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12 Fascinating Facts About A Colorado Bird You May Have Never Seen
Colorado is home to over 500 species of birds and a lot of outstanding bird habitats, but have you ever seen this bird?
Owls of Colorado
Among all of the birds in Colorado, there are no less than 13 different species of owls including the popular great horned owl, the short-eared owl, the eastern screech owl, and the snowy owl - like the ones you see in the movie Dumb and Dumber.
One of the lesser-known Colorado owls is the burrowing owl which can be found throughout Colorado in various suitable habitats. These are small, long-legged, short-tailed, long-winged birds that stand 7 to 10 inches in height.
Birds That Live Underground
What is unusual about the burrowing owl is the fact that is that it doesn't live in trees, but usually in dry, open areas with short grasses and no trees. These birds can fly, but they actually nest in underground burrows created by prairie dogs, squirrels, or badgers. That means you might see burrowing squirrels on golf courses, cemeteries, airports, vacant lots, and pastures.
Burrowing Owls Can Be Difficult To Spot
The problem is, they can be really hard to spot if they aren't moving since they spend so much time on the ground and can often be hidden by forage. Oftentimes, the color of their feathers blends right in with the landscape. Additionally, since they often are using vacated prairie dog burrows, from a distance, they could appear to be prairie dogs instead of owls. Knowing what to look for and where to look is the key.
Colorado Parks & Wildlife says the owl habitat is slowly disappearing and burrowing owls have been negatively impacted by insecticides that kill grasshoppers, crickets, and beetles. The birds could become an endangered species in the near future.
12 Fascinating Facts About Colorado's Threatened Burrowing Owl
39 Colorado Animals You May Run Into


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Brief DescriptionCreate and design advertising for a tempting new pet food!
pets, propaganda, advertising
Advertisers know that the right combination of appealing gimmicks can bring out the buyer in every young person. In this lesson, students learn about the ways companies influence what people purchase in order to boost their own profits as they create and market their own pet food.
Begin this activity by sharing a newspaper, magazine, or other ad for a pet product. Ask the students to identify the target audience and discuss what effect the ad has on the group. Are the students interested in the product? Would they choose to purchase it for a family pet? What about the ad "works," and what might be changed to make it more attractive to young pet owners?
If you choose, visit the PBS site for kids called Don't Buy It. This site explains many of the techniques advertisers use to "fool" the public. Then introduce some of the classic ways ads work through the information provided by Propaganda Techniques. (Older students may read the material for themselves, while the information may serve as a guide for the teacher to share some important points with younger children.) Sources about propaganda from the school library might be used in place of these Internet resources.
Working in small groups, have students consider a new pet food product. Distribute copies of the Pet Pellets work sheet to guide their work. When students are prepared to create a "package" for their product, give them access to necessary art supplies and tools. Have the students share their advertising ideas and products with the whole group. Have them identify the types of propaganda used by the various groups in their original advertising.
Collect handouts for evaluation. All submissions should be complete and reflect adequate thought and development. Also collect student-created prototype packages. Display with the work sheets if desired.
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Masterpieces from the Philadelphia Museum of Art: Impressionism and Modern Art
Chess was a lifelong passion for Marcel Duchamp, who once stated, "I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists."1 A competitive, award-winning player, Duchamp incorporated the game into his art throughout his career--literally, as in this early painting of his brothers, Jacques Villon and Raymond Duchamp-Villon, and in increasingly complex ways later on. This piece shows the artist's interest in Cubism, specifically what he called his "demultiplication" technique. Each head is made up of many overlapping successive planes, with chess pieces floating in the indefinite spaces that surround them. Portrait of Chess Players is rendered in a limited palette of earth tones, which Duchamp claims to have achieved through painting by gaslight. The artist made six preparatory drawings and an oil sketch for the composition that reflect his increasing interest in capturing the mental activity of chess rather than in creating recognizable portraits. This emphasis on the mental over the retinal reflects a tendency that grew stronger throughout Duchamp's remarkable career. Emily Hage, from Masterpieces from the Philadelphia Museum of Art: Impressionism and Modern Art (2007), p. 158.
1) Quoted in Andy Soltis, "Duchamp and the Art of Chess' Appeal," n.d., unidentified newspaper clipping, object file, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art.


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U.S. Department of Justice: Supporting Male Survivors of ViolenceDeadline: June 17, 2015
The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) seeks innovative proposals that will create equal access to both system and community-based service providers for male survivors of violence, particularly boys and young men of color, to catalyze a national commitment to better serve these individuals. OVC is particularly interested in proposals that seek to strengthen victim service providers' knowledge and skills, resulting in innovative programs and practices that foster a better understanding among criminal and juvenile justice systems and guide service providers around the needs and rights of these boys and young men. OVC seeks applications that address one of the two purpose areas identified below:
- Purpose Area 1, Demonstration Projects: This solicitation will fund demonstration sites that put in place evidence-based models and practices to provide trauma-informed, comprehensive services for male survivors of violence, particularly boys and young men of color, and their families and supporting policies.
- Purpose Area 2, Technical Assistance Providers: This solicitation will be used to select up to two distinct technical assistance (TA) providers to support the demonstration sites in the following categories: (A) Comprehensive TA: To deliver comprehensive information, training, and technical assistance to support the demonstrations sites, including subject matter expertise, training on identified topics, and peer-to-peer learning exchanges; and (B) Communications TA: To assist the demonstration sites with outreach efforts aimed at educating stakeholders and the broader community on the adverse effects of trauma and violence as well as the importance for community and system-based services to communicate and develop consistent policies, procedures and messaging to enhance efforts to reach and identify victims and survivors.
Eligibility: Varies by purpose area:
- Purpose Area 1: Eligible applicants for the demonstration project are limited to: state and local
agencies; federally recognized tribal governments (as determined by the Secretary of the Interior; private nonprofit organizations (including tribal nonprofit organizations); faith-based and community-based organizations; and colleges or universities (including tribal institutions of higher education) that demonstrate an understanding of the area of victimization and support services described in the solicitation.
- Purpose Area 2: Eligible applicants for funding to provide technical assistance to the demonstration projects are private nonprofit organizations, colleges and universities or public agencies (including tribal nonprofit organizations and tribal institutions of higher learning).
Amount: Varies by purpose area:
- Purpose Area 1: 8-12 awards of up to $1,000,000 each for a 36 month project period.
- Purpose Area 2: Up to 2 awards of up to $1,000,000 each for a 36 month project period.

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Boost autumn colours with white balance
Using the white balance settings can really add punch to your images, find out how to use it to boost those autumnal tones
The autumn months are alive with vibrancy and colour, but are also prone to unpredictable weather and dull light. To make sure you capture a decent scene, it's important to change the white balance setting on your camera to match, rather than just using the auto option. You can tweak the levels in Photoshop afterwards to create a truly inspiring autumnal piece.
When shooting autumnal scenes, its important to make sure that all the colours in your images remain vibrant and punchy.
One way of ensuring this is to change the white balance setting on your camera, rather than keeping it on the Auto setting.
Weather conditions can be very varied in the autumn months, which can cause all sorts of problems – keeping the white balance consistent will make processing easier later on.
1. Too cool
Although these leaves were under a tree the actual weather conditions were fairly bright. However, the image, taken with the white balance set at Auto, has a rather cold look to it. It also doesnt have much depth or crispness.
2. True to life
By simply changing the white balance to Cloudy, the camera has coped with the tonal ranges far better and has also managed to create a warmer feel, making the leaves look much more like how they actually appeared.
3. Total transformation
Tweaking the levels in Photoshop makes the image really come to life. The strands of grass appear more prominent now and by slightly burning in the leaves on the outside of the image, the leaves edges appear sharper.


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According to the Library of Congress, National Doughnut Day is June 1 and actually honors the Salvation Army "Lassies" of World War I.
"The original Salvation Army doughnut was first served by the nonprofit organization in 1917. During WWI, the lassies were sent to the front lines of Europe, where they made home-cooked foods and provided a morale boost to the troops. Two Salvation Army volunteers—Ensign Margaret Sheldon and Adjutant Helen Purviance—came up with the idea of providing doughnuts. Sheldon wrote of one busy day: "Today I made 22 pies, 300 doughnuts, 700 cups of coffee." Often, the doughnuts were cooked in oil poured into a soldier's metal helmet.
National Doughnut Day started in 1938 as a fundraiser for the Chicago Salvation Army. Its goal was to help the needy during the Great Depression and to honor the Salvation Army Lassies of World War I, who were the only women outside of military personnel allowed to visit the front lines."
Read the rest of the story in the Library of Congress' "Wise Guide"


User Defined Opcodes (UDO)
Csound allows the definition of opcodes inside the orchestra header using the opcodes opcode and endop. The defined opcode may run with a different number of control samples (ksmps) using setksmps.
To connect inputs and outputs for the UDO, use xin and xout.
An UDO looks like this:
 opcode Lowpass, a, akk
 setksmps 1 ; need sr=kr
ain, ka1, ka2 xin ; read input parameters
aout init 0 ; initialize output
aout = ain*ka1 + aout*ka2 ; simple tone-like filter
 xout aout ; write output
This UDO called Lowpass takes 3 inputs (the first is a-rate, and the next two are k-rate), and delivers 1 a-rate output. Notice the use of xin to receive inputs and xout to deliver outputs. Also note the use of setksmps, which is needed for the filter to work properly.
To use this UDO within an instrument, you would do something like:
afiltered Lowpass asource, kvalue1, kvalue2
See the entry for opcode for detailed information on UDO definition.
You can find many ready made UDO's (or contribute your own) at's User Defined Opcode Database.


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SP&M's WEBINARS FOR EDUCATION
Sustainable Decisions in our Schools Considering the
Triple Bottom Line: Society, Environment, and Economy
FREE WEBINAR: Tuesday, February 5, 2013 | 2:00 PM EST
As K-12 education systems shift their curriculums towards the study of environmental stewardship, school leaders are integrating the way they operate based on what is taught in the classroom. One successful method of integrating sustainability into operations is by applying the Triple Bottom Line Concept. This expands the decision making process to consider society, environment, and economy.
Please join Waste Management's Byron Chafin, National Accounts Manager of Education, and Andrew Cassilly, Resource Conservation Manager from Harford County Public Schools, MD, as they share best practices around developing a sustainable school system, and offer insights into projects and programs that have been successfully implemented in schools throughout North America by leveraging the Triple Bottom Line.
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TSCU (True Speed Calibration Unit)
TSCU eliminates speedometer error due to locomotive wheel wear. The TSCU installs between the locomotive axle speed pickup and the locomotive speed indicator. The TSCU uses The Global Positioning System (GPS) to generate a speed signal correction factor that automatically corrects the speed indicator signal thus providing an exact speed indication regardless of wheel wear. This new product is already in use by two class 1 railroads. Kit includes the TSCU unit, cables, mounting bracket and instructions for installation which takes between 1-2 hours. Wireless access to unit allows information retrieval including current and historical wheel measurement.


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A partnership between Albuquerque Public Schools and the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce.
Close the Education Achievement Gap!
If a child cannot read, the world is closed to them.
Poverty directly relates to literacy rates
- Children in poverty average 25 total hours reading before Kindergarten
- Children not in poverty average 1000 total hours reading before Kindergarten
3rd grade reading levels indicate future:
- Dropout rate
- Crime rate
Having reading modeled improves students' reading ability
You can change a child's life
The 2004-2005 Albuquerque Reads results are IMPRESSIVE!!!
-At the beginning of 04/05 school year, only 3% of students were reading at or above grade level.
-At the end of the school year 72% were reading at or above grade level and another 21% were at the cusp of reading at grade level
-The students participating in this program will enter the first grade reading at or above the first grade reading level
- Reading overcomes poverty
- The more educated our future generation is, the better the quality of their lives
- With a more educated workforce we can build a better, stronger community
GACC Partnering with APS in Albuquerque Reads •Albuquerque Reads is a structured program
-Focus on Title I schools where 85 % of children receive free or reduced cost of lunch
-Early intervention proven successful
-Explicit instruction and guided practice
Modeled after Columbus Reads
-High poverty schools used program to help pass the statewide 4 th grade proficiency test
-Albuquerque Reads developed by Educators at Bel Air Elementary School and tailored to each individual student's needs
-Training materials aligned with kindergarten reading standards and classroom instruction.
-The program meets state and district standards
Make a difference!
We are all better off when Albuquerque Reads
Help a child learn to read…. and you open a new world
Volunteering for Albuquerque Reads:
- 70 minute commitment each week
- October 3, 2005 – May 8, 2006
- Three schools
- 800 Volunteers needed
- Three hour training session
- Required Background checkfingerprinting- paid by the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce.
- 10 minutes guided instruction with site coordinator
- Two students-30 Minutes each every week
–10 minutes Reading
–10 minutes Writing
–10 minutes Literacy activity (skills development)
- WHERRY Elementary School– Monday, Tuesday and Thursday of each week 9:50 am to 11:05 am
- ATRISCO Elementary School– Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of each week 8:45am to 10:00 am
- BEL AIR Elementary School – Completely filled
- Attendance each week is imperative to success!
How to become a tutor:
Click here to download the enrollment form.
UNM staff members should submit form to Karin Retskin, _PHONE_, _EMAIL_.
Click here to down an Albuquerque Reads brochure.
-Call 505 843-READ (7323)
-Call _PHONE_
-Web site: _URL_ Click on the Albuquerque Reads button
UNM staff members:
Contact Karin Retskin, _PHONE_, _EMAIL_
Kevin Stevenson, _PHONE_, _EMAIL_
Thank you for your commitment to this program--The Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce and Albuquerque Public Schools
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What are you worth?
What are you worth?
New graduates often bring fresh ideas and enthusiasm to practice. Good patient care and scheduling can make them valuable hospital team members
Nov 01, 2007
Most veterinary medical graduates care more about the chance to diagnose and treat patients than the size of their paycheck. Still, salaries matter, especially when today's former students are saddled with an educational debt load of $100,000 or more.
Yet the way new graduates view salary is often quite different from practice owners. For owners, it is not about how much money associates need to retire their educational lo ans. From their perspective, salary decisions are a function of practice finances. Medicine and money have to support each other in practice. Trying to find the middle ground between the salaries new graduates want and what a practice owner can afford often causes misunderstanding and frustration on both sides.
Balance sheet
Here is a financial reality that practice owners must juggle: Close to 50 cents of every dollar collected in a veterinary hospital goes to staff and doctor compensation.
On the flip side, healthcare services that you and the other doctors provide are the primary source of practice revenue. This revenue needs to cover your salary and benefits and that of the team members who support you. There needs to be enough revenue left to buy supplies, pay the utility bills, cover maintenance and replacement costs, retire practice debt, pay the rent, provide a return on investment and build a reserve fund for emergencies.
Veterinary hospitals have different cost structures, but in general, most practices can afford to pay an associate doctor between 18 percent and 21 percent of the gross production. That means if an associate veterinarian generates $200,000 in annual revenue, the owner can afford to pay that person between $36,000 and $42,000 a year.
American Veterinary Medical Association statistics show 2006 starting salaries range from $45,546 to $55,031, substantially more than what most new associate doctors are worth in terms of the revenue they generate during their first practice year. This means that practice owners end up subsidizing new associates while they gain clinical competency on the job. Put yourself in a practice owner's shoes. How would you feel about hiring a new associate at a premium?
Practice owners offer competitive salaries to attract and keep good doctors. They are willing to take an initial loss on their investment and recognize that an associate's first year amounts to a clinical residency. They know that associates need this time to gain experience and increase their medical mastery. Practice owners count on the fact that their associates will grow and develop and soon be able to generate sufficient revenue to make the numbers work. The sooner that happens, the more relieved they will be.
Bringing in money
What factors impact doctor revenue? The answer depends on three things:
 - Number of patients
 - Services performed for each patient
 - Fees charged
A veterinarian can generate increased revenue by seeing more patients, providing them with comprehensive care and charging appropriately for all services rendered.
Know standards of care
More than 80 percent of patient visits in a companion-animal practice involve wellness care. Therefore, one of the easiest things a new associate can do to get up to speed and increase his or her value to a practice is to take the time to learn what preventive healthcare services the medical team believes is best for patients. Ask what vaccinations the medical team recommends for dogs, cats and other species. What preventive tests (fecals/heartworm tests/senior wellness screens) do they provide? What parasite protection products do they recommend? At what oral health grade do they recommend dental prophies? What body-condition scores trigger medical interventions?
Just taking the time to find out what the standards of care are and following them allows associates to use their exam rooms more productively to benefit their patients and the practice. Providing good preventive care gives associates a way to impact the health of more animals than anything else they do, and it is an area that allows most new veterinarians to shine.
Karyn Gavzer, MBA, CVPM, is a veterinary business consultant and nationally known writer and speaker. She is a certified veterinary practice manager, an adjunct instructor for the American Animal Hospital Association and a founding member of the Association of Veterinary Practice Management Consultants and Advisors. She can be reached at


What are they?
While a general Location will work for most of your needs, there are times when you need an additional level of specificity about an item's location. Sub Locations give you the ability to store even more detailed location-related information.
An example of this would be a situation where you have a storage facility and want to have a more specific description of where the item is located i.e. Storage Facility: Bin 20. Where "Storage Facility" is the Location and "Bin 20" is the sub-location. This is also handy for drawers, floors, and other situations that call for more location detail.
Note: Sub-locations are available only on Organization plans.
How do I create a Sub-Location?
There are few ways to do this and here are the most common.
Creating a Sub-Location within a new Location:
Click on Locations in the left-side menu. Then click New in the top menu.
During the process of adding a new Location you can add Sub Locations by clicking the blue Add Sub-Location on the right-hand side.
Adding Sub-Locations to an existing Location
Click on Locations in the left-side menu and then select the Location to which you'd like to add a Sub-Location.
Once on that Location's page, you can click Sub-Locations in the top menu.
Then select Add/Edit Sub Locations. This will allow you to create a new Sub-Location for that Location.
How do I assign a Piece to an existing Sub-Location?
Click on Artwork on the left-side menu.
Select the artwork you want to assign to a Sub-Location.
Then click on the blue New Location Record next to Location History.
Choose a Location from the drop-down menu or click the New Location button and enter the information. Choose the Sub-Location from the drop-down menu. Click Save.
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Skoolbo has just completed an improvement analysis on the first 10 million questions and found that after three hours of learning time, average improvements are 23.3% in literacy and 12.2% in numeracy.
Singapore (PRWEB) January 30, 2013
Children from all over the world have collectively answered more than 10 million literacy and numeracy questions on Skoolbo, the world's largest educational game.
Skoolbo has just completed an improvement analysis on the first 10 million questions and found that after three hours of learning time, average improvements are 23.3% in literacy and 12.2% in numeracy. Refer to "It's All About Improvement" for a full breakdown.
Shane Hill, Skoolbo Founder and CEO, said: "Our whole reason for being is about lifting educational outcomes – it's at the heart of everything we do. To see such conclusive evidence of highly significant improvement across a full range of students from different parts of the world is extremely gratifying."
Skoolbo also released some of its data on the relative difficulty of various numeracy and literacy concepts. Skoolbo has found that children find alphabetical order considerably more complex than spelling. Telling the time on an analogue clock is also a topic that poses considerable challenge to many children.
Skoolbo continues to grow fast with a 49% increase in users over the last four weeks.
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Urgent Probability and statistics Help answer cheak
Two important members of a cricket team are injured, and each has probability 1/3 of recovering before the match. The recoveries of the two players are independent of each other. If both are able to play then the team has probability 3/4 of winning the match, if only one of them plays then the probability of winning is 1/2 and if neither play the probability of winning is 1/16. What is the probability that the match is won?
The following is what i have done:
This is total probablity and we need to find the probabilty that the match is won.
So A= event one players plays
B= event both players play
C= event nither plauers play
Let D be the event that they win the match.
P(D)= P(D l A) * P(A) + P(D l B) * P(B) + P(D l C) * P(C)
P(D l A) = 1/2 P(A)= 1/3
P(D l B) = 3/4 P(B)= 1/3 * 1/3 = 1/9
P(D l C) = 1/16 P(C) = (1-1/3)^2 = 4/9
so i got my answers as 1/2 * 1/3 + 3/4 * 2/3 + 1/16 * 4/9 = 5/18
Can Someone Please Cheak If My Answer Is Correct As I Am Not Really Sure.


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Clarence Birdseye
Born: 1886, Brooklyn, NY
Died: 1956, New York, NY
Did You Know?
Birdseye devoted the end of his life to improving paper manufacture. He worked for two years on a plantation in Peru to develop a method of converting sugar cane waste into paper pulp, shortening the process from nine hours to twelve minutes.
Photos: (left) Birdseye Foods; (right) WGBH
Retail Frozen Foods
A venturesome biologist brought convenience and variety to American tables when he invented and marketed retail frozen foods.
Labrador Life
An adventurous biologist and a businessman, Clarence Birdseye devised a way to quick-freeze foods and market them to the public. Birdseye was born in 1886 in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up hunting and practicing taxidermy. After studying biology at Amherst College, he took an assortment of wildlife jobs. In 1912, he went to the northeastern Canadian province of Labrador to buy and sell fox furs. During one of the region's cold winters, he came up with the idea of flash-freezing foods.
Freezing Practices
Observing the practices of the native Inuit people, Birdseye saw the preservative effects of extremely cold temperatures on fresh fish. If the fish was frozen fast enough, its cellular structure was minimally affected, and its appearance, taste, and texture were not changed. He experimented with freezing cabbages for his family to eat in the vegetable-poor winter months.
Making a Business
Birdseye returned to the States in 1917, and eventually went into the wholesale fish business, capitalizing on his interest in quick-freezing under extremely high pressure. In 1924, he founded a company, Birdseye Seafoods, Inc., to market his flash-frozen foods such as fish, meat, and vegetables. The foods were test-marketed in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1930, before their national roll-out. Temperature control had to be maintained from factory to point-of-purchase, so the foods went to retailers in refrigerated boxcars, and Birdseye leased retailers specially-designed freezer display cases.
Big Sellers
By the late 1940s, American consumers were buying freezers for their homes, and the convenience of frozen foods made them big sellers. Food companies soon launched more elaborate offerings: frozen hors d'oeuvres, entrees, and pizza. Birdseye was instrumental in bringing the food industry into the modern era. He died of a heart attack in 1956.
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|MadSci Network: Zoology|
There are three different types of insects that lack wings. Immature insects never have wings because they have not developed yet. Most of these need only to feed and grow so the eggs are usually laid by the parent insect in an area where the growing larvae will have food. Wings either develop slowly as the immature insect grows (as in grasshoppers and other insects with incomplete development) or develop during a pupal stage (as in butterflies). The adult then has functioning wings, which allow it to disperse, mate and lay eggs in a new area.
Some primitive insects never had wings. These include such flightless insects as silverfish. None of the ancestors of these insects seem to have had wings.
Finally there are those insects that have secondarily lost wings or have reduced wing size to the point where that cannot fly. These include some grasshoppers, many parasitic insects (like lice and fleas), a number of beetles and even some moths (the bagworm for example). The ancestors of these insects had wings, but their ultimate life style did not require flight. Selection pressure then probably eliminated the ability to fly. In the case of parasitic insects at least, wings may even have been a major difficulty and were probably eliminated rather quickly. Wings would probably catch on the host's hairs or feathers and make it difficult to hide.
Borror, D. J., C. A. Triplehorn, and N. F. Johnson. 1989. An Introduction to the Study of Insects. Saunders College Publishing, Philadelphia.
A summary of the answer is that some insects don't have wings because
1. They are immature and do not need them yet.
2. Their ancestors never had wings.
3. They lost their wings because of the way in which they live (for example parasites).
Try the links in the MadSci Library for more information on Zoology.


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Introduction of the company
Wichary TECHNIC Sp. j. started its business in 1992. The activity runs in its own industrial hall located on a 2-acre parcel located in industrial areas of Zabrze, in the rapidly developing region of Silesia. The company has implemented ISO 9001.
Context and stakes
Participation in the project gives the opportunity to diagnose weaknesses and strengths of existing solutions that have been implemented in the company and to improve these solutions in the context of increasing prices of energy carriers. It will also point to the weak points of current solutions so that they can be changed and improved.
Energy efficiency measures implemented in company
The company is preparing to implement the activities proposed in the energy audit developed under the project. It is planned to take actions related to reduction of heat losses in the electric furnace, use of excess heat from the paint chambers and heat recovery from process equipment. Activities related to leakages reduction of compressed-air system, modernization of transportation fleet and change of luminaire type (to LED) are also considered. The key element in implementing the above activities is to find financing sources for these investments. Nowadays the company has successfully installed 60 kW of PV panels (area of about 360 m2). In the audit 40 kW was planned and due to favorable circumstances the power was increased.
The results obtained
By installing PV panels, the consumption of conventional primary energy was reduced by approximately 167,576 kWh, which is approximately 17% of the total primary energy demand.
Wichary Technic Sp. j.
Sobieskiego 105, 43-300 Bielsko-Biała


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The origins of the National University of Lesotho go back to April 8, 1945, when a Catholic University College was founded at Roma by the Roman Catholic Hierarchy of Southern Africa. The establishment of this College was a realisation of a decision taken in 1938 by the Synod of Catholic Bishops in South Africa to provide African Catholic students with post-matriculation and religious guidance.
The South African Government had declared its intention not to admit African students from outside South Africa into the University of Fort Hare, and the Natal Medical School (Wentworth) after December 31, 1953. Although this ban was relaxed for Basutoland students until 1958, the writing was on the wall.
National University of Lesotho Established in 1954 as the nucleus collection of the former PiusXIICollege, the Library moved to the current building that was constructed in 1964. The Library building was named after Thomas Mofolo when it became NUL Library.
National University of Lesotho Contact Details
Adventist University of Africa
Private Bag Mbagathi, 00503 Nairobi, Kenya
Telephone: (254) 20-_PHONE_, (254) 20-_PHONE_
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THE INFLUENCE OF CLIMATIC FACTORS AND TECHNOLOGY IN SOME POTATO VARIETIES GROWN ON SANDY SOILS
Less favorable conditions on sandy soils in southern Oltenia limited number of
species and varieties grown in the area. Drought and high temperatures in recent yearsÂ (maximum 430 C in air, ground 700 C) acted as dehydrating forces on plants, disruptingÂ their metabolism.
Very high air temperature in July and August at 30 to 38.40 C relative humidity decreasedÂ to 25%, high soil surface temperature and lack of rainfall during the growing season,Â producing an imbalance of the water balance of plants.
Excessive sweating can dehydrate plants leaf level, close osteolele and diminish gas
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China Service Medal
The China Service Medal was a relatively early entry into the hallowed halls of the medals of America when it was created by an Act of Congress in August of 1940. These US military medals were established to honor US Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard personnel who served ashore in China or were attached to vessels that operated in support of operations in China either between July 1937 and September of 1939, or between September of 1945 and April of 1957. Regulations permitted the wearing of a Bronze Service Star on these military medals and ribbons if a service member had performed duty during both periods of eligibility. These Navy medals are now considered obsolete, and are no longer issued by the US Navy. However, they can still be worn by Navy personnel who earned them during that period.
These Navy, Coast Guard and Marine Corps ribbons and medals are worn in the position directly below the Navy Expeditionary Medal, the Marine Corps Expeditionary Medal and the Coast Guard's Medal for Humane Action; and are worn directly above the National Defense Service Medal in the general order of precedence that has been established for the proper display of all Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard military ribbons and medals. The China Service Medal is generally available as Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard decorations in the form of military medals, ribbons, and lapel pins. They can be worn as traditional slide-on medals, mini medals, and ribbons. While traditionalist may still prefer to purchase the traditional slide-on full size military medals, mini-medals, and slide-on military ribbons; the newer thin mini-medals, and ultra thin military ribbons commercial suppliers now provide have become extremely popular among up and coming military personnel who know how important it is to their career advancement to always maximize the neatness and smartness of their uniform appearance.


Doctor fatigue leads to car accidents, near misses: survey
It's a wake-up call to challenge the idea it's 'heroic' to work long hours, say study authors
Almost half of anaesthetists and intensivists have had a car accident or a near miss due to work fatigue, a UK survey shows.
Car accident concept
Nearly 3850 UK and Republic of Ireland consultants in anaesthesia or paediatric intensive care responded to the survey on out-of-hours working arrangements, causes of work-related fatigue and its impact on commuting and other areas of life.
Almost half (45%) said they had had an accident or near miss while commuting when fatigued.
And most of the doctors had experienced work-related fatigue


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The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come delivered under the similitude of a dream, wherein is discovered the manner of his setting out, his dangerous journey, and safe arrival at the desired country / by John Bunyan, ed. with introduction and notes by William Vaughn Moody
Bunyan, John, _PHONE_
The Pilgrim's Progress (Part I 1678/Part II 1684) holds a unique place in the history of English literature. No other seventeenth-century work except the King James Bible, nothing from the pen of a writer of Bunyan's social class in any period, and no other Christian work, has enjoyed such an extensive readership. The pilgrim Christian, Mr Worldly Wiseman, Giant Despair, Hopeful, and Ignorance are engaged in a powerful drama set against a solidly realistic background of town and country. Bunyan captures the speech of ordinary people as accurately as he depicts their behaviour and appearance and as firmly as he realizes their inner emotional and spiritual life. The tale is related in language remarkable for its beauty and simplicity, and is spiced with Bunyan's acute and satirical perceptions of the vanity and hypocrisy of his own society.


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I am making a quiz application where I would need to have a timer. I was wondering if I can use JavaScript timer on visual studio windows form? It would look nicer with a graphical timer rather then having a number count down.
If yes, then can someone give me a example code on how the JavaScript code is used within a c# windows form?
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You have also timer component in Visual Studio - why don't you use it? You want analog - draw it (_URL_) on form or panel. – mj82 Nov 11 '12 at 19:08
You can't just call server methods from the client (unless the framework specifially supports it), but the server can produce enough data for the client to do the rest. – Jan Dvorak Nov 11 '12 at 19:09
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Windows Forms don't natively support javascript execution. You'd normally create a graphical timer in a Windows Forms application using Windows controls or GDI+ - or perhaps by embedding a WPF control.
However, you could embed a WebBrowser control in a Windows Forms application. The WebBrowser can display HTML and execute javascript. It's really just an embedded IE control.
Here are some examples of using GDI+ in a Windows Forms application to draw an analog clock:
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While this post isn't necessarily asking how to use visual studio in a windows form in the right context, there is a way to do using a WebBrowser control. Most likely, you would already have a WebBrowser control and just want to communicate between the WebBrowser document and the host winform.
The secret is in that "Your scripting code can access your application through the window.external object, which is a built-in DOM object provided for host access, and which maps to an object that you specify for the ObjectForScripting property."
If you are looking for how to use javascript in a webform, you might just consider using a WebBrowser control and an hmtl document.
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A person will be continually exposed to a low level of radiation throughout their life, this is perfectly normal and does not cause any health effects. Exposure to large amounts of radiation however can cause sterility, cataracts or even death.
Northumberland County Council may be required
to respond to a radioactive incident within the County of
Northumberland. The County Council Resilience Team has produced a
plan to ensure that robust and effective arrangements in place to
meet the requirements outlined in the Radiation Emergency
Preparedness and Public Information Regulations (REPPIR) 2001.
The Regulations place specific duties on the
County Council which include the dissemination of public advice in
conjunction with partner agencies.
REPPIR covers all of the key agencies involved
in responding to radiological emergencies, including the operators,
carriers and Local Authorities. The Regulation with most
importance to Local Authorities is Regulation 17.
The purpose of Regulation 17 is to ensure
members of the public actually affected by a radiation emergency
are informed promptly of the details and facts of the emergency,
and the measures to be taken to ensure their health and well being


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W J A P Beuckelaers, University of Oxford. This paper was first published in GE's June 2015 edition.
A better assessment of the fatigue life for offshore wind turbines requires more realistic foundation response models, particularly incorporating a better representation of damping. This paper provides a description of how a kinematic hardening model can be applied to the current design method for wind turbine monopiles, installed in sand, to provide improved predictions of the amplitudedependent material damping derived from the pilesoil response. The proposed method forms a suitable engineering tool for fatigue life calculation of offshore wind turbines.


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MOE – IMTL Portal
The Ministry Of Education (MOE) directs the formulation and implementation of education policies in Singapore. It has control of the development and administration of the Government and Government-aided primary schools, secondary schools, junior colleges, and a centralised institute. It also registers private schools.
The mission of the Education Service is to mould the future of the nation, by moulding the people who will determine the future of the nation. The Service will provide our children with a balanced and well-rounded education, develop them to their full potential, and nurture them into good citizens, conscious of their responsibilities to family, society and country.
In that regard, MOE seeks to engage the current IT-savvy generation and help improve the way they learn the language. The learning portal has a proposed feature which will enable students to recite, record and review their performance. In addition, a text-to-speech feature will assess reading fluency and correct pronunciation errors.
This challenge, to provide a Web-based Interactive Oracy Portal for Mother Tongue Languages, was awarded by MOE to Singtel – ACP Consortium in February 2011. ACP has successfully deployed an online portal that facilitates the teaching and learning spoken MTLs which is scalable for up to 400,000 users and 30,000 concurrent users.
This LMS solution was achieved through the following efforts:
- Publishing and removal of learning resources
- Creation and assignment of MTL oracy tasks
- Monitoring of MTL oracy tasks
- Assessment of MTL oracy tasks in both practice and test conditions
- Text-to-Speech (TTS) and Speech Evaluation capabilities for the system
As a result, ACP was able to achieve a successful nationwide rollout for 400,000 students across Singapore with support for 30,000 concurrent students accessing the system. The iMTL Portal was a runaway success with nationwide coverage and rave reviews from leading media houses and publications.
For more information regarding the iMTL project, you can head for the links below.


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Find me and follow me are two call forwarding services that are commonly used in conjunction with each other. Find me service allows the user to receive calls at any location; follow me service allows the user to be reached at any of several phone numbers.
Find me / follow me is often used in IP telephony. In some systems, the user is assigned a virtual phone number. When that number is dialed the system routes the call through a user-defined list of numbers. The numbers may be called simultaneously or sequentially, either in a preferred order or in accordance with the user's scheduled activities and locations. Once the list has been called and no connection made, the system may route the call to voice mail.


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Geography students discover the healing power of art
September 15, 2020
By Pam Lim
From natural disasters and food shortages to systemic racism and legal inequities, geography students tackle some of our most pressing global challenges. But seeking solutions and grappling with complex issues can take its toll on a student's mental health.
"Students are inundated with dire facts about the state of our planet," says SFU geography instructor Sharla Stolhandske. "In classrooms, we talk about these huge issues, but we don't address the effect it takes on our mental health."
So last semester, in an unconventional departure from traditional geography tools such as mathematics and theories, Stolhandske asked students to create drawings, paintings, poetry or music to express their ideas for how to make sense of our changing world. She wanted them to discover that art could not only help them engage on topics in a different way, but could also improve how they manage their mental and emotional well-being.
"Mental wellness is a hard conversation to have," says Stolhandske. "On top of that, across all disciplines, but especially science, creativity is not something we focus on as a learning outcome."
Stolhandske says the assignment generated apprehension as students wrestled with the switch from numbers and theories to creativity and vulnerability. But by the end of the semester, they gave overwhelmingly positive feedback on the art assignment. They had discovered the value of flexing a different muscle, and they went above and beyond in demonstrating their understanding of course materials.
"Academics are important to so many students," says Stolhandske. "Some feel like there's little room for error. Add a global pandemic to the mix and it can become very challenging.
"Art offers a way to connect, to express ourselves and to process complex feelings in ways that move beyond traditional methods."
Stock Image: Giovanni Calia.
Work by geography student Myles Peeters.


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The Jaws of Life are actually a set of rescue tools
made by several different companies. This includes Hurst (who hold the trademark for Jaws of Life), Amkest, and others.
These tools are hydraulic powered, and have many different uses. There are four main types of tools:
- Spreaders - Used to open doors by applying an unbelievable amount of pressure to the door to pop the Nader pin. We usually can open a door in under a minute with them. They are also used to do an emergency dash roll (discussed below)
- Cutters - These are used to, well, cut things. Generally these are used when opening the door is either not feasable, or would not provide enough access. We would then cut the door posts, and take the roof off to access the patient.
- Combination tools - these tools have both spreaders and cutters built in to them. Good for departments with not a lot of room on their fire trucks.
- Rams - These are used to push things. Generally we would use these if someones legs were trapped under the dash. We would put one end in the corner of the door, and extend the other until it push the dash as far as we needed it to go (or as far as the tool will let us).
Besides Hydraulic tools, there are a myriad of hand tools
that can be used. For example, a crash axe
has a point and axe on one end, and a can-opener looking contraption on the other. Generally we can take the roof off of a car with a crash-axe, a metal hand-saw, and a jar of dish soap in the time it takes them to set up the hydraulic tools.
We have also used the tools to assist the sheriff's office with forcing entry into a house, for tearing down a swingset, and other rescues.


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The Facet SOP lets you control the smoothness of faceting of a given object. It also lets you consolidate points or surface normals.
The Facet SOP, like Divide SOP, works as a pipeline to change geometry in stages. For this reason, Compute Normals appears twice. For example, you can compute surface normals before making vertices (the points of each polygon) unique, which gives you the unusual result of smooth shading and unique point, as the normals get computed while the points are still shared.
Parameters - Page
Make Normals Unit Length unit - Checking this option will normalize the length of normals to a length of one unit.
Compute Normals prenml - Checking this option means that the surface normals will be computed. Where points are shared between polygons, smooth shading results, and where points are not shared (unique), faceted edges result. If you compute normals at this stage, they are computed based on the incoming geometry.
Unique Points unique - Makes each vertex have a unique point. The result of selecting this option is that all vertices are made into unique points, thus making all edges hard, with no smooth shading.
Consolidate cons - - Consolidate eliminates the redundancy of having many points that are close to each other, by merging them together to form a fewer set of common points. Consolidate is useful for cleaning up an edge that may appear between adjacent polygons that have been merged.
 - No Consolidate none - No consolidation.
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Distance dist - Points and normals less than this distance apart will be consolidated, or have their normals averaged, based on the setting in the Consolidate menu.
Usually very small numbers, such as 0.01 should be used here. If the value is 0.0, then points must be in exactly the same position (co-incident) in order to be considered for the consolidation/averaging function.
Remove Inline Points inline - Removes points that lie inline with its neighboring points.
Distance inlinedist - Set the distance threshold for removing inline points when the above parameter is On.
Orient Polygons orientpolys - Orients all polygons so they have the same winding direction.
Cusp Polygons cusp - Most of the time, you want some polygons to be smooth shaded and others to be faceted. Usually polygons that meet at low angles should be smooth shaded, and polygon edges that meet at sharper angles should be faceted.
Cusp Angle angle - Cusping allows you to specify the threshold angle at which the edges become faceted. A good typical value is 20.
Remove Degenerate remove - Sometimes (not often) your geometry can get messed up, where there are points hanging around that are not used for anything, or there are primitives that don't make sense. This option checks for these cases and removes them.
Compute Normals postnml - Again, allows you to compute the normals after the consolidation or cusping stages. You should select this if you have set either the Cusp or Consolidate option.
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A median barrier is a concrete curb or island that is located on the centerline of a street and continues through the street's intersection with a given cross street.
Strategically located median barriers reduce traffic volumes on a street. Median barriers prevent left turns from the through street and left turns and through moves from the cross street.
Median barriers are very effective in reducing volumes.
Separate opposing vehicle travel lane
Prevent vehicle from passing other vehicles
Depending on location, may improve safety through access limitations
Can be designed with breaks in the landscaping to provide pedestrian refuge
May visually enhance the street through landscaping
|May require major parking removal
Prohibit or limit access and movement (from driveways)
May have a negative impact on emergency services because of access limitations
Median barriers cost approximately $10,000-20,000.
Medians may not significantly affect curbside parking opportunities, but sometimes parking would be prohibited to accommodate the remaining turning movements or to make room for a wider median barrier.
Transit Service Impacts:
Median barriers would prevent transit service on the blocked street.
Emergency Services Impacts:
The turn restrictions imposed by a median barrier would apply to emergency vehicles and are not typically used to block a primary fire response route.
Median barriers apply to all drivers, including local residents. Very special care must be taken to consider the availability, capacity, and appropriateness of the alternative routes drivers might use if a semi-diverter is constructed.
Provision should be made to make median barriers passable for pedestrians and bicyclists.
Examples In Portland:
SE 20th at Harrison Street. SE 20th at Ankeny Street.


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Differentiation often starts with marketing, but it comes alive in the selling process. Even if your agency's products and services are superior to all others, it means nothing if you can't convey that to your buyers.
Differentiation often starts with marketing, but it comes alive in the selling process. Even if your company's products and services are superior to all others, it means nothing if you can't convey that to your buyers.
Differentiating in sales is more than a good pitch—you need to differentiate in the right areas. Here are seven tips to differentiate in the selling process:
1) Differentiate in the right areas. Sales winners differentiate in four areas:
- Yourself: What's the value of working with you? How can you help a buyer achieve their goals?
- Your offerings: What makes your products and services stand out from others on the market?
- Your company: How reputable is your company and what kind of results have other buyers achieved?
- The buyer's results: What does success look like for your buyer? Does it mean less hassle for them? A good return on investment? Something else?
2) Create distinction and scarcity. Differentiation has two major components: overall distinction and the perception of scarcity. Ask a buyer why they chose one provider over another and there's usually a collection of distinctions that ultimately made one stand out. However, these reasons aren't always consciously known to the buyer.
The sellers who win are often the ones who help buyers see what's possible and bring new ideas to the table. When a buyer perceives that something is scarce, it stands out to them, and they tend to desire it more when it's difficult to find.
3) Ditch the unique selling proposition (USP). Many sellers are told they must build and practice perfect delivery of their USP. However, USPs don't account for the buyer's situation, and sellers can rely on them too much.
Often, USPs aren't very unique anyway; one sounds much like the next. Most importantly, they're often not the reason a buyer actually buys. It's far more important to understand your buyer's needs. If your USP helps you get a foot in the door, great, but you'll also need to do your research and craft a compelling solution based on your market position.
4) Proactively reach out to buyers. If you're not proactively looking for sales opportunities, you can guarantee that the buyers who reach out to you already have a solution in mind—and they've likely already made their own judgments and compared you to other organizations. The earlier in the buying process you can reach buyers the better.
5) Base conversations on the buyers' experiences. Early in the selling process, sellers get asked, "How are you different?" Often, the answers aren't great. When you answer, remember that differentiation implies comparison and it's up to the seller to ask, "In comparison to what?"
Do this and you'll create a conversation. The resulting conversation will be much richer than a rehearsed answer and will likely present additional areas in which you can separate yourself from your competition.
6) Practice what you preach. If a key point about your value and differentiation is responsiveness, be responsive. If you're responsive in the selling process and the other sellers aren't, the buyer will assign that value to your company. The other company's delivery teams may claim to be responsive too, but you'll create the perception that your company really is more responsive if you model the behavior.
7) Remember that you make a difference. Not only are you important in winning the sale, but you're also important for ongoing buyer loyalty. People are more willing to buy from people they like. Be genuinely helpful and reliable, and you'll find yourself winning more meetings—and more sales.
Mike Schultz is president of RAIN Group.


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D.A.R.E. stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Education. It is a drug-abuse prevention program that began in Los Angeles in 1983. It is designed to give students knowledge about drug abuse, the consequences of abuse and skills for resisting peer pressure to experiment with drugs, alcohol and tobacco.
In Loudoun County, the D.A.R.E. program is taught in fifth grade by deputies from the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office.A bonus for the program is that the deputies get to interact with students in the cafeteria and on the playground., This gives students the opportunity to interact with law enforcement officers in a positive way. That interaction builds a trust with students and allows them to easily approach law enforcement officers.
The D.A.R.E. program had been matched to Virginia
's Standards of Learning. This allowed the program to be cut from 18 to 10 weeks without a duplication of effort.
Visit the official D.A.R.E.
website to learn more about this program.


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St. Ursula Academy invested in its fine and performing arts curriculum by adding a state-of-the-art piano lab, which can be used by students in grades 6-12 for a variety of music-related courses. The piano lab follows last year's addition of a Black Box Theater to also enhance the performing arts curriculum.
The lab is made up of 11 Yamaha Digital Pianos (10 for students, one for a teacher) controlled by an LC4 Lab Controller System. The LC4 system connects all pianos through headsets, which allows students to work individually, in pairs, or in groups. This setup is identical to that offered in university music departments and select high schools around the country. In addition to teaching music and techniques at the piano, the goal of the piano lab is to instill music fundamentals that students may apply to any area of music.
Features of the pianos include 88 weighted keys, with a touch similar to an acoustic piano, as well as the ability to change instrument sounds. For example, students can play 10 different parts of a musical composition, each with a different "instrument." Music faculty member Kristina Perna said, "Often, I'll have students play in ensembles and choose an 'intelligent' instrumentation. For example, we might structure the lesson such that lower sounds might be a cello or trombone, while higher sounds could be a flute or violin."
The Collegiate Block schedule at SUA—where students have four 80-minute classes each semester—allows time for students to learn a subject in more depth. The piano class taught in the lab is a perfect example of a curriculum that needs the extra time for students to learn and practice to master the material.
- Performing Arts


- END %] [% WRAPPER subsection title = "throw(\$error_type, \$error_message, \\\$output)" -%]
Raises an exception in the form of a Template::Exception object by calling die(). This method may be passed a reference to an existing Template::Exception object; a single value containing an error message which is used to instantiate a Template::Exception of type 'undef'; or a pair of values representing the exception type and info from which a Template::Exception object is instantiated. e.g.
 $context->throw("I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that");
 $context->throw('denied', "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that");
The optional third parameter may be a reference to the current output buffer. This is then stored in the exception object when created, allowing the catcher to examine and use the output up to the point at which the exception was raised.
 $output.= 'blah blah blah';
 $output.='more rhubarb';
 $context->throw('yack', 'Too much yacking', \$output);
[%- END %] [% WRAPPER subsection title = "catch(\$exception, \\\$output)" -%]
Catches an exception thrown, either as a reference to a Template::Exception object or some other value. In the latter case, the error string is promoted to a Template::Exception object of 'undef' type. This method also accepts a reference to the current output buffer which is passed to the Template::Exception constructor, or is appended to the output buffer stored in an existing Template::Exception object, if unique (i.e. not the same reference). By this process, the correct state of the output buffer can be reconstructed for simple or nested throws.
[%- END %] [% WRAPPER subsection title = "define_block(\$name, \$block)" -%]
Adds a new block definition to the internal BLOCKS cache. The first argument should contain the name of the block and the second a reference to a Template::Document object or template sub-routine, or template text which is automatically compiled into a template sub-routine. Returns a true value (the sub-routine or Template::Document reference) on success or undef on failure. The relevant error message can be retrieved by calling the error() method.
[%- END %] [% WRAPPER subsection title = "define_filter(\$name, \\&filter, \$is_dynamic)" -%]
Adds a new filter definition by calling the store() method on each of the LOAD_FILTERS providers until accepted (in the usual case, this is accepted straight away by the one and only Template::Filters provider). The first argument should contain the name of the filter and the second a reference to a filter subroutine. The optional third argument can be set to any true value to indicate that the subroutine is a dynamic filter factory. Returns a true value or throws a 'filter' exception on error.
[%- END %] [% WRAPPER subsection title = "localise(\\%vars)" -%]
Clones the stash to create a context with localised variables. Returns a reference to the newly cloned stash object which is also stored internally.
 $stash = $context->localise();
[%- END %] [% WRAPPER subsection title = "delocalise()" -%]
Restore the stash to its state prior to localisation.
 $stash = $context->delocalise();
[%- END %] [% WRAPPER subsection title = "visit(\\%blocks)" -%]
This method is called by Template::Document objects immediately before they process their content. It is called to register any local BLOCK definitions with the context object so that they may be subsequently delivered on request.
[%- END %] [% WRAPPER subsection title = "leave()" -%]
Compliment to visit(), above. Called by Template::Document objects immediately after they process their content.
[%- END %] [% WRAPPER subsection title = "reset()" -%]
Clears the local BLOCKS cache of any BLOCK definitions. Any initial set of BLOCKS specified as a configuration item to the constructor will be reinstated.
[%- END %] [% WRAPPER subsection title = "AUTOLOAD" -%]
An AUTOLOAD method provides access to context configuration items.
 $stash = $context->stash();
 $tflag = $context->trim();
 $epflag = $context->eval_perl();
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[%- END %] [% WRAPPER section title="SEE ALSO" -%]
[% ttlink('Template', 'Template') -%], [% ttlink('Template::Document', 'Template::Document') -%], [% ttlink('Template::Exception', 'Template::Exception') -%], [% ttlink('Template::Filters', 'Template::Filters') -%], [% ttlink('Template::Plugins', 'Template::Plugins') -%], [% ttlink('Template::Provider', 'Template::Provider') -%], [% ttlink('Template::Service', 'Template::Service') -%], [% ttlink('Template::Stash', 'Template::Stash') -%]
[%- END %]


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Powerful Owl siblings growing up in Taronga Wildlife Hospital Rehabiliitation Aviaries
Two fledgling Powerful Owls (Ninox strenua) were admitted to the Taronga Zoo Wildlife Hospital, two weeks apart. The owls were siblings being raised by their parents in Bayview, and their progress had been monitored by local residents and wildlife carers. It was thought that the parents of these birds had abandoned them and the birds were struggling to find food.
They spent three months together in the hospital's rehabilitation aviaries gaining condition and strength, before being released late one night in December back to Bayview, with assistance from the local residents who found them.
(Wildlife arrival numbers 09B269 and 09B287)
Wildlife Hospital - Taronga Zoo


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Rule-Based Modeling as an Analysis Tool
Implications for Resource Allocation Within the Strategic Air Command
Examines the potential of rule-based modeling as an analysis tool for investigating resource allocation policy issues. Focus is on resource allocation within B-52 flying organizations of the Strategic Air Command (SAC). A rule-based computer system, DOSS (Decision Oriented Scheduling System), is demonstrated to provide a valid model of many variables that affect resource allocation of aircrews and aircraft. DOSS is then used to analyze effects on wing performance of several alternative decision rules and policies. Analysis focuses on the capability of SAC bomb wings, given current resources, to increase the SAC alert force and to fly more training sorties. The analysis has implications for the particular policy issues examined, but its more general aim is to illustrate the potential of DOSS for examining a broad range of resource allocation policy issues within SAC. A number of implications are discussed regarding the potential of rule-based modeling for improving organizational decisionmaking in general.


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Earning power refers to how well a business can perform financially. Having earning power involves adhering to prescribed accounting habits while making good profit at the same time. Also, earning power can only be recognized if such profits are generated on top of the ability to fulfill all of the company's financial obligations. This includes proper payment of wages and maintenance of its infrastructure and other assets.
By being able to prove its ability to maintain its earning power, a business is able to place itself in a good position with financial institutions. Many times, companies find that even if they have sufficient assets to cover the purchase of additional assets, they can profit much more by loaning the necessary amount from banks. This practice is known as leveraging. For companies to be able to address their leveraging needs and get the best loan deals, they should show themselves to be financially stable and therefore capable of repaying their loans when they are due. One of the best way to show this is to demonstrate earning power.
Showing earning power does not only send a positive signal to banks, but it also serves to encourage investors. Prospective investors are more likely to be encouraged to buy shares from a company which is able to show that it can sustain consistent profits over a long period of time.
Companies and financial institutions may use a variety of methods in order to gauge earning power. The choice of method really depends on the specific information required, such as the company's attitude towards reinvestment, or how much profit it is capable of making within a given period of time.


Sun Studio 12: Debugging a Program With dbx
When you instruct print to stride across a slice of an array, dbx evaluates certain elements in the slice only, skipping over a fixed number of elements between each one it evaluates.
The third expression in the array slicing syntax, stride-expression, specifies the length of the stride. The value of stride-expression specifies the elements to print. The default stride value is 1, meaning: evaluate all of the elements in the specified slices.
Here is the same array used in the previous example of a slice. This time the print command includes a stride of 2 for the slice in the second dimension.
print arr(201:203, 101:105:2)
As shown in the diagram, a stride of 2 prints every second element, skipping every other element.
Diagram of an array with columns 100 through 106 and
rows 200 through 205. Elements in columns 101, 103, and 105 of rows 201 through
203 are shaded.
For any expression you omit, print takes a default value equal to the declared size of the array. Here are examples showing how to use the shorthand syntax.
For a one-dimensional array, use the following commands:
print arr
Prints the entire array with default boundaries.
print arr(:)
Prints the entire array with default boundaries and default stride of 1.
print arr(::stride-expression)
Prints the entire array with a stride of stride-expression.
For a two-dimensional array, the following command prints the entire array.
print arr
To print every third element in the second dimension of a two-dimensional array, type:
print arr (:,::3)


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This document addresses some of the frequently asked questions and common concerns regarding the Cluster Verification Utility (CVU), aka the cluvfy tool.
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 - What is Cluster Verification Utility (CVU)? What are its objectives and features?
 CVU is a utility that is distributed with Oracle Clusterware. It was developed to assist in the installation and configuration of Oracle Clusterware as well as RAC. CVU will verify all the important components that are needed at different stages in configuring a RAC environment. The wide domain of verification provided by CVU ranges from initial hardware setup through fully operational cluster for RAC deployment and covers all the intermediate stages of installation and configuration of various components. The command line tool is cluvfy. Cluvfy is a non-intrusive utility and will not adversely affect the system or operational stack.
 - What is a stage?
 - What is a component?
 CVU supports the notion of Component verification. The verifications in this category are not associated with any specific stage. The user can verify the correctness of a specific cluster component. A component can range from a basic one, like free disk space to a complex one like Oracle Clusterware Stack. The integrity check for the Oracle Clusterware stack will transparently span over verification of multiple sub-components associated with Oracle Clusterware stack. Bundling of several relevant tasks as a component is of great use to the user for verifying a specific cluster component.
 - What is nodelist?
 A nodelist is a comma separated list of hostnames without domain. Cluvfy will run the requested verification on all nodes in the nodelist provided. Cluvfy will ignore any domain while processing the nodelist. If duplicate entities after removing the domain exist, cluvfy will eliminate the duplicate names while processing. Wherever supported, you can use '-n all' to check on all the cluster nodes. Check "Do I have to type the nodelist every time for the CVU commands? Is there any shortcut?" for more information on nodelist and shortcuts.
 - What is a configuration file?
 CVU supports a configuration file called cvu_config under CV_HOME/cv/admin folder. This file supports property-value style preferences in a persistent way. This might vary depending upon the platform. Here is a brief description of some of those properties:
 This property can take a value of the Oracle release that should be assumed when -r option is not specified in the command line. The valid values that can be set are: 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2 or 12.1. If this property is not set then the default is 12gR2.
 This property stores a comma separated list of nodes to be used for all the nodes in the cluster. This value will be used for "-n all" argument on the command line. For detail refer to "Do I have to type the nodelist every time for the CVU commands? Is there any shortcut?".
 If this property is set to TRUE, then CVU will perform scsi disk discovery and sharedness checks. For Linux platforms, CVU requires the cvuqdisk rpm installed on all nodes if this property is set. For detail refer to "What is 'cvuqdisk' rpm? Why should I install this rpm?".
 This property is used in cases where CVU can not detect or support a particular platform or a distribution. It is not recommend to change this property as this might render CVU non-functional.
 If this property is set to TRUE, CVU will also check whether X-Windows is configured with SSH for user equivalence. For detail, refer to "How do I check if SSH is configured properly on my cluster?".
 This property stores alternative remote shell command location.
 This property stores alternative remote copy command location.
 By default, command line parser uses CRS active version for the display of command line syntax usage and syntax validation, use this property to pass a version other than CRS active version for command line syntax display and validation.
 Use this property to choose the location in which CVU generates the trace files, set it to the absolute path of the desired trace directory.
 Use this property to specify the location of the browser to be used to display HTML report. By default, /usr/bin/mozilla is used.
 Use this property to specify the maximum number of retries for discovering DHCP server
 This property specifies the maximum CVU trace files size (in multiples of 100 MB). The default multiplier is 1.
 - What about discovery? Does CVU discover installed components?
 At present, CVU's discovery is limited to the following components. CVU discovers available network interfaces if you do not specify any interface in its command line. For storage related verification, CVU discovers all the supported storage types if you do not specify a particular storage. CVU discovers CRS HOME if one is available. CVU also discovers the statically configured nodelist for the cluster if a 3rd-party vendor clusterware or Oracle Clusterware is available.
 - What about locale? Does CVU support other languages?
 Yes. CVU complies to Oracle's NLS guidelines and supports locale.
 - How do I report a bug?
 Please refer to the "What are the known issues with this release?" section of ths document and the README file before filing a bug. If the issue is not covered in those documents, open a TAR through Oracle Support.
 - What version of Oracle Clusterware or RAC is supported by CVU?
 CVU is backward compatible. It supports all the Oracle releases starting from 10.1 to 12.2.
 - What are the requirements for CVU?
 - An area with at least 644MB on Linux X86-64, 583MB Solaris SPARC64, 555MB on Solaris X64 and 970 MB on HPUX IA64 of free space for containing software bits on the invocation node.
 - A work directory with at least 9.5MB on all the nodes. CVU will attempt to copy the necessary bits as required to this location. Make sure, the location exists on all nodes and it has write permission for CVU user. This directory is set through the CV_DESTLOC environment variable. If this variable is not set, CVU will use the common temporary location such as "/tmp" for Linux and "C:\Temp" for Windows as the work dir.
 - An optional package 'cvuqdisk' is required on all the nodes for Linux distributions. This assists CVU in finding scsi disks and helps CVU to perform storage checks on disks. Please refer to What is 'cvuqdisk' rpm? for detail.
 - How do I install CVU from OTN?
 Here is how one can install CVU from a zip file(cvupack_.zip) downloaded from OTN:
 1. Create a CV home( say /home/username/mycvhome ) directory. It should have at least 35M of free disk space.
 2. cd /home/username/mycvhome
 3. copy the cvupack_.zip file to /home/username/mycvhome
 4. unzip the file:
 > unzip cvupack.zip
 5. (Optional) Set the environmental variable CV_DESTLOC. This should point to a writable area on *all* nodes. When invoked, the tool will attempt to copy the necessary bits as required to this location. Make sure the location exists on all nodes and it has write permission for CVU user. It is strongly recommended that you should set this variable. If this variable has not been set, CVU will use "/tmp" as the default.
 > setenv CV_DESTLOC /tmp/cvu_temp
 To verify, run cluvfy from /bin directory (typically /home/username/mycvhome/bin/cluvfy). This should show the usage.
 For Linux platforms, an optional rpm package 'cvuqdisk' is required on all the nodes. Please refer to How do I install 'cvuqdisk' package? for detail.
 - What is 'cvuqdisk' rpm? Why should I install this rpm?
 cvuqdisk is applicable on Linux platforms only.
 When this package is installed on all the nodes, CVU performs discovery and shared storage accessibility checks for scsi disks. Otherwise, it complains about the missing package 'cvuqdisk'. You can disable the scsi device check feature by setting the CV_RAW_CHECK_ENABLED to FALSE in $CV_HOME/cv/admin/cvu_config file. CVU will not complain about the missing rpm if this variable is set to false.
 - How do I install 'cvuqdisk' package?
 Here are the steps to install cvuqdisk package.
 1. Become root user
 2. Copy the rpm ( cvuqdisk-1.0.7-1.rpm or the latest version ) to a local directory. You can find the rpm in /rpm directory where is the directory in which you have installed CVU from OTN.
 export CVUQDISK_GRP=dba
 4. Erase any existing package
 rpm -e cvuqdisk


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Are there things in your life that makes you sad? This little polar bear can name plenty. Follow along with the baby polar bear as he leaves his cozy den for the first time. The snow is cold, his tummy rumbles with hunger, and the ice he walks with his Mommy is thin and dangerous. Despite the sadness he feels as he misses his home, his Mommy reminds him that there are things to be happy about, even when they feel sad.
Filled from cover to cover with bright pictures of polar bears and the icy tundra of the Arctic, What Makes Me Sad? will assure your child that it's okay to be sad sometimes. Use the discussion questions at the back of this book to teach your child about the important topic of global warming and the need to protect both the polar bears and the planet, as well as help your child recognize their emotions and make connections to the world around them. What Makes Me Sad? will comfort your child with the knowledge that everyone feels sad sometimes, and you can rely on the people who love you to help you feel happy again.


How do I remove files older than a certain date, like logs and sessions?
The UNIX find utility is disabled for performance reasons. In order to find older files and delete them, one must create a script that performs similar logic.
Below is a way to do this using a PHP script and a HTML form as a cron job alternative.
 1. Notes
 2. The HTML form
 3. The PHP script
Before implementing your script for deletion of older files,know the following:
This is not designed to be used as a cron job. If you want to use as a cron job, do one of the following:
 - Hard code the arguments passed over HTML GET
 - OR
 - Pass the arguments on the CLI and use argv[0] and argv[1].
Example 1
ex1 $dir = opendir("/mnt/stor1-wc1-dfw1/111111/") or die("Could not open directory");
Example 2
ex2 $dir = opendir($argv[0)) or die("Could not open directory");
This form will allow anyone that can access it to delete your content. You'll want to secure it with an.htaccess file. You can also delete the form when you're done with it.
The HTML form
The HTML form that sends the directory and age to the PHP script is as follows:

 Directory:
 Days Old:

The PHP script
The PHP script that takes args from HTML GET query string can be constructed as follows:
 * DISCLAIMER: Use at your own risk. Rackspace claims no responsibility for any loss of data that occurs when using this script.
 * Pass from a HTML form the directory to be searched eg. /mnt/stor1-wc1-dfw1/111111/
 * Pass from a HTML form the age of files to be deleted in days. eg. "10" is any files that have not been modifed in 10 days
$dir = opendir($_GET["dir"]) or die("Could not open directory");
$old = mktime(0,0,0,date("m"),date("d")-$_GET["days"],date("Y"));
echo "Working in ".$_GET["dir"]."";
echo "Deleting files created before ".date("F d Y", $old)."";
while(($dirent = readdir($dir)) != false)
 $cur = filemtime($dirent);
 if($cur < $old)
 echo "$dirent modified ".date("F d Y H:i:s",$cur)."";
 echo "Error deleting file $dirent";
 echo "$dirent modified ".date("F d Y H:i:s",$cur)."";
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The Probation retention initiative is designed for continuing WKU students who have an academic standing of academic probation. These students must earn a 2.0 GPA for the current semester to avoid being academically dismissed from WKU.
Students agree to:
- Attend BEP Workshops to plan for the semester and to improve academic skills to make
them better students.
- 10 weekly sessions, 55-minutes each
- Compose a reflection paper detailing the overall BEP experience.
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3 Ways To Improve Your IT
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Increase Your Productivity with Multiple Monitors
Dual Monitor SetupConventional wisdom says that messy work spaces lead to a disorganised mind. Mess prevents productivity and begins to hamper your professionalism. Shouldn't that also apply to the computer desktop?
The easiest way to clean and organise your digital desktop is to add more space and the simplest way to do this is by adding another screen. This doubles the available room and makes organisation a breeze.
Getting work done with a single-monitor involves wasted time switching between windows and distracts from the work being done. Stacking windows together, side-by-side, or top and bottom on a single monitor wastes valuable screen real estate. The resulting clutter of windows also makes it hard to focus on what is important.
While tasks can be tackled feasibly with a single monitor; two or more monitors makes the same tasks faster, simpler, and much more enjoyable.
Two Monitors, Many Uses
Data entry with two monitors is far easier than data entry with one. Having source data on one screen, laid out in large type, and the destination on another makes the job a breeze. By eliminating the need to scroll tiny windows means that the same job can be done in a fraction of the time.
Graphic design, image manipulation, and picture editing are key areas that make the most of a multiple screen setup.
Beyond Just Two
You can have tasks such as those below on a second or third screen, while keeping your main monitor free to focus on your immediate work:
 - A team chat window to keep on top of collaboration
 - Status updates for business-critical services
 - Latest stock prices
 - Emails
It is not uncommon for stock traders or financial analysts to maintain 6 or more screens!
Many uses this to track various stocks or indices so they don't miss any changes.
Setup How You Like It
Multiple monitors can be arranged in many different configurations. While traditionally positioned in landscape orientation, second, third, or fourth monitors can also be rotated 90 degrees to portrait orientation.
This portrait orientation is commonly used often by software engineers, editors and other users who need to review a large amount of text. The lengthwise orientation allows multiple pages to be read from the screen at any one time.
Multi-screen setups behave the same as if all the monitors were just a single screen, no matter how they are arranged. The mouse moves seamlessly from one monitor to another as if there was no difference between them. From the user's perspective, there is no difference as to how they interact at all.
A Boost to Productivity
A survey by Jon Peddie research found that adding an extra monitor boosted a user's output by as much as 20 to 30 percent! A productivity advantage of even 10 percent is prized and very hard to come by in the business world. Receiving a productivity reward of over 20 percent for just the cost of adding a second monitor is something few firms can afford to pass up.
So if you are in Adelaide, South Australia, give us a call to add a second or third monitor to your current setup – 08 8326 4364 or _EMAIL_.


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The role of mobile telephony on creating competitive advantage in the informal sector business in Kenya:a survey of Muthurwa Open Market
Kimani, Mwaura Reuben
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The purpose of this study was to examine the role of mobile phones on creating competitive advantage in the informal sector businesses in Kenya. The study employed a descriptive research design to explore the impact of mobile phones on the growth and survival of informal sectors business in Kenya. In particular, the current study searched to answer the question "What is the role of mobile phones on creating competitive advantage by the informal sector businesses in Kenya?" The study also sought to determine whether the use of mobile phones reduces the costs of operation, increase sales, improve business growth and meet customers' needs. The scope of the study was limited to the informal sector businesses within Nairobi county particularly Muthurwa open market. The population of interest consisted of all the operators at Muthurwa open-market. The target population composed of 1200 operators. From the sampling frame, 150 respondents from the various categories were be involved. The respondents were selected using stratified random sampling. The population was stratified on the basis of category of informal sector business operated. The data collection method for this research was a questionnaire. A draft questionnaire was presented to ten respondents from two informal business categories after which it was redesigned based on the feedback. The questionaire was administered through drop and pick method. A interview was administered to respondents who would not read and write. The collected data was edited, coded and tabulated then entered into a personal computer for analysis using the statistical packages, SPSS and Microsoft Excel. The collected data was the analyzed based on the objective of the study. A systematic presentation of both quantitative and qualitative was done using graphs and pie charts. Challenges facing informal sector businesses were identified and how the use of mobile phones have tried to solve the identified challenges. From the analysis of the data collected, the researcher summarizes the various findings from the study on how mobile telephony had impacted on the informal sector businesses. The researcher further suggest in depth study to be carried out on how the use of mobile telephony can enhance survival of informal sector businesses in a dynamic competitive environment.


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Competition potential between sauger and walleye in non-native sympatry: historical trends and resource overlap in the Middle Missouri River, Montana
Title: Competition potential between sauger and walleye in non-native sympatry: historical trends and resource overlap in the Middle Missouri River, Montana
Creator: Bellgraph, Brian Joseph
Description: Sauger Sander canadensis populations throughout Montana and North America have exhibited declines over the past few decades. Sauger population abundance declined in the middle Missouri and Yellowstone rivers of Montana in the mid-1980s following a period of drought. Higher flows resulted in a rebound of the lower Yellowstone River population; however, the middle Missouri River population has remained at low abundance. Various factors may contribute to the reduced population abundance of sauger in the middle Missouri River, including interspecific competition with walleye Sander vitreus. Historical trend data of sauger and walleye were assessed to determine long-term trends of sauger and walleye fitness. To assess competition potential, seasonal migrations, habitat use, and diets of both species were compared in the middle Missouri River. Trophic position of sauger was also compared between the middle Missouri and Yellowstone rivers to evaluate the trophic status of sauger in sympatry and allopatry with walleye. Sauger and walleye were tracked using radio telemetry to establish and compare seasonal migrations. Habitat use was compared at three hierarchical scales, diets were collected on fish sampled using electrofishing, and diet overlap was calculated. Trophic position was calculated using stable isotope analysis. Historical trend data indicated that sauger and walleye are currently at low abundance and sauger had low relative weights, which is likely due to low prey availability. Prior to the presumed spawning period, 96% of the sauger and 57% of the walleye migrated downstream as far as 273 km. After spawning, both species returned to previously-occupied river reaches and demonstrated site fidelity during the non-migratory season. Habitat use and selection by sauger and walleye were similar at all three hierarchical scales. Diet overlap was high during the spring [0.72 (SE=0.003)] and summer [0.95 (SE=0.0008)] and moderate during autumn [0.49 (SE=0.003)]. Sauger trophic position differed statistically between the middle Missouri and Yellowstone rivers; however, the biological consequences of the difference are uncertain. Overall, resource overlap of sauger and walleye in the middle Missouri River, Montana suggests that competition potential between these species is high, which may preclude the recovery of native sauger populations if resources are limiting.
Document Type: Masters
Contributor: Guy, Christopher S. (committee chairperson)
Committee Members: Billie Kerans, Thomas McMahon
Program: Fish and Wildlife Management
Publisher: Montana State University
Date Created: 2006-05-15
Access Rights: Accessible under copyright for educational purposes.


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Pronunciation: (klam'shel"), [key]
1. the shell of a clam.
a. Also called clam'shell buck"et. a dredging bucket opening at the bottom, consisting of two similar pieces hinged together at the top.
b. a machine equipped with such a bucket.
3. Print.a platen press.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.


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Mosquito Barrier is a very strong liquid garlic. Spraying garlic to repel insects is not new, farmers and gardeners have practiced this for generations.Mosquito Barrier is registered for Domestic Use in Canada only. Mosquito Barrier can not be used by Commercial Applicators in Canada.
- The garlic used for mosquito barrier is very potent, much different than what you would find in a grocery store.
- The garlic odour of Mosquito Barrier is undetectable to humans within hours after being sprayed.
- Garlic also contains a natural sulfur, which repels mosquitoes and other insects.
- Mosquitoes are soft bodied insects and Mosquito Barrier is repulsive to them.
- The solution will not harm humans, pets, plants, bees, or butterflies.
- When Mosquito Barrier is initially sprayed, it repels mosquitoes and other insects. It is intended to coat leaf surfaces of grass, Ornamentals and lower leaves of trees. This provides a long lasting Barrier that repels the targeted insects.
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This week in science we want you to;
Watch this clip:
 - Stranded! - Imagine being stranded on a desert island. The desert island has nothing from home on it. It has sun, sea, sand and a bit of shelter, but nothing else. What would you really miss from home if you were stuck on this island for a long time? What would make you happy? What would your needs be? You could even try and create your own desert island!
 - Survival list - Write a list with two headings 'Things I need to survive', 'Things I need for happiness'. Explain your reason for each item on your list. You could even put your list inside a plastic bottle and add it to your desert island!
 - Pet survival kit - If you had your pet on the island, how would your list change? What would your pet need to survive? Could it survive on the same things as you? You could even create a pet survival list too.
 Beside the Seaside
Use the 'Features of a seaside' powerpoint to learn about human(man-made) and physical (natural) features of a seaside.
 - Seaside sort – sort seaside features into Physical and Human. You could write, draw or use pictures to show what the different features are.
 - Seaside glossary – write an explanation for each feature in your list,
e.g. Cliffs – the edge of land that drops steeply down to the sea.
Happy V Sad Mind
During lockdown you might have had different feelings going on in your mind. Sometimes you will have felt sad and sometimes you will have felt happy.
 - Use the activity sheet to draw or write words inside them to describe what is happening in our mind when you feel happy and sad. Is there something or someone that helps you feel happy again?
 - Create a happiness box and put a note inside with something that makes you feel happy. You could even decorate it with the things that make you happy!


How We Went From Magic Cookies To The Art Of Misdirection
When the first digital identity trackers were conceived in the nascent days of the web in the early 1990s, they were originally coined "magic cookies."
The term came from a concept already utilized by computer programmers, but early web developers lent the name to HTTP cookies, because they envisioned these new identity trackers would enable all sorts of content and commerce to be delivered and exchanged over the internet.
They were right. But fast-forward to the privacy-savvy 2020s, and the term magic takes on an entirely new connotation: the art of misdirection.
While many consumers have some implicit knowledge why digital identity trackers exist, most don't understand what the explicit value exchange is with publishers and marketers.
As a result, watch as the majority of them perform a disappearing act as soon as they can.
According to a new study released this week by apps attribution analysts AppsFlyer and the Mobile Marketing Association, three-quarters of American smartphone users are likely to opt out of having their identity tracked as soon as they receive an IDFA notice like the one Apple is about to introduce.
What's remarkable to me is that 27% are likely to opt into continuing to have their identity tracked, which underscores the dichotomy of knowledge about the implicit value exchange between digital media and the people who consume it.
Not surprisingly, the study also finds that younger consumers are more likely to accept identity trackers, which either indicates they are more knowledgeable -- or that they are just culturally attuned to being tracked.
The study also indicates that slight majorities of consumers understand that apps use their identity for two purposes: to target them with ads and/or to improve their user experiences, but without an explicit understanding of which apps do so and when -- and perhaps most importantly, how individual users benefit explicitly from sharing their identity.
Instead, the whole process is likely to feel like, well, smoke and mirrors.
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