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Cameron, L. and Rutland, A. and Turner, Rhiannon and Holman-Nicolas, Rosie and Powell, Claire (2011) Changing attitudes with a little imagination': Imagined contact effects on young children's intergroup bias. Anale de Psychologia, 27 (3). pp. 708-717. ISSN 0212-9728.
The current research tested a recent development in social psychology, namely 'imagined contact', among young children (n = 123, 5 to 10 years). Children imagined interacting with a physically disabled child, or did not take part in this activity (the control group). Compared with the control group, children who engaged in 'imagined contact' subsequently showed reduced inter-group bias in their general attitude and ratings of warmth and competence. Imagined contact also led to more positive intended friendship behavior towards the disabled, but only among 5 – 6 year olds. This provides partial support for our hypothesis that younger children, perhaps as a result of their lack of out-group experience, are more likely to benefit from imagined contact. Implications for the development of attitudes towards the disabled, imagined contact theory and the development of classroom-based prejudice-reduction techniques based on imagined contact are discussed.
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Launch of the first Dugong Status Report and Action Plan
13 February 2002 | News story
Cartagena, Colombia 13.02.02. IUCN's Director General, Achim Steiner, and Dr. Klaus Töpfer, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) launched a joint publication, Dugong: Status Report and Action Plans for Countries and Territories, during the seventh special session of UNEP's Governing Council in Columbia yesterday.
Steiner said that the report provides a practical example of global collaboration on environmental issues as also shown by the current Global Ministerial Environmental Forum convening in Cartagena this week. The report, compiled by Helene Marsh, a member of the IUCN/SSC Sirenia Specialist Group has been several years in development and is the first ever global study of the enigmatic "sea cow". The publication presents a global overview of the status of the dugong and its management in the many countries that make up its range. It is hoped the report will help individual countries develop their own, more detailed conservation plans for the species.
"IUCN is proud to be part of this important collaboration. An enormous amount of work has gone into this publication by our Species Survival Commission and we are extremely pleased that UNEP is making the information and recommendations available to global audiences via the Internet," said Steiner during a press conference. The report will be printed in English and French.
Töpfer said that IUCN is one of the most important international environmental organisations, providing a platform for governments and NGOs to meet, and being supported by a large scientist network.
"Status Reports and Action Plans are critical in alerting the global community to the plight of our species - the challenge is to ensure that the recommendations are quickly implemented to reverse the fortunes of dugong populations," said Steiner.
The dugong, the only herbivorous mammal that is strictly marine, is long-lived and reproduces slowly. It relies on seagrasses of coastal habitats which are often under pressure from human activities. Dugongs are also impacted by pollution, disease, hunting, and incidental drowning in fishing nets. The species is listed as Vulnerable in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
The full publication is available on the UNEP website at _URL_
A list of all SSC species Action Plans is available here.

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Although the UT System Competitiveness Initiative offers a shared goal of building and enhancing competitiveness in the science, technology, engineering, math, and medical/health fields, the nine academic and six health institutions that make up the UT System have chosen different paths to success.
Below are examples of some of the programs, incentives, and partnerships that UT System institutions are using to help build a stronger future for all of us.
Creating Innovative Programs
- The Collaborative Partnership at UT Arlington is a database that provides information that allows universities, government, and industry to build relationships and collaborate more effectively.
- UTeach at UT Austin is a collaboration between the Colleges of Natural Sciences and Education that works to prepare secondary science, math, and computer science teachers.
- Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation at UT El Paso seeks to increase the number of underrepresented minority students pursuing careers in STEM fields.
Building World-Class Research Infrastructure

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Novo, E.M., Hansom, J.D. and Curran, P., 1989. The effect of sediment type on the relationship between reflectance and suspended sediment concentration. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 10 (7), pp. _PHONE_.
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The use of remotely-sensed optical data to estimate the suspended sediment concentration (SSC) of water is dependent upon the correlation between SSC and reflectance. The strength of this relationship was hypothesized to vary with sediment type, as it is known that sediments, when dry, differ in their particle size distributions, colour and therefore reflectance properties. To test this, the reflectance of pure water with four concentrations of white clay and red silt were measured in the laboratory using a spectroradiometer. The correlation between SSC and reflectance varied with wavelength and sediment type. For white clay the correlations were very high (r0·98) in visible and near-infrared wavelengths but for the red silt it was lower (r0·8) in blue wavelengths increasing to much higher levels (r0·98) in blue/green and longer wavelengths. It was concluded that sediment type can affect the strength of the correlation between SSC and reflectance and that this will be most noticeable at shorter wavelengths.
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- With Automatic Agent ID and Integrated O2 Measurement
- Dräger Scio gas measurement modules deliver precise inspiratory and expiratory values for O2, CO2, and anesthetic agents such as N2O, enflurane, halothane, isoflurane, sevoflurane and desflurane.
- In combination with Dräger Infinity monitors, MAC values for anesthetic agents are displayed, helping to avoid underand overdosage
- The user can maintain optimal gas concentrations while making sure that ventilation is adequate
- There is the option to measure inspiratory and expiratory O2 concentrations using a paramagnetic oxygen sensor
- Comes equipped with the new WaterLock 2 water trap. The 2 μm pores of its dual hydrophobic membrane design let gases and water vapor pass freely with minimal pressure gradients while effectively preventing microbial contamination and condensation.


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For Immediate Release
November 30, 2012
For More Information Contact:
Mayor's Press Office
Mayor Thomas M. Menino today announced that Partners HealthCare, and its founding hospitals Brigham and Women's and Massachusetts General Hospital, is committing $1 million to the Boston Public Health Commission for a collaborative effort among the two organizations and the Boston Public Schools to implement a social and emotional learning curriculum for 7,000 students in 23 Boston public elementary and K-8 schools.
"This program will give Boston's students another tool in their tool kits to help them to make good choices," Mayor Menino said. "This is a great example of how we can all come together and find ways to support our kids."
Coordinated by the Boston Public Health Commission's Division of Violence Prevention, the collaborative will strengthen students' skills so that they are empowered to promote positive behaviors and healthy relationships at school and in their community. By focusing on social and emotional learning, the organizations hope that educators can proactively address conflicts before they come to a head, instead of addressing the negative outcomes after the fact.
"Our goal is to help young people better understand their emotions and be able to talk about them and learn to manage them. This project will help young people develop skills for healthy, positive relationships," said Gary Gottlieb, MD, President and CEO of Partners HealthCare. "By working with the Mayor and Boston Public Schools on this initiative, we want to support our young people in the classroom and in the community."
The two-year grant will provide training and professional development for 750 teachers, teaching assistants and principals to implement the evidence-based Open Circle Curriculum. At the heart of the curriculum are 15 to 20 minute classroom meetings led by homeroom teachers twice per week. These interactive meetings include group discussions, role-playing, children's literature, and activities to teach important skills such as listening, sharing, cooperating, speaking up, calming down, expressing anger appropriately, recognizing dangerous and destructive behavior, and problem solving. These lessons are further reinforced throughout the school day as all staff members integrate the promotion, modeling, and labeling of positive social and emotional skills into their teaching practice, their relationships with students and their relationships with colleagues and parents.
"Every day we look for innovative ideas and strategies that we can use to support our students," said Boston Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Carol R. Johnson. "Social and emotional learning is critically important to our students so they can learn strategies that will help them manage their feelings and cultivate healthy relationships. We want each student to be their very best, and we look forward to working with our partners on this initiative to ensure that our students achieve all of their goals."
Recent research has shown that social and emotional learning does more than improve behavior. It can also help students make significant gains in academic achievement — on average, a gain of 11 percentile points in reading and math, according to a 2011 review of more than 200 studies published in the journal Child Development. Social and emotional learning also equips students with the skills that today's employers consider important for the workforce of the future – communication, collaboration, cooperation, goal setting, problem solving, and persistence in the face of challenges.
Open Circle, a program of the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College, is a comprehensive, whole-school approach to developing safe, caring and highly engaging classroom and school communities. Open Circle improves school climate and helps address a broad range of challenging behaviors in school, from disruption of classroom instruction to teasing, bullying, and fighting.
The extensive program training for teachers and administrators will ensure a consistent approach, vocabulary and expectations for student behavior school-wide. Parents and caregivers will also learn Open Circle approaches to use at home through workshops at the schools and at Boston Public Schools' Parent University. Additionally, schools will build capacity for sustained, continuous improvement in social and emotional learning through Open Circle peer coaches, parent group facilitators, and multi-departmental social and emotional learning leadership teams.
The NoVo Foundation has committed to fund through a $220,000 grant a broad research study examining process outcomes and program impact for this initiative.


What is College in the High School?
College in the High School is just that, college level classes taught at WHS by staff members that qualify for WVC adjunct professor status.
What Curriculum is used?
College level curriculum at the same level as classes taught at WVC is used.
What are the requirements?
Passing the ASSET test given by the college. Call _PHONE_ to set up a test date. The test is given every Friday at 8:30 a.m. at Wells Hall (enter 5th Street).
Cost is $15.00 which may be paid at cashier's office which opens at 8:00 a.m. (also located in Wells Hall)
What are the costs?
WVC $35.00 per credit hour. A 5 credit class would be $175.00. U of W (German only) 5 credit class would be $199.00.
What are the benefits to a high school student?
The opportunity to take college level classes at the WHS site and on our daily schedule.
What classes?
 - American Literature
 - Math Anal/Pre-Calculus
 - German 3/4
 - Spanish 3/4
 - French IV/UW 103


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- Toothpick or large, blunt needle
- Clear gloss enamel or nail polish
- Have your child roll small pieces of playdough into balls to make beads.
- Pierce each bead with a toothpick or large blunt needle and allow to dry for several days.
- Check holes after a day to see if they need repunching.
- When dry, coat with clear gloss enamel or nail polish to bring out the color.
- Thread beads onto a string and knot the ends together to create a necklace or bracelet.
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Long-term observations (LTO) in the cities of Berlin, Hamburg and Stuttgart will be further continued by the project partners of 3DO+M (formerly 3DO). The data collective is thus constantly being expanded. The large number of three-dimensional atmospheric data sets is used to validate the urban climate model PALM-4U, which will be further developed in the next three years. However, the data collected is also directly available for applications in urban planning, climate protection and air pollution control.
Maps of the LTO in Berlin, Stuttgart and Hamburg as well as information and data contained therein are not suitable for scientific investigations, but merely provide insight into the ongoing work of the 3DO+M Joint Research Project. Detailed and adequate information for scientific purposes (e.g. coordinates of measuring station, measurement heights, instrument type, etc.) can be obtained from the respective station operator.


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Tudor, Kate Elizabeth*
Loughborough University, London, UK (_EMAIL_)
Spray, Christopher Mark
Loughborough University, London, UK (_EMAIL_)
Recent years have seen increased government funding into resilience-building programmes in schools. However, practitioners are unable to assess the efficacy of interventions due to the lack of an available measure of academic resilience. The aim of this review is to provide an overview of the methods investigators have employed to measure academic resilience. A computerised literature search was conducted to identify journal articles where academic resilience was either; a) inferred through assessment of risk and positive adaptation or b) assessed using a measurement scale comprising protective factors. Results demonstrated significant variability in the factors utilised to represent risk and positive adaptation, and an inconsistent use of measurement scales. Different approaches to measuring academic resilience across studies leads to inconsistencies when estimating prevalence of the concept and the impact of resilience-based interventions. A discussion of the psychometric rigor of approaches to assessment is provided, with specific recommendations for future development of a measurement of academic resilience.
Keywords: academic resilience; academic buoyancy; measurement; school-based; intervention; systematic review


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In response to the changing landscape of healthcare and local STD prevention and control efforts, NACCHO received funding from the CDC to develop a resource kit informed by five local health departments (LHDs) that have adapted their STD programs and worked with community partners to meet local STD prevention and control needs. LHDs and their partners can use the STD Program Adaptation and Partner Engagement Resource Kit to help guide their activities in this changing landscape.
For each LHD STD program model used to develop this Resource Kit, a summary of the program is provided, along with tools, resources, and lessons learned. The tools included are not defined as "best practices," but they have proven useful to the LHDs that developed them and can be modified to fit the needs of all users.
Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Toolkit
Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health Toolkit,Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Toolkit


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Use the following steps to upgrade the Java Run Environment, install Message Queue, and upgrade Directory Server.
Upgrade the Java 2 Runtime Environment (or Java 2 SDK) on each host (except on Windows NT) where Identity Synchronization for Windows components are installed. The minimum required version is 1.5.0.
Upgrade Directory Server to version 6.3. For more information, see Chapter 1, Overview of the Migration Process for Directory Server.
To keep the Administration Server intact, use the -N option while migrating Directory Server (configuration and data) to version 6.3. For more information on migrating configuration data and user data, see Using dsmig to Migrate Configuration Data and Using dsmig to Migrate User Data respectively.
The Directory Server upgrade preserves your current Directory Server configuration and database.


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To gain an understanding how superconductivity might be happening we first
need to look at how conventional electrical resistance occurs. According to accepted
theory, resistance to current flow occurs because electrons keep bumping into
atoms as they flow through a conductor. Thermal activity also plays a role. As a substance
increases in temperature its atoms move more vigorously. This movement increases an
electrons resistance to flow because it increases the number of collisions.
Conversely as a substance cools the number of collisions, and hence the resistance,
The BCS Theory of Superconductivity
So how does superconductivity work? The standard explanation is BCS
An alternative explanation of Superconductivity
Is BCS correct? It is difficult to say, especially as it involves quantum
mechanics explanations that lay outside the boundaries of our real-world (and common
sense) experience. So Id like to present an easier-to-swallow alternative that fits
within classical mechanics.
Thus it is impossible for electrons to move through a compound without
experiencing a retarding force, even at absolute zero temperatures. This retarding force
should bring the electrons to a halt. Yet the electrons dont slow down; they
continue at a constant speed. The only way this is possible is that the electrons are
receiving a counter force in their forward direction.
The Duck Hunter
Imagine there lived a duck hunter. This hunter was not very successful
because, for some reason, he only shot ducks that flew directly overhead. The ducks flew
at varying speeds, some even hovering occasionally, and as they passed he would fire a
The duck in the left frame is hovering, i.e. moving with zero velocity,
and the duck on the right is flying with a constant velocity toward the right. As the
bullets pass through they exert force on the ducks. In what direction will these forces
Shooting at Electrons
What does this have to do with electrons? In the preceding chapters
electric fields were likened to bullets. Tiny electric field bullets emerge
from all sides of an electron and travel in straight lines. When these bullets strike
another electron they exert a force in the direction of their motion.
The frame on the left shows two electrons standing motionless above and
below each other. The frame on the right shows the bottom electron motionless and the top
electron moving to the right at a constant velocity. What will the force be on the top
Now suppose a proton was doing the shooting instead. What would the direction of force be on an electron moving overhead? Again we expect the field to flow through it on an angle however, due to this being an opposite charge, it seems logical that the force should be in the opposite direction:
Using vector representation we can split this force into its x and y components:
Notice that most of the force is still in the vertical direction (y axis) but there is now a small force component in the horizontal direction (x axis).
The proton tunnel
Expanding on the above, imagine there are two protons, above and below each other, and the electron is at their midpoint moving horizontally to the right:
The two protons will exert a diagonal force on the electron; however the forces will not be directly opposite. In the above diagram F1 and F2 are the forces from protons 1 and 2 respectively. Taking the vector components of each force we notice that the vertical components cancel, but not the horizontal forces because theyre in the same direction. The net result is this:
The horizontal forces combine yielding a net force to the right.
As it passes between the first pair of protons, the electron will receive
a net force to the right. This will propel it to the next pair of protons, whereupon it
will receive another force to the right... propelling it to the next pair
and so on,
and so forth.
It is possible to explain superconductivity within the boundaries of
classical mechanics by considering that electrons moving at right-angles to protons
receive a small force in their direction of motion due to field lines passing though
charged particles at an angle.
Copyright © 2012 Bernard Burchell, all rights reserved.


Open Inventor 8.1
Thanks to numerous optimisations, generalised use of the latest OpenGL techniques, and finely tuned memory consumption, Open Inventor 8.1 delivers a display rate which is now nearly equivalent to graphics hardware peak performance. This new release also introduces a dynamic display resolution mechanism, whereby advanced rendering effects are progressively applied during interaction, refining image quality on the fly, without sacrificing interactivity. Volume masks and real-time shadows are two major new features provided by VolumeViz 8.1, while the MeshViz XLM 8.1 extension benefits from more parallelised extraction algorithms and significantly improved performance. Finally, ScaleViz 8.1 now takes full advantage of multi-GPU configurations, with optimal performance on Nvidia QuadroPlex systems using the Nvidia CompleX engine.


Having the correct vehicle and adaptations is essential to enabling independence. It is a balance between the individual's function and their needs. Where a wheelchair is used, the method of transporting the wheelchair will affect the choice of vehicle and what adaptations are needed to transport the chair without causing long term injuries to the user or carer. A simple factor such as the height of the driver's seat will have an influence on how easily the individual can transfer from their wheelchair into the car.


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Placing Your Flymatic Insect KillerEvery application is unique, so each installation requires an individual assessment for fly killer siting, however there are some basic principles which should be followed:
- Use enough units to cover the area to be protected.
- Install the unit away from sources of light competition, such as windows, doors and high powered luminaries.
- Consider sources of heat and airflow.
- Do not install units directly above sensitive areas, such as food preparation areas.
- Glue board insect killers should be used for sensitive applications such as food preparation or production areas. They are also ideal for use 'front of house'.
- Consider access for installation and future servicing.
- Wherever possible, fly killers should be positioned at 90° to sources of natural light, such as windows, doors and skylights.
- The unit should be positioned in between potential entry points, so as to intercept flying insects before they reach sensitive areas.
- The unit should not be sited ether too high or too low in the area to be protected, with an optimum height of around 2m.


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Monocular 3D Object Detection
This technology is a novel end-to-end trainable Grouped Mathematical Differentiable NMS (GrooMed-NMS) for monocular 3D object detection.
Modern 3D object detection methods have immensely benefitted from the end-to-end learning idea. However, most of them use a post-processing algorithm called Non-Maximal Suppression (NMS) only during inference. Although there have been attempts to include NMS in the training pipeline for other tasks such as 2D object detection, they have been less widely adopted due to a non-mathematical expression of the NMS.
Description of Technology
This technology formulates NMS as a matrix operation and then groups and masks the boxes in an unsupervised manner to obtain a simple closed-forms expression of the NMS. GrooMeD-NMS addresses the mismatch between training and inference
pipelines and therefore forces the network to select the best box in a differentiable manner. GrooMeDNMS achieves state-of-the-art monocular 3D object detection results on the KITTI dataset performing comparable to monocular video methods.
- This technology enables a end to-end trainable closed-form mathematical differential Non-Maximal Suppression..
- GrooMeD-NMS addresses the mismatch between training and inference pipelines prevalent in monocular 3D object detection and therefore forces the network to select the best box in a differentiable manner.


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Bud Mars was the first man to fly an airplane in Hawaii on December 31, 1910. Piloting a Curtiss B-18 biplane, he flew to 500-feet over Moanalua Polo Field, Oahu. He repeated the flight the next day to the thrill of thousands of spectators.
- The Curtiss B-18 biplane made of spruce, ash, bamboo, steel tubing and silk was piloted by J. C. Bud Mars. Mars took nine seconds to get airborne and climbed to 500 ft before landing safely.
- Mars is interviewed before his historic flight at Moanalua Polo Field. "I am proud to have been the first man to fly over these beautiful islands." Honolulu Advertiser 1-1-1911
- Bud Mars' biplane on the grass at Moanalua Field where approximately 3,000 people witnessed the first flight of a heavier than air machine over Hawaii soil.
- Residents gather to watch the first flight in Hawaii by Bud Mars
- As the biplane with its gigantic wings swept over the grass field and rose into the air there was a general whoop of exultation and spontaneous applause from spectators.
- Mars made several flights that day.
- Spectators lined the polo field as Mars flew over the field.
- JC Bud Mars' biplane on his history making flight was an entirely new machine which had never been in the air before. It was christened Skylark after its maiden flight.
- "The biplane swooped down like a monstrous hawk charging on its prey..." Honolulu Advertiser 1/1/1911
- Promoters sold tickets to Honolulu spectators for $1 each. Some 3,000 people paid the administrative charge, and hundreds of others watched from nearby hillsides.
- Mars landed in the center of the polo field after the flight and was interviewed and photographed by the press.
- Mars was disgusted that so many viewed his flight without paying. He left the islands in early January 1911 for Asia, discouraged that he hadn't covered his costs.


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This precious glass frame is hand painted 🎨 by Rebecca Fritz with lots of details to create a lifelike depiction of your furry friends.
5×7 Glass Frame
👩🏻About Rebecca Fritz
💡Did You Know?
1⃣Interacting with animals has been shown to decrease levels of cortisol (a stress-related hormone) and lower blood pressure.
2⃣ Animals can serve as a source of comfort and support. Therapy dogs can help reduce patients' stress and anxiety.
3⃣ Kids who read to the real animals showed better social skills and more sharing, cooperation, and volunteering.
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Verb: neglect ni'glekt
 1. Leave undone or leave out
 "How could I neglect that typo?";
 - pretermit, omit, drop, miss, leave out, overlook, overleap
 2. Not do something; leave something undone
 "She neglected to notice that her child was no longer in his crib";
 - fail
 3. Fail to attend to
 "he neglects his children"
 4. Give little or no attention to
 "neglect the errors";
 - ignore, disregard, tune out
Noun: neglect ni'glekt
 1. Lack of attention and due care
 - disregard
 2. The state of something that has been unused and neglected
 "the house was in a terrible state of neglect";
 - disuse
 3. Wilful lack of care and attention
 - disregard
 4. The trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern
 - negligence, neglectfulness
 - negligence, carelessness, nonperformance
Derived forms: neglects, neglecting, neglected
Type of: carelessness, declination, decline, inattention, mistreatment, nonaccomplishment, nonachievement, sloppiness
Antonym: attend to
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Import AUTOSAR architecture updates from OEMs
Select this option before the import to merge data instead of overwriting it.
The splittable mechanism provides the following benefits:
- You can optimize processes by distributing elements to files as required, e.g., to support processes for data exchange between OEMs and suppliers.
- You can add elements to an AUTOSAR model via additional AUTOSAR files. This lets you add elements without changing existing AUTOSAR files.
- To reimport splittable elements, right-click the project node and select Import – AUTOSAR.
- Select the file you want to import and select Files contain a new system extract version with splittable elements.
- Browse to and select the previous file version for comparison. SystemDesk returns to the Import dialog.
- Click Start Import.
SystemDesk imports and merges the selected AUTOSAR elements.
You merged AUTOSAR elements from an AUTOSAR file with the AUTOSAR elements in a SystemDesk project.


ENTOUCH Smart Building Solutions
How Does a Software-Enabled Platform for Facilities Management Improve and Automate Asset Optimization?
Software-enabled platforms outpace in-house facilities management processes to derive value and self-sufficiency.
The rise of newer facilities management methodologies, including the use of a single pane of glass methodology, have the potential to greatly improve and automate traditional processes. Yet, the level of integration and compatibility required to truly automate facilities management activities demands the use of a software-enabled platform for facilities management, such as an energy management-as-a-service platform. Let's take a closer look at how a software-enabled platform benefits facilities management.
A Software-Enabled Platform Brings Relevant Information Forward
Having the right information to make informed decisions is integral to successful facilities management, and a software-enabled platform in facilities management leverages the power of advanced technologies to proactively identify the most pertinent information and present it to a facility manager. Thus, they can have the necessary information to make decisions that benefit the overall welfare and efficiency of existing assets.
Software-Enabled Platforms Helps Facility Managers Recognize Proactive Maintenance Opportunities
The ability to clearly identify and prioritize items in need of repair, replacement or optimization also contributes directly to the creation and support of a proactive maintenance schedule. Software-enabled platforms can leverage both historic and predictive analytics to generate an ongoing proactive maintenance schedule, including recognizing opportunities where proactive maintenance will likely yield better results than previously believed.
Deep Learning Lets Software-Enabled Platforms Self-Optimize and Self-Manage Assets
Machine-to-machine learning and deep learning within artificial intelligence is a key characteristic of software-enabled platforms. Such platforms have the capacity to cross-reference millions of data points and self-manage use of resources to improve and maximize asset life expectancy. For facilities managers of multi-site portfolios, the ability to self-manage and self-optimize assets saves countless hours and reduces overall facilities management spend.
Additionally, software-enabled platforms communicate seamlessly through the Internet of Things (IoT), which allows the entire process to grow smarter, more efficient and more effective. Therefore, the overall amount of work required on the part of the facility manager decreases, and facility managers can focus on more customer-centric activities and their distributed portfolios.
Automation Leads to Faster Response and Lower Risk
Automation powered by a software-enabled platform in facilities management reduces delays between problem development, reporting and responsiveness. As a result, this lowers the overall risk present in routine facilities management operations, explains FacilitiesNet.
For example, automation in software-enabled platforms can control temperature and lighting settings throughout multiple facilities. If the facility houses combustible gases or substances, keeping the right temperature setting can amount to preventing explosions and maintaining the safety and security of the facility.
Let a Software-Enabled Platform for Facilities Management Do the Work for You
By taking the time to implement software-enabled solutions, facilities managers can do more with less, find more time to focus on customer service, gain stakeholder support and more. Rather than trying to leave your systems running without technology and automation, invest in a software-enabled and integration-ready platform, like ENTOUCH.one, to automate and boost your asset and facilities management processes. Get started with your software-enabled platform by contacting ENTOUCH online today.


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Developing a 30,000-foot vision
Teacher-powered teams keep students at the center of decision-making starting in the design phase. This is essential in ensuring that your school is student-centered. In the Forming stage, it's likely that your team is starting to shape a 30,000-foot, big-picture vision of what your school will look and be like. Thinking about the school from the perspective of students can help guide this vision.
Design questions to ask:
- What are the specific needs of the students who will attend the school?
- What will students experience during the school day?
- What will the learning program and instructional approach be?
- How does that approach align with student needs?
- How will students experience teaching and learning?
- How will teachers work together to manage and lead the school?
- How will these choices impact students and teachers?


Künneth theorem
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In mathematics, especially in homological algebra and algebraic topology, a Künneth theorem, also called a Künneth formula, is a statement relating the homology of two objects to the homology of their product. The classical statement of the Künneth theorem relates the singular homology of two topological spaces X and Y and their product space X × Y. In the simplest possible case the relationship is that of a tensor product, but for applications it is very often necessary to apply certain tools of homological algebra to express the answer.
A Künneth theorem or Künneth formula is true in many different homology and cohomology theories, and the name has become generic. These many results are named for the German mathematician Hermann Künneth.
Singular homology with coefficients in a field[edit]
Let X and Y be two topological spaces. In general one uses singular homology; but if X and Y happen to be CW complexes, then this can be replaced by cellular homology, because that is isomorphic to singular homology. The simplest case is when the coefficient ring for homology is a field F. In this situation, the Künneth theorem (for singular homology) states that for any integer k,
\bigoplus_{i + j = k} H_i(X; F) \otimes H_j(Y; F) \cong H_k(X \times Y; F).
Furthermore, the isomorphism is a natural isomorphism. The map from the sum to the homology group of the product is called the cross product. More precisely, there is a cross product operation by which an i-cycle on X and a j-cycle on Y can be combined to create an (i+j)-cycle on X × Y; so that there is an explicit linear mapping defined from the direct sum to Hk(X × Y).
A consequence of this result is that the Betti numbers, the dimensions of the homology with Q coefficients, of X × Y can be determined from those of X and Y. If pZ(t) is the generating function of the sequence of Betti numbers bk(Z) of a space Z, then
p_{X \times Y}(t) = p_X(t) p_Y(t).
Here when there are finitely many Betti numbers of X and Y, each of which is a natural number rather than ∞, this reads as an identity on Poincaré polynomials. In the general case these are formal power series with possibly infinite coefficients, and have to be interpreted accordingly. Furthermore, the above statement holds not only for the Betti numbers but also for the generating functions of the dimensions of the homology over any field. (If the integer homology is not torsion-free then these numbers may differ from the standard Betti numbers.)
Singular homology with coefficients in a principal ideal domain[edit]
The above formula is simple because vector spaces over a field have very restricted behavior. As the coefficient ring becomes more general, the relationship becomes more complicated. The next simplest case is the case when the coefficient ring is a principal ideal domain. This case is particularly important because the integers Z are a PID.
In this case the equation above is no longer always true. A correction factor appears to account for the possibility of torsion phenomena. This correction factor is expressed in terms of the Tor functor, the first derived functor of the tensor product.
When R is a PID, then the correct statement of the Künneth theorem is that for any topological spaces X and Y there are natural short exact sequences
0 \to \bigoplus_{i + j = k} H_i(X; R) \otimes_R H_j(Y; R) \to H_k(X \times Y; R) \to \bigoplus_{i + j = k-1} \mathrm{Tor}_1^R(H_i(X; R), H_j(Y; R)) \to 0.
Furthermore these sequences split, but not canonically.
The short exact sequences just described can easily be used to compute the homology groups with integer coefficients of the product P2(R) × P2(R) of two real projective planes, in other words Hk(P2(R) × P2(R); Z). These spaces are CW complexes. Denoting the homology group Hi(P2(R); Z) by hi for brevity's sake, one knows from a simple calculation with cellular homology that
hi = 0 for all other values of i.
The only non-zero Tor group (torsion product) which can be formed from these values of hi is
\mathrm{Tor}^{\mathbf{Z}}_1(h_1, h_1) \cong \mathrm{Tor}^{\mathbf{Z}}_1(\mathbf{Z}/(2),\mathbf{Z}/(2))\cong \mathbf{Z}/(2).
Therefore the Künneth short exact sequence reduces in every degree to an isomorphism, because there is a zero group in each case on either the left or the right side in the sequence. The result is
H_0 \left (\mathbf{P}^2(\mathbf{R}) \times \mathbf{P}^2(\mathbf{R});\mathbf{Z} \right )\; &\cong \;h_0 \otimes h_0 \;\cong \;\mathbf{Z} \\
H_1 \left (\mathbf{P}^2(\mathbf{R}) \times \mathbf{P}^2(\mathbf{R});\mathbf{Z} \right )\; &\cong \; h_0 \otimes h_1 \; \oplus \; h_1 \otimes h_0 \;\cong \;\mathbf{Z}/(2)\oplus \mathbf{Z}/(2) \\
H_2 \left (\mathbf{P}^2(\mathbf{R}) \times \mathbf{P}^2(\mathbf{R});\mathbf{Z} \right )\; &\cong \;h_1 \otimes h_1 \;\cong \;\mathbf{Z}/(2) \\
H_3 \left (\mathbf{P}^2(\mathbf{R}) \times \mathbf{P}^2(\mathbf{R});\mathbf{Z} \right )\; &\cong \;\mathrm{Tor}^{\mathbf{Z}}_1(h_1,h_1) \;\cong \;\mathbf{Z}/(2) \\
and all the other homology groups are zero.
The Künneth spectral sequence[edit]
For a general commutative ring R, the homology of X and Y is related to the homology of their product by a Künneth spectral sequence
E_{pq}^2 = \bigoplus_{q_1 + q_2 = q} \mathrm{Tor}^R_p(H_{q_1}(X; R), H_{q_2}(Y; R)) \Rightarrow H_{p+q}(X \times Y; R).
In the cases described above, this spectral sequence collapses to give an isomorphism or a short exact sequence.
Relation with homological algebra, and idea of proof[edit]
The chain complex of the space X × Y is related to the chain complexes of X and Y by a natural quasi-isomorphism
C_*(X \times Y) \cong C_*(X) \otimes C_*(Y).
For singular chains this is the theorem of Eilenberg and Zilber. For cellular chains on CW complexes, it is a straightforward isomorphism. Then the homology of the tensor product on the right is given by the spectral Künneth formula of homological algebra.[1]
The freeness of the chain modules means that in this geometric case it is not necessary to use any hyperhomology or total derived tensor product.
There are analogues of the above statements for singular cohomology and sheaf cohomology. For sheaf cohomology on an algebraic variety, Grothendieck found six spectral sequences relating the possible hyperhomology groups of two chain complexes of sheaves and the hyperhomology groups of their tensor product.[2]
Künneth theorems in generalized homology and cohomology theories[edit]
There are many generalized or extraordinary homology and cohomology theories for topological spaces. K-theory and cobordism are the best-known. Their striking common feature (not their definition) is that they do not arise from ordinary chain complexes. Thus Künneth theorems can not be obtained by the above methods of homological algebra. Nevertheless Künneth theorems in just the same form have been proved in very many cases by various other methods. The first were Atiyah's Künneth theorem for complex K-theory and Conner and Floyd's result in cobordism.[3][4] A general method of proof emerged, based upon a homotopical theory of modules over highly structured ring spectra.[5] The homotopy category of such modules closely resembles the derived categories of homological algebra.
 1. ^ See final chapter of Mac Lane, Saunders (1963), Homology, Berlin: Springer, ISBN 0-387-038


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We recently received the following question about the moon:
…would we miss the moon if it did not exist? I'm not asking what crazy improbable situation would be needed to remove the moon, just what the observable differences upon the Earth would be if there was no moon? Obviously there would be tidal differences, but would we have any other major effects I'm not aware of?
Thanks for the question Matt, This was a fun topic to research.
There are more ramifications from a missing moon than you might realize.
Of course you're correct that there would be tidal differences but the details may surprise you.
Fist of all, the tides wouldn't disappear. Everyone usually associates the moon with the tides but the sun contributes as well. These sun-only tides would be smaller of course; in fact they'd be about one third as high as they are today. They would also be very simplified as well, consisting of just a high tide and a low tide with no variation. This is because neap tides and spring tides would disappear since there would no longer be any moon to add to or subtract from the sun's tidal influences.
Since Matt wanted to know the observable differences if the moon disappeared, I am creating an Observable Difference Factor scale from 0 – 10.
10–is easily observable by anyone not in a vegetative state.
1–is noticeable only by very alert scientists.
0–is not noticeable at all even by a post-singularity super-intelligent AI.
I give the tides an Observable Difference Factor of 9.
If you live or work near the coast and have a fully functional parietal lobe you will notice that the tides have changed.
Did you know that a day on earth billions of years ago was only 6 hours long? Talk about days flying by.
Geologists know this by counting the growth rings in 400-million-year-old coral fossils and 3-billion-year-old stromatolites. Our days have been steadily lengthening because of a fascinating phenomenon call tidal breaking. The huge high-tide bulge of water closest to the moon is never right under the moon because the earth's spin is moving it away. Gravity pulls the moon towards the bulge which speeds the moon up forcing it into a higher orbit. The bulge is also attracted to the moon so it tries to move toward it which is in a direction opposite to earth's rotation. This increased friction slows the earth down. A more technical way to look at it is conservation of angular momentum. The total angular momentum of the earth/moon system must remain the same. The moon gains angular momentum as it moves away; therefore the earth must lose it to maintain this zero-sum game.
The bottom line then is that if the moon disappeared, the lengthening of our days would greatly slow down. It would still occur though due to tidal breaking caused by the sun.
I give this an Observable Difference Factor of 1.5
Scientists would notice this easily but some regular people would also notice that leap seconds stopped occurring every two years or so.
Picture the two dimensional path the earth takes around the sun. Now picture the axis upon which the earth spins. There is not a 90 degree angle between these lines. If that was the case, the earth would be a seasonless world. It is because the earth is tilted 23 1/2 degrees away from 90 degrees that I have to endure this bitterly cold winter for many months before spring-summer-fall arrives to reset my sanity back to baseline.
We take this angle for granted don't we? It's easy to think that this angle is fixed at the birth of the solar system and stays that way. It turns out though that our moon is a great axis of rotation stabilizer. Without it, the earth's axis could potentially swing from 5 degrees to 40 degrees based on the various gravitational interactions with the other planets. Imagine what this would do to our weather and evolution. For those of you more into short-term thinking, you wouldn't have to hold on to anything were this to happen. This wobble could take thousands or hundreds of thousands of years to occur.
I give this an Observable Difference Factor of 1
Only scientists (and cloaked alien satellites) would notice this
The only other significant effect I could find has to do with the altitude of the water in our oceans. Apparently, without the moons gravity, the water in our oceans would migrate a certain extent from the equator to the polar regions. It was unclear from my research how dramatic this effect would be.
I give this an Observable Difference Factor of somewhere between 5 and 9
This discussion seems to beg the question of what would the earth be like today if it never formed the moon in the first place after that Mars-sized object slammed into the early earth (imagine seeing that coming?).
I won't go into detail but I'd like to briefly address the likely result.
An Earth day now would only be 8 hours long due to the isolated effects of sun-earth tidal breaking.
A faster spinning earth would likely have horrific winds. Daily winds could reach 100 mph and hurricane winds would be quite nasty.
Evolution would be greatly impacted but it still would have occurred I believe. Life seems so tenacious and seems to have started as soon as it was possible but humans certainly wouldn't be here if the moon never was. It seems likely that at the very least evolution would have been delayed or slowed greatly. With no moon there would be no mountainous tides early in earth history to scour the land every few hours and bring back to the primordial soup the critical chemical ingredients of life.
As I sit here contemplating these changes I am also grateful for some moon-based words that I would miss if they disappeared with the moon like lunatic and mooning.


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What Is the Meaning of Child Dedication?
The act of dedicating children to the Lord was a common practice of blessing among the people of God in both Old and New Testament times. In addition, it was also a statement by the parents recognizing that their child really belonged to God.
Samuel's mother dedicates her son to the Lord:
"Sir, do you remember me?" Hannah asked. "I am the woman who stood here several years ago praying to the Lord. 27 I asked the Lord to give me this boy, and he has granted my request. 28 Now I am giving him to the Lord, and he will belong to the Lord his whole life." And they worshiped the Lord there. 1 Samuel 1:26-28
Jesus was dedicated to the Lord:
Then it was time for their purification offering, as required by the law of Moses after the birth of a child; so his parents took him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord. 23 The law of the Lord says, "If a woman's first child is a boy, he must be dedicated to the Lord." Luke 2:22-23
As Christians today, we dedicate children with the same purpose in mind.
As a Parent, What Is Expected of Me?
Dedication is a public expression of faith and commitment on the part of the parents and of blessing on the part of God through His Church. This act by the parents is a prayerful declaration of their stewardship over God's gracious gift to them.
One day some parents brought their children to Jesus so he could touch and bless them. But the disciples scolded the parents for bothering him. When Jesus saw what was happening, he was angry with his disciples. He said to them, "Let the children come to me. Don't stop them! For the Kingdom of God belongs to those who are like these children. I tell you the truth, anyone who doesn't receive the Kingdom of God like a child will never enter it." Then he took the children in his arms and placed his hands on their heads and blessed them. Mark 10:13-16
Child dedication is more than a ritual. It's a commitment on the part of parents to honor the will and the Word of God. As a part of this dedication parents are asked to:
- Recognize that your children belong to God and have been born to experience His love and to serve Him.
- Pray daily for God's direction in your lives and in the lives of your children.
- Faithfully participate in worship with your children.
- Teach your children the truths of God's Word in your home.
- Anticipate and seek to gently lead your children to personal faith in Christ.
And you must commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these commands that I am giving you today. Repeat them again and again to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up. Deuteronomy 6:6-7
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger by the way you treat them. Rather, bring them up with the discipline and instruction that comes from the Lord. Ephesians 6:4
Should I Have My Child Baptized?
Baptism is an outward expression of a personal commitment to Christ by faith (see Baptism). At Abundant Life Community Church we wait to baptize our children until they are old enough to understand personal sin, the need for salvation and that baptism signifies dying to an old way of life and being raised to a new life in Christ. Generally, we expect that most youth by the age of 12 are capable of this kind of understanding. We urge parents with infants or young children to dedicate them to the Lord now and commit to disciple them toward personal faith in Christ and baptism.
What Will the Dedication Be Like?
Parents and relatives are invited to assemble and participate with you during your child's dedication. The dedication will consist of the Pastor praying specifically for your child. Then other leaders will pray for the Lord's blessing on you and ask the church to help nurture and disciple children toward faith in Christ.
Baby dedication is open to parents who can truthfully say, "I will commit myself to raising this child to know the Lord Jesus Christ by loving, discipling, training and setting a positive Christlike example."
To sign-up for the next Child Dedication or to get more information, email Pastor Rocky Taylor (_EMAIL_ or call the church at _PHONE_).


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An Authorisation Grant is the credetial representation the Resource Owner's authorisation of the Client's access to its protected resources. The specifications define four Grant types, described below.
- Authorisation Code
- Resource Owner password Credentials
- Client Credentials
The Authorisation code is obtained by using an Authorisation server as an intermediary between the client and the resource owner. Instead of requesting authorisation directly from the resource owner, the client directs the resource owner, via the user-agent, to the authorisation server. The Authorisation server redirects the resource owner, via the user-agent, back to the client with an Authorisation code. This authorisation code is then used by the client to authenticate itself and fetch Access tokens. Access tokens are, finally, used by the client to access the protected resources ( residing on Resource server) of the resource owner.
Before directly the resource owner back to the client with the authorisation code, the Authorisation server authenticates the resource owner ( through an Authorisation server and Resource server interaction ) and obtains authorisation. Because resource owner authenticates with authorisation only, hence the resource owner's credentials are hidden from the client.
The Authorisation code provides important security benefits, such as
- Ability to authenticate the Client
- Transmission of Access token directly to the Client, without passing it through the Resource owner's user-agent. Hence keeping the access token within the scope of the Client, without exposing it to the user or the user-agent.
Implicit Grant is a simplified Authorisation code workflow. Here the client is issued the Access tokens, just after the Resources owner's authentication. The access token is thus returned, when the user-agent is redirected to the Client.
This implies that
- No Authorisation Code is required by the Client to obtain Access tokens. They are issued directly on redirection, immediately after resource owner authentication.
- Authorisation server does not Authenticate the Client
- Access tokens issued are now visible to the user-agent. This can pose some security loops
Because of the above three restrictions, this type authorisation grant workflow is optimised for Clients that are implemented in the Browser
Resource Owner Password Credentials
The Resource Owner's Login Credentials i.e username and password can be used directly as an authorisation grant, by the Client, to obtain Access Tokens. This workflow should be used only when there is high degree of trust be the resource owner and the client. e.g client is a part of highly privileged application, and used privately by the resource owner.
This grant type should eliminate the need for the client to store the resource owner's credentials for future use, instead should use long term access tokens or refresh tokens.
The Client Credentials, or any form of Client Authentication, can be as an Authorisation grant to obtain Access tokens. Here, the authorisation scope is limited to the protected resources, controlled by the client. i.e when the client is itself the owner of the protected resources. This workflow is also valid when the proctected are of the nature that they can be publicly accessed by multiple client, i.e when the proctected resources are now owned by any user in particluar.


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Definition of inbreathed
imp. & p. p. - of Inbreathe 2
The word "inbreathed" uses 10 letters: A B D E E H I N R T.
Direct anagrams of inbreathed:
Words formed by adding one letter before or after inbreathed (in bold), or to abdeehinrt in any order:
i - reinhabited
All words formed from inbreathed by changing one letter
Browse words starting with inbreathed by next letter


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Families First is designed to improve outcomes for children, young people and families. It emphasises prevention and early intervention for families, particularly those living in poverty.
Messages from the reports will be used to inform the future delivery of the Families First programme.
Year 3 Report
The three-year evaluation sought to answer a number of questions about the programme including:
- whether the programme design is fit for purpose
- an assessment of how the programme is implemented
- the quality of the programme's implementation
- the impact of the programme on families
- the impact of the programme at an overall population level.
Specifically, this report will provide:
- a review of the policy context
- a review of progress in implementing Families First
- an assessment of impacts and outcomes three years into the programme's delivery
- consideration of the programme's design and whether it is fit for purpose in delivering against the rationale for intervention
- examples of good practice in the implementation of Families First.


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Involving students in hands-on learning, problem solving, and applications of knowledge in real-life settings helps increase academic achievement. As part of the School's Strategic Plan, Barnesville has developed ongoing partnerships with local nonprofit and business organizations in order to help our students make connections with the local community and world at large. These partnerships serve to strengthen instruction in academic skills and to enrich the educational process. Not only are we able to bring scientists and artists to Barnesville, we bring Barnesville's students to their facilities, stages, and laboratories so that they may best learn from these experts. Enrichment opportunities like these benefit students in building new skills, forming new interests and increasing self-confidence. These hands-on experiences make for meaningful lessons that are remembered for years.
The following is a list of organizations with which Barnesville has partnered:
- BlackRock Center for the Arts – a cultural, visual, and performing arts center in Germantown. Past activities have included the creation of a mobile for BlackRock's 10th anniversary with sculptor/actor Kevin Reese, and the development of an original dance with ClancyWorks Dance Company. Most recently, Barnesville eighth graders and art students from a public Middle School participated in a joint art exhibit, Converging, hosted by BlackRock.
- Brickyard Educational Farm – a Potomac nonprofit striving to improve the Chesapeake Bay watershed through the practice and teaching of sustainable agriculture. Students work with staff members to grow and harvest local crops, as well as learn about seed saving and storage.
- GeneDx – a genetic testing and diagnosis company in Gaithersburg that serves families suffering from severe hereditary disorders. As part of our classroom studies on genetics, students learn from scientists at GeneDx how research on genetics can help save the lives of those with rare genetic conditions.
- Poolesville High School Global Ecology Magnet Program – Our students have partnered with high school seniors to create reef balls for Chesapeake Bay oysters, giving the oysters a habitat and ultimately helping the oyster population in the Bay to flourish.
- Kingsbury's Orchard – a 100-year-old orchard in Dickerson producing apples, peaches, pears, and other fruit. Each Wednesday in the fall, students enjoy apples from the orchard as a healthy local snack, and learn about the importance of locally-sourced food. Barnesville's youngest students also visit Kingsbury's Orchard for a tour of the facilities.
- OriGene – a biology company in Rockville dedicated to the creation of genome-wide reagents in support of research and clinical diagnostics. For the 2013-2014 school year, students will be furthering their understanding of genetics with a visit to the laboratory and question-and-answer sessions with OriGene's scientists.


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Introduction: Portable Hammer
Portable hammer for light nailing when you need to nail out in the field but don't want to bring a regular hammer for weight reasons.
1. Piece of 1x2 Pine
2. 2 screws, 1.25 inches (I used Spax #1 Square)
3. Metal mending plate.
4. Screwdriver (in my case #1 Square)
Step 1: Secure Metal Plate
1. Align the plate to the narrow side of the 1x2.
2. Begin driving in the 2 screws, making sure that they go in straight.
3. Once you are sure they are driving straight, screw them all the way down to the surface of the metal plate.
4. To use, hit the head of the nails with the metal plate.
5. Please note that this is for portable, light duty use only.


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Parse text into parts of speech, or simply recognise their language or script. Analyse the frequency of words in a text, with an option to do this by word roots (lemmas).
How Apple and third-party developers can update the apps you use without your being aware, even if you have automatic updates disabled.
Identifies, parses and analyses text in any of 8 languages supported by Mojave and later. Ideal for learners, word frequency analysis, and much more.
Utility to convert text files between different code pages and formats now runs native on Intel and Apple Silicon Macs.
How to analyse text in any combination of 8 major languages into parts of speech, and make word frequency counts, all for free.
This linguistic analysis tool uses macOS to identify languages, parse them into grammatical types, even analyse word frequencies.
It can parse text in any combination of 8 different languages, showing parts of speech and even word roots.
What's coming at WWDC, and how will Apple profit handsomely from Marzipan even if it doesn't help many developers?
Finishing off some of the details in this unique app which analyses text in many different languages. And a decidedly naughty Rich Text editor which lets you set appearance for each of its windows.
Type, press Cmd-Enter and Nalaprop parses your text to show word classes. Two clicks and it gives you word frequencies by lemma ('root') too.


Terminological quandaries with the term »museum pedagogy«
Dr. Zdenko Kodelja and dr. Lidija Tavčar
Summary: The main topics of this article are some terminological problems with the term »museum pedagogy«, which has been used in Slovenia for more than two decades. This term is problematic for at least two reasons. Firstly, because it includes educational work with both children and adults in museums and galleries, but at the same time it does not take into consideration a crucial change which took place with the establishment of Andragogy as a specifi c educational science. The second reason why the term »museum pedagogy« is problematic is that it leads to the wrong conclusion that Museum Pedagogy is a specific educational science or discipline, although actually it is not.
Journal of Contemporary Educational Studies is
published with support of Slovenian Research Agency.


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


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Science Fair Project Encyclopedia
Smoke signals is an early form of the optical telegraph, developed by the native North Americans and Chinese (as in the towers of the Great Wall.) By covering an open fire with a blanket, and suddenly removing it for a short time, a puff of smoke is generated. With some training, the sizes, shapes of, and intervals between these puffs can be controlled in a way that can be observed from a long distance, and used to carry information.
Apparent to anyone within its visual range, the smoke signal is not a standardized code that can be easily translated. Like other forms of communication, the signals are often of a predetermined pattern discerned by sender and receiver. Still, the smoke signal can abide by other universal patterns of communication. For example, as in other distress calls, a pattern of three would indicate a call for help.
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Provisioning is a way of distributing settings to one or multiple devices/phones. Most often a http-server is involved where each phone can request it's settings from.
How the phone does try to acquire provisioned settings is itself a setting-section within the phone's configuration.
Manual Provisioning
You have limited provisioning by simply uploading a provisioning-xml via 'restore backup' in the phone's Web-UI. This method doesn't allow provisioning-xmls of the reference type.
You'll have to put a provisioning-xml on a http-server somewhere that the phone can reach. Enter that file-url (e.g. as Provisioning server URL (on phone: Settings → Provisioning). The same phone-menu has an entry: Start provisioning. Press it and the phone will download the file and install it.
Automatic Provisioning
To achieve a successful Provisioning, the phone needs
 - a correctly configured and available Network
 - a valid time - It relies on NTP to acquire one
After activation, the provisioning-service checks the preconditions. Then it checks the following fixed sequence of sources:
 1. concurrently:
The service sends a request to the first found URL. After a successful download it checks, whether the file is of the Reference Type. This may lead to subsequent downloads. Every URL can contain special markers, that are replaced with device information.
The service uses the files in the specified sequence. The migration-machnism applies the files to the configuration. This process doesn't restart the device.
A provisioning can be initiated by various events.
 - manually: within the phones settings-menu under provisioning
 - at system boot: If configured, the provisioning service reacts on every system boot.
 - at a specific time: configured via the provisioning-settings.
 - via check sync: A SIP notify message can start a provisioning.
A device uses the DHCP options 66, 67 and 43 to determine an URL. It combines the options 66 and 67. The following example configuration of an isc-dhcp-server:
host d200 {
 hardware ethernet 00:09:52:00:00:0E;
 filename "prov.py?mac=";
 option tftp-server-name "_URL_";
is combined to _URL_ Missing / are inserted between the options.
Option Length Text
66 11 http://foo block to transmit
67 12 .bak block to transmit
The DHCP option 43 can contain the encoded information from option 66 and 67. The test is hexadecimal encoded and separated by :.
Option Length Text
42: 0b: 68:74:74:70:3a:2f:2f:66:6f:6f:00 encoded
43: 0c: 3c:48:57:54:59:50:3e:2e:62:61:6b:00 encoded
Results in the complete option 43 content:
The Redirect Service is an Auerswald/FonTevo Service, which assigns an URL to a device. It replies the assigned URL, when the configured device sends a request.
Registered partners can register their devices here.
The multicast subscribe mechanism sends a SIP multicast subscribe message and listens for sip notify responses. Contains on of the responses an URL, it is used by the provisioning service.
This mechanism should only be used in trustworthy networks. The device can't apply any security measures to ensure the authenticity and validity of the notify origin.
Provisioning-xml's come in different types.
When you create a backup of your settings you'll get an Provisioning-xml of this patch-type. It lists all settings within an encompassing configuration-element. When you re-upoload this xml it replaces all existing settings.
You may also reduce such a patch-type to only one settings-section and upload it. In this case only that section is replaced or merged.
If you want to alter just a couple or a single sub-element of a settings-section, reduce these settings and mark it with patch="true". Your uploaded sub-elements will alter their existing counter-parts but other settings will be left alone.
The settings evolve with each release. New ones are added, others might get renamed. We list the configuration XSD definitions so you can check which settings structure is expected:
Release 1.0B
Release 1.2A
Release 1.4 A / 1.4B
You may even provision settings-sections of an elder version, the telephone uses a migration-machnism to change an outdated settings-version into the current one.
A reference file allows the user to provide more than one configuration file.
The schema for this XML document is the provisioning_references.xsd.

All operations are applied to the current settings (no migration) but only after all operations are applied do we check each setting-section. If it is still a valid configuration it is stored, if not all operations on that setting-section are discarded.
We plan to add further operations like replace and add but there is always so much to do. If you need more control, let us know.
Marker Replacement
The provisioning service replaces the following markers in URL's (e.g. in the reference file or the Provisiong-Server-URL-setting):
 - or {serial} to the devices serial number.
 - or {type} to D100, D200.
 - or {mac} to the devices MAC address ( uppercase, without : )
Given the following URL:
the phone applies its data


Accelerated Face detection on a cluster of 8 Alveo FPGA cards
Speed up your AI applications on an FPGA cluster, instantly. A use case on face detection on a cluster of 8 Alveo cards
Automatic Object Detection using machine learning is one of the most promising technologies in the domain of video classification and detection. Object detection in video is computationally intensive task that requires huge amount of processing power. Hardware accelerators, based on FPGAs, can provide the required processing power to increase the throughput of the application and at the same time to reduce significantly the latency.
InAccel, a world-pioneer in the domain of FPGA-based accelerators, has released today an integrated framework that allows to utilize the power of an FPGA cluster for face detection. Specifically, InAccel has presented a demo in which a cluster of 8 FPGAs are used to provide up to 1700 fps (supporting up to 56 cameras with 30 fps in a single server).
Viola Jones face detection algorithm is a widely-used method for real-time object detection The Viola–Jones object detection framework is the first object detection framework to provide competitive object detection rates in real-time proposed in 2001 by Paul Viola and Michael Jones. Although it can be trained to detect a variety of object classes, it was motivated primarily by the problem of face detection. It uses Haar-like features, which are inner products between the image and Haar templates. A face candidate is a rectangular section of the original image. As images may have faces of different sizes, an image pyramid is constructed by downscaling the image by a constant factor. This multiscale representation of image is then searched for all possible 25×25 faces. The inner product of Haar features requires the sum of different rectangular sections of the downscaled image.
Nitish Srivastava et al. from Cornell University have presented an implementation for a Xilinx Zynq device. Based on this implementation InAccel has released today an integrated framework targeting the Xilinx Alveo cards that allow to scale out the Face detection application in a cluster of 8 Alveo U200 FPGA cards providing a great performance for video applications.
FPGAs are adaptable hardware platforms that can offer great performance, low-latency and reduced OpEx for applications like machine learning, video processing, quantitative finance, genomics, etc. However, the easy and efficient deployment from users with no prior knowledge on FPGA was challenging.
InAccel provides an FPGA resource manager that allows the instant deployment, scaling and resource management of FPGAs making easier than ever the utilization of FPGAs for applications like machine learning, data processing, data analytics and many more applications. Users can deploy their application from Python, Spark, Jupyter notebooks or even terminals.
In the case of face detection, InAccel FPGA manager was used to scale out the application on a server with 8 FPGA cards. The software developers do not need to change at all the original code and the FPGA manager was used to serialize the request from the video streaming and dispatch the job to the FPGA cluster. Using 8 FPGAs, we managed to achieve up to 1700 fps on a single server. That means that a single server can support up 56 cameras (assuming 30 fps) in a single server and still the CPU processor is free for additional processing (supporting more than 56 videos assuming 30fps).
This application can be further scaled-out to multiple server through the Kubernetes plugin. For example, scaling-out to 8 servers it can support up 13,600 fps on a cluster of 8 servers (64 Alveo U200 FPGA cards). The platform was deployed in a cluster provided by VMAccel.
You can check the relevant video on the link below.
Face detection on a cluster of 8 Alveo cards
Face detection on a single Alveo card with FPGA monitor
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Educators for Excellence-Boston Releases Policy Paper on Addressing Student Trauma in Schools
Teacher-written policy paper was launched at an event advocating for trauma-informed schools
May 5, 2017 (Boston) — Educators for Excellence-Boston (E4E-Boston) released a teacher-written policy paper, "Schools that Heal," which includes a set of recommendations for how schools in Boston and Massachusetts can create safe and welcoming learning environments for students who have experienced trauma. The paper was released last night at an event at the Regal Fenway theater, where E4E-Boston members joined At-Large Boston City Councilor Ayanna Pressley and the Center for Social Innovation in screening the documentary Paper Tigers, which follows one school's success in supporting students who have experienced trauma.
In Boston, teachers have voiced concerns that a lack of awareness, training and resources to help students cope with traumatic experiences is harming their ability to learn and succeed in school. With the recent spike in deportations and hate crimes across the country, many students are experiencing anxiety over the safety of their families. A survey by Children's Hospital found that one in five Boston students have had more than two traumatic experiences.
"I have been working in urban classrooms for thirteen years and seen that trauma has been a constant barrier to students' ability to learn. We need to have a broader conversation and shine a light on trauma; it is one of the biggest threats to student achievement," said E4E-Boston member Nina Leuzzi, kindergarten teacher at Bridge Boston Academy in Dorchester, who was an author of "Schools that Heal."
"Schools that Heal" is the product of teacher-led research on ways to better address the needs of our students. Their school-, district-, and state-level recommendations focus on deepening teachers' ability to teach trauma-impacted students, cultivating a trauma-informed school community and updating the funding formula to reinforce schools with the resources to educate vulnerable students.
"In education we continue to talk about issues of mental health and wellness. Now is the time for us to move beyond talking and take action. We have to show our students and our most vulnerable populations that we are not going to abandon them. Now is the time to look at broader social and emotional issues that impact student learning and work through those with students so they can achieve," said E4E-Boston member Marina Gopie, ninth-grade English Language Arts teacher at Another Course to College in Hyde Park.
"Oftentimes, a child's fear and anxiety about issues at home are hidden wounds that deepen when not properly attended to, affecting his or her development. That's why our teachers believe that addressing trauma in our city's classrooms is so critical to ensuring that their students feel comfortable and supported in school," said Sarah Zuckerman, E4E-Boston Executive Director. "I am so proud of the teachers who authored our recommendations, as well as all the educators who work every day to ensure they create an open and encouraging environment. This paper is a clear example, not only of their dedication, but also how, when teachers are empowered to improve their school communities, they can effect real and meaningful change."
The full policy paper and all recommendations can be found at e4e.org/schoolsthatheal.


Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 Update 4 NSAPI Developer's Guide
Installing the AddLog() Example
To load the shared object containing your functions, add the following directive in the Init section of the magnus.conf file:
Init fn=load-modules
To call brief-init to open the log file, add the following code to the Init section in magnus.conf. This line must come after the one that loads the library containing brief-init.
Init fn=brief-init
AddLog fn=brief-log
The source code for this example is in addlog.c file in the install-dir/samples/nsapi directory.


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|Define Vision#Gather stakeholder requests [message #581543]
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| Roman Smirak
Registered: July 2009
The task: Define vision contains steps as follows (simplified here):
* Identify stakeholders
* Understand the problem
* Gather stakeholder request
* Define features
My understanding (simplified again): To understand the problem (and
stakeholder's needs to solve it) I need to understand the context (current
work procedure and its pain or limits, for instance) and then I can suggest
appropriate solution in form of a working software system (particular form
of the solution to be implemented) specified by features.
Q: What does it mean in this context: 'Gather stakeholder request'? What is
the relationship among Need, Request, Requirement?
My interpretation: a stakeholder is already able to express sort of
requirement about the system (its particular behaviour or capability) - e.g.
we are developing next version of an existing system, or the stakeholder is
somehow experienced or software-enabled:-), etc. So the term belongs to the
particular (sw) solution space as well as a requirement which is probably
more formal or properly handled then (+ attributed, etc.) whereas a need
belongs to the problem space and it is software independent. Is this correct
meaning of the step?
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Wonnangatta Station
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All that remains today of the Wonnangatta Station homestead. The stones outline the original floorplan.
Wonnangatta Station is located in Victoria
Wonnangatta Station
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Wonnangatta Station location
The Wonnangatta Station was a cattle station located in a remote valley of the Victorian Alps, Australia. According to writer Harry Stephenson the station, while it operated, was "the most isolated homestead in Victoria." [1][2]
The nearest population centres were the goldfield towns of Talbotville, about 20 miles (32 km) away, Grant and Dargo to the south-east, and the larger town of Mansfield, about 80 miles (130 km) away over the Great Dividing Range.
The Wonnangatta Station homestead was accidentally burnt down by bushwalkers in 1957. Some stockyards and the old cemetery, which has been restored to something resembling its original form, survive. Today the area is part of the Alpine National Park, and is only accessible by Four-wheel drive, dirt bike, horse or on foot. The station remains a popular offroad destination and has numerous facilities for campers, including septic toilets and concrete fire pits.
The station had been established in the 1860s by Oliver Smith, a North American who came across the valley while prospecting for gold. Smith's common law wife Ellen or "Nancy"[3] and her son Harry joined him and a homestead was built near the junction of the Wonnangatta River and Conglomerate Creek.[4]
Some time later Ellen died in childbirth,[5] and soon after Smith sold out to William Bryce before eventually returning to the United States.
The Bryce family then occupied the station while Ellen's son Harry Smith moved down the valley and established himself at Eaglevale. The Bryce family remained a presence at Wonnangatta until Mrs Bryce died in 1914 at the age of 78. Ten Bryce children were brought up at Wonnangatta. As the children grew up they moved away and after Mrs Bryce's death the property was sold to Mansfield owners in 1916, who installed a manager to run the station.
The Wonnangatta Murders[edit]
The station and surrounding area are the site of the still-unsolved Wonnangatta murders which occurred in late 1917 and 1918.
See also[edit]
 1. ^ Stephenson, Harry (1980) Cattlemen and Huts of the High Plains. p. 69. Graphic Books, Armidale, Victoria, Australia ISBN 0-949847-00-3
 2. ^ Homestead location 37°12′29″S 146°49′50″E / 37.207950°S 146.830665°E / -37.207950; 146.830665.
 3. ^ Mortimer, Wallace. (1980) The History of Wonnangatta Station. p.10-11, Spectrum Publications, Richmond, Australia ISBN 0-909837-90-2.
 4. ^ Stephenson, Harry (1980) p.57
 5. ^ Stephenson dates this event as 1866, Mortimer as 1873. Her headstone at the station cemetery is apparently indecipherable
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Coordinates: 37°12′30″S 146°49′52″E / 37.20833°S 146.83111°E / -37.20833; 146.83111


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The hydrothermal corrosion behavior (320 °C, 20 MPa, 168 h) of high-purity chemical-vapor-deposited (CVD) SiC pre-irradiated with 5.1-MeV Si ions at 400 and 800 °C and 0.1-2.6 dpa was studied in order to clarify the effects of irradiation damage on SiC corrosion. Regardless of the pre-irradiation conditions, selective corrosion was observed at the grain boundaries and stacking faults even at the unirradiated regions. In contrast to the complete loss of the irradiated regions observed in the specimens irradiated at 400 °C during the autoclave test, a number of large grains survived in the case of the specimens irradiated at 800 °C. The corrosion rates at the irradiated regions increased with increasing irradiation fluence, with a significant dependence in the lower dpa regime similar to that observed in the point-defect swelling. SiO2 formation was not detected in any case. Cross-sectional scanning transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) analyses of the surfaces of the surviving grains revealed oxygen diffusion to a depth of 3.0 nm from the surface. A significant reduction of the oxygen diffusion barrier at the surface was implicated as one of the key mechanisms of the acceleration of the ion-irradiated SiC corrosion rates.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics
- Materials Science(all)
- Nuclear Energy and Engineering


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My gut tells me "investable" with "a" because the definition depends on how much you are able to invest.
The case for "investable" over "investible"
- Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary includes "investable," but not the alternative spelling.
- Garner's Modern American Usage calls "-ible" "dead as a combining form in English," while "-able" is a living suffix that may be added to virtually any verb without an established suffix." It includes "investable" among "some of the hundreds of adjectives preferably spelled -able."
The case for "investible" over "investable"
- Google turns up about 393,000 references to"investible" vs. only 320,000 to "investable."
- Fowler's Modern English Usage says "The –ible form is the natural one for words derived from Latin verbs ending –ere or –ire, making adjectives in –ibilis." I don't know about "making adjectives in –ibilis," but lo and behold, my dictionary says the word "invest" comes from the Latin investire. However, my copy of Fowler's dates back to the 1960s.
- The Financial Times Lexicon goes with "investible." Could this be a British thing?
The SEC is a draw
A search of the SEC website yielded an equal number of results for both spellings. I wonder if they use both as key words for search purposes.
Note: I updated this blog post in 2015 to delete an outdated reference to an inactive poll.


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Troubled Girls: The Reasons Behind
Updated on May 26, 2010
What makes troubled girls?
 How do they become troubled? What circumstances lead to psychological damage for girls, who can otherwise have a happy life if only a pattern of guidance is developed? These are some of the questions that this article will try to answer for those who would like to understand what it means to be troubled and how it can be solved.
First before we go any further, let us define what being troubled girls really mean. Being troubled girls can refer to girls who have difficulty interacting with people diplomatically. They are bred in such a way that they do not know how to show respect or show compassion for others. This might be due to the circumstances that surround their familial environment.
This inability to show respect by troubled girls may stem from various reasons. They may have been the objects of sexual or physical abuse that led them to lose trust in other people. This may also cause them to act out and do things that most girls their age would not normally do.
Examples of Delinquent Activities
Some examples of delinquent activities that problem girls sometimes get into are as follows.
 - Shoplifting
 - Trafficking
 - Prostitution
 - Drug addiction
These are just some examples of what troubled girls may end up doing if they are not guided well. Most of the girls who end up doing these things start out as rebellious teens who did not want to be bound by rules. Perhaps because they feel that if they follow the rules, they would not be able to get what they want out of life. Because of their adventurous spirit and disregard for rules, they have the tendency to try anything they want and believe everyone that they encounter.
Because of this, girls become troubled girls. They end up being led into the wrong path. Being troubled can be defined as having a disturbed nature. This could be the result of fear or guilt that they have, which is not yet expressed. This is why troubled girls need to have guidance in their lives so that they would not end up doing something that they would regret for the rest of their lives.
How do you treat troubled girls? Psychologists would tell you that discipline would help them gain balance and simplicity in their lives. However, this discipline should come from within. The girls should be able to talk to someone whom they can trust and be open with. If they can find this trustworthy person, they would be able to open their hearts and share what they really feel about life. Maybe they are looking for someone to share their experiences.
Once you determine the root cause of the condition, you can now help these girls deal with their various problems by allowing them to take control of the situation on their own. However, this should come at its own time. You and the counselor, or the authority figure must not force the troubled girls to share their feelings right away.
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The information on Shangri-la climate could be helpful for preparing a Yunnan travel. Diqing enjoys a typical plateau climate, and it may snow in August. The city is surrounded by the Hengduan mountain range, and the terrain varies greatly, so the temperature difference throughout the day is large. Sometimes, travelers can even experience all four seasons within a day. July to September is the rainy season. Tourists usually choose to visit Diqing in summer or autumn, when the temperature is moderate.
Features of Diqing Climate
The climate in Diqing Tibetan autonomous prefecture is temperatecold temperate climate. The annual average temperature is 4.7- 16.5℃, the annual extreme maximum temperature is 25.1℃, and the minimum temperature is -27.4℃. With obvious three-dimensional climate, there is a saying of "A mountain has four seasons" in Diqing.
Diqing Weather and Climate by Month
What to Pack for a Diqing Trip
- Spring(March-May): In Spring, the temperature in Diqing slowly rises, from cold to mild, but the overall temperature is relatively low. Tourists to Diqing should wear sweaters and coats, and dress in layers to adapt to the large temperature difference.
- Summer(June-August): June to August is the rainy season, and Diqing has the highest temperature at this time. In summer, tourists are supposed to bring light clothes for the daytime and warm clothes for the night. Besides, remeber to bring an umbrella, hat, sunglasses and sunscreen.
- Autumn(September-November): As autumn goes on, the weather gets colder and drier. Long-sleeved clothes and warm coat are needed at this time.
- Winter(December-February): It's very cold in winter. If it snows, the temperature may drop below 0°C in the morning and evening. Therefore, it's important to keep warm in winter. Thermal underwear, sweaters, thick coat/down jacket, gloves, scarf, and warm hat are necesary when travelling in Diqing.
Best Time to Visit Diqing
Diqing is about 3,300 meters above sea level. Like all plateau, the temperature difference in Diqing between morning and evening is large and the wind is strong. It is recommended to visit Diqing from May to July and September to October. There are many festivals and activities at this time, the weather is also ideal for travel. Flowers are in full bloom, and there are green grass and trees everywhere, with the most beautiful scenery.
- MayJune: The end of spring and early summer is the most beautiful time of Shangri-La because of the full bloom of azalea (but the bloom time may delay along with the change of weather). In the middle of June, there are wild flowers in blossom everywhere, such as irises.
- JulyAugust: Flowers are blooming and colorful, but this is the rainy season of the year.
- SeptemberOctober: September to October is autumn. Wolf poison flowers are in bloom, and Diqing is rich in color. At this time, the scenery is beautiful and suitable for photography.
- November: It begins to snow in Diqing. Diqing is in single color, and the weather is colder.
- December: At this time, Diqing owns the most beautiful snow scene, and you can see the black-necked crane as well.
Avoid Public Holidays in China
Try to avoid the public holidays of China, such as May Day Holiday(May 1-3), National Day Holiday(October 1-7), Spring Festival Holiday(Usually early February), Qingming Festival(in early April), Dragon Boat Festival(in June). Spring festival and national day festival are the most crowded time to travel. During these holidays, there will be a large crowd in the tourist attractions and you can't really enjoy yourself. Flights and hotels are usually more expensive than usual.
High Altitude Sickness
Diqing is more than 3,300 meters above sea level. Some people may have a little altitude sickness, but it's usually not serious. If you want to go to the mountain pass, which is more than 4000 meters above sea level, it is better to take more preventive measures. Before going to the plateau, you can take some medicines to alleviate the altitude reaction, such as rhodiola rosea, American ginseng tablet and so on.


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Also found in: Financial, Idioms.
n. Often Offensive
1. An ineffective or undependable member of a group.
2. A person regarded as timid or indecisive.
informal US a person in a group who is regarded as weak or unreliable
1. a vacillating person; coward.
2. a part or element that undermines the whole of something; weak link.


―Han Solo, referring to the Millennium Falcon[src]
A parsec was a unit of astronomical distance equivalent to about 19 trillion miles (3 light years).[1] For example, Tatooine was less than a parsec away from Geonosis, and the Kamino system was located twelve parsecs south of the Rishi Maze.[2]
During the Clone Wars, the planet Toydaria became vital to breaking the Separatist blockade over Ryloth because it was 2000 parsecs closer to the Ryloth system than the nearest Republic fleet.[3]
Han Solo claimed his starship, Millennium Falcon, made the Kessel Run in "less than twelve parsecs,"[4] boasting about its ability to withstand shorter, more dangerous routes through hyperspace.[1] In reality, the Falcon only made it through the Run in less than twelve parsecs on a technicality, as one needed to round down to reach the number Solo claimed.[5]
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is so much more significant than the differences that divide us.
The Easter message is to supersize your character and not your possessions. Supersize your compassion, not your religious purity. Supersize what comes out of your mouth, rather than what goes into your mouth. Supersize your inner strength rather than your outer physique. Supersize your optimism and love for all people, rather than bitterness and negativity. Supersize your inner world and then you will always have enough and you will see resurrection everywhere.
Easter light in me honors supersized optimism in you. Happy Easter and Namaste.
For Further ReflectionHow important are the historical details of the Easter story?
Is resurrection a meaningful metaphor, even without a literal, physical resurrection of Jesus?
What do you see as the values of Jesus' life?
What does Easter mean to you?


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Fume Formation from Oxidation of Liquid SiMn Alloy
Journal article, Peer reviewed
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Original versionOxidation of Metals. 2017, 1-21. 10.1007/s11085-_PHONE_-y
Thermally generated fumes from the production of manganese ferroalloys are mostly composed of metallic oxides generated due to reaction between high-temperature molten metal and ambient oxygen in the air. In the current study, the fume characteristics (particle morphology, compositions and particle size distribution) from the exposure of a SiMn alloy under an impinging air jet, in the temperature range 1400–1700 °C, were experimentally investigated. Combinations of manganeseand manganese/silicon oxide particles were found in the system, displaying both crystalline and amorphous structures. The governing generation mechanisms of fume from both a thermodynamic and a kinetic perspective are discussed.


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Blowing in the Wind
Long straight stitches dotted with French knots radiate from the center of this graceful dandelion pouf. Wispy fly-stitch florets create a sense of movement.
Designer: Tsuki Fox
12" square of blue linen
6"-diameter wooden embroidery hoop
Embroidery floss: white
Matching sewing thread
1. Click on "Download this Project" above for pattern and stitch instructions. Using a light box or a sunny window, trace the pattern onto the center of the fabric using a sharp pencil.
2. Place blue linen square in embroidery hoop, centering traced design inside hoop and pulling fabric taut. Tighten screw.
3. Using four strands of white embroidery floss and beginning at the bottom of dandelion stem, chain stitch stem.
4. Using two strands of white embroidery floss and a long straight stitch, stitch each dandelion pouf line. Add a double-wrapped French knot to end of each long stitch.
5. Flystitch floating dandelion florets with one strand of embroidery floss. Modify stitched slightly to look as if they are floating in the wind.
6. Remove embroidery from hoop. Using a warm iron and working on wrong side, press finished embroidery. Insert embroidery into hoop, centering design and pulling fabric taut.
7. When all stitching is complete, turn the hoop over. Stitch a running stitch approximately 1-1⁄2" outside the hoop in the fabric that extends past the hoop edges. Pull the thread to gather the fabric; knot the thread. Trim away the extra fabric approximately 1" outside the gathered line.
8. If desired, cut a felt circle that is slightly smaller than the back of the embroidery hoop. Whipstitch the felt circle to the gathered fabric on the back side of the hoop.


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A leaf bud, as distinguished from a flower bud.
A bud spore; one of the small spores or buds in the reproduction of certain Protozoa, which separate one at a time from the parent cell.
n. (L. gemma, a swelling, bud, gem) a bud or outgrowth of a plant which develops into a new organism. A leaf bud rather than a flower bud.
small asexual reproductive structure in e.g. liverworts and mosses that detaches from the parent and develops into a new individual
a group of undifferentiated cells, which when dropped from the parent plant, can grow into a new moss
a small cellular body that separates from the mother-plant and starts a new one
(pl., gemmae) A bud by which some plants propagate.
a bud or bud-like organ capable of reproducing the plant. pl. gemmae.
A young bud from which plants vegetatively reproduce.
A gemma (plural gemmae) is a single cell, or a mass of cells, or a modified bud of tissue, that detaches from the parent and develops into a new individual. It is a means of asexual propagation in plants. These structures are commonly found in fungi, algae, liverworts and mosses, but also in some flowering plants such as pygmy sundews.