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Other name: Mitsubachi Maya no Bouken, みつばちマーヤの冒険
Plot Summary: Maya, a newborn honeybee, brims with curiosity about the world around her. From the time she is born, she is brought up to be a worker bee, but it is difficult for her to understand and follow the strict rules of the hive because of her individuality and strong desire for independence. Having collected all the honey around the honeycomb, Maya decides to set out on an adventure to find a flower garden in order to collect more honey for the hive. Her intentions are noble, but because she leaves the hive without permission the Queen sends Maya's friend Willy to search for the little troublemaker. Willy joins Maya in her quest, and together, beyond the familiar hive, the two friends marvel at the sheer beauty that nature has to offer. Through many experiences—sometimes enjoyable, sometimes terrible or sad—and encounters with various insects, Maya matures into a strong and wise honeybee.
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Syracuse University Special Collections, John LaFarge, Timothy Cole, art, DeVinne, wood engraving, Scribner's Magazine
American Art and Architecture | Art and Design | History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology | Modern Art and Architecture
This article traces the history of modern wood engraving, including the argument in the art world that took place regarding whether wood engraving could be considered "art" in the first place. As the art form gained popularity with print publishers due to its convenience and beauty, internal debates took place about which direction the art form should take, especially within the "New School" of wood engraving that had emerged. Research for the article was aided by Syracuse University's Special Collections.
Gokey, Edward A. "The New School of Wood Engraving." The Courier 25.1 (1990): 53-83.

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We are the Local Environment Group for the area around Prestwood in Buckinghamshire, including Great Missenden,
The Hampdens, The Kingshills, North Dean and Speen
We aim to protect and enhance the quality of the natural environment through the involvement of local people.
The Chilterns are renowned for their wide diversity of Natural Habitats - from chalk grasslands to ancient woodlands - from rich farmland in the valleys to poor heathland on the hilltops.
Each habitat supports its own range of Notable Species.
Follow the links above to explore the richness of our natural environment.
The first 41 well-illustrated sections of this comprehensive flora by Tony Marshall documents trees and large shrubs, spore-bearing plants and some monocotyledons.
|Activities for Children|
|Publicity & Liaison|
|Walks and Visits|
|Junior Photo Competition|
|Junior Photo Competition Entry Form|
|2017 Photo Competition Results|
|Great Missenden Library|
|Angling Spring Wood|
|Hedges and Special Trees Project|
|Kiln Common Orchard|
|Prestwood Nature Reserve|
|Boug's Meadow History|
|Why no car park at Boug's Meadow|
|Butterfly Transect Route|
|Kiln Common Orchard Planting Plan|
|Ecological Flora of the Central Chilterns|
|Flowering Plants: Arable Land|
|Flowering Plants: Disturbed Land|
|Flowering Plants: Meadows|
|Flowering Plants: Ponds|
|Flowering Plants: Roadsides|
|Flowering Plants: Woodlands & Hedgerows|
|Grasses, Sedges & Rushes|
|Bees and Wasps|
|Mosses & Liverworts|
|Ancient Trees & Parkland|
|Heathland & Acid Grassland|
|Collings Hanger Pond|
|Kiln Corner Pond|

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Making a Softbox for Cheap
A Softbox provides a soft and even lighting effect which is ideal for a shoot. The only problem is that this light modifying equipment is quite expensive when you purchase it at a photography store. To overcome this problem, let's see how you can make a softbox cheaply with commonly available materials.
Step 1: Gathering the Materials
You will need the light, white cardboard or foam covers, tape, glue, knife, scissors and a white polyester sheet.
Step 2: Getting the Dimensions Right
The dimensions of the white box you are going to make will basically depend on the size of your light and its intensity, as it will be fitted in front of it. For example, if you are using a 500 watts helium lamp, then one end of the softbox will fit the shape of this lamp. The other end will be about three times more in size.
Step 3: Cutting and Taping
Draw a trapezium on the cardboard or sheet where one end is the width of your lamp and the other side is three times that size. The other two sides are equal. Cut out four such shapes, and tape the sides together. The result will be like a conical cover, but only with straight sides without any curves.
Step 4: Setting It Up
The smaller end of the cardboard structure will cover the light and the other end has to be covered with a well-ironed white polyester sheet. You can set up the box on a stand or table by which it is in front of the light and there is no light escaping from the sides. The sheet can either be taped on or just use clips. Switch on the light and you have a fine soft light falling on your subject.


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Environmental harshness and unpredictability, life history, and social and academic behavior of adolescents in nine countries.
Safety is essential for life. To survive, humans and other animals have developed sets of psychological and physiological adaptations known as life history (LH) tradeoff strategies in response to various safety constraints. Evolutionarily selected LH strategies in turn regulate development and behavior to optimize survival under prevailing safety conditions. The present study tested LH hypotheses concerning safety based on a 6-year longitudinal sample of 1,245 adolescents and their parents from 9 countries. The results revealed that, invariant across countries, environmental harshness, and unpredictability (lack of safety) was negatively associated with slow LH behavioral profile, measured 2 years later, and slow LH behavioral profile was negatively and positively associated with externalizing behavior and academic performance, respectively, as measured an additional 2 years later. These results support the evolutionary conception that human development responds to environmental safety cues through LH regulation of social and learning behaviors. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
Chang, L; Lu, HJ; Lansford, JE; Skinner, AT; Bornstein, MH; Steinberg, L; Dodge, KA; Chen, BB; Tian, Q; Bacchini, D; Deater-Deckard, K; Pastorelli, C; Alampay, LP; Sorbring, E; Al-Hassan, SM; Oburu, P; Malone, PS; Di Giunta, L; Tirado, LMU; Tapanya, S
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Thursday, May 9, 2013
How to change the listening port for the Axway/Vordel API Gateway
[ Update: Axway acquired Vordel in 2012 and the new name for the Vordel Gateway is the Axway API Gateway ]
A common question about the Axway/Vordel API Gateway is "How do you change its listening port?". The key to answering this question is to understand what are the "Services" groups under Policy Studio for the API Gateway:
What are the "Services" groups?
If you look under "Listeners" in Policy Studio, you will see the various "Services" groups. In the screenshot below we see "Default Services", "OAuth 2.0 Services" and "Sample Services". These are a way to group different paths under different ports. So, for example, the sample services are only available under the port which is defined under "Sample Services". And, the sample services can be disabled en masse, without affecting other listeners. You could also setup a new Services group, call it "SSL Only", then put an SSL listener in that group. Then, paths exposed under "SSL Only" could only be accessed using SSL.
Parameterized Ports
If you look at the circled item in the screenshot above, you see that the port number is not visible. Instead, we see an environmentalized parameter. So where is the port number? Notice that the variable starts with "env". This is a clue. It is in the Environmental Properties file.
So, if you look under /conf for the particular API Server instance, you can find the envSettings.props file, which is where this variable is defined. Here we see it below:
Notice the highlighted text. This is where the port is defined, and it's port 8080 at the moment. You can change this value here. And, in fact, you can add other variables here and then reference them in policies, providing environmental customization of the API Gateway [e.g. on another machine, we may use 8888 instead].


Candle Lit Energy
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Updated on Feb 05, 2012
Grade Level: 7th - 9th; Type: Chemistry
During the burning process, potential energy in a candle is converted to heat energy. This science project measures the amount of heat energy released by a burning candle.
Research Questions:
 - How much energy does a candle release when it burns?
 - How much potential energy does a candle have?
In order to start a chemical reaction, you need to use some activation energy, such as a burning flame. The activation energy consists of potential energy being converted to a different type of energy, such as kinetic or heat energy. In this project, you can calculate the amount of calories of heat energy that a given amount of candle produces.
 - Hole puncher
 - Juice can
 - Stick or glass rod
 - Water
 - Large can
 - Can opener
 - Candle stub
 - Scale
 - Tin foil
 - Thermometer
 - Match
Experimental Procedure
 1. Punch two holes, one in either side of the juice can, near the top. Thread a stick or glass rod through the holes. This will hold the juice can above the larger can.
 2. Add 100 ml of tap water to the juice can. Leave the water for a few minutes so that it reaches room temperature.
 3. Remove the bottom of the larger can, so that it is shaped like a metal tube.
 4. Cut five triangular holes in the bottom of the tube, spaced as equally as possible around the tube. These holes will let air circulate to the candle so that it will continue to burn.
 5. Weigh the candle stub, and record its weight in grams.
 6. Stand the tube up, and place a candle on a piece of foil in the center of the tube.
 7. Use a thermometer to measure the temperature of the water in the juice can. Write down this temperature.
 8. Light the candle, and immediately place the juice can into the larger can. The juice can should by suspended by the stick or glass rod.
 9. Stir the water in the juice can with a thermometer until it reads ten degrees higher than the original water temperature. Then blow out the candle.
 10. Weigh the candle and record the measurement.
 11. Calculate how many calories of heat were delivered to the water. To do this multiply the mass of the water (100) by the number of degrees the temperature was raised (25). Then divide the product by the number of grams the candle lost during the burning process. This will show you how many calories each gram of candle released, and therefore how much potential energy each gram of candle has.
Terms/Concepts: Potential energy; Calories of heat; Law of conservation of energy
 - Easy Genius Science Projects with Chemistry, by Robert Gardener. Pp 65-67.


text: According to material mechanics theory and drilling practice, the equation of lateral bending deformation (LBD) of drill was built and the inclined angle of drill tip was solved when drilling small hole. And then the drilling test was done and the character of drilling force was analyzed. Based on this, the LBD of drill was studied. The result shows that, the rise of lateral force and thrust force will increase the inclined angle of drill tip in drilling process, and lateral force is the main factor of generating LBD. By choosing suitable axial vibration parameter, axial vibration drilling can reduce the LBD of drill and improve the dimensional accuracy of hole evidently.


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How do I find the intersection between $f(x) = 3(x-2)^2$ and $g(x) = 3\sin(x-4)$? It's a sinusodial function so it I couldn't solve it like a normal intersection.
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Are you looking for $x$ such that $f(x) = g(x)$? – user20266 Jun 15 '12 at 16:36
Yes. I would assume to find two $x$s though because it's a quadratic. – user26649 Jun 15 '12 at 16:39
you should then maybe ask for the intersection of the graphs of two functions. To make even clearer what your question is about you could write somthing like 'Intersection of graph of polynomial and sine function' – user20266 Jun 15 '12 at 16:45
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This leads to a transcendental equation. Typically, you can find approximate solutions for these using numerical root-finding algorithms, like Newton's method or Bisection method.
Typically, an anlytical solution to these could be expressed using special functions, but they don't have nice closed form.
However, in your case, it is easy to prove that, in fact, no solutions exists at all in the real numbers (there are complex ones, though) -- since f(x) is always above g(x).
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The differences between sixth form and university
When you get to university, you expect a lot of things to be different from the sixth form. However, some of those things might surprise you. Here are a few differences that the prospectus didn't tell you about.
At university (unlike at sixth form) no one will tell you what to do!
A big difference between sixth form and uni is that unlike at sixth form, you will not be told which parts of your class are important. Neither your lecturer nor your teacher will tell you what you should be writing down. Instead, they will lecture and you will have to scribble away, hoping you have got the important bits covered. In no other aspect of your university education will you be told what to do – unless you ask. No more letters coming home to your parents, or assemblies – it's every student for themselves.
Referencing everything is a huge difference between sixth form and university
The sixth form may or may not have introduced you to this ghastly and frankly evil ritual that is referencing. Regardless, you will have to get used to it! It is basically this horrible stage in the already horrible event of having to write a 4000-word assignment. You are physically unable to write a single word without having referenced the author who wrote that word prior to you including it in your essay, the date that it was originally published, the page number in which you found said quote and the publisher who so kindly published the book in which you are now referencing.
A big difference between sixth form and university is that you will live in the library!
The library of a university will have everything you could possibly need as a student: a place to study quietly, computers, sofas that are just about comfortable enough to sleep on and food. Thus, you will live in the library – what possible reason would you have to leave? Oh yes, lectures of course!
Books piled up and crammed into a room or library
Living hand-to-mouth is a real thing that happens
Many students struggle to handle their finances at university and money becomes really tight. The assumption is parties every night and living it up all the time. However, the truth is that this gets expensive very quickly and soon you will have to figure out your priorities. If this is the case, take some time to budget properly for the essentials and if necessary go speak to the professionals on hand at the university to help you manage your money and finances.
All this can come as a real shock to start but don't worry, we're all in the same boat and you will get used to it.
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The Famous Denby Dale Pie From Yorkshire
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The village of Denby Dale nestles in the picturesque hills of West Yorkshire in Northern England. The town is famous for its monster meat and potato pies—they're even mentioned in the Guinness Book of World Records. These gigantic pies are usually baked to celebrate national special occasions and events. The first time is believed to have been in 1788 to celebrate the recovery of King George III from his mental illness.
The History of Denby Dale Pies
Ten pies have been made as part of nine pie festivals over the years—one of the festivals was ditched in 1887. The pie that was made for the millennium celebration in 2000 weighed a staggering 12 tonnes. That's in excess of 26,448 pounds—a tonne equals slightly more than 2,204 pounds. The pie was 40 feet long, 8 feet wide and 3 feet 8 inches deep. It contained three tonnes of beef and a tonne of potatoes, and it was wetted down by 22 gallons of John Smith's Best Bitter, which is brewed in Tadcaster in Yorkshire. The pie was so big it had to be transported to the Pie Field on a 70-foot wagon. As befitting a work of such magnificence, it was blessed by the Bishop of the nearby city of Wakefield.
Not all Denby Dale pies are of such magnitude. More approachable pies are made to the same authentic recipe. The business wavered at one point, but the company was rescued and bought out of receivership by a team led by food entrepreneur Andrew Hayes, preserving 17 jobs in the region. More recently, Denby Dale Pies engaged the services of renowned Yorkshire bard Ian McMillan to write a poem—renamed a piem—in honor of the Denby Dale Pie. The poem was released in time for National Pie Week in the UK. National Pie Week is a week-long celebration of British pies both sweet and savory.
If you prefer to read your poetry rather than listen to it at the link above, here's how McMillan's work goes:
It's pleasing to the nose
And delightful to the eye
Wait till you taste that Denby Dale pie!
It's a symphony of crust,
Taties, gravy and meat
A Denby Dale pie makes your life complete!
They've been making pies in Denby Dale
For centuries and more
They're as Yorkshire as puddings and good strong ale
You can smell 'em through the cottage door!
They've been eating pies in Denby Dale
Since King George was a youth!
Each massive pie could tell a tale
or a slice of historical truth!
're making them again
And the pie-maker's art
Is once more close to this town's heart!
So all those in favour
Stand and bellow Aye! Then have a taste of that there Denby Dale Pie!
For those who aren't familiar with Yorkshire Dialect, "taties" means potatoes, "'em" means them, and "'re" means they are.


UC Davis Art Museum. California
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A bold, open-faced icon along an outermost edge of UC Davis' campus, the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art re-imagines the intersections among art, higher education and everyday life.
The Slant
A beacon to students and
visitors alike, the building renders UC Davis' long history of engagement with the arts visible to the campus and city
beyond. Through a careful and innovative reordering of traditional museum conventions, the highly-accessible
building becomes a platform for collective learning, creation and experimentation—a showcase for UC Davis' artistic
legacy and its evolution as a cutting-edge cultural force and an integral and vibrant hub for future student
To emphasize the building's role as a destination for multiple audiences, the team devised a simple and striking
parallelogram form that maximizes opportunities for public space throughout the site. Two corners of the building
are lifted to create distinct facades facing the campus and the adjacent highway, forming a dramatic sloping roof that
houses an array of spaces, views and experiences. The slope of this roof, its orientation and its light metal cladding
together produce an inherently efficient envelope that minimizes solar heat gain and the energy needed to cool the
This roof becomes a graceful canopy extending over a new plaza to create a large shaded public outdoor space,
opening toward the larger campus and further underscoring the public nature of the museum. Continuing the theme
of connecting the museum's activities to the surrounding campus, the proposed landscape is strategically designed to
"stitch" the new building to the site with a series of outdoor rooms—spaces that complement and blend with the
museum's interior
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 aegis integrate pass - pass a change integration
 aegis -Integrate_Pass [ option... ]
 aegis -Integrate_Pass -List [ option... ]
 aegis -Integrate_Pass -Help
 The aegis -Integrate_Pass command is used to notify aegis that a
 change has passed integration. The change is advanced from the being
 integrated state to the completed state. boxwid = 1 down box "being"
 "integrated" arrow " integrate" ljust " pass" ljust box "completed"
 This command updates the file histories, so that future aecp(1)
 commands may extract previous file versions from history, and so that
 future aed(1) commands may merge out-of-date files. The history is
 updated using the history_create_command and history_put_command
 fields of the project configuration file (see aepconf(5) for more
 information). The integrate pass will abort with an error if one of
 these history commands should fail, e.g. by running out of disk space.
 If this should happen, the change will remain in the being integrated
 state, and the integration directory is unaltered.
 Once the history has been updated, the integration directory is
 renamed as the baseline directory, and the old baseline directory is
 Once integrate pass is complete the change is no longer assigned to
 the current user.
 History Tools Modify Files
 Many history tools (e.g. RCS and SCCS) can modify the contents of the
 file when it is committed. This usually requires the use of specific
 "keyword" strings, and there are usually options to turn this behavior
 off, but users familiar with version control tools (as opposed to
 configuration management systems) will often use these features. The
 problem is that if the commit changes the file, the source file in the
 repository now no longer matches the object file in the repository.
 I.e. the history tool has compromised the referential integrity of
 the repository. By default, a fatal error is emitted if the file is
 changed by the check-in, however this can be modified to a be warning
 or even ignored completely; see the history_put_trashes_file field of
 aepconf(5) for more information.
 File Modification Times
 The modification times of all files modified since the beginning of
 integration (see aeib(1) for more information) are updated to be since
 the beginning of integrate pass. The order of modification times will
 be preserved, however the time range will be compressed to the
 greatest extent possible. This ensures that subsequent development
 builds will notice that baseline files have changed.
 Note that if there are many new files with all different timestamps in
 the integration directory, and if the number of files with different
 timestamps exceeds the number of seconds since the start of the
 integrate-pass command, Aegis may have to set file modification times
 into the future.
 The build_time_adjust field of the project config file controls Aegis'
 behavior in this case. (See aepconf(5) for more information.) There
 are three settings:
 This setting, which is the default, causes Aegis to sleep
 until the file modification times would no longer be in the
 future. This avoids both development build problems and
 integration build problems, both of which which can arise as a
 result "interesting" file modification times.
 Aegis will issue a warning that the file modification times
 extend into the future, but will not sleep. This may cause
 integration build problems, particularly if you are using
 aeintegratq(1). Development builds may perform redundant
 builds, however aet -reg should not produce false negatives.
 This is highly inadvisable. It is provided solely for some
 very rare circumstances. This setting causes Aegis not to
 adjust the file modification times at all. This can have very
 unhappy side-effects, especially of the integration build was
 before one or more development builds; the commonest symptom
 being that development builds do not always cause a relink of
 the necessary executables, and aet -reg may give false
 negatives. It is strongly recommended that you do not use
 this setting.
 If you use cook(1), see the time-adjust-back flag for how to compress
 the time range even further. This usually makes the sleep (or the
 warning period) significantly shorter.
 On successful completion of this command, after the directory rename
 has ocurred and after the database has been updated, the integration_pass_notify_command field of the project attributes is run, if set.
 See aepattr(5) and aepa(1) for more information. This command is run
 as the project owner.
 Some compilers bury absolute path names into object files and
 executables. The renaming of the integration directory to become the
 new baseline breaks these paths. The above command is passed an
 environment variable called AEGIS_INTEGRATION_DIRECTORY so that the
 appropriate symlink may be placed, if desired.
 Other commands run by this command include the history_create_command,
 history_put_command and history_query_command fields of the project
 config file. See aepconf(5) for more information.
 The baseline lock is used to ensure that the baseline remains in a
 consistent state for the duration of commands which need to read the
 contents of files in the baseline.
 The commands which require the baseline to be consistent (these
 include the aeb(1), aecp(1) and aed(1) commands) take a baseline read
 lock. This is a non-exclusive lock, so the concurrent development of
 changes is not hindered.
 The command which modifies the baseline, aeipass(1), takes a baseline
 write lock. This is an exclusive lock, forcing aeipass(1) to block
 until there are no active baseline read locks.
 It is possible that one of the above development commands will block
 until an in-progress aegis -Integrate_PASS completes. This is usually
 of short duration while the project history is updated. The delay is
 essential so that these commands receive a consistent view of the
 baseline. No other integration command will cause the above
 development commands to block.
 When aegis' branch functionality is in use, a read (non-exclusive)
 lock is taken on the branch baseline and also each of the "parent"
 baselines. However, a baseline write (exclusive) lock is only taken
 on the branch baseline; the "parent" baselines are only read (nonexclusive) locked.
 The History Lock
 Where a project has a number of branches active simultaneously, it is
 possible for independent integrate pass commands for different
 branches to be issued very close together. The is an exclusive
 history lock taken by integrate pass to ensure that only one branch is
 updating the file history at a time, thus preventing history file
 The "aegis -Test -SUGgest" command may be used to have aegis suggest
 suitable regression tests for your change, based on the source files
 in your change. This automatically focuses testing effort to relevant
 tests, reducing the number of regression tests necessary to be
 confident that you have not introduced a bug.
 The test correlations are generated by the "aegis -Integrate_Pass"
 command, which associates each test in the change with each source
 file in the change. Thus, each source file accumulates a list of
 tests which have been associated with it in the past. This is not as
 exact as code coverage analysis, but is a reasonable approximation in
 The aecp(1) and aenf(1) commands are used to associate files with a
 change. While they do not actively perform the association, these are
 the files used by aeipass(1) and aet(1) to determine which source
 files are associated with which tests.
 Test Correlation Accuracy
 Assuming that the testing correlations are accurate and that the tests
 are evenly distributed across the function space, there will be a less
 than 1/number chance that a relevant test has not been run by the
 "aegis -Test -SUGgest number" command. A small amount of noise is
 added to the test weighting, so that unexpected things are sometimes
 tested, and the same tests are not run every time.
 Test correlation accuracy can be improved by ensuring that:
 o Each change should be strongly focused, with no gratuitous file
 inclusions. This avoids spurious correlations.
 o Each item of new functionality should be added in an individual
 change, rather than several together. This strongly correlates
 tests with functionality.
 o Each bug should be fixed in an individual change, rather than
 several together. This strongly correlates tests with
 o Test correlations will be lost if files are


piano keyboard sheets – Propuesta Indecente
Latin pop music made easy with letter notes.
The last couple of years have shown a significant rise of Latin music. Remember Enrique Iglesias or Ricky Martin? It's amazing how history comes full circle even in music! Today we'll get to meet Mr. Romeo Santos, who has been musically active since 1997. His song "Propuesta Indecente" is a hit song from 2013 and carries the Latin vibe very beautifully. If you want to learn playing this song on and keyboard instrument, just follow our letter notes.
"Propuesta Indecente" is a beautiful pop song, which has something uncommon. It has a lot of live instruments instead of synthesizers and synthetic drum beat. The composition is very good but also quite tricky. However, if you are motivated enough, you will learn it in a blink of an eye. With Easy Letter Notes, you'll be able to speed up your learning process.
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text: Activities The Great Outdoors What Does the Term "Confined Water" Mean in Scuba Diving? Share PINTEREST Email Print Divers making a confined water dive in a swimming pool. © Getty Images The Great Outdoors Scuba Diving & Snorkeling Gear Skills Safety Hiking Climbing Skiing Snowboarding Surfing Paddling Fishing Sailing Learn More By Natalie Gibb Natalie Gibb owns a dive shop in Mexico and is a PADI-certified open water scuba instructor and TDI-certified full cave diving instructor. our editorial process Natalie Gibb Updated March 17, 2017 The term confined water is used to describe a dive site at which the environment is entirely predictable and controlled. This includes acceptable visibility for the planned dive, a calm surface and an absence of strong current. Confined water sites should have easy entry and exit points, and should not have any overhang or obstruction that prevents divers from directly reaching the surface. The most common example of a confined water dive site is a swimming pool. Other typical confined water locations include a calm bay, a lake or even a man-made quarry. Confined water sites are used for skill practice and training, for testing out new dive gear, or for novice divers who would like to play in an easy environment before heading to open water. A confined water dive most often refers to training dives with the express purpose of learning, practicing, and evaluating dive skills. The PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors) open water course, for example, requires students to pass five confined water dives at a variety of depths. Initially, skills are practiced in water shallow enough to stand up in, and as the student progresses, skills are practiced in deeper water. Any dive made in confined water, however, can be technically considered a confined water dive.


Fast 2D Simulation of Superconductors: A Multiscale Approach
V.M. Rodriguez-Zermeno[1], M.P. Sørensen[1], N.F. Pedersen[2], N. Mijatovic[2], and A.B. Abrahamsen[3]
[1]DTU Mathematics, Lyngby, Denmark
[2]DTU Electrical Engineering, Lyngby, Denmark
[3]Materials Research Division, Risø, DTU, Roskilde, Denmark
This work presents a method to calculate AC losses in thin conductors such as the commercially available second generation superconducting wires through a multiscale meshing technique. The main idea is to use large aspect ratio elements to accurately simulate thin material layers. For a single thin superconductor, several standard test cases are simulated including transport current, externally applied magnetic field and a combination of both. The results are in good agreement with recently published numerical simulations and show even faster time to solution. A couple of examples involving several thin conductors in different circumstances are also shown.


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January 12, 2013
'Singing penis' sets noise record for water insect
Ella Davies at the BBC:
Scientists from France and Scotland recorded the aquatic animal "singing" at up to 99.2 decibels, the equivalent of listening to a loud orchestra play while sitting in the front row.
The insect makes the sound by rubbing its penis against its abdomen in a process known as "stridulation".
Researchers say the song is a courtship display performed to attract a mate.
Micronecta scholtzi are freshwater insects measuring just 2mm that are common across Europe.
The team of biologists and engineering experts recorded the insects using specialist underwater microphones.
On average, the songs of M. scholtzi reached 78.9 decibels, comparable to a passing freight train.
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Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Emeritus Paul Mac Berthouex and UW-Madison sanitary engineering PhD graduate Linfield C. Brown recently released a new free e-book, Pollution Prevention and Control. The first of a planned five-book series, this book intends to help engineers and environmental science students understand the basics of controlling pollution. The e-book is available for a free download here.
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About the ALCA
The Australian Lure Coursing Association was established in 2013 to ensure a consistent approach to the sport of lure coursing across Australia.
Mission Statement
The purpose of the Australian Lure Coursing Association Incorporated (IA41383) is to promote and administer the sport of Lure Coursing in Australia at a National Level.
 1. To encourage the participation of dogs in organised Lure Coursing events.
 2. To provide and maintain a national unified set of rules, under which state Lure Coursing bodies conduct Lure Coursing events.
 3. To develop and maintain a code of ethics under which state bodies and participants participate in lure coursing events
 4. To develop and maintain a set of criteria under which lure coursing events in Australia are judged to be used by all member clubs.
 5. To promote the sport of Lure Coursing as a sport for all dogs.
 6. To develop a set of procedures and criteria under which new judges are trained and assessed.
 7. To cater for the demand of various groups and clubs to have and operate lure coursing events in an organised and professional manner.
 8. To develop a set of coursing plans and procedures for setting out suitable layouts of courses.
 9. To provide a platform for interstate Lure Coursing competitions.
 10. To develop and maintain a grading system to allow dogs to progress through grades and to obtain titles in Lure Coursing.


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Letters from "The Tombs" (9 drawings)
Typewriter film carbon on paper. 9 x 6" each (15 x 11" framed with glass).
Desciption: Nine framed drawings are hung in a row on the wall. The drawings consist of minute handwriting, which was produced by writing with a dental instrument over typewriter filmribbon pressed against paper. The trace left on the paper in the carbon from the typewriter film ribbon.
(The text in these pieces is transcribed from letters written by a New York City teacher while he was detained in "The Tombs," a New York prison, in 1941 for left-wing radical activities. The letters range from June 28, 1941, through July 30, 1941.)


text: The stability of cooperation contract is the result of abandon opportunistic behavior in the process of repeated games among the enterprise and the other subjects in the supply chain from long-term interests, and is also the foundation of healthy development for the whole supply chain. But in real life cooperation contract instability everywhere for a variety of reasons, such as ethical considerations, institutional factors, cultural factors and special reasons during the transition period and so on. From the perspective of information economics and game theory, the main game process of cooperation between enterprise and the other subjects in supply chain is not only the game of information, but also the game of interests. Information structure and the interesting structure are the important factors for the subjects of the game of the implementation of decisions and the basic contractual constraints for cooperative game equilibrium. Cooperation behaviors among the enterprise and the other subjects in the supply chain were studied on the basis of game theory, and the stability of cooperation contract is also being discussed in this paper.


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After reading this NSTA/CBC Outstanding Science Trade Book for 2011, it will be impossible to smell the roses without first counting their petals! The photos, text, and graphic design all make this big and beautiful book on Fibonacci numbers in nature ideal to share with students of all ages.
Using photographs of natural objects, simple text, and labeled photographs to increase clarity, the author shows readers that many flowers and other natural objects display Fibonacci's sequence—1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, and even more! The graphics are artfully designed to highlight those patterns in more complex objects like pine cones, pineapples, and shells.
It is clear that nature is ordered by mathematics; students will find the integration both natural and fascinating. There's a glossary, acknowledgements, and a section at the end offering "More about Fibonacci Numbers."
Review posted on 3/20/2011


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Dahua Lin, John Fisher
Mixture distributions are often used to model complex data. In this paper, we develop a new method that jointly estimates mixture models over multiple data sets by exploiting the statistical dependencies between them. Specifically, we introduce a set of latent Dirichlet processes as sources of component models (atoms), and for each data set, we construct a nonparametric mixture model by combining sub-sampled versions of the latent DPs. Each mixture model may acquire atoms from different latent DPs, while each atom may be shared by multiple mixtures. This multi-to-multi association distinguishes the proposed method from prior constructions that rely on tree or chain structures, allowing mixture models to be coupled more flexibly. In addition, we derive a sampling algorithm that jointly infers the model parameters and present experiments on both document analysis and image modeling.


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Targeted Software Consulting Will Benefit Your Business
How can software applications benefit your business? The possibilities are only limited by the imagination. Organizations may have a rough idea of what they would like software to do, but it is left to the designers and programmers to bring these ideas to reality. And software consultants are the key to connecting business goals with the technology required to implement them.
Software can be designed for many different purposes. A program can be used primarily for input and output, collecting and reporting information using fields and a data structure customized for the desired outcome. Software allows people to communicate with others across the world, whether they might be clients, partners, friends, family, or colleagues. And software makes possible productivity that would have been unheard of 100 years ago.
Software is a long list of instructions that tell a computer what to do. Without it, the hardware would be useless. Software can manage data, memory, power, cpu, or any other component of a system. Programmers use computer languages to create software packages that simplify tasks and make them user-friendly.
To take advantage of the seemingly unlimited potential of software applications, businesses will bring in experts in software consulting. Software consultants may design a software application or system from scratch, customize existing software to meet new business requirements, or advise clients on the procurement of "off-the-shelf" software that will meet their needs.
As part of their role in supporting businesses, software consultants may estimate, manage, implement, deploy, or administer software systems or applications. Business objectives are the driving force for these activities. So while there may be many more things that software could do, these functions would represent wasted effort if they do not align with business goals. Software consulting should targeted and scaled to the project at hand.
Consultants may bring various skills and experience to the table. These may be technical skills, but there is also the need for communication and management skills to make the project a success. Aerion Technologies is at the forefront of innovation and can provide the solutions that you are looking for. If you would like more information about software consulting services, please contact us today.


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ANKARA - Radikal
The Agriculture Ministry is analyzing roducts grown in fields, gardens, and green houses for residual pesticides. The ministry plans to revise its list of pesticides. Hürriyet photo
The Agriculture Ministry has rolled up its sleeves and has begun studying agricultural pesticides in order to institute new regulations for their use. According to the findings of the study, a number of chemical pesticides are expected to be completely banned, while others will be replaced with alternative products.
Every year many of Turkey's agricultural products destined for export are sent back to Turkey because they contain the residue of pesticides. In order to address this problem, the ministry has embarked on an analysis of agricultural products grown in fields, gardens, and greenhouses and will revise its list of acceptable agricultural pesticides allowed for use in Turkey.
Since the beginning of June, Turkish pharmacies have been allowed to sell agricultural pesticides, which is causing quite a stir at the Chamber of Agriculture Engineers, who argue that this could be harmful to human health. The president of the Chamber of Agriculture Engineers, Dr. Turhan Tuncer, told daily Radikal that these pesticides should only be sold by experts in the field, and that pharmacies were not appropriate venues for the distribution of such products.


Masquerade and Social Justice in Contemporary Latin American Fiction
By Helene Carol Weldt-Basson
Contemporary Latin American fiction establishes a unique connection between masquerade, frequently motivated by stigma or trauma, and social justice. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines philosophy, history, psychology, literature, and social justice theory, this study delineates the synergistic connection between these two themes. Weldt-Basson examines fourteen novels by twelve different Latin American authors: Mario Vargas Llosa, Sergio Galindo, Augusto Roa Bastos, Fernando del Paso, Mayra Santos-Febres, Isabel Allende, Carmen Boullosa, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Marcela Serrano, Sara Sefchovich, Luisa Valenzuela, and Ariel Dorfman. She elucidates the varieties of social justice operating in the plots of contemporary Latin American novels: distributive, postmodern/feminist, postcolonial, transitional, and historical justices. The author further examines how masquerade and disguise aid in articulating the theme of social justice, why this is important, and how it relates to Latin American history and the historical novel.
Contributor Bios
Helene Carol Weldt-Basson is currently a professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature at the University of North Dakota. She is the author of Subversive Silences: Nonverbal Expression and Implicit Narrative Strategies in the Works of Latin American Women Writers and Augusto Roa Bastos's I The Supreme: A Dialogic Perspective. She received an honorary doctorate for her work on Paraguay from the Universidad del Norte in 2012.


How to Write an Unemployment Appeal Letter
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Unemployment departments deny benefits for various reasons, including information received from your employer. If your application for unemployment benefits is denied, you can appeal against the decision. Processes vary by state, but you usually need to start by writing a letter to the department. Your state will have an appeal deadline, such as 30 days after receipt of a denial letter, so you may need to move quickly.
Step 1
Check your state's unemployment guidelines to find out what you must include in your appeal letter. Find appeal letter requirements at your state's official unemployment website or contact the department by phone.
Step 2
Type a contact list of any witnesses you have on a separate piece of paper. Include each person's name, address and phone number. Label the contact list with your name and case number at the top.
Step 3
Use a basic business letter format if your state does not provide an appeal letter format. Set your text to the left margin of the paper. Start with the date. Skip a single line and type the unemployment department's address. Skip another line for your name, address and other information the department may use to identify you quickly, such as your case number or Social Security number.
Step 4
Write a paragraph briefly describing the reason for your denial as shown on the denial letter, and focus on facts that oppose the reason and support your appeal. Describe any proof you have of your claims and state you have attached copies. Include the names of your witnesses and state that you have attached their contact information.
Step 5
Close the letter with a restatement of your intention to appeal the denial of benefits. Use a formal closing, such as "Sincerely," and leave space for your signature. Type your name and contact information underneath the signature space. Type the word "Attachments" below your contact information.
Step 6
Attach a copy of your denial letter, your witness contact list and copes of all evidence. Send the letter to the appeals address for your state's unemployment department.
Do not include originals of your proof. Use copies only.


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Cha Zhang, Dinei Florencio, and Charles Loop
Compressing attributes on 3D point clouds such as colors or normal directions has been a challenging problem, since these attribute signals are unstructured. In this paper, we propose to compress such attributes with graph transform. We construct graphs on small neighborhoods of the point cloud by connecting nearby points, and treat the attributes as signals over the graph. The graph transform, which is equivalent to Kahunen-Loeve Transform on such graphs, is then adopted to decorrelate the signal. Experimental results on a number of point clouds representing human upper bodies demonstrate that our method is much more efficient than traditional schemes such as octree-based methods.
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Energy in Agriculture Resources
Energy in Agriculture Program - Food and Fiber Processing Technologies
Read about California food and fiber processing facilities participating in research, development, and demonstration projects to advance the adoption of energy and resource efficient technologies.
PROCESS ENERGY VIDEOS
Food Processing Video:Steam System Best Practices are used to optimize system performance. Basic management principles and maintenance proceedures are described that will enhance steam system efficiencies.
- California's Food Processing Industry Energy Efficiency Initiative: Adoption of Industrial Best Practices, January 2008, CEC Publication _TAG_-_PHONE_, posted: January 31, 2008. (PDF file, 35 pgs., 2.3 MB
RESEARCH AND DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS
- Fetzer Case Study # 1 - Heat Exchange System Improvement Saves Energy and Improves Production at a Winery.
- Fetzer Case Study # 2 - Controls Upgrade at a Winery Saves Energy and Increases Equipment Life.
Electricity Peak Load Reduction
- Pacific Coast Producers - tomato-processing company moves facility location to upgrade equipment, increase production, improve efficiency, and be closer to where the tomatoes are grown.
Pacific Coast Producers - Measurement and Verification Report, Energy Commission publication # CEC-_PHONE_, March 2003. (PDF file, 19 pages, 702 kilobytes)
- Campbell Soup Company - Waste Heat Driven Turbines
- Valley Fig Growers - Variable Speed Controlled Refrigeration System
Benchmarking, Power Quality & Market Studies
- Technology Roadmap: Energy Efficiency in California's Food Industry - The California Institute of Food and Agricultural Research formed a Food Industry Advisory Council of industry and technology experts. This group prioritized research that would help the industry meet their objectives, and developed a vision and plan for the future. Their findings, bolstered by input from public forums, are presented in this Roadmap, along with recommendations for the future.
- Dynamic Characterization of Process Power Quality for the California Food Processing Industry - In-line-monitoring systems were installed to collect real time performance data from plant equipment while the food production was in process. Using this monitoring data, plant process equipment schematics and historical plant process performance data, overall process sensitivities to different power quality disturbances were defined.
- California Institute of Food and Agricultural Research Survey on Energy Management in the Food Industry


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FM256 Fluxgate Gradiometer
The FM256 instrument can be used in either scanning mode, to search rapidly for disturbed areas, or in logging mode, where detailed data are collected in parallel or zig-zag traverses. The data-logging facilities, with integral sample trigger, provide powerful functions for fast and efficient surveying, keeping track of survey position, and giving both audible and visual indication of current survey position. Data can be collected at up to 16 samples/m and stored in a 256000 reading memory.
Readings are displayed on an LCD display in either digital or analogue bar-graph form, the latter being useful for scanning. Backlight control for the LCD display enables work to continue in poor light conditions or short winter days; contrast adjustment improves visibility over temperature extremes. A Real Time clock facility is included which can be used to monitor progress since wristwatches are too magnetic for operators to wear. A Hold facility, which freezes the reading, is provided to allow easy sensor balancing. Although not often required, owing to the excellent stability of the instrument, any change in the instrument zero may be logged at the end of each grid and used to correct for drift. Geoplot software has standard processing routines that usually make drift correction logging unnecessary.
Cost effective upgrade routes allow existing FM18 and FM36 users to convert their instruments to FM256 specifications.
Readings are logged in a 256000 reading non-volatile memory which may be partitioned into square or rectangular grids with dimensions of 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 or 100m - typically these are 20m or 30m square grids. The wide range of grid sizes allows you to tailor logging to your survey requirements. Sample and traverse intervals can be set to 1, 2, 4, 8 or 16 samples per metre, with 16 samples giving maximum resolution. The data logger keeps track of survey position, displaying the current grid, line and position and provides audio feedback. Instead of menu systems, the front panel has been designed to provide fast and direct access to logging functions using 8 dedicated keys. Readings and lines of readings taken by mistake can be deleted with one keystroke. A dummy reading can be inserted if a physical obstacle prevents a true reading being taken or a line may be completed with dummy readings, again with one keystroke. In zig-zag surveying these "Finish Line" dummy readings can be imaged with one keystroke - see keypad layout opposite. The 256000 reading memory is sufficient for 35 x 30m x 30m grids at 8 samples/m or 80 x 20m x 20m grids at 8 samples/m (about 3 hectares), allowing a full days data collection with no data transfer. Data is downloaded to a PC via an RS232 interface, typically into Geoplot or any other suitable program. Downloading the full 256000 readings takes as little as 15 minutes, depending on the output format chosen - 5 are provided. Logged data can be inspected without having to download first, allowing the user to monitor data quality as the survey proceeds.
SAMPLE TRIGGER OR MANUAL LOGGING
Data logging is usually performed under control of an integral sample trigger but can also be done manually, one reading at a time. Logging is usually performed using the start/stop switch or the keypad. If preferred, an external hand-log key is available for manual or sample trigger logging. Sample trigger logging provides increased data sampling and enhances data quality and interpretation without increase in survey time. Pressing the start/stop switch initiates a sequence of "beeps" that sound every metre whilst internally the gradiometer logs readings at the set sample interval. The operator walks along the survey line at a pace that ensures the "beeps" coincide with 1m marks along the tape - with practice the tape can be dispensed with for even faster surveys. The "beep" rate is variable between 0.4s and 3.0s, in 0.02s steps. Data can be logged at 8 samples/m at an average rate of 0.8s/m or faster, according to site. If a reading goes over-range, this is recorded in the data and is distinguishable from dummy readings. Both manual and sample trigger logging can operate in the digital averaging mode for improved data quality.
The FM256 automatically integrates the readings at all times so as to minimise system noise. Digital averaging can be selected to improve further the signal to noise ratio, useful on sites where anomaly strength is comparable with system noise. A wide range of averaging cycles (2 to 32), allows the user to optimise the trade off between significant noise reduction and optimum speed. Digital averaging is automatically used when Zeroing and using Log Zero Drift for improved accuracy.
The FM256 is powered by 2 "C" sized cells, either a NiMH battery pack with temperature sensor or 2 standard alkaline cells mounted in the holder provided. The instrument operating period with NiMH cells is 21 hours without LCD backlight, 15 hours with LCD backlight (44 hours and 31 hours respectively for alkaline cells). The NiMH cells can be fast charged in 4 hours from the universal voltage power supply which is supplied with worldwide pin adapters (the charging circuit prevents accidental charging of alkaline cells). Charging status (fast or trickle) is shown by a dual colour LED. Operation from standard alkaline cells allows operation in remote locations with no charging facilities. A separate, easily obtained, lithium battery is used to backup the non-volatile memory for up to 10 years. The main and backup batteries are housed under the instrument housing in two separate sealed compartments with external access, making battery changes simple. This preserves environmental seals and isolates any alkaline battery leakage.
PRACTICALITY AND DESIGN
The FM256 builds upon the rugged and reliable design of its predecessor, the FM36, making it an instrument that can be used in a diverse range of demanding environments, such as harsh desert conditions, the tumbles of student field courses, time critical commercial surveys and peace time military environments. The design retains the proven benefits of a 0.5m sensor separation which gives good mobility, good ground clearance and the option to carry the instrument higher above the ground. This flexibility allows it to operate in scrubland, brushwood, long grass and in other overgrown areas, where other sensor systems operating nearer the ground may be difficult to use. The use of a short tube means it is much less prone to buffeting by the wind which can introduce significant measurement errors. A 0.5m sensor separation provides good rejection of signals from nearby ferrous clutter such as iron or barbed wire fences allowing you to survey close to such interference.
The versatile and ergonomic design incorporates many features requested by FM36 users, provides an economic upgrade route for existing FM18 / FM36 users and can be expanded into a dual gradiometer system. Environmental sealing to IP65 standard or better is used and a gold connector system is used internally for maximum reliability, especially in higher humidity climates. A rugged tube is used to support the fluxgate sensors which are housed in a robust outer case. A geared alignment system provides excellent stability and very fine control when aligning the sensors for optimum performance.


👏 You can access ncp package with using ncp variable in browser devtools!
Asynchronous recursive file copy utility.
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ncp - Asynchronous recursive file & directory copying
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Think cp -r, but pure node, and asynchronous. ncp can be used both as a CLI tool and programmatically.
Command Line usage
Usage is simple: ncp [source] [dest] [--limit=concurrency limit] [--filter=filter] --stopOnErr
The 'filter' is a Regular Expression - matched files will be copied.
The 'concurrency limit' is an integer that represents how many pending file system requests ncp has at a time.
'stoponerr' is a boolean flag that will tell ncp to stop immediately if any errors arise, rather than attempting to continue while logging errors. The default behavior is to complete as many copies as possible, logging errors along the way.
If there are no errors, ncp will output done. when complete. If there are errors, the error messages will be logged to stdout and to./ncp-debug.log, and the copy operation will attempt to continue.
Programmatic usage
Programmatic usage of ncp is just as simple. The only argument to the completion callback is a possible error.
var ncp = require('ncp').ncp;
ncp.limit = 16;
ncp(source, destination, function (err) {
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You can also call ncp like ncp(source, destination, options, callback). options should be a dictionary. Currently, such options are available:
 - options.filter - a RegExp instance, against which each file name is
tested to determine whether to copy it or not, or a function taking single parameter: copied file name, returning true or false, determining whether to copy file or not.
 - options.transform - a function: function (read, write) { read.pipe(write) }
used to apply streaming transforms while copying.
 - options.clobber - boolean=true. if set to false, ncp will not overwrite
destination files that already exist.
 - options.dereference - boolean=false. If set to true, ncp will follow symbolic
links. For example, a symlink in the source tree pointing to a regular file will become a regular file in the destination tree. Broken symlinks will result in errors.
 - options.stopOnErr - boolean=false. If set to true, ncp will behave like cp -r,
and stop on the first error it encounters. By default, ncp continues copying, logging all errors and returning an array.
 - options.errs - stream. If options.stopOnErr is false, a stream can be provided, and errors will be written to this stream.
Please open an issue if any bugs arise. As always, I accept (working) pull requests, and refunds are available at /dev/null.
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|Oracle® Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Plus
11g Release 1 (11.1.1)
Part Number B40105-02
Use this dialog to control the appearance of the graph legend. The graph legend (sometimes called a key) explains how worksheet data is represented on a graph. For example, you might want to display a legend to explain which colors represent which worksheet items plotted on a graph.
For more information, see:
Note: The graph type that you have selected determines which fields are displayed. Not all fields might be described on this help page.
Use this check box to display or hide the legend. This check box controls how the legend is displayed on screen and when the graph is printed or exported.
Use this drop down list to change the position of the legend (for example, above the graph or to the right of the graph). Select 'Automatic' if you want Discoverer to choose the best legend position for you.
Use this button to display or hide a color pane that enables you to change the color of the box surrounding the legend.
Use this button to display or hide a color pane that enables you to change the background color of the legend.
Use this button to display the "Edit Graph dialog: Font dialog tab", which enables you to change the font style of the legend.


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Translate reward | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish
Definition of reward
a thing given in recognition of one's service, effort, or achievement:the holiday was a reward for 40 years' service with the company he's reaping the rewards of his hard work and perseverance figurativethe emotional rewards of being a parent a fair return for good or bad behavior:a slap on the face was his reward for his impudence a sum offered for the detection of a criminal, the restoration of lost property, or the giving of information.
verb [with object]
make a gift of something to (someone) in recognition of their services, efforts, or achievements:the engineer who supervised the work was rewarded with a bonus show one's appreciation of (an action or quality) by making a gift:an effective organization recognizes and rewards creativity and initiative
) receive what one deserves:their hard work was rewarded by the winning of a five-year contract


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Liangdi Zhang Yanqi Lake Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications
Abstract : In this paper, we investigate the curvature behavior of complete noncompact gradient expanding Ricci solitons with nonnegative Ricci curvature. For such a soliton in dimension four, it is shown that the Riemann curvature tensor and its covariant derivatives are bounded. Moreover, the Ricci curvature is controlled by the scalar curvature. In higher dimensions, we prove that the Riemann curvature tensor grows at most polynomially in the distance function.


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1. Inside of the project, choose the More(vertical ellipsis; next to the Brush icon) on the right side of the project title, and select 'Hide Project'.
2. Hidden projects can be viewed through the 'Hiding' in the Label section on the left side menu.
1. Select 'Info' in the bottom line of the project..
2. Select 'Hide'.
3. To view a hidden project, select view more(triple-lines) on the upper left corner of the main screen. Select 'Hiding'.
4. If you want to unhide the project, select 'Hiding' and go to the hidden project, then select 'Unhide' through the project information.
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Code of Conduct
The Panhandle SEEP Code of Conduct is in place to ensure those who pursue the certification find value in their effort. Certification is a privilege granted to qualified individuals meeting the requirements. Certification also carries with it the responsibility of maintaining the value and integrity of the program.
As a function of maintaining my SEEP certification, I agree to the following:
- I will work to keep myself current and informed of new concepts in stormwater and erosion-sediment control and abreast of changing regulations
- I will conduct my activities with honesty and integrity
- I will be diligent in my efforts to educate my clients on the benefits of stormwater, erosion and sediment controls
- I will endeavor to assist others in my profession by relaying accurate and true information
- I will engage in acts that will minimize the impacts to protect our water resources
- I will represent my SEEP certification accurately as a voluntary educational accomplishment and commitment to continued learning in the field of stormwater, erosion and sediment control.


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It is the most important and delicate operation, during which stigmas lose 20% of their initial weight and become special saffron.
We spread the fresh stigmata on metal fabric screens on wood embers. The dehydration is always carried out at more than 70 ° C and lasts about half an hour. To determine if the saffron is well dehydrated, the sense of touch is used and the color, aroma and appearance are observed. This process is vital for the determination of the organoleptic characteristics of saffron (color, flavor and aroma), in addition to the size it reaches.
The dedication we put into this process, the appropriate hygienic conditions, the rapid transformation process and the high temperatures used make a homogeneous saffron of excellent quality, without risks from the point of view of food safety.


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In a Post-Truth culture, objective facts are less influential in shaping opinion. Instead, appeals to emotion and personal belief become the major governing factors. How does this impact youth ministry? How do we elevate Scripture as true and relevant? Join the YMI team as we explore Youth Ministry in a Post-Truth Culture.
Event: Youth Ministry Institute Youth Leadership Conference
Location: Johnson Ferry Baptist Church, 955 Johnson Ferry Rd, Marietta, GA 30068


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Sociocultural values related to salmon and herring and their linkages to fisheries governance are explored in a comparative study. The aim is to understand why and how salmon and herring are important for different stakeholder groups, and to investigate how these values could inform the development of governance practices that are both sustainable and legitimate.
The cultural importance of Baltic salmon is strong in the Baltic Sea region, especially in its Northern parts. Salmon fishing is a constant topic of political debates, and public spending is targeted to salmon habitat restoration. By contrast, the value of Baltic herring seems to be mostly economic. Human consumption of herring has decreased especially in the Northern parts of the Baltic Sea, but it still has more nutritional importance in the Eastern parts. In BONUS GOHERR project, the social and cultural values affecting these trends will be identified and compared by interviewing stakeholders from Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Estonia. Further, possibilities to take these values into account in the development of ecosystem-based governance will be examined. Also the political, legal and organizational prerequisites for integrated governance will be assessed.
1. Understand the sociocultural value and use of Baltic salmon and herring;
2. Apply these understandings to assess the political prerequisites for successful integrated fisheries governance; and
3. Explicate what kind of institutional and attitudinal flexibility is needed for integrated governance.
More information in Workspace.


BENEFIT-REALISE Project Overview
The 'Realising Sustainable Agricultural Livelihood Security in Ethiopia' (REALISE) programme is established in 2018 with the aims to contribute to sustainable livelihoods through the introduction of improved farming practices, innovations and social experiments to strengthen the current Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) in Ethiopia. REALISE is a new Bilateral Ethiopia Netherlands Effort for Food Income and Trade (BENEFIT) programme so as to take the achievements of CASCAPE (Capacity building for Scaling up of evidence-based best Practices in Agricultural Production' (CASCAPE) programme and the 'Integrated Seed Sector Development' (ISSD) Ethiopia programme to new areas and target groups.
BENEFIT-REALISE Project Oda Bultum University Cluster will operate in four woredas (Chiro, Doba, Habro and Oda Bultum) of West Hararghe zone of Oromia Region with an initial implementing period of three years (2018-2020). It is funded by the Directorate-General for International Cooperation (DGIS) of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and is implemented with support from Wageningen University and Research (WUR).
Programme Goal
Increasing agricultural productivity and improving sustainable livelihoods of smallholders in chronically food insecure high potential PSNP woredas' through enhanced human, organizational and institutional capacities for validating, adapting and scaling best fit practices and innovations.
BENEFIT-REALISE Oda Bultum University Cluster Implementation Areas
Core Values
 1. Team spirit 6. Inclusiveness
 2. Output oriented 7. Commitment
 3. Integrity 8. Transparency
 4. Accountability 9. Responsiveness
 5. Honesty 10.Valuing indigenous knowledge
REALISE Four Pathways
 1. Practice
 2. Seed
 3. Capacity
 4. System Innovation
REALISE Approach
 1. Demand Driven and Context Specific Interventions
 2. Layering and Sequencing
 3. Matching CASCAPE/ISSD Ethiopia and Others Research Organizations Intervention with PSNP clients
 4. Scaling
 5. University as Knowledge Brokers in the Agriculture Knowledge System
 6. Evidence Based Policy Dialogue
 7. Training of Trainer Approach
 8. Innovative Extension Messages and Approach
 9. A Clear Story Line
REALISE Guiding Principles
PSNP Principles
 1. PSNP Principles
 2. Resilience
 3. Climate Smart Principles
 4. Mainstreaming Gender
 5. Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
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Gather Your API URL and API Key in ActiveCampaign
- Log in to your ActiveCampaign account.
- Click on your account in the navigation bar in the top right corner and the click the My Settings item.
- Get the ActiveCampaign API URL and Key after going to My Settings by clicking on Developer, which will bring up a section titled API Access. Below is an illustration of what you will see and the steps numbers accordingly:
- After you come to the "API Access" window, copy the URL and Key listed in the API Access area. You will need to paste this information into two fields in the next step.
Integrate ActiveCampaign with MemberMouse
- In the MemberMouse menu, click Email Settings and then click on the Email Integrations tab.
- Choose ActiveCampaign from the Select Provider dropdown menu.
- Enter the API URL and the API Key that was retrieved from the ActiveCampaign website.
- Click to save your settings.
Map Your Membership Levels and Bundles to Mailing Lists
Now, you are ready to move onto the next part of the ActiveCampaign email integration where you'll map membership levels and bundles to mailing lists.
- Read this article to learn how to map membership levels to mailing lists.
- Read this article to learn how to map bundles to mailing lists.


Coordination of Traffic Signals
The quality of flow along a street is a function of the following:
Spacing of intersections along the street
Prevailing speed of traffic on the street
Traffic signal cycle length
Operation of the traffic signal equipment
In order to coordinate arterial traffic signals, each traffic signal in the group needs to allow sufficient green time for all movements during a common fixed time period, called a common cycle length. The cycle length chosen is usually determined by the largest intersection in a group of signals with the most conflicting movements. This will most often be an intersection that has left-turn arrows for all directions and wide cross streets. For that reason, the common cycle length that is fixed for each traffic signal in a group may be rather long.
Furthermore, to allow the coordination of the arterial, the side street is required to wait until the main traffic movement on the arterial has gone through the intersection. It is possible that the arterial traffic cannot be seen immediately, but will soon be passing through the intersection. The major arterial streets coordinated in the City include:
 Alton Jamboree
 Bake Jeffrey
 Barranca MacArthur
 Campus Main
 Culver Michelson
 Harvard Red Hill
 Irvine Boulevard University Drive
 Irvine Center Drive Von Karman


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When we picture Jesus entering Jerusalem, do we imagine the whole of the city turning out to celebrate the arrival of the Messiah? Or is there something altogether stranger happening? What does it all mean?
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Suffering and Gratitude
As the lockdown drags on in Melbourne, gratitude just gets harder. Suffering becomes a kind of blindness as we are turned in on ourselves. But could suffering be an ironic teacher that knocks us out of our limited ways of seeing the world? Could gratitude be a way forward?
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Take Up Your Cross
Why does Jesus persist in saying such depressing things? Take up your cross? It sounds like a real downer. I would pass – except that, in fact, you can't actually avoid crosses. My choice appears to be: what do I do about it?
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Abundant Life in the Time of COVID-19
What does it mean for Jesus to promise abundant life in a world beset by COVID-19? What does it have to tell us about abundance?
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If we were writing the beatitudes today, what would we write? What does it mean to be _TAG_? Could the church to be a blessing? And what does it mean to be blessed in the midst of grief and suffering?
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Jonah and The Whale
What I learned about suffering from the story of Jonah and his whale.
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On Empty Seats
I recently listened to Rob Bell's podcast, the Robcast, and was struck by the story he told about his a very unsuccessful book tour which he made. The context was that he had recently written his very controversial book Love Wins – see here and here for a few sample reviews. In his previous book tours […]


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1 Section for Construction Materials, Department of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Denmark2 Department of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Denmark3 Department of Structural Engineering and Materials, Technical University of Denmark
Linking molecular level mechanisms with macroscopic performance
Predicting the performance of wood for decades ahead is important when using the material for structural purposes. The performance is closely related to the hierarchical material structure of wood and the dependent interaction with water in the structure. Accurately predicting wood performance therefore requires an understanding of material structure from molecular to macroscopic level as well as of the impact of water molecules. The objective of this work is to investigate the performance of wood in terms of mechanical response of the material and effect of water. To understand the latter, one must first know in which parts of the wood structure, water is located. If parts of the water in wood are held in capillaries in the wood structure, these water molecules interact with the material differently than those held within wood cell walls. In this study, the occurrence of capillary water in wood is investigated at high levels of relative humidity (RH), where capillary water might be present. Three different techniques are employed in overlapping RH regimes. The three techniques give similar results and show that the amount of capillary water is insignificant up to at least 99.5 % RH. Thus, for wood in equilibrium with surrounding climate in the RH range 0-99.5 %, water is only significantly present within cell walls. A structural model of a wood cell is developed in this study using Finite Element Method for predicting the mechanical performance of wood. The starting point for the model is the physical behaviour on the molecular level since water interferes with wood at this level. The elastic material properties of the wood cell wall are explained by the organisation of wood constituents and their properties. The effect of water as well as temperature is incorporated by considering the amount of hydrogen bonds between wood constituents and the stiffness of these bonds. The mechanical response of wood includes a substantial time-dependent response, which previously has been explained by sliding between wood constituents on the molecular level. In this study, this is incorporated in the model as time-dependent shearing of the material planes of the cell wall. The calculated results of the model is verified against various experimental results from literature as well as from measurements presented in this work. It is shown that the structural model is able to describe a diverse range of mechanical responses of wood cells in both elastic and time-dependent domains. Furthermore, comparison of results from experiments and model suggests that the mechanical response of wood tissue, i.e. the hierarchical level above single wood cells, is a sum of responses from both wood cells and intercellular layer, i.e. the middle lamella.


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AGAPE INSTITUTE OF LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Agape Institute of Leadership Development is providing Church based Thelogical Education for Church leaders and believers across 32 Cohorts in India. One of the most challenging needs in ministry front is to equip new Believers and develop indigenous leadership. The fruitfulness of ministry and multiplication beyond second and third generations is strengthened through Biblical and leadership training that begins at the grass root level. Our training programs impacts over 10,000 leaders each year.
- § BILD Masters and Bachelors Degree programs across 32 Cohorts in India.
- § Long-Term Leadership Training at Punjab, Delhi, Jammu, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, & Odisha.
- § New Believers training
- § Strategy Coordinators training
- § Lay leaders training
- § Women's leadership training
- § Youth leadership training
- § Children Ministry Master Trainers training & Sunday School Children Training
- § Counselling Training
SALIENT FEATURES OF LEADERSHIP PROGRAMS
- § A truly Church-based non formal system of education.
- § Competency based assessment through an E Portfolio system.
- § Earn your Degree while you are in the ministry.
- § Theological education in the context of establishing churches.
- § Sustaining leadership development for a grass root movement.
- § Train others while being trained.
- § Learning through Socratic discussions and project based assignments.
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IPCMS (University of Strasbourg and CNRS joint lab) has been certified ISO 9001 for the following activities:
– Elaboration and characterization of materials by several different techniques (SEM, XRD, TEM)
– Nanofabrication in STnano cleanrooms.
The shared research facilities of IPCMS implemented a quality management system (synergy between skills, know-how, people and scientific / technical equipment) that led to the ISO 9001 certification by AFNOR. This certificate guarantees the quality and traceability of the results obtained by researchers, external users and industrial partners on IPCMS platforms. The students teaching and training in the platforms also enter into the quality system and certification.
This certification confirms the commitment to quality in the research activities that IPCMS has been conducting since 30 years
The four shared facilities of the IPCMS are:
– Plateforme de nanofabrication STnano
– Plateforme de diffraction par rayon X
– Plateforme de microscopie électronique à balayage
– Plateforme de microscopie électronique à transmission


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Nuclear Science and Engineering / Volume 166 / Number 2 / October 2010 / Pages 134-144
Technical Paper / _URL_.13182/NSE09-87
The area ratio method of Sjöstrand is generally considered one of the most reliable reactivity determination methods and thus is a major candidate for off-line calibration purposes in future accelerator-driven systems for high-level waste incineration. In this work, the Sjöstrand area ratio method has been evaluated experimentally under thorough conditions in the strongly heterogeneous subcritical facility YALINA-Booster. Both strengths and weaknesses of the method have been identified. Most surprisingly, it has been found that the area ratio reactivity estimates may differ a factor of 2 depending on detector position. It is also shown that this strong spatial dependence can be explained based on a simple two-region point-kinetics model and corrected by means of correction factors obtained through Monte Carlo simulations. A new Monte Carlo correction method is proposed that includes, at the same time, the spatial disturbance and the effective delayed neutron fraction. In that way, the value of the effective multiplication factor is obtained from the measured dollar reactivity without the need of calculating the effective delayed neutron fraction explicitly, and thereby, the delayed neutron transport is performed only once. Further, it has been found that the Sjöstrand area ratio method is not sensitive to perturbations of the source multiplication factor.


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AU Culture platform
The AU Culture Platform is an application that allows evaluating, from a wide perspective, the impacts generated on individuals after the participation in a cultural event.
The format is an application that can be used on mobile phones or any other digital platform. It aims to become a democratic tool for evaluating the services that cultural or policy institutions can adopt through the use of an interacting platform that produces big data. The platform is designed to generate a database that allows us to understand, at an aggregated level, how the satisfaction is constructed in the participation in a cultural event, which permits us to compare between cultural events and to analyse the reactions for each specific segment of audiences. The user her/himself evaluates the cultural experience avoiding the interviewer-dominated process, while reflecting her/his real perception and experience. The users' evaluations help to gain insight into ways of improving cultural services, and experience by acquiring more knowledge about consumer behaviour. AU Culture platform, on the one hand, helps the cultural and political organizations to meet the need and the interests of their users, and on the other, it allows the individuals to express their voice and engages themselves in active cultural dynamics in the city.
Therefore, we can summarise the characteristics of AU Culture platform as follows:
- it includes a comprehensive approach in the evaluation framework, that we will explain indepth
- in the next paragraph;
- it provides quantitative data;
- there is no interviewer-dominated process in data collection;
- it is user-oriented
Figure 1 summarizes the logical architecture of AU Culture, which is articulated in three different functionalities.
1. Person. This part collects socio-demographic information, cultural interests and habits about the users. Depending on the data entered in this section, the user will be associated with one Cultotype2 rather than another. The Cultotype is a cultural profile that defines what kind of cultural consumer the user is.
2. Event. The AU Culture platform shows various events taking place in the city where the user is geolocated.
3. Evaluation. After having participated in a specific event, the user will be able to evaluate it. Finally, the user could compare its results with those of other users who have rated the same event.
With this kind of information, the app develops intelligent algorithms for recommending cultural events around the city, which will permit a better matching and efficiency in the connection between cultural supply and demand, reducing transaction costs in the cultural ecosystem.


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Anne Kathrine Frandsen, architect, Ph.D. and researcher at the Danish Building Research Institute, Department of Construction and Health, Aalborg University, Denmark
Anne Kathrine Frandsen is a researcher studying the therapeutic potential of architecture. She is one of the main authors of the report 'Healing Architecture', a comprehensive scientific literature review of the impact of the physical surroundings on patients' healing, including the architectural significance for reducing stress and optimizing comfort for patients, their families and staff.
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The Archaeological Society of Delaware (ASD) is a Non-Profit 501c3 Organization, founded in 1933 by avocational and professional archaeologists to study and appreciate the archaeological heritage of Delaware and the surrounding region.
Our mission is to:
- Educate our members and the public about archaeology.
- Support professional archaeological investigations in Delaware and the surrounding region.
- Report on activity within Delaware and the surrounding region.
- Promote interest and participation in archaeology and related activities.


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Implementation intention as a cognitive strategy in STEM education : assessing pre-algebraic performance in 8th grade math instruction.
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Conceptualization of STEM has been a challenge due to varying perspectives within schools, school districts, and instructors. Implementation intention refers to a memory encoding strategy in which individuals explicitly specify retrieval cues to help them remember to perform goal directed actions. This study's objective was to examine if the integration of implementation intention encoding would differ from STEM students to students in a traditional classroom. Moreover, comparing math performance between students trained and not trained in an implementation intention strategy. Results from a 2 X 2 ANOVA test and reported means indicate that participants in the treatment groups at both schools performed better than their control counterparts. Additionally, there is a significant main effect for the STEM school participants overall compared to the traditional school participants. Effectiveness of implementation intention encoding suggests that it would be beneficial for educators to incorporate the strategy into instruction to produce self-regulated mathematical learners.


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 - adj. Of, relating to, or being the orbit of such a satellite.
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 - adj. of or having a geosynchronous orbit such that the position in such an orbit is fixed with respect to the earth
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text: By 1953, the United Nations, Korean Reconstruction Agency (UNKRA) had allocated nearly $8,500,000 to rebuild South Korea's educational system. This year, if enough funds are forthcoming, the Agency plans to spend another $2,875,000 for the same purpose. Some 300,000 textbooks have been bought for the drive against illiteracy. More than 3,000 tons of paper have been imported to print another 38,000,000 textbooks. The Government of Korea and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) worked with UNKRA on a textbook printing plant near Seoul. This plant, which opened on 16 September, is expected to have produced about 15,000,000 textbooks by the end of the year. This picture shows the distribution of new books to a class of young Korean schoolchildren.


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Elementary and Secondary
In Ontario, you have the option of sending your child to a public or a private school, each offering elementary and secondary education. There is no cost to attend public schools in Ontario, which receive government funding. If you choose to send your child to a private school, you will have to pay their tuition fees.
Every child aged 6-18 can attend school, regardless of their immigration status or the immigration status of their families. To register your child in school, you will need to the following:
- Proof of your child's age – a birth certificate or passport.
- Proof of address – a copy of a bank statement, telephone or electrical bill or apartment lease with your name and address.
- Proof of guardianship – required if your child is under 18 years of age and is not living with a parent.
- Proof of immigration status.
- Immunization record – proof that your child has been immunized.
Children and adolescents attending school in Ontario must have proof of immunization against a number of diseases. The Eastern Ontario Health Unit (EOHU) offers weekly immunization clinics in all its offices. This service is free for all children.
Many children begin elementary school in a Kindergarten program at age 4 or 5. Kindergarten is also called the Early Years program in Ontario. Junior Kindergarten is available to children who are 4 years of age and Senior Kindergarten is available to children who are 5 years old. Junior and Senior Kindergarten are optional programs, and there is not cost to these programs.
Elementary schools offer instructions from grades 1 to 8. Students must begin elementary school, or grade 1, when they are 6 years of age. Students complete elementary school when they are 13 years old and have completed grade 8.
Secondary schools are also called high schools. They provide instruction from grades 9 to 12. Students begin high school at 14 years of age and graduate when they are 18 years old. Once graduate, students will receive an Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD).
Although students tend to complete high school in four years, students also have the option of taking a fifth year or an additional semester. This can allow them to take fewer course each year or retake certain classes if needed.
Generally, students attend school Monday to Friday, and the school day lasts about 6 hours.
Junior and Senior Kindergarten students usually attend for only half a day but there are options to attend a full day program.
Most children bring lunch with them to school. Some children go home for lunch if they live close by and if a parent is at home. There are also usually short breaks in the day known as "recess," when children are free to play in the schoolyard.
Fore more information on what your child will be learning (known as their "curriculum"), please visit the website listed below:
Cornwall has four school boards that receive government funding. Together, these school boards operate a total of 32 schools.
- The Upper Canada District School Board is an English public school board.
- The Catholic District School Board of Eastern Ontario is an English Catholic school board.
- The Conseil scolaire du district catholique de l'Est ontarien is a French Catholic school board.
- The Conseil des écoles publiques de l'Est de l'Ontario is a French public school board.


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The Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Hospice Survey empowers hospice organizations by attracting referral sources, driving business growth, and sustaining compliance with industry regulations, including the current pay-for-reporting requirements and the shift to value-based care on the industry's horizon. By evaluating hospice patient and caregiver experiences, the CAHPS Hospice Survey delivers valuable insights to hospice organizations and contributes to ongoing efforts to improve patient and family experiences. Understanding the impact of the CAHPS Hospice Survey and how to improve ratings is essential to hospices' long-term growth and sustainability.
Question 6 – Communicating Provider Arrival Time
Question 6 is the first of six questions comprising the Communication with Family domain, designed to assess the hospice team's communication proficiency.
Since the CAHPS Hospice Survey is administered two months after the patient's death, the patient's primary informal caregiver is the survey recipient and intended respondent. Primary informal caregiver refers to the person most knowledgeable about the patient's care. Examples include a spouse/partner, child, parent, another family member or a friend of the patient. Although the patient-caregiver relationship is not always familial, the term "family member" throughout the survey refers to the hospice patient.
This question evaluates the caregiver's perception of how frequently the hospice team communicated their visit arrival times throughout the patient's care. Optimizing performance on this question relies on the hospice team's ability to keep the patient's primary informal caregiver aware of visit times and facilitate clear and continuous communication regarding scheduling and arrival.
Tips to Improve Arrival Time Communication
- Establish visit expectations at the start of care by setting up a schedule that meets the patient's needs and accommodates input from the informal caregiver.
- Notify the patient/caregiver when unforeseen delays in arrival time arise (e.g., the provider is running late in traffic).
- Provide reminders for upcoming visits using agency-established protocol (e.g., routinely call the day before morning appointments and the morning before afternoon appointments).
- Communicate with the patient's caregiver any time the patient's status warrants a schedule adjustment and invite input before making any changes, to ensure continued feasibility and convenience.
- As an organization, maintain a culture that empowers providers to sustain communicative relationships with patients and their informal caregivers and acknowledges the integral role they play in hospice care.
Best Practices and Talking Points
Communicating visit arrival times is a critical element of optimizing patient and family engagement in healthcare. Hospice organizations should employ standard protocol that informs patients and caregivers when visits are scheduled and includes ongoing correspondence that reminds patients and caregivers of upcoming appointments as care progresses. The following best practices and talking points facilitate productive communication related to visit arrival:
- At the start of care, identify the appropriate contact for providing visit reminders. If the patient and caregiver live separately, providers can direct visit reminders to the patient but reach out to the caregiver after each appointment to confirm completion of care. I'm going to call your son to confirm that I just visited you.
- Inform the patient/caregiver when to expect visit reminder calls and what phone number to expect them from. I will call you the day before each appointment from this number. If you need to reschedule an appointment, call me at this number.
- At the end of each visit, inform the patient and caregiver when the next visit is scheduled. The next visit is scheduled for Tuesday next week at 9 AM. I will call you on Monday to remind you.
- The most recent Facts and Figures published by National Hospice and Palliative Care Organizations (NHPCO) indicates that approximately half of hospice patients receive care in nursing and inpatient facilities. For these patients, faxing or sending weekly schedules to the respective facility offices is a good way to ensure caregivers at the facility are aware of patient schedules and can anticipate providers' arrival.
- Plan and arrange schedules strategically to ensure they fulfill each patient's needs and work in the context of providers' schedules with other patients. Electronic health record platforms can help streamline scheduling operations and increase seamlessness as hospice providers manage the day-to-day demands of delivering comforting care to patients and their families.
Check our blogs for the series on improving CAHPS Hospice Survey scores by systematically reviewing each survey question and exploring opportunities for improvement. Our next installment will continue the discussion on optimizing communication between hospice care providers and recipients to improve the quality of patient and family lives.