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Velvet is woven on a special loom that weaves two thicknesses of the material at the same time. The two pieces are then cut apart to create the pile effect, and the two lengths of fabric are wound on separate take-up rolls. This complicated process meant that velvet was expensive to make before industrial power looms became available, and well-made velvet remains a fairly costly fabric. Velvet is difficult to clean because of its pile, but modern dry cleaning methods make cleaning more feasible. Velvet pile is created by warp or vertical yarns and velveteen pile is created by weft or fill yarns.
Velvet can be made from several different kinds of fibers, traditionally, the most expensive of which is silk. Much of the velvet sold today as "silk velvet" is actually a mix of rayon and silk. Velvet made entirely from silk is rare and usually has market prices of several hundred US dollars per yard. Cotton is also used to make velvet, though this often results in a less luxurious fabric. Velvet can also be made from fibers such as linen, mohair, and wool. A cloth made by the Kuba people of the Democratic Republic of Congo from raffia is often referred to as "Kuba velvet". More recently, synthetic velvets have been developed, mostly from polyester, nylon, viscose, acetate, and from either mixtures of different synthetics or from combined synthetics and natural fibers (for example viscose mixed with silk produces a very soft, reflective fabric). A small percentage of spandex is sometimes added to give the final material a certain amount of stretch (hence "stretch velvet").
Because of its unusual softness and appearance as well as its high cost of production, velvet has often been associated with nobility. Velvet was introduced to Baghdad during the rule of Harun al-Rashid by Kashmiri merchants and to Al-Andalus by Ziryab. In the Mamluk era, Cairo was the world's largest producer of velvet. Much of it was exported to Venice (from whence it spread to most of Europe), Iberia and the Mali Empire. Musa I of Mali, the ruler of the Mali Empire, visited Cairo on his pilgrimage to Mecca. Many Arab velvet makers accompanied him back to Timbuktu. Later Ibn Battuta mentions how Suleyman (mansa), the ruler of Mali, wore a locally produced complete crimson velvet caftan on Eid. During the reign of Mehmed II, assistant cooks wore blue-coloured dresses (câme-i kebûd), conical hats (külâh) and baggy trousers (çaksir) made from Bursa velvet.
King Richard II of England directed in his will that his body should be clothed in velveto in 1399.
VELVET, a silken textile fabric having a short dense piled surface. In all probability the art of velvet-weaving originated in the Far East; and it is not till about the beginning of the 14th century that we find any mention of the textile. The peculiar properties of velvet, the splendid yet softened depth of dye-colour it exhibited, at once marked it out as a fit material for ecclesiastical vestments, royal and state robes, and sumptuous hangings; and the most magnificent textures of medieval times were Italian velvets. These were in many ways most effectively treated for ornamentation, such as by varying the colour of the pile, by producing pile of different lengths (pile upon pile, or double pile), and by brocading with plain silk, with uncut pile or with a ground of gold tissue, &c. The earliest sources of European artistic velvets were Lucca, Genoa, Florence and Venice, which continued to send out rich velvet textures. Somewhat later the art was taken up by Flemish weavers, and in the sixteenth century, Bruges attained a reputation for velvets that were not inferior to those of the great Italian cities.


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The Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) gathers and analyzes data to disseminate critical multi layered information on the mobility, vulnerabilities, and needs of displaced and mobile populations that enables decision makers and responders to provide these populations with better context specific assistance.
Conceptualized in 2004 in Iraq, for the IDP assessments and monitoring exercises, the DTM has been continuously refined and enhanced through years of operational experience in countries of implementation affected by natural disaster, conflict, or in complex situations.
- Asia and the Pacific
- Central America, North America and the Caribbean
- East Africa and the Horn of Africa
- European Economic Area, the European Union and NATO
- Middle East and North Africa
- South America
- South Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe and Central Asia
- Southern Africa
- West and Central Africa

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FAQs about Bali Jewelry
What is Bali style jewelry?
Bali jewelry can be modern, antique or tribal. The best pieces are normally associated with the Majapahit Dynasty in Java and Bali as well as the awesomely superb filigree and granulation work of southern Sulawesi, specifically Makassar. Indonesia is not a large supplier of precious stones, so many designs are purely metal. One exception would be Kalimantan which is known for their specific but not high grade diamonds. The Balinese have a special appreciation for nature, the abundant flowering trees on their island, so you'll find traditional jewelry very ornamental. Popular imagery is flowers, sea creatures like turtles and sea stars, mandalas and Hindu gods and goddesses.
What jewelry is Bali known for?
The Balinese people are master craftspeople: wood carving is a significant part of their culture, and this comes through in some of the detailed jewelry designs. Traditionally, Balinese goldsmiths like to work with metal such as 18-22K gold and 925 sterling silver, because it is softer and more malleable for carving and chasing techniques.
What is the history of Bali's crafting tradition?
Bali's unique crafting tradition starts in the 14th century with the colonization by the Majapahit Empire of Java. In that period, the island gathered the world's best silversmiths and goldsmiths who made local craft flourish, inspiring generations to come until this day. It is especially for this long-lasting tradition that many people decide to purchase jewelry made in Bali.
Is Bali jewelry for men or women?
At our jewelry store, you can buy handcrafted Balinese items for both men and women., which makes it a nice gift for everyone.
What Balinese jewelry can I buy?
Our Bali jewelry collection features rings, bracelets, earrings and necklaces. Check out our website to view a full list.
What are the materials used in Bali jewelry?
Bali jewelry is famous for mastering the use of silver. A group of smiths from Singaraja, in the North part of the Island, trace their line back before the immigration of the Majapahit Javanese. Another clan of smiths consider themselves direct descendants of Brahma, the fiery Hindu God. The symbolic importance of precious metals in Hindu cosmology is reflected in the belief that the triple peaks of Mt. Meru, the abode of the Gods and the center of the world, are made of gold, silver and iron.
What is special about Bali jewelry?
Balinese silverwork is part of an ancient tradition.The art of metal work arrived in Indonesia in the Bronze Age from Southern Chinese and Southeast Asian areas. Bronze drums, dated from as early as the fifth century BC, have been found throughout the archipelago, and some of them are believed to have been cast in Bali. The accumulation of wealth which ensued encouraged the refinement of many art forms, including jewelry. By AD 1,000 gold and silverwork in Java had reached a level of artistry as high as that of the bronze caster. The abundance of gold was documented by a Chinese trader who reported in 1225 that Javanese criminals, except for thieves and murderers, were not imprisoned or subjected to corporal punishment but fined in gold.


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Impregnable embattled ancient city Petra aged more than two thousand years and is considered now one of the current Seven Wonders of the World. Rock cut palaces and tombs, majestic temples, endless staircases, columns and arches... Only time is more ancient than these stones.
Petra is a legendary city with at least 4 thousand years' history. Being a natural stronghold carved in sheer rocky walls of a narrow valley, Petra was the capital of numerous ancient kingdoms. Even in the Bible one can find a record of it: it was here that Moses struck water out of the rock and gave it to his thirsty people roaming about the desert.
The crusaders were the last owners of rose red city Petra. After they left Palestine the city was forgotten for a long time. At the end of the XIX century the Swiss traveler Johann Ludwig Burckhardt quite by chance discovered the lost city during his dangerous trip. And now everyone can visit the legendary ancient ruins.
One of the most majestic structures in Petra is the so-called Treasury. Its excellently preserved façade is carved in a huge rock entirely and still amazes everyone with its size.

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OLPC Friends/Australia's first deployment
Australia's first trial included 3 locations and connected up specialist teachers in urban Australia with children in rural and remote communities that needed specific education services including for literacy and behavioural issues. As such we believe this is the first trial in the world that has really connected up classrooms and people between remote locations, which we are really proud of! We are also looking at incorporating speech-to-text into the trial to assist hearing-impaired children in the classroom.
Below is the technical documentation and when we are able to make the further details public we will. This trial is being done in collaboration with both Government and Education partners and will be publicly announced in February 2009.
 Learning Activities
Although this is not a full list of the educational outcomes, as they are still being assessed and compiled, please find below a list of how the laptops are being used in the Australian classrooms of this trial. Please note these activities apply to all children ages in the trial, 6 - 12 years old:
- A diary activity - helps children with their spelling, grammar, creative writing and multimedia.
- Spelling and Literacy - helps with spelling, literacy and confidence.
- Making reports - great for students in their science and history lessons, for other general reports written by the children.
- Typing and Mouse skills - improving ICT literacy skills for the children.
 Videos with the teachers
Below are some videos of the teachers talking about how they are using the XOs in the classroom, and some of the benefits:
- Using the XO for spelling - great to expand the children's vocabularies.
- Making diaries with the XO - for general literacy benefits, spelling, creative writing and multimedia skills.
- Literacy benefits from the XO
- ICT skills gained from the XO
 Technical Documentation
Below is a breakdown of the general settings, and specialist configuration of the technologies used for this trial. If the technology was to be implemented in future schools, this documentation will greatly assist in creating consistency and rapid deployments, although more integration work would also simplify the process.
 Breakdown of services, software and hardware
Each school site plus the Specialist Centre have an XS (a "schoolserver") which is a normal PC with additional software, as well as a number of XO laptops. Below is a full breakdown of the software and hardware in this trial.
Teachers, counsellors and select children while onsite have access to XOs, main function is for teachers to connect with School 1 and School 2 children remotely
All 40 children in the K-6 primary school have laptops, as well as the teachers with 1 to 2 machines spare.
5 children from disadvantaged circumstances currently have XOs as well as several teachers. These children will communicate with the Specialist Centre teachers for special education.
The Education Agency have 5 machines for testing.
 Software XS (schoolserver)
Each schoolserver (XS) has the 0.4 version of the XS software as released by OLPC. Instructions for 0.4 general configuration can be found here _URL_ Below are the default software options turned on for this deployment as per the OLPC XS defaults:
- ejabberd – default setup, provides messaging between laptops, basis for collaboration services, and for remote site collaboration (by connecting a teacher at the Specialist Centre to the ejabberd service address of the supported child's school).
- Apache – serves basic page, ejabberd management (http://schoolserver:5280/admin) and the http://schoolserver/ds-restore webpages.
- DS-Backup – a tool to present the backed up journals from the laptops
- IDMGR – a tool to manage the registered users on the server
- DHCP – for the laptops only. A 172.18.x.x range which doesn't conflict with the network
- DNS – in this implementation DNS is set up with forwarders to the DNS server for each site
- SSHD – sshd is enabled on all schoolservers so they can be remotely logged into for maintenance, upgrades, troubleshooting and more
- SQUID – turned on by typing /etc/sysconfig/olpc-scripts/TURN_SQUID_ON
 Software XO (laptop)
Each laptop (XO) has the following software (including version details) for the final deployment:
- 8.2 OS image – specifically build 767 with firmware version Q2E18
- Chat-47 – Chat application – no limit on participants
- VideoChat-7 – for video chatting between laptops, locally or remotely
- Connect-21 – Connect Four – between two laptops
- Distance-13 – for measuring distance between two laptops (within hearing range)
- Maze-5 – Solve the maze and optionally play with friends
- Content applications
- WikiBrowse-9 – Mini wikipedia on the laptop for local use
- Browse-98 – A fast streamlined web and content browser for children
- Record-57 – For making video, audio or photos
- Firefox-6 – A more feature rich browser for older children
- Memorize-27 – card flipping game for memory and math. Create your own
- Help-8 – Provides comprehensive user documentation about how to use the XO
- License-4 – To learn about content licensing (basic) to encourage sharing
- Gnash - the Open Source free Flash player. Note: doesn't play swf files directly, although it plays them ** fine if they are embedded in an html page
- BlockParty-7 – Tetris
- Implode-5 – Getting rid of groups of balls
- JigsawPuzzle-3 – Solving Jigsaw puzzles, users can draw their own or use photos
- Simcity-4 – Just like the original
- Miscellaneous Tools
- Clock-2 – Digital or analog clock, you can also set an alarm
- Calculate-23 – Calculator – includes scientific options
- Read-51 – for reading PDF ebooks
- Ruler-2 – measuring devices including rulers, compass and other tools
- StopWatchActivity-1 – for timing
- Speak-9 – basic app that reads aloud what it is instructed
- Write-59 – basic application for individual or collaborative writing and tables
- Physics-0.2 – for playing with shapes and gravity
- x2o-5 – great extension to Physics, which sets specific challenges for students
- Measure-19 – For measuring sound waves, or anything plugged into the microphone which doubles as a basic voltage meter – great for science experiments
- Colors-3 – For drawing, and recording how to draw for sharing
- Paint-23 – Basic painting application
- CartoonBuilder-RC-1.7 – Basic animation tool for young children
- FlipSticks-RC-1.4 – For basic animation of a stick figure
- JokeMachine-8 – To build jokes and share with friends
- TamTamEdit-49 – Music editor
- TamTamJam-50 – Music player
- TamTamMini-48 – Music player
- TamTamSynthLab-50 – Music sound creator
- Development – games, animation, software
- Scratch-9 – Great drag and drop development of games, animation and more
- Pippy-26 – Python based development environment for children
- TurtleArt-10 – graphical logo – for creating art with turtle instructions
- Etoys-94 – animation and games development – for older children
- System tools
 Network diagrams
To be added (after implementation)
 Custom Configuration information
Below are all the changes made to the default 0.4 image for this deployment. These can easily be reimplemented with basic tweaks for future deployments using this image. It is recommended that deployments be kept up to date with the latest stable schoolserver releases of the XS from OLPC as new functionality is coming that will simplify and improve the schoolserver, particularly in the next version which is due out soon. Schoolservers can easily be upgraded from the command line
 DNS Forwarding
This implementation has internal DNS servers that we have to forward to.
- We added forwarders to the named-xs.conf at /etc/named-xs/
 DNS Resolution of Other Schoolservers
Because we had three sites that all needed to talk to each other (and the education specialists needed to connect to the jabber service on the schoolservers at each school) we had to manually add the DNS entries to the local zone on each server for the other two schoolservers.
 Static Network Addressing
We needed a static IP address for each server so we could confidently remotely ssh into the schoolservers.
- You do this by editing /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (assuming that the network ethernet cable is plugged into the first network device). Then reboot the server for it to work and map everything correctly
 Proxy forwarding and authentication
Our sites have existing Proxy services that also require per user authentication (yes, even the 5 year olds have a username and password). This doesn't work with transparent proxying, so we did the following.
- We had to change the squid-xs.conf (note, not the squid.conf) file and added the following line:
cache_peer parent 8080 0 no-query no-digest login=PASS
Please note that transparent proxies (as this is set up by default) cannot do client-side authentication pass through, (the login=PASS bit doesn't work) so we had to:
Comment out the following line from squid-xs.conf:
_TAG_ 3128 transparent
Add http://schoolserver:3128 to all the clients Browse activity (via a config script that modified the js.all file) for them to get the authentication pop up.
If all clients were


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The design of vibro compaction method is mainly based on experiment and engineering practice.
The stress distribution and foundation soil strength can be determined according to the load of upper building.The formula of calculation is accorded to the standard of building foundation.
1) the strip foundation or independent foundation can only be used in the base range.
2) raft base and box base are usually piled on the whole foundation, and 1-3 rows of bollards can be arranged according to the need.
Space of piles and piling method:
A normal triangular or square style layout is generally adopted.There are several methods for pile spacing design:
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For the second year in a row 50% of businesses have cited lack of resource and budget as the main barrier to implementing a successful online measurement strategy.
The second most common reasons were siloed organisation/lack of co-ordination and lack of strategy, both of which were identified by 25% of respondents.
The findings come from the Econsultancy/Lynchpin Online Measurement and Strategy Report 2013 which contains a comprehensive analysis of issues affecting the web analytics industry and valuable insights into the use of analytics and business intelligence tools.
What are the barriers that prevent you from having an effective online measurement strategy?
In contrast, for supply-side respondents the most commonly cited barrier their clients have is a lack of understanding/don't know what to measure (42%), followed by lack of budget and resources (39%) and a lack of strategy (35%).
Frustrations with web analytics
Respondents were also asked about their main frustrations regarding web analytics and data.
As this word clouds shows, company respondents focused on a lack of multiple factors: consistency, strategy, time, investment in people. Others wrote about siloed departments and teams, and too much data noise.
What are the main frustrations relating to web analytics or, more broadly, to data in the context of your business requirements?
On the supply side, agency frustrations centred on a lack of client understanding of the data and the costs involved.
A lack of management buy-in was also prevalent, as were outdated internal systems and technologies. Finally, the results demonstrate the challenge businesses face when it comes to integrating disparate datasets, as the main frustration of a number of agencies was the inconsistency of datasets.
What are your clients' main frustrations relating to web analytics or, more broadly, to data in the context of their business requirements?


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ibet Gobi Thar) and central Western Australia. Deserts generally have hot days and cold nights, and they often have high winds.
The reason for the difference of temperature between day and night is due to the lack of water vapour in the air. Deserts are characterised by scanty flora and fauna. Desert organisms must meet some initial requirements if they are to survive. The plants must be able to obtain and conserve water.
In order to meet these requirements, many adaptations have been made by desert plants. Such adaptations are—reduced leaf surface area, which reduces evaporation from the plants, loss of leaves during long dry spell; small hairs on the leaf surfaces, and the ability to store large amount of water.
The examples of important desert plants are—yuccas, acacias, euphorbias, cacti, many other succulents and hardy grasses. Many of the small plants are annuals.
Animals also must meet the requirements of heat, cold and limited water. Many desert animals are nocturnal in habit, and are active mainly at night. Many reptiles and small mammals burrow to get away from the intense heat of midday. The other common desert animals are the herbivorous kangaroo, rat, ground squirrel, and jack rabbit.
The important predators are—coyotes, badgers, kit fox, eagles, hawks, falcons and owls. Ants, locusts, wasps, scorpions, spiders, insect-eating birds, such as swifts and swallows, seed-eating quails, doves and various cats are other common desert animals.


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Highlighting Our History: American Revolution Read-alouds PLUS for the Common Core
As K-5 teachers go about the work of making instructional shifts in their teaching to meet the demands of the Common Core and new initiatives around STEM (STEAM) education, it can feel like "something has to give." Many of you report that social studies has taken a back seat, and fear that students may lose a sense of our history and heritage. In this installment, TeachersFirst will show you how to leverage the power of daily read-alouds to practice some Common Core Standards for the English Language Arts while infusing some social studies content, specifically the Revolutionary period.
Part of our job as teachers is to share books that students would not necessarily read on their own. The books featured on this list (both literature and informational text) will help to expand students' knowledge of U.S. history and provide teachers with some springboards for working with the Writing and Speaking-and-Listening standards of the Common Core. Many will appeal to students because they help to answer the question "What role did children play in the war?" Or "How did the Revolution impact children and families?" Additional titles can be found on this TeachersFirst CurriConnects list for the Colonial American period.


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What better way for fourth-graders to learn about business than getting their hands a little chocolatey?
Letting out a deep sigh as she paused just a second to push her hair back off her forehead, Olivia Woten says candy making is "way harder" than she thought it would be.
Only an hour into the morning long activity, Olivia said she had already burnt herself seven times. The rubber gloves they had to wear while they were working with confectionary treats made her hands sweaty and the melted chocolate stuck to them and was hard to get off.
It is a job Olivia said she would never want to have when she gets older.
"What did we get ourselves into?" Haley Kantner said out loud. "I thought it would be a lot funner than it is. It's a lot of work."
The 75 fourth-graders at Wapakoneta Elementary School who created their own candy-making business — Choco Mania — realized the importance of what they were learning in class and how those lessons apply to real life on Thursday as they made the candy they would sell.
"It helps show you what it is really like having a business," Haley said.
Before students could even get their hands into the 120 pounds of melted chocolate used to make the candy, they filled out job applications, voted on a business name and made a contribution of $4 each to buy materials. They studied the economic terms they would apply on the job and will be tested on those today, after the candy making is over.
They plan to sell the treats on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday to younger students for 50 cents a bag. Typically, they sell out, with proceeds going toward the school's service learning project — the Ronald McDonald House.
They take turns doing the different jobs of getting ready to sell the chocolate and making it, as well as selling and then counting up the profit.
"If demand is good, we get our money back," Haley said.
The students made a variety of candies and convections — smores, chocolate-covered oreos and pretzels, worms in mud, chocolate-covered marshmallows and crispy cups. This year, in addition to the milk chocolate students have been using to make the treats, they also added white chocolate.
With so many peanut allergies in the school now, the fourth-graders also did away with all the treats they made before which contained peanuts or peanut butter and instead are focusing on some new products.
"We are trying five new different kinds," said teacher Connie Ferenbaugh, who has headed the hands-on learning project for eight years. "Next year we will narrow it down to which ones sold the best."
Ferenbaugh said this year, a $500 McDonald's grant provided for the purchase of some of the necessary supplies — crockpots, mini muffin tins and chocolate — which should allow profits to climb even higher.
With last year's candy making business earning $600, Ferenbaugh said she is aiming for $1,000 this year. If business is good, students should earn not only the $4 back that they contributed to the project, but an additional $1 in profit sharing.
As students made the candy (some trying hard not to eat it), then packaged and prepared it for sale Thursday morning, they learned about work ethic and what it means to do a job and do it well, Ferenbaugh said.
"They also understand profit," Ferenbaugh said. "Just because they get money from a customer doesn't mean it is all profit."
She said when it comes to tough topics like economics, bringing concepts and terms to life makes it much easier for the students to understand, and it is something they look forward to from the day they enter the fourth grade.
"They actually have to be patient and work together," Kim Harter, a mother helping with the activity, said. "If they waste chocolate, they lose profit. They have to practice safety or they could get burnt. They are learning the whole time, but having fun."
Only half-way through the candy making, Isaiah Daniels said it was exhausting and he didn't know how people do work like this.
Working with his buddies, Wezley Grimm said if even one of them doesn't do the job right, all their jobs could be in jeopardy and all the candy they made wrong or not look nice.
Mistakes like that could could lead to a business closing, Alex Kohler said.


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Exhibit: Walls that Speak: The Murals of Colorado
The exhibition, featuring murals from Denver Public Library's Western History Collection, will illustrate how Colorado's murals and muralists tell the state's history in a vibrant and compelling way. The murals displayed in Walls that Speak span the City Beautiful movement, the development of the Broadmoor Art Academy and subsequent Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, the Works Progress Administration era, the Chicano movement, and contemporary muralists.
The exhibition was made possible by collaboration between the Denver Public Library, curators Deborah Wadsworth and Megan Kemper, and book authors Georgia Garnsey and Mary Motian-Meadows. Other contributing institutions are the Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Art, Denver, the Bailey Library and Archives of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and individual collectors.


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Summary: Mathematical Geology, Vol. 37, No. 8, November 2005 ( C 2005)
Tetrahedral Plots of the Phase Relations for Basalts1
and Richard N. Abbott, Jr.3
The phase relations of quaternary systems are generally represented by projections onto ternary
compositional planes. Such projections often obscure relationships that would only be evident in a
three-dimensional tetrahedral plot. The tetrahedral plot requires that compositions of the minerals
and melts be transformed into Cartesian coordinates. It is shown here how this transformation is
carried out. The application is demonstrated by tetrahedral plots of experimental melt compositions of
partially molten lherzolite. Furthermore, the plot can be used to evaluate whether or not a particular
basaltic composition represents a primary melt. The methods are applicable to any four-component
KEY WORDS: phase diagrams, basalts, primary magmas.
The compositions of primary basaltic magmas are controlled by the phase relations of lherzolite and the way melt accumulation takes place in the mantel.
Characterization of the phase relations of lherzolite is therefore fundamental for
understanding the genesis of basalts. Phase relations for partial melting of lherzolite involve olivine, orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene and spinel or garnet. Accessory


Northwoods Wildlife Center
The Northwoods Wildlife Center was founded in 1979 by a veterinarian, Dr. Rory Foster. It all started when an injured fawn, which had been hit by a car, was brought to the veterinary clinic. Dr. Foster bottle-fed her, cared for her, and released her back to the wild when she was big enough to survive without her mother. Soon, people began bringing in injured wildlife from all over the region. Dr. Foster passed away in 1987, but his work continues thanks to the Northwoods Wildlife Center, the nonprofit he founded.
Saving 900 Wildlife Patients Each Year
The Northwoods Wildlife Center provides wildlife rescue, rehabilitation, and release services for northern Wisconsin as well as field assessments in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
It has a wildlife nursery that is open to the public at no cost. The organization also offers a robust wildlife education and outreach program for schools and libraries where children learn how to protect wildlife and its habitat and what to do when they encounter wildlife in need.
The organization treats an average of 800 to 900 wildlife patients each year, spanning over 120 species. It treats large mammals like black bears, small ones like chipmunks, and ones unique to the north woods like pine martens, sandhill cranes, and Wisconsin badgers. Animals that are unable to be released become educational residents at the center. Over 10,000 people each year visit the center or attend one of the organization's educational events.
The center also provides internships to 12 to 15 college students from across the country each year. Each of them receives on-site housing and unique wildlife biology and veterinary experience.
The center does all this with four full-time employees, a very active volunteer board, numerous other volunteers, and supporting veterinarians.
The Hub of Operations: Technology
The center maintains a donor database, a veterinary medical records system, an accounting system, and extensive records on wildlife, education programs, and research. Its IT system is also the hub for all communications with its supporters.
All of the center's funding comes from individual donors who believe in its mission. Like so many charities, the organization spends most of these funds on its mission. In this case, the mission requires food, medical supplies and equipment, medications, and facilities maintenance. For instance, it costs approximately $1,500 to rehabilitate a raccoon and $3,000 to rehabilitate a black bear.
As a result, the organization struggles to keep its technology up-to-date. It still has older computers, many of which have different operating systems. Volunteers need to use their personal laptops. It is a struggle to keep such an IT system running well.
Their Worst Nightmare
Three years ago, their worst nightmare happened. They were kicking off their major year-end fundraising campaign, and just before they could hit Send, their database server crashed from a virus infection. It took many hours over a 10-day span, plus considerable money, to get the server back online and the data restored.
Executive Director Geri Miller says that the December campaign is usually 20 percent of their annual budget, and she estimates that the crash caused their annual fundraising to be 25 percent lower than the year before. She says: "We think the majority of the fundraising shortfall was due to being late with the mailing. Many people had already chosen their year-end charity donations by the time we got our IT system working again. The shortfall for us that year was huge!"
Securing the Center's Future
Thanks to the Symantec donation program through TechSoup, the center was able to get the best security and malware protection available. The center replaced the motley collection of security software it had on all its different computers with a consistent version of Norton Internet Security to keep all of its computers secure. Because the expiration date for this donation is the same for all computers, it will also be easier and more efficient for the center to manage license renewals.
Miller sums it up: "Thanks to TechSoup and the generosity of Symantec, we have not had an incident since we installed Norton Internet Security on all our computers! With the help of TechSoup and its donor partners like Symantec, we are moving in the right direction. Quite simply, we could not do our work without you!"


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What becomes of the massive clouds expelled from Quasar jets? Do they simply disperse into intergalactic diffuse clouds? Or do they on occasion have enough gravity to hold together and or collapse? If they collapse, what becomes of them?
Does anybody else get the impression from the following pictures that the clouds hold together? Quasar jet cloud image Google search


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I have just started numerical analysis so this question probably seems trivial.
Say I have a function $f(x) = x^2 - x - 3$
I let $g(x) = x^2 - 3$
Then I want to find the roots of $f(x)$ so I have $f(x) = g(x) - x = 0$
So I can find the roots by finding the fixed points of $x = g(x)$
So far so good yes?
Now I use the fixed point iteration formula - $x_{n+1} = g(x_{n}) = x_{n}^2 - 3$
Say I pick 3 for $x_{1}$, then I get $x_{2} = 6$ and $x_{3} = 33$ it is diverging
I then tried picking 1 for $x_{1}$, then I get $x_{2} = -2$ and $x_{3} = 1$ it is going to infinitely alternate...
So the fixed point iteration method isn't working. Why is it not working in this situation and what are the conditions it needs to work?
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You function $g$ must be Lipschitz with coefficient $<1$ in order to make it work. Try the Newton-Raphson algorithm instead ;) – vanna Sep 12 '12 at 16:44
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One thing to consider is whether the iteration is a contraction map in a neighborhood of the desired root. Here the derivative of the iteration function is $2x$, and this has absolute value greater than 1 near either root.
In such a case an inverse iteration often works as a contraction, i.e. here we'd assign $\sqrt{x+3}$ to $x$ repeatedly to approximate the positive root.
The contraction mapping property is that $|f(x)-f(y)|$ is less than $|x-y|$, but this is a sufficient condition rather than a necessary one for convergence of a fixed point iteration. However if the inequality goes the other way, iterates cannot converge to the fixed point.
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Can you figure out what is wrong from that?
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Nice hints. What is HTH? (I'm not the most savvy nor well-versed in terms of knowledge of common/informal "text" or "chat" acronyms, as my question probably reveals.) – amWhy May 19 '13 at 0:26
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Last Sunday's rain storm raised the water level on the river by about six feet, breaking up the frozen ice into large chunks that were four to twelve inches thick. Flowing downstream in the flood, some of these icebergs stuck in an eddy in the bend of the river below the bluff and were left in stacks up to five feet deep when the water receded.
This one deposited high above the water on the rocks, is about a foot deep, four feet wide and five feet long. The branches of multiflora rose hips to the right gives you some sense of scale.
Each floe had a varied grain depending on how cold it was when each layer froze and how clear or turbulent was the water at that time. Some were the loveliest aquamarine color, while others were crystal clear, solid snow-white, in-between opaque or muddy brown.


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Explanation of distance-calculation, overview
The distance-calculation of today (before PostGIS 1.5) is investigating every combination of vertexes and every combination of vertex against edge in the two geometries inputed. If there is many vertexes this procedure is very heavy and slow. I have tried to find a way to narrow the distances calculated. The idea is only applicable on geometries not intersecting. Hopefully there will come up some good idea how to solve that. Until then the easiest is to check for intersecting bounding boxes (of subgeoms) and if thats the case pass it back to the old calculation.
Here I will try to explain the idea in a good way. Here is two polygons that we want to calculate the smallest distance between.
We start by finding an appropriate line between the polygons. The best one is the line between the center of the bounding boxes.
Now we want to find how every vertex is placed along this line. We illustrate this with two perpendicular lines describing p5 in polygon1 and p12 in polygon2.
Where those lines cross the x-axis gives us a value of where the points is situated along the line. We store that value for each vertex and order the vertexes by this value. P5 in polygon1 has the highest value of polygon1 and p12 has the lowest of polygon2. The first distance we calculate is between those two points. Because we not will calculate the points in ring order we have to also check the edge before and after, so we are testing polygon1 p4, p5, p6 against p11, p12, p13. That calculation will give us a shortest distance between p6 in polygon 1 and p13 in polygon2.
We now know that the distance we are searching is somewhere between the distance between the two parallel lines and the distance that we we have found between the points p6 and p13.
Now we take p5 from polygon1 and measure that to the points in polygon2 in order from closest to the line to more far away. We continue til we have reached the point that is that far from the left line like the shortest distance we have found that far. Then we take the next point in polygon1, p8 that is the point next closest to the line and do the same procedure, measuring against each point in polygon2 until we are «out of reach» for the already found shortest distance. This way we continue until the next point in polygon1 we are picking up is more far away from the right of the parallel lines than the shortest distance we have found. Then there can be no shorter distances to find. As mentioned earlier every check between two points include checking the point before and the point after including the edges in between.
The result is a distance calculated like described by this line from st_shortestline.
The gain from this process is that we don't have to iterate through all point. But as shown every point we actually investigate needs more calculations than todays functions because we have to search both forward and backward for each calculated point. Maybe, because of this it is wise to just use this method if the number of vertexes is more than 20 or something like that.
How this is done
This calculation is implanted instead of the array_array function when there is no intersection.
I don't know if the letters used is international but to describe a function of a line I here use y=k*x + z
The steps are:
- Find bounding box for the two point arrays
- Check if bounding boxes intersecting. If so, send to old function
- Find center of bounding boxes and calculate deltax and deltay from the two points
- Calculate the "z" value from y=kx+z for each vertex with k-value from the slope between the two bbox-center points. To eliminate problems with dividing with zero and other limitations when getting closer to dividing with zero we instead change the x-axes with the y-axes by "mirroring" the coordinate system. In that way the "z"-value represents a lines crosspoint to the x-axes instead of the usual y-axes crossing. Hope it is understandable since I don't know the terminology, but it works :-)
- Now we have a list with all vertexes with this calculated "z"-values together with the ordering-value from the geometry-array.
- We order this list by the calculated "z"-value
- Now we take the two points from our list that is most close to each other according to this "z"-value and calculate the distance between them. We translate the distance value so it will be comparable with our "z"-values
- Now, we start the iteration through the vertexes. We iterate in the z-value order, which means we compare points close to the other geometry according to our z-values before we compare the values more far away. We also stop the iteration at ones the next vertex is more far away from the other geometry than our smallest found distance so far. This will narrow the search for each new mindistance we find.


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preparing for a major presentation
Are you preparing properly for your major pitch or presentation?
Are you preparing properly for your major pitch or presentation?
Most people who deliver important pitches or presentations as part of their work can relate to the feeling of nervousness or excitement, especially before the big event. It's often a sensation that takes over your whole body and causes the shakes, breathing problems and a squirmy stomach. Actually, this feeling of excitement or nervousness is known as the fight-or-flight response and it is your body's sympathetic nervous system reacting to what is perceived as a stressful event.
Cortisol, adrenaline and noradrenaline are released
When you experience the fight-or-flight response, your body produces larger quantities of the three chemicals: cortisol, adrenaline and noradrenaline. These chemicals trigger a higher heart rate, heightened muscle preparedness, sweating, and alertness. The idea is that these chemicals will in fact help you protect yourself in a dangerous or stressful situation. It means that a bit of this is a good thing as long as you manage it properly.
Your non-essential functions slow down
Interestingly, when you are experiencing fight-or-flight a number of other things happen in your body that you should know about for peak performance. In general, non-essential body functions slow down, such as your digestive and immune systems. In this way your body can focus it's efforts on getting you through the stressful period by using rapid breathing, increased blood flow, alertness and muscle use.
According to Medical News Today, when we are stressed the following happens:
 – Blood pressure rises
 – Breathing becomes more rapid
 – Digestive system slows down
 – Heart rate rises
 – Immune system goes down
 – Muscles become tense
 – We do not sleep (heightened state of alertness)
What can you do about it?
There are some things you can do to ensure that you look after your health and get the best from your next presentation.
1. Stay away from alcohol, coffee and cigarettes – they will dehydrate you, add to the overstimulation, and mess up your ability to sleep properly and rejuvenate yourself before your big day.
2. Don't eat too much on the day of the presentation. Choose fresh fruits and vegetables and some light protein as opposed to high fat or sugary foods. You can't process large amounts of processed food and be nervous at the same time!
3. Drink at least 6-8 glasses of water on the days when you need to stay hydrated and perform at your best. Some scientists suggest that water will help you flush your cortisol through your system more quickly.
4. Tense and relax your muscle groups (shoulders, hands, legs, bottom) twice in quick succession to burn off some of your adrenalin and take the tension from your muscles.
5. Focus on the fact that you are not there for yourself – you are there to serve your audience. The more you look into their eyes and really connect with them (person to person) and focus on the relationship not the win, the more you'll relax and enjoy. Happy Presenting!
© Michelle Bowden 2020. Michelle Bowden is an authority on presentation & persuasion in business. Michelle is a CSP (the highest designation for speakers in the world), co-creator of the PRSI (a world-first psychometric indicator that tests your persuasiveness at work), best-selling internationally published author (Wiley), and a regular commentator in print, radio and online media.
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A hospital advertising campaign can be effective for several reasons. It can improve patient satisfaction and decrease readmission rates. It can also improve the perception of quality. In this article, we'll explore three major benefits of hospital advertisements. But how does advertising affect patients? How can you measure the impact of a hospital's new advertising campaign? Read on to find out! Here are some tips. Read on to maximize your hospital's marketing efforts. And don't forget to measure your results!
Impact of advertising on readmissions
The Impact of Hospital Advertising on Readmissions: A Study of California Medical Centers
A study of hospital readmission rates showed that hospitals that did not advertise had better average performance. This was true of CAHPS 5-star ratings and overall 5-star ratings. The study also found that hospitals with the highest levels of advertising had lower mortality rates and lower average readmission rates than nonadvertising hospitals. It also found a positive impact of hospital advertising on readmissions, particularly in the area of patient communication and education.
A study of acute care hospitals found that almost half of the institutions advertised their services. Hospitals with the highest levels of advertising had higher net assets and higher occupancy rates than hospitals that did not advertise. Hospitals with higher levels of advertising were also more likely to be major teaching hospitals. However, the results were not significantly different for hospitals without large advertising budgets. However, it's important to note that the study only included hospitals that were publicly-reported.
A hospital's readmission rate is directly related to the amount of advertising it spends on its website. The study also examined the number of Medicare patients it admitted. The hospital with the lowest percentage of low-income patients experienced a higher readmission rate than hospitals with the highest proportion. Hospitals in the middle quartile experienced a decrease of 1.7 percentage points and readmissions among the lowest-income patients fell by 2.0 percentage points.
Research has also indicated that patients with more serious conditions have a higher risk of being readmitted. Some of these reasons include poor diet and lifestyle choices. Some patients with heart disease, for example, do not follow their prescribed treatment and often return to the hospital for follow-up care. It's not surprising that some patients do not follow their doctors' orders. But, many of these people do not, and that can have disastrous consequences.
In this study, hospital advertising may not be responsible for reducing the number of readmissions. However, it may help in the improvement of patient safety. It's also important to understand how hospitals can improve patient safety. One method is to use medical insurance claims data to analyze the effect of advertising on readmission rates. In addition, the study also examined the days between initial discharge and readmission, as well as the day of the week that the patient was discharged.
Impact of advertising on perceptions of quality
One recent study looked at the impact of hospital advertising on consumer perceptions of quality. The study compared the five-star CAHPS ratings of hospitals that advertised to those that did not advertise. In fact, the difference in five-star ratings was minimal compared to the four-star CAHPS ratings of hospitals that did not advertise. However, the results were striking if we consider the fact that hospitals that advertise spent more money on advertising than did those that did not. The authors found that hospital advertising has the potential to deceive consumers and undermine public reporting.
Medical advertising has many negative consequences. It may encourage people to make poor decisions regarding treatment and health maintenance. It may also foster unrealistic expectations and encourage people to take unnecessary risks. It may also increase costs of healthcare overall. Further, studies have shown that hospitals that are flooded with advertising are more likely to experience high rates of negative patient evaluations. Therefore, advertising should be limited to the most effective ways to reach and influence consumers.
As health is essential to the overall well-being of individuals, the quality of healthcare service is important. As a result, hospitals are competing for patients' business. As a result, it is important to understand the patient's perspective of the quality of healthcare services. In the healthcare sector, patients' perception of the quality of healthcare services is critical to building trust and positive behavioural intentions. However, the effects of hospital advertising cannot be ignored.
Among the many factors that contribute to patient satisfaction, nurse-patient communication, responsiveness of hospital staff, and environment are important. The results also show that gender has a significant impact on the overall hospital rating. Female patients give lower ratings than male patients. Further, female patients report worse experiences than male patients. It is therefore important to consider the gender of patients when considering the patient's needs and the hospital's response to them.
Effects of advertising on patients
Hospitals spend $1.5 billion annually on advertising, a practice that has generated a lively debate about its ethical and efficacy. Diwas KC, professor of information systems at Emory University's Goizueta Business School, and Tongil Kim, an assistant professor of management at the Naveen Jindal School of Management in Texas, studied the impact of hospital advertising on patients in Massachusetts.
Their analysis found that hospitals that do not advertise were significantly better than those that do. The nonadvertising hospitals were more likely to achieve the five-star rating and CAHPS score, and had lower mortality rates. The difference in mortality rates was particularly striking for hospitals that did not advertise, which were often smaller and more rural. But this difference was not confined to the financial impact. Researchers also found no evidence that hospitals that invest in advertising have higher quality care.
The use of emotional messages should be discouraged in medical service advertisements. Moreover, academic medical centers consistently use emotional messages. Over 60% of advertisements target patients' emotions, and they consistently promote benefits that are not scientifically proven. However, these advertisements are not necessarily misleading. In general, they can lead to poor health and disease decisions. This has implications for hospitals' overall costs. The study will also help physicians determine whether hospitals should make advertising more patient-oriented.
The study also looked at how much money hospitals spent on advertising. Hospitals that advertise were three times bigger than those that did not. They had higher bed counts and higher net income than those that do not advertise. The study did not distinguish between non-advertising and advertising hospitals, so the results can be considered inexact. The researchers concluded that hospital advertising affects quality and patient satisfaction. So, if hospital advertising is effective in attracting patients, it may be a good idea to keep this in mind when choosing a hospital.
While a hospital's advertising budget is a critical element in improving patient care, the value of advertising is largely dependent on the medium used. For example, the Willis-Knighton Health System adopted a triangulation approach to determine the value of its advertising. It studied the use of radio, newspaper, and television ads. They compared the performance of the two groups to an average of all hospitals. Interestingly, the Willis-Knighton Health System had the highest average HRRs among those that advertised while hospitals that did not.
While the amount of money hospitals spend on direct-to-consumer advertising does not directly correlate with publicly reported measures of hospital quality, it does correlate with the financial health of hospitals. Hospitals that advertise more often have higher net incomes and are financially stable. As a result, hospital advertising may be misleading consumers and undermining public reporting efforts. As such, the study is critical in understanding whether high-quality hospitals are responsible for most of the DTC hospital advertising.


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Typical Warrior Basic Data Rune Symbol
BielTanGuardian.jpg Name Biel-Tan BielTanRune.jpg
Meaning Rebirth of Ancient Days
Current location Border between Segmentum Tempestus and Ultima Segmentum[12]
Main colours White, green
Favoured unit Aspect Warriors, Exarchs, Avatar of Khaine[2a]
Speciality Destruction of colonies
Reputation Fickle, warlike
Main enemy Orks
Biel-Tan is an Eldar Craftworld, famous for its extreme militarism.
Biel-Tan Craftworld
The Biel-tan Craftworld is famous for its inhabitants' militancy; it is home to more Aspect Warriors than any other craftworld.[2a]
The Eldar of Biel-tan are honourable warriors who have taken it upon themselves to rebuild the lost glory of the ancient Eldar empire, through the destruction of the lesser races who have "usurped" the galaxy, and believe it is glorious to die fighting the enemies of the Craftworld. At the centre of Biel-tan is the Chamber of Heroes where the spirit stones of dead Aspect Warriors are placed. Farseers often come to this room to consult the dead on courses of action.[Needs Citation]
As well as their traditional colours of green and white, the forces of Biel-Tan sport patterns of dark thorny ivy.[2c]
When the Eldar of Biel-Tan go to war they assemble a warhost known as the Bahzhakhain, which means "Swordwind", "Tempest of Blades"[2a] or Frozen Leaves Falling to Cut.[10] The Swordwind's tactic is a single, swift strike taking the enemy by surprise.[2a] This tactic works considerably well with the elite fighting skills of the many Aspect Warriors eliminating the enemy before they can respond. The Biel-Tan therefore make perfect use of the speed and maneuverability of the Wave Serpents and Falcon Grav Tanks.[Needs Citation]
The main target of the Biel-Tan are non-Eldar colonists, particularly non-Eldar occupying Eldar Maiden Worlds. It is especially galling to the Eldar who created these paradise worlds from dead worlds to find them overrun with inferior species. The Eldar of Biel-tan believe the success of other alien races is a threat to the future progression of the Eldar empire. For this reason, the Biel-Tan particularly hate the Orks, Orks being a completely expansionist race, whose occupation of a world quickly becomes permanent. In many cases, Biel-Tan have helped Imperial forces that were under heavy attack by Orks and to hunt down Ork Roks before the tide of Orks can overrun a planet.
The Exarchs of the Craftworld form a council known as the Court of the Young King, it is from this council that the Craftworld's Young Kings are chosen.[2a]
The Swordwind even possess a vehicle that is unique to Biel-Tan. It is a super heavy grav tank called a Void Spinner, which is armed solely with a huge monofilament cannon that works just like any other monofilament weapon except that it incorporates a techno virus that sterilizes the ground that it touches. This makes it extremely useful against the Orks due to the Ork's spore-based method of reproduction, preventing further re-infestation.[Needs Citation]
The symbolic rune of Biel-Tan stands for reincarnation, a fate previously thought reserved for every Eldar before the Fall. The rune roughly translates as Rebirth of Ancient Days, reflecting the intention of the Craftworld to see their former empire restored.[2a][5]
Biel-Tan Eldar[9]
During the closing days of the 41st Millennium, Biel-Tan became the center of the future of the Eldar race. A Biel-Tan native, Yvraine, became an emissary of Ynnead and introduced a plan to birth the God without the need to sacrifice the entirety of the Eldar. However, at the same time, Biel-Tan was subjected to a Daemonic invasion led by Skarbrand and The Masque. Biel-Tan allied with the Ynnari and Phoenix Lords to close the Webway Portal to the Craftworld on Ursulia. The effort was successful, but large numbers of Daemons managed to infiltrate Biel-Tan before the portal was sealed. Worse still, The Masque was able to invade Biel-Tan's Infinity Circuit and began destroying the souls within.[7]
Yvraine revealed that in order to resurrect Ynnead and purge The Masque from Biel-Tan she required an Avatar of the God as well as the Crone Swords. In order to give birth to Yncarne, Yvraine conducted a ritual in Biel-Tan's Infinity Circuit that cost countless Eldar souls. However, while devastated, Biel-Tan endured and remains united on the path to resurrect Ynnead[7]. In the aftermath of the Battle of Biel-tan, its population has been halved with many falling to the Daemons' attack and others choosing to join the ranks of the Ynnari[9]. Those that have remained with the Craftworld now reside on its fleet of ships[8a], while its Bonesingers work tirelessly to keep the world-ship together. These Eldar cling to their orthodox methods, vowing with renewed vigour to destroy all would-be usurpers to their race and bring about a new Aeldari civilisation to rival the ancient empire of old. Biel-Tan's ghost halls have also swelled with newly animated wraith-constructs, bearing the souls of those the infinity circuit can no longer protect[9]. Yet another development is that the surviving members of Biel-Tan's Swordwind have vanished into the Webway. From there, the Swordwind have resolved to maintain the warlike traditions of their Craftworld, and continue to scour ancient Eldar worlds of Xenos usurpers.[8b]
Psychic Awakening
Since the Battle of Khazhar, Biel-Tan has become aided by a great many Exodite warriors.[11a]
The Ixia Wayport on Craftworld Biel-Tan.
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Welcome to the Homepage of the High Energy Astrophysics Theory Group at MPIK Heidelberg
Main areas of scientific work
The activity of the our group covers several areas of Astrophysics and Astroparticle Physics:
origin of Galactic Cosmic Rays, in particular in the context of
particle acceleration in shell type supernova remnants,
pulsar wind nebulae, X-ray binary systems;
nonthermal processes in the Galactic Center;
processes of acceleration and radiation of electrons
and protons in relativistic outflows - in
pulsar winds, in microquasars, in small and large scale jets
of active galactic nuclei, in GRBs;
gamma-ray and neutrino
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links between high energy gamma-ray astronomy and neutrino astronomy;
theoretical aspects of the imaging atmospheric cherenkov technique;
physics of compact relativistic objects;
prompt optical afterglows of gamma-ray bursts.
Although these studies have rather general character and are
not limited by specific objects, astrophysical scenarios, radiation processes,
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revealed, in particular by HESS,
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Our group has a status of the second official group representing MPIK in the HESS collaboration. Therefore, a substantial fraction of the work of our group is conducted within the framework of the HESS experiment,
especially in the context of interpretation of very high energy gamma-ray observations.


Are There Sharks in Greece?
Should you be worried?
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Sparkling seas and gorgeous Greek islands on the horizon — it's an idyllic vision of Greece. But should you be watching out for a shark fin slicing through those beautiful waters?
Sharks in Greece: Myth or Reality?
While there are sharks in Greece, most species are harmless. Sightings are extremely rare and, in general, shark attacks in the Mediterranean are also rarely reported. Given the vast number of people spending time in the warm and often shallow waters along the shores of Greece, encounters with sharks are few.
In the existing records of sharks in the Mediterranean, there is only one anecdotal tale of a fatal shark attack in the Greek islands, and that was reported nearly a century ago. Other official sources list a total of 15 shark attacks in Greece over the last 170 or so years. It's not clear what species of shark may have been responsible; one Greek fisherman swore he saw a great white shark in the Aegean Sea a couple of decades ago, but it was probably a small whale, which are also rare but present in Greece.
While there are some Mediterranean shark attacks reported each year, they seem to cluster around the shores of France, not Greece.
All sharks are rare in Greece, and those that are seen or caught by fishermen are usually from less-dangerous types—basking sharks, thresher sharks, and dogfish. In recent years, sharks have been found or caught around Milos, Symi, and Crete. Numbers have been declining over the past few decades; if you're actually a fan of sharks in Greece and elsewhere, and want to help with conserving them, you may want to check out the Shark Alliance's Greece page.
Sharks do make an appearance in Greek mythology, and that may mean that they were more numerous in ancient times than they are now. Lamia, a daughter of the sea god Poseidon, was known as a sea monster, while a son of hers, Akheilos, was a shark.
Greek mythology also has plenty of mythical sea beasts, including the multi-tentacled Hydra which may have been the inspiration for the non-Greek Kraken in "Clash of the Titans."
So if you're wondering if there could be a "Sharknado" in Greece, don't. Sharks are rare in Greek waters and are usually harmless.
Forget the Sharks: The Most Dangerous Sea Creatures in the Mediterranean
Other dangers are far more real and much more likely to impact your vacation in Greece.
 - Jellyfish: Real dangers include jellyfish stings and turning your foot into a temporary cactus by stepping on a needle-spined sea anemone barefoot. It's always good to be wearing sea sandals, both for the anemones and for the often-scratchy lava rocks which line the coasts of many of the islands. Sea sandals may sell out in Greece during the summer, so you may want to squeeze them into your bag rather than rely on picking them up in Greece. Children's sizes often sell out first.
 - Scorpionfish: Sea sandals are also likely to protect you from the sand-burrowing Scorpionfish, whose stings have been known to be fatal.
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Formerly Minnesota Renaissance School, Montessori Renaissance Academy is a private, nonprofit Montessori school located in the north metropolitan suburb of Anoka, MN. For more than 22 years, we have been providing children from 16 months through 8th grade with an alternative to more traditional schools. Our students flourish, testing 25-30% better on required standardized testing than the national average.
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See A Brief Report on Pipe Deterioration Focusing on Leaks, Friction, Energy Use, and Greenhouse Gas Emissions, by Andrew F. Colombo and Bryan W. Karney (University of Toronto's Department of Civil Engineering, June 2003).
5 For more on the subject of plastic piping rehabilitation projects, see "High-Density Polyethylene Solutions for Water Infrastructure Rehabilitation" by Camille George Rubeiz, PE, in the May 2005 issue of Modern Materials. For more on residential retrofit, see also "Pipeline to Successful Renovations" by Janet Arden in the November 2005 issue of Modern Materials.
6 See B. Rajani and S. McDonald's "Water Main Break Data for Different Pipe Materials for 1992 and 1993" (National Research Council Canada, 1995).
7 To determine acceptable levels of sound and vibration, one should consult the manufacturer's data or the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-conditioning Engineers' 2003 ASHRAE Handbook, HVAC Applications (Ch. A47: Sound and Vibration Control).


The Pyramid of the Magician (Mexico)
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The Pyramid of the Magician, also known as the House of the Dwarf (Casa del Adivino, or Casa del Enano), is one of the most famous Maya monuments of Uxmal, an archaeological site in the Puuc region of Yucatan, in the northern Maya Lowland of Mexico.
History Of the Pyramid Of the Magician
Its name comes from a Maya tale of the 19th century, titled the Leyenda del Enano de Uxmal (The Legend of the Uxmal's Dwarf). According to this legend, a dwarf constructed the pyramid in one night, helped by his mother, a witch. This building is one of the most impressive of Uxmal, measuring about 115 feet in height. It was constructed over the Late and Terminal Classic periods, between AD 600 and 1000, and five constructive phases have been detected. The one visible today is the latest one, built around AD _PHONE_.
The pyramid, over which the actual temple stands, has a peculiar elliptical form. Two staircases lead to the top of the pyramid. The Eastern staircase, the wider, has a small temple along the way that cut the stairway in half. The second access stair, the Western, faces the Nunnery Quadrangle and is decorated with friezes of the rain god Chaac.
The Pyramid of the Magician is the first building a visitor encounters entering the ceremonial area of Uxmal, just north of the Ball Game Court and the Palace of the Governor and east of the Nunnery Quadrangle.
Several phases of the temple constructed on top of the pyramid are visible while ascending the pyramid from the base to the top. Five construction phases have been detected (Temple I, II, III, IV, V). The facades of the different phases were decorated with stone masks of the rain god Chaac, typical of the Puuc architectural style of the region.
 - Mc Killop, Heather, 2004, The Ancient Maya. New Perspectives. ABC-CLIO. Santa Barbara, California
 - AA.VV. 2006, Los Mayas. Rutas Arqueologicas: Yucatan y Quintana Roo. Edición Especial de Arqueologia Mexicana, num. 21 (


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Assist lawyers or patent agents by preparing prosecution and other documents relating to intellectual property example
- Enter deadlines and update patent databases
- Monitor and pay maintenance feesCompile,
- verify, record and process prosecution documents,
- licenses, assignments and other documents using docketing and information systems
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ULI Nashville Civic Leadership Forum: 4 Crime Rates
Higher-Density Development: Myth and Fact examines widespread misconceptions related to higher-density development and seeks to dispel them with relevant facts and information.
Many residents say they chose higher density housing specifically because they felt more secure there; they feel safer because there are more people coming and going, making it more difficult for criminals to act without being discovered.
MYTH: Higher-density development leads to higher crime rates.
FACTS: Crime rates at higher-density developments are not significantly different from those at lower-density developments.


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Abstract 8399: Circulating Mononuclear Cells with Class A Macrophage Scavenger Receptor Were Specifically Increased in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome
Objective: We previously remarked that class A macrophage scavenger receptor (SR-A), in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs), was a candidate as a predictive marker for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) utilizing a gene chip microarray system. Herein, we examined SR-A levels in atherosclerotic lesions and in circulating monomuclear cells.
Methods and Results: We obtained atherosclerotic lesion samples utilizing directional coronary atherectomies: 11 consecutive patients with unstable angina (UA); and, 13 consecutive patients with stable exertional angina (SEA). Immunohistochemical analyses revealed that SR-A was abundantly expressed in the macrophages of UA patients. SR-A mRNA levels of the atherosclerotic lesions in the UA patients and in the SEA patients were 3.8±1.5 and 1.0±0.6, respectively. SR-A mRNA levels of the coronary atherosclerotic lesions were significantly higher in the UA patients than in the SEA patients (p<0.03). Utilizing flow cytometric analysis, PBMCs were collected from 255 subjects: 67 consecutive ACS patients; 87 consecutive SEA patients; and, 101 controls. The frequencies of CD14-positive PBMCs (monocytes), that stained for SR-A, were 1.9±1.6%, 0.7±0.5%, and 0.7±0.5%, respectively. The frequency of SR-A positive monocytes was significantly higher in the ACS Group than in either the SEA or Control Groups (p<0.001); however, there were no significant differences between the Control and SEA Groups. There were no significant differences in the frequencies of SR-A positive monocytes between the patients with UA and the patients with acute myocardial infarction. In the ACS Group, the frequencies of SR-A positive monocytes at onset, at 1 day and at 7 days after onset, were 1.7±1.1%, 1.1±0.8%, and 1.1±0.5%, respectively. The frequency of SR-A positive monocytes in the ACS Group was significantly decreased within 24 hours of onset receiving orthodox medical treatment (p<0.01).
Conclusion: The SR-A level increases in unstable atherosclerotic plaque, as well as in the PBMCs in ACS patients. SR-A is a well known macrophage marker. The detection of SR-A positive monocytes in the peripheral circulating blood provides crucial clinically and pathophysiologicaly significant information about unstable plaque in ACS patients.
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Genealogy Friday: Why Family Reunions Are Dying Out
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Recently, I had someone ask when we were going to have the next family reunion. I honestly answered "I don't know."
With over 500+ descendants living, we are lucky to have the same faithful group of about thirty to attend each year. We've noticed that there just is not a large interest in getting together.
That same weekend, I saw a large family group that had gathered for an extended holiday weekend. This family of 80+ individuals had gathered from not only all over the country, but some members even came from other parts of the world. On top of that, they all attended church together.
It is important to gather and celebrate being a family and our ancestors
I wondered, why they had such a wonderful turn out when other family reunions are dying out.
So why are family reunions dying out?
 1. The younger generation has no interest in getting together. Often they do not even know who the reunion is for or how they are related to this family group.
 2. The older generations are dying out and have not shared stories and memories of their family. On several lines of my family, as well as numerous other family's I've talked with, this is a common reason that family reunion has not continued.
 3. No one has an interest in stepping up and taking over the planning of the family reunion.
 4. There are too many other obligations, distractions and commitments to be met. This is especially true with families that have children involved in sports and/or the arts.
 5. Illness can often affect families so that individuals are unable to attend.
 6. Finances can affect individuals, depending on the distance of travel and other financial obligations for the reunion.
 7. No interest in family history. Sadly, this is still very common, especially with the younger generations. They have no interest in their roots or where they came from.
What are some reasons you've discovered family reunions are dying out?


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Scientists have prepared a list of 25 words that every toddler should be able to use, as these words are among the most common and the first acquired when learning to speak.
The words and phrases that cover toys, food, animals and, of course, include'mummy' and 'daddy' and 'bye bye', are designed to detect youngsters who may struggle with words in years to come, the Daily Mail reported.
These 25'must have' words are part of a much larger list of 310 words that should be part of a toddler's vocabulary and designed to be ticked off in 10 minutes by parents.
The average child will know 150 of the words in the Language Development Survey but scores of 75 to 225 are normal. Alarm bells should start ringing if a toddler uses just 50 of the words or less, the American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual conference heard in Vancouver.
The 25-word list comprises mummy, daddy, baby, milk, juice, hello, ball, yes, no, dog, cat, nose, eye, banana, biscuit, car, hot, thank you, bath, shoe, hat, book, all gone, more and bye-bye.
Leslie Rescorla, who designed both versions of the test, said: "If children don't use most of these words by 24 months, they may be late talkers."
Many late-talkers are simply late bloomers, so Rescorla tells that if a child is otherwise developing normally, parents shouldn't panic. If the child, however, is still struggling for words by two-and-a-half, they should consider help.
Rescorla, of Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, tracked the fortunes of 78 two-year-olds for 15 years. Half had been slow to start talking but didn't have any other problems.
By the time they reached 17, their vocabulary was classed as at least as good as average - but still wasn't as good as those who were better talkers as toddlers.
The late-talkers fared particularly poorly in tasks that involved'verbal memory', or listening to words, sentences, or numbers and being able to repeat them.


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Schumpeter invented the phrase 'creative destruction' in his famous book on the development of capitalism into socialism (Schumpeter 1942). In his view the process of creative destruction is the essential fact about capitalism and refers to the incessant mutation of the economic structure from within, destroying the old and creating a new.
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sequence is a high performance sequential log analyzer and parser. It sequentially goes through a log message, parses out the meaningful parts, without the use regular expressions. It can achieve high performance parsing of 100,000 - 200,000 messages per second (MPS) without the need to separate parsing rules by log source type.
sequence is currently under active development and should be considered unstable until further notice.
If you have a set of logs you would like me to test out, please feel free to open an issue and we can arrange a way for me to download and test your logs.
Log messages are notoriusly difficult to parse because they all have different formats. Industries (see Splunk, ArcSight, Tibco LogLogic, Sumo Logic, Logentries, Loggly, LogRhythm, etc etc etc) have been built to solve the problems of parsing, analyzing and understanding log messages.
Let's say you have a bunch of log files you like to parse. The first problem you will typically run into is you have no way of telling how many DIFFERENT types of messages there are, so you have no idea how much work there will be to develop rules to parse all the messages. Not only that, you have hundreds of thousands, if not millions of messages, in front of you, and you have no idea what messages are worth parsing, and what's not.
The typical workflow is develop a set of regular expressions and keeps testing against the logs until some magical moment where all the logs you want parsed are parsed. Ask anyone who does this for a living and they will tell you this process is long, frustrating and error-prone.
Sequence is developed to make analyzing and parsing log messages a lot easier and faster.
The industry has came up with a couple of different approaches to solving the log parsing problem. In a way, you can say the log parsing problem has been solved, because analysts have a lot of different tools to choose from when they need to understand logs.
Commercially, there are companies such as Splunk, ArcSight, Tibco LogLogic, SumoLogic, LogEntries, Loggly, LogRhythm, etc etc etc that can provide you either an on-premise or in-the-cloud (SaaS) solution. They provide different capabilities and feature sets depending on the primary use case you are targetting.
Open source wise, you have tools such as ElasticSearch, Greylog2, OSSIM, and a few others that wants to provide you end-to-end capabilities similar to the commercial offerings. There are also libraries such as liblognorm and logstash you can use to build your own tools.
And then there's Fedora's Project Lumberjack, which "is an open-source project to update and enhance the event log architecture" and "aims to improve the creation and standardize the content of event logs by implementing the concepts and specifications proposed by the Common Event Expression (CEE)."
Unfortunately all of these tools have one or more of the following problems.
First, it looks like many of these open source efforts have all been abandoned or put in hibernation, and haven't been updated since 2012 or 2013. liblognrom did put out a couple of updates in the past couple of years.
It is understandable. Log parsing is BORING. I mean, who wants to sit there and stare at logs all day and try to come up with regular expressions or other types of parsing rules? LogLogic used to have a team of LogLabs analysts that did that, and I have to say I truly appreciated their effort and patience, because I cannot do that.
Second, many of these commercial and open source tools uses regular expression to parse log messages. This approach is widely adopted because regular expression (regex) is a known quantity. Many administrators already know regex to some extend, and tools are widely available to interpret regex. In the early days of log analysis, Perl was used most often, so most rules you see are written in PCRE, or Perl Compatible Regular Expression. However, the process of writing regex rules is long, frustrating, and error-prone.
Even after you have developed a set of regular expressions that match the original set of messages, if new messages come in, you will have to determine which of the new messages need to be parsed. And if you develop a new set of regular expressions to parse those new messages, you still have no idea if the regular expressions will conflict with the ones you wrote before. If you write your regex parsers too liberally, it can easily parse the wrong messages.
Third, even after the regex rules are written, the performance is far from acceptable. This is mainly due to the fact that there's no way to match multiple regular expressions at the same time. The engine would have to go through each individual rule separately. It can typically parse several thousands messages per second. Given enough CPU resources on a large enough machine, regex parsers can probably parse tens of thousands of messages per second. Even to achieve this type of performance, you will likely need to limit the number of regular expressions the parser has. The more regex rules, the slower the parser will go.
To work around this performance issue, companies have tried to separate the regex rules for different log message types into different parsers. For example, they will have a parser for Cisco ASA logs, a parser for sshd logs, a parser for Apache logs, etc etc. And then they will require the analysts to tell them which parser to use (usually by indicating the log source type of the originating IP address or host.)
Last but not least, none of the existing tools can help analysts determine what patterns to write in order to parse their log files. Large companies can sometimes generate hundreds of gigabytes, if not terabytes, of data and billions of log messages per day. Sometimes it will take a team of analysts hundreds of hours to comb through log files, develop regex rules, test for conflicts and then repeat this whole process.comments powered by Disqus


its rune will light up, and the only way to get rid of the rune is to cast Expel Harm. This way I am more or less forcing myself to cast spells I would otherwise easily forget to cast.
The runes will of course change meaning when I switch stance. Then they represent spells such as Tiger Strikes, Crane's Zeal, Tiger Power, Rising Sun Kick Debuff, etc.
Building Your Own UI
Now that I've explained how my UI works, and all the reasons behind my decisions, it's time to give some thought for your own UI. It doesn't have to look anything remotely like my own, since everyone prioritizes spells and such differently. Maybe you are a person who have a habit of looking around on the screen – then maybe you don't have to have all your spells towards the middle, but to the sides. It's a matter of personal preference. What I want you to remember is the logic behind my decisions. Here are some questions you can ask yourself when you create your UI:
 - How important are your Action Bars? Can you remember all the spells and keybinds without? If so, reconsider using WA instead.
 - Which spells are most important and in what hierarchy? From most used spells to least, or from strongest to weakest?
 - Where do your eyes focus mostly? The centre (character), unit frames, or anywhere else?
 - How relevant is each UI element? Try to prune everything that is redundant.
 - Do you really use Combat Scrolling Text? Really? Really?!
Try to map it out where you want to place each element. When you have done so, it's testing time! A lot of the time I try new ideas only to have to reconsider after some testing, because it wasn't working out as I had intended. That is part of the process. Just remember that if you do radical changes to your UI, it is going to take some time to readjust and getting used to. It's a cyclical process, and the more you do it, the more sleek and sharp it becomes. Keep at it!
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