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To demonstrate astronomy measurements with new detectors, SCI-AI is using ESA's Optical Ground Station (OGS) at the La Teide Observatory, Tenerife.
Optical Ground Station
The telescope is mounted in an English mount configuration (see Figure 3). The telescope allows for focal plane instrumentation in the Cassegrain focus, as well as in the Coudé focus (but then with effectively 39 m focal length). SCI-AI is using both foci for tests of newly developed camera systems.
At the Cassegrain focus a system is under construction to allow for imaging and dispersive spectrography. In the first instance this is done using an off-the shelf CCD LN-cooled camera. This will serve as the test vehicle for future devices and instrumentation, such as APS detectors for instance. This camera was recently mounted and commissioned at the telescope. Figure 4 shows how the camera and associated filter wheel is attached.
All the systems will be exploited with scientific objectives in collaboration with staff from the Research and Scientific Support Department. Initially the current CCD camera at the Cassegrain focus will be used for monitoring of asteroids in support for ESA's Rosetta mission, and for long term monitoring of comets. This is illustrated by the image below showing the comet C/2004 Q2 (Machholz).


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1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Mocha Stone
MOCHA STONE, a name applied to chalcedony with dendritic markings, said to have been obtained originally from Mocha in Arabia. The markings which sometimes simulate with curious fidelity the form of miniature trees and shrubs, are caused by the infiltration of solutions carrying iron and manganese, which are deposited as thin films of oxide along the cracks of the stone, producing black, brown or red dendrites, effectively disposed on a ground of grey or white chalcedony. Most of the Mocha stones of commerce are obtained from India, where they are found among the agate-pebbles resulting from the disintegration of the trap rocks of the Deccan. In recent years the formation of dendrites has been artificially effected at the agate-works of Oberstein, so as to imitate the true Mocha stones.

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Asked by: Haoyu Saurbier
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What is rid X made of?
Last Updated: 7th May, 2020
Each box and bottle of RID-X® contains the following ingredients scientifically proven to break down household waste: Cellulase breaks down toilet paper, vegetable matter and some foods. Lipase breaks down fats, oils and grease. Protease breaks down proteins.
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In this regard, is rid X safe?
The enzyme is totally safe for pipes and fixtures and actually breaks down the oils, solids and wastes inside the plumbing pipes, safely and inexpensively. Rid-X does NOT clear up existing clogs.
Similarly, what can I use instead of RID X? warm water, 2 cups packed brown sugar and 1 package of active dry yeast. Mix the solution together thoroughly, then flush down the toilet. Create a solution to use with each toilet in your house.
Similarly, you may ask, can you use rid X in regular toilet?
While Rid-X is designed for use in bathroom drains and toilets, it can also be used in other types of plumbing, according to the manufacturer. It is safe to use in garbage disposals, K-57, mound systems and outhouses.
Can you use rid X in city plumbing?
RID-X, is 100% natural bacteria and enzyeme. Its a very safe product, normally used in septic systems to product bacteria, where there is little or none. In a properly installed city sewer system, it is not needed or required.
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Romulo Bocci
Is RIDX good for your septic?
Yes, the average recommended time between septic tank pumpings is 2–3 years, depending on the rate of sediment build-up, family size, and other factors. Used regularly, RID-X® helps break down the solid waste in your septic tank.
Olena Dillig
Can heavy rain cause septic problems?
Dahlia Bungardt
Is Ridex bad for septic tanks?
Using Septic Tank Additives
Myth: I just flush some Rid-X or yeast down the drain to keep it healthy. Fact: The human body uses many enzymes to break down our food into small particles. Those enzymes are plentiful in our sewage and septic systems, so additives are an unnecessary addition to a septic tank.
Christelle Yap
How do I clean my septic tank naturally?
Using baking soda is very easy. You can mix about a 1/4 cup of baking soda with 1/2 cup of vinegar and 2 tablespoons lemon to make your own natural cleaning agent. The baking soda will fizz up to help get the dirt and grime in your tub and drains. It's a great cleaner and your septic system will thank you!
Amritpal Grothen
Is yogurt good for septic tanks?
They use natural bacteria to make the contents rot. To my layperson's point of view, this is similar to a person who has taken antibiotics and needs to restore natural bacteria in the digestive system by eating yogurt. (No, yogurt isn't probably right for your septic tank.
Jordi Rickers
How do you keep sewer lines clean?
6 Tips for Keeping Your Sewer Lines Clean and Clear
 1. Take care of grease the right way. Never pour grease or cooking oil down the drain.
 2. Use enzymatic cleaners every month.
 3. Make sure your lines are not getting clogged with plant roots.
 4. Be careful with what you toss down your drains.
 5. Put new lines in.
 6. Once a year, you should have a rooter service done.
Waris Zavodnov
Will Drano unclog sewer line?
Drano uses caustic or oxidizing chemicals (like lye) to dissolve whatever is clogging a drain. The chemical reaction between the clog and Drano creates heat. Now, Drano does not clear a clog instantly. It's going to sit in the toilet (or farther down the pipes, depending where the clog is) until the clog dissolves.
Suzhu Morandeira
What is the best toilet paper for septic tanks?
 1. Quilted Northern Ultra Plush Supreme. The Quilted Northern Ultra Plush Paper offers you the best bathroom experience.
 2. Amazon Brand — Presto!
 3. Scott Rapid-Dissolving Toilet Paper.
 4. Angel Soft Toilet Paper.
 5. Cottonelle Ultra ComfortCare Toilet Paper.
 6. Quilted Northern Ultra Plush Toilet Paper.
 7. Firebelly Outfitters RV Toilet Paper.
Wissal Feitz
How do you clean drain sludge pipes?
Clean Out Your Drains Using Baking Soda
 1. Boil a kettle of hot water.
 2. Pour a half cup of baking soda down the drain – this breaks up fatty acids and attacks the grime.
 3. Once the water has boiled, you can pour it down the drain.
 4. Allow 10minutes for the baking soda and the hot water to do their magic.
Mihail Burdio
How do I keep my septic tank healthy?
How to Keep Your Septic System Healthy
 1. How the Septic System Works.
 2. Don't Overload the Septic Tank and Drain field.
 3. Use an Efficient Toilet.
 4. Don't Treat the Toilet as a Garbage Disposal.
 5. Don't Pour Grease Down the Drain.
 6. Divert Rain Water From the Septic Drain field.
 7. Keep Trees Away from the Septic System.
 8. Use Garbage Disposals Wisely.
Kenan Banus
What can I use to unclog my toilet?
If you don't have baking soda and vinegar on hand, try adding a few squirts of dish soap to the toilet bowl. The soap may help to loosen the clog. This method isn't likely to work for clogs caused by a hard obstruction, such as a toy.
Garth Diaz Pinto
What can I put in my septic tank to stop the smell?
How to Eliminate Septic Tank Odor
 - Pour 1 cup of baking soda down any toilet or drain once a week to maintain a good pH level in your septic tank of 6.8 to 7.6.
 - Don't use more water than you need.
 - Avoid flushing things down the toilet that microorganisms cannot digest, such as coffee grounds, plastic, cigarette butts, cat litter or facial tissues.
Yumei Foht
Is Epsom salt bad for septic tanks?
While Epsom salt doesn't cause damage to your septic tank, this doesn't necessarily mean you should go flushing it into your tank. Many individuals think flushing Epsom salt in their septic tanks will break down waste. While salts can unclog a toilet, the effect Epsom salt has on your septic system will be minimal.
Shuai Schleinkofer
Can vinegar and baking soda unclog a toilet?
Simply add one cup of baking soda to the clogged toilet. Wait a couple minutes. Next, slowly pour two cups of vinegar into the toilet. Baking soda and vinegar react to cause bubbles, so be sure to pour slowly and carefully so that the toilet water does not splash or overflow.
Tayeb Oehmchen
Does Ridex kill roots?
Rock Salt Can Kill Roots by Drying Them Out
Let the compound work its magic for 8 to 12 hours, avoiding flushing your toilet or running any water that will drain into your affected pipe.


South American Blackwater Biotope Aquarium Setup
A biotope aquaria is an aquarium that is set-up to simulate a natural habitat. The fish, plants, water chemistry, and furnishings are similar to those that can be found in a specific natural setting.
Always check compatibility! Some species from a particular habitat are not suitable tankmates. For example, the Peacock Bass will eat small tetras since they are their natural food in the wild.
The biotope aquarium can be adapted by adding species from disparate areas that have similar water requirements.
[Photos from various habitats/biotopes]
Freshwater fish species listed by country and ecosystem -- excellent resources for constructing biotope aquaria.
South American Blackwater Stream
Blackwater ponds, creeks, and rivers originate in the rain-forest. In the slow-moving waters, acids are leeched from decaying vegetation creating very transparent, tea-colored water. These waters have almost no measurable water hardness and an acidic pH.
The substrate in blackwater habitats is typically leaf litter over a base of fine clay or sand. Decaying wood and plant matter is common especially in flooded igapo forest. There are many submerged terrestrial plants, many of which retain most of their leaves.
Rio Negro
pH: 4.5-6.5, 0-4 dH, 81-86 F (27-30 C)
Furnish the tank with bog wood and a dark, fine gravel substrate.
There can be subdued lighting and still water.
Peat filtration is recommended.
Sword plants, Heteranthera, Ceratophyllum, Vallisneria, Cabomba
Discus, Angelfish, Dwarf Cichlids, Tetras, Hatchetfish, Corydoras, Farlowella, Loricarids.
Blackwater River: Brazil, Venezuela, Rio Negro (Brazil), Rio Negro (Brazil), Rio Negro (Brazil), Rio Negro (Brazil), Mixing of Waters - Rio Negro and the Amazon, Mixing of Waters - Rio Negro and the Amazon, Brazil, Brazil, Rio Negro Beach, Rio Negro Beach.
Blackwater Lake: Brazil,
South American Blackwater Creek Mountain blackwater creek: Venezuela, Venezuela, Venezuela.
Blackwater creek: Venezuela
Igapo: Brazil, Brazil, Brazil, Brazil, Brazil, Brazil.
Altum Angelfish Biotope Aquarium Pictures
Discus Biotope Aquarium Pictures


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Chocolates are enjoyed and loved by humans as it can relieve stress, take away emotions and pain, and reduce despair. However, this sweet treat can also be enjoyed by your computer software. Wonderin' how? Through a windows package manager known as Chocolatey.
In the technological field, chocolates are being used to power a factory. More so, it can also be used for Windows 10 to download and install various apps. It can also remove or even upgrade different software from numerous sources over the web. All these can be possible without leaving the computer screen. But, before going deeper, let us first be clear with what a package manager is all about.
Windows 10 Package Managers
Package managers allow someone to download a certain app to a computer or mobile device. Moreover, package managers also permit the following actions:
- Download and at the same time install software without navigating to various web sources.
- Check if packages are not tampered to prevent malware from attacks of MITM.
- Install many packages simultaneously.
- Delete and upgrade packages.
- Look for more packages.
Package Manager Chocolatey Basic Information and Installation
Installing Chocolatey follows numerous processes. But, the focus for now is the installation by default. Basically, in a folder C:ProgramData which is a secret folder in windows that needs permission from Windows Administrator, Chocolatey may do a self installation.
In case, there is no Windows Administrator function connected to the account of the computer, Chocolatey should be commanded to install to another location. Simply detail the $Env:ChocolateyInstall variable. The common location for installation of lots of packages are in the C:\ProgramFiles or C:\ProgramFiles (x86).
Copying files to C:\ProgramFiles folder, users need to have Administrator privileges.
Step-by-step Process to Install Chocolatey
- Access the Start Menu
- Type in the Start Menu bar the text 'Powershell'.
- Open and run Powershell as Administrator.
- Click Yes at the notification window.
- Learn ways on pasting text into the Powershell.
- Establish the execution program.
- Download and run the Chocolatey package manager.
- Check and confirm Chocolatey.
However, in case there are errors experienced while using Windows 10, look for Melt Comics for troubleshooting and error fixing.


Ordering of Steps
In the recipes package, there are no constraints on the order in which steps are added to the recipe; you as a user are free to apply steps in the order appropriate to your data preprocessing needs. However, the order of steps matters and there are some general suggestions that you should consider.
Transforming a variable
Handling levels in categorical data
The order of steps for handling categorical levels is important, because each step sets levels for the next step to use as input. These steps create factor output, even if the input is of character type.
Dummy variables
Recipes do not automatically create dummy variables (unlike most formula methods).
Recommended preprocessing outline
While every individual project's needs are different, here is a suggested order of potential steps that should work for most problems:
 1. Impute
 2. Handle factor levels
 3. Individual transformations for skewness and other issues
 4. Discretize (if needed and if you have no other choice)
 5. Create dummy variables
 6. Create interactions
 7. Normalization steps (center, scale, range, etc)
 8. Multivariate transformation (e.g. PCA, spatial sign, etc)
Again, your mileage may vary for your particular problem.
Try the recipes package in your browser
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A major part of our research is focused on the development of novel methods, techniques and tools for the engineering of Self-Aware Computing Systems, which are understood as proposed by Dagstuhl Seminar 15041 and defined in the Springer book "Self-Aware Computing Systems":
Definition: "Self-aware computing systems are computing systems that:
1. learn models capturing knowledge about themselves and their environment (such as their structure, design, state, possible actions, and run-time behavior) on an ongoing basis and
2. reason using the models (for example predict, analyze, consider, plan) enabling them to act based on their knowledge and reasoning (for example explore, explain, report, suggest, self-adapt, or impact their environment)
in accordance with higher-level goals, which may also be subject to change."
Our current emphasis is on methods to ensure systems dependability and efficiency by means of model-based techniques for managing performance & availability (focusing on capacity, responsiveness, and resource/energy efficiency aspects), on the one hand, and reliability & security (focusing on reliability testing, intrusion detection and self-protection mechanisms), on the other hand.
A selection of publications from our group specifically targeted at self-aware computing can be found here. A more general list covering a number of related areas can be found here. A German article on the vision of self-aware computing, published by the einBLICK magazine of the University of Würzburg, can be found here.


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How to Specify Timber Veneer
1. Specify the species
2. Specify the face quality one side or both sides
3. Choose the grain direction. For example:
2400mm x 1200mm the grain will run parallel with the 2400mm long length of the sheet this is known as 'Long Band'.
1200mm x 2400mm the grain will run parallel with the 1200mm long length of the sheet this is known as 'Cross Band'.
4. Choose the panel size
5. Choose the panel thickness
6. Choose the substrate – which may be MDF, Particle Board, Plywood, Blockboard, X-Board Plus, or Fleecebacked Veneer
for example: 2 sheets of 2400mm x 1200mm STD MDF Hoop Pine G1S DG
The above represents the practice in Australia - some countries do specify differently, so it is always recommended that where doubt may exist, the grain direction should be clarified before ordering.
Medium Density Fibreboard (MDF) is used as a substrate for wood veneers, particularly for applications where it is desirable for the edges to be moulded and exposed.
Particleboard, being strong, stable and inexpensive, is an excellent substrate for veneered products.
Plywood is constructed from three or more layers of veneer bonded together and is used as a substrate for veneer for special applications.
Blockboard is a composite panel comprising a core of wood strips bonded together as a slab faced on each side with two layers of wood veneer. Blockwood is mainly used in the manufacture of solid core doors.
X-Board Plus is made from recycled fibre-waste and becomes a strong, firm, environmentally green panel that is lightweight, functional and aesthetically pleasing.
Pressing is the process of binding veneer layons to substrate using specialised pressing equipment, which generally applies heat and pressure. Most products are supplied, trimmed and sanded; however this is optional.


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When cell phones are improperly disposed of and end up in landfills it can cause damaging effects to the environment and our health. Cell phones contain a mixture of harmful toxins including mercury, lead, arsenic, cadmium, chlorine, and bromine. If disposed of in landfills these toxins can be absorbed into the air, ground, and water supply and over time cause harmful effects to the ecosystem and the environment. This creates very serious potential threats to the health of animals, humans, and the wider environment so it's important we do something about it.
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The Hard Reset / Factory Reset operation can fix many software related errors and problems:
- After installing bad or unsupported application into your Samsung mobile phone which causes your phone to be frozen.
- Your Samsung mobile phone doesn't respond to any order after booting because of some software errors.
- Forgotten pattern lock in Samsung Android mobile phones.
- Forgotten user code.
- Forgotten phone code.
- Before or after installing new firmware updates into your device.
- Before selling the device to Wipe all your saved data.
Before performing the Hard Reset:
- In case your Samsung mobile phone can connect to a computer then it is better to make a backup of your saved data using Samsung kies software.
- But in case that is not possible then you can check that your phone's battery has enough charging, Otherwise you should charge it.
Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 GT-P3100 and GT-P3110 Hard Reset Steps:
- Turn Off your Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 device.
- Wait for 10 seconds, Then move to the next step.
- Press and hold Volume Up key + Power key.
- Keep pressing the above keys until the Samsung Logo appears,Then release Power key only.
- When you see Factory reset / System Recovery menu on screen release the Volume Up Key.
- Use Volume Down key to select Wipe Data / Factory Reset option.
- Use Power key to confirm the operation.
- You need to use the Volume Down key again to select "Yes -- delete all user data"
- Use Power key to confirm.
- After performing the hard reset, Select Reboot System Now option, And confirm it using Power key.
- Now the phone will reboots, Wait for it to be fully on and then you can start using it.
Notice: The Hard Reset / Factory Reset operation will delete anything that are saved in your phone's internal memory, So make a backup of your data in case you can access them.


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Automatically Archive New South Wales State Agency Web/Social Media Content
The Tasmanian government shares a comprehensive Communications Policy for its agencies to abide by. An excerpt below:
The Government has a responsibility to ensure that information about its policies, programs and services is made available to the public in the short and long term (see Policy statement 1). This means that particular attention should be given to ensuring that information can be found through sources that are commonly available to the public. It also requires information to be well catalogued, easily retrievable and securely maintained.
Agency information must be made available in accordance with the Right to Information Act 2009 (commenced 1 July 2010), which encourages the release of information held by Tasmanian public authorities, including government agencies, without the need for a formal process. The underlying principle of the Act is that information held by public authorities belongs to the people of the State, and has been collected for them and on their behalf. Agency information must be recorded in a format that complies with the records management policies and procedures of the agency and with the Archives Act 1983. In complying with disclosure and deposit requirements of the Right to Information Act 2009 and the Archives Act 1983, agencies must also ensure all requirements of the Personal Information Protection Act 2004 are met. Additionally, agencies must:
- Maintain a register or record of all publications for publishing each year in its annual report.
- Maintain a current, comprehensive and well-structured identification or classification records system that provides an effective means for organising, locating and retrieving published information.


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Causes obesity children essay
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Halloween, Valentine's Day Found to Influence Birth Timing
Halloween and Valentine's Day appear to influence when expecting mothers give birth, new research at the Yale School of Public Health has found. Halloween, with its symbolism of witches and death, is treated as an unfavorable day for childbirth. In contrast, Valentine's Day, with its symbolism of flowers and love, is treated as a favorable day for childbirth. The study found a decrease in births on Halloween and an increase on Valentine's Day. The association of the two holidays with birth patterns was shown for the first time. On Halloween there was a 5.3 percent decrease in spontaneous births and a 16.9 percent decrease in cesarean births, compared to other births occurring within one week before and one week after the October holiday. Whereas, on Valentine's Day there was a 3.6 percent increase in spontaneous births and a 12.1 percent increase in cesarean births.
"The study suggests that beliefs arising from our culture can have a greater impact on physical functioning than we might suspect," says Becca Levy, lead author and associate professor of epidemiology and psychology at Yale. Study co-authors were Martin Slade and Pil Chung, also at Yale. The findings show that pregnant women may have some control over the timing of spontaneous births—traditionally believed to be beyond their control—and that scheduled births are also affected by the symbolism of the two holidays. The study drew on birth-certificate information for all births in the United States across 11 years. The Halloween period included 1.8 million births, and the Valentine's Day period included 1.6 million births. The findings are published in the current issue of the journal Social Science and Medicine.
This article was submitted by Denise L Meyer on June 22, 2012.


Deauthorizing and reauthorizing Adobe Digital Editions on your computer and your e-reader (old version of ADE)
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text: This problem is very similar to Rumis Scorer 3. The main difference with this problem is that the board will not be completely filled in. In other words, the maximum heights designated by the stencil will not necessarily be occupied. Write a function to count the squares visible when viewed from above to determine who won each round (the stencil may or may not be helpful). See the test suite for additional examples (including test cases 1 and 2, which represent the completed boards shown below).


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Women in Adult Education Program for Sustainable Development: Challenges and Implications for Library and Information Services
Objective – Education offers advances in human and social development. It provides knowledge and resources that hold the potential for economic empowerment, resulting in a better livelihood. Hence, women need access to education with library services, if they are to have a voice, participate in sustainable development, and take care of their own health, as well as that of their children and members of their households. This paper examines the challenges women encounter in Onitsha metropolis, Anambra State, Nigeria. This study seeks to gain insight into the resources used to enhance learning, as well as the students' perceptions and satisfaction with their learning experience.
Methods – A descriptive survey research design was used. The study was carried out in five adult education centres in the city with a sample size of 120 women, randomly selected for collection of data. Questionnaire, interview, and observation methods were employed. The physical assessment of the centres was done for an evidence based report and to assess the real situations of the centres.
Results – The findings show the challenges faced by Nigerian women in their pursuit of ongoing adult education included: time for the classes which are usually held in the evening, poor financial status, lack of encouragement from spouses and relations, poor learning environments, and stress. The data were analyzed using percentages and frequency counts. They are presented in tables and figures.
Conclusions – It is recommended that education and library management should assess these centres for program improvements like providing more enabling environments and learning facilities. The implication of the study is that library and information services should be extended to these women to stimulate and support learning with the right attitude for active involvement in the educational activities and for enhancement of social inclusion.
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3 pm to 5 pm
"Adolphus Busch's Lager Landscape"
Paula Lupkin, Washington University St. Louis
At the turn of the twentieth century brewer Adolphus Busch built an industrial empire on his famous lager beer: Budweiser. Its center was the mammoth redbrick brewery on the south side of St. Louis but its boundaries encompassed a wider web of industrial, commercial, and recreational spaces: railroads, depots, hotels, office buildings, saloons, and amusement parks. Built, owned, or controlled by Busch, these elements map the dynamic spatial and architectural relationship between industry and ethnic culture, and between production and consumption at the turn of the twentieth century. This paper presents Busch's lager landscape as a complex architectural phenomenon designed to promote and legitimize the consumption of beer in the years before Prohibition.
"Burlesquing the Beast: William Holbrook Beard and the Museum Movement"
Jennifer Greenhill, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
In 1869, the humorous animal painter William Holbrook Beard attempted to revise his reputation for jocularity by designing a mammoth sculptural complex, which he hoped would be built beneath Central Park. These underground galleries would have linked the park and the art museum New Yorkers planned to build above ground, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. But Beard's scheme never made it past the planning phase. This chapter considers what kind of intervention Beard's complex would have made in an art world developing its first monumental public museums. What would it have said about those institutions? And where, in relation to these edifices, would it have situated Beard's humorous aesthetic?
Commentator: Sarah Dreller, University of Illinois at Chicago


How will the coronavirus affect the world economy?
In this online lecture, Professor Peter van Bergeijk discusses the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on international trade and investment.
In his lecture, Professor van Bergeijk examines 5 main points related to the economic consequences of the current pandemic.
1. Focus on impact on international trade and investment
2. Coronanomics (a few key economic principles)
3. Key data and stylized facts (introduction of data sources)
4. Before Corona: deglobalization 2.0
5. What will happen next to the world economy?
Download the powerpoint accompanying the video
Professor Peter van Bergeijk
More information
Read also this article by Peter van Bergeijk in the Dutch Volkskrant newspaper about the effects of the corona pandemic on the global economy. (Unfortunately only available in Dutch)


Self-shrinking generator
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A self-shrinking generator is a pseudorandom generator, which is based on the shrinking generator concept. Variants of the self-shrinking generator based on a linear feedback shift register (LFSR) are studied for use in cryptography.
In difference to the shrinking generator, which uses a second feedback shift register to control the output of the first, the self-shrinking generator uses alternating output bits of a single register to control its final output. The procedure for clocking this kind of generator is as follows:
 1. Clock two bits from the LFSR.
 2. If the pair is 10 output a zero.
 3. If the pair is 11 output a one.
 4. Otherwise, output nothing.
 5. Return to step one.
This example will use the connection polynomial x8 + x4 + x3 + x2 + 1, and an initial register fill of 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0.
Below table lists, for each iteration of the LFSR, its intermediate output before self-shrinking, as well as the final generator output. The tap positions defined by the connection polynomial are marked with blue headings. The state of the zeroth iteration represents the initial input.
Iteration # 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Intermediate output Generator output
0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 N/A N/A
2 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1
3 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0
4 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 0
At the end of four iterations, the following sequence of intermediate bits is produced: 0110.
The first pair of bits, 01, is discarded since it does not match either 10 or 11. The second pair of bits, 10, matches the second step of the algorithm so a zero is output.
More bits are created by continuing to clock the LFSR and shrinking its output as described above.
In their paper [1], Meier and Steffelbach prove that a LFSR based self-shrinking generator with a connection polynomial of length L results in an output sequence period of at least 2L/2, and a linear complexity of at least 2L/2-1.
Furthermore, they show that any self-shrinking generator can be represented as a shrinking-generator. The inverse is also true: Any shrinking generator can be implemented as a self-shrinking generator, although the resultant generator may not be of maximal length.
An attack presented by the authors requires about 20.7L steps, assuming a known connection polynomial.
A more advanced attack [2], discovered by Mihaljević, is able to break a register a hundred bits in length in around 257 steps, using an output sequence of only 4.9 x 108 bits.
 - [1] "The self-shrinking generator", Advances in Cryptology-Eurocrypt 1994 (LNCS 950), 205-214, 1995.
 - [2] "An security examination of the self-shrinking generator", Circencester, UK, December 1995.
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Source: The Savior and the Sea: The Theological Meaning Behind the Sea's Absence in Revelation 21:1
By: Brian G. Chilton
I enjoy going to the beach. There is something soothing and therapeutic about the sound of the ocean's waves crashing upon the shore. The ocean's rhythmic sound patterns tend to alleviate the stress and strains of life. The beautiful sunrises and sunsets over the ocean's horizon are something that no artist can duplicate.
For this reason, Revelation 21:1 has always seemed odd to me. The text reads, "Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more" (Rev. 21:1). Why are oceans and seas not found in the new creation? Heaven is greater than anything possibility imaginable in this creation. If something is good in this creation, then it will be great in the next one. If that is the case, then why would one of God's most beautiful creations not be found there? Revelation makes it clear that the new creation would have water. Revelation 22:1 notes the existence of a "river of the water of life, clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb" (Rev. 22:1). If there are rivers, would they not pour out into a larger body of water that would be comparable to modern oceans?
The absence of the sea in the new creation holds a deeper theological issue and is most likely not to be taken literally. The symbol speaks to a literal truth. But the concept of the sea is an image that resonates with the overall teaching of Scripture. I have always been taught that the best interpreter of Scripture is Scripture. With that in mind, what does the sea represent throughout the pages of Scripture?
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What are sugar bugs?
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Because sugar is exceedingly present in modern packaged foods, our children are inundated with it, from candies and beverages to seemingly healthy breakfast cereals and sweetened veggies. Starches, including sugars, create an acidic environment in the mouth, and this can lead to cavities.
Dr. Kimmy explains this process as having sugar bugs in your mouth. She says that sugar bugs eat sugars and then go potty. Their potty is an acid that makes holes in teeth. Though simplified, children appreciate the simple story and love the concept of destroying the bugs with a special toothbrush and magic toothpaste.


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District Judges undertake most of the civil work of the courts, and fall into two catagories: those that sit in the County Courts (and were previously known as County Court Registrars), and those that sit in the Magistrates' Courts (and were previously known as Stipendiary Magistrates). The senior District Judge is also known as the Chief Magistrate.
How to Address a District Judge
The recommended judicial and social styles of address are as follows:
|Beginning of letter||Dear Judge or Dear Sir/Madam
|End of letter||Yours faithfully|
||District Judge Phllips
|Envelope (if a knight)||District Judge Sir John Phillips (formal)|
|Envelope (if a Dame)||District Judge Dame Elizabeth Phllips (formal)|
|Envelope (social)||District Judge Phllips|
|Verbal address (on the Bench)||Sir/Madam|
|Verbal address (social)||Judge Phllips or according to title
On retirement, District Judges are not referred to by any
judicial title and revert to Mr, Mrs, Mrs or Ms.

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There are innumerable terms and words of the English language that arouse our curiosity, one of them is undoubtedly the meaning of Unlapsed . But you are calm, because in we will tell you what Unlapsed means.
Unlapsed is a word from the English language, born from the direct negation of the word "Lapsed", whose meaning is expired , Worn or expired . Also this word is used to name an old member of some religion.
The word Unlapsed is rarely used in its source language, with Unexpired being the most common way that English speakers refer to the terms "Not expired" or "Valid"
The meaning of Unlapsed can go beyond what we think, not only referring to something that has not expired, but also to something that prevails in a mystical way. A notable example is the prevalence of the immortal soul, "Unlapsed Soul" in English.
Due to its nature we can use this word in various ways, therefore we will quote some examples of the word Unlapsed.
 - Well, my driver license is unlapsed, sir – Well, my driver's license has not expired, sir.
 - My baby has still an unlapsed live – My baby still has a life without passing.
 - my feelings for you are unlapsed – my feelings for you are still intact.
Other meanings that may be of interest:


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Although nearly half of Mexico's total land area is officially classified as agricultural, only 12 percent of the total area is cultivated. In the early 1990s, only some 24 million hectares of a possible 32 million hectares were under cultivation.
Extensive irrigation projects carried out in the 1940s and 1950s greatly expanded Mexico's cropland, especially in the north. The government created areas of intensive irrigated agriculture by constructing storage dams across the valleys of the Río Bravo del Norte (Rio Grande) and the rivers flowing down from the Sierra Madre Occidental, by controlling the lower Río Colorado (Colorado River), and by tapping subterranean aquifers.
These water-control projects allowed Mexico to expand rapidly its total land area under cultivation. Between 1950 and 1965, the total area of irrigated land in Mexico more than doubled, from 1.5 million hectares to 3.5 million hectares. Despite a slowdown in the development of irrigated land after 1965, the total irrigated area had expanded to more than 6 million hectares by 1987. In the early 1990s, 80 percent of Mexico's cultivated land required regular irrigation. Because of the high cost of irrigation, however, the government has emphasized expanding production on existing farmland rather than expanding the area under irrigation.
Agricultural practices in Mexico range from traditional techniques, such as the slash-and-burn cultivation of indigenous plants for family subsistence, to the use of advanced technology and marketing expertise in large-scale, capital-intensive export agriculture. Government extension programs have fostered the wider use of machinery, fertilizers, and soil conservation techniques. Although corn is grown on almost half of Mexico's cropland, the country became a net importer of grain during the 1970s.
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Loud Bits Destroy Communication
Most people believe that you should start a horse with a really quiet bit, so-to-speak. Then the further along in the horse's training you go, the bigger the bit you should automatically put in his mouth because it takes a bigger bit for him to understand more. People think that there's a direct relationship between what a horse knows and what kind of bit is in his mouth. What actually happens is that the horse gets used to the bigger and bigger bits. Eventually, you need the bigger bit because the horse is used to the beating he gets with it every day.
 - An inside leg at the girth
 - An outside leg a little further back
 - Your weight shifted onto a specific seat bone
 - An inside rein positioning the head and softening the jaw
 - An outside rein following the horse's rhythm
 - Your seat either maintaining the cadence of the gait or half-halting
You must use a full corridor of pressures that the horse feels and understands as a specific shape. The horse will never understand or feel this shape if you don't understand it. The optimum communication between two individuals must exclude violence and punishment and must be based on both individuals' feelings and opinions. When you choose a bit to communicate with the horse, your first choice should be one that can never speak louder than your seat and legs.
When someone is trying to communicate primarily with a loud bit, the horse's primary effort will be to escape the bridle. And when a horse escapes the bridle the rider often tries to tie his head in position with some device so that he can't get away from the pressure or ruin the leverage. When the bit is louder than the rider's seat and legs the horse will never even feel the seat or legs. He will only feel the squeeze in his mouth. Whenever you see a horse fighting the bit, he has lost all feeling for the rest of the aids. It is just like getting your finger slammed in a car door.
Gadgets such as tie downs, chambons, draw reins and head sets are only substitutes for the correct use of seat, leg, and rein aids as a corridor of pressures that shape the horse. These training gadgets are molds, not aids. They force the horse's body into an evasion rather than showing him the correct shape. They are "breaking" devices, not training devices. Breaking is telling the horse what NOT TO DO; training is telling what TO DO. Control does not come from forcing the horse to assume a shape with gadgets. True control over a horse's gymnastic abilities comes from developing the driving muscles to drive and the carrying muscles to carry.
When you drive hard enough from the back, the front comes off the ground. That is call "rebalancing." You can't get collection or rebalancing using tricks. So many people think that technology is having a trick for each thing rather than having a methodical, logical, systematic, gymnastic conditioning program. You only need tricks and gadgets if your skill is limited.
Horses are so sensitive that they can feel a fly land on their skin. They can feel and understand a mild bit if the rider knows how to use it. But you can't train in shouts and show in whispers. When you put a bit in the horse's mouth that multiplies your pressures you lose your corridor of aids. The bit becomes louder than your seat and legs and you lose all effectiveness. All attention is on those fingers slammed in the car door.


Account Factory - provision AWS Accounts
Account Factory provision aws accounts
What is an Account Factory?
The Account Factory is a solution to manage account creation and bootstrapping in a scalable and efficient manner so that new accounts are created with a defined baseline and governance guardrails are in place. If you want to get your hands dirty with an Account Factory - you can take a look at this workshop.
Why should I use a Account Factory?
 1. ⚙ Equivalent process for every account
 2. 💸 Save time and resources
 3. 🔐 Secure and well-architected accounts
 4. 📜 Documented process
 5. 🔌 Native integration to your ticket system like Jira - ServiceNow; this means that internal approval processes can be used to trigger the Account provisioning
 6. 🚀 Ready to use accounts in minutes
What solutions are outside for account provisioning?
If you use the Control Tower for your Landing Zone it's coming already with an Account Factory - there's also already existent solutions to customize the Account Factory to your needs. Even if you use the official landing zone solution there are some examples of Account vending machines on github.
What steps are part of an account factory?
 1. Creation of a new AWS Account - the first part of the Account Factory is to provision a new Account, the solution is using the organizations API for that.
 💡 Activate IamUserAccessToBilling - othwerwise only the root user of the new account can access account billing information.
 1. Deploy the baseline template to new AWS Accounts - regardless of whether you want to provide resources via API / CDK, StackSets or CodePipeline, you need a role that you can assume in the new account, so we need an AccountBaseline that includes a role with trust for the management or automation account.
 1. Remove default VPC - A default VPC is suitable for getting started quickly - not for production workloads.
 1. Deploy security baseline and other customized ressources - this step includes eg.: the activation of GuardDuty, Config, CloudTrail - if you dont use the Organizational Trail, creation of own VPC, security notification service etc. You can use StackSets or CodePipeline for that. It would make sense to separate the configuration which stacks /resources you want to activate from the actual Account Factory. 💡 You can for example use SSM Parameter Store for that - You could also think of using different configs for services, which are deployed in to new accounts or not depending on the selection in the Account Factory.
 1. Optional:
 - Use support case API to activate enterprise Account in the new Account.
 - Activate root MFA automatically.
 1. Move new Account to desired organizional unit. According to best practices, it is recommend to structure your accounts in an organization and assign scps to organizational units. Since SCPs can cause problems when providing a new account, I recommend to move the new accounts at the end of the Account Factory to the corresponding unit.
 1. Send status mail or slack / teams message. In order to get a status overview of the new Account, you should think of collecting information while the Account Factory is running and send them as a message to the new Account owner or governance at scale team.
Account Factory Example Architecture
Account Factory Example Architecture
Creating and managing Accounts in AWS
Best Practice for creating and managing Accounts in AWS
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David Krohn
Detect noncompliant Lambda runtimes in your environment
Use AWS Config Rules to detect noncompliant Lambda runtimes
Jan 19th 2021
David Krohn
Tasks that require root user
It is AWS best practice to not use the root user. However, there are certain Tasks which requires root credentials.
Oct 22nd 2020
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Thoughts do not intrinsically have any power AND they are the beginning of all creation, they are part of the creation process, and they begin to create our reality. So, if they have no power, where does the power come from? The power comes from you! The power comes from your engagement and/or participation with them. The power comes from the intensity of the current thought and the intensity of past similar thoughts. The power comes from the repetition of the thought (how often you think about the thought). Last but not least, the power comes from how much you believe in the thought as you are thinking it.
Most people believe their thoughts are real. They engage, they participate, and they give power to the thoughts. They often do not mean to do so; it happens because of habit and lack of self awareness.
For this reason, I ask people to begin to observe their thoughts, watch their thoughts, and then pick and choose the thoughts with which they would like to participate. To do this, the practice of observing thoughts must come first. You have to be able to observe any thought, no matter what the thought is, and begin to practice non-resistance, complete acceptance and see them for what they are, leaving them well enough alone. Once you practice that for awhile, you will then be able to pick and choose, and then participate with those thoughts from a place of Consciousness, Awareness and purpose.


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Yesterday I walked into Hatchards at St Pancras Station, walked over to the picture book section and began browsing. I kept returning to this book. The title intrigued me and the clear white spaces on the cover drew me in as did the beguiling child friendly feel of the illustrations.
Then I read the story and I couldn't put it down and have been reading it ever since. It begins with the words; 'Underneath the cherry tree in our garden there is a little hole. We found it one day when I bounced my ball and it didn't bounce back.'
A child loses their ball down a hole and begins to wonder what is down there. The simplest of story lines and yet so much happens. Everyone has an opinion about what is down the hole. Mum thinks it might be a doorway into a mouse's house, someone else thinks it could be a troll down there or is it a dragon's den. Grandma and Grandpa are more realistic in their opinions. They think it might be a mole or a badger. The important thing is that everyone has different ideas about it even the dog.
The mystery of The Something is never solved and the child simply enjoys quietly watching, waiting and imagining what lies beneath.
The text has a lovely lyrical rhythm that is a delight to read aloud. It is full of gentle touches. You are not sure if the child is a boy or a girl – they are just a child. One of the child's friends is in a wheelchair. The weather and the tree are constantly changing. Each illustration shows what might have happened to the ball down the hole.
This is a story about looking, thinking and asking questions. It is about being happy with not knowing all the answers but keeping watch anyway in the hope that something surprising will appear.
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Once Upon a Time in Germantown
Enlarge image Germantown's history is stepped in German culture, first settled by immigrants from the Palatinate Region in the 18th century. (© GKNY) Three hundred years ago, 2,400 Germans from the Palatinate Region of Germany sailed up the Hudson from New York City, where they had been shipped from London and Portsmouth in an fleet of 12 ships carrying pine and pitch for the Royal Navy. For the German immigrants of the Rhine River region, who were fleeing the troops of France's Louis XIV, the Hudson River was like the "father" Rhine, making them feel somehow at home in New York towns such as Rhinebeck, Rhinecliff or Germantown.
The first German settlers arrived October 2, 1710 in the "East Camp," now known as Germantown, New York. Starting October 2, 2010, Germantown celebrated this historic arrival with a history workshop attended by 300 renowned genealogists and historians from the United States and Europe, as well as a Gala Palatine Concert highlighting the world premiere of "The Palatine Cantata" for singers and orchestra by Maestro Harold Harberman, a Germantown citizen, founder and director of the Conductors Institute at Bard College.
The Concert Gala was opened by Dr. Thietmar Bachmann, Head of the Cultural Department of the Consulate General in New York, on Germany's national holiday, October 3.
The festivities will continue through the weekend of October 8 - 10. Following the celebrations focused mainly on the town's history and culture, the second weekend is geared towards families, with a wagon parade and the Palatine Oktoberfest, combined with the yearly Germantown Harvest Festival.


web host, you'll probably need an FTP client. Check out FileZilla (it's free and available for both Windows and Mac) at Documentation for this is available at, and your web host will almost certainly provide instructions on connecting to it via FTP (Media Temple's instructions can be found at
What about domain names?
Web hosts will generally assign you a very generic address, such as or If you want to have a more condensed personal address such as, you'll need to pay for it. This is called a domain name—in this specific example, is the domain name.
Media Temple allows you to buy a domain name for $5/year at the point where you sign up to their web hosting package. If you go with another host, you may need to buy a domain name elsewhere; for this, you can use
Have a go hero – get a web host, upload to it, test
Pick a web host, get your credit card out, and sign up for one of their packages.
 1. Create a new directory called /test/ in the public path of your web host.
 2. Create a new plain text file on your hard drive called index.html. (It's a good idea to create a new folder on your computer to store all your work, too.) Open this file in your HTML editor.
 3. Copy the HTML below into the file:
 4. Hopefully, you know enough HTML to understand that this just writes Hello! in big letters.
 5. Transfer index.html to the /text/ directory on your host. Again, you'll probably need to use an FTP client for this.
 6. Open a web browser and type into the URL bar. Of course, you should replace with the path to your public directory, as given to you by your web host. You should see Hello! appear in a glorious default font:
 Introduction to Developing Facebook Applications
 7. If not, check the documentation and support for your host.
How much AS3 knowledge is required?
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In September 2010, Adobe released an official Adobe ActionScript 3 SDK for the Facebook Platform Graph API, which will remain fully supported by Adobe and Facebook. Read more about it at
Besides the Adobe AS3 SDK for Facebook Platform, two other code libraries are used heavily:
There are a few tools that will help:
Watch out for caching
When you run a SWF using Flash Player on your desktop, it loads and runs the SWF. Well, of course, why wouldn't it?
When you run a SWF in a browser, this isn't always the case, though. Sometimes, browsers cache SWFs, meaning that they save a copy locally and then load that copy—rather than the online version—the next time you request it. In normal browsing, this is a great idea—it saves bandwidth and reduces loading times. You can lose huge amounts of time trying to figure out why your new code isn't working, only to finally realize that the new code isn't being run at all because you were seeing only a cached copy of your SWF.
Different browsers require different solutions. It's usually possible to disable caching for one browsing session, and it's always possible to delete some or all of the cache.
In Google Chrome, you can do this by clicking on [Spanner] | Tools | Clear Browsing Data…, selecting Empty the cache, and choosing an appropriate time period:
Introduction to Developing Facebook Applications
Introduction to Developing Facebook Applications
You should easily be able to find the equivalent option for your browser by searching Google for «browser name» delete cache.
Facebook's developers are always tweaking the platform. This can make it exciting to develop on because new features are being added all the time, but it can also make it very frustrating to develop on because old features can be removed, or their implementations changed; anything could be altered at any time.
The new Platform API (the Graph API) is a strong foundation, and looks likely to be around for a while—remember, the previous Platform API lasted four years. But it's modular, and individual pieces might change, or even be removed.
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To enable students to list the conditions which led César Chávez to direct the farm workers' struggle for economic wellbeing and to evaluate current issues facing farm workers and the American consumer today.
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In response to an activity involving unfair distribution of food, students explore what can be done to address the issue of child hunger in the United States. They conduct an investigation of hunger in the local community. Students join with a nonprofit organization and take action to address...
To help students realize the ways that writing has served as a historical tool, and to understand that through writing individuals have captured and preserved history.
In this lesson the learners will explore food scarcity and abundance as they relate to issues of poverty, wealth and health. They will identity a need in their community and explore ways that they might help reduce poverty, hunger, and ill-health there.


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This is a term commonly used in conjunction with being reflective. Reflexivity is about being able to recognise the influence of oneself on a situation. This influence may involve the influence of age, illness, physical, racial characteristics; other material considerations such as economic class; psychological elements such as emotional and cognitive aspects; social aspects (for example gender, ethnicity); historical and cultural contexts; and structural factors (for example social class). Being reflexive involves being able to locate and understand yourself from those above perspectives, which then enables you to be aware of whatever thinking, biases or blind spots might be influencing the way you interpret people and situations, and therefore the way you practice (DHSC, 2018).


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I need the following two attached problems done in excel using the built in excel solver. For these problems we need to formulate our own constraints. For some reason I am getting negative numbers, which is obviously not right. I would appreciate it if someone could formulate the right constraints and solve these problems 100% correctly using excel.
Please see the attached file for the fully formatted problems.
1. On your construction site next week's work schedule requires the number of laborers per day show in the table below. Each laborer receives $800 per week. A labor requirement must be met that employees work a five consecutive day work week followed by two days off. Allowable shifts are Monday through Friday, Tuesday through Saturday, Wednesday through Sunday, etc. The objective is to cover labor needs with five shifts at a minimum weekly payroll. Formulate this problem in a linear programming format. Determine the dollar value of the minimum program using two of the methods discussed in class.
Day: Mon Tue Wed Thur Fri Sat Sun
Workers: 180 160 150 160 190 140 120
3. The graph below represents possible freeway routes from a city A to an airport F. Each segment of the graph has its carrying capacity indicated in cars per minute. Determine the total capacity (maximum) between A and E of the freeway system (assume only flow in one direction). Note that the rate of flow along each freeway section has to be determined in order to obtain maximum capacity. This is important to regulate traffic during peak hours. Use linear programming.
Linear programming using Excel Solvers are determined. The constraint formulates are analyzed.


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Getting to grips with the New Forest National Park
This project idea was contributed by Lisa Rabbetts
|Exam Board||Components that this project links with|
|AQA A||Unit 1, Section A: Rocks, Resources and Scenery
Unit 2, Section B: Tourism
|Edexcel A||Unit 1, Section A: ICT Skills
Unit 3, Section A: Farming and the Countryside
Unit 3, Section B: A Tourist's World
|Edexcel B||Unit 2, Section B: Changing Countryside|
|OCR A||Possibly Unit A673: Similarities and Differences|
|WJEC B||Theme 2: People and the Natural World Interactions|
Virtual fieldwork is not meant to replace pupils getting out and seeing things for themselves. However, it can be used to support and enhance fieldwork or act as a substitute if real fieldwork is simply not possible, e.g. due to time, cost and accessibility constraints. This example centres on the New Forest National Park. It is a location close to the school I work in but pupil experience of the environment is variable. The PowerPoint is meant to remind pupils of the landscape, and the issues that go with it.
Key Geography Objectives
- For pupils to know where the New Forest is
- For pupils to be able to describe the landscape of the New Forest
- For pupils to know why people visit the New Forest
- For pupils to know what conflicts occur in the New Forest
- For pupils to know how conflicts can be resolved
Key ICT Objectives
To be able to put together a PowerPoint of maps, photos and graphs.
Planning the Activity
- Produce a PowerPoint of photos with associated questions to get pupils to think about what they are looking at (the instruction sheet that you may download below will give you guidance on this).
- The photos could be from a location that you have done actual fieldwork at and therefore could be taken by pupils.
- Alternatively the location could be somewhere you have visited or even somewhere you haven't visited. Flickr is a useful source of photos, just check that you can use them first.
- Ideally this activity would be run with pupils all having access to a computer. You would need to save the Power Point on the school network so all pupils can get access to it. Pupils then type their answers onto the slides in normal view mode rather than slideshow mode. When completed the work could be printed out as a handout. Alternatively pupils could e-mail to the teacher or send it via a VLE.
Running the Activity
- A starter activity could involve labelling Britain's National Parks on to a map.
- Explain to the class that they are going on a virtual fieldtrip to Britain's newest National Park.
- Showing the first slide outline the objectives to the pupils.
- Pupils then complete the activities on each slide
- An extension activity could consist of completing a decision making activity based on whether Lyndhurst should have a by-pass or not. See this article from the Southern Daily Echo.
- As a homework task pupils could produce their own virtual fieldtrip of another location.
The following download contains step by step instructions on creating a virtual fieldtrip in Microsoft PowerPoint.
Download: How to create a virtual fieldtrip in Microsoft PowerPoint (PDF, 99k)
'It's virtually fieldwork' is an article on virtual fieldwork in the Autumn 2005 edition of Teaching Geography (free to members).


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Hot Hot Hot
With the normal code editors, you could get a reading of the temperature of the microprocessor on the micro:bit. You can do that in MicroPython too. The reading is quite precise but, because it is reading the temperature of the silicon die on the main CPU, it is not an accurate reading of temperature of the room. If you use an actual thermometer, you can find out the difference between the reading that you get on the micro:bit and the one on your thermometer. That difference is likely to be pretty consistent when the temperature of the room changes and, if you subtract that number from the reading you get with your program, you will have a good measure of the temperature of the room.
It is pretty easy. Press the REPL button before you flash this to see the temperature in degrees Celsius displayed.
from microbit import * while True: sleep(5000) print(str(temperature())+"degC")
- Think of a better way to display the information.
- Create a temperature-sensitive device that sounds an alarm or lights/flashes an LED or image when certain temperatures are reached.


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Sep. 21, 2011 Genes essential to producing the developmental differences displayed by social insects evolve more rapidly than genes governing other aspects of organismal function, a new study has found.
All species of life are able to develop in different ways by varying the genes they express, ultimately becoming different shapes, sizes, colors and sexes. This plasticity permits organisms to operate successfully in their environments. A new study of the genomes of social insects provides insight into the evolution of the genes involved in this developmental plasticity.
The study, which was conducted by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, showed that genes involved in creating different sexes, life stages and castes of fire ants and honeybees evolved more rapidly than genes not involved in these developmental processes. The researchers also found that these fast-evolving genes exhibited elevated rates of evolution even before they were recruited to produce diverse forms of an organism.
"This was a totally unexpected finding because most theory suggested that genes involved in producing diverse forms of an organism would evolve rapidly specifically because they generated developmental differences," said Michael Goodisman, an associate professor in the School of Biology at Georgia Tech. "Instead, this study suggests that fast-evolving genes are actually predisposed to generating new developmental forms."
The results of the study were published in the Sept. 20, 2011 issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The project was an international collaboration between Goodisman, associate professor Soojin Yi and postdoctoral fellow Brendan Hunt from the Georgia Tech School of Biology, and professor Laurent Keller, research scientist DeWayne Shoemaker, and postdoctoral fellows Lino Ometto and Yannick Wurm from the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Lausanne.
Social insects exhibit a sophisticated social structure in which queens reproduce and workers engage in tasks related to brood-rearing and colony defense. By investigating the evolution of genes associated with castes, sexes and developmental stages of the invasive fire ant Solenopsis invicta, the researchers explored how social insects produce such a diversity of form and function from genetically similar individuals.
"Social insects provided the perfect test subjects because they can develop into such dramatically different forms," said Goodisman.
Microarray analyses revealed that many fire ant genes were regulated differently depending on whether the fire ant was male or female, queen or worker, and pupal or adult. These differentially expressed genes exhibited elevated rates of evolution, as predicted. In addition, genes that were differentially expressed in multiple contexts -- castes, sexes or developmental stages -- tended to evolve more rapidly than genes that were differentially expressed in only a single context.
To examine when the genes with elevated rates of evolution began to evolve rapidly, the researchers compared the rate of evolution of genes associated with the production of castes in the fire ant with the same genes in a wasp that does not have a caste system. They found that the genes were rapidly evolving in the genomes of both species, even though only one produced a caste system. These results were also replicated for the honeybee Apis mellifera.
"This is one the most comprehensive studies of the evolution of genes involved in producing developmental differences," Goodisman noted.
This research was supported by the National Science Foundation.
This study helps explain the fundamental evolutionary processes that allow organisms to develop different adaptive forms. Future research will include determining what these fast-evolving genes do and how they're involved in the production of different sexes, life stages and castes, said Goodisman.
This project is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) (Award No. DEB-_PHONE_).
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In robotics and automation, a control loop is a non-terminating loop that regulates the state of a system.
Here is one example of a control loop: a thermostat in a room.
When you set the temperature, that's telling the thermostat about your desired state. The actual room temperature is the current state. The thermostat acts to bring the current state closer to the desired state, by turning equipment on or off.
In Kubernetes, controllers are control loops that watch the state of your clusterA set of worker machines, called nodes, that run containerized applications. Every cluster has at least one worker node., then make or request changes where needed. Each controller tries to move the current cluster state closer to the desired state.
Controller pattern
A controller tracks at least one Kubernetes resource type. These objects have a spec field that represents the desired state. The controller(s) for that resource are responsible for making the current state come closer to that desired state.
The controller might carry the action out itself; more commonly, in Kubernetes, a controller will send messages to the API serverControl plane component that serves the Kubernetes API. that have useful side effects. You'll see examples of this below.
Control via API server
The JobA finite or batch task that runs to completion. controller is an example of a Kubernetes built-in controller. Built-in controllers manage state by interacting with the cluster API server.
Job is a Kubernetes resource that runs a PodA Pod represents a set of running containers in your cluster., or perhaps several Pods, to carry out a task and then stop.
(Once scheduled, Pod objects become part of the desired state for a kubelet).
When the Job controller sees a new task it makes sure that, somewhere in your cluster, the kubelets on a set of Nodes are running the right number of Pods to get the work done. The Job controller does not run any Pods or containers itself. Instead, the Job controller tells the API server to create or remove Pods. Other components in the control planeThe container orchestration layer that exposes the API and interfaces to define, deploy, and manage the lifecycle of containers. act on the new information (there are new Pods to schedule and run), and eventually the work is done.
After you create a new Job, the desired state is for that Job to be completed. The Job controller makes the current state for that Job be nearer to your desired state: creating Pods that do the work you wanted for that Job, so that the Job is closer to completion.
Controllers also update the objects that configure them. For example: once the work is done for a Job, the Job controller updates that Job object to mark it Finished.
(This is a bit like how some thermostats turn a light off to indicate that your room is now at the temperature you set).
Direct control
By contrast with Job, some controllers need to make changes to things outside of your cluster.
For example, if you use a control loop to make sure there are enough NodesA node is a worker machine in Kubernetes. in your cluster, then that controller needs something outside the current cluster to set up new Nodes when needed.
Controllers that interact with external state find their desired state from the API server, then communicate directly with an external system to bring the current state closer in line.
(There actually is a controller that horizontally scales the nodes in your cluster. See Cluster autoscaling).
Desired versus current state
Kubernetes takes a cloud-native view of systems, and is able to handle constant change.
Your cluster could be changing at any point as work happens and control loops automatically fix failures. This means that, potentially, your cluster never reaches a stable state.
As long as the controllers for your cluster are running and able to make useful changes, it doesn't matter if the overall state is or is not stable.
As a tenet of its design, Kubernetes uses lots of controllers that each manage a particular aspect of cluster state. Most commonly, a particular control loop (controller) uses one kind of resource as its desired state, and has a different kind of resource that it manages to make that desired state happen. For example, a controller for Jobs tracks Job objects (to discover new work) and Pod objects (to run the Jobs, and then to see when the work is finished). In this case something else creates the Jobs, whereas the Job controller creates Pods.
It's useful to have simple controllers rather than one, monolithic set of control loops that are interlinked. Controllers can fail, so Kubernetes is designed to allow for that.
There can be several controllers that create or update the same kind of object. Behind the scenes, Kubernetes controllers make sure that they only pay attention to the resources linked to their controlling resource.
For example, you can have Deployments and Jobs; these both create Pods. The Job controller does not delete the Pods that your Deployment created, because there is information (labelsTags objects with identifying attributes that are meaningful and relevant to users. ) the controllers can use to tell those Pods apart.
Ways of running controllers
Kubernetes comes with a set of built-in controllers that run inside the kube-controller-managerControl Plane component that runs controller processes.. These built-in controllers provide important core behaviors.
The Deployment controller and Job controller are examples of controllers that come as part of Kubernetes itself ("built-in" controllers). Kubernetes lets you run a resilient control plane, so that if any of the built-in controllers were to fail, another part of the control plane will take over the work.
You can find controllers that run outside the control plane, to extend Kubernetes. Or, if you want, you can write a new controller yourself. You can run your own controller as a set of Pods, or externally to Kubernetes. What fits best will depend on what that particular controller does.
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Study: Gulf of Alaska Wind Patterns Help and Hurt Pollock Survival
For years, scientists at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center have long wondered why an abundance of very young pollock doesn't always translate into a similar abundance of adult pollock a few years later. Now they know why, and while it sheds light on a long-asked question, it also raises more about the dynamic between the Gulf of Alaska ecosystem and pollock, an important national resource.
The new study conclusively shows that the Gulf of Alaska is a wind-driven system that determines year-to-year distribution of juvenile...
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Eggplant Functional is Eggplant's test automation tool. As you use Eggplant Functional, you will have many tasks that you return to frequently. Although your workflow might vary, the following outline describes the tasks that form the core of your testing with Eggplant Functional and points to the additional pages where you can find detailed information about each topic.
Connecting to SUTs
The connection method you use varies based on what type of system you're connecting to—that is, whether they're mobile devices, desktop computers, or something else. The Connecting to SUTs section includes information on how to use the Eggplant Functional interface to connect to Android devices, iOS devices, as well as different desktop operating systems.
Most of your time is likely to be spent in creating and working with scripts. The Creating Scripts section includes information about working in Eggplant Functional's Script Editor, including the different modes of script creation that are available to you. Because image searching is at the heart of Eggplant Functional, you'll also find information about capturing and working with images, including image capture best practices. The basics of the SenseTalk scripting language and debugging techniques are introduced in this section as well.
You can run scripts from the Eggplant Functional interface as well as from the command line. You can also set schedules to run multiple scripts. In the Running Scripts section, you'll also find information about reading test results, about using keyword-driven testing with Eggplant Functional, and about using Eggdrive to incorporate external tests with Eggplant Functional.
Go to the Preferences section to learn about customizing the Eggplant Functional environment by adjusting the Preference settings.
Using Source Control Management (SCM)
Go to SCM to understand how to use Eggplant Functional to work with repositories in SCM.


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Template Credit: Adapted from a template made available by Dr. Jason Brownlee of Machine Learning Mastery.
SUMMARY: The purpose of this project is to construct a predictive model using various machine learning algorithms and to document the end-to-end steps using a template. The Iris dataset is a multi-class classification situation where we are trying to predict one of several (more than two) possible outcomes.
INTRODUCTION: This is perhaps the best-known database to be found in the pattern recognition literature. Fisher's paper is a classic in the field and is referenced frequently to this day. (See Duda & Hart, for example.) The data set contains three classes of 50 instances each, where each class refers to a type of iris plant. One class is linearly separable from the other two; the latter are NOT linearly separable from each other.
ANALYSIS: The baseline performance of the model achieved an average accuracy score of 96.67%, which was consistent with other classical machine learning algorithms.
CONCLUSION: For this dataset, the model built using Keras and TensorFlow achieved a satisfactory result and should be considered for future modeling activities
Dataset Used: Iris Data Set
Dataset ML Model: Multi-class classification with numerical attributes
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Accessing Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery Online
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
With the advent of the Internet in the mid-90s, the number of available options for finding addiction prevention, treatment, and recovery support services has grown exponentially. Nowadays one can search online and instantly find an extensive list of materials and providers, locate them immediately on an interactive map, read testimonials of people who are struggling with similar issues or have already overcome them, and find support in a sea of chat rooms and Web sites. Today's youth, in particular, are more technologically savvy than ever. Youth-oriented social Web sites can serve as a forum for developing skills and abilities to stay away from addictive substances, for realizing one has a problem, and for offering avenues toward unprecedented treatment methods such as "e-therapy" and "virtual support groups." This program will highlight the state of recovery in the 21st century and examine how technology has revamped the field of substance use disorder prevention and addiction treatment.
Ivette Torres, Associate Director for Consumer Affairs, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).


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Not all species may suffer from climate change. A new analysis shows that Dolly Varden, a species of char common in southeast Alaska, adjust their migrations so they can keep feasting on a key food source - salmon eggs - even as shifts in climate altered the timing of salmon spawning.
The resiliency of species to climate change may depend on how well they adapt to climate-driven changes in their food and habitat, such as altered growth of plants they feed on. A mismatch in timing between predators and the availability of prey could cause some species to lose access to food. But others such as Dolly Varden that successfully adjust to shifts in climate and prey offer a climate change story with a happy ending, according to the study published in Freshwater Biology.
Ignoring environmental cues may help this predator
The Dolly Varden's secret appears to be that instead of taking its migration cues from environmental variables such as water temperature or streamflow, the species cues directly off the presence of salmon the Dolly Varden depend on for food, the study found.
"Despite warming temperatures and shifting salmon migrations, Dolly Varden do a great job of following their food," said lead author Chris Sergeant of the National Park Service's Inventory and Monitoring Program in southeast Alaska. "Species that can handle a high degree of variability are the ones that should be most resilient to further changes associated with climate."
Dolly Varden get most of their energy over the course of each year by gorging themselves on salmon eggs, which are abundant in summer and rich in energy thanks to the same fatty acids that make fish healthy for humans. Eggs from any single species of salmon may be available during a narrow spawning window of two to six weeks. The Dolly Varden must follow salmon migrations closely to take full advantage of this annual salmon egg bonanza.
Sticking with salmon to find food
But salmon migrations are shifting as the climate warms. Previous research by the University of Alaska and NOAA Fisheries' Alaska Fisheries Science Center in southeast Alaska's Auke Creek has shown that pink and coho salmon now migrate to their spawning grounds 10 to 17 days earlier while sockeye salmon migrate eight days earlier.
Instead of falling out of synch with salmon, though, seagoing Dolly Varden in Auke Creek have accurately adjusted their annual migrations from the ocean back to freshwater to stick with the salmon. The adjustment has maintained their access to egg meals, according to the new research that includes coauthors from the University of Wyoming and NOAA Fisheries' Northwest Fisheries Science Center.
Researchers rely on long record of fish migration data
The research depended on a wealth of fish data from a weir on Auke Creek maintained primarily since 1980 by NOAA Fisheries' Alaska Fisheries Science Center Auke Bay Labs, supported by collaborations with the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Alaska Department of Fish and Game. From 1997 to 2006 crews counted and measured Dolly Varden migrating from the ocean, past the weir and into Auke Creek, providing an unusual long-term picture of fish migration times.
"We're really indebted to the people who kept that record going for so long," said Eric Ward of the Northwest Fisheries Science Center. "It turns out to be very valuable in understanding how species are responding to the changing climate."
Researchers in the new study used the weir data to examine the relationship between migrations of salmon and Dolly Varden from year to year. They found the timing of Dolly Varden migration more closely related to the presence and timing of the salmon than on environmental variables such as temperature and precipitation that are often seen as driving animal migrations.
In short, the Dolly Varden are shifting their migration to follow their food instead of following temperatures or other environmental cues that, as the climate changes, might otherwise lead them to migrate at a different time than the salmon that provide their most important food.
The researchers cautioned that it's unclear whether other salmon predators could adjust their timing to follow salmon as effectively as Dolly Varden do, apparently by watching salmon passing by or detecting salmon eggs through smell. But the adaptability of Dolly Varden suggests that at least some species may be more resilient to climate-induced changes in migration timing than ecologists might assume.


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Sports & Leisure - Overview
The nation's passion for sports is obvious every day—at NASCAR races, kiddie soccer matches, and countless other contests. From a handball used by Abraham Lincoln to Chris Evert's tennis racket to a baseball signed by Jackie Robinson, the roughly 6.000 objects in the Museum's sports collections bear witness to the vital place of sports in the nation's history. Paper sports objects in the collections, such as souvenir programs and baseball cards, number in the hundreds of thousands.
Leisure collections encompass a different range of objects, including camping vehicles and gear, video games, playing cards, sportswear, exercise equipment, and Currier and Ives prints of fishing, hunting, and horseracing. Some 4,000 toys dating from the colonial period to the present are a special strength of the collections.


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The National Museum of Australia, located in Canberra Australia, is a museum of social history, and focuses on three broad research areas: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history and culture, Australia's history and society since European settlement in 1788
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Eternity - Your Story
Located in the Eternity gallery of the National Musuem of Australia, the Your Story installation is creating an archive unlike any other in Australia - a personal, intimate and honest look at the lives of hundreds and thousands of Australians and the issues that concern them.
Located within the Eternity gallery at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra, the Your Story video booths offer visitors the chance to contribute their own story to the exhibition - and the response has been overwhelming.
Visitors have been sharing their stories of hope, joy, fear, thrill, chance, loneliness, mystery, devotion, separation and passion. The fear of death, chance encounters, the thrill of roller coasters. Stories of tremendous passion, stories of limitless hope and joy.
Parents speak of the fear they have of becoming responsible for another life, the hope that they have for their children and for the future of Australia. Children share the thrill of rides, the joy of birthdays and the pain of separation from friends or family.
The Your Story installation is creating an archive unlike any other in Australia - a personal, intimate and honest look at the lives of hundreds and thousands of Australians and the issues that concern them.


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Membrane binding properties of prothrombin and other gamma-carboxyglutamic acid-containing coagulation proteins Krisinger, Michael J.
Haemostasis is a highly regulated, fundamental, physiological process featuring numerous peripheral membrane proteins. Of these, the membrane and calcium binding properties of the vitamin K-dependent proteins are dependent on a common N-terminal γ-carboxyglutamic acid (Gla)-containing domain. Previous work on Gla proteins has provided a wealth of affinity and kinetic membrane binding information. These studies have employed a number of biophysical techniques using artificial phosphatidylserine-containing model membranes. However, many aspects of the membrane binding interaction, in terms of mechanism and modulation by protein cofactor remain obscure. This thesis examines two methods for studying the membrane binding properties of human plasma derived Gla proteins with emphasis on prothrombin. In Chapter 3 differential centrifugation combined with immunoaffinity detection was used to quantify the effect the cofactor Factor Va had on the membrane binding affinity of prothrombin for membrane. Factor Va bound to anionic phospholipid membrane undoubtedly enhanced the membrane binding affinity of prothrombin relative to prothrombin binding in the absence of the cofactor. Thus, these results indicate that Factor Va can recruit prothrombin or prethrombin 1, a Gla-domain less fragment of prothrombin, to the membrane surface, plausibly contributing to its cofactor function. In Chapters 4 and 5, surface plasmon resonance (SPR) was used to evaluate the Ca²⁺-specific binding properties of a number of Gla proteins to immobilized membranes. Membrane affinity, molar binding preference and kinetics controlling complex formation and complex breakdown varied widely between Gla proteins. The comparative results obtained by SPR indicate that the majority of homologous Gla proteins bind membranes with a complex mechanism which may involve membrane induced protein dimers. Unlike prothrombin, the binding profiles for fragment 1 and fragment 1.2 fitted closely to a one-site binding model. Apparent biphasic association and biphasic dissociation phases were observed for prothrombin and commonly amongst the other Gla proteins at a wide range of protein concentrations including physiological concentrations. For prothrombin, dimerization appears to be specific to the protease domain as neither fragment 1 nor fragment 1.2 displays such binding complexities. It is possible that dimerization increases the half-life of membrane-bound Gla proteins thereby promoting their participation in complex assembly and function.
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IN RPM 24 MASTER ID has now been renamed to Bypass Code, please redirect to this page for an updated article. _URL_
A master ID is a code that may represent various different things from regions to contracts. This code can be any column on your import spreadsheets/transfers. Commission items can have a master ID imported in the commission data, or a Rep ID can be assigned to a master ID.
Master IDs can be assigned to accounts groups, making it easy to apply a special rule only when the Master ID is imported.
A good example of usage of the Master ID would depends on each set of data coming into RPM, but think of it like a value on each row that you can use to set a special rate or payout. Region being a common usage, or if you wanted to group a set of commission items for internal staff.
Adding a master ID
There are two ways to add a master ID:
1. Automatic: When RPM imports a new master ID it adds it to the system (upload matrix setup).
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Archive for July, 2012
Making good decisions has special requirements for a Christian leader. Read Proverbs 1:1-7.
For the Christian leader making good decisions includes elements beyond accurately analyzing and processing information and temporary success or failure. To bear the name Christian along with the title leader they must also consider fairness, honesty, and morality as part of each decision. The book of Proverbs isn't a decision-making textbook, but it was inspired by God and written by King Solomon of Israel, a leader who over the centuries has become known as the wisest man to have ever lived.
We make decisions every day, and the patterns we establish in the small decisions shape the larger ones. Read 1 Chronicles 12:32.
The background for 1 Chronicles 12:32 is that Israel's first King, Saul, was dead. David, from the tribe of Judah had been appointed King and was ruling the nation from the city of Hebron. Many of the fighting men from each of the other 11 tribes of Israel were coming to Hebron to turn Saul's kingdom over to David and re-unify the nation. This simple statement, tucked away in the middle of a listing of the men who had volunteered to serve David and who supported his anointing as king over all Israel, tells us of some men from the tribe of Issachar "who understood the times and knew what Israel should do."


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Saber para Reagir
According to a survey of 600 adolescents from the impoverished Sao Jorge community in the Brazilian city of Londrina, 60% do not use contraceptives and 30 percent have used illegal drugs. To protect these vulnerable teens from infectious diseases, ALIA began the Saber para Reagir (To Know Is to React) program. The program's workshops educate 80 participants at a time about sexually transmitted diseases (including HIV/AIDS), early pregnancy, correct use of male and female contraceptives, and citizen rights. In addition, monthly meetings with families in the community spark dialogue and empower their involvement in the education process. " Saber para Reagir is just one of 18 projects run by ALIA, which was established in 1989 by HIV-positive professionals working in several fields. Now the largest HIV/AIDS-related organization in Brazil, its mission is to protect the civil rights of people living with HIV/AIDS and to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS through the creation and implementation of scientific and social programs. ALIA is considered an authority in combating HIV/AIDS and actively participates in formulating policies related to public health, social assistance and education. Since the partnership with Johnson & Johnson began in 2005, ALIA's Saber para Reagir program has reached more than 240 teens at high risk for HIV/AIDS infection.