How to build a Windows PE [Vista] CD/DVD that contains Ghost32.exe and then join a client machine to a Ghost Cast Server session to create or restore an image file.
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It's been explained to you that imaging operations on server operating systems and computers that use a hardware RAID array must occur from a 32-bit Windows PE environment where the network interface card (NIC) drivers and mass storage controller drivers are included in that environment. You need to know how to build this Windows PE disk so that you can complete your imaging with the Ghost Cast Server.
The default 16-bit DOS environment that is used on regular Ghost Boot Disks does not correctly interpret hardware RAID arrays or server operating systems.
Symantec Technical Support for Windows PE is limited to the use and troubleshooting of Ghost. Support is not offered for configuring or troubleshooting Windows PE operations outside
the functionality of Ghost. The information below is provided "as is" and questions about Windows PE or the process used to create a Windows PE disk should be directed to Microsoft.
1. Download the Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) located at the following URL:
2. Once you have WAIK download, burn the image file to DVD using 3rd party burning software or extract the contents of the image file to a folder.
3. The following components should be installed on a Windows XPSP2, Windows 2003 SP1, or Windows Vista computer. These components are all available on the WAIK DVD burned in step 2.
a..NET Framework Setup
b. MSXML 6.0 Setup
c. Windows AIK Setup (install last).
4. Click Start > All Programs > Microsoft Windows AIK > Windows PE Tools Command Prompt
5. Type the following commands at the command prompt:
a. copype.cmd x86 c:\winpe_x86
b. imagex /mountrw c:\winpe_x86\winpe.wim 1 c:\winpe_x86\mount
Next, you'll want to copy ghost32.exe, NIC drivers, and Mass Storage Controller Drivers to the PE disk. The NIC drivers and Mass Storage Controller drivers need to be Vista drivers.
c. copy "C:\Program Files\Symantec\Ghost\Ghost32.exe" c:\winpe_x86\mount\windows
d. copy "[NIC driver location]" c:\winpe_x86\mount\windows (Vista Drivers only)
e. copy "[Mass Storage Driver Location]" c:\winpe_x86\mount\windows (Vista Drivers only)
f. peimg /prep c:\winpe_x86\mount\windows
Type Yes to continue
g. imagex /unmount c:\winpe_x86\mount /commit
h. copy c:\winpe_x86\winpe.wim c:\winpe_x86\ISO\sources\boot.wim
Type Yes to overwrite
j. Burn the ISO located at c:\winpe_x86 to CD/DVD.
6. Boot your client machine with the new PE disk you built
7. When the PE environment is fully loaded, you'll see a command prompt. At the command prompt, type ghost32.exe and press [enter]
8. At this point, Ghost will open and you can perform imaging as you normally would:
a. Click GhostCast
b. Select Unicast/Multicast/Directed Broadcast
c. Type the name of the GhostCast Session to join
d. Click OK
e. Select the source/destination drive and Click OK
f. If you're creating an image, choose the level of compression to use. If you're restoring an image, you won't see compression options.
g. Click Yes when asked, "Proceed with Image File Creation?"
Note: To automate the opening of Ghost32.exe when you boot into the Windows PE environment, modify the startnet.cmd file prior to taking step 5E. You can find the startnet.bat file in c:\winpe_x86\mount\windows\system32\startnet.cmd. Underneath the winpeinit entry, enter the following command line and resave the file:
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A couple of questions about custom layouts
I am trying to make a vocal score for this strange piece I'm writing.
my questions:
 1. is it possible to reorder the instruments only for a particular layout, and if so, how? (in this case, I want piano below the chorus in the vocal score, but not the full score).
 2. This piece involves looping, so some players actually are "playing" more than one instrument at a time. For instance, there's a piano part that is looped (digital piano), and then the player switches to bari sax. So they're both the same player, but I'd only like to have the piano appear in this layout and not the bari sax? Doable?
 3. The vocal section is relatively short, and at the end of a 9-minute movement. Is it possible for a layout to contain only an incomplete movement - a specified measure, range?
 1. Layout Options. Select the Vocal Score in the right panel, then go Players > Uses custom player order. Tick that, then move players up and down as you wish.
 2. Workarounds involve either using two separate players for piano and bari (this is by far the easiest), or copying/cueing everything from the piano into a separate piano player that only shows up in the vocal score.
 3. Not natively. Dump all multirests onto page 1, set page 2 to use the First Master Page, then throw in a text frame that explains where the chorus come in?
pianoleo you are my savior again - thank you!


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LaVision's SprayMaster inspex systems measure spray pattern and spray plume geometries of spray and aerosol generating devices. The light sheet based imaging systems use eye-safe LED lamps for illumination or lasers in case of very fast pulsed sprays.
High performance multi-cone fuel sprays up to single cone household sprays are tested in-line or on-line with automated spray parameter recording and test protocol generation. Axial spray profiles are recorded applying shadow imaging when a line-of-sight arrangement is better suited for a given spray test arrangement. The highly reliable imaging modules are field changeable following the highest industrial standards. The modular system design allows flexible solutions for even demanding customization requirements.
A comprehensive spray image analysis software tool kit generates in real-time process relevant data from the spray image, builds up a statistical data base, executes a quality criteria for spray acceptance including a feedback signal to the production/process line together with a customized test protocol for data traceability. Algorithmic based spray image processing guarantees fast, repeatable and operator independent results.
Global spray imaging on a light sheet can be combined with local droplet size and velocity measurements at a predefined location within the light sheet. Such a combined spray pattern and spray droplet imaging system for a comprehensive spray nozzle test is shown as an example of a highly integrated spray imaging solution.

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Although the spectral effects of direct and diffuse radiation on solar photovoltaic (PV) performance are relatively well understood, recent investigations have shown that there can be a spectral bias introduced due to albedo from common ground surfaces that can impact the optimal selection of PV materials for a known location. This paper extends analysis to the effects of spectral bias due to the specular reflectivity of 22 commonly occurring surface materials (both man-made and natural) and analyzes the albedo effects on the performance of seven PV materials covering three common PV system topologies: industrial (solar farms), commercial flat rooftops and residential pitched roof applications. An effective albedo is found for each surface material and PV material combination, which can be used in lieu of broadband albedo values in PV simulations. These results enable PV material selection for specific environments enabling geographic optimization for the micro-environment, while at the same time assisting optimal surface selection in the vicinity of existing or planned PV arrays. This analysis is of particular significance for the modeling of performance of bi-facial PV modules and vertical BIPV.
Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells
M.P. Brennan, A.L. Abramase, R.W. Andrews, J. M. Pearce, Effects of spectral albedo on solar photovoltaic devices, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 124, pp. 111-116,(2014). _URL_


until he can talk, or do you wait for him? Depending on your preferences, the former gets more done, but the latter is probably more within the rules.
 2. Mixing character sheets, dice, minis, etc. and lunch. I know there is the phrase, "a character sheet isn't broken in until soda/coffee has been spilled on it", but it still shortens the time that a character sheet remains viable.
 3. Keeping things on topic. People typically socialize during lunch, and the OC chatter may derail your plot, ESPECIALLY during long combats. Either go with it and let a week's worth of gaming take 2 weeks, or find some way to shut it down
 4. Curious Onlookers. Either have a way to keep them away, a mechanism to bring in more players (who may or not stay with it), or a way to deal with watchers.
 5. Campaign notes. I'd recommend keeping your notes on a laptop so you only have to hit "Save" at the end of the session and run back to work. Especially for combats where you need to keep track of any number of NPCs, their hit points, etc. Try to find (or make from your own books) PDFs of the rules and get text only versions so you can search for them QUICKLY.
 6. Duplicate Character Sheets. Have a copy of each character sheet (or rule that they stay in the office), so you never have "crud. I forgot my sheet." Try to get a word Doc of the stats, so worst case, you can print out another copy for the day (or if you have a scanner, and such, scan the sheets before play).
 7. Since you can only play 1 hour at a time, you will have to be able to set up and tear down QUICKLY. I recommend getting one of those battle-mats that are around 20X30 inches. Draw the map, and then all you need to do is unroll and place the minis.
 8. Mini maintenance. You will need a way to control who touches the minis, ESPECIALLY during tear-down. Take a cellphone snap of the map and/or use a wet-erase marker to mark each player's spot during tear down.
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Regarding #2 - My groups have used sheet protectors to cover the sheets and sticky notes to maintain information that changes in-game for decades. That way, you protect the sheet from the dangers of snacks and from unnecessary erasing / rewriting. Only update the sheet when values change permanently, and just transfer values to a new sticky when you use one up. These people are playing in an office. They should have sticky notes and sheet protectors available. – gomad Dec 10 '10 at 16:54
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Some old colleagues of mine used to play once a week in the evening in the meeting room downstairs, and I think it must have worked out quite well as they played for years*
From my own (very limited) experience of D&D 4e a session wants to be at least a few hours long.
 - (until about the time they invited me to join, at which point 3 left the company and the whole thing folded :( - nothing to do with the D&D I might add)
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I think you're going to face some real challenges in terms of time. I have no idea what kind of game you're planning, but if you want to get anything done in 90 minutes (including setup, cleanup, and presumably, lunch) I would suggest a lighter system.
The system I would probably try to run in a situation like that would have to be Savage Worlds. Here is why:
 - The system is very light. You can pick it up as a player or GM in no time.
 - The core book is very cheap - every player can afford to buy a $10 book and you'll save time you'd waste passing around a $35 PHB.
 - The system is fast. The motto of the system is Fast, Furious, Fun!. Combats are exciting but don't take forever.
 - There are a bunch of published settings for the system, from Old West horror (Deadlands), through superheroes (Necessary Evil), pirates (50 Fathoms), and many more I can't remember.
 - Also, it's easy to hack. I ran my last Firefly game in Savage Worlds using the core book and a free unofficial Serenity conversion. It was my first Savage Worlds game and it went great.
I think you could be successful, and I totally love the idea. I have been unable to get even a regular boardgame group together here where I work - we keep having trouble scheduling a 90 minute lunch.
I just think you're going to have to concentrate on speed - players in my experience get bored if there's just a combat for a whole session. And a fast, light, simple system that gets out of your way and lets you play is going to be a big part of getting some interesting play in a constrained time period. Good luck!
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I think we're fairly comfortable taking a system and hacking it for speed. Also, if things take off, I can see ways to fit in small micro sessions in other work breaks - say, 15 minute sessions advancing side plots throughout the week between the hour long lunch breaks. – blueberryfields Dec 10 '10 at 16:59
_USER_ - if you can make 4e work, great. I just thought I'd point out a solid, well-supported system that has play speed as a core design value. Would you consider making an edit to your question at some point to let us all know how it turns out? – gomad Dec 13 '10 at 16:29
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If you and the other players sign up over on Wizard's web-site you can get the D&D Next rules downloaded. I would recommend everyone sign up because of the potential legal issues of the NDA. One of the goals of the rules is making it possible to run a complete adventure in an hour. I am sure they would be happy to have your feedback in the surveys to make this possible. I have played one game of the new D&D Next rules game and it was fun, felt like D&D and the combat moved dramatically quicker than the current production game.
Hope you guys have fun, DaddyDM.
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Although it didn't exist at the time this question was posted, Dungeon World could easily fit in one-hour chunks. It's quick to pick up. Character and party creation is easily under half an hour.
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The Lesser Key of Solomon
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The Lesser Key of Solomon, also known as the Clavicula Salomonis Regis[note 1] or Lemegeton, is an anonymous grimoire (or spell book) focused on demonology. It was compiled in the mid-seventeenth century, mostly from materials a couple of centuries older.[1][2] It is divided into five books, the Ars Goetia, the Ars Theurgia-Goetia, the Ars Paulina, the Ars Almandel, and the Ars Notoria.[1][3]
Ars Goetia[edit]
The most obvious source for the Ars Goetia is Johann Weyer's Pseudomonarchia Daemonum in his De praestigiis daemonum. Weyer does not cite, and is unaware of, any other books in the Lemegeton, indicating that the Lemegeton was derived from his work, not the other way around.[1][4] The order of the spirits was changed between the two, four additional spirits were added to the later work, and one spirit (Pruflas) was omitted. The omission of Pruflas, a mistake that also occurs in an edition of Pseudomonarchia Daemonum cited Reginald Scot's The Discoverie of Witchcraft, indicates that the Ars Goetia could not have been compiled before 1570. Indeed, it appears that the Ars Goetia is more dependent upon Scot's translation of Weyer than Weyer's work in itself. Additionally, some material was used from Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy and the Heptameron by pseudo-Pietro d'Abano[note 2][1][5] and from the Magical Calender.[6]
Weyer's Officium Spirituum, which may be related to a 1583 manuscript titled "The Office of Spirits",[7] appears to have ultimately be an elaboration on a fifteenth century manuscript titled Le Livre des Esperitz (of which 30 of its 47 spirits are nearly identical to spirits in the Ars Goetia).[2][5]
In a slightly later copy made by Dr. Thomas Rudd, this portion was labelled "Liber Malorum Spirituum seu Goetia," and the seals and demons were paired with those of the seventy-two angels of the Shemhamphorasch,[3] who were intended to protect the conjurer and control the demons he summoned.[8] The angelic names and seals were derived from a manuscript by Blaise de Vigenère, whose papers were also used by Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers in his works for the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.[5] Rudd may have derived his copy of Liber Malorum Spirituum from now a lost work by Johannes Trithemius,[5] who taught Agrippa, who in turn taught Weyer.
This portion of the work was later translated by S.L. MacGregor Mathers and published by Aleister Crowley under the title The Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King." Crowley added some additional invocations previously unrelated to the original work, as well as essays describing the rituals as psychological exploration instead of demon summoning.[9]
The Seventy-Two Demons[edit]
 1. King Bael
 2. Duke Agares
 3. Prince Vassago
 4. Marquis Samigina
 5. President Marbas
 6. Duke Valefor
 7. Marquis Amon
 8. Duke Barbatos
 9. King Paimon
 10. President Buer
 11. Duke Gusion
 12. Prince Sitri
 13. King Beleth
 14. Marquis Leraje
 15. Duke Eligos
 16. Duke Zepar
 17. Count/President Botis
 18. Duke Bathin
 19. Duke Sallos
 20. King Purson
 21. Count/President Marax
 22. Count/Prince Ipos
 23. Duke Aim
 24. Marquis Naberius
 25. Count/President Glasya-Labolas
 26. Duke Buné
 27. Marquis/Count Ronové
 28. Duke Berith
 29. Duke Astaroth
 30. Marquis Forneus
 31. President Foras
 32. King Asmoday
 33. Prince/President Gäap
 34. Count Furfur
 35. Marquis Marchosias
 36. Prince Stolas
 37. Marquis Phenex
 38. Count Halphas
 39. President Malphas
 40. Count Räum
 41. Duke Focalor
 42. Duke Vepar
 43. Marquis Sabnock
 44. Marquis Shax
 45. King/Count Viné
 46. Count Bifrons
 47. Duke Vual
 48. President Haagenti
 49. Duke Crocell
 50. Knight Furcas
 51. King Balam
 52. Duke Alloces
 53. President Caim
 54. Duke/Count Murmur
 55. Prince Orobas
 56. Duke Gremory
 57. President Ose
 58. President Amy
 59. Marquis Orias
 60. Duke Vapula
 61. King/President Zagan
 62. President Valac
 63. Marquis Andras
 64. Duke Haures
 65. Marquis Andrealphus
 66. Marquis Cimeies
 67. Duke Amdusias
 68. King Belial
 69. Marquis Decarabia
 70. Prince Seere
 71. Duke Dantalion
 72. Count Andromalius
Ars Theurgia Goetia[edit]
The Ars Theurgia Goetia mostly derives from Trithemius's Steganographia, though the seals and order for the spirits are different due to corrupted transmission via manuscript.[10][5] Rituals not found in Steganographia were added, in some ways conflicting with similar rituals found in the Ars Goetia and Ars Paulina. Most of the spirits summoned are tied to points on a compass, four Emperors tied to the cardinal points, sixteen Dukes tied to cardinal points, inter-cardinal points, additional directions between those. There are an additional eleven Wandering Princes, totaling thirty one spirit leaders who each rule several to a few dozen spirits.[11]
Ars Paulina[edit]
Derived from book two of Trithemius's Steganographia and from portions of the Heptameron, but purportedly delivered by Paul the Apostle instead of (as claimed by Trithemius) Raziel. Elements from The Magical Calendar, astrological seals by Robert Turner's 1656 translation of Paracelsus's Archidoxes of Magic, and repeated mentions of guns and the year 1641 indicate that this portion was written in the later half of the seventeenth century.[12][13] Traditions of Paul communicating with heavenly powers are almost as old as Christianity itself, as seen in some interpretations of 2 Corinthians 12:2-4 and the apocryphal Apocalypse of Paul. The Ars Paulina is in turn divided into two books of its own, the first detailing twenty four angels aligned with the twenty four hours of the day, the second (derived more from the Heptameron) detailing the three hundred sixty spirits of the degrees of the zodiac.[14]
Ars Almandel[edit]
Mentioned by Trithemius and Weyer, the latter of whom claimed an Arabic origin for the work. A fifteenth century copy is attested to by Robert Turner, and Hebrew copies were discovered in the twentieth century. The Ars Almandel instructs the magician on how to create a wax tablet with specific designs intended to contact angels via scrying.[15][16]
Ars Notoria[edit]
Editions and Translations[edit]
 - Arthur Edward Waite, The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts, (1898). Later republished as "The Secret Tradition in Goetia," includes large portions of the Lemegeton, particularly the Goetia.[9]
 - Shah, Idries, The Secret Lore of Magic, (1970). Contains portions of Ars Almandel and split sections the Ars Goetia, missing large portions of the the rituals involved.[9]
 - Peterson, Joseph H. The Lesser Key of Solomon: Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis (2001), ISBN 978-1-57863-220-6. Considered "the definitive version"[21] and "the standard edition."[22]
 4. ^ a b The Book of Ceremonial Magic, part I, chapter III, section 2: "The Lesser Key of Solomon"; Arthur Edward Waite; London,


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Claim: The word "shit" comes from an acronym for "Ship High in Transit."
[Collected on the Internet, 2002]
History in the making!!!!
Fabulous bit of historical knowledge: Ever wonder where the word shit comes from … well here it is
Certain types of manure used to be transported (as everything was back then) by ship … well in dry form it weighs a lot less, but once water (at sea) hit it, it not only became heavier, but the process of fermentation began again, and one of the by products is methane
Bet you didn't know that one.
[Collected on the Internet, 1999]
In the 1800's, cow pie's were collected on the prairie and boxed and loaded on steam ships to burn instead of wood. Wood was not only hard to find, but heavy to move around and store.
When the boxes of cow pie's were in the sun for days on board the ships, they would smell bad. So when the manure was boxed up, they stamped the outside of the box,
When people came aboard the ship and said,"Oh what is that smell!" They were told it was shit.
That is where the saying came
Origins: This sorry piece of codswallop
about exploding ships appears to have begun its Internet life in February 2002. Its cousin, the "bad smelling steamship fuel" tale (second example quoted above) began its online life as an April 1999 post to the USENET discussion list rec.humor. Akin to the faux etymology of the word
We could launch into a long, involved discussion of ancient shipping practices, methane production and properties, and Internet leg-pulls, but we'll spare you all that, as the fanciful stories listed can easily be debunked as the product of someone's wild imaginings through linguistic means.
The word shit entered the modern English language via having been derived from the Old English nouns scite and
the Middle Low German schite, both meaning "dung," and the Old English noun scitte, meaning "diarrhea." Our most
treasured cuss word has been with us a long time, showing up in written works both as a noun and as a verb as far back as the
Scite can trace its roots back to the proto-Germanic root skit-, which brought us the German scheisse, Dutch schijten, Swedish skita, and Danish skide. Skitcomes from the Indo-European root skheidfor "split, divide, separate," thus shit is distantly related to schism and schist. (If you're wondering what a verb root for the act of separating one thing from another would have to do with excrement, it was in the sense of the body's eliminating its waste — "separating" from it, so to speak. Sort of the opposite of today's "getting one's shit together.")
Barbara "shit disturber" Mikkelson
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A systematic comparison of motion artifact correction techniques for functional near-infrared spectroscopy
Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review
Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is susceptible to signal artifacts caused by relative motion between NIRS optical fibers and the scalp. These artifacts can be very damaging to the utility of functional NIRS, particularly in challenging subject groups where motion can be unavoidable. A number of approaches to the removal of motion artifacts from NIRS data have been suggested. In this paper we systematically compare the utility of a variety of published NIRS motion correction techniques using a simulated functional activation signal added to 20 real NIRS datasets which contain motion artifacts. Principle component analysis, spline interpolation, wavelet analysis, and Kalman filtering approaches are compared to one another and to standard approaches using the accuracy of the recovered, simulated hemodynamic response function (HRF). Each of the four motion correction techniques we tested yields a significant reduction in the mean-squared error (MSE) and significant increase in the contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) of the recovered HRF when compared to no correction and compared to a process of rejecting motion-contaminated trials. Spline interpolation produces the largest average reduction in MSE (55%) while wavelet analysis produces the highest average increase in CNR (39%). On the basis of this analysis, we recommend the routine application of motion correction techniques (particularly spline interpolation or wavelet analysis) to minimize the impact of motion artifacts on functional NIRS data.
Original languageEnglish
JournalFrontiers in Neuroscience
Pages (from-to)147
Publication statusPublished - 2012
ID: 128982414


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What's new in QuickField 6.3
Initial temperature in transient heat transfer problems (2D)
The default initial temperature for the transient heat transfer analysis in previous QuickField versions was always 0. To define other initial temperatures it was necessary to prepare a separate QuickField problem with the resulting temperature distribution then used as an initial condition.
In new version it is simple to specify initial temperature as the problem property defined for the whole model. The initial temperature could be a constant or a function of coordinates.
Surface integrals calculation in 3D problems
Previous QuickField versions allowed integral calculation for 3D models only along the whole body surface.
In new version the list of calculated 3D integral values is extended. It is now possible to select separate body surfaces for integration or use the cross-section plane as an integration surface.
User-defined contour in 3D problems 2D section window
In previous version it was possible to select of the group of connected edges as a contour and look at the field parameters distribution along this contour on XY-plot.
In new version it is possible to build any custom contour in 2D cross-section window and construct both XY-plot and table with the field parameters distribution along the contour.


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Meaning : Back when pluto was a planet
Category : Science
Sub Category : Astronomy
What does BWPWAP mean or stand for?
BWPWAP is the short form for describing the erstwhile last planet of our solar system.Until recently Pluto was designated a planet that revolved around the sun.However there had been an ongoing debate to demote its title to a satellite of Neptune or just another heavenly body that revolved around the sun.
The fact of the matter is that Pluto is way too small to be considered a planet,and there are many other cosmic rocks that revolve around the sun and are not considered planets.Due to this we use the phrase BWPWAP.


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Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: 1. The metaphorical technique of naming a specific part when referring to the whole. 2. Naming the whole to indicate a part.
Notes: Today's Good Word is the proper literary term for a habit that is ubiquitous in common speech. The adjective for it is synecdochic(al) and you may use the adverb when you speak synecdochically. The practice of using synecdoches is synecdochism.
In Play: You avail yourself of synecdoche every time you say a neighbor lives two doors down the street, meaning houses. When your teenaged son whose English grades are low says, "I can't go out tonight, the'rents have the wheels," he is saying "car" with one of the major rhetorical devices of English. The reverse situation, using a whole to refer to a part, is also synecdoche: "I think Ghana is going to beat Brazil in the World Cup," besides being wishful thinking, is a synecdoche in which wholes (Ghana, Brazil) refer to only parts of themselves (the Ghanaian and Brazilian soccer teams).
Word History: Today's Good Word was taken whole from Greek synekdoche, the noun of the verb syn-ek-dechesthai "to take a part of". This verb comprises a prefix syn- "with, together" + a stem ek "out of" + dechomai "to take, receive." Ekdechomai alone means "take" in the sense of "understand", the opposite of the meaning of mistake. The doche is cousin to Latin doc-ere "to teach", found in English words such as doctor and dogma. (Saying 'Thank you' to Katy Brezger for suggesting today's Good Word in the Agora is almost synecdoche, since it expresses only a part of our gratitude.)
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Yellow-legged Tinamou (Crypturellus noctivagus) - HBW 1, p. 131
French: Tinamou noctivague
Spanish: Tinamú Patigualdo
Other common names: Wied's Tinamou
Taxonomy: Tinamus noctivagus Wied, 1820, Espírito Santo, Brazil.
Very similar to previous species, but separated by voice and colour of legs and eggs. Very close to several other species of Crypturellus, and may include C. duidae and C. atrocapillus. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- zabele (Spix, 1825) - NE Brazil.
- noctivagus (Wied, 1820) - SE Brazil.
- Near Threatened Enlarge map
- No photographs available yet
An individual calling in the Atlantic forest. We recorded by boat in Guaraú River. Locality Guaraú, Peruíbe, São Paulo State, Brazil
Antonio Silveira 26 November 2009 50 weeks ago 3.5
Two birds, song and call. Locality Chapada Diamantina, Bahia State, Brazil
Ciro Albano 1 April 2008 4 years ago 3


Code 128
What is Code 128?
Code 128, or Code128, was introduced in 1981 as a much more efficient alternative to older barcodes like Code 11, Code 39, and Codabar. Unlike its predecessors, which are limited to a subset of alphanumeric and symbol characters, Code 128 can be used to represent the full ASCII character set (characters 0 through 127).
Code 128 is often referred to as GS1-128 (formerly UCC/EAN-128), which is a widely supported application standard in the shipping and packaging industries.
Laser Appraiser VIN Scanner code 128 example
Each symbol in a Code 128 barcode has 6 elements: 3 bars (black) and 3 spaces (white), with the exception of the stop symbol, which has 7 elements (4 bars and 3 spaces). It uses 108 different symbols: 103 data symbols, 3 start symbols, and 2 stop symbols. It defines three different character sets or character modes (128A, 128B, and 128C). Each data symbol represents a different character depending on which character set is active; the initial character mode is set by the start character (which is why there are 3 different ones). Special symbols are used within the data message to change to a different character set if needed. These switches are called shifts (switch to a different character set for the next symbol only) and latches (shift to a different character set for all subsequent symbols).
The symbology is further characterized as a continuous barcode, meaning that each character is adjacent to the next with no inter-character gap element.
Code 128 also includes a mandatory checksum (appearing after the data message, before the stop symbol). A modulo 103 computation is used.
Why use Code 128?
Code 128 is widely supported, with most commercial barcode scanners being capable of reading it. Its high-density and ASCII 127 support make it ideal for a wide variety uses. Its symbols are more complex to generate than less capable symbologies like Code 39 (since they support multiple character sets and require a checksum), so encoding software is often used in conjunction with specialized fonts.
Who uses Code 128?
Code 128 is used extensively in many industries:
 - Shipping and Packaging – both FedEx and UPS use it on their shipping labels, as well as other carriers. Code 128 is part of the standard MH10.8 barcode label specification, and is the barcode used in the GS1 global standard for commercial data exchange, GS1-128;
 - USPS – the United States Postal Service now uses Code 128 barcodes as part of its Intelligent Mail package barcodes (IMpb) for package tracking. As of January 1, 2015, this barcode is now required on all commercial packages shipped via USPS and offers discounts and free insurance on Priority Mail items that include the barcode;
 - Human medical products - ISBT 128 (International Standard for Blood and Transplant) defines the use of Code 128 for the identification, labeling, and information transfer of medical products like blood, tissue, and organs;
 - Healthcare – It is one of the supported barcodes in the FDA's broad medical device labeling standard, UDI (Unique Device Identification), and the Health Industry Bar Code (HIBC);
 - Military – the US Department of Defense uses Code 128 for asset labeling and tracking across all branches of the military (IUID: Item Unique Identification, part of Military Standard 130).
How does Laser Appraiser use Code 128?
The Laser Appraiser VIN Scanner supports Code 128 barcode detection, enabling car dealers and wholesalers to gather relevant workflow and application data.


Dr William Budd: Bristol's most famous physician
Most people walk past the plaque on 89 Park Street, Bristol without giving a second thought to the man it commemorates. And yet Dr William Budd, who was a true pioneer and was to become Bristol's most distinguished physician, made an immense contribution to medicine and to the life of the city. Born in Devon, he moved to Bristol in 1841, working at St Peter's Hospital and the Infirmary where he cared for patients during typhoid and cholera epidemics, for which there was no cure. He was able to identify how these deadly diseases spread, seeing at first hand the insanitary hovels of Lewins Mead and elsewhere in the city, and realising the need for preventive measures. An early director of the Bristol Waterworks Company, William Budd was the moving force behind ensuring a clean water supply, one of the first essentials in combating water-born disease. Several major epidemics of infection diseases swept through nineteenth-century Britain, killing indiscriminately and showing no respect for age or social class. For years Budd fought to change misguided orthodoxies in the medical professional which denied the contagious nature of these killer diseases. When the 1866 cholera epidemic reached Bristol, much reduced death figures showed that he had largely won the grim fight to improve the nation's health.
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This Article challenges the universalist theory of international law upon which federal incorporation of CIL and international human rights litigation rely. It unpacks the international relations (IR) theory paradigms that support the universalist theory, and discusses a competing theory that views state compliance with international law as a function of national self-interest. Working from this perspective, it proposes a framework to evaluate the wisdom of federal incorporation of CIL and the wisdom of international human rights litigation. The framework suggests that federal incorporation of CIL generates sovereignty costs for the United States, and that international human rights litigation complicates the achievement of the United States' normative and strategic foreign policy interests. The Article also shows that the universalist theory of international law is often in tension with actual state behavior in international politics.
Not Just Doctrine: The True Motivation for Federal Incorporation and International Human Rights Litigation,
Mich. J. Int'l L.
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Working with controls. Using
Properties, Methods and Events
You use controls to
get user input and to display output. Some of the controls you can use
in your applications include text boxes, command buttons, and list
boxes. Other controls let you access other applications and process
data as if the remote application was part of your code. Each control
has its own set of properties, methods, and events that can be
modified from the properties window or from the code
Properties are simple to understand. Here's an example. A human
being, he/she has eyes, legs, arms, etc. They are all properties of
the human being.
A property describes an object, its behavior and its look. If you
wanted to change the color of the eyes you would just do this:
Human.Eyes = Brown
Human.Weight = 156
If you wanted to change any other properties, you could do that too.
As long as the property is available. For example, you cannot
do this: Human.Beak = True. The nice thing about properties is that
you do not have to know what it takes to actually change the human's
eyes or weight. You just indicate that you want it to change.
An example of this is the Label
The label control has an important property, Caption. Without it, it
would be almost useless. The Caption property sets or returns the text
presently contained in the Label control. The only drawback is that
you cannot directly enter text into the label. The text
control is virtually identical except that you can type in text.
Label.Caption = "This is really easy"
In some cases, properties aren't enough to tell an object what it
should do. It would be nice to give the object direct commands as
well. Visual Basic lets you do this. Let's go back to the Human
example. If you wanted the human to move its arm a method is a nice
and easy way of doing that. The human could have a method called
MoveArm, which we could use like an ordinary command:
As you can see, you don't give a method a value, it will execute like
any other Visual Basic command. As far as this is concerned, you
really don't care what the human has to do to move its arm. All you
want it to do is move its arm.
Q:Ok we used the
properties and the methods of an ďhumanĒ object. In the previous
example we have used the MoveArm method now how will we know when the
human has ended the MoveArm method?
A:By using an event
An event procedure is
simple to understand. These procedures are automatically declared by
Visual Basic for each object that we use and are fired when that event
Draw a button on your
form and then double click it, you will now see a procedure that looks
something like this:
This is an event
procedure and itís fired when Command1 is clicked. You can observe
the parts in the subís name:


Introduction of xenophobia and citizenship: the everyday politics of exclusion and inclusion in Africa
Recent literature on the continent has focused attention on the increasing number of forms of belonging using different labels: autochthony, nativism, indigeneity, ethnicity, and in some cases xenophobia. The latter term generally refers to discourses and practices that are discriminatory towards foreign nationals, but Wimmer (1997) also sheds light on the existence of deeper political struggles for the collective goods of the state and the building of structures of legitimacy in accessing those goods. In many instances, those structures are based on collective identities and real or fantasized notions of national community (Wimmer 1997: 32). In the African contexts, decolonization struggles have specifically shaped the type of nation-building enterprises that have emerged in the postcolonial period (Chipkin 2007). Taking into consideration both this broader theoretical dimension and the specific historical trajectories of nationalist discourses in the African contexts, our understanding of xenophobia as discussed in this issue consists of the systematic situated (in one institution) or cross-cutting construction that sees strangers as a threat to society, justifying their exclusion and, at times, their suppression.
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by Victor A Boyce, CSN
Here's a handy tip that all woodworkers should know. This knowledge is most important when choosing woods to be used in aircraft building that will allow you to get the best pieces available
The best wood to use when building an aircraft is wood that has a perfectly straight grain. i.e. wood where the fibers of the grain are parallel to the edges; it is easier to work with, less likely to split, can be laminated and bent into many shapes. Stronger structures can be made from this class of wood.
But is not always possible to obtain this quality with a straight grain that runs the entire length of the piece without some kind of grain runoff. So an allowance must be made for some deviated or sloping grain however, if the grain slope is too steep, the piece must be rejected. So the answer is to measure the slope to determine if the piece can be used.
The grain slope must be determined and carefully measured on both the flat and edge grain surfaces. These two measurements being at right angles to each other must then be combined to obtain the total grain slope. This will be steeper than either of the individual slopes.
In cases where one of these faces has straight grain with no run-out, the true slope of the grain can be seen on the other face, just measure this slope, no calculations needed.
For general aircraft work the grain slope must not be steeper than 1 in 15 and for wing spars the slope should not be steeper than 1 in 20. As previously stated, wood with no slope at all is best.
If the annual rings can be seen on the edge-grained
face, simply measure the slope of the annual rings. If the annual
rings cannot be distinguished, consider this face to be a flat
On a flat grain surface a little more effort is required to determine grain direction. This can be accomplished in several ways. Look closely at the surface and note the following items that will indicate grain direction.
1. Small resin ducts which will be in the same direction as the fibers, small checks (separation of the fibers), streaks of different colored wood in the grain. Then draw a line parallel with the grain and measure for any grain deviation or slope as it is called.
2. Small drops of ink placed on the surface will spread along the fibers and indicate grain direction. A line can be drawn through these small indicators, from which grain direction can be determined and measured.
3. If a small surface scratch can be tolerated, use a scribe with a long handle about 2' long fitted with a stout pin or needle to make a light scratch indicating grain direction. The operator holds the scribe by the end of the long handle and pressing the point of the pin into the grain, pulls the scribe in the direction of the longitudinal axis or what appears to be the grain direction. The long handle prevents the operator from steering the scribe and allows the pin to follow the grain. If this is done carefully the pin scratch will follow the direction of the fibers and clearly indicate grain direction; several parallel scratches may be made if desired.
The total combined slope of the grain is determined
by taking the square root of the sum of the squares of the two
About the author, Victor A. Boyce
Australian born, at 17 became apprentice as Carpenter & Joiner; At 20 took his first flying lesson in a Ryan STM with a world War II bomber pilot/instructor who would later send him solo after just 6 hours.
Entered a full time career in Aviation as a Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineer and DCA authorized Inspector with Airframe, Engines, Electrical, Instruments and Radio endorsements and many accomplishments' one of which was Top Engineer of the Year in 1962 winning the Coveted Ryan Award;
Instrumental in making a new improved reinforced wing walk on the DH82 Tiger Moth. The removal of Urea Formaldehyde glue from the Dept. of Civil Aviation and FAA Approved List of Glues for use in aircraft building and repair.
A noted Aerobatic Glider pilot often doing demonstrations at airshows in his Hutter 17, a small Austrian design that was extremely maneuverable that he had so painstakingly restored.
Did "Flood Rescue Flying" in the northern outback, with an old Gypsy Moth requiring good flying skills as landing was often on ground covered with water and obstacles producing hazards not normally encountered by pilots.
Has been called upon as an expert in wood and glues by lawyers in court cases in Australia and Canada and from time to time by the D.O.T when investigating Sabreliner problems or accidents.
While in Georgia participated with the FAA
Safety Seminars as an expert panel member. Designated Airworthiness
Representative for the FAA in the amateur aircraft building program.
Assisted FAA in accident investigations as an expert in wood aircraft
Chairman hands-on Workshops at Sun 'n Fun EAA Fly In with some 14 shops and over 150 volunteers - the largest convention in Florida and second largest Aviation Convention in the United States and the world.
Technical Editor, bi-monthly newsletter with construction methods, building tips and technical support for building the all wood design Corby Starlet CJ-1.
Conducts Forums on Aircraft Woodwork and Glue
Joints at EAA AirVenture Convention in Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Sun 'n Fun EAA Fly-In at Lakeland, Florida.
Popular Flying Association Rally at Cranfield, England
Published articles in The EAA Experimenter, Technical Counselor Newsletter and other publications
EAA Technical Counselor
Spokesperson for sport aviation at news media interviews - particularly after a plane crash or other such news-making event
He is more than willing to share his knowledge with anyone who seeks his help. He is a true grass root's aviator and likes to share his love of flying and building planes with all who will listen. There are many people from many walks of life in aviation but none as dedicated as this man. He is genuinely an unpretentious, down to earth individual who has devoted his whole life to aviation.
Over 40 Licenses, ratings, endorsements and awards
Received EAA Major Achievement Award in 1997 presented at EAA Oshkosh Convention


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Elf: A small being with magic powers or a supernatural being or mischievous creature. The word comes from aelfnoth, which means 'elf-courage'. Elves were originally thought of as shining, radiant, beings of light.
Emblem: Symbol that represents something used as a distinctive badge.
Enchant: Put someone under a magic spell or make someone delighted.
Energy: In myths the main use of the term energy is as a force or power or electrical charge.
Entity: A thing that has an existence, often in myths the word is used as a way of referring to a spirit or unknown supernatural being.
Era: A period of history.
Excavate: Make hollow or extract by digging.
Exorcise: Expel an evil spirit from a person or place.


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The acceptance of the word of another, trusting that one knows what the other is saying and is honest in telling the truth. The basic motive of all faith is the authority (or right to be believed) of someone who is speaking. This authority is an adequate knowledge of what he or she is talking about, and integrity in not wanting to deceive. It is called divine faith when the one believed is God, and human faith when the persons believed are human beings. (Etym. Latin fides, belief; habit of faith; object of faith.)


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Manipulating Data in a DataTable
After creating a DataTable in a DataSet, you can perform the same activities that you would when using a table in a database. You can add, view, edit, and delete data in the table; you can monitor errors and events; and you can query the data in the table. When modifying data in a DataTable, you can also verify whether the changes are accurate, and determine whether to programmatically accept or reject the changes.
In This Section
Adding Data to a DataTable
Explains how to create new rows and add them to a table.
Viewing Data in a DataTable
Describes how to access the data in a row, including original and current versions of the data.
The Load Method
Describes the use of the Load method to fill a DataTable with rows.
Explains how to modify the data in a row, including suspending the changes to a row until the proposed changes are verified and accepted.
Row States and Row Versions
Provides information about the different states of a row.
Describes how to remove a row from a table.
Row Error Information
Explains how to insert error information per row, to help resolve problems with the data within an application.
AcceptChanges and RejectChanges
Explains how to accept or reject the changes made to a row.


replied a turn and determine who may see and reply to the text. to, or cursored over with the arrow keys. As a turn is replied to, the count of the number of replies and unread TESTING THREADED CHAT turns beneath it are displayed. Given that Threaded Chat is designed to address some of the key problems with standard chat, we conducted a user Selecting the room node at the top of the chat room and test to see if the design was successful. entering text creates a new top-level thread, which is highlighted with a colored background. Top-level turns are Specifically, because proper use of Threaded Chat typically the major topics of conversations, thus they are guarantees that turns will always be placed in their intended distinguished from other turns. context, we expect that: The tree structure of Threaded Chat provides users with the • Threaded Chat will support better topical ability to collapse any branch of the conversation if they no coherence than standard chat. Users should be longer wish to pay attention to it. For example, users may able to maintain coherent sequences of collapse discussion branches that no longer concern them or conversational turns more easily. that have come to a conclusion and are no longer pertinent. • Transcripts of a Threaded Chat discussion will be If additional turns are added to a collapsed thread the count easier to comprehend than transcripts from a of unread child turns is incremented. standard chat room. • Turns will be longer than those found in standard The bottom of the Threaded Chat window contains chat rooms. People will know that they do not information about the conversation participants. have to rush to get their turn in before someone Information includes time of entry, number of entries else types a message, thus Threaded Chat turns (labeled "sessions"), and time of exit. Basic statistics about should use more words and/or characters. the number and types of turns are also displayed. These statistics persist from session to session, and users remain in • Fewer repair statements will be made. As a result, the list even when they are not present (although they are we expect participants will produce fewer turns marked as not currently active). This information is useful using Threaded Chat when compared to plain chat. for providing a sense of history and context for the room. • There should be a more balanced level of participation among people using Threaded Chat. Threaded Chat automatically labels turns that are likely to With standard chat programs, people frequently be questions or answers. If a question mark is found in the abandon their turns when they are not able to text of a turn, the turn is tagged with a "Q". All replies to finish before others enter turns that change the questions are tagged with an "A". Numbers of question and conversation context. Threaded Chat guarantees answer turns are tracked in the social accounting pane. context for a turn, thus there's no reason to Turns can be edited, deleted, or dragged and dropped to abandon turns. We believe this effect will be different places in the tree. Although this can be a helpful especially true for slower typists. feature, it also raises the possibility of abuse. Thus, each Experimental Methodology Threaded Chat turn has permission properties based on an 70 participants were recruited for a lab study to test extension of the Unix user/group/world model. These Threaded Chat. Participants were grouped into eighteen permissions are accessed by right clicking on a turn and teams of four; however, due to no-shows, eleven groups had allow a turn's author to determine who can see the turn, only three people. Participants received a free Microsoft reply to it, delete it, and extend the turn's permissions. software product for their time. Only authors of a turn can edit the turn's text. All participants had used a chat program at least once in the past year, were comfortable with typing, had graduated 101 54
 - 6. from high school, and were at least intermediate computer wrap to the next line). However, the core concept of users. Participants were recruited such that the pool was chatting with threads was functional, thus these data diverse in terms of age, gender, and occupation. The pool indicate that participants did not think highly of Threaded had 38 men and 32 women. The average age was 39 with a Chat. Reasons for this reaction are explored further in the standard deviation of 10. participant comments section. Participants used three different chat programs for this Task Performance study. Threaded Chat and a "standard" chat program were Despite the lower subjective ratings Threaded Chat used. In addition, this study was combined with a study of received in contrast to standard chat, the study showed that another experimental chat program, LeadLine. (A report of users quickly adapted to the new interface. Performance on the LeadLine study is available in these proceedings [6]). the hiring task did not differ significantly between The order in which the three chat programs were used was programs. Each hiring task was designed such that there counterbalanced to minimize order effects. was a correct solution, and each set of candidate rankings Participants were told they were employees for the same was assigned a score relative to its distance from the correct company and had recently interviewed three candidates for solution. The highest possible score for each task was 5 one job opening. Their task was to chat with each other for points. Threaded Chat groups had an average score of 3.7 20 minutes and then, as a group, rank the candidates in while plain chat groups had an average score of 3.9. This order of hiring preference. This task was repeated three difference was not found to be significant, even when times, each time using a different chat program, a different taking into account various demographic variables such as set of candidates, and a different job position. In each case, typing speed, level of education, and experience with chat participants were given unique information about the programs. candidates so no single participant could correctly rank the Levels of Participation candidates without chatting with other group members. Even though scores on the task were equivalent for each When using the Threaded Chat program each group started chat program used, Threaded Chat did affect the processes with a room populated with six initial threads: used by groups to reach their decisions. Introductions Groups that used Threaded Chat took fewer turns than in Review the qualifications for this position Discuss candidate #1 the regular chat program. Threaded Chat rooms had an Discuss candidate #2 average of 21.7 turns, while the regular chat rooms had an Discuss candidate #3 average of 34.7 turns, which is a significant difference Final decision: Who should we hire? (t(25.5) = 3.7; p = 0.001). In a regression equation Although these threads were made available as guides for controlling for various demographic variables, the use of the discussion (similar to a agenda for a business meeting), the Threaded Chat program was the strongest predictor of users could (and did) ignore them if they wished. the number of turns taken, accounting for 28% of the USER STUDY RESULTS variance (t = -5.2, p <.001). After each session, participants answered a variety of Of course, it could be hypothesized that fewer turns were questions about their reactions to the chat program they taken in Threaded Chat because people took longer turns. used. On all the measures except one, Threaded Chat was However, this was not the case. The average standard chat rated significantly worse than the regular chat program turn was 7.3 words long while the average Threaded Chat (Table 1). To a certain extent, this was not surprising given turn was 7.6 words long, which is not a significant the early stage of the prototype: some basic user interface difference (t(3020) = -1.3; p = 0.205). issues had not yet been resolved (for example, lines that were longer than the screen width did not automatically First sessions only All sessions Threaded Standard Threaded Chat Standard p t / df Chat (n=6) Chat (n=6) (n=19) Chat (n=19) Level of satisfaction (2 questions) 4.0 5.3 0.001 4.5 / 9.7 3.9 5.7 Perceived quality of discussion (7 questions) 4.5 5.2 0.010 3.4 / 7.8 3.9 5.7 Perception of usability of program (3 questions) 4.3 5.9 0.001 6.2 / 9.9 3.6 6.3 Perceived quality of decision process (5 questions) 5.5 5.0 0.345 1.0 / 9.4 4.8 5.8 Table 1: Results from post-session surveys. Possible scores ranged from 1 to 7 where higher scores are better. On the left are data examining only the first sessions (where no order effect is possible). On the right are data from all sessions. Significance statistics are not reported for the data from all sessions due to the possibility of order effects. 102 55
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Philippines rare dwarf buffalo charges against extinction
An annual survey counted 382 tamaraws in a protected mountain area this year, an increase from 345 in 2013, according to data from the World Wildlife Fund. The tamaraw, famed for its distinct v-shaped horns, can be found only in the mountains of Mindoro, a farming island in the central Philippines. The stocky tamaraw, with its chocolate brown coat, runs wild in the forest and weighs half as much as the more common carabao, which is used by farmers in the Philippines to plough rice fields. "The tamaraw is the flagship species of the Philippines. It is our moral obligation and international commitment to preserve them," forest ranger Rodel Boyles, who heads a joint government and private sector conservation effort, told AFP. The tamaraw is considered "Critically endangered" - two steps away from extinction - by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Hunting and the destruction of their habitat to make way for grazing areas for cattle led to their near decimation, as the population fell from 10,000 in the 1900s to just 154 by 2000, according to the WWF. The government and private sector's Tamaraw Conservation Programme aims to double the dwarf buffalo's population from 300 in the mid-2000s to 600 by 2020, Gregg Yan, a local spokesman for the WWF told AFP. Boyles said conservationists had held meetings with locals to discourage them from eating tamaraw meat. The effort is paying off as the tamaraw population has been increasing every year for the last 12 years, WWF data shows.
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January 2006
Mean daily maximum: 6.3
Difference from average: +0.5
Mean daily minimum: 1.3
Difference from average: +0.9
Mean air temperature: 3.8
Difference from average: +0.8
Absolute maximum: 11.9 (11th)
Absolute minimum: -4.4 (30th)
Mean grass minimum: 0.1
Absolute grass minimum: -7.2 (30th)
Number of ground frosts: 15
Number of air frosts: 9
Mean soil temperature at 30cm depth: 4.3
Mean soil temperature at 100cm depth: 6.3
(all totals in millimetres; all averages 1961 – 1990)
Total for the month: 23.6
Difference from average: -35.4
Percentage of the average: 40%
Wettest day: 5.8 (19th)
Number of rain days (>0.25mm): 10
Number of wet days (=> 1mm): 6
3-month total rainfall to 31st January: 131.6
Difference from average: -46.7
6-month rainfall total to 31st January: 306.5
Difference from average: -46.9
12-month rainfall total to 31st January: 581.5
Difference from average: -67.5
(Averages for 09:00 hours GMT)
Relative Humidity: 88%
(all averages 1961 – 1990)
Total for the month: 48.5 hours
Difference from average: -5.3
Percentage of the average: 90%
Mean daily sunshine: 1.6 hours
Difference from average: -0.1
Sunniest day: 6.3 hours (31st)
Number of days with no recorded sunshine: 12
The mean wind speed: 12.2km/h [6.6kt]
Difference from average: -2.5km/hr
The highest gust: 85.2km/h [46kt] from 200° at 21:03 GMT on 10th
Comments on January 2006
Although there were some cold days, maximum temperature rose above zero every day. There were also some mild days too, with a monthly absolute maximum of 11.9°C on the 11th, although this was the lowest absolute maximum for January since 2001. Overall, all three temperature means were above average; mean air temperature was also the lowest since 2001.
The dry December continued throughout January, with only 40% of the expected monthly total. There were the fewest number of rain days since 1992, and it was the 25th driest January since 1852 (n=155). All three long-period totals are now below average again, although the long-term rainfall deficit in the North East is clearly much less serious than in the South East.
Despite grumbles in the media about the gloomy nature of January, sunshine totals were only just below average. However, the number of days (12) with no recorded sunshine was the largest total since 1996.
Professor Tim Burt
Department of Geography
Durham University


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|Configuring Geronimo Eclipse Plugin to publish POJO projects as Shared Libraries||Configuring your development environment|
This tutorial will demonstrate the usage of Eclipse XML tools to generated Geronimo specific deployment plans.
We DO encourage users to leverage GEP for schema validation, because GEP has already integrated these schema files in its distribution package. The steps described in this article are only for your reference.
You might be experiencing certain XML validation problems when using Geronimo Deployment Plan Editor in Eclipse v3.5(Galileo), it's a known defect of the Xerces feature in WTP. Try the following workaround in Eclipse v3.5 to avoid the problem:
- In the toolbar, select Windows->Preferences
- Expand XML section, and then select XML Files->Validation
- Uncheck the Honour all the XML schema locations option, and then save all the changes.
To run this tutorial, as a minimum you will be required to have installed the following prerequisite software.
- Sun JDK 5.0+ (J2SE 1.5)
- Eclipse 3.4.1 (Eclipse Ganymede SR1 distribution)
- Apache Geronimo v2.2
Details on installing eclipse are provided in the Development environment section. This tutorial is organized in the following sections:
Configuring Eclipse for geronimo schema
- Geronimo schema files can be found in /schema. Copy all these schema files to a folder say geronimoschema. Content of these files might be different by release.
- Add the following XML catalog file to this folder and zip it. This will give you a
- Launch Eclipse and select New->Project as shown in the figure.
- On the next screen select General->Project. Select Next.
- Name the project as geronimoschema and Select Finish.
- Under Project explorer right click on geronimoschema project and select Import. Then select General->Archive File. Select Next.
- On the next screen Browse to
geronimoschema.zipcreated in step #2. Once done select Finish.
- Under the geronimoschema project you can see all the schema definitions.
- Next select Window->Preferences from Eclipse menu.
- On the next window select XML->XML Catalog. Select User Specified Entries and click Add.
- On the next window click the icon beside Location and select workspace.
- Select GeronimoSchema.xmlcatalog. Select OK.
- Specify the key, for example, geronimoschema.
- On the next screen you can see geronimoschema listed.
Using the configuration in application development
- For the next steps we will consider the Stateless Session Bean project.
- Consider the Few More Configurations section in the above tutorial where you have to add a dependency element for database pool.
- In StatelessSessionEJB select ejbModule->META-INF->openejb-jar.xml. Right click and select Open With->XML Editor.
- Once you have the openejb-jar.xml select Design tab.
- You can edit the fields by double clicking against each fields.
- Once done open the source tab you can see the dependency element added to openejb-jar.xml.
This completes the illustration of using Eclipse xml tools for Apache Geronimo.


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U.S. Highway 67
As of 2004, the highway's northern terminus is in Sabula, Iowa at an intersection with U.S. Highway 52. Its southern terminus is in Presidio, Texas at the Rio Grande, where it continues in Mexico as Highway 16.
- When US 67 was commissioned in the original 1926 numbering plan, it extended from Fredericktown, Missouri to Dallas, Texas.
- The route was extended across West Texas to its present-day southern terminus in 1930.
- In 1934, US 67 was extended northward to Dubuque, Iowa. Between Davenport, Iowa and Dubuque, it incorporated the route of U.S. Highway 55. The remainder of US 55 (to Minneapolis, Minnesota) was absorbed by U.S. Highway 52.
- The 1934 extension left the last 35 miles (56 km) of US 67, south of Dubuque, co-signed with the extended US 52. In 1967, the US 67 designation was removed from this section, ending US 67 at Sabula, Iowa.
The highway passes through the following states:
Related US Routes
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Best Museum Minneapolis 2009 - Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum
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Minneapolis, MN 55455
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When the Republican National Convention rolled into town last year, some places closed their doors, while others became exclusive; if you didn't know someone important, you weren't getting in. During that brief period, the Weisman Art Museum did the opposite: It kicked it up a notch. During the RNC, the museum hosted a variety of activities associated with Unconvention, a movement that organized activities during the RNC and encouraged people to explore their political beliefs, voice concerns, and celebrate our country in a less corporate way. There was the "Hindsight Is Always 20/20" exhibit, a fascinating look at the buzzwords used during each presidency. There was the Unconvention circus party, a nonpartisan day of presidential speech readings, lectures, open discussion, film screenings, and stilt walkers. The evening concluded with student films projected on the side of the Weisman's iconic walls. And art of note wasn't confined to the political. This year's "Changing Identity" was a groundbreaking show featuring work by female Vietnamese artists, the first exhibit of its kind anywhere.
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Hadlow was first recorded in the Domesday Book as Haslow. Its name probably goes back to two Old English words, hæth heather and hlaw hill, mound, so the sense is of a hill growing with heather.
Halling seems to go back to the Old English personal name Heall, in this case describing a settlement associated with Healls family or followers. The root is Old English ingas family, followers, seen more clearly in the towns first recorded form, in the eighth century, of Hallingas.
Halstead is literally a safe place or a place of refuge. It goes back to the Old English hald refuge, shelter, here combined with stede for a general site or place. The place-name is first found on record in about 1100 as Haltesteda.
Hamstreet - The name is Saxon meaning the enclosure on the road, originally the place was simply known as Ham. The original settlement was a mile up the road at Orlestone but the population shifted due to fresh spring water being discovered in Hamstreet.
High Brooms was originally broom growing near a bridge or broom growing on a ridge. Its earliest recorded form, Bromgebrug in 1270, suggests Old English roots of brom broom with either brycg bridge or hrycg ridge. Somewhere along the way this affix was dropped, however, and replaced by the more general qualifier high.
High Halden was first recorded under a rather longer name Hadinwoldungdenne, to be precise, in around 1100. The sense is of a woodland pasture associated with a man called Heathuwald, from the Old English denn woodland pasture. The High is a later addition.
Halstow is literally a holy place. It goes back to the Old English stow, which was used for a general place as well as a place of assembly or, as here, a holy place. It is combined and reinforced with halig holy. Kent has a High Halstow and a Lower Halstow, first recorded in about 1100 as, respectively, Halgesto and Halgastaw.
Ham is a common name found all over England, and Kent is no exception. It comes from the Old English hamm, which had a variety of meanings, essentially to do with an enclosure of land, often delimited by water or the bend of a river, or sometimes by higher ground. Kents Ham was first recorded in the Domesday Book as Hama.
Harbledown first appears in 1175 as Herebolddune. The final element is an Old English dun or hill, and the first part is probably a personal name. The sense is thus of Herebealds hill.
Harrietsham looks like it may be a river-meadow near the army quarters. The last element is Old English hamm river-meadow, enclosure, and the name also contains here army and geard yard, enclosure. Unfortunately, these two elements also made up an Old English personal name, so the town could also be simply Heregeards meadow. It first appears in the records in the tenth century as Herigeardes hamm.
There are two Hartleys in Kent, one near Cranbrook and the other near Longfield. The first has the longest recorded history of the two, first mentioned in 843 as Heoratleag, while the other is not found until the Domesday Book, in which it appears as Erclei. The name comes from Old English heorot, a hart or stag, here combined with leah field, clearing, giving a sense of a clearing frequented by harts.
Hartlip goes back to Old English hliep, which meant a gate or fence. Here we have a gate over which harts leap, hliep being combined with the word for a hart or stag, heorot. It was first seen on record as Heordlyp in the eleventh century.
Hastingleigh is immediately identifiable as a field, an Old English leah. In this case it is one associated with the followers or family of Hæsta, from ingas family, followers. It is first seen in 933 as Hæstingalege.
Hawkhurst was first recorded in 1254 as Hauekehurst. A hurst is an Old English hyrst or wooded hill, so here we have simply a wooded hill frequented by hawks. (Hawk itself comes from the Old English hafoc.)
Hawkinge, like Hawkhurst, is associated with the hawk (Old English hafoc). The final element is Old English -ing, denoting a place characterised by or associated with a certain thing. The town is first mentioned on record in 1204 as Hauekinge.
Hawley is literally a holy woodland clearing, from the Old English halig holy and leah field, clearing. It was first recorded in the Doomesday Book as Hagelei.
Headcorn is a bit of a mystery. It is first seen in about 1100 as Hedekaruna, and may be an eponym. The theory is that it goes back to Old English hruna, used for a tree-trunk and by extension, probably a bridge. In this case the town would be literally Hydecas tree-trunk.
Herne Bay is etymologically a place on a corner of land. It comes from the Old English hyrne angle, corner and was first recorded in about 1100 as Hyrnan.
Hernhill goes back to roots different from those of Herne Bay. Here we are looking at Old English har grey for the first element, the second of course representing hyll hill. It was first recorded around 1100 as Haranhylle, where we can see that har has the dative ending -an.
Hever is first seen on record in 814 as Heanyfre. The end of this word is Old English yfre, used for the edge or brow of a hill. The first element is heah high, seen here in its dative form hean. The sense is thus of a high hill-edge: a convenient place for a castle.
Higham is simply a high enclosure or a high homestead, the case depending on whether the last element is Old English ham or hamm. The first element of the place-name is clearly high, which goes back to Old English heah, and the town was first recorded in 1242 as Hegham. Higham Upshire is first found as Heahhaam in 765, and its affix means a higher district, from the Old English upp and scir.
Hildenborough was originally just Hilden or, in its thirteenth-century form, Hyldenn. The elements here are Old English hyll hill and denn woodland pasture, so the sense is of a pasture on or by a hill. By 1349 the name has become Hildenborough, having acquired the affix from burh manor, borough.
Hinxhill is etymologically the stallions hill. It comes from the Old English hengest stallion, and the town was first recorded as Haenostesyle in about 1100.
Hoath is only slightly disguised from its original meaning, indicating a place at a heath. The place-name first appears on record in the thirteenth century as La Hathe, and the root is Old Englihs hath.
Hollingbourne is a type of Old English burna, or stream. In this case the underlying sense seems to be of the stream of the people dwelling in the hollow, from hol hollow and ingas inhabitants. Alternatively, the first element could represent a theoretical personal name, Hola. The town is first seen in writing in the tenth century, as Holingeburna.
Etynologically, the name of Horsmonden conjures up arcadian images of a horse drinking at a stream in a woodland clearing. It comes from three common Old English words, hors horse, burna stream and denn woodland pasture. The first recorded form reflected this provenence rather better Horsbundenne, from around the turn of the twelfth century.
Horton Kirby is literally a muddy farmstead. It derives from the Old English horu dirty, muddy and tun settlement, farmstead; it first appeared in the Domesday Book as Hortune. By 1346 it is showing up as Horton Kyrkeby, having acquired a manorial affix from its possession by the de Kirkeby family in the thirteenth century.
Hothfield was originally Hathfelde, from the Old English hath healthy and feld field, open land.
Hucking is first recorded in 1195 as Hugginges. The form suggests that the final element is Old English ingas, indicating family or followers, and the first part of the place-name is probably a personal name. The site is thus a settlement of Huccas family.
Hunton is located literally at the hill of the hunstman. Its name comes from Old English hunta hunstman and dun hill the second element is not tun settlement, as it appears to be. The etymology is clearer in its first recorded form of Huntindone in the eleventh century.
Hythe represents the Old English word hyth, a landing-place or harbour. It first appears as the Normanised form Hede in the Domesday Book.


Job description for a first-contact physiotherapist
Developing a job description or person specification
Many employers now have their own standard pro forma for job descriptions and person specifications which will need to be followed. Typically a job description is likely to include some or all of the following aspects:
Title of the post
 - Grade of the post (this will be determined following job evaluation – see below)
 - To whom the post holder reports and to whom he/she is accountable
 - Location(s) of the work
 - An overall statement of job purpose
 - Outline of all the main duties and responsibilities of the post, set out under appropriate sub-headings which reflect the main areas of responsibility of the post.
The person specification focuses on the skills, knowledge and experience that are required to undertake the role.
It is essential these are developed through a critical assessment of what is required from the role within the local context, and the level of skill, knowledge and experience needed to deliver this.
Job evaluation
Within the NHS it is the job description and person specification that are the key factors in determining the correct band for the job, and not the title of the role.
The NHS uses a system of job evaluation. This requires a trained matching panel to assess each job by measuring the job content, responsibilities and tasks of each job, and the knowledge and skills needed by a post holder to successfully carry out their work.
The purpose of job evaluation is to ensure that all jobs with similar demands are on the same grade and pay band. Employers outside the NHS may also refer to the NHS job evaluation scheme or may have their own local pay and grading structure. However, there are advantages to maintaining the same system outside the NHS in terms of comparability of pay and expectations of the role.
More information on the NHS JE scheme can be found on the NHS Employers website.
Within general practice, the role of the physiotherapist will vary depending on service need and structure. Therefore specific roles will need to be evaluated to determine the appropriate banding. This could vary considerably depending on the local needs and structures for support and supervision.
However, it is envisaged that the greatest value and impact of physiotherapy roles in general practice will be gained from those that require a high level of independence (without the day-to-day support of peers) along with the ability to order further examinations and to refer on to a range of different services and for the delivery of specialist treatments, which are likely to fall into the band 7-8 range.
If a post also involves integrating MSK/physiotherapy assessments into the wider health system (e.g. across GP, community and hospital services) to meet patient need and contribute to the development of these areas, the job role is likely to fall within the band 8 range.
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Butterfly Lighting
Butterfly lighting uses only two lights. The key light is placed directly in front of the subject, often above the camera or slightly to one side, and a bit higher than is common for a three-point lighting plan. The second light is a rim light.
This lighting may be recognized by the strong light falling on the forehead, the bridge of the nose, the upper cheeks, and by the distinct shadow below the nose that often looks rather like a butterfly and thus, provides the name for this lighting technique.


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Free Educational Events for Kids in Brooklyn's Prospect Park: NYC Trees and Climate Change
September 25, 2011
Audubon Center, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York
- What: : In celebration of NYC Climate Week 2011, the Rainforest Alliance is leading a workshop to educate kids on climate change. Using dynamic, interactive activities, kids will learn about the climate cycle, measure trees to find out how much carbon they can store and discover the role that forests play in climate change. This event is free to the public, thanks to funding from HSBC.
- Who: Kids aged 10-17.
- Contact: Reserve your spot by contacting _EMAIL_ or _PHONE_. Walk-ins are welcome. Please arrive promptly at 2:00pm.


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Now that Mole Season is upon us, here are a few Frequently Asked Questions about moles!
- How long do moles live? Moles may live for up to 7 years, however, more than 85% die in the first 3 years.
- What and how much do moles eat? Moles are opportunistic feeders and consume almost anything they can catch. Earthworms are the main component of their diet, however, insects and mollusks make up the majority of the other prey. Moles usually eat three times a day. An adult consumes about 1/8 pound of food per day.
- When are moles most active? Moles have 3 periods of activity: 2-7 am., 11-4 pm., and 8-ll pm. Times may vary with location and with the time of the year. For example, males are more active in February and March to search for receptive females. On the other hand, females are more active in May and June when they need more food for nursing their young. Moles spend nearly half of their time sleeping.
- What is the typical litter size and how many litters will a female have per year? Litter sizes range from 2-8 with an average of 4. Gestation period is thought to be around 28 days. If conditions are not favorable, the female may reabsorb the embryos she is carrying. Most experts believe that a female may have up to three litters per year.
- How do moles communicate? Smell is very well developed in moles. Both males and females produce glandular secretions that empty into the urinary tract. The amount and composition of these secretions changes during breeding season.
- How many different species of moles occur in the US? There are 7 species of moles. The two most common are the eastern mole (Scalopus aquari-cus) and the star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata). Both occur east of the Rockies.
- Can moles swim? All moles can swim it'the need arises. They have been observed to swim up to an hour and to cover a distance of over a half mile. The star-nosed mole is semi-acquatic and often obtains its food underwater. Members of this species are usually found in lowlying areas near water. In fact, their tunnels may exit into ponds or streams.
- How do moles dig? The front legs are greatly enlarged and point at right angles to the body. While digging, the legs are swept from front to back in a horizontal plane. This power stroke moves the body forward and either dislodges the soil or pushes it outward forming the tunnels. Moles can dig at approx. 18 ft. per hour.
- Do moles have different tunnels? Yes, they usually have two types – surface tunnels and deep tunnels. Surface tunnels have visible, raised portions above the ground. These are particularly common in recently disturbed soils, sandy soils, and in terrains where food is found just below the surface. Surface tunnels are more easily dug but appear to be more temporary, especially when their prey goes deeper in the soil due to drought or cold temperature. Deep tunnels ranging from two inches to five feet are more commonly used. This requires the mole to place mounds of dirt above the surface of the lawn.
- Are the number of mounds a good indicator of the number of moles in a given area? No.
- How are moles controlled? There are several ways of getting rid of moles. These include trapping, poisoning, and using chemicals to eliminate potential food sources such as earthworms and insect grubs from the soil. Most people find the latter two methods unacceptable because they are either too dangerous to use or they have long-term adverse effects on the environment.
- What is the best mole trap to use? The first factor to consider is efficacy. Will the trap catch moles? A very important second factor is safety. Many traps have dangerous features such as the sharp spears or a device that acts as a strong choker. Because many of these products protrude above ground, they are a potential danger to children and pets. Many operators/consumers are concerned about cost. This is especially true if many traps are needed. Another factor is longevity, basically, will the trap offer several seasons of service? All of these factors should be considered when choosing a mole trap.
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Maintenance compressed air system
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The maintenance compressed air systems are often specified in the system documentation, provided by the manufacturer.
bao duong may nen khi hanshin, Maintenance compressed air sytem
Maintenance compressed air sytem
In this artical Minh Phu would like to introduce some rules of maintenance according to general regulation.
- Check air filters and pneumatically handling equipment, condensate water discharge and contaminants properly regulated; Adjust the pneumatic lubricator (if used).
- Exxchange to the operator to know about the operation status of the system, does anything unusual happen?
- Check for the leakage in parts and air pipes; Note whether or not the air pipes are kinked or damaged by physical damage.
- Check the abrasion status, dirt in the signaling parts.
- Check the bushings in the cylinder and check the cylinder.
sua chua may nen khi compair, bảo dưỡng máy nén khí,Screw air compressor working principle
Screw air compressor working principle
1.Maintenance plan:
-Condensate discharge from the filter if the ambient air is high humidity and the system does not use an automatic discharge. The common rule is that when the compressed air container has a large capacity, it is necessary to install a water separator with an automatic exhaust.
-Cheeck oil level in the lubricator of the compressed air (if available) and check the oil quantity.
- Check the signaling unit .
- Check pressure gauge of pressure regulator
- Check the operation of the lubrication unit.
Every 3 months:
- Checking the seals whether they are leaking or not. Tighten the connectionso,If necessary,
- Replace air pipes connecting to moving units.
- Check the leakage of discharge air outlet
- Clean filters.Use soapy water to clean (do not use solvents), then use compressed air to dry (blow in the opposite direction to the working air flow).
Every 6 months:
- Check the erosion of connecting rod in the cylinder and replace if necessary.
- Replace O-ring and Craper ring.
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怎么说：in the beginning
你讲一个故事的时候，怎么开始？英文，可以说：At first 或者 in the beginning 或者 at the beginning。 中文呢？
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 一开始 = in the beginning
 从前= once upon a time
 If you are going to describing some things happened to you. 一开始 will be a better fit. If you are telling a old story/fairy story, 从前 maybe be better. 一开始 is way more common.
 you tell a story by "从前"or "很久很久以前" which means it happened a long time ago.
 eg.: 从前，森林里住着一只大灰狼...
 You can use"从前"which means"once upon a time".
 agree with 1#, it is 很久很久以前/从前/老早个晨光
 my teacher from kindergarten or granny （same as others ppl）ALWAYS start to describe story with words "long long ago" in Chinese, however they just speak it with dialect;)
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hot money business definition
Funds that are controlled by investors who seek high short-term yields when the funds are likely to be reinvested somewhere else at any time. Some financial institutions attract hot money by offering above-average yields on certificates of deposit. However, if the rate is lowered, the funds are likely to be lost to another institution or investment.Case Study
Although an improbable target for currency speculators, tiny Iceland (population approximately 300,000) gained fame as a world depository for hot money shortly after the country lifted currency exchange controls in the late 1990s. Funds seeking the krona's high interest rates flooded into the island country from around the world, much of it representing borrowed money obtained in low-interest Japan. The inflows helped produce a booming economy with a strong currency, soaring stock market, and skyrocketing housing prices. The economic boom was accompanied by inflation, causing the central bank to raise interest rates to 11.5% by mid-2006. The increase in interest rates also resulted from the government's concern that hot money would begin flowing back out of Iceland as interest rates started rising in Europe, Japan, and the United States. A rapid outflow of hot money would depress the country's currency, increase the cost of imported goods, and cause a downward spiral in asset values.
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Climate change is a real problem that has to be addressed as soon as possible, before we hit the point of no return. It's something that's affecting every country on every continent, so no one is truly safe.
However, there are some countries that are more likely to survive a climate change collapse, according to a new study published in the Sustainability journal by the Global Sustainability Institute. So, let's see the 6 countries best equipped to survive a global societal collapse.
1. New Zealand
New Zealand it's actually the country most likely to survive the imminent climate change collapse, because it's a remote island that still has some untapped resources.
It seems like some of the cryptocurrency millionaires of the world also think of New Zealand as a solid outlet for survival, as they already have shown interest in buying properties in this country.
Tasmania is a small Australian island with a thriving agricultural infrastructure that can be self-sustainable in case of a climate apocalypse.
Ireland is another island that is both isolated and self-sustainable. It's rich in resources and can keep its population alive with the help of its booming agriculture industry.
Although Iceland is at risk of being affected by the rising sea levels as nearby glaciers are melting, it still has a lot of agricultural potential. Iceland's capacity to support renewable energy is also an important strength that would allow its inhabitants to survive a climate change collapse.
5. The United Kingdom
The United Kingdom clearly has the potential to survive, but only if its agricultural capabilities and renewable energy will be significantly increased.
6. United States and Canada
They both have a lot of potential, but their shared border can be really problematic because of the risk of mass migration. Also, they have to improve their production, agriculture, and energy generation.
Although these countries have the highest chances of survival in the event of a climate change collapse, no one can predict exactly what may happen, so in the meantime we should all try to do our part when it comes to preventing a climate apocalypse.


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Northwest Social Realism and the American Scene is an exhibition focused on Northwest artists and their depictions of scenes of everyday life in the Northwest during the 1930s through the 1950s. Many of the works reflect the industrial, political and social aspects of the Great Depression and WWII period.
Beginning in the late 1920s, younger American artists were turning away from the dominant influence of a completely unique representation of America. These artists utilized subject matter depicting elements of their individual regions and often celebrated the urban and rural environments as well as local industries and recreational activities.
On the other side of the spectrum, some Northwest artists used their talents to reflect their interest in communist and socialist ideology as well as labor causes and racial and class inequities. The Leftist movement was so strong in Washington State that in 1936, Postmaster General James Farley quipped…"There are forty-seven states in the Union, and the Soviet of Washington."