CNS Academy
CNS Academy is a methodological unit created to share skills and knowledge in various areas, not only for professionals but also for family members, caregivers and general public, integrated in the Neurological Campus (CNS).
This sharing reconciles the clinical activity with the instruction investment and the initiatives construction, especially in the neurological diseases field, such as congresses, courses, workshops and educational presentations, with the ultimate goal of improving the healthcare provided to patients.
The CNS Academy's main purpose is to plan and develop academic and educational intervention strategies, which should prepare and consolidate the most diverse learning, namely in Parkinson's Disease, but also other Movement Diseases, Alzheimer's and several neurological diseases.


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UWinnipeg's Newest Canada Research Chair:
Focus on Indigenous Science Education
The University of Winnipeg's Dr. Dawn Sutherland was named Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Science Education Wednesday as part of a $66.9 million announcement in Ottawa of 90 Canada Research Chairs by the Honourable Maxime Bernier, federal Minister of Industry and minister responsible for the Canada Research Chairs program.
In her research, Dr. Sutherland, Associate Professor in Education, plans to explore the relationship between culture and science education in indigenous communities, in particular in Manitoba. One of her goals is to see the teachings of Aboriginal culture incorporated into school curricula so that science education is more meaningful, interesting, and relevant for Aboriginal students.
Dr. Lloyd Axworthy, University of Winnipeg President and Vice-Chancellor stated that this initiative is part of a broader strategy underway at UWinnipeg to make education more accessible to and inclusive of Aboriginal peoples and culture.
"This project complements our holistic approach to Aboriginal education," said Dr. Axworthy. "The Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Science Education builds on our University's growing expertise and resources in this area such as our new Aboriginal Student Services Centre and the innovative Wii Chiiwaakanak Learning Centre. This combined with the generous support of our partners in both the inner city of Winnipeg and the Aboriginal community as a whole are benefiting not only our students and researchers, but future generations of Aboriginal students."
A five-year, $500,000 appointment, this Canada Research Chair builds on Dr. Sutherland's expertise teaching education students in the field of science. Sutherland incorporates traditional Aboriginal knowledge into her science lessons, and participates in an international committee dedicated to exploring how culture, language, and gender influence learning. She is collaborating with colleagues from around the world to develop an academic framework for teaching science to Aboriginal students that teachers can follow in their classrooms. In addition, she is in the process of establishing a centre where research in this area can be carried out.
"The idea is to make science learning relevant and interesting—to put it into a context that students are exposed to day to day," said Dr. Sutherland. "For some students, this means developing creative techniques, such as incorporating the indigenous knowledge of trappers, Elders, Aboriginal community members who live off the land, to help students engage with the science curriculum."
Dr. Sutherland is the fifth University of Winnipeg professor named as a Canada Research Chair. Dr. Mavis Reimer is Canada Research Chair in the Culture of Childhood, Dr. Jennifer Brown is Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Peoples in an Urban and Regional Context, Dr. Tom Carter is Canada Research Chair in Urban Change and Adaptation, and Dr. Jacques Tardif is Canada Research Chair in Tree Ring Research.
The Canada Research Chairs program, part of an overall Government of Canada plan to encourage Canada's innovation, promotes leading-edge research and innovation in universities; provides exciting opportunities for Canadian researchers; and, attracts the best research minds in the world to Canadian universities.

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A is for Art Museum
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An art museum is a magical place. What will you find inside? This playful primer features 37 full-color illustrations of paintings, sculpture, tapestries, prints, photographs, and installations from the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Children can learn their ABCs while discovering the beauty of a bridge by Monet, a dancer by Degas, a medieval knight's helmet, a Japanese teahouse, and other wonders from around the world. In "A is for Art Museum", children are encouraged to see art in new ways. Each image is accompanied by questions designed to engage their imaginations and spark lively conversations. Activities at the back of this book suggest ways for children and adults to create stories out of each picture, or to turn a trip to an art museum into a 'treasure hunt'. Like a visit to a museum, "A is for Art Museum" provides endless opportunities for interaction, fun, and learning.It is recommended for ages 2-5. It is published in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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By Rev. Jeremiah Cheung
The Church is a family. We fellowship with one another, but because of the ever-increasing number, we need to join small groups to have a real fellowship life. During the Lord Jesus' ministry on earth, thousands followed him. However, he chose 12 Apostles to live together with him. They were a small group.
The core value of fellowship with small group is 'sharing'. Acts 4:36 to 5:11 record two stories: the first is the story of Barnabas, the second is the story of a couple named Ananias and Sapphira. They sold everything they owned and gave the money from the sale to the Church, and they shared it with the brethren; however, one was true giving and the other false. Lt us learn from these examples the difference between true and false sharing.
1. Praise vs Flattery
2. Generous vs Greedy Sharing
3. Sharing to Give vs Sharing to Test God
4. True Sharing vs False Sharing


Search Answer: What's the Connection Between These Two Places?S
The short answer is that the building on the left is the Vedanta building (the "Old Temple") on Webster Street in San Francisco. It's owned by the Vedanta Hindu organization, which also owns an ashram site in the San Antonio Valley very near Lick Observatory (that building on the right).
Let me tell you why I asked this question…
But the general idea here is that there are often connections between things-in this case, between two buildings—and a sophisticated searcher often wants to figure out what those connections are.
It's a bit like being an investigative reporter running down a story. They've got multiple people, places and things they're trying to link together. How do they find the common elements, the threads and links that tie everything together into a story?
In this case, you knew there was a connection because I told you there was. The question for you is to figure out what that connection was. Here's what I did to find the connection… First, using your favorite image editing tool, take my composed picture and break it into two parts—the left and the right side. Then…
1. Use Search-by-Image to find that the picture on the left is the Vedanta building on Webster Street in San Francisco. That's not hard. I poked around a little bit to read the history of the place, learning that it was built in 1904 by Swami Vivekananda, who founded the Vedanta society in California in 1900. This place (now called the "Old Temple") on Webster Street was purchased for $1,800 at a time when the neighborhood was still marked by empty sandlots, market gardens, and nursery operations. Because it was on the western edge of the growing city, it was spared in the massive firestorm following the 1906 earthquake that destroyed much of the rest of the city.
But now, what possible connections are there between the two?
[ Vedanta San Francisco Mount Hamilton ]
[ Vedanta Lick Observatory ]
And quickly found that they built an Ashram (also spelled "Ashrama") out in the San Antonio Valley, "Shanti Ashram," just below Mt. Hamilton.
[ shanti ashram ]
and found that the Santa Clara Valley Water district rain gauge recorder has a web page with a rain gauge at the Ashram! That page gave me the lat/long: 37.310, -121.470
On Google Maps, I just dropped that lat/long in and then did a search for Mount Hamilton. Plugging in the lat/long drops a green arrow in the map, while searching for the observatory shows up as a Google Map red drop pin. In addition, you'll see an purple address balloon for 42210 Upper San Antonio Valley Rd, Mt Hamilton, CA, which is the address of the Ashram. You can zoom in a bit and actually find their "Meditation Shack," which still stands (and is apparently the only permanent structure on the site).
[ Vedanta Lick Observatory ]
in Google Books leads to all kinds of discoveries, including a book called "Vedanta in the West: The Ramakrishan Movement in the UnitedStates" which points out (on pg. 58) that the swami assigned a student the "specific task of synchronizing all of the clocks [ in the Webster Street building ]with the Lick Observatory."
And, since it's really the only road into the San Antonio Valley, people travelling to the Ashram must have certainly travelled past the Lick Observatory.
Search Lesson: When looking for the connection between two places / people / sites, you sometimes need to look for the points of contact between them, exploring the fringes of each concept, looking for the places where they intersect. In this case, combining the two key terms (Vedanta and "Lick Observatory") led pretty quickly to the Ashram, which is the link I was looking for.
Search on!
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Quick Answer: How Much Is A Small Bale Of Hay?
How much does a 3x3x8 bale of hay weigh?
750 to 900 lbsThe 3x3x8 (sometimes a little shorter) work great.
They weight 750 to 900 lbs or so and flake off like small squares do.
Really like them because they handle easy and a smaller loader can pick them up and stack them, etc.
The 3x4x8 foot bales seem to weigh _PHONE_ lbs..
What is the going rate for baling hay?
HayingOperationMost Common 2016Baling – large round$12-15/bale$11-16/bale$10-13/bale$13/bale*39 more rows
How do I know if my hay is dry enough to bale?
Hay will not have completely cured in that time. He said many producers are using moisture probes to decide if hay is dry enough to bale, but probes measure the moisture only on the outside of the stem. Hay that measures 13 percent moisture can jump to 25 or 30 percent a few days after it's put up.
Can you bale hay at night?
How much does a round bale of hay cost 2020?
Large round bale straw averaged $58.00 per bale (a range of $40.00 – $85.00). In Nebraska, hay sold steady, demand is light in 2020. Some are having a hard time delivering hay because of muddy conditions. In Iowa, hay prices are lower compared to prices earlier in the fall.
How much does a rolled bale of hay weigh?
If you asked most people what the round bales they baled or bought weighed they would probably tell you a number between 1,000 and 1,200 pounds.
How many round bales of hay can you get from an acre?
How many square bales are in a 4×5 round bale?
For example, if the round bale weighs 1,000 pounds, then it equals 20 of your 50-pound small square bales. If the large round-bale weighs 1,200 pounds and the small square bales weigh 40 pounds, then one large round hay bale would be equal to 30 small square bales.
What size is a small bale of hay?
For farms and ranches feeding a small amount of livestock, small, squares bales are used because they can be easily carried by hand. The dimension of a small bale held together by three strings is approximately 16" high x 22" wide x 44" long (406.4 mm high x 558.8 mm wide x 1117.6 mm long) and usually weighs 100lbs.
How long after cutting hay can you bale it?
about three daysIt basically takes about three days of good weather to cure hay. This can be a challenge in late May or early June. A good strategy is to mow just before or right after a rain, because of the likelihood of good weather for the next few days.
How much is an acre of hay worth?
He says it costs about $297 per acre to seed and prepare hay ground. "You are going to get more than three years out of that, but if we use three years, that's about $100 per acre per year," Brown says. "If you are getting $125 per ton for quality hay, you are going to see a profit of $51 per ton, or $204 per acre.
How much is hay selling for?
Of course, this a supply/demand story right now for the hay market. Large round bales of hay are selling for $75 to $90 per ton higher than a year ago, McGill says. Specifically, alfalfa-grade hay bales are priced between $140 and $165 per ton, while grass, midquality hay bales are selling for $125 to $150 per ton.
How many times a year can you harvest hay?
Depending on the soil condition, hay type and when it is sowed and harvested, it may be possible to get two or even three cuttings of hay in one year. Once the hay is cut and dry, it is time for baling.
What are the different sizes of hay bales?
How Much Does a Bale of Hay Weigh?Small 2 string square bale 14"x18"x36" 40 to 60 lbs.Small 3 wire square bale 16"x22"x44" 100 to 120 lbs.Large square bale 3 ft. x 4 ft. x 8 ft. 1200 to 2,000 lbs.Round bale 48" wide x 60" dia. 600 to 1,200 lbs.
Is hay just long grass?
Hay is a grass or can be a form of grass. When referring to it as a form of grass, it is a cut grass that has been cut then dried for the purpose of becoming an animal feed or food. … Moreover, hay can also refer to a mixture of different species of grasses.
What size is a standard hay bale?
They come in different sizes ranging from 2-string (18 inches or 460mm), either by 14 or 16 inches (350mm to 400mm) high and 32 to 48 inches (0.8 to 1.2m) long, to 3-string that are 21 in wide, by 16 inches high, by 3 to 4 feet long. They are also called commercial bales.
How much does a small bale of hay weigh?
between 90 and 110 poundsDepending on the type of hay, our small bales typically average between 90 and 110 pounds. There is always variability and we cannot guarantee precise bale weights.
How much does a 4×6 bale of hay weigh?
TablesBale Size (ft)Est. Bale Weight 2 (lb)Bales Needed per Week for 25 Cows4x58006.64×61,1534.65×51,0005.35×61,4413.72 more rows
Is Hay a cash crop?
Over the last few years many hay acres have been planted to cash grain crops. … Combining fewer acres in hay production with decreased forage yields, the supply of hay is low. Consequently, hay prices are strong and in demand.
How many small bales of hay are in a ton?
A ton: 2000# pounds of hay to the ton. A retail three string bale weighs 100 # there are 20 bales in a ton. A "feed store ton" can be 16 bales. A semi holds 24 tons on a truck.


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Before the 1990s (possibly)
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Iris Pius was a witch. She was depicted in a portrait, which presumably hung at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, along with many others.[1]
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 - Pius may have died sometime prior to the 1990s, as many portraits hung at Hogwarts Castle depict deceased individuals.
The name "Iris" means "rainbow" in Greek. Iris was the name of the Greek goddess of the rainbow. This name can also be given in reference to the English word (which derives from the same Greek source) for the name of the iris flower or the coloured part of the eye.
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A laser beam of wavelength =632.8 shines at normal incidence on the reflective side of a compact disc. The tracks of tiny pits in which information is coded onto the CD are 1.60 apart.
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Make your FCP existence a seamless one when simultaneously running FCP 7 and FCP X!
If you're thinking about purchasing FCP X and its accompanying Final Cut Studio applications (Motion 5 and Compressor 4), you are probably aware that you can also run FCP 7 and the Final Cut Studio 3 applications on the same machine. However, there are several considerations and limitations you'll need to be aware of if you want to effectively run both groups of applications. This video tutorial takes you through all of the in's and out's of seamlessly running each collection of software.
This Final Cut Pro X video tutorial will help you:
- Understand the limitations of installing and running FCP 7 and FCP X on the same system
- Create and establish the correct folder hierarchy within OS X when moving from using FCP 7 to FCP X, and vice versa
- Understand the rules for storing FCP icons in the Mac OS X dock
- Understand how to appropriately round-trip FCP Studio applications
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I am trying to bind a variable in this prepared statement, but i keep receiving the error:
Call to a member function bind_param() on a non-object
//CALL FROM PAGE ONE
//FUNCTION ON PAGE 2
$DBH = getDBH();
$qSelect = $DBH->prepare("SELECT * FROM users WHERE username =?");
as the error-message says,
$qSelect seems to be not an object. try to debug this by using
var_dump($qSelect); right after your prepare-call. also check if
getDBH() returns what you need.
sounds like the prepare-call fails (don't know why) and so it returns
false is not an object, so you can't call
bind_param() on that.
EDIT: you havn't given the info, but it looks like you're using PHP's PDO. In that case, take a look at the documentation.
If the database server successfully prepares the statement, PDO::prepare() returns a PDOStatement object. If the database server cannot successfully prepare the statement, PDO::prepare() returns FALSE or emits PDOException (depending on error handling).
You should configure your server to return those PDO-Exceptions, which would tell you why the prepare call fails.


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5 Amazing Uses Of Egg Shells That You Have Never Thought Of
For example, its shell that is regularly thrown away can be used in at least five ways.
- Natural pesticide
Crumble the egg shell eggs and pour it in a circle around the flower which is persistently attacked by small insects. The smell of the egg will expel all unwanted guests from the yard.
Crumble the egg shell well (it is best to put them in a kitchen towel and hit with a meat hammer) and then mix it with apple cider vinegar. Use this means to remove desalination and vessel from the sinks in your home.
- Kitchen aid
When you do not have molds, butyou want to make some interesting cookies, make a small hole in the shell of the egg and drain its inside content without breaking it. Wash the shells with lukewarm water and then use them as molds.
- The cheapest plumber
Crumble several shells and put them in drains around the home. Then let the tap run strong. Under running water, the shell will go through the pipes and it will take all dirt and grease with itself.
- An anti-itching remedy
Leave egg shells in a glass jar full of apple cider vinegar for 2 days. For the time, the shell will soften and you will get a homogeneous mixture that can be applied in case of irritated skin or insect bites.


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- class composer.metrics.LanguageCrossEntropy(dist_sync_on_step=False, ignore_index=- 100)#
Torchmetric that computes cross entropy on language modeling outputs.
- Adds metric state variables:
sum_loss (float): The sum of the per-example loss in the batch. total_items (float): The number of batches to average across.
Aggregate the state over all processes to compute the metric.
loss – The loss averaged across all batches as a
- update(output, target)#
Updates the internal state with results from a new batch.
output (Mapping) – The output from the model, which must contain either the Tensor or a Mapping type that contains the loss or model logits.
target (Tensor) – A Tensor of ground-truth values to compare against.


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GEOC 3201 Sequence Stratigraphy
Definitions of seismic and sequence stratigraphy and seismic geomorphology. History of seismic and sequence stratigraphy. Lithostratigraphy. Chronostratigrapy. Recent advances and the future; impact of technologies. Seismic geomorphology. Fundamentals of sequence stratigraphy time basis of stratigraphic analysis. Importance of scale in sequence stratigraphy. Sequences, parasequences, systems tracts, facies. Biostratigraphy and importance to sequence stratigraphy. Trace and body fossils. Condensed sections and sequence boundaries. The Lowstand Systems Tract. Types and distribution of reservoir, source, and seal rocks. The Transgressive Systems Tract. Types and distribution of reservoir, source, and seal rocks. The Highstand Systems Tract. Types and distribution of reservoir, source, and seal rocks. G. A workflow for building an integrated sequence stratigraphic framework. Integration of rocks, fossils, well logs, geochemistry, seismic, and well tests. Application of sequence stratigraphy workflow to common clastic rocks (non-marine, shallow and deep marine). Carbonate sequence stratigraphy. Example case studies from: U.S. Mexico Gulf of Mexico, onshore North America, Australia, Indonesia, and elsewhere.
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Can we use autonomous wheelchairs for elderly persons with deteriorated physical and cognitive functions so that they can enjoy walking?
Walking is recommended for elderly persons in order to maintain good health. However, it is true that walking accidents involving elderly persons frequently. Family and the caregiver may go with them to secure their safety, but the elderly regret having to ask someone to help them take a little walk or run an errand.
How can the elderly enjoy walking alone as much as they like without causing a burden on the family and caregiver?
How about a wheelchair driven by automated driving technology that goes with elderly persons when they walk?
The wheelchair is not intended to take elderly persons to a desired destination, but to accompany them when they take a walk, and can take them to the destination if they become tired. The wheelchair recognizes and averts danger during the walk, and thus protects the elderly user. At the same time, it fulfills the desire of the elderly "to walk as much as they want," and gives the family and caregiver a sense of security in that "it is OK for them to go out."
If a wheelchair accompanies elderly persons on a walk and gives them a ride when they return home, it may expand the range of walking activity to a great extent. The wheelchair giving them a ride mitigates physical and cognitive concerns, and may encourage to walk further. The expanded range of activity also expands the range of socialization. It may make it easier to see old friends.
When the family and caregiver share information about the location and status of the wheelchair, and confirm the safety of an elderly person from a distance, they can send the elderly person out reassuringly. Once the elderly no longer impose any burden on the people around them when they go out, they become confident in doing so and may go out more frequently.
This is a result of a research for Japan METI's R&D and PoC of smart mobility system: a study of autonomous driving and its social values and use scenarios. (2016)


UPDATE: The Canadian International Trade Tribunal Ruled That Centrifugal Opening Knives are Prohibited Weapons
The Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) ruled that knives in which the blade is released via centrifugal force are classified as prohibited weapons. The CITT is an independent quasi-judicial body that administers Canada and international rules that govern trade. CITT reports to the Minister of Finance and Parliament. CITT reviews five key areas:
â€¢ Anti-Dumping Inquiries (dumping refers to the practice of another country selling goods at below competitive prices which injures domestic companies);
â€¢ Procurement Inquiries (the federal government is bound by certain procurement rules)
â€¢ Economic and Tariff Inquiries (provide advice to the government on trade matters);
â€¢ Customs and Excise Appeals
â€¢ Safeguard Inquiries (complaints by domestic companies that increased imports are injuring domestic industry and recommendations on how to address those issues).
How does CITT work?
CITT operates similarly to a lower court. The parties are given notice of hearings; each side may present evidence and give testimony. The tribunal can also request information. All hearings are open to the public and are held in the CITTâ€™s offices in Ottawa, Ontario. Moreover, if parties or witnesses or uncooperative, CITT may issue subpoenas for witnesses, documents, and records.
What knives are affected?
The decision was Appeal No. AP-2017-012, T. LaPlante v. President of the Canada Border Services Agency. The dispute centered on subsection 84(1) of the Criminal Code. All knives that meet the following qualifications are classified as prohibited:
1. If the knife requires simultaneous or preliminary minimal manipulation of a non-edged or â€œflapperâ€ part of the blade; and
2. The blade opens via centrifugal force. For example, if the blade is released from the handle and into a locked position with a simple and quick outward flick of the wrist.
These knives are like switch-blades except they rely on centrifugal force, rather than mechanical, to eject the blade.
Effect of the ruling
As of the date of the ruling, the CBSA is required to prohibit the import of all knives that meet the above-stated qualifications. You can import the blade if you are (1) business and (2) possess a valid Firearms Business License that (3) is presented with the prohibited weapon(s) and (4) it is for business activity.
If you are concerned about the effect of this ruling and other by CITT, consider speaking with an Argo Customs broker for assistance. Argo Customs brokers are constantly updating their clients on the importation of prohibited weapons into Canada and other rules that may affect your business. Argo Customs can be your central source for all import and export rules into and out of Canada.
ARGO Business Corp. (Argo Customs Brokers) Canadian Customs Brokers provide quick and reliable customs clearance services in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton, Canada. We help with customs clearance anywhere in Canada, both for personal and commercial shipments.
You can count on ARGO Customs Brokers to bring you the latest in customs brokerage news. Contact our team today for more information.


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NGO's Efficiency and Transparency Policy: The Colombian Case
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In recent years the influence of Colombian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in diverse social sectors of the country has increased. However, the legitimacy of this sector has been undermined by corruption. This distrust has questioned the efficiency of NGOs as social tools. Transparency as a mechanism against corruption and one of the tools that improves the functioning of an organization is considered. There is no doubt that Internet is an essential element in disseminating information to the different stakeholders of the organization.This paper sets out three main objectives: i) the analysis of information disclosure through the Internet of Colombian NGOs, ii) the analysis of the efficiency of these entities in reaching their social goals and, iii) the analysis of the online transparency effect in a greater efficiency of the Colombian NGOs.


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The cyclical behaviour of remittances with respect to the receiving-country economy has important implications for economic and financial policies. Counter-cyclical remittance flows could form part of broader stabilisation policies in economic downturns and could also encourage receiving countries to adopt fixed (or less flexible) exchange-rate regimes. On the other hand, pro-cyclical flows may create an amplification effect of upturns or downturns in the receiving economy. There is an extant literature dedicated to exploring the cyclical nature of remittances. In general, the results tend to be country-specific and show that, for some migration and remittance corridors, remittances are counter-cyclical while, for others, they are pro-cyclical. This paper argues that the cyclical nature of remittances must be evaluated in a dynamic framework and that the relationship (between remittances and the receiving economy) is unlikely to be stable over time. Using data from Mexico, we show that remittances are counter-cyclical during some periods, but pro-cyclical at others. The changing cyclical nature of remittances questions the potential of remittances to smooth out cyclical fluctuations in output.
Ruiza, Isabel and Carlos Vargas-Silva (2013) 'Remittances and the Business Cycle: A Reliable Relationship?', Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 40(3): 456-474


Letting bodies be bodies: Exploring Relaxed Performance in the Canadian performance landscape
Authors: Andrea LaMarre, Carla Rice, Kayla Besse
There is an increasing movement toward accessibility in arts spaces, including recent legislative changes and commitments at individual, organizational, and systemic levels to integrating access into the arts across Canada. In this article, we explore Relaxed Performance (RP) in the context of this movement. We present the results of a reflexive thematic analysis of interviews conducted with participants who completed RP training offered by the British Council to. understand the training's effectiveness and impact. We explore the significance of the training, and of RP in general, and in relation to disability studies and cultural and political activism. We undertake this exploration against a backdrop of interrogating who RP is for and by. The themes we describe are: Committed to Access, Training is Critical, Inviting Bodies to be Bodies, and Imagining Audiences. These themes tell a story of how RP relates to broader access work, the importance of training grounded in and led by disability/difference, the need to consider the relationships between bodies and spaces, and the tensions inherent to billing RP as "for all." We conclude with an exploration of possible modifications, enhancements, or theoretical imaginings that could help RP to become more radically open to difference as it emerges, shifts, and changes.
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Dwyer Instruments, Inc. Solves the Wall Mount – Relative Humidity Error MysteryWall mount humidity sensors for building automation system (BAS) applications are produced and sold by several different companies and have a reputation of poor accuracy despite specifications from suppliers. There is a rational reason why these instruments appear to read outside of their stated accuracy, which in turn causes users to be frustrated with the results.
Most wall mount units for BAS applications are multi-variable instruments and often measure temperature and/or CO2 level in addition to relative humidity. The output signals are also more complex and may include BACnet and Modbus® communication protocols in addition to analog current and voltage outputs. Optional LCD displays for local indication of measurements are also commonly found in these devices. All electronic components included provide the parameter measurement, output, and display, which create additional heat inside the wall mount housing where the humidity sensor is located. Since relative humidity is the ratio of the partial pressure of water in the air divided by the saturation pressure of water in the air (of which the latter is a function of temperature), relative humidity is inversely proportional to the local temperature. This means that as the temperature inside of the wall mount housing increases relative to the room temperature, the internal humidity sensor will read lower values compared to the actual room humidity found in a stagnant airflow environment, such as an office. The stagnant airflow here is key. Humidity calibration chambers always have moving air systems to maintain uniform humidity throughout the chamber, so they do not reflect the stagnant environments that the wall mount sensors will later be expected to measure. When the wall mount units are returned to the manufacturer due to poor accuracy, they are inserted into a humidity chamber where the moving air ventilates the heat out of the wall mount housing. The humidity sensors are calibrated without the internal heat seen in a real world office environment. The wall mount sensors are then sent back to the customer who finds the units are still reading low when installed.
Dwyer engineers discovered this calibration conflict and devised the following solution which has been incorporated and is currently standard in the latest North American and European housing design options of the Series CDTA and CDTR wall mount products.
Solution: A separate temperature sensor is mounted on the outside of the wall mount housing and thermally isolated from the internal housing wall (see figure A). The internal humidity temperature sensor inside the housing is carefully calibrated to the outside temperature sensor so that minor variations in temperature between the inside and the outside of the housing can be determined. The saturation pressure of water is a well-known, complex function of only temperature. The humidity and temperature inside the wall mount housing is measured, and is always higher than the temperature outside of the housing. The difference of these two temperatures is used to compensate the humidity so that it indicates an accurate humidity measurement for the room. There are several other factors required to make this work in the real world, but this is the fundamental principle of the Digital Intelligent Temperature Compensation Algorithm (DITCA™) in the new carbon dioxide family of product lines now available for sale exclusively from Dwyer Instruments.
Note: Details of the Active Humidity Compensation are U.S. Patent Pending by Dwyer Instruments.


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The potato (Solanumtuberosum) is a major food crop worldwide with annual production exceeding 321.69 million tonnes1 (Fig.1). Proponents of organic food claim that it is tastier than conventional produce, however limited scientific studies have been conducted in this area to support or refute such claims2. The aim of this study was to examine if there are differences in the physiochemical and sensory properties of Irish grown organic and conventional potatoes.
Gilsenan, Clare; Burke, Roisin M.; and Barry Ryan, Catherine, "Physicochemical and Sensory Studies on Irish Grown Organic and Conventional Tubers (Solanum tuberosum)" (2009). Conference papers. Paper 12.


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This modules contains the interface to the heart process. heart sends periodic heartbeats to an external port program, which is also named heart. The purpose of the heart port program is to check that the Erlang runtime system it is supervising is still running. If the port program has not received any heartbeats within HEART_BEAT_TIMEOUT seconds (default is 60 seconds), the system can be rebooted. Also, if the system is equipped with a hardware watchdog timer and is running Solaris, the watchdog can be used to supervise the entire system.
An Erlang runtime system to be monitored by a heart program, should be started with the command line flag -heart (see also erl(1). The heart process is then started automatically:
% erl -heart...
If the system should be rebooted because of missing heart-beats, or a terminated Erlang runtime system, the environment variable HEART_COMMAND has to be set before the system is started. If this variable is not set, a warning text will be printed but the system will not reboot. However, if the hardware watchdog is used, it will trigger a reboot HEART_BEAT_BOOT_DELAY seconds later nevertheless (default is 60).
To reboot on the WINDOWS platform HEART_COMMAND can be set to heart -shutdown (included in the Erlang delivery) or of course to any other suitable program which can activate a reboot.
The hardware watchdog will not be started under Solaris if the environment variable HW_WD_DISABLE is set.
The HEART_BEAT_TIMEOUT and HEART_BEAT_BOOT_DELAY environment variables can be used to configure the heart timeouts, they can be set in the operating system shell before Erlang is started or be specified at the command line:
% erl -heart -env HEART_BEAT_TIMEOUT 30...
The value (in seconds) must be in the range 10 < X <= 65535.
It should be noted that if the system clock is adjusted with more than HEART_BEAT_TIMEOUT seconds, heart will timeout and try to reboot the system. This can happen, for example, if the system clock is adjusted automatically by use of NTP (Network Time Protocol).
In the following descriptions, all function fails with reason badarg if heart is not started.
Sets a temporary reboot command. This command is used if a HEART_COMMAND other than the one specified with the environment variable should be used in order to reboot the system. The new Erlang runtime system will (if it misbehaves) use the environment variable HEART_COMMAND to reboot.
Limitations: The length of the Cmd command string must be less than 2047 characters.
Clears the temporary boot command. If the system terminates, the normal HEART_COMMAND is used to reboot.
Get the temporary reboot command. If the command is cleared, the empty string will be returned.


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oikodomé: (the act of) building, a buildingOriginal Word: οἰκοδομή, ῆς, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Phonetic Spelling: (oy-kod-om-ay')
Short Definition: the act of building, a building, edification
Definition: (a) the act of building, (b) a building, (c) met: spiritual advancement, edification.
Cognate: 3619 oikodomḗ – properly, a building (edifice) serving as a home; (figuratively) constructive criticism and instruction that builds a person up to be the suitable dwelling place of God, i.e. where the Lord is "at home." See 3618 (oikodemeō).Word Origin
from oikos and the same as dóma
(the act of) building, a building
building (8), buildings (3), edification (5), edifying (1), upbuilding (1).
STRONGS NT 3619: οἰκοδομή
οἰκοδομή, οἰκοδομῆς, ἡ (οἶκος, and δέμω to build), a later Greek word, condemned by Phryn., yet used by Aristotle, Theophrastus, ((but both these thought to be doubtful)), Diodorus (1, 46), Philo (vit. Moys. i. § 40; de monarch. ii. § 2), Josephus, Plutarch, the Sept., and many others, for οἰκοδόμημα and οἰκοδόμησις; cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 481ff, cf. p. 421; (Winer's Grammar, 24);
1. (the act of) building, building up, equivalent to τό οἰκοδομεῖν; as, τῶν τειχέων, 1 Macc. 16:23; τοῦ οἴκου τοῦ Θεοῦ, 1 Chronicles 26:27; in the N. T. metaphorically, "edifying, edification, i. e. the act of one who promotes another's growth in Christian wisdom, piety, holiness, happiness" (see οἰκοδομέω, b. β'. (cf. Winer's Grammar, 35 (34))): Romans 14:19; Romans 15:2; (1 Corinthians 14:26); 2 Corinthians 10:8 (see below); ; Ephesians 4:29; with a genitive of the person whose growth is furthered, ὑμῶν, 2 Corinthians 12:19 (cf. 10:8); ἑαυτοῦ (Tdf. αὐτοῦ), Ephesians 4:16; τοῦ σώματος τοῦ Χριστοῦ, Ephesians 4:12; τῆς ἐκκλησίας, 1 Corinthians 14:12; equivalent to τό ὀικοδομουν, what contributes to edification, or augments wisdom, etc. λαλεῖν, λαβεῖν, οἰκοδομήν, 1 Corinthians 14:3, 5.
2. equivalent to οἰκοδόμημα, a building (i. e. thing built, edifice): Mark 13:1f; τοῦ ἱεροῦ, Matthew 24:1; used of the heavenly body, the abode of the soul after death, 2 Corinthians 5:1; tropically, of a body of Christians, a Christian church (see οἰκοδομέω, b. β'.), Ephesians 2:21 (cf. πᾶς, I. 1 c.); with a genitive of the owner or occupant, Θεοῦ, 1 Corinthians 3:9.<1>
Feminine (abstract) of a compound of oikos and the base of doma; architecture, i.e. (concretely) a structure; figuratively, confirmation -- building, edify(-ication, -ing).
see GREEK oikos
see GREEK doma οικοδομαι οικοδομαί οἰκοδομαί οικοδομας οικοδομάς οἰκοδομάς οἰκοδομὰς οικοδομη οικοδομή οἰκοδομή οἰκοδομὴ οικοδομην οικοδομήν οἰκοδομήν οἰκοδομὴν οικοδομης οικοδομής οἰκοδομῆς oikodomai oikodomaí oikodomas oikodomás oikodomàs oikodome oikodomē oikodomḗ oikodomḕ oikodomen oikodomēn oikodomḗn oikodomḕn oikodomes oikodomês oikodomēs oikodomē̂s
Strong's Greek 3619
οἰκοδομαί — 1 Occ.
οἰκοδομὰς — 2 Occ.
οἰκοδομή — 2 Occ.
οἰκοδομήν — 11 Occ.
οἰκοδομῆς — 2 Occ.
Matthew 24:1 N-AFP
BIB: αὐτῷ τὰς οἰκοδομὰς τοῦ ἱεροῦ
NAS: out the temple buildings to Him.
KJV: him the buildings of the temple.
INT: to him the buildings of the temple
Mark 13:1 N-NFP
BIB: καὶ ποταπαὶ οἰκοδομαί
NAS: stones and what wonderful buildings!
KJV: and what buildings [are here]!
INT: and what [wonderful] buildings
Mark 13:2 N-AFP
BIB: τὰς μεγάλας οἰκοδομάς οὐ μὴ
NAS: great buildings? Not one stone
KJV: these great buildings? there shall not
INT: great buildings no not
Romans 14:19 N-GFS
BIB: τὰ τῆς οἰκοδομῆς τῆς εἰς
NAS: the things which make for peace and the building up of one another.
KJV: one may edify another.
INT: the things for building up among
Romans 15:2 N-AFS
BIB: ἀγαθὸν πρὸς οἰκοδομήν
NAS: for his good, to his edification.
KJV: [his] good to edification.
INT: good for building up
1 Corinthians 3:9 N-NFS
BIB: γεώργιον θεοῦ οἰκοδομή ἐστε
NAS: field, God's building.
KJV: husbandry, [ye are] God's building.
INT: field God's building you are
1 Corinthians 14:3 N-AFS
BIB: ἀνθρώποις λαλεῖ οἰκοδομὴν καὶ παράκλησιν
NAS: to men for edification and exhortation
KJV: unto men [to] edification, and
INT: to men speaks [for] building up and encouragement
1 Corinthians 14:5 N-AFS
BIB: ἡ ἐκκλησία οἰκοδομὴν λάβῃ
NAS: that the church may receive edifying.
KJV: the church may receive edifying.
INT: the church building up might receive
1 Corinthians 14:12 N-AFS
BIB: πρὸς τὴν οἰκοδομὴν τῆς ἐκκλησίας
NAS: to abound for the edification of the church.
KJV: to the edifying of the church.
INT: for the building up of the church
1 Corinthians 14:26 N-AFS
BIB: πάντα πρὸς οἰκοδομὴν γινέσθω
NAS: be done for edification.
KJV: be done unto edifying.
INT: All things for building up let be done
2 Corinthians 5:1 N-AFS
BIB: σκήνους καταλυθῇ οἰκοδομὴν ἐκ θεοῦ
NAS: we have a building from God,
KJV: we have a building of
INT: tabernacle be destroyed a building from God
2 Corinthians 10:8 N-AFS
BIB: κύριος εἰς οἰκοδομὴν καὶ οὐκ
NAS: gave for building you up and not for destroying
KJV: us for edification, and not
INT: Lord for building up and not
2 Corinthians 12:19 N-GFS
BIB: τῆς ὑμῶν οἰκοδομῆς
NAS: and all for your upbuilding, beloved.
KJV: for your edifying.
INT: your building up
2 Corinthians 13:10 N-AFS
BIB: μοι εἰς οἰκοδομὴν καὶ οὐκ
NAS: gave me for building up and not for tearing down.
KJV


Study: Men spend if women are few
By Carolyn Y. Johnson
Globe Staff / January 23, 2012
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In the animal world, an overabundance of males can increase competition and skirmishes among would-be suitors seeking scarce partners. Now, a study finds hints that in the human world, too, a male-female imbalance affects complex mating behaviors, causing men to spend their paychecks faster, take on more debt, and increase the amount they would spend to woo a woman.
Economic behavior is clearly complex; it was not heartsick overspending on diamond rings and dinner dates that triggered the global recession. But the new work, published in the January issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, is part of a growing body of research that examines evolutionary factors that contribute to everyday consumer decisions.
"Different numbers of men and women trigger a competitive motive, a desire to compete,'' said Joshua Ackerman, an assistant professor of marketing at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a coauthor of the paper. "The core underlying theme, the evolutionary piece to this, is having different numbers of men and women signals different opportunities for romantic partners,''
Although, he added, "It's not that people are consciously thinking this stuff.''
Sex ratios have been extensively examined by biologists, with studies looking at how different proportions of males and females affect behavior in animals that range from the gray mouse lemur to the European bitterling, a freshwater fish.
Human studies have tended to study gender imbalance and its effect on behaviors such as aggression. But in the new study, the researchers gathered data from 134 US cities, including the sex ratios of unmarried people, average consumer debt, and the number of credit cards per person.
The researchers found that in cities that had more unmarried men than women, there tended to be greater average personal debt and more credit cards per person.
This overall trend, however, was just a correlation and did not suggest a male-female imbalance played a causal role - or rule out other explanations for the differences in debt.
The average debt level and number of credit cards were not broken down by sex, making it impossible to know the specific role single men were playing in the trend. So the researchers conducted a set of laboratory experiments to try and pinpoint the possible origins of the financial differences.
They used various means to prime research participants with the sense they were in an environment dominated by either men or women.
In one experiment, participants were led to believe they were participating in a memory task. They read 500-word news stories about the local community being either maleor female-dominated and then were told they would be asked a series of unrelated financial questions, which were supposedly just to pass enough time to cause their memories to fade.
But researchers were most interested in their answers to a few questions: how much money they would spend from a monthly paycheck and how much they would borrow.
The males who had read the article "Fewer Women for Every Man for Today's Students'' said they would borrow 84 percent more money each month. They also opted to save 42 percent less per month. Sex ratio did not affect women's financial behavior in the experiment.
In another experiment, the researchers tested how much people expected men to spend on "mating-related products.'' They found that in the male-dominated experimental condition, people of both sexes expected men to pay more to woo women. Men were expected to spend $6.01 more on a Valentine's Day present, $1.51 more for a dinner entrée, and $368 more on an engagement ring.
Jill Sundie, an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Texas San Antonio, who was not involved in the research, said the results provided fresh insight into an evolutionary force that influences consumer behavior.
"The effects are not enormous, meaning that if we really want to understand why someone decides to run up credit card debt or not,'' you can't just focus on the availability of potential mates, Sundie said.
"Most of the research we do in consumer behavior is not about explaining the whole thing - it's looking at individual factors that might have an effect on certain kinds of circumstances.... It doesn't tell the whole story, but it tells a novel part of the story, that might get people thinking.''
The authors, a team that included researchers from five institutions across the country, also hope to study other cultures - specifically in China, where male-biased imbalances are extreme. There are more men than women in China, and there is more overall saving there. However, the authors suggested that is because the tradition of paying a "bride price'' to the woman's family is important, and so saving might be more beneficial for a man seeking a partner.
Geoffrey Miller, associate professor of psychology at the University of New Mexico, said the study is innovative and that sex ratios have been largely overlooked when thinking about consumer behavior.
He added that he was glad to see the authors draw attention to the important issue of sex imbalances in China, something that he sees as potentially frightening given what is known about male-dominated populations in the animal world, where aggression and fighting become more common.
"The more worrying thing, to me, is that with too many males per female, you could get more aggression,'' Miller said.
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Colliery checks and tokens
Lamp checks (or 'tokens' or 'tallies') are one of the most popular coal mining objects collected by both museums and the general public. They basically informed colliery management of who was in work but became vital when rescue services needed to know how many men were actually underground during an incident such as a fire or explosion. Colliery check systems apparently became common during the late nineteenth century and became mandatory in 1913 after an amendment to the 1911 Coal Mines Act.
Check systems varied between coal fields and altered over time, by the late 1970s a three check system (safety check system) became common. In this system each underground worker was issued with three checks, often of different shapes and sizes, one to be handed in to the lamp room, one to be handed to the banksman before the man descended the shaft and one was kept on the person during the shift.
A similar system was used by Mines Rescue during incidents. This was similar to the three check system but pre dated it. In this system a red plastic disc was handed into the lamp room, a yellow plastic disc to the banksman and a copper disc was worn around the neck during the time the rescue man was underground.
Other types of checks were also issued in the mining industry such as those used for shotfiring, canteens, pithead baths and bus and train passes. The mining trade unions also issued checks in various forms to show when a member had paid his contributions. Mining institutes and public houses in mining areas also issued beer checks on various occasions.
Amgueddfa Cymru's Industry Department has collected over a thousand examples of these colliery checks and tokens. Some are on display at Big Pit: National Coal Museum and examples can be seen on our online resource Images of Industry
Article by: Ceri Thompson, Curator, Big Pit: National Coal Museum
Lampchecks and tokens
Article Date: 30 January 2013


How Canada's Centennial Started
How Canada's Centennial Started
A Journey into '67
For Canada's centennial, the year long celebration actually started at midnight on December 31, 1966.
At that time Prime Minister Lester Pearson, Secretary of State Judy LaMrsh (the minister responsible for the Centennial Commission), Opposition Leader John Diefenbaker and thousands of others participated in a ceremony on Parliament Hill.
The highlight was the lighting of the gas-powered Centennial Flame.
Cities and towns across the country also held fireworks, parades, bell-ringing and lighting ceremonies. In Toronto, a torchlight parade and fireworks at Queen's Park drew a crowd of about 40,000.
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- noun - a block of the earth's crust bounded by faults and shifted to form peaks of a mountain range
- A large mountain mass or compact group of connected mountains forming an independent portion of a range.
- A large section or block of the earth's crust that is more rigid than the surrounding rock and has been moved or displaced as a unit.
- n - a principal mountain mass
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Treadmill vs. Running Outdoors
I am often asked these questions with regards to running and treadmills:-
1) Is running on a treadmill equivalent to running outdoors?
2) If i can run on the treadmill for 20 minutes, will i be able to run for 20 minuted outdoors?
3) Which is more effective to burn calories, running on a treadmill or running outdoors.
So i thought, its best that i clarify this topic properly so everyone understands why running on a treadmill is different than running outdoors. At first glance, the 2 may seem similar, but actually, there are quite a few differences.
Here are the answers to the questions:
1) Very similar, but not 100% similar
2) Not necessarily. Running outdoors is more challenging than running on a treadmill
3) Running outdoors at 6km/h for 20 minutes burns more calories than running 6km/h for 20 minutes on a treadmill.
OK, let me explain in more detail so all the answers make sense. Though the treadmill allows us to mimic a very similar movement of running, it is actually quite different. Running on a treadmill is actually easier than running outdoors. Why is it easier to run on a treadmill compared to outdoors?
For several reasons such as:-
a) There is no wind resistance when running on a treadmill. Because your body is stationary, you don't experience any wind resistance, which makes it easier.
b) The terrain is always uniform on a treadmill, where else running outside is never uniform. Because of this, your body is constantly working to adjust and balance itself to ensure that you can keep running and not fall down. Even this takes up extra energy... a little, but if your body is doing this constantly for 20 minutes, the little bit adds up.
c) Treadmill helps to propel you forward. In a treadmill, moving forward is assisted by the belt of the treadmill. Because of this, there is almost no energy used to propel you forward. Only energy being used is to keep your feet moving. When running outside, you have to move your feet and propel yourself forward, which makes it that much more taxing. Running on a treadmill is equivalent to running on the spot. I have read that adjusting the treadmill to a 1% incline will make it just as challenging as running outdoors.
Because of the reasons above, running outdoors is more challenging and burns more calories that running on a treadmill. Now, with that being said, it doesn't mean that all treadmills should be junked away immediately. There are some pro's that a treadmill has:
1) its not weather sensitive. Rain or shine, you can have a run at any time you want.
2) If you are a beginner to running, the treadmill provides you a safe and comfortable environment for you to build up your endurance / skill.
If you are training to be an outdoor runner (eg. running a marathon), then as far as possible, your training should be more outdoors than on the treadmill. Treadmill is a great place to get in a workout when the weather is not favourable, but overall, you should spend more time running outdoors.
So there you have it. The verdict on treadmill vs running outdoors. I still do the treadmill once a week, and i usually play with the incline and speed to make it more challenging and less boring. If you are a more serious athlete or fitness buff, than running flat on a treadmill for 20 minutes might put you to sleep. So feel free to play with the adjustments available to keep your workout challenging and effective for your fitness level. As usual, look forward to hearing your comments.
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do yo have any tips how to choose a suitable treadmill? and recommendation? :)
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5 Ways to Bring Home a Moroccan Flair
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A distinct style inspired by Moorish architecture, Moroccan décor has recently developed as a new and exciting trend in home decoration. Reflecting the country's cultural and historic heritage, Moroccan décor incorporates the elegance of Islamic features, blending together vibrant colours, geometric designs and floral motifs.
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Rich and varied, here are 5 typical elements of Moroccan decor that can help you bring an exotic ambience into your home!
Tiling, a prominent form of Islamic art, is one of the main characteristics of Moroccan architecture. Terracotta tile work covered with enamel, called zellige, is used to decorate walls, ceilings, floors, tables and more, usually with geometrically patterned mosaics. Seen as a statement of luxury and sophistication, such tile work is found in homes around the world!
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Made by the indigenous people of Morocco since the Palaeolithic era, traditional Moroccan carpets and textiles have seen a surge in popularity, with their bright colours and tribal designs, fitting in wonderfully with modernist décor!
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Moroccan décor is known for its vivid and colourful designs. The diverse colours are known for their varied connotations. Reds and similar colours like salmon, rosy pink, fuchsia represent femininity, sexuality, fertility and childbirth and are used on walls, carpets and pottery. Turquoise, greens and blues are common colours used extensively in tiling, floors, doors and window panes.
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Lanterns are elaborate décor elements integral to Moroccan décor. Traditional Moroccan lanterns and candle lamps often have classic, tapered shapes, with intricately carved metal chiselled carefully by master craftsmen. Whether hung from the ceiling or placed on the floor, they bring a gorgeous luminosity to the surroundings.
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Traditional Moroccan houses, called Riads, are characterized by interior gardens or courtyards. With water playing an important role in Moroccan culture, marble or cement water fountains, representing paradise, are a conspicuous feature in every courtyard.
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While fountains may seem unconventional, there is nothing more so quintessentially Moroccan, helping bring an exotic ambience into your living room, porch, terrace or balcony!
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Influenced by Andalusian, French and Islamic styles, the appeal of Moroccan décor lies in it being the perfect blend of East and West, bringing the best of both worlds together, in a single, gorgeous approach to décor!
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Category: Feature of Size
Maximum Material Condition or for short, MMC, is a feature of size symbol that describes the condition of a feature or part where the maximum amount of material (volume/size) exists within its dimensional tolerance. The callout also removes GD&T Rule#2 which states that all geometry tolerances are controlled independently of the feature size.
When you have a feature that Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing is called on:
If it is a hole or internal feature: MMC = smallest hole size
If it is a pin or external feature: MMC = largest size of the pin
In each of these cases, the part will have the maximum amount of material that would be allowed within the part tolerances.
Max Material Condition is one of the dimensional limits on a part. The other side of the tolerance range would be the Least Material Condition.
The only GD&T Symbols where Max Material Condition can be applied are:
Reason for Use:
If you want to ensure that two parts never interfere, or limit the amount of interference between the parts when they are at their worst tolerances, MMC can be called out. Take a shaft that must go through a hole with clearance between the two.
The MMC of the shaft would be the Maximum diameter
The MMC of the hole would be its Minimum diameter
If you made sure that the MMC of the shaft was always smaller than the MMC of the hole, you guarantee there will always be clearance between the parts. This is important for any tolerance stack to ensure that when the tolerances are at their least desirable condition, the part still functions properly.
Gauging Max Material Condition:
Maximum material condition comes in handy when it comes to making a functional gauge for the part. If you want to limit the size of your feature, you can specify the max material condition call out additionally control it with Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing.
For example if you wanted to ensure that a pin always fits into a hole when the hole is at MMC, we could design a pin gauge that
mimics the lower limit of the hole. The gauge that controls the Max Material Condition of a part is called a Go-Gauge (Meaning the Part must always Go into it)
The Go-Gauge for a hole or internal feature would exist of a pin that is just a tiny bit (few microns) smaller than the Maximum Material Condition of the hole. The gauge pin would then be inserted into the hole and as long as the pin Goes into the hole, the part is in spec.
(Note: The pin gauge may be made slightly smaller (a few microns) than the MMC to account for any straightness or tolerance issues that may be inherent in producing the gauge)
*Remember when no GD&T is called on the hole the envelope principal applies – meaning the geometric and size effects of the hole cannot be larger or smaller than the tolerances specified.
Combination Gauging with GD&T Symbols
The true benefit of using the maximum material condition on a feature is the ability to call out GD&T with dimensional tolerances and be able to gauge for them at the same time. When geometric control and material control are used together, they form the true maximum envelope or virtual condition that the part can be in and still be to specification.
For example, you have a pin with a dimensional and perpendicularity call outs. The pin needs to be within both perpendicular enough and small enough so that it doesn't get stuck when inserted into its mating hole at a 90° angle to the face of the part. In this case all you really care about is the pin fits into the hole at the worst case limits (MMC and max perpendicularity tolerance make up the maximum envelope of the part)
The virtual condition can be controlled with a functional gauge. Functional gauges can be a huge benefit to production environments where measuring on the line quickly is critical.
Gauging for MMC with Geometric tolerances:
For the Gauging of a hole with perpendicularity call out:
Gauge Ø (pin gauge)=Min Ø of hole (MMC)–GD&T Symbol Tolerance
For Gauging of a pin with a perpendicularity callout:
Gauge Ø (hole gauge) = Max Ø of pin (MMC) + GD&T Symbol Tolerance
Note on Bonus Tolerance:
When a functional gauge is used for Perpendicularity, any difference the actual feature size is from the maximum material condition would be a bonus tolerance. The goal of a maximum material condition callout is to ensure that when the part is in its worst tolerances, the Perpendicularity and size of the hole/pin will always assemble together. This means that if you make a pin smaller, you make more bonus tolerance for yourself. This bonus can be added to the GD&T tolerance and would widen the perpendicularity tolerance.
Bonus Tolerance = Difference between MMC & Actual condition
Features of Size:
Maximum Material Condition is one of three features of size callouts in GD&T. The other two are Least Material Condition and Regardless of Feature Size. All of these specify the condition that the part or feature must be in to apply the specified geometric tolerance.
Default to Regardless of feature size
When there is not call out to Maximum Material Condition or Least Material Condition, the part, by default, is measured regardless of feature size (RFS). This means there is no bonus tolerance and the envelope of the part is not defined. The part must be controlled geometrically regardless of what size the feature is at.
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Baby Name Neall meaning and Astrology
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Baby Name : Neall
Gender : Boy
Origin : gaelic
Neall Meaning: champion
Variant: no variations
Number : 8
Moon Sign (Rashi) : Scorpio (Brischik)
Star (Nakshtra) : Anuradha
baby Neall Name Neall is combinations of, one occurrence of A, one occurrence of E, two occurrences of L and one occurrence of N has a lots of significance in Astrology.
Energetic, as they are, In Moon sign based Vedic Astrology, person with name Neall are always ready to do one more thing. Their brimming energy takes them higher in their life. A proper education is what they think necessary for them. These people have endearing personality. Natives with this name have balanced sense of food and dresses. In these cases, they never overdo. In other aspects too, these individuals prefer to portray themselves as balanced, unbiased, and neutral. On the other hand, due to the name effect, these people may overreact to some extent. This name has an impact of making its natives spiritually inclined. These people also have a fetish for splendid cars. They can create anything with their mastery. It is expected that they will come across some important person in their respective lives who will assist them to have a great success. With the power of creativity, they can make films as well. With these people grace is the ultimate thing. And with this quality they can solve any problem that comes their way.
Name Neall or (no variations) means champion.
Person with name Neall have the effect of material success with any individuals who having name number as 4, 8, 13 and 17. Therefore, these natives have luck in monetary term. They are likely to earn a lot of money in their lives. The people with this name can try their luck at corporate sector. They would be fairly successful as a teacher. These people may have a certain goal in life, but they should be ambitious and centred on their goal. They are intelligent enough to stand apart among the multitude. They really want to be the piece of attention of everyone. They are also capable of making people understand themselves very well. Individuals with the effect of this name are sly enough to make multiple sources of revenue. They can also be leading personalities of political teams at a national level. In this way they can draw attention of people and have a manpower of their own. While running for money and rank they should also be conscious that their activities are not creating problem for anyone.
The natives with name Neall have an immense hunger for newer things in life. There is a unique thirst in their character to get hold of knowledge. This hunger for growth will be an agreeable one and would help them to prosper in life, even if they try to apply it in negative ways. These folks may not welcome sudden changes warmly. It is normally seen that these natives crave for a place of authority and that even at the cost of other people's harm. They do not have a fluid character that can be easily modified. Their life may be tragic somehow. They could have many obstacles in their path of life. Life will pose continuous hazard for them. However, for this dominating sensitivity, they will suffer too with huge difficulties in their career. Neall is a person of very friendly in nature. They love to serve society and help people with all their hearts. Nevertheless, people take long time to recognize their talent. Even when these natives do welfare to society, they are hardly appreciated. But a big fault in them is their gullible nature.
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Thanks to modern technology Caroline now offers online tuition in Anglo Irish Concertina on a range of platforms – Skype, WhatsApp, Facebook and Zoom to students all over the world. This means that anyone, anywhere in the world can learn Irish traditional music from an expert tutor. Through regular lessons, students can expect to improve concertina technique, and develop maturity and musicality in their playing. Online lessons are highly successful and reap many of the rewards of traditional face to face lessons, right from the comfort of your own home!
In general, students can expect a lesson to include:
- Revision of previous tune – suggestions of revisions (improvements or additional embellishments).
- A new piece of repertoire – taught phrase by phrase through repetition.
- Lesson ends with revision of new piece and Caroline records the tune at various speeds – slow, phrase by phrase and 'normal speed'. The recording also includes relevant indications on fingering. This recording acts as a guide to facilitate independent learning and practice before the next lesson.
Over time, the listening skills developed during lessons will allow learners to pick up tunes with minimal effort by ear (Yes anyone has this ability, you just need to be taught how!). This repetitive technique also improves and stabilises rhythm and builds confidence. Students learn to contextualise the music, gaining an insight into the tunes and traditions from an insiders' prospective – a pivotal feature of a living tradition which is often overlooked.
Students will be encouraged to develop their own individual style and gradually begin to find their place within the wider Irish traditional music community.


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 1. Braces delimiting a macro argument do not create a scope (they are consumed on parsing the argument). However, some commands will themselves introduce a brace group in their expansion. The following will not be typeset ragged right, because the implementation of \emph expands its argument inside a brace group:
 \emph{\raggedright Some text I tried to typeset italic and ragged right.}
 2. The braces around a macro definition also do not create a scope, allowing us to write things like
 \newcommand\mybold{this: \bfseries}
 Everything after \mybold is now set in boldface.
 which produces:
 Everything after this: is now set in boldface.
 3. LaTeX's \begin{something} and \end{something} macros internally add a brace group, so they are scope delimiters.
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AFAIK, LaTeX does use the "delimited arguments" in picture environment. – mbork Nov 18 '12 at 12:49
Hmm, you mean the arguments delimited by parentheses, _USER_? That's another case of "internal" use, I'd say. LaTeX uses the feature to define its command syntax, but you can't specify arbitrary delimiters to your own macros with \newcommand, \ProvideCommand, etc.-- and since the LaTeX Gods direct us to only use the LaTeX interface, arbitrary delimiters are effectively forbidden. (With the very partial exception, now that I think about it, of the \verb command.) – alexis Nov 18 '12 at 19:35
no one seems to have mentioned that latex files are sometimes converted automatically to (for example) xml/mathml, and such converters may require scoping by braces where (la)tex itself does not.
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If a conversion tool is so simplistic that it cannot apply TeX's tokenization rules, it's not going to be very useful anyway. – alexis Nov 13 '12 at 20:22
_USER_ -- it has often been pointed out that only tex can effectively parse and process tex code. witness the file xii.tex. i'll leave it at that. – barbara beeton Nov 13 '12 at 21:14
Certainly, but the lack of braces around tokens is not what makes this difficult. – alexis Nov 13 '12 at 21:37
I like to write as few brackets as possible. I "learned" this style after reading the TeXbook, since Knuth defines many macros in such a way that no brackets are needed.
I find his style much nicer and economical than LaTeX's usual definitions, where one needs to use brackets in many places, e.g. \chapter{Some title}. His macros are usually terminated by \par, so you write
\beginchapter Some title
and you're done (you just need to make sure to have a blanck line following it). The definition is in manmac.tex in case you're curious (it actually requires the chapter number followed by a dot before the title, but the idea is what counts here).
For another example, look at how his "letter" format on pag. 403 requires no brackets in any place. That's sheer elegance, IMHO.
After reading the TeXbook I realized how superflous brackets can be if you define your macros conveniently.
That's just one aspect of the use of brackets though.
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That's ok for plain, but bad for LaTeX (as _USER_ explains). – Martin Schröder Nov 16 '12 at 14:21
There are a few places in TeX where braces are a required part of the syntax but those are few. When it comes down to arguments then TeX accepts a single token without surounding braces so \mathrm i would work if "typeset". But try this:
\section{$\mathrm \x$}
and you will get a subtle error in your output (but no error message):
enter image description here
The reason is that \x is suddenly turned during processing into its components so what LaTeX sees when typesetting the TOC is $\mathrm log$ and thus only picks up "l" as the argument.
For this reason, the LaTeX manual claims that all arguments have to have braces even if this is technically not true.
Personally, I do not use braces in all such cases, but whenever the single token is a command one better think twice before omitting the braces because even if it appears to work it may not do so.
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+1 for a very good example! I believe that something like \ProvideDocumentCommand exists that would overcome this problem? – yo' Nov 13 '12 at 13:46
_USER_ what you are thinking of is \DeclareRobustCommand because that is what would prevent the expansion messing things up. But my point was simply to show that because TeX is a macro language we have to understand that data gets expanded and not just "processed" once in a while and that has its own rules. Which is why the statement in your answer which i translate to "it doesn't matter" is simply not true always... it only doesn't matter sometimes and you need to know when which is non-trivial. And therefore LaTeX claims that they are always needed! – Frank Mittelbach Nov 13 '12 at 16:12
I don't say that braces does not matter generally. The OP clearly asks "... evevn if the result is the same", which I answer by saying: "If the result is the same, the result is the same", which is certainly a true statement. – yo' Nov 13 '12 at 19:50
_USER_ of course you are technically right: if there is no difference there is no difference. But my fear is that people reading your answer will take away from it not the wrong conclusion, i.e., not realizing that what appears to make no difference may be under certain circumstance result in a difference which is unfortunately the nature of the beast. – Frank Mittelbach Nov 13 '12 at 20:02
I added a disclaimer, you're right that it seems to be necessary. – yo' Nov 13 '12 at 20:53
The LaTeX book consistently uses {} in all cases so all the examples use that form, you always see a^{2} even though everyone knows that a^2 works just as well and arguably improves the look of the source.
When the command taking the argument is a macro and the argument is necessarily a single token, most people drop the brackets as a matter of course so
rather than
and that is effectively standard LaTeX syntax now as well.
However the equivalence between a single unbraced token and a brace group is most consistently implemented for macros. For TeX primitives sometimes they are equivalent and sometimes not. So you can go
\fbox{a} \fbox a
and they do the same thing (although I would never do the latter) but
boxes a but
\hbox a
! Missing { inserted.

More problematic are places where people omit brackets, relying on the parsing rules of a TeX primitive, which then breaks when you later load a package that redefines the command to give extra functionality.
A common example is sub or super scripting. You can go
which produces a to the half times b, but often it would be nice to redefine the ^ character to be an active character (or \mathcode"8000 character) with definition defined by \def or \newcommand If you do that, any properly braced usage still works but an example such as the above would then be equivalent to
The frac would then raise an error that it was missing its arguments.
A usage such as
would work whether the arguments of ^ where parsed as a TeX primitive superscript or as a macro.
Thus users ignoring the rules in the LaTeX book and not always bracing arguments can cause problems and limit the scope of package designers. (The standard LaTeX2e \frac and \mathrm and friends were explicitly designed to cope with that unbraced superscript use, on the grounds that keeping users happy was probably better than assuming they followed instructions.)
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There are tons of little neat tips and tricks scattered throughout iOS just waiting to be discovered. One of these little nuggets is being able to add a direct dial extension number to a Contacts entry to save time when calling someone that can only be reached by dialing an additional extension number. Although this has been possible for quite some time in iOS, the whole process is a lot simpler now than it used to be.
It may not be extremely useful for those who call friends or family members, but for those business users out there who frequently call other companies or colleagues who sit behind a main switchboard, then it could save a lot of time and frustration being able to get to them directly. Follow the simple steps below to get an extension number added to a new or existing contact.
Step 1: Open the Contacts app on the iOS device and select the '+' button in the top right hand corner to add a new contact. Alternatively, if you want to add a dial extension to an existing contact, then select the contact from the list and select the 'Edit' button from the top right hand corner.
Step 2: Tap on the field that allows you to enter a mobile, work or home number for the contact. If you are editing a contact then make sure the cursor is at the end of the already-inputted number before pressing the '+*#' button in the bottom left hand corner. If this is a new contact then enter their number first before selecting the '+*#' button.
Step 3: Select the 'wait' option from the right hand side of the second row of keys that appears. This will append the phone number with a semicolon (;).
Step 4: Add the relevant extension number after the semicolon. For example, if the contact's number is 0192-_PHONE_ and their extension number is 123 then this becomes 0192-_PHONE_;123.
Step 5: Save the information and exit out of the Contacts app.
Step 6: Call the contact in question from the device address book and take note of the new 'Dial' button on the right hand side. This can be tapped to dial the extension at any time.
Rocket science it certainly isn't, but time-saving and beneficial to those who regularly call those behind a switchboard it is. Thanks again to Apple and iOS for adding in these little hidden gems that we come across from time-to-time.


text: [en] A long deformation record (16.5 ka) showing nonsteady earthquake recurrence is established for the Aksu thrust (Tianshan, China) on the basis of cosmogenic 10Be dating of faulted surfaces. Topographic leveling across the Aksu fault scarp indicates up to 10 m uplift across a moraine abandoned 16.5 ka and similar uplift of 6 m across two inset surfaces yielding ages of 12.5 and 5 ka. Successively smaller uplifts of terraces younger than 5 ka indicate that three or more major earthquakes occurred during this period. These data show that the Aksu thrust fault was quiet for at least 7500 years and active in the last 5000 years and probably in the interval 16.5–12.5 ka. The seismic cycle along the Aksu thrust fault over the last 16,500 years was thus strongly irregular showing long quiescence and clustering, which is a challenge for paleoseismology and hazard assessment. This irregularity also makes it more difficult to estimate long-term shortening rates. Nevertheless, we are able to constrain a minimum total shortening rate (>7 mm/yr) across the southern Tianshan front for the last 12,500 years that is about a third of the total geodetic rate for the western Tianshan (20 mm/yr).


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The grand Livadia Palace was created as a summer palace for Tsar Nikolas II. It was designed in the Italian Renaissance style by architect N. Krasnov (1864 - 1939).
Livadia was built on the site of the old palace and took seventeen months to build (from April 1910 - September 1911). Modern technologies were used to build the palace. No expenses were spared and besides Inkerman stone, the architect used all kinds of expensive material to create this beautiful White Palace. Its main entrance was designed in the form of a protruded portico and decorated with Carrera marble. The other portico was built in Arabian style and both are in their original form.
The Livadia Palace is of course known for a significant and historic event of the Second World War which took place here - the Yalta Conference.
This gallery holds pictures of the ground floor rooms where the Yalta Conference was held, as well as the first floor rooms with portraits of Tsar Nikolas II and his family, the Palace grounds and the Romanov family chapel.
Read more on Livadia (White) Palace HERE.


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Setting a server role in Salt (comparing Puppet and Salt)
By Spencer Christensen
December 23, 2013
There are many ways to solve a given problem, and this is no truer than with configuration management. Salt (_URL_) is a fairly new tool in the configuration management arena joining the ranks of Puppet, Chef, and others. It has quickly gained and continues to grow in popularity, boasting its scalable architecture and speed. And so with multiple tools and multiple ways to use each tool, it can get a little tricky to know how best to solve your problem.
Recently I've been working with a client to convert their configuration management from Puppet to Salt. This involved reviewing their Puppet configs and designs and more-or-less mapping them to the equivalent for Salt. Most features do convert pretty easily. However, we did run into something that didn't at first/assigning a role to a server.
We wanted to preserve the "feeling" of the configs where possible. In Puppet they had developed and used a convention for using some custom variables in their configs to assign an "environment" and a "role" for each server. These variables were assigned in the node and role manifests. But in Salt we struggled to find a similar way to do that, but here is what we learned.
In Puppet, once a server's "role" and "environment" variables were set, then they could be used in other manifest files to select the proper source for a given config file like so:
 file {
 source =>
 ensure => present,
 owner => "root",
 group => "root",
 mode => "644"
Puppet will search the list of source files in order and use the first one that exists. For example, if $hostname = 'myniftyhostname' and $system_environment = 'qa' and $system_role = 'sessiondb', then it will use rsyslog.conf.myniftyhostname if it exists on the Puppet master, or if not then use rsyslog.conf.qa-sessiondb if it exists, or if not then rsyslog.conf.sessiondb if it exists, or if not then rsyslog.conf.qa if it exists, or if not then rsyslog.conf.
In Salt, environment is built into the top.sls file, where you match your servers to their respective state file(s), and can be used within state files as {{ env }}. Salt also allows for multiple sources for a managed file to be listed in order and it will use the first one that exists in the same way as Puppet. We were nearly there; however, setting the server role variable was not as straight forward in Salt.
We first looked at using Jinja variables (which is the default templating system for Salt), but soon found that setting a Jinja variable in one state file does not carry over to another state file. Jinja variables remain only in the scope of the file they were created in, at least in Salt.
The next thing we looked at was using Pillar, which is a way to set custom variables from the Salt master to given hosts (or minions). Pillar uses a structure very similar to Salt's top.sls structurematching a host with its state files. But since the hostnames for this client vary considerably and don't lend themselves to pattern matching easily, this would be cumbersome to manage both the state top.sls file and the Pillar top.sls file and keep them in sync. It would require basically duplicating the list of hosts in two files, which could get out of sync over time.
We asked the salt community on _TAG_ on Freenode.net how they might solve this problem, and the recommended answer was to set a custom grain. Grains are a set of properties for a given host, collected from the host itselfsuch as, hostname, cpu architecture, cpu model, kernel version, total ram, etc. There are multiple ways to set custom grains, but after some digging we found how to set them from within a state file. This meant that we could do something like this in a "role" state file:
# sessiondb role
# {{ salt['grains.setval']('server_role','sessiondb') }}
 - common
 - postgres
And then within the common/init.sls and postgres/init.sls state files we could use that server_role custom grain in selecting the right source file, like this:
 - source:
 - salt://rsyslog/files/rsyslog.conf.{{ grains['host'] }}
 - salt://rsyslog/files/rsyslog.conf.{{ env }}-{{ grains['server_role'] }}
 - salt://rsyslog/files/rsyslog.conf.{{ grains['server_role'] }}
 - salt://rsyslog/files/rsyslog.conf
 - mode: 644
 - user: root
 - group: root
This got us to our desired config structure. But like I said earlier, there are probably many ways to handle this type of problem. This may not even be the best way to handle server roles and environments in Salt, if we were more willing to change the "feeling" of the configs. But given the requirements and feedback form our client, this worked fine.
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Swindon Academy Grammar Stream was launched in September 2016 and is the only Grammar Stream in Swindon. A Grammar Stream is an educational arrangement whereby a group of students are educated in a mainstream school, but follow a Grammar School-style curriculum that is taught by subject specialist teachers. All pupils in the Grammar Stream have been identified as having the ability to understand the level at which work is taught, meaning that the teacher has less differentiation to address in their teaching and the group will make good progress together.
A Grammar Stream has several advantages over Grammar Schools: firstly, a Grammar Stream in Swindon enables local pupils to enjoy a Grammar-style curriculum, without having to undertake a long bus journey twice daily to Grammar Schools outside of the Swindon area. Secondly, pupils who attend the Grammar Stream are from a variety of backgrounds and are mixed gender, meaning that pupils learn how to socialise and communicate effectively with others.
Swindon Academy is well-placed to provide a Grammar Stream for several reasons: Firstly, we have a highly successful partnership with Marlborough College, a prestigious school who supports the educational experiences of our pupils. Secondly, Swindon Academy was rated a 'Good' by Ofsted in May 2017 in all areas. Thirdly, Swindon Academy is the top school in Swindon for student progress. Finally, GCSE results were the highest ever with Year 11 pupils achieving 67% 5A*-C, including English and maths in 2018.
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This course provides theoretical and practical instruction on wind turbine tower rescue and high angle rescue and personal protective equipment. Students cover the theory and practice of addressing emergent rescue situations in, on and around wind turbines.
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Total Hours: 35
Lecture Hours: 20
Laboratory Hours: 15
This course is offered online:
- Personal protective equipment utilization and maintenance
- High angle rescue considerations and practice
- Tower rescue practices
- Tower climbing safety practices
Upon successful completion of this course, learners will be able to:
- Identify personal protective equipment components and their application
- Describe safe rescue practices during emergency situations
- Safely climb 100 meter towers
- Participate in high angle rescue procedures
- Engage in partnered rappelling and climbing exercises
- Complete climb and descent procedures
Use initiative to identify tasks.
Use time productively.
Select and use appropriate tools.
Final Exam: 20 %
Quizzes and Tests: 30 %
Lab Work: 20 %
Participation: 30 %
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Short-term small groups are awesome.
They shouldn't be considered any less important than the longer term small groups that are typically talked about. Short-term small groups have their place in ministry and can accomplish things that are difficult for small groups that have a longer time committment.
Over the summer, I led a couple of short-term small groups. Even in the six weeks that each small group met, God used them to transform lives. The impact is observable today, weeks after the small groups completed.
There are several benefits short-term small groups can make happen.
Benefits of Short-Term Small Groups
The following are some of the benefits that a short-term small group Bible study can provide:
People More Likely to Commit
Many people do not want to make a long-term commitment if they do aren't certain it will benefit them. We know from experience how important it is to be a part of a small group. But there are many who do not have that experience. Having a short-term option encourages participation from those who are reluctant to make a longer-term commitment.
Enticing Outside the Church Family
Many short-term small groups are focused on a specific topic. Some of the topics have appeal to people outside the church. The topics of finances, overwhelm, and health are a few examples of this. Advertising to people outside the church could result in participation from unchurched, unsaved people who are far from God.
Can Lead to Participation in Long-Term Small Groups
Once a people experience small group, they are more willing to sign up and participate in a longer-term small group. You, as the leader, can encourage this. As you get closer to the end of the short-term small group:
- Make sure each member knows how to sign up for a small group
- Point out some of the benefits they are receiving in the current group and let them know those benefits can continue by signing up for a longer-term group
- Ask if they have any questions about small groups. I even went as far as to have a couple of small group leaders come to one of my meetings to do a question-and-answer session with my group members.
Supports Small Group Leader Training
Just like there are some people who are reluctant to make long-term commitments to a small group, there are potential leaders who may be reluctant as well. Short-term small groups are a great training ground for new small group leaders. The initial commitment is not long-term so those reluctant are more likely to give it a try. Also, if the short-term group is using a Bible study where the leader materials are already prepared and easy-to-use, the new leader is less likely to overwhelmed.
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1. 1. When did Lamott begin writing?
2. 2. What is Lamott's advice for writer's block?
4. 4. The phrase "Bird by Bird" originates from which of the following?
5. 5. How does Lamott prefer to do research for a book?
6. 6. What does KFKD represent?
7. 7. Who is Carpenter?
8. 8. Lamott compares writing to everything except which of the following?
9. 9. What was the title of Lamott's first book?
10. 10. Lamott uses index cards for what purpose?
11. 11. Lamott believes that every character possesses which of the following?
12. 12. What is the most significant image from Lamott's essay on school lunches?
13. 13. What example does Lamott use to illustrate the importance of plot treatments?
14. 14. Lamott advises her writers that good writing must have which of the following?
15. 15. How does Lamott honor Brice?
16. 16. What is Lamott's view about writing groups?
17. 17. How does Lamott deal with an overly critical student?
18. 18. How does Lamott feel about publication?
19. 19. Which proves most useful to Lamott when she is jealous of another author?
20. 20. What advice does Lamott give her students regarding libel?
21. 21. What did Lamott write on an index card to remind herself of her aunt?
22. 22. Lamott contacts the vineyard to what end?
23. 23. Who counsels Lamott when she is disappointed by success?
24. 24. What purpose does Lamott's one-inch picture frame serve?
25. 25. Lamott believes in which of the following?
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Verb: ensure en'shûr or in'shûr [N. Amer], en'shor or in'shor or en'shûr [Brit]
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At first glance, this surprising object could almost be mistaken for an impressive piece of skeleton from a whale or something similarly enormous. In actual fact, it is an extremely rare preserved example of a late 15th/early 16th-century German jousting saddle, which was used in the form of joust known as the 'Gestech im hohen Zeug'. The saddle supported knights in a standing position rather than seating them on the back of the horse.
The saddle consists of a large wooden shield, forked for the horse's back. Behind this barrier projects a seat made up of a central bar with a ring on either side. The rider would insert their legs through the rings, so that they were secured and protected by the shield. The knight would thus be anchored firmly into a standing position from which to joust, although the rigid stance must have increased the potential for serious injury if he received a forceful blow.
Mounting was probably quite difficult; John Hewitt speculated in 1858 that 'Into a saddle of this kind the knight must have crept from the back of the horse'! The saddle is covered in rawhide and still retains some traces of paint. It is one of only a very small handful known to survive.
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