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Sun canopies are very strong and durable as they have great longevity which ensures their installation in dry and hot climates. Asides these climates, they also remain installed in cold and damp environments. SUN CANOPY
A sun canopy ensures that one enjoys optimum ventilation while he is relaxing beneath it. Sun canopies are made with high quality fabric. These fabrics are very authentic and as a result of this, they are able to last for a very long period of time and also able to withstand harsh weather conditions. The fabrics makes sure cool and soothing air is able to pass through the shade and hence offer a comfortable, airy and optimum ventilated space.
A sun canopy helps to lower the temperature of the air and hence reduces the cooling cost of one's properties and consumption of energy. Sun canopies are quite beautiful and lovely as they are made in various wonderful designs and styles. Having a sun canopy would definitely beautify that surrounding.
If it is a home, office, church or any place, sun canopy would perform its primary function and also beautify that place. Family and friends could get to relax beneath and a sun canopy, gist, eat, drink and just have a nice time together.
Sun canopies come in various colors; hence people could purchase a sun canopy in terms of the color of their desire and the one that would match with décor of where the sun canopy would be placed. The basic function of the sun canopy is just to serve as a shade that would shade people from the sun while they are sitting outside.
There are some times when people would just want to enjoy the cool breeze and ventilation. During these moments, the scorching sun could serve as a deterrent to them having a comfortable time. This is why a sun canopy is very essential and important.
CONCLUSION: A sun canopy can be used anywhere as long as it is outside a building. Apart from people staying beneath a sun canopy, various other things like cars, plants and such other things that can be adversely affected by the high rate of sunlight could be kept beneath a sun canopy.


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A Case Study in the Superiority of the Purposive Approach to Statutory Interpretation: Bruesewitz v. Wyeth
Donald G. Gifford
Edward M. Robertson Research Professor of Law
University of Maryland Carey School of Law
William L. Reynolds
Jacob A. France Professor of Judicial Process
University of Maryland Carey School of Law
Andrew M. Murad
Arent Fox LLP
This Article uses the Supreme Court's 2011 decision in Bruesewitz v. Wyeth to examine the textualist or "plain meaning" approach to statutory interpretation. For more than a quarter-century, Justice Scalia has successfully promoted textualism, usually associated with conservatism, among his colleagues. In Bruesewitz, Scalia, writing for the majority, and his liberal colleague Justice Sotomayer, in dissent, both employed textualism to determine if the plaintiffs, whose child was allegedly harmed by a vaccine, could pursue common law tort claims or whether their remedies were limited to those available under the no-fault compensation system established by the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act. Despite these Justices' common approach to statutory interpretation, they reached diametrically opposite conclusions in opinions that dissected the statutory language and quarreled over the meaning of "even though" and "if" clauses. In contrast, Justice Breyer employed a purposive or "purposes and objectives" approach to statutory interpretation. Rather than obsessing over the meaning of each and every phrase, Breyer looked at Congress's goals in passing the Act. He recognized that Scalia's conclusion was correct, not because of the supposedly "plain" meaning of specific language, but because this interpretation was the only one that enabled the alternative compensation system to function as Congress envisioned. Other scholars have analyzed Bruesewitz as a preemption case, but despite statutory interpretation's inherently decisive role in express preemption cases, this is the first Article to highlight Bruesewitz as an illustration of the emptiness of textualism.
Richard A. Booth
Martin G. McGuinn Chair in Business Law & Professor of Law
Villanova University School of Law
Most legal scholars agree that securities fraud class actions do little to compensate investors. Most investors are well diversified and, thus, are just as likely to sell an overpriced stock as to buy one. Moreover, since the defendant company ultimately pays in a successful class action, holders effectively pay buyers. Although this circularity is widely recognized, few have noted that because of the anticipated payout, the prospect of a class action causes stock price to decline by more than it otherwise would, thus generating additional (feedback) loss for both buyers and holders. In this Article, I describe a method by which one can measure the net effect of class actions on fund investors who are both buyers and holders of a fraud-affected stock. Since an index fund almost always holds more shares than it buys during the fraud period, an index fund almost always loses more than it gains. Thus, class actions systematically penalize rational index fund investors for the benefit of irrational and undiversified stock-picking investors. Accordingly, index funds should oppose class actions as contrary to the best interest of investors. To be sure, one possible problem is that in the absence of the deterrent effect of class actions, there might be more securities fraud. The answer is that whenever there is a meritorious class claim, the corporation itself will also have a claim–against the individual wrongdoers–for any increase in cost of capital resulting from reputational harm and any direct expenses relating to enforcement proceedings. In a class action, these elements of loss are imbedded in the price decrease that occurs when the fraud is discovered. But these losses are in fact suffered by the corporation and should be the subject of a derivative action for the benefit of the corporation–and thus all of the stockholders–not a class action for the benefit only of those who bought during the fraud period. Although the corporation claim may be smaller than the class claim in the aggregate, it is likely to be quite substantial from the point of view of individual wrongdoers and, thus, to constitute a significant deterrent to fraud. Happily, the rules of civil procedure provide a clear fix for the problem. First, the law is clear that a claim that can be handled as a derivative claim must be handled as a derivative claim and that a derivative claim must be resolved first before any class claim may be addressed. Second, no class action may proceed unless the court certifies it as a proper class action. And no action may be so certified if there is any other equally good way to litigate the issues (as by means of a derivative action). But someone has to make the argument. It is puzzling that no one has done so, especially because derivative actions eliminate feedback losses and serve to restore stock price. There are several possible explanations. One is that insurance does not cover derivative claims as it does class claims. Another is that attorney fees are likely to be higher in class actions than in derivative actions. These factors may incline plaintiffs' lawyers to favor class actions even though investors would be better served by derivative actions. On the other hand, until now, no one has quantified the costs and benefits of class actions for real world investors. As shown here, index funds almost always lose more than they gain and, thus, should oppose class actions in favor of derivative actions. Indeed, index funds owe a duty to their investors to do so.
Michael Z. Green
Professor of Law
Texas Wesleyan University School of Law
Recent attorney-client privilege cases offer a modern understanding of reasonable expectations of employee privacy in the digital age. Employees have increasingly made electronic mail communications to their attorneys via employer-provided computers or other digital devices with an expectation of privacy and confidentiality. Historically, courts have summarily dispensed with these matters by finding that an employer's policy establishing clear ownership of any communications made through employer-provided devices eliminates any employee expectation of privacy in the communications and waives any viable privacy challenges to employer review of those communications. Nevertheless, within the last couple of years, several cases involving employee assertions of attorney-client privilege protection in emails sent on employer-provided devices suggest new thoughts about reasonable workplace privacy expectations.
As employees must communicate through employer-provided digital devices day and night, these attorney-client privilege cases help expose the fallacy of assuming employees cannot reasonably expect that emails will remain private if employer policies mandate that the communications are not private. These new cases and related ethics opinions about privileged email offer a modern lens through which one may now view employee privacy expectations under a new paradigm that replaces the façade of assuming employees have no expectation of privacy due to employer policies.
Digital age expectations regarding employee use of smart cellular phones, portable laptops, and other employer-provided devices to make communications beyond standard work hours leave little expectation or opportunity for employees to reasonably communicate privately and confidentially by any other means than through these employer-provided devices. As a result, this Article asserts that employer efforts to mine their devices for employee emails after disputes ensue comprises a form of electronic dumpster diving that should not be tolerated by courts, legislatures, or attorney ethics committees.
What a Relief? The Availability of Habeas Relief Under the Savings Clause of Section 2255 of the AEDPA.
Scott R. Grubman
Assistant United States Attorney
In Gilbert v. United States, a majority of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that the savings clause contained in Section 2255 of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act does not authorize a federal prisoner to bring in a habeas petition a claim, which would otherwise be barred by the AEDPA's ban on second or successive motions, that the sentencing guidelines were misapplied in a way that resulted in a longer sentence not exceeding the statutory maximum. The majority focused on finality interests, and worried that allowing a prisoner to avoid the AEDPA's ban on second or successive motions would lead to abuse and delay. Some, including the Gilbert dissenters, have expressed concerns that denying a prisoner relief where a retroactively applicable subsequent change in the law renders that prisoner's sentence incorrect or invalid could result in constitutional violations. This Article attempts to get past the rhetoric from both sides of the debate and proposes a middle ground approach that would pacify both the administrative and constitutional concerns that have been raised.
Wayne M. Gazur
Professor of Law
University of Colorado Law School
With little fanfare, the 2008 amendments to the Uniform Probate Code (UPC) adopted the reformation of wills, as well as other kindred donative instruments, on account of mistake. This Essay focuses on the reformation of wills and the impact that this little-heralded provision may carry.
While the introduction of reformation to the UPC is largely an improvement, it raises a number of concerns. This Essay proposes that reformation of wills is not only doctrinally distinct from the interpretation of simply ambiguous wills, but also is a more troubling measure that has the potential to create more, possibly unfounded, will contests. Further, while the closely related doctrine governing the interpretation of ambiguous wills needs to be clarified and made uniform by the UPC, the new reformation measure fails to accomplish that.
The Essay first briefly discusses the plain meaning rule and its role in addressing ambiguities in instruments and their reformation. It then discusses the origins and operation of the new UPC reformation rule, weighs the impact of that change in the overall context of the UPC, and proposes a clarification to address the longstanding, but unevenly applied, doctrine of ambiguity. The Essay further proposes clear limits on the role of juries in reformation proceedings. It concludes by recommending safeguards that might be desirable for some testators to avoid unforeseen complications from reformation.
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ORES 530: Foundations of Outcome Research I (Online course)
This course will assist students in understanding outcomes research and provide a background in the basic tools used in outcomes studies. The course will enable students to
1) Conceptually define the meaning and purpose of outcomes research
Understand the role of epidemiology, biostatistics, health economics, and database and information technology in conducting outcomes research
3) Evaluate the usefulness and utility of outcomes measures
4) Recognize the different types of measures used in outcomes research, including clinical, health status, quality-of-life, health care utilization, and patient satisfaction
5) Obtain a basic appreciation of statistical analyses appropriate for outcomes research
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GJ set record low high temperature Sunday | GJSentinel.com
A cool, rainy Sunday in Grand Junction led to the lowest high temperature on record for the date, according to the National Weather Service.Retreating Alaskan Glacier Reveals Remains Of Medieval Forest | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
Sunday's high topped out at just 70 degrees, breaking the record of 73 for the lowest high on Aug. 25. The previous record was set in 1921, the Weather Service reported.
it is clear that the Exit Glacier began retreating at the end of the LIA, retreated at a much faster pace between 1889 and 1917 than anything seen since, and stopped retreating 40 years ago.THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds CO2-sequestering ocean plants thrive better with warmer temperatures & ocean 'acidification'
"At least in this experiment with one coccolithophore strain, when we combined higher levels of CO2 with higher temperatures, they actually did better in terms of calcification."THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds a decrease of wind speeds from _PHONE_
A paper published today in the International Journal of Climatology examines wind speeds over Turkey and finds a significant decrease over the period of study from 1975 to 2006.


Rossi-Forel Scale 1873 (Short Version)
I. Microseismic shock. Recorded by a single seismograph or by seismographs of the same model, but not by several seismographs of different kinds: the shock felt by an experienced observer.
II. Extremely feeble shock. Recorded by several seismographs of different kinds; felt by a small number of persons at rest,
III. Very feeble shock. Felt by several persons at rest; strong enough for the direction or duration to be appreciable.
IV. Feeble shock. Felt by persons in motion, disturbance of movable objects, doors, windows, cracking of ceilings.
V. Shock of moderate intensity. Felt generally by everyone; disturbance of furniture, beds, etc., ringing of some bells.
VI. Fairly strong shock. General awakening of those asleep; general ringing of bells; oscillation of chandeliers; stopping of clocks; visible agitation of trees and shrubs; some startled persons leaving their dwellings.
VII. Strong shock. Overthrow of movable objects, fall of plaster; ringing of church bells. general panic, without damage to buildings.
VIII. Very strong shock. Fall of chimneys; cracks in the walls of buildings.
IX. Extremely strong shock. Partial or total destruction of some buildings,
X. Shock of extreme intensity. Great disaster; ruins; disturbance of the strata, fissures in the ground, rock falls from mountains.
From: Earthquakes and Volcanic Eruptions. A Handbook on Risk Assessment
by Herbert Tiedemann. Swiss Reinsurance Company, Zurich, 1992.
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Nowadays, our life is dominated by noise and stress. The primary source of noise pollution is road traffic noise. The experts of FUCHS can contribute to noise reduction.
Our noise protection walls are made of precast concrete parts. They consist of one concrete supporting layer and one facing layer made of single-grain concrete. The single-grain concrete layer which is directed to traffic absorbs noise. The concrete wall works as a shield. It protects the side away from traffic from traffic noise. Highly absorbent precast concrete parts even on both sides can be produced if the location requires it.
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The highly absorbent noise protection wall by FUCHS Fertigteilwerke offers various scopes for design. The walls can be adapted to their environment by forms or coloring and even become an eye-catcher due to special design elements or patterns.
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It's the '60s, and you don't have access to a semiconductor fab to make piles of cheap memory for you, so how could you store data on your computer?
Well, MAKE subscriber Steve points us to one possible solution, courtesy of vintagecalcuators.com: delay line memories. Rather than having a bunch of individual units that store a bit each, these memory devices work by storing data in sound (compression) waves. The device consists of a long length of wire, with an actuator on one end to vibrate the wire, and a reader on the other end to pick up vibrations. Because the vibrations don't travel very fast along the wire, you can make a whole bunch of them before the first one reaches the end of the wire, and that becomes the 'size' of the memory. Data can be read back by looking for a vibration at a particular timeif there is one, that corresponds to a '1', and if there isn't, it would be a '0'.
It sounds a bit weird, so I like to think of it like this. If you had a hard time remembering things for very long, and happened to live in a cave, you could just shout out what you didn't want to forget, and a few seconds later you would hear an echo to remind you. Of course, the problem with this is that an echo doesn't stick around for long, so you would have to shout again every time that you heard the echo, so that you could remember again in a few seconds. Assuming you could keep this up, you would never forget your idea. Of course, that would get really tiring after a while, so you would be much better off just writing it down.
The memory shown above is from a Monroe Epic 3000 calculator, which was apparently the first programmable calculator with a printer built in.


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Je'thro (his excellence) was priest or prince of Midian. Moses married his daughter Zipporah. (b.c. 1530.) On account of his local knowledge he was entreated to remain with the Israelites throughout their journey to Canaan. Num. 10:31, 33. (He is called Reuel in Ex. 2:18, and Raguel in Num. 10:29 (the same word in the original for both). Reuel is probably his proper name, and Jethro his official title.—Ed.)


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There have been millions of shipwrecks, but just a few have been remembered. A ship can disappear suddenly without a trace. Or a loss may involve a fascinating web of intrigue and drama. Exploration, the aftermath of wrecking in remote regions of the world and the interaction of survivors with local inhabitants are the stuff of storybooks, great novels and factual accounts. Ships and shipwreck have been at the vanguard of man's development. Conquest, discovery, colonisation and naval engagements have meant that millions of ships and men were lost. Their loss has played an important role in the march of civilisation, but despite centuries of advancements in construction technology and maritime regulation, ships still wreck for many of the same reasons.
From this captivating vantage point, Roy Stokes examines some of the historic shipwrecks of the Irish coast. A historic snapshot of the East India trade is provided through the shipwreck of the East Indiaman; its ability to turn investment into fortune attracted traders, bankers, and rogues. Moving forward, Stokes considers Ireland's previously little-understood role in the naval battle with Germany during the First World War. Many other historic wrecks are also explored, including the paddle steamer Queen Victoria, which, discovered by the author in 1983, became the first historic shipwreck to be protected under new legislation.
This thought-provoking book is sure to capture your interest with details of not only the shipwrecks themselves, but also the men who crewed them. Between the Tides exhibits an extensive volume of research, which supports a number of detailed accounts of historic shipwreck events that have occurred around the coast of Ireland.
Death in the Irish Sea
One month before the end of the First World War, on the 10th October 1918, the mailboat RMS Leinster was sunk when three torpedoes were fired at it by submarine UB 123. More than 500 lives were lost. This book reveals for the first time the full circumstances surrounding Ireland's greatest maritime disaster. It deals with previously unanswered questions which include:
Why did German submarine commanders consider these mail boats to be a legitimate targets and have specific orders to attack and sink them?
What was the extent of the military role played by these mail boats?
Why did repeated pleas to the Admiralty for armed escorts go unheeded?
Was the second and surprisingly large explosion caused by similar circumstances to those in the Lusitania incident?
Why were the offices of the Evening Herald closed when it attempted to issue a 'Stop Press' edition covering the sinking?
Why was the subsequent limited inquiry censored?
U-Boat Alley
Soon after America declared war in 1917, the unsustainable number of Allied and neutral ships being sunk began to decline. This marked a turning point in U-boat tactics that led to a dramatic increase in the number of ships being attacked in the channel seperating Ireland and England.
The losses in these new killing zones began to soar, and the destruction of vessels soon began to light up the night's skies. Naval and air patrols or even daylight hours afforded little protection to coaster or cruiser. Only short distances from the shores on both sides of the channel, many of the victims were seen plunging beneath the waves.
Mines were laid across the approaches to the ports of Holyhead, Liverpool, The Clyde, Belfast, Dublin and Arklow. The U-boats themselves were attacked with gunfire, depth charged, rammed and sunk by the allied warships of Great Britain and the United States. Despite the adoption of a wide variety of anti submarine measures by the Allies in the 'Irish Channel', these did not prevent hundreds of sailors and their vessels being blown to smithereens during the campaign to keep Britain supplied.
With infrequent exceptions, the importance of the U-boat war in the George's Channel, the Irish Sea and the North Channel, particularly during 1917-18, has not been historically recognised. Preventing food, men and materials reaching Britain had remained a key strategy to a German victory. The story of how Ireland helped to defeat this aim and kept Britain from starving during World War I has remained untold.
Similar events were largely absent in the same areas during World War II, and now it has become unimaginable that a prolonged naval campaign involving submarines, battleships and aircraft could have occurred the there a quarter of a century earlier.
Hardly any folklore of the terrible loss of life and brave actions by ordinary sailors in vulnerable vessels has survived. It has often been said, that a generation was wiped out by WW1. Perhaps this is why no memory remains of the events that occurred in 'U-boat Alley'?


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Past lab and scenario research on sexism suggests that women are more likely to contemplate than to engage in assertive confrontation of prejudice. The present study was designed to explore how the competing cultural forces of activist norms and gender role prescriptions for women to be passive and accommodating may contribute to women's response strategies. Women were asked to keep diaries of incidents of anti-Black racism, anti-Semitism, heterosexism, and sexism, including why they responded, how they responded, and the consequences of their responses. Participants were about as likely to report they were motivated by activist goals as they were to report being motivated by gender role consistent goals to avoid conflict. Those with gender role-consistent goals were less likely to respond assertively. Participants were more likely to consider assertive responses (for 75% of incidents) than to actually make them (for 40% of incidents). Assertive responders did, however, report better outcomes on a variety of indicators of satisfaction and closure, at the expense of heightened interpersonal conflict. Results are discussed with respect to the personal and social implications of responding to interpersonal prejudice.
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Question: "What does it mean that God came from Teman (Habakkuk 3:3)?"
Answer: Habakkuk 3 consists of a hymn of praise to God. Verse 3 begins a section that says, "God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran." What exactly does this mean? What is the significance of God's coming from Teman?
When Habakkuk states, "God came from Teman," he speaks of God as appearing out of the East; that is, He is shining over His people like the rising sun. God breaks the darkness and initiates a new day. Teman was a city or region in southern Edom, to the east of Israel (Genesis 36:11, 15, 34, 42; 1 Chronicles 1:36, 45, 53; Jeremiah 49:7; Ezekiel 25:13; Amos 1:12; Obadiah 1:9). Teman was also the home of one of Job's friends (Job 22:1; 42:7, 9). Likewise, Mount Paran, a mountain opposite of Teman (Deuteronomy 33:2-4), was also east of Israel (Genesis 21:21).
The next verses in Habakkuk 3 emphasize this theme: "His glory covered the heavens and his praise filled the earth. His splendor was like the sunrise" (verses 3b-4). Here we are told explicitly that God's coming from Teman is like the rising of the sun.
The "splendor" referred to in verse 3 is from the Hebrew word hod, associated with kingly authority (Numbers 27:20; 1 Chronicles 29:25). In this context, God's splendor is His glory as the sovereign King, reigning over all creation and for all time.
The language in Habakkuk 3 is strikingly similar to God's appearance at Mount Sinai. At the end of Deuteronomy, Moses blesses the Israelites one final time: "The LORD came from Sinai and dawned from Seir upon us; he shone forth from Mount Paran; he came from the ten thousands of holy ones, with flaming fire at his right hand" (Deuteronomy 33:2). Habakkuk's use of similar phrases connects his song of praise with Moses' blessing. Habakkuk praises God's sovereign power and ability to provide a "second exodus" for His people—not from Egypt but from Babylon.
Habakkuk 3:3 marks a shift in Habakkuk's hymn from request to praise. He notes God's power in bringing the Jewish people out of Egypt and into the Promised Land. Because the Lord had accomplished this great work in the past, Habakkuk was confident He would deliver His people from Babylon and bring them back to their homeland once again. After the darkness of captivity, God would be the sunrise of freedom and hope.
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Are there standards for developing or purchasing accessible fax machines, photocopiers, and other office equipment?
The accessibility of fax machines, photocopiers, and similar information technology devices is addressed within the Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility Standards, developed by the federal Access Board as mandated by 1998 amendments to Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. Section 508 specifically applies to the federal government, and the standards affect any electronic and information technology developed, maintained, procured, or used by the federal government. The standards, however, are being mandated or voluntarily used as accessibility standards by other organizations as well, including states and educational entities.
The standards are organized into six product categories. The most applicable category is self-contained, closed products. These are essentially standalone devices, though they may operate in conjunction with other devices in an IT system. Typically these devices have controls that users must operate, and they produce some form of information output that users must be able to perceive. The Section 508 standards provide specific guidance on accessibility features to look for when purchasing these devices. The Access Board also provides an excellent tutorial in its Guide to the Standards.


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Before school desegregation, most black students were educated in exclusively black schools. Today, 70% of black students are still educated in predominantly black schools. School desegregation, mandated in theory, has not yet been achieved in practice.
Class of Waldorf Negro Elementary School, Maryland (1941). Image courtesy of the National Archives.
For his 1948 feature "Country Doctor" — republished here, in its entirety, for the first time online, with all of the photos — LIFE magazine photographer W. Eugene Smith spent 23 days in Kremmling, Colorado, shadowing general practitioner Ernest Ceriani. See more here.


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Essential tremor (ET) is a relatively frequent neurological disorder that responds in some patients to gamma-aminobutyric acid A (GABA(A)) agonists such as the benzodiazepines. Partial subtype-selective GABA(A) agonists may have an improved side effect profile compared to non-selective GABA(A) agonists. However, it is unknown which GABA(A) subtypes are involved in the therapeutic effects of benzodiazepines in ET. The effects of 2 mg TPA023, a GABA(A) α2,3 subtype-selective partial agonist, on ET were compared to the effects of a stable alcohol level (0.6 g/L) and placebo in nine patients with ET. Tremor evaluation included laboratory accelerometry and a performance-based scale. Additional measurements were performed to evaluate other effects on the central nervous system (CNS). Alcohol significantly diminished tremor symptoms in the postural and kinetic condition, as assessed by laboratory accelerometry, but the performance-based rating scale was unaffected. Tremor was also reduced after TPA023 treatment in the kinetic condition, albeit not significantly. Additionally, TPA023 decreased saccadic peak velocity, while alcohol decreased subjective feelings of alertness. This study showed that alcohol reduced maximum tremor power, as assessed by laboratory accelerometry, unlike TPA023, which decreased tremor symptoms to some extent but not significantly. This study showed that treatment with an α2,3 subunit-selective GABA(A) partial agonist was less effective than a stable level of alcohol in reducing ET symptoms. These results provide no support for a therapeutic role of TPA023 in the suppression of ET symptoms.


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Residence Halls - General Safety Program 1.09
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Residence Halls - General Safety Program 1.09
Safety Manual Content
 1. Purpose
 To insure safe residential environment in all University housing.
 2. Responsibility
 Safety for residents, staff, and visitors to the residence halls is the responsibility of Student Services.
 1. The department reports unsafe hazards or conditions to Physical Plant for correction.
 2. Programs and procedures for the purpose of insuring a safe residential environment administered by Student Services shall be as follows:
 1. Safety Inspections
 1. Dorm rooms shall be inspected every four weeks for fire safety by the Community Assistants (CA's).
 2. Written reports shall be made and filed within the office of Student Services.
 3. There shall be mandatory clean up (by the student) and re-inspection (by the staff) of any safety violations.
 4. Students shall be encouraged to report safety violations and anything out of order or missing.
 2. Fire Safety
 1. The buildings themselves are fire resistant but the contents are flammable (furnishings and personal belongings).
 1. Candles and other open flames are prohibited in resident halls.
 1. Refer to Section 1, General Safety Program, Procedure #1.77, Candles / Open Flames Device Policy for additional information.
 2. The program for fire prevention and emergency evacuation shall include the following:
 1. Emphasis on fire prevention and safety at all new student orientation sessions and initial house and floor meetings each semester.
 2. Fire training meeting scheduled by Student Services for the staff each semester.
 3. The Physical Plant personnel shall coordinate inspection and maintenance of fire safety equipment.
 4. Evacuation plans shall be prominently posted in all residence halls.
 5. Student Services shall maintain a list of residence halls and the names / location of any student(s) with disabilities.
 3. Fire Drills
 1. An unannounced fire drill conducted in all residence halls twice each semester and once during the summer session.
 1. The Director of Environmental Health, Safety & Hazardous Waste shall be notified in writing of the dates and times of these drills.
 2. Community assistants (CA) shall monitor the resident housing while the drill progress and shall complete a Floor Fire Drill Report Form (Section 7: Forms), then forward to Student Services within 24 hours.
 3. Student Services shall complete the Student Services Summary Fire Drill Report Form (Section 7: Forms).
 1. The completed document shall be forwarded to the Department of Environmental, Health Safety and Hazardous Waste.
 4. Fire-Safe Christmas Decorations In Student Housing / Common Areas
 1. Christmas decorations are an extreme fire hazard, the following limitations on decorations are necessary:
 1. All decorations shall be fire resistant.
 2. Natural Christmas trees or cut boughs are not allowed in Residence Halls.
 3. Artificial trees labeled as made of non-burning materials may be used.
 4. The use of burning candles is very dangerous and is therefore prohibited.
 5. Door decorations or foil shall be suspended from the edges of the door.
 6. Keep electrical decorations away from the metal doorframes.
 7. Only approved cool bulbs shall be used on lighting strings.
 8. Do not string lights so that the door could close on the wiring.
 9. Check extension cords to insure that they do not have breaks in the insulation.
 1. Keep the use of extension cords to a minimum.
 2. Use them only for a limited number of small lights, not for appliances.
 10. Do not use untreated cotton batting, flock, or paper as they ignite easily and burn continuously
 11. No exit from the individual floors or houses shall be blocked by Christmas decorations.
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Body armor is one of the most popular products on the civilian firearms market right now. Everywhere you turn, ads online and booths at gun shows abound with it. The variety and options available are staggering, and it's easy to get overwhelmed and/or misinformed and even tough to figure out if it's a viable option for you.
It can be cumbersome, heavy, and will you even have enough time to put it on if something were to happen requiring it?
Here we take a look at body armor history, the level rating system, the differences between the various kinds available to you today, and finally, the application of body armor in the world of civilian self defense.
A Little Body Armor History
Most people think of chainmail shirts under plate armor suits worn by medieval knights when they think of historic armor, but it actually dates back much further than that.
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Leather scale armor emerged around 1766 BC. This piece dates from 800-300 BC. The Met
Some of the earliest body armor was made of leather in China around 1766 BC. One of the earliest known pieces of body armor to survive intact is made entirely of leather and dates between 800 and 300 BC.
The overlapping leather scales are sewn to a softer leather backing with rawhide, and would have been the best defense available in antiquity providing defense against slashes and glancing blows with weapons like pikes and spears as well as deflecting indirect arrow hits. Leather armor was often coupled with heavier armor for the head, arms, and lower legs.
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Suit of armor worn by King Henry VIII around 1544. The Met
Metallic armor is generally believed to have been introduced about 2,000 years ago, or when time transitioned from BC to AD. It is this earliest iteration of primitive metal armor from which our current forms of body armor have evolved.
For many centuries after, chain mail and suits of armor ruled the day, eventually evolving into the full suit of plate armor with interlinking and overlapping plates that protected practically the entire body, including a full helm on the head, while allowing for a surprising amount of movement. The myth that fully armored knights of the Middle Ages could barely move due to the extreme weight has been debunked and a full suit of armor would have weighed less than a modern rifleman's combat load, and would be more evenly dispersed.
However, once muskets and other early firearms hit the battlefield, armor became less and less effective the better the guns got, until it became just extra weight that offered no real protection against rifled firearms.
It would then take a long time for armor to catch up to the arms.
By the Civil War in the 1860s, bulletproof vests were being sold to soldiers in camp and by mail order at a cost of $5-$8, or ⅓ to ½ of a private's monthly pay. Made of metal plates sewn between the layers of a normal vest, many claimed to be effective at stopping rifle rounds at 40 rods (220 yards) and pistol rounds at 10 paces (25 feet). Considering how much velocity rifle rounds at the time would lose after traveling 220 yards, this is technically possible.
Around the turn of the 20th century, Polish engineer Casimir Zeglen is credited with inventing the first commercially successful bulletproof vest, which utilized woven silk to defeat pistol ammo sort of the way modern Kevlar fibers work.
Ironically, it is said that President William McKinley's private secretary had turned down Zeglen's offer to provide the president with a vest just weeks before he was assassinated by Leon Czolgosz on September 6, 1901, who shot the president with a.32 caliber Iver Johnson revolver.
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Colorized photo of two brave souls demonstrating a bulletproof vest for the DC Police, circa 1923. Reddit
Body armor and bulletproof vests made little headway through the first half of the 20th century. They were still cumbersome and heavy, and they certainly had their limits, as none were wholly effective against new more powerful, large caliber handguns or rifles.
Still, something was better than nothing. Police and gangsters of the Prohibition era wore the tried-and-true soft armor vests that were so common in the 1920s and 1930s.
Later, World War II pilots wore flak jackets, which provided some protection from airborne shrapnel, but did little if anything to protect against gunfire.
It wasn't until the 1960s and the advent of Nomex and Kevlar and other synthetic materials that body armor as we know it today began to take shape. These materials opened up the door to new levels of protection and comfort.
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A soldier in Vietnam poses while wearing a flak jacket. Wikipedia
Even though those materials were available when the United States began sending troops to Vietnam, protective gear made from it had not been adopted by the military.
Images from that conflict often show soldiers wearing protective vests, and it would be easy to assume that they're made of Nomex or Kevlar. Instead, they were actually WWII-vintage flak jackets and offered very little protection against 7.62 rounds fired from enemy SKS and AK-47 rifles. Some soldiers elected not to wear the hot vests in the steamy jungle climate of Vietnam.
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U.S. Soldiers now wear a vest that has four modular tiers of protection. This vest is shown in tier one configuration.
Beginning with the Gulf War, U.S. troops began getting better armor, including Kevlar helmets to replace the old steel pots that had basically been unchanged since WWII, and better body armor, which has steadily advanced through the War in Iraq and the War on Terror.
Today, the soldiers in the United States Armed Forces are wearing the latest Modular Scalable Vest (MSV) system. Its name comes from the fact that this new vest, which weighs five pounds less than its predecessor, has a four-tier configuration that can scale up or down depending on the threat.
Tier One of the MSV is the inside soft body armor that the user can use as concealable armor. Tier Two adds soft-plated armor.
Tier Three includes the carrier vest and both soft armor and hard armor rifle plates as well as side panels, and Tier Four adds a ballistic combat shirt with built-in neck, shoulder, and pelvic protection. It also includes a belt system for carrying more gear.
Types of Modern Body Armor
In general, there are two types of body armor: hard and soft.
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The most common type of armor worn by police is of the soft variety. reddit
Soft armor is what you think of when picturing a traditional bulletproof vest often seen being worn by the police and other law enforcement officers.
This type of armor works like a net. It protects the wearer by catching the bullet in the layers of woven fabric and distributing the energy from the bullet out over a larger surface area and (hopefully) preventing it from penetrating.
This type of armor is the more comfortable of the two to wear, but it does have its drawbacks. Namely, it doesn't provide as much protection as hard armor and won't do much against high caliber handguns and rifle rounds. Granted, something is better than nothing, right? These types of vests have saved many lives since they have become standard equipment for police departments and law enforcement agencies small and large.
Hard armor is made up of thicker plates, either steel or ceramic, and is what you most often think of when picturing soldiers in a combat zone. The plates are worn in a minimalistic vest called a plate carrier, which come in various configurations and styles.
Armor plates provide much better protection than soft armor, but they are heavier, rigid, and, generally, cover less surface area than soft armor, usually protecting forward facing vital areas only to save as much weight as possible.
Hard armor works by means of destruction. That is, the plates act as a barrier to intercept and destroy the bullet. They absorb the energy by deforming the steel or breaking the ceramic.
When it comes to armor, weight is crucial. If there were ever a situation where the "ounces equal pounds" mentality were most applicable, it would be here.
The U.S. military's MSV weighs 11 pounds empty, with a weight of 25 pounds with the armor plates in it. That may sound like a lot, but it's a full five pounds lighter than the previous type of armored vest they were using. By comparison, a typical vest worn by law enforcement that has Level IIIA armor in it weighs "just" six pounds or so.
Extra protection means extra weight. For example, a 10"x12" Level II piece of soft armor weighs 1.1 pounds, while the same size Level IIIA hard plate weighs 4.8 pounds, and a Level IV hard plate weighs 8.3 pounds.
Ceramic or Steel?
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This steel plate has stopped.223,.308, and 7.62×39 rounds. SensiblePrepper on YouTube
So, what's the difference? Steel plates are heavier than ceramic, but they tend to cost less, and are generally more durable. However, they have risks that you won't find with ceramic plates.
One of the characteristics of steel is that it comes apart in small fragments, called spall, when hit.
Fragments from the spall are sharp and moving quickly, and they can be just as deadly in certain situations. As a workaround, steel plates are often offered with an anti-spalling coating to diminish the risk, but there's no way to eliminate it completely


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Every nutrition article you have read about cooking with oils, will mention something called "smoking point".
Many of these articles will also extoll the virtues of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), with some specifically talking about Omega 3 fatty acids and others about Omega 6 fatty acids as well.
How many talk about how most Indian families are poisoning themselves every day with oxidised PUFA?
The whole smoking point related "safe cooking" theory is a lie.
Smoking point is not relevant to toxic oxidised fatty acids. Most vegetable oils do not have to be heated upto their smoking points to become toxic. They become so at much lower temperatures.
Here is the real principle you must follow –
1. Never heat any Omega 3 rich oil. Example flaxseed oil or walnut oil. Never store it either. The Omega 3 components get oxidised at room temperature when exposed to air and light. That's the reason why flaxseed oil (aka linseed oil) has never in history been used as an edible oil. That's also the reason why it is sold in nitrogen flushed bottles.
2. Never use any vegetable oil (with the exception of coconut oil or palm kernel oil) for deep frying, tadka or any other open air high heat cooking practice. The vegetable oils are rich in Omega 6 fats and they start getting significantly oxidised at about 150 degrees centigrade, irrespective of the smoke point of the oil.
Oxidation of PUFA creates complex biproducts and toxic metabolites
These cause oxidative stress and can lead to diseases like cancer and more.
Please do not listen to your nutritionist recommendations on which oils are healthy to use as cooking oils, if they do not have a good understanding of heat induced PUFA oxidation and it's toxicity.
Ignore smoke point. That's not the real problem. Oxidation starts much earlier. At room temperature for Omega 3 fatty acids and at a temperature that's much lower than the smoke point of almost any oil, for Omega 6 fatty acids.
And what are the safest cooking oils from this perspective? Ghee, coconut oil, lard and palm kernel oil. Use any of these for deep frying or tadka or any high heat cooking.
Here is one of those semi literate, misleading articles from so called nutritionists. Smoke point indeed! Poppycock :
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French intern program utilizes technology for continued language connections
Apr. 27, 2021 - Every school year, Edina Public Schools hosts around 25 French Interns in classrooms at Normandale, Valley View, and Edina High School. Working alongside school staff, the interns prepare lessons, assist withFrench intern virtually reads to students using Loom. teaching, and enrich the classroom. This past year, half of the interns were new and hoping for an in-person experience, while the other half were returning from the previous school year. Due to the pandemic, this year's internship was completely virtual. Edina teachers and students connected with French interns over Google Meet throughout the year.
Transitioning an in-person program to an online model comes with many challenges, including a seven hour time difference. Flexibility and patience were important themes throughout the year. The interns had varying schedules and work to complete while in France, requiring staff to adjust their classes as necessary. The Intern Committee, responsible for overseeing the French Intern program, met with the interns on a monthly basis to offer specific strategies for teaching virtually and to check in on the experience.
French intern teaches students using SeesawA more prominent challenge involved technology. Traditionally, training the interns occured face-to-face and covered topics like classroom management, culturally and linguistically responsive teaching, and the incorporation of technology tools. In lieu of these in-person trainings, several "live" orientation sessions via Google Meet helped facilitate the training and onboarding process. It was important that the interns felt comfortable using the technology tools they had available.
"At first it was very complicated, and I was afraid of not being able to master the computer tools because I had almost no basis in technology," said Anna Calipel, a French Intern from the past year. "As a French assistant for a kindergarten class, we use many computer tools such as Seesaw, Loom, Google Meet and Google Slides."
With each Google Meet, interns began to realize the technology capabilities at their disposal. For instance, Calipel could record herself reading a book while the pages were displayed. This allowed students to follow along and actually see how she pronounces the words, an integral step in learning a language.
"Overall, I was very impressed by the interns' dedication to this virtual internship and by the teaching staff's flexibility throughout the year," said Lisa Bekemeyer, the chair of the Intern Committee. "It took everyone working together to foster these meaningful interactions in French for our students."


The High Queen of the Amazons, beset on all sides by enemies, ponders on how to ensure the survival of her new kingdom.
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Hippolyta is a Homeric-historical and playable character featured in Total War Saga: Troy. She is an Epic Archer Hero, part of the Amazon culture group. Her campaign is only playable after obtaining the Amazons DLC.
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A seasoned veteran by the time of the Trojan War, her previously fiery character had been tempered by years of fighting such legendary figures as Theseus and Heracles. Also a skilled diplomat, she was a consummate peacemaker whole single obsession was the establishment of an Amazon kingdom that would endure the ages.₋₋₋[sic]
In mythology, Hippolyta was Ares' daughter, and the Olympian bestowed upon her a magic girdle to symbolise her rule. It was this item that Heracles was tasked to retrieve for his ninth labour - the legendary warrior stealing Hippolyta's prized belt and sailing away with it.₋₋₋[sic]
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Hippolyta was the queen of the Amazons at the end of the Bronze Age. While the younger Penthesilea led their vengeful sisters to war, she was chiefly concerned with securing a peaceful future for her people.
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Remain cautious of the Achaeans settled in Asia while Troy gathers their forces.
Maeonians from the north and east seek to destroy the Amazon capital of Anthea. Lord Sarpedon of Lycia may prove to be an invaluable ally against the Maeonians, provided the queen agrees to aid him in expelling the Achaeans from Crete.
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Amazons are slowly coming together as a people behind their ruler's ultimate ambitionthe establishment of the first Amazon kingdom. Hippolyta has taken her people to their ancient birth place. These settlements are considered sacred, and will provide Amazon treasures which can be distributed when performing various feats within the faction, in turn speeding up any undertaking be it improving the armies, upgrading settlements, or to secure new treaties.
Amazons can directly recruit only their most basic units. Once a unit has proven itself by campaigning and gained experience, it can be initiated into the Amazon war mysteries to become more powerful unit.
Amazons were the first to adopt fighting on horseback and have access to cavalry units. Hippolyta's armies are based around mobility and long-range engagement and rely on spear-infantry, archers and chariots.
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Epic Archer Aegisthus・Hippolyta・Bathycles・Crethon・Lycomedes・Odysseus・Pandaros・Paris・Teucer
Epic Defender Agenor・Ajax・Alcimedon・Amphimachos・Anchialos・Antenor・Automedon・Deileon・Epeios・Glaucos・Hector・Idomeneus・Menoetes・Nestor・Orestes
Epic Fighter Achilles・Aesymnos・Ajax the lesser・Alcimedes・Alcimos・Amphidamas・Deiphobos・Demoleon・Diomedes・Eudoros・Helenos・Hippomenes・Hypsenor・Leucos・Melanippos・Menelaus・Meriones・Patroclus・Penthesilea・Polydorus
Epic Warlord Aeneas・Alcamon・Alcinus・Agamemnon・Agapenor・Amphilochos・Antiphates・Antiphos・Archelochos・Euryalos・Eurymedon・Mecisteus・Menestheus・Mynes・Oileus・Orsilochos・Phaenops・Polydamas・Sarpedon・Telephos


Polonium dust, that will be stripped off the depleted-uranium penetrator on impact and will burst, filling the air around the victim with several grams of Polonium-210 dust, which has an LD50 of.089 micrograms The depleted uranium penetrator carries most of the kinetic energy on into the victim, passing through any practical thickness of titanium armour (if any) and most likely disintegrating since uranium is brittle, delivering the remainder of the kinetic energy to the target's vulnerable organic or electronic vitals.
So, we have a cartridge that can literally kill millions, mainly from the Polonium-210, assuming that the Polonium disperses widely enough, and considering that the Polonium is concentrated in a relatively small area, we can assume that - provided the Cyborg leader's fellow regime members breathe - they will die within days, having received a lethal dose of radiation within minutes of inhaling the stuff.
A standard 7.62 NATO M61 AP round can penetrate about 13mm of steel armour at its muzzle velocity of about 840 m/s, and at 2000 m/s, the armour penetration capability of a ~45mm depleted uranium flechette would be much higher, and using Newton's Impact Depth approximation, Depth ~= Length x (Projectile Density/Armour Density), potentially penetrating up to 112mm of steel armour, or 190mm of Titanium.
It is most likely not practical to armour a human-seeming or even a humanoid cyborg with Titanium to a degree that this ammunition would not be able to penetrate, and even if the projectile does not kill the target outright, the Polonium-210 most likely will.
 - $\begingroup$ i'm impressed! i have thought of it as well but only lacing the DU round with polonium 210 but not a powdered form of it $\endgroup$ – mico villena Apr 12 '16 at 6:49
 - $\begingroup$ The DU is also pyrophoric and might ignite after passing through an armoured plate in the target, adding to the ballistic effects of the impact. $\endgroup$ – Thucydides Jul 6 '17 at 19:26
Given modern science I think there is plenty that could be done, the issue being how cost effective would it be? I think experimental rounds might venture into replacing the bullet with various types of explosives. Russia had developed fulminating musket balls that were designed to take out powder kegs or other strategic targets. This development led specifically to the "Saint Petersburg Declaration of 1868" which bans the use of explosive and fulminating ammunition weighing at or under 400 grams.
The treaty only really covered "small arms" mainly rifles and pistols larger weapons like artillery are basically exempted from the treaty due to the size of the ammunition they fire.
My next example is based on the 25mm grenade launcher the XM25 which has a range setting function that allows the grenade to explode (air burst) at a preset range dealing damage to targets behind walls, in trenches, or behind hills. I imagine that with some further technological advancements (and miniaturization) this type of technology could easily find its way into bullets instead of small grenades.
You could build a small flux-compression generator into a bullet, possibly replacing the explosive charge with simply the impact force. That would give you the combined effect of an hollow or explosive round with an electromagnetic pulse which I imagine would be quite good against cyborgs.
The payload can be a ricin-laced projectile (like in the historic KGB killing in Oslo(?) where an umbrella tip was used for delivery of a minuscule metal sphere). There is no cure. You need enough penetrating power to deliver the payload reliably.
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Isolating Dimension Members to Use in Calculations and Filters
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How to isolate a single member of a dimension to use in calculations and filters
Tableau Desktop
Select Analysis > Create Calculated Field.
 2. In the Formula box, type the following formula:
 IF [fieldName] = "Member_Name" THEN [measureName] ELSE NULL END
 3. Click OK.
In the attached sample workbook, the field is called Red, the dimension is Color, and the formula is:
IF [Color] = 'Red' THEN 'Red' ELSE NULL END
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The Transport and Traffic Engineering Laboratory (LICIT) conducts research on the dynamic modelling and regulation of road traffic flows, integrating the various modes of transport using the roads.
This research involves a range of disciplines linked to applied mathematics, automatics and information technology. It also involves experimentation.
The LICIT is situated at the IFSTTAR site in Bron and at ENTPE in Vaulx-en-Velin.
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- Modelling and Optimization for Intelligent Mobility (MOMI): this consists in developing methods and tools for intelligent, multi-modal and cooperative mobility taking into account the advantages of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)
- Multi-Scale Traffic Analysis and Modelling (AMMET): the general objective here is to better understand the links between (i) vehicle and traffic behaviour and (ii) transport system efficiency and the associated environmental impact. This objective then includes the development of regulation strategies to optimize traffic management according to multiple criteria.
The entire LICIT is involved in a number of cross-disciplinary actions based on management tools for the digital city.


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Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes _PHONE_.
Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes _PHONE_.
French statesman, minister, and afterwards counsel for the defence of Louis XVI.
Chrétien-Guillaume studied law. Due to his achievements in 1750 he was appointed president of the cour des aides of the Paris Parliament. 1741, he was appointed Deputy Attorney General of the Parliament of Paris. He married in 1749 Françoise Thérèse de la Grimod Reynière (_PHONE_). He kept in touch with the literary leaders in Paris, especially with Denis Diderot, Friedrich Melchior Grimm. Malesherbes was a passionate botanist. At the age of 24 he studied botany with Bernard de Jussieu. His avenue planted at Château de Malesherbes was exceptional and was elected already in 1750 as a member of the Académie des sciences.
The King Louis XVI, increasingly in political difficulties, wanted his support and appointed him to the cabinet in 1787, the Conseil du roi de France. With François Tronchet and Raymond de Sèze he took over the defense of the King before the Convention, national convention, he finally brought the king the news of his condemnation. On Wednesday, April 23, 1794, he was guillotined.
Gallery: Portraits by people during the French Revolution
 Louis XIV., Louis XV., Louis XVI., Baroque, Rococo, Directoire, French Revolution, Regency, Empire, Restoration or Romanticism fashion era. German Biedermeier.
 1. The French Fashion History.
 4. Reigns of Henri IV. and Louis XIII. 1589 to 1643. (Baroque)
 5. Reign of Louis XIV. 1643 to 1715. (Baroque)
 6. The Reign of Louis XV. 1715 to 1774.
 7. Reign of Louis XVI. 1780 to 1789.
 8. The French Republic 1789 to 1802.
 9. Timeline of the French Revolution 1789 – 1799.
 10. Les Modes sous la revolution _PHONE_ by Paul Louis Victor de Giafferri.
 11. Reign of Napoleon I. 1804 to 1814. France empire.
 12. Reigns of Louis XVIII. and Charles X. 1815 to 1830. Restoration, Romanticism
 15. The use of the Corset in the reign of Louis XVI.
 16. Ladies hat styles from _PHONE_ by Rose Bertin.
 17. Fashion under the French revolution 1789 to 1802.
 18. Paris fashion 1793 to 1795. French revolution.
 19. The Execution of the King Louis XVI.
 20. The Execution of Marie-Antoinette.
 21. The Incroyables and Muscadins. The French directory dandies.
 22. Les Incroyables et Merveilleuses. Directoire fashion by Horace Vernet.
 23. Nymphs and Merveilleuses. By Octave Uzanne.
 24. Fashion in Paris after the Revolution. By Octave Uzanne. _PHONE_.
 25. Portraits by people during the French Revolution
 26. The Gallery of Fashion. by Nikolaus von Heideloff, London.
 27. Comparison of the French and English modes. 1808 to 1815
 28. The Salon of Madame Récamier during the French Revolution.
 29. The Salons of Paris before the French Revolution.
 30. Caraco à la francaise in 1786.
 31. The Evolution of Modern Feminine Fashion 1786.
 32. Fashion in Paris and London, 1780 to 1788.
 33. Historic hairstyles from Ancient times to the Empire.
 34. The Corset and the Crinolin from Remote Periods to the Present Time.
 35. Lace History. Reference List of Italian Laces.
 36. Collection of antique fabric design.
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Marginal cost represents the change in total cost that arises when the quantity produced is changed by one unit. In short, it is the cost of one additional unit of a good. The marginal cost may vary with volume or with each level of production.
Perspectives are different frameworks from which to explore the knowledge around sustainable sanitation and water management. Perspectives are like filters: they compile and structure the information that relate to a given focus theme, region or context. This allows you to quickly navigate to the content of your particular interest while promoting the holistic understanding of sustainable sanitation and water management.


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The Growing Population of Senior Citizens
Today, governments are facing a new health crisis: the increase in the number of older people everywhere. For example, by 2036, the number of older people in Canada is expected to double to 10.4 million. This article will examine the challenges that governments and healthcare systems will face in the coming years and the ways in which other places are changing to adapt and reduce the effect.
In Canada, seniors make up the fastest-growing group in the population. There are many factors that have contributed to this, such as the increasing life expectancy, the reduction in the number of children in families and the large number of people born during the baby boom years. In 2051, at least 25% of Canadians will be 65 years old or older.
Many municipalities are trying to find ways to change certain services to help seniors. For example, buses are designed to have low-floors to facilitate the exit of the elderly people who might be handicapped. Governments are also putting resources into developing affordable housing for seniors. These changes contribute to promoting active living in seniors, because they can increase the access to services and allow them to live a healthy lifestyle.
Seniors tend to be more physically, socially and politically excluded from society than most other groups. However, with their population growing, they can get involved with organizations and work to organize events that specifically cater to seniors. For example, in Vancouver, the government provides money for community centres for senior groups. In Richmond, British Columbia, the government works to announce opportunities for seniors to get involve with others.
There are also committees designed to address the needs of seniors. Vancouver established a seniors' advisory committee where seniors are invited to come talk about the problems they experience and give suggestions on how to society can best accommodate them. This can help by increasing municipal services and improve infrastructure for seniors.
City planners are also discussing ways to move seniors closer to the main areas of cities to improve their access to civil services. For example, in Vancouver, they are evaluating the building codes in order to make the buildings accessible by adding grab rails. Other buildings can be renovated at a low cost to add the safety features.
Making seniors active is a constant challenge for healthcare staff. There are seniors who have limited mobility and require assistance for tasks. In Richmond, British Columbia, healthcare professionals are coming up with techniques to adapt to elderly people. The exercise programs are evaluated to meet the needs of the people and there are more options at their disposal. They developed a method where medical information can be given to emergency responders that will assist them in understanding the medical background for the family members when there happens to be a crisis affecting the people.
Seniors who are exposed to health and social services tend to be more involved in society and are more likely go see the healthcare staff when they need help. They can also continue to be within reach of the people they are close with and need their support.
The number of seniors is supposed to increase at an alarming rate. The governments need to collaborate with community organizations and seniors themselves to identify how they can best suit their needs. By making services tailored to seniors, they will be part of a thriving society.
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When a person trains a muscle, there is a necessary recovery from training before one can train again. I'm wondering if there's such a thing with meditation sessions?
If so, how much time between sessions is necessary or even desirable? Are there guidelines in Buddhism about the length of pauses to take and the amount of sessions possible in a day?
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 The basic rule is more is better. After this it's a matter of practicality. – user14119 Jan 1 '20 at 12:11
More is better. Period. If you want some nuance to this answer, once you start getting above three hours straight in your sits, you start to get into diminishing returns.
The untrained mind and all of its obstacles and doubts is like a game of whack a mole. You've got to keep swinging, every day, if you ever expect to make any progress.
Meditation is recovery: a recovery period from the strenuous activities of thinking and acting and doing. You'll find that if you meditate extensively, even your need for sleep drops to a minimum, because neither your body nor your mind needs down-time.
Of course, if you meditate from a place of achievement, as though you are trying to accomplish something specific and are thus training yourself to be a superior meditator... Well, that can be exhausting in its own right, though it is a stage all of us go through on the path.
Don't be obsessive about meditation. Daily meditation is good, but putting more than an hour a day into meditation is probably excessive (unless you are specifically intending to go the monastic route). On a three-day, ten-day, or thirty-day retreat you might spend as much as eight hours a day meditating, and that's fine, but you should take breaks for meals, walking, and other bodily necessities. You can — technically speaking — meditate for as long as you like (or rather, for as long as you're able), if you have the proper support system. I'm sure you've heard stories of gurus and monastics who've spent weeks in meditation, being fed and cared for by devotees. But for the most part, you can trust your greater self. Once you've established yourself well enough that you can comfortable meditate for an hour or so, just forget about time. You'll go into the meditative state, and when it's the right time for you to come out of it, you'll come out of it. Big-mind knows better than little-mind what's needed; little-mind just has to come to understand that.
If u know about Middle way then this will not be a problem.overworking always cause to exhaustion, not working will always end in failures,......For mediation u have first do a research about different meditation methods and their practices and build proper basic understanding about it.After that it will help u to find a proper teacher to learn the proper techniques and good practices.Then u will be ur own guide and u will undestand and make ur own schedule according to ur state of the mind.................Lord Buddha Life story explain it all if ur undestand well.Even he also become a disciple of three teachers and learn all methods used in those time to create his own way.Which we call today the Middle way.
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since collapsed. Yet it seems the Lins were trendsetters, because it wasn't long before other branches of the Lin clan started building their own tulou in the village. Of the many earthen structures that rise up out of the village grounds, Zhengcheng Lou, Fuyu Lou, Kuiju Lou, and Rusheng Lou have garnered the most fame.
Zhengcheng Lou was built in 1912 according to the Eight Diagrams of Bagua theory. The two wells within this tulou represent Yin and Yang, while its three gates symbolise heaven, earth and human beings respectively. The external ring of the compound is a four-storey building that has been divided into eight units or "gua". The branch of the Lin family that established Zhengcheng Lou had also studied abroad in Europe and thus incorporated many Western features into their tulou to make it stand out. It seems T. S. Eliot's famed proverb "good poets borrow, great poets steal" can also be applied to architects!
Fuyu Lou, on the other hand, is a completely different style of tulou known as a "Wufeng" or "Five Pheonix" tulou. Built in 1882 by three brothers, it was designed to look like a phoenix spreading its wings and its appearance was heavily influenced by Han-style architecture. The exterior supposedly looks like three mountains rising towards the sky, as the brothers wanted to imply that they were as magnificent as mountains. Modesty evidently wasn't a family trait!
From mountains to mansions, Kuiju Lou is a large, square-shaped tulou that was built to resemble a palace, earning it the alternate name "Potala Palace". Unlike many of the other earthen buildings, the interior is bedecked with sculptures, colourful murals, and complex architectural features. After all, a man's house is his castle, and a family's tulou is their palace!
Size may have mattered to the owners of these first three tulou, but Rusheng Lou is famous precisely because it is the smallest tulou in existence. It was built sometime between 1875 and 1908, and is just 17 metres in diameter, with only three-storeys and 16 rooms to house its inhabitants. The name "rusheng" means "as if to rise"; perhaps because the optimistic owner hoped it would grow over time!
Encompassed by towering mountains, dense forests, and bubbling brooks, the village of Gaobei in Yongding County may seem like the most unlikely place to meet royalty. Yet here, hidden like a gem within the countryside, lies Chengqi Lou; the "King of Tulou". Around the streams that wind through Gaobei, a cluster of these fortress-like earthen dwellings rises up and adds new magnificence to the landscape. They resemble fortified villages and were initially designed to protect the inhabitants from bandits and wild animals, although nowadays the only thing threatening them is the occasional door-to-door salesman!
The grandest and largest in Gaobei is Chengqi Lou, which is four-storeys high and over 62 metres in diameter. Construction of this tulou began in the late Ming Dynasty (_PHONE_) but it wasn't completed until 1709, during the Qing Dynasty (_PHONE_). It took three generations of the local Jiang family to build this spectacular tulou. In three generations, my family have barely managed to pay off a house, let alone build a fortress! Chengqi Lou is a circular tulou and is renowned for its four concentric rings; one that surrounds the complex and three within it.
The first or outer ring is four-storeys high, with the ground floor made up of kitchens, the second floor acting as grain storage rooms, and the third and fourth floors being used as living quarters and bedrooms. In its heyday, this complex could support over 800 people, and nowadays it still houses an impressive 57 families and 300 people. The second ring is two-storeys high and is comprised of 80 rooms for general use. The third is only one-storey high and its 32 rooms make up a community library. After all, when you're being besieged by bandits and the tulou is locked down, how else would you entertain yourself? Nothing like a good book to get you through a potentially hostile takeover!
The final ring is just a covered corridor that surrounds the ancestral hall, where inhabitants still worship their venerated ancestors. In total, Chengqi Lou contains a staggering 370 rooms. This means that, if you spent one night in each room, it would take you over a year to get through the whole complex!
Other famous tulou in the area include Wuyun Lou, which was built during the Ming Dynasty and is currently uninhabited, and Qiaofu Lou, which was constructed during the 1960s and acts as a hotel for tourists. So if you fancy a real tulou experience, don't forget to book a room at Qiaofu Lou. Or perhaps just squat for free in the empty Wuyun Lou!
Fujian Tulou (Earthen Structure)
The Fujian Tulou or Fujian Earthen Structure is a type of dwelling built by the Hakka and Hoklo people in the mountainous regions of southern Fujian. A Tulou is a large, enclosed structure that is usually circular or rectangular in shape and is used to house multiple families. They are usually between 2 to 5 storeys high and the largest Tulou can hold up to a hundred families. Every family in the Tulou community enjoys perfect equality because every room in a Tulou is the same size and has exactly the same design.
There is a famous story about a group of Fujian Tulou: In 1986, during the Cold War period, the US satellites found many strange circular and square shaped structures, resembling a group of nuclear bases, hidden in the valleys of southern China, near Taiwan. Fearing an impending nuclear attack from Communist China, the US sent a unit of CIA spies to China to investigate, and eventually they were embarrassed to find that the "nuclear bases" were just simple Tulou:
The Fortified Walls of the Tulou:
These large clay buildings are usually two to five storeys high and have a specific, defensive function. There are no windows on the external walls of the ground and first floors, while there are small windows on the walls of the second floor and above. The base of the wall is about 3 meters thick. The wall of the first floor is 1.5 meters thick, so the wall reduces in thickness slightly as it ascends.
Fujian Tulou, defensive function
A Brief history of the Tulou:
From the beginning of the Western Jin Dynasty (307-12 BCE) onwards, there were several significant immigrations from central China to Fujian. Among these immigrations, there was a particularly large scale one that took place during the late Tang Dynasty (7th-8th centuries). It was those immigrants that settled down in the southeast of Fujian Province and subsequently became the Hoklo people. During the Song Dynasty, due to the conquest of northern China by the Jin ethnic group, many people fled from central China yet again, bringing with them their culture and language. These people finally settled down in Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi and formed the Hakka ethnic group.
In the beginning, the newcomers built houses following the traditional Han-style of architecture. However, during the Ming (_PHONE_) and Qing (_PHONE_) dynasties, society was unstable because of frequent fighting between ethnic groups, and all the while robbers and thieves were running rampant. The Hakka and Hoklo people improved their homes gradually so that they eventually became a perfect defense against attackers and trespassers. These fortress-like dwellings were called Tulou.
The first Tulou appeared at some point between the 11th century and the13th century. The design for the Tulou was developed from the 14th century right through to the 16th century, and reached its peak between the late Ming Dynasty and the late Qing Dynasty (17th – 18th centuries).
Different types of Tulou:
1. Round or Circular Tulou
According to national records, there are more than 1,100 circular Tulou in Fujian. Among these circular Tulou, nearly 800 of them adopt the "connected rooms" design, where each room on the same floor is connected by a corridor, and more than 300 of them are composed of separated rooms, in which each family has their own "apartment". Generally speaking, the Tulou inhabited by the Hakka people mostly follow the "connected rooms" design, while the Hoklo people prefer Tulou that have separated apartments.
Each floor in the Tulou has a specific function and follows the same general design rules, regardless of whether the Tulou has "connected" or "separated" rooms. The kitchens and living rooms are always on the ground floor, the first floor is for food storage, and the second and third floor rooms are used as bedrooms. In some Tulou the food is stored on the top floor to keep cereals dry, but this can be somewhat inconvenient when cooking as the kitchens will still be on the ground floor.
Most Tulou have an Ancestral Hall in the middle of the yard for inhabitants to worship their ancestors. Around the Ancestral Hall there are usually rooms that used for studying.
The most famous circular Tulou:
Huaiyuan Lou
Huiyuan Lou was built in 1909 and is a typical example of a Tulou that follows the "connected rooms" design. Because of its short history, the whole building is well preserved


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Significant advances have been made recently in the areas of synthesis, ignition, combustion, and mechanical characterization of energetic materials. Some of these new energetic materials contain nano-sized ingredients, which exhibit specific advantages for military and commercial applications in the chemical propulsion field. The advancements were achieved through experimental, theo-retical, and computational efforts. In order to promote technical communication and to encourage further advancement in this important area, the International Advisory Committee for the Foundation of International Symposium on Special Topics in Chemical Propulsion decided to conduct the Sixth International Sym-posium (6-ISICP): Advancements in Energetic Materials and Chemical Propulsion. The materials are presented within the pages of this book and also on CD.
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The clock Command
The clock command has facilities for getting the current time, formatting time values, and scanning printed time strings to get an integer time value. The clock command was added in Tcl 7.5. Table 13-1 summarizes the clock command:
Table 13-1. The clock command.
|clock clicks||A system-dependent high resolution counter.|
|clock format value?-format str?||Formats a clock value according to str.|
|clock scan string?-base clock??-gmt boolean?||Parses date string and return seconds value. The clock value determines the date.|
|clock seconds||Returns the current time in seconds.|
The following command prints the current time:
clock format [clock seconds]
=> Sun Nov 24 14:57:04 1996
The clock seconds command returns the current time, in seconds since a starting epoch. The clock format command formats an integer value into a date string. It takes an optional argument that controls the format. The format strings contains % keywords that are replaced with the year, month, day, date, hours, minutes, and seconds, in various formats. The default string is:
%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z %Y
Tables 13-2 and 13-3 summarize the clock formatting strings:
Table 13-2. Clock formatting keywords.
|%%||Inserts a %. |
|%a||Abbreviated weekday name (Mon, Tue, etc.). |
|%A||Full weekday name (Monday, Tuesday, etc.). |
|%b||Abbreviated month name (Jan, Feb, etc.). |
|%B||Full month name. |
|%c||Locale specific date and time (e.g., Nov 24 16:00:59 1996).|
|%d||Day of month (01?31). |
|%H||Hour in 24-hour format (00?23). |
|%I||Hour in 12-hour format (01?12). |
|%j||Day of year (001?366). |
|%m||Month number (01?12). |
|%M||Minute (00?59). |
|%p||AM/PM indicator. |
|%S||Seconds (00?59). |
|%U||Week of year (00?52) when Sunday starts the week.|
|%w||Weekday number (Sunday = 0). |
|%W||Week of year (01?52) when Monday starts the week. |
|%x||Locale specific date format (e.g., Feb 19 1997).|
|%X||Locale specific time format (e.g., 20:10:13).|
|%y||Year without century (00?99).|
|%Y||Year with century (e.g. 1997).|
|%Z||Time zone name.|
Table 13-3. UNIX-specific clock formatting keywords.
|%D||Date as %m/%d/%y (e.g., 02/19/97).|
|%e||Day of month (1?31), no leading zeros. |
|%h||Abbreviated month name. |
|%n||Inserts a newline. |
|%r||Time as %I:%M:%S %p (e.g., 02:39:29 PM).|
|%R||Time as %H:%M (e.g., 14:39).|
|%t||Inserts a tab. |
|%T||Time as %H:%M:%S (e.g., 14:34:29).|
The clock clicks command returns the value of the system's highest resolution clock. The units of the clicks are not defined. The main use of this command is to measure the relative time of different performance tuning trials. The following command counts the clicks per second over 10 seconds, which will vary from system to system:
Example 13-1 Calculating clicks per second.
set t1 [clock clicks]
after 10000 ;# See page 218
set t2 [clock clicks]
puts "[expr ($t2 - $t1)/10] Clicks/second"
=> _PHONE_ Clicks/second
The clock scan command parses a date string and returns a seconds value. The command handles a variety of date formats. If you leave off the year, the current year is assumed.
Year 2000 Compliance
Tcl implements the standard interpretation of two-digit year values, which is that 70?9 are 1970?999, 00?9 are 2000?069. Versions of Tcl before 8.0 did not properly deal with two-digit years in all cases. Note, however, that Tcl is limited by your system's time epoch and the number of bits in an integer. On Windows, Macintosh, and most UNIX systems, the clock epoch is January 1, 1970. A 32-bit integer can count enough seconds to reach forward into the year 2037, and backward to the year 1903. If you try to clock scan a date outside that range, Tcl will raise an error because the seconds counter will overflow or underflow. In this case, Tcl is just reflecting limitations of the underlying system.
If you leave out a date, clock scan assumes the current date. You can also use the -base option to specify a date. The following example uses the current time as the base, which is redundant:
clock scan "10:30:44 PM" -base [clock seconds]
The date parser allows these modifiers: year, month, fortnight (two weeks), week, day, hour, minute, second. You can put a positive or negative number in front of a modifier as a multiplier. For example:
clock format [clock scan "10:30:44 PM 1 week"]
=> Sun Dec 01 22:30:44 1996
clock format [clock scan "10:30:44 PM -1 week"]
Sun Nov 17 22:30:44 1996
You can also use tomorrow, yesterday, today, now, last, this, next, and ago, as modifiers.
clock format [clock scan "3 years ago"]
=> Wed Nov 24 17:06:46 1993
Both clock format and clock scan take a -gmt option that uses Greenwich Mean Time. Otherwise, the local time zone is used.
clock format [clock seconds] -gmt true
=> Sun Nov 24 09:25:29 1996
clock format [clock seconds] -gmt false
=> Sun Nov 24 17:25:34 1996


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Last week I wrote about a robot that does its best to avoid people when they're angry. The video below shows another that's pretty good at doing the opposite. Created by researchers at Brown University, it wheels along behind a person at a set distance, as if attached to an invisible rope.
The robot uses a camera to identify and follow the person in front of it. Usually this kind of system needs to be recalibrated for changes in lighting and camera movement.
The Brown team developed image-recognition software and combined it with a special depth-imaging camera. The camera uses infrared, allowing the robot to identify and focus on the silhouette of a user. "This allows us to reasonably segment people from background scenery with less dependence on lighting condition," says Chad Jenkins, an assistant professor of computer science at Brown University who presented the work at this year's Human-Robot Interaction conference in California. Even if multiple people pass in front of the robot, it still stays focused on its designated user. A controller can issue a set number of verbal or gestural commands, which the robot can recognize.
"It's impressive work," says Charlie Kemp, a professor at Georgia Tech University who works on robotic assistants and wasn't involved with the research. "In general it's very easy for robots to get confused, especially while they're trying to keep up with a person."
Challenges that remain include getting the robot to understand gestures from a person standing in profile, and refining the system to work in bright sunlight.


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Apollo vibrations feel like waves coming and going. This sensation feels natural because it is. Apollo's modes match a natural oscillation pattern between the heart and lungs when we breathe deeply, which consistently improves HRV. Apollo has seven modes to support life's activities:
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Kompromat, and polezni durak
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Kompromat (Russian: компромат; short for компрометирующий материал, literally "compromising material") is the Russian term for compromising materials about a politician or other public figure. Such materials can be used to create negative publicity, for blackmail, or for ensuring loyalty.
Will kompromat be 2017's word of the year?
And while we're on the subject of Russian turns-of-phrase: a "polezni durak" is how Michael Hayden, a former head of both the CIA and NSA, has described President-elect Donald Trump. Translation: a "useful fool." This term (полезный дурак, tr. polezni durak) has been attributed to Lenin by some Russian writers (e.g. Vladimir Bukovsky in 1984) and Western commentators. However, in 1987 American journalist William Safire noted that a Library of Congress librarian hadn't been able to find the phrase in Lenin's works. The book They Never Said It also suggests the attribution is false.


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Tissue Paper Square Frame
Project Sheet: cd1886
- Square Cream Frame
- Tissue Paper
- Mod Podge-Matte
- Painter's Tape
- Craft Knife/Razor Blade
- Glossy Accents
1. Using painter's tape, tape off the glass of
2. Using a paint brush, brush on a layer of Mod Podge to the front surface of the frame.
3. Lay a piece of tissue paper on top of the frame, gently pressing into the grooves of the
frame. Let dry for 30 minutes.
4. Gently brush on a layer of Mod Podge to the top of the layer of tissue paper. Lay
another layer of tissue paper on top of the other. Pressing gently into the grooves of
the frame. Let dry completely.
5. Gently brush on a layer of Mod Podge over the top surface of the frame/tissue paper.
6. Use a craft knife to cut along the inside edge of the frame, to cut away any excess
tissue paper. Make sure that it is dry before you do this, or it will tear the tissue
7. Using the Glossy Accents, adhere the sequins to the center of each indented circle on
the frame. Let dry.
8. Place photo inside of frame.


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Competence corresponding to learning outcomes in BYG 1371 or BYG 1261
Expected learning outcomes
The student must
- have an overview over the needs of physically disabled; accessibility and participation in society
- analyze and understand how to project and make action plan and make implementation possible
- Mapping: the student must identify the needs of registration to be able to consider accessibility for groups of people with special needs. The students must also have know when they have to register specially and what to find in different accessible databases.
- Projecting: The students got to contribute in building projects by converting regulations to realistic solutions. The students must evaluate outdoor environments regards to physical considerations as materials, design, geometry, climate and working maintenance to be able to discuss and decide how and where to start a project.
- Regulations: To secure the implementation of projects, the students must find out how to use the regulations on a superior and detailed level.
- Carry out planning work and include accessibility for physically disabilities in a conscious, goal-oriented and thoughtful way,
- Physically disabled
- Mapping and registration (indoor, outdoor, buildings, traffic, environment)
- Physical projects (shape, materials, geometry, working and maintenance)
- Universal Design and protection of cultural monuments
Form(s) of Assessment
Form(s) of Assessment (additional text)
Alphabetical Scale, A(best) – F (fail)


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Increasing evidence in Australia reveals extreme levels of disadvantage for Indigenous populations, particularly those who were removed from their families and communities, and refugee populations, predominantly those emerging from immigration detention centres. The paper argues that interdisciplinary perspectives supplement the field of demography in analysing the reasons why such disadvantage persists. Using the concept of 'racialised banishment', the findings from qualitative and ethnographic research in Australia are presented to examine how both Indigenous peoples and asylum seekers/refugees have been excluded from the nation state through removal to sites of isolation (reserves, missions, immigration detention); by denial of normative state rights (liberty and economic and social rights); and through the denigration of cultural, spiritual and religious identities (Indigenous relationship with land and Muslim asylum seekers). The paper poses the question of how exclusionary trends might be reversed to overcome disadvantage and to reinstate rights to both population groups.
Seminar, speech or other presentation
Paper presented at the 2012 NIDEA Seminar Series, Hamilton, New Zealand, 24 May 2012