond the ability of countries to study, preserve, and restore them.
At Millsaps, we believe that in order to cultivate the intellectual and psychological stamina that today's leadership demands, two conditions must be met: (1) students must become deeply engaged in a particular challenge that is relevant and meaningful to them (2) students must be placed in complex, demanding situations which they have not encountered before. In this environment, students can discover what they are made of, dig deeply into themselves, and reflect on their life experiences and studies in a larger context. Here too, while there is significantconsensus that these competencies are needed, there is a remarkable shortage of experiences specifically designed to cultivate these skills in undergraduate students.
The Kaxil Kiuic Biocultural Reserve and the major archeological site on the reserve will help address both challenges by providing an opportunity to preserve, manage, and conduct cutting-edge interdisciplinary research at an archeological site of an endangered ecosystem. The reserve will provide unusual opportunities for interdisciplinary study in archeological, environmental, and cultural inquiry as well as varied educational and community partnerships.
The reserve will address the challenge of pursuing archeological research while protecting current ecosystems and living communities by removing the traditional boundaries of biological, geological, historical archeological, and social science research and creating innovative community partnerships. While faculty and students will be deeply involved in this initiative, ultimately this program is designed to model a community of learners made up of local civic, cultural, and educational leadership who are committed to addressing complex cultural and ecological issues.
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Pronunciation: su-pêr-flu-ês • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Excessive, more than is necessary, extra and unnecessary.
Notes: You may use today's word adverbially if you cap it off with the usual suffix, -ly: superfluously. The long noun, superfluousness, is more awkward than the older, more compact superfluity [sup-êr-flu-i-ti]. The latter noun also exhibits a more graceful plural form: superfluities.
In Play: We are entering a season in which superfluity is acceptable. We tend to become excessive with food, presents, and generosity: "I love the Christmas decorations on your house, but I think the lights on everybody's clothes are a bit superfluous." It is a word you can use anywhere anytime: "No, your father and I think that hiring a maid would be superfluous so long as you and your brother are capable of movement."
Word History: Today's Good Word comes from Latin superfluus "overflowing", the adjective from superfluere "to overflow", composed of super "over" + fluere "to flow". Super comes from a Proto-Indo-European (PIE) root that also developed into Greek hyper with the same meaning (hypersensitive, hyperactive). We would expect the PIE [p] to become [f] in English, so Old English ofer, which later became over, does not surprise us. The root for flu- "flow" comes from PIE bhleu- "to swell, well up, flow". It turned into English blow, bloat, and bladder as it accumulated various suffixes over the years. (It would certainly not be superfluous to thank Mark Bailey for suggesting today's extremely Good Word.)

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Sunflower Seeds Can Harm Plants
by Charlie Nardozzi
Sclerotinia fungal disease infects nearly 360 different plants, including such favorites as beans, cabbage, tomatoes, lettuce, sunflowers, petunias, zinnias, and poppies. It's not the kind of disease you want to encourage in the garden
New research, however, indicates that by feeding birds, we may unknowingly be doing just that. Steve Nameth, a researcher at Ohio State University in Columbus, started noticing sunflower seeds infected with sclerotinia fungus while feeding his birds. The fungal infected seeds are about the same size as healthy seeds, but are irregularly shaped and white inside if broken open. As any good researcher would, he became curious about how much sclerotinia infected seed is in a bag of sunflower seeds.
Nameth bought a random sample of 10 commercial bird seed mixes and found that half had sclerotinia present in the feed. Birds won't eat sunflower seeds infected with the fungus, so they drop to the ground under the feeders, sometimes right next to plants they can infect. The fungus can stay dormant for years waiting for the right weather conditions to infect nearby plants.
If you're noticing disease on stems and flowers of plants near your bird feeder, particularly if infected parts are covered with white fluffy growth, consider moving your feeder away from your gardens. It's also important to keep the area around the base of the plants clean of plant debris, and to pick up and destroy dropped seed. Don't use the dropped seed as mulch in the garden or in the compost unless your compost pile heats up to 160° F.


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Yes, that is a very good explanation. Result clauses do not follow the so-called sequence of tenses as other similar clauses do. This is because result clauses are felt to make the most sense when using the most applicable tense.
Think of it this way using your examples:
'So numerous were the enemy that they easily took the city.
Tot erant hostes ut facile urbem caperent.
Tot erant hostes us facile urbem ceperint.'
The result clause is a clause that describes a separate, independent and real event from that of the main clause. IT is a related event, a resultant event, obviously, but a separate and event nonetheless.
The imperfect tense in this case does not give a sense of the finality needed here.
It would mean something like 'So numerous were the enemy that they were easily taking the city.'
The incomplete sense of the imperfect anticipates some sort of interruption.
Compare this with a purpose clause, indirect command or a fear clause, both of which demand the imperfect subjunctive following a historical tense.
servi fugiverunt ne poenam darent.
dux militibus imperavit ut urbem aggredirentur.
puer timebat ut puella maneret.
In all of these cases the secondary clause is not a real event, but rather an intention, or a worry, or a purpose, or some such thing. With result clauses the result clause is something that actually happened, will happen, is happening etc. The subjunctive mood is simply a result of the construction, but implies no unreality. In fear clauses, indirect command, purpose clauses etc the secondary clause is in a sense unreal, a possibility, and hence the tense is not as important as in a result clause. The tense follows a more general rule - the sequence of tenses.
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Even though we don't cook often, the kitchen remains one of the most frequently used rooms in the house. Therefore, the kitchen must have an attractive and beautiful appearance. Unfortunately, often we have too much stuff in the kitchen. At first, we were only interested in buying these items. But in the end, these items are not used too often so that it becomes a pile in the kitchen. If we can get rid of items that are not used, of course our kitchen will be minimalist kitchen. Consider the following 6 tips so that our kitchen becomes minimalist and enchanting.
1. Get rid of the Microwave from the Kitchen
Maybe, at first we wondered why we had to get rid of the microwave from the kitchen. However, over time we will realize that the function of the microwave can be replaced by other kitchen equipment. For example, like a stove or oven. Keep in mind, cooking food with a microwave does require a shorter time. But on the other hand, microwaves can also reduce the taste and quality of food. It's different if we use a stove or oven. If you don't use a microwave, you will also minimize the consumption of instant foods and packaged foods. Therefore, do not hesitate to move our microwave to another place.
Many people have around 27 knives displayed in their kitchens. In fact, the number of knives is too much for daily cooking needs. At first, we might only have 6 to 7 knives. But because we are tempted by new products, we finally become knife collectors. In fact, for cooking, we only need about 3 types of knives. Keep in mind, we are not chefs who need a lot of cooking utensils. So, we don't need to display our knives on the kitchen table.
3. Only Storing Used Tableware
Just like a knife, maybe we also often collect tableware. However, in reality, these habits make the kitchen full and messy. We don't need dozens of dishes and various types of wine glasses. Simply adjust the cutlery to the number of families in your home. Having 2 to 3 glasses for each person is enough.
4. Getting Rid of Complementary Tools in the Kitchen
To have a minimalist kitchen, we must be able to distinguish kitchen tools that are truly useful and those that are not. For example, we have to choose between a vegetable peeler mat and an onion press tool. Another example is the existence of an avocado peeler that can actually be replaced by an ordinary knife.
As technology develops, more and more types of kitchen equipment are produced. However, not all of the equipment we must have. We must be selective in choosing simple but high quality kitchen utensils.
5. Reducing the Number of Cookware
Many of our friends and family members are crazy about collecting kitchen utensils. However, we must not be influenced by them. Cookware in the kitchen does not require a large amount and large size. We have enough equipment that we really need. For example, such as pans, ovens, and fryers. That way, we can save space in our kitchen.
6. Storing Goods Correctly
The key to creating a minimalist kitchen is how to store things in the kitchen. After we get rid of things in the kitchen, we have to think about how to store them. In this case, we must be creative. Try to provide a special shelf for storing cooking spices so that the kitchen looks attractive. In addition, we can also provide glass tubes for storage. If necessary, also provide a hanging rack. Try to make the location of items easily accessible but does not make the kitchen become narrow.

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I came across a recipe for buttermilk yeast bread which includes:
pinch of ginger (helps activate the yeast)
I tried searching around for more information about that, and the best I came up with was this "ask a scientist" question which suggests that it's some unknown compound(s) that somehow affect the yeast's growth - and that cinnamon inhibits it.
Does anyone have any more information? How strong is the effect? Are there any other things which similarly affect yeast growth?
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Dextrous malt or malted barley increases gluten formation without extra yeast. With regards to ginger I don't know. – justkt Feb 12 '11 at 17:21
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From Cookwise, there's a table given from Wright, Bice and Fogelberg's "The Effect of Spices on Yeast Fermentation" from Cereal Chemistry, March 1954. where amount is the grams of the given spice with 2 grams of sugar and 1 gram of yeast in 30 ml of water, and the change in yeast activity is measured in ml of gas increase in 3 hrs. Here's the section for ginger:
Amount Change in Yeast Activity
0.1 + 87
0.75 +172
1.0 +136
2.0 + 72
Of course, cinnamon shows an even larger increase at the 0.1 gram addition (+103), it just starts hindering at larger increments.
update : and to answer the second part of the question; Cookwise only listed a few additives (cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, dry mustard, nutmeg, and thyme), and they weren't all tested in the same amounts; the only two that were inhibiters were cinnamon in larger amounts, and dry mustard (for which they only had one point). It's possible that there was more in the original article, as the lead-in to the table said "The accompanying table shows the effects of some of these spices".
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Very interesting--and I would note that the ginger appears to hinder production at higher volumes like cinnamon does. I wonder if what the spices at low volumes are adding is digestible free amino nitrogen or some kind of fatty acid--both of which are great yeast nutrients--but at larger volumes their other constituents come into play. – bikeboy389 Feb 15 '11 at 15:51
_USER_: they don't have enough data points. The benefit decreases for the amounts they tested, but it's not a hinderance in the amounts tested, where the yeast actually produced less gas. (which occured at 1g of cinnamon added, and 0.25g of mustard) – Joe Feb 15 '11 at 16:27
I don't think the Ginger helps activate the yeast. In fact, ginger has anti-fungal properties, and as yeast is a very simple fungus, it seems very unlikely to particularly thrive in the presence of ginger.
I don't think it's reputed to be outright bad for yeast like cinnamon is, but it is supposed to kill other fungi.
I also looked into the chemical components of yeast nutrients for brewing (baking and brewing yeast being so similar as the be almost indistinguishable in most uses), and couldn't find anything listed as a desirable nutrient that matched up to what ginger brings to the table.
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I did expect someone might say "that's an old wives' tale; it doesn't do anything," but I wasn't expecting it to be harmful to the yeast! Interesting! – Jefromi Feb 14 '11 at 21:40
Yeast grows at an exponential rate until its fermentation poisons catch up with it and start inhibiting growth. Ginger acts as a buffering agent in small quantities. Very small quantities. A buffering agent controls the pH of the dough. As long as the dough pH remains within a certain range, yeast will continue to grow at an exponential rate. The effect of small amounts of ginger added to the dough can shorten rise time approximately 50 percent. it also improves the quality of the rise, giving smaller, more consistently sized bubbles. The key here is very small quantities. I never use more than a pinch, added to the initial proofing of the yeast mixture.
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A traditional herbal plant, calendula produces a fast-drying oil that can be used in paints and varnishes, surface coatings, lubricants, pesticides and cleaning solvents. Calendula oil is a safe substitute for volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which have been banned or restricted in California, Europe and elsewhere. "The demand for VOC alternatives has greatly increased," says Gesch, who is part of a national team developing management practices for the new crop.
The plant: Annual oilseed with bright yellow flowers, 20-30 in. tall, with a strong taproot; seeds contain about 17% oil.
Production: Plant in very early spring as soon as hard frost risk has passed; harvest 100-120 days after planting.
Yield: In Midwest, 1 ton/acre or more.
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I can't understand very well the importance and the usage of the "self" keyword in objective-c. It's my first OOP language so i got stuck on some concepts. When i should use "self"? Why is it useful?
Thanks for the answers!
Edit: I can't understand why is this a duplicated post of Objective-C - When to use'self' when there there is not the explanation of "Self" that i wanted.
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No, i saw that post :) – codeluca Jan 26 '13 at 9:25
Well then why in the programmer's girlfriend are you re-posting it? It gives step to step, nicely detailed explanation. Stop reposting questions on SO – MCKapur Jan 26 '13 at 9:28
I'm not reposting questions. I read the post that you linked but I have not figured it out yet. – codeluca Jan 26 '13 at 9:35
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self is a special variable in Objective-C, inside an instance method this variable refers to the receiver(object) of the message that invoked the method, while in a class method self will indicate which class is calling.
self refers to the actual object that is executing the current method, it is an invisible argument passed automatically by the runtime environment to your instance methods.
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For both instance and class methods, it "refers to the receiver of the message". It's just that in a class method, the receiver is a class object. Also, it only refers to that at the beginning of the method -- self can be re-assigned like any other local variable. – newacct Jan 26 '13 at 20:19
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In nuclear plants, the inspection of heat exchanger tubes is usually carried out by using eddy current nondestructive testing. A numerical model, based on a volume integral approach using the Green's dyadic formalism, has been developed, with support from the French Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety, to predict the response of an eddy current bobbin coil to 3D flaws located in the tube's wall. With an aim of integrating this model into the NDE multi techniques platform CIVA, it has been validated with experimental data for 2D and 3D flaws.
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- NAC Engineering has an opening for a rock star low-voltage electrical designer to work primarily on Audio/Video, Sound, Security, and/or Telecommunication layouts for K-12 and higher education projects.
- Create bid documents consisting of plans, equipment selection and specification, elevations, and wiring diagrams for:
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- Work with architects, engineers, and owners.
- Review applicable documentation and manufacturers' literature to determine product suitability as it relates to application design.
- Perform calculations related to the design of various building systems listed herein.
- Adhere to contractual specifications by following local regulations and owner standards.
- Prepare drawing packages that support building code specifications.
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- 5+ years' experience in low-voltage electrical design.
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- Bicsi RCDD and/or InfoComm Certified Technology Specialist certifications are desired.
- Familiarity with REVIT desired.
- Knowledge of BIM graphics programs and construction practices preferred.
- Aptitude to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principals involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, and drawings.
- Working, hands-on knowledge of electrical design and construction concepts from engineering through construction implementation.
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- Designers with proven records of accomplishment who are interested in joining a team-oriented culture are encouraged to submit their resume for consideration. Please send letter of interest with salary requirements and Resume or CV to _EMAIL_. NAC offers a very generous benefit package that includes health and retirement benefits as well as professional development and growth.
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Gather all the students on the bus, divide bus into 2 teams and ask several review questions. Show students the Jr. Ranger booklet and badge and tell them that they can earn their badge if they return another day and fill out the booklet. Thank the students for visiting the Black Canyon and tell them that we hope they will bring their families to visit someday soon. Give a program evaluation to the teacher.
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Each year, nations spend millions of dollars on efforts to prevent HIV infections without completely understanding the most effective ways to allocate these funds. To equip health officials and policymakers with effective decision-making tools, Avenir Health worked with Blue Raster to develop the Goals Express: HIV Impact Tool, a new tablet app for iPad and Android devices. This mobile application will be used to examine how coverage for various HIV intervention strategies affects progress toward national HIV prevention goals, including the reduction of new HIV infections.
Goals Express, which was introduced at the AIDS 2012 international conference in Washington DC, is based on the Goals Model, a web-based simulation tool used to plan HIV prevention and treatment programs. Similar to the web application, the new Goals Express app can be used to model the spread of HIV in a national population in four different epidemic scenarios (generalized, concentrated, hyper-endemic and injection drug-driven epidemics). Tablet users can manipulate slider bars to adjust the coverage level for several different HIV interventions, including antiretroviral therapy and youth outreach, to identify cost-effective combinations of prevention and treatment strategies.
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This class is going to focus on all the essential preliminary work that goes into making a comic.
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In this class we'll focus on:
-Composition, not only inside the panels, but composition of the page as a whole.
-We'll talk about what level of detail your layouts need to be in order to leave yourself room to make changes and move things around as need be.
-We'll also compare the different styles of paper to create your final artwork on.
I'm just like you, most of the time, I can't wait to just jump right into the drawing process and start creating awesome visuals, but I've learned that pacing myself and making sure that I take these proper preliminary steps will ensure that the comic making process runs smoothly and that everything makes sense for the reader when it's all said and done!
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In addition to my client work, I am an adjunct professor at Montclair State University, where I teach a class in Cartooning. I am grateful to Skillshare for offering a platform where I can share my knowledge of cartooning and illustration with a global audience.
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1. Introduction: all right. So before I started filming, this class actually made a bunch of knows. I thought about the things that I wanted to talk about in this class, how I wanted to present them, the type of angles I wanted to use to film the class. And if I would have just stood in front of the camera and press record right away, I probably would have left out a lot of important details, and I would have been leading myself very small margin for error. So I guess you could say I kind of made a layout for the class before I started filming it. Well, that's kind of what we're going to talk about in this class, but we're gonna apply it to making a comic. This class is going to focus on all the essential preliminary work that goes into me. We'll talk about determining what size your final comic page is going to be and how to create layouts and artwork that is in proportion to that size. Layouts are all about focusing on composition, not only inside the panels but the composition of the pages. A whole we'll talk about what level of detail your layouts in order to make changes and move things around. As need be, we'll compare the different styles of paper to create your final artwork on, as well as how to transfer your layout onto a final art board in order to start pencilling. I'm just like you. I can't wait to just jump into the drawing process and start creating awesome drawings. But I've learned that pacing myself definitely helps. Taking these proper preliminary steps ensures that the process moves smoothly and the final artwork is stronger for it. And not only that, it ensures that everything is gonna be clear and makes sense for the reader as well. This class will be taught from the perspective of working with traditional tools, but most of the things we learn here can definitely be applied to creating comics digitally as well. I'm looking forward to sharing the preliminary steps that I use my own process with you and hopefully don't make your comic book making process much stronger. So without further ado, let's stop talking and jump right into it. I'll see you there 2. Choosing Your Size: Okay, So a really important place to start before getting into any of your layouts and moving further on with the art is to determine what size you want your comic book to be. There's really no right or wrong here, and your choices are completely up to you. Um, I brought out three different sizes here. Just off my shelf size is a huge factor in the type of story that you're trying to tell the audience that you're telling your story, too, and also where you plan on having your book sold. So when thinking about comic books sizes, I think most of us are familiar with this size. This is your standard American monthly comic book. Uh, the most of them. If not all of them come in this particular size totally, completely acceptable size, although over the years artists and publishers have gotten a lot more experimental with the way that they make and print their comic books. As you can see here, this is the Salon by Nick Potosi. This is a completely horizontal comic book. I really love the way the story flows in this format, and I think this really stands out on a bookshelf as well, Whether in a comic book shop or a bookstore. Here we have Monkey Shift by Mike Fray Hype Mike is telling a really substantial story here, and I think the size that he picked really fits for the way the book is bound and the kind of story that he's telling it slightly shorter and a little bit wider than your average American comic book. So I feel like something like this works really well in bookstores as well as comic book shops. The reason why this is such an important step is because every other step after this is going to relate back to the size and dimensions that you pick for your comic book. You want your layouts and, of course, your final art toe all be in proportion to whatever size that you determine for your comic book. I recommend going to a bookshop or a comic book shop and looking at all the choices that you see out there, Do you want your story to be in a pretty standard American format? Do you want it to be in something a little bit mawr unique and different? It's completely up to you and I think it has a lot to do with the kind of story that you're telling. So think about this before moving on to any of the other steps. Once you do determine a size, though, then you could move on into layouts, and that's what we're gonna be talking about in the following steps. 3. Layouts: Okay, So now that you've determined what size you want your comic book to be, you're ready to move on to the layout stage. A layout for a comic book page is essentially just a sketch of what you want that page to look like. This is the stage where you're figuring out composition of not only the page but also the panels themselves. You're figuring out how you want the action on the page to flow. You're indicating where you want the word bubbles to be. These air obviously not meant to be detailed at all these air just pretty much shaped. Some artists will get more detail than others, but for the most part, this is just a really rough language of what you want the comic book page to look like. If you can understand the story at this stage, then you've done your job. Everything else after that, as faras detail ing penciling and inking goes, is really just kind of labour at that point. This is the stage where the storytelling actually happens. With that being said, I consider the layout stage the most important part of the comic book process. So, generally speaking, most comic book artists, including myself, work on their layouts at a smaller size than the final artwork and as well as the final printed comic. The reason for this is because most of us, I think, have a easier time visualizing something when it's a little bit smaller, as opposed to going directly onto the final art board and trying to figure it out all their. It's a little bit easier to figure out composition size relationships between objects, all that important stuff when you could kind of grasp it within a smaller scope. Now how much smaller you go is completely up to you. So let's take that example of the standard American comic


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Multiple dimensions of creative instruction: The pedagogy of exemplary high school teachers of Naga students in Nagaland, India
The problem of underachievement in schools in Nagaland has resulted in the few studies that have been done examining the problems that have caused and sustains this situation. In an attempt to look at what is being done well in view of building on the strengths of the system this interpretative study explores how highly esteemed high school teachers of students of the Naga tribe in northeast India teach. Through an elaborate process of community nominations parents and educators nominated who they believed were some of their most successful teachers. Four such highly valued exemplary teachers were the informants. Triangulation of data was done using multiple in-depth interviews with the informants, observation of classroom instruction and examination of documents. The interpretation of data was done broadly based on Strauss and Corbin's grounded theory method. The findings of the study indicate that the classroom instructional practice of the exemplary teachers is very complex. In a system that emphasizes high stakes the exemplary teachers are highly creative. They prepare students to take an exam that emphasizes retention and reproduction by developing in them high level skills of understanding and application. In a classroom that is deeply affected by the external and local influences the exemplary teacher is able to achieve high-skilled instructional behavior in students through well organized classroom instruction. They offer differentiated instruction to individual students and creatively open up a prescribed curriculum using culturally harmonious motivational strategies. Looking upon their teaching profession as a "vocation" they strive to "prepare students for life" in a globalized context. The exemplary teachers are actively involved in leadership and service roles in the community to the admiration of parents and others. The exemplary teachers have many years of experience and a proven record of classroom success.
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Newswise — In a world of smart watches, smart homes and smart appliances that monitor their environments to keep users safe and informed, can whole cities be smarter? Short answer: Probably, using cutting-edge information technologies to keep citizens and property safer. The long answer: NAU researchers Eck Doerry and Ben Ruddell aim to find out through their FloodAware project, which allows them to explore what it would mean for a city to be "smart" about floodwater management.
"We realized that cutting-edge hydrological modeling, image processing and real-time sensing techniques could be brought together to help citizens, city administrators and first responders better react to flooding and, ideally, be warned of imminent flooding before the water arrives" said Doerry, a professor in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems (SICCS). "The system will integrate numerous data streams to calculate real-time maps of current and upcoming flooding and can then send a notification to citizens in endangered areas. This is really what being a smart city means to us: the city keeps an eye on threats and warns citizens in appropriate ways."
The key to making all of this happen is finding clever, low-cost, low-impact ways to gather accurate water level readings in real-time from as many places around the city as possible. Most cities, including Flagstaff, already have some flow monitoring equipment placed in various washes and drainages around the city. The challenge in getting more of this equipment is the sensors are so expensive that neither the city nor FloodAware can afford many of them.
The solution explored by the FloodAware project is to develop smart image processing techniques to determine water level from a simple snapshot image. If this could be done, researchers could piggyback on the hundreds of cameras already in place in the city to control traffic lights, monitor intersections and deploy as public webcams.
Citizens will soon be strongly encouraged to participate in making their city smarter as well.
"When a simple snapshot image becomes a valuable data point, every citizen with a cell phone will be able to contribute to improving flood map accuracy, as well as get real-time information on flood dangers right on their cell phone," Doerry said. "Citizen-contributed readings collected in this way can make a huge difference. We'll never have enough cameras to cover all places that flooding happens. People tend to take pictures of flooding anyway to show their friends, and this could provide a high-volume data stream right when and where we need it, right where flooding is the worst."
As the project moves into its second year this fall, residents will be able to download a prototype of the FloodAware mobile app to their smartphones. Whenever they see flooding happening, they can snap a picture with the app, which will use smart image processing to determine the water depth and integrate this reading into the evolving flood maps on the central server.
This approach to data collection using citizens and their cell phones as a powerful data stream is called "crowd-sourcing" and has already proven its value in numerous other contexts. For instance, the popular traffic navigation app Waze uses crowdsourcing to generate timely and accurate information on urban traffic flows to help users avoid slow-downs or jams.
"The city is excited to partner with NAU in developing technologies that will help with public safety and designing flood resilient communities," said Edward Schenk, Stormwater Section Project Manager for the city of Flagstaff. "The timing of this study works well with moving forward with the Rio de Flag Flood Control Project and the rapid expansion of our own real-time rain and stream gauge flood alert system. The camera system can work well in neighborhoods historically known to flood, while traditional stream gauges can continue to provide flood monitoring in the washes and streams, combining these two sources of data will help scientists and engineers determine how to improve stormwater drains, pipes and detention basins."
In the initial year of the project, the focus has been on developing the fundamental technologies and algorithms needed to make FloodAware a reality. In addition to the city's traffic control cameras around town, the team has developed specialized solar-powered camera systems that will allow them to explore what kinds and resolution of images are best suited to drive the smart image processing algorithms that determine water level from a snapshot. A total of 10 of these cameras are being installed in flood-prone locations in Flagstaff and Phoenix.
These cameras, which don't move or take video and are narrowly focused at the curb level, will take and upload snapshots at frequencies ranging from once every 24 hours to a maximum of once per minute during heavy rain events. The snapshots are sent to the central FloodAware server, which applies artificial intelligence and other algorithms to determine the water level at that point. Combining all such values from all cameras will allow the system to generate a real-time flood map. From there, feeding all current water levels into the real-time modeling system will allow predictions of imminent flooding. The flood maps generated in this way would then be made available, both through a website and the FloodAware mobile app, to city officials, first responders and citizens.
Put all of this together, Doerry said, and you get the big picture: Creating a simple "shrink-wrapped" flood monitoring solution complete with camera recommendations, algorithms and tools needed so any city manager anywhere in the country can easily connect their community into a nationwide FloodAware smart city network. In the even bigger picture, having thousands of FloodAware smart cities online across the nation will provide enormous new streams of high value urban water flow data to feed the national water model being developed at NOAA's new National Water Center with the ambitious goal of understanding water movement across the entire surface of our nation.
The FloodAware project is funded through a Smart & Connected Communities (S&CC) grant from the National Science Foundation (_TAG_). The purpose of the S&CC program is to use innovative technology to make U.S. cities smarter and make life in urban areas more efficient, safe and fast. It also requires grantees to discuss how to make their project sustainable in the long-term for their and city and others throughout the country.
"The city of the future will be smart and connected, and that includes connecting people with much more rapid and more accurate information about flooding in their community," Ruddell said.
People interested in learning more about FloodAware can contact Doerry and Ruddell at [email protected] and [email protected]. In the meantime, keep an eye out for the flood cameras, flood gauge signs posted at key washes and flooding areas around Flagstaff and Phoenix.


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Tips on How to Meditate:
Music can assist with reaching a meditative state and turns your focus inwards towards your breath. Here is a selection of three musical pieces composed by Adrian von Ziegler. They are most effective to use during the day with a set intention, but not during your morning (after waking) or evening (before bed) meditations. When you use them for creative thinking or observations of your thoughts, keep a pen and paper at hand to jot down any impressions. Review these afterwards and you'd be amazed at how inspiring some of the ideas can be. Pluto is my favourite and I use it first to get me in the mood, then I move on to either the Autumn Forest or Summer Isle.
Tip: Select musical pieces that are in harmony with your usual meditation time, for instance if you are a beginner, 5 minute pieces are preferred, whereas more advanced students could combine smaller pieces or select longer ones!
Here are the links:
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You can write anything using reStructuredText to provide context and explain the tests themselves. It's a perfect possibility for stakeholders to ensure they have the same understanding of what's going on.
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Should You Have Workplace ID Cards if There's Already Security Personnel?
When securing your property there are several different approaches to keeping it safe. A well-managed building and security personnel can help a lot, however by using ID cards you not only increase safety but also gain flexibility. Now you may be questioning why ID cards are useful when you already have security personnel, so here are three reasons why.
It Supports Your Security Personnel
Without an ID system your security personnel have to keep track of everyone that enters your property; this takes a great deal of time and expense. For example without an ID system in place your security has to talk with everyone who enters the building, check their identification, and sign them into some type of record system every time they show up. With ID cards it's easy to identify who should be there and grant access to those who should have it.
ID Systems Are Versatile
>With a well implemented ID system you give your visitors and employees greater freedom to move about your property and do what they are paid to do. ID cards can range from the simple to the very complex allowing you to easily implement a system that fits your needs. Permanent ID cards can have a picture of the holder and special security measures, such as holograms, to identify the card as authentic. While simpler ID systems use paper IDs that allow access for short term visitors and then expire after a set period of time. Plus you can combine your ID card system with computer software to keep detailed records of who visited and when. No matter what system you use it allows you to keep track of visitors without overworking your existing security measures.
It Lets You Control Access
ID cards can do a lot more than just identify who should be in a building, as they can control who gets in at all. ID badges can easily be combined with security features to allow greater usability and add features. Proximity cards can be handed out with ID cards allowing you to not only identify who should be in your building but also controlling what parts of the building they can access. Proximity cards function much like key fobs allowing employees to open locked doors via a scanner system. This also cuts down on security work as they no longer have to guard such locked doors or control who can access them. This saves both time and money, and makes day to day operations easier to manage.
While security personnel are an essential part of having a safe property ID badges offer further safety and increased flexibility as well for your existing security systems. When selecting an ID card system to make use of you have several different choices available to fit a variety of businesses and properties. This variety of choices allows you to pick an ID card system that fits your needs and uses. When looking to buy ID card equipment you want to buy from an industry professional. Avon Security has been providing ID solutions to businesses and government properties for 10 years. Contact us today or feel free to browse our top of the line products.
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Full Title: Endless Ocean Endless Sky Set Design
Location: Portland, OR
Description: This project was commissioned by emerging choreographer Tahni Holt for her performance Endless Ocean Endless Sky. The set was designed in response to several design criteria relating to both the evocation of the choreographic aesthetic and the limits of financial and logistical constraints. From the very beginning of the design phase, we were interested in creating a minimal set that could be built and transported easily that was also able to create an evocative and mutable space for both the performers and audience. Relying heavily on the work of Ant Farm and their inflatable constructions in the 1970's, a small 20′x40′ space was made using standard polyethylene. Additional seams and creases were welded into the plastic in order to avoid the typical balloon aesthetic of inflatables. Rather, there was a desire for the installation to be able to evoke both things that were simultaneously heavy and light (massive icebergs floating in the sea, 747's flying through the sky, etc.). A generative algorithm was developed that would allow a fragmented pattern of creases to emerge on the surface without having to laboriously transcribe a predefined pattern on to the surface.
Credits: Andrew Kudless with help from Ronnie Parsons and Chris Walker.
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The College Board wants to cut thousands of years from its AP World History test. Teachers aren't having it.
Posted June 22, 2018 7:44 a.m. EDT
— If you ask the company that runs the Advanced Placement tests, it'll say it was trying to do world history teachers a favor.
There's just too much history to cover and not enough time. So why not cut thousands of years from the AP World History test -- and start at the year 1450 instead?
If you ask the teachers, they say such a move leaves out key events from the past, such as the massive Mongol Empire and the Middle Ages, and presents a very Eurocentric view of the world.
That's a battle that's brewed for a month between the two sides.
Now, the College Board -- the company that owns the AP program -- is offering a compromise: it's going to figure out a way to start "several centuries" earlier than 1450. It just doesn't know how early.
And until the board decides in mid-July, teachers are unlikely to be satisfied.
"Even if they push back the gate a bit, we won't be satisfied," said Merry Wiesner-Hanks, who leads the World History Association and formerly developed the course and the test.
"Students -- and really, people -- need to see the bigger picture and the long history of the past."
The board's view
The College Board is an American nonprofit that administers AP tests in various subjects that high school students across the country take to get a leg up on college credit.
The AP World History test, as it exists, covers a wide gamut of time periods -- from the hunter-gatherers in the Paleolithic era to 20th century political and social change.
Last month, the board announced it would cut thousands of years from the material and would start the test at the year 1450. The change would take effect in the 2019-2020 school year.
The scope of the course was just too broad, the board says.
Eight in 10 AP World History teachers reported it was impossible to teach the entire course in a year, College Board spokeswoman Jaslee Carayol said.
For instance, on last year's exam, she told CNN, 70% of students didn't get a single point on one of the essay questions.
To fix this, the board proposed splitting the current AP World History curriculum into two separate classes that students could take over two years.
The first course would cover material from 600 B.C.E. to 1450 -- but it still wouldn't be on the AP World test.
Another catch: those course materials aren't free, and only students in schools that can afford both will have access to the entire historical timeline.
"And students have only so much room in their schedules," said Wiesner-Hanks, the World History Association president.
The teachers' view
Since the board's announcement, teachers and students around the country protested the change, saying the test curriculum they're left with is Eurocentric.
"The story starts with European exploration and colonization," Wiesner-Hanks said. "And it becomes the people from all of the other parts of the world reacting to the Europeans getting there."
One of these nationwide protests took place earlier this month in Salt Lake City, Utah, where a group of history teachers spoke out at a public forum where AP program chief Trevor Packer was speaking.
"You cannot tell my black and brown students that their history is not going to be tested, and then assume that that's not going to matter," one teacher said at the forum. "Their histories don't start at slavery. Their histories don't start at colonization."
In New Jersey, a high school student started a petition asking Packer to undo the decision. The petition now has more than 10,000 signatures.
"The class is demanding on students, but is also one of the most rewarding, life changing classes I've ever had the privilege to take," the petition reads. "Without periods 1-3, a historical foundation can't be built, and they are some of the most important in history."
The next step in this battle is in July when teachers wait to see what the board ultimately decides.
"Given how dissatisfied teachers have been with the current breadth of the course, it's all the more powerful when they speak up to defend keeping content within the course," Packer told CNN. "By working with AP World History teachers and our higher ed partners, we will find a way to shift the start date several centuries earlier while still ensuring that students and teachers no longer have to race through the course."


Does true innovation require failure?
Note to future self.. the answer to this question is and will always be – yes.
Today I heard someone say:
Understand that if you're trying to do something innovative you will initially fail but on the long run you're better off
This got me thinking about whether failure is not only an inevitable precursor but also a prerequisite to true innovation. In other words, can we only be truly innovative if we fail? The answer seems to obviously be yes. Of course you need to fail in order to do something truly innovative. If this is the case, I have a bunch of follow-up questions.
 1. How much do you have to fail (in significance or frequency) before you can be truly innovative?
 2. Can such failure even be measured?
 3. Is there a correlation between how much you fail and how truly innovative you're?
These are all questions that might seem silly and they are probably impossible to response. Nevertheless, I think that's important to think about the relationship between failure and innovation given that we're constantly told by society that one tends to follow the other.


The Economics of Domain Investing
For most people the idea of domain investing sounds simple. They read a story about someone who registered a great domain ten years ago and then managed to sell it for a million dollars. Even the small wins sound great. I mean, it's not unusual for someone to buy a domain for only $50 or $100 and then flip it for ten or even twenty times as much. Any domain investor out there will tell you about the rush they get whenever they manage to flip a domain for good profit. However, the activity of selling domains for profit can mask the hidden truth behind it. Although selling an individual domain for profit is nice, investing in them isn't as easy as it sounds. Proper domain investing requires upfront capital to build a portfolio of domains and the process of selling them can take a long time.
Costs of Domain Investing
Domain investors can anticipate having at least three different costs. First is the cost of acquiring domains. This includes what you pay to hand register a domain and what you pay to acquire them from auctions or other investors. Second is renewal fees. You only pay these once per year, but the cost will rise as you grow your portfolio. Finally, it's going to cost a good portion of your time. Research, bidding, and other tasks can't be done in just a few minutes. While the cost for you to acquire domains and pay renewal fees might seem quantifiable, you also need to consider how much you could earn if you were spending all of that time doing something else. Few people take this into consideration, but you should because successful domain investors have a real passion and will spend several hours researching each day.
Domain Investing Metrics
In order to figure out the economics of domain investing you need to track the following:
1. Acquisition Costs
2. Ongoing Renewal Costs
3. Average Selling Price
4. Sell-Through Rate
5. Cost Of Your Time
Once you begin digging into these numbers you'll quickly learn why domain investing isn't as easy as most people think.
Running the Numbers
Below are some example figures that I will run through to give you an example:
1. Acquisition Costs – An investor acquires domains for an average of $100 through expired domain auction.
2. Renewal Costs – About $10 per year, per domain
3. Average Selling Price – $2500 per domain which is considered a sweet spot for most aftermarket sales.
4. Sell-Through Rate – A good portfolio with fairly-priced domains can sell about 1-1.5% of domains per year. If an investor owns 1000 domains then they should expect to sell between 10 and 15 per year.
Now, let's say an investor buys 25 domains per month at the average acquisition price. They do a great job of buying the right names and listing them for sale in the right places, achieving a 1.5% sell-through rate (selling 1.5% of their domains per year). Guess how many months it would take for them to become cash flow positive each month? The answer is roughly 44. That means it would take them nearly four years with these results in order to start getting paid each month rather than spending money out of pocket. This is also without even considering the cost of their time.
Of course, if you can improve any of those metrics then the results become much better. For example, sell domains at an average of $3500 and you can expect positive cash flow each month after around 30.
Let's compare this to buying a rental property. If you pay cash (like most people do for domains), then you are paying many years worth of rent up front with the idea you'll be earning that money back over time. The same is similar with domains. However, the difference with real estate investors is that they usually finance their purchase. That allows them to immediately get positive cash flow between how much they charge and how much they pay the bank each month.
From Hypothetical to Reality
Some investors use different tactics, such as buying higher-value domains and doing more active marketing to sell them. The economic picture for these types of investors is very different from those who build up a portfolio of expired domains and let them sit around until a potential buyer contacts them. So with that in mind, results can vary.
The important thing to think about before you get into domain investing is your long range plan and how the domains you buy today with fit into that plan. Are you willing to go in the red for many years until you make back your money? Or, should you focus on acquiring high-quality domain names that you can actively sell to achieve a great sell-through rate? Domain investing can be extremely fun and profitable. But remember, a bit of advanced planning and forecasting goes a long way!


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With renewed anticipation of a licence round offering open acreage across large prospective blocks, is it now time to explore this attractive region?
PGS dual-sensor broadband GeoStreamerTM data have identified significant synand post-rift potential in the Namibe Basin. This article uses the superior imaging offered by GeoStreamer to present an interpretation of the tectono-stratigraphic elements and prospectivity of the Namibe Basin, a frontier region with no wells. Furthermore, the article address' some of the challenges that have occurred in analogous hydrocarbon provinces such as the neighbouring Kwanza Basin, offshore Angola.
The seismic line below appeared as a multi-page pull-out feature in our print magazine. To subscribe to the print magazine use the 'Print Subscription' feature in the menu at the top of this page.
East-West line illustrating some of the key features and structures that have been revealed by GeoStreamer data in the Namibe Basin.
The Namibe Basin
Compelling seismic evidence for a significant unexploited hydrocarbon province located offshore southern Angola.
The Namibe Basin represents a significant unexploited hydrocarbon province located offshore southern Angola (Figure 1). During the Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous the eastern Atlantic margin of this part of West Africa developed as the conjugate margin to the prolific hydrocarbon-bearing Santos and Campos Basins. Although recent research describes the conjugate margins of Kwanza/Campos and Namibe/Santos as asymmetrical (Unternehr et al., 2010) with each basin containing slightly different petroleum elements, discoveries of supergiant oil fields such as Lula in the Santos Basin and Linguado in the Campos Basin have meant previously overlooked pre-salt targets of the eastern Atlantic margin have been re-assessed (Koch et al., 2013).
The resulting exploration of the eastern Atlantic margin has been rapid with significant discoveries made in neighbouring Angolan basins, such as Ombovo in Kwanza and Hivoua in Congo. The acquisition of several recent 2D and 3D dual-sensor broadband GeoStreamer surveys by PGS (Figure 1) provides a unique opportunity to unravel and de-risk the complex structural and stratigraphic history of the Angolan margin.
As no wells have been drilled in the Namibe Basin, stratigraphy is mainly inferred from the analogous Kwanza Basin.
Source rocks for the Namibe Basin are expected to occur predominantly in the syn-rift and sag phase sections with secondary early post-rift sources.
Regional heat flows from Angola and Namibia show a range of 24–68mW/m2 (IGI, Integrated Geochemical Interpretation, 2015). Using an average regional heat flow of 47mW/m2 (Figure 2) the syn-rift source rock equivalents of the Upper Cuvo (Bucomazi Formation) and Lower Cuvo lacustrine shales show a variable maturation with the Lower Cuvo Formation, reaching early gas/ condensate maturity in the lower interval and oil maturity in the upper interval. The Bucomazi Formation is oil mature when modelled as a high sulphur kerogen type.
Other source rocks may exist in the form of sag phase equivalents to the Upper Cuvo Formation (Chela Member) transgressive shallow marine clastics/carbonate marls, and post-rift Pinda Formation equivalent deep marine shales.
Modelling of hydrocarbon maturation and expulsion suggests that the Lower Cuvo Formation would have begun to expel oil from the early Eocene. The base of the Bucomazi Formation as shown in Figure 2 is expected to have barely expelled hydrocarbons since the Quaternary. The transformation ratio through time implies that all hydrocarbons would have been generated at the base of the Lower Cuvo Formation and that generation would have occurred by varying amounts throughout the entire formation.
Reservoirs and Seals
The interpretation of 2D and 3D GeoStreamer data has allowed for seismic facies to be delineated and analogues to be drawn from similar seismic facies observed in the Kwanza Basin. Syn-rift reservoirs are therefore likely to exist as formation equivalents to the Lower Cuvo Formation deep marine sandstones, Upper Cuvo Formation fluvial to lagoonal facies and carbonates of the Bucomazi Formation. Post-rift reservoirs are expected to be comprised of shallow marine sandstones of the Iabe Formation, the Pinda Formation (Binga Member) carbonates, and deep marine sandstones of the Landana Formation.
The presence of the Loeme Salt is well known in the Kwanza Basin, where it acts as the main seal for fields such as Orca/Baleia. Seismic imaging and interpretation has shown that the Loeme Salt equivalent is more extensive in the Namibe Basin than previously identified in conjugate margin reconstructions (Torsvik et al., 2009). Syn-rift seal in the Namibe Basin is therefore likely to be provided by the evaporites of the Aptian Loeme Salt Formation equivalent (Figures 3 and 4). Where salt is absent, intra-formational marine shales of the Bucomazi, Pinda, Iabe and Landana formations would likely represent alternative seals.
Traps and Structures
The Namibe GeoStreamer seismic data show multiple trap types present in the syn-rift and sag phase as well as the post-rift sections (Figures 3 and 4 and main seismic panel, above). Syn-rift and sag phase traps include tilted fault blocks with potential stacked reservoirs in the Lower Cuvo equivalent; carbonate build-up associated with the sag phase (Figure 3); four-way dip closures; and syn-rift stratigraphic pinch-outs of the Lower Cuvo equivalent. There are also multiple trap types in the post-rift, which are more commonly associated with halokinesis and include post-salt anticlinal closures, stacked channel complexes, and stratigraphic pinch-out traps (see Figure 4 and the main seismic panel, above).
Challenges of CO2 Contamination
Recent exploration wells in the southern Kwanza Basin have encountered high concentrations of CO2 in pre-salt reservoirs which have been geochemically typed to mantle melts that are interpreted to have displaced an earlier oil charge (Bump et al., 2016). The presence of >20% CO2 in hydrocarbon reservoirs is rare (Santos Neto et al., 2012) and geographically unpredictable, often with CO2 wells being adjacent to successful exploration wells (Bump et al., 2016).
An initial study of the Namibe Basin has been undertaken as part of the PGS Access™ West Africa 2015 report, in which Bouguer gravity data and magnetic survey data combined with 2D GeoStreamer data have identified a transitional zone (Figure 1) where gravity modelling suggests localised areas of raised Moho or exhumed mantle. Using PGS MC2D GeoStreamer data, a number of syn-rift basins have been identified which are isolated from such areas of raised Moho/exhumed mantle. Mantle derived CO2 may either be sourced via deep-seated faults penetrating the Moho or through shallow exhumed mantle degassing. Interpretation of the PGS GeoStreamer data shows these syn-rift basins to be isolated from exhumed mantle by basement highs (e.g. Figure 4) and with faults which detach prior to the Mohorovicic discontinuity, suggesting a lower risk for CO2 contamination in these areas.
PGS dual-sensor broadband GeoStreamer data help to identify significant synand post-rift potential in the Namibe Basin. Open acreage and an anticipated licence round make the Namibe Basin highly attractive for frontier exploration.
Potential leads have been identifed throughout the Namibe Basin including stacked carbonate and clastic reservoirs in the syn-rift and sag phase, large 4-way dip closures and multiple synand post-rift stratigraphic traps.
Potential oil prone sources are likely to be provided by equivalents to the syn-rift Lower Cuvo lacustrine shales, sag phase Upper Cuvo Formation and post-rift Pinda Formation deep marine shales. Basin modelling suggests that complete generation and expulsion of hydrocarbons will have occurred for the Lower Cuvo Formation with partial expulsion from shallower sources.
Seismic imaging and interpretation have shown the Loeme Salt equivalent to be the most likely seal as it is more extensive than previously identified in conjugate margin reconstructions.
With no well data available in the Namibe Basin, the MultiClient MC2D and MC3D PGS GeoStreamer data, combined with gravity and magnetics, provides the perfect platform to de-risk and unlock the prospectivity of the frontier Namibe Basin.


The property settlement process: Part 2
In the first part of our Property Settlement Process article we discussed how we determine the net asset pool so that everyone involved has a clear picture of what needs to be divided between the parties.
In part two of this article we will talk about determining the value of the contributions made by each party to the relationship.
Contributions can be considered at various times during the relationship. For example:
 - initial contributions made by each person at the start of the relationship
 - contributions made during the relationship
 - contributions made after the relationship has broken down that continue to benefit both parties, such as making mortgage repayments, paying rent or paying for children's school fees
The types of contributions considered in a property settlement largely fit within the following four categories:
 - Financial contributions. Being income earned and profit from businesses, investment returns and more particularly inheritances and gifts of money or property from one party's family
 - Non-financial contributions. This involves contributions which may add value but are not a direct contribution of money. A common example is the time spent renovating or repairing a jointly owned property to increase its value.
 - Parenting contributions. The effort made by each spouse, particularly where one had primary responsibility for parenting, while the other was free to earn the major part of the income in the relationship, is an important part of balancing the contribution between parties.
 - Homemaker contributions. While the full-time homemaker is less common in modern Australia we will still look carefully at a relationship to determine the value of the contribution each party has made to domestic duties such as cleaning, cooking, garden maintenance, grocery shopping and the like.
Only when the net asset pool has been determined, the contributions to that pool by each party have been assessed and each party's future needs are considered, can the next step in the property settlement process occur. This next step includes a determination or agreement (usually in percentage terms, though not necessarily) as to what proportion of the asset pool each party will receive and applying that percentage to divide the asset pool. This is the area we will cover in Part Three of our Property Settlement Process article.
If you have any questions about the property settlement process for yourself or in relation to a client you are advising, please contact a member of our family law team for more information.
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It was like being in a maze and not knowing which way to turn. There I was deeply in love again while I was holding my first child. I knew giving up this passion would mean that I would be setting a good example for her. I would be comfortable calling myself unselfish and a heck of a great mom. But this was the thing that I loved doing. I loved gogoing. I have been a gogo dancer for years. Is this really my true calling that I am giving up or is it just a stepping stone on my journey that's leading me to where I really should be?
Your true calling makes up your behavioral patterns within your everyday life. It's your motivation to keep working towards goals and particular life directions. It is something that is meaningful and promotes highly productive engagement within it's set of goals. It's no wonder why it has a connection to our happiness. Your true calling consists of your innate gifts, your passions and your interests all mashed into one. Without it, many people may feel lost, sad and confused. It may even lead them to sink into deep depression. Findings show that how we experience ourselves in the larger world (which is how we perceive our purpose) can affect our likelihood of developing anxiety or depression.
Here are a few things to do when trying to discover your true calling.
1. Think about the things that you enjoyed as a child and what you used to love
As a child, we were not weighed down by the typical robot-like days that adults have. Children are inquisitive, fun, and creative. As children, we always felt like we were not limited to what we could do. We were invincible and that mindset still needs to be with us today. Go above and beyond as if you had no barriers. Think about how nothing is holding you back. Think about all the creative things that you had fun with while in elementary school. Try to remember what your favorite activity was, where your favorite place was and write down all of that information to reflect on later.
2. Imagine your ideal life
This somewhat ties into the previous tip. If you had no limits and no time restraints, what would you do with all of your time? Idealizing your perfect life could really be key to finding your true passion. What would be going on during your everyday activities? Would you be coming up with a new painting? Would you be helping someone feel better? Think about it as if you were able to do this very thing every single day of your life's journey.
3. Focus on what makes you come alive and excited
Everyday life, especially during times of COVID, can make us feel like we are not really attuned. We get too busy wrapped up in the bad news and it's proven. One study found that people tend to pay more attention to negative news than to positive news. Take the time out of your day and just stop. Become aware of your surroundings. How do you feel at the current moment? What is going on around you? What do you smell, taste, and hear? Do your senses coincide with feelings of happiness and excitement? Another key trick to finding out what makes you really excited is to think about what makes you forget to do the basic necessities. What gets you so hyped up that you push away sleeping or eating? That is one of the biggest signs that you are engaging in your true passion.
4. Try new hobbies regularly
In order to find your true calling, it's important to try new things to see if it calls to you. If you are trying out new a hobby & it really seems to catch your interest, explore it more. Trying new hobbies gives you better insight on your skills and abilities if you don't have that insight already. It may help you discover new interests, new potential professions, and new places that might be a part of your true calling. You can consider taking new classes or trying new DIYs from online materials. But whatever the case may be, it may be best to try one new hobby each month instead of trying multiple. This will keep you from getting overwhelmed and this will give you a chance to get a better sense of how you feel about each one without giving up too quickly.
5. Look at your strengths
When we know our strengths, we know what makes us feel like we are engaged in something meaningful. We are more productive, more engaged, and more joyful at the same time. Sometimes our strengths are really clear and sometimes they may go unnoticed. To really look at your strengths, it may be helpful to ask at least three of the closest people to you and ask them to tell you what you are good at. This will give you more insight. If this gets a little challenging, you can also try listing three different ways that you stand out from others.
6. Pay attention to things that you keep coming back to
Think about the key things that always seem to come your way through dreams, messages, and people. Do people often come to you for advice? Do messages of becoming a teacher often catch your attention? Do you often see a nurse in your dreams? Staying aware of little details like that can be so helpful to finding your true calling.
7. Reflect on your favorite big causes
Are you a supporter of PETA? Are you a supporter of climate change? Whichever cause that shouts out your name every time you hear someone talking about the subject, write that down because that may be a key stone to what your true calling is and how your purpose ties into the world as a whole. This would be the problem that you help solve and that gives you a sense of intention.
8. Ask yourself how you want to be remembered
If someone were to write the best speech about the person you want to be in the future, what would they say? What type of accomplishments would they mention? What type of journeys would they say you go on? Write this down to reflect on.
9. Keep an open-mind
Surrounding yourself in other cultures can help you see things in a different perspective and it can also give you practice for training your mind to be open-minded. By being open-minded, you make a guarantee that you will not shut down reasonable experiences too soon without trying them first (by reasonable I mean, except for highly dangerous ones, of course). My saying for most things is that you don't really know unless you try it. Being open-minded is also great for gaining a deeper sense of yourself. You will learn more about your belief systems and which alternate belief systems you may reconsider.
Keep in mind too that not everyone has just one and only one true calling. I do believe that it is possible to have more than one. The sweet number is usually 1 to 3. By utilizing the quick tips above, you can notice each one that may be calling to you.
So here are the key practical takeaways.
 - Write down all the details of happy memories from your childhood days.
 - Write down everything that you want in your most perfect life.
 - Practice becoming aware of your surroundings by using guided meditations.
 - Sign up for a new hobby this month.
 - Find your strengths by asking at least three of the closest people to tell you what you are good at OR list three different ways that you stand out from others.
 - Write down anything that catches your sight in a consistent manner.
 - Write down your top 3 favorite causes.
 - Write down a speech someone would make that is about your future self.
 - Compare everything written down and see which parts are similar.
Cherish Angel is a mental health coach and a crisis counselor. As the owner of the entrepreneur blog, Soul of Purpose, she provides all the scientifically proven methods of increasing confidence, improving mental health, and boosting productivity skills for women. Her absolute favorite subject is all things psychology.


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DICLE KAYMAZ1, NURSEL TÜRKOĞLU SELÇUK2, PINAR ERGÜN1, PERVIN DEMIR3, İPEK CANDEMIR1, FILIZ TAŞDEMIR1, FATMA
ŞENGÜL1, NURCAN EGESEL1
1Department of Pulmonary Rehabilitation and Home Care, Ataturk Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey - 2Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Antalya Training and Research Hospital, Antalya, Turkey -3Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine, Yildirim Beyazit University, Ankara, Turkey
Introduction: We investigated the effectiveness of multidisciplinary, 8 weeks, outpatient Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) in old elderly patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). And also we aimed to compare the outcomes of multidisciplinary, 8 weeks, outpatient PR programme in young elderly and old elderly patients with COPD.
Methods: Patients underwent multidisciplinary PR in a hospital outpatient programme twice weekly for 8 weeks. Dyspnea, incremental shuttle walk test (ISWT) distance, endurance time (ET) health status with SGRQ, anxiety and depression scores and body compositions were assessed before and after PR.
Results: Subjects were divided in two groups: group A (young elderly) (n = 33,mean age 62.39 ± 5.66 years) and group B (old elderly) (n = 16,mean age 77.34 ± 2.52 years). ISWT distance increased significantly (P < 0.001) by a median 40 m in group A and 65 m in group B. There were significant improvements in HAD (Hospital Anxiety Depression) scores within the young and old elderly groups.
Conclusions: With PR; except for the improvement in exercise capacity, old elderly patients with COPD improved dyspnea, health related quality of life, anxiety and depression as much as the young elderly ones. PR should be integrated to the treatment of symptomatic patients who is 75 years and older with decreased exercise capacity, daily activities and quality of life as an effective approach. Age should not be an exclusion criteria for comprehensive outpatient PR programmes.Out patient PR is an effective treatment strategy for old elderly patients with COPD.
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pulmonary rehabilitation, elderly, treatment, outcome.


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Emory mathematician Ken Ono and colleagues devised new theories that answer famous old questions about partition numbers, the basis for adding and counting.
For centuries, some of the greatest names in math have tried to make sense of partition numbers, the basis for adding and counting. Many mathematicians added major pieces to the puzzle, but all of them fell short of a full theory to explain partitions. Instead, their work raised more questions about this fundamental area of math.
On Friday, Emory mathematician Ken Ono will unveil new theories that answer these famous old questions.
Ono and his research team have discovered that partition numbers behave like fractals. They have unlocked the divisibility properties of partitions, and developed a mathematical theory for "seeing" their infinitely repeating superstructure. And they have devised the first finite formula to calculate the partitions of any number.
"Our work brings completely new ideas to the problems," says Ono, who will explain the findings in a public lecture at 8 p.m. Friday on the Emory campus. "We prove that partition numbers are 'fractal' for every prime. These numbers, in a way we make precise, are self-similar in a shocking way. Our 'zooming' procedure resolves several open conjectures, and it will change how mathematicians study partitions."
The work was funded by the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) and the National Science Foundation. Last year, AIM assembled the world's leading experts on partitions, including Ono, to attack some of the remaining big questions in the field. Ono, who is a chaired professor at both Emory and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, led a team consisting of Jan Bruinier, from the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany; Amanda Folsom, from Yale; and Zach Kent, a post-doctoral fellow at Emory.
"Ken Ono has achieved absolutely breathtaking breakthroughs in the theory of partitions," says George Andrews, professor at Pennsylvania State University and president of the American Mathematical Society. "He proved divisibility properties of the basic partition function that are astounding. He went on to provide a superstructure that no one anticipated just a few years ago. He is a phenomenon."
On the surface, partition numbers seem like mathematical child's play. A partition of a number is a sequence of positive integers that add up to that number. For example, 4 = 3+1 = 2+2 = 2+1+1 = 1+1+1+1. So we say there are 5 partitions of the number 4.
It sounds simple, and yet the partition numbers grow at an incredible rate. The amount of partitions for the number 10 is 42. For the number 100, the partitions explode to more than 190,000,000.
"Partition numbers are a crazy sequence of integers which race rapidly off to infinity," Ono says. "This provocative sequence evokes wonder, and has long fascinated mathematicians."
By definition, partition numbers are tantalizingly simple. But until the breakthroughs by Ono's team, no one was unable to unlock the secret of the complex pattern underlying this rapid growth.
The work of 18th-century mathematician Leonhard Euler led to the first recursive technique for computing the partition values of numbers. The method was slow, however, and impractical for large numbers. For the next 150 years, the method was only successfully implemented to compute the first 200 partition numbers.
"In the mathematical universe, that's like not being able to see further than Mars," Ono says.
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In the early 20th century, Srinivasa Ramanujan and G. H. Hardy invented the circle method, which yielded the first good approximation of the partitions for numbers beyond 200. They essentially gave up on trying to find an exact answer, and settled for an approximation.
"This is like Galileo inventing the telescope, allowing you to see beyond what the naked eye can see, even though the view may be dim," Ono says.
Ramanujan also noted some strange patterns in partition numbers. In 1919 he wrote: "There appear to be corresponding properties in which the moduli are powers of 5, 7 or 11 … and no simple properties for any moduli involving primes other than these three."
The legendary Indian mathematician died at the age of 32 before he could explain what he meant by this mysterious quote, now known as Ramanujan's congruences.
In 1937, Hans Rademacher found an exact formula for calculating partition values. While the method was a big improvement over Euler's exact formula, it required adding together infinitely many numbers that have infinitely many decimal places. "These numbers are gruesome," Ono says.
In the ensuing decades, mathematicians have kept building on these breakthroughs, adding more pieces to the puzzle. Despite the advances, they were unable to understand Ramanujan's enigmatic words, or find a finite formula for the partition numbers.
Seeing the forest
Ono's "dream team" wrestled with the problems for months. "Everything we tried didn't work," he says.
A eureka moment happened in September, when Ono and Zach Kent were hiking to Tallulah Falls in northern Georgia. As they walked through the woods, noticing patterns in clumps of trees, Ono and Kent began thinking about what it would be like to "walk" through partition numbers.
"We were standing on some huge rocks, where we could see out over this valley and hear the falls, when we realized partition numbers are fractal," Ono says. "We both just started laughing."
The term fractal was invented in 1980 by Benoit Mandelbrot, to describe what seem like irregularities in the geometry of natural forms. The more a viewer zooms into "rough" natural forms, the clearer it becomes that they actually consist of repeating patterns. Not only are fractals beautiful, they have immense practical value in fields as diverse as art to medicine.
Their hike sparked a theory that reveals a new class of fractals, one that dispensed with the problem of infinity. "It's as though we no longer needed to see all the stars in the universe, because the pattern that keeps repeating forever can be seen on a three-mile walk to Tallulah Falls," Ono says.
Ramanujan's congruences are explained by their fractal theory. The team also demonstrated that the divisibility properties of partition numbers are "fractal" for every prime. "The sequences are all eventually periodic, and they repeat themselves over and over at precise intervals," Ono says. "It's like zooming in on the Mandelbrot set," he adds, referring to the most famous fractal of them all.
But this extraordinary view into the superstructure of partition numbers was not enough. The team was determined go beyond mere theories and hit upon a formula that could be implemented in the real world.
The final eureka moment occurred near another Georgia landmark: Spaghetti Junction. Ono and Jan Bruinier were stuck in traffic near the notorious Atlanta interchange. While chatting in the car, they hit upon a way to overcome the infinite complexity of Rademacher's method. They went on to prove a formula that requires only finitely many simple numbers.
"We found a function, that we call P, that is like a magical oracle," Ono says. "I can take any number, plug it into P, and instantly calculate the partitions of that number. P does not return gruesome numbers with infinitely many decimal places. It's the finite, algebraic formula that we have all been looking for."
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Adding a third cone allows for different combinations of movements and increases the complexity of the drills. To set up for three-cone drills, coaches should place three cones in a straight line, spaced approximately 5 yards (5 m) apart.
Games that incorporate quickness skills are a fun way to increase athletes' motivation and enthusiasm for training. The quickness games in this section also help athletes develop their situational-movement skills and body awareness.
You can read Human Kinetics e-books on desktop, laptop, and various mobile devices, as long as you have authorized the device or e-reader app to read e-books protected by Adobe's digital rights management (DRM).
The ball handler who fakes and then drives past a defender for an easy score. A pass rusher who leaves a would-be blocker in his wake on the way to sacking the quarterback. A setter who manages to maneuver both body and ball in the blink of an eye to make the perfect pass for the kill and match-winning point. These are all reasons agility and quickness are such prized physical attributes in modern sport.
Efforts to become markedly quicker or more agile, however, aren't always successful. Genetic limitations, technical deficiencies, and inferior training activities are among the major obstacles.
Developing Agility and Quickness helps athletes blow past those barriers thanks to the top sport conditioning authority in the world, the National Strength and Conditioning Association. NSCA hand-picked its top experts to present the best training advice, drills, and programs for optimizing athletes' linear and lateral movements. Make Developing Agility and Quickness a key part of your conditioning program, and get a step ahead of the competition.
The National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) is the world's leading organization in the field of sport conditioning. Drawing on the resources and expertise of more than 30,000 professionals in strength training and conditioning, sport science, performance research, education, and sports medicine, the NSCA is the world's most trusted source of knowledge and training guidelines for coaches and athletes. The NSCA provides the crucial link between the lab and the field.
"Developing Agility and Quickness bridges the gap between science and practical training for agility and quickness. It's an invaluable resource for improved sport performance."
Lee Brown, EdD, CSCS*D, FNSCA, FACSM -- Director of the Center for Sport Performance at California State University, Fullerton; Author of Training for Speed, Agility, and Quickness
"Developing Agility and Quickness does a great job of combining research and in-the-trenches knowledge. To help athletes be the best they can, today's coaches need to have the latest advice on training agility and quickness, which this book provides."
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Leadership is a process by which the leader is transformed so that he/she can help transform the lives of others. In order to be an effective leader, one must develop the attitude of a leader. Whether your students have a formal title of a leader or have not moved into that position yet, anyone can benefit from this presentation and become the best leader possible. Great leaders understand how to inspire everyone around them – their friends, family and associates, strive for excellence regardless to their circumstances – because they are inspired themselves. Curtis' presentation is powerful, funny and compelling. And it will create the desire in your students to make a difference in the lives of the people around them.
1. Students will discover 5 surprising secrets to becoming a great leader.
2. Students will find out how to inspire and motivate those around you.
3. Students will recognize how you can impact your campus and the world around you.


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Being a kid—or at least a playground designer—was a lot more fun in the 1970s, before the advent of telephone-book-thick ASTM standards, not to mention things like critical fall heights, head-entrapment guidelines, and the virtual outlawing of sand. "It's almost like a police state, what you can and cannot do in a playground," said Paul Friedberg, the landscape architect who created some of New York's most innovative play spaces. "The freedom that we once had is just completely gone."
But vestiges of that freewheeling age can be found in Central Park, where the spirit of adventure thrives thanks to restorations this summer of two pioneering playgrounds. In overhauling these spaces to meet modern safety and accessibility needs, the Central Park Conservancy has shown that safety and rambunctiousness can still coexist.
Designed by Richard Dattner in 1972, Ancient Playground was one of 21 Robert Moses–era playgrounds installed around the park's perimeter. In the late 1960s, these spaces began to be remade in the style of postwar Europe's adventure playgrounds, where children molded their environments out of bricks, timber, and tires. Dattner themed his space on the Egyptian collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, just across a transverse road at West 84th Street. "I thought it would be wonderful to teach kids something of ancient construction—the pyramids, obelisks, mastabas, and so forth—and relate in a kids' scale to what was across the street," Dattner said.
The central challenge of the renovation—the fourth of Dattner's playgrounds to be reconstructed in the park—was to create a required clear space around the main playground elements. Among other changes, the conservancy's designers created a regulation tire swing that mimics the original design, while increasing the size of Dattner's tunnels for better visibility. Since sand is not considered an accessible surface material, designers used safety surfacing that matched the spirit of the original.
The second playground, at West 100th Street, took its adventure-style form in 1972 to designs by Ross, Ryan, Jacquette Architects. The curving bridge, climbing cone, and water-spray feature have been restored, with the addition of complementary new equipment and resilient carpeting. A tree house was built around several mature trees, which were sadly removed after suffering damage during the August 18 storm. (The tree house remains.)
These respectful restorations are the latest sign that, 40 years later, adventure play is back. "In the 1970s, adventure playgrounds pushed the limits of demanding, physical play," said Christopher Nolan, the conservancy's vice president for capital projects. "We've been able to preserve the innovations that those playgrounds represented." The two spaces join other playgrounds of this style, like the Rockwell Group's Imagination Playground in Lower Manhattan, due to open next year, with a kit of loose parts that kids can use under the supervision of "play associates."
Dattner, who consulted pro bono on his playground's redesign, regards this latest generation of play spaces with a certain bemusement. "Much of my knowledge of the value of play has really been from the observation of kids playing with junk in the gutter," he said. "The two major materials are sand and water. The rest is extra."
A version of this article appeared in AN 18_11.04.2009.


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What is Piles?
Piles is a painful condition, which can aggravate if left untreated and may hamper your ability to perform your daily activities. Most people hesitate to seek treatment for it, citing it as an embarrassing health condition. Aside from this, some find piles treatment to be very expensive. If you're worried about the high treatment cost, read on and explore the best treatment options in your Mumbai.
Factors That Affect Piles Surgery Cost in Mumbai
Several factors influence the cost of piles surgery in Mumbai. The final cost of piles surgery in Mumbai is calculated after considering the factors that are mentioned below. Some common factors that can cause piles surgery cost to differ from person to person are:
- Consultation fees of the proctologist: The consultation fees charged by doctors/surgeons specializing in piles treatment varies greatly. Doctors with more experience can charge higher than those with relatively lesser experience.
- Type and grade of piles: The severity and grade of piles play an essential role in determining the cost of the treatment. For example, the surgery performed to treat grade 4 piles would require more precision, and it would therefore cost you higher than the cost of surgery for grade 1 piles.
- Cost of diagnostic tests before surgery: Some diagnostic tests, including anoscopy, colonoscopy, sigmoidoscopy, and digital rectal exam, are important before piles surgery. Some hospitals include the cost of these tests in the total treatment cost.
- Cost of pre and post-surgical medicines: The doctor might prescribe certain medications before the surgery. The cost of these medicines can cause the cost to soar. Similarly, the medicines prescribed after the procedure can also cause a variation in the treatment expense.
- Charges of post-surgery follow-up session: Follow-ups after surgery help doctors assess the efficacy of the surgery and check for post-surgery complications. The cost of follow-ups also affects the surgery cost.
The factors listed above can collectively cause your treatment cost to differ. In general, all hospitals and medical facilities assess all these factors before presenting you with the final bill.
All in all, if you have been diagnosed with piles, its always advisable to consult the best piles doctor in Mumbai and undergo proper treatment to prevent the condition from aggravating.


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How to access 'Open(Public)' forms or surveys
ClayHR allows you to create 'open' forms and surveys so they are publicly available to all your users to take and fill out at any time. Digital forms & surveys are widely used to collect data/information for different purposes, as they are less time-consuming and are customizable.
What is the use of Public Forms/Surveys?
Convenience is the keyIn ClayHR users have remote access to public forms and can fill out them according to their convenience. For filling these forms users don't need permission from the administration. For instance, If an employee wants to request a uniform and your organisation has a public form for it, the employee can simply fill it up and the administration can process the request accordingly.To access "Open (Public)" Forms
- To access 'Open' forms known as "Public" form, go to the "Forms" icon to the top right of the menu → "Public Form" sub-menu.
- Select the form you would like to complete.
- Fill out the form fields.
- Submit form.
To access "Open (Public)" Survey
- To access the 'Open' survey known as the "Public" survey, go to the "Forms" icon to the top right of the menu → "Public Survey" sub-menu.
- Select the survey you would like to complete.
- Fill out the survey fields.
- Submit the survey.