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National Geographic Green Guide to Smart Cities : Arlington Heights
What have been the Village's biggest environmental challenges? Please tell us things that are unique to Arlington Heights, environmentally, socially, geographically, historically.
Geographically Arlington Heights is the largest suburb of Chicago in Cook County with a population of nearly 77,000 contained in a 16.40 square mile area. With Cook County being the second most populous in the nation, the Village's major environmental challenge is traffic congestion and providing innovative environmental programs that influence our community's impact on the area's environmental health. It is the home to the Arlington Park Racecourse which is a unique feature of the community and has been in existence since 1927. The Racecourse, owned and operated by Churchill Downs, holds the Arlington Million and also was a host of the famous Breeder's Cup. Unique geographic characteristics of Arlington Heights include its proximity to Illinois Tollway, I-90, arterial thoroughfares that link many northwest suburbs, O'Hare International Airport, which accommodates over 2,500 flights a day, and the Union Pacific Railway Northwest Line of Metra, a major commuter railway. Arlington Heights is a very linier community. Due to its great location and proximity to Chicago plus its significant span of growth in the 1960s, Arlington Heights is a landlocked community with minimal buildable space which presents challenges -- turned into "green" opportunities -- for building new park space, new buildings, etc.
Socially, the Village has very active participation in its community events, Senior Center, Teen Center, and Park District programs. Our community has an aging populace but many new, young families are moving into the area. One thing that has always been said about Arlington Heights is that children raised here often plan to return here, which gives the community its small-town ambience. Also, having long-time residents devoted to the community is a significant value to the vibrancy of our Village.
Historically Arlington Heights was incorporated in 1887 and is one of the oldest suburbs northwest of Chicago. It "grew up" as a railroad town, where the hub of Village activity was in the center of town near the train stop for the Union Pacific Railroad. Today, Arlington Heights is the largest ridership stop for the Metra railway train system, which transports commuters along the northwest corridor to and from Chicago. The Village's most significant residential growth occurred in the late 1950s to early 1960s, which today results in challenges with an aged infrastructure.
The Village's biggest and most interesting environmental accomplishments?
Reviewing the list above, some of the Village's great success was addressing some of the challenges of area flooding by working cooperatively with other agencies and helping fund major flood control projects that resulted in Arlington Lakes Golf Course, the Deep Tunnel and Lake Arlington. Both of these projects called for leadership that was innovative, willing to negotiate, and patient. Each project took over 10 years to plan. Another success is the redevelopment of Downtown, which brought in a residential component to the heart of the Village. These residents can use the train, shop for groceries, pick up their dry cleaning and enjoy a movie without ever having to use their car for transportation. The new train station, which was a part of the redevelopment, includes a large bike shelter to promote commuters to ride their bike to the Arlington Heights train stop instead of traveling by car.
How do you consider Arlington Heights a "smart" Village?
A smart community is defined as a community that continually looks to solve the challenges it faces and does not give up until the best solution is found. It works cooperatively with other governmental agencies and looks for funding support where possible. There are projects that may take over a decade to plan, but that careful planning process is what leads to great implementation. Arlington Heights has faced many challenges due to its location and age. Through the leadership's commitment to offer quality services in Arlington Heights, the Village is always searching for ways to address current challenges. Through collaborative efforts, negotiations and careful planning, most challenges can be successfully addressed.
How do we overcome the Village's biggest environmental, social and geographic challenges?
The Village of Arlington Heights has always been lead by an innovative Board that always planned for tomorrow. Because of this, challenges have been anticipated and careful planning was done throughout the years to address some of the environmental and geographic challenges facing the Village. Environmental challenges are always monitored through the Environmental Control Commission established by the Village in 1971. The Commission is an advisory group to the Village Board and works in conjunction with the Health Department towards implementing various programs such as our recycling program. Arlington Heights is one of the first communities to begin a residential recycling program and later start a business recycling program. The Village is now one of the leading communities in terms of the amount of recyclables collected. The Village's environmental efforts encompass a broad spectrum of activities with the goal of improving environmental health and encouraging environmental awareness among our residents.
Arlington Heights was one of the first suburbs in Chicagoland to pass a Clean Indoor Air Ordinance which banned smoking from inside of restaurants, all businesses and other places open to the public. It also instituted a requirement that smoking had to take place at least 15 feet away from an entrance to a building. The Village's ordinance was in effect one year before the state enacted its Smoke Free Illinois Act.
For 10 years the Village has run a successful Farmers' Market which encourages people to buy from farmstands instead of chain grocery stores, which positively affects the environment and supports local growers who do not need to transport their produce and goods to larger stores.
In 1999 and 2000 Arlington Heights was recognized with major awards for its redevelopment of its Downtown. The transit-oriented, pedestrian friendly planning and working with developers to create high-rises that fit within the character of the Village were major reasons why Arlington Heights was selected for these awards. The awards include the National League of Cities' Howland Award for Urban Enrichment in 2000; the Metropolitan Planning Council's Burnham Award for Excellence in Planning and Implementation for Arlington Heights Downtown Re-development in 1999 and the American Planning Association's 2001 Outstanding Planning Award for Implementation of Downtown Redevelopment.
As part of our pedestrian-friendly Downtown, the Village ensured easy access to the newly developed train station, improved the sidewalks and crosswalk areas, placed a large bike shelter near the commuter train depot, and later added onto a Downtown parking garage and re-faced it so it would fit in with the new development and tie-in with the new look of the train station. Part of the redevelopment of the Downtown included multi-use high rises that allowed for first floor business space and residential above. That was an entirely new look for a Downtown that had become over the decades a place of empty storefronts, tired-looking buildings and little life and activity. After redevelopment, our Downtown residential condos filled with empty nesters who wanted to stay in the community but not own a home, and with commuters who took the train every day to work. Living nearby the train station became a great draw for young professionals who could simply walk to the train instead of drive and park their vehicle in a garage.
The Village has agreed to purchase four hybrid vehicles which will be placed into the rotation of non-emergency fleet vehicles once the Village is ready to replace an existing car.
The Village participated in the Weller Creek Flood Control project which tied into the Chicago Tunnel and Reservoir Plan. This project, known as the "Deep Tunnel," includes 109 miles of huge underground tunnels that intercept combined sewer overflow from communities and conveys it to large storage reservoirs. After a storm subsides, the overflow is conveyed to treatment plants for cleaning before going to a waterway. The Deep Tunnel, combined with flood control upgrades done by participating municipalities, stopped untreated sewage, diluted with storm runoff, from polluting area lakes, rivers, and streams, and also causing street and basement flooding.
In conjunction with the Deep Tunnel project, the Village also partnered with the Arlington Heights Park District to build water retention basins in areas that could double as a passive recreation area when it was not storming. This positively impacted basement flooding and allowed storm water runoff to be "held back" until the combined sewer system could handle a heavier intake. The largest water retention area in Arlington Heights, which was created in 1990, is "Lake Arlington." This 93-acre site was built as water retention area as part of the Village's Macdonald Creek Flood Control Project. The area stays as a "lake" and also works as a water retention site that handles stormwater run-off. This helps basement flooding in the area and adds a passive recreational component that enhances the lives of Arlington Heights residents. Lake Arlington features a two-mile bike and walking path, includes playground and picnic area, allows fishing and offers sailboat and paddleboat activities.
Another cooperative project between the Park District and Village was the creation of Nickol Knoll Golf Course, which was the site of a former Village landfill. Once the landfill was finished being used, it was later developed into attractive green space as a 9-hole, par-three golf course. Before it was developed into a golf course, "the hill" was a place where Walter Payton, famous running back for the Chicago Bears, regularly exercised by running up and down the hill with weights.
In the early 1970s the Village worked in cooperation with the Park District and the U.S. Army base once located here to obtain 110 acres of donated army base land that turned into another flood control project for the south end of the Village. In 1979, this donated property was engineered into an 18-hole golf course with several retention basins that positively affected the basement and street flooding problems in the area.


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Covers natural gas process plant operations to achieve marketable products that meet desired product specifications. Emphasis is placed on offering plant operating personnel an improved understanding of the process techniques and equipment used. The plant systems covered include: gas feed receipt and condensate stabilization; dew-point control and refrigeration systems; treating, dehydration and mercury removal of hydrocarbons; NGL recovery and fractionation as well as nitrogen rejection units. This improved understanding of plant process operations and effective process plant surveillance techniques will lead to an increased ability to achieve optimum, economical operating performance. Provides classroom instruction and handouts.
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Participants receive instruction in:
- Fundamentals of natural gas
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- Dehydration and mercury removal
- NGL recovery—lean-oil absorption
- NGL recovery—cryogenic
- Fractionation and liquid treating
- Nitrogen rejection unit (NRU)
- Plant considerations—economics, allocations, operating limits
- Instruments and controls
Maintenance and operations foremen and superintendents, plant engineering technicians, plant operators, process control technicians, and new plant engineers.
- Field Handling of Natural Gas—Emphasis on Operations
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Did you know there are mummies in Korea? I didn't, until I found this article from 2007 on National Geographic. (Apparently, archaeologists didn't, either, until the bodies started showing up, as old cemeteries were moved to make way for new houses in the recent construction boom.)
This person lived about 500 years ago and was found in South Korea. According to National Geographic, the mummification is perhaps the result of a burial practice that evolved in 14th-century Korea:
"The people believed the body should dissolve in a natural manner, without external factors such as worms," said Mark Spigelman of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who is known for his pioneering studies of ancient diseases found on mummified bodies around the world.
"This is why they developed a special burial custom."
The method involves laying a body on ice for 3 to 30 days during mourning, placing the corpse inside an inner and an outer pine coffin surrounded by the deceased's clothes, and covering the coffin in a lime soil mixture.
"In some cases, this inadvertently resulted in extremely good natural mummification," Spigelman added. "They didn't expect mummification and, in fact, that's the one thing they wouldn't want."
This method—unlike the artificial (and brittle-making) mummification processes used in ancient Egypt—resulted in mummies that are relatively pliable, with better preserved DNA. Researchers were even able to take samples from one mummy of the virus that causes hepatitis B, which could pave the way for research that might help modern-day sufferers of the disease.
A more recent discovery—featured in the Daily Mail—is this lady, who is also believed to be about 500 years old:
She was found in Osan, in South Korea's Gyeonggi Province, with her purse.

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From Richard Williams <>
Subject RE: st: question on chow test
Date Sun, 20 Feb 2005 15:06:25 -0500
At 11:19 AM 2/20/2005 -0800, Daniel Schneider wrote:
If you say "testparm g2x1 g3x1 g4x1, equal" tests whether the effects of
x1 are the same in all groups, what is the difference to "testparm g2x1
g3x1 g4x1" which should test the same thing (at least that is what I
figured out and what you confirmed some lines above)?
No, the tests are different. -testparm g2x1 g3x1 g4x1- tests whether there are differences in the effects of x1 between any of the 4 groups. -testparm g2x1 g3x1 g4x1, equalallows the three groups to differ from the reference category; but it tests whether the effect of x1 is the same in groups 2, 3 and 4. For example, suppose your groups are white, black, other, with white as the reference category. The effect of x1 for blacks and others might significantly differ from the effect for white; but the effect of x1 may not be significantly differ between blacks and others. You might do things like this if you are trying to identify what the important contrasts are. Is it sufficient to simply distinguish between whites and non-whites, or are there differences among the subgroups of the non-whites?
Lets assume I have following coefficients:...
I also have a second group of coefficients:...
Again, differences among groups are statistically significant.
Can I make a meaningful discussion of the values of the differences
between the coefficents, for example claiming that the differences for
x2 are stronger because the differences are larger? I am personally feel
uncomfortable with just talking about statistical significance without
talking about effect strength and in this case the effect strength
should be buried in the difference, but I am not sure if it is correct
to really discuss the differences in this way.
Well (a) X1 and X2 have to be measured in the same metric of course, and (b) you'd still want to do significance tests as to whether, say, g4x2 really was larger than g4x1. Doesn't much appeal to me, but maybe if I knew what the variables were and the underlying theory I'd think differently.
> There are potentially zillions of tests you can be doing
> here, so you want
> to be careful you aren't just capitalizing on chance.
Sure, that's correct. My only problem is that I have four variables that
all could be different across groups, but don't have to (actually I have
more, but I am willing to hold the others constant based on theoretical
assumptions and my research interests).
Or is it better to run several separate regressions and leting only one
of the variables vary across groups while holding the others constant?
In that case I could use the simple testparm command as outlined in the
FAQ to test the differences of a specific variable.
I'd probably want to run the single regression. I'd also probably want to focus on the most critical contrasts, e.g. do the effects of x1-x4 differ across groups or don't they? If you do want to try out all the different possibilities, you should go for more stringent significant levels. But, the more complicated you make this, the more difficult it will be to interpret, and the more likely you are to come up with results that may be ideosyncratic to your data set. Just my opinion, others may disagree.
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Mass Update - Position Data Overide/Use Position Data (Doc ID _PHONE_.1)
Last updated on NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Applies to:
Information in this document applies to any platform.
Mass update functionality is not working when creating two future rows on job data. The first future row to reduce standard hours by overriding position data and the second future row to reinstate standard hours back using position data defaults.
The issue can be replicated as follows:
The process is not successful when using Mass Update.
Nav: Workforce Admin>Collective Processes>Mass Update>Define Mass Update
1. Created a definition to create a job row(future dated) to override a job's position std_hours.
2. Definition had data changes of Service WRK_LOC changing element POSITION_OVERRIDE =Y (boolean).
3. Executed successfully.
4. Created a second definition to create another row further into the future to Use the Position data defaults (no position override).
5. Definition had data changes of Service WRK_LOC changing element POSITION_OVERRIDE =N (boolean).
6. Executed successfully.
7. Job row with correct effective date was created with no changes to the job records, position data and is still shown as override.
The process is successful and works as expected when manually updating Job Data.
1. Create future row and override position data, change std hours from 40 to 32.
2. Create another future row and use position data which brings in the std hours of 40 from position data.
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1 jan 1920 ano - Temperance Movement
This was an American social movement against the consumption of alcohol. It was deviant because during this time nearly everyone drank, and it was strange for someone to suggest that they stop. The goal was to stop people from drinking altogether, and have better education on the effects of alcoholism. They faced hate from society. Their campaign led to a 13 year period of prohibition and a negative view of drunkenness.
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What is a membrane filter?
Q. What is a membrane filter?
A. A membrane filter is a matrix with channels which act as a screen and retain particles larger than the filter on the surface of the membrane. Membrane filters allow the retention of sub-micron particles and organisms.
Filtration definations and relative pore size
||0.1 - 5.0 micron
|Nanofiltration (NF), Reverse Osmosis (RO)
Note that pores have not been observed in RO or NF membranes using a microscope.
What is the maximum temperature for the different filter membranes?
Q. What is the maximum temperature for the different filter membranes?
A. The maximum operating temperatures for Sterlitech filter membranes are listed below.
What is the difference between hydrophilic vs hydrophobic membranes?
Q. What is the difference between hydrophilic vs hydrophobic membranes?
A. Hydrophilic filters posses an affinity for water and can be wetted with almost any liquid. Sterlitech carries a wide variety of hydrophilic membranes, including:
Hydrophobic filters lack an affinity for water and are best suited for venting applications. Example of hydrophobic filters are Sterlitech polypropylene membranes and Sterlitech PTFE, either laminated or unlaminated.
How is the performance of a filter measured?
Q. How is the performance of a filter measured?
A. Design and material selection determines the performance of a filter. Three important measures of filter performance are flow rate, throughput and bubblepoint, defined as follows:
Flow Rate: Determines the volume of liquid or air that will flow through the filter at a fixed pressure and temperature. This is usually displayed as ml/minute/cm^2.
Throughput: Describes the dirt handling capacity of a filter. Namely, how long the liquid will continue to flow through the membrane before the membrane clogs. The lower the flow rate and throughput, the longer it takes the researcher to complete the analysis.
Bubble point: A test to determine the integrity and pore size of a filter. The differential pressure at which a steady stream of gas bubbles is emitted from a wetted filter under specific test conditions. The bubble point test measures the largest pore. Bubble point is generally determined using water or an alcohol (methanol or isopropynol) and is displayed as PSI.
What variables affect the performance of a filter?
Q. What variables affect the performance of a filter?
A. Viscosity: The viscosity of a liquid determines its resistance to flow; the higher the viscosity, the lower the flow rate and the higher the differential pressure required to achieve a given flow rate.
Porosity: The flow rate of a membrane is directly proportional to the porosity of a membrane, eg. the more pores, the higher the flow rate.
Filter Area: The larger the filter area, the faster the flow rate at a given pressure differential and the larger the expected filter throughput volume prior to "clogging for a given solution."
How are pore sizes rated?
Q. How are pore sizes rated?
A. A pore size rating is determined by the diameter of the particle that it can be expected to retain with a defined, high degree of efficiency. The rating is stated in nominal or absolute terms.
How is pore size determined?
Q. How is pore size determined?
A. The pore size of a filter, normally stated in micrometers (µm), is determined by the diameter of a particle that is retained by the filter. This is determined using a challenge organism and/or bubble point testing.
What is the maximum operating pressure for the Capsule filters?
Q. What is the maximum operating pressure for the Capsule filters?
A. The maximum operating pressure for the Capsule filters varies with liquids and gases.
Liquids - 80 psi
Gases - 55 psi
What is the difference between nominal and absolute pore size ratings?
Q. What is the difference between nominal and absolute pore size ratings?
A. Nominal pore size rating describes the ability of the filter to retain the majority of the particles at the rated pore size and larger (60-9%). Glass fiber filters and screen filters are a good example of nominally rated filtration.
Absolute size rating describes the pore size at which a challenge organism of a particular size will be retained with 99.9% efficiency under strictly defined test conditions. Most membrane filters are rated as absolute terms.
What organisms are used to determine pore size?
Q. What organisms are used to determine pore size?
What is a bubble point test?
Q. What is a bubble point test?
A. A test to determine the integrity and pore size of a filter. The differential pressure at which a steady stream of gas bubbles is emitted from a wetted filter under specific test conditions. The bubble point test measures the largest pore.
How many times can the Capsule filters be autoclaved?
Q. How many times can the Capsule filters be autoclaved?
A. The Capsule filters can be autoclaved at 121°C for up to five 30 min cycles.
What is a KD (kiloDalton)?
Q. What is a KD (kiloDalton)?
A. KD, or kD is the abbreviation for kiloDalton and is equal to 1,000 Molecular Weight Cut-Off (MWCO). A solution having a molecular weight of 1,000,000 would be equivalent to 1,000 KD. The table listed below gives a general relationship between kiloDalton to Microns (micrometers), Nanometers, and Angstroms:
As a general rule, choose a membrane with a pore size (MWCO) that is less than half of the compound of interest.
Are Sterlitech Syringe Filters certified pyrogen free?
Q. Are Sterlitech Syringe Filters certified pyrogen free?
A. No, we do not perform pyrogen tests on our filters.
Can I filter aqueous solutions through a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) hydrophobic membrane?
Q. Can I filter aqueous solutions through a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) hydrophobic membrane?
A. Yes, but the membrane requires pre-wetting with alcohol (like Isopropanol or Methanol) to establish flow with reasonable pressure differentials. We often use a 60/40 solution (60 Isopropanol/ 40 water) to prewet the membrane.
I am interested in gridded, sterile membranes, but I am concerned about the high costs of shipping Nitrocellulose internationally. Do you have other types of membranes that can be used?
Q. I am interested in gridded, sterile membranes, but I am concerned about the high costs of shipping Nitrocellulose internationally. Do you have other types of membranes that can be used?
A. We offer two alternatives to gridded Nitrocellulose membranes, which incur no Hazardous materials charges, Nylon and Polyethersulfone (PES).
Can my Nylon membranes be treated exactly like Nitrocellulose during colony hybridization?
Q. Can my Nylon membranes be treated exactly like Nitrocellulose during colony hybridization?
A. One of our customers was wondering if drying E. coli on Nylon transfer membranes prior to denaturation effects the colony hybridization. Further, they were wondering if after drying the membranes, would treating with SDS before denaturation effect the hybridization? The answer is...NO, this will work! The hybridization will not be adversely affected. This is the procedure they used.
- performed colony lifts
- air dried nylon membranes with E. coli
- incubated 3 minutes on 3MM paper saturated with 10% SDS.
- incubated 5 minutes on 3MM with 0.5M NaOH, 1.5 M NaCI.
- incubated 5 minutes on 3MM with 1.5 M NaCI, 0.5M Tris pH 7.5.
- incubated 5 minutes on 3MM with 2X SSC.
- UV crosslinked without drying.
- prehybridized and hybridized as usual.
Which membrane is recommended for size characterization analysis?
Q. Which membrane is recommended for size characterization analysis?
A. The polycarbonate track-etch (PCTE) membrane is recommended for size characterization analyses. The pores of this membrane are exceptionally uniform and are offered as low as 0.01um in size.
We would like to filter fluids and wonder which membrane to use for cytology?
Q. We would like to filter fluids and wonder which membrane to use for cytology?
Cells are removed from the body, then stained and examined under a microscopy. The trained physician or cytotechnologist is able to detect the presence of malignancy.
Use of either the 5.0 um or 8.0 um polycarbonate membrane.
- Pore Structure and Porosity
Minimum clogging by red blood cells and protein. Well preserved cellular morphology. High recovery rate. Rapid filtration with low pressure. Surface capture. No cover slip edge sealing.
High cell visibility. Improved morphologic resolution. Surface capture.
Easy mounting. Immediate microscopic examination.
- Low absorption and adsorption
Improved contrast. Greater cell isolation. Easy mounting.
Improved contrast. Simpler microscopic analysis routine.
Simpler microscopic analysis routine.
Unaffected by conventional cytologic fixatives and stains.
Less critical handling techniques needed.
25mm or 47mm filter holder
Stainless steel forceps
5.0um - 25mm or 47mm PCTE membranes
General Procedure - procedure may vary
Most body fluids contain blood in various amounts.
Collect them in a container with an anticoagulant.
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By Sara Aoyama
In the last column I gave you guidelines for pronunciation of the five
vowel sounds in Japanese, and also for some of the consonants. I'm
sure that you noticed there were some missing consonants, though. That's
what I will address in this column. So, here are a few more lines to
add to the Japanese alphabet chart that we are now familiar with:
The GA line corresponds to the KA line. In the Japanese syllabary, KA becomes GA when two extra strokes are added in the upper right hand.
So KA looks like this:
And GA looks like this:
The SA line changes to the ZA line, the TA line changes to the DA line,
and the HA line changes to both the BA and PA line. When it becomes PA,
instead of the two extra strokes in the corner, there is a small circle.
So we have HA, BA and PA all looking pretty similar:
Now that you're feeling confused, let's talk about what
all this really means for a martial artist!
The best example is found in the kicks. We have mae-geri, mawashi-geri,
kansetsu-geri, and yoko-geri. These are translated as front kick, roundhouse
kick, joint kick and side kick respectively. You might then deduce that
the word for kick must be geri. But it isn't. The verb "to
kick" in Japanese is keru. The noun form comes from that and is
keri. So, why do all those kicks end up as geri, you may wonder. The
reason for this is because some Japanese sounds change when they are
combined with other words or syllables. Often k changes to g, t to d,
h to b or p. There are probably rules for when and how these changes
are made, but adult native speakers of Japanese seem to instinctively
know how to do it correctly, much as we English speakers instinctively
know how to use 'a' and 'the' correctly.
I picked kick or keri as an example for two reasons. The first reason
is because the kicks come up often in our training. It's a good
place to start to become aware of how words combine in Japanese. The
second reason I picked this as an example is because it just won't
do to be going around talking about geri. In Japanese geri means diarrhea.
Just to sidetrack a bit, this is also an occasion for me to remind you
to get your pronunciation right for this word. If you want to speak about
giri or obligation, do make sure that you are not inadvertently pronouncing
it as geri!
Because the Japanese language has limited sounds there are many words
that sound the same. Kumo means spider and cloud. Hashi means chopsticks
and bridge. It's usually obvious from the context which word the
speaker is referring to. And when the language is written it is clear
by the kanji (Japanese character) which word it is. If two Japanese are
chatting and the word is not clear, you'll often see them clarify
it by writing the character in the air or on their hand, or by giving
another example of the character in a different word.
In the martial arts world, here are some examples of things that change
Karami --> garami ex. Ashi-garami
Harai --> barai ex. Ashi-barai
Tachi --> dachi ex. Heiko-dachi
Kamae --> gamae ex. Hotoke-gamae
Tsuki --> zuki ex. Jodan-zuki
The last example, tsuki, is not a very good example to give you, but
it gives me an opportunity to point out that these things are not always
clear. You will hear both jodan-zuki and jodan-tsuki. If those around
you are using zuki in combination, that's fine. But when it stands
alone, it probably should be tsuki.
Lastly, I would not want to give you the impression that syllables that
begin with these sounds –G, Z, D, B and P-- are always only seen
due to combination. All of them stand alone as well. For example, the
bu of budo is always bu. The getsu of hangetsu is always getsu. And the
also the do of budo, karate-do, judo etc. is always do…. At least
in Japanese. It is, however, a long sounding do (dou) but we'll
get to that on another day!
About the Author:
Sara Aoyama is a 1974 graduate of the University of Kansas, where she
majored in Japanese Language and Literature. She spent over twelve years
living in Japan where she dabbled in a number of other arts such as Ikebana
(flower arranging), cooking, and Shamisen. While living in Kyoto, she
was able to see many hidden aspects of Japanese society. Currently she
lives in Brattleboro, Vermont where she trains in Shorin-ryu Karate.
Currently she continues her studies in Kishaba Juku karate under Sensei
George Donahue and is also a student of Tai Chi Chuan. She is a freelance
Japanese-English translator. Most recently, she translated "The
Art of Lying" by Kazuo Sakai, MD., and "Karate Kyohan" by
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While there has been an enduring popular image of the Confederates as a "ragtag Rebel force" without a specific uniform, in fact the Confederacy's Quartermaster General had put into place a clothing issue system for the whole army by the fall of 1862. However, the pattern and materials used varied from location to location owing to the availability of materials and manufacturing resources. The government-issued uniforms were often supplemented heavily by the soldiers with homemade, state-issued, and captured items, resulting in the often mismatched look of the Confederate forces.
The Haversack's online store offers the 2nd edition of the Museum's popular Uniform Catalogue, featuring an introduction by guest curator, Les Jensen. This reexamination of the Museum's collection is arranged alphabetically by the name of the soldier who wore them, known provenance, and detailed descriptions.
Of the few hundred known remaining uniforms of the Confederate forces, the largest and most significant collection is preserved by The Museum of the Confederacy. One of the most prized artifacts in the 215-item collection is the uniform frock coat of General Robert E. Lee worn at the surrender in Appomattox. The collection also features garments from the western theaters and the Confederate Navy. There are several uniforms from Civil War notables, including: Richard S. Ewell, William Dorsey Pender, John Bell Hood, Patrick Cleburne, and Ambrose P. Hill.
Every wartime photograph of Robert E. Lee shows him wearing a uniform coat bearing three stars on his collar; the insignia denoting the rank of colonel in the Confederate Army. Why did Lee prefer the insignia of a Confederate colonel? Lee had finally attained the rank of colonel in the U.S. Army on the eve of the war and some have speculated that Lee wore the three stars as a gesture of Lee's famous modesty. Another explanation is that three stars had been in the U.S. Army the appropriate insignia for a lieutenant general a rank that only two men had held: Lee's idol George Washington and his mentor Winfield Scott.


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In the field of electricity and electronic components, an isolator is something that prevents any interaction between circuits or some other type of electrical component. When it comes to isolators, there are several different types with several kinds of uses in several industries. Here is some information on some of the common types of isolators used in electronic components, as well as other products, to let you know what they are and what they are used for.
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Audio isolators refer to some of the interrelated concepts that are used in different types of applications. It typically describes any kind of method of isolating, soundproofing or other type of procedure in audio or visual components.
This is usually needed when you want to control the acoustics in an environment and prevent noise from the outside or vibrations from getting inside. It is a concept used a lot in interior design of homes or businesses, especially in places that specialize in recording music in order to preserve the quality of the recording.
It can also be a product such as headphones that in turn isolate the person listening to the music so they can hear it better or an isolation cabinet that provides a sound barrier for recording or for things like hearing tests.
Electric isolators are basically something that prevents electricity from getting somewhere. It may be a switch that is employed to isolate circuits from each other. Isolators like this could be used along with a circuit breaker system in which the isolators are opened after the circuit breaker opens a circuit and then closed prior to the circuit breaker closes it. This is used for when workers do maintenance on some electrical systems.
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A battery isolator used when there are several batteries in use in a product and you want to keep the system from being incapacitated because one battery goes dead. They are used in things like trucks, planes, boats, and utility vehicles that commonly need several batteries as a backup source to run them.


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Liang Qin, Carleton University
Thomas Kunz, Carleton University
Most existing on-demand mobile ad hoc network routing protocols continue using a route until a link breaks. During the route reconstruction, packets can be dropped, which will cause significant throughput degradation. In this paper, we add a link breakage prediction algorithm to the Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) protocol. The mobile node uses signal power strength from the received packets to predict the link breakage time, and sends a warning to the source node of the packet if the link is soon-to-be-broken. The source node can perform a pro-active route rebuild to avoid disconnection. Experiments demonstrate that adding link breakage prediction to DSR can significantly reduce the total number of dropped data packets (by at least 20%). The tradeoff is an increase in the number of control messages by at most 33.5%. We also found that the pro-active route maintenance does not cause significant increase in average packet latency and average route length. Enhanced route cache maintenance based on the link status can further reduce the number of dropped packets.
Liang Qin, Thomas Kunz, "Increasing Packet Delivery Ratio in DSR by Link Prediction," hicss, vol. 9, pp.300a, 36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'03) - Track 9, 2003


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People-first Languague is the first step in establishing an atmosphere of acceptance and empowerment. Make it a habit to put the person before the disability. Say "child with autism," "adult with a disability," or "friend who uses a wheelchair." The next step of course is to learn a person's name and refer to them by that instead of bringing the disability to the forefront every time.
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Even after the smoke clears from a wildfire, the danger is not over. Other hazards such as debris flows (fast-moving, destructive landslides) can also occur in the aftermath of a wildfire. Wildfires and landslides occur in every state and territory; they kill people and cost American taxpayers billions of dollars in disaster aid, disruption of commerce, and destruction of homes and critical infrastructure.
"While we cannot prevent natural events such as floods, mudslides, volcanic eruptions, wildfires, earthquakes, or tsunamis, we can reduce or mitigate their devastating impacts by helping communities to rebuild in safer locations, construct sturdier dwellings, and enforce sound building practices," said U.S. Representative Earl Blumenauer.
Come hear how the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and its partners are working together to meet the challenge of reducing America's wildfire and landslide risk.
The USGS will host a congressional briefing on how science can be used to safeguard communities from the threat of wildfires and landslides.
Thomas Casadevall, USGS
Jerome De Graff, USDA Forest Service
Michael Rohde, Orange County Fire Authority
Room 2325 Rayburn House Office Building
10 a.m. – 11 a.m.
Friday, Sept. 15, 2006
U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Representative Earl Blumenauer
U.S. Representative James Moran
Host: National Fire Protection Association
The USGS recently launched a new Web site and seven easy-to-understand fact sheets on earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, landslides, tsunamis, volcanoes and wildfires, which can be accessed at _URL_
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The Gather Streams logical operator is only used in parallel query plans. The Gather Streams operator consumes several input streams and produces a single output stream of records by combining the input streams. The record contents and format are not changed. If this operator is order-preserving, then all input streams must be ordered.
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Q: Not long ago, I saw a newspaper
article about a "Red" Mass in some
city. Later I heard about people attending
a "Blue" Mass. What are these?
A: A "Red" Mass is a Votive Mass of
the Holy Spirit, celebrated for
judges, lawyers and other members of
the legal profession, to ask God's blessing
upon their work. In Washington,
D.C., this Mass is celebrated on the
Sunday before the U.S. Supreme Court
begins its term on the first Monday of
This liturgical custom has more
recently led to annual Masses for at
least two other occupational groups: "Blue" Masses for police officers and
others engaged in public safety, as well
as "White" or "Rose" Masses for doctors,
nurses and other health-care professionals.
According to the St. Thomas More
Society, the first Red Mass was celebrated
in 1245 at La Sainte Chapelle in
Paris. This custom spread to England in
1310. In some places, judges once wore
or still wear red robes. The Mass celebrant
wears red in honor of the Holy
The first Red Mass in the United
States was celebrated in New York City
in 1928. The 2007 Washington, D.C.,
Mass at St. Matthew Cathedral was the
54th annual Mass in that city. Archbishop
Donald Wuerl presided, and
Archbishop Timothy Dolan of Milwaukee
preached. Six U.S. Supreme
Court justices attended, including five
who are Catholic and Stephen Breyer,
who is Jewish.
Archbishop Dolan began his homily
by recalling the witness given in 2002
by a 24-year-old woman at World
Youth Day in Canada. Addicted to alcohol
and other drugs, she was considering
suicide. Friends convinced her to
attend a World Youth Day event where
she heard Pope John Paul II say that
God loves each person, that every person
is God's work of art and known
individually by God. "I now want to
live," she told a group in Toronto.
Later in his homily Archbishop
Dolan said, "Ideas have consequences,
and perhaps a way to view our participation
in this annual Red Mass in our
nation's capital is as our humble prayer
for the red-hot fire of the Holy Spirit,
bringing the jurists, legislators and
executives of our government the wisdom
to recognize that we are indeed
made in God's image...."
The archbishop closed his homily
by quoting from a prayer that Bishop
John Carroll of Baltimore wrote in
1789: "God, we pray for all judges,
magistrates and other officers who are
appointed to guard our political welfare,
that they may be enabled by Thy
protection to discharge the duties of
their respective stations with honesty
In recent years, Red Masses have
seen increased ecumenical and interfaith
participation. At last September's
Red Mass in Atlanta, Rabbi William
Rothschild proclaimed the first reading,
from the Book of Haggai.
"It's a wonderful way to recognize
the serious, serious responsibility we
carry out every day," said Judge Doris
Downs, chief judge of Fulton County
Superior Court. "The judiciary does
need the prayers."
Catholic Standard, the newspaper of
the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C.,
and The Georgia Bulletin, the newspaper
of the Archdiocese of Atlanta, gave
full coverage to their Red Masses, as
did other diocesan papers regarding
local Masses for occupational groups.
Women and men distinguished for
their public or community service are
often honored at these Masses.
Occupation-related Masses remind
us that faith touches all aspects of life.
The feast of St. Joseph the Worker, celebrated
on May 1, was introduced into
the Church's worldwide liturgical calendar
in 1956 to stress a similar theme:
One's work can be part of—and not an
obstacle to—growing in holiness.
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Q: I have a question that is driving me
crazy. Because of a shortage of
priests, several parishes in my city no
longer have daily Mass. My parish has
Word and Communion services twice a
week. Sometimes these are led by a deacon
but other times by laypersons, including
women. All the prayers for the Mass are
said, except the consecration prayers.
I absolutely refuse to participate. Am I
being old-fashioned in not accepting this?
A: I suspect that someone may not
be accurately reporting what
is happening there. The Church's
Congregation for Divine Worship
approved a 1973 document entitled
"Holy Communion and Worship of the
Eucharist Outside Mass." That instruction
indicates who may lead these services
(priests, deacons, those designated
to bring Holy Communion to the sick
and those whom the local bishop may
designate) and what such a service
includes (an introductory rite, followed
by one or more readings from Scripture,
the general intercessions, the Our
Father and the rest of the Communion
That omits the offertory and the
eucharistic prayer, a sizable and key
section of the Mass. If your parish is not
following that Instruction, that is an
abuse that should be reported to your
local bishop. Anyone doing so needs
first to be sure of the facts.
The National Conference of Catholic
Bishops (now the U.S. Conference of
Catholic Bishops) published a booklet
in 1976 providing the text of this
Instruction and appropriate biblical
The Eucharist is the Church's celebration;
whoever leads the Word and
Communion service that you have
described is acting in the Church's
name. By choosing not to participate,
you are depriving yourself of a valuable
opportunity to reverence the Body and
Blood of Jesus and receive help in your
growth as a disciple of Jesus. I would
call such a decision not "old-fashioned"
but rather "shortsighted." I hope you
will reconsider your decision—even as
we work and pray to celebrate Mass
Q: In a few months, my grandson, who
is not Catholic, and his fiancée will
be married on a cruise ship. We fly into
Florida on a Saturday and board the ship
the next morning. It looks as though I
won't be able to attend Mass that Sunday,
something that I always do. Is it O.K.
to miss under those circumstances?
A: I see two possibilities in this situation.
First, there might be a
Saturday evening Mass at a church near
where you are staying that night. If
you go to _URL_, you
can check out locations and possibilities.
This Web site also offers maps to
the churches listed.
Second, the cruise line might already
have arranged for a priest to celebrate
Mass on that ship. Check with the
cruise line beforehand or with the staff
after you board.
If neither of these possibilities exists
in this situation, then you have done
your best under the circumstances.
Q: I know that the months of May and October are dedicated to the
Blessed Virgin Mary, the month of June to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
and the month of July to the Most Precious Blood of Jesus. Are there
dedications for the other months?
A: Yes, there are. The Catholic Source Book (2007) gives the following
list: January (Holy Childhood), February (Holy Family),
March (St. Joseph), April (Holy Spirit/Holy Eucharist), May
(Mary), June (Sacred Heart), July (Precious Blood), August
(Blessed Sacrament), September (The Seven Sorrows of Mary), October
(Holy Rosary), November (Souls in Purgatory) and December (Immaculate
Father Stanley Rother (_PHONE_), a
priest of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma
City, was murdered at his rectory in
Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala. He is
regarded by many people there and in
the United States as a martyr.
On October 5, 2007, the cause for
his canonization was formally begun
at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in
Okarche, Oklahoma, where he was baptized.
Archbishop Eusebius Beltran has
appointed Deacon Norman Mejstrik as
coordinator. Father Rother was the subject
of our July 2006 cover story, which
is posted at _URL_.
Thomas Rice, a Patrician Brother working
at the Franciscan Mission in Aitape,
Papua New Guinea, seeks picture books
for children (ages five through eight),
novels for teens and writing supplies, as
well as statues of Mary and other saints.
These can be sent to him at P.O. Box
179, Aitape 553, Sandaun Provice,
Papua New Guinea.
If you have a question for Father Pat, please submit it here.
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Xi Calls for Establishment of World Class Universities With Chinese Characteristics
President Xi Jinping has called for the creation of world-class tertiary institutions with Chinese characteristics to expedite the development of socialism and STEM subjects in China, in a speech delivered during an inspection of Peking University conducted on 2 May.
"Youths must become the vanguard for achieving the great renaissance of the Chinese people, and upholding the wishes of the nation and the people," said Xi according to the People's Daily.
"Tertiary institutions must seize upon this fundamental mission of training up the builders and successors of socialism, firmly pursue the correct political direction, establish a high-quality cohort of teachers, form a high-level human talent training system, and endeavour to establish world-class universities with Chinese characteristics."
Xi emphasised the continued importance of Marxist theory to Chinese tertiary education.
"Marxism is the guiding ideology for the establishment of the party and the nation, as well as the most brilliant background for China's universities.
"[We] must seize Marxist theoretical education, deepen the understanding of students of the historical inevitability and scientific truth of Marxism, as well as its theoretical and practical meaning.
"[We must] train them to study how to use the Marxist viewpoint to observe the world, analyse the world, deeply comprehend the developmental direction of the world, and clearly recognise the broader development trends of China and the world."
Xi also stressed the need for China to transform its universities into world leaders for STEM education and research.
"[We must] vigorously establish cross-disciplinary cohorts and strong science and technology breakthrough groups…and strengthen support for original, systematic and leading research.
"We must train and create a group of strategic scientific and technological talent of a world-class calibre; science and technology vanguard talent, science and technology youth talent, and high-level innovation groups, as well as strive to achieve cutting-edge fundamental research."
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George is a macro scripting language that can be used to control TVPaint. It is an "automatic pilot" that sends instructions such as "select this function", "use this color", "draw this", etc.. to TVPaint. Each instruction corresponds to an TVPaint function or icon. Everything takes place as though George was clicking the icon in the interface for you. Rather than clicking ten or twenty times on the same button yourself, simply ask George to do it for you.
You can simply use existing programs (i.e., scripts) or you can create your own. With George, you can create an infinite number of custom drawing functions and automate the use of TVPaint. Many example scripts are included with TVPaint and are stored in the George subdirectory.
George programs are basically plain ASCII text files. You can use any text editing program to create and edit them.
Suppose that you wanted to draw a glass ball. To do this, you would need to cutout a custom brush (for the reflective surface), set the parameters to apply this brush in a circle, draw filled circle (which will be filled with the brush), adjust opacity mapping parameters to obtain a reflection, select white and redraw the circle.
If you only had to do one of these balls, you could execute the operations manually. However, what if you needed 10 or 20 glass balls. It would likely get pretty tedious - this is where George comes in. With the proper program, all you have to do is to draw a circle to define the contours of the ball and George will do the rest for you.


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Hi My name is Connor. My friend Jack and I just completed an experiment where we fed two Catgrass plants, one with bubbly water and the other with 1% milk. During the experiment the one that was fed with water grew taller, yet was more yellowed. The one that was fed with the milk was never as tall but always looked greener and healthier. They both died after 10 to 11 days.
Could you tell us why the milk caused the plant to look more healthier. Was it because milk is full of nutrients and "good bacteria"? Conditions were as follows:
Plants were grown in their original containers from the nursery. On the first day we cut each plant down to 1 inch each so they were exactly the same height. They were watered/milked 1/3 cup of liquid every three days. They were sitting on the kitchen table inn doors.
The main fertilizer components of milk would seem to be calcium and phosphorus
Anthony R. Brach, Ph.D.
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- n. A colorless compound, formed together with glycoside, by the action of concentrated ammonia on glyoxal. It occurs in thick nacreous prisms which melt at 89°C., boil at 255°C., and have an alkaline reaction. It is also called
imidazolor methylene acetylenazin. The name glyoxaline is also given to certain compounds which are derived from glyoxaline itself by replacement of its hydrogen atoms by radicals.
- n. organic chemistry An organic base, C3H4N2, produced by the action of ammonia on glyoxal.
- n. organic chemistry Any of the series of which glyoxaline is a type.
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- n. (Chem.) A white, crystalline, organic base, C3H4N2, produced by the action of ammonia on glyoxal, and forming the origin of a large class of derivatives hence, any one of the series of which glyoxaline is a type; -- called also
- n. an organic base C3H4N2; a histamine inhibitor
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Selected works by Fitz Henry Lane
Fitz Henry Lane
1804 - 1865
Fitz Henry Lane, also known as Fitz Hugh Lane, was a Cape Ann artist, printmaker and world-renowned American marine painter. With his subtle use of gleaming light, Lane is generally regarded as one of the finest 19th century practitioners of a style known as Luminism.
The Cape Ann Museum's unparalleled collection of Fitz Henry Lane includes 40 paintings, a rare watercolor (his first known work, painted in 1830) and 100 drawings, plus lithographic town views (all three that he did of Gloucester). The archives also include an extensive collection of Lane's letters.


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Tsunami Recovery in Sri Lanka
Ethnic and Regional Dimensions
Edited by Dennis B. McGilvray, Michele R. Gamburd
Published March 9th 2010 by Routledge – 208 pages
The Indian Ocean Tsunami, which devastated 70 percent of Sri Lanka's coastline and killed an estimated 35,000 people, was remarkable both for the magnitude of the disaster and for the unprecedented scale of the relief and recovery operations mounted by national and international agencies. The reconstruction process was soon hampered by political patronage, by the competing efforts of hundreds of foreign humanitarian organizations, and by the ongoing civil war.
The book is framed within this larger political and social context, offering descriptions and comparisons between two regions (southwest vs. eastern coast) and four ethnic communities (Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims, and Burghers) to illustrate how disaster relief unfolded in a culturally pluralistic political landscape. Approaching the issue from four disciplinary perspectives - anthropology, demography, political science, and disaster studies - chapters by experts in the field analyse regional and ethnic patterns of post-tsunami reconstruction according to different sectors of Sri Lankan society. Demonstrating the key importance of comprehending the local cultural contexts of disaster recovery processes, the book is a timely and useful contribution to the existing literature.
Part 1: Overview and Context 1. Introduction Michele R. Gamburd and Dennis B. McGilvray 2. Building the Conflict Back Better: The Politics of Tsunami Relief and Reconstruction in Sri Lanka Alan Keenan 3. Conflict, Coastal Vulnerability, and Resiliency in Tsunami-Affected Communities Randall Kuhn Part 2: Ethnographic Materials 4. The Golden Wave: Discourses on the Equitable Distribution of Tsunami Aid on Sri Lanka's Southwest Coast Michele R. Gamburd 5. The Sea Goddess and the Fishermen: Religion and Recovery in Navalady, Sri Lanka Patricia Lawrence 6. Dreaming of Dowry: Post-Tsunami Housing Strategies in Eastern Sri Lanka Dennis B. McGilvray and Patricia Lawrence Part 3: Disaster Studies 7. Actors in a Masala Movie: Fieldnotes on the NGO Tsunami Response in Eastern Sri Lanka Timmo Gaasbeek 8. Principles Ignored and Lessons Unlearned: A Disaster Studies Perspective on the Tsunami Experience in Sri Lanka Georg E. Frerks 9. Conclusion Michele R. Gamburd and Dennis B. McGilvray
Dennis B. McGilvray is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado at Boulder. His research focuses on Tamil-speaking Hindus and Muslims of eastern Sri Lanka, including caste identities, matrilineal family patterns, popular religious traditions, and ethnic conflict. He is the author of Crucible of Conflict: Tamil and Muslim Society on the East Coast of Sri Lanka (Duke 2008)
Michele R. Gamburd is Professor of Anthropology at Portland State University. She has performed ethnographic research in Sri Lanka since 1992 and her theoretical interests focus on globalization, gender relations, violence, and social change. Her most recent book is Breaking the Ashes: The Culture of Illicit Liquor in Sri Lanka (Cornell 2008)


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The Training for All Teachers Program provides professional development to K-12, public school educators and administrators throughout Connecticut.
Our Basic Workshop (for educators with little to no training in best practices for ELs)
The workshop consists of four stand-alone but interrelated modules and a follow-up applied component. Each module consists of 2.5 hours for a total of 10 hours of instruction, which can be delivered in two, three or four sessions. The topics of the modules are as follows:
1. Laying the Foundation: Debunking the Myths about English Learners
2. Making Content (Input) Comprehensible
3. Engaging the English Learners: Creating Opportunities for Interaction
4. Sheltered Instruction: Putting it All Together
By participating in the workshop, teachers will learn the best practices for English
learners. They will learn how to make modifications in curriculum in the content areas
and instructional strategies to enhance opportunities for engagement for their ELs.
A new 6 hour STEM-specific, basic, training is in development, slated to be ready beginning 2014.
Our Advanced Workshop (for completers of the Basic Workshop)
In addition to the basic trainings listed above the Program offers an advanced training. The advanced training is comprised of four modules, each approximately 2.5 hours, which are interrelated, but not necessarily interdependent. Topics include: literacy development for English learners, assessment practices for English learners, peer coaching, and how to differentiate between learning disability and language development.


What are the benefits of Manuka Honey for skin care?
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Honey on your face? Surely stickiness can't be a skincare solution? Well, as it happens, if you have a few spots, or irritated or dry skin, a velvety feeling and sweet smelling cream containing Manuka Honey might be just the fix you need. The honey is named after the New Zealand Mānuka bush on whose flowers the bees feed, and it has some quite extraordinary properties.
Of course honey has been used for health and beauty reasons for centuries. Many of the historical applications have now been proven in clinical studies, and there are plenty of youthful looking fans of Manuka Honey products, including such dewy skinned beauties as Gwyneth Paltrow and Scarlett Johansson.1
Back in ancient times honey was used by such great nations as the Egyptians, Greek and Romans to treat wounds.2
Even back then, it was recognised (if not named) as having antimicrobial and antibacterial properties and applied to patients.
More recent science has proven that honey, and Manuka in particular, does indeed have extremely good healing powers.
A 2015 Cochrane Review (a round up of all available studies - and a gold standard of research) points out that there is high quality evidence that honey heals certain burns more swiftly than conventional dressings3. In addition, there's evidence that it's more effective than antiseptic for healing after surgery. It also has tissue regenerating properties4 as well as recurring swelling, pain and scarring.
This all may sound like a bit of an aside - we're talking bathroom shelves after all, not medicine cupboards, but actually it's great news for those seeking younger looking and radiant skin. There's little more effective in the beauty world than medical science filtering down into aesthetic innovation or great skincare!
Naturally (see what we did there), this all boils down to the chemical composition of the sweet stuff, and the incredible ingredients which make it an ideal addition to your skincare routine.5
Honey contains masses of sugar and water. But it also contains an enzyme which produces hydrogen peroxide. That's right - the stuff used to lighten hair. This is in minute quantities, and it kills bacteria. Therefore, it helps to clear spotty skin, but without causing any inflammation.
The exciting thing about hydrogen peroxide in honey is that it stays active for several days, so not only do existing bacteria die, but more bacteria can't take hold.
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Manuka Honey takes this activity to another level because it's not just relying on the peroxide, but also contains high levels of an antimicrobial compound called methylglyoxal (MGO). It's this active element which makes it so special, and the more there is, the stronger the honey. It's MGO which makes Manuka |Honey a cut above the others and a unique substance.
Honey generally has also been proven to have anti-inflammatory properties, and because of the MGO, Manuka Honey is the most effective.
This particular point was investigated by New Zealand scientists who showed that a bee protein (found in all honey) plus the MGO made Manuka more anti-inflammatory than common or garden honey6. At Manuka Doctor, the MGO level is tested twice, so they can be sure that the labelling is accurate.
Honey is also osmotic7. This means that the massive quantities of sugar in it soak up surrounding moisture, meaning that bacteria die. Again, this means that Manuka Honey skincare may be ideal if you have spot prone skin. And by creating a moist healing environment, it helps skin to retain moisture and stay hydrated. This moisturising effect helps with elasticity and the texture of your complexion.
Rather than applying Manuka Honey directly to your skin (though some swear by it as a face mask), you're better off using the sweet-smelling products made by Manuka Doctor.
The ApiClear Balancing range contains Manuka Honey, and is ideal for those wishing to balance out oil levels or have blemish prone skin. The Anti-Redness Calming Moisturiser is a light cream which instantly hydrates without feeling in the least bit greasy.
Or if your concern is more about anti-ageing, then the ApiNourish Age Defying Serum or Repairing Skin Cream both contain Purified Bee Venom, which has been shown to have anti-wrinkle qualities8. The Skin Cream is instantly drunk up by dry skin, which is left feeling smooth and dewy.
No matter what your skin concerns, you can rest assured that you're putting ethically harvested and proven ingredients on your face. Bee happy!
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time consuming, and too much processing can add noise and lose detail in the image, rendering it less useful. Exposure Index, available in almost all Phantom high speed cameras, helps alleviate that. Following the same concept found in many DSLR cameras, Phantom cameras have eight preset options to lighten an image while adding minimal noise. The options are based on adjustments of an image's tone curve, rather than gain or gamma, and applies to both monochrome and color images. The example below shows the Ultrahigh-speed v2512, operating at 99,000 frames per second, with the lowest Exposure Index of 8000 and the highest of 40,000.
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So what is WIP? I'd like to explain WIP or work in progress to distinguish it from ''semi-finished goods ''. Very frequently, the two terms are used interchangeably but it is a little more complicated than this.
WIP is a mix of raw materials, semi-finished or even finished products, which are placed in a new production process but is not yet completed.
To put it simply, it is as if you wanted to uncover a pan where the ingredients were recently made for a sauce of a dish at the restaurant. This semi-finished product, bearing in mind the metaphor above, is only the cooked sauce. In the grander scheme of things, you still have to cook the pasta and add the sauce to produce finished product.
Here, we see the semifinished product represents only one stage of manufacturing of the finished product. However, unlike the WIP, a semi-finished product already has its own physical and commercial identity.
By treating the issue in more orthodox tones, from an accounting point of view, the WIP represents the aggregated costs necessary for the realization of the finished product.The analytical account opened to the recognition of WIP are loaded costs of materials used in the entrance, the cost of labor used (whether direct or indirect), the cost of machines, their consumption and other tools necessary to produce the product.
Meanwhile, the semi-finished product is something more than an aggregate of costs - this already has a physical identity. The semi-finished products are in fact equipped with their own identification code and may be available for sale or can continue within the production process.
The more the company's production process is sustained, the more the concept of WIP becomes more relevant. Because of this, it becomes more necessary for the controller to focus on the following aspects:
- Cost of monitoring WIP, attributing the costs of labor, raw materials inventory and the account that includes industrial indirect costs on the ''production account'' (or WIP account). This highlights the storage of products in progress.
- The methodology by which the end of each accounting period is established, how much of the total of the finished products is represented by WIP units using the same completion percentage. The completion percentage represents the resource costs that any WIP units used in relation to the total resources required to achieve the finished product.
For the moment, let us confine ourselves to the first of the preceding two paragraphs. In this case, the ERP should allow monitoring and correctly attribute the costs to WIP by:
- Presence of an analytical accounting plan; which allows you to assign levels of an item of the production account (or WIP account), an account for rejects and an account for the differences in the cost of WIP.
- Production cycles, tracked step by step through different types of transaction or different states of the same work order:
a. Opening of a new work order, which requires the necessary materials according to the Bill of Materials and empties the stock of raw materials on the production account (or WIP account) of the finished product.
b. Completion of the work order, which drains the production account and loads the finished products warehouse account.
c. Closure of the work order, which will enable the realized order to make an analysis of the deviations in quantity and value.
- The detection of rejects during the advancement of the work order
- Mapping and enhancement of various categories of industrial indirect costs, each of which must be divided among the accounts according to appropriate allocation coefficients
- Possibility of being able to assign to each phase of information such as machining centers involved and related machinery, required number of direct workers, man hours and machine hours required.
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Image: Radio telescope DSS 43
DSS 43 is the largest steerable parabolic antenna in the Southern Hemisphere. The massive structure, weighing more than 3000 tonnes, rotates on a film of oil approximately 0.17mm thick. The reflector surface is made up of 1,272 aluminium panels with a total surface area of 4180 square metres.
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- NASA Deep Space Communication Complex, Canberra


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9 Wacky and Wonderful Found-Object Sculptures From Across Art History
9 Wacky and Wonderful Found-Object Sculptures From Across Art History
Salvador Dalí's Lobster Telephone, 1938
When Marcel Duchamp made his "Fountain" by elevating a men's room fixture to a plinth in a gallery, he encouraged artists to consider the selection of non-art goods as part of the creative act. The gesture may not look as radical a century on, but it continues to inspire; today, you might walk into a gallery and see Darren Bader's cats or tacos. The works below, excerpted from Phaidon's The Art Book30,000 Years of Art, and Body of Art, each exploit the arresting presence of the found object.
Marcel Duchamp
In his early work the painter, sculptor and writer Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) experimented with Post-Impressionism, Fauvism and Cubism. He quickly grew impatient of styles and approaches he understood and sought more radical forms of art. In 1917 he became president of the Society of Independent Artists, an association that held annual exhibitions to offer progressive American and European artists the chance to show their work. In the same year Duchamp submitted Fountain, under the pseudonym R. Mutt. The work was a factory-made urinal that he displayed on its side and on a plinth. The piece was rejected by the jury and Duchamp resigned. (The original was soon lost, but Duchamp commissioned a number of reproductions years later; this version dates to 1964.) Fountain was one of many readymades that Duchamp took from everyday life and place in a gallery context in order to question not just the beauty and value of art, but also its entire concept. As such his art was known as anti-art, or Dada. Duchamp became a legend in his own lifetime, and countless contemporary artists have acknowledged a deep debt to him. His highly conceptual form of art inspired numerous twentieth-century movements, including Pop Art, Minimalism, Op Art and Conceptual Art. His work exists in a space between painting, sculpture and installation and asks the questions, "Who is an artist?" and "What is art?"
Salvador Dalí
Lobster Telephone
A plaster lobster has been attached to the receiver of a telephone; a slight modification has turned an everyday object into something ludicrous. An incessant showman, and outspoken member of the Surrealist group, Dalí promoted the idea of absurdity and the role of the unconscious in art. He also drew close analogies between food and sex, and in the current example he intentionally positioned the genitalia of the lobster in line with the mouthpiece of the receiver. Whilst he made a variety of Surrealist objects, the artist is best known for his meticulously worked paintings in which dream-like scenarios become unnervingly vivid. Dalí was also involved in the production of a number of films, working on projects with Luis Buñuel, Alfred Hitchcock and Walt Disney. The artist produced several versions of the Lobster Telephone. The example below belonged to Dalí's important English patron, Edward James.
Joseph Cornell
c. 1950
A frugal assortment of stamps, newspaper cuttings and other objects with no particular relevance to each other is placed in a wooden box. This container acts as a metaphor for the whole world, inhabited by these strange items. It is also a treasury of curiosities that is compelling to explore and evokes a mood of nostalgia. The fragments of once ornamental or beautiful objects come together in a magical and dream-like way. This is Cornell's genius, and why he has proved so popular over the years. The randomness of these "assemblages", as they are known, reflects Cornell's interest in the irrationality of Surrealism. Nevertheless, a sense of order and precision pervades pieces such as this. Of his own work Cornell once said, "Shadow boxes become poetic theatres or settings wherein are metamorphosed the elements of a childhood pastime."
Robert Rauschenberg
Bed represents one of Robert Rauschenberg's (1925–2008) signature "combine" paintings – works that combine painting and three-dimensional found objects. This work started one day when, having no money left for canvas, Rauschenberg resorted to stretching a quilt in his New York loft. After painting on it for some time, it still read quite clearly as a quilt and, rather than continuing to fight against the character of this found object, he decided to capitalize on it and added a pillow and sheets to make up a whole bed. Although this bed is intended to hang on the wall, the painted and drawn areas appear precisely where one would expect to see the visible parts of a sleeping body: head on the lower half of the pillow, shoulders and torso on the sheets, arms resting on top of the quilt. The absence of this imagined body led one anonymous Newsweek reviewer in 1958 to compare the piece to a bed from a murder scene from which the corpse had been removed. But the bright colors and playful gestures can also elicit whimsy. Rauschenberg himself said: "I think of Bed as one of the friendliest pictures I've ever painted. My fear has always been that someone would want to crawl into it."
Atsuko Tanaka
Electric Dress
A colorful array of fickering light bulbs and electrical wires are arranged to form a dress that when worn, covered the artist's body from head to foot, leaving only her hands and face visible. Atsuko Tanaka's (1932–2005) wearable sculpture, which combines modern industrial lighting with the traditional Japanese kimono, was frst devised for a performance in 1956. The work simultaneously drew attention to her body while concealing it in a dazzling display of light and color. Its fusion of technology and flesh made a powerful impact, and although many viewers were awed by Tanaka's creation, others were concerned that she might electrocute herself. As a young artist Tanaka joined the Gutai group, a collective of experimental artists who created large-scale multimedia events, performances and theatrical productions. They aimed to disassociate themselves from the horrifc events of Japan's wartime past by breaking traditional boundaries and developing new and radical approaches to making art. Drawing inspiration from modern Japanese advertising, Tanaka's Electic Dress was intended as a statement about the rapid post-war transformation of her native country. However, it inadvertently raised issues about women's bodies and the way in which fashion and the prevailing attitudes towards femininity in Japan constrained and subdued female expression and creativity.
Tony Cragg
 eroded landscape
The artist has concocted an urban landscape out of a collection of containers of frosted glass. The group of objects has been arranged to evoke feelings of both familiarity and strangeness. The glass shelf could be found in any home. It too might be displaying objects that mean something to their owner, but not to the viewer. The two large vases at the bottom right and left support the structure and give the composition amazing symmetry and stability. The entire composition takes on the feel of a Greek temple, so stabilizing is their influence. Cragg has specialized in the arrangement of industrial objects. His works are an exploration of the space between reality and the imagination. His compositions frequently evoke the idea of consumer waste, yet they are often arranged with a delicate sense of poetry, and a sensitivity to the beauty of still life.
Sarah Lucas
Au Naturel
Sarah Lucas (b.1962) rose to prominence as part of the generation of "Young British Artists", whose work often employed visual puns and witty oneliners more common to advertising and popular culture than fine art. Throughout her career, Lucas has repeatedly returned to the body as subject, in particular its visual representation outside of the realm of high art. Au Naturel is an assemblage of found objects arranged to suggest explicitly male and female bodies. The title is an expression used to describe nakedness in a positive light – as nature intended, without the constraints of clothing – yet here, bodies are reduced to their most basic functions, existing only as sexual parts. A number of Lucas's works have used food to represent the body – fried eggs as breasts, a kebab or raw chicken as female genitalia. Here, the use of melons, oranges and a cucumber reference a bawdy, direct humour that has existed across cultures for generations, but which is not usually seen in the context of a gallery. The mattress that holds the fruits in place points to the most common location for sex, and yet its slouched, stained appearance speaks of squalor and grime: revealing a disparity between mundane reality and romantic fantasy.
Doris Salcedo
Doris Salcedo (b.1958) created this elaborate installation as her contribution to the Istanbul Biennial in 2003. The piece featured 1550 ordinary wooden chairs crammed into a space between two buildings in an area of the city containing numerous hardware shops and small businesses. Visually stunning, the work has no precise meaning, though it alludes to the way that war, and its devastation, can become embedded in everyday life, and has also been seen to represent the migrant workers who go unrecognized in society yet underpin our global economy. Salcedo's artworks often use architectural interventions, and domestic objects and materials, as a means to communicate political ideas. In 2002 she used chairs to represent human loss, slowly lowering 280 individual


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WARNING: Reading the following post will make you itchy.
There probably aren't any tiny ants feeling their way over your limbs and across the back of your neck right now. But wouldn't you feel better scratching anyway?
Why is it that seeing, discussing, or even just thinking about creepy crawlers makes us feel itchy all over? It turns out the experts aren't sure.
University of Pennsylvania neuroscientist Dr. Wenqin Luo places the blame for phantom itch on memories of an itchy past. Thinking about bugs, she explains, might prompt memories of previous experiences – "itchy associations."
Why, then, doesn't thinking about injuries prompt our bodies to feel phantom pains?
Dr. Luo offers the following theory: "Compared with itch, pain is a serious protective mechanism that triggers avoidance behavior. Thus, the threshold to trigger a pain sensation may be much higher than that of itch."
Basically: If our brains registered pain (a danger) as easily as they do itch (an annoyance), our bodies would be sent into constant states of false alarm.
Dr. Glenn J. Giesler, Jr., a neuroscientist from the University of Minnesota offers a slightly different guess as to the phantom itch culprit: Maybe our skin always experiences the tiny sensations capable of causing light itch – but we only notice them when we've already got itch (or its creepy crawly causes) on the brain.
"It is amazing to me how easy it is to induce itch in others," says Giesler. "Whenever I give a talk on the topic, I am amused at the percentage of people in the audience who start scratching."
"Perhaps," he guesses, "the threshold for sensation of itch is lowered by thinking about it."
Dr. Gil Yosipovitch is a professor of dermatology at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in North Carolina. He's also the founder of the International Forum for the Study of Itch.
He explains that a related phantom itching phenomenon, "contagious itch" (that is: itch felt not because of a physical stimulus, but because we see another person scratching), is a behavioral response similar to contagious yawning. Both are our bodies' way of subconsciously expressing empathy and compassion for our fellow humans.
In fact, Yosipovitch says, sympathy scratching spans species – primates exhibit it too.
So, after all that, are we any closer to solving the mystery of the phantom itch?
Please. We've barely scratched the surface.
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