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Gaiar Alata[edit]
Gaiar Alata, also known as Paradise, was a plane of Oblivion created by Mankar Camoran. It was designed by Camoran to be a side dimension for the Deadlands. Despite its name, the plane was a Paradise only for Camoran and his children; for his followers, it was a prison and torture chamber. Gaiar Alata was destroyed during the Oblivion Crisis.
Gardens of Flesh and Bone[edit]
The Gardens of Flesh and Bone are an ancient ruin and root tunnel complex located just west of the town of Passwall inside the Fringe, the walled-off region of the Shivering Isles to which mortals are confined until they receive Lord Sheogorath's "gift" of madness and can enter the realm proper.
Like all ancient ruins found in the Isles, it is a relic of the "Predecessors", the mortal inhabitants of the realm whose civilization was wiped out in a previous Greymarch. By the Third Era, root tunnels had broke through into the ancient subterranean halls of the Garden.
Garlas Malatar[edit]
Garlas Malatar, meaning "Cavern of the High Wood" in Ayleidoon, was the westernmost outpost of the Ayleid Empire in the First Era. The city watched over the Abecean Sea, and was known for a brilliant beacon called the Guiding Light that shone above it and was visible from great distances; the Guiding Light was fueled by the light of the Daedric Prince Meridia herself, and was proof of her favor.
During the fall of the Ayleid Empire, King Narilmor sealed Garlas Malatar to protect an artifact gifted by Meridia called the Wrathstone, and it has been claimed that the city was ultimately destroyed not by the forces of the Alessian Empire, but by internal conflict or sabotage brought on by Narilmor's increasingly ruthless rule.
The city's ruins were located on a small island along the Gold Coast of western Cyrodiil, northwest of Anvil, and consisted of a moderate underground complex sometimes known as the Depths of Malatar. The complex also connects to an isolated cove along the northern coast known as the Cove of the Guiding Light.
Gavaudon is a region in central High Rock, within the larger region of Stormhaven. It borders Menevia to the west, Wrothgar to the north, and Mournoth to the east. The region contains the town of Wind Keep, the Ayleid ruins of Norvulk, as well as the enormous ruined statue called the Weeping Giant. It is the home of the Dumontes, an old clan known for having a considerable familial connection with the Direnni.
Gavaudon offers rich alluvial soil due to the Bjoulsae River flood plains, but the threat of vampire attacks and Orc raids from the mountains weeds out all but the most hardy frontiersmen. Around 2E 582, the region was considered a fiefdom.
Lake Geir[edit]
Lake Geir is a lake in the western Rift. Ivarstead is built on its western shores. The lake is fed by Treva River and is drained by Darkwater River. It is named after Archmage Geirmund, a First Era wizard who died nearby in a duel with Sigdis Gauldurson, the son of Archmage Gauldur. A tomb for the Archmage can still be found on the largest island in the lake.
Ghostgate was the main gateway through the ancient Ghostfence artifact to the Red Mountain region, which prevented monsters affected by The Blight from leaving. Ghostgate housed a large Tribunal Temple and contingents of both Buoyant Armigers and Ordinators. The two towers of Ghostgate, called Dusk (west) and Dawn (east), were constructed after The War of the First Council as one of the many defenses against the evils of Dagoth Ur.
Sea of Ghosts[edit]
The Sea of Ghosts (also known as the Ghost Sea, or the Northern Sea) is the body of water that consists of the northern coast of Tamriel, and the southern coast of Atmora. It is a part of the Padomaic Ocean, which consists of the north and east seas of Tamriel. The Sea of Ghosts is not easy to navigate. It took some time for the people of Tamriel to explore these misty waters, which are often riddled with glaciers and icebergs. It is unknown how the Sea of Ghosts acquired its name, however, the ancient tale of Skyrim, known as Yngol and the Sea-Ghosts refers to the death of Ysgramor's eldest son, Yngol, at the hands of the "Sea-Ghosts". The Sea of Ghosts host its own variety of animals that are not commonly found in other parts of the continent, specifically the Horkers and the Chub Loons.
Gideon is one of the eight major cities in the province of Black Marsh and is situated near the Cyrodilic region of Blackwood. Gideon has held a strong connection to the nearby Imperials, having served as their foothold in Black Marsh during several moments in history, including the Blackwater War and the waning years of the First Era. Gideon is a thoroughly Imperialized settlement.
Gilane is one of the eight major cities in the province of Hammerfell, situated on the northern edge of the isthmus in Khefrem.
Gil-Var-Delle (also known as Gilverdale) was a town in southern Valenwood, located west from Elden Root and north of Southpoint in Grahtwood region.
Glacier Crawl[edit]
Glacier Crawl is a network of icy passages found in the Western Reach of eastern High Rock, near the border of Hammerfell. It is inhabited by blue-skinned humanoids known as the Ice Tribes, and dangerous creatures known as Snowrays.
One of the airships that once sailed the sky to collect the seven Star Teeth crashed into the glacier. The Ice Tribes raided the ship, taking their Star Tooth and trapping the crew, who were left to die. The spirit of Captain Nym remained to haunt the ship. In 3E 397, the Soul of Conflict came in search of the Star Teeth, which were needed to fight the growing forces of shadow. The adventurer recovered the Star Tooth from the Chieftain of the Ice Tribes, and spoke with Captain Nym, whose spirit was eased by the reunification of the Star Teeth, the defeat of the Ice Tribes, and the impending battle against the Umbra' Keth.
Glademist is an area in the Great Forest of Cyrodiil, located far northeast of the city of Chorrol. It lends its name to three notable places: the historical Fort Glademist, a cave network just off the Orange Road called Glademist Cave, and the region of Glademist Fields.
During the Alliance War of 2E 582, Fort Glademist was an expansive and strategically important keep. It had its own farm, mine, and lumbermill, and was heavily fortified. It was initially located within the territory held by the Daggerfall Covenant. The fort changed hands many times over the course of the war. The region of Glademist Fields was found to the southwest of the fort, and was plagued by Black Dagger ambushes during the war.
The fort was later abandoned and neglected until nothing remained. In 3E 433, the Blackwood Company set up camp in Glademist Cave during an ill-fated attempt to expand out of Leyawiin. Like all natural caves, these tunnels once served as the capillaries of Nirn, pulsing with the divine essence of the Aedra. After clearing out the resident monsters, the Company heavily fortified the caves. After his expulsion from the Fighters Guild, Modryn Oreyn turned to unorthodox tactics in his campaign to discredit the Blackwood Company. His first step was kidnapping one of their leaders, Ajum-Kajin, who had taken up residence in Glademist. The Champion of Cyrodiil entered the caves, killing the Company guards and bringing Ajum-Kajin back to Chorrol for interrogation. The caves were subsequently reclaimed by monsters from the wilderness.
Glenpoint is an inland march of southwestern High Rock. It is surrounded by four other city-states: Northmoor to the north, the Ilessan Hills to the east, and Tulune and Glenumbra Moors to the west. The Royal Family of Glenpoint is protected by the Knights of the Owl. The dominant vampire bloodline is the Vraseth, and the regional deity is Zenithar.
The biggest city in this region is the city of Glenpoint. The city itself is neighbored by several settlements, including Ilessen Hills in the north, and Reich Gradkeep in the southwest.
During the Imperial Simulacrum in the late Third Era, the city of Glenpoint was ruled by Lady Carolyrrya. It had a rivalry with Reich Gradkeep. During the Warp in the West, this region became a part of the kingdom of Daggerfall.
Glenumbra is the western peninsula of High Rock separating the Iliac Bay from the Eltheric Ocean. The peninsula's geography is a mix of rugged woodland and fetid swamps. Snag-weevils have been known to plague the area, and werewolves are particularly prevalent. The famed city of Daggerfall is found


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The Biology and Medicine of Rabbits and Rodents by Harkness and Wagner contains one paragraph on this topic:
"Bloody urine is rare in rabbits and rodents. Many cases of 'bloody' urine turn out to be porphyrin-pigmented basic urine or a sanguineous vaginal discharge associated with uterine adenocarcinoma, polyps, or abortion. Thick white urine containing reddish-orange pigment is indicative of an excess of dietary calcium."
Bloody urine in rabbits may be rare, but red urine is not. People who live with house rabbits will find this out. Diseases of Domestic Rabbits (1988) by Lieve Okerman contains two sentences on this subject:
"Red colour of the urine is sometimes observed in rabbits. It is probably caused by a plant pigment and does not affect the health of the animal."
Red urine is a descriptive term for the condition where a rabbit's urine varies in color from the normal pale yellow to dark yellow, carrot orange, brown, or bright red. Red urine is not a medical problem. The color usually returns to normal within one to three days, although I have had a couple of rabbits take three to four weeks before their urine returned to the pale yellow color. White urine may be due to excess calcium in the diet; if it stays white for many days you may want to discuss your rabbit's diet with your veterinarian. Dark urine resulting from heat stress or dehydration may require fluid therapy
For obscure reasons (my rabbits all eat the same food, drink the same water and get the same treats) some get red urine, some don't. Red urine (due to excessive urinary pigments) may occur due to any of the following:
It is not necessary to panic when you observe a change in color of your rabbit's urine. However, hematuria can occur due to disease anywhere in the urogenital system. An unspayed female rabbit might show a bloody discharge from her vulva, or drops of blood after urination, which could be confused with urine. Either of these occurrences could be a sign of uterine cancer. An unneutered male rabbit could have genital cancer or trauma which could cause blood to appear in his urine. BLOOD IN THE URINE (HEMATURIA)
When we see red urine, most of us worry about a bladder or urinary tract infection. However, actual blood in the urine is usually difficult to see with the naked eye. When due to kidney disease, straining to urinate may not occur, but straining is the most common sign of urinary bladder disease. A rabbit straining to urinate assumes an unusual stance, that is he sits for an unusually long period of time on the tip toes of the back feet, with the tail very high in the air. Immediately change the litter box so you will be able to determine if he is producing urine. He may only produce a drop or two of urine at a time because of the frequency with which he is attempting to urinate, but if you see urine, you might wait until your regular veterinarian is available in the morning. If you do not see urine, there may be a blockage and it's time to see your emergency veterinarian.
In the case of difficult urination, a urinalysis is in order. If hematuria occurs along with straining, disease of the urinary bladder is likely and additional tests may be necessary; for instance, X rays, urine culture or blood tests. Interpretation of findings must be based on knowledge of anatomical and biochemical variations of rabbits from other small animal patients.
It is not necessary to take your rabbit to the veterinarian for the condition of red (pigmented) urine. But when should you go to your veterinarian? If you see a red or pink color in the urine (orange is OK) and there are no other symptoms, you could wait until normal office hours and ask your veterinarian to test the urine for blood. If you see your rabbit straining to urinate, but there is no urine, go to a veterinarian as soon as possible. An emergency veterinarian should be able to determine if your rabbit is blocked and unable to urinate. If he is not blocked you could wait until the following day so that your regular veterinarian can decide if further tests or an invasive procedure is necessary.
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Mythbusting Impact Investing
Taa'theer 2017–the annual impact and social responsibility conference–is coming up once again, and WOMENA will be joining the conversation to discuss how investors fit into the puzzle of making the world a better place.
Angel investors (at least the investors in WOMENA) in general tend to share certain characteristics. We're risk-takers, innovation-seekers, and believers in the possibilities of technology and young people. We want to empower entrepreneurs to create jobs, disrupt industries and improve the world with their products. But there are some investors to whom the last category is very important. These individuals want to make profit + impact. They are the impact investors.
As with all buzzwords, impact investing can be surrounded by a bit of confusion. And, because impact investors in the Middle East can be a rare and elusive breed, misconceptions abound. With this short article, we hope to clarify some of the common myths that surround impact investing.
Myth 1: Impact investing = philanthropy
Charity status is tricky in GCC countries, and there is no official classification for social enterprise business yet. In the spirit of innovation, some organizations tend to brand as businesses, but retain a not-for-profit or social enterprise model which generally blurs the lines for everyone. Here's how we see it:
 1. Impact only: Organizations that are primarily focused on impact, with revenue stream coming from grants and donations. These are usually classified as charities and NGOs.
 2. Impact first: These are revenue generating with various models including:
 1. Generating revenue from commerce + grants
 2. Generating revenue from commerce, but all profits reinvested into impact projects
 3. Generates revenue from commerce, but profits are split between re-investment and shareholder payout.
 3. Socially driven businesses: This type of business has a double focus: generating profit for its shareholders, and creating a positive social or environmental impact (often meeting needs in a developing market or focused on a socially driven problem). WOMENA investment AlemHealth is an example of this.
As angel investors, we are interested in funding companies that fall into the last category. Thus, we will evaluate your startup as a business, and we will expect to make a profit off of our investment. In contrast to venture philanthropy, impact investing is a much longer play, with investors seeking exits and returns similar to venture investing.
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Myth 2: Impact investing = high risk & low dividends
To bust this myth, we turn to a recent report by Morgan Stanley. The report, which surveys over 10,000 equity mutual funds from 2008 – 2015, shows that sustainable investing funds have actually met or exceeded the median returns of traditional equity funds and had lower volatility. 72% of socially driven businesses surveyed offered above average profitability.
Even more interesting, is the rapid increase of impact investments. In 2012 impact investments made up, $1 of every $9 invested. In 2014, this number increased to $1 out of $6, amounting to nearly $6.57 trillion in investments.
And who is driving this increase?
You guessed it! Women & millennials!
Another Morgan Stanley report showed that 3/4th of women surveyed were interested in impact investments, and millennials were twice as likely to invest in an opportunity if there was a positive social outcome attached the business.
In summary, impact investors are on the rise, and we're looking for profitable, high-growth companies that create a positive impact in the world around them. If that sounds like you, send us your pitch deck! If you're interested in knowing more about this subject, don't miss the 'Investors Panel' on May 16th at Ta'atheer 2017!


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When more complex layouts are needed, yui-g's themselves can be combined using 'first', as seen in the bottom section which here we've divided into four equal sized blocks.

The other major CSS framework in use at the moment is Blueprint CSS. Much like YUI, there is a
For those working in Drupal or WordPress, there are already themes setup that use the framework: _URL_ For everyone else, we'll need to included the blueprint files. If using the standard setup, or the minified version has been rebuilt (the originals are all in the'src' directory), this is as simple as:

In common with the other frameworks, blueprint pages need a container, helpfully called 'container'. It's a class so you can use multiple of them to create rows of content.
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These classes include.caps for a small caps display,.incr for incremental leading and a.alt for some fancier font selections. Other standard plugins include some CSS buttons and link icons, and there are more to be found on the blueprint wiki. The best documentation for each is usually the css file itself.
There is an off-shoot of Blueprint by one of the original creators, known as Boilerplate CSS that focuses on providing a minimal core of totally reusable code. It's less focused on the predefined grid classes than the other frameworks we've looked at, which might appeal.
Some of the more recent CSS frameworks have moved from a fixed width to a fluid grid. Fluid 960 for example, is, as the name suggests, a fluid or variable width implementation of the 960 grid system, and works almost exactly the same way, but with grids based on percentages rather than fixes pixel sizes.
The idea behind Nicole Sullivan's OO CSS grew out of the problems many developers have observed with larger sites -the amount of CSS also grows, and as it does it becomes less manageable, and less comprehensible. What appears the same visually on two different pages may result from a completely different set of styling rules, and the whole thing takes on the very worst aspects of spaghetti code that we strive to avoid in regular development.
The OO CSS idea is that the spaghetti situation is avoided through use of small modules or blocks of code, and strong separation between various layers of functionality. This also helps improve the repetition and consistency throughout the site.
Though the OO CSS framework itself is still in it's early stages, the basic idea of separating layout and 'theme' elements of individual modules (structure and skin), then strictly reusing those modules with appropriate styling on what's within them (separating container and content), can benefit almost any site system. The project is definitely one to watch, and there's a great summary of the ideas on Nicole's blog.
It's easy to dismiss these kind of libraries - as either being part of the area you're not interested in, or as as a cause of markup or CSS bloat, but the advantages they can give in terms of speed, consistency and flexibility can be really significant. This is particularly true in prototyping and rapid development situations, but the tools can be just as useful on intranet apps, administration pages and the rest of the large number of sites built not for the general public, and hence often without the input of a designer.
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The Administration has released the names of three Mexican organizations against which the President has decided to impose sanctions pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (the "Kingpin Actâ€) (21 U.S.C. _PHONE_, 8 U.S.C. 1182). Kingpin Act targets, on a worldwide basis, significant foreign narcotics traffickers, their organizations, and operatives.
The Kingpin Act became law on December 3, 1999. Its purpose is to deny significant foreign narcotics traffickers, their related businesses, and their operatives access to the U.S. financial system and to prohibit all trade and transactions between the traffickers and U.S. companies and individuals. The Kingpin Act authorizes the President to take these actions when he determines that a foreign person plays a significant role in international narcotics trafficking. Congress modeled the Kingpin Act on the effective sanctions program that the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFACâ€) administers against the Colombian drug cartels pursuant to Executive Order 12978 issued in October 1995 ("Executive Order 12978â€) under authority of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act ("IEEPAâ€).
The Kingpin Act requires that the Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney General, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, and the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency coordinate to identify drug kingpins and propose them to the President for sanctions. The Department of Homeland Security and the Directorate of National Intelligence are also included in the process. The Act calls for the President to report to specified congressional committees by June 1 of each year on those "foreign persons [he] determines are appropriate for sanctionsâ€ and stating his intent to impose sanctions upon those Significant Foreign Narcotics Traffickers pursuant to the Act. While previous Presidential determinations have been tied to the statutory June 1 timetable, the President may also identify Significant Foreign Narcotics Traffickers at any other time pursuant to the Act.
Under the Kingpin Act, the President may identify foreign entities as well as foreign individuals as Significant Foreign Narcotics Traffickers, or "kingpinsâ€: a foreign person is defined in the Act as "any citizen or national of a foreign state or any entity not organized under the laws of the United States, but does not include a foreign state." Likewise, the President is not required to designate Colombian persons exclusively under Executive Order 12978, and may impose sanctions on a Colombian individual or entity under the Kingpin Act, which is intended to be global in scope.
The long-term effectiveness of the Kingpin Act is enhanced by the Department of the Treasury's authority (in consultation with appropriate government agencies and departments) under the Act to make derivative designations of foreign individuals and entities that provide specified types of support or assistance to designated traffickers, or that are owned or controlled by such traffickers, or that act on their behalf. This authority broadens the scope of application of the economic sanctions against kingpins to include their businesses and operatives. Including this year's action, the President has named a total of 78 Significant Foreign Narcotics Traffickers since the first set of kingpins was announced on June 1, 2000. The Department of the Treasury's OFAC has issued a total of 496 derivative designations pursuant to its authorities under the Kingpin Act; these entities and individuals are subject to the same sanctions that apply to kingpins.
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Have you ever gone skydiving?
Bungee jumped? Travelled overseas to teach? If so, you might be a risk taker. Some people are born with an innate drive to take chances. They know the thrill of attempting the impossible and of both succeeding and failing. But you don't have to be a risk taker to move out of your comfort zone in the ESL classroom. In fact, taking a risk in how or what you teach has tons of benefits, and it's worth doing even if you would never jump out of a plane. Here's how.
The Benefits of Risk Taking
Whether it is a big risk or a small one, you can expect some positive results to come from getting out of your comfort zone.
- Taking risks is invigorating. It energizes you. It pumps you up. And energy is contagious. When you are full of energy inside your classroom, your students will feed off that energy too. They will participate more enthusiastically and become more engaged in learning. And who doesn't want students who are excited to be in class and learning?
- Taking risks challenges us. We can get in a rut of doing the same activities over and over, especially when we have been teaching the same material for several years. You can wake up your brain by teaching something you have never taught before. The challenge is good for you. It's stimulating. And the risk pays off because you will be more interested in what you are doing this time around, and so will your students.
- That challenge also allows you to be creative. You have to think of new activities, new ways to communicate with your students. You wouldn't teach if you weren't someone who likes to come up with new ideas. Embrace that side of yourself by inviting risk into your lesson plans.
- Taking risks allows you to connect with your students in a new or different way. They are taking a risk by learning English, even more so if they have travelled overseas to do it. When you venture out of your comfort zone, you can better understand their fears and excitement when it comes to their language studies.
- When you take a risk, you chance failure (or at least less than perfection). That's great for your students! Sometimes we teachers forget that we don't have to be perfect even though we are standing in the front of the class. When we embrace our imperfection through risk taking, we model for our students that they don't have to be perfect either.
4 Risks Worth Taking to Revitalize Your ESL Classroom
Project Based Learning
When it comes to project based learning, it's the process not the product that really counts. Here are the basics if you choose to use PBL in your classroom. Start with a real life problem that students will have to solve. Have groups examine the problem and then list the information they will need and the steps they will have to accomplish to solve the problem. Then have students go through the steps to reach their goal as you walk with them and offer guidance. The project culminates with a creative presentation from each group on their solution. And it's the process that you grade them on, not the final product.
The new trend of flipped classrooms works great for ESL students. In short, a flipped classroom is where you assign the instruction material to be completed as homework (rather than doing the actual instruction in class) through a variety of multimedia sources and then use class time to deepen and apply the knowledge students learn at home. To try a flipped classroom, gather links to online videos, interactive apps, and other sources that teach the material you plan on covering in class. Give your student the set of links and assign the work to be completed outside of class. Then when students come in the next day, devote your time to using what they learned through communicative activities. Correct or instruct when necessary, but spend most of your time actually using the strategies students learned at home. For more information on how to do a flipped unit or set up a flipped classroom, check out this simple how to on flipped classrooms.
Whether you put your entire life out there for all to see on social media or you're more the private type, you can reap great benefits to opening your classroom to the world through a blog. Anyone can have a blog these days including you and your students. Set one up on your website or through a free site like Blog Spot. Then have your students be the authors. Brainstorm with your class the kinds of topics that would be appropriate for your blog – what it's like to learn English in the U.S., funny cultural clashes students have experiences, what everyone should know about your students' home countries, etc. Then have students work with a partner to write and post on your blog. Give your students freedom in what they share though you may want to give a final okay to each post before it heads to publication. Then have students publish what they wrote. Invite others to read and comment on your blog and have students respond to any comments they receive. And don't forget to put together a few of your own posts for publication too.
New Unit or Topic
Not every risk has to happen on a grand scale, especially if your teaching methods or classroom management hasn't changed a whole lot over a long teaching career. Consider simply tackling a new topic or subject. Teaching language gives us the freedom to include a huge variety of content in our classrooms. As long as our students learn the grammar they need, it can be in the context of common household pets or NASCAR racing. If you are ready to take a risk but want one less intimidating than the ones above, consider letting your students choose the topic for your next unit. What are they interested in? What do they want to learn about? Brainstorm possible topics for your next unit as a class. Then run with the one most students are excited about. It might be out of your comfort zone, and that's a good thing. It will challenge you to think creatively as you continue to incorporate the grammar points and other necessary elements of your unit. Plus your students will be automatically engaged since they are the ones who chose the topic.
For some, taking risks doesn't come easily.
For others, jumping out of planes is old hat. Wherever you fall on the spectrum, consider taking a risk in your classroom, even a small one. Both you and your students will reap the benefits if you do.


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Leadership and Management
Is Followership More Important than Leadership?
It's a fairly obvious fact that every leader needs a follower (as the proverb says: "He who thinks he leads, but has no followers, is only taking a walk"). However, while we have a huge amount of writing about the concept of leadership, there is very little written about the concept of followership, or why people choose to follow a given leader. This article therefore aims, in a very small way to redress this imbalance.
In his recent book "The Righteous Mind", the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt suggests that "focusing on leadership alone is like trying to understand clapping by studying only the left hand." The real puzzle, he suggests is not why people want to lead, it's why they want to follow.
Haidt suggests that people will follow pretty much any leader who establishes three important criteria:
- First he or she must establish why he/she legitimately is cast in this leadership role or is a credible authority figure for this group of potential followers.
- Secondly, a would-be leader needs to convey that his or her leadership will be fair/just and will not oppress individuals in the follower group (who might then start to band together to resist some leadership actions if this were the case).
- Thirdly, and perhaps most importantly, he or she must make a convincing argument that loyalty to his or her leadership is a requirement of fellowship (put simply there must be one leader to whom people are true).
Once these three preliminary steps have been consciously and clearly taken, follower cohesiveness can be built by a few further actions, which will progressively build the particular team:
1. Increasing similarity and not diversity
Haidt suggests that followers want to feel like a large family. A family would not draw attention to racial, ethnic, age or any other equivalent differences in team members, but would stress similarities and shared values. Although they appear a little shallow, team dress codes (even broadly based ones), team-based jargon and acronyms and team celebrations (of birthdays for example) can all help a leader's followers to like that they dress in similar ways, talk in common ways or celebrate an event in a similar way (and that is common to the whole team and a little different from other teams, even inside the same organization).
2. Exploit "synchrony"
Haidt's concept of "synchrony" is best illustrated by what many Japanese companies do with morning exercises for the team. This helps bind the team through the vehicle of the often repeated event and shared experience. Think of the New Zealand "All Blacks" team doing the Haka before every game for example-well worth watching on you tube, if you've never seen this. Of course, morning exercises or singing the team/company song may not work that well in the western world. Social events with the team (sports, parties or Karaoke after work, one a week/month can create "synchrony" just as well.
3. Create healthy competition among teams, not individuals
Haidt suggest that soldiers do not risk their lives for the army as a whole or their country but for their friends in the same platoon. As a result, friendly inter-team rivalries are worth setting up deliberately (table tennis or darts or quizzes) not because it matters who wins but because it increases the sense of team and cohesiveness of followers. The more this is done, the less competition occurs between individuals on the same team and trust and morale levels typically soar.
Haidt's theory suggests that most leadership in practice is "transactional" or leads people individually, mainly with stick and carrot approaches which appeal to self-interest. However, if we adopt the above approach when we want to build strong followership in a team, we need to apply "transformational" leadership, using a lot of "we" instead of "I" language. This helps individual followers to quickly see themselves as part of a bigger whole. In this way, followers are more likely to see themselves as "members", and that's a critical change in mentality and one which can create much greater team success.


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|The Billy and Charley
|DURING THE MIDDLE of the 19th century the London
archaeological community was disrupted by a controversy over the
authenticity of a large number of supposedly medieval leaden
objects that appeared for sale. They eventually proved to be
forgeries and have since been called "Billys and Charleys" after
William Smith (Billy) and Charles Eaton (Charley), the eponymous forgers, are shadowy figures. It is even uncertain if Billy's name really was William Smith. But some biographical information can be found in writings on their forgeries.
Charley was born in about 1834; Billy was probably born a few years earlier. Most of their life was spent in the neighbourhood of Rosemary Lane (now called Royal Mint Street) in Tower Hamlets. They were mudlarks who searched the Thames for items of value. William Edwards, a London antique dealer, made Billy's acquaintance around about 1845, and he met Charley some years later. He paid them for items of interest that they found, thinking of them as "his boys"1.
Billy and Charley earned money from this until 1857, when they decided to counterfeit antiquities. They cast objects from lead (or lead alloys such as pewter), cutting dies into plaster of Paris moulds with nails and knives, and bathing the finished items in acid to simulate aging. Their commonest products were medallions, of between two and four inches in diameter, with small loops attached to form hangers (Fig. 1). Because of the primitive casting technique, they were generally thin, with poorly defined edges and pitted. uneven surfaces. Other products included daggers, statuettes, ampullae (Fig. 2) and even small shrines (Fig. 3).
The figures most frequently depicted on these forgeries were knights in body-hugging armour (Fig. 4), kings wearing strange spiked crowns and priests in wide, loosely hanging robes, all with childish expressionless faces.
Billy and Charley were illiterate, and the inscriptions on their forgeries consisted of meaningless jumbles of letters and symbols, while dates in arabic numerals ascribed manufacture to the years between the 11th and 16th centuries, although Arabic
|numerals did not come into use in Europe before the 15th
Billy and Charley claimed to have found their creations at Shadwell, where a new dock was being built, and they found a ready market. The materials needed to make a medallion cost twopence, but one could be sold for half a crown, and larger items could sell for considerably more2.
William Edwards became one of their principal customers, describing the objects as "The most interesting relics I have met with for years and the earliest pilgrims' signs that have yet been found"3. He showed them to George Eastwood. an antique dealer in the City Road, who bought large quantities, advertising them as "A remarkably curious and unique collection of leaden signs or badges of the time of Richard Il"4.
Fig. 1: a lead medallion by Billy and Charley (photo: Chris Mycock)


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A rigging plan is developed every time a heavy load is being lifted. The basic idea behind a rigging plan is to have control and establish safety precautions. It is an important planning process that will identify all hazardous situations that might be encountered during lifting.
Types of Rigging Plans
The first step when conducting a rigging safety plan is to identify the type of lift. There are three major classifications of lifting plans: Critical lifts, ordinary lifts, and pre-engineering lifts. Depending on the type of lift, then the rigging plan will have different concepts under evaluation to determine the steps needed to complete a safe rigging and lifting process.
Rigging and Lifting Plan Components
Once the evaluation process has determined the type of rigging and lifting plan needed, you will need to identify and gather information on the following components:
- The rigging equipment
- Shackles, turnbuckles, and slings being used
- The weight being lifted
- Center of gravity of the load being lifted
- Crane capacity and crane charts
- Height, width, and length of the lift
- Atmospheric and environmental conditions when the process is being performed
- Edges and corners of the load. It is important to evaluate all the geometry of the item being lifted
- Sling angles
- Load angle factor
- Floor loading capacity
- How to rig the load using good rigging practices
- Identify and make sure that the attachment points and load can withstand the forces created by the rigging gear attachment
- Work zone safety
- Evaluate hazards to determine consequences resulting from a collision, upset, or dropping the load
Ordinary lifts are the easiest ones to handle. They will normally require a verbal planning process and preliminary lifting and rigging meetings. Only a minimal documentation and evaluation process is needed, but always being sure that all safety precautions are been taken.
Critical lifts need a more detailed plan before execution. This process will normally require a written procedure and approval process.
These are the most challenging ones to deal with. They will require specific rigging points, lifting procedure and identification of components that will probably need to be managed separately, to avoid problems, and minimize potential issues.
Rigging Plan Execution
Once the plan has been established, you will need to follow it closely to reduce the probability of an accident. It is important to
- Verify all equipment, fixtures, and accessories before starting
- Verify that all equipment has been properly inspected and that such inspections are valid.
- Identify a load manager or a rigging leader. It can be your safety professional or ordinary lifts, assign a designated leader; for critical lifts, assign a person-in-charge (PIC)
- Conduct a pre-use inspection and verify that all components are in good condition.
- Conduct a dummy rigging process following the pre-established rigging plan.
- Be sure to identify and train all workers participating in the process.
- Clear or prepare the area where the load is being placed or moved
- Survey the lift site for hazardous or unsafe conditions
- Clear lift path of obstructions
- Identify the crane operator
- Follow specific instructions/procedures for attachment of the rigging gear to the load. Use proper rigging techniques.
- Stop the job when any potentially unsafe condition is recognized


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advantages. First, when questionnaires were completed online instead of through a mail-in or telephone survey, several days were saved. Second, appropriate planning of the electronic questionnaire and direct transfer of data into a database saved much time and allowed a large sample size to be obtained without additional resources. However, Internet data collection may cause other delays. It takes time to set up the Web page and check its proper function. In our study population, only 25% of users logged on daily, and half of registered users did not log on during a whole week, while most people likely answer the phone and check their mail daily.
Our study had several limitations. Of the households in our study area, only 42% had access to the computer network. In telephone surveys, noncoverage is usually not a major concern (8). In community-based Internet surveys, noncoverage may be a substantial problem, depending on the topic studied. Because we only included persons who completed the questionnaire from a home computer, young people were overrepresented among respondents of our online survey. Also, although detailed demographics of registered users of the community network were not available, young age groups and persons with higher education and income are overrepresented among Internet users (1). Only four respondents were >65 years, although this group represents nearly 20% of the population. However, representativeness of participants may also be a problem in studies that use traditional methods for enrolling participants such as random digit dialing (9).
In our survey, 19% of households with access participated, but defining the exact sampling frame was not possible. This problem also is similar to telephone surveys using random digit dialing (10). In recent studies using that dialing system, estimated response rates from 28% to 35% have been reported (9,11). In an email study of a defined group of employees in Alaska, 91% of questionnaires were returned (12). Company employees likely have access to a computer and are also accustomed to checking email daily. The higher response rates in email studies are therefore not directly comparable with our survey. Whether response rates in studies that collect data electronically will ever be as high as in studies that collect information by telephone or mail is not known. In a recent investigation of an outbreak of conjunctivitis at a university, data were collected through email and the Internet, and the response rate was only 50% (13). Telephone or in-person surveys have higher participation rates and fewer missing data than surveys that use self-administered questionnaires (14).
The setting in our study was unusual because a single provider provided access to the Internet, which made it easy to distribute information about the survey to users. Most communities, however, are serviced by several Internet providers, making it more difficult to access users. Whether all commercial providers would be willing to interrupt the log-in procedure with this request and link to the outbreak investigation Web site is uncertain. As was done in our survey, advertising the study in newspapers and other media could be used to increase participation rates. Data access issues could also be problematic if the study were conducted through a commercial Internet provider.
We conducted searches in Medline, ScienceDirect, and ISI Web of Science (Available from: _URL_), but we did not find published reports of community-based outbreak investigations in which data were collected through the Internet or through email. Internet surveys are likely to become more common in epidemiologic investigations and have the potential to rapidly provide data to enable appropriate public health action. In industrialized countries, most people will have access to the Internet and email within the next few years, providing epidemiologists increasing opportunities to conduct studies with online data collection. Defining the sampling frame and appropriate design of the questionnaire and database are essential. Response rates and demographics of respondents should be monitored to minimize selection bias. The method of choice for data collection in an outbreak investigation depends on the population and topic studied. Currently, online data collection seems best suited for investigations conducted in well-defined populations with high Internet coverage, where the exposures studied are unlikely to be strongly related to demographic and socioeconomic factors.
Dr. Kuusi is a medical epidemiologist at the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki. His research interests include the epidemiology and control of foodborne infections and outbreak investigations.
We thank Outi Lyytikäinen and Petri Ruutu for constructive comments on the manuscript; Niina Kupiainen for virologic analysis of water samples; and Markku Puhakka, Ilpo Koskikallio, and Jorma Mähänen for assistance in the investigation.
This study was partly supported (L.M. and C-H. v.B.) by a grant from the Academy of Finland, 42675/98.
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Suggested citation for this article: Kuusi M, Nuorti JP, Maunula L, Miettinen I, Pesonen H, von Bonsdorff C-H. Internet use and epidemiologic investigation of gastroenteritis outbreak. Emerg Infect Dis [serial online] 2004 Mar [date cited]. Available from: _URL_


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This article is about the municipality in Norway. For the community in Minnesota, see Rollag, Minnesota
Rollag is a municipality in Buskerud county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Numedal. The municipality of Rollag was established on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). Nore og Uvdal was separated from Rollag in 1858.
The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Rollag, although the most populated area in the municipality is Veggli. Rollag is bordered in the north by Nore og Uvdal, in the east by Sigdal, in the south by Flesberg, and in the west by Tinn (Telemark county).
General information
The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Rollag farm (Old Norse: Roll(u)lag), since the first church was built here. The first element is probably (the genitive case of) a river name Rolla (now called the Troelva river) and the last element is lag which means "fishing place". The meaning of the river name is unknown (maybe "the shivering").
The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted in 1993. The arms show two gold-colored lines on a red background. The lines represent an old warning cairn made of timber.
The municipality lies in the heart of the Numedal traditional region and valley, the westernmost valley in southeastern Norway. The river Numedalslågen flows through Rollag and into the Ytre Oslofjord at Larvik.
In the northwest of the Rollag lie the Vegglifjell mountains, which are an entryway into the Hardangervidda. The municipality's highest point is Storegrønut at 1,289 metres (4,229 ft) located in the Vegglifjell mountains.
Rollag stave church
- The Rollag stave church (built around _PHONE_) is located a few kilometres north of the centre of Rollag. It was extended and windows were added in 1652. A new Apse was added in 1666. The transept was constructed in _PHONE_. A gallery was added in 1702. The sacristy was built in 1739. A Baroque pulpit was added in 1763.
Sister cities
The following cities are twinned with Rollag:
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This is the first of two articles which considers how real options can be incorporated into investment appraisal decisions.
A real option is an economically valuable right to make or else abandon some choice that is available to the managers of a company, often concerning business projects or investment opportunities. Real options differ thus from financial options contracts since they involve real i. Key Takeaways A real option gives a firm's management the right, but turbo options rating the obligation to undertake certain business opportunities or investments.
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Real option refer to projects involving tangible assets versus financial instruments. Real options can include the decision to expand, defer or wait, or abandon a project entirely. Real options have economic value, which financial analysts and corporate managers use to inform their decisions.
Using real options value analysis ROVmanagers can estimate the opportunity cost of continuing or abandoning a project and make better decisions accordingly. It is important to note that real options do real options method example refer to a derivative financial instrument, such as call and put options contracts, which give the holder the right to buy or sell an underlying asset, respectively.
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The net present value is the cash flow that's expected as a result of the new project, but those flows are discounted by a rate that could otherwise be earned for doing nothing. The alternative rate or discount rate might be the rate of a U.
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Real options must also consider the risk involved, and it too could be assigned a value similar to volatility. Other methods of valuing real options include Monte Carlo simulationswhich use mathematical calculations to assign probabilities to various outcomes given certain variables and risks.
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The real options heuristic is simply the recognition of the value embodied in the flexibility of choosing among alternatives despite the fact that their objective values cannot be mathematically determined with any degree of certainty. Even if a quantitative model is employed to value a real option, the choice of the model itself is based on judgement and often a trial-and-error approach since the choices available can vary across firms and project managers.
Having options affords the freedom to make optimal choices in decisions, such as when and where to make a specific capital expenditure. Various management choices to make investments can give companies real options to take additional actions in the future, based on existing market conditions. In short, real options are about companies making decisions and choices that grant them the greatest amount of flexibility and potential benefit regarding possible future decisions or choices.
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Legal history of Latin America
The legal history of Latin America – at least since the beginning of the European expansion across the Atlantic – is closely linked with the history of Europe. Normative orders shaped in a European environment were transplanted or locally reproduced, that is to say, modified and amended. The encounter with strange peoples and religions, the far remove at which they found themselves from Europe and vast distances between places on a new continent that was only slowly surveyed presented jurists with new challenges. Europe, too, changed as did its concept of law. The debates surrounding human rights and political theory that arose from the scholastic rationalism of the 16th and 17th centuries are well known. However, the effects of broadening horizons were by no means limited to these questions.
The church, too, and church law found a new continent awaiting. Religion was a movens of this expansion, religious law the foundation of the early modern legal culture that took root in the overseas territories of the Spanish crown. The actors and institutions in this religious field played a definitive role in the formation of normative concepts. The experience gained in a global dimension was ultimately not without effects on church law itself.
Even after the declarations of independence in the first half of the 19th century, communication with Europe was not broken off – far from it. The Latin American codes of penal and civil law developed in the republican era exhibit complex links with those of many European states – no longer just with Portugal or Spain. France, Italy, Germany and Belgium became important reference points for the emergent systems of law.
Research Projects in Research Fields
Discussion group Ibero-Amercian Legal History
Contact person at the Institute is Dr. Benedetta Albani ( )
Conferences and Events
German – Argentinian – Brasilian Graduate School
The anual German – Argentinian – Brasilian Graduate School is co-organized by the Max-Planck Institute. The first took place from 25th to 28th of April 2011 at the Instituto de Investigaciones de Historia del Derecho (Buenos Aires). The next one will be held in 2012 in Brasil.
Seminar: New fields of investigation in the history of eclesiastical institutions and indian canon law in Latin America (16th to 19th century)
The Max-Planck Institute for European Legal History calls for a seminar on " New fields of investigation in the history of eclesiastical institutions and indian canon law in Latin America (16th to 19th century)". The seminar is directed to young researchers and takes place every year in a different Latin-American country.


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Swastika and other symbols found drawn in snow on truck and in an alley in South Milwaukee
Erik S. Hanley
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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SOUTH MILWAUKEE - A Nazi swastika was found drawn in the snow on the back window of a truck and in an alley just east of the victim's driveway, Dec. 9.
According to the South Milwaukee Police log, the truck owner called the police to report the symbol, along with other unintelligible symbols, drawn into the snow in the alley in the 400 block of Marshall Avenue.
Footprints were melting in the snow as police attempted to follow where the creator of the symbols went — east toward 4th Avenue was the best assessment according to the log. Police checked nearby streets, but didn't find any other footprints matching the ones near the symbols.
The report stated it's unknown what the true intent was for the creation of the symbols. However, the responding officer didn't believe the creator was attempting to intimidate or scare anyone. It states if that was the case the symbols would have likely been drawn in a more permanent medium — such as scratched into paint or painted on something.
Additionally, the report cites local schools recently went over World War II history the past week due to the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The report states it's possible a student found the symbols "intriguing" and not knowing the full meaning, drew them in the snow.
The symbols have since melted away.


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The most important disk monitoring task of a database administrator is to make sure the disk doesn't grow full. A filled data disk will not result in data corruption, but it may well prevent useful activity from occurring. If the disk holding the WAL files grows full, database server panic and consequent shutdown may occur.
If you cannot free up additional space on the disk by deleting other things, you can move some of the database files to other file systems by making use of tablespaces. See Section 19.6 for more information about that.
Tip: Some file systems perform badly when they are almost full, so do not wait until the disk is completely full to take action.
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the scope of possibilities for further evolution is already limited. In other words because hydraulics is a relatively mature technology it is reaching its fundamental limits of advancement.
In terms of the trends of evolution predicted by TRIZ, hydraulic solutions supercede mechanical solutions. The inherently improved flexibility and reliability of hydraulics over a mechanical solution has been a major reason for the success of hydraulics. Now customer expectations on reliability are beginning to exceed the fundamental capability of hydraulic systems, the industry must look to markedly changing paradigms (Reference 9).
A good example comes in another of the main sources of non-reliability in hydraulic systems; that of contamination:
The previous seal discussion touched on another limiting contradiction relating to hydraulic systems, in which customer demands for increased system performance capability, operating efficiency and general 'operability' dictate the need for ever tighter manufacture tolerances and clearances between components.
In many applications the contradiction has reached a point where a system is now potentially at risk from contaminants as small as 1mm in diameter.
This in turn creates a very challenging contradiction with respect to the design of barrier filters: Fine mesh size will be good for trapping such small particles, but will block up potentially very quickly; coarse mesh size will have a long life but will not remove fine particles. In TRIZ terms, the barrier filter is more or less at its evolutionary limit, and no further progress in overall system reliability will come from barrier filters without solving the 'mesh must be coarse AND fine' contradiction.
The concept of a 'self-cleaning' filter overcomes the limiting contradiction by effectively beginning a new S-Curve. Referring back to the list of Inventive Principles used to solve reliability-centred problems, it is also encouraging to note that the conceptual self-cleaning filter being researched at the University of Bath uses two of the six Principles cited. More details of the filter may be found in Reference 10.
The idea of limiting contradictions is very important in the context of designing for reliability in the hydraulics field. This is particularly so with respect to early identification of areas which will hit their fundamental limits of capability.
Identification of limiting contradictions may be performed at various levels in a hydraulic system hierarchy – e.g. the filtration sub-system has a limiting contradiction in the same way that the whole system has.
At the whole-system level, it is possible to identify the limiting contradictions through an analysis of customer and manufacture design drivers. In the great majority of instances, these overall directions are 'obvious' – Figure 12.
Figure 12: Mobile Hydraulics Application Design Directions
In a traditional design approach, the designer seeks to find the best compromise between the various conflicting parameters. In the context of 'inadequate specification' being the single biggest source of system unreliability, this trade-off process lays the foundations of the future reliability, and other system, limitations.
Analysis of a generic mobile hydraulics application sees the emergence of three potentially limiting contradictions:-
1)Pump ripple. Demands for increased reliability ultimately impact on the need to tackle the noise and vibration implications inherent to fixed displacement pumping systems. This contradicts with drives to reduce cost and complexity of the system. Solving noise and vibration issues through the traditional approach of adding parts to the system fundamentally (Reference 10) fails to tackle the contradiction. The TRIZ compromise-free solution of a 'ripple-less' pump is required if the contradiction is to be eliminated.
2)Valve Flow-Forces. Here the contradiction concerns the demand for increased operability versus, again, the need to reduce rather than increase system complexity. Traditional approaches say find an acceptable balance, the TRIZ approach says determine the actual function of a valve and eliminate the contradiction by designing a system which is both simple and inherently free of flow-forces.
3)Cooling Systems. In several mobile applications, the design of the cooling system has already become a limiting contradiction. The conflict here derives from the contradiction between simultaneous demands for increased system duty and decreased system size. The oil-cooler takes the brunt of this contradiction, because it has more work to do and less space in which to do it.
Fundamental improvements in the reliability of hydraulic systems will come only after these limiting or potentially limiting contradictions are overcome. They can only be overcome through the application of contradiction-eliminating techniques such as those found in TRIZ. All three are the subject of ongoing research at the University of Bath (Reference 10). Work on a novel contradiction-breaking heat exchanger concept transferable to hydraulic applications is described in Reference 11.
Inherent hydraulic system reliability levels are becoming progressively less acceptable to customers due to increasing maintenance-free operation and durability demands.
Reliability is best designing into a system at the drawing-board stage. In this case, and also cases where a system is already in service and its reliability is found to be unacceptable, significant design paradigm shifts are required if overall reliability levels are to be noticeably improved.
Current design methods do not appear to offer adequate answers. The existing design paradigms are approaching the limits of their capability. New paradigms are required if significantly better solutions are to be achieved.
Tools contained in the TRIZ inventive problem solving methodology – particularly those associated with the identification and 'elimination' of 'limiting contradictions' – offer significant potential for shifting design paradigms to allow the realisation of significantly more reliable hydraulic systems.
Like many other industry sectors, the fluid power industry is guilty of failing to take maximum advantage of the good design solutions obtained in other sectors, despite the fact that the functions being sought – e.g. 'seal' – are commonly very similar.
The TRIZ methodology, coupled with emerging function based 'knowledge management' capabilities, provides a basis upon which the good solutions from other industries can be made readily accessible to fluid power industry companies.
Novel static and rotating seal design concepts, building on paradigm-shifting TRIZ and knowledge transfer principles, have been suggested.
Limiting contradictions for a generic mobile hydraulics application have been identified, and contradiction-eliminating conceptual design solutions have been suggested.
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Mann, D.L., 'Design Without Compromise: A New Perspective On Fluid Power System Component Design', paper presented at PTMC99 International Workshop, Bath, September 1999.
Busov, B., Mann, D.L., Jirman, P., 'Case Studies In TRIZ: A Novel Heat Exchanger', TRIZ Journal, December 1999.


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twice + as + less.
twice as less (not comparable)
 1. (nonstandard, proscribed) Half as much.
 - 1987, Eleanor Wilson Orr, Twice as Less[1], W. W. Norton & Co.:
 - 2015 July 27, Yaroslav Vlasov, "Electioneering games in Siberia", Open Democracy:
 The governing party receives twice as less votes here than it does on average across Russia.
 - 2002, Claude R. Phipps, editor, High-power Laser Ablation III, SPIE, page 415:
 But this[sic] two oncoming waves move with velocity approximately twice as less as previous component: [].
 - 2011, Cai Jinfa, Eric J. Knuth, editors, Early Algebraization: A Global Dialogue from Multiple Perspectives, Springer, page 83:
 The children also are able to construct a table to assist them in determining how many runs must be made by a truck and a trailer in order to transport 1080 tons of coal, if the truck can haul 30 tons per load and the trailer can carry twice as less coal per load.
Usage notes[edit]
In order for the term to make proper sense, the subject should have a quantity that is multiplicative (or at least additive). It is preferable, however, to use a positive expression for the quantity, such as in half as much or half as many.
It may be seen used colloquially when the quantity is not multiplicative, as a form of emphatic. For example: He is twice as less intelligent than his father. The 'positive' expression (in this case, half as) is still preferred.


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There is quite the nice article at the English Wikipedia on the topic, also explaining the meaning of the term in German.
I was actually right with my guess that the English usage originates in Nietzsche's "Übermensch":
The crossover of the term "über" from German into English goes back to
the work of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. [...] The term was
brought into English by George Bernard Shaw in the title to his 1903
play Man and Superman. During his rise to power, Adolf Hitler
bastardized Nietzsche's term, using it in his descriptions of an Aryan
master race. It was in this context that American Jewish comic book
creator Jerry Siegel encountered the term and conceived the 1933 story
"The Reign of the Super-Man", in which "Superman" is "an evil
mastermind with advanced mental powers".[...] Throughout the following
decade, Siegel, and Joseph Shuster, recast Superman into the iconic
American hero he subsequently became. It is through this association
with Superman the hero that the term "über" carries much of its
English sense implying irresistibility or invincibility.
So there is a very big difference between the usage of those terms in English and German, they're really "false friends".


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The Wikipedia article no longer makes reference to the phenomenon that you quote (to my inspection), so I'm not entirely sure if that assertion was edited out as an inaccuracy on someone's part. I did find some information on visual perception and high frequency flicker that might point to some of the significance of the 60 Hz refresh rate of a monitor.
At first I thought the effect you were describing might have something to do with critical flicker fusion frequency. This is the rate under which the blinking of a light is no longer perceived as continuous. For humans this varies from about 37 to 46 Hz (when measured as frequency of stimulus offset and remeasured over the course of the year) and from 43 down to 36 Hz (when measured as a frequency of stimulus onset and remeasured over the course of the year), so if a light blinks at a rate higher than that, it will look like it is continuously on to the average human.** However, since 60Hz is just shy of being a harmonic for the human critical flicker fusion, this seems like there wouldn't be some type of aliasing effect, as there is no 30 Hz component.
What I did find seems to be a plausible reason for some sort of visual entrainment with a 60Hz stimulus, but even the authors of the study (Williams et al 2004) rationalized
[If this were the case] perception should be compromised noticeably when looking at television or computer displays that have 60 Hz (or 50 Hz) frame refresh rates. However, every day more than a billion people watch TV with no obvious distortion in their perception of the color, form, and motion of pictures on the video screen. Thus phase locking in the middle of the gamma [brain waves] band [40 - 100 Hz] that is irrelevant to the visual scene does not disrupt scene organization or corrupts it so subtly that people do not notice.
That being said, that group performed a very careful study on both humans and non-human primates and found that between 32% and 82% (the percentage increased based on increasing contrast of the stimulus) of "cells" (single-units) studied in primate V1 over all animals were entrained to a 60 Hz refresh rate of the CRT screen. The human Visual Evoked Potentials (using a non-invasive EEG) were all found to be significantly entrained to the 60Hz CRT refresh rate, and were also seen to increase with stimulus contrast. For higher refresh rates of 72 Hz and 100 Hz, the degree of entrainment decreased significantly. So, in both sets of subjects, the 60 Hz flicker induced significant 60 Hz activity in the brain. Activity in the gamma band is normally associated with binding non-local cell assemblies for the purpose of cortical synchronization.
In contrast, though, Bauer et al (2012) found that flickering two "flanker" targets pulsing in phase at 60 Hz while surrounding a central primary target with low contrast did not enhance the ability to see the central target compared to a scenario with two flanker targets firing at 60 Hz out of phase with each other. Building on other work that has been done, they hypothesized that synchrony of neurons in the gamma band (40-100 Hz) would directly help in
"mediating contextual interactions among local stimulus attributes". For this study, 60 Hz was chosen as the
"typical frequency for human visual cortex gamma oscillations" The thought was that the pulsing 60 Hz stimuli would entrain the gamma band oscillations in visual cortex to prime the system for stimulus discrimination. A setup with "in phase" flicker of the flankers with the central target was not found to help in the discrimination of orientation of the primary stimulus either.
So, overall, the 60 Hz seems most likely to have gamma band entrainment effects, but as a caveat, these effects don't seem to significantly hamper our ability to perceive motion on the screen.
**As an aside, I also found a study about the flicker fusion frequency in chickens (which, for some reason, have become a testbed for visual perception tasks). According to an earlier study cited in Railton et al (2010), hens have a critical flicker fusion from 69 Hz to 105 Hz, which is in the typical refresh rate range for CRTs, so the authors of the study found that using thin-film transistor screens was more effective in stimulus discrimination tasks. So, presumably the 60 Hz CRTs would cause a choppy motion from the perspective of the chicken, but I'm not sure this would account for any judder either.
Bauer, M., Akam, T., Joseph, S., Freeman, E., Driver, J. (2012) Does visual flicker phase at gamma frequency modulate neural signal propagation and stimulus selection? Journal of Vision 12(4):1-10. [DOI] [Free PDF]
Luczak, A., Sobolewski, A. (2005) Longitudinal changes in critical flicker fusion frequency: an indicator of human workload. Ergonomics 48(15):_PHONE_. [DOI]
Railton, R.C.R., Foster, T.M., Temple, W. (2010). Transfer of stimulus control from a TFT to CRT screen. Behavioural Processes 85:111-115. [DOI]
Williams, P.E., Mechler, F., Gordon, J., Shapley, R., Hawken, M.J. (2004). Entrainment to video displays in primary visual cortex of macaque and humans. Journal of Neuroscience 24(38):8278-8288. [DOI] [Free PDF]


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The Engineering Tool Environment (ETE) is a key element for the Galileo Ground Mission Segment (GMS) design & verification activities and in particular for the following objectives:
The purpose of the Engineering Tool environment (ETE) is therefore to provide a set of tools representative of the GMS actual elements and environment so as to provide a representative simulation & design platform.
The ETE implements the following major functions:
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The ETE includes the following algorithm prototypes (E- experimental) :
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The RDG (Raw Data Generator) component, inside the ETE, will allow to generate raw data as ETE input.
The E-PAT (Performance Assessment Tool), early issue of the PAT tools included in the Galileo MCF(Mission Control Facility) element, allows the analysis of
either the RDG data, either the algorithm prototype results.
The E-DSF component is in charge of data management inside the ETE, process scheduling
- E-OSPF (Orbit & Synchronisation platform), prototype of the OSPF element algorithm,
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2012 Paterson medal and prize
Dr Henry J Snaith, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford.
For his important contributions to the field of excitonic solar cells.
Henry Snaith is a leading figure in excitonic solar cell research and in organic and hybrid optoelectronics. His activities range from nanomaterials synthesis through to device fabrication and optimisation, optical spectroscopy and theory. He has studied a number of device systems including LEDs, polymer lasers, polymer solar cells and transistors, but focuses his efforts on solid-state dye sensitised solar cells (DSSC). DSSC technology has a real chance of becoming a major future power source, with very low basic materials and processing cost. Snaith has made significant contributions to the study of charge generation and transport mechanisms in polymer blend, hybrid and dye-sensitised solar cells: he has introduced new device concepts and new optoelectronic methods to analyse these nanocomposite materials.
His achievements include the first demonstration of gyroidal nanostructured metal oxide electrodes in dye-sensitised solar cells, and the first clear observation of charge generation from light coupled through the surface plasmon modes of core-shell metal-insulator nanoparticles in hybrid solar cells. He has also demonstrated record power conversion efficiencies of over 5% for solid-state DSSCs by enhancing light capture in the active layer.
His research has a strong practical focus, and he is contributing to the commercial development of DSSC technology. In 2010 he founded Oxford Photovoltaics Ltd. to commercialise the solid-state DSSC technology being developed in his laboratory.