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Hyrkan State Reservation is situatod in southest part of Azerbaijan Republic, on the coast of the Caspian Sea, in Lankaran Administrative District at 38° 30' 34" of northérn latitude and 48° 45'50" of eastern longitude.
The reservation was established by the Decree No. 272 of June 18, 1969 of the Soviet of Ministers. Its territory is 2,9 thousand hectares and is protected by the State. The flora of the reservation consist of 1900 species; 162 of them are endemic, 95 of them are rare and 38 are being depletod and disappeared. There are widely spread valuable and unique trees in the tree stratum such as Ironwood (Porrotia persica), Persimmon (Diospyrus lotus), Silk Tree (Albir~ia julibrissin), Chestnut-leaved Oak (Quercus castaneifolia), Hyrkan Fig (Ficus hyrcana), Hyrkan Zelkova (Zelkowa carpunifolia) etc. There a unique fauna in the reservation as well.
Hyrkan State Reservation is a unique natural territory in the Worid with its fascinating nature, rich vegetation, hills covered by endemic and relic trees and shrubs, with suitable subtropical climate.
Being adjacent the Caspian Sea, close to main roads and rail roads, the reservation is of great importance from the point of view of tourism and establishment of the national park. There are suitable conditions for this purpose in the Reservation.


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Microsoft Clippy (aka "Office Assistant" or "Clipit") is a feature remembered by many users of Microsoft Word. It assisted users by way of an interactive animated character, which interfaced with Office's online Help. Although the concept of "embedded" or "persistent" Help was good, its application in the real-life working environment was not well received.
With more and more people reading information via tablets and mobile phones, and with the new technologies they contain, perhaps it's time to revisit the concept of Clippy. Perhaps it can be done right this time?
There are two technologies that tablets and mobile phones contain which are worth considering. One is haptic feedback, the other is ambient technology.
- Haptic feedback is technology that interfaces with the user through the sense of touch – typically through your device vibrating.
- Ambient technology refers to electronic environments that are sensitive and responsive to the presence of people.
An example from the e-learning environment is Evernote Peek, which makes use of the iPad's Smart Cover to present information.
Perhaps instead of an animated character clamouring for our attention, a more subtle notification by a vibration or a glowing button might be a better way to tell users help is available that can guide them through their task.
We're not aware of any User Assistance that is using haptic or ambient technologies today, so do let us know if you've seen any examples out there.

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What Is Trading Effect?
- The trading effect measures a portfolio manager's effectiveness by comparing their portfolio returns to that of a chosen benchmark.
- The trading effect answers the simple question of whether the portfolio manager or investor added value by actively managing the portfolio.
- The trading effect can also be used to determine whether active investing (trading) is better than passive investing.
Understanding Trading Effect
The trading effect is the difference in performance between an active investor's portfolio and a chosen benchmark. Active investing takes a hands-on approach and requires that someone act in the role of the portfolio manager. With active investing, the aim is to see if the chosen composition of the investor's portfolio, including any alterations that were made during the observed period, performed better or worse than the benchmark. The trading effect can also be used to determine whether active investing (trading) is better than more passive buy-and-hold investing strategies.
The chosen benchmark has to have relevancy to the portfolio being measured and must be widely recognized and used. For example, the S&P 500 index would be an appropriate benchmark to measure an investor's portfolio that is predominantly comprised of U.S. large-cap equities.
The trading effect serves as a way for investors to quantify a portfolio manager's performance. It answers the simple question of whether the manager (or investor) added value by making adjustments to the portfolio.
If the benchmark, such as the Dow Jones Corporate Bond Index, outperforms the actively managed bond portfolio, then the portfolio manager subtracted value for the investor. If the bond portfolio earns more than the bond index, then the changes in portfolio composition have increased investor value, indicating a good management strategy.
Trading Effect and Bond Portfolios
Numerous and complex factors can influence bond portfolio returns. One reason for a lack of bond portfolio performance measures was that, prior to the 1970s, most bond portfolio managers followed buy-and-hold strategies, so their performance probably did not differ much. In that era, interest rates were relatively stable, so one could gain little from the active management of bond portfolios. The environment in the bond market changed considerably in the late 1970s and 1980s when interest rates increased dramatically and became more volatile.
Although the techniques for evaluating stock portfolio performance have been in existence for decades, comparable techniques for examining bond portfolio performance were initiated more recently, when the bond market volatility increased dramatically.
This change created an incentive to trade bonds, and this trend toward active management led to more dispersed performances by bond portfolio managers. This dispersion in performance, in turn, created a demand for techniques that would help investors evaluate the performance of bond portfolio managers.
The evaluation models for bonds typically consider the overall market factors and the impact of individual bond selection. This technique for measuring the trading effect breaks down the return based on the bond's duration as a comprehensive risk measure, but it does not consider differences in the risk of default.
Specifically, the technique does not differentiate between an AAA bond with a duration of eight years and a BBB bond with the same duration, which could clearly affect the performance. A portfolio manager that invested in BBB bonds, for example, could experience a very positive trading effect simply because the bonds were of lower quality.

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"How to Identify Prehistoric Projectile Points"
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Date: Monday, January 14th, 2013
Time: 7:00 pm
Duration: 2 hours
Location: Basement Laboratory, Logan Museum of Anthropology
Sponsored by: Three Rivers Archaeological Society and Logan Museum of Anthropology
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Please join the Three Rivers Archaeology Society and the Logan Museum of Art for a hands-on workshop on projectile point identification using the Logan Museum of Anthropology's education collection. Professional archaeologists will help with identifications and show you how to identify prehistoric points and other stone tools. We will sort and identify the approximately 200 artifacts using guidebooks, comparative material, and local experts. No prior experience is necessary.
This exercise will help you become familiar with projectile point guidebooks and other resources you can use on your own. We will work in the Logan Museum's basement laboratory, so plan on getting to the meeting by 7:00 p.m.
This event is free and open to the campus and community.


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In this paper, we address the problem of adaptive detection in homogeneous Gaussian interference, with unknown covariance matrix, after reduction by invariance. Starting from a maximal invariant statistic, which contains all the information for the synthesis of an invariant detector, we devise the Rao test, generalized likelihood ratio test (GLRT), and Durbin test. Moreover, we compare their decision statistics with those of the receivers designed according to the same criteria from the raw data (i.e., before reduction by invariance). We prove that the GLRT in the original data space is statistically equivalent to the GLRT designed after reduction by invariance (under a very mild assumption) and coincide with the conditional uniformly most powerful invariant (C-UMPI) test, obtained conditioning on an ancillary part of the maximal invariant statistic. As to the Rao and Durbin criteria, when they are applied after reduction by invariance, lead to detectors different from the counterparts devised in the raw data domain. At the analysis stage, the performance of the receivers devised in the invariant domain is analyzed in comparison with that of the counterparts synthesized from the original observations.


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- 1 How do I get my Epson printer to Print in order?
- 2 How do I stop printing in reverse order?
- 3 How do I fix my printer from printing backwards?
- 4 How do I change the order of printing?
- 5 How do I change the printer on my Epson printer?
- 6 How do I reverse print?
- 7 What is reverse printing?
- 8 How do I print an array in reverse order?
- 9 Why is my printer printing the first page first?
- 10 Why is my printer printing upside down?
- 11 Why is my printer printing mirrored?
- 12 How do I print a booklet in pages in order?
- 13 How do I change the order of my printers in Windows 10?
- 14 How do I print a document in order?
How do I get my Epson printer to Print in order?
- Select the print command in your application.
- Make sure your product is selected.
- Click Properties or Preferences. Note: If you don't see these buttons, click Setup, Printer, or Options, then click Properties or Preferences on the next screen.
- Click the Main tab.
- Select Reverse Order.
- Click OK.
How do I stop printing in reverse order?
If it is the pages in the reverse order, click on the Office button and then on Word Options and then on Advanced and scroll down to the Print section of the dialog and uncheck the box for "Print pages in reverse order".
How do I fix my printer from printing backwards?
Open the Printer Control Panel and find your printer. Right-click it and select Properties. Go to the General tab and then click Printing Preferences and then go to the Advanced tab. Look under Printer Features and select Mirror Image and then click the down arrow to the right of that field and click Off.
How do I change the order of printing?
Printers usually print the first page first, and the last page last, so the pages end up in reverse order when you pick them up. To reverse the order: Press the menu button in the top-right corner of the window and press the Print button. In the General tab of the Print window under Copies, check Reverse.
How do I change the printer on my Epson printer?
Select Printer Settings from the drop-down list, and select the Basic settings tab. Select Advanced. You will find the predefined settings in the list on the right of Automatic. Select the most appropriate setting from the list according to the type of document or image you want to print.
How do I reverse print?
Microsoft Word has a single command that forces the printer to reverse print every print job:
- Open Word, then click Options > Advanced.
- Scroll through and come to the Print section on the right.
- When you want to reverse print a page, select the Print Pages in Reverse Order check box.
What is reverse printing?
To print or display the opposite background and foreground colors. For example, a typical white page with black text would be reverse printed as white characters on a black background.
How do I print an array in reverse order?
Q. Program to print the elements of an array in reverse order.
- Declare and initialize an array.
- Loop through the array in reverse order that is, the loop will start from (length of the array – 1) and end at 0 by decreasing the value of i by 1.
- Print the element arr[i] in each iteration.
Why is my printer printing the first page first?
If your printer prints with the printed side down (face down printing), it will print the first page of the job first, but if you have a printer that prints with face up, it must print the job in reverse or you will have to manually reverse the order of the pages after you print a job.
Why is my printer printing upside down?
Checking the physical printer settings When trying to print from ProFile the selection in print setup may be conflicting with the printer settings, causing some of the pages to print upside down. The default printer's properties should be set to duplex printing/double sided printing.
Why is my printer printing mirrored?
Mirrored Printing If your printed pages emerge looking like the mirror image of your original document, you've activated – accidentally or otherwise – the ability to invert page direction without changing the colors or sizes of the items on the page.
How do I print a booklet in pages in order?
Print a booklet on a double-sided printer
- Open the print dialog.
- Click the Properties…
- Under Range and Copies, choose Pages.
- Type the numbers of the pages in this order (n is the total number of pages, and a multiple of 4):
- Choose the Page Layout tab.
- Click Print.
How do I change the order of my printers in Windows 10?
However if you wish to change the first one, you can go into CONTROL PANEL > DEVICES AND PRINTERS and then right click on the printer you use most and select SET AS DEFAULT PRINTER. This will change your default printer, or the one on top.
How do I print a document in order?
Press [Ctrl], and select the files you want to print. (If the files are adjacent, select the first file in the list, press [Shift], and select the last file in the list.) Right-click the selection, and select Print from the shortcut menu. Select the desired print options, and click OK.


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Come Together People take a catalyst role. It develops strategic alliances and partnerships to create projects in carefully selected sites, which in turn benefits our local communities and other communities on a global scale.
The organisation uses music and cultural events as tools to fundraise and promote unity.
The organisation does not function as a traditional grant-making agency. Instead, using established programming parameters, the Foundation conceptualises and launches projects with credible and experienced implementation partners.
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The goal of the research project, which is also the subject of this paper, is twofold. It aims to demonstrate that through the appropriate management of a sports program, specifically of water polo, it is possible to achieve both an increase in the sports performance by a group of disabled athletes, and an increase in their health and well-being level. The 10 athletes were subjected to a series of trainings, planned and performed by staff specialized in water polo and in the management of individuals with disabilities, for a period of 8 months, and have performed two series of assessments at the beginning and at the end of such period of sports activity. Improvements both in terms of the sports skills and in terms of the level of psycho-physical well-being of all individuals with disabilities who took part in this project were recorded. This proved that sports activity, if managed efficiently, can provide benefits on the athletic performance and on quality of life for persons with disabilities.
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Miner3D Professional edition also includes fast Principal Component Analysis and K-means Clustering algorithms.
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Deep Dive Into OutSystems Plugins
Stuart Harris - 07/11/2019
This is Part II of a three part blog series on OutSystems development and how to create plugins. You can read Part I here.
As mentioned in my previous post, OutSystems allows users to create open source plugins and publish them to a community component registry called the forge. For Part Two, I'm explaining the creation of a FilePondUpload user interface forge plugin for Web Applications.
This is relevant to those interested in building a user interface forge component for an OutSystems web application. We'll cover configuration, integrating a JavaScript library, some sneaky tricks and cleaning up temporary files.
The FilePondUpload plugin exposes two webblocks providing drag and drop file upload, with the actions, entities and structures to support them. The plugin essentially integrates with OutSystems the FilePond JavaScript library by Rik Schennink.
When included on a page, to use the FilePondUpload control is straight forward. The upload process goes like this:
 - Either click browse or drag file/s onto the page.
 - The file/s will upload, show progress and if configured, will show a thumbnail if the file is an image.
 - The user clicks submit on the form to save their data.
 - On the server, the uploaded file/s are available to store.
Using the Control in Development
At development time, the developer drops the FileUpload webblock onto the page. It requires a text input control and configuration.
The webblock has a placeholder area which expects a text input control associated with a text variable. The webblock makes this input box hidden. The input box is used to pass the list of uploaded file identifiers to the server when the user submits the form.
The developer also passes a FilePondUploadConfig structure to configure the webblock. When the page is first displayed, the upload library is configured and initialized. The upload control is then displayed.
Then when the form is submitted, the developer must call FilePondUpload_GetUploadedFiles(UploadTokens) to retrieve the uploaded files.
The AutoUpload webblock is even easier. It just has an event that returns a file whenever one is uploaded.
This is a very quick and easy way to get multiple file upload to work in your OutSystems application.
Getting Started
Before even starting, make sure you search the forge for a similar plugin. If you find one that does not quite meet your needs, know that you can request to join the dev team for the plugin.
A forge component is an OutSystems application, so the first step is to create an application. This requires a bit of thought, ask yourself, when developers use your plugin, what dependencies will your plugin bring into their environment? What UI framework will they be using? Silk UI or the newer OutSystems UI?
For a component for (non-react) web apps, choose Traditional Web Application for OutSystem UI or Website for Silk UI. If you can, make your plugin independent of the UI framework. This way developers using either framework can use the plugin.
The FilePondUpload plugin it does not depend on either OutSystems UI or Silk UI. So I chose Traditional Web, but Website would have been ok too.
You are able to upload a logo for your plugin here, but you can also do this later.
Next, create a module. As FilePondUpload does not depend on a framework, I chose Blank.
Now we have an application and an empty module for the plugin.
Create a HTML Test Harness
Before diving head-on into OutSystems, it is a good idea to first check that the library you intend to use works.
For this plugin I created a simple HTML page with a form. For other libraries I create whatever mark-up is needed to exercise the JavaScript library. Then I manually included all the JavaScript and CSS files. At this point you can directly reference the online copies of the files, but I like to download them and keep a note of which versions I am using. Then write any JavaScript you require to initialize, configure and work with the library.
Remember to check all the browsers that you expect your component will need to support. This practice has saved me many hours, potentially days of frustration.
The UploadBlock Webblock
The UploadBlock webblock as four components:
 - a placeholder for the input text box,
 - a container to hold the file upload control,
 - a static image to show what the upload control looks like (only displayed at development time), and
 - webblocks which load the CSS and Javascript for the control.
The configuration JavaScript locates the input text control for file tokens using the HiddenUploadContainer's HTML id. The UploadContainer is where the FilePond upload control will be created.
The static image is displayed at development time, by putting it in the True fork of an If statement that is hardcoded to the value False. This static image is never displayed at runtime, but only to developer using the control. It's a handy technique.
The webblocks at the bottom ensure CSS and JavaScript required by the control are loaded.
Integrating the Library
In order for the configure function to do its work, all the minified JavaScript for the FilePond control must be inserted on the page.
The FilePondUploadJS webblock contains the FilePond library JavaScript in it's JavaScript attribute. The FilePondUploadCSS webblock contains the FilePond library CSS in its Style Sheet attribute. These webblocks have no user interface, but by placing these webblock on the page, their JavaScript and CSS will be available on the page.
The FilePondConfigureJS webblock contains configuration JavaScript in an Expression with Escape Content = No set. This webblock simply calls the configure function.
You could put all the files in the one webblock. I have only separated them so I can reuse the same JavaScript and CSS in another webblock.
So how does the FilePondUpload plugin work? The JavaScript library must be initialized and configured, then it must call an endpoint on the server, store the uploaded files, and provide an action to retrieve the uploaded files later. Additionally, files that are never retrieved must be removed from the system, when the user does not click submit for instance.
There are a few common tricks to make the configuration work. First, to pass configuration to the library, the configuration structure is converted to JSON using JSONSerialize and passed to a custom configuration function. The FilePondIdOptions_ToJSON() and FilePondConfig_ToJSON() actions handle the serialization. These functions just use the standard OutSystems JSON serialization widget to serialize configuration structures.
The configuration function is loaded on the page via the JavaScript in the FilePondUploadJS webblock.
The configure function accepts JavaScript objects, then initializes and configures the FilePond control. This function is exposed on a JavaScript variable called FilePondUpload. The rest of the configuration functionality happens within a JavaScript "closure".
Notice how the configure function is the only function exposed by the closure. If you need to expose more functions, just add them to the object returned at the bottom.
Notice also that the configure function sets up all the watches and call-backs necessary. This is important but can be subtle. Apart from initialization, try to write JavaScript that references the webblock, rather than trying to make the webblock call functions in the plugin. This helps decouple the webblock from the JavaScript.
When the File Reaches the Server
For each file dragged on, a file upload is triggered. The FilePond upload library takes care of this, as well as the display of upload progress.
The FilePond library is configured to upload the file to the /FilePondUpload/Upload.aspx web page. This web page is restricted to only registered users, meaning only logged in users can upload files.
When a file is uploaded, the Upload.aspx page's preparation action runs which retrieves the file using HTTPHandler.GetRequestFiles() and temporarily stores it in the UploadedFile entity. The session id is retrieved using the HTTPRequestHandler.GetSessionId() action and stored with the file. This will be used to ensure the uploaded file is only available to the user who uploaded it. Lastly a unique text identifier, or token, is generated, assigned and stored with the file.
Sneaky text/plain Trick
The FilePond library sent a HTTP POST to the Upload.aspx page, and expects a simple text response, which is an identifier for the uploaded file. However, OutSystems will normally return a whole web page. So here is what we do. By using a Download widget in the Preparation, setting the Mime-Type to "text/plain" the web page will return a text response rather than the HTML of the web page. We then use the BinaryData API to convert the file's text identifier to UTF-8 and pass it as binary data.
As there may be multiple file uploads, multiple text tokens may be appended to the hidden input box.
When the user clicks the submit button for the form, the text tokens stored in the value of the hidden input box is sent along with any other form data. The text tokens can then be used to retrieve the uploaded files, via the service side action FilePondUpload_GetUploadedFiles(UploadTokens).
And voila, you have the uploaded files to do with as you wish!
Auto Upload
So that's great, but the user still has to click on a button to submit the form, even though the file is already being held in temporary storage on the server.
This is why the plugin has a second file upload webblocks; AutoUpload.
The AutoUpload block will make the uploaded files available as soon as they have been uploaded. This block


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What does error TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable mean?
I am getting it on this code:
def write_file(data,filename): _TAG_ file and writes list to it
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 for row in data: ##i get the error here
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It means "data" is None.
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Code: for row in data:
Error message: TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable
Which object is it complaining about? Choice of two, row and data. In for row in data, which needs to be iterable? Only data.
What's the problem with data? Its type is NoneType. Only None has type NoneType. So data is None.
You can verify this in an IDE, or by inserting e.g. print "data is", repr(data) before the for statement, and re-running.
Think about what you need to do next: How should "no data" be represented? Do we write an empty file? Do we raise an exception or log a warning or keep silent?
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It means that the data variable is passing None (which is type NoneType), its equivalent for nothing. So it can't be iterable as a list, as you are trying to do.
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it would be nice if just iterated like an empty list... would nake for cleaner code and less error checking – deltanine Aug 19 '13 at 1:03
_USER_ It would make for a lot of problems being more difficult to detect I think. I'm glad None is different from an empty iterable. If you want your described behaviour, just use for row in data or []: – Mark 20 hours ago
You're calling write_file with arguments like this:
write_file(foo, bar)
But you haven't defined 'foo' correctly, or you have a typo in your code so that it's creating a new empty variable and passing it in.
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How should I dimension the heat exchanger so that the biogas system functions at an ambient temperature of 40°C and a medium temperature of 38°C?
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Our customer was commissioned to engineer a biogas plant in the Chinese hinterland. They knew that the plant would have to be fully functional the moment it was completed. Increased on-site personnel costs were not an issue but if the biogas plant was not operational immediately then there would be a problem.
The main issue was that the area designated for the plant could experience temperatures of almost 40°C in summer yet the permissible temperature difference for cooling the bio elements is only 2 Kelvin. If cooling doesn't function correctly, the microorganisms will die and the entire system will stop working.
Our task was to optimize the heat exchanger in such a way that it would function efficiently despite the low temperature difference.
Heat transfer at a temperature difference of only 2 kelvin is challenging. Additionally, we would have to deal with the non-continuous drive system operating at the plant.
As a first step, it was important to clearly define the task so we analyzed the R & I flow chart as well as the planned mass and energy flows in detail. This resulted in a heat exchanger design with a pipe length of a few hundred meters just as the customer had foreseen.
Therefore, we decided to take a step back to the drawing board and rethought the entire process control of the biogas plant from the ground up. Did the heat exchanger really need to be so large? Surely there was a more elegant method?
With the help of a TRIZ process we developed a range of potential solutions to present to the client. We adopted some approaches from sewage treatment plants and others from classical process engineering. We identified the limiting factor – heat transfer occurring on the outer side of the pipes – and began intensively planning how we could improve it.
The customer implemented the following solution: the geometry of the storage container was adjusted according to our specifications in order to attain a higher flow velocity. To achieve this, agitators were utilized to further improve the pipes' external heat transfer rate.
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Ergonomic Evaluation and Visualization in the Car Design Process 2001-01-2114
Industries strive to minimize their development costs, to shorten the time required for development and to increase the quality of the product. The paper summarizes three ergonomic evaluation methods developed for the automotive industry. The first method presents a manikin with a movement pattern similar to people. The second method is a tool to evaluate comfort that can be combined with a manikin. The third and last, is a methodology for eliciting user comments. Ergonomic evaluation methods and tests with a computer support and generate information that may lead to reduced product development cost. These kinds of tools are also suitably used in cross-functional project groups in order to visualize alternative designs, and evaluations in a participative process. Visualization of traffic, driver and eye-movements seems to open up the discussion and is a step to a more user-centered design process.


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Comparing Opening Patterns of Chain vs Community Establishments During COVID-19
Social learning shows community establishments follow decisions that nearby chain establishments make
As places where people congregate, business firms have a decent amount of power and influence on how people interact during situations like the COVID-19 pandemic. Even under government regulations and health guidelines, these firms have considerable control over keeping their establishment open or closed.
In their recent paper, Mathijs de Vaan, Saqib Mumtaz, Abhishek Nagaraj, and Sameer B. Srivastava take this premise and examine the role social learning has on the decisions these establishments make. More specifically, they focus on how chain establishments' decisions to remain open or close impact community establishments (that are independently owned and operated) in the same industries.
Accurate, detailed SafeGraph point of interest (POI) data about chain and community establishments (by industry) enabled this study, as researchers could plot these locations and analyze mobility patterns. As you can see above, detailed POI data lets them map chain and community establishments, as well as distinguish between which ones were open and closed at different times.
A number of factors had to be considered during the course of their study, which are tracked in the table above. This includes whether the location was open or not and the key independent variable, the proportion of chain establishments that are open in the same zip code and industry as the focal community establishment. They also accounted for a lag in social learning, expecting these community establishments to be behind the chain counterparts in adopting policies.
Make sure you check out the full research paper:
Social Learning in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Community Establishments' Closure Decisions Follow Those of Nearby Chain Establishments
Mathijs de Vaan, Saqib Mumtaz, Abhishek Nagaraj, and Sameer B. Srivastava.
This research was made possible with Placekey's universal location identifier and SafeGraph's mobility datasets that allow you to analyze movement patterns. To learn what others using these solutions are doing, join the SafeGraph community!


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Water wheelchair in Dubai – level 3
Dubai has begun offering specialist wheelchairs that have been modified to allow disabled people the chance to enjoy bathing in the sea or in swimming pools.
The two armrests act as flotation devices and the user lays flatter and lower than normal to make it easier to change positions.
"So we are studying right now four parks in Dubai, and we're changing actually the playground area according to that needs exactly for those who are coming with wheelchairs so they will be mixed with the normal children."
Twenty chairs have been put out across Dubai's two main beach parks and can be reserved and used for free, and by October they plan for at least 20 percent of areas in the country's 80 parks to be equipped with entertainment facilities for disabled visitors.
"We'll try to remove the wheels. It's easy to remove the wheels because there's a lock. When we remove the lock, the wheels will come out."
The chairs are part of a specialist project to make Dubai more accessible for disabled visitors for the World Expo in 2020.
Difficult words: floatation (action of floating – moving slowly in the water), device (thing).
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How to Create a Fireball Effect in Blender
Jacob Swing shows how you can create, render, and composite a fireball effect right in your hand.
Blender is a one-stop-shop for 3D and so much more. A great example of this is this new tutorial from Jacob Swing. The tutorial covers creating a fireball effect using smoke, particles, and fluids in Blender, tracking them into the footage, and compositing the shot, all without leaving Blender.
A Fireball in Your Hand.
Fire is awesome! So in this two part tutorial series, we go over how to use Blender to generate a fireball that can be tracked to any footage." Part 1 of this tutorial goes over how to create the fireball inside of Blender. Part 2 covers tracking the fireball to the footage and compositing and color grading the render.
About Jacob Swing.
Jacob Swing is an Asia based CG Generalist. He started using Blender back in the late 90's and his love for the program has never waned. Currently, Jacob works as a freelance Modeler and Videographer.


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To help visitors understand the geological processes which shaped the Breckland landscape, they can view a column at High Lodge Forest Centre, which is a representation of the deposits to a depth of 13 metres. There is an interpretation board to explain the artist's impression of the geological layers.
In 2004, the Forestry Commission received funding from the Arts Council England, Forest Heath District Council and the 'Arts for All' programme of Suffolk County Council, through the Rural Arts Lottery Programme, for an innovative arts project at High Lodge. The sculptor, Julienne Dolphin Wilding, was chosen to carry out the project and, after a series of public consultation days with adults and children, she chose a geological theme.
The column was constructed around a ten tonne block of concrete and a steel inner tube ten millimetres thick and twelve metres high welded onto a base plate. Twenty-four'mill stone rings' were then mounted onto the tube and bedded in with mortar joints. Using aggregate materials provided by May Gurney and Frimstone Ltd, Julienne built up a series of layers to create an artistic impression of the geological strata.


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- Richard "88 Fingers" Turner, Jr. is a beloved husband and talented pianist.
- Known for his dexterity and musical talent, Richard has inspired the next generation of aspiring African American musicians. In order to truly thrive in the industry, it's critical for musicians to have a strong educational foundation, which can often be inaccessible due to the high cost of college.
- This scholarship seeks to honor Richard Turner, Jr. by supporting African American musicians in their pursuit of education.
- Any African American two or four-year undergraduate student who is pursuing a music degree and career may apply for this scholarship.
Submission: To apply, submit a 2-3 minute video of yourself performing.
Deadline: August 1, 2023
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This session will focus on introducing the use of negotiated projects and the Australian curriculum in a State School prep class. Real-life examples of how Anne has incorporated negotiated projects and The Australian Curriculum at beginning of the Prep year will be discussed. Anne aims to demonstrate how they can be used to fulfil requirements outlined in both the Early Years Curriculum Guidelines and the Australian Curriculum (C2C)
Key ideas will include:
- Anne's ongoing work with maintaining a Play based pedagogy in a State School Prep Class.
- Focused teaching that compliments Projects & the Australian Curriculum expectations.
- Examples of how Anne has begun to implement Projects and the content of C2C and Australian Curriculum
Anne Pearson is currently a Prep Teacher at the New Mango Hill S.S. Prior to teaching at Mango Hill SS Anne was a demonstration teacher for QUT at Kelvin Grove SC. Anne has experience in Prep and Preschool settings. Anne has previously presented on Playing with the Australian Curriculum at the 2011ECTA conference, and is a passionate advocate of appropriate Early Years Pedagogy as recommended by QSA and Education Queensland. Anne is constantly working on ways to best support her students and support the new Australian Curriculum. Opportunities for discussion will be provided in the presentation.
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Hundreds join potential class action as Camden High School cancer cluster fears multiply
Updated August 01, 2013 05:52:39
Hundreds of former students and teachers of a Sydney high school have added their names to a potential class action over toxic contaminants.
The old Camden High School was moved in 2001 after dangerous substances were discovered.
The school was built on top of an old gasworks.
Now former students and teachers believe cases of cancer, tumours and birth defects may have been caused by exposure to the chemicals.
7.30 first reported last week that lawyers were preparing a class action against the Education Department on behalf of a group of 70 people.
Now that number has grown to 195.
Leonie Curry, 41, is the lead plaintiff for the case.
She is dying of a terminal brain tumour, and wants an investigation into whether the school is to blame.
"There are so many people that are sick and died, they've died already and there's a lot of people with brain tumours, it makes you wonder," she said.
Mrs Curry has already had one tumour removed, but doctors say another tumour is inoperable.
Former Camden High School student Leonie Curry.
"The prognosis is they just don't know because it's a very rare tumour, it's a very rare position and even though it's a benign tumour they still grow and because of the position it can grow and your brain stem is where all the functions for your body are, your breathing, your heart rate, all that kind of stuff, so if it takes a function that's it," she said.
Mrs Curry approached lawyers after hearing of many former students of the school who were being diagnosed with serious illnesses.
One of her closest friends, Raelean Borg, died of breast cancer last year.
"When we discovered that I had a brain tumour and I wouldn't be around much longer either we were having a bit of a joke about how long we were going to last and then came round to how it was so bizarre that the two of us were going to be dead very soon," Mrs Curry said.
Teachers, former students alike affected
Mrs Curry set up a Facebook page and was swamped with feedback from former students who suspect the contaminants at the site made them sick.
Former teachers are also involved in the potential class action.
Art teacher Dale Hodges, 45, died in 2007 of thyroid and ovarian cancer.
Her partner Glenn Carson says she was fit, and had no family history of cancer.
"She trained hard, she worked hard, she wanted to live and she wanted to teach and it didn't happen," he said.
Ms Hodges taught at the school for 18 years.
For much of the time she taught in a classroom directly on top of the site of the former gasworks.
She kept records of the contamination uncovered in 1996.
The records include a letter from the Environmental Protection Authority warning of high levels of contamination.
The letter was addressed to the NSW Education Department.
Some remediation work was done a year later, but the school was not moved until 2001.
You turn up to your workplace thinking it's safe - which is what a workplace should be - but obviously this workplace wasn't safe
Dale Hodges' partner Glenn Carson
Mr Carson says it should have happened sooner.
"You turn up to your workplace thinking it's safe - which is what a workplace should be - but obviously this workplace wasn't safe," he said.
"We just need answers.
"You need to be able to find out why in '96 they didn't do something more drastic than wait until '97 for a start, wait another year before they did anything at all, then wait another four years until they got the land at Cawdor."
Another family of seven siblings has also added their names to the case.
Mary Nolan says of her six brothers and sisters, two died of cancer and tumours, and three more have had repeated tumours detected and removed.
She wants the Education Department to investigate.
"The Education Department should do a thorough investigation into it yes. Absolutely," she said.
"I mean we went to a rural community to have seven children raised in a rural healthy environment.
"Our public school is absolutely the first place of safety that you would think you would get a healthy upbringing from.
"What's the point of giving children milk every day when you're going to actually have them sitting on toxic ground for six years every day that they attend there, there is just no point to it."
7.30 asked the Education Department why it took five years to close the school.
It ignored the question and instead sent this statement:
The department is open to review any new information available in relation to the former Camden High School site. However, at this time we have not received any complaints or claims. If any complaints or claims are received, the department will review the information and work with the relevant government agencies to take appropriate action.
Ms Nolan says her mother is devastated by the doubts about the school, and blames herself for sending her seven children there to study.
"To watch them die one by one when you think you gave them the best - she was watching out for food and vitamins and all of those sorts of things - to find out she's been sending them to a toxic waste dump everyday for so many years in their growth periods, it is very heartbreaking for her, she'd like somebody other than herself to take responsibility for it," she said.
Although almost 200 people have now joined the legal action - it remains just a small portion of the many students who went to the school.
Those involved acknowledge that proving the cause of their illnesses may be impossible.
Nonetheless, Glenn Carson, who is still struggling with the death of his partner, also wants an official inquiry.
"It'd be nice just to be able to find out what happened, why it happened and how it happened," he said.
"If it could've been prevented, why wasn't it prevented?"
Topics: occupational-health-and-safety, health, work, education, brain-tumor, cancer, camden-2570, sydney-2000
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Soils make a vital contribution to Scotland's environmental, economic and social well-being. The report 'The State of Scotland's Soil' by Natural Scotland provides a picture of their current state and describes what can be done to protect them.It was led by SEPA and written and collated by scientists from a range of Scottish research institutes, universities and other public bodies.
The report aims to raise awareness of the importance of soils to inform people of the key environmental issues relating to soil, and to encourage debate on how to progress towards a sustainable Scotland. It builds on earlier reports by SEPA (2001) and the Scottish Government's Environmental research report Scotland's Soil Resource – current state and threats (Towers etal., 2006). The full report is available on the SEPA website at;


turn tail
1 [teyl]
Astronomy. the luminous stream extending from the head of a comet.
the reverse of a coin (opposed to head ).
Aeronautics. the after portion of an airplane or the like.
the tapering skirts or ends at the back of a coat, especially a tail coat.
men's full-dress attire.
Distilling. alcohol obtained in the final distillation. Compare head ( def 22 ).
Slang. the buttocks or rump.
Slang: Vulgar.
sexual intercourse.
Usually Disparaging and Offensive. a woman considered as a sex object.
the hinder, bottom, or end part of anything; the rear.
a final or concluding part of a sentence, conversation, social gathering, etc.; conclusion; end: The tail of the speech was boring. Toward the tail of the concert I'd begun to get tired.
the inferior or unwanted part of anything.
a long braid or tress of hair.
a line of persons awaiting their turns at something; queue.
a retinue; train.
the lower part of a pool or stream.
Printing, Bookbinding. the bottom of a page or book.
coming from behind: a tail breeze.
verb (used with object)
to form or furnish with a tail.
to terminate; come after or behind; follow like a tail.
Building Trades. to fasten (a beam, stone, etc.) by one end (usually followed by in or into ).
verb (used without object)
to follow close behind: She always tails after her sister.
Building Trades. (of a beam, stone, etc.) to be fastened by one end (usually followed by in or into ).
turn tail,
to turn one's back on, as in aversion or fright.
to run away from difficulty, opposition, etc.; flee: The sight of superior forces made the attackers turn tail.
with one's tail between one's legs, utterly humiliated; defeated; cowed: They were forced to retreat with their tails between their legs.
before 900; Middle English; Old English tægl; cognate with Old Norse tagl horse's tail, Gothic tagl hair, Middle High German zagel tail, Middle Low German tagel rope-end
tailer, noun
tailless, adjective
taillessly, adverb
taillessness, noun
taillike, adjective
The meanings "sexual intercourse" and "female sexual partner" are both vulgar slang. When referring to a person, the term tail is usually used with disparaging intent and perceived as insulting.
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tail1 (teɪl)
1. the region of the vertebrate body that is posterior to or above the anus and contains an elongation of the vertebral column, esp forming a flexible movable appendageRelated: caudal
2. anything resembling such an appendage in form or position; the bottom, lowest, or rear part: the tail of a shirt
3. the last part or parts: the tail of the storm
4. the rear part of an aircraft including the fin, tailplane, and control surfaces; empennage
5. astronomy the luminous stream of gas and dust particles, up to 200 million kilometres long, driven from the head of a comet, when close to the sun, under the effect of the solar wind and light pressure
6. the rear portion of a bomb, rocket, missile, etc, usually fitted with guiding or stabilizing vanes
7. a line of people or things
8. a long braid or tress of hair: a ponytail; a pigtail
9. angling Also called: tailfly the lowest fly on a wet-fly cast
10. a final short line in a stanza
11. informal a person employed to follow and spy upon another or others
12. See buttock an informal word for buttocks
13. taboo, slang
 a. the female genitals
 b. a woman considered sexually (esp in the phrases piece of tail, bit of tail)
14. printing
 a. the margin at the foot of a page
 b. the bottom edge of a book
15. the lower end of a pool or part of a stream
16. informal the course or track of a fleeing person or animal: the police are on my tail
17. (modifier) coming from or situated in the rear: a tail wind
18. turn tail to run away; escape
19. with one's tail between one's legs in a state of utter defeat or confusion
20. to form or cause to form the tail
21. to remove the tail of (an animal); dock
22. (tr) to remove the stalk of: to top and tail the gooseberries
23. (tr) to connect (objects, ideas, etc) together by or as if by the tail
24. informal (tr) to follow stealthily
25. (Austral) (tr) to tend (cattle) on foot
26. (intr) (of a vessel) to assume a specified position, as when at a mooring
27. to build the end of (a brick, joist, etc) into a wall or (of a brick, etc) to have one end built into a wall
Related: caudal
[Old English tægel; related to Old Norse tagl horse's tail, Gothic tagl hair, Old High German zagal tail]
tail2 (teɪl)
1. See also entail the limitation of an estate or interest to a person and the heirs of his body
2. (immediately postpositive) (of an estate or interest) limited in this way
[C15: from Old French taille a division; see tailor, tally]
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Word Origin & History
"hindmost part of an animal," O.E. tægl, tægel, from P.Gmc. *tagla- (cf. O.H.G. zagal, Ger. Zagel "tail," dialectal Ger. Zagel "penis," O.N. tagl "horse's tail"), from PIE *doklos, from base *dek- "something long and thin" (referring to such things as fringe, lock of hair, horsetail; cf.
O.Ir. dual "lock of hair," Skt. dasah "fringe, wick"). The primary sense, at least in Gmc., seems to have been "hairy tail," or just "tuft of hair," but already in O.E. the word was applied to the hairless "tails" of worms, bees, etc. Another O.E. word for "tail" was steort (see stark). Meaning "reverse side of a coin" is from 1680s; that of "backside of a person, buttocks" is recorded from c.1300; slang sense of "pudenda" is from mid-14c.; that of "woman as sex object" is from 1933, earlier "prostitute" (1846). The tail-race (1776) is the part of a mill race below the wheel. To turn tail "take flight" (1580s) originally was a term in falconry. The image of the tail wagging the dog is attested from 1907.
"limitation of ownership," a legal term, 1321 in Anglo-Fr.; 1284 in Anglo-L., in most cases an aphetic form of entail.
"follow secretly," U.S. colloquial, 1907, is from earlier sense of "follow or drive cattle," from tail (n.1). Tail off "diminish" is attested from 1854.
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Medical Dictionary
tail (tāl)
The posterior part of an animal, especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body.
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Science Dictionary
tail (tāl) Pronunciation Key
 1. The rear, elongated part of many animals, extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body. Tails are used variously for balance, combat, communication, mating displays, fat storage, propulsion and course correction in water, and course correction in air.
 2. A long, stream of gas or dust forced from the head of a comet when it is close to the Sun. Tails can be up to 150 million km (93 million miles) long, and they always point away from the Sun because of the force of the solar wind. ◇ Plasma tails, or ion tails, appear bluish and straight and narrow, and are formed when solar wind forces ionized gas to stream off the coma. Dust tails are wide and curved, and are formed when solar heat forces trails of dust off the coma; solid particles reflecting the Sun's light create their bright yellow color.
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Effects on the environment
The use of vehicles on natural soils produces at least four results:
- The soil is compacted under the wheel(s).
- The vehicle exerts a lateral force on the surface of the soil.
- The vehicle cuts into the soil on each side of the compacted zone.
- The movement of the vehicle causes horizontal tracks in the soil.


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Museum of the Cape Fear
The Museum of the Cape Fear in Fayetteville is the third regional branch of the North Carolina Museum of History and the only one that began as a branch museum. (The other two regional branches, the Museum of the Albemarle in Elizabeth City and the Gateway Museum in Old Fort, operated independently before coming under the Museum of History's umbrella.) The free-admission Museum of the Cape Fear opened in 1987 with funding assistance from the Historic Fayetteville Foundation and with Rodney Barfield as its first curator. It introduces visitors to the history and culture of southeastern North Carolina through exhibits, lectures, and workshops and, as part of its mission as a regional branch, offers expertise to the nonstate historical museums, sites, and agencies in its 20-county service area.
The museum features permanent exhibits on the history of the Piedmont and the lower North Carolina coast from early Native American settlements through the Civil War period. Exhibits on transportation in the region, Fayetteville history (including the devastating 1831 fire), and an 1890 potter's shop are of particular interest. Visitors and school groups are drawn to the temporary exhibit gallery, where changing exhibits have highlighted, among other subjects, African American women in the Cape Fear, traditional crafts of the region, and the region's archaeology. A meeting room provides space for programs, lectures, and films.
Angela Fracaro, "A Fast Start at Looking Back," The State 57 (June 1989).
Karen Rosalinde Zimmer, "An Audience Development Plan for the Museum of the Cape Fear in Fayetteville" (M.A. thesis, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1989).
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A promotional video for the Museum of the Cape Fear (Fayetteville, NC), courtesy of the Fayetteville Arts Council. Available from _URL_ (accessed August 24, 2012).
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What Are Affiliated Companies?
Companies are affiliated when one company is a minority shareholder of another. In most cases, the parent company will own less than a 50% interest in its affiliated company. Two companies may also be affiliated if they are controlled by a separate third party. In the business world, affiliated companies are often simply called affiliates.
The term is sometimes used to refer to companies that are related to each other in some way. For example, Bank of America has many different affiliated companies including Bank of America, U.S. Trust, Landsafe, Balboa, and Merrill Lynch.
Key Takeaways
 - Two companies are affiliated when one is a minority shareholder of another.
 - The parent company generally owns less than a 50% interest in its affiliated company, and the parent keeps its operations separate from the affiliate.
 - Parent businesses can use affiliates as a way to enter foreign markets.
 - Affiliates are different than subsidiaries, which are majority-owned by the parent company.
Companies may be affiliated with one another to get into a new market, to maintain separate brand identities, to raise capital without affecting the parent or other companies, and to save on taxes. In most cases, affiliates are associates or associated companies, which describes an organization whose parent has a minority stake in it.
Understanding Affiliated Companies
There are several ways companies can become affiliated. A company may decide to buy out or take over another one, or it may decide to spin off a portion of its operations into a new affiliate altogether. In either case, the parent company generally keeps its operations separate from its affiliates. Since the parent company has a minority ownership, its liability is limited, and the two companies keep separate management teams.
Affiliates are a common way for parent businesses to enter foreign markets while keeping a minority interest in a business. This is especially important if the parent wants to shake off its majority stake in the affiliate.
There is no single bright-line test to determine if one company is affiliated with another. In fact, the criteria for affiliation changes from country to country, state to state, and even between regulatory bodies. For instance, companies considered affiliates by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) may not be considered affiliated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Affiliates Versus Subsidiaries
An affiliate is different from a subsidiary, of which the parent owns more than 50%. In a subsidiary, the parent is a majority shareholder, which gives the parent company's management and shareholders voting rights. Subsidiary financials may also appear on the parent company's financial sheets.
But subsidiaries remain separate legal entities from their parents, meaning they are liable for their own taxes, liabilities, and governance. They are also responsible for following the laws and regulations where they are headquartered, especially if they operate in a different jurisdiction from the parent company.
An example of a subsidiary is the relationship between the Walt Disney Corporation and sports network ESPN. Disney owns an 80% interest in ESPN, making it a majority shareholder. ESPN is its subsidiary.
In e-commerce, an affiliate refers to a company that sells the products of another merchant on its website.
SEC Rules Surrounding Affiliates
Securities markets around the world have rules that concern affiliates of the businesses they regulate. Here again, these are complex rules that need to be analyzed by local experts on a case-by-case basis. Examples of rules enforced by the SEC include:
 - Broker-dealers must maintain and preserve certain information regarding those affiliates, subsidiaries, and holding companies whose business activities are reasonably likely to have a material impact on their own finances and operations.
Tax Consequences of Affiliates
In nearly all jurisdictions, there are important tax consequences for affiliated companies. In general, tax credits and deductions are limited to one affiliate in a group, or a ceiling is imposed on the tax benefits that affiliates may reap under certain programs.
Determining whether companies in a group are affiliates, subsidiaries, or associates is done through a case-by-case analysis by local tax experts.


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Gleninchaquin – The History of a Valley
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Objectives of survey:
 1. Provide an accurate record of the people that have lived in the valley.
 2. Connect the recently uncovered dwellings with the people that had lived there as part of the preparation for their restoration.
Both of these surveys are part of ongoing studies and we welcome any interest from institutions and individuals with expertise in these fields. Work on the restoration of the 18th century farm was completed back in 2012.


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What is the Value of Investment for Your Wellness Program?
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Wellness programs promote healthy behaviors to boost employees' overall health and create a more positive working environment. These employer programs provide employees with tools to support them on their wellbeing journey.
However, the executive team might be curious about whether an employee wellness program is even worth the investment for your company.
Employers continually recognize that workplace conditions impact an employee's wellbeing, for better or worse. Wellbeing brings positive changes to overall health, including physical, mental and emotional levels.
Employees with lower wellbeing can be the significant burden of healthcare costs, resulting in loss of productivity for their employer. To measure their return on investment (ROI), employers can look at their medical cost savings. However, they should instead look at their value on investment (VOI) to get a larger picture.
What is the difference between ROI and VOI? What does it mean for a workplace wellness program? How will it ultimately improve employee health?
A return on investment is a number that reflects an employer's monetized claims savings. It will directly measure costs of providing a benefits plan. It then directly compares the costs to the healthcare savings over time.
A more holistic indicator that measures the impact of wellness programs is the value on investment. This takes many factors into account besides mere monetary values. To measure value on investment, employers can look at specific qualitative attributes such as morale, engagement, positivity, retention and recruitment.
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Retention and Recruitment
Retention and recruitment are simpler to measure than the other attributes. If your workplace has a high turnover, this might indicate that your employer does not value wellbeing.
Likewise, it's not a good sign if your employer struggles to recruit valuable talent. While neither of these relates directly to employee wellbeing, it's known that workplaces that promote wellbeing attract and retain talent
The direct effects that wellness has on recruitment and retention may not be considered under ROI, but it will affect your bottom line.
Morale, Engagement, and Positivity
A workplace's morale, employee engagement and positivity attributes can be a little trickier to judge. Cost of training new employees can be calculated, but employee engagement is more difficult to quantify.
Low employee engagement can lead to some costs, like 70% more safety incidents and 40% quality defects. A wellness program will lead to fewer distractions and a more resilient employee population.
Once your workplace fosters a positive working environment to keep your employees engaged, then you will begin to see the value of a wellness program. A combination of physical wellness and mental health focus will improve health while benefiting the work environment.
Finally, collect data on what these programs mean to your employees. To get direct feedback on morale, utilize an HR communications tool to send out quick and easy surveys checking in on employees and their wellness levels.
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Difference between Adaptor and Scaffold protein
What is the difference between and scaffold protein??
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Difference between Adaptor and Scaffold proteins
Both of these types of proteins are involved in the signaling pathway.
Signaling pathway itself is the mechanism, or the process (name it however you like) in which a signal comes to the cell and triggers some ordered series of events (signaling pathway) which results in some changes in the cell. These changes are usually related to the gene expression or solute concentration (solute uptake, e.g.) which allows the cell to respond to the signal and adjust its metabolism to the current conditions in the environment.
Signaling pathway usually starts with the signal itself which binds to the receptor on the cell membrane which then transmits the signal inside through a number of different proteins. Basically, both adaptor and scaffold proteins are "located" in this group of proteins responsible for transmitting the signal from the receptor further down into the cell.
The main difference between them is in their function. They also differ in the structure, of course, but then again this is the case for any two different proteins so it is not worth mentioning. The role of scaffold proteins is to coordinate the signal transduction by "attracting" a number of different proteins needed in the signaling pathway. They basically form a complex of proteins by tethering other actors in the pathway, thus localizing them to a specific place, making the signal transduction more effective. Having this role, they can also regulate the signaling pathway (through positive and negative feedback signals) and they can isolate specific proteins (the right ones needed in the current active pathway) from other competitive proteins that are not wanted during that time.
Adaptor proteins, on the other hand, are smaller and they too help in the formation of protein complexes, but they do so by usually binding only two proteins. They accomplish this through specific domains (usually SH2 and SH3) which recognize specific amino acid sequences in the target protein.
One of the best examples for scaffold protein is MEKK1, which is present in the MAPK pathway (mitogen-activated protein kinase). This pathway is responsible for sending the signal further into the nucleus, regulating specific transcription factors responsible for the expression of proteins which affect the cell-cycle and cell differentiation.
Good example of adaptor protein is GRB2 (growth factor receptor-bound protein 2). It sends the signal further down by binding to the EGF receptor (epidermal growth factor receptor) with SH2 domain, and it attracts the next protein in the pathway (Sos protein in this case) with SH3 domains.
Hope this answers your question. Sorry if I have made the answer too long, but I like to start from the beginning, just in case if somebody else is searching for this, but lacks the basic knowledge needed to understand the subject.
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Here at RedRabbit, we know exactly how time-consuming and tedious maintenance management can be. That's why we provide you with the tools to easily organise and track each maintenance ticket from logged to completed.
Dealing with maintenance requires a lot of communication to keep all stakeholders informed. With our maintenance dashboards, you can easily track what has been done on any ticket and have all your communication and documentation in one place.
Residential Property Maintenance can originate from the following sources:
 - Inspections
 - Issue reported by the Tenant
 - Preventive maintenance initiated by the Landlord
Each of the above maintenance events will require:
 - Consultation with the Landlord
 - Quotes for work to be done
 - Tasking of Contractors to do the agreed to Maintenance
 - Keeping all parties informed
 - Quality control to ensure that the job has been done properly
 - Managing of the workflow from start to finish ensuring closure on every issue
In most cases the Agent will act on behalf of the Landlord with the Landlord only being involved at certain stages of the process. Since this might differ from Landlord to Landlord, it is extremely important to calibrate and agree with the landlord on how the process will work and where the Landlord would want to be involved. Specifically the following needs to be agreed to:
 - Basic process workflow when a new issue needs to be managed
 - The types of maintenance that will require a quote vs just permission to attend on a call out basis.
 - The number of quotes that the Landlord would require.
 - The discretionary amount that the agent can spend to deal with emergency situations where he cannot get hold of the Landlord within a reasonable amount of time.
 - How quality control will be handled
 - How payment for work will be done (direct by the landlord or paid from the rent)
Dealing with Maintenance requires lots of communication to keep all stakeholders informed and it is extremely important to have a system in place that will make it easy to communicate via Email and / or SMS. Typical communication that might be required include the following:
 - Letting Landlords and Tenants know that a new issue has been logged
 - Letting Contractors know that a job card has been issued for their attention
 - Letting Tenants know when a Contractor has been tasked to attend to an Issue
 - Asking for quality feedback after receipt of confirmation from a Contractor that a job has been completed.
 - Keeping Landlords and Tenants updated on progress for larger jobs or where there are delays.
A good system will allow you to use templates to avoid having to retype the same messages over and over again. In addition Email threads related to the same job should preferably be saved in an email repository that will make it easy to see all related email with the click of a button.
From time to time, certain difficult maintenance situations will require special attention and it is always a good idea to discuss these upfront with the Landlord and how you intend dealing with them. Examples of these include:
Water Leaks – Slow leaks might not be detected above ground until the Landlord is confronted by a huge water account. This would then probably require leak detection to determine the exact location of the leak before it can be repaired. If the leak are on the municipal side of the water connection to the property, it might require a call to the municipality to deal with the issue. High water readings might also be caused by faulty water meters. This will require meter testing by the municipality. They would normally require you to pay upfront for the testing and will refund you if it turns out that the water meter is faulty. Dealing with these kinds of leaks is very frustrating and the cost involved when having to do leak detection or meter testing.
Process Tips when you receive a high water account and suspect a water leak:
 1. Close all water outlets on the property.
 2. Take a water meter reading.
 3. Wait an hour and take another meter reading. If there has been any usage even with all outlets closed, you have a water leak or defective water meter.
 4. Inspect your property above ground looking specifically for obvious signs of a water leak. If any of these are present, a concealed water pipe could be the source of the problem and you will need to get a plumber involved to locate and fix the leak.
 1. Wet areas above ground
 2. Damp and Paint peeling on walls
 3. Damp and stains on ceilings
 5. If after following the above process, there is still no obvious sign of where the problem is, you might have to get a Leak Detection company involved. They have specialised equipment that allows them to do a pressure test to locate the specific location of the leak.
 6. If there are still no obvious leaks, you might be dealing with a defective water meter and you will then have to log a call with the municipality to test the meter.
Blocked Drains -Traditionally blocked drains are the Tenant's responsibility with the following two exceptions:
 - If it can be proven within an agreed to grace period from taking occupation that the drain has been blocked when the tenant moved in
 - If it can be proven that the blocked drain is caused by a structural problem such as a pipe collapse or tree roots penetrating a pipe.
In order to reduce the emotional response when encountering the effects of a blocked drain, it will serve you well to implement the following countermeasures pro-actively:
 - Ensure that your Lease includes a clause stating what the grace period is for reporting blocked drains after which it should be the Tenant's responsibility.
 - Include as part of the in-going inspection that all toilets should be flushed, baths, basins and showers tested to see if the water runs away freely.
 - Specifically check for large damp areas outside that might point to outside drain problems.
Break-ins – Any break-in is an emotional issue and since it involves blatant intrusion into a tenant's private space, you can expect that questions will be asked about the general safety of the property. If the tenant does not have short term insurance, it will be an even bigger issue since it will now involve money.
In order to be prepared should this happen to you, you can consider the following:
 1. Identify security related issues and shortcomings upfront when you list the property and advise the Landlord on how to make the Property as secure as possible by adding burglar bars, security gates, fencing, alarm systems, etc.
 2. Ensure that your Lease contains a specific clause stipulating that the Tenant is responsible for his / her own short term insurance.
 3. Have an emergency number and process available that can see the Tenant over in terms of ensuring their safety until the necessary maintenance has been done to fix broken doors and windows.
Leaking Roofs – This is one of the most problematic issues since it is so unpredictable. A roof might not leak for many years and then suddenly the wind blows from a unique direction and with enough force to penetrate and expose a weakness. Many tenants can be very unreasonable when it comes to roof leaks and might demand that it be fixed immediately. The problem is that roof leaks can only be fixed reliably when the roof is dry.
You can prepare for this by considering the following:
 1. Make a point to explain the issues associated with roof leaks to the Landlord and specifically ask about potential roof leaks and if possible, get them fixed before the tenant takes occupation.
 2. Ensure that the Tenant has short term insurance and that any such sort term insurance covers resultant water damage from leaking roofs, etc.
 3. When a roof leak is reported, explain to the tenant that it can only be fixed when the roof had time to dry out. Ask the tenant to temporarily move furniture that might be affected in order to avoid unnecessary resultant damage.
 4. Make sure that you have a reliable Contractor who specialises in Leaking Roofs and that you understand the process. There is nothing more frustrating having to deal with the same leak over and over again as a result of an incompetent contractor.
Wear and Tear Issues – these issues mostly relate to the upkeep of the basic structure and involves the walls, roof structure and ceilings, window and door frames, etc. If this kind of maintenance is not done, it can lead to huge costs and might even require complete replacement. In addition, if the structure is not good, you might have to be satisfied with a reduction in rent.
Wear and tear is the change or damage to the condition of a property that happens as a result of everyday use. It is not caused by abuse or neglect. Typical examples include:
 - Some scratches on a wooden floor
 - Color of carpet of hardwood fading due to sunlight exposure
 - Dirty Grout
 - Deterioration of paint or varnish condition on walls, windows and doors as a result of exposure to the elements
 - Cracked tiles resulting from structural movement
You should proactively avoid this at all cost. Considering the following:
 - Explain to the Landlord upfront what constitutes wear and tear.
 - Give the Landlord a condition report of times that might require regular preventive maintenance together with a 5 year schedule of when what needs to be done to keep the property (his asset) in tip top condition and worthy of the rental return he expects.
 - Provide the Landlord with a saving option whereby a small amount is taken from the rent every month and put in a savings account for the Landlord in order to provide funding for preventive maintenance.
Issues involving a Sectional Title Scheme
Many rental properties form part of a sectional title scheme which means that the Landlord is no longer responsible for all the maintenance issues associated with the Property.


Notorious Arizona County Providing Wrong Election Date In Spanish, Correct Date In English
A spokesperson for the Maricopa County Elections Department admits they once again gave voters the wrong date of next month's election.
ABC15 exposed a similar mistake by the Maricopa County Elections Department last week on a voter ID document. The document, like the bookmark, also listed the date of the general election in Spanish as November 8, but November 6 in English.
Reed, Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell's spokesperson, says the error was not intentional but rather simply yet another mistake.
 - Allen
 If you can't read or speak English then you have no business voting anyways.
 - Andrew
 Does that include people who can't tell the difference between 6 and 8?
 - Jin The Ninja
 i rather think, being monolingual, is somewhat limiting and not a topic of polite discussion.
 your personal ignorance is not an excuse for the disenfranchisement of legal voters.
 - Eric Fischer
 Does the above statement still apply for a monolingual person in the U.S. who only speaks Spanish? (although I do tend to agree that being multilingual is objectively better than being monolingual)
 - Jin The Ninja
 i said 'being monolingual is somewhat limiting.' that doesn't refer to any particular group of speakers; however, english-speaking westerners have a particularly virulent expectation for non-english speakers to learn THEIR language. did you know there are hundreds of thousands of AMERICAN aboriginal people born between _PHONE_ WHOM ONLY speak their indigenous language? i don't fault people for being monolingual (because that would be just as a bad as the OP), but i fault practices that engender disenfranchisement in totality.
 - Hadrian999
 I believe if someone travels to another country it is their responsibility to learn the language if they want to get along, though encouraging people to multilingual is a great idea.It is also important for outreach programs to help new arrivals learn a functional level of the local language. New immigrants who are cut off from the parent culture don't do anyone any good. In parts of the U.S. it is very hard to learn and retain a foreign language though maybe less difficult in the internet age. Nothing drives me quite so crazy as videos of "ugly americans" freaking out because people in places they vacation don't speak English. I want to learn another language but I'm not sure I'll be able to with the state of my hearing.
 - Eric Fischer
 There's a BIG difference between American Indians who are native to the U.S. and immigrants who moved here.
 As an English-speaking westerner myself, I would consider it the height of arrogance and bad manners to go to a foreign nation and expect them to bend over backwards to accommodate my monolinguism, ESPECIALLY if I was seeking citizenship in that country. I see nothing wrong with endorsing the same policy in my own country.
 Arpaio is a total POS, and the particular tactic revealed in this article is slimy. However, Indians living on the Res are the ONLY ones who are entitled to an exemption from being required to read and write in English to vote.
 - VaudeVillain
 Why not?
 - 4451Htop
 I agree 100%. How can anyone think your wrong for making that statement? You have to understand English to make an informed decision when voting. I don't want people voting for someone when they can't even understand them. You guys are retarded if you think a bunch of people who can't speak or read the primary language of a country should have the right to vote in that country. Assimilate or GTFO!
 - Liam_McGonagle
 "Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell's spokesperson, says the error was not intentional but rather simply yet another mistake."
 She must be a rocket scientist just like Arpaio. Who the hell honestly 'thought' that the Spanish for 6 November would read '8 Noviembre'?
 - Jin The Ninja
 if that "genuinely" was a "mistake" then not only would it have "mistakenly" robbed people of their right to vote, but also it was so deeply retarded that whomever wrote it should not be claiming "spanish proefficiency" on their CV (a fire-able offense). i think it's much less embarrassing for them to just admit they are racist and fascist, at least that would show some kind of integrity of ideology.
 - some1simple
 I would like to see your remark regarding "unconstitutionally awful conditions" of the jails this gentleman runs supported by at least some shred of evidence or clearly phrased as your own opinion. As far as I know there has only been one case that deals with medical rights in the jail, but that does not mean the jail is unconstitutional, only the medical treatment. Please save your loaded single sided comments for you own blog.
 - Matt Staggs
 You're a guest here. Feel free to criticize Mr. Sloan's assertions, but If you're interested in moderating or editing content, then I suggest you "save it for your own blog."
 - VaudeVillain
 What a gentleman, you Googled for him AND refrained from using profanity.
 I would have just told him to get bent.
 - Fransico Person
 The ballots should be in "English only" to begin with. Whoever thought that they should include spanish with English and no other languages was a racist. Why not include every language known to man? Wouldn't want to disenfranchise anyone now would we.
 There is good reason for a predominant language being spoken in any country, America happens to be English. Learn it, make it easier on society as a whole.
 - nobomney2012
 Who downvotes this? If I moved to Brazil I wouldn't expect everything to be catered to me in english, i'd fucking learn Portuguese so I could assimilate. Immigrants, please come here, but learn the fucking language. My ancestors did and so should you.
 - Andrew
 His comment indicates to me that he already knows English.
 Also, if Brazil invaded and conquered America, I'd demand they cater to English speakers.
 - Eric Fischer
 If Brazil invaded and conquered America, you wouldn't be in any position to "demand" anything. More like "pretty please."
 If you think American cops are bad, try getting out of line in Rio. Or better yet, DON'T.
 - Andrew
 That attitude is a tad servile for my tastes. If the Founding Fathers thought that way, etc. etc.
 - VaudeVillain
 So it's racist to include Spanish, but entirely proper to include only English?
 Out of curiosity, how well do you know English? The (very short) article above clearly states that it refers to bookmark and a voter identification notice, ballots are not included.
 It would be a much better world if every ignorant jag who thinks God descended upon Washington and declared English the only language to be used in the US at least had the common decency to know and understand the language they seem to have such a hard on for. Damned morans.
 - nobomney2012
 American English has been the predominant spoken language in this country since it's inception and is the official language of 28 states(albeit these rulings do have racist roots). My grandparents came here speaking only Lithuanian and worked hard to learn the language so they could properly assimilate into the culture. Were there ballots catering to them? Fuck no and rightfully so. As I stated before, immigrants please come on over here, you're what made this country what it is. Just learn the language so you can properly integrate.
 - nobomney2012
 BTW I used ballots just as an example here I know it wasn't in the article.
 - poponhop
 are you pretending? to be spanish then misspelled your own name? Francisco or you are a sico?
 - Neo Washington
 The DOJ is flexing it's muscle to intimidate Sheriff Joe. If the majority of the crime in your community is committed by green aliens, then you would tend to deal more with green aliens, ie: pull over more green aliens. It's simple, his town is over run with illegal aliens and hispanic gangs, hispanic drug dealers, that's where the crime is coming from. Not to mention that if you are illegal you ARE a criminal by definition.
 Who cares, lets get the party started, throw these assholes out of the white house, out of the senate, out of congress and out of the supreme court. The few will not control the many forever.
 - BuzzCoastin
 OMG, Hispanics were almost deceived
 and wouldn't have been able to vote in fake, rigged election
 if they hadn't noticed that the Anglos were voting 2 days earlier
 no one should be deprived of their right to vote
 for one of the two corporate candidates of their choice
 - auto5734955
 To those of you who in some manner said speak the tongue or go home……..I bet your ancestors came to the USA able to speak perfectly the "NATIVE" dialects right? a$$holes you should GTFHome.


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Vasini Bai, A woman innovator from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, has developed ten varieties of Anthurium, a flower with high market value, by cross-pollination.
- Anthurium (Anthurium spp.) is a vast group of beautiful blooming plants available in a wide range of colors.
- The plants of the varieties are having high demands due to its use as indoor decorative plants.
- Anthurium helps in purifying the surrounding air and remove harmful airborne chemicals like formaldehyde, ammonia, toluene, xylene, and allergens.
- NASA has placed it in the list of air purifier plants.
Salient features of the Anthurium varieties are
- Large beautiful flowers
- Different colors of spathe and spadix
- Long stalks
- Better shelf life
- Good market value