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Innovative Solutions To Global Problems
The Godley Family Foundation recognizes that the global challenges of quality health care and climate change are interconnected with issues of poverty, food systems, gender equity, peace and justice. We are committed to partnering with global changemakers to work on systemic changes necessary to achieve the ambitious UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Our priority funding areas generally fall into the following categories: Global Health, Climate Action, Women and Girls, and Rhode Island/New England.
In the health sector, we are particularly focused on increasing access to care, and building strong, effective and resilient health systems to meet the needs of underserved populations. Our partners in this area:
- Support the expansion of Community Health Worker programs to deliver primary health care in hard to reach areas;
- Promote timely access to health information through innovative technology platforms;
- Strengthen health systems through evidence-based training and education;
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We believe that empowering women and girls is one key aspect to improving health and impacting communities both in the United States and in developing countries. In this area we are interested in supporting organizations that:
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- Reduce maternal and child mortality in severely resource-limited settings;
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International Management, MS
International Management, MS
Students in the MSIM program take a set of core courses and then choose from a variety of elective courses to customize their experiences. These electives are from different fields in the College of Management (finance, management and marketing) and, potentially, from other colleges (economics, political science, international relations, and public policy).
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Each year, the College of Management runs trips abroad to business hubs such as India and China, allowing students to earn course credit while gaining valuable international management experience. The richness and diversity of the program enable students to tailor their elective coursework to their own interests. The comprehensive foundation in team management and strategy provides students with the skills in demand by their prospective employers upon graduation.
Given the overarching management perspective of the program, students from both business and non-business backgrounds will find it a valuable degree for career advancement. A balance between quantitative and qualitative courses provides students with a substantial understanding of how to manage international business.
The full MSIM program consists of 13 courses (39 credits). Students with relevant coursework may be able to waive some core business courses.
The program can be completed full-time or part-time, with classes that meet primarily in the evenings, late afternoons, weekends and online. Scheduling is highly flexible, with most classes meeting once per week.


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void login(const struct utmp *ut);
int logout(const char *ut_line);
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The utmp file records who is currently using the system. The wtmp file
records all logins and logouts. See utmp(5).
The function login() takes the supplied struct utmp, ut, and writes it
to both the utmp and the wtmp file.
The function logout() clears the entry in the utmp file again.
More precisely, login() takes the argument ut struct, fills the field
ut->ut_type (if there is such a field) with the value USER_PROCESS, and
fills the field ut->ut_pid (if there is such a field) with the process
ID of the calling process. Then it tries to fill the field
ut->ut_line. It takes the first of stdin, stdout, stderr that is a
tty, and stores the corresponding pathname minus a possible leading
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The Biblical Quotations in the Old Georgian Translations of The Hexaemeron of Basil of Caesarea
This article addresses the issue of the provenance of the Biblical passages cited in two Georgian translations of the Hexaemeron of St. Basil the Great. Specifically, it focuses on procedures adopted by the translators of Basil's work, namely whether they used any of the surviving Georgian versions of the Holy Scriptures, provided their own rendering, or if the quotations of their translations were taken from a hitherto unknown Georgian recension of the Bible. Finally, this article emphasizes the importance of studying the Biblical passages cited in the Old Georgian translations of the Hexaemeron for a better understanding of the history of the Georgian translation of the Holy Scriptures.

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Gel Electrophoresis of Proteins
Immuno-Electrophoresis / Immuno-Diffusion
Antibodies are produced by the immune system in response to foreign macromolecules. Each antibody binds specifically to one feature (epitope) on one macromolecule (antigen). This allows the use of antibodies for the detection and quantitation of specific proteins in complex mixtures. Antibodies are generally isolated from animal serum, unless they are produced from tissue culture as monoclonals. The serum must be titrated to determine antibody concentration and specificity. Concentration determinations are often needed for antigen mixtures as well. Immunodiffusion and immunoelectrophoresis are useful techniques for these purposes.
If antibody and antigen are present in solution at approximately equal concentrations, they form an aggregate, which precipitates. This precipitate can be dissolved by the addition of an excess of antibody or of antigen (see figure below).
In a gel matrix, if a gradient is established in which antibody concentration decreases linearly in a given direction while antigen concentration increases in the same direction, a precipitate will form a band perpendicular to this direction at the point of approximately equal concentration. This is the basis of both immunodiffusion and immunoelectrophoresis. In both techniques, a gradient of antigen, or of antibody and antigen, establishes a line of precipitate in the gel. The position of the line is indicative of the concentration of antigen or antibody in the sample and may be calibrated against standards. The figures below show different variations of the immunodiffusion assay.
Radial Immuno Diffusion
- Melt 1g agarose in 100ml PBS.
- Spread 1ml of this solution on a glass plate or microscope slide. Allow to dry. This pre coats the slide and allows the gel poured in the next step to adhere to the slide.
- Pour enough of the agarose solution onto the pre-coated slide to cover it to a depth of 1 – 2 mm. Allow this to cool until gelled.
- Punch wells in the gel with a 2 – 3 mm punch. The end of a 1ml glass pipette works well.
- Place antigen and antibody solutions in adjacent wells and allow plate to diffuse 24 hours. It will be necessary to run multiple dilutions of sample and antibody to determine optimum concentrations of each.
Agarose gels have a small number of fixed charges, which cause a phenomenon known as electroendosmosis. EEO causes a slow net flow of water through the gel away from the positive electrode. At a pH of 8.5, antibodies are nearly uncharged, and their slow electrophoretic migration is nullified by the EEO flow through the agarose. Most other proteins are highly charged at pH 8.5 and will migrate through an agarose gel. If antiserum is included in the gel matrix, immunoprecipitates will form, in a pattern dependent upon the antigen concentration. This technique, immuno-electrophoresis, is much faster than immuno-diffusion and has been applied in a variety of geometries, to analyze simple or complex samples.
- Cast a 1% agarose gel, in buffer at pH 8.6 containing typically 1% of the desired antiserum.
- Load antigen solutions into wells punched at one end. Run gel with wells closest to the negative electrode. As the antigen proteins enter the gel, they form a concentration gradient, which at some point gives the proper concentration for precipitation with the antibody in the gel. The more concentrated the antigen, the further it must run to be diluted to precipitable levels. The result is that each sample gives a "Rocket", the length of which is proportional to the concentration of antigen in the sample.
- Precipitates can be stained with Coomassie Blue R-250 and detection limits are generally sufficient to quantitate 0.1 – 0.2 g/ml of antigen.
Mixtures containing multiple antigen species which cross-react with the same antiserum may be analyzed by running them first on an analytical gel, then cutting a strip from that gel and laying it in a slit cut into the immuno-electrophoresis gel to form a large well. The result is a pattern that shows the positions of strongly reacting antigen species.
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- Sample Preparation for SDS-PAGE
- Sample Preparation for Native Protein Electrophoresis
- Peptide Mapping
- Native Protein Electrophoresis
- Measuring Molecular Weight with SDS-PAGE
- Isoelectric Focusing
- Immuno-Electrophoresis / Immuno-Diffusion
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- Gel Electrophoresis of RNA & Post Electrophoretic Analysis
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A 54-Year-Old Man Died After Eating A Bag And A Half Of Licorice Every Day For A Few Weeks
By Mayukh Saha / Truth Theory
In a bizarre turn of events, a 54 years old Massachusetts man has reportedly died after eating too much Licorice candy. The doctors confirmed that the rush of sugar had damaged his heart function.
The 54 years old man had been eating around a bag and a half of licorice candy each day for many weeks. This, naturally, resulted in nutrients imbalance.
A cardiologist from Massachusetts, Neel Butala, took up the case in a Medicine Journal. He warned people of the dangers of overloading sugar. He added that even a tiny bit of licorice can result in significant blood pressure increase.
The US Food and Drug officials announced that eating two ounces of black licorice for 12 days can results in heart rhythm issues for 40 and over individuals.
What Makes Black Licorice So Dangerous?
As per medical experts, the main ingredient that makes black licorice so deadly is the glycyrrhizic acid. This ingredient is present in other food items that use licorice root as well.
Your potassium levels drop when you consume too much glycyrrhizic acid. That's because it does not let your body absorb adequate potassium. And, for a healthy functioning heart, one needs an appropriate balance of sodium and potassium. When the potassium level drops, the sodium level increases substantially. This causes heart rhythm problems and increased blood pressure.
Another leading cardiologist from the University of Colorado, Dr. Robert Eckel, further explained that it's not just the licorice candy that's dangerous. He said that any food item that uses the licorice root can cause similar issues. Some other popular food items include licorice teas, jelly beans, etc.
Furthermore, Dr. Eckel added that the Belgian beers and even some types of chewing tobacco contain this dangerous compound. Dr. Eckel was formerly the president of the American Heart Association.
Health experts say, however, that the Massachusetts case was an extreme one. The 54 years old man has switched to black licorice from the red twists. The man had gone to eat at a fast-food restaurant when he had a blackout. The emergency services gave him CPR. He revived only to die the following day. Reports found that his potassium levels were fatally low.
Massachusetts Case Reported To FDA In Hopes To Bring Awareness
As per Dr. Butala, a maximum of 3.1 percent glycyrrhizic acid is allowed in a food item. However, licorice and many other candies don't reveal how much of this compound they have per ounce.
Jeff Beckmann from Hershey states that all their food items are safe to consume but needs to be eaten in moderation. The Hershey Company manufactures licorice candies.
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Recidivism Risk Reduction Incentive
In November 2008, Recidivism Risk Reduction Incentive (RRRI) legislation was enacted. Most commonly referred to as RRRI, the law enables eligible, non-violent offenders to reduce their minimum sentences if they complete recommended programs and maintain a positive prison adjustment, or in other words, they practice good conduct and remain misconduct free during their incarceration. The reduction provided is a percentage off their minimum sentence that is based upon the sentence length.
Research demonstrates that public safety is enhanced when less violent offenders complete evidence-based programs that address their criminal ways of thinking and behaviors and follow the rules during incarceration. Such inmates are less likely to victimize someone else after they are released. Research further tells us that the longer these less serious inmates remain in prison the greater the chance they will recidivate.


Easier for the reader = Hard for the writer
Had the thought below today. Good writing is a delight for the reader but often painful to get it to be a delight by the writer. Bad writing, conversely, comes when a writer just "puts it all out there" and hasn't really crafted and refined it and simplified it.
1. Easy for the writer = hard for the reader
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|FAO: How to fish without ruining your marine ecosystem! - From the needs assessment to action|
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From the needs assessment to action
Of the total of 35 schools in Senegal and The Gambia (15 primary and 11 secondary schools in Senegal and 7 primary and 2 secondary schools in The Gambia), which participated in the needs assessment survey, nine have confirmed their interest to participate in pilot activities.
The preparations of the pilot activities are in full swing, actively involving local partners.
In Senegal, the Union of Volunteers in relation to Environment Education (UNI.V.ERE - l'Union des Volontaires de l'Education Relative à l'Environnement) is an NGO working on the promotion of environmental issues in the national curriculum. Two founding members are Gora Kane, retired school system inspector and president of UNI.V.ERE, and Seydou Sow, the Director General of "Nouvelles Editions Africaines du Sénégal".
They have already developed a teaching aid to support teachers' work on general environment themes. The teaching aid has been prepared in the context of the regional IUCN project on environmental education (PREE). This general teaching aid 'Outils techniques et pédagogiques pour la défense du littoral côtier marin' (Technical and pedagogical tools for the protection of the coastal marine environment) prepared by UNI.V.ERE is intended to help using the IUCN knowledge handbook "Discovering the coastal and marine environment in West Africa" effectively in schools. The two leaders of UNI.V.ERE are understandably keen to see some practical trials carried out using the existing educational materials and additional ones under preparation by this project implemented by Mundus maris. Having such experienced partners engage with the pilot activities is expected to support quality in design, implementation and evaluation. The original French version of the teaching aid can be consulted here. Use for non-profit and particularly educational purposes is allowed as long as the source is fully acknowledged. The UNI.V.ERE teaching aid does not form part of the kit of the Nansen pilot activities, but could be of general interest.
In The Gambia, Stay Green Foundation (SGF) is a recognised NGO, particularly active in environment protection on the North Bank of the country. SGF is headed by Baboucarr Mbye, who has extensive experience in training the trainers on environmental matters combined with gender and wider social equity concerns. SGF is a regular collaborator with IUCN and has in turn some female teachers working more particularly in the coastal zone from Banjul to Gunjur, particularly Therese Jatta et Fatou Duti Jatta.
The Director of the Serekunda Primary School, Bolong Turay, is having his hands full already with the management of his well-run school with some 4000 pupils. All the same, he welcomed the concept of the pilot activities and indicated his willingness to host the preparatory and evaluation workshops to get the teaching trials done in the second quarter of 2012.
The period of December 2011 and January 2012 has been put to good use to put together teacher support kits composed of
Fish rulers are not entirely new to the region. Birane Samb, at the time a researcher at the Marine Research Centre (CRODT) in Dakar and partner in the INCOFISH international research collaboration about 'Reconciling multiple demands on coastal zones', had already prepared one a few years back. The fish ruler shows the image of major fish species, which are overfished already and indicates the minimum size at which the fish will have reproduced. If only larger specimens are caught, the population should be safe from collapse, even be able to rebuild and to sustain a productive fishery. The research project produced a routine on its website to help anybody interested to develop such fish rulers for their country or part of the sea. They have recently been promoted e.g. in Germany by the consumer protection agency in Hamburg and Peru through a collaboration between IMARPE, the national Fisheries Research Institute, and Mundus maris.
Experiences since the first exploration of fish rulers hold some lessons. The pioneers used the strict scientific definition of "length at first maturity", meaning the total length at which 50% of the population have reproduced (that means, the other half has not). As overfishing continues and stocks collapse, scientists now propose a minimum length at which 90 or 100% of the individuals in a fish population have reproduced at least once. If this were generally applied, stocks would not collapse anymore from overfishing and the total weight produced for human consumption would automatically be higher (bigger size = more fish to eat). In other words, it would be a win-win situation for all concerned, not only for the fishers themselves.


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Unwinding and delicate underwater sound can be valuable and helpful for your wellbeing from numerous points of view. Any underwater sound that you discover alleviating is viewed as loosening up underwater sound. Stress can be brought about by numerous sources. One sort of pressure comes from commotion contamination which is all over. It can influence you intellectually and truly in a negative manner. Underwater sound that loosens up your body can give you alleviation from noisy clamor. The musical example, tone surfaces and consonant resonances in underwater sound has been concentrated by analysts and noted to lessen pressure or assist with overseeing it.
Stress can likewise cause sleep hardship. There have been EEG examines that showed sleep can be instigated by underwater sound. Levels of melatonin have been found to increment. Analyst has additionally demonstrated that paying attention to unwinding and delicate underwater sound around 45 minutes before sleep time can help you sleep. The underwater sound ought to be delayed with 60-80 beats each moment. The lethargic beats are something that make underwater sound unwinding. Underwater sound with substantial beats might be diverting so you cannot unwind. Your pulse will back off if the underwater sound is quieting you. Circulatory strain and breath will likewise be influenced decidedly.
Unwinding and delicate underwater sound can likewise be called mending underwater sound due to the manner in which it assists you with managing various feelings. Commonly it will change the manner in which you feel. Underwater sound can enact spaces of the cerebrum that cause you to feel glad. Since underwater sound can lift your disposition, it would be ideal on the off chance that you experience the ill effects of despondency. Some exploration expresses that downturn manifestations can be facilitated by up to 25 percent just from paying attention to underwater sound. One justification this might be that underwater sound can cause you to feel more good. Mozart is one kind of underwater sound that has been found to quiet the psyche and the body rhythms and Read More Here. It is additionally said to further develop correspondence of feelings, ideas and contemplations.
Your body feels better in a casual state which can support your invulnerable framework. Underwater sound can likewise be utilized as a recuperating device to urge a reaction to mending. An advantageous method to utilize underwater sound for recuperating is to utilize it alongside other mending procedures. There is a lot of confirmation that paying attention to the right sounds and vibrations can support the safe framework. A few sorts of underwater sound can even build lymphocytes or cells that battle contamination. At the point when the chemical cortisol is high it can make your invulnerable framework be more vulnerable. The right underwater sound can diminish the degrees of cortisol. It is ideal to pick the sort of underwater sound that helps you by and by to have an improved outlook when you pay attention to it.


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Medieval Islamic manuscripts on display at the Morgan, NYC
The Middle Ages produced some amazing works of art. Some of the best are the illuminated manuscripts from the Islamic world.
The above image, courtesy Graham S. Haber and the Morgan Library & Museum shows a woman relaxing after her bath. It was painted in Herat, Afghanistan. In many parts of the medieval Islamic world it was forbidden to create images of living things, but in other regions it was common.
The Morgan Library & Museum in New York City has an extensive collection of these works of art and now they're on display in an exhibition called Treasures of Islamic Manuscript Painting from the Morgan. The earliest manuscript in the exhibition is a late-thirteenth century treatise on animals and their uses considered by some experts as one of the most important medieval Islamic manuscripts. There's also a biography of the poet Rumi, several richly decorated Korans, and illustrations from the story of Majnun and Laila, the Islamic Romeo and Juliet.
There's even a treatise on demonology, but sadly not a copy of the Necronomicon.
Treasures of Islamic Manuscript Painting from the Morgan runs from 21 October 2011 to 29 January 2012.


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Almyra as seen in Fódlan's map.
Almyra (pronounced /ɑlˈmaɪɹə/[key]; Japanese: パルミラ Palmyra) is a kingdom located at the far east of Fódlan, bordering with the Leicester Alliance. The kingdom's lands contain mountains, deserts and fertile prairies. It boasts a culture that promotes warfare and conserves a strong tradition towards horsemanship.[1]
While not much is known about Almyra's past, it has long since held a contested relationship with Fódlan due to their people's love for battle. In Imperial Year 961, the Almyran army crossed Fódlan's Throat and invaded Alliance territory, which was barely driven off with help from the Adrestian Empire. Somewhere around 980, the Officers Academy was founded at Garreg Mach Monastery with the intention of preparing the people of Fódlan against future Almyran invasions. In 1101, Fódlan's Locket was constructed in Fódlan's Throat as a joint effort between the Adrestian Empire, Holy Kingdom of Faerghus, and Leicester Alliance to defend against future Almyran invasions, with House Goneril of Leicester being given the responsibility of guarding it.
In 1160, Tiana von Riegan, daughter of Duke Riegan, fell in love with the king of Almyra and eventually abandoned Leicester in pursue of her beloved, both eventually bringing a child into life named Khalid. In 1177, House Goneril captured an orphan named Cyril during one of the Alliance's skirmishes against Almyra and turned him into a servant; in 1178, during one of Archbishop Rhea's visits to House Goneril, she noticed Cyril and offered him work at Garreg Mach Monastery, a chance Cyril took. In 1179, Khalid traveled from Almyra into the Leicester Alliance, adopted the name of "Claude von Riegan" and proclaimed himself as the legitimate heir to House Riegan. Afterwards, he enrolled into Garreg Mach Monastery in the Golden Deer house, studying and fighting alongside his peers. Late in 1180, newly-crowned Adrestian emperor Edelgard von Hresvelg declared war on the Church of Seiros, triggering a bloody five-year long conflict within Fódlan. Almyra's role in the war, if any, would be determined by the actions of a mercenary named Byleth Eisner.
On the Verdant Wind route, where Byleth taught the Golden Deer, Claude spent five years surreptitiously setting up Almyra's intervention in the war on the Alliance's side as a part of his long-held dream to forge a new peace between Almyra and Fódlan. His opportunity came during the siege of the imperial Fort Merceus. Famed Almyran general Nader led his troops into battle and helped Claude conquer the fort. However, he was driven off when a cult known only as "those who slither in the dark" annihilated Merceus with strange weapons Nader dubbed "javelins of light". Nevertheless, the Alliance emerged victorious in the war, and Claude returned to Almyra to take the throne and fulfill his dream of peace.
On the Crimson Flower route, where Byleth taught the Black Eagles and sided with the Empire, Claude called in Almyran reinforcements led by Nader to fight in the battle of Derdriu. However, Nader was driven off, the Alliance was defeated, and Claude was exiled or executed at the player's discretion. Nader later triggered another skirmish at Fódlan's Locket, but was personally defeated by Edelgard.
Characters from Almyra
Character Description Appears in
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The son of the Almyran king and Tiana von Riegan. Three Houses, Heroes
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An Almyran orphan who was captured by House Goneril of Leicester. Currently works at Garreg Mach Monastery. Three Houses
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A renowned Almyran general who frequents Fódlan's Locket. Three Houses
Etymology and other languages
Names, etymology and in other regions
Language Name Definition, etymology and notes
Alteration of Palmyra.
Palmyra; from the ancient city of Palmyra, located in present day Syria.
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 1. "A great kingdom to the east of Fódlan. Its territory borders that of the Leicester Alliance, with the precipitous mountain range known as Fódlan's Throat acting as the deciding line. Its people maintain a strong legacy of horsemanship and relish in the thrill of battle. This vast kingdom is rich in fertile prairies, deserts and mountain ranges." — Traveler's Journal, Issue 1 in the Library of Garreg Mach Monastery, Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Playable characters Black Eagles BernadettaCasparDorotheaEdelgardFerdinandHubertLinhardtPetra
Blue Lions AnnetteAsheDedueDimitriFelixIngridMercedesSylvain
Golden Deer ClaudeHildaIgnatzLeonieLorenzLysitheaMarianneRaphael
Other AloisAnna*BylethCatherineCyrilFlaynGilbertHannemanJeritza*ManuelaSetethShamir
Ashen Wolves* BalthusConstanceHapiYuri
Non-playable characters Abysskeeper*Duke AegirDuke GerthFlecheGatekeeperGlennHolstIonius IXJeraltJudithLadislavaLambertLord ArundelMonicaNaderPatriciaRandolphRheaRodrigueRufusSeirosSitriSothisTomasTiana
Chapters Part I
White Clouds
Part II Silver Snow
Silver Snow
Azure Moon
Azure Moon
Verdant Wind
Verdant Wind
Crimson Flower
Crimson Flower
Cindered Shadows
(DLC side story)
Cindered Shadows
Locations FódlanAbyssAdrestiaFaerghusGarreg Mach MonasteryLeicesterAlmyraBrigidDagdaSreng
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south saint paul
city, Dakota county, southeastern Minnesota, U.S. It lies on the Mississippi River, adjacent to the city of St. Paul. It was settled in the 1850s on the site of a Sioux village (Kaposia, 1826-53). Until 1889 the South St. Paul area included West St. Paul. The St. Paul Union Stockyards opened in 1886, bringing large numbers of primarily central and eastern European immigrants to the city to work in the yards and associated meatpacking plants. By the 1970s, however, most of the large plants had closed, and the stockyard decreased dramatically in size. Efforts at redevelopment soon followed, and during the 1990s the former site of a major plant was turned into an industrial park. The city's economy still includes some meatpacking, as well as the manufacture of pumps and pumping equipment and a mail-order retail operation. A community college (1969) is located in nearby Inver Grove Heights. The eastern section of South St. Paul is part of the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area. Inc. 1887. Pop. (1990) 20,197; (2000) 20,167.
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Presentation on theme: "Our Children on Water An international art exhibition of children's paintings on water and the vital role of chemistry in providing this safely and sustainably."— Presentation transcript:
Our Children on Water An international art exhibition of children's paintings on water and the vital role of chemistry in providing this safely and sustainably We would like to build on the highly innovative exhibition by the children from Room 13 in the Sapebuso School in Soweto, South Africa, where children were asked to express their thoughts on the following question in their paintings: "Water is a resource that we all need everyday. Tell us how you and your family collect, store and use water, and how you feel about water." The resulting collection of paintings displayed breathtaking imagination and showed that the children were able to view water from many different, thought-provoking perspectives.
The Idea We propose to continue this art exhibition with paintings from children from other parts of the Pan African Chemistry Network, including Nairobi in Kenya and Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. This would be enhanced by paintings from children in well-known European locations, such as London, Madrid, Bratislava, Berlin, Budapest, etc – countries which face different challenges in providing their citizens with clean sustainable water. Such a collection of paintings, if prominently displayed and strongly promoted, would draw attention to the work of scientists in industry and academia in providing safe and clean water for people across Europe and in Africa. This project would be pan-European, and would have the potential to make inter-continental links to African countries. It would enable the chemistry community to shine a light on the many international projects on sustainable water that exist.
Making it happen The scale of the exhibition would depend on the number of participants, with each country encouraging local children to create a set of paintings on the theme of water, and arranging exhibition space in a well-known location. We expect that the total exhibition would include between 100 to 200 paintings. Once this has been defined, a schedule will be agreed for the tour, which would include African and European locations. The experienced communications team at the RSC would work with partner societies in each participating country to maximise publicity. In order to make this possible, we will be seeking funding from our industrial partners to cover the costs of this project. We will leave you with some more images from Soweto….


good blocks but
 skip over corrupt blocks. To extract information from the corrupt
 block there are three main options:
 – Select column data from any good indexes
 This is discussed towards the end of the following 2 articles:
 Oracle7 – using ROWID range scans Note:34371.1
 Oracle8/8i – using ROWID range scans Note:61685.1
 – See if Oracle Support can extract any data from HEX dumps of the
 corrupt block.
 – It may be possible to salvage some data using Log Miner
 Once you have the data extracted
 Once you have the required data extracted either into an export file
 or into another table make sure you have a valid database backup before
 proceeding. The importance of this cannot be over-emphasised.
 Double check you have the SQL to rebuild the object and its indexes
 Double check that you have any diagnostic information if requested by
 Oracle support. Once you proceed with dropping the object certain
 information is destroyed so it is important to capture it now.
 Now you can:
 If 10231 was set at instance level:
 Remove the 'event' line from the init.ora file
 SHUTDOWN and RESTART the database.
 Make sure the 10231 event is no longer shown
 RENAME or DROP the problem table
 If you have space it is advisable to RENAME the
 problem table rather than DROP it at this stage.
 Recreate the table.
 Eg: By importing.
 Take special care to get the storage clauses
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 Create any indexes, triggers etc.. required
 Again take care with storage clauses.
 Re-grant any access to the table.
 If you RENAMEd the original table you can drop it once
 the new table has been tested.
 2. Using The Export Utility To Check For Database Corruption
 This document provides information how the Export utility can be used
 to check the consistency of a database. In addition, the document provides
 examples how to export the database without creating an export dump file
 (i.e. writing to a null device).
 The article is intended for Database Administrators who need to check the
 consistency of the data in an Oracle7, Oracle8, Oracle8i, or Oracle9i database.
 The article does not deal with how to resolve the data corruption (see other
 articles mentioned in the "Related Documents").
 1. When an Oracle data block is corrupted, it can be:
 a. Physical corrupt
 This can be defined as a damage to the internal data structure in a way
 that prevents Oracle from being able to read the data in the corrupted
 blocks. Physical corruption can be due to a hardware or software and can
 occur in MEMORY or on DISK. The information in the block doesn't make
 any sense after the read from disk (also called: media corrupt).
 b. Logical Corrupt
 The Oracle RDBMS is able to find the data, but the data values are
 incorrect: the block is marked as corrupt after detecting an
 inconsistency (also called: soft corrupt).
 2. A full database export can be used to check the consistency of a database.
 This full database export implies a full table scan on all the tables
 to retrieve the data. This is a good method for checking the logical
 consistency and detecting both for physical corruption (in used blocks)
 and for logical corruption (data-dictionary issues).
 3. When any inconsistency is found, the following errors are reported
 EXP-00056 Oracle error 1578 encountered
 ORA-01578 Oracle data block corrupted (file # 9, block # 12731)"
 ORA-01110 data file 9: '
 The data block indicated was corrupt, mostly due to software errors.
 See the following note how to resolve this corruption:
 Note:28814.1 "Handling Oracle Block Corruptions in Oracle7/8/8i/9i"
 1. Export only reads:
 – user data below the high water mark;
 – parts of the data dictionary, while looking up information concerning
 the objects being exported.
 2. Only a Conventional path export is able to detect logical corrupt blocks.
 When using a Direct path export, the data is read from disk directly
 into the export session's program global area (PGA): the rows are
 transferred directly to the Export session's private buffer. This means
 that the SQL command-processing layer (evaluation buffer) is bypassed,
 because the data is already in the format that Export expects.
 Therefore, do not specify the export parameter DIRECT=Y but use DIRECT=N
 which is also the default value for the DIRECT parameter.
 3. Export does not detect all corruptions:
 – does not detect disk corruptions above the high water mark;
 – does not detect corruptions in indexes, or in free or temporary extents;
 – does not detect all corruptions in the data dictionary (the export
 utility does not read all of the data dictionary, so there could still
 be undetected corruptions in the SYSTEM tablespace).
 Note 1: The High Water Mark is the boundary between used and unused space in
 a segment. As requests for new free blocks that cannot be satisfied
 by existing free lists are received, the block to which the high water
 mark points becomes a used block, and the high water mark is advanced
 to the next block. In other words, the segment space to the left of
 the high water mark is used, and the space to the right of it is
 unused. When a COMMIT runs, the high-water mark is updated to the
 new value, making the data visible to users.
 Note 2: See the following article for an overview of other available database
 block checking features:
 Note:32969.1 "Database Block Checking Features"
 1. You do not have to create a dump file when you perform an export if all you
 want is to check the consistency of the data. On UNIX systems, use
 /dev/null as the file name, for OpenVMS use NL:, and for Windows use NUL.
 When you do this, the export utility reads all the data but writes it to
 the null device.
 a. Example for Windows platforms
 exp system/manager full=y log=exp_db_chk.log file=nul
 b. Example for UNIX platforms
 exp system/manager full=y log=exp_db_chk.log file=/dev/null volsize=100g
 The VOLSIZE parameter is needed on the UNIX platform in order to prevent
 the following question (after starting the Export utility) when exporting
 to /dev/null: Volume size ( for no restriction) >
 c. Example for VMS platform
 exp system/manager full=y log=exp_db_chk.log file=nl:
 3. Extracting Data from a Corrupt Table using ROWID or Index Scans in Oracle7
 Salvaging data from a TABLE in Oracle7
 This article is an extension to Note:28814.1 which discusses the
 options available for handling block corruptions in Oracle.
 Here we describe how to retrieve data from a table which contains a
 corrupt block (or blocks) in Oracle7 releases.
 *** This article does NOT cover Oracle8 – see Note:61685.1 instead ***
 In order to use the steps here you need to have a list of all corrupt
 File/Blocks in the table. Ideally you should have the following
 information to hand:
 – Original Error
 – File# – Referred to as in this article
 – Block# – Referred to as in this article
 – Object Type – eg: TABLE or CLUSTER
 – Object Owner.Name
 – Related Objects – eg: Indexes, Foreign key constraints etc…
 If not then see Note:28814.1 for details of how to get this information.
 There are several ways to extract data from a corrupt table:
 (1) Easiest and first choice:
 – From Oracle 7.2 onwards there is an Oracle event which
 can be used to SKIP over corrupt blocks.
 This is by far the simplest option to extract table data
 and is discussed in Note:33405.1. Note that this event
 can only be used if the corrupt block reports ORA-1578.
 (2) Second choice (which is more complicated):
 – From Oracle 7.1 onwards you can use a ROWID range scan.
 This method is discussed in this article.
 (3) Third choice (which can be time consuming):
 – If there is a primary key you can select table data via
 this index.
 It may also be possible to select some of data via any
 other index. This can be slow and time consuming.
 This method is also discussed in this article but it not
 normally needed in current Oracle releases.
 If (1) to (3) above fail or are not possible then there is a 4th option:
 – There are various salvage programs / PLSQL scripts which
 can be used to salvage data from a table. These can take
 longer to set up and use than the above methods but can
 often cope with various


Citrix SD-WAN
Protocol preference
Protocol preference is a Citrix SD-WAN specific feature, which is similar to router administrative distance.
When Citrix SD-WAN learns a route prefix through virtual paths, OSPF protocol, or BGP protocol, at the same time, it follows the following default preference order.
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The protocol with the highest preference order is the most preferred. The route using the protocol with the highest protocol preference value
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If it's hard to find an inequality for you may try the following:
Put and the integral becomes which is clearly divergent.
dx / sqrt (x^4 + 4x^3) from upper limit b=1 and a=0
Does this integral converge or diverge from the work i did am thinking that it divergers, help someone confirom or show me how it worked!!
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The bone marrow is more frequently involved in Hodgkin's granuloma than is suspected, as is shown by autopsy records. Ziegler found the marrow involved in 40 per cent of the cases, while Symmers noted medullary changes in 7 of 15 cases. These authors observed a proliferation of endothelial cells, fibrosis and, in some areas, an increase in normal cell elements of the bone marrow. Other changes characteristic of Hodgkin's granuloma were present.
Actual destruction of the bone has been reported from time to time with and without roentgenographic evidence. Since the advent of the roentgen rays, groups of cases are available in which the earlier symptoms referable to the bones together with the roentgenograms can be studied, and the progress of the disease followed to its termination.
Of 396 cases registered as Hodgkin's granuloma in the Memorial Hospital, the diagnosis was found to have been confirmed by biopsy


The Memory Police
The Memory Police
Japanese Title: 密やかな結晶 (Hisoyaka na kesshō)
Author: Yoko Ogawa (小川 洋子)
Translator: Stephen Snyder
Publication Year: 1994 (Japan); 2019 (United States)
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Pages: 274
The Memory Police is set on an island isolated from the rest of the world. The island is large enough to support a hospital, a university, and even a publishing company, but its community is small enough for people to be able to gather together for significant events. Like her parents before her, the narrator has lived on this island her entire life, and she takes its idiosyncrasies for granted.
The narrator's island is cozy, with lovely bakeries and gardens. No one seems worried about money, and the narrator is able to live in a comfortable house despite the fact that the only work she does is to write novels that, by her own admission, no one reads. The narrator focuses her attention on the small details of everyday life, and it's only gradually that the peacefulness and nostalgia of the narrative begin to unravel.
Every so often an object will "disappear." Almost overnight, whatever has disappeared will vanish not just from the world, but from everyone's memory as well. It's not entirely clear how or why this works, but no one questions it. In some instances, such as perfume and photographs, the objects that disappear must be discarded, usually by means of being ritually thrown into a river or incinerated. In other cases, such as when the concept of "fruit" disappears, all the fruit on the island literally falls from the trees to the ground. Once something disappears, all perception of it disappears as well, and people aren't able to recognize something that's disappeared even if they're looking at it. Even idiomatic expressions change, as with "to hit two creatures with one stone" after birds disappear. The world of the narrator is limited, but her attention to detail is precise, so even small disappearances take on an emotional weight for the reader.
Some people don't lose their memories, however, and this is where the eponymous memory police come in. This is also where the novel becomes dystopian, with midnight arrests, people suddenly going missing, families fleeing, and all records of these incidents buried deep within an impenetrable bureaucracy. The narrator's mother, who worked as a sculptor and kept a variety of disappeared objects hidden in a cabinet, was an early casualty of the memory police, leaving the narrator an orphan.
The narrator gradually realizes that her editor is also immune to disappearances, and she resolves to keep him safe by concealing him in a sealed room in the basement of her house while his pregnant wife flees to a rural area north of town, ostensibly for the sake for her health. As her editor continues to read and comment on the narrator's manuscript in secret, an intimacy develops between them, which is reflected in the strange and surreal excerpts from her novel interspersed throughout the main story.
As the novel progresses, the rate of disappearances increases, an alarming trend that is exacerbated by environmental disaster. At the end of the story, the concept of "disappearances" is followed to its logical conclusion in an undeniably disturbing yet surprisingly soft and gentle manner.
The Memory Police is dystopian horror fiction reminiscent of The Handmaid's Tale, but it's also a meditation on the ghosts that quietly follow us without ever attracting our notice. There may be no memory police in the real world, but we still forget things all the time, and we forget them so thoroughly that we don't even realize we've forgotten them. The narrator is just as susceptible to these small disappearances as everyone else, but what sets her apart is that she understands the value of remembering and the importance of preservation. By maintaining a diversity of small narratives, the larger narrative represented by the memory police – namely, that which is not productive must be aggressively forgotten – can be resisted. The novel works on multiple levels as historical and political allegory, but it's also universal and deeply personal.
The Memory Police was originally published in 1994, but it feels contemporary, fresh, and relevant. There are no specific cultural markers in the text, and most character names are abbreviated as single letters, a device that confers an air of timelessness to the story. This novel is therefore accessible to a broad general audience with no knowledge of Japan, and the translation is gorgeous. The Memory Police is brilliant and extraordinary, and it refuses to be forgotten.
Asura Girl
Ashura Girl
Title: Asura Girl
Japanese Title: 阿修羅ガール (Ashura Gāru)
Author: Maijō Ōtarō (舞城 王太郎)
Translator: Stephen Snyder
Publication Year: 2014 (America); 2003 (Japan)
Publisher: Haikasoru
Pages: 214
Asura Girl is narrated by Aiko, a seventeen-year-old student who just so happens to be a total badass of the sort we all wish we could have been in high school. She does what she wants, doesn't apologize for anything, and isn't interested in your shit. Sure, she's a little messed up in the head, but what teenager isn't?
If Aiko's life were nothing more than maintaining her self-respect while dealing with bullying and subpar sex, she'd be okay, but there's a serial killer on the loose. When a boy disappears almost immediately after she left him in a love hotel, she takes steps to lure the murderer to her, because she is pissed off and ready to lay down the law. She is inspired by her enviable collection of DVDs of American movies, especially after she picks up on a parallel between the abduction of her single-serving boytoy and the abduction in The Big Lebowski.
That's right, The Big Lebowski – a perennial favorite of seventeen-year-old girls everywhere.
Asura Girl was written by a thirty-year-old man, and it shows. Aiko is more or less a cross between Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, and a basement-dwelling neckbeard. It makes very little sense to try to understand her as anything other than a construct. There is no sensitive or nuanced portrayal of girlhood in this novel, but that's okay. Sometimes you're just looking for a hardcore metal portrayal of a manic pixie murder girl.
To give you a sense of what this means, this is how Aiko interacts with her crush:
Still, it did sound a little like he was more worried about Maki than me, so as he was taking off his shoes in the doorway I kicked him – my patented Aiko whip kick, a roundhouse to the upper body that I learned from my brother. My bare foot struck his arm – chiban! – and he bent double, letting out a little yelp. Humpf. Drop dead. No, on second thought that might cause trouble. (53)
The boy is okay with it, because of course he is. Aiko is less of a girl power icon than she is a fantasy girlfriend for the author, but her ridiculous character is a perfect for this novel's ridiculous story.
The family of one of the serial killer's victims set up a website asking for help, a plea that went nowhere fast but still managed to inspire a great deal of internet discussion and speculation that coalesced into a vigilante group calling itself "Voice of Heaven." The Voice of Heaven has convinced itself that the serial killer is a middle school boy, and so its members begin to engage in "middling," or ganging up on middle school kids and beating the shit out of them. A grisly confirmation of a new murder sparks widespread riots, in the midst of which Aiko receives an unlikely visitor.
A hundred pages into the novel, there's a vertiginous narrative shift as Aiko undergoes a near-death experience, and her already unstable imagination goes completely off the rails.
I don't want to spoil what happens here, but it is insane.
When Aiko returns from her epic vision quest ninety pages later, she has learned nothing. Regardless, she understands that she's been given a new lease on life to make a fresh set of terrible decisions, and she fully intends to make those decisions as terrible as possible.
And then there's this weird bit at the end about making a sacred Buddhist statue of the warrior-god Asura out of human corpses. Should the reader understand these human corpses as literal, or are they the cast-off shells of Aiko's identity as she constantly reinvents herself yet always stays essentially the same? Why choose when you can have both??
I just, what is this novel, what is it even.
Asura Girl is not for everyone, and I can imagine wide swaths of readers being confused and offended by it. But! If your heart went a little doki-doki when your eyes passed over the words "The Big Lebowski," and if you always thought Reservoir Dogs could have used more Japanese schoolgirls, then Asura Girl is probably for you.
You know who you are.
Title: Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales
Japanese Title: 寡黙な死骸 みだらな弔い
(Kamoku na shigai, midara no tomurai)
Author: Ogawa Yōko (小川 洋子)
Translator: Stephen Snyder
Publication Year: 2013 (America); 1998 (Japan)
Publisher: Picador
Pages: 162
Ogawa Yōko is a writer of the fantastic who spins softly glittering tales of quiet desperation. In Japan, she's known for her


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We present the first stage of a new online-coupled global to regional scale modelling framework for the simulation of the spatiotemporal evolution of aerosols and trace gases. The underlying meteorological model is the new nonhydrostatic model system ICON (ICOsahedral Nonhydrostatic) which allows a local grid refinement with two-way interactions between the grids. We develop the extension ART (Aerosol and Reactive Trace gases) with the goal to simulate interactions between trace substances and the state of the atmosphere. Within this paper, we present the basic equations and give an overview of the physical parameterizations as well as numerical methods we use.
First applications of the new model system for trace gases, monodisperse particles and polydisperse particles are shown. The simulated distribution of two very short-lived substances, Bromoform (CHBr3) and Dibrommethane (CH2Br2) reflecting the fast upward transport shows a good agreement with observations and previous model studies. Also, the shape of the simulated tropical profiles is well reproduced. As an example for the treatment of monodisperse particles we present the simulated ash plume of the Eyjafjallajökull eruption in April 2010.... mehrHere, a novel approach for the source function is applied. The pattern of the simulated distribution of volcanic ash particles shows an agreement with previous studies. As an example for the treatment of a polydisperse aerosol, where number densities and mass concentrations are accounted for, we simulated the annual emissions of sea salt. We obtain a total emission flux of 26.0 Pg yr-1 and an emission flux of particles with diameter less than 10 my m of 7.36 Pg yr-1.


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CAMBRIDGE, MA.- The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
at Harvard University is Le Corbusier's only building in North America, and one of the last to be completed during his lifetime. Made possible by a gift from Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter, it was completed in 1963, with the intent to house the art-making programs of Harvard College under one roof and to symbolize the Universitys visible recognition of the importance of contemporary art. The undergraduate visual arts program, the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies (VES), was created five years later, accepting its first honors concentrators in 1968.
Le Corbusier designed the Carpenter Center at his Paris studio with the collaboration of Chilean architect Guillermo Jullian de la Fuente; the on-site preparation of the construction plans was handled by the office of Josep Lluís Sert, then dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Its wonderful collection of concrete forms bring together many of the design principles and devices from Le Corbusier's earlier works: the ondulatoires from La Tourette; the brise soleils from Marseilles unité d'habitation; and the original Five Points from the 1920s, here re-imagined as if the Villa Savoye had been exploded inside out, with ramp and curved partitions extending into the environment.
Le Corbusiers landmark building was designed to be a laboratory for creative and critical thinking. With its prominent architectural promenade, its enormous ondulatoires or curving windows, its open and intersecting floor plan that encourages perpetual exchange between the exterior and interior of the building, Le Corbusier envisioned the Carpenter Center as an extraordinarily welcoming building that promotes the constant flow of movement, light, energy, and ideas. Its conception of art is inherently democraticall students have the capacity to create, and the capacity for creation should engage all other aspects of the University and its activities. By design, the building embodies a vision of community where the arts, sciences, and humanities do not speak separate languages, or inhabit separate cultures, but rather must constantly challenge and engage one another in a common space where experimentation, whether in the scientific or artistic sense, brings students, critics, and practitioners together in thought and discussion.
In May 2013, the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts will celebrate its 50th anniversary as an architectural and artistic landmark. Programming throughout Fall 2012 and Spring 2013 will showcase the Carpenter Center's vibrant history in diverse and creative ways that highlight the uniqueness of the building and its contributions to the artistic life of Harvard University while celebrating Le Corbusier's synthesis of art and architecture.


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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A game of cards for two to four persons, played with a special deck of 48 cards, with points being scored by taking tricks and forming certain combinations.
- n. The combination of the queen of spades and jack of diamonds in this game.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See penuchle.
- n. card games A card game, similar to bezique.
- n. card games A meld of jack of diamonds and queen of spades in said card game.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A game at cards, played with forty-eight cards, being all the cards above the eight spots in two packs.
- n. a card game played with a pack of forty-eight cards (two of each suit for high cards); play resembles whist
- Perhaps from German dialectal Binokel, beziquelike card game, from French dialectal binocle, spectacles, from New Latin bīnoculus, the two eyes : Latin bīnī, two each; see dwoin Indo-European roots + Latin oculus, eye; see okwin Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
"Interesting that "marriage" is a type of meld in pinochle (king and queen of the same suit)."
"In fact, one of the things he did when he went to New York was that he went to the Waiters Club in New York, and has an - he was a fiend for pinochle, which is - is it "pin-oakley" or "pin-ockle"?"
"This brought the verb meld into much wider circulation than it ever had before, though it had been recorded from the 1880s in connection with other card games, such as pinochle and rummy."
"I did play pinochle in college (but only when I couldn't find a foursome for bridge), but I never really put together the use of the word "meld" in pinochle with any general definition — I just assumed it was a specialized term in pinochle & never gave it any thought (sort of how most people play pinochle, which is why I much preferred bridge)."
"It was the kind of a hat which was known in that city as a "pinochle"; pronounced "pea-knuckle" by all well-informed boys."
"He and his card rivals wore fedoras and smoked and played vicious rounds of pinochle."
"The mobsters proved themselves as cold-blooded murderers and often reminisced about their hits while playing pinochle."
"New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia said, "I do not want any of the pinochle club atmosphere to take hold among city workers."
"The pollen, pet dander, mildew, and just good old dirt are constantly flowing in my house! pinochle Says:"
"Reality: One of them, Agnes, who has thin dingy gray hair, lips moist with slobber, and is as tall as she is wide, brayed at me that she and her friends where supposed to meet my grandmother there to play pinochle, but that my grandmother wasn't home yet."
These user-created lists contain the word 'pinochle'.
Im savin it for later
cool beans dude
hit me man
Get a life dude
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
List of terms used in the card game pinochle, beginning with meld and trick.
A list of playing card games employing fewer cards than the typical 52-card deck.
Interesting words worth @ least 15 points.
Classic Children's Toys and Games and Amusements
Verbal curios, because of their meaning, their shape, or their history.
A contemplation of the indo european root meaning of meldh-.
All lists are melds.
Card games with weird and/or unpronounceable names.
Looking for tweets for pinochle.


Colleges for early childhood education
What college has the best early childhood education program?
Top 10 Best Early Childhood Education Degrees
Rank School Location
1 University of Georgia Athens, GA
2 Arizona State University Tempe, AZ
3 New York University New York, NY
4 Florida Gulf Coast University Fort Meyers, FL
Is early childhood education a good major?
Early Childhood Education Is A Great Asset If You Have Children Of Your Own. While a huge majority of individuals pursuing a degree in early childhood education are dedicated to teaching and improving the minds and lives of other people's children, this career path can have benefits that are even closer to home.
What jobs can I get with a degree in early childhood education?
What kind of degree do you need for early childhood education?
To be an early childhood educator, you usually need a bachelor's degree or college diploma in early childhood education. With experience, you may move up the ranks to become a daycare supervisor. To be an early childhood educator assistant, you usually need a high school diploma and some experience in child care.
How much does a kindergarten teacher make per year?
How much does a Kindergarten Teacher make in Australia?
City Average salary
Kindergarten Teacher in Melbourne VIC 23 salaries $69,226 per year
Kindergarten Teacher in Brisbane QLD 9 salaries $65,556 per year
Kindergarten Teacher in Sydney NSW 11 salaries $16,433 per month
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Where do preschool teachers make the most money?
The states and districts that pay Preschool Teachers the highest mean salary are New York ($48,630), Connecticut ($43,350), District of Columbia ($42,060), New Jersey ($40,880), and Hawaii ($39,560).
What teaching jobs pay the most?
15 highest-paying teaching jobs Library technician. National average salary: $16.12 per hour. Special education teacher. National average salary: $17.00 per hour. Elementary school teacher. English as a second language teacher. Health educator. High school teacher. Guidance counselor. Learning and development coordinator.
What is preschool teacher salary?
28,570 USD (2015)
What is the highest paid job in childcare?
What skills do I need for childcare?
What Skills Do You Need to Become a Childcare Worker? A passion for working with and relating to children. Lots of patience and compassion. Flexibility in relation to working hours. A willingness to take on a range of activities and tasks as required. Plenty of energy and enthusiasm on a daily basis.
What skills can you bring to the childcare setting?
5 Skills & Qualities a child care worker must have Decision – making skills. While taking care of children there are going to be many situations where the child care worker must act quickly and make an appropriate judgment to fix the problem. Being patient. Communication skills. Monitoring skills. Being enthusiastic.
How do I start a career in early childhood education?
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Do you need a degree for early childhood education?
To become an early childhood teacher, you will need to complete at least four years of tertiary study, including an accredited teacher education program, at a recognised university or higher education institution, such as: a Bachelor of Education (Primary) Bachelor of Teaching ( Early Childhood and Primary).
Can I open a daycare without a degree?


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Le Corbusier, assumed name of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (_PHONE_) was a Swiss architect.
His functionalist approach to town planning in industrial society was based on the interrelation between modern machine forms and the techniques of modern architecture.
His concept, La Ville Radieuse, developed in Marseille (_PHONE_) and Chandigarh, India, placed buildings and open spaces with related functions in a circular formation, with buildings based on standard sized units mathematically calculated according to the proportions of the human figure.
He was originally a painter and engraver, but turned his attention to the problems of contemporary industrial society. Vers une architecture (1923) and Le Modulor (1948) have had worldwide influence on town planning and building design.
Why is Le Corbusier famous?
Le Corbusier was an architect, designer, urbanist and writer


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Date: 18 July 2012 at 02:48
Gibraltar has become the world's first Wikipedia City. At a press conference on Wednesday morning, Minister for Tourism, Neil Costa, delivered a presentation on the online Gibraltarpedia project.
Gibraltarpedia involves a multi-lingual online Wikipedia pack on the Rock's rich flora, history and culture. The idea for this project came from local Wikipedian, Tyson Lee Holmes, who read about the first Wikipedia town in Wales. Monmouthpedia is a comprehensive Wikipedia page-based record of its own cultural heritage. Professor Clive Finlayson has since been working with the Tourist Board and with Wikimedia UK to make Gibraltar the world's first Wikipedia City.
The articles will be written by a mix of locals, academics, historians and Wikipedians from around the globe. Minister for Tourism, Neil Costa, said the project would revolutionise the way we narrate our culture and demonstrate our cross-section of different communities in a virtual way.
It's estimated that nearly 500 million people a month will have access to all this information on Gibraltar. The process of creating WiFi hotspots on the Rock is underway and Gibraltarpedia applications will be available for download on smartphones. This will make the articles accessible to visitors at different tourist attractions.


How Facebook uses its 'donate now' button to reach millennials
How Facebook uses its 'donate now' button to reach millennials
When Facebook launched its "donate now" button last year, it introduced a new way for nonprofits to target millennials.
The button allows users to contribute directly and instantly to nonprofit organizations they would like to support. Participating nonprofits can include the feature in their shared posts and on their Facebook pages.
Users simply enter their payment information and the amount they would like to donate, and they can donate to a cause as soon as they read about it on their newsfeeds. They even have the option to share such posts with their friends.
With this feature, Facebook has joined the trend of for-profit businesses launching advocacy enterprises that could eventually earn them profit. It is also establishing relationships with the nonprofits with which it partners. It has championed a way for nonprofits to spread the word about their causes, allowing donations to go viral.
So why is the "donate now" button meaningful and effective for millennials?
1. Millennials care about causes and want to see brands do the same
More than any previous generation, millennials are passionate about issues and often look for ways to engage in cause campaigns.
They want to make a difference in the world, and they want to see brands supporting the causes in which they believe. For millennials, corporate social responsibility is no longer just an option — it's a requirement.
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But with every brand jumping on the social justice bandwagon, cause marketing becomes lost in a noisy landscape. With the donate button, Facebook has taken it one step further by not only connecting users directly with nonprofits, but also by giving users control over where their money is directed.
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Demand Response Research Center
In 1993 the California Energy Commission founded the Demand Response Research Center (DRRC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Its purpose was to develop ways to reduce electricity demand in response to price, monetary incentives, or utility directives to maintain reliable electric service or avoid high electricity prices.
From its inception through 2015, researchers at the DRRC developed ways to automate demand response. They developed a communication protocol known as OpenADR to transmit demand response signals between suppliers and electricity users. OpenADR has since become a US national standard, in use in more than 1300 facilities and in 10 countries.
Researchers at the DRRC developed methods for energy users to vary electric loads in response to OpenADR signals by automatically controlling air conditioning, lighting, and process loads in buildings, industrial facilities, and agricultural operations. By 2013, working with utilities, the DRRC had enabled more than 250 megawatts of load shed capability and developed free public-access software tools to allow implementers to quickly estimate the potential for facilities to shed loads, and secure software to allow consumers to access near real-time data from smart meters. The work of the DRRC contributed to national and international efforts to create standards for a 'smart grid' that is resilient and can accommodate new demands such as intermittent distributed renewable energy sources and electric vehicle battery charging.


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INHOUSE training available (terms and condition apply)Course Objective
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Utilities for turn-based games
It is recommended that you read the Get Started tutorial before progressing with this tutorial.
Turn-based games often require more detailed control over which nodes that units can traverse as well as the cost for traversing those nodes, which may vary between units. On the other hand maximum pathfinding performance is not always needed since most units will be stationary at any one time.
It is possible to update all movement costs and similar attributes for nodes in the graph before every path request however this is not a particularly clean solution so this package provides some other ways to do this.
If you need even more control you can take a look at the ITraversalProvider section.
Blocking nodes
The most common scenario is that one wants to block certain nodes from being traversed by some units but not by others. For example in a turn based game one usually want to prevent units from standing on the same tile, however a unit should obviously not be blocked by itself.
For this purpose the BlockManager component and the accompanying SingleNodeBlocker component exist. The SingleNodeBlocker is intended to be used as an easy way of blocking specific nodes where each SingleNodeBlocker component blocks exactly one node. The BlockManager component will keep track of all the SingleNodeBlocker components and allows the creation of TraversalProvider instances which can be used in paths to specify additional nodes that are blocked.
A separate example of this can be viewed in the example scene called "Turnbased". This example scene depends on pro features however so it is not included in the free version of the package. The features mentioned in this tutorial do not require the pro version.
In this tutorial we will create a new scene and a few scripts to test the API.
Create a new scene and save it in your project, name it "TurnBasedTest" or whatever you feel like. Add a new GameObject and name it "BlockManager" then select it and attach the BlockManager component to it.
Now add a sphere and place it at (1.5, 0, 2.5). This will put it right in the center of a node. Add the SingleNodeBlocker script to it and assign the BlockManager component we created earlier to the "manager" field on the SingleNodeBlocker component. Make sure you delete the collider on the sphere because otherwise the sphere will be detected as an obstacle anyway and we want to use the SingleNodeBlocker for that. Create another GameObject and name it "A*", then add the AstarPath component to it (Menu bar -> Pathfinding -> Pathfinder). You can add a large plane to the scene if you want, just to have something to have as a ground plane. Add a Grid Graph to the AstarPath component and set the "Unwalkable when no ground" setting to false. If you click the Scan button now you should see a small empty grid with a single sphere. Note that the sphere does NOT block any node in the graph by itself.
Now we want that SingleNodeBlocker to actually block some position, so create a new C# script named "BlockerTest.cs" and add this code:
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using Pathfinding;
public class BlockerTest : MonoBehaviour {
public void Start () {
var blocker = GetComponent();
Add that new script to the sphere that we created earlier. When the game starts, that script make the SingleNodeBlocker component tell the BlockManager that it now occupies the node at that object's position. This is not enough however because no path knows that a node has been blocked yet.
To actually calculate a path we will create a new script called "BlockerPathTest.cs" which should contain this code:
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Pathfinding;
public class BlockerPathTest : MonoBehaviour {
public BlockManager blockManager;
public List obstacles;
public Transform target;
BlockManager.TraversalProvider traversalProvider;
public void Start () {
// Create a traversal provider which says that a path should be blocked by all the SingleNodeBlockers in the obstacles array
traversalProvider = new BlockManager.TraversalProvider(blockManager, BlockManager.BlockMode.OnlySelector, obstacles);
public void Update () {
// Create a new Path object
var path = ABPath.Construct(transform.position, target.position, null);
// Make the path use a specific traversal provider
path.traversalProvider = traversalProvider;
// Calculate the path synchronously
if (path.error) {
Debug.Log("No path was found");
} else {
Debug.Log("A path was found with " + path.vectorPath.Count + " nodes");
// Draw the path in the scene view
for (int i = 0; i < path.vectorPath.Count - 1; i++) {
Debug.DrawLine(path.vectorPath[i], path.vectorPath[i + 1], Color.red);
This script will calculate a path every frame from its own position to the target's position while using a TraversalProvider that was created to make the path avoid any obstacles in the specified list.
The BlockManager.TraversalProvider has 2 modes. AllExceptSelector and OnlySelector. If the AllExceptSelector mode is set then all nodes blocked by SingleNodeBlocker components will be treated as unwalkable except those in the specified list. This is useful if you for example want a unit to avoid all units except itself, or maybe you want it to avoid all units on its own team but no opponents. When the OnlySelector is set then all nodes which are blocked by SingleNodeBlockers in the list will be treated as unwalkable. For performance reasons it is a good idea to keep the selector list relatively small.
Create a new GameObject with the name "Target" and position it at for example (3.5, 0, 3.5). Also create a GameObject named "Path Searcher" and add the new BlockerPathTest component to it. Move the object to the position (-2.5, 0, 3.5) and assign the "Block Manager" and "Target" fields. Now press play, you should see a red line that goes from the "Path Searcher" to the "Target". Note that it passes through the sphere as if it was not there. This is because we haven't added it to the "Obstacles" list on the searcher.
If you stop the game and then add the sphere's SingleNodeBlocker component to the list and press play again you should see that it is now being avoided.
Now we could expand this easily to for example create a number of red spheres and a number of blue spheres and make two searchers where one considers just the blue spheres as obstacles and one considers just the red spheres as obstacles. You can see this in the video below.
The above system works for simple cases and is pretty easy to use. However for more complicated cases it is better to use the ITraversalProvider interface. Any path can be assigned a traversalProvider which has two methods bool CanTraverse (Path path, GraphNode node);
uint GetTraversalCost (Path path, GraphNode node);
The CanTraverse method should just return true or false depending on if the unit should be able to traverse that node. The GetTraversalCost method should return the additional cost for traversing that node. By default if no tags or penalties are used then the traversal cost is zero. A cost of 1000 corresponds roughly to the cost of moving 1 world unit.
As a reference, the default implementation would be
public class MyCustomTraversalProvider : ITraversalProvider {
public bool CanTraverse (Path path, GraphNode node) {
// Make sure that the node is walkable and that the 'enabledTags' bitmask
// includes the node's tag.
return node.Walkable && (path.enabledTags >> (int)node.Tag & 0x1)!= 0;
// alternatively:
// return DefaultITraversalProvider.CanTraverse(path, node);
public uint GetTraversalCost (Path path, GraphNode node) {
// The traversal cost is the sum of the penalty of the node's tag and the node's penalty
return path.GetTagPenalty((int)node.Tag) + node.Penalty;
// alternatively:
// return DefaultITraversalProvider.GetTraversalCost(path, node);
By implementing a custom ITraversalProvider you can change the penalties however you want to suit your game's rules. Note that the grid graph for performance reasons removes all connections to unwalkable nodes, so even if you would remove the "node.Walkable &&" part in the traversal provider a path on grid graphs would still not traverse unwalkable nodes. You can only make nodes unwalkable, not make unwalkable nodes walkable again.
If multithreading is enabled the ITraversalProvider's methods will be called from a separate thread. This means you cannot use any part of the Unity API (except things like math) and you need to make sure your code is thread safe.
When you have implemented an ITraversalProvider you can assign it to a path like was done above. var path = ABPath.Construct(...);
path.traversalProvider = new MyCustomTraversalProvider();
You can find another example of how to use the ITraversalProvider here: CircuitBoardExample.cs


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About this variable: Tenure (4)
'Tenure' refers to whether the household owns or rents their private dwelling. The private dwelling may be situated on rented or leased land or be part of a condominium. A household is considered to own their dwelling if some member of the household owns the dwelling even if it is not fully paid for, for example if there is a mortgage or some other claim on it. A household is considered to rent their dwelling if no member of the household owns the dwelling. A household is considered to rent that dwelling even if the dwelling is provided without cash rent or at a reduced rent, or if the dwelling is part of a cooperative.
For historical and statutory reasons, shelter occupancy on Indian reserves or settlements does not lend itself to the usual classification by standard tenure categories. Therefore, a special category, band housing, has been created for census purposes.
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What is facial reanimation?
Facial reanimation is a term for procedures that help children move their face or make more even movements on both sides of their face.
The nerve that controls the face muscles is called the "facial nerve." One facial nerve comes out of each side of the skull near the ear. These two main nerves divide into many smaller branches that connect to different face muscles:
- Upper-face nerve branches control the eyebrows and eyelids.
- Mid-face nerve branches control movements like smiling and chewing.
- Lower-face nerve branches control the lips.
If the facial nerve or any of its branches does not work, it will affect your child's ability to move the muscles in their face. Those muscles will be paralyzed. This is sometimes called "facial palsy." Facial palsy usually affects only one side of the face. Some children have a condition that affects both of their facial nerves and both sides of their face.
Facial reanimation can be performed at any age. However, there can be some advantages to having the surgery early, including:
- Facial reanimation can help the eyelids close more tightly. This better protects the eye, minimizes the need for lubricants and drops and reduces the risk of corneal exposure and keratitis, which can lead to blindness.
Speech and language development
- Evidence shows that when performed at a younger age, smile surgery may benefit a patient's speech and language development and social interactions.
However, smaller patients require special care for the
part of the surgery. To balance the benefit and challenge of age, facial reanimation is usually done when a child is 4 or 5.
What types of facial reanimation procedures are available?
We offer facial reanimation for children who have paralyzed face muscles involving the eyebrows, eyelids, mid-face and lower lip.
- Eyebrows: If one eyebrow does not move and the other does, doctors inject Botox into the moving eyebrow to paralyze it. This way, the child's eyebrows match from side to side.
- Eyelids: If the eyelids don't close tightly, surgeons may place tiny gold weights inside the upper lid to help pull it down. They may use a small piece of tendon to create a sling that pulls the lower eyelid up.
- Mid-face: If a child cannot smile, surgeons may take a muscle from the child's inner leg (gracilis muscle) and move it to the child's face. They connect one end of this muscle to the cheekbone and the other end to the corner of the mouth. They connect the muscle to working nerves, such as those that help you chew. This procedure is sometimes called "smile surgery."
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- Lower lip: If one side of the lower lip does not move and the other does, doctors inject Botox into the moving side to paralyze it, or take the muscle out on the moving side. This makes the lip match from side to side.
What's special about facial reanimation at Seattle Children's?
Seattle Children's Facial Reanimation Program is the only one of its kind for children in the Northwest. We do many types of facial reanimation. Our experienced team and advanced technology help your child recover faster.
We use minimally invasive surgical techniques to reduce scarring and help your child recover faster.
During surgery, we access the facial nerve using a small facelift incision.
On the leg, we make a small incision along the inner thigh to remove a short piece of the gracilis muscle. The incision is small enough to be hidden by shorts or a skirt.
Each child who comes to Seattle Children's with a facial nerve problem is assessed by a team of providers from many areas of healthcare. This approach - called "interdisciplinary" - helps us learn about your child's condition and provide the best treatment just for them. The team may include pediatricians, surgeons, feeding specialists, speech specialists, therapists, radiologists, nurses, social workers and many others.
The exact team for your child depends on your child's needs. For example, if there's a problem where the facial nerve comes out of the skull near the ear, your child's team may include an ear-nose-throat specialist. If there's a problem with the facial nerve inside the skull, your child's team may include a neurosurgeon.
We make a care plan that works for your child and your family, working closely together to coordinate care before, after and during surgery. We are there to help your child adapt to changes in their face, like after "smile surgery."
To help plan treatment and check your child's growth and measure treatment results, we use the latest technology, like high-definition video and the
camera. This camera takes a precise, digital 3-D (three-dimensional) image of your child's face and head.
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Any child who cannot move part or all of their face because of a problem with the facial nerve might benefit from facial reanimation. We treat children with many types of conditions, including::
, also called hemifacial microsomia
, also called congenital facial diplegia
- Traumatic injury to the facial nerve, such as during birth or from an accident
- Bell's palsy, in which the facial nerve stops working all of a sudden
- Facial nerve problems because a tumor near the nerve was removed
- Other facial nerve problems that children may be born with (congenital) or that may occur later
How does facial reanimation help?
Children who have facial reanimation procedures may enjoy benefits like:
- Facial expression that matches more closely from side to side
- Fewer problems with dry eyes or extra tears because their eyelids can close tightly
- Better ability to eat
- Better ability to speak clearly
- Better ability to smile, express their feelings through their face and interact with others
How do I get more information or make an appointment?
A doctor, such as your child's regular pediatrician, can refer you to our program. You can also call us to find out about making an appointment. Call the Craniofacial Center at _PHONE_.


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What is 'Loan Constant'
A loan constant is an interest factor used to calculate the debt service of a loan. The loan constant, when multiplied by the original loan principal, gives the dollar amount of the periodic payment. The loan constant can be used to compare the true cost of borrowing. Given the choice of two loans, a borrower will generally opt for the one with the lower loan constant, since it will have the lower debt service requirement.
BREAKING DOWN 'Loan Constant'
As a simple example, a loan constant of 8% on a loan of $150,000 would imply a debt service requirement of $12,000 annually.
Loan constant tables were widely used in the real estate industry before the advent of financial calculators, since they made it relatively easy to calculate monthly mortgage payments.


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A gel is a solid jelly-like material that can have properties ranging from soft and weak to hard and tough. Gels are defined as a substantially dilute cross-linked system, which exhibits no flow when in the steady-state. By weight, gels are mostly liquid, yet they behave like solids due to a three-dimensional cross-linked network within the liquid. It is the crosslinking within the fluid that gives a gel its structure (hardness) and contributes to the adhesive stick (tack). In this way gels are a dispersion of molecules of a liquid within a solid in which the solid is the continuous phase and the liquid is the discontinuous phase. The word gel was coined by 19th-century Scottish chemist Thomas Graham by clipping from gelatin.


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The Advanced Design Studies Program (T_ADS) at The University of Tokyo's Department of Architecture is an advanced research and education laboratory which is composed of a series of smaller sub-units. These sub-units include:
- Digital Fabrication Lab (DFL), which researches computation and fabrication,
- Sustainable Prototyping Lab (SPL), which researches material sustainability in an urban context, and
- Media Initiative Lab (MIL), which researches theories of architecture and manages program publications.
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While finger-painting may seem childish to some, artist Judith Ann Braun uses her fingers to create incredible artwork and murals that are anything but. Braun, who has been quite the force in the art world for decades, ditches traditional brushes and other tools that put a distance between the artist and the art and uses only her fingers and charcoal dust to paint beautiful pieces that have been displayed in a number of reputable museums and galleries.
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Judith Ann Braun began painting in the 1980s as a realistic figure painter. In the years to come, she explored paternalism, sexism, racial innuendos and other complex ideas through her art, often incorporating language and text into the pieces. Her art was experimental for its time, and prompted much criticism and disgust. Financial burdens eventually forced Braun to withdraw from making her controversial art, though she returned to the craft in 2003 after a Tarot reading. Braun drew the Lover's Card, which convinced her to begin creating once again.
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