The High Queen of the Amazons, beset on all sides by enemies, ponders on how to ensure the survival of her new kingdom.
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Hippolyta is a Homeric-historical and playable character featured in Total War Saga: Troy. She is an Epic Archer Hero, part of the Amazon culture group. Her campaign is only playable after obtaining the Amazons DLC.
Background[edit | edit source]
A seasoned veteran by the time of the Trojan War, her previously fiery character had been tempered by years of fighting such legendary figures as Theseus and Heracles. Also a skilled diplomat, she was a consummate peacemaker whole single obsession was the establishment of an Amazon kingdom that would endure the ages.₋₋₋[sic]
In mythology, Hippolyta was Ares' daughter, and the Olympian bestowed upon her a magic girdle to symbolise her rule. It was this item that Heracles was tasked to retrieve for his ninth labour - the legendary warrior stealing Hippolyta's prized belt and sailing away with it.₋₋₋[sic]
Personality[edit | edit source]
Hippolyta was the queen of the Amazons at the end of the Bronze Age. While the younger Penthesilea led their vengeful sisters to war, she was chiefly concerned with securing a peaceful future for her people.
Campaign[edit | edit source]
Remain cautious of the Achaeans settled in Asia while Troy gathers their forces.
Maeonians from the north and east seek to destroy the Amazon capital of Anthea. Lord Sarpedon of Lycia may prove to be an invaluable ally against the Maeonians, provided the queen agrees to aid him in expelling the Achaeans from Crete.
Playstyle[edit | edit source]
Amazons are slowly coming together as a people behind their ruler's ultimate ambitionthe establishment of the first Amazon kingdom. Hippolyta has taken her people to their ancient birth place. These settlements are considered sacred, and will provide Amazon treasures which can be distributed when performing various feats within the faction, in turn speeding up any undertaking be it improving the armies, upgrading settlements, or to secure new treaties.
Amazons can directly recruit only their most basic units. Once a unit has proven itself by campaigning and gained experience, it can be initiated into the Amazon war mysteries to become more powerful unit.
Amazons were the first to adopt fighting on horseback and have access to cavalry units. Hippolyta's armies are based around mobility and long-range engagement and rely on spear-infantry, archers and chariots.
A Total War Saga: Troy Homeric characters
Epic Archer Aegisthus・Hippolyta・Bathycles・Crethon・Lycomedes・Odysseus・Pandaros・Paris・Teucer
Epic Defender Agenor・Ajax・Alcimedon・Amphimachos・Anchialos・Antenor・Automedon・Deileon・Epeios・Glaucos・Hector・Idomeneus・Menoetes・Nestor・Orestes
Epic Fighter Achilles・Aesymnos・Ajax the lesser・Alcimedes・Alcimos・Amphidamas・Deiphobos・Demoleon・Diomedes・Eudoros・Helenos・Hippomenes・Hypsenor・Leucos・Melanippos・Menelaus・Meriones・Patroclus・Penthesilea・Polydorus
Epic Warlord Aeneas・Alcamon・Alcinus・Agamemnon・Agapenor・Amphilochos・Antiphates・Antiphos・Archelochos・Euryalos・Eurymedon・Mecisteus・Menestheus・Mynes・Oileus・Orsilochos・Phaenops・Polydamas・Sarpedon・Telephos


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How to register a marriage in Nigeria
Following is a guideline on how to register a marriage in the Federal Republic of Nigeria under Nigerian law. Please note that Nigerian authorities do not usually require an Australian citizen to provide a Certificate of No Impediment to Marriage (CNI) when registering a marriage.
- Marriage is registered at a local public registry, which requires a Letter of Marriage Intention and payment of a fee of Naira 2,000.
- A person under 18 years of age, who wishes to register a marriage, is required to present a letter of consent from his or her parents.
- The registry will display the Letter of Marriage Intention for 21 days on a public notice board.
- Provided that no objection to the intended marriage is made during the 21 day period, a couple may then register their marriage.
- Birth certificates or official documents showing the ages of the couple are required together with the results of HIV and genotype tests.
- A divorcee must produce a divorce certificate, while a widow or a widower is required to present the death certificate of the late spouse.
- A marriage registrar may witness the exchange of oaths by the couple.

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Every organisation that works with children needs to have someone that takes the lead on safeguarding and child protection. We refer to them as a nominated child protection lead but they may also be known as:
- Designated Safeguarding Officer (DSO)
- Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL)
- "Named person" for child protection
- Child protection officer
- Child protection lead
- Safeguarding or child protection coordinator.
The role may be performed by one person or split between staff. Larger organisations may have a safeguarding team. Boards of governors, trustees and management committees should also have someone who is responsible for safeguarding. In some organisations the nominated child protection lead also has other roles to perform.
You should also make sure that you have procedures in place to respond to child protection concerns when your nominated lead is absent or unavailable. This could include nominating someone who is trained to act as a deputy. You can also contact the NSPCC Helpline for advice or to report any concerns. Make sure that you keep clear records and communicate what's happened and the steps you've taken to your nominated child protection lead on their return.
Example role description for nominated child protection lead
We've created an example role description which you can use to make sure everyone in your organisation understands the important role of the nominated child protection lead. It should be used in conjunction with our information and resources on safeguarding and child protection.
Everyone who is taking the lead on safeguarding and child protection should be fully trained to carry out their role.


Unidentified Late Hellenistic Buildings (1-3)
by Anandi Salinas
6 years ago
Late Hellenistic period, 2nd century B.C. or later
Western Hill
Local vuggy crystalline limestone with marble thresholds
Western Hill Bldg 3
Three relatively small, rectangular buildings made of local sandstone are aligned along the western perimeter of the Sanctuary, north of the Stoa on the Western Hill and west of the large unfinished Hellenistic structure (Building A) of an earlier date. The northern two buildings (1 and 2) faced each other, while the southern-most building (3) was oriented toward the south. Building 1, the largest, had a hexastyle prostyle porch, most likely of the Doric order. Building 2 had a porch composed of two columns in antis. In Building 3, pillars rather than columns formed the two supports of the façade. In scale and design these three buildings resemble treasuries found at other Greek sanctuaries such as Delphi, Olympia, Nemea and Delos. However, their function at Samothrace remains uncertain.
Wescoat_39 map Building 3Bibliography:
Lehmann, K. 1998. Samothrace: A Guide to the Excavations and the Museum. 6th ed., rev. J.R. McCredie. Thessaloniki, p. 113.
McCredie, J. R. 1979. "Samothrace; Supplementary Investigations, _PHONE_," Hesperia pp. 24-26.


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In this section, learn about Skin Names, how they provide information about a person's bloodline, how generations are linked and how this sets up systems of reciprocal relationships and responsibilities.
- What are your responsibilities in your community and family? How did you learn these?
- How could you learn how to work with Aboriginal people in your profession?
- How do Aboriginal people relate to their extended parents and grandparents?
- Consider how Skin Names help link families. Why and how would this be important?
- Marriage requirements to monitor bloodlines – why is this important?
- Skin Name and what it means to Aboriginal people.
- Examples of women's roles and men's roles.
- Examples of relations with extended family members.
- Loss of family under 'protection policies' and what this meant for Aboriginal people.


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Purpose: To retrospectively determine the magnetic resonance (MR) and MR spectroscopic imaging features of high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (HGPIN) in patients with prostate cancer. Materials and Methods: Approval of the committee on human research was obtained, with a waiver of consent for this HIPAA-compliant study. Endorectal MR imaging and MR spectroscopic imaging were performed in 48 men (mean age, 59 years; range, 47-75 years) prior to radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer. T2-weighted signal intensity and metabolic ratios of peripheral zone HGPIN foci of 6 mm or greater in diameter were recorded by two readers with knowledge of step-section histopathologic findings using areas of confirmed normal and cancerous peripheral zone tissue for comparison. A random effects statistical model was used to compare metabolic ratios from normal, HGPIN, and cancer voxels. Results: A total of 123 peripheral zone HGPIN foci with a mean diameter of 3 mm (range, 1-28 mm) were identified in 37 (77%) patients, but only 20 foci in 14 patients had a diameter of 6 mm or greater. Six foci were excluded, yielding 14 large HGPIN lesions from 11 patients in the final statistical analysis. The larger HGPIN foci were not associated with any focal reduction in T2-weighted signal intensity but demonstrated metabolic findings intermediate between normal and cancerous tissue; the mean ratios of choline (Cho) to creatine (Cr) for normal, HGPIN, and cancer were 0.92, 1.75, and 1.99, respectively, (P <.01), and the corresponding ratios of Cho plus Cr to citrate were 0.34, 0.50, and 0.78 (P <.01). Conclusion: HGPIN is metabolically intermediate between normal peripheral zone tissue and prostate cancer at MR spectroscopic imaging but does not manifest any MR imaging abnormality and is rarely of sufficient size to cause substantial error in evaluation of peripheral zone tumor extent in patients with prostate cancer.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging


Community Build Documentation
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Community Build Documentation
Post by Dev Builds Team » Fri Jul 03, 2009 3:30
Since the stuff in the community builds is not in the wiki, it only makes sense that things used in the community build should be documented. Without further ado...
DECORATE functions:
A_RadiusPull(int force = 128, int distance = -1, bool affectsource = true)
A_Delay(int delay)
MAPINFO skill stuff:
MonsterHealth = float (relative to 1.0, which equals full health. <1.0 is a scale of less health, and >1.0 is a scale of more health)
FriendlyHealth = float
NoPain (If present, disables pain state for monsters)
New or modified actors:
More invisibility modes are available, including "Stencil", "Additive" and "Opaque".
A very powerful type of powerups, see this thread for more information.
An actor that gives a random inventory item when picked up. It can be used in two ways, one is consistent with the RandomSpawner method (a list of DropItems), the other is consistent with Skulltag's own RandomPowerup item and use the following restricted function to make it change what item it gives:
A_RandomPowerupFrame(class "InventoryItem")
DECORATE property:
Activation: modifies how the actor runs its special when triggered through the BUMPSPECIAL or USESPECIAL flags. The properties are cumulative and flaglike (can be prefixed with + to add them or - to remove them). (In the following, "thing" refers to the actor with a special and either or both of BUMPSPECIAL and USESPECIAL, "trigger" refers to the actor that bumped or used the thing.)
* ThingActs: the thing is the activator of the special, rather than the trigger. (Default behavior is the trigger is the activator.)
* ThingTargets: the thing changes its target to the trigger.
* TriggerTargets: the trigger changes its target to the thing.
* MonsterTrigger: the trigger can be a monster (default behavior is only players can be triggers).
* MissileTrigger: the trigger can be a missile (default behavior is only players can be triggers).
This property, combined with special ACS_Execute or its variants and SetActivatorToTarget, can offer an impressive flexibility for scripting effects.
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A systematic review of qualitative studies capturing the subjective experiences of Gay and Lesbian individuals' of faith or religious affiliation.Individuals identifying as religious tend to report better health and happiness regardless of affiliation, work and family social support or financial status. Evidence suggests that cultural factors are intertwined with these concepts. Exploration of sexual minorities' experiences has been neglected in previous years. Recently, a body of evidence is developing concerning this population, with theoretical speculation for changes of 'stressors' for future generations and implications, particularly, on mental health outcomes. Lesbian and Gay individuals of faith (or spirituality), are susceptible to unique 'stressors', whilst others suggest religion can provide a support network providing protective health benefits. This review systematically explores the existing published evidence for the subjective experiences and accounts of LG people of faith. Sexual minority individuals who follow a religion or faith can experience good social support, reducing the risk of negative health outcomes, while for others, potentially serious, negative mental and physical health consequences are experienced (e.g., internalised homophobia, anxiety, rejection and suicidal ideation).


Bodrum Archeology of Underwater Museum
Bodrum Fortress
Turkey is one of the countries where archeology can be a star scientific branch. In addition to ground archeology, underwater archeology is also important for Turkey due to its location in history. The items of underwater archeology are being exhibited in a museum that was founded in Bodrum underwater museum.
The oldest sunken of the museum
This museum is formed of various halls such as British hall and German hall. Those towers of the fortress are halls of the museum. There are different sections in the museum. Those are about some ancient sunken ships and amphora exhibitions. As we know that the goods such as olive oil and wine were transported in those amphoras.
Amphora section
The oldest sunken ship was dated back to earlier ancient era.Of course it is the replica of the vessel. Also we can see every sort of archeological items that were unearthed in Bodrum including Turkish bath and jewellery.
A relief of ancient era
Also dungeon of the fortress is very impressive because this place is described as "the place that God never exists". It is a classical middle age dungeon.
Briefly it is one of the worth visiting museums of Turkey.
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Traffic cones as the name suggests, are cone shaped marking devices used in various applications as warning signals. Known also as road cones, pylons, highway cones, safety cones, they are temporarily used mostly on road construction sites, and road work areas. Additionally, the reflective cones are often seen ahead and behind a disabled vehicle to warn other drivers that there is a stationary vehicle present in their path. Residentially, parents have taken to use them to warn drivers that a neighborhood event is taking place or there at kids at play. In essence, their usefulness to warn others to exercise caution is unlimited. Now available in many color choices, safety orange still remains the #1 color purchased because of the traditional association of Orange as a color of warning.
A little history about 'traffic cones": they were invented by an American by the name of Charles Scanion in 1943. They were originally made of concrete but with the advent of plastics technology, they are now primarly made with thermoplastics or rubber.


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CyRSV Synonyms: white clover virus
In Cymbidium spp., the virus causes slight chlorotic ring-mottle; it intensifies the symptoms induced by cymbidium mosaic virus when present in mixed infections. In Trifolium repens it produces chlorotic flecks and mottling with slight stunting. However, the symptoms in clover and Cymbidium are not diagnostic. Although highly contagious, the virus has apparently not become widely established in clover pastures.


NCA Rural Canada Policy Statement
The National Citizens Alliance's agenda is Canadians First, and this agenda includes the promotion and enhancement of traditional Canada.
The NCA views rural Canada from coast to coast as the heart and soul of traditional Canada. Therefore, the NCA prioritizes the promotion of rural Canada consistent with its traditional identity, heritage, cultural norms, and values.
The NCA rejects the importation of third world migrants and any cultural norms that are inconsistent with the values and principles of rural Canada as we saw occur in Brooks, Alberta. The NCA rejects globalist trade deals like TPP and FIPPA that undermine independence and sovereignty of rural Canada, and rural entrepreneurship and small businesses. The NCA rejects the political correctness and progressive gender identity politics being pushed on rural Canada.
The NCA stands fully behind rural Canada and its prosperity and security, and we are 100 percent committed to the following:
- Lower federal taxation on rural Canada through implementation of personal and business flat-taxes and immediate end to federal carbon taxation and any other levy on human caused carbon emissions.
- Justice reform with major focus on access to justice and accountability of all those individuals and groups who work within the justice system.
- Rural business development though removing unnecessary regulations and increasing the loans available to rural entrepreneurs and small business owners, including grants for non-renewable energy such as wind and solar power and sustainable agricultural practices such as poly-culture agriculture, beekeeping, and pesticide-free agriculture.
- Establish a national bee pollinator recovery program that focuses on the systemic causes of the bee population decline, and concrete solutions such as poly-culture and pesticide-free agriculture, protection of ideal bee habitat, and incentives for sustainable beekeeping. The NCA moratorium on immigration followed by 50,000 or less will help significantly reduce habitat loss.
- Require power corporations to compensate fairly and accurately for any and all excess energy put into power grids by rural households and businesses.
- Moratorium on immigration that includes a review of immigration intake numbers from the standpoint of economic, environmental, and societal considerations.
- Protection of Canadian industries and businesses from foreign governments flooding the Canadian market with subsidized and inferior product, while ensuring fair treatment of all industries and businesses regardless of what province they are.
The National Citizens Alliance prioritizes rural Canada and its prosperity and security as the heart and soul of traditional Canada. Therefore, a NCA government will do everything in its power to promote and enhance rural Canada. Canadians First.
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Within a VBScript class the Property block allows you to set the value of the property in the class. This statement works in conjunction with the Property Let and Property Get statements and can only be used inside a class inside VBScript– and no where else in the script.
This would in turn be called in VBScript in your function after you create an instance of the class like so:
By default the Property Set statement is public but you can declare it to be private if you need to do so. Since this statement is used in a block, it is required that you end the block with the End Property statement. The block of code will look something like this:
Property Set PropertyName
' Property setting code goes here


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Deep North and Other Travel Sketches (trans. 1967)
18th century
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762) – known for the letters she wrote during several trips abroad, which were important for later female travel writers. These letters include:
- Turkish Embassy Letters – letters describing her life as an ambassador's wife in Turkey, important as one of the earliest discussions of the Muslim world by a woman
- Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
- Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735, a satiric parody of the genre)
- Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
- Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
- Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
- Thomas Jefferson Travels: Selected Writings, _PHONE_ – record of Jefferson's travels in France, Holland, Germany and Italy, included in his Complete Works with selected portions in various collections of his writings.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1743 – 1832)
- Italienische Reise (1816–1817)
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)
- A Short Residence in Sweden (1796)
- Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796)
- Jippensha Ikku (1765–1831)
19th century
- Johann Gottfried Seume (1763–1810)
- Spaziergang nach Syrakus (1803)
- John Quincy Adams (1767–1848)
- Letters on Silesia: Written During a Tour Through That Country in the Years 1800, 1801 (1804)
- Lady Hester Stanhope (1776–1839) – the first modern "Holy Land" archaeologist, also a memoirist:
- Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope as related by herself in Conversations with her Physician (1846)
- Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope, forming the Completion of her Memoirs narrated by her Physician (1847)
- Sir Henry Holland, 1st Baronet (1788–1873)
- Travels in the Ionian Isles, Albania, Thessaly, Macedonia, &c., during the years 1812 and 1813 (1815)
- Georges Clemenceau Au Pied du Sinaï (1898; new ed. 2000). (Travels in Jewish Europe down to Palestine by the future French Prime Minister and WWI leader).
- James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)
- Gleanings in Europe: Switzerland (1836)
- Gleanings in Europe: The Rhine (1836)
- Gleanings in Europe: England (1837)
- Marquis de Custine (1790–1857)
- Empire of the Czar: A Journey Through Eternal Russia (1838)
- Heinrich Heine (1797–1856)
- Reisebilder (1826–33), Harzreise (1853)
- Frances Trollope (1779–1863)
- Washington Irving (_PHONE_)
- Isabella Frances Romer (1798–1852)
- A Pilgrimage to the Temples and Tombs of Egypt, Nubia and Palestine in 1845–6 (1846)
- Flora Tristan (1803–1844)
- Peregrinations of a Pariah (1838)
- Promenades in London (1840)
- Karl Baedeker (1801–1859), German publisher whose company set the standard for authoritative guidebooks for tourists
- Rifa'a el-Tahtawi (1801–1873), Egyptian traveler to France
- Takhlis al-Ibriz fi Talkhis Bariz ("An Imam in Paris: Account of a Stay in France by an Egyptian Cleric (_PHONE_)", 1834)
- George Borrow (1803–1881)
- Susanna Moodie (1803–1885)
- Roughing it in the Bush (1852)
- John Lloyd Stephens (1805–1852)
- Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petræa and the Holy Land (1837)
- Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia and Poland (1838)
- Incidents of Travel in Central American, Chiapas and Yucatan (1841)
- Incidents of Travel in Yucatan (1843)
- Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)
- Journey to America (1831–1832)
- Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875)
- The Improvisatore (1835)
- Charles Darwin (1809–1882)
- The Voyage of the Beagle (1839)
- Alexander Kinglake (1809–1891)
- Eothen (1844)
- Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
- Herman Melville (1819–1891)
- Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) left travel notes and letters, including:
- Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour (publ.1972) letters
- Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913)
- The Malay Archipelago describes eight years exploring Indonesia and other islands
- Henry Walter Bates (1825–1892)
- The Naturalist on the River Amazons (1863) describes 11 years in the Amazon rainforest
- Mary Anne Barker (1831–1911)
- Station Life in New Zealand (1870)
- A Year's Housekeeping in South Africa (1880)
- Isabella Bird (1831–1904) published more than a dozen books on her global travels, including:
- The Englishwoman in America (1856)
- The Hawaiian Archipelago (1875)
- The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither (1883)
- Korea and her Neighbours (1898)
- The Yangtze Valley and Beyond (1899)
- Fran Levstik (1831–1887)
- William Morris (1834–1896)
- Icelandic Journals (1911)
- Mark Twain (1835–1910)
- John Burroughs (1837–1921)
- Fresh Fields (1884)
- William Dean Howells (1837–1920)
- Certain Delightful English Towns (1906)
- Henry James (1843–1916)
- Joshua Slocum (1844–1909)
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)
- Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail (1888)
- Through the Brazilian Wilderness (1914)
- Pandita Ramabai (1858–1922)
- Pandita Ramabai's American Encounter: The Peoples of the United States (1889)
- Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch (1862–1908)
- Enchanted India (1898)
- Mary Kingsley (1862–1900)
- Travels in West Africa (1897)
- J. Smeaton Chase (1864–1923)
- Yosemite Trails (1911)
- California Coast Trails (1913)
- California Desert Trails (1919)
- Nellie Bly (1864–1922)
20th century
- Nagai Kafu American Stories (being diaries of his travels through America, first published in Japanase as Amerika monogatari, 1908), modern ed., Columbia University Press, 2000.
- Octave Mirbeau (1848–1917)
- La 628-E8 (1908)
- Jelena Dimitrijević (1862–1945)
- Letters from Niš Regarding Harems (1897)
- Letters from Salonica on Young Turk Revolution (1918)
- Letters from India (1928)
- Letters from Egypt (1929)
- The New World, alias: In America for a Year (1934)
- Daisy Bates (_PHONE_)
- Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (1867–1951)
- Across Asia from West to East in _PHONE_ (English trans. 1940) – explorations by Czarist spy who would later become President of Finland.
- Norman Douglas (1868–1962)
- Old Calabria (1915)
- Gertrude Bell (_PHONE_)
- Persian Pictures (1894)
- Syria: The Desert and the Sown (1907)
- André Gide (1869–1951)
- Voyage au Congo (1927)
- Le retour de Tchad (1928)
- Retour de l'U. R. S. S. (1936)
- Retouches â mon retour de l'U. R. S. S (1937)
- Ernest Peixotto (1869–1940)
- Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953)
- The Path To Rome (1902) – a ramble by foot from central France to Rome in 1901.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)
- On a Chinese Screen (1922) – vignettes of China in the '30s from the master of the short story.
- Yone Noguchi (1875–1947)
- Isidora Sekulić (1877–1958)
- Pisma iz Norveške / Letters from Norway (1914)
- D. H. Lawrence

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The design museum in Helsinki has a well-displayed reference collection of Finnish design as well as a programme of temporary exhibitions. As it is celebrating its140th anniversary there is a special exhibition now of major design objects with a time line around the walls that traces the history of design in Finland. This line starts in 1630 with instructions from King Gustavus II Adolphus for a collection of historical heritage and later points include the founding of the Fiskars ironworks in1649 and the opening of the Finlayson Cotton Mill in Tampere in 1820.
What this highlights is the uncertainty or ambivalence felt by some designers. Is their role a link to traditional crafts, because part of their work is to understand the process of making, or is their work industrial and therefore mechanical because economic reality and simple practicality dictates that now most furniture or tableware has to be manufactured commercially?
A school of crafts was founded in Helsinki in 1871 but it was in 1873 that the school's teaching collection was organised to form the basis of a Museum of Applied Arts. Many of the objects in the collection came from the Vienna Trade Fair of that year. So, at first, the idea was to teach through showing outstanding examples of craftsmanship. In 1875 a Finnish Society of Crafts was established and the Society then maintained the school and the museum.
From 1878 until 1911 the Keeper of the museum was Ernst Nordström (_PHONE_) who was also principal of the craft school so teaching and learning from crafts of the past were seen as inextricably linked with contemporary design.
The establishment of the design museum in Helsinki reflects the similar history of a move from hand crafted pieces to commercial manufacture in England... remember that the Victoria and Albert Museum was founded both as a reaction to industrialisation, with a collection of master pieces of craft, but also as a celebration of manufacturing ingenuity.
The collection in Helsinki was put into store in 1954 and it was only in 1979 that the present building in Korkeavuorenkatu, formerly the Broberg High School, was adapted for the museum. In 1992 the museum was given the status of a national specialist museum and in the following year it was separated from the Finnish Society of Craft and Design.
The museum has beautiful and thought-provoking displays and here good design is clearly revered. There is an extensive shop with an impressive selection of design books and carefully-chosen design objects for sale but I detected either a sense of uncertainty, because of the current economy, or perhaps simply a search for affirmation and support. A large quiet room has been set aside and comfortable seating and paper and pens are provided for visitors to write their thoughts down. A text, written on the wall, begins "Museums are not dusty storehouses, but instead treasure troves. For one thing, they contain stories and experiences. Secondly museums have good cafes and thirdly... You tell us."


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Canada Nicotine Cap
by Daniel Lofchick on May 26, 2021
The current nicotine cap in Canada is 66 mg/ml. Health Canada is proposing lowering that cap to 20 mg/ml - the limit set in the European Union.
Their rationale is simple - there has been a sharp increase in youths vaping, and they want to curb that increase. Health Canada identified the availability of high nicotine vaping products as one of the reasons that youth vaping has increased.
This article presents an analysis of both sides of this argument, and some alternative proposals to the nicotine cap. Before we begin, however, it's worth noting that we're not writing this with a totally impartial tone; the nicotine cap is something we're not sold on.
There is strong evidence that vaping can help smokers quit. This evidence is so strong that Health Canada, itself, notes that completely switching from smoking to vaping reduces your exposure to harmful chemicals.
We'll delve more deeply into that point as we go along, but one can't help but think that by reducing the amount of nicotine that's allowable in vaping products, the Government may actually discourage smokers from switching to vapes. Cigarette addiction is a massive burden on our public health resources. One hopes the Government could find a way to minimize youth vaping without dissuading smokers who are trying to quit by vaping instead.
The rise in youth vaping
The dramatic rise in youth vaping is, indeed, cause for concern. Vaping among Canadian teens doubled over the course of 2 years (from 2017-2019). The study which found the increase in teen vaping also found that similar trends can be observed in the U.S., but not in the U.K. One of the study's conclusions was that this was the result of stricter nicotine laws in the U.K. (among other things).
That's a pretty frightening increase in the number of teens who are vaping. Some have blamed the popularity and accessibility of JUUL - nicotine salts can have higher concentrations of nicotine than traditional e-juice, and they're what JUULpods use.
There's a whole complicated discussion to be had about how nicotine is absorbed by the body, but this isn't the time or place for that (though it is interesting). JUULs are popular, and they use e-juice with a high concentration of nicotine. A study found that this may contribute to youth vaping. Let's leave it at that for now.
Where things get interesting is how the rate of cigarette use by youth has been affected. While vape use has increased, cigarette use has decreased - and given that cigarettes are much more harmful than vaping, that's a good thing. Obviously, we'd rather our youth use no nicotine products at all, but if it's one or the other, it's better that they vape.
For a more thorough breakdown on the reports, their methodology, and some of the flaws in thinking, check out Clive Bates' analysis of Canada's approach to youth vaping. Note that Clive isn't exactly an unbiased actor - a lot of his posts are him criticising anti-vaping laws - but his breakdown of the papers is thorough. He brings up some very relevant points.
How will this affect the vaping industry?
A point of clarity: the regulations limiting the amount of nicotine to 20 mg/ml have not yet come into effect. We're still not sure whether or not they ever will.
There are two ways, then, that we can evaluate how these regulations could affect the vape industry. First, the threat of regulation could produce a chilling effect. Manufacturers might limit the supply of vape juice over 20 mg/ml that they produce for the Canadian market, in anticipation that the product will soon be outlawed. In the same vein, vape shops may also limit the amount of product they purchase for resale.
Should regulations limiting nicotine levels come into effect, the vaping industry will lose money. This is accounted for in Health Canada's own assessment of the situation (found in the Canada Gazette). Their assessment is quite candid about estimated losses to the industry:
"The proposed Regulations would result in total incremental costs for the vaping industry estimated at $452 million present value (PV) over 30 years (or $36.4 million annually). The monetized costs to the vaping industry are associated with the disposal of their stocks of vaping products above 20 mg/ml nicotine, as these would no longer be sold or distributed, and potential industry profit losses."
What are industry associations and advocates saying?
Given the millions of dollars in yearly losses that Health Canada itself estimates will occur, you won't be surprised to learn that industry associations and advocates are not for this change.
Here's a cynical take: industry advocates are against the change because they don't want to lose money.
And a less cynical take: industry advocates are against the change because they don't want people to turn away from vaping and start smoking cigarettes.
Vaping advocates almost always advocate for its uses as a healthier alternative to cigarettes, and as a quitting aid. You're reading this article on the website for a business called "Cold Turkey" - a name that's obviously alluding to quitting.
Most industry advocates feel that there are better ways of going about harm reduction, including more restrictive rules about advertising to youth.
Are flavours the next to go?
At this rate, it's pretty likely. JUUL has already stopped selling all but two flavours in Canada. The two flavours they still sell? Nicotine and mint, the flavours that can traditionally be found in cigarettes.
There are new regulations in Ontario banning the sale of most flavoured vape juices in all except specialty shops. The flavours that are exempt? Tobacco, mint, and menthol. You get the picture.
This is just one writer's opinion, but honestly? The Ontario model seems like a good one to follow. Limit available flavours, make them harder to purchase outside of specialty shops, and limit advertising. Reducing nicotine content? That seems like a good way to get people to turn back to cigarettes.
For now? You can still buy nic salts and pods with higher concentrations of nicotine. We have some available at our Saint James vape shop - get them while you can.


Fanny Corbould (nee Heath) _PHONE_
What did Fanny look like?
Born: 22 July 1814 and died 19 February 1850.
Daughter of: Charles Heath, the engraver (_PHONE_) and Elizabeth Petch (?-1861).
Sister of:
1. Emily Heath (_PHONE_).
2. Frederick Augustus Heath (_PHONE_) who married Mrs M Inwood.
3. Alfred Theodosius Heath (_PHONE_) who married Caroline Philpott.
4. Charlotte Palmer (nee Heath, _PHONE_) who married William Palmer.
5. Charles Heath (_PHONE_).
6. Isabel Heath (_PHONE_).
7. Henry Charles Heath (_PHONE_) who married Georgina Woodcock (_PHONE_).
Fanny married: 28 September 1839, Edward Henry Corbould (_PHONE_), son of the artist Henry Corbould and Mary Corbould (nee Pickles).
Fanny and Edward had issue:
1. Jemima Wyburd (nee Corbould, _PHONE_) who married the artist Francis John Wyburd (_PHONE_).
2. Isabel (1842-????).
3. Julia (1844-????).
My knowledge of Fanny comes from information supplied to me by Giles Wyburd.
If anyone out on the internet can supply me with a biography, I would be very pleased to hear from you. More information can be found on the Corbould family at .
Fanny's husband Edward Henry Corbould
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A Vanderbilt researcher has discovered that some stealthy mammals have been doing something heretofore thought impossible -- using the sense of smell under water.
The results of the research by Vanderbilt's Kenneth Catania, assistant professor of biology, were reported Dec. 21 in the science journal Nature. He became curious when he observed that a mole he was studying blew a lot of bubbles while swimming.
"This came as a total surprise because the common wisdom is that mammals can't smell underwater,' said Catania, who earlier this year won a $500,000 "genius grant" from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
"When mammals adapt to living in water, their sense of smell usually degenerates. The primary example is the cetaceans – whales and dolphins – many of which have lost their sense of smell."
Catania devised a series of experiments to determine whether the star-nosed mole and another small, semi-aquatic mammal - the water shrew - can smell objects underwater. Using a high-speed camera, he discovered how they do it. After observing that the moles were blowing bubbles out of their nostrils and then sucking them right back in, he determined they were exhaling and inhaling the bubbles rapidly, between five and 10 times per second. That is about the same rate as the sniffing behavior of comparably sized land mammals, like rats and mice. "Rats and mice don't sniff the way we do," Catania said. "They push air 'out-in out-in' in a fashion strikingly similar to what the star-nosed mole is doing, except that it is doing it under water."
Catania mounted a high-speed video camera so that it pointed up through the bottom of a glass tank. Then he stuck various objects on the bottom of the tank – pieces of earthworm, small fish, insect cuticle and blobs of wax and silicon – and observed the moles' behavior. He saw that, when the moles approached one of these targets, they would blow bubbles that came into contact with the target's surface and then were sucked back into the nostrils.
"Because the olfactory nerves in the nose are covered with mucous, odorant molecules are all water soluble," Catania said. "So, when these bubbles come into contact with an object, it is almost inevitable that odorant molecules will mix with the air and be drawn into the nose when the bubble is inhaled."
Just because the moles are getting whiffs of interesting odors underwater doesn't necessarily mean they smell them. So Catania devised some additional tests.
One of the complicating factors was the star-nosed mole's unusual nose, which is ringed by a star-shaped set of fleshy appendages. It uses its star like a super-sensitive set of fingers to identify objects it encounters while burrowing and swimming. So, at the same time it is sniffing at an object it is also fingering it with its star.
To determine if the mole can identify edible objects by sniffing alone, Catania created underwater scent trails leading to food and recorded how well the moles' could follow them. To keep the moles from using their tactile star, he put a grid-work between the animals and the scent trails. The openings in the grid were too small for the star appendages to squeeze through but large enough so the air bubbles could pass without difficulty.
These trials demonstrated that the moles could follow the scent trail by sniffing alone (without the tactile star).
Five moles were tested on earthworm scent trails and followed the trail to its reward with accuracies ranging from 75 percent to 100 percent accuracy. Two moles were tested with fish scent trails and followed them with 85 percent and 100 percent accuracy.
When the grid was replaced with a screen with openings too small for the air bubbles to pass through, however, the moles' performance dropped down to the level of chance – the same as their performance with no-scent trails.
In order to see if this capability was limited to the star-nosed mole or if other small semi-aquatic mammals also have it, Catania captured some water shrews and began testing them. He found that they also exhibit this underwater sniffing behavior and can use it to follow underwater scent trails.
"Now, the question is, 'What other semi-aquatic mammals do this"'" Catania said. "Do animals like otters and seals do anything similar" Or is there a size limit and it only works for smaller mammals""
He hopes that publication of his paper will encourage researchers who are studying all kinds of semi-aquatic animals to take a closer look at how they are using their noses underwater.
Source : Vanderbilt University
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|754 First Street, LaSalle, IL 61301|
|Feb 21, 2013|
Visit the following two exhibits at Lock 16 Center
Monday-Saturday 8:00am – 5:30pm
Saturday, February 2, 2013 – Wednesday, February 27, 2013
To Kill and to Heal: Weapons and Medicine of the Civil War
The deadliest weapon of the Civil War was one that nobody could see, killing two soldiers for every one felled by gunfire.
The extraordinary casualties caused by that invisible killer, disease; the conventional weapons used to create slaughter
on an unprecedented scale; horrific injuries suffered on the battlefield; and the heroic efforts of medical personnel
to treat soldiers on both sides are described in this exhibit.
Abraham Lincoln and the I&M Canal
Abraham Lincoln believed that the Illinois & Michigan Canal promoted the settlement and growth of Northern Illinois.
Ultimately, the canal made a once small settlement, Chicago, thrive and become a major transportation and economic center
for the entire nation. The exhibit explores Abraham Lincoln's connection to the Illinois & Michigan Canal from his early days
in Illinois and the creation of the I&M Canal to his desire to expand it during his Presidency.
Visit this exhibit on Saturday, February 16 or Monday February, 18, and receive a free children's activity book and exhibit guide.


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It will take a global coalition of consensus to bring about clear decisive structured plans for the mitigation of global warming.
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In the wild, elephants migrate over long distances and live in highly intelligent and well-structured social groups.
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It can be structured, however, to highlight different aspects of your experience.
Some people welcome the more structured schedule of administrative work, while others miss the freedom of the faculty life.
Indeed, the programs themselves may not be structured to offer credits usable toward a degree.
Highly structured student presentations can be successful.
Finally, develop a personal plan to fill the remaining time when you are not engaged in structured professional endeavors.
In law school, it's much more concrete, much more structured.
Digital games are flashy, but board and card games offer the advantages of structured play with a lower barrier to entry.
It has worked and then some due to how the school systems are structured within the state.
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Wright's role is structured mostly as a set of costume changes, but she is as strong and resilient as the material requires.
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The protest movement, as it is presently structured, does not seem capable of either.
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It has evolved from a formless soup of elementary particles into the richly structured cosmos of today.
So it's not a big hollow, but rather a zone of more finely structured, less ordered ice.
The real problem, which hasn't really been emphasized, is that academic science is not structured well for anyone.
It is truly tragic that the way our educational system is structured can actually inhibit student learning.
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Ray had already structured his life in a way that today we'd recognize, but back then it was so foreign.
Some regulators also urge them to lighten up, especially in their treatment of structured products.
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Demand was equally insatiable, providing those infamously complex structured products with a stream of ready buyers.
The battleground is over how integrated financial firms should be structured.
The newly structured material might be a candidate for replacing the batteries used in today's hybrids cars.
He negotiated their deals, raised money, and structured their holdings.
These regions turn out to have structured geometric forms, and since they attract points, they're called attractors.
If this groove isn't structured correctly, our defenders don't get an advanced warning about threats.
Their cells are large, structured, and filled with many internal compartments.
Owner of small business specializing in corporate investigations and structured financial transactions.
But the way the post was framed and structured immediately threw us back into the loop in the diagram above.
They both use arguments that are structured around and built on, the exact same fallacies.
There was a single impact, but the impactor was structured: a dense iron core and a less dense outer shell.
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The way the liquidity injection is structured, it is up to the retail credit unions to funnel money into the corporates.
These loans were structured the same way and sold to the same people as mortgages.
The sleek, structured frame is roomy enough to tote daily essentials without sacrificing style.
Kids need a structured experience, and they want to be with their peers.
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In Vim, with., I can repeat the last normal mode command; for example:
deletes a line twice.
But, if I type
the cursor does't move 10 lines down. How do I repeat the last normal mode command, especially a move?
 - why don't you accept one of the answers below? you forgot about it, or there's a reason? – Stephane Rolland May 3 at 13:43
it's doable even in vanilla vim, but applicability depends on your use case, ie. how often you'll need to repeat it, since it requires few more keystrokes to make it repeatable.
Option 1: turn it into a command mode operation
using moving down 5 lines as example, you can do:
 1. enter :norm 5j, it'll move the cursor down 5 lines
 2. use @: to repeat the movement
:norm stands for normal, any following string is regarded as your keystrokes under normal mode
Option 2: Use macro
 1. qa (store macro into register a, you can pick your own register like qb, qc)
 2. 5j
 3. q (finish recording macro)
 4. _USER_ to repeat your recorded operation (replace a with the register name you picked, eg. _USER_, _USER_)
macro requires more spiritual power to set up but it's more repeatable in the sense that you can store multiple operations in different registers without being overriden by latest operations.
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vim doesn't do this unfortunately. The best you can do is install the repmo.vim plugin, which repeats movement commands that have a count.
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Actually. repeats the last change, not the last normal mode command. As Paul said, you will need a plugin to allow you to repeat motions.
See ":help.".
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You can repeat changes with.. Movements can be repeated with the ; command. This command seems to be new and does a similar thing to the repmo.vim script mentioned in other answers.
For example, to move to the second next c, press 2fc. Then to do it again, just type ;.
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 ; isn't new. It's a standard vi command. Vi remembers the type and target character (but not numerical argument) of the last f/F/t/ T motion and ; repeats it. It doesn't repeat other motions, however. – pyrocrasty Jun 4 '15 at 2:47
 - This accomplished what I was looking to do! thank you. and thank you _USER_ for the clarification! – Paul Nov 30 '18 at 18:55
You can select the lines you want to change and execute last normal dot command
v5j.............. visual select next 5 lines
:'<,'>norm!. normal mode execute over selection last command '.'
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To receive disability insurance benefits from an insurance company, it's not enough to have a disabling diagnosis. Rather, insurance companies reviewing disability benefit claims require evidence (such as medical records, letters from doctors, and test results) to determine the validity and severity of the disabling condition, a Symptom diary. Therefore, even if you suffer from a genuine disability, if it is not properly documented, the insurance company may use that lack of evidence to deny your claim. It is important to review your policy and include any and all information you believe will help explain your condition and support your claim.
Including a symptom diary can help improve your chances of approval by detailing your condition on a day-to-day basis. That is particularly true if you suffer from migraine headaches or other medical conditions for which "objective" evidence may not exist. This article will explain how keeping a symptom diary can help to provide additional context and support for your disability claim beyond what is contained in your doctor's notes.
Your Policy's Definition of "Disability"
The definition of "disability" or "disabled" can vary from policy to policy. Understanding which definition is specific to your policy is key to a successful disability claim. A typical definition of disability may be similar to:
Disabled or Disability means You are prevented from performing one or more of the Essential Duties of:
- Your Occupation during the Elimination Period of an LTD insurance Claim;
- Your Occupation, for the 24 months following the Elimination Period, as a result Your Current Monthly Earnings are less than 80% of Your Indexed Pre-disability Earnings; and;
- after that, Any Occupation.
It is important to remember, that definitions can vary by different insurance companies, and even policy to policy. Read your policy carefully and consult a disability insurance attorney if you have any questions.
What Is a Symptom Diary?
A symptom diary is a journal, or other document, where you record your daily symptoms and how they affect your ability to function. A symptom diary doesn't have to be complicated, it can be kept on a calendar, in a notebook, or even digitally. The most important thing is that you are consistent. Free symptom diaries are available on the internet and are designed to help you keep track of your symptoms. There are also many apps you can download on your phone or tablet that will record your symptoms.
What Should You Record?
Chronic disabilities or illnesses can affect you differently each day. The symptom diary should reflect how your condition changes day by day. Include details about your day, activities you were able to complete, and things you are no longer able to accomplish. Since most disabilities or illnesses cause residual pain, document how much pain you experience after performing a task, and how long that pain lasts. If you have a condition that is exacerbated by food (i.e., irritable bowel syndrome, heart burn), keep track of what you eat and how it makes you feel. If you suffer from headaches, it is important to keep track of symptoms such as, sensitivity to light, sound, and activities. In addition, document what if anything, relieves your symptoms. It is important to understand, your symptom diary cannot be too detailed. The more details you provide regarding your symptoms and their effects on your function, the better understanding the reader will gain from its contents. In addition, to providing evidence for your disability claim or subsequent appeal, your doctor may benefit from the diary to help with diagnosis and treatment.
Conditions That Benefit Most from a Symptom Diary.
Symptom diaries are used to document a variety of conditions, especially those conditions that are hard to qualify by a laboratory test or radiological studies (i.e., MRIs, X-rays). People who suffer from migraines, heartburn, irritable bowel syndrome ("IBS"), chronic pain, chronic fatigue syndrome, and fibromyalgia, can benefit from keeping a symptom diary. Indeed, when filing a claim for disability benefits, any conditions that hinders the persons ability to function, can benefit from providing the claim manager with a daily account of your symptoms and limitations.
Medical and legal scholars agree that for conditions with no objective tests, such as migraine headache pain, symptom diaries can provide "objective proof" of the frequency and severity of headache pain, even though such diaries incorporate subjective observations, "since it is a form of evidence commonly used by physicians treating potential migraine patients, similar to how other doctors utilize x-rays or test results." See Creel v. Wachovia Corp., 2009 U.S. App. LEXIS 1733, *26-27 (11th Cir. Fla. Jan.27, 2009); see also Leetzow v. Metro. Life Ins. Co., No. EDCV152468VAPKKX, 2016 WL _PHONE_, at *9 (C.D. Cal. Dec. 5, 2016) (citing headache log as evidence supporting disability).
It is important to remember, however, that nothing can guarantee an approval of disability benefits. Providing a detailed symptom diary is compelling evidence to show how your specific condition and symptoms affect your ability to function.


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Children's Day, May 5, was formerly known as Boy's Festival (Tango no Sekku), however, the name was changed to create a more inclusive holiday. Children's Day focuses both on the importance of happy, healthy children and the gratitude children feel toward their parents.
Despite the name change, the holiday remains largely geared toward celebrating the health and future success of Japanese boys, and Boy's Festival remains a key focus of the day. Koi-Nobori, or carp streamers, are hung, a symbol of strength against odds, and samurai dolls are displayed as part of the Children's Day festivities. One koi-nobori, interestingly, is hung for each male child in the family, with the largest streamer being allotted to the oldest child and stepping down in size for subsequent boys.
The origin of the Boy's Festival is uncertain. Some scholars trace it to an ancient Chinese custom called sechie, featuring ceremonial helmets by palace guards, that was popular during the reign of Empress Regnant Suiko (593-629 A.D.). Others believe the Festival originated from the May custom of using banners to scare insects during the growing months. Over time, these banners became more grotesque before taking a turn to become heroic figures that were displayed indoors as symbols of manliness.
Still others trace the holiday to Tokimune Hojo's defeat of the Mongols on May 2, 1282. Finally, others believe the Festival is linked to the unification of Japan by Ashikaga Shogun. What all of these possible origins of the holiday have in common is the emphasis on strength and manliness, and the decorations used in Japanese homes reflects elements of each potential start of the holiday.
Items displayed during Boy's Festival include a miniature helmet, armor, a sword, a bow and arrow, silk banners with the family crest, and warrior dolls (musha-ningyo) representing Kintaro, a famous general, Shoki, an ancient Chinese general who protected people from demons, and Momotaro, who can best be described as the Japanese version of David.
In addition to traditional treats like Chimaki (sweet rice dumplings wrapped in iris or bamboo leaves) and Kashiwa-Mochi (rice cakes containing sweet bean paste wrapped in oak leaves), leaves of the Japanese iris (shobu), prized for their resemblance to a sword, are steeped in hot water for bathing (the iris is believed to protect against illness) and mixed with sake to create shobu-sake, an ancient samurai beverage.
The Girl's Festival (Hina Matsuri or Doll Festival) is celebrated on March 3.


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The Medical Historical Library announces a new exhibition in our reading room: "The Enduring Appeal of 'The Doctor'" featuring recent gifts from medical historian Bert Hansen, Ph.D. "The Doctor," painted by Sir Luke Fildes in 1891, has been a popular and influential image in the history of medicine for more than a century. The painting of a Victorian doctor attending a sick child in a poor workman's cottage held great appeal for the general public, who responded to the sympathetic portrayal. Members of the medical profession embraced the painting as a depiction of the ideal physician firmly rooted in the humanitarian traditions of medicine and not defined by the pristine clinical coldness of laboratory science which was redefining modern medicine at the end of the 19th century. By 1900, over one million prints of "The Doctor" were sold in the United States alone.


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Since they are so popular, it means that there are always many people who have the same piercing. It may make these piercings more ordinary and less unique than some other piercing types.
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Kamesh, D and Pandiyan, R and Ghosal, Ashitava (2010) Modelling, Design and Analysis of Low Frequency Platform for Attenuating Micro-Vibration in Spacecraft. In: Journal of Sound and Vibration, 329 (17). pp. 3431-3450.
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One of the most important factors that affect the pointing of precision payloads and devices in space platforms is the vibration generated due to static and dynamic unbalanced forces of rotary equipments placed in the neighborhood of payload. Generally, such disturbances are of low amplitude, less than 1 kHz, and are termed as 'micro-vibrations'. Due to low damping in the space structure, these vibrations have long decay time and they degrade the performance of payload. This paper addresses the design, modeling and analysis of a low frequency space frame platform for passive and active attenuation of micro-vibrations. This flexible platform has been designed to act as a mount for devices like reaction wheels, and consists of four folded continuous beams arranged in three dimensions. Frequency and response analysis have been carried out by varying the number of folds, and thickness of vertical beam. Results show that lower frequencies can be achieved by increasing the number of folds and by decreasing the thickness of the blade. In addition, active vibration control is studied by incorporating piezoelectric actuators and sensors in the dynamic model. It is shown using simulation that a control strategy using optimal control is effective for vibration suppression under a wide variety of loading conditions.
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for New Puerto Rican Parrot Aviary
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The endangered Puerto Rican Parrot will soon have a new facility to aid in its recovery. Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and its partners, will break ground and begin construction of a new aviary.
About one acre at the Caribbean National Forest (commonly known as El Yunque) will be used to relocate operations from an old military installation to a state-of-the-art facility at a cost of roughly $2.5 million. The facility will have a nursery, hospital, hurricane room, kitchen and outdoor cages. Congress appropriated $1.7 million to build the aviary. Additional funds will come from private donations and other partners. As part of their continued partnership with the Service, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Parrot International and other organizations are working to raise the necessary funds.
The Service is working closely with the Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources and the U.S. Forest Service to bolster the conservation and recovery of Puerto Rico 's only native parrot species.
Bright green feathers, with a red forehead, white rings around its eyes and wings that flash blue-turquoise in flight, the Puerto Rican Parrot is the only native parrot in the United States. It is the most endangered parrot and one of the ten most endangered birds in the world. Currently, there are less than 200 parrots alive.
A captive breeding program set up more than three decades ago has helped lift the Puerto Rican parrot population from a low point in 1975, when only 13 wild birds were recorded. Thirty five parrots raised in captivity have been released into the wild.
Today, 158 captive parrots live in one of two aviaries, one managed by the Fish and Wildlife Service in El Yunque and the other managed by the Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources is located in Rio Abajo, Utuado Puerto Rico.
The Service aviary supports the only existing wild population of parrots through fostering, emergency care of sick and injured wild nestlings, and boosting the wild population through captive releases. However the management needs of the species have outgrown the management options available at the present location. Frequent landslides isolate the facilities, power failures are frequent, space is limited, and the environment is extremely humid affecting both the parrots and our dedicated staff.
The Forest Service prepared an Environmental Assessment and multiple surveys of the construction site. No threatened or endangered plant species were found in the area. The Forest Service did find two endemic tree species of special concern known as Tortugo prieto (Ravenia urbanii) and the Puerto Rican rain tree. These trees were relocated to the Forest Service Nursery or other nearby locations.
The site is potential habitat for endangered or threatened animals: the Puerto Rican Boa (Epicrates inornatus), the Puerto Rican Sharp-shinned hawk (Accipiter venator), Puerto Rican Brad-winged hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) and Chupacallos tree (plendedron macranthum). During construction contractors will ensure that if any of these species or new species are discovered the project will be held up for the safe removal of the species.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is the principal federal agency responsible for conserving, protecting and enhancing fish, wildlife and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people. The Service manages the 95-million-acre National Wildlife Refuge System that encompasses 544 national wildlife refuges, thousands of small wetlands and other special management areas. It also operates 70 national fish hatcheries, 64 fishery resource offices, and 81 ecological services field stations. The agency enforces federal wildlife laws, administers the Endangered Species Act, manages migratory bird populations, restores national significant fisheries, conserves and restores wildlife habitat such as wetlands, and helps foreign governments with their conservation efforts. It also oversees the Federal Aid program that distributes hundreds of millions of dollars in excise taxes on fishing and hunting equipment to state fish and wildlife agencies.
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Our culture is obsessed with youth--and why not? What's the appeal of growing old, of gaining responsibilities and giving up on dreams, of steadily trading possibility for experience?
The philosopher Susan Neiman argues that the absence of appealing models of maturity is not an accident: by describing life as a downhill process, we prepare young people to expect--and demand--very little from it. In Why Grow Up?, she challenges our culture of permanent adolescence, turning to thinkers including Kant, Rousseau, and Arendt to find a model of maturity that is not a matter of resignation. In growing up, we move from the boundless trust of childhood to the peculiar mixture of disappointment and exhilaration that comes with adolescence. Maturity, however, means finding the courage to live in a world of painful uncertainty without giving in to dogma or despair. A grown-up, Neiman writes, helps to move the world closer to what it should be while never losing sight of what it is.
Why Grow Up? is a witty and concise argument for the value of maturity as a subversive ideal: a goal rarely achieved in its entirety, and all the more worth striving for.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 9780374536145, 256pp.
Publication Date: April 26, 2016
About the Author
Susan Neiman is the director of the Einstein Forum. Her previous books, which have been translated into many languages, include Why Grow Up?: Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age; Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists; Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy; The Unity of Reason; and Slow Fire: Jewish Notes from Berlin. She also writes cultural and political commentary for diverse media in the United States, Germany, and Great Britain. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Neiman studied philosophy at Harvard and the Free University of Berlin, and was a professor of philosophy at Yale and Tel Aviv Universities. She is the mother of three grown children, and lives in Berlin.
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Become a Dental Assistant in Missouri - MO
In Missouri, there are three designations of dental assistants: dental assistants, dental assistants with "expanded functions" designation, and DANB certified dental assistants (CDAs). All levels of assistants help dentists and hygienists with exams and procedures, assistants with "expanded functions" and certifications can perform additional duties and work with less supervision.
How to Become a Dental Assistant in Missouri
Dental assistants can be trained on-the-job, however there are several options that allow additional responsibility in a dental practice and all require additional training and (in the case of CDAs) certification. There is no radiology requirement for assistants in Missouri—assistants can take and process x-rays.
To Become an Assistant with "Expanded Functions":
- Take and pass a state-approved dental assisting basic skills exam.
- Complete a state-approved expanded functions training course.
- Pass a competency exam and provide proof of competency to the Missouri Dental Board.


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Anselm Feuerbach, (born September 12, 1829, Speyer, Bavaria [now in Germany]—died January 4, 1880, Venice, Italy), one of the leading German painters of the mid-19th century working in a Romantic style of Classicism.
Feuerbach was the son of a classical archaeologist and the nephew of the philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach. After studying art at the Düsseldorf Academy and in Munich, he went twice to Paris, where he worked in the studio of Thomas Couture and was influenced by Gustave Courbet and Eugène Delacroix.
Feuerbach lived in Italy from 1855 to 1873, and much of his best work was produced during this period. He was influenced by antique Greek and Roman art and Italian High Renaissance painting, and he developed an interest in idealized figure compositions of a lyrical, elegiac nature—e.g., his two versions of Iphigeneia (1862, 1871). Perhaps his most important and original works are the formal, statuesque portraits he painted of the model Nanna Risi between 1860 and 1865 (e.g., Nanna, 1861) and the Raphaelesque likenesses he painted of his stepmother, Henriette Feuerbach.
In 1873 Feuerbach became a professor at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and painted for the academy building Fall of the Titans, generally regarded as his weakest work. Ill and discouraged by the harsh criticism of this work, Feuerbach left Vienna in 1876 and returned to Italy, where he died.
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National Estimates of Petitioned Status Offense Cases (Continued)
Judicial Decision and Disposition
In 1995, 50% of petitioned status offense cases handled by juvenile courts resulted in formal adjudication (figure 14).3 Ungovernability, truancy, and liquor law violation cases carried virtually the same likelihood of adjudication (figure 15). Proportionately fewer runaway cases were adjudicated. The proportion of petitioned status offense cases resulting in adjudication declined from 67% to 50% between 1986 and 1995 (table 55). There was some variation across status offense categories in the decline in the proportion of petitioned cases resulting in adjudication.
3 The remaining flow diagrams in this chapter present only proportions and not estimates of case counts because of the relatively low volumes of cases in many of the branches.
Juvenile Court Statistics 1995, May 1998


Waco Scottish Rite's Gifts to Camp Success Approach Half Million Mark
October 8, 2009
WACO, TX--Donating $85,000 to Camp Success, Baylor University's summer literacy program, is only the tip of the iceberg for Waco Scottish Rite. Completely funded by Waco Scottish Rite, donations to Camp Success total nearly $500,000 over the past seven years. And the members of Scottish Rite also consistently give their time, energy and heart to the camp because they believe in the impact the program makes on each child involved.
"Camp Success made a big difference in my son's life. They've found out what things are wrong, so that we can help him. It's made him want to do work--want to read. This has given him another chance," commented Robin Reinke, a Camp Success parent.
"It allows a child to be what they can be. Our institutions are full of people who weren't given that opportunity," stated Claude Ervin, chairman of Waco Scottish Rite. "Camp Success helps them become self-sufficient people who are a productive part of the community."
The language and literacy needs in the Waco community can seem insurmountable, but Camp Success is the beginning of a solution. As of Camp Success' recent graduation, 1,074 students have graduated from Camp Success, and 204 graduate students have shared this experience.
"Camp Success changed my life. My reading was dead, but Camp Success brought it back to life!" exclaimed Caleb Jones, a third-grade student in the program.
In 2003, Camp Success began with only 24 children and now serves 80 children with a waiting list of nearly 200. Participants ranging in age from five to 18 are evaluated before camp begins to determine their specific strengths and weaknesses. Speech pathologists then develop a step-by-step plan tailored to each child.
"The impact on the teenagers is powerful," said Dr. Michaela Ritter, the director of Camp Success and assistant chair for Baylor's department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. "When you see that they were failing classes and now they're making Bs and even As and going to college--it's so rewarding."
During the four-week program, each student benefits from 50 hours of tutoring, which is the equivalent to the reading instruction provided in up to 15 weeks in elementary school classrooms. Complete with various weekly themes, a tactic designed to hold the children's interest, Camp Success is a unique program that touches lives in the Waco community.
"We're making a long-term investment in peoples' lives, and the community benefits because they will become productive, involved and self-sufficient citizens. And the school systems benefit immediately because it increases their standards and test scores," Ervin stated.
"It's not just the money. The Scottish Rite people bring doughnuts every morning for the students, they provide T-shirts for all of them and they support us by just taking the time to talk to the kids," Ritter said. "I cannot praise them enough."
Camp Success is a win for everyone: the students, the community, the school systems and even Baylor students. Baylor speech pathology graduate students serve as clinicians working alongside Baylor faculty, to earn practicum hours toward their degree programs.
"The graduate students see fast progress, and confidence soars--for both the graduate student and the child. Typically speech pathologists are with a client two times a week for one hour each time, so when the students get this intensity, they see the progress and then take the same strategies into the workforce," Ritter said.
"I've never been given the opportunity to mentor someone and actually see the results until now," explained Adam Torres, a Baylor graduate student who is a clinician for Camp Success. "It's been amazing to see them utilizing the strategies we've taught them effectively."
Scottish Rite's recent donation equipped the camp with books, supplies and faculty salaries, empowering the camp to keep touching lives. Their consistent partnership enables Camp Success, now in its seventh year, to provide free language and literacy therapy--therapy that would cost parents $7,000 to $10,000 if paid out of pocket.
"The breadth and depth of the program is immeasurable," Ervin said. "It can be whatever we want to make it--all we need is more people who have enough interest to help it forward."
Jacob Suchecki, one of the many students impacted by Camp Success, announced his gratitude, "Thank you Scottish Rite for giving us all the money so that we can get the stuff we need for success."
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text: Extensive morbidity related to hemodialysis vascular access exists among end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients, but the risk factors for this morbidity have not been extensively studied. Medicare ESRD patient data were obtained from 1984, 1985, and 1986. Hospitalization for vascular access morbidity (ICD-996.1, 996.6, or 996.7) was analyzed among prevalent patients and, using survival analysis, among incident patients to assess sex, age, race, and underlying cause of renal failure as risk factors. We found that 15 to 16% of hospital stays among prevalent ESRD patients were associated with vascular access-related morbidity. Black race, older age, female sex, and diabetes mellitus as a cause of kidney failure were all independent risk factors for access-related morbidity. The rate ratio comparing Blacks to Whites was 1.12 (95% C.I., 1.09, 1.16); > 64 years to 20 to 44 years, 1.53 (1.46, 1.59); men to women, 0.81 (0.79, 0.84); and diabetes to glomerulonephritis, 1.29 (1.24, 1.35). We conclude that hemodialysis vascular access malfunction causes much hospitalization among ESRD patients. Women, Blacks, the elderly, and diabetics appear to be at particularly high risk, and additional studies are needed to understand these patterns.


5. Control – Tracking
Our tracking resembles a tarot consultation, of course, without the mystical elements, but with predictions supported by a rigorous methodology.
Tracking methodologies are probes that allow us to timely observe changes in perception, voters emotional condition, potential voting behavior and the efficient use of campaign resources.
Tracking methodologies:
1. Electoral tracking
2. Campaign test
3. Balance of resources


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Definition: A compact Kähler manifold M is Kähler hyperbolic if the pullback \tilde{\omega} of the symplectic form \omega to the universal cover \tilde{M} satisfies \tilde{\omega} = d\alpha for some bounded 1-form \alpha.
Suppose M is Kähler hyperbolic, and let \beta be any harmonic L_2 form on \tilde{M}. Then \beta is closed, and
\tilde{\omega} \wedge \beta = d(\alpha\wedge\beta)
Since \alpha is bounded, the form \alpha \wedge \beta is L_2. On the other hand, \tilde{\omega} is bounded (because it is pulled back from a form on a compact manifold), so \tilde{\omega} \wedge \beta is L_2. Now, (recalling the notation L for the operation of wedging with the Kähler form), the Kähler identity [L,\Delta]=0 is a purely local calculation, and therefore on any Kähler manifold (compact or not), wedge product with the Kähler form takes harmonic forms to harmonic forms. It follows that \tilde{\omega}\wedge \beta is harmonic, L_2, and equal to the image of an L_2 form under d; thus it vanishes identically.
But if V is a real vector space of dimension 2n, and \omega is a nondegenerate 2-form on V, then wedging with \omega is injective on \Lambda^* V below the middle dimension (this is the linear algebra fact which underpins the Hard Lefschetz Theorem for compact Kähler manifolds). Thus the operator L is injective on harmonic L_2-forms below the middle dimension. Dualizing, the operator \Lambda is injective above the middle dimension, and we deduce the following:
Theorem (Gromov): If M is compact and Kähler hyperbolic, the reduced L_2 cohomology of the universal cover \tilde{M} vanishes outside the middle dimension.
Example: If M is any compact manifold with K<0 then for any closed form \beta on M the pullback of \beta to the universal cover is d of a bounded form. This is proved by the Poincaré Lemma, since for a complete simply-connected manifold with K \le -C < 0, coning a submanifold along geodesics to a point gives a cone whose volume is bounded by the volume of the submanifold times a constant. So every Kähler manifold with a metric of strict negative curvature is Kähler hyperbolic. More generally, if M is merely nonpositively curved, and the flat planes are isotropic for the Kähler form, then the manifold is still Kähler hyperbolic. This applies (for example) to Kähler manifolds which are compact and locally symmetric of noncompact type. Generalizing in another direction, if M is Kähler with \pi_2(M)=0 and \pi_1(M) word-hyperbolic, then M is Kähler hyperbolic.
4. Calibrations
The previous section shows that \overline{L_2H}^1(\tilde{M}) vanishes whenever M is Kähler hyperbolic of complex dimension at least 2, where \tilde{M} denotes the universal cover of M. In fact, it turns out that one can completely understand the fundamental groups of Kähler manifolds for which \overline{L_2H}^1(\tilde{M}) is nonzero: it turns out that such groups are always virtually equal to the fundamental group of a closed Riemann surface of genus at least 2.
So let's suppose M is a compact Kähler manifold, that \tilde{M} is its universal cover, and let's suppose that \overline{L_2H}^1(\tilde{M}) is nonzero. Since \tilde{M} is simply-connected, every L_2 harmonic form (which is necessarily closed) is actually exact. Let \alpha be a nonzero harmonic L_2 form, and let \varphi denote its (1,0)-part, which is an L_2 holomorphic 1-form. Since \varphi is also exact, we can write \varphi = dg for some holomorphic function g on \tilde{M}. By the coarea formula we compute
\int_{\mathbb C} \text{vol}(g^{-1}(z))dg(z) = \|dg\|_2^2 < \infty
or in other words, most of the level sets g^{-1}(z) have finite volume. On the other hand, these level sets are complete holomorphic submanifolds, and holomorphic submanifolds of Kähler manifolds turn out to enjoy a very strong geometric property, which we now explain.
On a Kähler manifold, the symplectic form \omega is a calibrating form. This means that it satisfies the following two properties:
 1. it is closed; and
 2. it satisfies a pointwise estimate \omega^k(A) \le \text{vol}(A) for all real 2k-planes A, with equality if and only if A is a complex subspace.
It follows that if S is a holomorphic submanifold of complex dimension k, and S' is a real 2k dimensional submanifold obtained from S by a compactly supported variation so that S and S' are in the same (relative) homology class, there is an inequality
\text{vol}(S) = \int_S \omega^k = \int_{S'} \omega^k \le \text{vol}(S')
In other words, holomorphic submanifolds of Kähler manifolds are absolute volume minimizers in their homology classes (amongst compactly supported variations). From this one deduces the following:
Lemma: Let M be a Kähler manifold with bounded geometry. Then for each k there is a constant C so that if S is a complete holomorphic submanifold of complex dimension k, there is an estimate
\text{diam}(S) \le C\cdot \text{vol}(S)
Proof: It suffices to show that for some fixed \epsilon (taken to be the injectivity radius, say), there is a constant C so that the volume of S\cap B_\epsilon(p ) is at least C for any point p in S. A Kähler manifold with bounded geometry is uniformly holomorphically bilipschitz to flat \mathbb{C}^n in balls of size smaller than the injectivity radius, so we need only prove this estimate for holomorphic submanifolds of \mathbb{C}^n.
But actually, the estimate follows just from the fact that S is a minimal surface. If S is a complete minimal surface of real dimension N in a Euclidean space, passing through the origin (say), then the Monotonicity Formula says that for any R>r>0 there is an inequality
R^{-N}\text{vol}(S\cap B_R(0)) \ge r^{-N}\text{vol}(S\cap B_r(0))
This can be proved directly by using the vanishing of the mean curvature, but there is a softer proof that R^{-N}\text{vol}(S\cap B_R(0))\ge C > 0 where C is the volume of the unit ball in Euclidean N dimensional space, which is enough for our purposes. To see this, observe that C is the limit of f(R ):=R^{-N}\text{vol}(S\cap B_R(0)) as R goes to zero. Suppose on some interval [0,T] that f(R ) < C somewhere, WLOG achieving its minimum at T. The value of f( R) on [0,T] gives a lower bound for the volume of S\cap B_T(0), by the coarea formula. But the cone on S \cap \partial B_T(0) evidently has less volume than this, in violation of the fact that S is calibrated. The estimate, and the proof follow. qed
It follows from this estimate that some of the fibers of g:\tilde{M} \to \mathbb{C} are compact. The components of these fibers are the leaves of a foliation, and since the foliation is defined locally by a closed 1-form, the set of compact leaves is open; but these leaves are all locally homologous and thus have locally constant volume and therefore uniformly bounded diameter, so the set of compact leaves is closed, and therefore every leaf is compact. The space of leaves is 1 (complex) dimensional, and we thereby obtain a proper holomorphic map with connected fibers h:\tilde{M} \to S to a Riemann surface S. Note that the group of holomorphic automorphisms of \tilde{M} (which includes the deck group \pi_1(M)) must permute leaves of the foliation; for, since the leaves are compact, if their image were not contained in a leaf, the map to S would be nonconstant, in contradiction of the fact that a holomorphic map from a


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RAM Ultrasonic Humidifier
The RAM Ultrasonic Humdifier allows the grower to increase the humidity of the growing environment up to 400ml / hour
Complete with a 5L tank, this humidifier is fully adjustable and easy to use.
To get the RAM Ultrasonic Humidifier to perform at it's best here are some tips:
- Never restrict the mist flow as this will force it back into the body of the humidifier.
- Remove the humidifier from excessively humid areas where it is not required.
- Never try to fill the tank from the top.
- When refilling the tank, make sure that you always empty any water that remains inside first. This will prevent a build up of residue salts that can shorten the life of the humidifier.
- Wipe clean the water chamber in the base with a soft damp cloth. Never scrape these parts or use detergents.


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Wong, Maria Wan-Yin (2004) Evaluation of a biomedical science clinical training curriculum. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
The thesis is concerned with quality in clinical education. It explores issues pertaining to the effectiveness of a biomedical science clinical training program through an evaluation. The aim is to gather and analyze program data for the improvement of student learning. Mixed methods including self-completion questionnaires and semi-structured interviews were used to explore students' and clinical teachers' perceptions in the domains of clinical teaching, student learning, organization of the program and personal gain. Two questionnaires were developed for data collection on two consecutive cohorts of students of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and clinical teachers from various training hospitals. Interviews with laboratory managers were used to support quantitative data of the questionnaires. Analyses of data from the first cohort revealed some deficiencies in the program including communication of goals to students, practice opportunities, shortage of clinical teaching staff, lack of initiatives from students, and inadequate communication between academics and laboratory teaching staff in the first phase of the study. The findings were reported to both academic and clinical teachers. Measures were taken to resolve these issues such as a comprehensive pre placement briefing for the students, to encourage clinical teachers to adopt different teaching strategies to foster student learning. Post training perceptions between the two cohorts were not significantly different in the second phase of the study except a slightly higher rating in the category of practice opportunities. It appeared that the intervention had not produced large effects. However, the results with implications were presented to the university, hospitals and students for further enhancement of student learning. It is through this continuous feedback mechanism that effectiveness of the program can be sustained.
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Remote, Rugged & Natural; that's North Harris
"There are some large areas of Scotland, particularly in the north and west, whose largely semi-natural landscapes show minimal signs of human influence. These can be mountains and moorland, stretches of undeveloped coast or large areas of peat bog. These wild and remote areas have a distinct and special character, which is increasingly rare to find. A key component of Scotland's identity, they bring significant economic benefits, attracting visitors and tourists. Many people derive psychological and spiritual benefit from their existence, and they provide increasingly important havens for Scotland's wildlife." – from the Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) website.
An exercise is now underway to map Scotland's wildness and wild land. SNH is analysing Scottish land, and reporting on its:
- Percieved naturalness
- Absence of modern artifacts
The preliminary findings have been published at the link below for discussion. No suprises – North Harris is marked highly in all categories.


Recruiting participants for community conversations
The discussions that are part of community conversations should include participants who are able to represent the entire community.
Think about a community you have some involvement with. Spend a few moments writing down the sorts of people you could invite who would represent between them the whole community.
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You need to strive for a diversity of opinion, ethnicity, race and gender, and all the other features that reflect the make-up of the community.
Avoid inviting only the obvious people to the community conversation, for example, opinion leaders or health experts. Keep these people involved, but encourage all the participants to reach out and attract a larger, more representative group of the community. Try to involve community members who have more experience in life, because these people will know about the effects of community change and therefore will have a vested interest in the issues affecting the community. In addition, this will bring consistency and continuity to the community conversation meetings.
A healthcare worker talks to some women outside the health facility.
Make personal contact to invite people, and ensure that the whole community realises that their voice is essential. (Photo: UNICEF /Indrias Getchew)
Diversity for the community conversation
Remember that by actively recruiting members who reflect the community's diversity in ethnicity, culture, perspectives, gender and age, you will achieve a richer dialogue from a more representative sample.
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(transitive, adverb) (Brit) to close (one carriageway of a motorway) by placing warning cones across it
to demarcate a roadway using bright orange conical markers
noun 1. a space, in the shape of an inverted cone, above a radio beacon, in which there is a sharp reduction in the intensity of transmitted signals.
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cone of light n. The bright triangular area of reflected light on the tympanic membrane during examination. Also called light reflex.
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noun 1. a method of testing soils by pressing a cone of standard dimensions into the soil under a known load and measuring the penetration