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In Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys not only famously shifts the focus of the narative from Brontë's Jane Eyre to Bertha Rochester (who here first appears as Antoinette, but she also sets the novel decades later than Brontë did hers. Drawing upon Mark McWatt's "The Preoccupation with the Past in West Indian Literature," Veronica Marie Gregg points to the novel's abundant evidence of this "crucial" change of chronological setting:
Marmion, newly published when Jane is given a copy toward the end of the novel, appeared in 1808, whereas the date for the Emancipation Act is 1833. Bertha Mason was already confined to the attic of Thornfield Hall by the first decade of the nineteenth century, whereas Antoinette Cosway in Wide Sargasso Sea was still a child in the 1840s. In terms of Jane Eyre the literary references in Wide Sargasso Sea are equally anachronistic: "Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair" was written by Stephen Foster in 1826; Tennyson's "Miller's Daughter" was not well known until the 1840s; most of Byron's poetry and all of Scott's novels (noticed by Antoinette's husband on the bookshelf at Granbois) appeared after 1800 ("Preoccupation," 12-13). These shifts and changes show the process by which Rhys deliberately locates the events of her novel in the West Indies of the 1830s and 1840s.
In other words, whereas Jane Eyre takes place at a time when slavery provided the basis of West Indian economy and politics, Wide Sargasso Sea begins immediately after emancipation, and its narrator clearly wants us to sympathize with the effects of emancipating slaves had upon the Creoles or white former slaveholders.
The period Rhys in which the book has as much importance to its political themes and contexts as that in which she set it: She wrote Wide Sargasso Sea at precisely the period when Black Power and Afro-Caribbean writers and theorists seized and reconceived the history and cultural of the West Indies. Enthralled by the apparent postcolonial rewriting of Jane Eyre, few readers noticed that one of Rhys's chief concerns was most unfashioably providing a voice for the former slaveholders. Gregg, who elsewhere writes with fine clarity, makes this excellent point in prose so jargon-ridden that it threatens to plunge into self-parody:
Wide Sargasso Sea, as a rereading and rewriting of Jane Eyre, seeks to articulate the subjective and locational identity of the West Indian Creole of the postslavery period. It also imaginatively reinvents a category evacuated of social and political meaning in the 1950S and 1960s, the period of writing when colonial structures are being dismantled. Structurally and ideologically, then, Wide Sargasso Sea is deliberately anachronistic..... Wide Sargasso Sea, a work in which the West Indies of the 1840s impinges upon and elucidates the England and West Indies of the 1950s and 1960s, seems to be underwritten by the Creole's desire to reclaim hegemony over the literary representation of the West Indies and "black people." The racialist usurpation of the voices, acts, and identities of "black people," so central to Rhyss writing as a whole, is the psychological cement in the architecture of this novel.
- The Imagined Worlds of Wide Sargasso Sea and Jane Eyre: the Differing Roles of Religious Belief
Gregg, Veronica Marie. Jean Rhys's Historical Imagination: Reading and Writing the Creole. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
McWatt, Mark. "The Preoccupation with the Past in West Indian Literature." Caribbean Quarterly 28, nos. 1-2 (1985): 12-19.
Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea. London: Andre Deutch, 1966.


Not Just Technology but Digital Business Requires Growth Mindset
When embarking on a digital business transformation, too often organizations ignore the need to change the mindset of their staff, according to Gartner, Inc. A technology shift not backed up by a corresponding cultural shift puts the success of a digital business initiative at risk.
"For any transformation to be successful, people need to buy into your vision," said Aashish Gupta, research analyst at Gartner. "The culture aspect and the technology demand equal attention from the CIO, because culture will form the backbone of all change initiatives for their digital business transformation. Staff trapped in a "fixed" mindset may slow down or, worse, derail the digital business transformation initiatives of the company."
While every organization has its own unique culture, it must understand the nuance of attracting and retaining talent with values and mindsets aligned to the mission and culture of the organization. "This requires a healthy and psychologically safe team environment within a growth mindset organizational culture," said Mr Gupta.
"Psychologically safe" means making co-workers and team members feel that they will not be punished or humiliated when taking interpersonal risks, such as asking for help, admitting mistakes and vulnerabilities, or expressing concerns.
Applying a growth mindset culture has been a success in well-known online companies. Online clothes and shoe retailer instructs all of its new hires to experience its call centre. The involvement, which includes training and time spent on answering customer calls, allows employees to gain a holistic view of the business and understand that customer service is the backbone of it.
Four-Step Plan to Instigate Mindset Change
"Cultural change requires significant investment," said Mr Gupta. "Organizations need a way to measure the value that investment is delivering." To help application leaders implement mindset change among their staff, Gartner has developed a four-step plan:
 1. Vision
Create a compelling vision that can be shared as a story to inspire and motivate the desire for the change. Everybody should understand what is meant by a growth and product mindset. "A growth mindset demands people to be comfortable with the speed of the digital era, and they must be willing to make quick and risky bets instead of slow and safe bets. A product mindset requires people to own what they create and take full responsibility for its success and failure," said Mr Gupta.
 1. Define
Define key behavioural attributes that reflect the intended mindset change. These can be individual accomplishments that contribute to the team, business or customer results; a greater number of projects owned or acquiring new skills.
 1. Implement
HR should be involved to ensure that performance metrics, as well as the descriptions of roles and responsibilities, are updated to include these key behavioural attributes, before rolling them out to all departments. "Acceptance will happen only if the change is visible throughout the organization. You should incentivize people to share knowledge or learn new skills," said Mr Gupta.
 1. Measure, Monitor and Wait
Allow some time for the changes to percolate. Continuously measure and monitor the changes through anonymous surveys. "You can ask employees if they understand the company's messaging around culture, or if they see their leaders practising it and if they find their colleagues taking the initiative seriously," said Mr Gupta. "Also, remember to track performance measures."
"Be patient. Fostering a growth mindset culture that requires behaviour changes among your staff takes time," said Mr Gupta. "However, the rewards are considerable as everyone perseveres, learns, grows and accepts that potential is nurtured, not predetermined."
Gartner clients can get more information from the report "Digital Business Requires a New Mindset, Not Just New Technology."
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A fun an interactive way to practice digraphs! Students use a pencil and a paper clip to make a homemade spinner. They spin a digraph and write them on the provided lines to make a word. After making the words students sort them! Are the words they made real? Or are they nonsense? This activity is provided for both beginning and ending digraphs!
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Let $G$ be an open set on some measure space $(\Omega,\Sigma, \mu)$. Show that the indicator function of $G$ is an increasing limit of a sequence of continuous functions.
I understand that this is a "simple text book exercise". I am only seeking for hints.
My idea (at least in 2D) is that we should construct some smooth trapezoidal-like functions, where the gradients near the endpoints of $G$ gets steeper and steeper.
Am I on the right track? Also, how do I write this out mathematically?
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In order to measure the distance to the edge, you could use open balls in the space, since it is measurable. Something like $f(x)=0$ outside and $f(x)=\min(1,\sup\{nr:B(x,r)\subseteq G\})$ on the inside of $G$. – Mario Carneiro Dec 18 '12 at 2:46
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Every open set in a separable metric space is a union of a sequence of open balls. So start by working out how to write the characteristic function of an open ball as an increasing sequence of continuous functions. As you suggested, this can be done with trapezoidal functions that get steeper in a certain way. The endpoints of the trapezoids need to move to make the sequence increasing...
In the most general sense, a measure space consists of a set $\Omega$, a $\sigma$-algebra $\Sigma$, and a measure $\mu$. Because no topology is mentioned in this definition, it does not make sense to try to prove anything about "open" sets or "continuous" functions in a general measure space. You have to be talking about some class of topological measure spaces for those terms to make sense. In this way, the question is underspecified, because it does not specify what type of topological measure spaces are being considered. In general, whether every open set of a topological space is an increasing limit of continuous functions is a purely topological question, having little to do with measure theory.
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In the first study of its kind, medical scientists have uncovered a probable link between pain from surgery and the likelihood of infection. The key appears to be the body's means of fighting infection, which depends on the tissue's supply of oxygen. Pain, the researchers discovered, reduces the amount of available oxygen and thereby increases the risk of infection.
The discovery, published in the July 4 issue of the journal Lancet, was led by Daniel I. Sessler, MD, associate professor of anesthesia at the University of California, San Francisco. He collaborated with colleagues at the University of Vienna and Washington University in St. Louis.
"Many of us in the field believe that oxygenation of tissues is the key to the body's ability to fight infection," Sessler said. "Inadequate pain treatment decreases oxygenation and thus reduces the effectiveness of the body's major line of defense against infection: cells called neutrophils that kill invaders with the help of oxygen."
In a clinical study performed at the at the University of Vienna General Hospital, 30 patients recovering from elective knee surgery were fitted with a device to monitor tissue oxygen pressure. All were given standard, intravenous narcotic pain medication. In addition, the local anesthetic lidocaine was injected into the surgical site of some patients - the experimental group - just prior to the end of surgery.
The results showed that patients with the least pain - those who were given lidocaine - had significantly higher tissue oxygenation concentrations. The increase was clinically important and of a magnitude that previous studies show will cut the risk of infection by more than half.
"Inadequate treatment of surgical pain is still fairly common," Sessler says. "Here we have intriguing evidence that careful and complete control of pain not only improves patient comfort, but also markedly reduces the risk of infection."

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Pub. date: 2009 | Online Pub. Date: January 26, 2009 | DOI: 10.4135/9781412964623 | Print ISBN: 9781412936361 | Online ISBN: 9781412964623| Publisher:SAGE Publications, Inc.About this encyclopedia
Douglas Edwin Thomas
Desounen (also sometimes written dessounin) is an important ritual of death that is observed by Vodu practitioners in Haiti. It has its origins, like much of the Vodu religion practiced in Haiti, among the Fon people of Dahomey (Republic of Benin), West Africa. It is the first among several rituals performed after the death of a Vodu initiate and can only be conducted by a Houngan (priest) or a Mambo (priestess). This entry looks at the belief and practice and its roots in Fon cosmology. The word desounen is French in origin and implies the extraction of sound from a voice and, by extension within the world of Vodu, the removal of the life substance from the body. The life substance or spiritual entity is removed or extracted immediately following the death of a Vodun practitioner. This delicate ritual is meticulously carried out by a priest who is familiar mèt...


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Lab Fume Hoods
Fume Hoods use 3 avg. homes worth of electricity
A typical CAV hood consumes the same energy as three average houses ($2500-$3000/year).
Why do hoods consume so much energy?
Because they constantly remove conditioned air (heated or cooled) from the lab without the ability to easily turn them off when not needed. It is like heating your home in the winter with the windows and doors open. Fans also contribute to energy consumption but the loss of conditioned air is by far the largest source of energy consumption.
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What is a Constant Air Volume (CAV) Hood?
A CAV hood is a fume hood which removes the same volume of conditioned air (heated or cooled) from the lab whether the sash is open or closed. So regardless of whether a hood is in use (sash up) or not (sash down), the flow of air from the lab, into the hood, and exhausted from the building is the same. To prevent air velocity from increasing as the sash is closed (reducing the bottom opening to the hood), a bypass opening widens (typically behind a grill near the top of the hood) as the sash is lowered.
How does a Variable Air Volume (VAV) Hood Save Energy?
Shut the Sash
In contrast to a CAV hood, a VAV hood reduces the volume of conditioned air being removed from the lab as the sash is lowered. So when a sash is up at the maximum safe working level, the VAV hood acts like a CAV hood removing a similar volume of conditioned air as a CAV hood, but as the sash is lowered, the volume of air being removed from the lab decreases. Unlike a CAV hood, a VAV hood does not have a bypass opening. Instead, to keep the air velocity from increasing as the sash is closed, the exhaust fan slows accordingly to keep a constant air speed.
 - Keeping a sash completely closed on a VAV hood can greatly reduce the hood's energy consumption. Some say consumption can drop by up to 60%, but it really depends upon the conditions in the lab where the hood is located.
 - On CU-Boulder's campus, you can tell if your hood is VAV by looking for the "Shut the Sash!" sticker with a black hand (shown on this page).
How many fume hoods does CU-Boulder have?
 Approximately 350 CAV and 60 VAV
Are there plans in place to reduce fume hood energy consumption on campus?
Fume hoods are absolutely fundamental to lab safety. Our teaching and research activities at the same time present a major energy conservation opportunity.
Near Term Strategy:
Our goal is to educate and remind our students and lab staff to lower and close sashes when VAV hoods are not in use to save energy and conserve needed make up air in lab buildings (using educational posters and stickers). We will also work with researchers to find out if any teaching or research CAV hoods are no longer needed due to changing research requirements. If that is the case, we will offer a very simple and user friendly program as well as incentive to retire unused CAV hoods, without any compromises to safety.
Long Term Strategy:
Our goal is to create funding opportunities to replace all 350 CAV fume hoods overtime with high performance energy efficient VAV hoods. This is a major undertaking with an extremely high energy conservation opportunity with high upfront investment. While funding opportunities are being reviewed, it makes very good common sense to partner with campus EH&S as well as lab managers and researchers to decide which hoods are connected (exhausting costly conditioned air 24x7) but are not in use. Retire these idle hoods as prerequisite to our long term investment for hoods upgrade.
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How to Make Child-Size Crop Circles Directions
Aliens with flashlights
Crop "circles" are generally intricate and complex geometric patterns that seem to mysteriously appear overnight primarily in English farm fields.
Most crop circle are sizable patterns formed by flattening sections of a field of wheat, maize, barley, or rye.
Farmers generally do not appreciate aliens invading their fields and ruining their crops, so we recommend creating crop circle in safer environments such as in your yard, driveway, on the beach or school playground.
If you are fortunate enough to have tall grass or a cooperative farmer to create your child-size cropcircle, great.
Make Child-Sized Mysterious "Alien" Crop Circles
Aliens with flat wooden planks
- Alien Masks (for a disguise)
- large, flat surfaces (fields of wheat)
- wooden or metal stakes
- planks of wood
- knotted ropes
- moonlight (or a few of really good flashlights).
You can make child-sized crop circle easily.
Ingredients for creating child size crop circles are pretty simple. All you need are a few good aliens and these simple tools listed here:
Aliens with knotted ropes
Instead of intruding upon or destroying valuable wheat fields, and gathering heavy planks of wood and rope, you can substitute these:
- Chalk, white and/or colored
- Asphalt or concrete playground surface
- Freshly fallen snow or sandy beach
- A lawn in need of a good mowing
- A skein of string or yarn
- Shoeboxes (instead of planks) snowshoes or heavy cardboard fitted to the child's feet
- Broad daylight
- Tent stakes or strong dowels
Pound the tent stake (or dowel) into the ground, tie the string or yarn to the stake.
Have the child or children walk in circle with the plank of wood in front of them.
Press the grass or vegetation (or snow, sand) down with the plank of wood as they walk.
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Synchrotron radiography and tomography of water transport in perforated gas diffusion media
Water transport in gas diffusion media (GDM) is investigated by synchrotron radiography and tomography. It is demonstrated that micro porous layer (MPL) cracks improve the water management in polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells. A further treatment by means of laser perforation is expected to enhance this effect. The radiography analysis reveals that water transport is practically not influenced by perforations applied only to the MPL. In contrast, perforations through the whole GDM (including the MPL) have a strong influence on the overall water transport behavior and are therefore considered for a deeper analysis. Performance measurements show a correlation between the perforation size and the fuel cell power density. An optimum is found for a perforation diameter of 60 m. Synchrotron tomography analysis reveals that this optimum is due to an improved draining effect on the area around the perforation. Moreover, SEM and EDX analysis show a loss of PTFE on th e GDM surface in the vicinity of the perforation due to the laser processing. The tomography images reveal water accumulations in this area that can be explained by the hydrophilic surface.


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The Ancient Forests of North America are extremely diverse. They include the boreal forest belt stretching between Newfoundland and Alaska, the coastal temperate rainforest of Alaska and Western Canada, and the myriad of residual pockets of temperate forest surviving in more remote regions.
Together, these forests store huge amounts of carbon, helping tostabilise climate change. They also provide a refuge for large mammalssuch as the grizzly bear, puma and grey wolf, which once ranged widelyacross the continent.
In Canada it is estimated that ancient forest provides habitat forabout two-thirds of the country's 140,000 species of plants, animalsand microorganisms. Many of these species are yet to be studied byscience.
The Ancient Forests of North America also provide livelihoods forthousands of indigenous people, such as the Eyak and Chugach people ofSouthcentral Alaska, and the Hupa and Yurok of Northern California.
Of Canada's one million indigenous people (First Nation, Inuit andMétis), almost 80 percent live in reserves and communities in boreal ortemperate forests, where historically the forest provided their foodand shelter, and shaped their way of life.
Through the Trees - The truth behind logging in Canada (PDF)
On the Greenpeace Canada website:
Interactive map of Canada's Borel forest (Flash)
Fun animation that graphically illustrates the problem (Flash)
Defending America's Ancient Forests


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Bridges from around the world who is famous for its beauty and the longest, highest, until the most unique
1. Magdeburg Water Bridge, Jerman
The Magdeburg Water Bridge in Germany, a navigable aqueduct, completed in October 2003. It connects the Elbe-Havel canal to the Mittelland Canal Mittelland Canal, crossing the Elbe. The channel has already reached close to Magdeburg, but on the opposite bank of the Elbe. It is noteworthy, because it is the longest navigable aqueduct in the world with a length of 918 meters.
2. Banpo Bridge, South Korea
subjected Banpo Bridge in Seoul, South Korea is a huge facelift surgery: a 10,000-tube wells, which extends on both sides. After installation, the bridge was a major tourist attraction, where the bridge is burning 190 tons of water per minute under running water.
3. Millau bridge, France
As high as 1,125 feet above the Tarn Valley in southern France, the Millau Viaduct wallow like a fly to be said. The work of Foster and Partners is slightly higher than the Eiffel Tower, over three years to build and opened in public in 2004. In addition to providing views of the valley, when the clouds under the bridge, the Millau way for those who have not formed a fear of heights! Millau bridge is 8,071 meters long in total with the longest single span beam in the 1122 meters and 886 meters in maximum transparency, so the bridge in its original form is very beautiful, or thumbnail. Bridge deck supported by seven pylons and weighs 36,000 tons. Seven towers, each 292 feet tall, weighs 700 tons, built up to support the pylon.
4. Bridge Cable Oliveira, Brazil
The world's first X-shaped Octavio Frías de Oliveira bridge, which crosses the Pinheiros River in Sao Paulo, Brazil in May opened the 2008th As high as 138 meters to 450 meters, and is connected to the marginal Pinheiros Jornalista Roberto Marinho Avenue. The design is unique, arched over the other 2 decks of a tower-shaped recovery, X.
5. Dong Bridge Nations, Cina
Wind and rain bridge is a symbol of arsitektor Dong minority peoples. Wind and rain Bridhe dipinge the largest of its kind in Guizhou province, where China's largest Dong settled community. The bridge is along the first 50 meters and was built in 1894 during the Qing Dynasty some 100 years. But the original structure burned down in 1959, large fires, and the visitor today, the creature that is completed in 1964, he repeated.
In a clean timber construction with columns, purlins and balusters of different sizes and shapes. Body bridge consists of three parts, the largest in the middle of a traditional Chinese drum tower is divided. Since the height of the bridge pilasters and decorated with flowers, statues and bridges is unique.
6. Tower Bridge, London
Victorian-known and most beautiful bridge in 1894, Wolfe Barry and Horace Jones, Done. Tower Bridge, the two distinctive towers as high as 141 meters, and the nearby Tower of London named one of the most famous sights of London and is one of the most beautiful in the world. The 800-foot bridge to 28 feet of space when closed, but opened the center to about 140 feet, the boat on the Thames. The sun, when moving goods by sea instead of air-bridge is about 50 times per day increases. Tower Bridge was built over 432 workers 8 years. At that time they sank 70,000 tons of 2 large concrete pillar, instead of the second support structure, each of which weighs 1,000 tonnes, and decorate the whole bridge in Portland stone and granite in Cornwall, the 11,000 tons of iron lid.
7. Ponte Vecchio Bridge, Italy
The oldest and most famous bridge Italy Ponte Vecchio, Florence's most famous sights in Italy, and is considered the oldest stone bridge in Europe, although many of the older part. Actually built from wood, until destroyed in the flood of 1333, and twelve years later, the bridge was rebuilt in stone. Famous for its many shops, the bridge is laid off everyone starts traders and butchers in the Middle Ages to the museum shops and art dealers.
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NMEA 0183 (or NMEA for short) - is a combined electrical and data specification for communication between marine electronic devices such as echo sounder, sonars, anemometer (wind speed and direction), gyrocompass, autopilot, GPS receivers and many other types of instruments. It has been defined by, and is controlled by, the U.S.-based National Marine Electronics Association.
The NMEA 0183 standard uses a simple ASCII, serial communications protocol that defines how data is transmitted in a "sentence" from one "talker" to one "listener" at a time. Through the use of intermediate expanders, a talker can have a unidirectional conversation with multiple listeners, and using multiplexers, multiple sensors can talk to a single computer port. Third-party switches are available that can establish a primary and secondary talker, with automatic failover if the primary fails.
At the application layer, the standard also defines the contents of each sentence (message) type so that all listeners can parse messages accurately.


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2. CFM50 /N
The N value is a factor that can be found in a blower door manual. With blower door testing, this formula is fairly accurate when estimating heating savings. Using the N value for your region, you can quickly convert between CFM at 50 Pa (CFM50) and estimated natural infiltration by using this simple formula. Using the Boston example, if the N value is 19 and we reduced CFM50 by 1,000 by tightening up the home, the estimated natural air flow reduction is 1,000/19, or about 53 CFM.
The next example, calculating air flow savings, may cause the mechanical engineer types out there to roll their eyes. For simplicity's sake, let's stick with the old U x A x DT (U-Value x Area x Temperature difference). As you gain experience, your formulas and your use of them will become more sophisticated. For air flow, the U would be a constant per cubic foot of air (0.018 BTU/ft3). The area is replaced with cubic feet (ft3) per hour, and finally DT is the same old HDD x 24 x 0.75 for Boston. If the DT is treated as an annual total, the savings calculated would be an annual estimate. Remember that we calculated Boston's annual DT to be approximately 101,000. So for the 1,000 CFM50 reduction that gave us about a 53 CFM reduction in natural infiltration, the formula would look like this: 0.018 x 53 CFM x 60 Minutes x 101,000 = approximately 5,800,000 BTU, or about 58 therms of natural gas saved annually.
Copy these formulas down and try them for your area. Experiment, play, have fun and you will easily master back-of-the-envelope calculations. More importantly, your experience will alter your mindset and will change how you think about potential measures and savings. These back-of-the-envelope examples will not be as accurate as the sophisticated computer programs now available. But they are close, and at the end of the day, both will only be estimates of what a retrofit might save on a particular home.
Larry Harmon is the vice president of Air Barrier Solutions, LLC. He has managed efficiency programs, was a founder of the Building Performance Institute, and has worked in the field retrofitting residential and commercial structures. Larry has consulted with utilities, government organizations, contractors, manufacturers, and developers.
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Air Barrier Solutions, LLC, trains and consults on building envelope issues and markets building envelope services in the commercial, residential, and institutional sectors. Larry Harmon can be reached at _PHONE_ or lharmon@ airbarriersolutions.com. You can also hear him speak on retrofits at the Building Energy Conference, presented by the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA), March 11–13, 2008 in Boston, Massachusetts. Go to _URL_ for more on the conference.
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What does the idiom "The pot calling the kettle black" mean?
Idioms are generally defined as groups of words that form a meaningful whole when they come together, even though the words in them do not make sense on their own. They have produced many idioms according to their own cultural characteristics in communities using the English language. What does The pot calling the kettle black mean? In what situations is The pot calling the kettle black used?
Meaning of "The pot calling the kettle black"
The phrase "the pot calling the kettle black" is used to refer to a situation where someone levels a criticism or an accusation towards another person, while ironically, the accuser is actually guilty of the same offense. This idiom is used to point out the hypocrisy of the accuser.
The idiom "the pot calling the kettle black" is believed to have originated in the 16th century. The phrase appeared in a 1546 work by playwright and satirist John Heywood titled "A dialogue conteinyng the nomber in effect of all the prouerbes in the Englishe tongue." In the play, a man named John accuses his friend Tom of being too critical of others, and responds with the phrase, "Why, thou doest so, when thou sayest my pot is black and thine is white, the pot calling the kettle black".
The idiom "the pot calling the kettle black" is used to describe a situation in which someone is making accusations or criticisms at another person, while they are guilty of the same offense. It's often used as a way to point out the hypocrisy of the accuser. This idiom can be used to refer to actual situations, as well as more figurative arguments. For example, someone might accuse their friend of being bad with money, while failing to recognize that they too have a history of mismanaging their finances.
- When Jenny started criticizing her sister for wearing too much makeup, her father reminded her of the pot calling the kettle black—she wears a lot of makeup, too.
- I think it's a bit hypocritical of my boss to give me a hard time about being late to work, when he's often late himself—it's like the pot calling the kettle black.
Idioms with similar meanings in different languages
"Barking up the wrong tree" is an English idiom that means to pursue a mistaken or misguided course of action. In German, the similar idiom is "Auf dem Holzweg sein," which translates to "To be on the wrong track." This idiom emphasizes the idea that when you are pursuing the wrong course of action, you are not going to achieve your desired outcome.


Colorado's new maintenance formula
Colorado's new maintenance law (also commonly referred to as alimony) went into effect on January 1, 2014. The Colorado court's will apply the following formula in determining an award of maintenance:
1. The combined incomes of the parties are less than $240,000.00 annually.
2. The parties have been married for at least three years.
3. The monthly amount to be paid is determined by taking 40% of the monthly gross income of the higher earning spouse minus 50% of the monthly gross income of the lower earning spouse.
4. The duration of the maintenance award is determined by the length of the marriage.


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Background: Myocardial infarction (MI) is one of the most critical medical emergency and contributor to morbidity and mortality worldwide. Myocardial infarction is the most common form of coronary heart disease and leading cause of premature death. Past century has seen substantial advancement in the field of medical sciences but still mortality trends due to myocardial infarction is increasing in developing countries including India. We have conducted this study to compare the Sociodemographic characteristics of alcoholic and non alcoholic MI patients admitted in coronary care unit of Saveetha Medical College, Chennai, India.
Methods: An exploratory cross sectional study was performed by enrolling a convenient sample of 100 Myocardial Infarction patients. Information about Sociodemographic characteristics, past medical history, alcohol and tobacco intake, physical activity, psychological stress and biochemical measurements was gathered.
Results: The mean age of the respondents was 46 (SD=6) years and majority of them were male i.e. 82%. 100% married and 89% literate, there were 24% past and 22% present alcoholics. Consumption of alcohol on a monthly, weekly and daily basis was 8%, 11% and 5% respectively. Preference to brandy was 67%, rum was 21% and that the beer was 12%. Current smoker were 20% and former were 11%. 93% and 52% respondents were under medication of beta blocker and angiotensin-converting-enzyme (ACE) inhibitors respectively.
Conclusion: Worldwide, MI is the most common cause of mortality and morbidity and hence early diagnosis and management is most essential. Results from our study revealed that, participants had sedentary lifestyles where risk factors of MI such as alcohol consumption, and smoking does existed.


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Superficially, georgiaites look like volcanic glass, or obsidian; however, there was no volcanic activity in or near Georgia 35 million years ago, and georgiaites lack the mineral crystals that characterize volcanic glass. Natural glasses of the same age from Texas, called bediasites, and smaller spherules of glass dating from the same era have been found in deep-sea sediments off the eastern coast of North America and in the Gulf of Mexico. Natural glasses of different ages have also been found in central Europe (15-million-year-old moldavites), in Africa's Ivory Coast (1-million-year-old tektites), and in Indochina and Australia (800,000-year-old indochinites and australites). All of these glasses, including the georgiaites, are known as tektites.
All tektites are thought to be impact glasses; that is, they represent material that was melted as a result of heat generated by the impact of an asteroid or comet on the earth. The energy produced by one of these impacts is tremendous—some meteorites travel at velocities of more than forty miles per second before they hit the earth, and the largest of these meteorites produce craters. The energy released by a large impact can result in the melting of a thin layer of the earth's uppermost crust. The chemical composition of tektites is consistent with this idea; tektites have the same chemical makeup as the rocks of the earth's crust. Some scientists had suggested at one time that tektites came from the moon, but lunar rock samples have been found to be chemically distinct from most tektites.
Georgiaites and the other tektites are natural curiosities, but they also have a modest commercial value as collectibles. Some tektites, especially the moldavites, are quite pleasing in appearance and are made into jewelry.
Edward Albin, Marc Norman, and Michael Roden, "Major and Trace Element Compositions of Georgiaites: Clues to the Source of North American Tektites," Meteoritics and Planetary Science 35 (2000): 795-806.
G. J. H. McCall, Tektites in the Geological Record: Showers of Glass from the Sky (London: Geological Society, 2001).
C. Wylie Poag, Chesapeake Invader: Discovering America's Giant Meteorite Crate r (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999).
Harold R. Povenmire and John A. O'Keefe, Tektites: A Cosmic Enigma (Indian Harbour Beach, Fla.: privately printed, 2003).
Michael F. Roden, University of Georgia
Edward Albin, Fernbank Science Center
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Apr 10, 2014 — eLearning Tools
12 Free Microsoft Teaching Tools
Microsoft Partners in Learning has created an abundance of resources for professionals and educators around the world to take new approaches to teaching and learning. They provide you with the tools, resources and activities you need to learn more about how technology plays a role in the advancement of learning in the 21st century. With their growing community, you can create and share innovation. We've put together a list of 12 teaching tools to help better teach and engage your students.
Learning Suite by Microsoft
Over 20 popular tools and teacher resources, all in one place. The Learning Suite by Microsoft is a set of innovative applications for education that create a robust, creative and collaborative learning environment for students and educators.
Manage, store, and share your classroom documents all in one place, securely and easily. It's a password protected hard drive in the cloud that you can use to store thousands of files. Access it whenever you are online, and give your students access to them too.
Build memory and recognition skills with a modern twist on the classic learning tool of flashcards. Teachers and students can create, share and study flashcards online. Teachers can access student progress reports, and students can self-test to get instant feedback.
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Office 365 for Education
With Office 365, teachers can conduct online classes, record them, and share with anyone who is online or offline. View, edit, and share files online with your students through SharePoint and Office Web Apps.
Encourage creative learning in your classroom by using interactive 3D technology to tell personal stories and explore places, events, and activities. Microsoft Photosynth allows anyone to reconstruct a 3D experience from flat photographs and offers both detailed synths and panorama experiences.
Digital Storytelling Teaching Guide
Microsoft's Digital Storytelling Teaching Guide offers countless ideas on digital storytelling techniques for teachers, points to valuable digital storytelling resources for educators, and tips for various software products most commonly found in digital storytelling projects.
Chemistry Add-In for Word
This add-in tools gives students and teachers an easier way to insert, modify, and present chemical symbols and data sources within the familiar Microsoft Word environment.
Get real-time feedback on how well your students are learning by harnessing the power of polling questions from Microsoft's Interactive Classroom. This PowerPoint and OneNote add-in lets you insert customized classroom polls and notes into your presentations.
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Skitch Touch is a free tool that enables students to demonstrate their understanding of a concept by annotating images with arrows, shapes, text, and more. This tool is great for teachers for clearly communicating visually with students, parents and colleagues.
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Gamifying Millennial eLearning is more than the mere fad many have made it out to be. Far from it, gamification may very well be the critical key that unlocks the door to Millennial engagement and retention in the workplace.
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In part 1 of this two-part series, a more thorough understanding of Millennials as a generation was established in order to lay the groundwork needed to identify how eLearning can be shaped and tailored in ways that will shed further light on how eLearning retains Millennials. After all, it's not just any eLearning that will […]
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4 Keys for Selecting an Irrigation Flow Meter
By Katie Englin
Water agencies across the United States and abroad continue to require water flow meters for new and existing agricultural irrigation applications to measure and manage surface and groundwater use. There is a growing need to conserve resources, balance the water needs of agriculture with other industries, and with the continuing growing population residential use is driving water conservation as never before.
Irrigation scheduling is the process used by irrigators to determine the correct frequency and duration of watering crops. It involves understanding, applying, and then monitoring and controlling necessary instruments such as soil moisture sensors, rain gauges and flow meters to ensure efficient water use in crop production. This minimizes water waste and supports water conservation while maximizing crop health and yields. Good irrigation scheduling practices include knowing how much water is applied to each field. A properly selected and installed flow meter accurately measures the amount of water volume applied. An accurate flow meter is an essential tool to practicing good irrigation scheduling.
The two most common types of flow meters for irrigation are electromagnetic and propeller. Propeller meters are mechanical flow meters that have been around in irrigation since as early as 1919, and therefore make up a large portion of installed base of irrigation water meters in the US. Over fifteen years ago, many considered propeller meters the best meter choice for irrigation – that's not the case today. Costly propeller meter repairs caused many meter users to look for other flow measurement options. With technology advancements, electromagnetic flow meters are now available battery powered for remote irrigation locations. Many offer long battery lives, high accuracy in tight spaces, and with no moving parts to wear out they are not affected by debris. Some magnetic flow meters offer a price point similar to a mechanical propeller meter. Magnetic flow meters are quickly gaining popularity in irrigation.
Use the following four tips to help with proper flow meter selection:
1. What is the application?
Understanding the fluid media, flow range, temperature, pressure, line size, needed signal outputs and available space for installation are all necessary to ensure proper flow meter selection.
- What is the media? Is it groundwater, surface water, water from a pond or lagoon of manure slurries? While a mechanical meter may work fine for a clean water application where the flow range falls within the meter's capabilities, magnetic flow meters offer the highest accuracy and performance in both clean and dirty water applications. With no moving parts, weeds, trash, and slurries that may otherwise become entangled in a mechanical meter, easily flow through magnetic meters.
- What are the minimum and maximum flow ranges? Knowing the minimum and maximum flow range is most critical when selecting a mechanical propeller flow meter. Propeller meters require a minimum amount of flow to turn the bearing assembly and propeller fast enough to ensure an accurate reading. If the flow rate exceeds the rating of the mechanical meter, the bearing assembly can suffer costly damage and the meter will not function properly. With no moving parts to wear out, magnetic flow meter offers higher accuracy over a broader flow range than mechanical meters.
- What is the temperature and pressure? Most flow meters offered for this market are rated up to 150 psi and 140 F operating temperature. Most of these applications fall well within that temperature and pressure range. However, it's always wise to confirm the application temperature and pressure.
- What is the line size? This will help determine the style of meter. Both electromagnetic and mechanical meters are available in full bore and insertion style configurations. In terms of cost and ease of installation, an insertion style may be the best option for larger line sizes.
- Does the meter need a signal output? Some applications require the meter to send a signal such as pulse, 4-20mA or Modbus. In some cases, the output is used to send a signal to a remote telemetry system, allowing irrigators to collect meter data remotely. Signal outputs are optional on propeller flow meters and typically require adding the cost of a transmitter or special digital register that can provide outputs. Most electromagnetic flow meters include a pulse signal output as a standard feature, making them "telemetry system ready," and Modbus or 4-20mA output signals can be provided for a small additional cost.
- How much room is available to install a meter? Flow meter straight run pipe requirements are expensive in terms of materials and installation labor. In cases where a new flow meter is added to existing equipment, often there is not enough space to accommodate the straight pipe run necessary for accurate flow measurement. Mechanical propeller meters require more space to install due to the longer straight run requirements to ensure proper and accurate performance. Straightening vanes or flow straightening devices can be installed ahead of a propeller meter to shorten the straight run pipe requirement, but can add substantially to the cost and installation labor involved. Typically, a standard full-bore electromagnetic flow meter will fit nicely into a tight space and measure flow accurately. Even some insertion style magnetic flow meters will require less straight run installation space than a propeller meter and operate accurately.
2. How important is accuracy?
In general, electromagnetic meters are more accurate than mechanical meters. Most electromagnetic meters for irrigation, offer +/-1% of flow rate over a wide flow range with no head loss. The most common mechanical meters used in irrigation are propeller flow meters. Propeller meters generally offer +/-2% accuracy within a specified flow range, and some head loss should be expected. Since there are no moving parts to wear out, electromagnetic meters can maintain accuracy over the lifetime of the meter.
3. What is your meter maintenance schedule?
Just like most farm equipment, all irrigation flow meters will need attention at some point.
- Mechanical propeller meters have moving parts such as the propeller, bearings and mechanical register that may wear out, causing interruptions in measurement data and resulting in costly repairs. The parts for mechanical meters have increased substantially over the years and repairing one can be almost as costly as replacing it. The standard warranty on most mechanical propeller meters is one year.
- Electromagnetic meters do not have any moving parts to break, and maintenance is usually limited to battery replacement. Many battery powered magnetic flow meters now offer a 5-year battery life, and battery replacement cost is a small fraction of the cost associated with a typical mechanical meter repair. In addition, most electromagnetic flow meters come standard with a two to five-year warranty, depending on brand.
4. Electromagnetic or mechanical?
- Electromagnetic flow meters – Also called magnetic meters or magmeters for short, operate by Faraday's Law – if a conductive fluid, such as irrigation water, goes through a magnetic field, it creates a small voltage. Motion of a conductive fluid through the field generates a small amount of electricity, just like a generator (more flow = more voltage). Electrical coils placed outside the flow are momentarily energized. A magnetic field crosses the flow at right angles, electrodes measure the changing voltage, and the display unit shows rate and total. Magmeters have been around for 60 years, just not in irrigation. They were typically used in municipal and industrial, water and wastewater applications. In the past 15 years or so, magnetic meter technology has advanced so much that some are now available battery powered, making them great for irrigation use. Most magmeters come standard with many features that are optional on mechanical propeller meters. Many times, the overall out-of-pocket cost for a magmeter will be lower than the price of a mechanical propeller meter. To ensure you get the best value for your money, consider what you need in the flow meter – add for pulse output, straightening vanes (for tight space installations), high capacity bearing assembly, digital read out, data logging and any other options you may need on the mechanical propeller meter – then compare the price to a battery powered electromagnetic meter that normally includes all the options you need as standard features. In the end, magmeters offer: higher accuracy over broader flow ranges, no moving parts to replace, durability, no flow obstruction, long battery life, low maintenance, longer warranties, and minimal straight run requirements for tight space installations. In addition to full bore, some magmeters are now available in saddle insertion style for ease of installation in both new installations and retrofit/replacement of existing saddle propeller meters.
- Mechanical propeller meters – Also called propeller meters or prop meters for short, operate under the following principles – The propeller meter consists of a rotating device, typically a helical-shaped impeller, positioned in the flow stream. The impeller's rotational velocity is directly proportional to the velocity of the flow. As water flows through the pipe, it spins the propeller. The spinning motion is then carried to the head of the meter, through either gears or a drive cable. The instantaneous flow rate and total volume flowed can be read on the mechanical or digital meter register. Though they operate under the same principle, these meters are available in a variety of installation configurations to suit the installers need: saddle style, flanged style, threaded ends, grooved ends, etc., which can make installation simpler. Propeller meters can offer an economical flow metering solution when all that's needed is mechanical rate and total volume flowed. They typically work fine in clean water applications, but water carrying debris can damage the moving parts. While mechanical propeller meters used to be the most economical choice for irrigation, that's typically no longer the case. Many times, choosing a mechanical propeller meter is much like ordering your meal from the al la carte menu at a restaurant. If all you want is one taco and a glass of water, you will get a low-cost meal. But, add rice, beans, guacamole, and sour cream, and you will likely pay more ordering from the al la carte menu than purchasing a combination plate that includes all of the "options" you want


What connects 'Naina' and 'KD'? The unique Madras Bashai
Napier's Bridge. Pic: Ravichandar84/Wikipedia CC-BY-SA-3.0
Along with its distinctive icons and landmarks, if there is another unique feature that sets Chennai apart, it is the use of Madras bashai (dialect).
Dai kasmalam, ootla soltu vantiya? Bejar pannama anthanda po!
Familiar sounds, for anyone who has ventured on Chennai roads! Unique to the capital city, the dialect is believed to have evolved over several centuries, as Madras was a port city. Many people from other states travelled to the city, and as they assimilated with the population, the city absorbed many words from their languages into its lexicon.
Historian Nivedita Louis
Part of present-day Arani (about 100 km west of Chennai) was once within Madras, so naturally, the Telugu influence can be found in the dialect. "In the 1900s, when Madras was a developing city, many people from Arcot and Arani came down and settled in the city for their livelihoods. Similarly, during the Medieval period, Urdu-speaking people migrated to the port city," historian Nivedita Louis says.
As people with different mother tongues interacted with each other, many words were borrowed and used in local parlance, and thus was born the Madras bashai. An international example, that could be used to draw a parallel to the dialect is the 'Cockney accent' of Londoners, which was used by the working class in their interactions.
Diversity in Madras bashai
When the British settled in erstwhile Madras, many words were borrowed from their language by the locals.
Writer Indran Rajendran
Giving an example of this, writer Indran Rajendran says, "KD is a popular word used in Chennai which means a petty thief or a smart person. It finds its roots in the abbreviated English term 'Known Dacoit' or 'Known Delinquent'.
It was used by the cops back in the days of colonized Madras to classify criminals, and slowly entered into everyday usage." Similarly the word OC (pronounced oasi) generally means free of cost. The origin of this was that the British marked their official letters 'OCS' – On Company Service. Many enterprising locals sent their personal letters for free, marked with the letter OCS, or just OC.
The word naina originated from Telugu, that translates to father, dabbu from Telugu which means money and kasumalam from Sanskrit that means garbage.
Indran, who also wrote the book, Chennaiyum Athan Tamizhum (Translation: Chennai and its Tamil) gives examples of words in Madras Bashai which were derived from classical Tamil.
In Madras parlance, thunnu is used to refer to 'eat', which came into usage from the age-old proverb Kunthi thindral kundrum maazhum (Translation: Even the hilltop will get exhausted if you sit and eat).
"The proverb does not imply anything philosophical. Thindral was transformed and that is how thundral and thunnu came to be used," Indran adds.
Madras bashai in movies and books
Historians largely credit Tamil movies for taking Madras bashai to the masses. The earliest reference in films was made by actor N S Krishnan in the Katha Kalakshepam scene of Kinthanar Sarithiram movie. Film historian Mohan V Raman also speaks about actor Chandrababu's efforts to popularise the slang. "The actor was a resident of Meesapettai. He used to listen to the dialect and mastered it," Mohan adds.
On the theatre front, actor-journalist Cho Ramaswami extensively incorporated Madras bashai in his stage plays and movies. One of the most notable examples is the song Va Vathiyare Utanda from the movie Bommalattam, written in the Madras dialect.
Film Historian Mohan V Raman
In the present day context, a lot of movies have adopted the slang. Notable songs include Danga maari from Anegan and Aaluma doluma from Vedalam. However, Mohan notes that the dialect has evolved to a greater extent.
"The words used in the Danga maari song are quite new and not the same as what the earlier actors used to speak. The dialect is continuously evolving due to the changing landscape. People casually pick up words from other languages and use it every day in the conversation," Mohan says.
Indran Rajendran, Shalin Maria Lawrence, Tamil Prabha and Karan Karki are some of the modern-day writers who have written about Madras bashai in their novels/works and used the dialect to write poems. However, historians strongly emphasise the need to document the lexicon.
"For instance, every speech of John F Kennedy was documented/recorded; hence it is easy to identify how English has transformed over the years since then. Unfortunately, we do not have such records of Madras bashai for research and analysis," Mohan says.
Nivedita feels that Tamil professors should encourage doctoral students to take up Vattara Vazhakku (Ethnologue) of different geographical locations for research. "Studying the present-day lives and livelihoods of people in the city would help us document the unique dialect. Given how integral the language is to the professions of the local people, their everyday interaction influences the language people speak," she says.
Gaana, a tool to question stigma
There is a general sense of stigma attached to the dialect. Tamil Prabha, the author of Pettai and a Chintadripet resident, feels it is due to the typified characters who speak Madras bashai in movies.
Writer Tamil Prabha
"In many films, the character who speaks Madras bashai would typically belong to the lower rung of society — a thief or a hooligan. Such portrayals should change," Prabha says.
Gaana is a music genre that is generally used to express simple emotions like love, grief and happiness. As people began realising they are being discriminated, artists of the present-day are using Gaana as a tool for questioning the differences.
"Due to the stigma attached, people who speak Madras bashai, are now using Gaana as a means to express their angst on the lack of respect," says Prabha, who is working as a co-scriptwriter with director Pa Ranjith on his upcoming film, Salpetta.
He adds that Casteless Collective, a Chennai based Tamil-Indie band that composes songs on socio-political themes, has given a modern cultural evolution to the dialect. "They talk about North Madras, reservation and identity crisis through music. There is an entirely new flavour to Gaana; it is not limited to use just for conveying simple emotions," Prabha states.
Madras bashai is thriving and spoken by many in the city. For this, Prabha largely credits the importance given to the dialect in movies. Many present-day Kollywood directors and artistes are attempting to normalise the usage of Madras Tamil.
About Bhavani Prabhakar 136 Articles
 1. All said and done, Madras Bashai is crude, coarse and gives a picture of a lumpen character. To get popularity and acceptance, it is sad that script and lyric writers are using it widely, virtually ruining Tamil in the process. Tamil is no more classical it's sophisticated and pleasant quality is ruined by Madras Basha slang.
 - How there are lot of dialects of tamil this is also one and is used as one. There are no written scripts or anything of that sort. We have to enjoy it. Now this chennai bashai is also fading. Dont worry pure tamil will live longer and also chennai tamil which will in no way will destroy the originality both will live parallely
 2. It's so good to hear the classical tamil.its good to research on the Madras bashai…but it has not attained any structure to stand out amidst the dialects
 3. Madras Bashai slang was more fun and can be enjoyed and left at that. Tamil has not been ruined by Madras slang. Tamil has been there for ages and nothing can stop this language's heritage as other influences can only be there for a short time – in fact, the impact of English on spoken Tamil is much larger than this Madras Bashai and if one has to be concerned about the impact, then it is best to focus on the impact by English than other insignificant ones.
 4. It is very sad and highly deplorable to see the beautiful Tamil language got spoilt due to madras bhashai. This should not be encouraged in movies.
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The Wind Energy Center is involved in advanced methodologies for error-correction of wind data, fixed-echo rejection of remote sensing returns, advanced computational quality assurance algorithms. For wind turbine operations and management, the Wind Energy Center is also involved in development of remote sensing methods for forward detection of turbine inflow, advanced data-logging methods, and development of next-generation condition-monitoring architectures for autonomous operation of wind turbines at sea.
A Fixed-echo Rejection data analysis methodology for ART Sodars has been developed which has proven to enhance wind resource data accuracy at sites with complex topography typical to New England.
AQUA is an innovative open-source process for automation and integration of quality assurance methods.
The Wind Energy Center is also developing a simple, open-source data logger, coded named Minuteman, compatible with AQUA, to provide a seamless collection, correction, and archival environment for wind energy data.
The "Streamlined Site Assessment Methodology" (SSAM) is a superior approach to the traditional site assessment process developed at the Wind Energy Center.


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Reader's Theater Play: Talk Like a Pilgrim
Learn how pilgrim children talked in this Scholastic News play.
- Grades: 1–2
How did Pilgrims greet one another? What were poppets? What chores were Pilgrim children responsible for? In this Reader's theater play, your students will hear how Pilgrim boys and girls talked. They'll also learn interesting facts about the daily life of children in colonial America. The Reader's theater activity also features a glossary of Pilgrim vocabulary, a map showing the layout of a typical Pilgrim village, and bright color photographs of Pilgrim life.


Administrate or Innovate?
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Administrate or Innovate?
Lightbulb_ThumbLeadership in any line requires many different skills. Some are in direct opposition to each other. For example: administration vs. innovation.
Administration is the skill of managing people and organizations so that everything runs smoothly and stays aligned with policies and procedures. In many ways, it is the art of maintaining the status quo.
Innovation is the art of progress and change. Many times it requires challenging the status quo by looking at things in a different way and acting outside the "norm."
As a general rule, for every innovator, there are 10 administrators. As humans, we crave stability and the status quo. It feels safe to us because of the consistency. Because of that natural tendency, most have to consciously work at innovation. The irony is that while administration feels safe, innovation is the essential ingredient to surviving and thriving.
History lauds, honors and praises the innovators, but is relatively quiet about the administrators. That's because we admire the rare and take the common for granted.
History honors Thomas Edison as one of the most important figures of the 20th century. Why? Because his numerous innovations changed the way we live. Meanwhile, can you name any one of the administrators that ran Edison Electric or General Electric in the subsequent years? If you can, the only one that comes to mind is Jack Welch because he dramatically innovated the way General Electric approached its business.
So, step out of administration from time-to-time and INNOVATE! Ask:
 - How can I make things better?
 - What type of business would put me out of business?
 - What would we look like if we expanded by 10 times?
 - What weakness would I exploit if I were my competition?
 - What is something I would never consider changing?
If you want something to administrate in the future, you better start innovating today!
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Emmanuel, count de las Cases, in full Emmanuel-augustin-dieudonné-joseph, Count De Las Cases (born June 21, 1766, Languedoc, France—died May 15, 1842, Passy), French historian best known as the recorder of Napoleon's last conversations on St. Helena, the publication of which contributed greatly to the Napoleonic legend in Europe.
An officer of the royal navy, Las Cases in 1790 emigrated from France to England, where he wrote and published his Atlas Historique... (1802), a work that attracted Napoleon's attention. Consequently, on his return to France (1809) with other Royalists rallying to Napoleon, Las Cases was given a minor position on the council of state and created count in 1810. After Napoleon's defeat (1814), he returned to England but joined Napoleon during the Hundred Days (1815), following him into exile at St. Helena. For 18 months he recorded his conversations with Napoleon on his principles of warfare, his identification of the French Revolution with the Empire, his political philosophy, and his sentiments on religion and philosophy. A letter of complaint about Napoleon's treatment led to Las Cases' deportation and to the seizure of his manuscript by the British government. Forbidden to enter England, he traveled in Germany and Belgium until he was allowed to return to France after the death of Napoleon in 1822. Recovering his manuscript, he published his Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène (1823), which at once became extremely popular. A deputy for Saint-Denis (1831–34; 1835–39), he sat with the extreme left, opposing the rule of Louis-Philippe.
Las Cases' Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène was the first defense of Napoleon after his defeat. Although prejudiced in Napoleon's favour, the identification of the idea of the Revolution with Napoleon furthered a union of liberals with Bonapartists, thus contributing to the rise of Napoleon III.
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Climbing roses lost blooms and leaves - Knowledgebase Question
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Question by Glynda333
March 9, 1998
Last year my climbing roses suddenly lost their blooms and leaves and by the middle of summer I had 2 sticks growing. Why happened and what should I do this year?
Answer from NGA
March 9, 1998
Disease is the most likely culprit, and it would be difficult to diagnose which disease without more information. For example, blackspot fungus causes black spots on the upper leaf surfaces, then yellowed leaves, finally defoliation. Rust is a fungal disease that causes powdery orange spots on the undersides of the leaves and eventual curling of the leaves. Viruses can cause mottled leaves, yellow circles on leaves and stunted plants.
As soon as you notice any of these fungus disease symptoms on your roses, remove and destroy any affected leaves and spray your plant with a compost tea. This can be made by putting a gallon of finished compost that contains some manure into a 5-gallon bucket and filling it with water. Leave the mixture in the shade for about 2 weeks, then filter the solution and spray. For best results, spray in the evening and repeat every 3 or 4 days.
Viral diseases cannot be cured, and plants should be dug up and destroyed.
Also, since many foliar diseases rely onhigh humidity for spread, water your plants in the morning and prune in the early spring to improve air circulation.
Good luck this year.
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Rotationplasty is a type of autograft wherein a portion of a limb is removed, while the remaining limb below the involved portion is rotated and reattached. This procedure is used when a portion of an extremity is injured or involved with a disease, such as cancer.
Typically the ankle joint becomes the knee joint. The limb is rotated because the ankle flexes in the opposite direction compared to the knee. The benefit to the patient is that they have a functioning knee joint and can run and jump.
The operation is also called a Van-ness rotation.
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As a registered 501(c)(3) organization, the mission of the Women's Rabbinic Network is to…
 1. Support our members through ongoing education, pastoral care, outreach, mentoring, and networking.
 2. Advocate on behalf of our members by being a collective voice to the CCAR, Union of Reform Judaism (URJ), and Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) and to the public. We are also a voice for social justice with a unique lens, and an advocate for systemic change.
 3. Provide opportunities for gathering at conventions and regional events, and through conference calls, webinars, and other technologically-based methods.
 4. Provide information to and about our membership, through regular communications such as monthly e-blasts, our own website, Facebook, and other social media.
 5. Promote leadership of women individuals in the administration and on the faculty of the HUC-JIR, and in the leadership of the CCAR and URJ.
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Two steps to a finished data plate with serial number
SpeedMark software includes feature to set up a program for marking anodized aluminum in just a few easy steps. Below is a guide to show you how. In this example, the data plate consists of two elements: the graphic file with the fixed content and the extension with the serial number. First, import the graphic file.
Step 1:
Upload the graphic file (bmp file) by clicking the "bmp" icon. (Note: you can also use other common graphic files). Now you can find the desired graphic in the graphic field.
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After the import, the data plate layout is displayed in the middle of the graphic field. Depending on requirements, you can freely move this within the marking area (for example to mark multiple data plates at once).
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Adding the serial number
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Add a text field in the flowchart (see picture) and select "Serial number" for source.
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A selection field will appear, where you can specify how the serial number should look. Create your combination of text and the number of digits to create your data plates.
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ACLU's Adam Schwartz: Law Enforcement Uses Fusion Centers To Scrutinize Innocent Americans (video)
Reason TV interviewed Adam Schwartz of the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois where he discussed how law enforcement's pervasive surveillance and data gathering efforts pose a threat to Americans' constitutionally protected privacy and First Amendment rights.
Schwartz describes the significance of fusion centers and the role they play:
"In the wake of the 9-11 terror attacks, the U.S. government has spent billions of dollars to have the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security fund state and local fusion centers. These are state organizations that fuse under one roof, as much information as possible about people who are suspected of criminal or terror activity and then they funnel this information towards the Department of Homeland Security."
Fusion centers maintain a large number of databases on each person, including gov't criminal databases, gov't noncriminal ones, and private ones.
A recently published U.S. Senate investigative report concluded that the information coming from the fusion centers was unrelated to terrorism, and instead threatened citizens' Privacy Act protections and civil liberties:
The investigation found that DHS intelligence officers assigned to state and local fusion centers produced intelligence of "uneven quality – oftentimes shoddy, rarely timely, sometimes endangering citizens' civil liberties and Privacy Act protections, occasionally taken from already-published public sources, and more often than not unrelated to terrorism."


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Announcements for fnumprint
fnumprint – Print a number in 'appropriate' format
The package defines two macros which decide to typeset a number either as an Arabic number or as a word (or words) for the number. If the number is between zero and twelve (including zero and twelve) then words will be used; if the number is outside that range, it will be typeset using the package numprint
Words for English representation of numbers are generated within the package, while those for German are generated using the package zahl2string.


Privacy, Technology Law and Religions across Cultures
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Journal of Information, Law & Technology
Privacy, Technology Law and Religions across Cultures1
Prof. Joseph A. Cannataci
Director of the Centre for Law, Information & Converging Technologies
University of Central Lancshire
This is a refereed article published on 28 May 2009
Citation: Cannataci, JA., 'Privacy, Technology Law and religions across cultures', 2009(1) Journal of Information, Law & Technology (JILT), <>
The freedom to receive and impart information, privacy and the freedom from discrimination on grounds of religious belief are universally recognised as fundamental human rights and, as such, also form part of the basic values of democratic societies. These rights have, in the main, only been adequately articulated and increasingly protected at the international level after the Second World War, relatively very late in more than seven thousand years of civilization In contrast, the values promoted by religions have often been recognised as such for millennia. Where do the values of privacy law and religions conflict and where do they converge, especially in a world where information technology is ubiquitous? The paper examines the debate over privacy from various perspectives, identifying those areas where religions appear to have confronted issues of human rights and where lawyers have been joined in the debate by philosophers within the rapidly developing field of information ethics. It concludes by listing a minimum ten areas where religions may possibly contribute to the intercultural debate on privacy in the Information Society.
Privacy and Information Society, Information ethics, Information Technology and Theology, Information Technology and Culture, Information Technology and religious belief, Information Technology and Human Rights.
'Information law, including the law of privacy and of intellectual property,
is especially likely to benefit from a coherent and comprehensive theory of information ethics…'
Dan L. Burk
We are at the beginning of what I call intercultural information ethics, whose aim is not just to compare similar or dissimilar concepts by juxtaposing them, or to look for a conceptual or even moral consensus – but to become aware of our mutual biases on the basis of a nuanced understanding of similarities and dissimilarities beyond the simple dichotomy between ''East'' and ''West.'''
Rafael Capurro
'Any tendency to treat religion as a private matter must be resisted.... To the extent that religion becomes a purely private affair, it loses its very soul.'
Pope Benedict XVI
 1. Introduction
The debate on 'Privacy and Information Technology' has been predominantly carried out from a 'Western' perspective for over forty years. It is only relatively recently that an interest has arisen in examining where other cultures, such as those which characterise China and Muslim societies, may stand on similar issues. In an effort at contextualising the debate, this paper will set out to map where we are in the complex landscape that is the intercultural debate on privacy, occasionally pausing to get a glimpse on how we possibly got here, focusing on who the actors are almost as much as on what they have to say about the matter. In this sense it is more of an overview than an in-depth review of any one particular aspect of the privacy debate: expect an aerial view of the terrain which attempts to outline the bigger picture before enticing the reader to later plunge deeper into the undergrowth.
The terrain in this case is one marked by at least five major religions which had already started to 'go global' a thousand years and more before the Internet and commerce made globalization a popular term. Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, (Confucian-based) Chinese traditional religion and Buddhism together account for well over 5 billion adherents out of the world's 6.3 billion population2. While at first this may give rise to the hope that an examination of privacy across religions need only start off by seeking harmony and consensus across these five major religious systems, it will be seen that religion is but one element in a complex multi-cultural and intercultural scenario.
This paper may incidentally also provide a tiny contribution to the growing debate about the complex links between religion, law and information technology. Since its very beginnings, the relatively young discipline of Information & Technology Law has concerned itself with the flow of information within society and the resultant impact on the distribution of power within society. That particular focus has manifested itself in various ways and particularly in the long-running debates on data protection law and freedom of information legislation. The introduction of data protection law provoked a new interest in privacy as a fundamental human right and has led to a string of related legislative and judicial developments especially in countries like Germany. These developments have been variously chronicled elsewhere but have led to the inception of new rights like 'informational self-determination' and even 'on-line privacy'. 3 While some leading European jurisdictions come up with such developments, others outside Europe are considering the wisdom of signing up to the Council of Europe's 1981 Data Protection Convention4 while some inside Europe5 are calling for a wholesale review of the EU's Directive 46 of 1995 which is largely based on the COE's 1981 convention. These varied and sometimes apparently conflicting developments in that part of ICT law we today bundle under the umbrella of 'Privacy & Data Protection' compel us to think more deeply about the values underlying privacy, where they come from, how they have developed and where they may or should be going.
When delving deeper into underlying values, it is inevitable that one encounters religions and other cultural sources of value systems. As one asks the questions 'What is privacy? When and where did it begin? How is it enhanced or threatened by technology? What rules should one adapt or adopt?' one discovers a number of things that the debate about religion, information flows and information technology may have in common with themes that have now traditionally been explored in the field of Information & Technology Law. Thus, in the same way as we are in IT Law concerned with the distribution of power in society, we discover interest in exploring religious texts such as the Christian Bible 'in a one to one relation with political power' where 'the text is generated by the shifts of power that need to be given religious legitimacy'.6 Indeed, from a certain viewpoint, several, if not all, religions may be studied in terms of 'information flows' and 'information technology'. The field of study of information technology and religion is vast and fascinating: it may range from how early information technology like the printing press was key in altering political power in Europe especially because of the role of printed matter in the Reformation, through how religions took to modern media for 'tele-evangelisation', to how Digital Islam has now grown to be a regular stream <> in one of Europe's largest IT Law conferences.7
It is beyond the scope of this paper to attempt to chart all the intersections of ICT Law with religion and information technology but instead the objective is far more modest if nonetheless complex. This paper will restrict itself to one value or set of values from the perspective of the intersection between law, information technology, values and religions. The case study chosen for this paper is privacy which is undeniably a universal value albeit finding different forms of expression in different cultures. Laws consist of rules which exist inter alia to protect and promote values. The main thrust of the debate launched in this paper is whether we can get religions to contribute to the formulation of legal concepts and possibly to agree about or at least not hinder the development of certain values such as privacy in a society where information technology is ubiquitous. Key ICT Law texts such as the 1981 COE Data Protection Convention cite implementation of Art. 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights as one of their primary concerns and thus the discussion will commence with an evaluation of privacy from the point of view of fundamental human rights.
 1. A lawyer's dilemma?
When people sit down and sign a contract it is normally hoped that some agreement has been reached on something specific and that the signatories are clear as to what they have agreed to. This is at least as important in international law as in national law: an international contract such as a bi-lateral treaty or a multi-lateral convention can have consequences for individuals far beyond national jurisdictions and is often in effect for decades. What is one to make, therefore of the following principle 12 from the most-translated document in history, the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
So, if all the countries of the world signed up to this, what exactly have they agreed? The main problem is of course that nowhere else in this milestone document do we read 'For the purposes of this declaration "privacy" means "XYZ"'. Sixty years after the UN's Human Rights declaration was launched in December 1948, many scholars within different jurisdictions have engaged in a continuing debate about the definition of privacy but while this debate has yielded many valuable insights we are nowhere closer to having a universally agreed definition for a universal value such as privacy.
To complicate matters further, while the Universal Declaration contained no definition of privacy, religious differences eventually came to the fore: the UN 1948 declaration was later labelled 'a secular understanding of the Judeo-Christian tradition', which could not be implemented by Muslims without trespassing the Islamic law.8 In the 1990 Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam, a quarter of the world's countries signed up to a new document which contains a number of nuances to the 1948 UN document and attempts to interpret all fundamental rights in accordance with Shari'ah Law. In Article 18, the 1990 CDHRI tends to give the impression of having developed a more detailed concept of what is understood to fall within the definition of privacy:
This was far more detailed and arguably


Journal of Plant Science & Molecular Breeding
Journal of Plant Science & Molecular Breeding
ISSN 2050-2389
Behind the scenes of microspore-based double haploid development in Brassica napus: A review
Mukhlesur Rahman* and Monika Michalak de Jiménez
*Correspondence: Mukhlesur Rahman
Author Affiliations
Department of Plant Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58108, USA.
Double haploids are extremely valuable for generating completely homozygous genotypes and have been used in plant breeding program of a number of crop species. This method is a much faster way of developing genetically pure breeding lines in one single generation. The main objective of this review is to describe in a clear and simple manner how microspore-based double haploids of rapeseed are produced and helps a reader to understand the amazing process of microspore embryogenesis, also referred to as androgenesis or pollen embryogenesis. This review will explain what double haploids are as well as their importance in both Brassica breeding and molecular studies. Additionally, a brief discussion of different factors affecting the double haploid production and a comprehensive explanation of the steps involved in the development of the double haploids will be covered.
Keywords: Double haploid, protocol, Brassica, plant breeding
ISSN 2050-2389
Volume 5
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The Tylor Library has a PCAS photocopier. This is located in the basement and can photocopy, scan and print from a PCAS account. To set up your own PCAS account, or learn more about how PCAS works, follow the instructions on the Bodleian PCAS web page.
There are also several useful PCAS libguides with step by step instructions on:
- How to link your university card to your PCAS account.
- How to print direct from a usb stick.
- How to print from your laptop.
- How to print from the library computers.
- How to use the scanning services.
If there are any problems with the photocopier please let the Library Assistant know.


Posted by: Dave Richeson | April 18, 2009
Musings about traffic on the highway
Here's a neat looking infographic by Stephen J. Beard and Rich Exner from The Plain Dealer that I bookmarked a few months ago. It addresses the question, why do freeways come to a stop?
Seeing this graphic reminded me of how much I used to be fascinated by traffic when I was a child (even though I grew up in Rochester, NY, where traffic wasn't often a problem). Here are a few scenarios I used to think about when I was on road trips with my family or just going to the store.
Scenario 1. Suppose there was a multilane highway that is near maximum capacity, but everyone is traveling full speed. Then one driver puts his foot on the brake (maybe just taps it, maybe slams his foot on it). This causes the cars behind him put their brakes on. But, if one lane is slowing, the drivers in the neighboring lanes will probably also apply their brakes.
 1. Clearly the brake lights travel backward relative to the front car, which is moving forward. But how do the spreading brake lights travel with respect to the highway?
 2. How do the brake lights spread outward?
 3. If we had a theoretical highway with many many lanes and this braking driver was in the middle lane, what pattern would these brake lights make if viewed from above, and how would this pattern move in time?
Scenario 2. Suppose there was a large but traversable pothole in the middle of the highway or an accident on the shoulder. Then every person who reaches that spot would slow down. What would be the pattern of the brake lights? (This is the "rubber necker" traffic jam.)
Scenario 3. We've all experienced the situation on a highway in which a 2-lanes go down to one lane. You and hundreds of other drivers are crawling toward the merge point. When you get past the merge point, the cars start moving faster. Pretty soon, you are driving at full speed down this single lane with generous space between the cars. How could this happen?
Just for fun, let's do a quick-and-dirty, back-of-the-envelope calculation to see why this last scenario can happen.
 - Fact: the average length of a car is a little over 16 feet.
 - Assumption 1: after the merge there is one lane of traffic moving 55 mph=80 ft/sec, with cars spaced every 60 feet
 - Assumption 2: before the merge, there are two lanes of traffic, with cars spaced every 20 feet.
How fast are the pre-merge cars moving?
After the merge, 4 cars pass a given point every 3 seconds. Thus the same must be true before the merge. In particular, the pre-merge traffic would be moving approximately 13.3 ft/sec=9 mph.
I'm sure traffic has been thoroughly-studied and these scenarios are well-understood. I've never thought about them mathematically. Maybe some day I will. (Now I live in a small town AND walk to work every day, so I don't think about traffic much.)
Here are a few cool traffic-related tidbits I found while searching the web.
As a postscript, here's a non-mathematical traffic-related observation from later in my life. When I lived in Chicago (near Wrigley Field) I had to drive up to Evanston where I went to school. I could take Ashland Avenue (a 4-lane road) or Clark Street (a 2-lane road). Both routes were always full of traffic and very slow. Most drivers were irritated by Clark Street. There were always people trying turn left or parallel park. Drivers had to stop a lot—it was slow going. On Ashland there were many people turning left and parallel parking too, but with an extra lane the drivers could avoid them by changing lanes. The problem was, you never knew which lane would be faster. Often I'd change into the faster left lane, only to get stopped by someone turning or parallel parking. Even if I played things well and repeatedly chose the faster lanes, I'd probably only gain 100 yards on my original position for the entire trip. I didn't get there much sooner, and the price of the time savings was a lot of anxiety. Eventually, I realized that Clark street was more relaxing for me. I just drove when I could, stopped when I had to, and never had to worry about changing lanes. I also realized that this is why I liked shopping at smaller grocery stores rather than the mega-supermarkets. It can be exhausting to make choices. The payoff of slightly lower prices and more variety isn't worth the the effort required to make multiple decisions.
 1. I enjoyed your thoughts about traffic very much but I was not impressed by the graphic. It's "a neat looking infographic" but there is no substance to the graphic; only the text provides significant information. It's a pet peeve of mine seeing this explosion of gaudy 3-d illustrations that pose as useful graphics. A picture should be worth many words but increasingly graphics are simply eye-candy or worse actually mislead.
 Effective communication with graphics would be an interesting topic to address some time. Edward Tufte's books are brilliant.
 Back on traffic. Is there a formula for deciding when to change lanes? Obviously when one lane is faster, people start switching to that lane which then slows down. A contrarian approach might work if one knew when to move out of the fast lane. Hmmm, sounds similar to stock trading.
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Please Read Question Below!
A toy cannon uses a spring to project a 5.27-g soft rubber ball. The spring is originally compressed by 4.95 cm and has a force constant of 7.99 N/m. When the cannon is fired, the ball moves 16.0 cm through the horizontal barrel of the cannon, and the barrel exerts a constant friction force of 0.0322 N on the ball.
(a) With what speed does the projectile leave the barrel of the cannon?
(b) At what point does the ball have maximum speed?
_________cm (from its original position)
(c) What is this maximum speed?
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