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Its source is a Latin expression meaning "Soldier."
The name Myles ranked 295th in popularity for males of all ages in a sample of 2000-2003 Social Security Administration statistics and 813th in popularity for males of all ages in a sample of the 1990 US Census.
Though this name appears on the 1990 U.S. Census lists, it is used by only a small percentage of the general population.
Latin may be the source of the Germanic form, Milo, that this name assumed in the Middle Ages. Nothing is certain about this derivation, however, and speculation on the ultimate source ranges from the Hebrew name Michael to the Slovonic name element mil (grace).


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Low levels on Mississippi River expose fossils & thrill local fossil hunters
POSTED: Saturday, October 27, 2012 - 3:00pm
UPDATED: Saturday, October 27, 2012 - 3:04pm
NBC NATIONAL NEWS — The water level on the Mississippi river has been unusually low this year due to the drought in the nation's heart land.
While the low water is a problem for the shipping industry, there is at least one group who loves it when the river is down.
People are out combing the normally water covered bottom that has been exposed, for a rarity, fossils.
John Moore, known better by his nickname of Puddin', has been searching the river for decades and has piles of bones in his shop on south walnut street in Greenville.
George Phillips, Paleontology Curator with the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, says most of the fossil bones found in the Mississippi river are from the late ice age.
It has been a great fossil hunting season for the hunters.
"This year more than the other years because of the low water," said Phillips. "You look for the gravel bars. That's where you find most of it, in the gravel bars. Very seldom you find anything in the sand."

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The prefix macrois normally used for large things like macroeconomics and macroscopic. How did it come to be used to describe text macros in the programming world?
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Note that makros normally means "long" in Greek. – Cerberus Jul 29 '11 at 5:40
I have just experienced a revelation. I thought macro == micro. Doh. – muntoo Nov 16 '11 at 5:26
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In computing, "macro" was first used with assemblers, which are utilities that perform simple translation of readable mnemonics into machine instructions. Normally a single line in an input to a basic assembler produces a single machine instruction output; the line is commonly referred to as an instruction. Productivity was increased when the use of what were termed macro-instructions were invented. Macrois of course a standard prefix from the Greek meaning large, and a macroinstruction was a new kind of input line which would generate several machine instructions.
The OED shows a revealing quote from 1959:
The built-in system macro instructions in SCAT presently consist of (1) two macros for generating the‥standard entry and exit from subroutines, (2) a set of debugging macros.
This shows use of both the full form, macro instruction, and the abbreviated form, macro. (Quote is from Greenwald & Kane, "The Share 709 System: Programming and Modification", Journal of the ACM 6:133. SCAT ("Symbolic Coder And Translator") was an early macro-assembler.)
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+1. This SCAT is "SHARE Compiler, Assembler, Translator", not "Symbolic Coder And Translator". And I've found some 1958 references. – Hugo Nov 2 '11 at 17:08
So basically it came from Greek meaning "big" or "a lot" and in reference to computers refers to a programming instruction which results in more than one line of machine code which is "a lot" for a computer to do: handle more than one line of machine code? Or put another way a line of programming code which results in more than one machine instruction is a macroinstruction because it it bigger in that it results in more machine instructions? This idea then evolved into any single instruction which performs multiple actions such as a keyboard macro or excel macro? – user49620 Aug 12 '13 at 20:43
From the Computing Dictionary:
The term "macro" originated in early assemblers, which encouraged the use of macros as a structuring and information-hiding device. During the early 1970s, macro assemblers became ubiquitous, and sometimes quite as powerful and expensive as HLLs, only to fall from favour as improving compiler technology marginalised assembly language programming (see languages of choice). Nowadays the term is most often used in connection with the C preprocessor, Lisp, or one of several special-purpose languages built around a macro-expansion facility (such as TeX or Unix's troff suite). Indeed, the meaning has drifted enough that the collective "macros" is now sometimes used for code in any special-purpose application control language (whether or not the language is actually translated by text expansion), and for macro-like entities such as the "keyboard macros" supported in some text editors (and PC TSRs or Macintosh INIT/CDEV keyboard enhancers).
Another explanation is that it is a shortening of "macroinstruction" which means:
a single computer instruction that initiates a set of instructions to perform a specific task
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To follow on from mgkrebbs' fine answer, the SCAT in question is a SHARE 709 assembly program: "SHARE Compiler, Assembler, Translator". Both SCAT and macro are mentioned in papers presented to the Association for Computing Machinery and IIT Research Institute in 1958.
The earliest, ACM's Preprints of summaries of papers presented at the national meeting, tells us "The compiler expands each macro into one or more words of machine code..." (1958 confirmation):
The next, IITRI's Computer Applications: Proceedings, shows we might have called them pseudos:
pseudoor macro-instructions
Finally, macroinstruction is found in 1956's Proceedings of the Western Joint Computer Conference:
The macroinstruction is like an open-ended subroutine in that it calls forth from a library...
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Prevalence and factors associated with transfer of protective tetanus antibodies to newborns at Kawempe national referral hospital
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Background: Neonatal tetanus is a preventable cause of neonatal mortality that persists in low-income countries such as Uganda. Protection of neonates against tetanus is attained through antibody transfer from vaccinated mothers during pregnancy. This protection is not life long as maternal antibodies wane during the first year after vaccination thus neonates from subsequent pregnancies are not adequately protected. The frequency and timing of tetanus vaccination is not emphasized in the Ugandan maternal vaccination guidelines, which could lead to an increase in the proportion of neonatal mortality attributable to tetanus. Objective: To determine the prevalence of and factors associated with transfer of protective tetanus toxoid antibodies among newborns delivered in Kawempe National Referral Hospital. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study from 1st February to 31st march 2020 among 293 mother and newborn pairs at Kawempe national referral Hospital. Participants were sampled systematically and interviewed using an interviewer-administered questionnaire. After delivery, 2mls of cord blood and 2mls of maternal venous blood were collected. The tetanus antibodies were measured using a direct quantitative ELISA where the optical densities were determined using micro plate reader at Makerere University Immunology laboratory. The proportion of newborn babies with tetanus antibodies greater than 0.1 IU/mL of blood was the primary outcome. We used a generalized linear model for the Poisson family with a log link and robust variance estimation to determine associated factors. Results: A total of 258/293 [88.1% (95% CI: 83.8-91.3)] neonates had protective tetanus antibodies (>=0.1IU/ML). High maternal tetanus toxoid antibodies greater than 0.1 IU/ML (adjusted prevalence ratio, aPR, 3.1, 95% CI 1.5 to 6.4), attending first antenatal visit after 12 weeks (aPR 1.2 95% CI 1.0 to1.5), and receiving the last TD shot at or greater than 28 weeks of gestation (aPR 1.1 95% CI 1.0 to1.3) were the factors associated with transfer of protective antibodies. The number of TD doses received before pregnancy was not associated with transfer of protective tetanus toxoid antibodies in the neonates (aPR 0.94 95%CI 0.85 to 1.0). Conclusion: Transfer of protective tetanus antibodies to the newborn was high. High maternal toxoid antibodies, early antenatal attendance and receiving the last tetanus shot in the third trimester were associated with maternal tetanus toxoid antibody transfer. In addition to frequency, policy makers need to emphasize the need of a third trimester tetanus toxoid shot during each pregnancy for effective antibody transfer.

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The WorQour Characteristics
The WorQour is a bridging currency that operates in the void between national currencies/economies and primarily functions as a transfer medium.
The WorQour cannot be used directly as a payment for goods or services within any national economy. WorQours must first be exchanged into a national fiat currency.
The WorQour is a cashless currency.
There are no WorQour bank accounts of the type normally associated with commercial fiat currency banking i.e.; savings, cheque or investment, nor are there any WorQour credit or debit cards.
Local currencies are exchanged for the WorQour bridging currency whenever the need arises.
The exchange rate for one (1) WorQour;
1 WorQour = 1 hours paid work at the national mHR*
*(minimum hourly rate of pay for a working individual paid in any national currency.)
The basic WorQour transfer process is performed by the WorQour Encryption and Processing Device (WEAPD) in conjunction with nationally located devices. WorQour certificates, explained elsewhere, also create options for alternative payment transfer methods.
The next thing of significance is how the WorQour currency addresses and solves two historical dilemmas;
The objectives tabled at Bretton Woods in 1944and the Triffin Dilemma as first discussed in the 1960s.


How President Biden might use the experience of Thatcher and De Gaulle
How President Biden might use the experience of Thatcher and De Gaulle
Continuing on the theme of last time, I have often wondered if leaders today can still learn from the discourse of transformational public figures of earlier eras.
This is not an easy question to answer. On the one hand, many have argued that the communication challenges for world leaders in 2021 are far more complex and thorny than in years past. They point specifically to the role of the internet and social media in fomenting polarization, fragmentation, and even hatred among the various parts of the electorate.
On the other hand, though, I would contend that at least some of the lessons of outstanding communicators remain timeless, regardless of when these inspirational people lived. And, I do in fact see some ways that the current US president could benefit greatly from studying the examples of legendary leaders such as Lady Thatcher and General De Gaulle.
As we discussed in the previous two entries, both of these remarkable leaders moved others by taking latent stories and symbols—tales of lost greatness from times past—and bringing them back into focus. In addition, if we study their speechmaking closely, we see that it is the melding of three distinct elements that made them so persuasive. Both De Gaulle and Thatcher moved people to change by:
—reviving a dormant national narrative, a collective story of identity that has been somewhat lost in modern times
using personal anecdotes to show themselves as living embodiments of the qualities they espouse
—referring to historical symbols that support the broader narrative
Could a president do something along these lines in 2021, using similar approaches? Let's consider the three elements above and attempt to apply them to Joe Biden, using Margaret Thatcher as our template.
As I attempt to build my scenario for President Biden, I should begin with a caveat. In fact, I know relatively little about his life story, compared to what I know of Mrs Thatcher, a woman whose career I have studied in considerable detail. Nonetheless, what I have gleaned about the president's past—mostly during the campaign and his initial months in office—leaves me confident that I can at least sketch out some ideas that could work for him.
Mr Biden should first strive to find a usable American story of identity from the past, one that a majority of people can understand and even wish to return to. Margaret Thatcher convinced the British electorate that they should bring back some of the "lost" elements of their traditional national character: initiative, self-reliance, collective responsibility and human decency. In the case of Joe Biden, a man who proclaims his desire to unify the nation with bipartisan policies, could he not use a narrative that speaks to that idea?
For example, he might state openly that the current atmosphere of polarization, fragmentation, and even hostility does not correspond to what America has always aspired to be as a nation. In that vein, he could say something like this: "We have always been a people capable of engaging in healthy debate and disagreement. Throughout our history and until very recently, we have been able to hold dissimilar views and respect each other, without the deep animosity I see today. We have always been able to come together to confront our challenges, despite our philosophical or political differences. With your help, this is a lost quality that I would like to find our way back to."
This sort of national identity story has several advantages. First, it speaks to one of his core beliefs. In fact, I recently heard him say in an interview that he was convinced that 70 to 80 percent of both Democrats and Republicans held viewpoints that are centrist, neither far left nor far right. He added that most voters are tired of hostile rhetoric and hatred, the vitriol that comes from the fringes of both parties these days.
Second, this broad national narrative fits well with personal stories that Mr Biden can tell. Just as De Gaulle and Thatcher had tales from their past that they used to inspire others, so does President Biden. In the next entry, I will suggest some anecdotes he can lean on to accomplish this.
Also in the next post, we will look at my third reason for believing that this sort of narrative can work for Joe Biden: American history is indeed replete with symbols that support his arguments.
In fact, I firmly believe that Mr Biden should be taking advantage of the opportunity to use his own stories of identity—along with some shining illustrations from presidents past—to move his agenda of bipartisanship forward.
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. Researchers have created a new type of biosensor that can detect minute concentrations of glucose in saliva, tears and urine and might be manufactured at low cost because it does not require many processing steps to produce.
"It's an inherently non-invasive way to estimate glucose content in the body," said Jonathan Claussen, a former Purdue doctoral student and now a research scientist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. "Because it can detect glucose in the saliva and tears, it's a platform that might eventually help to eliminate or reduce the frequency of using pinpricks for diabetes testing. We are proving its functionality."
Claussen and Purdue doctoral student Anurag Kumar led the project, working with Timothy Fisher, a Purdue professor of mechanical engineering, D. Marshall Porterfield, a professor of agricultural and biological engineering, and other researchers at the university's Birck Nanotechnology Center.
Findings are detailed in a research paper appearing online this week in the journal Advanced Functional Materials.
"Most sensors typically measure glucose in blood," Claussen said. "Many in the literature aren't able to detect glucose in tears and the saliva. What's unique is that we can sense in all four different human serums: the saliva, blood, tears and urine. And that hasn't been shown before."
The paper, featured on the journal's cover, was written by Claussen, Kumar, Fisher, Porterfield, and Purdue researchers David B. Jaroch, M. Haseeb Khawaja, and Allison B. Hibbard.
The sensor has three main parts: layers of nanosheets resembling tiny rose petals made of a material called graphene, which is a single-atom-thick film of carbon; platinum nanoparticles; and the enzyme glucose oxidase.
Each petal contains a few layers of graphene stacked on each other. The edges of the petals have dangling, incomplete chemical bonds, defects where the platinum nanoparticles can attach. Elec
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A correspondent writes to ask about the utterance 'She was very thick with the gardener', encountered in the Hercule Poirot episode, The Halloween Party. 'I looked it up in a dictionary and it seems it's an old-fashioned way of saying "she was very friendly with him". Then I saw another expression, thick as thieves (is it still used?).What I can't really understand is how/why the word thick (usu. 'not thin';'stupid') came to be used in the sense of 'friendly'.
The original sense, in Anglo-Saxon times, is of material extension, where it's regularly opposed to thin, as in a thick wall. Then it came to be applied to density and abundance (thick hedge, thick hair, thick mist...) and size (thickset) and extended to thickness in general (where it's not opposed to thin), as in 'the cover is an inch thick'.
It then generated several figurative senses meaning 'excessive in some disagreeable way', especially in the phrase a bit thick ('indecent' or 'indelicate'). It's the sense of 'density of contact' that led to the figurative sense of being 'close in association' - in other words, being 'intimate' or 'familiar'. It seems to have been a late 18th-century development. And quite a few similes have since emerged, such as as thick as glue, as thick as peas in a shell, and as thick as thieves, some of which have become proverbial.
The idioms are still used a lot, but the use of the single word to mean 'intimate' is certainly old-fashioned now, redolent of P G Wodehouse and Evelyn Waugh.


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2. What was one of Frost's occupations?
3. Where was Frost born?
4. Where was Frost first published?
5. What job did Frost's mother hold?
6. What job did Frost's father hold?
7. In what year was Frost born?
8. What city did Frost grow up in?
9. How old was Frost when he was first published?
10. How old was Frost when his first professional poem was published?
11. How much money did Frost receive for his first professional poem?
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ABIGAIL WASHBURN: BUILDING US-CHINA RELATIONS … BY BANJO (00:00 – 06:34)
Before you watch
What is public diplomacy? Do you think it can be more effective than traditional diplomacy?
While you watch
While watching, pay attention to the following words and expressions in context. Use them in your answers to the questions below and discussion.
to be completely obsessed with the mammoth richness of Chinese culture
to collaborate with inspirational musicians
to connect cultures/hearts
our American/Chinese selves
Answer the following questions:
1. What was Abigail's initial plan for her education and future career?
2. Why was Abigail impressed by Doc Watson's singing?
3. How does the American and Chinese audience react to Abigail's Chinese songs?
After you watch
Discuss in pairs:
1. What does Abigail mean when she says that 'U.S.- China relations don't need another lawyer'? Think about possible ways of improving international relations besides diplomacy.
2. What linguistic devices and oratory techniques make Abigail's speech so moving?


A harbor or town having facilities for seagoing ships.
1. a port or harbour accessible to seagoing vessels
2. a town or city located at such a place
(ˈsiˌpɔrt, -ˌpoʊrt)
1. a port or harbor that accommodates seagoing vessels.
2. a town or city at such a place.
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.seaport - a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargoseaport - a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo
landing place, landing - structure providing a place where boats can land people or goods
seafront - the waterfront of a seaside town
coaling station - a seaport where ships can take on supplies of coal
port of call - any port where a ship stops except its home port
anchorage ground, anchorage - place for vessels to anchor
ميناء بَحْري
námořní přístav
tengeri kikötõ
höfn, hafnarbær
námorný prístav
[ˈsiːpɔːt] Npuerto m de mar
sea port [ˈsiːpɔːrt] nport m de mersea power n [country] → puissance f navale
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[ˈsiːˌpɔːt] nporto di mare or marittimo
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
(siː) noun
1. (often with the) the mass of salt water covering most of the Earth's surface. I enjoy swimming in the sea; over land and sea; The sea is very deep here; (also adjective) A whale is a type of large sea animal.
2. a particular area of sea. the Baltic Sea; These fish are found in tropical seas.
3. a particular state of the sea. mountainous seas.
ˈseaward(s) adverb
towards the sea; away from the land. The yacht left the harbour and sailed seawards.
ˈseaboard noun
the seacoast. the eastern seaboard of the United States.
sea breeze
a breeze blowing from the sea towards the land.
ˈseafaring adjective
of work or travel on ships. a seafaring man.
ˈseafood noun
fish, especially shellfish.
seafood restaurants.
ˈseafront noun
a promenade or part of a town with its buildings facing the sea.
ˈsea-going adjective
designed and equipped for travelling on the sea. a sea-going yacht.
ˈseagull noun
a gull.
sea level
the level of the surface of the sea used as a base from which the height of land can be measured. three hundred metres above sea level.
ˈsea-lion noun
a type of large seal.
ˈseamanplural ˈseamen noun
a sailor, especially a member of a ship's crew who is not an officer.
ˈseaport noun
a port on the coast.
ˈseashell noun
the (empty) shell of a sea creature.
ˈseashore noun
the land close to the sea.
ˈseasick adjective
ill because of the motion of a ship at sea. Were you seasick on the voyage?
ˈseasickness noun
ˈseaside noun
(usually with the) a place beside the sea. We like to go to the seaside in the summer.
ˈseaweed noun
plants growing in the sea. The beach was covered with seaweed.
ˈseaworthy adjective
(negative unseaworthy) (of a ship) suitably built and in good enough condition to sail at sea.
ˈseaworthiness noun
at sea
1. on a ship and away from land. He has been at sea for four months.
2. puzzled or bewildered. Can I help you? You seem all at sea.
go to sea
to become a sailor. He wants to go to sea.
put to sea
to leave the land or a port. They planned to put to sea the next day.
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References in classic literature?
Thus his nails and modesty were comparable to those of most gentlemen; though his ambition had been educated only by the opportunities of a clerk and accountant in the smaller commercial houses of a seaport. He thought the rural Featherstones very simple absurd people, and they in their turn regarded his "bringing up" in a seaport town as an exaggeration of the monstrosity that their brother Peter, and still more Peter's property, should have had such belongings.
Wellington is trim and neat and English; it reminds you of a seaport town on the South Coast.
-- We anchored in the Bay of Callao, the seaport of Lima, the capital of Peru.
The beach was a kind of public promenade where were displayed all the vagaries of a seaport on the arrival of a fleet from a long cruise.
On the Saturday in that same week, I took my leave of Herbert - full of bright hope, but sad and sorry to leave me - as he sat on one of the seaport mail coaches.
This seaport of Smyrna, our first notable acquaintance in Asia, is a closely packed city of one hundred and thirty thousand inhabitants, and, like Constantinople, it has no outskirts.


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The phonetics of Daegu Korean lexical prosody
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This dissertation investigates the phonetic manifestations of lexical prosodic patterns in Daegu Korean (hereafter DK), which is a sub-dialect of North Kyungsang Korean. This dissertation conducts phonetic studies of the DK lexical prosody from which a phonological analysis may be developed. This dissertation aims to address the question of what kind of prosodic system DK has. Through two pilot studies, I selected 26 words, and asked DK speakers to produce them in three conditions: target in a carrier sentence, target with a subject marker in the carrier sentence, and target in isolation. I measured the following properties of the vowels: F0 peak, average F0, F0 range, F0 slope, initial F0, final F0, duration, intensity peak and average intensity. Statistical analysis reported that F0 was the primary phonetic cue which distinguished the four prosodic patterns of disyllabic words. It was shown that duration and intensity were not correlated with F0. As F0 was found to be the primary acoustic correlate of the lexical prosodic patterns, I looked at initial F0, F0 peak, and final F0 of each vowel to compare F0 patterns across different groups. Comparison of the F0 patterns across various groups revealed the fact that there are a constrained number of pitch patterns over the whole word. Furthermore, it was found that the patterns found in disyllabic words are also mapped onto monosyllabic words with the subject marker, and the patterns found in trisyllabic words are mapped onto disyllabic words with the subject marker. That suggests that a constrained number of pitch patterns are lexically associated with prosodic forms, regardless of the components. As in previous studies, DK also showed F0 perturbations by pre-vocalic consonants. This study shows that F0 perturbations last throughout the following vowel, which is different from tone languages. Based on these findings, I propose that DK is a pitch-accent system since F0 was found to be the primary acoustic correlate of prosodic patterns and there are a limited number of lexical pitch patterns that are associated with words of a certain number of syllables. In addition, F0 perturbations by pre-vocalic nasals last throughout the vowel.


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Reverse engineering of a centrifugal turbine housing
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The Garrett GT 42 turbine housing is a spheroidal ductile cast iron casting, which according to the ASME B31.3 (1996) Code for Pressure Piping, does not satisfy the Pebble Bed Micro Model (PBMM) design requirements. By using Geometrical Reverse Engineering (GRE) methods, a 3-D virtual model, and if required, a mould of the existing design can be created to recast a turbine housing in a suitable material. The aim of this research was to study, evaluate, identify and implement the most promising method(s) to reverse engineer the Garrett GT 42 turbine housing without destroying it in the process. GRE advantages and limitations influenced by practical contact (tactile) and non-contact data acquisition problem areas provided evaluation guidelines that assisted in the allocation of Computed Tomography (CT) as the most promising method to reverse engineer the turbine housing. X-ray and neutron CT were implemented. Neutron Computed Tomography (NCT) using CADKEY® V21 CAD modelling software at the SAFARI-1 nuclear reactor, NECSA, produced the most favourable 3-D NURBs model, which had a geometrical external accuracy of 95% and a volumetric internal accuracy of 94%. It was verified by comparing the results with an 87% geometrical externaland 85% volumetric internal accurate 3-D NURBs model created by the implementation of an alternative contact GRE method, i.e. geometrical inspection and measurements.
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This is the third and final post in the sequel concerning 'a new vision for your health and wellbeing in 2016'. Today's focus is on the essential components of your health and wellbeing plan. We'll address what to include in your plan, and how to make your vision a reality.
What are the essential components of your health and wellbeing plan?
- Knowing what you eat—refer to my food diary.
- Knowing why you eat.
- Understanding how the way you eat impacts on your health and wellbeing
- Embracing the basic nutritional qualities of whole foods—fruits and vegetables, wholegrains, protein foods, dairy and its alternatives and sources of oil
- Matching how and what you eat with your personal requirements.
- Selecting and preparing nutritious foods.
- Balancing your lifestyle—taking particular care with exercise, sleep, complete (abdominal) breathing and time for meditation and reflection.
- Building supportive relationships.
- Working in partnership with your healthcare practitioners.
- Identifying your goals and actions.
- Understanding the process of change.
- Living with and accepting change.
- Creating a toolkit to support you—passive and active past-times that nurture you.
Putting your health and wellbeing plan together
#1 Think about your vision for your health and wellbeing
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"A vision is a broad statement describing what you wish to achieve. Sharon shared her familiar story. She expressed that she often felt tired, was skipping her morning walk and had gained 5kg during the past 12 months. Sharon realised that she had been giving to others and neglecting her own needs. She said that her eating pattern had become erratic. Sharon's vision for her health included having sufficient energy to maintain a healthy body and mind and to enjoy her relationships with others. Think about your own situation, what are you aiming to achieve by introducing change into your life?
Your vision and goals concerning your eating habits need to sit within your vision for your total life. Whilst I believe that eating is central to health and wellbeing, other lifestyle factors need to support you too, such as adequate sleep. It is like the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle. Each lifestyle component contributes to the total picture. You won't enjoy the complete picture of health and wellbeing if you leave vital pieces out."
#2 Refer to the components of the health and wellbeing plan listed above
The essential components of your health and wellbeing plan are covered in the book, Eating for You. Some are introduced in recent blog posts (see links in text).
#3 Refer to the goals you have identified for this year
Last week we reflected on goals for 2016.
#4 Identify how much time you can free up in your day
Keep a log of how you use your time now. The simplest way is to record your commitments and activities in your diary. If you can, keep this for a week. Then, review your diary and see what commitments and activities that you can reduce or eliminate, to make time for your new activities.
# 5 Choose and commit to up to three goals
Excerpt from Eating for You
"Let's revisit your vision before you commence writing your goals. Ask yourself, "Do the priorities I have identified support my vision?" Some of the priorities you have written down will be written as goals and some will be actions. So what is the difference? Goals are written in a way that defines and measures the type and amount of change you are seeking. We will use Sharon's vision as an example 'To have sufficient energy to maintain a healthy body and mind and to enjoy relationships with others'.
One of Sharon's goals was to:
Goal: Increase my sleep to 8 hours per night.
Action: Stop watching TV and using the computer by 7.30pm.
Action: Have an aromatherapy bath before bed.
Action: Be in bed and prepared for sleep by 9pm."
#6 Put your new activities into your diary
Choose your new activities (or actions) and put them into your diary. As you can see from Sharon's example above, she created time for a bath by decreasing her TV viewing time and computer usage. These changes also supported an improved sleep routine.
Create a timeline to introduce your new activities. For example you might decide to decrease your TV viewing immediately, start walking three times per week in the second week of your plan, and in the third week you might start cooking one new recipe per week. This will help you to develop clarity around what your ideal day looks like.
Excerpt from Eating for You
"Your daily routine may be predictable or quite varied; especially if you travel frequently or work different shifts for example. Moving forward you need to establish a rhythm that allows for these variances. An ideal work day, putting in your health and wellbeing commitments first, might include:
6.00–6.30am meditation and yoga
6.30–7.15am shower, get dressed and eat breakfast
7.15-7.45am walk to the bus stop
8.30am Start work with a break mid morning
Midday Lunch with a break mid afternoon (do gentle exercise/ stretches)
4.45pm Review and update work task list
5.00pm Finish work
6.15–7.00pm Prepare and eat dinner
8.30pm aromatherapy bath
9.00-9.30pm In bed for sleep"
Eating for You guides you step by step along the path to creating your health and wellbeing plan. It helps you to uncover what you need—through knowing yourself, knowing your food and knowing how to introduce and live with change.


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Several modern Raman setups consist of a double monochromator in the additive dispersion mode and a multichannel detector system like a charge-coupled device (CCD) camera or a photodiode array. The benefits of multichannel detection for spectroscopy have been discussed widely in the literature in the last decade. However, in comparison to the situation with the single-channel technique (e.g., photomultiplier tube detection), which employs narrow middle slits, the stray light introduces problems when multichannel detector systems are used in combination with grating spectrometers with additive dispersion, since in order to illuminate the whole detector area the middle slit(s) between the two monochromator stages must be opened widely. This arrangement results in a poor stray light rejection. To reduce the latter, researchers have tried several approaches employing optical edge or notch filters. The main drawbacks, however, are the still limited bandwidth and the limited spectral range of these filters. This method also requires a set of such filters for various laser lines used, for instance, in resonance Raman spectroscopic studies. Clearly, the best solution for Raman spectroscopy employing multichannel detection systems is to use a triple monochromator, in which the first two stages are in the subtractive mode, acting as an efficient stray light rejection filter, and the third stage is used as a spectrograph to disperse the frequency shifted light.
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What is A Disciplined Life®?
Well before the value of social emotional learning became widely recognized in 2003, Perspectives Co-Founders Diana Shulla-Cose and Kim Day had already realized how critical this kind of learning was to their students' success. Fifteen years ago, they embraced the idea that social emotional learning would be an integral part of the Perspectives education model. They understood that the right foundation would help them provide children with safe, caring and well-managed learning environments.
Believing that character development and academic achievement are interdependent, they began brainstorming ideas for creating a school culture of both personal and academic excellence. They knew that providing their students with instruction in life skills, such as self-discipline, perseverance and good communication, would help them succeed. Together, they identified a set of principles that would guide Perspectives and called them A Disciplined Life®.
Social emotional learning standards have since been developed in accordance with Section 15(a) of Public Act 93-0495. This Act calls upon the Illinois State Board of Education to "develop and implement a plan to incorporate social and emotional development standards as part of the Illinois Learning Standards." Since the day Perspectives opened the doors to its first school, A Disciplined Life® has been in place, helping our students to succeed.
Today, the 26 principles of A Disciplined Life form the foundation of our culture at Perspectives Charter Schools and help prepare our students for success in college, the workplace and in life. Over time, A Disciplined Life has become integral to every aspect of Perspectives, informing our behavior, communication and productivity, while being cornerstone for our curriculum and professional development. It serves as a common language for our students, staff and parents as we work to achieve a culture of success.
A Disciplined Life translates into success for our students. Of our 2010 graduates, 97 percent were accepted to college. They have learned what it takes to succeed and understand that character, self-discipline and personal responsibility can change what the future holds for them.
We integrate the principles of A Disciplined Life in all aspects of our school community. From the classroom to the playground, from the front office to staff meetings – it is our common language and practice. A Disciplined Life ensures that we are focused and intentional about creating a culture of success for our students and we have recently begun developing assessments to measure impact.
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CT-2 Flow Regimes in Horizontal Tubeside Condensation
In order to select the appropriate correlations for prediction of horizontal tubeside condensation heat transfer coefficients and pressure drops, it was necessary to develop a predictive method for flow patterns at various points along the tube.
HTRI visual observations of flow regimes in condensation did not agree with the popularly used Baker Flow Regime Map. A thorough literature study revealed that this was also true of open literature data, and it was necessary to develop an improved map. The theoretically obtained flow regime map parameters are show to be the ratio of gravity to shear forces on the condensate film and liquid volume fraction. The main part of this report presents a new recommended flow regime map for horizontal intube condensation based on theoretical parameters, HTRI glass tube, and literature data. Also open literature predictive methods are discussed and compared with flow regime observations.


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Clinical studies show that coconut water has been proven to be so effective for boosting growth across a variety of plant types that even labs use it to help their tissue cultured plants grow faster.
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Monday, December 17, 2007
The Woman Racket
The Woman Racket is the first book to relate very recent science that is set to blow apart how currently we see men-women.
The sexes, it turns out, do not have any sort of 'power' relationship, but beneath the surface live in very separate worlds with profoundly different motivations. This all stems from why it is that we have the sexes. The male acts as the essential 'genetic filter' for the species.
The upshot is that not women but (the majority of) men are those disadvantaged in all societies.
This reality had been unearthed by Warren Farrell (The Myth of Male Power), but he couldn't explain it. The science here both explains and reveals in more depth, and exposes other phenomena not so apparent.
We can't see any of this because males have to be 'policed' in ways requiring within us all (men and women both) deep-seated prejudices against them.
The political ramifications could hardly be more earth-shaking.
(The Woman Racket was several years in the researching and is not a follow-up to the author's previous book, The Great Immigration Scandal, though both deal with facets of 'political correctness'.)
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Life Cycle Assessment of New Oxy-Fuels from Biodiesel-Derived Glycerol
AbstractBiodiesel is obtained by the process of transesterification of vegetable oils and animal fats and crude glycerol is the main by-product of the biodiesel manufacturing chain. As a result glycerol production has rapidly increased in the last decades. This work focuses on the development and the validation of a process to convert biodiesel-derived glycerol into a fuel for internal combustion engines. In order to obtain a higher conversion efficiency it was necessary to convert crude glycerol to tert-butyl ethers by means of an etherification process that was carried out in the laboratory. Then the obtained glycol-ethers mixture (GEM) was blended with a commercial diesel fuel to improve its thermal efficiency. In this paper a life cycle analysis for these GEM/diesel blends was carried out using a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology, in order to evaluate the environmental impacts of these new oxy-fuels; from GEM production to GEM use as an additive for diesel fuel. The LCA results highlight that the use of these new oxy-fuels in diesel engines can lead to an effective reduction in terms of greenhouse gases emissions throughout the entire life cycle. View Full-Text
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Sayyidi's Ramadhan Advice from Haram
While in Haram shariff (Makkah e mukarramah) this Ramadhan Sayyidi wa sanadi Hazrat Mawlana Mohammad Taqi Usmani sahib db gave the following advice to a small group of mureedeen.
1. Recognize the importance of time and use it appropriately.
2. In addition to your regular ma'moolat recite سبحان الله و الحمدالله و لا اله الا الله و الله اكبر abundantly.
3. Make dua excessively, especially اللهم جعلنا من لاعتقاء رمضان
4. Give sadaqa (charity) as much as possible.
5. Recite Quran e kareem a lot.
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Babies Can Discern Languages Through Visual Cues
THURSDAY, May 24 (HealthDay News) -- Infants can tell the difference between two languages without hearing the spoken words, simply by watching the face of the adult who is talking, a Canadian study says.
"It is important, because it tells us how babies are prepared to learn multiple languages," said Whitney Weikum, a doctoral candidate in neural sciences at the University of British Columbia who led the experiment.
"The baby watches the screen and sees the faces of the people talking," Weikum said. "When the baby's looking time declines, the computer switches and starts a clip of an adult talking the other language. The baby notices the switch and starts watching the screen again."
One point made by the study, published in the May 25 issue of the journal Science, is that "language is multimodal," Weikum said. "Studies have shown that aural cues are important. This now shows the importance of visual cues."
Laura-Ann Petitto, a cognitive neuroscientist who is director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory for Language, Bilingualism and Child Development at Dartmouth College, said: "This is a landmark study about the ways that babies use multiple cues to enable them to distinguish between languages. The study suggests that, at an abstract and deep level, the learning brain might not be tied to speech itself."
It has been known that young deaf babies use visual cues to help them learn language, Petitto said, "but we never dreamed that a hearing baby can also be learning language using visual cues."
Petitto said the study has "important implications," because "it supports the belief that the brain can use multiple cues in language processing and suggests that multiple cues in teaching languages can be beneficial."
The findings also have practical applications for remedial speech teaching, Petitto said. "Various remedial tools use multi-stimuli," she said. "This is wonderful confirmation that the multiple cues that we give babies are actually useful."
"If we gave them say, Russian or Chinese, a language that they are not adapted to, we would predict that they would be like the monolingual group," he said.
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Holmes' "Reasonable Man"
The concept of reasonableness that figures at the center of Holmes' notion of negligence is objective in nature, that is, conduct is measured against a community-wide standard of reasonableness rather that turn on the subjective mental state of the defendant. Recall that your text defines the reasonable man as "the man in the Clapham omnibus," or "the man who takes the magazines at home, and in the evening pushes the lawn mower in his shirt sleeves." Franklin & Rabin p. 51. Thus, a naive person who innocently lights firecrackers in a crowd not knowing that they might cause harm to others, will most likely be answerable in tort to those she injures because the community would deem that conduct unreasonable, even though we might also say that the conduct was reasonable in light of what she subjectively knew. In this case, she should have known of the danger her conduct posed to others.
But how realistic is an objective standard of reasonableness? Would all the members of a community agree about where to place the bounds of reasonable conduct? Might different populations feel differently? Is there any risk that the view ultimately determined to be reasonable is one which marginalizes the values of members of the society who typically experience marginalization?
If these concerns have any value, how should they affect the ways in which judges and/or juries determine the question of reasonableness in negligence cases? Should the care due from a defendant vary with the sex, race, ethnicity, religion etc. of the potential accident victim? Should the level of care due to a plaintiff vary with his or her sex, race, ethnicity, religion etc.?
After all, women are notoriously bad drivers and throwers, while men are much less nurturing than women (that was a joke, in case any of you are taking me seriously!).
The cases below are designed to illustrate more serious concerns about Holmes' Reasonable Man. As you read them, please consider both how you feel about a reasonable person standard being tailored to the particular circumstances raised in the cases, as well as the implications these concerns raise for negligence law more generally.
1. The Lake Shore & Michigan Southern R.R. Co. v. Mary Miller
2. Calivn Daniels v. Richard Clegg
3. Little Rock v. Tankersly
4. Ellison v. Brady
5. Taylor v. Metzger
Additional Materials on Reasonable Women - Optional Reading
Margo Schlanger, Injured Women Before Common Law Courts: _PHONE_, 21 Harv. Women's L.J. 79 (1998)
Leslie Bender, A Lawyer's Primer on Feminist Theory and Tort, 38 J. LEGAL EDUC. 3 (1988).
Leslie Bender, Changing the Values in Tort Law, 25 TULSA L.J. 759 (1990).
Martha Chamallas, The Architecture of Bias: Deep Structures in Tort Law, 146 U. Pa. L. Rev. 463 (1998)
Martha Chamallas, Importing Feminist Theories to Change Tort Law, 11 Wis. Women's L.J. 389 (1997)
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Mission: Southside family charter school (sfcs) is an urban k-8 public charter school alternative dedicated to academic excellence, innovation in curriculum, family involvement and community participation. Sfcs meets the needs of a culturally and ethnically diverse population by engaging children in critical thinking and problem solving, involving children in political and social activism, encouraging creative expression, offering a wide range of electives and advocating for children and families
Programs: Civil rights curriculum and study tour: the triennial voyage continues to be a hallmark of the schools program and a cornerstone of the schools reputation in the community. The most recent study tour was conducted in spring 2014. Sixth through eighth graders with staff traveled through five states, to learn from dozens of social justice activists who made profound changes during the civil rights movement and who continue to be active in their communities today. Through indirect study and direct contact with historical players, students deepen their understanding of the vital role young people have in creating change. In addition to the study tour, guest speakers and community tours are conducted throughout the school year. These activities emphasize the schools social justice philosophy and mission. The minnesota department of education recognized southside family charter school as a rewards school which is the highest performing 15% of title i schools in the state. Social justice: the social justice results provide a forum for discussion both among staff and among the students. Noteworthy, is the number of artistic, curricular, and extracurricular activities that are tied to the schools social justice mission. Sfcs integrates the mission into every aspect of the schools curriculum and approach. Artistic and creative expression: sfcs continues to provide numerous opportunities for artistic and creative expression. These opportunities are central to the schools educational delivery model and, as noted above, are integrated with the schools mission. Satisfaction: the results from the spring school climate surveys indicate that the three major stakeholder groups are experiencing a positive school climate and educational experience. High staff and student retention: sfcs has a staff that remains committed to the school with little staff or student turnover. Family and community involvement: the number and depth of family involvement is remarkable and one of the schools success areas. Likewise, sfcs has developed long-term community partners that align with the schools mission and provide considerable enrichment opportunities for all students.
My daughter is in her 2nd year at Southside and WE love it! I'm impressed with what she is learning and how quickly. She loves her teachers and her classmates. I always appreciate that the environment is supportive. I never feel like we are judged by other students/families. Every day I'm thankful for Southside Family Charter School.


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Forming a community of Persons: The rights, Dignity and Role of Men and WomMARY SHIVANANDAN
It is man's body that makes him conscious of being alone. It is precisely through his body that he realizes aloneness and difference from the animals even though he is a body among bodies.
The dignity of woman is measured by the order of love, which is essentially the order of justice and charity. Mulieris Dignitatem, Nov. 29
Professor Patrick Lee has developed well the role of woman in the order of Justice. He has identified the main difference between men and women as the woman's capacity to bear and nurture a very young child. From this given he has argued the moral imperatives of the different roles of both men and women.
He has also considered the question of liberty and autonomy in the order of justice an criticized two inadequate views on marriage related to sex differences: 1) that children are an optional extra to the personal union and 2) that marriage is only for procreation. He has ably outlined the disastrous and unjust consequences to women, men and children that have resulted from feminist attempts to overturn this moral order.
In my paper I would like to examine the roles of women and of men in the order of charity, through an analysis of John Paul II's writings. In Mulieris Dignitatem (#29) he goes on to say:
Only a person can love and only a person can be loved... Love is an ontological and ethical requirement of the person. The person must be loved, since love alone corresponds to what the person is.
And in the final section 30, the Holy Father goes on to say:
A woman's dignity is closely connected with the love which she receives by the very reason of her femininity; it is likewise connected with the love she gives in return.
These three quotes from Mulieris Dignitatem focus on three fundamental themes in the work of John Paul II: 1) the dignity of the person 2) the communion of the persons in love 3) the specific characteristics of masculinity and femininity.
THE DIGNITY OF THE PERSON
The dignity of the person has been a preoccupation of John Paul II since his earliest years. His commitment was forged in the furnace of World War II when he witnessed, especially through the concentration camps the dehumanization of the person. In a play written in the 1940s by the young Karol Wojtyla one of the characters refers to the difference between the exchangeable man who mixes superficially, and the non-exchangeable. The non-exchangeable is the most interesting.
The person has been a constant focus of his philosophy and ethics from his thesis on Max Scheler in the 1950s to the Lublin Lectures and his many article contributions to Polish Thomist personalism in the late 1950s and early 1960s. In his work on marriage, Love and Responsibility, first published in Polish in 1960 he wrote in the introduction:
The present book was born principally of the need to put the norms of Catholic sexual morality on a firm basis, a basis as definitive as possible, relying on the most elementary and incontrovertible moral truths and the most fundamental values or goods. Such a good is the person, and the moral truth most closely bound up with the world of persons is 'the commandment to love'; for love is a good peculiar to the world of persons.
His philosophic concept of person is based on that of St. Thomas Aquinas, with its philosophy of being and its grounding in the definition of Boethius. While Wojtyla rejected the emotionalist premises of Scheler, he sought to use the phemonemologist method to deepen understanding of the interiority of the human subject.
But it was Vatican Council II, according to his biographer, George Williams, that was the inspiration for his major philosophical work, The Acting Person. Another leading biographer, Rocco Buttiglione, agrees that the philosophic work of Wojtyla has for its center the Ecumenical Council of Vatican II.
In an address on Vatican Radio in 1964, entitled On Man as Person, during Period III of the Vatican Council he emphasized the immense theoretical significance of the concept of man as person. The Council's Pastoral Constitution of the Church in the Modern World (Gaudium et Spes) became for him a fundamental source for his own thinking on the person and on communio personarum the communion of persons) a phrase which first appeared in section 12 of the document.
In his commentary on the Council, Sources of Renewal, he calls Nos. 15, 16, and 17 the basic framework of man's vocation to human dignity as proclaimed by Vatican II. He quotes Gaudium et Spes extensively in the Sign of Contradiction, the papal retreat he gave in 1976.
These homilies were both a culmination and integration of his philosophical and theological thinking up to that time and an establishment of themes later developed and refined in his papal encyclicals. He quotes from Gaudium et Spes throughout, but two sections cited frequently are central, Nos. 22 and 24. In Redemptor Hominis, he calls GS a stupendous text. The following are the key excerpts from GS 22 and 24:
The truth is that only in the mystery of the incarnate Word does the mystery of man take on light...Christ, the final Adam, by the revelation of the mystery of the Father and His love, fully reveals man to himself and makes his supreme calling clear. (GS 22)
He (the Lord Jesus) implied a certain likeness between the union of the divine Person and the unity of God's sons in truth and charity. This likeness reveals that man, who is the only creature on earth which God willed for itself, cannot fully find himself except through a sincere gift of himself. (GS 24)
Another fundamental source of John Paul II's thinking on the dignity of the person and the communion of person are the texts of Genesis 1 to 4, linked to Christ's reference in Matthew 19:3-9 to the beginning.
In Sign of Contradiction he asserted that indeed it seems to me that unless one does so reflect upon that fundamental ensemble of facts and situations it becomes extremely difficult if not impossible to understand man and the world.
He calls the Genesis account something like an embryo, containing all that will in time make up the full-grown person. In Familiaris Consortio (No.13) he states that He (Jesus Christ) reveals the original truth of marriage, the truth of the 'beginning.' And in No. 17, he teaches, Accordingly the family must go back to the 'beginning' of God's creative act if it is to attain self-knowledge and self-realization in accordance with the inner truth not only of what it is, but also of what it does in history.Mulieris Dignitatem (No. 1) also refers to the fundamental inheritance of all humanity that is linked with the mystery of the biblical 'beginning.' John Paul II made a special study of that beginning in his Wednesday catecheses from September 5, 1979 to November 28, 1984. They have been published by the Daughters of St. Paul under the titles: Original Unity of Man and Woman, Blessed are the Pure in Heart, The Theology of Marriage and Celibacy and Reflections on Humane Vitae.
These reflections contain such a wealth of anthropological and theological insight that it is only possible to examine a small part. I have chosen to look at his concept of original solitude. This concept is essential in his understanding of the person and of the fundamental equality of man and woman.
John Paul II derives this concept from the second or Yahwist account of creation, which is considered to have been composed earlier than the Elohist, priestly account. He takes as his starting point the text, it is not good that man should be alone. I will make him a helper fit for him (Gen. 2:18).
The Pope makes a particular point of noting that man is spoken of as male(ish) only after the creation of Eve, so that this solitude refers to man as such. There are two meanings implied in this solitude: (1) from man's very nature and (2) derived from the male-female relationship. The first form of solitude appears to be a fundamental anthropological problem. It is prior to the second solitude not chronologically but existentially. (OU pp.44,45).
When all the animals are brought before man, he names them, thereby showing his superiority over them. While naming them, man is in a sense in search of a definition of himself. His self-knowledge develops at the same rate as knowledge of all living beings... therefore consciousness reveals man as the one who possesses the cognitive faculty as regards the visible world.(OU pp.43-49)
It is man's body that makes him conscious of being alone. It is precisely through his body that he realizes aloneness and difference from the animals even though he is a body among bodies. Therefore at the same time that man has awareness of his subjectivity he has consciousness and awareness of the meaning of his own body.(OU p.51ff)
Man is called to till the earth and subdue it and in the activity of tilling the ground the body expresses the person, so that (m)an is a subject not only because of his self-awareness and self-determination, but also on the basis of


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Thriving since 1960, my garden in a bottle: Seedling sealed in its own ecosystem and watered just once in 53 years
David Latimer first planted his bottle garden in 1960 and last watered it in 1972 before tightly sealing it shut 'as an experiment'. The hardy spiderworts plant inside has grown to fill the 10-gallon container by surviving entirely on recycled air, nutrients and water.
For the last 40 years it has been completely sealed from the outside world. But the indoor variety of spiderworts (or Tradescantia, to give the plant species its scientific Latin name) within has thrived, filling its globular bottle home with healthy foliage. Yesterday Mr Latimer, 80, said: 'It's 6ft from a window so gets a bit of sunlight. It grows towards the light so it gets turned round every so often so it grows evenly. 'Otherwise, it's the definition of low-maintenance. I've never pruned it, it just seems to have grown to the limits of the bottle.'
The bottle garden has created its own miniature ecosystem. Despite being cut off from the outside world, because it is still absorbing light it can photosynthesise, the process by which plants convert sunlight into the energy they need to grow.
He added that this process is one reason why NASA was interested in taking plants into space. 'Plants operate as very good scrubbers, taking out pollutants in the air, so that a space station can effectively become self-sustaining,' he said. 'This is a great example of just how pioneering plants are and how they will persist given the opportunity. 'The only input to this whole process has been solar energy, that's the thing it has needed to keep it going. Everything else, every other thing in there has been recycled. That's fantastic.'


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Dutch scientists have demonstrated controlling the motion of an atomic scale mechanical device, although whether more complex nanotech devices could be controlled by the mechanism at work here remains to be seen. Upon exposure to electrons from an STM tip, pairs of platinum atoms on a germanium surface can be made to pivot on one atom, swinging back and forth like a flipper on a pinball machine. From a Nanowerk Spotlight written by Michael Berger "Playing nanotechnology pinball in the atomic café":
Functional nanomachinery will need to take into account the quantum effects that dominate the behavior of matter at the nanoscale, affecting the optical, electrical and magnetic behavior of materials.
Scientists in The Netherlands are now reporting how an atomic scale mechanical device consisting of two moving parts, each composed of only two atoms can be controlled by an external electrical signal, while being stable and providing a variety of functional modes. They jokingly refer to it as playing atomic pinball, since the two moving parts resemble the flippers in a pinball machine — unfortunately they haven't got a ball yet to play with.
"We have demonstrated the stimulated and controllable mobility of an atomic scale mechanical device" Dr. Harold J.W. Zandvliet tells Nanowerk. "This atomic scale variant of pinball machine flippers exhibits a variety of dynamic modes that are exclusively excited by an external electrical signal. Our work is an important advance in atomic-scale engineering since it shows that even on the scale of a few atoms, a device can be constructed that only operates if an external stimulus is applied."
…The scientists believe that the most likely explanation for the flipping dimer is that the substrate atom underneath the two revolving atoms has been replaced by a different atom, leading to a reduced binding of the dimers with the substrate and a sideways displacement of the dimers as they attach to neighboring substrate atoms.
The research was published in Nano Letters (abstract).


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Now is the time to begin the planning and preparation of fields to attract doves during the upcoming season. The mourning dove is one of the most popular game species in the Southeast, and fall dove shoots are a South Carolina tradition.
Large numbers of doves will feed on waste grains and weed seeds in harvested peanut, corn and wheat fields. Fields can also be planted in millet, sorghum, sesame, corn, sunflowers or other crops and managed specifically for dove hunting. It is legal to plant a field with grains attractive to doves, and harvest or mow all or part of it, or none of it at all, and shoot doves over the area. Well-managed dove fields provide benefits to doves and other wildlife before and after the hunting season. Landowners interested in dove field recommendations should contact the S.C. Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Small Game Project at _PHONE_ in Columbia, or a DNR regional wildlife biologist. Dove field planting information can also be found on the DNR website at _URL_
Pending approval by the S.C. Natural Resources Board and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 2013-14 mourning dove season dates will be Sept. 2 to Oct. 5; Nov. 23 to 30; Dec. 19 to Jan. 15. Afternoon hunting only is allowed from Sept. 2-7. The bag limit is 15 doves per hunter per day.
Several factors should be considered when planning a dove field. Larger fields are often more attractive than smaller fields. Generally, a dove field should be a minimum of three acres in size and should be designed to allow at least one acre per hunter. Fields should not be located near busy highways, residential areas, schools, hospitals, or other areas where safety or noise could be a concern. Also, doves are easier to attract if fields are located within an agricultural landscape, rather than within a large block of woodlands.
A single field can be manipulated to attract good numbers of doves through the season by alternating strips of several different crops. For example, browntop millet, which will mature in 60-70 days, will provide food during the early dove season. Dove proso millet will mature in 80-90 days and will be available after the browntop falls. Corn or sunflowers could be planted on remaining strips to provide late-season food sources. Doves prefer small-seeded, black-oil-seed varieties of sunflowers over the larger striped-shell sunflowers.
Dove fields should be planted on dates that allow the seed to mature about two weeks prior to hunting, which allows doves time to locate the food source and become accustomed to feeding in the field. Planted strips within fields should be at least 30-50 feet wide, and kept as weed-free as possible. Doves have weak feet and will not use a field where they have to scratch and search for food. For this reason, it is best to plant crops in rows to facilitate cultivation. Herbicides labeled for the various plantings are also recommended. Row plantings also make finding downed birds easier. In fields with heavy weed growth, light discing of strips throughout the field will improve the attractiveness of the field to doves by exposing seeds of native weeds and planted crops.
Overshooting will drive doves away from even a high-quality dove field. A field should not be hunted more than once a week, and the birds should be allowed to feed unmolested during the last two hours of daylight. A particular field should be hunted morning or afternoon, not both.
After the close of dove season, fields should not be plowed under. Crop residue as well as associated weed seeds will continue to provide doves and other wildlife with a reliable food source throughout the remainder of winter and early spring.


text: We investigated the effects of single electron charging energy in high temperature superconductors. Various phenomena originating from Coulomb blockade were observable in superconducting tunnel junctions. High quality tunneling junctions were fabricated from c-axis oriented NdBa2Cu3O7–delta/PrBa2Cu3O7–delta/NdBa2Cu3O7–delta thin film multilayers by the pulsed laser deposition method. The current-voltage characteristics (CVCs) show a Coulomb gap for Cooper pair tunneling when the charging energy exceeds the Josephson coupling energy. We found a regime in which the CVCs exhibit sharply defined Coulomb steps due to single electron dynamics and nonlinear tunneling rates. From the obtained Coulomb staircase, the tunneling resistance shows a quantum effect: It is modulated by the tunneling current in the form h/4e2RT~[sin(piI/I0)2/(piI/I0)]. We suggest an interpretation involving the quantum resistance h/e2 and the competition between the charging, Josephson, and thermal energies of the system. Our results give a perspective on a solid-state quantum system with considerable interest for direct application in quantum computing.


actually changed the dynamics of product development in such way, that big names have opened up their own R&D centres, sales and distribution office, factories etc in such locations due to lower cost factors.
Benefits of outsourcing product development
OPD has many benefits. A product owner need not worry about the outcome or excess expenditure if the activity is in right hands. Correct and well planned outsourcing saves a product company time, expenditure on systems and manpower, legal hassles. The best part is exchange of domain knowledge between the product company and the OPD, something that ensures better output in the future.
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Path to Product Development
If you are an engineering professional, most likely you are aware of how a physical product comes to life. From the early days of sketching and blueprints, manufacturing of a commodity has come a long way. The modern methodology of creating a product has not only changed drastically, but it has become way more efficient and precise in its approach. Today's engineer lives and thrives in the world of 3-dimensional models. Whatever masterpiece a designer has in his mind, he has the tools and system to give it life. And it is not just limited to inception of a new idea being turned to a product; it has made the art of reverse engineering being implemented more than ever.
So what are the factors that have revolutionized this craft?
It is the safe to say that with the invention of new tools, techniques and computer, the road to new product development has become more smooth, accurate and flexible. Although a professional can get deep into the subject matter, this article gives a brief overview of the product development from technical perspective.
The footsteps to a new product can be summarized in the following sequence.
path to product developmentTo put it in words, here is how the entire sequence goes:
 - Scanning: Whether you have an entirely new idea on your mind, or you want to base your idea on an already existing product; you need a reference. Your reference can be either technical manuals from the manufacturer or the physical product itself. The first step is to scan the product using 3D scanners. 3D scanning technology comes in many shapes and forms. Scanners capture and store the 3D information of the product. The scanned information gets stored in the form of closely spaced data points known as Point Cloud.
 - Mesh: Point clouds are used to create 3D meshes. A mesh is a network that constitutes of cells and points. Mesh generation involves point clouds to be connected to each other by the virtue of vertices, edges and faces that meet at shared edges. There are specific softwares for carrying of meshing function.
 - 3D Model: Once the meshed part is generated, it goes through required software applications to be transferred to Computer Aided Design (CAD) tools to get transformed into a proper 3D CAD model. 3D model is the stage where whole sorts of applications such as sewing, stitching, etc, are implemented to create a prototype.
 - Testing: A prototype goes through numerous tests in this phase, to check for limitations and possible calibrations if necessary. This is done to determine the optimum stage where the prototype can be turned to a product.
 - Product: This is where the entire process comes to an end. Once a prototype is evaluated and finalized, it is sent for production in order to introduce it to the market.
 This introductory part gives you a summary of product development and the related technical terms. In the next chapters, we will dive deep and go through all the mentioned stages, one by one.
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Point Cloud Operations
No output is always perfect no matter how much the technology has evolved. Even though point cloud generation has eased up manufacturing process, it comes with its own anomaly. Generally, a point cloud data is accompanied by Noises and Outliers.
Noises or Noisy data means the data information is contaminated by unwanted information; such unwanted information contributes to the impurity of the data while the underlying information still dominates. A noisy point cloud data can be filtered and the noise can be absolutely discarded to produce a much refined result.
If we carefully examine the image below, it illustrates a point cloud data with noises. The surface area is usually filled with extra features which can be eliminated.
Point Cloud Before noise redeuction
After carrying out Noise Reduction process, the image below illustrates the outcome, which a lot smoother data without any unwanted elements. There are many algorithms and processes for noise reduction.
Point Cloud After noise reduction
Outlier, on the contrary, is a type of data which is not totally meaningless, but might turn out to be of interest. Outlier is a data value that differs considerably from the main set of data. It is mostly different from the existing group. Unlike noises, outliers are not removed outright but rather, it is put under analysis sometimes.
The images below clearly portray what outliers are and how the point cloud data looks like once the outliers are removed.
Point Cloud With outliers
Point Cloud Without outliers
Point Cloud Decimation
We have learned how a point cloud data obtained comes with noise and outliers and the methods to reduce them to make the data more executable for meshing. Point cloud data undergoes several operations to treat the anomalies existing within. Two of the commonly used operations are Point Cloud Decimation and Point Cloud Registration.
A point cloud data consists of millions of small points, sometimes even more than what is necessary. Decimation is the process of discarding points from the data to improve performance and reduce usage of disk. Decimate point cloud command reduces the size of point clouds.
The following example shows how a point cloud underwent decimation to reduce the excess points.
Point Cloud Before decimation
Point Cloud After decimation
Point Cloud Registration
Scanning a commodity is not a one step process. A lot of time, scanning needs to be done separately from different angles to get views. Each of the acquired data view is called a dataset. Every dataset obtained from different views needs to be aligned together into a single point cloud data model, so that subsequent processing steps can be applied. The process of aligning various 3D point cloud data views into a complete point cloud model is known as registration. The purpose is to find the relative positions and orientations of the separately acquired views, such that the intersecting regions between them overlap perfectly.
Take a look at the example given below. The car door data sets have been merged to get a complete model.
Point Cloud before registration
Point Cloud After registration
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Point Clouds
Whether working on a renovation project or making an information data about an as-built situation, it is understandable that the amount of time and energy spent on analysis of the object/project in hand can be quite debilitating. Technical literatures over the years, has come up with several methods to make a precise approach. But inarguably, the most prominent method is the application of Point Clouds.
3D scanners gather point measurements from real-world objects or photos for a point cloud that can be translated to a 3D mesh or CAD model.
But what is a Point Cloud?
A common definition of point clouds would be — A point cloud is a collection of data points defined by a given coordinates system. In a 3D coordinates system, for example, a point cloud may define the shape of some real or created physical system.
Point clouds are used to create 3D meshes and other models used in 3D modeling for various fields including medical imaging, architecture, 3D printing, manufacturing, 3D gaming and various virtual reality (VR) applications. A point is identified by three coordinates that, correlate to a precise point in space relative to a point of origin, when taken together.
Point CloudThere are numerous ways of scanning an object or an area, with the help of laser scanners which vary based on project requirement. However, to give a generic overview of point cloud generation process, let us go through the following steps:
 1. The generation of a point cloud, and thus the visualization of the data points, is an essential step in the creation of a 3D scan. Hence, 3D laser scanners are the tools for the task. While taking a scan, the laser scanner records a huge number of data points returned from the surfaces in the area being scanned.
 1. Import the point cloud that the scanner creates into the point cloud modeling software. The software enables visualizing and modeling point cloud, which transforms it into a pixelated, digital version of the project.
 1. Export the point cloud from the software and import it into the CAD/BIM system, where the data points can converted to 3D objects.
Different 3D point cloud file formats
Scanning a space or an object and bringing it into designated software lets us to further manipulate the scans, stitch them together which can be exported to be converted into a 3D model. Now there are numerous file formats for 3D modeling. Different scanners yield raw data in different formats. One needs different processing software for such files and each & every software has its own exporting capabilities. Most software systems are designed to receive large number of file formats and have flexible export options. This section will walk you through some known and commonly used file formats. Securing the data in these common formats enables the usage of different software for processing without having to approach a third party converter.
Common point cloud file formats
OBJ: It is a simple data format that only represents 3D geometry, color and texture. And this format has been adopted by a wide range of 3D graphics applications. It is commonly ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange).
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Arriving in 1902 on the soil of colonial Kenya, Quaker Christianity found native spiritualities on the ground. Spiritual traditions from widely divergent origins have surprisingly married harmoniously among the people of western Kenya and beyond. For over a century, the Friends church has grown by leaps and bounds, thanks to the hard work of, among many others, Festo Lisamadi; Daudi Lungaho; Joseph Ngaira; Yohana Lumwaji; Arthur Litu; Richard Martin Kibisu; Petro Wanyama; and my great‐grandmother, Dorika Bweyenda, who continued to practice her shamanic healing Umwahi along with her new found Quaker faith. Today, Kenya has the highest number of Friends found anywhere on Earth. The three founding missionaries, Willis R. Hotchkiss, Arthur B. Chilson, and Edgar T. Hole, were sent by the Cleveland, Ohio‐based Board of the Friends Africa Industrial Mission. They set up camp in the Kaimosi Forest, 24 miles north of the port town of Kisumu by Lake Victoria, the second largest fresh‐water lake in the world by surface area. After their transatlantic voyage had landed them in Mombasa, the gatekeeping British officials sent the three young men to the mosquito‐infested western region using the newly constructed railway on what writer Charles Miller referred to as "the Lunatic Express." The Friends Africa Industrial Mission sent many other missionaries out to the mission stations in Kaimosi, other parts of western Kenya, and elsewhere.
That of God in Everyone
Quakers from different strands understand the concept of "that of God in everyone" in different ways. Wilmer Cooper says: "Some [Quakers] have held that the Light, Spirit, Seed, Measure, 'that of God in Everyone,' and Christ Within had a common meaning for early Friends and therefore can be used interchangeably." Friends today who hold this Christ‐centered view are mainly affiliated with Friends United Meeting or Evangelical Friends Church International, of which the majority are found in Kenya and Latin America, as well as the Conservative Friends, concentrated in the United States, and the many Christ‐centered Friends worldwide scattered among Liberal and unaffiliated Friends meetings.
As both a fourth‐generation Kenyan Quaker and an initiated Maragoli shaman, I have been fascinated by the history of the meeting of these two cultures, that amazingly, as if providentially, blended without one erasing the other.
The Maragoli Context
The Maragoli are a Bantu‐speaking people who have been practicing settled agriculture in the Maragoli Hills of western Kenya, situated on the equator a few miles north of the Kavirondo Gulf of Lake Victoria. The Maragoli people believe they have lived in their present location for centuries, after having originally come from Misri, Egypt, by following the Nile upstream.
The Maragoli are also known as the Mulembe people, the Maragoli word for "peace." Their pacifist inclinations were well known, not only throughout Kenya but widely throughout East Africa, even before the arrival of Quaker missionaries in 1902. As both a fourth‐generation Kenyan Quaker and an initiated Maragoli shaman, I have been fascinated by the history of the meeting of these two cultures—my own Maragoli culture and that of the peace‐loving American Friends—that amazingly, as if providentially, blended without one erasing the other. Much of the responsibility for this blending may lie with the extraordinary character of the early Quaker convert Dorika Bweyenda, my great‐grandmother and my initiator into the Maragoli shamanic tradition.
Dorika was about 29 years old when the missionaries came. Her husband of perhaps 12 years, Mmboga, was the village shaman then, having been trained and initiated by his father, the renowned shaman Votega. Mmboga and Dorika were among the first convinced Quakers in the mission. Long unable to conceive a child, Dorika, at last, became pregnant on the eve of the First World War. Three months into her pregnancy, Mmboga was conscripted by the occupying British into the King's African Rifles. Notwithstanding his Maragoli and Quaker pacifist principles, Mmboga, with many other young Maragoli men, was drafted to fight in a war about which he knew nothing. He and the other Maragoli never returned home, and to this day, nothing is known about their fate. Had they been British lads killed in action, the Crown would never have allowed their records to be lost, but such was the colonizers' attitude toward the peoples they had subjugated; they were not seen as fully human.
When Dorika gave birth to her son, my grandfather, in 1914, she named him Ngeresa, "English," after the British occupiers who had kidnapped her husband. Everyone agreed that naming her son after the people who had robbed her of her husband—and the child's father—was an act of unbelievable forgiveness. That is why village elders proposed that she be made the next shaman. She was initiated by Votega.
Dorika lived to be about 110 years old; I was born when she was 92. One day I asked her why she had named my grandfather "Ngeresa." She looked me straight in the eye and answered, "As a shaman, I know that no one can crush a person. I gave your grandfather that name to remind myself of that. They took away [my husband's] body, but his spirit still lives right here, where we are. His spirit lives in me, and"—she pointed directly at me—"his spirit lives in you."
While [my great‐grandmother] agreed that there is that of God in everyone, she also knew, from Maragoli shamanic tradition, that there is also that of God in everything, living and nonliving.
Maragoli Reverence for Creation
The Maragoli people's current literacy is superimposed on a traditional oral culture that has, for centuries, been passing on our history, culture, and values by word of mouth, through deliberate and cherished strategies. One of these strategies is our rites of passage, different for each gender, which introduce young Maragoli boys and girls into the responsibilities of adulthood. These take several days, in which elders teach the new initiates what had been passed down to them during their own initiation. A second strategy is the sharing of dreams during the bonfire circle, which occurs nightly except when it is raining. Dreams are recognized as an important part of life, and the sharing of them is an important part of the life of the community, which to this day largely lacks the distractions of television. In this circle, we share our hopes for the future and the dreams experienced during the previous night. Everyone around the circle is welcome to give an interpretation of another's dreams, though only the person holding the talking stick is permitted to speak. The discipline of the talking stick, which represents nature, teaches every Maragoli to be a good listener. We believe that our dreams are important because God, and the gods, and our ancestors speak to us through dreams, and we believe that no dream is without significance: there are no trivial dreams. People we know, our animals, plants, birds, insects, water, fire, air, wind, rainbow, rain, and lightning can all be communicating with us through our dreams.
When the Maragoli say that our ancestors speak with us through dreams, we do not confine the meaning of "ancestors" merely to blood human relatives of former generations. Rather, we mean that our ancestors include God, our Creator (whom we call Nyasaye), our own bodies, plants, soil, rivers, lakes, mountains, animals, creeping things, the sun, the moon, air, fire, wind, rain, our brothers and sisters, our parents and grandparents, and so on. It is made clear to us that all these are our ancestors because without them we could not exist. We are because these ancestors are; and because these ancestors are, therefore we are. We are taught to be thankful and to honor, respect, protect, and care for all of these ancestors, because by being thankful for their lives, we are valuing, honoring, and being thankful for our own lives.
We are taught to honor and respect the animals that give us food by slaughtering them quickly, minimizing suffering. When we Maragoli have to slaughter a chicken, a goat, or a cow for food, we have to, first of all, face them with humility and tell the animal that we honor and respect them for the fact that they are giving their lives for the sustenance of our lives. The same reverence is called for when we harvest vegetables and fruits: kale and tomato that we harvest from the garden give up their lives so that we can have life. While I completely understand why some people are vegetarians for reasons of health, I am always surprised when I hear people say that they are vegetarians because vegetables have no blood. To the Maragoli mind, vegetables have as much life as animals and their own kind of life‐blood, which is their sap. They are therefore respected and honored in the same way animals are thanked, not only for relieving our hunger but also for giving us life. For this reason, whenever I am at a place where food is served and people start eating before giving thanks for the meal, as I have often witnessed in the United States, I stop them and insist on saying a prayer of thanksgiving to honor the food, the


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The Inter-Ministry Co-ordinating Committee (IMCC) co-ordinates national activities amongst relevant ministries and institutions to ensure smooth implementation of national efforts which keep in line with regional directions and objectives.
Role of the IMCC
The IMCC reviews work plans that National Working Groups (NWGs) prepare and provides them with guidance for improvement when necessary.
- Prepare, on behalf of the government, national positions on policy issues for the Interim Commission Council to consider and present the positions to the Council through the IMCC chairperson;
- Nominate regional environmental managers and science and technical experts for inclusion in the Management Advisory Roster;
- Establish the NWGs with leading experts in the country in line with the requirements, focal areas, and activities of the RWGs;
- Appoint the NC and the NWG chairpersons based on nominations by the GEF National Focal Agency (i.e., NFP) and the GEF National Implementing Agency;26
- Review and co-ordinate national activities under the NSAP implementation, that the NWGs propose;
- Provide the NWGs with guidance and suggestions to improve the national activities to meet national and regional environmental concerns and priorities;
- Secure technical and financial resources necessary to implement the national and regional activities;
- Monitor the progress of the national activities and ensure the quality of outputs;
- Facilitate co-operation with relevant national organisations and projects to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of the national activities;
- Report to the MSTP through the NC on the progress of the national activities;
- Facilitate the participation of the private sector and NGOs in SAP/NSAP implementation; and
- Disseminate the findings and results of NSAP implementation to broad audiences, nationally, regionally, and internationally.
- Government executive officials at the GEF National Focal Agency (i.e., GEF National Operational Focal Point [NFP]), the GEF National Implementing Agency, and all the other relevant ministries that have responsibilities in marine and coastal issues in the Yellow Sea
- National Working Group (NWG) chairpersons
- Representatives from private sector organisations actively engaged in NSAP implementation
- Representatives of NGOs actively engaged in NSAP implementation
The IMCC chairperson serves as a member of the Council and the IMCC reports to the MSTP through the NC. The National Co-ordinator (NC) serves as a secretary to the IMCC.
Please refer to Architecture of the Interim YSLME Commission for more details.


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Sound artist Bjorn Hatleskog works under the name Romvelope, and has been releasing experimental music for the past 10 years via his record label ADAADAT. Struck with a desire to create something that exists somewhere between sound and sculpture, he started building semi-autonomous musical instruments. He focuses on the kind of noise or undesirable sound that conventional instrument designers seek to remove from their creations.
The current installation features fluorescent lighting, a pair of modified Fisher Price Turntables that function as primitive sequencers switching electrical currents on and off, electromagnetic interference that produces toilet seat shaped instruments, a self-strumming guitar, a device that transforms the electrical signal from the lights into sound waves and Robotic Percussion.


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The Haiti Education Alliance (THEA) is a Christian, non-profit organization dedicated to empowering families in Haiti to improve the health (physical, social, psychological, and spiritual) of their communities for generations.
Since THEA's inception in 2010, to achieve THEA's mission, we have developed 3 main programs:
1. Gardening/Egg Production/Nutrition Training
- 18 month Backyard Gardening/Nutrition and Chicken/Egg Production/Nutrition courses
- 3-5 day Community Seminars
2. Rehabilitation Clinics
- 3 clinics in Pignon, Ranquite, Lavictoire
- Continuing education for rehabilitation technician(s)
- future fieldwork placement for Rehabilitation Technician Training Program in Haiti
3. Primary/Secondary/Vocational/University Fund
- Ensuring the poorest of the poor in the community can complete school
- Includes "Teachers Unite"- a collaborative seminar for teachers in the community
- Breakfast and Tutoring Program for the students who suffer the effects of malnutrition
- Vocational/University education in areas of medicine/rehabilitation and agriculture
THEA advocates for vulnerable populations in Haiti, including children, people with disabilities, women and the elderly.
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noun (plural Negroes)
mid 16th century: via Spanish and Portuguese from Latin niger, nigr- 'black'
The word Negro was adopted from Spanish and Portuguese and first recorded from the mid 16th century. It remained the standard term throughout the 17th-19th centuries and was used by prominent black American campaigners such as W. E. B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington in the early 20th century. Since the Black Power movement of the 1960s, however, when the term black was favoured as the term to express racial pride, Negro (together with related words such as Negress) has dropped out of favour and now seems out of date or even offensive in both British and US English.