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- Job Shadowing Placement
Job Shadowing involves working closely with professionals for an agreed time in order to learn how aspects of the job are performed in a working environment. It can broaden the student's skill base in customer care and understanding of management skills related to the salon and spa business. It involves the observation of specific esthetician skills as well as the day-to-day responsibilities for the safety and cleanliness of the work environment. It also provides opportunities for the student to interact with their Workplace Host and discover particular details about the field such as the rewards and challenges of the service industry.
- Career Planning & Employment Skills
This module outlines important aspects of career planning, gaining employable skills, and basic computer literacy. This module consists of 25 hours of theory and 15 hours of lab.
- Salon/Spa Business Management
This module outlines important aspects of successful salon/spa business management skills.
- Cosmetic Massage & Spa Body Therapies
This module outlines the various cosmetic massage treatments and body therapies related to the esthetic industry. This module consists of 43 hours of theory and 103 hours of lab.
- Make-up Artistry, Lash & Brow Enhancement
This module outlines the basics in colour theory, facial shapes, and features. As well as an introduction to the various techniques of professional make-up artistry, lash/brow enhancements such as tinting and lash extensions are introduced. This module consists of 40 hours of theory and 60 hours of lab.
This module provides basic knowledge and fundamental techniques required to perform professional manicure and pedicure treatments. This module consists of 10 hours of theory and 100 hours of lab.
- Hair Removal
This module outlines permanent and temporary hair removal technique and practices, and their effect on the skin. This module consists of 8 hours of theory and 40 hours of lab.
- Electrotherapy for Estheticians
This module outlines the basics of electricity enabling the learner to operate a variety of machines and apparatus used in the esthetic profession knowledgeably and safely. This module consists of 50 hours of theory and 60 hours of lab.
This module outlines all aspects of conducting various professional facial treatments including: specific instructions on how to conduct a client consultation, prepare implements, products and treatment room, the ability to recognize and identify general skin types and specific skin conditions to determine the most appropriate treatment recommendations, classical methods of facial massage, and facial step sequences. This module consists of 68 hours of theory and 122 hours of lab.
- Basic Chemistry, Cosmetic Ingredient & Product Analysis
This module outlines the elements of basic chemistry and chemical processes as it relates to cosmetic products, their ingredients, and various formulations. Various product forms and uses in the practice of esthetics are discussed.
This module outlines basic nutrition and how it can affect the health and certain conditions of the skin and body. It will also cover how certain habits can affect the health of the skin.
- Disorders & Diseases of the Skin
This unit will enable the learner to recognize common skin diseases, disorders, and disturbances; determine those that can be treated by the esthetician and those that require medical treatment.
- Human Anatomy & Physiology
This unit outlines basic human anatomy and physiology, the different body systems, and their relation to the practice of esthetics.
- Cells, Anatomy & Physiology of the Skin
This module focuses on understanding the basic structural units of the human body and the composition, structure, and function of the skin. This module also explores cell metabolism, and the affect that ageing, sun damage, and hormones have on the skin.
- Bacteriology and Decontamination
This module provides a basic knowledge of bacteria, infection, and procedures and guidelines to help the esthetician eliminate and prevent the spread of disease. IPAC and the Bloodborne Pathogen Act are covered as well as an understanding of WHMIS.
- Interpersonal Skills
This module outlines the importance of good interpersonal and communication skills in the esthetics industry. Topics such as time management, setting goals, and creating good study habits will be explored.
- Introduction to Esthetics
This introductory module outlines the history and evolution of the esthetics and spa industry, and the many career opportunities available to estheticians. It presents the importance of professional conduct, image, code of ethics, and common courtesies related to clients and co-workers within the workplace.


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Guide to Roman Numerals
When Roman numerals are combined:
* The most recent year in which "D" would be used is 1899 (MDCCCXCIX). The next year to use "D" will be 2400 (MMCD). Years which have "D" in the Roman numeral are not among those in which works are subject to uncertainty about the copyright status.
Roman numerals are legal to use in place of the familiar, Arabic numerals.
Instances of Defective Copyright Notice
Refer to the tree-view chart to determine under what circumstances a particular form of copyright notice would be (and was) invalid. These illustrations provide examples of the faulty types of notices that (as reported in the chart) can (and do) result in copyright protection being forfeited.
Lack of Copyright Symbol/Word/Abbreviation
|Charade (1963) contains what appears to have been intended to be a copyright notice, yet there is no copyright symbol nor the word "copyright" nor its abbreviation. With just the year and claimant, there isn't a copyright notice. (The bottom image of the three is an enlargement of a portion of the largest of the three images.)|
Errors or Absence of Year
|below: enlargement of the notice shown at left
|The M-G-M movie The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954) was
released with a copyright notice giving the year as "MCMXLIV" (barely visible in
the enlargement, above right). As that Roman numeral converts to 1944, that earlier
year determined the start period for the initial 28-year copyright term. Thus, from
the beginning, the error deprived the claimant of ten years protection at the end of the
potential copyright period. The parent company of
|The coming-attractions trailer for the movie (above right)
contains the Roman numeral for the correct year (The "X" was taken out).
As the trailer was not registered for copyright, this is immaterial. See the table
for converting Roman numerals, above.
|The Last Time I Saw Paris was deprived of some copyright time by its notice giving the year as earlier than it was. Mad Dog Morgan (1976) has the opposite situation: its notice gives a date 450 years later than the actual. (Had the Roman numeral date used an "L" in place of "D", the date would have been correct.) Under American law, such an advance date invalidates the whole notice. As this is an Australian film, American law does not apply except where allowed by Australian law.|
|Click for passages of Australian law relevant to the year in the copyright notice for Mad Dog Morgan.|
From the 1976 Copyright Act, §406:
"Where the year date is more than one year later than the year in which publication first occurred, the work is considered to have been published without any notice….
"OMISSION OF NAME OR DATE.—Where copies or phonorecords publicly distributed by authority of the copyright owner contain no name or no date that could reasonably be considered a part of the notice, the work is considered to have been published without any notice and is governed by the provisions of section 405." §406(b) and (c); somewhat reworded 1989; the 1909 and 1947 Copyright Acts contained a provision similar to that of the 1976.
Lack of Claimant
|The copyright notice on The New 3 Stooges series does not list a claimant. Anyone offering unauthorized copies could contend that the copyright notice permits him to do so. A notice lacking this part is invalid, according to law.||(above) Close-up view of the copyright notice, as seen in smaller type at above left.|
|Ask yourself this: Can you say that the copyright notice above excludes you from claiming ownership of the work? No one is named who could say that you are not the owner.|
|Twentieth Century-Fox released this feature-length Charlie Chan mystery shortly after the merger of Fox Film with Twentieth Century Pictures, when the title-makers may have had cause to be confused as to which company to name as the copyright claimant. Prior Charlie Chan movies had sold as Fox Films. (Bottom image is an enlargement of the bottom of the frame above right.)|
|Born to Be Sold (TV movie, 1981): Here, a production company is named near the copyright notice yet not unmistakably within that notice. The notice appears to have merely the copyright symbol and word followed by the year. The phrase "All Rights Reserved" is not a claimant. It might be argued that the production company was to be taken to be part of the notice. (Some court cases with similar claims are summarized in the Citations and Case Summaries page on notice placement.) Without a claimant, this is an invalid notice. (On a phonorecord, there is greater allowance for placing the claimant name anywhere on the label or packaging, so long as nothing near the symbol might be taken to be the name of claimant. This film is not a phonorecord, however.)|
|The opening and closing credits sequences of each episode of Fractured
Flickers contain copyright notices that differ as to year and claimant. (The
series was syndicated in its intial run, and continued to be syndicated in reruns
thereafter, thus the series does not warrant the same claim of having been unpublished as
would television programming that originated on a network and was not syndicated
thereafter.) Copyright registration did not take place until 1988.
The contradictory claims of 1961 and 1963 prove that one of the notices is erroneous. The fact that each notice is in the name of a different claimant also muddies the informativeness — and thus the validity — of the notice.
|In 1919, when Pathe copyrighted this Hal Roach production starring Harold Lloyd, motion picture photoplays were a separate classification (class "(l)") in copyright law from photographs (class "(j)") and dramatic compositions (class "(d)"), yet copyright notice form for motion pictures was governed by the generic rules for all works: "either of the word 'Copyright' or the abbreviation 'Copr.', accompanied by the name of the copyright proprietor". Generic notice needn't specify the year.||The following year, the same company changed its policy. This is the notice for a 1920 Pathe release produced by Roach and starring Lloyd. The law hadn't changed, but the moviemakers may have realized that they were affected by the passages stating that "if the work be a printed literary, musical, or dramatic work, the notice shall include also the year in which the copyright was secured by publication". Films copies are called "prints" so the films may have faced challenged over the notices being inadequate for "printed … dramatic work".|
|Many movie companies have opted to use the © symbol in their copyright notices in lieu of the word or abbreviation. The law allowed that "[i]n the case of copies of works specified in [classes] (f) to (k)… the notice may consist of the letter C enclosed within a circle, thus ©, accompanied by the initials, monogram, mark, or symbol of the copyright proprietor." Motion picture photoplays were class (l) and thus not within the group classes specified in the quoted passage, yet the group did include photographs (class "(j)"), and motion pictures are photographs, so it was reasonable to extend the policy to moving photographs.|
Proper defensive actions
|Even before motion pictures became eligible for copyright in 1912, the Biograph Company placed copyright notice on their films with the three elements of information. Production companies registered their works as photographs (class "(j)") because there wasn't yet classes (l) and (m) (for "motion picture photoplays" and "motion pictures other than photoplays," respectively). Although the generic notice requirements and the requirements for photographs did not necessitate giving the year, Biograph was wise in incorporating it into the notice.||Because motion pictures were not a classification in copyright law until August 1912, those productions which were copyrighted were not only registered in another classification, but had their deposit requirements fulfilled by means of copies of alternative form. Biograph was among the companies to deposit what were called "paper prints." These were full-length copies of the film that were printed on photographic paper (such as would be used for still pictures) rolled up. These could not be projected, and didn't even have sprocket holes, so the Copyright Office was obtaining a unique edition.|
|The title frame for Tomboy Bessie (above right), copied from a Copyright Office paper print, shows that on the paper print, the Biograph Company printed the title as black lettering atop a white background, although the film prints shown to audiences were done white-lettering-atop-black. Barely visible is purple ink where someone at the Copyright Office stamped "Copyright" on the frame to record that the deposit had been processed. The color of the lettering has no bearing on the validity of the copyright. Paper prints were generally processed as positive (as opposed to negative) copies, and the reverse-grayscale of the Tomboy Bessie title frame is an exception to the rule; the portion of the film that tells the story of Tomboy Bessie in this particular paper print is a positive copy. The title frame for An Arcadian Maid shown above is also reproduced from a Copyright Office paper print, and its title too is reverse-grayscale on that print. I corrected the image to black-background format

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This article examines the formation of the rules and regulations for the Qing administration, beginning with the establishment of the six boards in 1631 and ending with the publication of the first Da Qing huidian, or administrative code, in 1690. It charts the administrative problems that arose during the early Qing, and how state-makers turned to the Ming Huidian for answers but consistently found it unable to provide solutions to Qing-specific problems. In response, Qing officials called for the compilation of a Qing Huidian that would account for the emergent Qing-specific administrative structure and apparatus. The article shows that the Qing Hudian was not merely a copy of the Ming document of the same name; rather, it was a compilation of the regulations that developed in response to administrative and political problems over a sixty-year period, and did so in tandem with the emergence of the Qing state. The article further argues that the Qing had administrative law. The intent behind the regulations of the Huidian was to lay out enforceable procedural requirements that regulated administrative activity, as well as to set binding rules about the organizational structure of the state and the relations among actors and internal agencies.


Small Business Software Reviews, Services Insight and Resources
Grammar and Data Management
One of the largest challenges for analysts that are developing data management plans are ones that involve organizing and making sense out of data that allows for free form text. Any time users are able to enter information into systems with free form text they inherit mistakes that are natural to human input. Typos, spelling mistakes, and grammatical errors can be found throughout open ended data.
These challenges can make it difficult to organize and account for all variations of data provided by users. A simple typo can change someone talking about a "Tree" to being entered into the data entry fields as "Three". This typo of situation can only be minimized by developing systems that have a grammar check, spell check, and format check built into the data entry fields. With these elements in place users will be able to review and check their work before submitting to larger databases of information.
The first thing a data management analyst should investigate when starting a project that includes data with open ended input is to see what checks and safety mechanisms are in place to account for possible errors. If there are not sufficient checks in place than it is the responsibility of a data manager to coordinate with project and system developer leads to push for the implementation of these checks.
If adding these checks are not possible an analyst should prepare a risk document that walks stake holders through the possible errors and impact the lack of these checks may have on their overall system. This maybe a difficult document to complete but should include the fields where data may have possible errors, examples of what these errors may be, and possible solutions to identify these errors when including the data in a higher enterprise data management plan.
Data Management plans should clearly identify all systems that have risks of including data with grammar, spelling, and typing mistakes. If this is not included in the overall data management plan than long term and costly errors can be made by systems and decision makers.
How does your organization account for these type of data management trials?
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Yet another reason to love Stephen Fry -- History Matters
Stephen Fry on why History Matters. It's not everything, and I might not exactly agree with all of it, but it's a far better public articulation than I've seen in a long while. Here's a long excerpt, worthy of not being hidden behind a cut:
The biggest challenge facing the great teachers and communicators of history is not to teach history itself, nor even the lessons of history, but why history matters. How to ignite the first spark of the will o'the wisp, the Jack o'lantern, the ignis fatuus [foolish fire] beloved of poets, which lights up one source of history and then another, zigzagging across the marsh, connecting and linking and writing bright words across the dark face of the present. There's no phrase I can come up that will encapsulate in a winning sound-bite why history matters. We know that history matters, we know that it is thrilling, absorbing, fascinating, delightful and infuriating, that it is life. Yet I can't help wondering if it's a bit like being a Wagnerite; you just have to get used to the fact that some people are never going to listen.
No, it isn't exactly political correctness that dogs history; it's more a pernicious refusal to enter imaginatively the lives of our ancestors. Great and good men and women stirred sugar into their coffee knowing that it had been picked by slaves. Kind, good ancestors of all of us never questioned hangings, burnings, tortures, inequality, suffering and injustice that today revolt us. If we dare to presume to damn them with our fleeting ideas of morality, then we risk damnation from our descendants for whatever it is that we are doing that future history will judge as intolerable and wicked: eating meat, driving cars, appearing on TV, visiting zoos, who knows?
We haven't arrived at our own moral and ethical imperatives by each of us working them out from first principles; we have inherited them and they were born out of blood and suffering, as all human things and human beings are. This does not stop us from admiring and praising the progressive heroes who got there early and risked their lives to advance causes that we now take for granted.
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Is there a way to fetch the current reference count for an NSObject (i.e. NSString)?
As _USER_ S said, it's the
retainCount method. However, you're asking the wrong question, because:
Important: Typically there should be no reason to explicitly ask an object what its retain count is (see retainCount). The result is often misleading, as you may be unaware of what framework objects have retained an object in which you are interested. In debugging memory management issues, you should be concerned only with ensuring that your code adheres to the ownership rules.
So here's the real question: why do you need to know?


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Indirectly and directly, improving salmon habitat is one of the primary goals of a large amount of regulatory activity in the Northwest. Directly, impacts to salmon habitat can trigger consultations under the Endangered Species Act that lead to mitigation requirements. Indirectly, improvements to salmon habitat can be used to meet water quality requirements. There is currently no active market for salmon credits in Oregon, but there are several entities with large, but nebulously defined mitigation needs. The salmon currency provides a metric and protocol for enhancing or restoring in and near-stream habitat to generate credits.
Counting on the Environment's Salmon Credit Calculation Method
The Salmon Credit Calculation Method calculates scores for six ecological functions relevant to optimal habitat for the range of salmonid species. The output of the metric is a weighted linear foot that is based on the % of optimal functions performed by the stream and near-stream habitat.
The salmon metric began development as part of the Oregon Department of Transportation bridges project and was further refined by Parametrix, INC. The Counting on the Environment project of the Willamette Partnership convened a salmonid focus group to review the metric, assign weights to the six functions, and develop trading rules specific to the salmonid currency.
Salmon Habitat Calculation Documents:
Salmon Crediting Procedure

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Analyzing the dynamic hydrologic conditions of the Sandhills is critical for water and range management, sustainability of the Sandhills ecosystem as well as for dune stability. There are complex models available to quantify both surface and subsurface hydrological processes. However, we present in this study an application of a relatively simple model to arrive at best estimates of the water balance components. Using the Thornthwaite-Mather (TM) model, water balance components were estimated for 4 Automated Weather Data Network (AWDN) weather monitoring stations. Estimated averages of the water balance components suggested that mean annual precipitation of these four sites was only about 420 mm but water loss through plant evapotranspiration (ET) was 861 mm, with PET of about 1214 mm. Our investigation shows that there was surplus of water between December and March and a deficit occurs at the start of the growing season in May and extends through senescence in September-October. This study also suggests that the High Plains aquifer possibly met the plant water requirement during this deficit period as well as during the soil water extraction period, from May through September.
Sridhar, Venkataramana and Hubbard, K. G.. (2010). "Estimation of the Water Balance Using Observed Soil Water in the Nebraska Sandhills". Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 15(1), 70-78. _URL_


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The ILLINOIS SOIL CLASSIFIERS ASSOCIATION
What Does ISCA Do?
Why Is Soil So Important?
- Essential for our food supply
- Essential for agriculture and for growing all plants
- Stores, filters, and purifies water
- Supports our homes, businesses, and roads
- Stores atmospheric carbon and buffers climate change
- Provides habitat for most living things
- Essential for forests, prairies, wetlands, and all ecosystems
- Disposes of our wastes


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from deep wells in of Bo Kluea District, Nan, has been carried out for many centuries by using traditional wood-based stoves. This study aims to improve thermal efficiency of traditional stoves, while tradition stove structures and salt making methods were maintained. The prototype and tradition stove were compared by thermal efficiency method. The tradition stove was constructed with clay. The prototype chimney stoves have been making from brick plastered with cement. The prototype chimney stove was insulated by filling rich hush in the gap of stove wall which has 3 cm. thicknesses and the end of the chimney. The stove can put 2 pans. Eucalyptus woods were used be fuel for testing the thermal efficiency. The prototype stove increases thermal efficiency approximately by 5.3 percents form normally 9.6 percents. This is achieved by using carbonized rice husk as stove insulating materials to reduce heat loss through stove walls. Salt production cycles are decreased by 25 minutes from 4.5-5 hours and the rate of fuel per day decreased 14-15 kilograms from 257 kg of firewood. Costs to improve salt production stoves 1,545 THB have a Pay-back period 107 days. The improved prototype chimney stove can help to decrease fuel costs and increase the salt production rate. This research is not only saving energy but also keep tradition of local living. © 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Ponglangka W.,Rajamangala University of Technology at Lanna
ICCAS 2015 - 2015 15th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems, Proceedings | Year: 2015
The principle of the electrical capacitance properties to measure paddy rice moisture content is presented in this paper. The aim of this research is to design a low-cost paddy rice moisture content meter. Paddy rice was packed in a 600 cm3 cylindrical plastic container with the diameter of 9 centimeters and the length of 10 centimeters. The integrated circuit ICL8038 was applied to generate the frequency signal. After that, the capacitor in ICL8038 circuit was replaced by the cylindrical plastic container. Paddy rice capacitance was computed and applied to model the moisture content equation by using the second-order polynomial regression. The microcontroller (ATmega1280) was applied to calculate the moisture content and the calculation was demonstrated on 20 × 4 LCD display. Weight of each sample of paddy rice was 354 grams. The results of moisture content equation evaluated were 97.91% accurate. The examination results showed paddy rice moisture content was 97.83% accurate. The moisture content measurement range was 6% to 22% wet basis. © 2015 Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems - ICROS.
Intra P.,Rajamangala University of Technology at Lanna
Journal of Electrostatics | Year: 2012
A cylindrical triode charger for unipolar diffusion charging of aerosol particles was designed, constructed, and evaluated. The corona discharge characteristics were studied in this cylindrical triode charger. For the process the current-voltage characteristics were determined, as were the ion number concentration, the n it product, and the mean charge per particle as a function of particle diameter. The discharge and charging currents, and ion number concentration in the charging zone of the charger increased monotonically with corona voltage. The negative corona had a higher current than the positive corona. At the same corona voltage, the ion number concentration in the discharge zone was larger than the charging current for positive and negative coronas, with values of about 197 and 32 times and 645 and 99 times for the ion-driving voltages of 0 and 310V, respectively. The average ion penetration for positive and negative coronas was 0.64 and 0.19% and 3.62 and 1.93% for the ion-driving voltages of 0V and 310V, respectively. The higher flow rate, shorter residence time, gave a lower N it product. By calculation 14% of charged particles of 10nm in diameter were lost to the outer cylinder because of the electrostatic field effect. The charger does not use a sheath of air flow along the walls or the perforated screen opening, it has low diffusion and space charge losses due to the short column charging zone, and is a low complexity and inexpensive system. It worked as well as more sophisticated and expensive commercially available chargers. © 2011 Elsevier B.V.


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Oct. 29, 2003 Your nose could provide the first reliable diagnostic tool for predicting a person's likelihood of developing psychosis, new research has found.
An Australian team from the University of Melbourne examined a group of people deemed to be at ultra high risk of developing psychosis and found those that went on to develop schizophrenia, rather than other forms of psychosis, all displayed the inability to identify smells. This deficit was present before the onset of any significant clinical symptoms of psychosis.
The study, the first of its kind, is published in the October 2003 American Journal of Psychiatry. The research has also reignited the academic debate regarding the influence of genetics versus social factors on the development of various forms of psychosis.
It has long been known that people suffering schizophrenia and other forms of psychosis are often unable to correctly identify smells. That is, pizza may be mislabelled as orange, or bubblegum as smoke. Before the current findings, however, it was unknown if this difficulty developed later, as a result of the progression of the disorder, or well before any symptoms of psychosis became obvious.
Dr. Warrick Brewer and Associate Professor Christos Pantelis from the University's Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology tested their theory that a vulnerable sense of smell could be used as a possible diagnostic tool for psychosis. The search for current diagnostic methods such as brain imaging, clinical symptoms and genetics has, to date, proved unreliable.
"An accurate and reliable diagnostic tool for schizophrenia could allow for early treatment or prevention and minimise the extensive and significant distress to those in the community directly and indirectly affected," says Brewer.
Their results suggest a promising discovery of the first potential marker for schizophrenia, and possibly for other psychoses.
Brewer and Pantelis' detective work began with the understanding that a person's sense of smell is intimately linked to the area of your brain that deals with emotions and related non-language functions.
"It is the only sense that passes straight to this area of the brain, and so any vulnerability involving these neural circuits can affect our labeling of smell," says Brewer.
"This area of the brain deals with the primary emotions. It is the part that processes such things as threat and emotion before transferring this information into the frontal (language) area of the brain," he says.
"It is either the transfer of emotional information to the frontal lobe, or functioning in the frontal lobe itself that appears to be compromised in those suffering from psychosis."
As for the nature versus nurture controversy, there are, as with many debates, two extreme camps: one camp says that psychosis is entirely a biological, or genetic, phenomenon. The other camp says it is entirely a result of social influences.
"Our research suggests that psychosis may involve an active synergy between the two," says Brewer.
"A person could be born with a biological vulnerability to various forms of psychosis, that may manifest itself if put under particular psychosocial stresses," he says.
The ultra high-risk for psychosis subjects chosen for the study came from the Personal Assessment Crisis Evaluation (PACE) clinic - ORYGEN Youth Health, a University of Melbourne-Department of Psychiatry & Psychology clinic that is the first of its kind in the world. It provides assessment monitoring and support for young people who have met criteria for being at imminent risk of developing a psychotic illness and who have experienced mental status changes. This clinic is managed by Assoc Prof Alison Yung and Lisa Phillips under the direction of Professor Patrick McGorry.
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"The national satellites which were unveiled today will be sent into space by Simorgh satellite carrier," Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi told reporters here in Tehran today, referring to two hi-tech satellites, namely 'Tolou' (Rise) and 'Mesbah' (Lantern), which are reportedly the new generation of Iran-made satellites.
He also declared that the country plans to send heavy satellites into higher altitudes in future.
Iran on Wednesday unveiled a new home-made satellite carrier capable of carrying 60-kilogram (132-pound) satellites 500 kilometers (310 miles) into orbit.
The satellite carrier named 'Simorgh' utilizes a new generation of liquid-fuel engines to put satellites in orbit.
The milk-bottle shaped rocket, emblazoned in blue with the words "Satellite Carrier Simorgh," is equipped to carry a 60-kilogram (132-pound) satellite 500 kilometers (310 miles) into orbit.
The 27-meter (90-foot) tall multi-stage rocket weighs 85 tons and its liquid fuel propulsion system has a thrust of up to 143 tons. The rocket uses a cluster of four engines each having a thrust of 32 tons plus a control engine with a thrust of 15 tons.
Experts believe that the engine could be used in future for carrying 700-kilogram (1540-pound) satellites 1000 kilometers (620 miles) into orbit.
Simorgh is different from Iran's first home-made satellite carrier Safir (Ambassador) - which carried Iran's Omid (Hope) satellite - both in length and diameter and has been designed to carry the new generation of Iranian satellites into the orbit.
Omid (hope) was Iran's first research satellite that was designed for gathering information and testing equipment. After orbiting for three months, Omid successfully completed its mission without any problems. It completed more than 700 orbits over seven weeks and reentered the earth's atmosphere on April 25.
Also, Iran in November announced that it is slated to launch another research satellite, the Mesbah 2, in 2011 as part of the country's efforts to own an independent space program.
Mesbah, which means "Lantern," has a lifespan of three years. It is equipped with a store and forward communications receiver that can gather information from various parts of the planet and transmit it back to the Earth.
Mesbah will weigh 63.5 kilograms, more than twice the mass of Omid, which was placed into orbit on the back of two carrier rockets last February.
The Iranian defense minister had also announced in December that Tehran had built a new hi-tech satellite named Tolou, adding that the satellite developed and produced by Iran's Electronics Industries Co. (SA Iran) was a bold step towards the country's active and permanent presence in the field of space.


How To Fix iPhone Slow Charging After iOS 13.3 Update
Dealing with slow charging problems on your iPhone after the recent iOS 13.3 update? If that's so, then this post might be able to help you out. Keep scrolling and get help.
New iPhones are expected to get fully charged in about an hour or so from the moment it's plugged into the charger. Nonetheless, there are several factors that can slow down the charging process and you will just realize that your iPhone is charging very slowly. Read on to find out why this happens and how to fix the problem on your end.
Why is an iPhone charging very slow
Many cases of charging problems are attributed to a defective charger, charging port or charging cable in use. But contrary to the common thoughts, most charging problems on an iPhone are due to software-related factors including erratic apps and corrupt charging system on the phone. And these can be triggered when a new update is installed and that update contains some bug.
There are also other cases wherein slow charging is directly inflicted by a damaged battery on the phone. This is usually transpiring on earlier devices due to wear and tear.
Troubleshooting iPhone charging very slow from an iOS update
Before troubleshooting, check both ends of your charging cable to ensure that there's no damage. Also check the charging port on your iPhone and make sure that nothing is clogged or stuck inside. Also make sure that you're charging from an outlet (main power source).
Charging from portable sources like a computer's USB port, power banks, and car chargers takes longer than when charging from the main outlet because the output current from portable chargers is lower than that from the main source.
If you have complied with all these charging requisites and yet your iPhone is still charging very slow after the update, try these methods to rule out software-related culprits.
First solution: Reboot your iPhone (force restart)
There may be some rogue apps that are left running on your iPhone and they are slowing down the charging process. Apps that remained open during the software update installation are usually the ones that ended up in this state. And this is when you need to quit these apps. To get that done, simply force restart your iPhone.
On an iPhone 8, 8 Plus and later models, a force restart is carried out through these steps:
 1. Press and quickly release the Volume Up button.
 2. Then press and quickly release the Volume Down button.
 3. Finally, press and hold the Side/Power button until the Apple logo appears.
 4. Release the Side/Power button then.
On an iPhone 7 or 7 Plus, follow these steps to force restart:
 1. Press and hold both the Volume Down button and Power button for a few seconds.
 2. Release both buttons when the Apple logo appears.
On an iPhone 6s, 6s Plus and iPhone SE, a force restart is done this way:
 1. Press and hold both the Power button and Home button for a few seconds.
 2. Then release both buttons when the Apple logo appears.
Performing a force restart is only applicable if your iPhone still has sufficient battery life to power up. It abruptly ends all running apps and services that have gone rogue from the recent update. The entire process does not affect any saved data on the internal memory, hence creating backups beforehand won't be necessary.
Second solution: Force restart while charging
Another effective solution you can try is doing a force restart while your iPhone is charging. This is applicable if your iPhone doesn't have sufficient battery life to finish the reboot sequence. The positive effect is similar to that of a mere force restart. So here's what you should do then:
 1. Plug your iPhone into its charger.
 2. Give it several minutes to recharge and then perform a force restart.
 3. Just refer to the above steps on how to force restart your iPhone.
Any corrupted background apps and services should be cleared out in the process and the adverse symptoms they have inflicted are likewise remedied.
Third solution: Update all your apps
This is another way to address post-update slow charging problem on an iPhone that's attributed to glitching third-party apps. Apps that are ended up acting up from an update are those that aren't up to date. This usually happens because they're no longer able to meet the minimum system requirements and thus couldn't get to run as expected.
If your iPhone still has enough power and has a stable internet access, follow these steps to check and install pending app updates via App Store:
 1. From the Home screen, tap App Store. Doing so will launch the app.
 2. Scroll down to the bottom of the screen then tap on Today.
 3. Tap on the User Profile icon, on the upper-right corner of the screen to load up your account details.
 4. Scroll down to the Available Updates section to view any pending app updates.
 5. Tap Update All to simultaneously install all pending app updates on your device.
When all apps are finished updating, reboot your iPhone to save and apply the recent software changes.
Fourth solution: Reset all settings
Settings that aren't properly configured such as unused network or location features that are constantly enabled on the phone are also among the possible culprits. Thus, they must also be eliminated. To do so, just reset all settings on your iPhone to clear out any misconfigured system settings and then restore the default system preferences.
You don't need to back up critical data on your iPhone because this reset doesn't delete any of them. Just follow these steps to proceed:
 1. From the Home screen, tap Settings.
 2. Select General.
 3. Scroll down to and tap Reset.
 4. Select the option to Reset all settings.
 5. Enter your passcode if prompted to continue.
 6. Then tap Reset all settings again to confirm that you want to reset your iPhone's system settings to defaults.
When the reset is finished, your phone reboots automatically and then restores the default system preferences. By then you can start re-enabling only the features that you need to use on your device.
Fifth solution: Erase your iPhone and restore its factory default settings
In some cases, slow charging issues may persist because the underlying cause is too complex that none of the initial procedures can rectify. To deal with these types of problems, performing advanced solutions like a factory reset is usually needed. Just be sure to back up all important files you saved on your iPhone storage to prevent losing them permanently.
Note that a factory reset deletes all your iPhone data and then restores the factory defaults. Any complex system errors including post-update iOS bugs that caused slow charging problem will also be eliminated.
A faster way to factory reset a responsive iPhone is through settings. And here's how it's done:
 1. From the Home screen, tap Settings.
 2. Select General.
 3. Scroll down to and then tap Reset.
 4. Tap the option to Erase all content and settings.
 5. If prompted, enter your passcode to proceed.
 6. Then tap the option to confirm that you want to erase and restore factory default settings.
An alternative way to factory reset is using iTunes or Finder app on the computer. This is usually needed if the iPhone is frozen or not responding.
Last resort: Restore your iPhone in iTunes
If all else failed to fix the problem, restoring the iPhone from a previous iOS backup can be considered among the last options. This is often needed if the problem is caused by a stubborn iOS bug that requires a dedicated fix patch.
If possible, back up all important files from your iPhone to your computer beforehand because they will all be wiped out when restoring.
Once you're all set, open up the Finder or iTunes app on your computer then connect your iPhone using the original USB or Lightning cable. When your device is connected, refer these steps to enter recovery mode.
On iPhone 8 or later model:
 - Press and quickly release the Volume Up button.
 - Then press and quickly release the Volume Down button.
 - Finally, press and hold the Side/Power button until the Recovery Mode screen (Connect to iTunes) screen appears.
On iPhone 7 and 7 Plus:
 - Press and hold the Power/Top button and Volume Down buttons simultaneously.
 - Release both buttons when the Recovery Mode screen (Connect to iTunes) screen appears.
On iPhone 6s, 6s Plus, and iPhone SE:
 - Press and hold both the Home button and Power buttons for a few seconds.
After successfully entering recovery mode, select your iPhone by clicking on its icon that appears on the computer and then click Update or Restore when prompted.
To reinstall the software without erasing your iPhone data, select Update. Otherwise, click Restore to erase your iPhone data and restore from a previous iOS backup.
If your iPhone supports fast charging, try using an alternative fast charger that's compatible with your device and see if that speeds up charging.
ALSO READ: How To Fix Slow Charging Issue On iPhone XS


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The OCEANS group at Boston University has done a variety of Web characterization work over the past four years. Our interest in attending the W3C's Workshop on Web Characterization is to interact with other people in the Web characterization community and to present our recent work on HTTP characterization which is titled: A Performance Characterization of Hyper Text Transfer Protocols (abstract below). We have contributed regularly to the HTTP-NG's Workload Characterization Group over the past year and hope to contribute in the future in the areas of workload generators, log file contributions, analysis of specific logs and analysis methods.
Version 1.1 of the Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) was developed as a means for reducing the document transfer latency as well as reducing network packet traffic. The mechanisms proposed in HTTP/1.1 assume the network to be the bottleneck in Web transactions, however under heavy load, a Web server can be the primary source of document latency. In this paper, we characterize and evaluate the performance of HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 in terms of throughput at the server and transfer latency at the client. We use two popular Web servers in our study: Apache v1.3.0 and Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) v4.0. We use the SURGE workload generator on client systems to generate a range of loads on the servers. We present detailed measurements of the server's major subsystems which show that when the CPU is the bottleneck resource then there is relatively little difference in performance between HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1. We show that when memory on the server is constrained, performance using HTTP/1.1 can be much worse than HTTP/1.0. We also show that when the network is the bottleneck resource that performance under HTTP/1.1 is better than HTTP/1.0. Finally, we demonstrate that a simple modification to HTTP/1.1 can greatly improve throughput and latency when memory is constrained.


Comments on RDFa Core 1.1 (CURIE only)
From: Gavin Carothers
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:50:35 -0800
Message-ID:
I'm not sure if this should go to the RDFa WG as a personal comment,
or as part of the RDF WG's feed back.
Alignment with SPARQL and Turtle
Both Turtle and SPARQL provide a mechanism for writing shortened IRIs.
The stated design goals of CURIEs are:
 CURIEs are designed from the ground up to be used in attribute
values. QNames are designed for unambiguously naming elements and
 CURIEs expand to IRIs, and any IRI can be represented by such an
expansion. QNames are treated as value pairs, but even if those pairs
are combined into a string, only a subset of IRIs can be represented.
 CURIEs can be used in non-XML grammars, and can even be used in
XML languages that do not support XML Namespaces. QNames are limited
to XML Namespace-aware XML Applications.
These exact same goals are met in Turtle and SPARQL using the concept
of Prefixed Names. Exactly how Prefixed Names and CURIEs are different
to end users is not very clear. Both use simple concatenation, both
work outside of XML, both are not value pairs. The given example
isbn:_PHONE_ is a perfectly valid prefixed name in both Turtle and
SPARQL. In fact all the example CURIEs in RDFa Core 1.1 and the RDFa
Primer are valid Prefixed Names (Some would require language specific
escaping in SPARQL or Turtle). However there are some differences.
CURIE grammar
The grammar for CURIEs provided in RDFa Core 1.1
prefix ::= NCName
reference ::= irelative-ref (as defined in [RFC3987])
curie ::= [ [ prefix ] ':' ] reference
safe_curie ::= '[' [ [ prefix ] ':' ] reference ']'
The grammars for prefixed names are well tested and have many
implementations. The CURIE grammar does not seem to have ANY
implementations. In fact even implementing the seemingly simple
grammar from RDFa Core 1.1 is very complicated. The grammar references
two other grammars. First the XML Namespaces grammar for NCName, which
allows a wider range of tokens then prefixed names do. Exactly what
uses cases those additional tokens are needed for is not clear. Some
_1: is a valid CURIE prefix but NOT a valid Prefixed Named prefix.
______: is a valid CURIE prefix but NOT a valid Prefixed Named prefix.
In fact, the only clearly allowed set of tokens allowed by CURIE and
not Prefixed Names is prefixes containing _ as the first character.
Given that _ in the first character is used in RDFa, Turtle, and
SPARQL to reference blank nodes it seems unlikely that anyone uses _
as the first character in their prefix names.
Moving on to the right hand side of the CURIE the grammar gets much
more amusing. First off the referenced grammar is not in the same form
as CURIE or XML which use W3C EBNF. The iri RFC use ABNF. This leads
to complicated reading for humans, and no clear way to use any
automated tool to build a CURIE a grammar. While the name
"irelative-ref" sounds like a relative IRI reference, the rule in
question is NOT limited to relative references. Host parts, IPv4 and
IPv6 segments are allowed as part of irelative-refs. This is not
exactly expected. Again what use case is served in allowing CURIEs
{'prefix' : '_URL_
These are very easy to confuse with normal IRIs. In general it seems
that the intent of CURIEs was to limit the right hand side to relative
references but that is not accomplished by using the "irelative-ref"
production from the IRI RFC.
Align RDFa with SPARQL and Turtle prefix names. It should be possible
to create a simpler grammar for "CURIEs"/Prefixed Names based on the
SPARQL and Turtle productions bellow:
[s157] PN_CHARS ::= PN_CHARS_U | '-' | [0-9] | _TAG_ |
[s158] PN_PREFIX ::= PN_CHARS_BASE ((PN_CHARS|'.')* PN_CHARS)?
[s159] PN_LOCAL ::= (PN_CHARS_U | [0-9] | PLX ) ( ( PN_CHARS |
'.' | PLX )* ( PN_CHARS | PLX ) )? >
[s160] PLX ::= PERCENT | PN_LOCAL_ESC
[s161] PERCENT ::= '%' HEX HEX
[s163] PN_LOCAL_ESC ::= '\' ( '_' | '~' | '.' | '-' | '!' | '$'
| '&' | "'" | '(' | ')' | '*' | '+' | ',' | ';' | '=' | ':' | '/' |
'?' | '#' | '@' | '%' )
Main differences are likely to be that most of the PN_LOCAL_ESC
characters should be allowed in RDFa grammar directly, as the host
languages (XML and HTML) provide for escaping mechanisms already.
While this would be a backwards incompatible change the real effect on
deployed data and software is likely to be low. I am unaware of any
RDFa implementation that uses the CURIE grammar as specified, and have
not ever encountered RDFa data in the wild that uses the odder values
the current grammar productions allow.
Received on Tuesday, 17 January 2012 18:51:14 GMT


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A new advance in X-ray imaging has revealed the dramatic three-dimensional shape of gold nanocrystals, and is likely to shine a light on the structure of other nano-scale materials.
Described today in Nature Communications, the new technique improves the quality of nanomaterial images, made using X-ray diffraction, by accurately correcting distortions in the X-ray light.
Dr Jesse Clark, lead author of the study from the London Centre for Nanotechnology said: "With nanomaterials playing an increasingly important role in many applications, there is a real need to be able to obtain very high quality three dimensional images of these samples.
"Up until now we have been limited by the quality of our X-rays. Here we have demonstrated that with imperfect X-ray sources we can still obtain very high quality images of nanomaterials."
Up until now, most nanomaterial imaging has been done using electron microscopy. X-ray imaging is an attractive alternative as X-rays penetrate further into the material than electrons and can be used in ambient or controlled environments.
However, making lenses that focus X-rays is very difficult. As an alternative, scientists use the indirect method of coherent diffraction imaging (CDI), where the diffraction pattern of the sample is measured (without lenses) and inverted to an image by computer.
Nobel Prize winner Lawrence Bragg suggested this method in 1939 but had no way to determine the missing phases of the diffraction, which are today provided by computer algorithms.
CDI can be performed very well at the latest synchrotron X-ray sources such as the UK's Diamond Light Source which have much higher coherent flux than earlier machines. CDI is gaining momentum in the study of nanomaterials, but, until now, has suffered from poor image quality, with broken or non-uniform density. This had been attributed to imperfect coherence of the X-ray light used.
The dramatic three-dimensional images of gold nanocrystals presented in this study demonstrate that this distortion can be corrected by appropriate modelling of the coherence function.
Professor Ian Robinson, London Centre for Nanotechnology and author of the paper said: "The corrected images are far more interpretable that ever obtained previously and will likely lead to new understanding of structure of nanoscale materials."
The method should also work for free-electron-laser, electronand atom-based diffractive imaging.
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Automatically generated—or "auto-generated"—content is content that's been generated programmatically. Often this will consist of paragraphs of random text that makes no sense to the reader but which may contain search keywords.
Some examples of auto-generated content include:
- Text translated by an automated tool without human review or curation before publishing
- Text generated through automated processes, such as Markov chains
- Text generated using automated synonymizing or obfuscation techniques
- Text generated from scraping Atom/RSS feeds or search results
- Stitching or combining content from different web pages without adding sufficient value


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EON Reality: Transporting AVR technology into the classroom
Study International | March 14, 2019
An "easy-to-use lesson creation solution for trainers and teachers", the Creator AVR platform by EON Reality turned heads at this year's BETT Asia Expo.AVR, standing for Augmented and Virtual Reality, is a useful knowledge-transfer tool that's revolutionising classroom environments.Hosting two sessions at BETT Asia 2019, EON Reality's education expert states that, "Utilising Creator AVR in the classroom is an effective way to update the pedagogical norms around the world."AVR technology allows educators to teach and students to learn in ways that were never possible in the past. It is proven to be among the most efficient way to instruct a course virtually, regardless of which subjects are at hand." Supporting immersive and experiential learning, Creator AVR lets users utilise existing 3D models and content to build their own lessons from a screen of their choice, supporting them as they import their own materials to develop an entirely personalised course. By mastering the Creator AVR platform, not only will students take the reins on their academic know-how and develop independent thinking skills, they'll also refine their expertise in modern technology and connect to contemporary tech trends.


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Some homophones, similar-sounding words that don't mean the same thing, are harmless. But elicit and illicit are not among them.
They are completely different parts of speech; choosing the wrong one would be an embarrassing mistake. Moreover, it could mean the difference between asking for a response and instigating dangerous criminal activity.
With that important warning in mind, how should you use illicit or elicit in your writing? There is an easy way to decide. Continue reading for a discussion of these two confusing homophones.
What is the Difference Between Elicit and Illicit?
This article compare elicit vs. illicit. I will use each word in an example sentence to demonstrate its proper use.
Plus, I will give you a useful trick to help you remember whether to use elicit or illicit, depending on your meaning.
When to Use Elicit
What does elicit mean? Elicit is a verb. It is a synonym of evoke, where that word has the meaning to draw out.
- The disruption, though annoying, was not enough to elicit a response from the judge.
- The company commissioned a survey to elicit the public's views on the newest flavor of its sour candies.
- Let us interview the witnesses to elicit the facts of the case.
- Specific projects are not the only target of NIMBYism. Proposed zoning and land-use regulation changes likewise elicit strong reactions and resistance. –The Washington Post
When to Use Illicit
What does illicit mean? Illicit is an adjective. It means illegal or otherwise forbidden. You can see examples of this word's use in the sentences below.
- The cartel used buckets of batter to traffic illicit drugs into other countries.
- The pawn shop's owner is on trial for selling illicit goods in his store.
- The car enthusiasts held an illicit race on Beachside Avenue at 1:00am.
- What's missing, former Losers tell The Post, is any examination of the show's secret and brutal tactics, which include providing illicit drugs to contestants and submitting them to questionable medical exams by the show's resident doctor, Rob Huizenga, known as "Dr. H." –New York Post
Trick to Remember the Difference
Here is a helpful trick to remember illicit vs. elicit.
- Illicit is an adjective that means illegal.
- Elicit is a verb that means evoke.
If the word you are using is an adjective, you probably mean illicit. Elicit is never an adjective.
If you are trying to use the word as a verb, you should use elicit. Much in the same way elicit is never an adjective, illicit is never a verb.
You can remember the difference between these words by remembering their synonyms. Both illicit and illegal begin with the letter I, and both elicit and evoke begin with the letter E.
Is it elicit or illicit? While these two words sound the same when spoken, the mean very different things.
- Elicit is a verb, and a synonym of evoke.
- Illicit is an adjective, and a synonym of illegal.
- Neither word is ever used as any other part of speech.
Since elicit and evoke both start with the same letter, much the same as illicit and illegal, pairing these words with their synonyms will help you remember which is which, and in what contexts they should be used.
Now that you know the difference between these words, you can be confident that your writing will not suffer from this simple mistake. Any time you have questions about other confusing words, you can check this site for an explanation.


Return to Profitability Reduce CoGS and Increase Margins with Menu Engineering and AvT Analysis
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Tracking actual vs. theoretical (AvT) food costs helps you identify and correct waste, errors, over-portioning and theft. Menu engineering helps maximize profitability by promoting your most profitable menu items and encouraging customers to buy what you want them to buy. Using these two key complementary approaches to optimize menus and simultaneously evaluate food cost, you can reduce food costs and sell more of your high margin items. During this on-demand webinar you will learn:
 - Menu engineering not only helps you understand the profit on individual menu items, but also analyzes how these individual pieces interact and affect profitability on the menu as a whole. This is a "top-down" approach that focuses on increasing revenue.
 - Actual versus Theoretical variances track the difference between what you spend on food and beverages vs. what you should have spent. This is a "bottom-up" approach that helps control costs.


What is a reserve study
What is a reserve fund study?
In basic terms, a reserve fund study is a report that assists condominium corporations in understanding what they own, how much money they have, the timing of potential replacements, future costs, and, ultimately, how to pay for the replacements when they are due.
How often should an HOA do a reserve study?
every five years
How do you do a reserve study?
Reserve Study Definition
How do you do that calculation? You take the estimated replacement cost and divide it by the number of years the item is estimated to last. That number is the amount you should reserve each year.
What is a reserve budget?
A budget reserve is a rainy-day fund a company sets aside to finance operating activities if adverse, unexpected events cripple its liquidity position or make it difficult for the business to access money in corporate vaults. … Department heads generally estimate budget reserves in absolute or relative terms.
What is the purpose of a reserve fund?
A reserve fund is savings or a liquid asset set aside to cover unexpected costs or future financial obligations. Many governments, financial institutions, and individuals regularly set aside funds into accounts that earn interest.
How are reserve funds calculated?
Formula :D=(1+R)1/12 -1 where R is the yearly rate of discount. This is used to determine the present value of the Reserve Fund ie. D multiplied by Reserve Fund.
 1. Input the amount of the required fund.
 2. Input the number of years.
 3. Input the rate of interest.
How much should my HOA have in reserves?
Ideally, the HOA wants to have a 100% funded reserve meaning that it has enough money to cover all anticipated costs. … Typically between 25% and 40% of fees should be put toward the reserve fund. Be transparent with homeowners about the status of the reserve fund and options for improving funding.
You might be interested: How to calculate required reserve ratio
What happens if HOA runs out of money?
Additionally, if the HOA is unable to recover the funds that it used for the shortfall then there is a permanent loss of a reserve fund. … This means that personal property assets become viable solutions to HOA debt. Therefore, when outstanding debt is an ongoing issue parts of the property are likely to be sold.
Can you claim HOA dues on taxes?
What is the purpose of a reserve study?
A reserve study is an assessment of all the major assets that an HOA or business is responsible to maintain. It evaluates how much life those assets have left and how much it's likely to cost when they wear out. A reserve study is an assessment of all the major assets that an HOA or business is responsible to maintain.
What are the 3 types of reserves?
Types of Reserves:
 - General Reserves: These are those which are generally created without any specific purpose.
 - Specific Reserves: These are those which created for some specific purpose and can be used only for those specific purposes. …
 - Revenue and Capital Reserves: This classification is done according to the nature of profits.
What is the difference between contingency reserve and management reserve?
The Difference Between Contingency Reserve and Management Reserve. … The contingency reserve is used to manage identified risks, while the management reserve is used for unidentified risks. The contingency reserve is an estimated figure, while the management reserve is a percentage of the cost or duration of the project.
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text: Mycobacterium tuberculosis D-3-phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase undergoes significant inhibition of activity with increasing concentrations of its substrate, hydroxypyruvic acid phosphate. The enzyme also displays an unusual dual pH optimum. A significant decrease in the Ki for substrate inhibition at pH values corresponding to the valley between these optima is responsible for this phenomena. The change in Ki has an average pK of ∼5.8 and involves two functional groups that are protonated and two functional groups that are unprotonated for optimal substrate inhibition to occur. Mutagenesis of positively charged amino acid residues at a putative anion binding site previously revealed by the x-ray structure, produces significant changes in the pH-dependent profile of substrate inhibition. Several single residue mutations eliminate the dual pH optima by reducing substrate inhibition between pH 5 and 7 and a triple mutation was identified that eliminates the substrate inhibition altogether. The mutagenesis data support the conclusion that the anion binding site represents a new allosteric site for the control of enzyme activity and functions in a novel mechanism for substrate inhibition.


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Random Thoughts on Instructional Design
Source: ZDNet News
Podscope is the first search engine built specifically for podcasts. It was developed by a company called TVEyes, which specializes in audio and video files that are text-searchable.
How does it work? According to TVEyes CEO David Ives, the core of the system involves a spider that plays each of the podcasts it tracks and then runs a speech-to-text algorithm on it. When you search Podscope, you're searching that database of transcribed text. Find something you like and you can play the entire show, subscribe or listen to just a snippet that includes the word or phrase you entered.


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America's Interstate System
Created | Updated Jan 28, 2002
Should you find yourself as a motorist in the Continental United States, with a destination somewhere else in the Continental United States, America's Interstate Highways are the best way for you to drive around while spending a minimum of time and money. Before you get on an interstate, there are a few rules you should know, so you can get approximately where you're headed without a map.
The majority of Interstates occupy land in more than one state, giving them their 'inter-' state nature. If they remained entirely within a single state, they would be 'intra-' states. However, this is not a hard and fast rule: some highways in single states received funding under the interstate programme, and thus have an interstate designation.
The majority of interstates are numbered with regard to their direction. Routes with a general north - south direction are oddly-numbered, while east - west routes have even numbers. Numbers are lowest in the south and west (eg Interstate 4 in Florida, and Interstate 5 through California).
Spur routes, that is, routes which are attached to interstates without necessarily being fully fledged interstates themselves, have a third digit at the beginning. If this digit is even, the route begins and ends at other interstates. If it is odd, the route has an unattached trailing end.
Interstate mile numbers start at zero at the most western or southern point, and increase towards the east or north.
Unfortunately, there is no hard and fast rule governing exit numbers, but individual states choose which of the two following options they wish to employ:
Numbered by distance is where the exit numbers correspond to the mile numbers. If there is more than one exit in a single mile, letters are affixed to the exit numbers to distinguish them.
Numbered by quantity is where the first exit is Exit 1, and the second exit, 13 miles away, is exit two. This makes more numerical sense, but new exits require either changing every exit number along the highway in the entire state, or the addition of letters, which seems okay until Exit 3 is 20 miles from Exit 3A.
The majority of interstate highways are freeways, however, some segments are tolled. These include the New York State Thruway, and Alligator Alley, I-75's jaunt from Naples to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
If an interstate follows a diagonal route, its number can be chosen as you like it, with due regard to other Interstate numbers. For example, I-4 runs from Tampa, Florida to Daytona, Florida. Not only is it an Intrastate, but its route is primarily north - south, with east - west meanderings.
Interstate 19 is signed in metric measurements.
Interstate 238 is not a spur route of I-38, as I-38 does not exist. It's only two miles long, and resides entirely within California.
I-99 is West of I-81, and is a spur route of I-80.


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Hereford and Red Angus Heifers Recruited for Genomics Research
BIF 2017: Genetics of reproduction project
Alison Van Eenennaam
The grant dubbed the "heifer fertility project" is really looking for embryonic lethal variants. These are DNA variants that if an embryo inherits two copies of the variant, that embryo is aborted. The DNA variant breaks a gene. If an animal inherits two copies, it can't live.
The project sequenced the entire genome of hundreds of cattle. This is not genotyping thousands of DNA variants, it is looking at all 2.6 billion base pairs of the genome. From sequencing these bulls, the team identified millions of DNA variants. They selected 200,000 of these DNA variants that are predicted to affect proteins encoded by genes to build a new SNP chip. This chip is called the GGP-F250.
They then genotyped 17,000 cattle with the GGP-F250 chip. Taylor then looked for DNA variants for which there are not observed in two copies. If a DNA variant is at high frequency, but is never seen as two copies, then we have evidence that this is a lethal DNA variant. There appears to be hundreds of these lethal variants in Angus cattle.
Van Eenannaam is working on the producer applications from this grant. If there are lots of DNA variants responsible for embryonic loss, we will have to strategically manage them. If we don't use animals that carry embryonic lethal variants, we will basically be practicing single trait selection. If you haven't heard, single trait selection is bad!
What is important is to never mate a carrier to another carrier of the same lethal variant. Mate selection tools allow us to do this in a sophisticated way.
For more information, see _URL_
MateSel is a software program for mate selection. MateSel works to increase genetic merit while limiting inbreeding. Van Eenannaam's graduate student showed simulations using MateSel.
There is a trade-off between never using a carrier and economic genetic progress.
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Pockets of Time is a reading comprehension activity which uses a hands-on, rather than fill in the blank, approach. For every chapter in a story, there is a set of flashcards with that chapter's main events on them. The flashcards are all color coded. All the student does is color the correct borders and then cut out the flashcards. These cards are to be placed into the pocket in the order they happened in the chapter. The color coded answer key makes checking the comprehension of the child as easy as a glance. The cards can be placed in the pockets as the story is read, or after finishing reading to help develop a longer retention period. We have Pockets of Time for a large assortment of elementary levels books.


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Maximize the efficiency of your logistics and make it greener
OptiRoute can handle standard transport processes, operations optimization, and more. Our real-time, optimized, and flexible planning and scheduling system for logistics processes and routes creates an optimized schedule within minutes while eliminating spreadsheets and manual work. Sudden changes to production targets are processed within minutes when the new optimized schedule is recalculated with the Optimus 4.0 platform.
Logistics is an industry that requires speed, accuracy, and continuous improvement. Therefore, planning vehicles, routes, and loadings is not easy, as logistics operators often have to deal with abrupt changes.
Business needs addressable by OptiRoute:
- Optimization of delivery routes and inter-warehouse
Use optimal routes for vehicle loading and unloading, and efficient organization in the cargo space. OptiRoute also enables you to minimize the inter-warehouse transportation required to collect all ordered items of a particular order dispatch. Distribution algorithms suggest where to store shipments to decrease the future need for inter-warehouse transport. Therefore, OptiRoute significantly reduces CO2 emissions and makes your logistics more environmentally friendly.
- Easy rescheduling and logistics prediction
Addressable use cases:Change your cargo handling plans easily and at any time. OptiRoute can consider the load currently in the warehouse, the weekly load or dynamically reschedule everything. Based on historical data, we can adjust OptiRoute to predict what shipments or parcels will need to be sent and when.
- delivery routes and shipping
- inter-warehouse transportation
- container and truck loading
- logistics rescheduling and prediction of needs
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Wheels that are not balanced or are out of balance generally produce a vibration that is uncomfortable to drive in and results in premature wearing of suspension and steering components, rotating parts and tyres. Correctly balanced wheels help to eliminate vibration and avoid premature wear caused by an imbalance in the rotating wheel and tyre assembly. Wheels are balanced on a wheel balancing machine. The machine rotates the tyre and wheel assembly and automatically calculates the weight and location of the balance counter weight.
Incorrect alignment can result in rapid irregular tyre wear and can even affect the handling and safety of the vehicle. Wheel alignment can be affected by driving against a kerb, hitting a pothole in the road or by excessive wear to steering or suspension components. Alignment of wheels and tyres to the specification required by your vehicle is an important way to guarantee a smooth ride and to get the most out of your tyres.


Metal Detecting In Illinois?
You Should Know The Law
If you want to go metal detecting in Illinois, there are laws to follow. The most important law is the ARPA law which I will explain below.
You should also be aware of any laws in city, town, or villages of Illinois. Some of the parks may have laws against detecting.
The ARPA law is the main law that dictates how any of the following laws that have been written since ARPA can be implemented. It's important that you familiarize yourself with ARPA.
Individuals have been arrested for breaking these laws.
ARPA (Archeological Resources Preservation Act).
Visit my laws page for the ARPA explanation and some of the problems people face who break this law.
In addition to the above ARPA law, the State of Illinois also follows the strict ruling of the 1966 "National Historic Preservation Act", which states:
"The National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) was enacted in 1966 to protect the Nation's historical
resources from increasing development and expansion pressures by establishing a comprehensive national
historic preservation policy. It defines historic properties to encompass a broad interpretation of American
history and acknowledges significance at all levels, not just nationally. Furthermore, historic properties are
now understood and appreciated as part of—not isolated from—the landscape in which they belong. Implementation
of this act is mainly through 36 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part 63, Determinations
of Eligibility for Inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places, and 36 CFR part 800, Protection of
Historic Properties. The regulations that implement the NHPA and their accompanying guidance documents
formulate a proactive national policy on historic preservation. It specifically directs federal government
agencies to take historic preservation into account in planning their initiatives and actions. Thus, the
federal government is now a full partner and a leader in historic preservation."
"The NHPA defines historic preservation as "the
protection, rehabilitation, restoration and reconstruction
of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects
significant in American history, architecture,
archaeology, or culture."
As confusing as the above laws may seem, do not dig anything that you believe is an artifact, or anything that is older than 100 years.
Especially if you are on any State Lands.
For metal detecting in Illinois town, village and city parks, you'll need to check with those local officials.
Metal Detecting In Illinois?
Know The Laws!
Metal detecting in Illinois on public lands or parks may be allowed. However, for each area you need to apply for a permit. You cannot remove any items of historical significance from the State lands.
1787 Colonial Copper found while metal detecting
Do Not Let These Laws Stop You From Detecting in Illinois
I receive many emails from people who are upset with the laws that restrict our ability to enjoy the hobby. Many individuals just give up, and their detectors end up in the closet, never to be used again. That's the wrong approach. What you should do if your considering quitting the hobby, is to stay with it. If we quit, the beauracrats, and the archaeologists who want to see our hobby destroyed, will win.
My home page is all about metal detecting in eastern ghost towns. Have you ever tried metal detecting in Illinois ghost towns?
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Latter-Day Saints (Mormon) Funeral Traditions
Many Mormons believe that upon death the soul is judged and, based on the soul's general goodness, is sent to either spirit paradise or spirit prison.
While there are differing degrees of orthodoxy within the Mormon faith, Mormons commonly believe that death is the separation of the soul from the body. Many Mormons believe that upon death the soul is judged and, based on the soul's general goodness, is sent to either spirit paradise or spirit prison. When Christ returns to earth, souls are again judged and sent to either the Celestial Kingdom (the highest heaven for those who honored all the covenants of the Church and were valiant in their testimony of Jesus Christ, and all children who died before the age of eight), the Terrestrial Kingdom (for those who led honorable lives but were not valiant in their testimony of Jesus Christ), or the Telestial Kingdom (for those who refused to repent).
After Death Has Occurred
When a Mormon dies, a bishop should be contacted to make arrangements for the funeral and help with finding a funeral home. (While the funeral home doesn't have to be an expressly Mormon funeral home, it should be familiar with the religion's traditions.) The bishop may also be able to help with notifying friends and relatives and preparing an obituary. The bishop will notify the Melchizedek Priesthood leader (high-level priest) who will take over supporting the family of the deceased.
Organ Donation
Organ donation is acceptable to Mormons.
While cremation is not prohibited for Mormons, it is not encouraged, and the Church prefers that bodies be buried rather than cremated.
To learn about the differences between burial and cremation see our article: How To Choose Burial or Cremation
Embalming is acceptable for Mormons.
To learn about this topic see our article: Embalming
When To Hold A Mormon Funeral
Funeral services are not usually held on Sundays.
Preparing The Body
If the deceased received his or her temple endowment (Church initiation in the form of instruction, ordinances, and covenants), he or she will be buried in temple garments (Church-issued white underwear) and temple clothing. For women, temple clothing includes a long-sleeved, floor-length white dress (or blouse and skirt), white stockings, and white shoes. For men, temple clothing includes a white long-sleeved shirt, white pants, a white tie, and white socks and shoes. The temple clothing may be the deceased's own—there is no need to purchase new temple clothing for burial. If the deceased's body is too fragile to be dressed, the temple clothing may be placed inside the casket next to the body. The deceased should be dressed in his or her temple clothing by an endowed family member of the same gender. If an endowed family member of the same gender is not available, a bishop may assign an endowed man to dress a deceased man or have the Relief Society (Church women's organization) assign an endowed woman to dress a deceased woman. If, by law, only a registered funeral director is allowed to handle the body, an endowed family member should ensure that the body has been properly dressed.
Viewing, Wake, Or Visitation Before A Mormon Funeral
It is common to have a brief open-casket viewing before the funeral service. The viewing is often held at the same location that the funeral service will be held, but may also take place at a mortuary or funeral home. The viewing is usually open to all mourners, though there is generally time set aside at the end of the viewing for only family members. After the viewing and before the funeral service, the family may ask the bishop to offer a prayer for the family, after which the family closes the casket.
Where To Hold A Mormon Funeral
Mormon funerals usually take place in an LDS Church building or in the chapel of a funeral home, though the service may be held at the graveside.
The Mormon Funeral Service
The service should be led by a bishop or a member of the bishopric, though it may be led by a General Authority (Church leader), a stake president (leader of an administrative unit composed of multiple congregations), or an Area Seventy (priest within a geographically defined area) should one be present at the funeral.
The Mormon funeral is a religious service, and offers an opportunity for the Church to teach the gospel. As Mormons believe in life after death, funeral services are generally serious but celebratory events. The service will often contain songs, hymns, prayers, tributes to the person who died, and a sermon. While family members have the option of speaking at the funeral, they are not required to do so.
After the funeral, the bishop or a member of the bishopric will accompany the family to the cemetery for the burial. A Melchizedek Priesthood holder may dedicate the grave or offer a graveside prayer.
Post-Funeral Reception
After the interment, there is usually a reception for the family and close friends, though the larger community may be invited as well. The meal, called a "mercy meal," is prepared by the Relief Society. The reception offers mourners an opportunity to connect with each other and remember the life of the deceased.
Mourning Period Or Memorial Events
There is no prescribed mourning period or memorial events for Mormons.
Funeral Planning
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Author and guest blogger Sophia Ayele discusses key lessons from Oxfam's new report, The Indian Ocean Tsunami, 10 Years On: lessons from the response and ongoing funding challenges
Oxfam's research report, The Indian Ocean Tsunami, 10 Years On, examines the record breaking tsunami funding response and asks why we don't see this level and speed of response for every emergency.
In the days and weeks after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, humanitarian organisations were overwhelmed with generous donations. The UK Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) combined funding appeal raised a record-breaking £392m ($613m), bringing in eight times more in two months than the DEC's Sudan appeal, which had been running for four times as long. Governments also responded generously, with 99 countries contributing to the response, including 13 that had never before made a recorded contribution to a disaster.
In all, an estimated $13.5bn in donations poured in from the international community with an unprecedented amount (roughly 40%) from private individuals and organizations – making the tsunami the highest-ever privately funded response.
Why don't we see this type of response for every emergency?
The report draws one overarching conclusion – humanitarian funding is often based on factors other than humanitarian need.


How to: Integrate with the Telerik® Data Access Enhancer
How to: Integrate with the Telerik® Data Access Enhancer
When you use the Fluent Mapping API, you need to create a custom fluent context class that derives from the OpenAccessContext class. It will represent the shape of your model and will act as a gateway to your database. Next you could start writing queries against your context, load data, insert, update and delete objects from the database. However, there is a significant issue regarding the Telerik Data Access Enhancer. Telerik Data Access uses Enhancer, which is a special enhancer program, to read and process compiled.NET assemblies for adding persistence capability. The Enhancer can be called from the command line, but normally the enhancer is called directly by Visual Studio during build time to process the.NET assemblies in your project. The Enhancer injects the lazy loading and change tracking code into your persistent classes and replaces the read and write calls to persistent fields. Enhancement must be executed on all assemblies containing persistent classes or code that touches public fields of persistent objects. If you have used one of the Telerik Data Access wizards to configure your project, the enhancement is already configured and everything runs out of the box. Nevertheless, it is sometimes necessary to understand how the enhancer is called. Especially to integrate the enhancer into an automatic build process. The enhancer has to collect all the mapping information for the assembly that you want to enhance and the referenced assemblies which contain persistent classes as well. Telerik Data Access has two mechanisms to define the mapping - either XML only or CLR Attributes only. If you have added Telerik Data Access Domain Model via the "Add New Item" to your project, the enhancement is already added to the MsBuild project file and no changes are necessary. However, fluent mapping means that there isn't an.RLINQ file. That's why you have to enhance your project manually. Or in other words, you have to integrate the Telerik Data Access Enhancer in your Fluent Mapping project.
When you use the Telerik Data Access Fluent Library template, the Telerik Data Access Enhancer is automatically integrated in your project.
Import the OpenAccess.targets
To integrate the Telerik Data Access Enhanced:
 1. Right-click on your project in the Solution Explorer and select Unload Project.
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For many of our students, a learning disability goes hand in hand with fine motor, social-emotional, social skill, and speech and language deficits, delays, and differences. To address these differences, Chelsea School provides assistance through our related services program. The related services program is designed to enhance our students' abilities in the classroom. Our related service providers work closely with students, teachers, and parents/guardians to make sure our students can access learning and are successful. To further these aims, all related service providers possess licensure and certification required by state law and approved by the Maryland State Department of Education. We provide the following related services described below: Counseling, Occupational Therapy, and Speech and Language.
involves individual and group sessions as needed and in accordance with a student's IEP. Sessions focus upon issues related to a student's social-emotional concerns that may impact his or her education. Using such activities as active listening, delineating alternatives, helping to articulate goals, and providing needed information, our counselors work to help students reach their highest potential within the classroom and community.
involves individual and group sessions in accordance with a student's IEP. Sessions promote a variety of functional activities to help improve and advance skills that students need in the classroom. Sessions address fine motor skill development, eye-hand coordination, motor planning, sensory regulation, and organizational skill.
Middle Division groups address self-awareness and self-esteem, improving critical thinking skills and facilitating the importance of interacting with others in a positive and respectful manner. Sessions work on enhancement of social skills as an aspect of a student's personal growth. All middle school students participate in social skills groups which culminate in exciting outdoor education activities such as camping, caving, traversing obstacle courses, etc.
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 Differential effects of testosterone and progesterone on the activation and retention of courtship behavior in sexual and parthenogenetic whiptail lizards
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 Both testosterone (T) and progesterone (P) facilitate the expression of male-typical sexual behavior in a variety of animals, including rodents and lizards. In two species of whiptail lizards, Cnemidophorus inornatus and C. uniparens, both hormones elicit the full repertoire of courtship behavior. However, the relative efficacy of the two hormones is unknown. In Experiments 1 and 2 we assessed differences in capacity of exogenous T and P to induce male-typical courtship behavior in gonadectomized whiptail lizards. In both species, individuals implanted with T showed more frequent courtship behavior relative to those implanted with P or cholesterol. In Experiments 3 and 4 we examined whether T and P differentially affected the retention of courtship behavior following implant removal. In both species, individuals implanted with T showed more courtship behavior following implant removal than those previously given P. In these experiments, implants were removed at a time when individuals in both groups were behaviorally similar; therefore, the differences in behavior following implant removal were not due to differences in the amount of courtship experience. Taken together, the hormone that was more effective at activating courtship behavior was also more effective at maintaining courtship behavior following implant removal. In summary, though both T and P can elicit identical sexual behaviors in both whiptail species, T has a greater and more lasting effect on courtship behavior and possibly on the neural circuits underlying courtship behavior.
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The pottery made by both the Minoan and the Mycenaean people show flowing lines and shapes, as well as their sea and plant life around them. But Minoan pottery also seems shows a more relaxed culture versus the Mycenaean culture, who depicts them as "militaristic' (see Minoan Harvester Rhyton, Mycenaean Warrior Krater). Those seem to be the only two big examples showing the difference between their people through their artwork. However, in some of their pottery that shows their sea life, both have made vases with an octopus on them. The Minoan vase shows the octopus drawn in a more cartoony way in its face, with the big eyes, but otherwise still seems fairly realistic while feeling freer. The Mycenaean vase, on the other hand, makes the octopus symmetric with ridiculously long tentacles and loses both the realistic and the freer feeling. The stiffer feeling of the Mycenaean octopus could be corresponding to a more rigid lifestyle that revolves around more uniformity as we can see in the Krater. I don't necessarily see it as the Mycenaeans engaged in a lot more conflict, but maybe don't view life as peaceful as the Minoans had.


The final thing of my design may be a product type design. So I made an interaction diagram and business flow. The interaction between people and products is mainly reflected in three aspects:
1. Interaction between human hands and small clouds (pinch, squeeze)
2. The way people use the chair normally
3. The spinning of the chair caused by the shaking of the human body.
The business model is also worth thinking about. If it appears on the market as a piece of furniture, how to stimulate people to purchase is also a problem. I considered making the material and color of this cloud more variable. People can buy products in newly launched colors. At the same time, they can also recycle old products and the old parts.
Some feedback from my interviewees
1.Worried that the balls inside will run out. It is recommended to add a double-layer shell, which will be more stable as well.
2.Looking forward to more interactions on the light. (How to turn on the light)
3.The "cloud" inside can be used separately.
4.Provide more using ways. For example: you can embrace "clouds" as a pillow.
5.Consider the size.
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Newfoundland \New"found*land'\ (?, often?), prop. n.
1. An island on the coast of British North America, famed for
the fishing grounds in its vicinity.
2. A Newfoundland dog. --Tennyson.
Newfoundland dog (Zool.), a breed of large dogs, with
shaggy hair, which originated in Newfoundland, noted for
intelligence, docility, and swimming powers.
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n 1: a breed of very large heavy dogs with a thick coarse
usually black coat; highly intelligent dogs and vigorous
swimmers; developed in Newfoundland [syn: Newfoundland,
2: an island in the north Atlantic
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Ron Aharoni. Arithmetic for Parents.
A book for grownups about children's mathematics
Several years ago Ron Aharoni, Technion,
accepted his friend's invitation to teach mathematics in elementary school.
Since then he devoted much of his time to primary mathematics education.
Aharoni played a major role in a successful fight against "fuzzy math"
in his country, and
in the implementation of a competent, no-frills curriculum (based on
Primary Math from Singapore). In this book, he shares with the reader
-- a parent, or a teacher -- the insights he gained concerning elementary
mathematics and mathematical education.
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Marina Tsvetaeva. To You -- in 10 Decades
Selected Russian Poetry Rendered in English
This new arrival (available at Sumizdat.org and
is a joint work of Alexander Givental and Elysee Wilson-Egolf. It includes poetry by Marina Tsvetaeva,
with contributions by Bella Akhmadulina and Arseny Tarkovsky, and commentaries in English.
Her poetry's the fruit of passion. So is this book of side-by-side translations from the pliant Russian into the English
tongue. We tried not simply to preserve the music, rhyme, rhythm, meter, gist, or gems, but all of the above, refusing to
compromise - a stance that stems from love for the expressions of that fascinating act of Nature called M. Tsvetaeva. This love,
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