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Positioning and life cycle stages in the UK services industry
This study aims to contribute to the advancement of knowledge within the domain of strategic marketing, and more specifically positioning of services. In particular this research stems from an attempt to overcome the limitations of existing positioning typologies and models and the fact that current research on the subject matter fails to reflect the sequential nature of considerations related to the management of the positioning process. Consequently, the basic aim of this research is the development of a comprehensive framework that incorporates the various decisions and activities associated with the management of positioning and the generation of managerial guidelines, for the UK services industry. Following an extensive literature review, a conceptual framework that represents a synthesis of existing positioning models is proposed. Following the development of generic positioning strategies, the model is applied in the UK plastic card sector. As a result, a number of propositions are tested and managerial recommendations are put forward. Overall, this research makes the following theoretical, methodological and managerial contributions to the theory and practice of positioning activities within the plastic card services domain. Theoretical Contributions: This thesis offers a comprehensive positioning framework which could form the basis of further investigation into the subject matter. More specifically, the following theoretical contributions to the study of positioning have been made: This thesis has attempted to examine the varying descriptions attributed to the concept and as a result has clarified the concept and suggested three main themes (i.e. perspectives, key issues and dimensions) underpinning the concept. This research has put forward an empirically supported comprehensive positioning model. Methodological Contributions: This research has developed and validated a generic, consumer derived typology of positioning strategies. Operationalisation of positioning aim(s), objective(s) and the determination of LCS have been offered. An analytical procedure suitable for determining congruence between successive phases of the proposed model has been developed. The operationalisation of LCS in the model has been expanded in terms of additional dimensions. Managerial Contributions: This research has provided a set of clearly defined, managerial guidelines that practitioners can use when attempting to apply the concept of positioning.


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institution of slavery. Slavery still continued in
the Danish West Indies (Vestindien). On 3
July 1846 generalguvernÝr (Governor-General) Peter Von
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slavery) proclaimed the emancipation of the slaves in
the Danish West Indies.
Danish West Indies were purchased by the USA for $25m
under a treaty which was ratified and proclaimed on
March 31, 1917. They now form the Virgin Islands,
an unincorporated territory of the USA.
to pages dealing with the abolition of the Danish slave
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Amendment to the Bill of Rights
campaign against slavery
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Trade Act 1824
Trade Act 1843
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The content of ICLD IV was researched and field tested for over a period of more than 30 years in university and justice and public safety environments including police, corrections, customs, immigration, homeland security, and private security. It is based on the breakthrough book titled, Every Officer is A Leader: Coaching Leadership and Learning in Justice, Public Safety and Security Organizations (Revised 2nd Edition). The course was filmed at LAPD and piloted in collaboration with Deputy Chief Mark Perez and his Team of Leaders at the Los Angeles Police Department. This highly competent team was carefully selected to be able to demonstrate the skills involved in Credible Leadership throughout the course.
The breakthrough of this course is that officers are now able to take self-responsibility for mastering the 60 Skills that enable them to perform the 40 Tasks and Responsibilities that research has revealed are critical for leadership success in justice and public safety. Never before has professional leadership been so well-defined and distilled so that it is easily and quickly learned. The course is a research-based, online, performance enhancement learning process that equips leaders to express more empathic caring, be more ethically conscious, and more capable of developing themselves, other leaders, teams and organizations.
At the end of Phase, students will be able to achieve the following objectives in accordance with the information received in class:
- Understand self-management skills for personal development.
- Have the ability to build strength and maintain a grounded state of resilience even in a high-stress situation.
- Develop a command presence based on a deep inner sense of calm and stability.
- Understand your own natural style of communicating with others
- To understand and apply the four Facilitative Conditions: Genuineness, Empathy, Respect, and Specificity.
- Understand the difference between Coaching, Counseling, and Mentoring.
- Understand the importance of accessing the development and functioning levels of others.
- Become more capable of creating high-performance and high-morale teams.
- Understand how Versatility Skills help you to develop your own style and become more responsive to the unique and changing characteristics of individuals, teams, and organizations.

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Some digging shows that both family trees have similar roots
The geographical history of Europe often blows my mind. Areas, regions and even entire countries are seemingly juggled between various governments, with borders being drawn and redrawn at will. Both sides of my family have been impacted by the geographical history of the land which is now known as Latvia.
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Raising the Juvenile age in Florida.
Updated: Jul 3, 2019
For example: if an 18-year-old high school student that is in the 12th grade being that he or she has not graduated yet be considered as a juvenile or teenager and be accepted with the other students as those of his or her peers. why is it if the 18 year old committing a crime on the school grounds along with his 17 year old classmate be treated as an adult and receive a harsher punishment then the 17 yr. old, when it has been scientifically proven that they both share the same mental capability of decision making.also if twins are born 5 min apart 11:57 pm and 12:02 am.one would turn 18 years old, 5 minutes before the other. If they went out and celebrated their party and just so happens that after or during the celebration the one turning 18 gets into a fight and the other twin jumps in to help-and kills someone before the last twin turn 18 but the first twin is already 18 by 5 minutes. Would that make a difference in the sentence? So why is an 18-yr. old treated differently than the 17yr old when they both are still teenagers with the same mental capability. many other states have taken this into consideration-in favor of an 18-yr. old being treated the same as a 17-yr. old. Florida has failed to acknowledge the scientific facts in support of. I was offered a plea for 26 yrs..so why am I sitting in prison with 2 natural life sentences without the possibility of parole after age 23yrs in here. At the time of sentencing being that I was 18 and unknowledgeable about the law and working with a public defender I thought I would win the case.. My purpose for my Motion is in Hopes that I would get assistance with getting out of Prison.
Certain things about Florida & it's Law
In most states, the age of majority is 18. However, a few other factors can affect the age of majority, including marriage and emancipation. Below, you'll find information about legal ages and its laws in Florida, including when minors can sue and eligibility requirements for emancipation.
The age in Florida is 18. This means that when you turn 18, you gain almost all the legal rights that adults have. Some of those include the right to vote and getting a driver's license without parental permission. Turning 18 also comes with responsibilities, like the ability to be sued in court, and serving on a jury.
Even if you are under 18, you may be able to get some rights normally reserved for adults if you are emancipated legally. This means that a court declares you to be a legal adult even if you are underage. Normally, you must be at least sixteen years old to be eligible for emancipation.
The legal age to marry in Florida is 18. However, with parental permission, you may get married as young as 16. In Florida, marriage is a form of emancipation, which means that you will get many of the rights and responsibilities that come with being an adult.
You must be 18 years old to enter into a contract. However, if you are under 18, you still may be able to sue to enforce a contract, but the other party may not be able to sue to enforce the contract against you. As well, students as young as 16 may be able to enter into loan contracts for higher education expenses.
In most cases, you must be 18 to sue someone. If you are not, you must have your guardian or personal representative sue on your behalf.
Even if you are underage, committing certain criminal offenses can result in Prosecution as an adult. This can occur as a "waiver" when the judge moves the case from juvenile court to adult court, when a crime excluded from juvenile prosecution is charged, or when a prosecutor has the discretion to file the case in juvenile or adult court. Some crimes, like truancy, can only be charged against minors.
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Curriculum & Resources: The Legacy Project
VISIT THE LEGACY PROJECT
The Legacy Project: Lessons for Living from the Wisest Americans was established by Cornell Medical School Professor of Gerontology Karl Pillemer. The project records the wisdom of American elders collected from interviews on a variety of subjects. In text and video, the oldest living generations of Americans share their experiences.
The website offers the opportunity for viewers to browse interviews by topic, ranging from money to faith and spirituality. You will be touched by the tenderness, humor, and authenticity of these elders.
Read and listen to these stories with your students, and reflect on how the lessons can be incorporated into this generation's values. We've selected a few favorites.
To meet the elders and to browse more lessons, visit The Legacy Project website.
- What Is Old Age For?
William Thomas ponders the benefits of aging.
- Can Elders Save the World?
The work of elders may never have been so important as it is today, when the continuation of life on Earth is at stake and wisdom is in short supply.
- Age Old Wisdom for the New Economy
Rebecca Adamson offers Native American views on scarcity, Wall Street, and how to thrive in hard times.
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Russia deploys S-300 missile systems to Kuril Islands
As part of the exercise, the anti-aircraft missile unit of the Eastern Military District, equipped with the latest S-300V4 missile system, will be deployed to the Kuril Islands, announced the press service of the Eastern Military District.
"The anti-aircraft missile division of the Eastern Military District stationed in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast began the exercise to relocate one of its units over a long distance," the district's press service said.
As part of the exercise, the unit will be transported by rail and sea. After that, the unit will begin deployment on one of the islands of the Kuril ridge and practice countering an enemy's subversive group.
According to the press service, the main goal of the exercise will be to train personnel to perform tasks on unfamiliar terrain in the island zone of the Eastern Military District.
Last September, Russia completed equipping the newly formed 38th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade of the Eastern Military District with the S-300V4 anti-aircraft missile systems. The new military unit of the brigade is stationed in the village of Ptichnik, Birobidzhan region, the Jewish Autonomous Oblast.
In 2016, Russia announced that it would be deploying Bal and Bastion coastal missile in the Kuril Islands to ensure control of the waterways, which provide entry from the Pacific Ocean to the Sea of Okhotsk. The islands' air defense is currency ensured by Buk-M1 medium-range anti-aircraft missile systems and Su-35S fighters from the Eastern Military District.
During 2020, American strategic bombers B-1B and B-52H flew to the Sea of Okhotsk several times through the Kuril straits, without violating Russian borders. They were escorted by Russian Su-35S fighters.
The dispute over the four Kuril Islands, which Tokyo considers its "northern territories," complicates relations between Russia and Japan. Moscow claims that the islands became part of the Soviet Union following the Second World War and that Russian sovereignty over them is not subject to revision. Tokyo insists that the islands are Japanese territories.
Japan does not recognize Russia's ownership of the Iturup, Kunashir and Habomai Islands. They were annexed by Russia during World War II. Russia and Japan still have not signed the peace treaty because of the sovereignty dispute over the Islands.
In November, 2018, after the meeting between Abe and Putin, Japan announced that it was ready to adhere to the Soviet–Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956. According to this Declaration, the USSR agreed to hand over the Habomai and Shikotan Islands to Japan after the peace treaty between the two countries is signed.
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Is violence against virtual animals an ethical issue?
Players can kill, hunt or hurt animals in popular games ranging from Animal Crossing to Grand Theft Auto. The rise of this (increasingly realistic) trend in games, along with people's tendency to go along with it, raises important questions.
Is violence against virtual animals an ethical issue? Image via Shutterstock.
The Conversation
Tuesday 20 October, 2020
Violence against humans in video games has long been contentious – underpinned by the never-ending debate over whether on-screen violence begets the real thing. But violence against animals in video games has attracted considerably less attention.
'I kill humans in games all the time. Why would I care about animals?'
In a recently published paper, we argue there is good reason to think violence against animals in video games is problematic – perhaps even more so than in-game violence against humans. We think game violence against animals is more likely to promote disrespect for their living counterparts.
The jury is out
In 2005, Australia banned a first-person shooter game called Postal 2, in which players could mutilate and desecrate (virtual) human bodies. Australia has controversially banned several games available in other countries because of depictions of violence and other potentially objectionable themes.
Players evidently have varying views on harming virtual animals. Some express concern or remorse — one gamer wrote on a forum: 'It's weird how bad I feel about killing animals in the game … I will actively try and shoot guys off horses instead of just shooting the horses.'
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) – itself a somewhat troubled organisation – has criticised games it says 'promote hurting and killing' animals. Examples include whale-hunting in Assassin's Creed, and fishing and catching bugs in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
Other players have no such qualms, however, with one writing: 'I kill humans in games all the time. Why would I care about animals?'
Many share this view. Video game 'amoralists' say abusing animals (or humans) in video games can't be wrong, as the 'victims' are virtual and no living being is hurt.
It's not clear exactly why players feel so differently about in-game violence. Attitudes towards in-game violence may be shaped by personal views, social mores, gaming culture and also the amount someone plays violent games.
If video games can promote particular ethical messages, could certain games encourage disrespect for living things?
First-person shooters, such as Call of Duty, have been around for more than 45 years now. They're some of the most popular video games today. CC BY-NC-SA
A moral dilemma in plain sight
Social scientists have long debated whether violent video games cause antisocial attitudes towards other people. Some think they might, but conclusive evidence for a causal link is lacking. The moral issue of violence against animals in video games has received much less philosophical attention.
Both animals and humans are often portrayed as objects to kill and harm for fun in gaming. However, animals are presented in even more disposable ways. They are often mere tools for players to kill to complete quests, or to gain materials and trophies.
This is true even for games in which players are encouraged to reflect morally on their in-game actions. In Dragon Age: Inquisition, the game's characters will approve or disapprove of a wide variety of player actions. But harming non-aggressive wild animals is not one of the things that prompts a moral reaction.
While societal respect for animals is growing (albeit slowly), animals today are routinely treated very badly. We confine them to factory farms, put them on live export ships where many suffer (and even die) and 'humanely' kill unwanted companion animals.
Many of us ignore these realities. Morally speaking, animals are relatively invisible to society – whereas other humans generally are not. In this context, depicting animals as disposable commodities in video games could reinforce disrespect towards them, at least for many players.
Some games may help normalise the mistreatment and moral invisibility of animals.
Examining our prejudices
So if video games can, in fact, reinforce disrespect for animals, does this mean we should ban or boycott them? We don't advocate that. However, it would be useful for scientists to investigate whether video games do help or hinder social respect for animals.
Game designers may also consider depicting animals in ways that encourage (or at least don't inadvertently discourage) respecting them. Some already do this. In Red Dead Redemption II, killing your horse leads to the same loss of 'honour' points as killing an innocent person.
In the Red Dead game series, 'honour' is a system that measures the social acceptability of the main character in his world. Specific in-game actions are considered honourable or dishonourable. ekkun on Flickr, CC BY-NC
Finally, players themselves could choose to become more aware of how animals are portrayed in the various games they spend hours of their lives absorbed in.
Given the enormous popularity and ongoing transformation of video games, there is an opportunity here for all of us to reassess our often unjust treatment of animals.
Simon Coghlan, Senior Research Fellow in Digital Ethics, Centre for AI and Digital Ethics, School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne and Lucy Sparrow, PhD Candidate in Human-Computer Interaction, University of Melbourne
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Tempest Druid
Many of the druids who train under the aegis of the Storm Kindlers focus on different areas of nature than those classically paid homage to by their kind. These so-called tempest druids see the personification of nature in the fury of the storm alone and to some extent eschew the veneration of plant or animal life, and the nature of their powers shifts accordingly. They still understand the place of plants and animals in the natural order, however; they simply view such entities-and indeed, all forms of life-as subservient to the true power found in the storms that lash the world.
Alignment: The beliefs held by tempest druids are inherently more chaotic than those held by most druids, and as a result, tempest druids must be chaotic neutral.
This alters the druid's alignment.
Weapon and Armor Proficiency
A tempest druid is proficient with the trident, in addition to the druid's normal armor and weapon proficiencies.
This alters the druid's armor and weapon proficiencies.
Spontaneous Domain Casting
A tempest druid can channel stored spell energy into domain spells that he has not prepared ahead of time. He can -lose- a prepared spell to cast any domain spell of the same level or lower.
This replaces the druid's normal ability to spontaneously cast summon spells.
Nature Bond (Ex)
As a result of his beliefs, a tempest druid has little connection to the spirituality of animals or plants. He can't choose an animal companion, and must instead select a domain or subdomain from the following list when he gains the nature bond ability: Air, Aquatic, Cloud, Storm, Swamp, Weather, or Wind.
This alters nature bond.
Sodden Shore Sense (Ex)
A tempest druid gains a +4 bonus on Knowledge (nature) and Survival checks in coastal or marshy lands.
This ability replaces nature sense.
Electrical Resistance (Ex)
At 3rd level, a tempest druid gains electricity resistance 5. As a standard action, he can transfer this resistance to another creature for 1 hour, after which time it reverts to him.
This ability replaces trackless step.
Eyes of the Storm (Ex)
At 4th level, a tempest druid can see through 10 feet of magical fog, mist, rain, wind, or similar inclement weather conditions, ignoring any concealment such conditions might grant. This distance increases by 5 feet for every 4 levels beyond 4th.
This ability replaces resist nature's lure.
Bend Bolt (Su)
At 9th level, a tempest druid can redirect nearby electrical attacks. As an immediate action, the druid can shift the area or target of an electricity attack by 5 feet in any direction. If the electricity affects an area, the druid selects one square to be unaffected and an adjacent square to be affected. If the adjacent square is already in the area, this has no additional effect in that square. If the electricity affects a target, the druid selects an adjacent target. For example, if he were in the line of a wizard's lightning bolt, he could have the spell skip his square and instead affect an adjacent square, even if this meant the spell did not form a continuous line. If another druid attacked him with call lightning, he could shift the called bolt to an adjacent square, affecting a creature in that square (if any).
He can't redirect electricity damage conducted to him by physical contact with an object or creature (such as a shocking grasp or a shock weapon). He can use this ability a number of times per day equal to his Wisdom bonus.
This ability replaces venom immunity.
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The problem I am facing can be considered a variant of the standard set packing problem. However; instead of being given a list of sets, I am given a function $\nu : 2^N \rightarrow \{0,1\}$ and want to find a partitioning $P$ of $N$ that maximizes $g(P) = \sum_{S \in P} \nu(S)$. This can be shown to require somewhere between $O(2^{|N|})$ and $O(3^{|N|})$ operations.
The above problem can (almost) be reduced to the problem of finding a partition $P_3$ of $N$ into three sets that maximizes $g(P_3)$. However there are still $O(3^{|N|})$ partitionings of $N$ into three sets.
Lets say we construct such a 3 partition $(S_1,S_2,S_3)$ as follows: For each element $i \in N$, we add $i$ to the first set with probability $x_i$, to the second set with probability $y_i$ and to the third with probability $z_i$, where $x_i+y_i+z_i = 1$ and $0 \leq x_i, y_i, z_i$.
It can be shown that the expected value of such a probability distribution, $x,y,z$, over the 3 partitions of $N$ is $f(x,y,z) = E[g(P)] = \sum_{c \subset N} \nu(C)\left[\Pi_{i \in C} x_i \Pi_{i \not \in C} (y_i+z_i) + \Pi_{i \in C} y_i \Pi_{i \not \in C} (x_i+z_i) + \Pi_{i \in C} z_i \Pi_{i \not \in C} (x_i+y_i)\right]$.
I am considering the situation in which we relax the constraint $x_i+y_i+z_i = 1$ to $x_i+y_i+z_i \leq 1$ and then using techniques akin to interior point methods for standard convex programming.
This relaxation clearly does not change maximum of $f(x,y,z)$ and with it in place $f(x,y,z)$ can be shown to be convex over our feasible set $0 \leq x_i,y_i,z_i$ and $x_i +y_i+z_i \leq 1$ for $i \in N$.
Given the above, my question is: Is there any general theory for maximizing convex functions over convex compact sets? (Apart from that the maximum must appear on the boundary?)
First time poster, so my apologies if I have tagged this inappropriately. I know of much work in convex programming (minimizing convex functions over convex sets) but haven't been able to find similar work for maximization.
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If you just need a numerical answer and you use simulated annealing, it will converge quickly and almost surely by convexity. – Steve Huntsman Mar 5 '10 at 15:06
I am not very interested in numerical answers. I am more interested in general techniques for solving such problems (steepest ascent, etc...). As well as any computational complexity bounds. For example, what sufficient conditions are there (if there are any) for Netwon's method, for example, to be guaranteed to converge? – Travis Service Mar 5 '10 at 16:19
I'm assuming that you still want heuristics? by the remark in your original problem, this problem is NP-hard. So do you want exact algorithms that run as quickly as possible, or are you willing to settle for approximations? – Suresh Venkat Mar 8 '10 at 4:21
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For one, the KKT conditions still apply. But in general even simple problems can be tough. For instance, maximizing a p-norm over a fairly nice type of convex polytope ("parallelotope") is NP hard -- see Bodlaender et al, "Computational Complexity of Norm Maximization." The general wisdom is: minimizing convex functions is easy; maximizing convex functions (equivalently, minimizing concave functions) is hard, though there are obviously exceptions.
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If you're willing to tolerate an approximate answer, there are some options, but there's nothing direct. One idea would be to write the packing problem as an (exponential-sized) integer program and then relax it to the linear program. Then, you might (by studying the dual and using the ellipsoid algorithm) be able to get a close-enough solution to the linear program.
Following that, you could use any number of rounding techniques to solve the integer program. For example, look at Aravind Srinivasan's work: Improved Approximation Guarantees for Packing and Covering Integer Programs, SIAM Journal on Computing, Vol. 29, 648-670, 1999
But for this program to be successful, you still have to solve the LP, and given that you have both exponentially many variables and constraints (one var for each set), that's where things get complicated (as opposed to set packing, where there are $n$ sets by defn). There are cases when the ellipsoid method can be used to solve such problems, but it's case by case. At least in your case, you know that any feasible solution has at most $n$ nonzero set variables.
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About William Frend De Morgan
William Frend De Morgan (16 November 1839 – 15 January 1917) was an English potter and tile designer. A life-long friend of William Morris, he designed tiles, stained glass and furniture for Morris & Co. from 1863 to 1872. His tiles are often based on medieval designs or Persian patterns, and he experimented with innovative glazes and firing techniques. Galleons and fish were popular motifs, as were "fantastical" birds and other animals. Many of De Morgan's tile designs were planned to create intricate patterns when several tiles were laid together.
Born in Gower Street, London, the son of the distinguished mathematician Augustus De Morgan and his highly educated wife, De Morgan was always supported in his desire to become an artist. At the age of twenty he entered the Royal Academy schools, but he was swiftly disillusioned with the establishment; then he met Morris, and through him the Pre-Raphaelite circle. Soon De Morgan began experimenting with stained glass, ventured into pottery in 1863, and by 1872 had shifted his interest wholly to ceramics.
In 1872, De Morgan set up a pottery works in Chelsea where he stayed through 1881 — his most fruitful decade as an art potter. The arts and crafts ideology he was exposed to through his friendship with Morris and his own insistent curiosity, led De Morgan to begin to explore every technical aspect of his craft. He soon rejected the use of blank commercial tiles, preferring to make his own biscuit, which he admired for its irregularities and better resistance to moisture. His inventive streak led him to spend hours designing a new duplex bicycle gear and also lured him into complex studies of the chemistry of glazes, methods of firing, and pattern transfer.
William De Morgan (c. 1890), Sands Ends Pottery: a tile inspired by Middle East examples. De Morgan was particularly drawn to Eastern tiles. Around 1873–1874, he made a striking breakthrough by rediscovering the technique of lustre ware (characterized by a reflective, metallic surface) found in Hispano-Moresque pottery and Italian maiolica. Nor was his interest in the East limited to glazing techniques, but it permeated his notions of design and colour, as well. As early as 1875, he began to work in earnest with a "Persian" palette: dark blue, turquoise, manganese purple, green, Indian red, and lemon yellow, Study of the motifs of what he referred to as "Persian" ware (and what we know today as fifteenth-and-sixteenth century İznik ware), profoundly influenced his unmistakable style, in which fantastic creatures entwined with rhythmic geometric motifs float under luminous glazes.
William and his wife Evelyn The pottery works was always beset by financial problems, despite repeated cash injections from his wife, the pre-Raphaelite painter Evelyn Pickering de Morgan, and a partnership with the architect Halsey Ricardo. This partnership was associated with a move for the factory from Merton Abbey to Fulham in 1888. During the Fulham period De Morgan mastered many of the technical aspects of his work that had previously been elusive, including complex lustres and deep, intense underglaze painting that did not run during firing. However, this did not guarantee financial success, and in 1907 William De Morgan left the pottery, which continued under the Passenger brothers, the leading painters at the works. "All my life I have been trying to make beautiful things," he said at the time, "and now that I can make them nobody wants them." William De Morgan turned his hand to writing novels, and became better known than he ever had been for his pottery. His first novel, Joseph Vance, was published in 1906, and was an instant sensation in the United States as well as the United Kingdom. This was followed by An Affair of Dishonour, Alice-for-Short, and It Never Can Happen Again. The genre has been described as 'Victorian and suburban'.
William De Morgan died in London in 1917,, of trench fever, and was buried in Brookwood Cemetery. Recollections of William De Morgan praise him both for his personal warmth and the indomitable energy with which he pursued his kaleidoscopic career as designer, potter, inventor and novelist. Collections of De Morgan's work exist in many museums, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the William Morris Gallery in London, a substantial and representative collection in Birmingham, and a small but well-chosen collection along with much other pottery at Norwich. His dragon charger is in the Dunedin Public Art Gallery in New Zealand.


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Located along the Potomac River on the north side of Alexandria, Bellevue was home to Alexandria merchant William Hodgson and his wife, Portia Lee, beginning in 1801. The 17-acre property had a house, kitchen, dairy, stables and other outbuildings. They raised their own vegetables and, at times, also grew cherries and collected wild blackberries.
But it was under the ownership of John Slater that Bellevue became well known for its production of fruits, vegetables and flowers. Slater, an awarding-winning horticulturist who had worked with William Yeates of Yeates Gardens, acquired Bellevue around 1840 and successfully developed greenhouses to grow flowers and other plants there.
Among the vegetables Slater grew and sold were asparagus, lettuce, peas and tomatoes, and his vegetable production continued during the Civil War. He also cultivated Catawba grapevines, roses, dahlias and strawberries, which received rave reviews. In 1845, a local paper remarked that Slaters were the finest strawberries we have seen this year and show his great success as a horticulturist. They are not only very large, but finely flavored, and really almost as good to look at, as they are to be eaten.
Bellevue remained in the Slater family for multiple generations and a descendant described the house, seen to the left of the greenhouses in this photo, as having a wide main hallway and a porch with pillars.
The house, which faced the river, suffered significant damage in a storm in the early 1900s. The property was later developed, and today, the eastern side of Slaters Lane is surrounded by a power plant and high rises.
Out of the Attic is provided by the Office of Historic Alexandria.


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Our system requires either DVD or CD images in.iso format, or raw disk images – the equivalent of taking the stream of bytes off a physical disk and saving them in a file. A.vmdk file is a long way from raw format. However, qemu does have tools to convert these. On a Linux system, you can use:
$ qemu-img convert inputfilename.vmdk -O raw outputfilename.raw
to convert a.vmdk into a raw disk image that our system can use. Be aware that a raw image is probably larger than the.vmdk, which is a compressed format.
Mac users can also perform this conversion using Oracle's VirtualBox, by running the following commands in Terminal: cd /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/ sudo./VBoxManage clonehd drive.vmdk drive.raw –format RAW
Our recommendation is always to create a new system on Go2Cloud servers and install what you need, and copy over data. Windows guests in particular dislike having their virtual hardware swapped around, so there are few guarantees that you'll have a reliable system after conversion. That said, we recommend:
- Remove VMware Tools before you shut down for conversion. This is the most important step.
- Make sure when you run the converted file, you set the number of cores to at least two. This is in the advanced options for the server, and does seem to make Windows guests in particular more reliable.
- Some users have had more success with the older RealTek virtual network card than the Intel one. If you do have issues, it's certainly worth swapping. By default, your VM will use the Intel PRO/1000 emulated NIC, as it is the most modern and is widely supported in modern operating systems. However, wider support for the Realtek RTL8139 card means that we recommend using the Realtek emulation if you experience any problems with the Intel model.


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Multiplexed gallium–arsenide (GaAs)-based terahertz (THz) emitters fabricated with periodic double-metal structures are demonstrated and the effect of different metals on the THz output is investigated. THz emission originates from the lateral photo-Dember effect and from the different Schottky barrier heights of the chosen metal pair. The metal combinations used were Au–Al, Au–Pb and Cu–Cr. The emitters were characterised according to temperature and the highest peak-to-peak THz emission was achieved with the Cu–Cr metal pairing at 150 K.
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punctuation of the sentence
Have tried rewriting the sentence - still doesn't like the punctuation. Suggestions??????
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No longer is the United States a country with a limited numbered of cultures residing within, and the people exclusively speak English - quite the contrary.
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"Numbered" should be "number". "residing within" is awkward. "a limited number of cultures" can be made more concise. Although I understand your intent, "quite the contrary" negates the negative of the previous clause and effectively says that the United States is an exclusively English-speaking, mono-cultural country.
No longer does the United States have a homogeneous culture where the people exclusively speak English.
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Kelp Activity #2
1. Rainforests
Tell students that kelp forests have been called the rainforests of the marine world. Ask them to share what they know about rainforests. What makes them ecologically important?
Answer: Answers will vary depending upon students' experiences and reading. Rainforests are ecologically important because of the incredible biodiversity that they shelter, much of which is still not catalogued by the scientific community.
2. All About Rainforests
Share the following websites with students and give them time to read the information.
Temperate Rainforests
The Land That Time Forgot: Temperate Rainforests
Exploring the Environment: Temperate Rainforest
Invite students to imagine an underwater forest. How might it compare to a rainforest? How would it be different?
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Kelp Forest Student Resource
3. Student Resource: The Kelp Forest
Distribute the Student Resource: The Kelp Forest to student groups and assign the following topics to the groups:
 - Topic 1: Definition and Strata (Layers)
 - Topic 2: Animals
 - Topic 3: Producers - plants or protists
 - Topic 4: Abiotic Environment
 - Topic 5: Forest floor
 - Topic 6: Ecological Importance
 - Topic 7: Importance to human beings
4. Compare Forests
Have groups examine the student resource to determine the comparison between a terrestrial rainforest and a marine kelp forest.
5. Create Mural
When students have completed their research, give them a time and space to work together to create a mural comparing rain and kelp forests, showing the entire forest with all of its inhabitants.
Note: Instead of creating a mural, students could use their entire classroom, floor to ceiling, to create the kelp forest. Directions for creating the 3-dimensional kelp forest can be found at: Secrets of the Ocean Realm: In the School - Cathedrals of the Sea
6. Importance of 2 forests
Discuss: Are the kelp forests of estuarine communities, such as Glacier Bay, as important and interesting as the rainforests of South America? Explain.
7. Resources
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Student Resource: Otter History
8. Extension 1:
(Recommended for advanced students)
Distribute the Student Resource: Otter History to students. Have them read the information. Using the mural created in the activity invite them to use the mural to describe and explain the effect of the reintroduction of sea otters to Glacier Bay. Then hold an informal class discussion on the question: How has Glacier Bay changed since the otters have moved in?
9. Extension 2:
Encourage students to explore the effects of the removal of a principal predator from their community and repeat the mode of presentation. If the predator has been reintroduced, has this restored the dynamic equilibrium of the system?
10. Extension 3:
Tell students that crabs, like spiders, are arthropods. Have them research to build models to compare and contrast arthropods on land and under water. How do the life histories compare? Why do they think it is important for humans to understand this information?
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Most ABG machines are so sophisticated that they rarely make errors. Most studies seem to confirm this, noting that as many as 68 percent of ABG analytical errors are handling errors that occur between the time of the draw and insertion of the syringe in the ABG machine, according to John J. Ancy in his RTmagazine.com article, "Blood Gases and Preanalytical Error Prevention."
The following are possible preanalytical errors:
1. Exposure to air:
- Problem: Whole blood continues to metabolize after the draw, and for this reason it's important to have proper handling of the sample. There is a bubble in the syringe.
- Error: Trapped air in the syringe causes the PO2 to move toward 150, which is the PO2 of room air. So if the actual PO2 is less than 150, the PO2 reading may be inaccurately high as it moves up towards 150. If the actual PO2 is greater than 150, the PO2 reading may be inaccurately low as it moves down toward 150. CO2 become slightly lower with a slight rise in pH.
- Solution: Tap bubbles from syringe and aspirate air into a filter immediately after the draw.
2. Improper mixing of heparin:
- Problem: If dry heparin is not mixed with the blood clots may form and readings may not be accurate
- Error: Clotting cannot be reversed. Clots may cause to machine to break down.
- Solution: A small amount of dry heparin will prevent clots. Make sure to mix the syringe, roll it between your fingers, for about one minute, and then expelling a few drops into a gauze pad, both prior to inserting the syringe into machine. The flea in capillary blood gases should be used to mix the sample for five seconds.
3. Ice storage
- Problem: Past policies recommended storing the post draw ABG in a slurry of ice, although new recommendations frown upon this. It's difficult to get outdated hospital policies changed.
- Error: It reduces metabolism of the blood in the syringe, but the new plastic syringes are permeable to outside oxygen molecules. Cooling increases hemoglobin's affinity for oxygen, and this may attract oxygen molecules from ambient air to these hemoglobin molecules. This may artificially inflate PO2.
- Solution: Do not use an ice slurry. Instead, assure that the blood is inserted into the analyser within 30 minutes of the draw. New recommendations suggest only placing the ABG on ice if the time from draw to ABG analyzer is longer than 30 minutes. I wrote more about this here.
4. Art line draw:
- Problem: Heparin is needed to keep blood from clotting in the art line system
- Error: Heparin in the syringe may cause inaccurate results
- Solution: You must waste two times the dead space in the system. How do you know the dead space volume. Ancy explains: "If vascular line dead space is unknown, turn the stopcock to the sampling port and withdraw flush solution until blood appears in the hub of waster syringe. The volume in the syringe at that point will be equal to the dead space, double that volume for the waste draw."
- Problem: Changes in patient settings may affect ABG results: Peep changes, oxygen changes, suctioning, ventilator settings, etc.
- Error: ABG results may be artificially high or low
- Solution: Most recommendations suggest waiting 20-30 minutes after changing oxygen, ventilator settings, or PEEP/CPAP.
6. Temperature Correction:
- Problem: Some experts recommend if a patient has a fever the temperature on the analyzer should be adjusted to match the patient temperature. It's difficult to change past hospital policies, and it's difficult to get doctors to understand that methods of interpreting corrected and uncorrected temperature readings may be different. For this reason, most medical experts recommend NOT making any corrections in temperature. In other words, there are no reference ranges for other temperatures other than room temperature. I wrote about this here.
- Error: Temperature can inadvertently affect ABG results by speeding up metabolism.
- Solution: At present, the recommendation is not to make any temperature correction. Ideally, there should be reference ranges for ABGs at all temperatures. Temperatures should be corrected only at the recommendation of the physician, and any changes in temperature should be reported in the comments. Interpretation of the results is to be done by the physician who requests them.


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The tikz-external solution
You can use the tikz external library to cache tikz drawings:
Note that the \tikzexternalize command must be given in the main.tex file of the project, for tikz-externalization to work on Overleaf.
You will then need to create a tikz folder in your project. For this to work on Overleaf, the folder you create needs to have a (dummy) file in it—for example, you can add a blank foo.txt file in the tikz folder.
As the externalised tikz PDFs are considered as output files, you will not see them show up in the file list, but they are indeed present within the project. You can view the list of generated files to see them.
Some commands from other packages may cause errors in externalization mode; for example, \includepdf from the pdfpages. To get around this, you will need to "optimise" such commands away:
\tikzexternalize[prefix=tikz/,optimize command away=\includepdf]
There are too many of them!
However, if your drawings are too complex and there are too many of them, you will still get a timeout the first time the externalised files are generated. Building your project incrementally (by commenting different chunks of your project) may help, but bear in mind that all generated files are garbage collected at fixed intervals on the servers. Your project may then fail to compile when you next log in, and you'd have to re-generate them all incrementally again.
Generating the drawings locally
As a workaround, you can generate the files on a local machine first, by downloading your project and compiling it on your own local machine. After the compile completes, you should see the tikz folder containing.pdf,.md5,.dpth and.dpth files for each of your tikz drawings. If you then upload these files to your Overleaf project's tikz folder, your project will then use these files directly, and compilation should be fairly fast. These files won't be deleted by the server, as uploaded file are never garbage-collected.
A caveat: if you change your tikz code in future, you may have to delete the corresponding files in the tikz folder first, so that Overleaf can generate and use a new version. Alternatively, you can re-generate the files on your machine, and re-upload them to Overleaf. Remember that you need to replace all the.pdf,.md5,.dep and.dpth for that particular tikz drawing. On Overleaf v2, these files must be prefixed with output, instead of the filename of your.tex.
Generating the drawings in a separate project
Alternatively you can create a separate project that just contains the figure(s), you can include the output of the figure in your original project by clicking on the "Upload files" icon above the file list panel, and then choosing From another project. Select the project containing the tikz drawings, and then the select from output files option.
That way, you only have to compile the complicated figure once, and then you can include the resulting pdf as a normal figure with \includegraphics[page=1]{drawings.pdf} in your main project.
The separate project containing the tikz drawings can use the standalone or preview package, to produce output PDFs that are tightly cropped.
Here's some sample code using the standalone package:
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Kalepark (originally called Leonkastron; and later Güzelhisar, meaning "Beautiful Castle" in Turkish)[1] was built by the Genoese and Venetian merchants as a medieval fortress on the east side of Trabzon, Turkey. The fortress was built on a rocky outcrop strategically overlooking both harbors of the city: the summer harbor at a distance to the west, and the winter harbor just to the east of it.
The Genoese initially made arrangements with the local government to obtain the land to secure their trade, but the relationship between the rulers of the Empire of Trebizond and the Genoese inside the fortress over time became problematic.
In the 1740s, a palace was built for the Ottoman Governor Ahmet Paşa at the same location, which was destroyed by a fire in 1790.
The castle was frequently shelled during World War I by the Russian naval forces, due to its easily accessible location near the Black Sea coast.[2]
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Fetal goiter is a rare disorder, usually associated with maternal thyroid disease. Antenatal diagnosis of fetal goiter is crucial for the immediate postpartum management of these neonates. A case report is presented of an antenatally diagnosed fetal goiter induced by antithyroid medications. Color Doppler was used to demonstrate a high flow pattern that, unlike in the adult goiter, was associated with hypothyroidism in the neonate. A scan of fetal neck region is recommended in patients with current or previous history of thyroid disease, or if neck extension is noted on routine examination of fetal spine.
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- Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health
- Obstetrics and Gynecology


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Wood-mosaic has a long history in the Levant, and it is of particular significance to artisans in Damascus. It is often created using a number of different woods, such as walnut, olive, eucalyptus, cherry, lemon, and rose woods. Mother-of-pearl can also be used. The woods are cut into strips and fitted together to create a design, forming long trunks stored by artisans for future pieces. The artisan will select the trunk to use and slice it, and this slice will then be inlaid into wood to create a geometric design. Detailed and intricate wood-mosaic has now all but disappeared as artisans produce less complex designs. In Jordan, a small community of wood-mosaic artisans are practising and preserving the craft by passing their knowledge to a new generation of apprentices.


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While some may disagree with the act of burning the American flag, others may not see it the same way. In this country we pride ourselves on our freedoms. Although distasteful to some, the burning of a flag may have a meaning or symbolism to others they may not necessarily be traitorous to the country. To prohibit it would be to limit free speech.
Yes, amending the US Constitution to prohibit the desecration of the US flag would be limiting freedom of speech. Desecrating the flag is a way of expressing that one is upset or unhappy with the way the US government is operating, and thus it should be protected speech. One should always have the freedom to voice dissent.
There are more things to burn than the flag, why would you want to burn it anyways? Its really disrespectful. Imagine if you made the flag and fought for people to let them be free and those people just decided that they want to burn it. The flag is a symbol of freedom, so again, why would you burn it? Just remember, you wouldn't have most rights if the person who fought and gave there life to saving the future, you. And this is how you repay them? Thats a new level of low for America...


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An artificial intelligence model developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETH Zurich) can forecast the binding configuration of two proteins.
The Equidock machine learning model targets rigid body docking, which transpires when two proteins bind by rotating or translating in three-dimensional (3D) space.
The model converts the proteins' 3D structures into 3D graphs that can be processed by the neural network; nodes in the graph represent individual amino acids, and geometric knowledge helps Equidock understand how objects can change when rotated or translated.
The model identifies protein atoms most likely to interact and form chemical bonds, then integrates the proteins into a complex.
Equidock could predict the final protein complex in one to five seconds, compared to four software models that required 10 to 60 minutes or more.
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The 8086 Interrupt Mechanism: The 8259A PIC
The original 8088/8086 PCs used an Intel 8259A PIC (Programmable Interrupt Controller) to manage its eight hardware interrupts (also called IRQs, which is short for Interrupt Requests). This separate chip communicates with the processor and tells it when an interrupt needs to be serviced and which ISR (Interrupt Service Routine) to call. Therefore, any device that generates interrupts is connected to one the interrupt pins on the PIC, not to the CPU. The interrupt (or IRQ) pins on the PIC are numbered 0 to 7 where IRQ 0 is the highest priority interrupt and IRQ 7 is the lowest priority. The PIC connects to the processor's single maskable interrupt pin. If an interrupt occurs, the PIC lets the processor know by asserting this interrupt pin.
The Interrupt Flag
One of the flags in the 8086 processor is the interrupt flag, usually referred to as IF. This flag can be set or cleared with the sti and cli instructions respectively. When set (1), the processor monitors its interrupt pin. When it is cleared (0), the processor ignores the signals on its interrupt pin. Therefore, interrupts can be enabled or disabled by setting and resetting the IF flag. However, this essentially disables communication between the PIC and the processor, disabling all external interrupts. To disable individual interrupts, a mask value can be written to the PIC instead. However, this will not be necessary for this class.
The 8259A's Registers
The 8259A has three 8-bit registers that determine its behavior: the IMR (Interrupt Mask Register), the ISR (In-Service Register), and the IRR (Interrupt Request Register). The bits of these registers are numbered 0 through 7, where 0 is the least significant and 7 is the most significant bit. Each bit of each of these registers corresponds to the respective interrupt pin on the PIC. That is, bit 7 corresponds to IRQ 7, bit 6 corresponds to IRQ 6, and so on.
The IMR. This register allows the programmer to disable or "mask" individual interrupts so that the PIC doesn't interrupt the processor when the corresponding interrupt is signaled. For an interrupt to be disabled, its corresponding bit in the IMR must be 1. To be enabled, its bit must be 0. Interrupts can be enabled or disabled by the programmer by reading the IMR, setting or clearing the appropriate bits, then writing the new value back to the IMR.
The IRR. This register indicates when an interrupt has been signaled by a device. As soon as a device signals an interrupt, the corresponding bit in the IRR is set to a 1. This register can only be modified by the PIC and its contents are usually not important to the programmer. However, it can be used to tell which interrupts are waiting for service.
The ISR. This register indicates which interrupts are currently being serviced (i.e., which ISRs have begun execution and have not yet finished). A 1 bit indicates that the corresponding ISR is currently in-service. Several interrupts can be in-service at the same time because of interrupt nesting. The PIC uses this register to determine the highest priority of the interrupts currently being serviced. With this information, the PIC will only interrupt the processor if the highest priority set bit in the IRR has a higher priority than the highest priority set bit in the ISR. In other words, the PIC will never interrupt an in-service interrupt in order to service another interrupt of the same or lower priority. Before an ISR finishes executing, it must send to the PIC the end of interrupt command (EOI) so that the PIC knows that it can safely clear the highest priority bit in the ISR and signal any other pending interrupts. Be careful not to confuse "In-Service Register" with "Interrupt Service Routine", both of which use the "ISR" acronym.
Processor/PIC Actions
When an interrupt occurs, if the interrupt is enabled in the IMR (i.e., it's IMR bit is 0) and if the processor's IF flag is set (IF=1), then hardware does the following:
 1. The PIC informs the processor that an interrupt has occurred by asserting the processor's interrupt pin.
 2. The processor finishes the currently executing instruction.
 3. The processor sends an acknowledgement signal to the PIC.
 4. The PIC then passes to the processor the vector number for the interrupt that occurred.
 5. The processor uses this vector number to determine the address where the ISR (interrupt service routine) is stored. The vector number is used as an index into the interrupt vector table (or interrupt descriptor table), which starts at address 0:0. The corresponding entry in the interrupt vector table contains the address (segment and offset) for the ISR.
 6. The processor pushes the flags, CS, and IP onto the stack (in that order).
 7. The processor clears IF, disabling interrupts.
 8. The processor then sets CS and IP to the segment and offset of the ISR that was read from the vector table and begins execution.
The vector number that is passed to the CPU by the PIC corresponds to the interrupt that occurs. IRQ 0 corresponds to vector number 8, IRQ 1 corresponds to vector number 9, and so on.
ISR Actions
Once execution begins in the ISR, your code that makes up the ISR should do the following (in the order given):
 1. Save the context of whatever was running by pushing all registers onto the stack, except SP, SS, CS, IP, and the flags.
 2. Enable interrupts to allow higher priority IRQs to interrupt.
 3. Run the interrupt handler, which is usually a C function that does the work for this interrupt.
 4. Disable interrupts.
 5. Send the EOI command to the PIC, informing it that the handler is finished.
 6. Restore the context of what was running before the interrupt occurred by popping the registers saved in step 1 off the stack.
 7. Execute the iret instruction. This restores in one atomic operation the values for IP, CS, and the flags, which were automatically saved on the stack by the processor when the interrupt occurred. This effectively restores execution to the point where the interrupt occurred.
Important note: When using an RTOS (Real-Time Operating System) it is also usually necessary to call an OS function after step 1 to inform the OS that an ISR has begun execution. Then another OS function must be called after step 5 to inform the RTOS that the ISR is finished. In the RTOS you will build, these functions correspond to YKEnterISR() and YKExitISR(). This will allow the RTOS to know when execution is supposed to return to task code and allows the RTOS to return control to the highest prority ready task rather than the interrupted task.
Remember that the handling of the IRR and ISR registers in the PIC is done for you automatically as interrupts occur. Additionally, you do not need to read or set the IMR since the PIC will automatically ignore interrupts of the same or lower priority while an interrupt is being serviced. For the labs in this class, if you do not wish to use an interrupt, you should simply create an ISR that does not call an interrupt handler.
Do not push or pop the registers SP or SS when saving and restoring context! This is not necessary since SS and SP must already be correct before executing "pop ss" or "pop sp". Also, the "push sp" instruction behaves differently on some 8086 clones. In an RTOS it will be necessary to save and restore SS and SP as part of a task's context, but this should be handled in a different way (e.g., the mov instruction).
The EOI Command:
In order for interrupts to work correctly, the PIC must be told when the end of an interrupt has occurred. To tell the PIC that the end of an interrupt has occurred we send it what is called a nonspecific EOI command (or unspecific EOI). To do this we simply write the value 0x20 to port 0x20, which is one of the PIC's ports.
 mov al, 0x20 ; Load nonspecific EOI value (0x20) into register al
 out 0x20, al ; Write EOI to PIC (port 0x20)
This code should be executed by every ISR right before it restores the context and executes the iret instruction.


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Gypsies, Roma and Travellers
This photograph depicts a group of Gypsies taken in Ireland
In 2007 an innovative project to find out about the family histories and culture of local Gypsies, Roma and Travellers (GRT) began in Leicestershire. Working in partnership with museum colleagues in Leicester, the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland assisted by volunteers from the local GRT community, began to collect information and material. The funding was provided by Renaissance East Midlands and channelled through the Leicester City Council Museum Service. This project was part of a bigger enterprise "Moving Here", hosted by The National Archives, which gives access through the website _URL_ to migration stories from people of various backgrounds and origins who moved to Britain. The undertaking had its own Project Worker, Margot Farnham, who conducted all of the interviews with the representatives of the Gypsy Roma and Travellers Community and edited them digitally. After collating all the available resources, the Record Office put on an exhibition called 'Stopping Places' in July 2008.
Interior of a trailer. Please note it is decorated with the Crown Derby & silver bowl at the back
Gypsies and Travellers leave very little trace in archives because of their nomadic lifestyle and dependence on an oral tradition rather than a written one, and little is known about them. What can be found in the Record Office, as in many county archives, are passing references to Gypsies in parish registers or in documents such as parish Constables' accounts, where they had brushes with the law. The picture is very one-sided. As a result of this, one of the main aims of the project was to create a resource about them, working as equal partners with members of the community to tell their stories. Through cooperation with members of the Travelling community, the Record Office now has recorded interviews, written stories, photographs and other documentation, which the public and researchers can access. Another vital reason for working on this project was the request of the representatives of the Gypsy group to create records about their lives and customs so that their descendants may use them in future.
Wagon & harnessed horses - Ireland or Isle of Man
In this section you can discover the history and customs of the GRT community, read their family histories and view various photos and documents.
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Troubleshooting and schematic reading are incorporated into the course work to provide knowledge of various types of electronic circuits and systematic instruction in electronic circuit troubleshooting. Understanding the fundamentals of electronic circuits in order to properly install, test and troubleshoot electronic components is the basis of this course. One of the primary reasons why attend this course is to be able to demystify the sometimes abstract and obscure field of electronic circuits and a brief overview of theories followed by hand-on practical application.
What Is The Training Course Methodology?
This training methodology illustrates the concepts involved in the above areas through practical consideration of actual real-life problems, as well as explanation of concepts by experts in area using video projectors and computer aided case studies based on practical applications. Participants will solve their system problem, where the trainee's try to apply the skills learnt with guidance from our specialized experts. ACAD will provide participants a comprehensive assessment on the problems solved using the skills acquired in the training course.
Who Should Attend This Training Course?
This training course is designed for Engineering Professionals concerned with the specification, installation and maintenance of electronic systems. Also, Engineers and Technicians who are responsible for managing engineering operations and wish to know about the implications of modern circuit and system design for the decisions they make.
What Is The Training Course Objectives?
Get a broad understanding of the components used in modern electronic systems and instruments
Understand the necessary troubleshooting systems
Consider some basic circuits used in analogue and digital electronic systems
Review of trends in circuit design and their implications for the service engineer
A mixture of both practical and theoretical work; the practical work providing experience of real circuits
What Is The Training Course Curriculum?
Materials and Components
Resistance capacitance and inductance
Diodes, Zener diodes and transistors
Power semiconductor devices
Surface mount components
Component failure modes
Test Parameters and Equipment
Bandwidth and frequency
Use of oscilloscopes and probes
Logic analyzers and their application
Current, voltage and resistance measurements
Principles of Electronic Trouble-Shooting
Reliability and system availability
Test instrument selection
Fault localization and repair
Strategy for repair to enhance system availability


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The German painter Wolfgang Schulze, known as Wols, has gone down in art history as one of the forerunners of Art Informel and one of the leading exponents of Tachisme
The. son of the chancellor of Saxony in Dresden, as a child Wols was a gifted musician and violinist. In 1930 he developed an interest in photography, which he combined with drawing and painting after moving to Berlin in 1932. There he intended to enrol at the Bauhaus, but László Moholy-Nagy recommended he go to Paris, where he met Amédée Ozenfant, Fernand Léger, Hans Arp and César Domela. He also came into contact with Max Ernst, Joan Miró and other members of the Surrealist movement, whose influence is apparent in his drawings and photographs from this period. In 1937, the year he adopted the pseudonym Wols, he was appointed official photographer of the Pavillon de l'Elégance at the Paris international exhibition
Like. other Germans, when the Second World War broke out Wols was interned in a concentration camp and was later forced to flee from the advance of the German troops. He finally found refuge in Montélimar, where he remained until the war was over, drawing and painting watercolours that were first exhibited in 1945 at the Galerie Drouin in Paris. Compared to the scant repercussion of his first exhibition, the show staged at the same gallery in 1947 marked the start of his recognition as a painter. Around this time Wols met Jean Paul Sartre and existentialism left an imprint on his works
Towards. 1946Wols began to work with oils, encouraged by his dealer René Drouin. His gestural style greatly influenced artists like Georges Mathieu, and critics such as Michel Tapié coined the term "Art autre" (Other Art) to describe this post-war art form.


How Does an Old Well Pump Work?
Like older hand pumps, electric ones have to be primed to work.
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Old Well Pump Parts
Old well pumps are simple machines that use a system of valves and levers to move water up from a well underground. The pumps have a lever or a handle on the outside of the pump that a person pushes up and down. Inside the pump's cylinder is a piston, two valves, air and water. There is also a spout on the side of the pump.
Push the Lever Down
When the lever on an old well pump is depressed, it pushes the piston below the level of the spout, shutting off the flow of air--like when you cover the top of a drinking straw that is in a glass of water. The top valve is shut but the action of the lever opens the lower valve. This forces water up into the space vacated by the air.
Pull the Lever Up
When the lever is raised, the opposite valves open and shut. The lower valve closes, trapping the water in the cylinder and the top valve opens, admitting more air, raising the water level a bit more. Repeating the push and pull on the lever increases the volume of the water in the cylinder still more. Once it reaches the spout, water gushes out.
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|Single mothers Maia (right) and Irina (left) take a moment to rest with their babies. Both mothers now live at the UNICEF-supported Mother and Infant Shelter in Tbilisi, Georgia.|
By Maya Kurtsikidze
On 18 October, UNICEF's Innocenti Research Centre will launch 'Social Monitor 2006: Understanding Child Poverty in South-Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States', a report urging governments to tackle child poverty in order to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Here is the first in a series of related stories.
TBILISI, Georgia, 13 October 2006 – Niko, 4, is proud of his twin brothers, David and Georgi – siblings he almost never had the chance to know. His mother, Maia, was thinking of abandoning her boys because she could not care for them. Fortunately, Maia found the support she needed at the Mother and Infant Shelter in Tbilisi.
The shelter, which is funded by UNICEF in partnership with the non-governmental organization World Vision, was opened at the Tbilisi Infants Home in April 2003. Since then, social workers have identified 208 mothers at risk of losing their children.
"It provides an alternative to child abandonment," says UNICEF Representative in Georgia Giovanna Barberis. "Mothers are staying with their babies. We help them to find some way of living together."
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|Children who have been abandoned largely due to poverty find a safe haven at Tbilisi's Mother and Infant Shelter.|
Partnership for families
For many of the over 5,400 children living in Georgia's residential institutions, being orphaned may have been preventable. Most of them still have living parents. But with approximately 50 per cent of families in this post-Soviet country living below the poverty line, it is understandable that parents often see institutionalization as the only solution.
In 2002, UNICEF Georgia began partnering with the Ministries of Health and Education, as well as with World Vision and the UK-based organization Every Child, to provide much-needed support to single mothers.
As part of this collaboration, the Mother and Infant Shelter helps women cope with the pressures that could lead them to abandon their infants. In South-Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, an estimated 18 million children under the age of 15 live in extreme poverty. Many mothers cannot afford to feed, clothe or educate their children.
In addition to financial hardships, Georgia is a country of strict traditions where families may not accept children born out of wedlock. These factors may help explain the high rates of child abandonment.
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|With support from the shelter, Irina and other mothers can learn vocational skills such as tailoring.|
At the shelter, women are provided with the tools they need to become self-sufficient. They receive employment assistance and take professional training courses in areas such as office management, computer repair and cosmetology. So far, 35 women have become empowered enough to start their own small businesses, ranging from dairy product production to auto repair.
Irina is a single mother who came to the shelter directly from the maternity hospital. As part of the programme, she was offered the opportunity to study as a seamstress at a local design studio.
"I am more confident in myself now, " Irina says. "I want to learn more. Probably, one day, I will be able to open my own shop."
The Mother and Infant Shelter offers women the chance to gain strength from each other while they receive valuable counselling and job training. When they are finally able to support themselves, they will move into their own homes – and their children will be with them.
Social Monitor 2006
18 million children in poverty [with video]
Economic hardship affects children in Moldova [with video]
Keeping families together in Georgia [with video]
BBC News: Plea for action on child poverty
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Scientists at King's College London, funded by the charity Arthritis Research UK, have found a link between changes in marks on the outside of DNA (epigenetics) and chronic widespread joint pain, one of the main symptoms of fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia is a common long-term chronic condition that causes fatigue and widespread pain in muscles and bones.
Despite its prevalence, the causes of fibromyalgia are poorly understood and there are limited treatments available. There are no diagnostic tests and it cannot be detected using conventional tests such as scans or x-rays.
The study, published in the journal PLOS ONE, will help scientists towards the development of a blood test to diagnose fibromyalgia, which affects as many as one in every 25 people.
Dr Frances Williams, one of the authors of the study from the Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology said: 'Fibromyalgia is influenced by genetic factors but there are many complicated steps between gene and disease. Identifying measurable epigenetic links is a major step forward. In addition, the results will inform future research in fibromyalgia as well as other chronic pain syndromes, such as irritable bowel syndrome.'
Stephen Simpson, director of research and programmes at Arthritis Research UK also commented on the research: 'There are millions of people in the UK who are living with the pain of fibromyalgia. This really exciting research is an important step forward in our understanding how epigenetic differences between individuals can influence our likelihood of developing fibromyalgia and chronic widespread musculoskeletal pain.'
'For too long people with fibromyalgia have struggled to get a diagnosis for their painful symptoms. This research will help pave the way for better understanding, management and treatment of joint pain.'
The researchers used twins to investigate whether the patterns of marks on DNA (DNA methylation) can affect how active the gene is in producing particular proteins and if there is a difference in people with and without chronic widespread musculoskeletal pain. The scientists identified three genes that had different amounts of DNA methylation in people with and without chronic widespread pain.
Early indications suggest that people may have different patterns of methylation on their DNA, and that this might be altering the activity of some genes and causing their condition in the first place.


Specify ciphers allowed for protocol version 2
Use this group policy to specify the ciphers allowed for SSH protocol version 2. If you enable this policy, you can add or delete ciphers to increase the speed of SSO.
Multiple ciphers must be separated by commas. If you want to add a cipher to the list, use the '+' character at the beginning of the name. If you enter the name only, you will replace the existing ciphers with the new cipher.
The order of the cipher list will determine the order that sshd uses the ciphers. For example, if you want to increase the speed of SSO, you can place the cipher, aes128-ctr, at the beginning of the list.
When this policy is disabled, the default cipher list, which is the most secure grouping, is used, but may cause delays in SSO.
To enable this group policy, you must be running Centrify OpenSSH 5.3.0 or later.
This group policy modifies the Ciphers setting in the following file: /etc/centrifydc/ssh/sshd_config


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Physical Review E
American Physical Society
Inhomogeneous magnetic fields exert a body force on electrically nonconducting, diamagnetic fluids. This force can be used to compensate for gravity and to control convection. The field effect on convection is represented by a dimensionless vector parameter Rm=(μ0αχ0d3ΔT/ρ0νDT)(H⋅∇H)r=0ext, which measures the relative strength of the induced magnetic buoyancy force due to the applied field gradient. The vertical component of this parameter competes with the gravitational buoyancy effect and a critical relationship between this component and the Rayleigh number is identified for the onset of convection. Magnetically driven convection should be observable even in pure water using current technology.
"Magnetic control of convection in nonconducting diamagnetic fluids," J. Huang, D. D. Gray, and B. F. Edwards, Phys. Rev. E 58, 5164 (1998).


text: Teaching Demonstration Rating Form Facebook Email Share School-based M.Ed. Program Teaching Demonstration Rating Form ApplicantEvaluatorSiteIndicatorsPlease indicate the rating for each indicator. The first choice = 3 pts. - High Quality; the second choice = 2 pts. - Acceptable; the third choice = 1 pt - Unacceptable.Pacing IndicatorsDemonstration conducted within time frameDemonstration exceeds time frameDemonstration is too short too longObjectives IndicatorsStatement of objectives is clear and specific.Objectives are implied, but may or may not be apparent to learnersNo perceivable objectives existContentContent is appropriate for the selected topic and challengingContent is appropriate for the selected topic but lacks challenge.Content is not appropriate for the selected topicEngagementThe demo engages learners by use of activities that actively draw them into the material.The demo is engaging, but could be more interactive or otherwise engaging.The demo does not engage learners.Use of Visuals, Media, Technology (V/M/T)Appropriate, appealing visuals, media, and/or technology are incorporated as learning supports.Demo includes some use of visuals, media, and/or technology.Demo avoids visuals, media, and/or technology or includes them as extras, disconnected from topic.PlanPlan is thoughtful and deliberate; includes assessment.Plan follows a solid format; includes some assessment.Plan is incomplete or illogical; no assessment.


Resource 1: Exploring sound
Teacher resource for planning or adapting to use with pupils
Activity A: Musical questions about sound
Begin with investigating the science of sound with pupils. Explore these questions with your pupils by making different sounds, in different ways, using the objects around you as sound makers: a desk, the floor, a pen, a bottle, chalkboard or window. Remember, talking about sound must always relate to our aural and physical experiences of sound.
 - What is sound?
 - What has to happen for us to hear a sound?
 - How does sound travel to us?
 - What makes something a musical instrument?
 - Can we use our own body as a musical instrument?
 - Why do you think people use instruments to make music? What purpose does it serve?
 - Which musical instruments do you know about? Can you classify them into groups?
 - What criteria did you use to classify your instruments?
Activity B: The science connection – how sound travels
Have you ever seen a 'Mexican wave' at a big sports event? Sound travels in a similar way to the movement of a Mexican wave: the air molecules, like people in the crowd, move backwards and forwards, combining to make a wave. The individual molecules do not actually travel from one place to another: molecules vibrate, each about its own position, when something makes the molecules next to them move. These vibrating molecules then attract other molecules, so that they move out of their positions.
Sound can travel through the air or through anything made up of molecules, like water, steel or wood. Sound travels at different speeds depending on the substance it is moving through.
Activity C: Making a sound wave
Make a line of ten pupils next to each other, standing shoulder to shoulder. At one end, ask one pupil to play a loud instrument like a gong or cymbal and another to hold up a big sign saying SOUND. At the other end, ask a pupil to hold up a big picture of an EAR and a sign saying HEAR. The other pupils in the line have signs saying AIR.
The pupil with the gong or cymbal strikes it. The first pupil wiggles back and forth using their body (with the feet planted on the ground); then the next pupil wiggles when they feel the first pupil (not before!), and so on down the line. The last pupil holds up the HEAR sign as they feel the wiggle of the pupil next to them.
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3. Organising a musical performance
Resource 2: Making instruments


The Honourable Sir William P. Howland
2nd Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
July 14, 1868 to November 12, 1873
Born in 1811 in Pawling, New York, William Howland was educated at Kinderhook Academy. In 1830, he settled in Cooksville, Upper Canada, and became a naturalized British subject in 1841. He operated Lambton Mills and later a grocery business in Toronto. In 1857, Mr. Howland became a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, and later served in the cabinet as Minister of Finance, Receiver General, and Postmaster General. After Confederation, he became an MP in 1867, and was Minister of Inland Revenue from 1867 to 1868. Mr. Howland was appointed Ontario's second Lieutenant Governor in 1868 and served until 1873. He was knighted in 1879, and died in Toronto in 1907.


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Journaling is a powerful tool to connect within and unleash your wild imagination. Here are some journaling questions to set your spirit free:
1. If you could do anything you wanted and you had unlimited time, energy and money, what would you do?
2. If you could travel through time, past, present and future where would you go? What would you do?
Let your imagination run wild and free.


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Elaine asked, "If applications are isolated, how can separate applications requiring integration work together? Do they have to be packaged as part of the same VSP?"
Hi Elaine. Active Virtual Software Packages are visible system-wide. So virtualized applications interact normally with each other and with processes running from the base. "Isolation" refers to when there are duplications on the system -- e.g., two different versions of the same DLL at the same path, in two different VSPs. SVS ensures that each application sees only the version it needs to run correctly.


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Spaceship Circles DC Region Tuesday Morning
Did you see the shuttle? Add your photos to Patch!
Update (Tuesday, 12:45 p.m.): Did you get a photo of the shuttle? Add your photos to Patch by clicking on a green "Upload Photos and Videos" button (to the left of this text and at the top of this post).
Original post (Monday, 4:45 p.m.): Have you ever seen a spaceship fly through the sky?
It's not an entirely hypothetical question.
On Tuesday morning, April 17, the space shuttle Discovery is slated to circle the Washington, DC, region as it makes its final trip—riding piggyback on a 747 airplane—from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the shuttle's "retirement home," the Smithsonian Institution's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, according to The Washington Post.
Before it makes its final landing, the space shuttle, which has made 39 trips into space since 1984 and is NASA's oldest surviving shuttle, will make "a spectacular flyover visible to much of the [DC] region," The Post reported.
The shuttle-and-747 combo will leave Florida at 7 a.m., weather permitting, arrive in the DC area at around 10 a.m., and circle the nation's capital in a 40-minute aerial tour.
NASA and National Air and Space Museum officials are not releasing the exact flight plan, due to security concerns, but the shuttle will likely fly over the Maryland side of the Capital Beltway, The Post reported.
The Air and Space Museum encourages people to tweet photos of the shuttle as it flies overhead to _TAG_.
The shuttle has a long and important history.
"Discovery's list of achievements include delivering the Hubble Space Telescope to orbit, carrying the first Russian cosmonaut to launch on a U.S. spaceship, performing the first rendezvous with the Russian space station Mir with the first female shuttle pilot in the cockpit, returning Mercury astronaut John Glenn to orbit, and bringing shuttle flights back to life after the Challenger and Columbia accidents," the Associated Press reported.


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Before developing an application it needs to be somehow designed - on a piece of paper, using UML or just by creating a prototype. Another way to design the application logic is using pseudo-code.
What is pseudo-code and how to use it?
Pseudo-code is a non-formal language, a way to create a logical structure, describing the actions, which will be executed by the application. Using pseudo-code, the developer describes the application logic using his native language, without applying the structural rules of a specific programming language. The big plus of the pseudo-code is that the application logic can be easily understood by any developer in the development team (in this case, it doesnít depend, which programming language knows each team member). Also, when the application algorithm is described in pseudo-code, it is very easy to transform the pseudo-code into real code (using any programming language). For a better understanding of what is pseudo-code, letís take a look at an example. Suppose that you have to develop an application, that gets the number of students in a high school and then it gets each studentís final grade (100, 90, 80, 60 and 50) and processes the average grade for the whole school. Instead of creating the program at a computer, letís describe the application logic using pseudo-code. First, I will describe the general purpose of the application:
Process the average grade for the whole school
Now, I need to specify the fundamental actions that are needed to process the final result:
Request the number of students; Get the grade for each student; Process the average grade for the whole school;
This is a generalized description, but it describes the basic application logic. Now, I have to specify some more details (how the above actions are performed):
Application start; Declare an integer variable numberOfStudents; Declare an integer variable counter; Declare an integer variable sum; Declare a decimal variable average; Set the numberOfStudents value to 0; Set the counter value to 0; Set the sum value to 0; Request the number of students (numberOfStudents); If the entered number of students is 0 then Exit the application Else While the counter is less or equal to the number of students Get the student grade Add the student grade to the sum variable Increment the counter by 1. Get the next student information When the student information is entered, set the average variable to the result of the division (sum divided by the number of students). Show the result. Application end.
As you see, I used a human language to describe the application logic. Also, to better see the code fragments, I used a specific indentation style, so I can easily see which part of the algorithm is executing a specific action.
Some developers may think that using pseudo-code to design the application instead of creating and testing the application on the computer is a waste of time. This is true for small modules, that were created many times and which require just some small modifications to accomplish a specific task, but when it comes to large projects, itís pretty easy to be lost in the hundreds or even thousands of code lines. In this case, the pseudo-code clearly describes the application algorithms, so these can be easily implemented and it gives the developer an opportunity to think on the algorithm before implementing it.


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- The Memory Overview view
- The Resource Utilization view
To be able to use these tools the system administrator needs the authorization role: sap.hana.admin.roles::Monitoring
How to start the analysis tools
Select the SAP HANA system that you want to analyze and right click to open the context menu. The Memory Overview view
In the Memory Overview view you can see details on the used Physical Memory, Used SAP HANA Memory, memory used by tables ans the memory used by Database Management. The Resource Utilization view
In the Resource Utilization view you can see details on used CPU, Memory and Data. These measurements can be combined in a graph to see the usage over a selected time period.


The Burning Planet, the Internet and Buddhism
X-Ray Of Buddha Statue From China Temple Reveals Bones Of 1000-YO Mummified Monk
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The Burning Planet, the Internet and Buddhism
The Buddhist News Sept 02,2019
The World is literally on fire. The Amazon which we depend on for clean air, is a blaze with 1000's of hectares of rainforests being engulfed daily. Plastics are suffocating our oceans and wild life. The world is experiencing records temperatures and the polar ice caps are melting at an alarming pace.
Scientists finally agree that climate change is real and that man is the major contributing factor. So how did we get here and how do we solve the climate crisis?
According to Buddhist meditation Master Acharavadee Wongsakon we have not been good stewards of the planet. We as a society have allowed corporate greed and our own unbridled consumption to bring our planet to the brink of disaster.
Acharavadee Wongsakon the founder of Knowing Buddha Organization and KBO Earth, believes the solution can be found within Buddhist values. Master Acharavadee authored The Unspoken Truth of Climate Change Crisis wherein she explains Buddhist values and the importance of morality in society in order to conquer even the most difficult challenges like climate crisis.
Acharavadee also reveals how our use of the Internet is speeding up climate change and heating up the planet faster than anyone ever anticipated. The Mediation Master talks about the fine energy waves that are heating up the planet. "These energy waves act like a microwave oven, and the more we use the Internet, the more we are cooking ourselves and the planet" she explains..
Acharavadee recently spoke at the Global Warming Symposium in Bangkok Thailand warning about "the new internet" 5G and Elon Musk's 20,000 satellites to orbit around the planet, which will make life on earth unbearable due to extreme heat.
Master Acharavadee Wongsakon Climate Crisis Symposium Thailand
In her book Acharavadee provides a list of things we can do combat Climate Change:
 1. Reduce your internet usage
 2. Regularly delete all useless data on cloud servers and communication devices (including all those selfies)
 3.. Slow down Internet related innovations and AI (Artificial Intelligence)
 4. Go back to living a more nature balanced life
 5. Plant trees and use less plastics.
 6. Chant, practice mediation and share loving kindness and compassion
According to Acharavadee's book, The Climate Crisis can be averted by humanity awakening and raising the level of morality and ethical conduct throughout society and seeking to once again live in harmony with nature and set aside greed and consumerism.
"The key to changing the world is spreading Compassion" says Acharavadee Wongsakon.
The Buddhist News


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Declaration of Disclosure Form is part of the Divorce Disclosure Requirements
In a dissolution, legal separation, or nullity action, Both a preliminary and a final declaration of disclosure must be served on the other party with certain exceptions. (see Form FL-140)
Neither disclosure is filed with the court. Instead, a declaration stating that service of disclosure documents was completed or waived must be filed with the court (see form FL-141).
The petitioner must serve a preliminary declaration of disclosure at the same time as the Petition or within 60 days of filing the Petition. The respondent must serve a preliminary declaration of disclosure at the same time as the Response or within 60 days of filing the Response. The time periods may be extended by written agreement of the parties or by court order (see form FL-144).
The Parties must disclose:
1.ALL ASSETS AND DEBTS (see form FL-142)
2.ALL INCOME AND EXPENSES (see form FL-150)
- All tax returns filed by the party in the two years before the date that the party served the disclosure documents.
- A statement of all material facts and information regarding valuation of all assets that are community property or in which the community has an interest (not a form). To be provided in a Narrative format.
5.A statement of all material facts and information regarding obligations for which the community is liable (not a form). – To be provided in a Narrative format.
- An accurate and complete written disclosure of any investment opportunity, business opportunity or other income producing opportunity presented since the date of separation that results from any investment, significant business, or other incomeproducing opportunity from the date of marriage to the date of separation (not a form). To be provided in a Narrative format.
The Declaration of Disclosure must be signed under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing is true and correct.
An inaccurate or false Declaration of Disclosure is grounds to set aside a Marital Settlement Agreement.
It is advised to obtain legal help to complete your Declaration of Disclosure.