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# Manage content
Access from homepage: Select your event > Design > Digital content
Content refers to digital content that the event organiser or partners give to visitors at an event. This could be brochures, white papers, images, website links and so on. Visitors collect the content by tapping a touchpoint or scanning a QR code.
This page describes how to add content to Visit, how to print content QR codes and how to assign/unassign touchpoints to content.
Partners can also add digital content, using Visit Connect. For more information, refer to Visit Connect - Add digital content.
# Content groups
There are three types of content:
- Event content: event organisers can create and manage event content in Visit.
- Partner content: Visit creates a digital partner content record every time a partner is added. You cannot manually add partner content groups.
- Product content: Product content is linked to each Visit Touchpoint that an exhibitor has at an event. Product content requires a Visit Touchpoint license. Partners add this content using Visit Connect.
# Add an event content group
Select + Add.
Create an event content group:
- Enter a name for the event content group. Visit uses this to display the content in the UI.
- Optional: enter a description.
- Select Upload file to upload your logo.
- Select Save.
# Add content to a group
- Before adding content, either Add an event content group or select an existing group to Edit groups and content
- Select Add content.
- Enter a name for the content. Visit uses this to display the content in the UI.
- Select the content Type. Depending on the type, you have the option to upload assets or enter text.
- Select Save to add the content and return to the company information page.
- Select Add content to add more content, or select ← Back to return to the content list.
# Edit groups and content
- Hover over the content group you want to edit.
- Select Edit.
- Change the content settings, or select Add content to add more content.
- Select Save.
# Bulk import and export partner logos and descriptions
Access from homepage: Select your event > Design > Digital content > Partner content
You can import partner logos and descriptions from a spreadsheet, to bulk update partner digital content. The logo and description appear in the Visitor Portal when a visitor interacts with the partner.
- Select Import.
- Select Download to download a template.
- Add partner logos to the template. The template file contains detailed instructions.
- Select Upload file to upload your logo spreadsheet.
- Select Import to add the logos to Visit.
You can also export the same partner information:
- Select Export.
- Choose the export file type.
- Select Export. Visit prepares the file.
- When the file is ready, select Downloads, then select the file you want to download.
# Content QR codes
QR codes automatically appear in Visit and Visit Connect when the QR code feature is activated. Partners can download and print them from Visit Connect. To activate QR codes, your organisation must have the Visitor Portal module in its contract, and your Visit account manager must add the QR code license to the event. Contact your account manager for more information.
# Print content QR codes
You are able to print the QR codes of content with a connected Zebra printer. This is currently only supported in Chrome on macOS and Chrome on Windows 7 or higher.
On Windows a one time driver installation is required:
- Download the Zadig USB driver installation tool, you can get it here (opens new window)
- Plug in your Zebra printer
- Run the downloaded tool, no installation is required.
- Select the Zebra printer from the dropdown list (e.g. 'ZTC G420d'). If it's not available in the list, try selecting Options > List all devices
- Select WinUSB in the input field
- Select Install driver or Replace driver
- Make sure your Zebra printer is plugged in
- Select the content items you want to print
- Select Print QR codes
QR codes can be printed in different formats: small, large and large with help (this includes content details).
# Assign / unassign Touchpoints to content
Touchpoints can be assigned and unassigned to and from Digital Content in both Visit and EventBox.
Access from homepage: Select your event > Design > Digital content > Event content / Partner content
- Select Design > Digital Content
- Select the content you wish to assign a Touchpoint to
- Plug a Touchpoint with compatible firmware (contact your client manager) to your computer and press connect
- Place the Touchpoint you wish to link to your content on the plugged Touchpoint and assign it.
Auto assign Touchpoints
For a faster assign process, click on the auto assign button. This will automatically select the next digital content on the list and the user can simply place a new Touchpoint on the plugged Touchpoint to get it assigned.
To unassign a Touchpoint, simply place a linked Touchpoint on the plugged Touchpoint and click on unassign.
It's possible to automatically print a label with a Zebra printer when you check print label
For information on adding the content to Touchpoints via EventBox, refer to Assign a touchpoint to an exhibitor.


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This exemplar video segment shows a teacher providing verbal praise after children complete a math activity. She uses words of encouragement to reinforce their accomplishments and the desired behaviors she noticed.
Part of: Examples
Topic: Language Facilitation and Support
Category: Category 2: Teacher-Child Interactions | Subcategory: Category 2: Language Facilitation and Support | Measure: P-LFS-02: Positive Encouragement and Reinforcement

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What is flow in jazz performance?
Revision as of 00:21, 23 September 2016 by Dr.davidcring
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has researched and written extensively on the idea of a flow state. It is a state of no effort where although a person is a causal agent the process of activity production took place with an effortless grace. The activity of being an agent during that activity goes without requiring thoughtfulness. Presumably, unconscious embodied cognitive processes have taken charge of the activity so the ego and conscious agency basically need contribute little or nothing to the process and can merely observe without seeming to actively participate in the sense of having to figure something out. The music just happens.
- How and why is this possible?


SMU's campus comprises many architecturally significant buildings organized among a beautifully landscaped setting which, over time, has successfully achieved an ageless style. Its Collegiate Georgian architectural style provides both a harmonious and traditional environment with unsurpassed beauty. It was Thomas Jefferson's design for the University of Virginia with architectural elements inspired by the Roman Pantheon that established President Robert Hyer's vision for the campus.
Three images depicting Jefferson, Hyer and The University of Virginia Rotunda
A Brief History of SMU by Marshall Terry contains the following essay about the first SMU president's choices:
The SMU story has to do with the growth of this original prairie college into a nationally recognized university in so short a time through the efforts of dedicated people who in one way or another shared SMU's vision. The one who brought this vision of a great university to be built on a sea of Johnson grass outside a young, still-frontier city in Texas was a research scientist and educator and SMU's founding president, Dr. Robert Stewart Hyer. Such was the scope of his belief in the future of this new university that he (as the story goes) chose for it the colors of Harvard and Yale and the Latin motto "veritas liberabit vos" - "the truth will make you free" - a Biblical quote that was echoed by Methodist leader Charles Wesley in his saying, "Let us unite those two so long divided, truth and vital piety.
Dr. Hyer also conceived a magnificent building in the style, no less, of Thomas Jefferson's University of Virginia to be the original home and forever the symbol of SMU. For a while, after the miracle of it being actually built, it would sit almost alone on the prairie campus and house the whole new university. Recognizing the early very real financial commitment of the city of Dallas to SMU, it would be named Dallas Hall.
Today, visitors to the SMU campus will appreciate the continuing respect for President Hyer's original campus vision with dozens of beautiful Collegiate Georgian buildings honoring his original choice. The stately red brick Collegiate Georgian buildings - with their gracious proportions, porticoes, and soaring cupolas - look forward to the second century at SMU.
Image depicting proposed buildings on upper half of campus


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The primary growth from the spore of a moss, usually consisting of branching confervoid filaments, on any part of which stem and leaf buds may be developed.
Stage of growth after spore germination. Protonema
The green, branched, algae-like threads produced from the spore and sometimes persistent.
pl. protonemata) the filamentous (moss) or thallose (fern) gametophyte stage of non-seed plants
moss sporophyte. algae-like strands that contain numerous chloroplasts

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|Graphing Random Walk|
I am trying a produce a random walk for a distance n and my task is to
find how many times along the walk the difference between the two values
produced is 0. The walk gives a binary output and is linked to two
selective groups. I feel I have successfully completed this bit, but am
having difficulty plotting a graph to show this. The plot should be the x
value against the natural numbers, thus a visual description of how many
times the graph goes through the x-axis, to prove the Y value produced.
What function should I use to plot this graph?
Does the function need to be done within the "For" function?
If anyone has any ideas or clues as to how I can overcome this problem,
please be in touch.
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Maximum Difference In An Array
April 1, 2011
Today's problem is this:
Given an array X, find the j and i that maximizes Xj − Xi, subject to the condition that i ≤ j. If two different i,j pairs have equal differences, choose the "leftmost shortest" pair with the smallest i and, in case of a tie, the smallest j.
For instance, given an array [4, 3, 9, 1, 8, 2, 6, 7, 5], the maximum difference is 7 when i=3 and j=4. Given the array [4, 2, 9, 1, 8, 3, 6, 7, 5], the maximum difference of 7 appears at two points, but by the leftmost-shortest rule the desired result is i=1 and j=2. I and j need not be adjacent, as in the array [4, 3, 9, 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 5], where the maximum difference of 7 is achieved when i=3 and j=7. If the array is monotonically decreasing the maximum difference is 0, which by the leftmost-shortest rule occurs when i=0 and j=0.
There are at least two solutions. The obvious solution that runs in quadratic time uses two nested loops, the outer loop over i from 0 to the length of the array n and the inner loop over j from i+1 to n, computing the difference between Xi and Xj and saving the result whenever a new maximum difference is found. There is also a clever linear-time solution that traverses the array once, simultaneously searching for a new minimum value and a new maximum difference; you'll get it if you think about it for a minute.
Your task is to write both the quadratic and linear functions to compute the maximum difference in an array, and also a test function that demonstrates they are correct. When you are finished, you are welcome to read or run a suggested solution, or to post your own solution or discuss the exercise in the comments below.
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Joining a multi academy trust is an important decision and one that should result from a period of careful consideration and discussions with a range of potential partners. We have found it helpful to be really clear on the things that we consider important in making these decisions, the first of which is by the far the most important.
Things to consider when joining a multi academy trust:
- Vision and values match with an unflinching determination to improve opportunities and outcomes for all children and young people.
- Consideration of why you want to join our Trust, how we can support your school and how you can contribute to the Trust.
- Willingness to undertake a thorough two-way due diligence process.
- Financial robustness.
- A desire to be part of a thriving community of senior and middle leaders.


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Odyssey 2018 - An Analysis of Transfer Learning for Domain Mismatched Text-independent Speaker Verification June 27, 2018
Chunlei Zhang, Shivesh Ranjan and John Hansen
In this paper, we present transfer learning for deep neural network based text-independent speaker verification, in the presence of a severe mismatch between the enrollment and the test data. Given a pre-trained speaker embedding network developed with out-of domain data, we explore and analyze how this pre-trained model can benefit for the in-domain speaker verification task. Two alternative strategies are investigated to perform transfer learning, i.e., vanilla transfer learning (V-TL) and curriculum learning based transfer learning (CL-TL). The proposed methods are validated on UT-SCOPE-physical speech corpus, where we create a setup to introduce mismatched evaluation conditions with the neutral and the physical task stressed speech. Experimental results confirm the effectiveness of both V-TL and CL-TL techniques. Employing transfer learning based on the pre-trained model, we are able to achieve a +47.7% relative improvement over a conventional i-vector/PLDA system and a +30.6% relative improvement over a recent proposed end-to-end system, respectively.
Cite as: Zhang, C., Ranjan, S., Hansen, J. (2018) An Analysis of Transfer Learning for Domain Mismatched Text-independent Speaker Verification. Proc. Odyssey 2018 The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop, 181-186, DOI: 10.21437/Speaker Odyssey.2018-26.


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Conventional wetting theories on rough surfaces with Wenzel, Cassie-Baxter, and Penetrate modes suggest the possibility of tuning the contact angle by adjusting the surface texture. Despite decades of intensive study, there are still many experimental results that are not well understood because conventional wetting theory, which assumes an infinite droplet size, has been used to explain measurements of finite-sized droplets. Here, we suggest a wetting theory applicable to a wide range of droplet size for the three wetting modes by analyzing the free energy landscape with many local minima originated from the finite size. We find that the conventional theory predicts the contact angle at the global minimum if the droplet size is about 40 times or larger than the characteristic scale of the surface roughness, regardless of wetting modes. Furthermore, we obtain the energy barrier of pinning which can induce the contact angle hysteresis as a function of geometric factors. We validate our theory against experimental results on an anisotropic rough surface. In addition, we discuss the wetting on non-uniformly rough surfaces. Our findings clarify the extent to which the conventional wetting theory is valid and expand the physical understanding of wetting phenomena of small liquid drops on rough surfaces.
The contact angle is a material property determined by the surface tensions between substrate, liquid, and vapor1. Because the materials with extremely small or large contact angles, i.e., with super hydrophilicity or super hydrophobicity, are applicable in many ways, there have been a myriad of studies that have investigated tuning the contact angle via the surface roughness of the substrate based on the conventional wetting theory of rough surface with Wenzel (W), Cassie-Baxter (CB), and Penetrate (P, which is also referred to as hemi-wicking2) modes3,4,5,6,7,8,9.
However, the conventional wetting theory1,10,11,12 assumes that the liquid droplet is much larger than the characteristic scale of the surface roughness, which frequently is not justifiable in many experiments. Therefore, the contact angle predictions using the conventional theory differ from experimental results when the droplet size is small13,14,15,16,17,18,19. The conventional theory considers a straight boundary between the liquid and the vapor regardless of the three-phase contact line location or the droplet size1,10,11,12,20. However, because the realistic contour of a liquid droplet forms part of a sphere21, the assumption does not hold when the droplet size to surface texture scale ratio is small. There have been several studies to overcome the limitations of the conventional wetting theories for the small droplet, based on wetting free energy calculations. As a pioneer of the subject, Marmur et al.12,13 modelled the 2D circular droplet on the heterogeneous in CB mode or the saw-tooth-like rough surface in W mode, and clarified that the wetting on the rough surface can involve multiple local free energy minima with different contact angles and that the contact angle of the global free energy minimum approaches to that of the conventional theory only when the scale of the liquid droplet is much bigger than the scale of the periodicity of the rough surface. Shahraz et al.22 computed the wetting free energies of every possible pinning points on the surface with periodic rectangular protrusions in W or CB mode, to predict the contact angles of the liquid droplet with finite volume at multiple pinning points. However, since the free energy landscape between the pinning points were not investigated, it cannot be guaranteed that all the pinning points investigated in the study are at local free energy minima.
In this work, we present a more generalized wetting theory by considering the entire free energy landscape including the transition configuration between the pinning points in three wetting modes, P, W, and CB, on a surface with rectangular protrusions as well as non-uniformly rough surfaces. First, we confirm that the pinning phenomena can be understood by the existence of multiple local minima of the free energy landscape separated by energy barriers. For all wetting modes (P, W, and CB), we show that the contact angle at the global minimum recovers the prediction of conventional wetting theory within 2° when the droplet size (diameter of the initial droplet) becomes at least 40 times larger than the characteristic scale of the surface roughness (periodicity of the texture). Second, we compute the free energy barriers between available pinning points in all wetting modes. For P and CB modes, the energy barrier between local minima tends to decrease as the contact angle becomes further apart from the contact angle at the global minimum energy and eventually becomes zero, which enables us to predict the ultimate bound of advancing and receding angles. Our theory is then applied to explain the measured contact angle on the surface with anisotropic roughness19. Finally, we calculate the free energy of the wetting on the non-uniformly rough surface and reaffirm in terms of free energy that the contact angle is determined by the roughness of the substrate near the three-phase contact line20,23, not by the overall roughness within the droplet-substrate contact area. When the effect of gravity is ignored22, the proposed theory is universally valid for any scale of droplets unless the droplet diameter is a few nanometers or smaller because we assume that the interfacial energy of rough surface can be written as the flat surface interfacial energy multiplied the ratio of true area to the apparent area. The length scale of the molecular interaction is known to be about one to two nanometers24. Our theory reproduces the conventional wetting theory in the limit of an infinite ratio between the droplet size and characteristic scale of surface roughness.
For the mathematical simplicity, we consider a two-dimensional (2D) finite-sized liquid droplet. As illustrated in Fig. 1a, we model the rough surface as periodic rectangular textures and model the boundary of the liquid droplet as an arc of a circle while ignoring the effect of gravity. In other words, our 2D droplet is a simplification of an infinitely long cylindrical droplet. Even though our theory cannot provide the exact quantitative prediction of contact angle of realistic spherical-cap-like 3D droplets, it can still offer qualitative physical understanding about the wetting of small droplet on rough surface, such as the origin of pinning, the wetting on non-uniformly rough surface, and contact angle change upon droplet volume change. The transition between the pinning points in CB and P modes is modelled by assuming that the three-phase contact line horizontally slides between the top of grooves. In W mode, we assume that the liquid tip forms a vertical straight line when inside a groove. While such an assumption may cause a small numerical difference, the resulting free energy landscape would correctly capture the multiple local minima and the energy barriers between them qualitatively well (See Supplementary Information).
We find that the free energy has local minima when one end of the droplet is fixed at either the left or right corner of the step. Two cases are illustrated in the inset of Fig. 1b. Because a hydrophobic surface prefers to reduce the contact area between the droplet and the substrate at a given contact angle, Case I has the lower free energy for the hydrophobic surfaces (θe > 90°), and Case II has the lower free energy for the hydrophilic surfaces (θe < 90°) (see Supplementary Information for more details). θe refers to the equilibrium contact angle on a flat surface determined by Young's equation1, σLV cos θe = σSV − σSL, where σLV, σSV and σSL denote the liquid-vapor, solid-vapor and solid-liquid interfacial energies, respectively. For the two cases, the number of grooves below the liquid droplet n can be expressed with length of the baseline L, width of the step W, and width of the groove G, as described below.
n1 is the number of groove-step pairs which fully covered with liquid, hence a natural number, and n is defined to account for partially filled grooves (real number). The overbar indicates the dimensionless variables. In what follows, all length and energy variables are normalized against the radius of the circular droplet R0 (i.e. the volume of droplet is ) and σLVR0, respectively. The values of n are visualized in Fig. 1b. for the case when and. As illustrated in the figure, n continuously increases when the three-phase contact line is on the groove and is conserved when the contact line is on the step, as increases. Thereafter, the radius of the curvature and the free energy of each wetting modes can be derived in terms of n, geometrical factors, and θ, which are presented in Table 1. Details on the numerical calculations are described in the Supporting Information. Because the current study considers only 2D droplet cases, the effect of the line tension25 can be ignored. However, one needs to incorporate the line tension effect when dealing with 3D droplets on textured surfaces26,27.
Based on the free energy expression as a function of θ, we can find the allowable contact angles with free energy minima at a given roughness factor28, i.e., the ratio of the true surface area to the projected area. For example, Fig. 1c–e show the relationship between the free energy and the contact angle for the W mode when r = 1.2, 1.5 and 1.8, respectively when (i.e., a droplet


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The study involved 66 spider-phobic women who watched a video of a spider 14 times. The participants were randomly divided into different groups to either watch the video every two hours or every 12 hours, and either in the morning or evening, or after spending a night sleeping or a full day awake.
The researchers also sounded off a loud noise during some of the videos and then measured the participants' palm sweat in response.
Overall, women who managed to get a good night's sleep after watching the spider videos — before being shown the spiders again — were less likely to rate the spider high on a scale of "fearfulness, disgust, and unpleasantness," according to the Harvard Gazette.
On the other hand, subjects who stayed awake for 12 hours after watching the spider videos and were then shown the videos again at the end of the day exhibited a stronger stress response.
There was no evident difference in reaction between participants who viewed the spider videos in the morning or the evening.
"Thus, sleep following exposure therapy may promote retention and generalization of extinction learning," the researchers wrote in the study.
The researchers added that REM sleep in particular could be responsible for the effect.
Recently, a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences study showed that severely arachnophobic adults who participated in just one session of therapy experienced brain changes that allowed them to hold a tarantula in their hands. The effect lasted six months after the therapy session.
"Before treatment, some of these participants wouldn't walk on grass for fear of spiders or would stay out of their home or dorm room for days if they thought a spider was present," study researcher Katherina Hauner, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow in neurology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, said in a statement.
"But after a two or three-hour treatment, they were able to walk right up and touch or hold a tarantula. And they could still touch it after six months," Hauner said.
The study is published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research.
Source: Journal of Psychiatric Research


Pet peeve – use of "literally."
If you don't understand literally vice figuratively, _TAG_ can set you straight. Rule#2 of _TAG_ is everything is literal. AI does exactly as you tell it. That can be annoying from a child or spouse or customer service chatbot. AI doesn't have the contextual preferences of humans – which emotes angst and joy in the uncovering. Given a problem, AI is going to take the tasking literally. For example:
I hooked a neural network up to my Roomba. I wanted it to learn to navigate without bumping into things, so I set up a reward scheme to encourage speed and discourage hitting the bumper sensors. It learnt to drive backwards, because there are no bumpers on the back. – _USER_
This is an interesting concept because the "bugs" that you deal with your computer, your phone, your network, your business are likely a synergy of literal translation. Code knows 0 or 1, and coders get that. The rest of us are swimming in "why the hell is this broken" when the answer is a literal question return.
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Fisheries Minister Joe Ludwig and Environment Minister Tony Burke are seeking advice on whether to allow the Abel Tasman super trawler to act as a factory ship. Seafish Tasmania aims to skirt the fishing ban on the super trawler by contracting smaller Australian-licensed trawlers to bring the small pelagic fish, caught under quota, to it for processing.
Before a decision is made on whether or not to allow transhipment at sea in the Small Pelagic Fishery, the fisheries management authority is seeking comment from interested stakeholders.
While there is some dispute over the sustainability of the quota in the Small Pelagic Fishery, the quota was approved by scientists. The real issue that led to disallowing the Abel Tasman from fishing was the death of protected Australian fur seals (Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus) in the trawler's nets.
Seals are attracted to an easy feed: trawler nets provide this. While seal exclusion devices (SEDs) are fitted to nets, some seals inevitably fail to escape and drown.
However, the small trawlers will likely kill more seals – for the same tonnage of small pelagics – than the large Abel Tasman would have. While the super trawler's net would have trapped seals, it would have been more effective at reducing seal deaths because of design improvements made to it compared with the devices fitted on the smaller trawlers.
Underwater cameras have shown that more seals meet their demise in mid-water trawl nets of the small trawlers than was previously thought. This is because the dead ones roll out of the net unseen during hauling. There is considerable scope to further refine the orientation, size and scope of seal exclusion devices. But crucial trials to find optimum devices have not taken place, due to lack of funding.
Bycatch is not a plausible reason for selectively banning the Abel Tasman. The Commonwealth's South East Trawl Sector, with many more vessels, is already far more destructive than the Small Pelagic Fishery.
The South East Trawl Fishery interacts strongly with – that is, kills – the protected Australian fur seal and, to a lesser extent, the Australian sea lion (Neophoca cinera). This species is listed as vulnerable under the EPBC Act.
Between 1993 and 2000, the Scientific Monitoring Program suggested that an average of 720 fur seals are caught incidentally by the small trawl vessels in the South East Trawl Fishery each year. (The Abel Tasman, had it been allowed to fish, would have had its activity suspended any time it caught three fur seals.)
Compared with large vessel operators, who are well resourced, the operators of the smaller vessels or "wet-boats", are constrained in applying mitigation methods such as seal exclusion devices. Recent trials of a flexible SED design have been relatively successful, but reliably estimating and reducing the level of interactions between seals and wet-boats remains an issue.
Conservation groups have been slow to grasp the South East Trawl nettle. Perhaps they are worried about the consumer backlash if flathead supplies to Sydney and Melbourne were diminished. There was no such risk in calling for a ban on the super trawler catching sardines for export.
The factory ship operation will be economically efficient in allowing the small feeder vessels to continuously fish. Moreover, it will be sustainable in the sense that the quota is very conservative, compared with other Commonwealth fisheries, representing only a small fraction of the biomass of the small pelagics.
If the factory ship is banned, consistency demands a moratorium in mid-water trawling elsewhere.
If there is no ban then there will be seal deaths. But this would be more acceptable if it was accompanied by the announcement of a major effort by the Commonwealth to seriously address the issue of bycatch in its trawl fisheries.


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Cradle of Forestry to celebrate International Migratory Bird DayWritten by Admin
A day of events to celebrate International Migratory Bird Day is scheduled for Saturday, May 12, at the Cradle of Forestry.
Activities for the day include:
- 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.: Family birding walks offer beginning and intermediate birders an in-depth look at local and migratory songbird species. After learning about binocular use, bird characteristics and habitat preferences, the group will look and listen for birds by the Forest Discovery Center and along paved trails to identify species present.
- 1:30 p.m.: A live raptor program with Wild for Life Wildlife Rehabilitation Center staff. Meet the center's rescued birds and learn their stories.
- 2:30 p.m.: During the Backyard Birding program, get tips on observing and conserving birds that live around our homes.
- 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.: Ongoing activities at the Forest Discovery Center show the wonder of birds and teach how we can all do our part for their conservation.


- Amy Toledano
Orangutan Presented by Cup of Brew
What is it?
A young woman examines her current lot in life and the past event that shaped the person she has become.
What's it all about?
Alice (Louise Waller) is twenty four and lives with her mum. She lives with her mum because when her parents divorced her Dad moved to Wales with his girlfriend and Alice did not want to live on a boat like the rest of the Welsh. She is back in the house with her mum because her and her lawyer boyfriend Jamie have broken up and Alice can't find a job. She spends her time gardening and researching Orangutans, her favourite member of the ape family. But Alice's relationship with these clever creatures is complicated, and as we delve more into her world we learn of her childhood experience of falling into an Orangutan enclosure at the zoo, and the impact this event has had on her life,
How did it make me feel?
This show plays with many different elements, and Waller's performance is energised and interesting. The writing by Toby King is varied and articulate, however the character felt at times under developed and slightly vague, with more focus on being angry and defensive than exploring why she was so affected by the experience she had a child. Her erratic and energetic behaviour is at times hard to follow, and I often felt like I was playing catch up with what was going on. However the show did a lovely job of linking the emotional experience of animal and man, and the heavy choices we make in a split second. The set was simple and effective in creating the cluttered and hermit-like mind of Alice at this current point in her life.
Anything Else?
The show has a lot of potential, and while a work in progress is an interesting take on the pressure that is piled onto young people to succeed in a world that sets them up to fail.
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1860 - 1900 The factory was founded in 1860 by Mr. De Naeyer.
In 1863 the paper pulp factory was in full operation. A sort of porridge was made from straw and lime milk, which was used to make paper. The initial production was eight tonnes per day, 10 years later this increased to forty tonnes. During the Franco-German war in 1870 the straw was scarce and De Naeyer was forced to test other raw materials such as reed, alpha grass and wood.
In 1871, twelve new boilers were made to make paper dough and the factory was the first in Belgium to make paper dough from needle hold.
In 1874 the factory actually started their own paper production, this was done on one machine and the production amounted to approximately 5 tons. In 1888 they eventually worked with four machines and the 5th was already under construction. The factory also received more and more staff and lived in the houses built by Mr. De Naeyer.
In 1914 the factory had to stop all its activities due to a lack of resources and the occupation by soldiers. The company was ultimately so damaged that it was totally impossible to continue the work. The factory was restored in 1920 and it was not until 1929 that the factory was running at full capacity. Unfortunately it was hit by the crisis that came over from America and it took until 1935 before any improvement could be observed. In 1939 the factory was shut down due to a shortage of employees due to the second world war that started a year later.
Between 1940 and 1945 the factory was heavily damaged by bombing, which caused the large fires in the paper and wood supplies. At the end of the war, only 1 machine was left to be able to use it, but a law passed in October 1942 meant that companies where the damage was higher than 25 percent had to stay still. In fact, the company never really went very well after that time. In the 1960s the factory existed for 100 years and this was celebrated generously, but at the end of 1974 a general crisis arose that hit the factory hard. Competition from Italy caused prices to fall sharply, which led to a reorganisation on 1977 and 260 layoffs.
Despite everything turned out to be better and the company also started working together with Van Gelder, the company had to close its doors definitively on 26 April 2004.
The construction activity from the beginning of 2017 is noticeable on the historic site De Naeyer. A large part of the old factory was demolished, the soil was remediated and a new subdivision is gradually taking shape. Attention is given to the protected water tower around which a central square will be provided. The old office building will be renovated and both will take an important place in the whole.


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Comparing the Overlapping of Two Independent Confidence Intervals with a Single Confidence Interval for Two Normal Population Parameters
Type of DegreeDissertation
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Two overlapping confidence intervals have been used in many sources in the past 30 years to conduct statistical inferences about two normal population means. Several authors have examined the shortcomings of Overlap procedure in the past 13 years and have determined that such a method completely distorts the significance level of testing the null hypothesis of two normal population means and reduces the statistical power of the test. Nearly all results for small sample sizes in Overlap literature have been obtained either by simulation or by somewhat inaccurate formulas, and only large-sample (or known-variance) exact information has been provided. Nevertheless, there are many aspects of Overlap that have not yet been presented in the literature and compared against the standard statistical procedure. This paper will present exact formulas for the % overlap, ranging in the interval (0, 61.3626%] for a 0.05-level test, that two independent confidence intervals (CIs) can have, but the null hypothesis of equality of two population means must still be rejected at a pre-assigned level of significance for sample sizes? 2. The exact impact of Overlap on the?alpha-level and the power of pooled-t test will also be presented. Further, the impact of Overlap on the power of the F-statistic in testing the null hypothesis of equality of two normal process variances will be assessed. Finally, we will use the noncentral t distribution, which has never been applied in Overlap literature, to assess the Overlap impact on type II error probability when testing the equality of two population means for sample sizes equal two.


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An Urban Explorer's Guide To Finding & Exploring Secret Bunkers
By Matt Scofield
February 19, 2020 6:00 AM ‐ UndergroundUrbExLong Reads
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I've been fascinated by secret underground bunkers for 20 years or more, I've been lucky enough to have visited some of the most secure underground hideouts in the country and have researched hundreds of sites across the UK.
Bunker exploration is a subset of urban exploration, a closely related past time which involves exploring and photographing decaying and forgotten man-made structures. Bunker exploration focuses on man-made and man-used underground spaces, and therefore shouldn't be confused with the hobbies spelunking, caving or potholing, which focus on natural cave systems.
In this guide to bunker exploration I will share some of the techniques that urban explorers use to find bunkers and underground structures, tips on how to safely gain access and advice on staying safe and making the most of your time underground.
Bunkers are generally categorised by their usage. For example an artillery bunker for defending weapons and ammunition against enemy fire. Industrial bunkers, which house data storage and underground control centres. Personal bunkers are generally constructed within a house. Munitions bunkers are used to store high explosives in order to prevent and contain any potential blasts.
However in the world of bunker exploration, explorers categorise the locations they visit based on its method of construction. This is because the bunkers are usually now abandoned, so their most recent use is of less importance when you consider that bunkers often go through several different uses during their lifetime and often start out as something completely different.
Urban explorers tend to recognise and even discover bunkers to explore based on the following traits.
Purpose Built
Cheyenne Mountain Complex
Purpose built bunkers are generally either semi-sunk concrete reinforced blockhouses, facilities constructed just below the surface of the ground using a technique called "cut and cover", or a network of chambers and tunnels excavated underground or within a hill or mountain. Essentially, purpose built bunkers are holes in the ground that didn't exist before the bunker was constructed. They can range from being partially above ground through to being fully subterranean deep-level shelters.
One of the most famous purpose built bunkers is the Cheyenne Mountain Complex, a US military bunker built into the side of a mountain near Colorado Springs. Building a bunker from scratch costs a lot of money. The Cheyenne Mountain Complex cost about $140 million back in the 1960s, that's around or $1 billion in today's money.
One of the bunker's can be seen here heading South along East Main Road.
Photo: © Crown Copyright
A cheaper option than building a bunker from scratch is to re-purpose an existing underground space. Most commonly this is cave networks or underground mines or quarries, which are converted into secure underground locations. This technique was widely used in Wiltshire in the run up to the two World Wars and the Cold War.
Several former stone quarries were converted in to huge underground ammunition stores, subterranean aircraft factories and armed forces command centres. These type of bunkers are most prevalent in Wiltshire, but similar structures built within similar underground spaces exist all around the world.
One of the most impressive examples of this type of facility is the mammoth Burlington bunker in Corsham. It's less of an underground bunker and more like a subterranean city, its tunnels and roadways seem to stretch endlessly and the whole complex is constructed in a former stone quarry.
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Hidden Bunkers
Whitehall Ministry Of Defence, London
Another method of bunker building is to construct the facility under or within a building. This can mean building a hardened network of chambers in the building's foundations at the same time the building is being constructed, or an existing basement is retrofitted, hardened and converted into a bunker. In Switzerland, there is an unusually large number of this sort of bunker because of a law requiring protective shelters to be constructed for all new buildings since 1963.
The most famous examples of bunkers of this kind are in central London. The British's government's PINDAR bunker was constructed in the 1990s beneath the Ministry of Defence headquarters on Whitehall and includes COBRA, Cabinet Office Briefing Room A.
Just across the road is Winston Churchill's Cabinet War Rooms, built in a reinforced basement beneath the treasury building. The bunker is now one of London's most famous tourist attractions.
Nuclear Bunkers
Hack Green Nuclear Bunker
Nuclear bunkers can be constructed in any of the three previously mentioned methods, but they tend to have very distinctive design elements, characteristics and, because they are more modern having been built during the Cold War, tend to be in better condition and have more interesting features.
Nuclear bunkers were still being constructed in the UK as far into the Cold War as the early-90s. They are constructed to a much more robust standard of engineering compared to older wartime bunkers as they needed to be able to offer blast protection and protect their inhabitants from the dangers of radioactive fallout.
Because nuclear bunkers were kept on standby until the late-80s and early-90s, they are generally still in very good condition and the specific details of their uses are better documented. A great example of this is the Hack Green nuclear bunker in Nantwich, Cheshire. It is now open to the public as a museum, which perfectly demonstrates how interesting bunkers of it era are. It's packed full of broadcast, monitoring and survival equipment from the era and the purpose of every room in the two-level bunker is understood.
How To Spot A Bunker
Admiralty Citadel - Horse Guards Parade, London
If you're reading this page then you probably already have some interest in secret bunkers, perhaps you've been driving a long and noticed a suspicious looking mound of grass in an otherwise flat area at the roadside or a hardened basement-level door in the side of a local building. But how can you find out what's behind these doors?
If the door is in the side of a building then there's no easy way to find out. The door could be a fire exit from a lower level of the building or even access to underground services. Many cities have underground electrical substations for example.
There may still be a few telltale signs. Obviously a bunker won't have any windows, so if there are none at the same level as the door, then this may indicate a shelter of some kind.
You should also look for ventilation, a bunker will almost always have independent air ventilation and filtrations systems, separate from the rest of the building. This will likely be more than small vents on the wall and is more likely to be large ventilation ducts or standalone air vents popping up out of the ground near the door.
Even after discovering air vents and a lack of windows, it's still going to be very hard to determine what's behind the door. You may need to find out who owns the building. If it is owned by the government or a local council then it is possible they have some kind of shelter under their offices. This might also be the case if the building is occupied by the emergency services or utility providers, such as gas, water and electric companies.
It's a long shot, but step back and take a look at the building's roof. You might find that if there is a bunker hidden below the building that there is some sort of communications array on the roof. The purpose of most bunkers is to maintain the smooth running of the country in the event of a disaster, and this requires good communications access.
Fortunately, other types of bunkers are easier to spot. Any purpose built bunker will normally have a very visible and very bunker like entrance. The entrance to any underground space which has been re-purposed will also look distinctly bunker-like, but still these can be hard to spot and other less exciting entrances can look like bunkers.
A lot of bunkers are semi-sunk, meaning that they are built in a hole in the ground but their upper level or levels are housed in a steel reinforced concrete mass above ground level. One such fortress can be found right in the middle of busy central London on Horse Guards Parade. Despite the fact it's so visible and imposing, most tourists and locals walk past the huge structure without questioning what's inside it.
This type of bunker is very easy to spot, the massive concrete block will have no windows and no doors apart from one huge metal blast door. There's often usually large vents on the side of the building and many bunkers of this type will have a small communications mast near by or on its roof.
Hack Green Bunker
Bunkers which are entirely subterranean have equally as identifiable surface features, but there are other structures that can be mistaken for bunkers.
When it comes to getting into an underground hideout, there's only three options...
Adit - a horizontal or almost horizontal entrance into the ground. This is probably the most obvious type of entrance. If you see a doorway leading into the side of a mountain or hill, then there's clearly something underground there. Although, it could be nothing more than an underground water reservoir, which does look very bunker like.
Slope shaft - an inclined entrance consisting of a doorway leading to steps that descend down to bunker level. This sort of entrance can be quite hard to spot, but when you stumble across one it's pretty obvious what it is. You'll normally see a door on the side of a small mound or building. The opposite side of the building will slope off into the ground, which clearly indicates that all that's behind the door is a tunnel into the ground.
Vertical shaft - a shaft which


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Advantages and disadvantages
Subtropical grasses have been introduced from warmer continents (notably Africa and South America) and are now well-established in northern regions of New Zealand. These grasses need relatively high temperatures for photosynthesis compared with the more-common temperate grasses in New Zealand pastures.
Subtropical grasses grow coarser, less palatable foliage than the temperate grasses, and are vigorous during the warm seasons. However, they are frost-tender and grow poorly in the cold seasons. As a result, subtropical grasses have a mixed reputation and, as they often suppress higher-quality pasture species, many farmers consider them to be weeds. If farmers can maintain good clover content in pastures dominated by subtropical grasses, then the pasture feed value is adequate. Otherwise these species offer poor nutrition for grazing animals.
Annual subtropical species (commonly called summer grasses) in northern pastures often colonise dead patches caused by summer drought.
Some species can exist for many years as dormant seeds in the soil, whereas ryegrass seed tends to be short-lived, so cultivation or livestock treading can result in reinvasion by the less valuable subtropical grasses.
Kikuyu grass (Pennisetum clandestinum) is a very vigorous, coarse, low-quality grass, which can take over pastures in frost-free regions. It is present throughout Northland.
A perennial grass, it is low-growing and deep-rooted, with stolons (stems that grow along the soil surface) and rhizomes (roots that grow horizontally in the soil). It forms a dense turf, which is very resistant to heavy grazing and attempts to remove it.
Why everyone hates kikuyu
Almost everyone in Northland hates kikuyu. Farmers hate it because it has poor feed value and crowds out better pasture species; orchardists hate it because it can climb up and partially smother fruit trees, and gardeners hate it because it can invade gardens and lawns. Even worse it is perennial and drought resistant, so once established is really difficult to get rid of.
Other subtropical grasses have steadily advanced south into new regions, possibly because of adaptation, farm management changes or climate change.
The most widespread of these is Paspalum dilatatum, which in recent decades has advanced in pastures (and lawns) well into the South Island. The content of paspalum in northern pastures has also increased.
How to cite this page:
Deric Charlton, 'Pastures - Subtropical grasses', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, (accessed 6 August 2021)
Story by Deric Charlton, published 24 Nov 2008


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Abstract Antibodies constitute a critical component of the naturally acquired immunity that develops following frequent exposure to malaria. However, specific antibody titres have been reported to decline rapidly in the absence of reinfection, supporting the widely perceived notion that malaria infections fail to induce durable immunological memory responses. Currently, direct evidence for the presence or absence of immune memory to malaria is limited. In this study, we analysed the longevity of both antibody and B cell memory responses to malaria antigens among individuals who were living in an area of extremely low malaria transmission in northern Thailand, and who were known either to be malaria naïve or to have had a documented clinical attack of P. falciparum and/or P. vivax in the past 6 years. We found that exposure to malaria results in the generation of relatively avid antigen-specific antibodies and the establishment of populations of antigen-specific memory B cells in a significant proportion of malaria-exposed individuals. Both antibody and memory B cell responses to malaria antigens were stably maintained over time in the absence of reinfection. In a number of cases where antigen-specific antibodies were not detected in plasma, stable frequencies of antigen-specific memory B cells were nonetheless observed, suggesting that circulating memory B cells may be maintained independently of long-lived plasma cells. We conclude that infrequent malaria infections are capable of inducing long-lived antibody and memory B cell responses.
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College of Communication > Academics > Graduate Programs > Independent Study & Experiential Learning
Graduate students in the College of Communication are permitted to take a maximum of 8 credits worth of independent study/experiential learning courses. These courses include:
Independent study is an opportunity for high-achieving students with substantial training in a communication subspecialty to individually shape a course of study with a faculty expert. An independent study is not a substitute for regular curricular offerings, a way around requirements or a schedule alternative for students unwilling to accommodate the timetable of a needed course. Independent study is an avenue for continued learning if a student possesses the initiative and discipline to structure and pursue a course of study on fairly independent terms.
If you are interested in conducting an independent study, please consult with your program director before proceeding.
STEP 1: Student must submit an independent study request form and an independent study proposal. The independent study proposal will contain as a minimum the following provisions:
This proposal will serve as the course syllabus and it can be referred to in cases of grade challenges. Only changes mutually agreeable to student and instructor are permissible and then such arrangements must be in place in writing and signed by both parties.
STEP 2: The independent study request form must be signed and approved by your faculty advisor and graduate program director before being submitted. If approved, you will be registered for the appropriate independent study course (CMNS 592, HTHC 592, JOUR 592, MCS 592, PRAD 592).
STEP 3: Please submit your signed, completed independent study form and proposal to:
College of CommunicationGraduate Independent Studies14 E. Jackson Blvd., Suite 1814
Please submit your independent study form and proposal by the following dates:
The research practicum is an opportunity for high-achieving students with substantial training in a communication subspecialty to connect with a faculty expert. Students will train in a specialized communication research method and/or achieve hands-on practice in conducting scholarly research.
The research practicum may take various forms. For example, the student may become part of an ongoing research project led by the faculty member, and the research practicum would provide an opportunity for the student to apply previously studied research methods to the research project. Typical activities include data gathering, data analysis, interpretation of results, and writing research reports.
If the student wants to learn about a particular research method practiced by the faculty expert but not available in a regular graduate course offering, then the research practicum could be a course of study focusing on specialized research method(s) with agreed upon readings and assignments.
STEP 1: Student must submit a research practicum request form and a research practicum proposal. The research practicum proposal will contain the following provisions:
STEP 2: The form must be signed and approved by your faculty advisor and graduate program director before being submitted. If approved by the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, you will then be registered for the graduate research practicum course.
STEP 3: Please submit your signed, completed research practicum form and proposal by email to the Assistant Director for Graduate Student Services or in hard copy to:
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How neighbourly are you?
Before you approach neighbours about the leaves they don't rake, their scented dryer sheets, second-hand smoke wafting into your bedroom window or the car abandoned in their yard, ask yourself these questions:
- Are you coming from a place of judgment?
- Are you prepared for the outcome? Are you prepared to change? (They might say something you don't want to hear.)
- Is the issue important enough to risk the relationship and potentially create conflict?
And if you have 14 minutes and 47 seconds, this video by Leo Busgaglia reveals a thoughtful analysis of human relationships, including a neighbourly incident that you no doubt can relate to. Leo once asked, "What are we doing stuffing facts into people and forgetting that they are human beings?" He also taught a university class titled "Love" where there were no grades!
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Five things to consider before your next neighbourly encounter:
- Establish a relationship first
- Recognize their intention
- Deal with the person (not the behavior)
- Is there anything I can do?
- Maybe it's not worth talking about
For example, I have a dog named Kitty. She poops. And on occasion I've been preoccupied in the dog park and missed the big event. This often leads to someone yelling "Hey! Your dog just $#*! over there! Pay attention!" Except for one time when someone calmly said, "Do you need a bag?"
To me, the "how can I help?" attitude made all the difference. Now I try to incorporate it into all my neighbourly encounters, because nobody needs to be $#*! on about $#*!.
How have you successfully dealt with neighbourly dilemmas?
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What is a Wellhead Pumper?
A wellhead pumper operates power pumps and other equipment so that gas or oil can flow from the oil well. The job is known by a number of other terms, including operations technician, rig technician, pumper and well tender. Work is performed within a strong safety culture that follows detailed and exact safety regulations. Environmental rules also must be closely followed. The pumper's job involves bringing an oil, gas, or mining product from a well up to the surface by means of pumps and compressors. The pumper starts the compressor engine and opens valves to return compressed gas to the bottom of the well. The pump depressurizes the pipe and forces oil to rise to the surface. The wellhead pumper then must monitor the flow as the product travels to make sure it is moving at the proper rate. Once the pump has brought the product to the surface, the pumper transfers it to storage tanks or trucks that move it offsite. Although the wellhead pumper has long been a traditional part of the oil and gas industry, increased use of automated storage and retrieval systems has increased productivity and lessened the need for wellhead pumpers.
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What does a Wellhead Pumper do?
The wellhead pumper is responsible for all aspects of the pumping operations: assembling pumps, attaching hoses to wellheads, starting the compressor, operating the pumps and monitoring flow. Monitoring is generally done by computer control panel, and the pumper must watch that the oil, or the material being extracted, is pumped at the correct pressure, rate, and density. He or she needs to operate the pumps, open valves and shut them off as required by production schedules, and redirect flow into storage tanks. Any blockages in the pipes must be quickly identified and repaired. Routine maintenance of equipment is part of the job, and meters and gauges also need to be maintained and repaired if necessary.
Depending on the product being extracted, the pumper may also be responsible for blending acids and chemicals and controlling equipment used to fracture gas and oil wells or rock formations. Sometimes they are responsible for driving trucks and other transport vehicles on the site.
The pumper may need to supervisor other workers on the job site; the team works together to keep production running smoothly, keeping the product flowing from the ground through the pipes and into storage facilities. The team assembles the rigs and tears equipment down, and starts and stops production following specific schedules. All the work is done in compliance with strict safety regulations. Paperwork needs to be completed, such as daily reports and communication with supervisors.
An essential part of the job role is emergency preparedness. Should an oil spill occur, or a wellhead blow out, environmental damage could be considerable. The pumper needs to be familiar with environmental regulations and follow the rules and know the proper procedures should a problem occur.
What does it take to be a Wellhead Pumper?
The education required to be a wellhead pumper is generally at minimum a high school diploma. Much of the job is learned on site, with companies providing training. Some vocational training is often preferred. This could include certificates related to Occupational Health and Safety, confined spaces, dangerous materials handling, H2S and first aid. Performance evaluations are also conducted on a regular basis to ensure skill maintenance.
As the job primarily involves the operation of pumps used in oil production, a pumper needs to have comprehensive knowledge of all aspects of the production process. They need to understand quality control procedures and pay very close attention to safety at all times. Monitoring gauges and measurement tools means the pumper should have good multitasking abilities, be a critical thinker able to solve complex problems, and be able to exercise good judgment and make sound decisions under pressure.
A pumper also needs good mechanical skills, and an understanding of machines and tools, operation and maintenance. Knowledge of raw materials is helpful, although much of this is learned on the job. Good mathematical ability is important. Good eyesight and hand-eye coordination are also required. Workers need to be physically fit and have strength and durability. With most jobs in the oil, gas and mining industry, drug tests are required. Many large companies also do psychological testing to ensure a worker is able to exercise good judgment in an emergency and shows no instability.
What is the workplace of a Wellhead Pumper like?
Most employment opportunities are in oil and gas extraction and mining support. Oil wells and mines are out in the field and often in remote locations, including offshore drilling rigs. Workers often live in work camps and work rotating shifts, several weeks on and a week break. Extreme weather conditions may be a factor. Skilled workers in this industry can work anywhere in the world.
How much does a Wellhead Pumper earn?
In the U.S. a wellhead pumper can expect to earn an average of $42,000, but there is a wide range depending on the state, with some areas paying up to $54,000 annually. Opportunities in the U.S. are lessening with a greater trend toward importing crude oil from overseas. In Canada pumpers earn anywhere from $27 to $40 an hour, depending on skill, experience, and jobsite. Workers onsite are also often eligible for a living allowance supplement.
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my $text_a = Fl::SecretInput->new(0, 0, 250, 500, 'Important Stuff'); my $text_b = Fl::SecretInput->new(0, 0, 250, 500);
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Active engagement is the name of the game in these 72 word-problem challenges for any computer or interactive whiteboard. Students drag and drop 4 kinds of beans to solve problems visually, developing both logic and number sense. One volunteer can demonstrate on an interactive whiteboard while others follow along with manipulatives at their seats and the teacher guides the discussion. Then the learning can continue at centers. As students progress through increasing levels of difficulty, the skills and the enthusiasm grow! These challenges can be used with a Singapore Math program or with any other math curriculum to make math come alive for students. (3-5)
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The testing involves exposing the bulls to uniform feeding and housing conditions, with the idea of further establishing the genetic potential of particular bulls (namely genetically superior bulls). Traits measured include growth potential measured through weight gain, visual muscle and skeletal measures (linear scoring), docility and functionality (also measured by linear scorers), ultrasound fat and muscle, and finally feed intake which allows a cost of production to be placed on the output traits. This information is combined at the end of test with previous performance tested animals but also with commercially recorded data including calving and gestation information, weaning weight and calf value from the livestock marts, linear type classification from pedigree beef herds, carcass weight, carcass fat and carcass conformation data from the factories, as well as pedigree ancestry information stored on the ICBF database. These results allow a genetic profile of all animals with records and related animals to be computed in the form of a €uro-star index. When bulls commence the performance test their new information can help to improve or dis-improve their indexes in an equal measure. However the average genetic merit of the group tested will generally remain similar before and after the performance test.
- When the bulls enter pre-entry isolation they are clipped, dosed, treated for lice, and sorted into pens based on breed and weight. The bulls are weighed after meeting the testing requirements for IBR during the 30 day pre-entry isolation period, and this signifies the beginning of the test.
- The bulls are housed primarily indoors on a bedding of peat moss, and also have access to an outdoor pen bedded with wood chip.
- The bulls are fed ration at a less than ad lib rate until such time as they have become acclimatised to the meal (14 days approx). This is very important to maintain the health of the animal with a change in diet. They are then moved to ad lib feeding, and are also given a ration of hay twice a day. Bulls are provided with ad lib water.
- Health checks of the entire herd are carried out three times daily.
- Bulls are provided with a vitamin and mineral lick, and a mineral revitalise dose if required.
- During the test the animals are weighed on a three-weekly basis to assess their growth rate. Breeders are notified of the weight of their bull(s) after each weighting.
- The bulls are washed every four to six weeks during the test, depending on weather.
- Bulls are exercised in an open pasture paddock twice a week for a three-hour period each time if deemed necessary.


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What You Need:
- Square wooden picture frame about 6"-9" square
- 4 skeins of rug-weight yarn (use different colors for a pattern)
What You Do:
- Prepare the picture frame. Before the child gets started, remove staples and hanging hardware with a pair of needle nose pliers. Learn and practice the corner wrap a few times yourself. Work with the frame in your lap, not flat on a table.
- Tie the yarn to the frame loosely. Stretch the yarn to the opposite side of the frame and follow the diagrams for making one corner "bout". Point out to your child that the over-and-under technique is like weaving on a loom. The yarn moves over and under the frame.
- After demonstrating the first bout, stretch the yarn to the opposite side. Show your child how to turn the frame so the wrapping corner stays at upper right (or left if you are left-handed.) Pull yarn just tight enough to keep it from sagging and hold it against the frame with a fingertip to keep it place. Then turn the frame so the working corner is on top again.
- Invite your child to take over with the bout for the second corner and so on. Mention that you practiced and offer to help if needed. Four bouts (one in each corner) is a full "course" that should bring the yarn back to the starting corner. If not, help your child unravel the corners and try again.
- After laying one course correctly, begin the next with the yarn snug against the previous course. Once the hands "get it," your child will simply repeat the wrap, changing colors to make stripes -- the frame practically fills itself.
- Once 1/4 of the frame edge is filled, children can stop any time (or go on to fill the whole frame.) Attach a mirror by tucking each corner beneath a wide section of yarn. Postcards and photos can be placed the same way.
Frame Caning Tips: - Decide which side is the back. When you need to change colors or move to another ball of yarn, tie the ends together on the back side. - The yarn around the frame tends to spread out more than the yarn within the frame. Push the loops around the frame gently toward the corner every so often to keep the courses (and your color stripes) straight.


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Write a paper of at least 750 words that addresses the following points about your 3-day food intake:
 - Recorded intake of protein, carbohydrates, and lipids
 - Which foods in your recorded daily intake provide protein? Which provide carbohydrates? Which provide lipids?
 - Review how your recorded protein, carbohydrate, and lipid intake compares with the recommendations of the dietary reference intake. If your recorded protein-carbohydrate-fat intake was too high or too low, which foods might you add or remove to achieve your goal and keep other nutrients in balance?
 - Is the protein in each food you ate complete or incomplete, combining to become complementary? Why is this important?
 - How much of your daily recommended protein, carbohydrates, and lipid intake did you achieve? If your macronutrient intake is insufficient or excessive, what might you do to bring it into the recommended range? Provide specific recommendations.
 - Macronutrient intake ranges
 - Is macronutrient intake within the recommended range important? What are the effects of too much or too little of a macronutrient? What happens if you consistently eat too little protein? What happens if you eat too few carbohydrates? What happens if you eat too few lipids?
 - Fiber intake ranges
 - Does your fiber total meet 100% of the recommendation for you as calculated at iProfile®?
 - Does your diet meet the minimum number of servings of foods from each fiber-containing group? If not, which of the fiber-containing groups–fruits and vegetables–fell short of the recommended intake?
 - Which specific foods provide the most fiber in your meals? Which provide the least? Identify trends in your food choices that might affect your fiber intakes.
 - Dietary modifications
 - What changes might you make to increase the fiber in your diet?
 - How might insufficient or excessive amounts of proteins, carbohydrates, fats, or fiber contribute to health or illness? Provide examples.
 - What have you learned about your diet?
Cite three references other than the course text.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
Include an explanation on the links between theory and relevant examples.


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Central statue of the Leonidas monument at ThermopylaeA monument to Leonidas was erected at Thermopylae by king Paul of Greece
in 1955. It features a bronze statue of Leonidas. A sign, under the statue, reads simply: "ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
" ("Come and get them!") which the Spartans said when the Persians asked them to put down their weapons at the start of the Battle of Thermopylae.
Another statue, also with the inscription ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ, was erected at Sparta
was the name of an Epic poem written by Richard Glover, which originally appeared in 1737. It went on to appear in four other editions, being expanded from 9 books to 12.Frank Miller
's 1998 comic book 300
, presents a fictionalized version of Leonidas and the Battle of Thermopylae, as does the 2007 feature film adapted from it
Helena P. Schrader has produced a three-part biographical novel on Leonidas. Leonidas of Sparta: A Boy of the Agoge
, Wheatmark, Tucson, 2010 ISBN 978-1-60494-474-7 Leonidas of Sparta: A Peerless Peer
, Wheatmark, Tucson, 2011, ISBN 978-1-60494-602-4
and "Leonidas of Sparta: A Heroic King" (scheduled for publication 2012).


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Use Microsoft Windows PowerShell scripting commands to query Active Directory (AD) to learn more about your Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 organization.
In "Manage Exchange Server 2003 Using Windows PowerShell and WMI"
(, I explained how to exploit the strengths of PowerShell and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) to manage Exchange Server 2003. I also discussed how to assemble the interactive commands into a PowerShell script (*.ps1) and run the resulting script securely. In this article, I show you how to use PowerShell to query Active Directory (AD) to learn more about your Exchange organization.
Exchange and Active Directory
In "Manage Exchange Server 2003 Using Windows PowerShell and WMI," we built the following WMI Query Language (WQL) statement, which includes a where clause:
 $exmb = Get-WmiObject -namespace root\microsoftexchangev2 -query "select * from Exchange_mailbox where (servername='exchangeserver01') and (storagegroupname='First Storage Group')"
The purpose of the where clause is to filter the query so as to limit the search scope based on one or more criteria, thus optimizing the process. Only objects that satisfy the criteria will be returned to the machine executing the query itself. In order for this to function, you must already know the correct names to use to check against the criteria (e.g., exchangeserver01, First Storage Group), or you must have maintained an accurate record of them in the Exchange organization.
Exchange 2003 relies heavily on a stable and functional AD infrastructure to operate properly. The majority of an Exchange organization's configuration settings are stored in the Enterprise Configuration partition inside AD, more commonly referred to as the Configuration Naming Context (NC). You can find configuration information, such as Exchange connectors, administrative and routing groups, storage group, and Information Store, on a per server level. For more information, see the Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Technical Documentation Library at
Rather than trying to identify the names of administrative groups, servers, storage groups, or database information stores by painstakingly clicking through Exchange System Manager (ESM) manually, you can probe AD for the most up-to-date information. Use the following PowerShell code to query AD for Exchange configuration information:
$root= New-Object System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry("LDAP://RootDSE")$cfgNC = \[adsi\]("LDAP://" + $root.Get("configurationNamingContext"))$search = New-Object System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher($cfgNC)$search.filter = '(objectclass=msExchExchangeServer)' $exServer = $search.FindAll()
The first line of code instantiates a directory object from the Microsoft.NET Framework class that goes by the name System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry. The parameter in the parentheses indicates that the object instance should connect straight to the root of the AD domain. This parameter is optional and doesn't affect the result.
Line 2 defines the AD partition that we want to focus our attention on. You identify this partition by obtaining a reference to the configuration naming context that's prefixed with the "LDAP://" identifier. Casting the resulting string to \[adsi\] causes PowerShell to return an object bound to an Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI) instance, which you then assign to the $cfgNC variable. \[adsi\] is a shortcut (or type accelerator) for the.NET type \[System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry\]; the shortcut is created to help reduce the amount of typing necessary. Thus, you can enter \[adsi\] rather than \[System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry\]; both will give the same result. This shortcut, in addition to the underlying ADSI object adapter, is how PowerShell provisions AD support.
The real work of searching requires yet another object instance created from the System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher class, as line 3 shows. You specify the search scope by passing $cfgNC as a parameter.
Rather than sorting through all the returned items that might not be relevant (not to mention incurring an unnecessary network load and performance hit), you can set up a filter to retrieve only items that match particular criteria, as line 4 shows. You're working with Exchange servers in this case, so the objectclass attribute must be set to msExchExchangeServer. (For more information about objectclass attributes, see Alain Lissoir, Understanding WMI Scripting, Digital Press, 2003; and Leveraging WMI Scripting, Digital Press, 2003.)
Now you're ready to perform the actual search with the FindAll method. Line 5 accomplishes this task and stores the result in the $exServer variable.
To add another search criteria based on the names of Exchange storage groups, you can create a new statement similar to the one in line 4 but point it to the correct objectclass, as the following code shows:
$search.filter = '(objectclass=msExchStorageGroup)'$exStorageGroup = $search.FindAll()
You must call the FindAll method again because you're working with a different objectclass type. Make sure that you capture the result in a new variable for later use. Table 1 contains a list of commonly used attributes.
Bringing It All Together
Now you can rework the original code to be much more flexible. Instead of hard-coding the parameters for Exchange server and storage groups, you can construct the query using information gathered directly from AD.
Listing 1 contains code for dynamically querying mailbox information. Let's dissect the code to make it less intimidating.
The first two lines send $exServer to the ForEach-Object cmdlet and store a reference to the current object coming down the pipeline (identified by $_). These steps are done for easy reference, to avoid confusion and overwriting other, unrelated $_ commands referenced elsewhere. Lines 3 and 4 perform the same tricks for $exStorageGroup, which describes the storage groups in the Exchange organization.
In line 5, we cast the distinguishedname property to a string type before we can use the built-in split method of this particular \[string\] class. Because we need only specific text characters to build the complete query, we have to do a bit of work to extract each one of them from the distinguished name (DN). The DN is stored internally in the form CN=First Storage Group,CN=InformationStore,CN=CHZUMX01,CN=Servers,CN=First Administrative Group,CN=Administrative Groups,CN=swissitpro,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=swissitpro,DC=local.
When we find a match to the name of the server that's queried in line 6, we construct a string to fully describe the WQL that will pull out information pertaining to mailboxes (line 9). The query statement is built with the criteria from the names of matching Exchange server and storage groups and recorded in the $wql variable.
In line 11, the $exmb variable is assigned the result from running the Get-WmiObject cmdlet. Next, you start harvesting mailbox data that matches the criteria specified by the query.
Although running the code in Listing 1 gives you the same results as running the original query, you don't need prior knowledge of an Exchange organization's logical setup to use the code in Listing 1. In addition, this code gives you the flexibility to work with the different objectclass types exposed in Exchange through AD. And you can easily expand the code to further map out the profile for your entire messaging environment.
More Objects Properties
Regardless of the size or complexity of a company, it's common to find an Exchange organization set up with multiple servers dedicated to messaging. To determine how many servers an organization has, you can use the $exServer.count command to access the count property of the server object denoted by $exServer. Then, you would typically iterate through the objects by piping to the ForEach-Object cmdlet, as I discussed previously. A major advantage of this method is that you don't have to explicitly maintain a separate counter to index into the objects. Because search results are stored in zero-based collections or arrays of objects in PowerShell, you can still access individual elements by using the syntax $exServer\[i\] (i.e., $exServer\[0\] for the first Exchange server, $exServer\[1\] for the second Exchange server, and so on).
Several specific properties (or attributes) are associated with an object that uniquely identify an Exchange server. You can use the object dot notation to work with either the path or properties attribute. The properties attribute is particularly important because it contains key object information, as the output in Figure 1 shows. To actually access an object property, you must preface it with the properties keyword, such as $exServer\[0\].properties.distinguishedname or $exServer\[0\]
Although you see mainly text output on your host's display, don't forget that you're always dealing with objects in PowerShell. Each property is in fact an object in its own right—not just plain text characters. You can verify the real object type representing a property by piping it to the Get-Member cmdlet (or the alias gm). For instance,
$exServer\[0\].properties.whenchanged | Get-Member
reveals that the whenchanged property is of the type System.DateTime, as the output in Figure 2 shows. In addition, the object's applicable methods and properties are also displayed.
You might wonder why this information is important. Sometimes it's useful to know the exact object


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