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York Primary Schools tell Parallel Stories in Illustrative Prints: Parables for our Time
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Archbishop of York's Junior School
York, YO23 2QT
Wednesday 15 June at 1.30pm
Pupils from six primary schools in York are taking part in a series of workshops, entitled 'Parallel Stories: Parables for our Time', which explores the history, art and culture within the King James Bible, as part of its 400th anniversary, which takes place this year. The project is led by The National Centre for Early Music as part of the first York Festival of Ideas, a partnership between the NCEM, the University of York, York Theatre Royal, and York Museums Trust.
'Parallel Stories: Parables for our Time' involves Archbishop of York's Junior School, Westfield, New Earswick, Woodthorpe, Park Grove and Dunnington Primary Schools.
Becky Wirtz, Class Teacher at Archbishop of York's Junior School says: "Our Year 6 pupils have thoroughly enjoyed the creative approach these workshops have taken to examining the cultural background of the King James Version. Focusing on the parables within the Bible, discussing these stories and their meanings, and re-telling them in a modern setting for a present-day audience, has enabled the children to understand the Bible's significance today.
"They have also looked at how the parables are illustrated within the King James Version and have emulated the woodcutting techniques used in it to create their own illustrative prints. They are all very proud and excited that their prints will be bound into a large presentation book and displayed at the National Centre for Early Music as part of York Early Music Festival, running from 8-16 July 2011, and subsequently at Explore York Library Centre and York Minster Library as part of their A Book Fit for a King KJV exhibition."
The project, which is run by the National Centre for Early Music in partnership with the University of York Community and Volunteering Unit (Careers Service), also provides volunteering and professional development opportunities for students from the University of York. A group of eleven undergraduate and MA students from the English, Education, History of Art, and History departments have attended seminars and training sessions on the cultural, historical and artistic aspects of the project and have been responsible for carrying out workshops in the schools.
Laura Bootland and Elizabeth Cole, students from the University of York, said: "It has been a great experience to take such a central role in delivering the workshops in these schools and working with very enthusiastic and engaged groups of children and teachers. Having a real hands-on approach has provided an invaluable opportunity to develop our own teaching and leadership skills, while supporting the children's learning."
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The York Festival of Ideas is a partnership between the University of York, York Theatre Royal and The National Centre for Early Music and York Museums Trust. The festival explores a series of intriguing links between past and present, showcasing contemporary ideas, arts and culture, and brings these ideas into conversation with the heritage of the city to reveal new and exciting stories about York, Britain and the world.
York Early Music Festival is supported by the Arts Council England, Yorkshire, Media partner BBC Radio 3, the National Centre for Early Music, Tourism partners Welcome to Yorkshire, the City of York Council and members of the York Hoteliers Association. Visit: _URL_


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In the upright posture, venous outﬂow is considerably less pulsatile (57%) and occurs predominantly through the vertebral plexus, while in the supine posture venous outﬂow occurs predominantly through the internal jugular veins. A slightly lower tCBF (12%), a considerably smaller CSF volume oscillating between the cranium and the spinal canal (48%), and a much larger ICC (2.8-fold) with a corresponding decrease in the MRI-derived ICP values were measured in the sitting position. [1]
I don't quite get the answer though. I know that the cerebral blood flow distribution is more complex than we think, but does the overall blood flow increase or decrease with an upright posture?
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Blood pressure decreases as one stands up.
A model of cerebral blood flow has been created in Modeling Cerebral Blood Flow Control During Posture Change From Sitting to Standing:
The characteristic features are that after standing up for 60 s, the pressure (both systolic and diastolic values) drops signiﬁcantly from a mean pressure of approximately 95 mmHg to a mean pressure of approximately 58 mmHg. At the same time, the blood ﬂow velocity also decreases followed by an increase. However, it should be noted that while the mean velocity decreases, the decrease is not as big, because of a large widening of the pulse-amplitude (systolic value minus diastolic value).
Other studies back this claim up such as Cerebral Circulation In Various Physologic States:
Although our studies have not revealed a quantitative relationship between alterations in the arterial pressure and cerebral blood flow in the same person, there was a definite fall in cerebral blood flow with the fall in effective cerebral arterial pressure on standing.
More specific studies on posture and blood flow have also been performed to learn how to the best way to reduce blood pressure, which is important in head injury patients. From Effect of head elevation on intracranial pressure, cerebral perfusion pressure, and cerebral blood flow in head-injured patients:
There was no statistically significant change in CPP, CBF, cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen, arteriovenous difference of lactate, or cerebrovascular resistance associated with the change in head position. The data indicate that head elevation to 30° significantly reduced ICP in the majority of the 22 patients without reducing CPP or CBF.
This means that Inter-Cranial Pressure (ICP) was significantly reduced in most patients without reducing Cerebral Blood Flow (CBF). This means changes in pressure do not always equate to changes in blood flow of the same relative magnitude.
Reading more into those articles will give you more insight into the complexities of how the flow changes in posture, but unless you have a more specific question I believe that covers what you asked.
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I also found this article Effects of gravity on the circulation but have nowhere to use it. – Ben Brocka Jan 23 '12 at 22:43
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by Sheldon Roussy in collaboration with Brittany Collier
Cultural appropriation is a persistent topic with regards to cultural and Indigenous studies in Canada. This paper holds that the cultural appropriation of the Indigenous sweat lodge ritual limits Indigenous community control resulting in benefits for individuals and organizations actively appropriating the ceremony. This article highlights the negative implications of appropriating the sweat lodge tradition through a tragic 2009 incident led by self-help guru James Ray. It is argued that intercultural understanding—though limited—must be fostered to ensure the future safety of sweat lodge participants in both Canada and the United States.
Cultural Appropriation, Sweat Lodge, New Age Movement, James Ray, Indigenous
Spirituality, Cross cultural awareness
Sheldon Roussy is a fourth year undergraduate law student at Carleton University from Webbwood, Ontario. Interests are in business and environmental law, and upon receiving a B.A has hopes on attending law school.

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changecoords2d - change coordinate systems in a 2d plot
changecoords2d(p, coords = coord);
a two-dimensional plot structure
the name of a two-dimensional coordinate system, or
is the name of a two-dimensional coordinate system.
This is a replacement for
for two-dimensional coordinate systems, to correct bugs in that procedure in Maple 6.
The two-dimensional plot data structure
may be produced by any of the commands that plot two-dimensional graphs, with any plotting options allowed by those commands. Note that any plot options other than coords must be part of the command that produces
, not an option to
may be any of the available two-dimensional coordinate systems:
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With the construction
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coordinates of the original plot
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they are interpreted as
Some of the coordinate systems have from one to three parameters, which may be specified in functional form, e.g.
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The output is a two-dimensional plot data structure which may be displayed directly or assigned to a variable, perhaps modified further, and displayed later.
This function is part of the
Maple Advisor Database
changecoords2d(plot(cos(x), x=-Pi/2..Pi/2, scaling = constrained), reverse(polar));
changecoords2d(pointplot([seq([1,Pi/10*i],i=0..19)], style=line), polar);
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changecoords2d(plot(1, x=0..1), logcosh(2));

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"Form (ever) follows function" is a principle that was coined by the American architect Louis Sullivan. The phrase has been associated with modern architecture and industrial design in the 20th century. The idea of the principle is that the shape or structure of an object is primarily based upon the objects function or purpose. The way something looks should be determined by its function; its form should always have a purpose.
A good example that follows this principle is the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. The building was designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, also Sullivan's assistant. It's spiral structure was intended to allow visitors to easily view the artwork within the museum. The spiral staircase creates a good flow of traffic.
boxworks15-140An example that can relate to exhibit design is a hanging box banner. The image to the right is a hanging banner from Box Works 2015. It in the shape of a cube so that the sign can be seen and read from multiple angles. If it were 2-dimensional then the banner would only be read from 2 angles.
Sometimes there instances where the principle is not followed. An object's form can be purely just for aesthetics and looks; it's form can be more important than its function. If there's no significant function, then design can rely mainly on form. Below is an exhibit designed for Bombardier. The angular overhang is in the shape of a kite or can represent the wings of an airplane. It's form is more significant to its function because no matter its shape, it will still have the same function.
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One of the most important strategic decisions that affects the success of an organization, is to locate the facility in an appropriate place. Facilities are characterized on a continuum spectrum from manufacturing facilities at one end and service facilities at the other end. In terms of trends in enterprise turn-over and gross domestic products (GDP) of nations, service industries play an increasingly more important role than their manufacturing counterparts. This article presents a bi-objective non-linear integer mathematical model for reliable facility location problem with stochastic demand. The concentration of this article is to present a new mathematical model in reliable facility location problem with immobile servers with congested facilities. The goal is to determine the location of both inexpensive and reliable facilities. Therefore, a bi-objective mathematical programming model is presented in which total cost and reliability of system are simultaneously optimized. There are many real life applications of the proposed model such as: automated teller machines, communication networks, vending machines, local clinics, hospitals and medical centers, relief distribution centers and reconstruction center locations, kinds of education systems, police stations, truck terminals, hotels, city logistics terminals, parks, bus stops, press delivery networks, locating post boxes, and the like. Since the proposed model is NP-Hard, a multi-objective water flow-like algorithm (MOWFLA) is presented to solve the model. To demonstrate the performance of the proposed algorithm, different test problems are first generated. Then, multi-objective genetic algorithm as best-developed algorithm in the literature and GAMS software, integrating the objectives with LP-metric method, are applied to justify the performance of proposed MOWFLA. According to objective function value (OFV) and computational time (CPUT) metrics, the results show that the proposed algorithm are capable to solve proposed congested facility location problem in large size problems.


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Have you given a warm handshake, an icy glance, or been in a heated argument? Temperature is often associated with human behaviors—in fact, it's a phenomenon that persists across languages.
The concept is so embedded in our minds that physical temperature can affect our judgment and behavior, a growing body of research shows. One 2008 study found that subjects holding warm coffee were more likely to judge a target as warm and friendly than subjects holding iced coffee.
It all sounds innocuous until you consider that terms like "cold-blooded" and "hot-headed" refer to two very different descriptions of a similar crime: The slaying of another human.
Researchers in Switzerland and Germany set out to test if ambient temperature in a room could affect the way people judged crimes. "Words associated with coldness typically indicate that the person acted with forethought," they explain in a new paper. "Words associated with heat typically indicate that the person acted spontaneously and impulsively."
People in a cold room were twice as likely to describe a crime as murder than those in midand high-temperature rooms.
Those familiar with criminal sentencing (or Law & Order) know that the perceived intent behind a homicide has a large effect on the sentence. Pre-meditated killings tend be judged as murders and result in harsher sentences. Impulsive killings tend to result in lighter sentences.
The study, which was published this week in PLoS One, presented 133 subjects with photographs and descriptions of various crimes. They were randomly assigned to low-, mid-, or high-temperature conditions, with all conditions within an established building-code temperature comfort zone.
Participants were asked to answer "What kind of crime did this person commit?" in an open-response format. They also rated how likely the crime was impulsive and how likely it was premeditated. Two independent raters read the responses and determined prison sentences based on the language of the crime descriptions and "their lay understanding of German law." They also counted how many times the subjects described the crime as murder.
Those in the low-temperature condition were significantly more likely than subjects in the high-temperature condition to describe the crimes as premeditated and less likely to see the crimes as impulsive. They were more likely to refer to crimes as murders, and their descriptions of crimes tended to result in harsher penalties than subjects in high-temperature conditions.
Subjects in the mid-temperature condition did not significantly differ from high-temperature subjects in three out of four measurements, indicating that low temperature has a stronger effect on judgment than high temperature.
In fact, people in a cold room were twice as likely to describe a crime as murder than those in midand high-temperature rooms.
The researchers also measured other variables that might affect the results, including age, sex, outdoor temperature, and clothing—none of the factors correlated with the results.
It's a chilling discovery, and researchers indicate the effect could extend to perceptions of witnesses on the stand or judges' choices in the courtroom. If the results of this study are confirmed, perhaps 12 Angry Men would have been a shorter movie if someone had simply turned the thermostat up.


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The rtc skippatch command excludes load objects, object files and functions from being instrumented by runtime checking. The effect of the command is permanent to each dbx session unless the load object is unloaded explicitly.
Since dbx does not track memory access in load objects, object files, and functions affected by this command, incorrect rui errors might be reported for functions that were not skipped. dbx cannot determine whether an rui error was introduced by this command, so such an error was not suppressed automatically.
Exclude the specified load objects from being instrumented.
Exclude the specified object files and functions in the specified load object from being instrumented.
load_object is the name of a load object or the path to the name of a load object.
object_file is the name of an object file.
function is the name of a function.


Qualys Multi-Vector EDR: Protection across the entire threat lifecycle – Help Net Security
Traditional endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions focus only on endpoint activity to detect attacks. As a result, they lack the context to analyze attacks accurately.
In this interview, Sumedh Thakar, President and Chief Product Officer, illustrates how Qualys fills the gaps by introducing a new multi-vector approach and the unifying power of its Cloud Platform to EDR, providing essential context and visibility to the entire attack chain.
Qualys Multi-Vector EDR
How does Qualys Multi-Vector EDR differ from traditional EDR solutions?
Traditional EDR solutions focus only on endpoint activity, which lacks the context necessary to accurately analyze attacks and leads to a high rate of false positives. This can put an unnecessary burden on incident response teams and requires the use of multiple point solutions to make sense of it all.
Qualys Multi-Vector EDR leverages the strength of EDR while also extending the visibility and capabilities beyond the endpoint to provide a more comprehensive approach to protection. Multi-Vector EDR integrates with the Qualys Cloud Platform to deliver vital context and visibility into the entire attack chain while dramatically reducing the number of false positives and negatives as compared with traditional EDR.
This integration unifies multiple context vectors like asset discovery, rich normalized software inventory, end-of-life visibility, vulnerabilities and exploits, misconfigurations, in-depth endpoint telemetry and network reachability all correlated for assessment, detection and response in a single app. It provides threat hunters and incident response teams with crucial, real-time insight into what is happening on the endpoint.
Vectors and attack surfaces have multiplied. How do we protect these systems?
Many attacks today are multi-faceted. The suspicious or malicious activity detected at the endpoint is often only one small part of a larger, more complex attack. Companies need visibility across the environment to effectively fully understand the attack and its impact on the endpoint—as well as the potential consequences elsewhere on their network. This is where Qualys' ability to gather and assess the contextual data on any asset via Qualys Global IT Asset Inventory becomes so important.
The goal of EDR is detection and response, but you need a holistic view to do it effectively. When a threat or suspicious activity is detected, you need to act quickly to understand what the information or indicator means, and how you can pivot to take action to prevent any further compromise.
Qualys unveils Multi-Vector EDR
How can security teams take advantage of Qualys Multi-Vector EDR?
Attack prevention and detection are two sides of the same coin for security teams. With current endpoint tools focusing solely on endpoint telemetry, security teams end up bringing in multiple point solutions and threat intelligence feeds to figure out what is happening in their environment.
On top of it, they need to invest their budget and time in integrating these solutions and correlating data for actionable insights. With Qualys EDR, security teams can continuously collate asset telemetry such as process, files and hashes to detect malicious activities and correlate with natively integrated threat intel for prioritization score-based response actions.
Instead of reactively taking care of malicious events one endpoint at a time, security teams can easily pivot to inspect other endpoints across the hybrid infrastructure for exploitable vulnerabilities, MITRE-based misconfigurations, end-of-life or unapproved software and systems that lack critical patches.
Additionally, through native workflows that provide exact recommendations, security and IT teams can patch or remediate the endpoints for the security findings. This is an improvement over previous methods which require handshaking of data from one tool to another via complex integrations and manual workflows.
For example, Qualys EDR can help security teams not only detect MITRE-based attacks and malicious connections due to RDP (remote desktop) exploitation but can also provide visibility across the infrastructure. This highlights endpoints that can connect to the exploited endpoint and have RDP vulnerabilities or a MITRE-mapped configuration failure such as LSASS. Multi-Vector EDR then lets the user patch vulnerabilities and automatically remediate misconfigurations.
Thus, Qualys' EDR solution is designed to equip security teams with advanced detections based on multiple vectors and rapid response and prevention capabilities, minimizing human intervention, simplifying the entire security investigation and analyze processes for organizations of all sizes. Security practitioners can sign up for a free trial here.
What response strategies does Qualys Multi-Vector EDR use?
Qualys EDR with its multi-layered, highly scalable cloud platform, retains telemetry data for active and historical view and natively correlates it with multiple external threat intelligent feeds. This eliminates the need to rely on a single malware database and provides a prioritized risk-based threat view. This helps security teams hunt for the threats proactively and reactively with unified context of all security vectors, reducing alert fatigue and helping security teams concentrate on what is critical.
Qualys EDR provides comprehensive response capabilities that go beyond traditional EDR options, like killing process and network connections, quarantining files, and much more. In addition, it uniquely orchestrates responses such as preventing future attacks by correlating exploitable-to-malware vulnerabilities automatically, patching endpoints and software directly from the cloud and downloading patches from the vendor's website, without going through the VPN bandwidth.
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(language) A high-level programming language designed by Niklaus Wirth at ETH in 1978. It is a derivative of Pascal with well-defined interfaces between modules, and facilities for parallel computation. Modula-2 was developed as the system language for the Lilith workstation.The central concept is the module which may be used to encapsulate a set of related subprograms and data structures, and restrict their visibility from other portions of the program. Each module has a definition part giving the interface, and an implementation part. The language provides limited single-processor concurrency (monitors, coroutines and explicit transfer of control) and hardware access (absolute addresses and interrupts). It uses name equivalence. DEC FTP archive. ["Programming in Modula-2", N. Wirth, Springer 1985].
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Cameron et al., 2006: Reflecting about friendships between refugees and ingroup members improved sense of connection and positive attitudes towards refugees among White English children
White 5-11 year-old children in England were read three stories over two sessions, which represented close friendships between ingroup members and refugees. The stories emphasized the individual characteristics of refugees (decategorization intervention), the common ingroup identity of refugees as a member of the school community (common ingroup identity intervention) or both the common ingroup identity and the unique subgroup identity of refugees (dual identity intervention). One to two weeks later, children in all three intervention conditions, as compared to a no-treatment control condition, reported a greater sense of connection to refugees and more positive attitudes toward refugees, with the dual identity intervention the most effective. However, there was no effect on children's interest in interacting with refugees.


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Lab Fume Hoods
Fume Hoods use 3 avg. homes worth of electricity
A typical CAV hood consumes the same energy as three average houses ($2500-$3000/year).
Why do hoods consume so much energy?
Because they constantly remove conditioned air (heated or cooled) from the lab without the ability to easily turn them off when not needed. It is like heating your home in the winter with the windows and doors open. Fans also contribute to energy consumption but the loss of conditioned air is by far the largest source of energy consumption.
Fume Hood
What is a Constant Air Volume (CAV) Hood?
A CAV hood is a fume hood which removes the same volume of conditioned air (heated or cooled) from the lab whether the sash is open or closed. So regardless of whether a hood is in use (sash up) or not (sash down), the flow of air from the lab, into the hood, and exhausted from the building is the same. To prevent air velocity from increasing as the sash is closed (reducing the bottom opening to the hood), a bypass opening widens (typically behind a grill near the top of the hood) as the sash is lowered.
How does a Variable Air Volume (VAV) Hood Save Energy?
Shut the Sash
In contrast to a CAV hood, a VAV hood reduces the volume of conditioned air being removed from the lab as the sash is lowered. So when a sash is up at the maximum safe working level, the VAV hood acts like a CAV hood removing a similar volume of conditioned air as a CAV hood, but as the sash is lowered, the volume of air being removed from the lab decreases. Unlike a CAV hood, a VAV hood does not have a bypass opening. Instead, to keep the air velocity from increasing as the sash is closed, the exhaust fan slows accordingly to keep a constant air speed.
 - Keeping a sash completely closed on a VAV hood can greatly reduce the hood's energy consumption. Some say consumption can drop by up to 60%, but it really depends upon the conditions in the lab where the hood is located.
 - On CU-Boulder's campus, you can tell if your hood is VAV by looking for the "Shut the Sash!" sticker with a black hand (shown on this page).
How many fume hoods does CU-Boulder have?
 Approximately 350 CAV and 60 VAV
Are there plans in place to reduce fume hood energy consumption on campus?
Fume hoods are absolutely fundamental to lab safety. Our teaching and research activities at the same time present a major energy conservation opportunity.
Near Term Strategy:
Our goal is to educate and remind our students and lab staff to lower and close sashes when VAV hoods are not in use to save energy and conserve needed make up air in lab buildings (using educational posters and stickers). We will also work with researchers to find out if any teaching or research CAV hoods are no longer needed due to changing research requirements. If that is the case, we will offer a very simple and user friendly program as well as incentive to retire unused CAV hoods, without any compromises to safety.
Long Term Strategy:
Our goal is to create funding opportunities to replace all 350 CAV fume hoods overtime with high performance energy efficient VAV hoods. This is a major undertaking with an extremely high energy conservation opportunity with high upfront investment. While funding opportunities are being reviewed, it makes very good common sense to partner with campus EH&S as well as lab managers and researchers to decide which hoods are connected (exhausting costly conditioned air 24x7) but are not in use. Retire these idle hoods as prerequisite to our long term investment for hoods upgrade.
You can find our Fume Hood removal form here.
Contact Info:
Kathy Ramirez-Aguilar, Ph.D.
CU Green Labs Program Manager


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To make an educated decision, you need to know what publishing does and what it does not.
Publishing is the process of copying content from one database to another. By default there is one source database -
master and one destination database
web database is the publishing target.
When you publish, Sitecore copies data from 3 tables
UnversionedField. Copy here is not just moving bytes. It is a sophisticated process that transforms data to the form that works best for delivery. From top of my head the following transformations are performed:
- Clones are merged
- Language fallback fields are materialized
- Old Item versions are removed so only recent one is kept
But Sitecore is not just
Fields. Other important artifacts are not moved when you publish content. What is not included:
- xDB data
- Sitecore modules, fixes, updates
- Users and Roles (although permissions are moved as they are stored in Item
- Application Files - configuration, CSS, JS, Razor views and others
- Application Code
After content is copied, target Server receives
publish:end:remote event. During this event pipeline Sitecore clears caches for affected items and pushes affected items to Search Indexes.
As you can see, publishing is an expensive process. It may be an overkill to use it if you want to have two always synchronized environments. Consider shared database or SQL Replication for that scenario.
Multiple Publishing Targets work best for scenarios when two conditions are met:
- Sitecore and your App versions are synchronized
- You need to control over how your content is traveling from one environment to another.
Steve Newstead already provided great sample when it make most sense in his answer


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10g Release 1 (10.1)
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return_value := SCN_TO_TIMESTAMP(number);
SCN_TO_TIMESTAMP takes an argument that represents a system change number (SCN) and returns the timestamp associated with that SCN. The returned value has the datatype
This function is part of the flashback query feature. System change numbers provide a precise way to specify the database state at a moment in time, so that you can see the data as it was at that moment.
Call this function to find out the date and time associated with an SCN that you have stored to use with flashback query.
DECLARE right_now TIMESTAMP; yesterday TIMESTAMP; sometime TIMESTAMP; scn1 INTEGER; scn2 INTEGER; scn3 INTEGER; BEGIN -- Get the current SCN. right_now := SYSTIMESTAMP; scn1 := TIMESTAMP_TO_SCN(right_now); dbms_output.put_line('Current SCN is'|| scn1); -- Get the SCN from exactly 1 day ago. yesterday := right_now - 1; scn2 := TIMESTAMP_TO_SCN(yesterday); dbms_output.put_line('SCN from yesterday is'|| scn2); -- Find an arbitrary SCN somewhere between yesterday and today. -- (In a real program we would have stored the SCN at some significant moment.) scn3 := (scn1 + scn2) / 2; -- Find out what time that SCN was in effect. sometime := SCN_TO_TIMESTAMP(scn3); dbms_output.put_line('SCN'|| scn3 ||'was in effect at'|| TO_CHAR(sometime)); END; /


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William Beveridge (_PHONE_) was a British social administrator who is widely considered one of the principal founders of the British welfare state. He chaired a major government committee during World War II with responsibility for planning the reorganization of government social programs. Their report (subsequently known as the Beveridge Report) was the basis for a massive expansion of British social services following the war and earned its chairman an international reputation as a founder of the welfare state. [1]
Beveridge abandoned legal studies at Oxford University to move into Toynbee Hall the pioneering settlement house in the East End of London which also served as inspiration for Jane Addams in the founding of Hull House in Chicago.
 1. James Midgley, "Beveridge, Lord William", Encyclopedia of Social Work, 19th Edition, Vol. 3. NASW Press:Washington DC. 1995. 2574.


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How do you remove epoxy stone?
Use a shovel to remove the loosened epoxyand gravel from the concrete deck surface. Switch to a floorscraper to remove the gravel sections still stuck to theconcrete. Repeat the spray and removal process if only onelayer of the coating comes up.
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In this way, how do you remove epoxy from skin?
Removing Epoxy Adhesive on Skin
 1. Vinegar. You can use vinegar to remove cured epoxy adhesivefrom your skin.
 2. Acetone. Acetone is another simple, yet effective,solution.
 3. Citrus-Based Waterless Hand Cleaner. If you can find one, acitrus-based waterless hand cleaner can also do the job of removingfresh epoxy on your skin.
Also, how do you remove epoxy from tile? How to Remove Epoxy Residue From Ceramic Tile
 1. Heat the epoxy you want to remove with a heat gun on itshighest setting.
 2. Apply heat until the epoxy appears to soften, at least 30 to 60seconds.
 3. Immediately after heating the area, scrape broken-down epoxywith a plastic scraper.
 4. Clean the surface with an all-purpose tile cleaner.
Also to know, can you remove epoxy flooring?
To Remove Epoxy Flooring from Concrete. Epoxyflooring is different than epoxy paint. More than likelyit was applied by a professional and more than likely itwill need to be removed by one. The best way toremove epoxy flooring from concrete is to grind itaway.
How do you dissolve hardened epoxy?
Method 1 Using Heat to Remove Epoxy
 1. Put on gloves, goggles, and a mask. When heating epoxy, vaporswill be produced that are not friendly to your eyes.
 2. Wear clothes that cover your skin.
 3. Soak the surface in acetone.
 4. Aim a heat gun at the epoxy for several minutes.
 5. Heat small areas at a time.
 6. Scrape off the heated epoxy.
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text: There is evidence that isoflavones, such as genistein, can directly or indirectly improve lipid profile and lower blood pressure and hence exert cardiovascular protection. It is further believed, that genistein attenuates vascular contraction and thus vascular tone and blood pressure through altering the phosphorylation of the regulatory myosin light chain (MLC) probably via the myosin light chain kinase (MLCK) or the RhoA pathway. However, the direct role of genistein in the myocardium is poorly reviewed. In this study, we investigated the impact of genistein on the cardiac proteome in ovariectomized female mice using a 2DE-MS approach. Dietary genistein intake considerably changed the abundance of several cytoskeletal and contractile proteins and enhanced the phosphorylation of MLC. The MLC phosphorylation was mediated through increased abundance of MLCK and inhibition of myosin light chain phosphatase latest known to be inversely regulated by RhoA. Contrary to others, in our model genistein did neither inhibit the cardiac MLCK, nor the cardiac RhoA pathway in vivo.


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Who were the Titanic's victims?
Who were the people who went down with the Titanic?
In the aftermath of the tragedy authorities in Nova Scotia scrambled to pull together casualty lists and identify the bodies that were pulled from the ocean by crews from ships which steamed to the site of the wreck.
Hastily typed and then overwritten with handwritten notes, the fatality reports provide a unique glimpse into the world below decks on the Titanic and the people - from all over Europe - who went down with the ship.
One of the youngest victims was a two-year-old boy, wearing a grey fur-trimmed coat, pink woollen singlet and brown shoes. Sidney Leslie Goodwin was buried at sea "by special request" by the crew of a cable ship which steamed to the wreck site. His body bore "no marks whatsoever".
Who was he?
Many of the poorer passengers did not carry enough on them to be identified. This man had a tattoo and a simple copper ring on his thumb. The handwritten note reads: "Unable to identify from clothing".
Down with his ship
This unidentified man wore a steward's jacket and the note on his record reads: "Dec. to Jan. 1911; First Saloon waiter S.S. Majestic,". He was carrying a bunch of keys for a locker.
This man, identified as a Greek or an Italian, went to his death carrying a knife, three pennies, and a purse full of golden French francs. But he never made it to the New World to spend them. The archives don't say what happened to the cash.
Many of the bodies are identified as being firemen, who worked stoking the boilers which drove the ship's steam engines.
In the engine room
Another fireman, Joseph Dawson, worked in the Titanic's engine room. Was his name the inspiration for Leonardo DiCaprio's Jack Dawson character? The confusion over his name and address indicates the struggle authorities had to positively identify victims.
While many of the dead are listed as having had virtually no personal effects on them, others, like bandsman John Hume, were better turned out. Hume carried a cigarette case; a silver watch; a knife with a carved pearl handle, a brass button marked "African Royal Mail"; and an English lever watch.
Many of the victims were heavily tattooed, and were identified as sailors: "Tattooed on left arm: Woman's bust and Union Jack; also woman in kilts, and on right arm: Man's head (cowboy); clasped hands and heart (true love), and flower."
Twenty-five-year-old waiter Allario Baptiste went down with the keys to the waiters' lavatory in his pocket. Was he on his way there when the ship hit the iceberg?
Jenny Louisa Hendrickssen was wearing a "cholera belt" - a cummerbund designed to ward of cold and damp, which were thought to cause cholera, dysentery and other ailments.
Source: All images courtesy of Nova Scotia Archives, Halifax, Nova Scotia _URL_


contour represented by v evolves through the candidate window to reach a force balance equation F int(v) + F ext(v) = 0, where F int(v) is the internal force constraining contour's smoothness, and F ext(v) is the external force attracting the contour toward image features.
The IFVF is a fast and accurate edge-based snake technique, because of the introduction of both static and dynamic terms in the external force.
F ext v = F static v + F dynamic v
The F static could be a static external force which overcomes the edge leakage problem, e.g., we use boundary vector flow (BVF) proposed in [23] as the F static. The BVF extends the capture range further to the entire image based on simpler interpolation. Four potential functions Ψx, Ψy, Ψxy, and Ψyx are computed using line-by-line interpolations in the horizontal, vertical, and two diagonal directions. The F static is calculated as follows
F static = Φ 1 = ( Ψ x, Ψ y ) or F static = Φ 2 = 2 2 Ψ xy + Ψ yx, 2 2 Ψ xy Ψ yx
The F dynamic is achieved in three steps.
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 Given an HIE-enhanced candidate image, a binary edge map B is generated using smoothing technique speckle reducing anisotropic diffusion [21] and the Canny edge detector [24].
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 By comparing the edge map points to the current snake contour points (snaxels), a new control point (x c,y c ) is selected by considering the point which contributes more to the distance between snake contour and object boundary [22]. We use the Hausdorff distance to find such a point. Assuming two sets of points S and O, the Hausdorff distance is then defined as h S, O = max o O min s S d s, o where d(s o) is the Euclidean distance between a snaxel s and a object boundary point o. So, the control point is chosen as the point on the object boundary which has the Hausdorff distance value.
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 For any pixel (x,y) on the contour v, its F dynamic(x,y) is then calculated as follows
 F dynamic x, y = 1 B δ d'x, y d'x, y
where δ = ±1 controls the outward or inward direction. In this article, we use δ = 1, as the initial contour is automatically set as a small circle in the center of the window image with radius of 3 pixels. d'(x,y) is the Euclidean distance between points (x,y) and (x c,y c ). Note that the term (1 − B) makes the F dynamic zero for those points which already reach edges. Based on the edge map generated from the enhanced candidates images using HIE, the IFVF segmentation result of these candidates C1–C3 are shown in Figure 9e. The stopping criterion of the evolution is determined by computing the difference in locations (defined by the x and y coordinates) of the corresponding contour points between two consecutive iterations. If it is less than a convergence threshold t, the active contour evolution will be stopped. In our experiments, t is empirically set to 0.05. Based on our tests, there is no significant improvement even if t is smaller than 0.05.
3.5 CFC
The last module in our proposed technique is the CFC, which performs the fine scale feature classification. Three types of contour-based features, shape, edge and region, are extracted for the final cavity detection. These features include circularity measure [25], GICOV [26], and Kullback–Leibler divergence (KLD) [27] between the pixel intensity distributions inside and outside the contour. The computations of these three features are explained below.
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 Assuming a contour has one centroid, L points are selected from the contour in L cardinal directions. The circularity of the contour is then calculated as scaled variance as follows
 C = var d x i, y i max d x i, y i, i = 1, 2,, L
where d(x i,y i ) is the distance from the centroid to the contour point (x i,y i ) in the i th direction. In this article, we use L = 16. The circularity feature is a feature which could effectively reduce the false positives.
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 Based on the observation that the inner boundary of a cavity often has dark-to-bright transition, the GICOV value of L points on the contour is calculated as follows
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 For the contour point (x i,y i ) in the i th direction, its gradient in normal direction g n (x i,y i ) is calculated as g n x i, y i = I x i, y i. n x i, y i, where n x i, y i is the unit outward normal vector at this point.
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 The mean and standard deviation of g n, denoted by m and s, are then calculated as m = 1 L i = 1 L g n x i, y i and s 2 = 1 L 1 i = 1 L g n x i, y i m 2
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 The GICOV value of the contour is finally achieved using following equation:
 GICOV = m s / L
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 Given the probability distributions, P and Q, of the pixel intensity values inside and outside the cavity, respectively, the KLD for a candidate window is calculated as follows
 KLD = i = 1 B P i ln P i Q i
where B is the number of bins in the histogram span by P and Q. The KLD compares the difference in gray level distribution between the pixels inside and outside the contour.
Table 1 shows the above feature values corresponding to three contours shown in Figure 9e. As in the coarse feature classification step, we select the SVM as the fine feature classifier in this step. Based on the feature values (Table 1), the trained SVM classifier identifies the Contour-2 as a positive and Contour-1 and Contour-3 as negatives. The final detected cavity (corresponding to Contour-2) in the CXR image is shown in Figure 9f as the red contour. The result matches with the ground truth.
Table 1
Fine feature values of three contours in Figure 9e
4. Performance evaluation
In this section, we evaluate our proposed coarse-to-fine dual scale technique with respect to three aspects: the effectiveness of candidate selection, the accuracy of contour segmentation, and the accuracy of final cavity detection.
4.1. Experimental dataset and parameters configuration
A cavity dataset of 35 CXR images containing 50 cavities is obtained from the University of Alberta Hospital. All the images were independently read by three experienced chest radiologists who are specialized in TB diagnosis. The presence of TB cavities was confirmed by the agreement of at least two radiologists. The sample histograms of cavity properties such as diameter, circularity, and wall thickness are shown in Figure 11. From the histograms, it can be seen that the cavities vary in diameters while their circularities range mainly from 0.15 to 0.2 and most of them have intermediate thickness. For computational efficiency, the original CXR images are resized as 512 × 512 (or close to this size) with a fixed pixel spacing [0.8 mm, 0.8 mm]. Since all the cavities are located in the ULZ, a similar preprocessing procedure as described in [7] was applied to segment the target lung region, which reduces the processing area to a smaller rectangular bounding box. Figure 12 shows an example of the target area.
Figure 11
Sample histograms of cavity properties. (a) Histogram of diameter; (b) histogram of circularity; (c) histogram of wall thickness of four categories: "Thick" (≥16 mm), "Intermediate" (4–15 mm), "Thin" (<4 mm), and "Uncertain" (wall not discernible).
Figure 12
An example of the target area. The enhanced subimage inside the green rectangle is the result of the preprocessing procedure.
The proposed cavity detection technique is implemented in MATLAB 2007b on an Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.8 GHz with 2 GB RAM computer. All the parameters in the proposed technique are listed in Table 2. The SVM classifiers in both coarse and fine feature classification are built using LIBSVM software [28]. To train the SVM classifiers, we applied the 'leave-one-out' method [29] since the size of samples with cavities is small. For example in LHFC, to detect the candidate regions in one of the 30 CXR images, we use the remaining 29 CXR images for the training. The training set contains the LBP and HOG feature vectors extracted from windows with and without cavities (positive and negative samples) in these 29 CXR images. Note that the negative samples for training were selected from the contralateral position of the positive samples based on the approximate symmetry of the lung field. The SVM classifier in CFC is trained in a similar way.
Table 2
Parameters configuration in the proposed technique
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Positioning and life cycle stages in the UK services industry
This study aims to contribute to the advancement of knowledge within the domain of strategic marketing, and more specifically positioning of services. In particular this research stems from an attempt to overcome the limitations of existing positioning typologies and models and the fact that current research on the subject matter fails to reflect the sequential nature of considerations related to the management of the positioning process. Consequently, the basic aim of this research is the development of a comprehensive framework that incorporates the various decisions and activities associated with the management of positioning and the generation of managerial guidelines, for the UK services industry. Following an extensive literature review, a conceptual framework that represents a synthesis of existing positioning models is proposed. Following the development of generic positioning strategies, the model is applied in the UK plastic card sector. As a result, a number of propositions are tested and managerial recommendations are put forward. Overall, this research makes the following theoretical, methodological and managerial contributions to the theory and practice of positioning activities within the plastic card services domain. Theoretical Contributions: This thesis offers a comprehensive positioning framework which could form the basis of further investigation into the subject matter. More specifically, the following theoretical contributions to the study of positioning have been made: This thesis has attempted to examine the varying descriptions attributed to the concept and as a result has clarified the concept and suggested three main themes (i.e. perspectives, key issues and dimensions) underpinning the concept. This research has put forward an empirically supported comprehensive positioning model. Methodological Contributions: This research has developed and validated a generic, consumer derived typology of positioning strategies. Operationalisation of positioning aim(s), objective(s) and the determination of LCS have been offered. An analytical procedure suitable for determining congruence between successive phases of the proposed model has been developed. The operationalisation of LCS in the model has been expanded in terms of additional dimensions. Managerial Contributions: This research has provided a set of clearly defined, managerial guidelines that practitioners can use when attempting to apply the concept of positioning.


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Cost of Goods Sold is directly linked to profitability of the company through Gross Margin:
- Cost of goods sold) / Revenue
A company that has a moat can usually maintain or even expand their Gross Margin. A company can increase its Gross Margin in two ways. It can increase the prices of the goods it sells and keeps its Cost of Goods Sold unchanged. Or it can keep the sales price unchanged and squeeze its suppliers to reduce the Cost of Goods Sold. Warren Buffett believes businesses with the power to raise prices have moats.
Cost of Goods Sold is also directly linked to another concept called Inventory Turnover:
= Cost of goods sold / Average Inventory
Inventory Turnover measures how fast the company turns over its inventory within a year. A higher inventory turnover means the company has light inventory. Therefore the company spends less money on storage, write downs, and obsolete inventory. If the inventory is too light, it may affect sales because the company may not have enough to meet demand.
Usually retailers pile up their inventories at holiday seasons to meet the stronger demand. Therefore, the inventory of a particular quarter of a year should not be used to calculate inventory turnover. An average inventory is a better indication.
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Native to boggy areas of the eastern United States and Canada, the cinnamon fern is one of the earliest ferns to emerge in the spring. Young fronds are covered with white, woolly hair before they unfurl. When full grown, the waxy fronds are yellow-green and grow 24 to 36 inches tall and 6 to 8 inches wide. There are two distinctly different types of fronds—fertile and sterile.
The fertile frond resembles a cinnamon stick. It emerges first, and after releasing its spores it turns golden brown, withers, and lies on the ground through the summer.
The sterile fronds appear in late spring, stay green all summer, and turn brown with the first fall frost. This fern requires a slightly acid (pH 5.5 to 6.5) soil that is kept evenly moist. It spreads slowly, and because of its height, it is best used as a background plant.


What Is The Security Guard Meaning?
What is full form security?
Full form of Security is: S-Sensible.
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Qualities of a Good Security GuardObservation skills. … Honesty and integrity. … Ability to lead and work in a team. … Communication skills and empathy. … Conciliatory attitude. … Hard-working and flexible. … Physical fitness.
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noun. a body of persons employed in an organization or place of work. (used with a plural verb) persons: All personnel are being given the day off. personnel department.
What are the 3 types of security?
Why is security important?
Obligation to clients and customers: When your business takes a customer's data, you're obligated to do your best to keep that data safe and secure. A data center that takes compliance and physical security seriously helps fulfill this promise, keeping data safe from natural and physical threats to data centers.
What is the meaning of security personnel?
Security Personnel means special agents employed by a railroad or public utility to perform police functions: guards of armored car companies, watchmen, security guards and persons regularly employed in a commercial or industrial operation for the protection of persons employed by or property related to such commercial …
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noun. a uniformed guard employed by a bank, airport, office building, etc., to maintain security.
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There is no difference just officer sounds more professional. In layman's terms, a typical security guard is unarmed and a security officer is armed. … Due to being armed, there are more risks with being a security officer than with a security guard, which can also be a deterrent for some companies/individual(s).
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noun, plural se·cu·ri·ties. freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety. freedom from care, anxiety, or doubt; well-founded confidence. something that secures or makes safe; protection; defense. freedom from financial cares or from want: The insurance policy gave the family security.
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One of the Oldest in Charleston
The graveyard of Circular church is likely the oldest English burial ground still in existence in Charleston. While many gravestones have disappeared, over 500 remain, with about 730 individuals named on those stones. Another 620 persons are named in church records with indications they were most likely buried in the graveyard.
Statistics for gravestones currently in the graveyard:
- Earliest unmarked grave: 1695
- Earliest inscribed gravestone: 1729
- Number of burials before 1776: 150
- Number of burials for people who were born before 1800: 450
The oldest gravestones are made of slate and were shipped from carvers in New England. These slates with images and medallion portraits have been called by one writer "an extraordinary and irreplaceable legacy of our artistic and cultural past." According to one gravestone historian, there are more of these unusual 18th century slate stones in this graveyard than anywhere else in the country. Our challenge is to preserve and maintain these historic artifacts.
The evolution of gravemarker artwork over the years reflects the changing attitudes toward death more graphically than do the inscriptions.
|Markers in the 1600s typically were inscribed with stark skull-and-crossbone markings, the ancient symbol of death.|
By the early 1700s, when John Vanderhorst was buried in the church graveyard, ideas were changing.
Although skulls were still in plain evidence, the crossbones were beginning to be replaced by wings and the resulting image was being called "death's head." So, although the skull continued to emphasize death, the wings were introducing the idea of flight from the Earth or life after death.
As the years passed, the sculptors emphasized life more and more, and death less and less. At first they began softening the skulls' appearances by adding upper lips and eyebrows, and later they even began adding noses and mouths.
In the early stages of this change, beginning around 1730, the sculptors inserted the mouth between the skull's nose and teeth. And although the teeth were retained, they were dropped down so they looked more like high collars or disfigured chins.
Still later, around 1740-45, the teeth disappeared from the skulls altogether. The wings remained, however, and at that point the skulls lost all their harshness. Instead they looked more like angels' faces -- and in fact, that's about what they were. They weren't even called skulls any longer, but "soul effigies" because they represented departing souls.
The major contribution of the eighteenth century to American gravestone art was portraiture. The term "portraiture" is used in gravestone studies to mean natural representations of the deceased (although whether the carver attempted to capture an individual likeness rather than simply to represent a type is a question that is still being studied). While there are many examples of portraiture in Circular's churchyard, none have been located in any other South Carolina or Georgia towns.
Enough Roman-style portraits exist in Charleston to suggest that, by the mid-1700s, Americans were beginning to identify themselves culturally with the Romans. This bust of Solomon Milner (_PHONE_), which has been called "the most notable and best preserved example of neoclassicism from 18th-century Charleston," reflects the popularity of this style.
Henry Simonds (d. 1695)
Henry Peronneau (d. 1743)
Major Anthony Toomer (d. 1798)
David Ramsay (d.1815)
Arthur Peronneau (d. 1774) in Hutson-Peronneau Vault
Richard Hutson (d. 1795) in Hutson-Peronneau Vault
You can also read more about the history of Circular Church.
Our historic church is as vibrant in the present as it has been in the past. We invite you to learn about present-day Circular, by exploring the rest of our website, watching our video on YouTube, liking us on Facebook, and joining us in worship on Sunday morning (11 a.m., or 10:15 a.m. from June to Labor Day).
For additional information about Circular and its historic graveyard, read Joanne Calhoun's book, The Circular Church, Three Centuries of Charleston History, published by _URL_ in 2008 (and available locally and online). You can also access our records, which are housed at the South Carolina Historical Society. We also encourage you to visit the Association for Gravestone Studies, which promotes the study of gravestones from historical and artistic perspectives, expands public awareness of the significance of historic gravemarkers, and encourages individuals and groups to record and preserve gravestones.


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Ancient kings rendered yeoman service to propagate Buddhism - PM
By Ananda Kannangara
DN Monday Jun 16 2003
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Saturday commended the great religious service rendered by king Kavantissa to propagate Buddhism in the country and said that construction of the Tassamaharama Maha Dagaba by this great king is a fine example for his endeavours in spreading of this religion.
He made these observations at a ceremony held at Tissamaharamaya to coincide with the unveiling of the pinnacle at the renovated Tissamaharama Maha Dagaba on the Poson Full Moon poya day.
The Premier unveiled the pinnacle at the auspicious time of 9.10 am. amidst a large number of Buddhist clergy and devotees. Tissamaharama Viharaya chief incumbent Ven. Dr. Devalegama Dhammasena was present.
Thanking the Government of Myanmar for presenting an invaluable Chudamanikkaya to be placed on the pinnacle the Premier highlighted the importance of renovating this ancient dagaba without tarnishing its prestige glory.
"Our ancient dagabas not only helped to preserve Buddhism but also to spread the religion through Buddhist monks who are closely associated with these dagabas."
The Premier outlined the history of Theravada Buddhism which existed in our country from the time Buddhism was brought during the period of king Devanampiyatissa and said that several kings including Kavantissa and Dutugemunu immensely helped to preserve Buddhism.
"When king Kavantissa built Tissa Maha Viharaya in Ruhuna with the objective of preserving Buddhism his son King Dutugemunu constructed the Ruwanweliseya at Anuradhapura for the benefit of Buddhists in that region", he said.
Wickremesinghe also recalled that king Parakramabahu too fostered Buddhism in our country as well as countries such as Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Burma. He said even countries such as Japan and Korea highly accepted the Theravada Buddhism due to the tireless efforts made by these kings to spread Buddhism.
Delivering an anusasana Ven. Dr. Devalegama Dhammasena Thera said that renovating the ancient Tissa Maha Dagaba is a meritorious deed and thanked Mr. Yasasiri Kasturiaratchchi for providing financial assistance to carry out the entire renovation work and also the Cultural Affairs Ministry for providing all the assistance to fulfil this obligation. Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapakse valued the religious service rendered by king Kavantissa and said that the king developed the country in agriculture too.
"King Kavantisa also provided forces to his son Dutugemunu during the period king Dutugemunu fought with king Elara," he said.
Rajapaksa also requested the Government to take steps to renovate at least 262 ancient Buddhist temples located in the Northern and Eastern areas.
Education Minister Dr Karunasena Kodituwakku thanked former President J.R. Jayawardene for establishing the Central Cultural Fund which is helping the Government to carry out several projects including the renovation of ancient religious places.
Power and Energy Minister Karu Jayasooriya highlighted the importance of conducting this nature of religious ceremonies frequently as they immensely help to create a just society and a religious atmosphere in the country.
Deputy healthy Minister Sajith Premadasa said that renovating ancient dagabas and other religious places are needed to create a religious society and requested the public to take steps to renovate other religious places located elsewhere in the country.


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Surface Treatments on Pottery
Many ancient peoples used burnishing to make their pottery harder and more waterproof before they discovered the use of glazes. Contemporary potters can also use burnishing to great effect.
There is one very important point to keep in mind: burnished pottery should not be used for food or drink, with few exceptions.
Burnishing Pottery Tips
Tips from readers on burnishing pottery.
How to Cut Clay for Surface Decoration
Surface decorations in clay pieces include incising, carving, fluting, and faceting.
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Use this bilingual resource to find maps of Canada, information about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a glossary of Indigenous terms, contemporary and historical photography, and more.
Created by The Royal Canadian Geographical Society in conjunction with the Assembly of First Nations, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the Métis Nation, the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, and Indspire. This resource was created for Grades 5 and up.


Takasago Ginga Shizuku "Divine Droplets" Junmai Daiginjo, Hokkaido Prefecture
It is deep winter. The snows lay heavy on the mountains of northern Japan. Cedar trees hang sparkling, dusted with ice, over frozen rivers and streams. The air is crisp, even crystalline in its stillness, and the white landscape yields only the slightest muffled sounds.
In the heart of this winter landscape a strange sight emerges every winter. A huge igloo, constructed entirely of ice, filled with rotund canvas bags. From these somewhat alien shapes that hang suspended from the ceiling at minus 2 degrees Centigrade, drip solitary drops of a sake unlike any other in the world.
This strange midwinter landscape on Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost island, is the result of one of the more esoteric and regimented sake brewing processes found in Japan, and is constructed each year by the Takasago brewery to make their most precious product, a sake which they have appropriately named "Divine Droplets."
Much like winemaking, the sake making process involves fermenting a big tank of liquidy mushy stuff that gradually turns into alcohol as the fermentation process progresses. Once fermentation is complete, that liquid mash — the alcohol plus the solids that are called "lees" are generally pressed in a big mechanical device to extract the liquid and leave the solids behind.
In winemaking, however, there tends to be quite a difference between the wine that simply runs trickling out of this mush (known as "free run juice") and the wine that is extracted through pressing. The former is usually more balanced, less tannic and bitter, and generally higher quality wine than the pressed wine, which tends to contain such flavors because they are extracted from the skins and seeds as they are compressed. There is such a marked difference between the two "juices" that many top wineries only use the free run juice, and simply discard or sell off their press juice in bulk.
The sake making process is quite similar in that at a certain point most sakes are pressed off their lees, however the press juice in sake making is the most common source of juice for even the most premium sakes. Rice, of course, lacks the skin and seeds which contribute to the difference in flavors between free run and press juice in wine, so the juice pressed off the sake is not particularly undesirable.
Having said as much, however, there are those in the sake world like Takasago Shuzo who take pains (and great expense) to produce their own version of "free run juice" through the slow, painstaking, and very low-yielding process of drip pressing their sake. The brewers who believe that letting only the action of gravity on the lees extract their sake suggest that the resulting sake is the most delicate, and my limited experience with such sakes makes me inclined to agree. Perhaps just like Pinot Noir, which is famous for its delicacy and tendency to react poorly to rough treatment in the winery, top quality rice mash produces different results if it is babied through the process.
Takasago Shuzo was founded in 1899 in the town of Asahikawa City in Hokkaido, making it one of Northern Japan's oldest operating breweries. This area of Japan is home to many sake breweries, as it offers two things essential to brewing premium sake: cold temperatures and pure mountain spring water. Temperatures in the area regularly fall to minus twenty degrees centigrade and the mountains of the area offer a bounty of springs, some of which have been used by sake brewers for centuries.
The importance of temperature in brewing sake has to do with the minimization of contamination by airborne yeasts and bacteria. Even a small amount of foreign biological agents can significantly affect the flavors of a sake as it ferments. The still, cold winter temperatures in the unheated sake brewing buildings of most breweries tends to minimize such contamination, but if you really want to eliminate all foreign agents, one of the things you might do would be to build a giant igloo in which to make your sake.
A lot of sake, especially the most refined junmai daiginjo sakes like this one, in which more than 50% of the mass of each grain of rice have been polished away before brewing, tend to evoke winter landscapes for me. I suppose that part of this quality I project into the sake, knowing how and where it is made. But the clean, crisp qualities of some sake really do evoke the heart of winter, with aromas and flavors that are instantly familiar to those who grew up in the snowy mountains, as I did.
The way Divine Droplets is made makes it a special sake. But it's beauty is revealed only through its tasting. This is one of the most exceptional sakes made in the world, and one of my personal gold standards for the magical qualities that daiginjo sakes can possess.
Tasting Notes:
Colorless in the glass, this sake smells of rainwater, wet cedar, and flowers, with a hint of malted milk. In the mouth it is effortlessly clean, beautifully balanced, and sexy-slippery as it moves across the palate. The delicate flavors swirl between jasmine, melon, and a quartz-like mineral quality that is hard to describe. As with some of the finest white wines, this sake is so aromatic that there is the illusion of sweetness in the flavor that is completely disarming, as any concentrated effort to actually taste sweetness is impossible — the sake is bone dry. The finish is marked by a pleasant, malted milk-ball quality that lingers for a long time and then slowly fades.
Food Pairing:
Classically delicate in nature, this sake is a beautiful accompaniment to sashimi (how about albacore or yellowtail?) or lightly seared fish in the tataki style. Its subtlety will be overwhelmed by strong flavors, so it is best paired with milder foods.
Overall Score: between 9.5 and 10
How Much?: $45 for 720ml bottle (also available in 300ml bottles).
This sake is available for purchase on the Internet.


Values Clarification Exercise using Image Theatre
How do you clarify which values need interrogation for your group?
This values clarification exercise can draw out the critical values for a group and give you a strong basis for building self esteem. If you are wondering how a values clarification exercise can build self esteem, read this article on Values Clarification: a crucial step in building self esteem.
The exercise has two steps: a discussion as preparation and the main values clarification exercise which I will call talking stills. Others have called the same exercise image theatre, drama codes, tableaux or statues. I like talking stills because the silent frozen images can tell you more about your group than a whole hour's discussion can, It can also teach your group more about themselves than you can in an entire lecture.
Step One of values clarification exercise:
Group discussion
Choose any of the following questions to spark the discussion Some suggestions are subtle and other rather straight forward.
1. Unsubtly, ask the group what values they think are missing in society. I recently used this upfront approach with a group of teachers and community workers in a training workshop. I let them discuss the ideas in groups of about 5 to 7 before moving straight into the talking stills. The question immediately puts the group in an authoritative position from where they can comment on society. It works like a charm especially with young people.
I came to the workshop to explore new ways of stimulating learners' creativity,. I enjoyed the experience and got insight into ways in which drama can be used in discussions about values. – Teacher who attended workshop
2. A little more subtly, ask them what things people do that upset them the most. Apart from highlighting the things that are really important to them, the discussion forges a bond between the group members as they agree with each other about all the things that bother them.
3. Another great question to start your values clarification exercise is to ask the young people what messages they have for the world, or their parents, or their peers. This question forces them to articulate their needs and tell you exactly what values are important to them.
With a group of teenagers this question clearly brought out their need for acceptance and tolerance.
Let them chat in two's and threes before feeding back, or just talk in the big group. Read the dynamics. The aim is to make sure everyone takes part.
4. Another way is to ask questions about a story or object you bring to class. Get them talking about a news paper clipping to stimulate them, or some other interesting story/object. Even ask them to bring their own stories ahead of time. If they come with their own stories the chances are better that you will not contaminate their views with your own value system.
Step Two of values clarification exercise:
Talking stills
As a second step to your values clarification exercise, get the group to make a tableau in answer to any of the questions discussed. E.g. make a tableau of your message to the world/ one of the stories that most touched you/ what you think our society needs most from us.
A little creative input
Sometimes a group needs a little more input from the facilitator to help them use the stills effectively to communicate their views.
I like to show them the different thins that can be communicated by placing people higher or lower than each other (vertical plane).
For example a person standing has more power than one sitting down. A sitting person has more power, or status, than one with his head down or one lying on the floor. The most status can be achieved by placing some one on a chair or standing on a table.
The horizontal plane communicates intimacy or closeness. Two people standing close together have a more intimate relationship than one standing further away. One person separated from the group to one side is clearly cut off and not included in the group relationship.
The values clarification exercise blow by blow
1. Divide into groups of 4-6 and shortly discuss your response to the chosen question.
2. Choose one director in each group.
3. In complete silence, the director uses the bodies of the others to shape an image of his/her answer to the question posed. He or she takes into account what the others have said during the discussion.
4. Ask the group members if they agree with the image. If they want to change something, the person suggesting the change takes over the role of the director while the first director takes his or her place in the picture. Continue until all are satisfied.
5. Show the images one by one to the whole group. Ask the onlookers to say what they see.
6. Dynamise the statues (give them a chance to express their meaning) by one of the following:
 - Touch each individual in the picture on their shoulder and ask them to say just one word, or make a sound to express what they are feeling.
 - Similarly ask them to unfreeze and show their next movement at your touch.
 - Let the whole group move together.
 - Play with the different options and let them speak and move together.
 - Discover your own ways to help them express their feeling and their meaning.
 7. Let the onlookers feed back what they saw and experienced. Focus on what they see and feel and hear. No deep interpretation needed, but do not shun it when it comes (obviously).
 Discuss the solutions to the problems portrayed, these lead to the values. If you have time, also make statues of the ideal world where the problems are solved. Again, the values come to the fore. Michael Shank: Theatre of the Oppressed Training Manual
 The values clarification exercise is moreeffective, however, than talking: ask them to show you an image of what they can do themselves to address the problems, or to instil the values identified. Alternatively, let them act out their stories and use forum theatre to test out solutions. Here is a fantastic resource on Forum theatre if you want to know more:
 A real world example
 Recently with a group of about 70 Education students learning to be Life Orientation teachers, I asked them to show me the problems that are caused in society by a lack of values. This can be an effective exercise for character education training as well.
 After showing and talking about their stills, we discussed which values will remedy these problems. Here was the list of problems and corresponding values they came up with:
 No discipline
 Dysfunctional leadership
 Peer pressure
 Values lacking:
 Self Esteem
 We took these 10 values in a next class and used the same values clarification exercise to do stills of what they can do to instill these values in their future classes. I auctioned off the values to the groups to see who wanted which value to work with.
 Three values were fought over: self esteem, acceptance and trust.
 I had to allow them to leave out some values and double up on these. These three were the critical values for this particular group. Note here that these values are not the values important of critical for the learners they would work with, but their own critical values. How do I know this? Because these are the values they could talk about most. The group is motivated to think about and explore them. These are the values I would use as a central theme for building self esteem in this group.
 What if self esteem was not a value on their list?
 I would simply use what ever values are on the list. I was lucky that this group was able to identify and name it as a need for themselves. If they didn't, I would simply continue the process with the values they did give me.
 Understanding and interrogating these values will inevitably lead to raised self respect and self confidence.
 Know your values and you will know your value.
 To understand better why this is so, read the article on Values Clarification: a crucial step in building self esteem.
 Dr. Petro Janse van Vuuren
Why bats hang upside down – the story
Once upon a time before humans ruled the earth, animals reigned on the ground and in the tree trunks and birds reigned the sky and the tree tops Both animals and birds loved their world and loved who they were.
One day the animals decided to celebrate their 'animalness' and the word was spread across the land. When Bat heard the news he was very excited. He loved dressing up and he loved making friends. So, on the night of the party, he brushed his hair, gelled it with a bit of tree gum, cleaned his wings and set off. On the way he caught his reflection in a puddle and he winked at himself.
At the party he was just about to swagger in after the tall giraffe when a foot shot out and tripped him. Wait a minute' said Big Baboon who was playing bouncer for the night. "You can't come in".
"Why not?" asked Bat surprised.
"Because you're not an animal", said Baboon, "you are a bird. Look at those wings and you only have two legs. OUT!"
"But I have fur and teeth. Look at me, I an animal", pleaded bat.
"What about my ears?"
"Owls have ears and they are birds"
Bat tried a desperate dash through the door, but Baboon grabbed him by the scruff of his neck and threw him out. He landed on a wing and bruised it. Limping home bat began to cry. At home he sat on a branch and the tears just kept streaming. He cried so much that the branch on which he sat got wet and slippery and Whoops! He slipped round it, his feet still clinging and there he hung, upside down, weeping.
A few weeks later the birds had a party. They


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Jemmape is the name of a département of the First French Empire in present Belgium. It was named after the Battle of Jemappes, fought between the French and the Austrians in 1792 near the village Jemappes, near Mons. Jemappes was spelled Jemmape, Jemmapes or Jemmappes at the time. Its territory corresponds more or less with that of the Belgian province Hainaut. Its capital was Mons.
The département came into existence in 1795, when the Southern Netherlands were occupied by the French. The département de Jemmape was formed from most of the County of Hainaut, Tournai and the Tournaisis, a part of the county of Namur (Charleroi) and of the Bishopric of Liège (Thuin). See the 130 départements of the Napoleonic Empire.
- Mons, cantons: Boussu, Chièvres, Dour, Enghien, Lens, Le Roeulx, Mons, Pâturages and Soignies.
- Charleroi, cantons: Beaumont, Binche, Charleroi, Chimay, Fontaine-l'Evêque, Gosselies, Merbes-le-Château, Seneffe and Thuin.
- Tournai, cantons: Antoing, Ath, Celles, Ellezelles, Frasnes-lez-Anvaing, Lessines, Leuze-en-Hainaut, Péruwelz, Quevaucamps, Templeuve and Tournai.
After Napoleon was defeated in 1814, the département became part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands as the province of Hainaut. Its territory corresponds more or less with the present Belgian province Hainaut.
- Almanach Impérial, Testu, 1809 (accessed via Bibliothèque nationale de France).


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This publication describes the doctrine, organization, tactics, techniques, and procedures for the management of field artillery target acquisition (TA) equipment, personnel, and systems. It combines information formerly in FM 6-121, Field Artillery Target Acquisition, and in FM 6-161, Field Artillery Radars. The material applies to field artillery (FA) target acquisition and how it interfaces with the fire support system. The concepts apply to both general and limited warfare.
The material presented herein is intended to help all personnel involved in the TA process. These personnel include:
- Maneuver commanders.
- Field artillery commanders and their staffs.
- Fire support element (FSE) personnel.
- Field artillery target acquisition personnel.
- Members of the division artillery and FA brigade tactical operations centers.
- Personnel of the target acquisition battery (TAB) and corps TA detachment.
- All others involved in the targeting process, such as the corps and division G2s and all personnel in intelligence channels.
The book describes current FA target acquisition organizations. These include the target acquisition batteries in the armored and mechanized infantry divisions and the target acquisition platoon in each separate maneuver brigade. Also included are target acquisition detachments assigned at corps level. The book also describes TA assets that are organic to the direct support (DS) battalion (bn) in the light, airborne, and air assault divisions. However, despite the variety of TA organizations presented, the principles of their management and employment are the same.
The book discusses tactical and technical considerations of each field artillery TA system. It is expected that users at various echelons will concentrate on different parts of the book and will require varying degrees of detail in the discussions presented. For example, although Chapters 1 and 2 are general in nature and of interest to all readers, Chapter 3 is meant primarily for technicians and Chapter 4 is written for operations personnel. In this respect, some redundancy of information has been intentionally included throughout the book.
Field artillery TA radars are powerful force multipliers. The Threat is expected to use a number of electronic warfare (EW) assets and resources to locate our TA radars for destruction. Consequently, vulnerability and survivability are key subjects addressed herein.
In its development, FM 6-121 has undergone several draft revisions. Numerous individual Redlegs helped make it the authoritative FA target acquisition reference that it is. Members of every division artillery (div arty) have provided input at some stage in the development cycle. The units listed below provided representatives from the field to a unique exercise encompassing major input and comprehensive rewrite of the developed draft. The effort of these senior TA officers and warrant officers resulted in this final product. It reflects the consensus of the field on FA target acquisition tactics, techniques, and procedures for the employment of TA assets. The field representatives were from--
- 3d Corps Artillery, Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
- 1st Armored Division Artillery, Zirndorf, Federal Republic of Germany.
- 1st Cavalry Division Artillery, Fort Hood, Texas.
- 5th Infantry Division Artillery (Mechanized), Fort Polk Louisiana.
- 7th Infantry (Light) Division Artillery, Fort Ord, California.
- 101st Airborne (Air Assault) Division Artillery, Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
- 42d Field Artillery Brigade, 5th Corps Artillery, Giessen, Federal Republic of Germany.
The US Army Field Artillery School (USAFAS) owes them, and many others, a great debt of gratitude for the professionalism they displayed in true Redleg fashion.
The provisions of this publication are the subject of the following North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Standardization Agreements (STANAGs) and Quadripartite Standardization Agreements (QSTAGs):
- 2008/503, Bombing, Shelling, Rocketing, Mortaring, and Location Reports.
- 2029/514, Methods of Describing Ground Locations, Areas, and Boundaries.
The proponent of this publication is HQ TRADOC. Submit changes for improving this publication on DA Form 2028 (Recommended Changes to Publications and Blank Forms), and forward it to:
US Army Field Artillery School
Fort Sill, Oklahoma 73503-5600
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*This publication supersedes FM 6-121, 13 December 1984, and FM 6-161, 7 September 1984. It rescinds DA Form 2888, 1 May 1975; DA Form 5364-R, December 1984; DA Form 4706, 1 July 1978; and DA Form 4705-R, June 1978.
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The Impact of the Economic Crisis on the Territorial Capital of Italian Regions
AbstractThe recent worldwide economic crisis requires a new focus on the theoretical framework of analysis of local development. Particular attention has been devoted to the study of the role of territories, no longer conceived as pure geographic spaces, but rather an important resource that can generate externalities that favor local territorial competitiveness. Key concepts such as the â€œindustrial districtâ€ by the Italian scholars (Becattini, 1990; Sforzi, 1991; Signorini, 2004), the Marshallian â€œproduction clusterâ€ (Marshall, 1920) and the French districts industriels (GuÃ©gan e Rousier, 1989) highlighted the centrality of the intangible factors, peculiar to some territories, adding to the traditional production factors. The concept of â€œterritorial capitalâ€, that has become popular both among policy makers (European Commission, 2005) and scholars (Camagni, 2008; Capello et al., 2010), embodies these theories and suggests an innovative framework of analysis and measure of the assets that make a region attractive and competitive. In the Italian social and economic context, characterized by its regional specificities and excellences, it is particularly important to leverage these assets to boost the economy both at local and national level. In this paper, the authors provide a measure of the main components of territorial capital in the Italian regions, so as to provide a useful means for designing effective public development policies, which are now required to take territorial differences into major account. The possible structural effects of the last economic crisis on the regional endowment of territorial capital are also investigated. Taking the main dimensions of territorial capital (productive, cognitive, social, relational, environmental, settlement and infrastructural assets) identified by Camagni and Dotti (2010) as a starting point, several synthetic indexes are built, that measure those assets for all Italian regions. The impact of economic crisis on these dimensions is evaluated thanks to a dynamic analysis of the synthetic indexes, covering the period between 1995 and 2009. The main elements of discontinuity are also highlighted. This analysis has two main goals: on the one hand, to show a coincident and clear picture of the potential of Italian regions in terms of territorial capital in a comparative framework; on the other hand, the recent developments of Italian regions are described with respect to the structural effects of economic crisis on their territorial capital.
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