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Developing Functional Classification and Retention Schedules
Every good records management program is built on two crucial components: a functional classification system and a retention schedule. Both are critical if you want to get all the benefits of good records management.
Creating and implementing them is a challenge for many organisations though, because the process can be resource intensive. That's where DATAFILE comes in. Our consultants have extensive experience developing functional classification systems and retention schedules across all industries and verticals.
This is a system which allows you to properly organise your records based on what your business does. This helps with everything from managing risk and compliance to improving access and collaboration, as well as reducing unnecessary duplication of documents.
Creating the right system means taking a holistic view of your RM program with respect to your business activities and the records, both paper and electronic, that support them.
Here's a quick overview of DATAFILE's process for creating a functional classification system:
- Interview staff and review existing material to learn more about the organisation and the information it creates
- Identify and name unique business activities
- Group activities together based on functions
- Apply the resulting functional classification system to every piece of information that is created
Records Retention Schedules
The challenge when it comes to creating a retention schedule, whether you are using electronic records, paper records, or a hybrid of the two, lies in creating a schedule that covers all the regulatory and legal requirements, and then applying it to all your RM functions. This can be very time consuming, and requires deep records management knowledge, especially if you need to apply it to RM software or an electronic content management system.
Here's a quick overview of our approach to creating a retention schedule:
- Start with extensive research into the relevant legal requirements
- Evaluate legal citations and operational requirements
- Apply retention periods to activities identified in your functional classification system
- Map the resulting retention schedule to the classification system, which allows us to identify all your records
- Comprehensive programs are simultaneously developed outlining everything from:
- Duplication and dispersal requirements
- Storage and access restrictions
- Eventual destruction of records as outlined by a retention schedule


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Job Title: Knowledge Operations Manager
Position Overview: We are seeking a skilled and proactive Knowledge Operations Manager to lead our document operations team and ensure the accuracy, clarity, and compliance of our knowledge base and processes. The successful candidate will play a vital role in maintaining high-quality documentation, improving team efficiency, and contributing to the success of our organization. This role requires a detail-oriented individual with exceptional organizational skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
Knowledge Operations Manager Responsibilities: As the Knowledge Operations Manager for our documents team, you will be responsible for the following:
- Knowledge Base Management:
- Own and maintain our knowledge base system, ensuring all content is accurate, up-to-date, and easy to navigate.
- Collaborate with various teams to gather and update information, troubleshoot issues, and improve overall knowledge base usability.
- Proactively identify knowledge gaps and work to address them through clear and concise documentation.
- Quality Assurance and Compliance:
- Set and monitor performance metrics for document specialists and subject matter experts (SMEs).
- Oversee the rollout of new document requirements and ensure compliance with state regulations.
- Collaborate with Legal and Compliance teams to maintain a comprehensive understanding of legal obligations and risks, making informed decisions that align with our organization's goals.
- Process Improvement:
- Develop and implement effective processes for identifying new document requirements and proactively building rollout plans.
- Streamline document creation and update processes to ensure agents are equipped with accurate information for handling new requirements.
- Identify areas for improvement in team accuracy and efficiency and implement strategies to address them.
- Team Collaboration:
- Conduct weekly calls with facilities to understand requirement needs at both facility and state levels.
- Engage with facilities that have low fill rates to address challenges and improve performance.
- Foster collaboration with cross-functional teams to enhance the quality of documentation and align knowledge base updates with organizational goals.
- Continuing Education and Training:
- Revamp and manage the continuing education program for SMEs and specialists, ensuring all updated processes are effectively communicated and understood.
- Develop and administer knowledge check tests to identify gaps and opportunities for improvement in the knowledge base.
- Utilize assessment results to update knowledge base pages and enhance overall training materials.
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent work experience.
- Excellent attention to detail and the ability to create clear and concise documentation.
- Proven track record of improving team accuracy, efficiency, and performance.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to proactively identify and address issues.
- Effective communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to work with cross-functional teams.
- Familiarity with legal and compliance considerations related to document operations.
- Proficiency in using knowledge base software and tools.
- Prior experience in process improvement initiatives is a plus.
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Compost Gin (Card Game)
This engaging card game is a wonderful way to teach the essentials of decomposition and composting. The set includes 54 colorful cards depicting the different components necessary for decomposition to proceed. To make compost, students collect the right mixture of cards (different values are given to each mixture based on the probability that the mix will make good compost). The first player to get 200 composting points wins. Students can talk trash while having a blast! Recommended for ages 8 to 14.
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The HLB Concept
Updated: Oct 15, 2020
Introduction to the use of HLB in surfactant selection for emulsification.
In developing emulsifier systems, it is important to select a surfactant/emulsifier system with the correct characteristics to match the requirements of the oil phase plus other factors, such as the temperature of the emulsion and electrolytes.
The use of the HLB system can help in quickly identifying the optimum surfactant system.
HLB = Hydrophile - Lipophile Balance
It provides the starting point for matching the HLB of the surfactant with the required HLB of the oil to form stable emulsions. One can predict the approximate HLB needed to emulsify a given material and make more intelligent estimates of which surfactant or combinations of surfactants are appropriate to a given application. When blends are used the HLB can be
estimated by using a weighted average of the surfactants used in the blend.
Calculation of the HLB of nonionic surfactants
This method has proved very successful with alkoxylated nonionic surfactants but
less successful with ionic surfactants. The HLB system, in it's most basic form, allows for the calculation of HLB using the following formulation :
HLB = % Hydrophile by weight of molecule
Example: Oleyl alcohol 10 EO
 - Molecular weight of hydrophile we calculate the molecular weight of the 10 moles of ethylene oxide ( one mole EO =44 )
10 x 44 = 440
 - we add this number to the molecular weight of the oleyl alcohol
440+ 270 = 710
 - What percentage of 710 is 440?
440 / 710 *100= 61.97%
Therefore : HLB is 61.97 / 5 =12.4
Example of HLB mixture calculation
HLB of a blend of two surfactants, 70 wt% Lansurf SMO80 (HLB=15) and 30 wt% Lansurf SMO (HLB=4.3) can be computed as follows:
HLB mixture = 0.3 x 4.3 + 0.7 x 15 = 11.8
Similarly for a 70:30wt% mixture of oleic acid (HLB=17) and lanolin (HLB=12):
HLB mixture = 0.7 x 17 + 0.3 x 12 = 15.5
The HLB values measured against solubility in water
The HLB of a surfactant, ranging from 1 to 20, affects its characteristics in aqueous solutions and dictates their characteristics and the typical applications where they will be used.
An emulsion is most accurately defined as a dispersion of liquid droplets in a second immiscible liquid. Temporary emulsions may be formed by mixing the two normally immiscible liquids, however, the stability of temporary emulsions produced in this way is poor. Emulsifiers are surface-active materials (surfactants) that are used to assist in the formation and stabilisation of an emulsion.
The optimum emulsifier will also be dictated by the external phase, with oil in water emulsion requiring higher HLB emulsifier systems than water in oil.
When determining the optimum HLB the nature of the oil phase and the emulsion type (oil in water or water in oil) is the starting point. There are literature values available for several materials:
Example Emulsification of paraffinic mineral oil
The literature HLB value for the emulsification of paraffinic mineral oil is 10, but this is an approximate value as the exact HLB will be effected by the composition of the specific oil, plus the HLB values assigned to emulsifiers are not particularly accurate, therefore the optimum HLB for each oil and emulsifier needs to be established by experimentation.
This is achieved by preparing emulsions based on blends of emulsifiers to give HLB's around the theory value as in the table below. Based on the emulsion quality the optimum ratio and HLB can be determined. It may be necessary to make further blends, for example if the best result is obtained with sample 6 further blends with HLB's of 9.3 and 9.1 should be evaluated.
Using blends of surfactants has a number of benefits. Firstly it allows the optimum HLB to be used for each application. Also in many applications, blending emulsifiers with different HLB's can be beneficial, to provide a broader range of HLB's present in the system. This is often beneficial when the oil phase is a mixture rather than an individual chemical species. Blending nonionic and anionic emulsifiers can also be beneficial, in many applications it can increase the stability in applications where a wide range of temperatures can occur.
Sometimes the HLB of the oil may not be known. In this case experimental analysis using a range of nonionic surfactants with varying degrees of ethoxylation but with the same hydrophobe is a good starting method to establish an approximation of the emulsifiers HLB.
Lankem manufactures a wide range of emulsifiers, the following table provides information on their HLB values:
Further reading: The Principles of emulsification
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Is it time to stop obsessing over MadELeINE?
Why the Madeleine McCann case epitomises a narrative of white privilege
By El Barnes
The Madeleine McCann case is the most notorious missing person's case in history.
Almost twelve years later, Operation Grange has received a total of £11.75m of government funding, the most recent instalment having been granted in October 2018. But with 1 in 200 children going missing each year in the UK alone, is it time to finally stop obsessing over Madeleine McCann?
Before continuing, it must be addressed that this is a devastating case which has at the heart of it a beautiful and innocent little girl who, no matter which theory you choose to believe, has been met with an exceedingly tragic fate. I do find it interesting, though, that the only other case involving a child that has had an international audience just as captivated is the 1996 murder of JonBenét Ramsey in Boulder, Colorado. The most significant point of contrast between the two is that JonBenét's ordeal culminated with the discovery of a body, but the similarities don't start and end with public reception.
Like Madeleine, JonBenét was thought of as something of a juxtaposition between prized possession and least favourite child. Like Madeleine, JonBenét suffered the most horrific fate with her – apparently oblivious – family close by. JonBenét's brother, like Madeleine's siblings, was completely unaware and came out unscathed. As with Madeleine's case, evidence arose after the fact that pointed towards some kind of familial involvement. Like Madeleine, JonBenét was a white middle-class child, born to wealthy and respected parents. Like Madeleine, JonBenét was innocence personified – a young child with fair hair, fair skin and coloured eyes.
According to the charity Missing People, someone is reported missing every 90 seconds in the UK.
That means that since Madeleine's disappearance over 4.2m others have been reported missing, the majority of these being children, which begs the question: why Madeleine? It seems crass to suggest that an innocent and ill-fated child should become an unfortunate symbol of white privilege, but the sad truth is that when a person of colour and/or an immigrant or refugee goes missing, the media is far less likely to pay attention. A scroll through the current list of missing persons in the UK will reveal a glaring and cruel reality: people of colour make up a significant majority of missing persons, despite the population of the UK being 86% white.
What really saddens me about this is that I couldn't name a single person of colour on this page; the only missing persons' cases I've seen media coverage of recently are that of 16-year-old Liam Smith from Aberdeen, 21-year-old Libby Squire from Hull and 19-year-old Daniel Williams from Reading. The common denominator? The victims whose faces the media has chosen to circulate are all white.
I'm not suggesting that these three people received the media attention they deserved, or anywhere near as much as Madeleine.
I'm not even suggesting that Madeleine has received more than she deserves; I firmly believe that everything should be done to uncover the circumstances of her disappearance and bring the perpetrator(s) to justice. She, as a child, and an innocent victim, deserves that much. But if the government is incapable of providing such extensive and sustained funding, and the media incapable of giving such extensive and sustained air-time, to every child that goes missing, then it shouldn't be provided to one in particular. After all, it's not just Madeleine whose image conjures up reminders of the perpetuation of white privilege – it's her parents, too.
All too often Madeleine herself becomes lost in the earth-shattering reverberations of the tempestuous see-saw that is the public opinion of Kate and Gerry McCann and no matter which side of the see-saw you are on, you are sure to have an opinion. You are sure to believe that they are victims of unimaginable tragedy or evil perpetrators of a heinous crime. You are sure to know their faces. You most likely know that in just the first 10 months following Madeleine's disappearance, the public donated £2m to the McCanns. Picture Madeleine, and you inevitably picture Kate and Gerry along with her; their names and faces and numerous details of their lives…and yet so many names of actual missing people in the UK draw a blank.
But instead of contributing to an endless media circus and becoming another extension of the problem, let's talk about the missing people of colour in the UK and remind them, wherever they are, and their families, that we haven't forgotten them.
Recent photos can be found at, where you can also report sightings.
Let's find 16-year-old Ismael Berkoun, missing from Westminster since March 13th.
15-year-old Iesha Manuk Welsh, missing from Lambeth since March 13th.
14-year-old Rhys Moore-Campbell, missing from Camden since March 7th.
15-year-old Tamara Oram, missing from Walthamstow since March 4th.
17-year-old Tung Nguyen, missing from Luton since February 18th.
16-year-old Haftom Manush, missing from Birmingham since February 10th.
16-year-old Amy Mendes, missing from Croydon since January 22nd.
Let's circulate their names and faces and keep them in our thoughts as much as we have kept Madeleine there for the past twelve years and let's hope, just as fervently, that they too will be found.
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Trends in Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Prescription Contraceptives
CitationWu, Min. 2016. Trends in Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Prescription Contraceptives. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard Medical School.
AbstractObjective: Despite much speculation about the role of direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) in increasing demand for prescription contraceptives in the United States, there is little published research on this topic. We sought to quantify the prevalence and magnitude of DTCA for prescription contraceptives over the last decade.
Methods: Using cross-sectional data from January 2005 through December 2014, we performed descriptive analyses on trends in DTCA expenditure for prescription contraceptives. We quantified the amount of DTCA by contraceptive method category and individual brand.
Results: During the study period, pharmaceutical companies spent a total of $1.57 billion in the United States on DTCA of prescription contraceptives. Annual expenditure for contraceptive DTCA reached a peak of $260 million in 2008, with a progressive decline to a nadir of $69 million by 2013. Of the contraceptive methods, oral contraceptive pills (OCPs) have been the most heavily promoted, with Yaz – the most advertised brand – accounting for $347 million of DTCA expenditure. However, DTCA spending on OCPs peaked in 2007 and was overtaken in 2012 by the DTCA of long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs), the method now receiving the largest amount of DTCA promotion.
Conclusions: Direct-to-consumer advertising is a major form of promotion for prescription contraceptives. Recent trends in DTCA expenditure indicate a shift from promotion of the OCPs to the LARCs. Direct-to-consumer advertising's effect on provider and patient utilization of various contraceptive methods has yet to be determined.
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What is the shortest word in the Torah?
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הַאֲזִינוּ פרק לב פסוק ו
הַ לְיְהוָה, תִּגְמְלוּ-זֹאת
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I don't understand how this answer could be accepted without any source justifying that this is actually a word. – Curiouser May 23 '11 at 16:36
_USER_ - Note the usernames. – WAF May 24 '11 at 23:10
There are a number of words of two letters, which could all count as the shortest.
But according to the Ibn Ezra, the heh which begins Devarim 32:6 is connected to the lamed and is not a word on its own. This is a famous mechlokets. See a nice video on the topic here.
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Mission and Vision
Together, we protect marginalized children and youth, their families and communities and with them create innovative and exciting opportunities to build their futures.
Mith Samlanh is a local non-Governmental organization, founded by Friends-International and member of the CYTI Alliance (Children, Youth, Together and Initiative), works with and for marginalized children and youth, their families and their communities to build their futures.
- Protect marginalized children and youth from all forms of abuse within the scope of the International Convention of the Rights of the Child;
- Reintegrate marginalized children and youth so they become actively involved in the development of their society;
- Prevent marginalized children and youth from engaging in risky behaviors and/or dangerous situations that compromise their futures;
- Improve the way organizations work by promoting innovative and effective approaches with the active participation of the children and youth;
- Influenceall tiers of society to provide supportive environments and adopt positive behavior changes.
- Child value and best interest
- Positive approach
The target group includes marginalized children and youth of both genders regardless of ethnic, religious, political or social backgrounds
1. Primary:marginalized children and youth (0-24 years), including:
- Marginalized living children and youth
- Marginalized working children and youth
- Children and youth of marginalized families
- Their families and their communities
- Related youth groups
3. Tertiary: Society as a whole
- Children: 0-18
- Adolescents: 10-19 (early adolescence: 10-14; late adolescence: 15-19)
- Youths: 15-24
- Young people: 10-24


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"In 2-D co-ordinate system, to determine whether a given trial point is inside or outside a given polygon -- the polygon may be concave or convex"
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1. The no. of vertices.
2. The vertices.
3. The trial point.
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Anatomy & Shot Placement
Anatomy & Shot Placement
Understanding the basic anatomy of an elk will help you make appropriate equipment and shot placement choices prior to your hunt.
Vital Organs
Let's first define the "vital organs" and the importance of choosing the vitals as an ethical shot. The most vital organs of elk and all game animals are the heart and lungs. A proper shot through the heart and/or lungs will offer the quickest kill, making it the most humane for the animal. These organs offer the best opportunity for a kill for firearm and archery hunters.
A double lung shot offers a hunter the best opportunity to take down an elk quickly. The lungs provide the largest target and by collapsing both lungs, the animal will be unable to travel a far distance. Though a heart shot will do the job as well, it presents a much smaller target and makes the margin of error smaller for the hunter. The heart is tucked behind the front shoulder towards the bottom of the body cavity. Miss low and you may miss all together, miss forward or high and you may hit shoulder blade (bone) losing necessary penetration.
Envision: You have an elk at 30 yards, whether you realize it or not your body will most likely release adrenaline and therefore you should expect heavier breathing, shaking and even enough excitement to make poor decisions. Would you rather have an inch margin of error or 4-5 inches?
Elk Shot Placement
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So what tissue, muscle and bones do your arrows and bullets pass through to reach the vital organs?
By now, you have an understanding of just how BIG elk really are. For an animal of this size to support its weight, its "frame" or skeletal system must be sturdy and strong and must be supported by the necessary muscles and tissues for movement.
The scapula of an elk can have a thickness ranging from ¼ inch to 2 ½ inches! Add to that the thickness of the skin/hide, heavy muscles and tendons. There is a lot of matter your arrow or bullet must travel through to even REACH the vitals—and it still must PENETRATE them to make the kill!
Let's take a closer look at elk anatomy from different angles. A proper shot-placement opportunity makes for the most humane kill for the animal, and an easier recovery for you.
Only two shot angles offer shot-placement opportunities to make the ideal double lung or heart shot for both archery and firearm hunters. The hunter's ability to wait for one of these two shots will increase the chance of a successful harvest and decrease the chance of injury and non-recovery of the animal.
This is the ideal shot for most archery and firearm hunters. It provides the hunters with the largest target of the vital area behind the shoulder blade (scapula). Properly placed shots will have little bone to pass through, enabling more penetration to the vitals. This shot angle also provides the best opportunity to make a double-lung/heart shot and offers a quick humane kill.
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Quartering Away
This shot offers another ideal shot-placement opportunity for hunters. The angle of the elk away from you will affect your shot placement for the proper entry and exit holes. An extreme quartering away shot will offer little room for error as the margin between the back hip and front shoulder shrinks as the angle of the elk away from the hunter increases. A slight quartering away angle will open up the vital area to the hunter and provide ample opportunity for a deep penetrating shot. The ability of a hunter to envision the arrow or bullet path through the elk is of high priority to successfully make a double lung shot.
Quatering Away
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While elk will present hunters with other less-ideal shot opportunities such as a quartering toward shot, these shots are not recommended as there is a high chance of hitting bone, resulting in little to no penetration of the vitals. The ability for a hunter to successfully make a double-lung shot decreases and the margin of error becomes much smaller as well. Especially when taken by bowhunters, these shots present the most likelihood of injury to the animal causing potential infection and death over an extended period of time. Many hunters use calls to draw the bulls to get close. That presents a problem because the bulls usually walk straight towards the noise and don't present a broadside shot. Caller placement then becomes important.
Poor shot Placement
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Structural repair in marine environments
Nature's forces of deterioration are constant and unrelenting. Nowhere is this fact more evident than in marine environments, where corrosion, wave action, marine organisms and other forces are continually at work. The impact of deterioration can range from aesthetic issues to the general serviceability of a structure, including loss of section and reduced load bearing capacity. Severe deterioration can even result in the abandonment of a structure.
The Advanced Pile Encapsulation Process has been designed to address these issues. Since 1984, MasterBrace Pile Encapsulation Systems have been used on a wide variety of marine and industrial applications, including bridges, offshore oil and gas structures, dams, piers, pipelines and chemical process facilities.


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|Peking Duck sliced and prepared|
|Literal meaning||Beijing Roast Duck|
The dish is prized for the thin, crisp skin, with authentic versions of the dish serving mostly the skin and little meat, sliced in front of the diners by the cook. Ducks bred specially for the dish are slaughtered after 65 days and seasoned before being roasted in a closed or hung oven. The meat is eaten with pancakes, scallion, and hoisin sauce or sweet bean sauce. The two most notable restaurants in Beijing which serve this dish are Quanjude and Bianyifang, two centuries-old establishments which have become household names.
Duck has been roasted in China since the Southern and Northern Dynasties. A variation of roast duck was prepared for the Emperor of China in the Yuan Dynasty. The dish, originally named "Shaoyazi" (燒鴨子), was mentioned in the Complete Recipes for Dishes and Beverages (飲膳正要) manual in 1330 by Hu Sihui (忽思慧), an inspector of the imperial kitchen. The Peking Roast Duck that came to be associated with the term was fully developed during the later Ming Dynasty, and by then, Peking Duck was one of the main dishes on imperial court menus. The first restaurant specialising in Peking Duck, Bianyifang, was established in the Xianyukou, Qianmen area of Beijing in 1416.
By the Qianlong Period (1736–1796) of the Qing Dynasty, the popularity of Peking Duck spread to the upper classes, inspiring poetry from poets and scholars who enjoyed the dish. For instance, one of the verses of Duan Zhu Zhi Ci, a collection of Beijing poems was, "Fill your plates with roast duck and suckling pig". In 1864, the Quanjude (全聚德) restaurant was established in Beijing. Yang Quanren (楊全仁), the founder of Quanjude, developed the hung oven to roast ducks. With its innovations and efficient management, the restaurant became well known in China, introducing the Peking Duck to the rest of the world.
By the mid-20th century, Peking Duck had become a national symbol of China, favored by tourists and diplomats alike. For example, Henry Kissinger, the Secretary of State of the United States, met Premier Zhou Enlai in the Great Hall of the People on July 10, during his first visit to China. After a round of inconclusive talks in the morning, the delegation was served Peking Duck for lunch, which became Kissinger's favourite. The Americans and Chinese issued a joint statement the following day, inviting President Richard Nixon to visit China in 1972. Peking Duck was hence considered one of the factors behind the rapprochement of the United States to China in the 1970s. Following Zhou's death in 1976, Kissinger paid another visit to Beijing to savor Peking Duck. Peking Duck, at the Quanjude in particular, has also been a favorite dish for various political leaders ranging from Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro to former German chancellor Helmut Kohl.
Raising the duck
The ducks used to prepare Peking Duck originated in Nanjing. They were small, had black feathers, and lived in the canals around the city linking major waterways. With the relocation of the Chinese capital to Beijing, supply barge traffic increased in the area. Often these barges would spill grain into the canals, providing food for the ducks. By the Five Dynasties, the new species of duck had been domesticated by Chinese farmers. Nowadays, Peking Duck is prepared from the Pekin duck (Anas platyrhynchos domestica). Newborn ducks are raised in a free range environment for the first 45 days of their lives, and force fed 4 times a day for the next 15–20 days, resulting in ducks that weigh 5–7 kg (11–15 lbs). The force feeding of the ducks led to an alternate name for the dish, Peking Stuffed Duck (simplified Chinese: 北京填鸭; traditional Chinese: 北京填鴨; pinyin: běijīng tián yā).
Fattened ducks are slaughtered, plucked, eviscerated and rinsed thoroughly with water. Air is pumped under the skin through the neck cavity to separate the skin from the fat. The duck is then soaked in boiling water for a short while before it is hung up to dry. While it is hung, the duck is glazed with a layer of maltose syrup, and the inside is rinsed once more with water. Having been left to stand for 24 hours, the duck is roasted in an oven until it turns shiny brown.
Peking Duck is traditionally roasted in either a closed oven or hung oven. The closed oven is built of brick and fitted with metal griddles (Chinese: 箅子; pinyin: bì zi). The oven is preheated by burning Gaoliang sorghum straw (Chinese: 秫秸; pinyin: shú jiē) at the base. The duck is placed in the oven immediately after the fire burns out, allowing the meat to be slowly cooked through the convection of heat within the oven.
The hung oven was developed in the imperial kitchens during the Qing Dynasty and adopted by the Quanjude restaurant chain. It is designed to roast up to 20 ducks at the same time with an open fire fueled by hardwood from peach or pear trees. The ducks are hung on hooks above the fire and roasted at a temperature of 270 °C (525 °F) for 30–40 minutes. While the ducks are cooking, the chef may use a pole to dangle each duck closer to the fire for 30 second intervals. Almost every part of a duck can be cooked. The Quanjude Restaurant even served their customers the "All Duck Banquet" in which they cooked the bones of ducks with vegetables.
The cooked Peking Duck is traditionally carved in front of the diners and served in three stages. First, the skin is served dipped in sugar and garlic sauce. The meat is then served with steamed pancakes (simplified Chinese: 春饼; traditional Chinese: 春餅; pinyin: chūn bǐng), spring onions and sweet bean sauce. Several vegetable dishes are provided to accompany the meat, typically cucumber sticks. The diners spread sauce, and optionally sugar, over the pancake. The pancake is wrapped around the meat with the vegetables and eaten by hand. The remaining fat, meat and bones may be made into a broth, served as is, or the meat chopped up and stir fried with sweet bean sauce. Otherwise, they are packed up to be taken home by the customers.
Whole Peking Ducks can be ordered as takeaways. The ducks can be reheated at home with an oven, grill or boiling oil. When an oven is used, the duck is heated at a temperature of 150 °C (300 °F) for 20 minutes, and then at 160 °C (325 °F) for another 10 minutes. The grilling method involves filling the duck with boiling water before placing it on a griddle, 70 cm (28 in) above the cooking fire. The boiling water is replaced every 3–4 minutes until the duck's skin is piping hot. To reheat the Peking Duck with oil, the duck is sliced into thin pieces and placed in a strainer held over a wok of boiling oil. The duck is then rinsed several times with the oil.
Notable restaurants
A number of restaurants in Beijing specialise in Peking Duck. Examples include Quanjude, Bianyifang, Changan Yihao (長安一號), Beijing Xiaowangfu (北京小王府) and Dadong Kaoyadian (大董烤鴨店). Some restaurants, in particular Quanjude and Bianyifang, have long histories of serving high quality duck that they are now household names, or laozihao (老字號), literally "old brand name". In addition, Quanjude has received worldwide recognition, having been named a China Renowned Trademark in 1999. Duck Chang's Restaurant, established in 1975 in Virginia, USA, was the first Chinese restaurant to prepare and serve Peking Duck without a 24 hour advanced notice.
Crispy aromatic duck
See also
- Chinese cuisine
- Mandarin cuisine
- Pekin duck, which is the animal used for Peking Duck, and, which is also served as "Long Island duck" in the USA
- Peking duck, the popular playground game
- Roast goose
- Zhangcha duck
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- "北京特產 (Specialties of Beijing)" (in Traditional Chinese). Xinhua. 2004-04-08. Retrieved 2007-09-10.
- "Slicing through the secrets of Peking Duck". Adelaide Review. 2005. Retrieved 2007-09-10.
- "Peking duck". Encyclopædia Britannica.
- "A Cultural Classic: Peking Duck". Globe Trekker.
- "History of the Peking Duck". SilkRoad. Archived from the original on 2007-08

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WITH 30 years passing since the night Mount Macedon was ravaged by fire, the region is bracing to remember those who died and the emergency crews who helped prevent further tragedy.
The Ash Wednesday fires of February 16, 1983, claimed 75 lives and destroyed more than 3000 homes.
Locally, the fire spread from East Trentham to Mount Macedon, killing seven people, destroying more than 600 homes and buildings, and devastating wildlife and bushland.
Until the Black Saturday bushfires in 2009, they were the deadliest in Australia's history.
Macedon Ranges Shire mayor Roger Jukes said the 30-year anniversary was a time for remembering the people who lost their lives, as well as acknowledging the enormous effort of emergency services personnel and community members who fought hard to restrict the fires spreading further.
"For our community, the legacy that Ash Wednesday and other major bushfires has left is an increased knowledge of what fire can do and acceptance of fire as a natural occurrence," he said.
"We wish to acknowledge those who were affected by these devastating fires and celebrate the community's efforts to work together to recover from this disaster."


Short informative article for lawyers about dangers of police transcripts of indistinct audio
I'm pleased and honoured to have been able to collaborate with Prof J Peter French, world renowned expert in forensic phonetics, to write a short and informative article for Australian lawyers about the dangers of providing police transcripts of indistinct covert recordings used as evidence in court.
French, P., & Fraser, H. 2018. Why "ad hoc experts" should not provide transcripts of indistinct forensic audio, and a proposal for a better approach. Criminal Law Journal, 42, 298–302.
Find it at the link below.
Why "Ad Hoc Experts" Should Not Provide Transcripts of Indistinct Forensic Audio, and a Proposal for a Better Approach
by Peter French and Helen Fraser*
Indistinct covert audio recordings frequently figure in criminal trials together with transcripts prepared by police officers who have been accorded the status of ad hoc experts on the basis of their prolonged and repeated exposure to the recordings. Drawing on research in linguistic and phonetic science, we explain why such transcripts are highly prone to be unreliable, why they may mislead juries into misinterpreting the contents of the conversations and why current court procedures for mitigating this risk are inadequate. We conclude by outlining a proposal drawn up and endorsed by senior expert linguists for establishing a process whereby reliable transcripts of indistinct covert recordings can be provided for juries.
* Peter French: Professor of Forensic Speech Science, University of York; Chairman, JP French Associates, England; President, International Association of Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA). Helen Fraser: Adjunct Associate Professor, Linguistics, University of New England, Australia


Equal Credit Opportunity Act - ECOA
DEFINITION of 'Equal Credit Opportunity Act - ECOA'
A regulation created by the U.S. government that aims to give all legal individuals an equal opportunity to apply for loans from financial institutions and other loan granting organizations. The Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) states that individuals cannot be discriminated upon via factors that are not directly related to their creditworthiness. It prohibits creditors and lenders from considering a consumer's race, color, national origin, sex, religion or marital status in deciding whether to approve their loan or credit application. Financial institutions also cannot deny credit based on age, as long as the applicant is of legal age and has the mental capacity to enter into a contract, nor can they deny credit because the applicant is receiving public assistance.
BREAKING DOWN 'Equal Credit Opportunity Act - ECOA'
When you apply for a mortgage, the lender will ask you about some of these facts under federal requirements that are supposed to help prevent discrimination, but you are not required to respond. The only accepted factors that can be used to determine whether or not an individual is acceptable for a loan are relevant financially related information such as one's credit score, income and existing debt load.
Another aspect of the ECOA allows each spouse in a marriage to have his or her own credit history in his or her own name. That being said, if you have any joint accounts with your spouse, these accounts will appear on both of your credit reports, so your spouse's financial behavior can still have a positive or negative impact on your credit score.
While the ECOA prohibits lenders from basing their decisions on your marital status, some loans, such as mortgages, might require you to disclose that you are making required alimony or child support payments. And if you receive child support or alimony and it represents a significant source of your income, you might need to disclose it in order to qualify for a loan. You could be denied a loan if, for example, your child support payments combined with your other financial obligations mean that you don't have enough money to repay the loan as required. You cannot be denied a loan simply because you are divorced, though.
Organizations found in violation of this act could potentially face class-action suits. If found guilty, the offending organization could have to pay out punitive damages totaling up the lesser of $500,000 or 1% of the creditor's net worth.
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Inclusion problems for one-counter systems
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We study the decidability and complexity of verification problems for infinite-state systems. A fundamental question in formal verification is if the behaviour of one process is reproducible by another. This inclusion problem can be studied for various models of computation and behavioural preorders. It is generally intractable or even undecidable already for very limited computational models. The aim of this work is to clarify the status of the decidability and complexity of some well-known inclusion problems for suitably restricted computational models. In particular, we address the problems of checking strong and weak simulation and trace inclusion for processes definable by one-counter automata (OCA), that consist of a finite control and a single counter ranging over the non-negative integers. We take special interest of the subclass of one-counter nets (OCNs), that cannot fully test the counter for zero and which is subsumed both by pushdown automata and Petri nets / vector addition systems. Our new results include the PSPACE-completeness of strong and weak simulation, and the undecidability of trace inclusion for OCNs. Moreover, we consider semantic preorders between OCA/OCN and finite systems and close some gaps regarding their complexity. Finally, we study deterministic processes, for which simulation and trace inclusion coincide.


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Let $N$ be a normal $p$-subgroup of finite centerless group $G$ such that $G/N\cong A_{5}$. Is it possible $G/N\cong \leq $Aut$(Z(N))$?
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Background, origin of problem, ideas, insights, self work...? – DonAntonio Oct 22 '12 at 17:37
Is this really the question you want? Every finite group is a subgroup of Aut(Z(N)) for some p-group N. – Jack Schmidt Oct 22 '12 at 17:42
What does $\cong\le$ mean? – Derek Holt Oct 22 '12 at 18:00
_USER_ "isomorphic to a subgroup" perhaps? – Alexander Gruber Oct 22 '12 at 21:37
_USER_: Isomorphic to a subgroup. This question related to my former question. – Ros Oct 23 '12 at 2:54
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Let $p$ be a prime number and $Q$ be a finite group with no normal $p$-subgroups.
Define $N$ to be the direct sum of the simple $\mathbb{Z}/p\mathbb{Z}[Q]$-modules other than the trivial module. Then $Q$ acts faithfully on $N$, and no nonzero element of $N$ is centralized by all elements of $Q$. Notice $Z(N)=N$. Let $G$ be the semi-direct product of $Q$ acting on $N$.
Then $G$ is a finite centerless group with $G/N \cong Q$, and the map $gN \mapsto ( n \mapsto g^{-1} n g)$ is an injective homomorphism from $G/N$ into $\operatorname{Aut}(Z(N))$.
If $Q$ has normal $p$-subgroups, then $G$ is no-longer centerless, and we may need to choose a more complicated $N$ (still abelian, but possibly including the trivial module, and possibly not semi-simple) in order to embed $G/N$ in $\operatorname{Aut}(Z(N))$.
Of course for $A_5$ we need not worry about normal $p$-subgroups, and we can be pretty explicit about $N$. However, I don't understand what could motivate you to ask this question and suspect you meant to ask something else.
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The Bellwin Scheme for Emergency Financial Assistance to Local Authorities
1. What is the Bellwin Scheme?
The Bellwin Scheme operates under Section 155(2) of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 and allows Scottish Ministers to make additional revenue support to local authorities to assist with the immediate, and unforeseen costs in dealing with the aftermath of emergency incidents.
It is a discretionary scheme, which exists to give special financial assistance to local authorities who would otherwise be faced with an undue financial burden as a result of providing relief and carrying out immediate work due to large-scale emergencies. Local authorities are expected to include a small amount within their annual budget to deal with unforeseen emergencies. There is no automatic entitlement to assistance. flooding image
2. How does the Bellwin Scheme operate?
When it becomes obvious that there is an emergency which is creating immediate demands on local government, the Scottish Executive Ministers will decide whether the Scheme should be triggered. Once the Scheme has been triggered, affected authorities are invited to submit claims. The Scheme may be activated to meet the additional expense for authorities in providing immediate relief, in safeguarding life and property in affected communities and in keeping key communications open in the immediate aftermath of an emergency. Its purpose is not to put right all the ill effects of an incident. Applications for assistance must demonstrate undue financial burdens on authorities.
3. What costs are eligible for assistance?
The Scheme addresses revenue costs only and eligible costs are subject to a threshold which is set individually for each local authority and takes account of an assumed amount contained within each local authority's budget. Payment of a grant is made in full in respect of total eligible expenditure, after deduction of the threshold.
Costs which are considered to be insurable are not considered eligible under the Scheme but an element for insurance excess is considered eligible.
4. When was the Bellwin scheme last reviewed?
A review of the Bellwin Scheme was undertaken in 2005. A summary of the responses that were received and the Executive response to the consultation exercise can be found by following the links below.
Scottish Executive response to Bellwin consultation exercise
Summary of Bellwin consultation responses
You can also review the press release announcing the proposed changes to the Bellwin Scheme
5. Where can I find the updated documents?
The link to the full revised guidance note which contains the relevant updated information for making a claim and the claim forms, and the current Bellwin Thresholds.


The Central Gonja District is located at the southern end of the Northern Region of Ghana. It covers a total land area of 8,353 Km2, representing 12% of the total landmass of the Northern Region. Buipe is the administrative capital.
The land form of the district is low lying but gently undulating at altitudes ranging between 150m to 300m above sea level though some parts average 600m.
The area is traversed by two major rivers - the White Volta, which flows longitudinally through the district, and the Black Volta, which forms the district's southern boundary with the Kintampo North Municipal. A lot of streams crisscross the district and flow into the two Volta Rivers.
It shares boundaries in the north with the Tamale Metropolis, the Kintampo North Municipal of the Brong-Ahafo Region in the south, East Gonja Municipal in the east and the West Gonja District in the west.
The population of the District according to 2010 population and housing census stands at 87,877 with 43,860 males and 44,017 females.


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A small story behind the reason for this question.
In Russian, just as in English, many fundamental words are a combination of two basic ones. The verb "forgot" is "zabil" in Russian. It is formed by "za" - in this case most likely in the meaning of "after" - and "bil" - literally "was" or "I am in the past". If you put them together, it forms a logical structure of "after the way I was".
In English we have "forget/forgot". As it happens in Russian, it is formed by "for" and "get" in different tenses. What meaning do these two words logically take (if any), to be righteously forming the word that logically means "to lose something that was known"?


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RGB color can be converted into Pantone by using a graphics program such as Photoshop or Illustrator. Pantone color options are approximate and may not exactly match RGB colors.Continue Reading
Color can be converted from RGB to Pantone in Illustrator using the following steps:
Open the document and select the color that needs to be converted.
Go to the "Window" tab and select the "Color Guide."
Select the icon that appears in the bottom left corner of the screen. From there, scroll to "Color Books" and choose "Pantone solid coated."
The color that is to be converted should be indicated with a black arrow. Click on the color to convert it to Pantone.


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Articulate Storyline's publishing options make it easy to publish and upload your course to Articulate Online, all at once.
Step 1: Enter the Title and Description
- On the Home tab of the Storyline ribbon, click the Publish button. (Or, from any other tab on the ribbon, you can click the small triangle under the Preview button, and then choose Publish.)
- When the Publish window appears, select Articulate Online.
- Check the text that appears in the Title field, and customize it if you like. This text defaults to the name of your Storyline file. If you change it, it'll change the title text that Storyline uses in the following places (but it won't change your actual file name):
- The title of your content as it appears in Articulate Online's content list.
- The browser title bar, when learners view your published course in a browser window.
- The top bar of your course player, if you've opted to include the title as one of the player features.
- If you publish your content for use with the Articulate Mobile Player, the course title is also used on the HTML launch page from which learners can add the course to their player. Once they do that, the title is added to the list of course names in the mobile player library.
- In the Description field, you can enter some descriptive text about your course if you like. If you enter a description, it'll be used in the following places:
- When you manage your content in Articulate Online, the description will appear along with the course title.
- The description will appear to learners who access your content through Articulate Online's user portal, if you choose to enable that. (You can learn more about the user portal and other options for giving users access to your content, in this tutorial.)
- If you publish your content for use with the Articulate Mobile Player, the description is also used on the HTML launch page from which learners can add the course to their player. Once they do that, the description text appears below the course thumbnail in the mobile player library.
If learners will view content on iPads with the Articulate Mobile Player, you can add more information by clicking the ellipsis button (...) next to the Title field on the Publish window. The following Project Info window appears.
- The Title and Description are the same as what you entered on the Publish window; change the text here if you'd like.
- When learners browse content in their Articulate Mobile Player library, the thumbnail below the Title field will appear for this course. By default, Storyline uses an image of the first slide in your course, but you can choose a different image. Just click the blue slide title text. Then either select a different slide, or click Picture from File and choose an image.
- Author, Email, Website, Duration, Date, and Version appear on the content information cards in the Articulate Mobile Player library.
- Identifier applies only to content published for LMS.
- Keywords aren't currently used. They'll be used in a future version of the Articulate Mobile Player app.
When you're finished customizing the project information, click OK to return to the Publish window.
Step 3: Choose HTML5 and/or Mobile Publishing (Optional)
If some or all of your learners will access your content with an iPad or some other mobile device that doesn't support Flash, you can use the following options on the Publish window to make your course viewable in HTML5, the Articulate Mobile Player, or both. If you do this, be sure to also check out the info here so that your content looks and behaves the way you expect when viewed in a non-Flash environment.
- Include HTML5 output: This prepares your course so that it's viewable as HTML5 content if a learner doesn't have the Flash player and they view your course in an HTML5-compatible browser. Keep in mind that not all browsers handle HTML5 content equally. This article identifies which browsers your learners should use if they need to view your course as HTML5 content.
- Use Articulate Mobile Player on iPad: This prepares your course so that learners receive the best possible viewing experience on an iPad. (IMPORTANT: If you need to track and report on learners' progress or results, you'll need to publish your content with Storyline Update 1 or later. If you republish and re-upload a course that you previously published to Articulate Online, the newly published course will replace the previous one—and any existing data will stay intact—as long as you keep the Title field the same.) If you do mark this option, users may view the content through the free Articulate Mobile Player, which they'll be prompted to install the first time they attempt to use their iPad to view a Storyline-published course.
- Allow downloading for offline viewing: This checkbox box is currently ignored when you publish to Articulate Online, since learners will need to be online in order for the course to send tracking data to your account. (A future version of the Articulate Mobile Player may support offline viewing, and if so, at that time this setting will be honored for courses you previously published.)
Step 4: Check Player Properties and Quality Settings
The Properties section of the Publish window is where you can make any last-minute changes to your course player, or change the compression settings Storyline uses when publishing.
- The Player field shows the name of the player that Storyline will use when you publish. (The player is the interface that users see when they view your course, and it can include things like player controls, resources, a glossary, a menu, and other features.) Click the player name if you'd like to make some final adjustments to your player or switch to a different player. If you need help choosing your player settings, see the tutorials here.
- The Quality field allows you to control the compression settings Storyline uses for any audio, video, and pictures you've added to your course. The settings here default to whatever you used the last time you published a Storyline project. To change the quality settings, click the blue text and change any of the fields as noted below; then click OK.
- Choose Standard if you want to use the default settings. If you mark this option, the values on the window revert back to their defaults (video quality of 5, audio bitrate of 48kbps, and image quality of 80%).
- Choose Custom if you want to define your own quality settings. Then click and drag the slider on any of the three values to change the compression. Using higher values means higher-quality output, but also larger file sizes (which means longer download times). Lower values mean smaller file sizes and faster download times, but the visual and audio quality will be lower as well.
In the Properties section of the Publish window, click the Tracking field to open the following window, where you can choose your options for the way Articulate Online tracks and reports on your learners' progress:
- Report status to AO allows you to choose the wording that Articulate Online uses in reports when expressing learners' status. Use the selector to choose one of the four options available.
Communicate resume data allows you to choose how Articulate Online handles resume data if you've enabled the resume feature on your player.
- On Course Complete: With this option, the course communicates resume data when the learner closes the browser window in which they're viewing your course, or when they reach the completion threshold that you choose in the Tracking section (explained below).
- After Every Slide: With this option, the course sends resume data each time the learner advances to another slide in your course. If you choose this option, and if you've enabled the resume feature on your player, then learners who experience an internet disruption while taking your course will still be able to pick up where they left off, without losing their progress, when they relaunch the course. Keep in mind that because this option results in frequent communication between your course and Articulate Online, it does increase network traffic, which can become significant if you roll out your course to many learners at the same time.
- In the Tracking section of the window, choose one of the following:
- Track using number of slides viewed: With this option, you can specify how many slides learners need to view in order to complete the course.
- Track using quiz result: This option appears if your course includes a quiz result slide. Select this if you want to track learners based on their quiz results. If your course has multiple quizzes, you'll need to pick just one result slide to use for tracking.
- Click OK when you're finished setting up your tracking and reporting preferences.
Step 6: Enter Your Articulate Online Credentials and Publish
- For your Account information, enter your Articulate Online credentials. Type your Account URL, your E-mail address, and your Password. (You'll need to be an administrator or publisher on your account in order to publish content.) If you want Storyline to remember your password for the next time you publish, you can mark Save my password.
- Click Publish.
Your content gets published and uploaded to Articulate Online, all at once. How fast this happens depends on the size of your course and also how fast your connection speed is. When the Publish Successful window appears, you can click Manage Content to open Articulate Online and manage the course you just uploaded, or work with any other content you've published to your account.
Can You Publish Locally, Then Upload Later?
Yes. For example, if a corporate firewall prohibits you from publishing automatically to Articulate Online, you can publish the content locally and then manually upload to Articulate Online via your browser. To find


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The Cherenkov effect is a well-known phenomenon and its properties are widely used in many fields of physics. However, some features of the polarization characteristics of Cherenkov radiation that appears when charged particles pass near azimuthally asymmetric, finite dielectric targets are still poorly studied. This problem is solved in this work. The polarization characteristics of Cherenkov radiation in the case of a rectangular dielectric screen are analyzed using the Stokes approach. Owing to the azimuthal asymmetry of the target, radiation acquires an elliptic polarization whose rotation direction and inclination angle depend both on the direction of radiation propagation and on the dielectric properties of a substance. The results demonstrate that the Cherenkov effect can be used to create sources of elliptically polarized radiation with the controlled direction of polarization rotation.
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The denitrifier method to determine the dual isotopic composition (??15N and??18O) of nitrate is well suited for studies of nitrogen contributions to streams during runoff events. This method requires only 70 nmol of NO3- and enables high throughput of samples. We studied nitrate sources to a headwater stream during snowmelt by generating a high-temporal resolution dataset at the Sleepers River Research Watershed in Vermont, USA. In the earliest phase of runoff, stream NO3- concentrations were highest and stream discharge, NO3- concentrations, and??18O of NO 3- generally tracked one another during diurnal melting. The isotopic composition of stream NO3- varied in-between atmospheric and groundwater NO 3- end members indicating a direct contribution of atmospherically-derived NO3- from the snow pack to the stream. During the middle to late phases of snowmelt, the source shifted toward soil NO3- entering the stream via shallow subsurface flow paths. Copyright 2004 by the American Geophysical Union.
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Tracing sources of nitrate in snowmelt runoff using a high-resolution isotopic technique


What Happens When You Exclude A Transaction In QuickBooks?
Can I delete everything in QuickBooks and start over?
Example: URL shows _URL_ change to: _URL_
The next screen will provide a summary of the items to be deleted.
Type the word "YES" once the data gets deleted, then click OK.
Click Wipe Data once your selections are complete..
What does manually added from bank feeds mean?
The transactions that you'll see under For Review tab on the Banking screen are all downloaded from your bank. If these transactions don't exist in your Register, you can add them by clicking Add under ACTION column. On the other hand, if these transactions show in your Register, this means they're manually created.
How do I fix a deleted reconciled transaction in QuickBooks?
Here's how:Click the Gear icon in the upper-right corner and select Audit Log.Look for the deleted transaction and click View.Click the arrow on when it was created and deleted.Take note of the transaction details.Recreate the transaction manually by clicking the Create menu (+).
How do I exclude a transaction in QuickBooks online?
excluding transationsClick the Banking menu from the navigation panel.Go to the Banking tab, click the account you want to use.Tap the For Review tab.Mark the checkbox of the transactions you want to exclude.From the Batch actions drop-down, choose Exclude Selected.The items will be moved to the Excluded section.More items…•
What happens when you delete a transaction in QuickBooks?
When you delete a transaction, you completely erase it from your books. It won't appear anywhere on your reports or in your accounts. You can use your Audit Log to recover some details, but you can't recover the transaction. You can delete any type of transaction in QuickBooks.
Why might a transaction be excluded in bank feeds?
It's located under Batch Actions. Common reasons to exclude transactions: Two transactions in the bank feed are a match against one transaction in the register (in this scenario, you would exclude both items). The transaction(s) is already reconciled in QuickBooks.
What exclude means?
to shut or keep out; prevent the entrance of. to shut out from consideration, privilege, etc.: Employees and their relatives were excluded from participation in the contest. to expel and keep out; thrust out; eject: He was excluded from the club for infractions of the rules.
Can I delete a transaction on my online banking?
From Banking, open the relevant bank account. From Activity tab, select the tick box to the left the transactions you want to delete. A toolbar now appears above the list. … From the toolbar, select the Delete button.
Is there a way to recover deleted invoices in QuickBooks?
Once a transaction (invoice, bills, etc.) is deleted in QuickBooks, we can only "recover" them on your audit log. … To view your audit log, just go to the Gear (at the top right) > Audit Log.
How do you correct reconciliation discrepancies?
How do I clean up old transactions in QuickBooks?
Here's how to manually clear bank transactions in QuickBooks:Go to the Gear icon, then choose Chart of Accounts.Locate the account of the transaction.Select View Register from the Action column.Identify the transaction to clear.Under the reconcile status column, select C for Cleared. … Select Save.
What is an excluded transaction?
When you exclude a transaction, it doesn't appear in any account registers or financial reports. Depending on the type of transaction, this may make it easier or harder for you to reconcile an account.
What is the difference between transfer and add in QuickBooks?
"Add" means you have not created the transaction in QuickBooks Online. "Add" is to basically record the new transaction to the register in QuickBooks. "Transfer" means you make a transfer from one bank account to another bank account (or credit card account).
Where can we view a list of voided and deleted transactions in QuickBooks?
Go to the Gear icon on the top right corner, select Audit Log under Tools menu. Click Filter. Select Transactions. Show field: select "Deleted/Voided Transactions"
What does rule mean in QuickBooks?
QuickBooks Online has an added feature called Rules (or Bank Rules). It saves you time by setting up automatic categorisation of regular recurring transactions even if they are slightly different each month.
Can you see deleted transactions in QuickBooks?
Locate the deleted transaction. (Tip: To easily find deleted transactions, use the browser search Ctrl + F and type "deleted"). Under the History column, select View. All the information needed for the transaction can be found under the Event column.
Which three statements regarding bank rules are true in QuickBooks?
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When would you use bank rules in QuickBooks online?


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Drone quadracopters throw and catch inverted pendulum
Let the spear-throwing killbot FUD commence
Video All those stories you've read lately about drones invading your privacy by photographing you from afar?
Kids' stuff … now that we have the evidence below of drones throwing and catching an inverted pendulum.
That trick has been accomplished by boffins at ETH Zurich's Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, where a "Flying Machine Arena" exists and is used to train flying 'bots.
The Institute and Arena scored plenty of attention back in 2011 with this video of quadracopters juggling, after a fashion.
Now Masters student Dario Brescianini has taught the drone 'quadracopters an even tougher trick: throwing and catching inverted pendulum, essentially a pole with its centre of mass above its pivot point. Because the inverted pendulum used has two weights on its mid-section, its motion is rather more complex than that of a ball. Teaching a quadracopter to toss and catch one is therefore a rather harder problem.
Here's how the team solved it, according to Robohub:
"First, a state estimator was used to accurately predict the pendulum's motion while in flight. Unlike the ball used in the group's earlier demonstration of quadrocopter juggling, the pendulum's drag properties depend on its orientation. This means, among other things, that a pendulum in free fall will move sideways if oriented at an angle. Since experiments showed that this effect was quite large for the pendulum used, an estimator including a drag model of the pendulum was developed."
"Second, a fast trajectory generator was needed to quickly move the catching quadrocopter to the estimated catching position."
"Third, a learning algorithm was implemented to correct for deviations from the theoretical models for two key events: A first correction term was learnt for the desired catching point of the pendulum. This allowed to capture systematic model errors of the throwing quadrocopter's trajectory and the pendulum's flight. A second correction term was learnt for the catching quadrocopter's position. This allowed to capture systematic model errors of the catching quadrocopter's rapid movement to the catching position."
The results can be seen in the video below, which at 1:34 features a puff of smoke as the flour-filled bag that is the pendulum's rudimentary shock absorber bursts.
The video is undoubtedly impressive, but it is also worth noting that military drones have vast area viewing and target acquisition capabilitie. BAE's "Gorgon Stare", for example, can track multiple objects within a 4KM radius beneath a drone.
But as any modern story story about semi-autonomous flying vehicles has to worry about cheaper models and how they will fill suburbia with privacy invading aerial cameras, we'll do so by imagining a pendulum with a sharp tip and quadracopters capable of identifying a human target at which to lob them.
Were such a rig to be developed, and it doesn't look like a massive stretch given the ingenuity on display, we'd have flying, spear-throwing, killbots to contend with. Which makes even sharks with lasers look kind of lame. ®
Thanks to Jack Clark for the Gorgon tip.


Vectorworks Landmark in the landscape design office
Vectorworks (Landmark) has been a constant throughout my working life and is central to my workflow as a landscape designer. I started using Vectorworks 20 years ago and back then, it was more akin to graphical-drafting software. Over the time, the capability of the program has developed and I've always tried to keep pace with the evolution to help grow my business.
What does Vectorworks do?
Vectorworks, is an advanced software solution that enables object scheduling and interactive reports. This means that when drawing an object (a line for example) it can be assigned a Data Record. These can be used to describe the material, fixing method, item dimensions and any other attributes necessary. Object or objects with Data Records can be summarised in Spreadsheets, which update in real time to reflect any changes to the design as they occur. When working on large projects CAD is therefore vital to maintain accuracy.
How is it used in the office?
For pretty much everything! Vectorworks is used throughout the design process. We use it for both 2D and 3D design allowing us to draw, explore and develop ideas from all angles.
Survey data + Concept designs:
Topographical information is imported into Vectorworks and scaled. This forms the base of all subsequent work.
Nowadays we tend to transfer the survey data onto the iPad to sketch out our preliminary ideas - it saves printing costs and avoids having to use tracing paper.
Once the general layout has been roughly agreed then the concept is brought back into Vectorworks so it can be redrafted with more precision.
At this point we may start to work in 2D and 3D to test the concept works in relation to the site levels and to get a better understanding of the proposed landscape by flying around the 3D model. Generally, we export our Vectorworks 3D work into SketchUp (new blog post coming soon) which is more fun and a faster tool to delve deeper into the concept design.
Detailed CAD drawings:
Vectorworks is also great for technical work.
For planting plans, Vectorworks has a library of species that can be selected and dropped into the plan. Each new plant is counted and displayed on a spreadsheet which is very useful for large gardens and commercial-scale developments. Additional information such as size, spacing, cost and maintenance can be attached to the plant symbol which clearly saves a lot of time if you use the same plants on different projects.
Hardscape specification is equally clever. We attach Data Records to surfaces, objects and edges. This means that all items are documented at the point of creation rather than leaving unknowns in the design.
Modern landscape + garden design inspired by nature.
Nicholas Dexter Studio
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Brighton. BN2 0EF
t - 01273 692878


1793 Angel Number Spiritual Meaning
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Angel number 1793 meaning
What Does 1793 Mean?
1793=1+7+9+3=20, 2+0=2
If you see angel number 1793, the message relates to the field of relationships and personality development and says that Actions taken for the purpose of self-improvement can lead to solving your problems on a personal level. There is no need to go to unnecessary trainings and look out over your glasses in search of a potential spouse. Try to actually improve your intellectual level, and you will have a much more real chance of success.
Detailed significance of 1793 single digits
Angel number 1793 represents a vibration spectrum of number 1, number 7, as well as nine (9) and number 3 an
The Seven in the message of the angels means that you have ceased to see the difference between your abilities and your duties. The fact that others do not possess your talents is not a reason for becoming "a servant for everybody" and taking on someone else's work. Consider that it will be almost impossible to get rid of it.
The Nine, appearing in the message you received from above, means that the qualities of this number - goodwill, the ability to understand and forgive - allowed you to safely resolve the situation that seemed hopeless. Angels recommend that you take these properties of your nature as a basis in order to use them under any circumstances.
The Three in the message of the angels is a veiled compliment. You have creatively approached solving a trivial problem, and achieved the desired results. One can but hope that the experience gained will benefit you, and you will continue to treat everyday situations as if your life depended on each of them.
1793 numerology meaning
1 - 3
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7 - 9
The combination of the One and the Seven is a "trademark" of total bad luck. If you meet number 17 too often, then it is time you stopped relying on luck and began acting thoughtfully and purposefully. You will be surprised to realize how simple and effective it is unless you rush or give way to your emotions.
Get ready for a situation in which romance is mixed with life experience in a ratio of 5:1. Probably, you will soon fall in love, and all your logical constructions, all your rules of logic will be powerless against the overwhelming feeling. Do not try to keep the remnants of common sense and do not reproach yourself for doing foolish things. There is no shame in losing your head.
You will have to drink the cup of the bitterest poison: become the object of envy. You managed to do what others did not, and your relationship cracked. If you feel bad because of this, put it down to common luck. People willingly forgive luckiness, but they never forgive superiority.
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Start-up Costs and The Capital Structure of Young Firms
SpeakerGuillaume Vuillemey (HEC Paris)
LocationTinbergen Institute (Gustav Mahlerplein 117), Room 1.01
Date and time
October 16, 2019
12:45 - 14:00
We show that start-up costs are a prime determinant of the capital structure of young firms. First, we document novel facts. While they are in principle more financially constrained, young firms exhibit higher leverage and raise longer-maturity debt than old firms. This holds true both across and within firms. Second, we show theoretically that fixed start-up costs can explain with these facts. Third, we estimate start-up costs at the industry-level and test novel predictions from the model in a large sample of newly-created French firms. Fourth, we use a quasi-natural experiment to study the real implications of start-up costs. Upon a negative shock to banks, there is lower firm creation in industries with higher start-up costs. Thus, we highlight a new source of heterogeneity in the transmission of financial shocks, which can help to explain slow recoveries.


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The Kwinti are an ethnic group living in the forested interior of Suriname on the bank of the Coppename River, and the eponymous term for their language, which has less than 1,000 speakers. Their language is an English-based creole with Portuguese and other influences. It is similar to the languages spoken by the Aluku and Paramaccan.
See also
- Hoogbergen, Wim (1992). Origins of the Suriname Kwinti Maroons, New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 66, no: 1/2, Leiden, 27-59, KITLV
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I am making a python code for Arcgis9.3. In this code I have an input feature and I create a Output feature. I want that the output feature is the same geometry type as the input feature. At the moment my code to create the output feature is :
gp.CreateFeatureclass("C:/Users/Desktop/Test/", NameOutFC, "POLYLINE")
But I would like to get the input feature geometry type and use it to create my output feature :
gp.CreateFeatureclass("C:/Users/Desktop/Test/", NameOutFC, GeometryLikeInput)
I found the code with ArcPy :
desc = arcpy.Describe('C:/shapefile.shp')
geometryType = desc.shapeType
if geometryType == 'polygon':
print 'Polygon'
elif geometryType == 'point'
But I can't use it with arcgis9.3.
Thanks for your help
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You can use the Geometry object which is available even in 9.3.
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The.pdf file for Geoprocessor model in 9.3
The code sample:
rows = gp.SearchCursor("D:/St_Johns/data.gdb/roads")
row = rows.Next()
while row:
 print row.Type
Alternative way is to use Describe method where you could use ShapeType:
import arcgisscripting
gp = arcgisscripting.create(9.3)
gp.workspace = r"C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\Reference Systems"
fc = r"C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\Reference Systems\utm.shp"
dsc = gp.describe(fc)
print "ShapeType: \n" + str(dsc.ShapeType)
Which gives you Polygon
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Yes but in this case i have to chexk all the feature in my shapefile and the return geometry type is the geometry type of each feature. So i am looking for a code which return the geometry of the shapefile directly without reading each row and retrun each feature geometry. – Panvjim0 Apr 30 at 9:32
Then just add a counter in the code and use the while counter < 2 in the code. Shapefile can store only one type of geometry, so you are done when you figure out the geometry type of the first feature. – Alex Tereshenkov Apr 30 at 9:39
_USER_, I've updated my answer to include a cleaner way to access the shape type of a feature class. – Alex Tereshenkov Apr 30 at 11:58
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Home MBE Articles Adventure Cragging Etiquette: Ethics for a sport under a microscope
Cragging Etiquette: Ethics for a sport under a microscope
By Jason Martin
In the old days, most people learned to climb from a mentor who showed them the ropes, literally. These mentors would also teach new climbers how to behave at climbing areas. That's not so common anymore. Now, most people transition to outdoor climbing after logging time at a gym and they don't have the same kind of guidance that climbers had in the past. The result is that new climbers often make mistakes that irk not only other climbers, but also land managers.
Climbing ethics are important because the sport's growing. There's room for us all to have a good time if we treat each other and the crags with respect. But they're also important because we're under a microscope. Land managers are always watching. If we mistreat an area or if a dispute between climbers grows beyond the climbing community, it jeopardizes the crag.
It can take years to understand the nuances of climbing ethics, but there are a handful of universal ethical considerations that every climber should contemplate.
Human waste and trash
Nothing gets a crag closed down faster than human waste and litter. Indeed, nothing makes a crag less appealing than those things either.
Poop is a major problem at climbing areas across the country. New climbers often don't know how to deal with it and leave stinky surprises for others to find. Sometimes they seem to think putting a rock on top of the pile will mitigate its impact. It doesn't.
The best way to deal with human waste is to carry it out. Several commercial waste bag systems make this easier, but Ziploc bags work too.
If you're unable to deal with packing out your waste, climbing outside probably isn't for you. This is considered a baseline standard that everyone should abide by at hundreds of climbing areas throughout the United States and Canada.
If you are in an area with good, organic soil, it's possible to bury your waste in a cat hole. Dig your hole at least 6 inches deep, at least 200 feet from any water source and nowhere near the crag. Pack out your toilet paper. Climbing tape, candy bar wrappers, gum, cigarette butts and other trash should always be packed out.
Crag hogging
Climbing clubs and other large organized groups occasionally string ropes on all the climbs in an area to claim them. If people from the group are actively climbing on the ropes, there's nothing wrong with this. The problem arises when the ropes are left empty while another party waits to climb.
North American ethics dictate that whoever gets to the crag first gets priority. But that doesn't mean they're the only ones with access for the day. Group leaders should work to accommodate all visitors.
Multi-pitch climbs have a similar issue. If you're first to the crag, then you get priority access. However, if you are first and you are not a fast party, you should allow others to pass. Those who arrive later should understand that even if they're faster climbers, they still must ask before passing.
The know-it-all
Occasionally you will run into the person who thinks he knows everything. In some cases, he'll provide unsolicited beta or advice. In other cases, he will tell you all the things you're doing wrong.
If you're that guy, nobody wants to listen to you.
There are legitimate reasons to step in and give advice. If someone is in imminent danger you should say something.
But it's quite unusual for someone to be in such danger. It's far more common to run into someone who's doing something mildly wrong. In those cases, be friendly, talk to the person, make friends with them, and then provide gentle, nonjudgmental advice.
Dogs and music
In most climbing areas, well-behaved dogs on a leash are acceptable. Barking dogs, dogs off-leash and dogs that bite people are not welcome. Ask yourself two things before bringing your dog: does your dog listen to you? If it doesn't, it's not acceptable at the crag. And second, ask yourself honestly if your friends like your dog. If they don't, strangers probably won't either.
Not everyone has the same musical tastes. In fact, many people like to hear the sounds of nature when they go climbing. It's fine to listen to headphones, but speakers are not considered acceptable in either a crag or a multi-pitch environment.
Rock climbing is one of the fastest growing sports in America. The Outdoor Foundation estimates that 4.6 million people climb each year. Certainly a large percentage of them only climb indoors, but we all know they won't stay there – climbing outside is just too much fun. Educating yourself and others in climbing ethics will ensure that everyone has a good time and that the crags and mountains of North America will remain open and clean for generations to come.
Want to get involved with protecting your favorite rock climbing access? Get active with these organizations:
Washington Climbers Coalition
Access Fund
The American Alpine Club
Climbers' Access Society of
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Soybeans soaking in warm water could become a new "green" source for production of a cancer-fighting substance now manufactured in a complicated and time-consuming industrial process, scientists are reporting in ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
Hari B. Krishnan and colleagues explain that the substance, Bowman-Birk Protease Inhibitor (BBI), has shown promise for preventing certain forms of cancer in clinical trials. Those human tests resulted from evidence of BBI's beneficial effects, including indications that BBI derived from the large amounts of soybeans in traditional Japanese diets might underpin low cancer mortality rates in Japan. However, the current method of extracting BBI from soybeans is time-consuming and involves harsh chemicals. The scientists set out to see if there might be a greener and more environmentally friendly way of obtaining BBI.
They found that soybean seeds incubated in water at 122 degrees Fahrenheit naturally release large amounts of BBI that can easily be harvested from the water. The protein appeared to be active, with tests showing that it stopped breast cancer cells from dividing in a laboratory dish. "The abundance of BBI in soybean seed exudates by incubating the seeds in warm water provides a simple and alternative method to isolate this low molecular weight protein," the researchers said.
Source: American Chemical Society


How Did the Hot Dog Get Its Name and Where Does the Term "Hot Dog" Come From?
It would have been our guess that the term "hot dog" for the popular American comestible came into circulation, along with the item itself, during the great Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.
Where Did the Hot Dog Get Its Name
But the New York Herald Tribune, in an editorial, "The Hot-Dog Mystery," June 2, 1931, was not able to carry the date earlier than 1900.
It hardly seems necessary to explain that the name itself is applied to a frankfurter, a highly seasoned sausage of mixed meats, usually grilled and placed in a split roll, the name being suggested by the one-time notion that the sausage was made of dog meat.
The Herald Tribune credited the invention of the concoction to one, Harry M. Stevens, caterer at the New York Polo Grounds, who at that time heated not only the frankfurter but also the roll.
However, Stevens, as reported by the Herald Tribune in his obituary, May 4, 1934, credited the name to the late T. A. Dorgan (known as "Tad," from his initials), a sports cartoonist, though unable to recall the date.
In more recent years, "hot dog" has become an exclamation expressive of surprise or approval.


Algonquin Downtown Plan
Traditional downtown districts face competing and sometimes conflicting interests (e.g. historic preservation and new development) when it comes to revitalization. To overcome this issue in downtown Algonquin a large and diverse representation of downtown stakeholders were engaged to participate on the project steering committee. These participants oversaw the public engagement portion of the project with the specific objective of developing a balanced and beneficial plan for the entire community. Serving as ambassadors for their constituents interests, these participants encouraged attendance at workshop meetings, distributed surveys, provided input for their respective groups, and developed consensus to ensure the success of the plan.
Community Engagement
Village of Algonquin
Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning


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Location: Palo Alto, California
Type: Full Time
Castilleja is a dynamic, diverse, and intentional educational community for students in grades 6–12 that believes in the power of women learning and women leading. Founded in 1907, Castilleja fulfills its mission to educate young women to become confident thinkers and compassionate leaders with a sense of purpose to effect change in the world. Every member of the Castilleja community is responsible for fostering an equitable, respectful, and just community. We value building and sustaining authentic relationships and work together to create a collaborative learning and working environment. We are dedicated to a program that is responsive to students' needs and identities and demonstrates a commitment to antiracist values and pedagogy.
THE MIDDLE SCHOOL ATHLETIC DIRECTOR and FITNESS TEACHER
The Athletics Department seeks an educational leader to be the Middle School Athletic Director and Fitness Teacher. This position will support and grow the athletic program, inspire and engage our students in an outstanding athletic experience as well as work closely with other fitness teachers to provide a quality full physical education curriculum. This role will oversee an afterschool sports program that prepares students for lifelong engagement in physical activity and a healthy lifestyle.
The Middle School Athletic Director reports to the Athletic Director and the Middle School Division Head and works closely with other Fitness teachers and the Wellness Department, as well as grade level colleagues. The primary duties include:
- Leads and strengthens a Middle School athletics program that advances the mission of the school.
- Assists in the recruitment, supervision and evaluation of coaches (adult and student) for all MS team sports.
- Ensures that student athletes have access to the equipment, facilities and uniforms they need to compete safely.
- Coordinates with league officials to schedule home and away games for all MS teams.
- Ensures compliance with MS WBAL league policies and regulations.
- Arranges transportation to and from off-site practices and competitions.
- Develops, sustains, and facilitates relationships with nearby facilities.
- Fostering and organizing team social opportunities at collegiate athletic events.
- Collaborates with MS class deans and co-curricular directors to support student-athletes with an athletics program that complements the academic and ethical values of the Middle School.
- Communicate regularly with the Head of the Middle School.
- Assist the Director of Athletics with the organization of an annual banquet that honors our athletes.
- Assists the Director of Athletics with the athletic department's budget.
- Supervises or monitors all MS athletics hosted events and support teams during competitions away from Castilleja.
- Encourages broad participation and engagement in all MS sports.
- Coordinates team rosters, schedule practices and assign facility use.
- Communicates with the Maintenance Department to ensure facilities are maintained and appropriately prepared for use.
- Promotes effective communication between coaches and athletes, and parents.
- Coaches a team during at least one season.
- Assigns, manages and maintains uniforms.
- Other duties as assigned by either the Head of School, Head of Middle School, or Director of Athletics.
- Coach one after school team each season and fitness classes during the school day.
What we are looking for in an Middle School Athletic Director:
- Enthusiasm for engaging middle school girls in athletics.
- Exceptional administrative and communication skills.
- Experience coaching a variety of sports and activities.
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
- Create and/or complement curriculum that meets student needs and identities
- Teach the fundamentals of various sports throughout the school year; leading up to playing games in a controlled environment.
- Emphasize student teamwork and sportsmanship
- Support a classroom environment of collaboration and community
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field of study
- At least three years of experience in teaching PE and/or coaching Middle School or Upper School Students.
- Experience in and enthusiasm for teaching and coaching Middle School students.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and adapt pedagogy, curriculum, and assessments for students with a range of skill levels and learning styles.
- Commitment to helping girls think independently and develop confidence in their own abilities.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
- Be able to model inclusive behavior in whether on the field or in the classroom.
- Proficiency with technology (google suites, schoology).
Compensation and Benefits:
- Comprehensive Health Benefit Plans
- Superior TIAA Retirement matching
- Castilleja uses a competitive salary scale which takes into account experience, education and skill level. The salary for this position ranges from $82,700 to $142,500.
Connections working at Castilleja
Castilleja School is a non-sectarian independent college preparatory school for young women located in the San Francisco Bay Area near Stanford University and in the heart of Silicon Valley. Founded in 1907 by Stanford University graduate Mary Ishbel Lockey, the school has an enrollment of girls in grades six through twelve, and has a long-standing reputation for the excellence of its academic program. Castilleja educates young women by fostering their intellectual, physical, creative, and emotional growth through an exemplary college preparatory experience within a diverse and supportive community.


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Why are the line breaks removed from my text area fields when they are inserted into the incident thread via a business rule?
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When the contents of a text area or text field custom field are appended to the incident thread using variables, the line breaks are removed.
This behavior is expected because the text area custom fields store data in plain text format. When a variable is applied to a thread entry, the content of the variable is inserted as plain text content in an HTML environment. This removes the line breaks in the text area field and inserts everything as a single string.
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The definition of a stickler is someone who adheres tightly to a set of rules or principles.(adjective)
A teacher who gives you detention if you are even a minute late is an example of someone who is a stickler for tardiness.
See stickler in Webster's New World College Dictionary
Origin: see stickle
See stickler in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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