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Tour Philippe-le-Bel is a medieval tower in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon which marked the French terminus of the Saint-Bénézet Bridge across the Rhone between the Kingdom of France and Papal territory of Avignon. It is named after the French king Philippe-le-Bel (Philip IV 'the Fair') who was responsible for its construction.
A tower with only two storeys was completed in 1302. In spite of protests from the Count of Provence and the population of Avignon, Philippe-le-Bel pressed ahead and built a gatehouse at the end of the bridge. The tower and gatehouse formed part of a fortress with a curtain wall that enclosed several buildings including a chapel and a residence for the châtelain. A third storey was added to the tower in the middle of the 14th century.
The Saint-Bénézet Bridge was abandoned in 1669 and the fortress then ceased to serve any useful function. The French crown continued to pay for repairs but after the French Revolution the buildings were abandoned and allowed to fall into ruins. In 1822 the town of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon decided to demolish all of the fortress except the present tower. It was listed as a Monument historique in 1862 and is now open to the public.
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Raindrop: An Innovative Educational Tool for River Awareness
This project will create a new educational tool for river awareness in the United States through a mobile device application called Raindrop. Raindrop traces the flow of water from the user's home location to a downstream watershed location. Raindrop is part of a larger installation named FLOW (Can You See the River?), which joins the cognitive power of science with the affective power of the arts by creating virtual and physical spaces for river awareness in the White River watershed in Indianapolis, IN. In addition to the flow path, Raindrop functionality includes watershed context and physical marker mapping, flow path water quality indicators, utilization of NOAA weather feeds and alerts, weather and climate comparisons, storm event size implications, and guidance on watershed restoration actions. Artist-designed physical markers are strategically located in the watershed to direct the virtual user to physical areas of interest.

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Antarctic flora
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Nothofagus fusca, New Zealand
The Antarctic flora is a distinct community of vascular plants which evolved millions of years ago on the supercontinent of Gondwana, and is now found on several separate areas of the Southern Hemisphere, including southern South America, southernmost Africa, New Zealand, Australia and New Caledonia. Based on the similarities in their flora, botanist Ronald Good identified a separate Antarctic Floristic Kingdom that included southern South America, New Zealand, and some southern island groups. Good identified Australia as its own floristic kingdom, and included New Guinea and New Caledonia in the Paleotropical floristic kingdom, because of the influx of tropical Eurasian flora that had mostly supplanted the Antarctic flora.
Millions of years ago, Antarctica was warmer and much wetter, and supported the Antarctic flora, including forests of podocarps and southern beech. Antarctica was also part of the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana, which gradually broke up by continental drift starting 110 million years ago. The separation of South America from Antarctica 30-35 million years ago allowed the Antarctic Circumpolar Current to form, which isolated Antarctica climatically and caused it to become much colder. The Antarctic flora subsequently died out in Antarctica, but is still an important component of the flora of southern Neotropic (South America) and Australasia, which were also former parts of Gondwana.
Some genera which originated in Antarctic Flora are still recognized as major components of New Caledonia, Tasmania, Madagascar, India, New Zealand, and southern South America.
South America, Madagascar, Africa, India, Macaronesia, Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica were all part of the supercontinent Gondwana, which started to break up in the early Cretaceous period (145-66 million years ago). India was the first to break away, followed by Africa, and then New Zealand, which started to drift north. By the end of the Cretaceous, South America and Australia were still joined to Antarctica. Paleontologist Gilbert Brenner identified the emergence of a distinct southern Gondwanan flora by the late Cretaceous period in the cooler and humid southern hemisphere regions of Australia, southern South America, southern Africa, Antarctica, and New Zealand; it most resembled the flora of modern-day southern New Zealand. A drier northern Gondwanan flora had developed in northern South America and northern Africa.
Nothofagus antarctica, Chile and Argentina
Africa and India drifted north into the tropical latitudes, became hotter and drier, and ultimately connected with the Eurasian continent, and today the flora of Africa and India have few remnants of the Antarctic flora. Australia drifted north and became drier as well; the humid Antarctic flora retreated to the east coast and Tasmania, while the rest of Australia became dominated by Acacia, Eucalyptus, and Casuarina, as well as xeric shrubs and grasses. Humans arrived in Australia 50-60,000 years ago, and used fire to reshape the vegetation of the continent; as a result, the Antarctic flora, also known as the Rainforest flora in Australia, retreated to a few isolated areas composing less than 2% of Australia's land area.
The woody plants of the Antarctic flora include conifers in the families Podocarpaceae, Araucariaceae and the subfamily Callitroideae of Cupressaceae, and angiosperms such as the families Proteaceae, Griseliniaceae, Cunoniaceae, Atherospermataceae, and Winteraceae, and genera like southern beech (Nothofagus) and fuchsia (Fuchsia). Many other families of flowering plants and ferns, including the tree fern Dicksonia, are characteristic of the Antarctic flora.
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Palaeofloristic studies of the continent of Antarctica show the ecological dominance of the angiosperms on the Antarctic continent and the Southern Hemisphere during the Late Cretaceous and the present day disjunct austral vegetation. Investigations of Upper Cretaceous and Early Tertiary sediments of Antarctica yield a rich assemblage of well-preserved fossil dicotyledonous angiosperm wood which provides evidence for the existence, since the Late Cretaceous, of temperate forests similar in composition to those found in present-day southern South America, New Zealand and Australia. It is suggested a paleobotanical habitat similar to the extant cool temperate Valdivian rainforests.[1]
There are two conifer and at least seven angiosperm morphotypes recorded in the Antarctica palaeoflora. Cupressinoxylon Goeppert, which is the more common, and Podocarpoxylon Gothan represent the conifers. The angiosperm component includes two species of Nothofagoxylon one species of Luma, in Myrtaceae genus, one species of Eucryphia, in Cunoniaceae. Other two species assigned to genera Myrceugenelloxylon, Weinmannioxylon, Monimiaceae,[2][3] Hedycaryoxylon, subfamily Monimioideae, that exhibit anatomical features characteristic of Hedycaryoxylon and extant Hedycarya and Tambourissa, and Atherospermoxylon, erected for fossil woods of the Monimiaceae in the tribe Atherospermeae, now Atherospermataceae in that they exhibit anatomical features similar to Atherospermoxylon and extant Daphnandra, Doryphora and Laurelia novae-zelandiae.[4]
The continent of Antarctica itself has been too cold and dry to support virtually any vascular plants for millions of years. The chilling temperature, lack of sunlight, little rainfall, inferior soil quality and lack of moisture account, due to the inability of the plants to absorb water available in the form of ice, for scanty vegetation. Its extant flora presently consists of around 250 lichens, 100 mosses, 25-30 liverworts, and around 700 terrestrial and aquatic algal species. Two flowering plants, Deschampsia antarctica (Antarctic hair grass) and Colobanthus quitensis (Antarctic pearlwort), are found on the northern and western parts of the Antarctic Peninsula. Species of moss endemic to Antarctica include Grimmia antarctici, Schistidium antarctici, and Sarconeurum glaciale
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 - Cox, C. Barry, Peter D. Moore (1985). Biogeography: An Ecological and Evolutionary Approach (4th ed.). Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford.
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Harry Gibson
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Harry Gibson
Wiliam P. Gottlieb, Portrait of Harry Gibson, New York, ca. July 1948 (LOC gottlieb.11851).jpg
Gibson performing in New York, ca. 1948; photograph by William P. Gottlieb.
Background information
Birth name Harry Raab
Born (1915-06-27)June 27, 1915
Died May 3, 1991(1991-05-03) (aged 75)
Genres Jazz
Instruments Piano
Harry "The Hipster" Gibson (June 27, 1915 – May 3, 1991) was a jazz pianist, singer and songwriter.[1]
Gibson played New York style Stride piano and boogie woogie while singing in a wild, unrestrained style. His music career began in the late 1920s, when as the young Harry Raab, his birth name, he played stride piano in Dixieland jazz bands in Harlem. He continued to perform there throughout the 1930s, adding the barrelhouse boogie of the time to his repertoire, and was discovered by Fats Waller in 1939 and brought down to mid-town Manhattan, where he made a splash and changed his surname to Gibson.[2] Between 1939 and 1945, he played at various Manhattan jazz clubs on 52nd Street ("Swing Street"), most notably the Three Deuces, run by Irving Alexander,[3] and Leon and Eddies, run by Leon Enkin and Eddie Davis.
In the 1940s, Gibson was known for writing unusual songs, which are considered ahead of their time (citation needed). He was also known for his unique, wild singing style (citation needed), his energetic and unorthodox piano styles(citation needed), and for his intricate mixture of hardcore, gutbucket boogie rhythms with ragtime, stride and jazz piano styles (citation needed). Gibson took the boogie woogie beat of his predecessors, but he made it frantic (citation needed), similar to the rock and roll music of the 1950s[4] Examples of his wild style are found in the songs "Riot in Boogie" and "Barrelhouse Boogie". An example of his strange singing style is in the song "The Baby and the Pup." Other songs that Gibson recorded were "Handsome Harry, the Hipster", "I Stay Brown All Year 'Round", "Get Your Juices at the Deuces", and "Stop That Dancin' Up There." Gibson recorded a great deal, but there are very few visual examples of his act. However, in New York in 1944, he filmed three songs for the Soundies film jukeboxes, and he went to Hollywood in 1946 to guest star in the feature-length film musical Junior Prom.[5] Gibson preceded the first white rock and rollers by a decade, but the Soundies he recorded show significant similarities to rock and roll.[6]
"Harry the Hipster" headlining at the Onyx on 52nd Street, May 1948. Note in the photo the Deuces as well as Leon and Eddie's.
While working on "Swing Street" at night, Gibson was a fellow at the Juilliard Graduate School during the day.[7] At the time, Juilliard was strictly a classical music academy, and Gibson excelled there, which partly explains the richness of the music he brought to the jazz world (citation needed). ( if anything he brought a richness to classical music, with his boogie WOOGIE training). The other part of the explanation is, his own inventiveness, and Gibson was almost always billed and promoted as a musical genius.
Unlike Mezz Mezzrow, who was white but consciously abandoned his ethnicity to adopt the black music and culture as a "white negro," Gibson grew up near Harlem, New York City. Gibson's constant use of black jive talk was not an affectation; it was simply his uptown New York dialect. His song, "I Stay Brown All Year Round" is based on this issue.[8] In his autobiography,[9] Gibson claims he coined the term hipster some time between 1939 and 1945, when he was performing on Swing Street and he started using "Harry the Hipster" as his stage name.[10]
His career went into a tailspin in 1947, when his song "Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine" put him on the music industry blacklist.[11] His own drug use led to his decline, and with the rising popularity of young rock-and-roll musicians among teenagers in the 1950s, older musicians were not in demand. He spent time in and around Miami during the 1950s, and just before Christmas 1956 he appeared at the Ball & Chain on the same bill with Billie Holiday. In the 1960s, when Gibson saw the huge success of The Beatles, he decided to switch over to rock-and-roll. By the 1970s, he was playing hard rock, blues, bop, novelty songs and a few songs that mixed ragtime with rock-and-roll, and his hipster act became a hippie act. His old records were revived by Dr. Demento, particularly "Benzedrine" which was included in his 1975 compilation album Dr. Demento's Delights.
His comeback resulted in three more albums. Harry the Hipster Digs Christmas, made of new recordings in 1974, is a home recording and is not noteworthy. Two professionally produced albums were released after this, which were Everybody's Crazy but Me, (its title taken from the lyrics of "Stop That Dancin' Up There"), by Progressive Records in 1986, and Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine released in 1989 by Delmark Records. Those two albums include some jazz, blues, ragtime, and rock and roll songs about reefer, nude bathing, hippie communes, strip clubs, male chauvinists, "rocking the 88s", and even about how hip Shirley MacLaine is.[12]
Harry's family did a biographical movie short on Harry's life and music in 1991, shortly before his death. The movie is called "Boogie In Blue" and was published as a VHS video that year.
Suffering from congestive heart failure, Harry had long ago decided that he would end life on his own terms if he ever became chronically ill. Harry Gibson took his own life by putting a handgun to his head on May 3, 1991.[13]
 1. ^ Harry Gibson, Flavin Feller (December 1995). Boogie In Blue (VHS). Rhapsody Films.
 2. ^ His autobiography, published as liner notes to album, Everybody's Crazy But Me, 1986, Progressive Records, United States
 3. ^ Harry's autobiography included in the liner notes to album Everybody's Crazy But Me
 4. ^ Jazz On Record: The First Sixty Years; by Scott Yanow, 2003, p. 277 and foll.
 5. ^ The Internet Movie Database _URL_
 6. ^ Jazz On Film, the Complete Story; by Scott Yanow, 2004, p. 28
 7. ^ Liner notes, Boogie Woogie in Blue album, 1944, Musicraft. See also: Cooper, Kim; David Smay (2005). Lost in the Grooves: Scram's Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed. Routledge. pp. 98–99. ISBN 0-415-96998-0.
 8. ^ The Rise of a Jazz Art World; by Paul Douglas Lopes, 2002, p. 210
 9. ^ His autobiography, published as liner notes to album, Everybody's Crazy But Me, 1986, Progressive Records, United States can be found at _URL_
 10. ^ His autobiography appears in liner notes of Everybody's Crazy but Me album, 1986, Progressive Records, United States.
 11. ^ Statement by drummer Tom Magee in movie Boogie In Blue
 12. ^ Harry Hipster Gibson Lyrics
 13. ^ _URL_
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Direct Measurement of Fluid Mechanical Properties in Micro Space; Liquid Crystal Orientation under ShearPolymer Science Faculty Research
AbstractThe shear-induced molecular orientation of a nematic liquidcrystal, 5CB (4-pentyl-4'-cyanobiphenyl) was studied in anewly-developed apparatus in which the liquid crystal was confinedbetween optical windows at a film thickness that is continuouslyvariable. The molecular orientation was measured in situduring shear in the presence and absence of DC electrical bias betweenthe two surfaces. In this preliminary study we present findings for aspacing of 10 µm, which is comparable to the spacing ofactual liquid crystal display technology. Fourier transform infraredtime resolved spectroscopy (FTIR-TRS) synchronized with the shearmotion provided the molecular orientation as a function of time duringthe shear cycle. Only a slight orientation along the shear directionwas found in the isotropic state but, in the homeotropic state, themolecular orientations in response to shear reflected a competitionprocess between orientation in orthogonal directions. Shear promotedorientation parallel to the confining plates, and a DC bias voltagepromoted orientation perpendicular to the confining plates.
Citation InformationAli Dhinojwala. "Direct Measurement of Fluid Mechanical Properties in Micro Space; Liquid Crystal Orientation under Shear" Vol. 38 (1999) p. 6118 - 6122
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Western Newts
Taricha torosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Caudata
Family: Salamandridae
Genus: Taricha
Taricha granulosa
Taricha rivularis
Taricha torosa
Taricha is a genus of newts. There are only three species and four subspecies. They are called Western Newts and Pacific Newts. All newts are part of the family Salamandridae. The three species in this genus are California newt, the Rough-Skinned newt and the Red Bellied newt. They are all found in the west coast of the United States.
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Genus Taricha (Western Newts / Pacific Newts) - 3 species


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"Extreme risk" level: What it means for SPS
How might Lane County's "extreme risk" designation affect SPS teaching and learning?
Overview + what it means for SPS
Lane County is set to move back to the "extreme risk" category on Friday, April 30, after positive Covid-19 cases have been on the rise for the past few weeks. The change in county risk designation does not directly affect schools or school schedules.
Public school districts in Oregon are required to follow positive case-based guidance defined by the Oregon Department of Education developed in conjunction with the Oregon Health Authority. As part of the state guidance, school districts are encouraged to maintain current in-person learning if it's already in place stating that schools "should not reduce in-person instruction or revert to comprehensive distance learning based on county metrics if the school can demonstrate the ability to limit transmission in the school environment."
Metrics breakdown
Public elementary schools have the option to limit in-person learning if positive case levels reach more than 350 positive cases per 100,000 people over the course of 14 days. However, when cases are below that threshold, public elementary schools are required to offer either on-site or hybrid learning options.
The guidance for middle and high schools is slightly different and provides schools with the option to switch to comprehensive distance learning to limit transmission, if necessary, when county case levels reach more than 200 cases per 100,000 people over 14 days (a slightly lower threshold).
Schools are not required to switch to comprehensive distance learning at any point except potentially on an isolated school-to-school basis to curb transmission. This decision would be made by district staff as recommended by district health professionals. Under current guidance, SPS likely would not return to district-wide remote learning.
As of April 28, Lane County Covid-19 case rates had reached 214 cases per 100,000 and a 3.5 percent test positivity rate.
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Your Android phone might be broadcasting your Wi-Fi history
Is your phone's Wi-Fi always on? If you're on Android that might be a very bad idea
Your Android phone might be broadcasting your Wi-Fi history
Coming hot on the heels of Heartbleed there's another potential security problem, this time for Android users. The Electronic Frontier Foundation says that your Android phone could be broadcasting your Wi-Fi location history to anyone who knows how to find it.
No you can't see where I Wi-Fi
Your Android phone might be broadcasting your Wi-Fi history
But why does this broadcasting of past networks happen anyway? Well, it's a method phones that aren't connected to Wi-Fi use to try and speed up connections, and it's also a necessity to connect to hidden networks that don't broadcast themselves the way normal Wi-Fi networks do. It's the equivalent of a phone going, "Psst, are you there?" and waiting for a response.
READ MORE: 8 things you need to know about Android L
EFF made this discovery after doing tests that found many Android phones leaked the names of saved networks, up to a limit of 15. Though other platforms may also exhibit this weakness, at the present time EFF says Android is the most susceptible.
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While cereals remain the world's largest food yield – with more than 2.3 billion metric tons produced annually – consumer demands are on the rise for healthier cereal products with greater nutrition. Cereal Grains: Properties, Processing, and Nutritional Attributes provides a complete exploration of the scientific principles related to domestication, morphology, production, and storage of cereal grains. It also describes their physical and chemical characteristics and explains how these properties relate to industrial processing and nutritional value.
This single-authored textbook lays the foundation for subsequent chapters by first addressing the importance of cereals for mankind, the comparative chemical and physical grain properties of the various types of cereal grains, the morphology and grain anatomy of caryopses, and the physiology of fertilization, grain development, and germination. The book then covers grain storage, pest control, industrial dry milling, wet milling, and both dry and fresh masa industries. A discussion of processing, quality control, and the role of cereals in human and animal nutrition rounds out the book's complete coverage.
Each chapter includes a set of up-to-date references along with selected questions to bolster comprehension of the discussed concepts. The book also contains a glossary of 600 scientific and technical terms to aid in the understanding of words used throughout the text. Cereal Grains: Properties, Processing, and Nutritional Attributes was designed especially for students and lecturers, but it is also helpful as a guide for scientists, food product developers, and nutritionists working to stay ahead of the curve.
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Synonyms for Ravenala (same or very similar meaning)
WordNet sense 1 (giant treelike plant having edible nuts and leafstalks that yield a refreshing drink of clear watery sap; reputedly an emergency source of water for travelers):
traveler's tree, Ravenala madagascariensis, traveller's tree
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When cleaning files from a Windows Operating System (OS), you are halted with errors relating to the filename or the file path being too long. This is due to a 255/260 character limit on Windows Operating Systems preventing the files in a directory from being removed.
Follow this article to learn how to remove all files from a directory that have a longer than allowed filenames or paths by using the Microsoft utility "Robust File Copy" (Robocopy).
- Source Path Too Long
- The source file name(s) are larger than is supported by the file system.
How to Solve the Issue
The actions performed in the below process will permanently remove all contents, such as files and folders, in your specified path.
Using Robocopy to delete files that have a path and filename that is too long:
- Notate the folder directory path that needs its contents to be deleted.
- Example: C:\FolderToBeCleaned
- From Windows File Explorer, create an empty folder anywhere on the hard drive:
- Example: C:\EmptyFolder
- Open a Windows Command Prompt as an Administrator.
- Type the following command, replacing the example paths with yours:
- Robocopy C:\EmptyFolder C:\FolderToBeCleaned /purge
- Press the Enter key.
The folder contents are now deleted:


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California Senate Bill (SB) 188 seeks to provide a broader definition of "race" in California's anti-discrimination law. The bill defines "race" as "inclusive of traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles." The bill is expected to become law, and employers may want to plan accordingly.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has long held that the meaning of "race" is not limited to skin color. Color discrimination is itself a protected category, which can be defined as discrimination based on pigmentation, complexion, or skin shade or tone. "Race" has a broader meaning and can include physical characteristics associated with race (such as a person's hair, facial features, and height and weight), as well as cultural characteristics related to race (including a person's name, cultural dress and grooming practices, or accent or manner of speech).
Recently, the New York City Commission on Human Rights released new guidance regarding the application of the New York City Human Rights Law to situations involving characteristics and cultural practices closely associated with race. The commission focused in particular on discrimination against hair texture and hairstyles associated with being Black because of the frequency of such discrimination. The commission explained that "[r]ace discrimination based on hair and hairstyles most closely associated with Black people has caused significant physical and psychological harm to those who wish to maintain natural hair or specific hairstyles but are forced to choose between their livelihood or education and their cultural identity and/or hair health." California's SB 188 further reflects this development in civil rights law.
SB 188 makes a series of findings and declarations, including that discrimination against "'blackness,' and the associated physical traits" is pervasive in society and has "permeated societal understanding of professionalism." The bill states that this "Eurocentric image of professionalism... disparately impact[s] Black individuals." Accordingly, the bill expressly includes protections of traits historically associated with race, including protective hairstyles such as braids, locks, and twists.
Key Takeaways for Employers
California employers are likely to see this new standard become law, so they may want to consider taking steps to ensure that their discrimination and harassment prevention programs, as well as their grooming policies, comply with this new standard. For example, companies could train management that the following policies and practices would likely violate the standards set forth in SB 188:
- Having a grooming policy that prohibits twists, locks, braids, cornrows, Afros, Bantu knots, or fades—all of which are commonly associated with Black people
- Having a grooming policy that requires employees to alter the state of their hair to conform to the company's appearance standards, including a policy that requires employees to straighten or relax hair (which involves the use of chemicals or heat)
- Having a grooming policy that bans hair that extends a certain number of inches from the scalp, thereby limiting Afros
- Having a grooming policy that requires "professional hair" or "clean and tidy hair" but is applied to mean that employees cannot wear Afros, locks, twists, or braids
- Forcing Black people to obtain management approval prior to changing hairstyles but not imposing the same requirement on other people
- Requiring only Black employees to alter or cut their hair or risk losing their jobs
- Telling Black employees with locks that they cannot be in a customer facing role unless they change their hairstyle
- Refusing to hire a Black applicant with cornrows because his or her hairstyle does not fit the image the company is trying to project to customers
- Mandating that Black employees hide their hair or hairstyle with a hat or visor
Instead, employers may want to consider adopting the following policies and practices:
- Adopting a grooming policy based on rules that are valid, nondiscriminatory, have no disparate impact, and are uniformly applied
- For example, the policy may include a race-neutral rule requiring employees to keep their hair neat and clean.
- Similarly, a company could adopt a rule requiring all employees to secure their hair for bona fide safety or hygienic reasons.
- Revising discrimination and harassment prevention policies to broadly define race to include physical and cultural characteristics associated with race
- Supplementing harassment prevention training programs with hypotheticals that further illustrate the broad meaning of race-based harassment and discrimination
- These examples may include, as the EEOC has explained, unfair height and weight standards that have an adverse impact on Asian Americans and hairstyling rules that have an adverse impact on Black women.
- Emphasizing that a respectful workplace does not condone teasing or joking about traits that have historically been associated with one's race or ethnic identity in harassment prevention trainings


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LAS CRUCES —The $5 million Las Cruces Museum of Nature and Science opens to the public on Friday with exhibits that range from a historic homemade telescope to live animals, ancient fossils and a high-tech digital video globe that's a window to our solar system.
After almost a decade of planning, the 9,400-square-foot museum, formerly housed at the Mesilla Valley Mall, will join the "cultural corridor" of city museums that includes the Branigan Cultural Center and the Las Cruces Museum of Art on Main Street, and the nearby Las Cruces Railroad Museum.
An invitation-only crowd got a sneak peek Thursday night of the new facility, designed to showcase some of the best of regional nature and science.
Where else in the world could you find a handcrafted telescope on a lawnmower base made by Clyde Tombaugh, the man who discovered Pluto?
Tombaugh's famed "Grazer Gazer" shares the "Light & Space" exhibit with Magic Planet, a four-foot, high-tech, interactive digital video globe that offers near-instant access to images and information on every planet in the solar system, along with developing weather systems on Earth.
You'll also be able to walk through "Prehistoric Trackways," a panoramic display of tracks of ancient creatures, and, with the touch of a button, have dialogs with Jerry MacDonald, the man who discovered and excavated the largest collection of Permian tracks in the world and managed to save the precious 280-million-year-old fossils in our own Robledo Mountains.
No animals killed
In the third major exhibit, "Desert Life," you can get up close and personal with a live tarantula and a host of other native creatures.
"The exhibit explores five habitats of the Chihuahuan Desert and includes 29 live animals, illustrations of key plant species and taxidermied desert mammals and birds," said city museum system volunteer coordinator Julie Hansen, who stressed that no animals were killed to create the displays.
"The (taxidermied) animals in these exhibits are recovered animals that died due to accident, illness or were obtained through criminal seizure by federal and state government agencies and are being re-purposed here as educational exhibits, showcasing regional animals we would be unable to keep as living creatures," Hansen said.
"Adriana Candia, a professor of Spanish at NMSU, worked very hard with us on our bilingual displays to make sure the scientific terms and explanations were accurate," Hansen said.
"I'm very excited. There are so many opportunities to grow and do so many things," said museum manager Michael Walczak, as he moved items and critters from the old Museum of Natural History in the Mesilla Valley Mall to their new home. He's particularly pleased with a spacious classroom area that offers room for experiments.
City museums administrator Will Ticknor is happy with the renovated building's green profile, and anticipates top LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) rankings for skillful redevelopment of what was once the Rio Grande Bank building.
"It's safe and it's state of the art," Ticknor said.
In fact, the museum's green technology could constitute another educational exhibit in itself, utilizing everything from wind turbines and photovoltaic panels to recycled and low-emitting construction materials, energy-efficient LED lighting and water-efficient landscaping, toilets and fixtures.
The grand opening of the museum, at 411 N. Main St., will be from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Friday. Regular hours will be 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Admission is free. For information, call _PHONE_ or visit online at _URL_
S. Derrickson Moore can be reached at _PHONE_. Follow her on Twitter _USER_.
IF YOU GO
What: Las Cruces Museum of Nature and Science
When: Opening 4:30 to 7 p.m. Friday
Regular hours: 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday
Where: 411 N. Main St.
Cost: Admission free
Staff: Michael Walczak, manager, Kim Hanson, education curator, Richard Quick, naturalist, Leticia Soto, administrative assistant
Info: _PHONE_, _URL_
BY THE NUMBERS
9,400 square feet
1986: Founded as Las Cruces Natural History Museum in Mesilla Valley Mall
$5,060,000: Total construction & exhibit cost
$2 million: Total exhibits cost
2004: Planning started for new museum
2007: Property acquired
2011: Construction begins
Nov. 2, 2012: Museum opens
"Chihuahuan Desert Habitats:" Focuses on desert plains, bajadas, sky islands, desert rivers and desert grasslands, including 29 live animals, taxidermied desert mammals and birds, and illustrations of key plant species.
"Light and Space:" Exhibits include a four-foot digital video Magic Planet globe, a telescope built by Pluto's discoverer Clyde Tombaugh, a table where visitors can experiment with light, changing images of the universe from NASA's Space Science Institute, a mechanical model of the solar system, and an interactive exhibit on the color of stars.
"Prehistoric Trackways:" Fossil trackways from the Permian Period 280 million years ago when this area was part of an ancient seaway, media programs featuring local citizen-scientist, Jerry MacDonald, who discovered and excavated the largest collection of Permian tracks in the world, a life-sized cast of a dimetrodon, touchable trace fossils.
ACTIVITIES AND PROGRAMS
(Many free: Contact museum for schedule details, information)
Behind the Scenes Nature Center tours: 5-7 p.m. first Fridays of each month
Dinos A-Z: 3 p.m. Fridays, short talk on dinosaur or other prehistoric creature with images and hands-on component
Magic Planet Show: Learn about our universe.
"Night at the Museum 2013:" Two overnight programs for kids with activities and games: "Starry Night" on astronomy in April, "Spooky Science" in October
Animal Encounters: 1 p.m. Saturdays, hands-on introduction to the animals of the Chihuahuan Desert
Desert Treks: Field trips
Pre-K Thursdays: For children 3-5 years old and their parents or caregivers at 9 a.m. each Thursday: Planeteers! Grandma Mona's Science Storytime, Nature Kids, Dinosaur Train, Fetch!
Spring Break Camp: All four city museums collaborate on a museum spring break program for Las Cruces students.
Summer Science Day Camp: Crafts, experimentation, nature study and field trips.
Family Science Saturday: 2 p.m. second Saturday of each month.
Science Café: 5:30 p.m., last Thursday of each month, science round table discussions
Scout Merit Badge Program: 4-hour courses
Sky Safari: High-powered telescopes and experts from the NMSU Astronomy Department.

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A few days into C-programmering experience: if and else
As stated in the title, I am very new to C and programming languages in general.
I am currently reading various guides and such, but I've come across a syntax problem when using if and else.
I did a little code to try it. The idea is having two integers, a and b. If a and b are equal, I want the program to calculate the product of the two. Else I want it to find the average of those numbers.
I'm pretty sure my problem is lack of / misplaced brackets and tokens, but I cannot figure out the syntax! :confused:
My code is
printf("Enter the value of a:");
printf("Enter the value of b:");
square = a * b;
avg = (a+b)/2;


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Black Ghost Knifefish
The Black Ghost knifefish, Apteronotus albifrons, is a tropical fish belonging to the ghost knifefish family (Apteronotidae). They originate in South America in the Amazon Basin in Peru and from Venezuela through Paraguay in the ParanÃ¡ Rivers. They are sometimes found in aquaria. The fish is all black except for two white rings on its tail. It moves mainly by undulating a long fin on its underside. It will grow to a maximum length of 20 in (50 cm).
The Black Ghost knifefish natively lives in fast moving, sandy bottom creeks in a tropical climate. They prefer water with a 6.0 – 8.0 pH, a water hardness of 5.0 – 19.0 dGH, and a temperature range of 73-82 F (23-28 C). They are nocturnal, but they are weakly electric fish and use an electric organ and receptors distributed over the length of their body in order to find insect larvae.
Due to their electrical charge, a close, contained group of knife fish (as in an aquarium) will line up side by side.


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Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) is warning motorists that collisions between deer and vehicles increase in certain parts of Scotland at this time of year.
Car accidents involving deer peak, as the clocks turn back.
With the nights starting earlier, the peak commuting time coincides with deer coming out to feed on grass verges near roadsides.
SNH, in conjunction with Transport Scotland and Traffic Scotland, are placing warning messages on electronic variable messaging signs.
From Monday of this week to Monday, 14 November, the signs will warn motorists at key locations on the main trunk roads across West and Northwest Scotland. These messages will be seen on signs on the A9, A87, A82 and the A835.
The latest deer-vehicle collisions research shows there are more than 7000 deer-related accidents every year in Scotland
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Weather for Ellon
Sunday 19 May 2013
Temperature: 9 C to 13 C
Wind Speed: 7 mph
Wind direction: East
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Southern Italy has Watchtowers all along the coast line. Watch the video below for the story about these towers:
Title: Italy – Watchtowers in Southern Italy
Countries: Southern Italy
What are Watchtowers? They are towers usually built of stone high enough to be seen by the next tower along the coast. When Saracens (pirates) were spotted, they would light a fire in the tower to warn everyone along the coast. The next tower would see it and light theirs and so on along the entire coastline. You might say this was the Internet of their time. Some towers had a bell as well that was rung to warn locals of the pirates coming.
The locals would gather their families and valuables and head to their sister town usually high up on a hill. These towns were fortified castle like structures that prevented the pirates from entering.


text: Create a change request template You can create a template that can be used to create change requests with pre-defined supporting tasks. Templates simplify the process of submitting new records by populating fields automatically. Before you beginThe administrator must configure the form layout to add these fields: Next Related Template, Next Related Child Template, Link element.Role required: admin About this taskThere are two change request template configuration items. Change_request: This object does not have a link element, because it is at root level. Change_task: This task object is one level below root level, so it uses the parent table as a link element. Procedure Navigate to System Definition > Templates. Click New. Complete the form as described in Create a template using the template form. Complete the remaining fields, as appropriate. Field Description Next Related Template A template at the same hierarchical level as the current template (sibling).Use this field on a child template to specify an extra child template under the same parent template. For example, you can use child templates to create multiple change tasks for a change request template and specify sibling child templates.This field is not supported on top-level templates. Next Related Child Template A template at the hierarchical level below the current template (child).You can assign a child template to a child template. Link element Specifies a link to a record created from a child template to the record created from the parent template.The template script chooses the first valid reference field that can link to the parent record when this field is left blank. Click Submit.


text: The issue of economic cooperation between India and Central Asia and Uzbekistan, in particular, is the focus of this study. Section I analyzes economic development of Uzbekistan and India. Section II profiles briefly the economic performance of Central Asian countries. Indo-Uzbek bilateral economic relations are analyzed in Section III. A special emphasis is placed in Section IV on identifying constraints in cooperation. Finally, in Section V some policy recommendations have been made for intensifying economic cooperation between India and Uzbekistan.


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In the ever changing global business environment, only organizations that move with the tide can survive. Corporate restructuring is a recurring trend. Organizations must retain knowledge which is a critical component of their intangible assets. Knowledge-based organizations are able to generate value from their intellectual assets.
This training workshop is designed to equip participants with requisite skills and capabilities to create a knowledge-based organization with a view to facilitating the realization of the corporate goals.
At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
- Define the concept of knowledge management
- Analyse and disseminate information to effect changes
- Promote technology transfer
- Develop strategies and policies to manage the organization's intellectual assets effectively.
- Knowledge management: an overview
- Building a knowledge based organization
- Knowledge harvesting
- Learning and development
- Knowledge management strategies
- Information management and security
- Creating and managing a database
- Building employee engagement
- Managing the knowledge worker
- Managing change and innovation
- Effective communication in knowledge management
- Intellectual capital and interpersonal Relation
Methodology: Lectures, discussions, syndicate work, case studies and exercises. Audio-visual aids will be used to reinforce these learning methods.
Management consultants, project / human resource managers, trainers and professionals in the public and private sector organizations.
Mode of Assessment for Certification: 100 per cent attendance/active participation.
Contact Person: Mrs. Rita Nwalupue


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ALTER GROUP groupname ADD USER username [,... ] ALTER GROUP groupname DROP USER username [,... ] ALTER GROUP groupname RENAME TO newname
ALTER GROUP changes the attributes of a user group. This is an obsolete command, though still accepted for backwards compatibility, because groups (and users too) have been superseded by the more general concept of roles.
The first two variants add users to a group or remove them from a group. (Any role can play the part of either a "user" or a "group" for this purpose.) These variants are effectively equivalent to granting or revoking membership in the role named as the "group"; so the preferred way to do this is to use GRANT or REVOKE.
The third variant changes the name of the group. This is exactly equivalent to renaming the role with ALTER ROLE.
The name of the group (role) to modify.
Users (roles) that are to be added to or removed from the group. The users must already exist; ALTER GROUP does not create or drop users.
The new name of the group.
Add users to a group:
ALTER GROUP staff ADD USER karl, john;
Remove a user from a group:
ALTER GROUP workers DROP USER beth;


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Scientific Reports volume 9, Article number: 17823 (2019)
The delta of the Mekong River in Vietnam has been heavily impacted by anthropogenic stresses in recent years, such as upstream dam construction and sand mining within the main and distributary channels, leading to riverbank and coastal erosion. Intensive bathymetric surveys, conducted within the Tien River branch during the dry and wet season 2018, reveal a high magnitude of sand mining activities. For the year 2018, an analysis of bathymetric maps and the local refilling processes leads to an estimated sand extraction volume of 4.64 0.31 Mm/yr in the study area, which covered around 20 km. Reported statistics of sand mining for all of the Mekong's channels within the delta, which have a cumulative length of several hundred kilometres, are 17.77 Mm/yr for this period. Results from this study highlight that these statistics are likely too conservative. It is also shown that natural sediment supplies from upper reaches of the Mekong are insufficient to compensate for the loss of extracted bed aggregates, illustrating the non-sustainable nature of the local sand mining practices.
Anthropogenic stresses, such as groundwater extraction, river training, construction and operation of hydropower infrastructure as well as sand mining play an important role in the future evolution of the world's largest river deltas1, _URL_ Tiếp tục đọc "Sand mining in the Mekong Delta revisited – current scales of local sediment deficits"


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High School Math Solutions – Polynomial Long Division Calculator
Polynomial long division is very similar to numerical long division where you first divide the large part of the number, multiply the answer by the divisor, subtract and continue dividing the reminder until the reminder is smaller than the divisor.
With polynomials you do the same, only now you have to divide the higher order terms (first term of the numerator divide by the first term of the denominator).
Let's start with a simple example (click here):
Here's another example this time with multiple iterations (click here):


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British artist Benjamin Shine creates textured "paintings" by carefully folding and ironing one giant sheet of tulle fabric. His subjects range from portraits of iconic stars like Elizabeth Taylor to realistic renditions of elderly hands and beautifully abstract faces emerging from the flowing netted material.
Shine says, "The idea of 'painting with fabric' led to the development of this technique where the portrait image is created through the intricate pleating and pressing of a single length of tulle fabric. The technique aims to utilize the translucent qualities of the tulle fabric to generate various gradients, tones and textures."
The naturally semitransparent mesh is layered upon itself to succeed in simulating varying shades. The result is an amazing monochromatic image rich with texture. For some of his more abstract work known as Flows, Shine says, "[They] take their compositional cues from the fabric itself to reveal the inherent qualities of motion, fragility and transience."


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RHCE High Risk Foot Final Report
High Risk Foot – Training of Health Professionals to Assess the High Risk Foot.
WACRH obtained a Rural Health Continuing Education Grant for the High Risk Foot Project to deliver training workshops in rural and remote areas of WA to:
Increase awareness of high risk foot disease
Supply culturally appropriate diabetes foot care patient educational materials
Train health care professionals how to do a foot risk assessment
Supply health professionals with the necessary equipment to do a foot risk assessment
Provide ongoing High Risk Foot education


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any cloth of carded wool
yarn of which
the fibers vary in length: bulkier, looser, and less regular than worsted.
2. woolens, wool
cloth or clothing.
made or consisting of wool
: woolen cloth.
of or pertaining to wool
or woolen fabrics.
Also, especially British, wool·len.
Origin: before 1050; Middle English wollen Related forms
(adj. and noun), Old English wullen, wyllen
(noun). See wool
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:


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The main purpose of X-Ray phosphors is to respond to X-Rays which re-emit energy as visible photons. They can be incorporated into a wide variety of X-Ray imaging devices, including within medical and security applications.
Phosphors are designated by the letter P followed by a number. Phosphors are often rare-earth compounds with an activator. The activators in phosphor prolong the emission time (afterglow) or sometimes can be used to quench and shorten its afterglow.
Electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) is a technique used in the scanning electron microscope (SEM) to collect and explore quantitive microstructure analysis data such as, crystal orientation, phase grain statistics, phase and strain conditions and defects


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Author: Richard A. Hawkins
Type: Teaching Guide
Newspapers, in all their various formats and missions, have long been crucial sources of information about political, social, economic and cultural events and trends. For most lecturers, they have been a fixture of reportage for centuries. However, the rise of digital media has, for perhaps the first time, threatened the relevancy and future of the newspaper industry. Therefore, many incoming undergraduates may fail to appreciate their richness and value as a historical source and this lack of enthusiasm may deter history lecturers and tutors from using them. This guide aims to offer advice and examples of reintegrating newspapers, namely digitised newspapers, into university history teaching.


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Ask questions about projects relating to: biology, biochemistry, genomics, microbiology, molecular biology, pharmacology/toxicology, zoology, human behavior, archeology, anthropology, political science, sociology, geology, environmental science, oceanography, seismology, weather, or atmosphere.
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can a spider plant grow in something other that water? (ex: vinegar, liquid jell-o, coffee)
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That's a very interesting question! I am thinking the acid in vinegar might be a problem. But jello -- mostly sugar, gelatin, water, and coloring, right? Coffee? Hmm, is the chemical makeup of coffee?
I found a lot of information about spider plants on Google when I typed "Growing spider plants." It seems that maybe too much water could be a problem -- whether it is coffee or jello. So you will need some kind of control -- perhaps distilled water and another control grown in soil. One reference on the web said chemicals are a problem --so you might compare distilled water to water from a creek or even your street after a storm.
A basic scientific approach is to understand the dimensions you are studying (usually called dependent variables). For example -- the amount of water and the properties of the water could affect the growth of the plants. The acidity of the water is another variable.
When you test other liquids such as coffee and vinegar, you'll need to know how they are related, and this will suggest other liquids to test. For example, given that vinegar is acidic, you could also use milk, which is non-acidic (pH > 7). In this case, you'd want to measure the pH of the coffee. This doesn't mean that pH is a critical factor, but it's one of the differences you'll need to consider between the liquids you test.
As another example, jello has sugar in it. So in using jello you might actually be testing how sugar affects the growth of spider plants.
To summarize, you'll need to understand some of the properties of the liquids -- a way to relate them chemically -- or your results will be perhaps interesting, but not tell you anything fundamental about the growth of spider plants.
I hope this is helpful to get started.
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International Experience Opportunities
International Experience Types
Internship Programs
Purpose: Gain professional experience related to your major or future career.
Credit: Several internships are part of a formal study abroad program. A few students organize UNH independent study or practicum credit. There can be no academic credit for internships without a course component.
Finances: Those that are for-credit will require program or tuition fees. In these cases, financial aid is available. Financial aid is not available for non-credit internships. While often unpaid, some may offer other compensation (e.g. room, board, reimburse expenses). Global Education Center scholarships may be available for internships. If you are a Paul College student, check here for details about the Internship Opportunity Fund.
Volunteer Programs
Purpose: Provide assistance to local communities in areas such as community development, social services, child care, elder care, public health, nature conservation, sustainable development, teaching English, women's empowerment, peace building, etc.
Credit: No academic credit, unless student organizes an independent study or participates in part of a service course.
Finances: Usually unpaid but some may offer compensation (e.g. room & board). Scholarships may be available.
Research Programs
Purpose: Gain experience conducting research abroad.
1. A few opportunities are UNH programs such as IROP, and SURF Abroad.
2. Some students organize UNH independent study, practicum credit or conduct research for a capstone project.
3. Several are part of a formal study abroad program.
Finances: Depends on program.
Post-graduate Opportunities
Purpose: Gain experience teaching English as a second language or working abroad.
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Other: Many programs require a B.A. Some do not require any teacher training/certification or language proficiency other than in English. Many positions are available in Asia and Eastern Europe. Some volunteer programs offer English teaching opportunities.


_USER_{Yan2012Efficient, abstract = {This paper proposes efficient estimators of risk measures in a semiparametric GARCH model defined through moment constraints. Moment constraints are often used to identify and estimate the mean and variance parameters and are however discarded when estimating error quantiles. In order to prevent this efficiency loss in quantile estimation, we propose a quantile estimator based on inverting an empirical likelihood weighted distribution estimator. It is found that the new quantile estimator is uniformly more efficient than the simple empirical quantile and a quantile estimator based on normalized residuals. At the same time, the efficiency gain in error quantile estimation hinges on the efficiency of estimators of the variance parameters. We show that the same conclusion applies to the estimation of conditional Expected Shortfall. Our comparison also leads to interesting implications of residual bootstrap for dynamic models. We find that these proposed estimators for conditional Value-at-Risk and expected shortfall are asymptotically mixed normal. This asymptotic theory can be used to construct confidence bands for these estimators by taking account of parameter uncertainty. Simulation evidence as well as empirical results are provided.}, address = {London}, author = {Yang Yan and Dajing Shang and Oliver Linton}, copyright = {_URL_ doi = {10.1920/wp.cem.2012.2512}, keywords = {C14; C22; G22; 330; Empirical Likelihood; Empirical process; GARCH; Quantile; Value-at-Risk; Expected Shortfall}, language = {eng}, number = {CWP25/12}, publisher = {Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap)}, title = {Efficient estimation of conditional risk measures in a semiparametric GARCH model}, type = {cemmap working paper}, url = {_URL_ year = {2012} }


Why Presumption of Innocence is good for us
The media is full of talk of the presumption of innocence.
The following are the reasons why the presumption of innocence is considered good for us and worth fighting to maintain.
 - On the presumption of innocence hang the protections which a person should have no matter the person's status, religion, or citizenship. The protections from being coerced to give testimony, to incriminate oneself, to have one's case heard in open court, to have legal counsel, to have one's sentence pronounced publicly, to present evidence in one's defence and to conduct a vigorous, thorough defence
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 - People lie, people give false evidence, and people do all things in between. They may do this in the course of attempting to prove guilt or innocence. This is a fact of human nature and why a person charged with an offence is presumed innocent… not a saint.
 - The presumption of innocence presumes the best of us and not the worst. It places humans on a high plane and thereby facilitates where appropriate a plea of guilty. This is important in the administration of justice and us feeling right with the system of justice
 - People living in Australia today are free. Most of the people in the world are not. This is a fact and is due to our observance of the presumption of innocence.
Just think what it would be like if you were living in a country such as Iran where there is no presumption of innocence. You could be arrested at any time and sentenced and imprisoned for many, many, years. The most recent example of this is Kylie More-Gilbert an Australian woman who has just been released from gaol in Iran where she was serving a 10-year sentence on false espionage charges. The release occurred as part of an exchange of prisoners and not as result of any proper appeal process.
In most places in the world might is right. That is, the authority who has the might can act without regard to what is the truth, as in the case of Kylie More-Gilbert on a fake charge of espionage.
 - Australia is weak and vulnerable, yet at the same time strong by its system of checks and balances. It may be asked: If a person is charged with committing an offence why must the police establish that they committed the offence when they know if he did? Does the presumption allow criminals to go free? While there is a risk of this happening, we consider it is more important to have a check on the police misusing their power. The police have the power to prosecute but are checked on the misuse of this power by requiring them to prove each and every case objectively.
 - The resources of the police, in time and financial resources, far exceed those of most of us. Most of us in our lives will be subject to a charge, even as minor as speeding 10 kilometers above the speed limit. We know the feeling of helplessness when charged and facing the police. In the battle which follows either to prove innocence or establishing mitigating factors, the battle is considerably fairer and just if the police have the burden of proving their case.
 - It would be unfair and unjust if an Australian soldier who is charged with committing an offence in Afghanistan seven years ago had to prove that they did not do so. Proof might involve collecting evidence in Afghanistan and bringing witnesses to Australia. How would this be possible for the ordinary individual? Placing the onus on the prosecution is reasonable and fair. This is what is meant by having to prove the negative that is on some occasions an impossible task.
To better understand this presumption, certain things need to be said to avoid confusion.
The presumption of innocence is not a legal right in Australia enforceable at law. What is meant by that is that a person cannot sue upon the presumption in our courts. Whilst the Magna Carta is often cited as establishing the presumption into our law it does not create an enforceable legal right in Australia, nor do any of the Human Rights Acts of the States of Australia or the Australian Capital Territory and nor does the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and neither does the Federal Constitution.
The presumption only exists in the Australian legal system as a presumption in our common law. It can be excluded or modified at any time by a Federal or State Act of Parliament, which we have seen increasingly happen over the last 10 years
The presumption is usually expressed in relation to a charge of a criminal offence. For instance, the website of the Federal Attorney General describes the presumption as imposing on the prosecution the burden of proving the charge and guarantees that no guilt can be presumed until the charge has been proved beyond reasonable doubt. However, the expression has a much wider understood meaning in Australia as applying to any assertion made, and requiring the person, the subject of the assertion, to be presumed innocent unless the maker of the assertion establishes the assertion as correct.
For those of us who wish to see (if not experience) how the Australian system needs to be constantly maintained we need only look to see what happened in Victoria in the last few months. There the system of checks and balances broke down and there was no mechanism to enforce it, or if one existed, no one was prepared to stand up and enforce it. It was terrifying to see how quickly this occurred and Victoria became a police state, quashing all dissent, as was seen in the charging and arrest of Zoe Buhler … a pregnant mother. This breakdown did not happen when Australia was at war and was faced with being overrun, it happened in peace time!
We need to be constantly reminded of why the presumption of innocence is good for us and why it must be constantly maintained.
Robin Speed
Classroom Poster outlining the key principles of the Presumption of Innocence


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Marginal Gains – A powerful tool to achieve your goals
In our blog, How To Beat Your Brain, we mentioned a concept called marginal gains. As promised, here's a quick run down of what marginal gains is and how you can use it to break down your goals and make more progress than conventional methods.
The concept of marginal gains was thrust into the spotlight after the London 2012 Olympics when GB Cycling performance director, Dave Brailsford, spoke about how he used the concept to improve GB Cycling performance so much that they dominated international cycling for over a decade. Dave Brailsford summed the concept up by saying "The whole principle came from the idea that if you broke down everything you could think of that goes into riding a bike, and then improved it by 1%, you will get a significant increase when you put them all together," (Source:
This summation is pretty spot on! Essentially you can break down a problem or in our case, your goals/performance into as many sub-categories as you wish and improve on each of these parts individually. When you then look at these sub-parts as a whole, you will have a larger overall increase/improvement on your performance. In the case of GB Cycling, they were aiming for gold medals so they may have gone into more details than is necessary for some people – take sleeping in the right position for example. Yes, it may work towards achieving your goals, but it probably isn't as important as just getting 8 hours of decent sleep if you're currently getting 5.
Below is a simplified version for someone who is trying to loose 10 lbs of fat in 5 weeks.
Goal – Loose 10 lbs of fat
Duration – 5 weeks
Higher level factors that affect fat loss
 1. Activity Levels
 2. Food quality
 3. Food intake
 4. Sleep quality
 5. Positive mind set
So here we have 5 higher level factors that will influence this goal of burning 10 lbs of fat in 5 weeks. Now, you can stop here and get going or you can break down each of these 5 factors into more sub-factors within each one. Below is the breakdown for one of these factors.
Activity Levels
 1. Exercise 4 times/week.
 2. Exercise for at least 1 hour for each session.
 3. Walk to work and back 3 times a week.
 4. Stand up every 30 minutes whilst at work (shown to significantly increase metabolism).
 5. Do 10 squats, 10 press ups and 10 star jumps every morning.
So from picking 1 higher level factor, here you have 5 lower level factors you can focus on to reach your goal. You see how this could go on and on!
My advice would be to pick 5-10 higher level factors and really nail them. If you want to you can go deeper, but this can make things a bit over whelming to start with, which is totally the opposite of what this aims to do. 10 higher level factors with 5 lower level factors will total 50 points for you to improve on, which is quite extreme!
The take away message should be to take what seems a complex problem and break it down into smaller chunks so you can focus in and achieve your goals. If you improve by 1% on 10 factors you will have an overall increase of 10%! Which is significant!
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European Decorative Arts and Sculpture
The Native Peoples of the Pacific Ocean (Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique) WallpaperMade in Mâcon, France, Europe
Designed by Jean-Gabriel Charvet, French, 1750 - 1829. Printed by Joseph Dufour et Cie, Mâcon, France, 1797 - 1835.
Block-printed, stenciled, and hand-brushed gouache (opaque watercolor) on paper
1921-43-1d,eGift of Dr. Anne Mitchell McAllister in memory of William Young McAllister, 1921
The images on this panoramic wallpaper are drawn from accounts of European voyages to the Pacific undertaken in the late eighteenth century by French and British explorers, in particular Captain James Cook, who embarked on three expeditions to this region between the years 1768 and 1779. The Tahitian-inspired landscape is populated by native people from various Pacific islands, shown in their distinctive costumes.
The manufacturer, Joseph Dufour, issued a pamphlet at the time of the wallpaper's release explaining that the peaceful, idyllic scenes were intended "to reveal the natural bonds of taste and enjoyment that exist between all men."
* Works in the collection are moved off view for many different reasons. Although gallery locations on the website are updated regularly, there is no guarantee that this object will be on display on the day of your visit.


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This cool page designed that I designed will tell you all about my study!
The Effects of Background Music on Shopping Behavior
Many marketing practitioners have accepted the notion that
music affects human beings in various ways.Music is increasingly used as
a stimulus in the retail environment as well as in radio and television
advertising to evoke responses advertisers want to see. This paper reviews
literature concerning the effects that various types of background music
have on individuals while shopping online. Past research has shown individuals
to react differently while listening to background music in a store settings.
It was hypothesized that background music does effect several areas of
individual shopping behavior on the internet also.
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experiment was designed to determine whether background music effected
online shopping behaviors. It was hypothesized that background music
would lead to and increase in product likability, increase in the number
of items purchased, increase in the amount amount of money spent
and an increase in the amount of time shopping online.
Independent sample t-tests were used to calculate the results of this study. The hypothesis of background music affecting product likability was not supported T(18)=1.23,p=.233.
Although, the product likability hypothesis was not supported, the results do show background music to have some effect on other aspects of shopping behavior.
However, the hypothesis that background music would lead to an increase in the number of items purchased was supported. On average, participants who were exposed to background music did purchase more items (M=5.50) than those who were not exposed to background music (M=3.60).
difference of only an average of 2 items, substantiated over a number of
customers, is significant
As shown in figure 3, on average participants who were exposed to background music while shopping online, spent more time online (M=13.50 minutes) than those without background music (M=7.50 minutes). These participants were given the option to stop shopping at any time during the experiment and still, the experimental group with the background music stayed online for a longer period of time.
the hypothesis that background music would lead to an increase in the amount
of money spent was not supported T(18)=.589,p=.563.
The background music did not seem to have an effect on the amount of money
spent, but only the amount of products purchased.
examining the average amount per item spent per group, significance was
not found. The experimental group spent an average of $81.75
per item and the control group averages $80.67.
These dollar amounts are too close to be significant.
Although not every finding supported the hypothesis that background music affects shopping behavior, two aspects of shopping behavior were found to be significantly different. Both amount of time spent shopping online and number of items purchased were affected by the music. However, this research shows that money and product likability do not seem to be affected by background music.
The main findings were as follows: as hypothesized, background music did not have an effect on how much individuals liked the products they purchased. However, background music did lead to an in an increase in the amount of products purchased along with an increase in the amount of time spent online. Although more items were purchased while background music was playing, a less amount of money was spent while listening to background music. These findings indicate background music does affect different aspects of online shopping behavior.
some significance was found with the data, there were also several limitations
to this study. The mixed results may have been the cause of the participants
not actually purchasing the products but rather just placing the items
in the shopping cart. If the purchase intentions were real, the participants
may have been more conscientious of what they were buying and how music
money they were spending. There may have been many underlying reasons why
participants purchased more items with background music than those without
music. Impulse shopping behavior may have played a role in this study.
The findings indicate that increased time spent online resulted in an increase
in the number of items purchased. This may be a result of participants
jumping at the first item they see and buying it. How much the participant
liked the background music should have been assessed to see if music preference
played a role in the purchasing of the items. Also, computer literacy among
participants was not measured and may have played a role in how quickly
individuals shopped online.
Also, past experience with shopping online may have caused some participants to move around online quicker than others.
Maturation may have also played a role in the shopping behavior. Individuals who caught on faster by the end of the experiment probably were able to purchase more items than those who never understood the directions on how to shop online. Likability for computers and the Internet may have been a confound variable in this study. Participants who prefer to use computer programs may have felt more comfortable and at ease in front of the computer than those who do not feel comfortable with computers.
To avoid some of these confounding variables, future experimenters may want to access the participantís computer literacy and whether or not they feel comfortable shopping online, along with other demographic variables of the participants.
Although only some significance was found in this study, this data does expand our knowledge of background music and online shopping behavior. This study helps us to understand why some shopping online networks get more business. If online shopping networks included background music on their shopping homepages, increases in time spent online and amount of produce purchased could be hypothesized for these big online shopping networks.


Artificial Intelligence Intersects with Renewable Energy
In his sixth post in the series, Marshall Kirkpatrick focuses on the intersection between artificial intelligence and renewable energy. By way of reminder, Marshall launched a 30 day series that explores the intersection between AI and the various innovation components on my emerging futures visual.
AI Intersects with Renewable Energy
As he has in each post, Marshall identifies the key subject matter experts that sit at the intersection of AI and the visual component in question. In the case of renewable energy, the key influencers are: Jim HarrisJoe NyangonLauri Kinnunen, and Ketan Joshi. Here is the foresight and related future scenarios identified at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and renewable energy (taken straight from Marshall's post):
AI-optimized energy systems: AI could be used for super-detailed modeling of energy use across buildings and in natural systems, including detailed predictions of passive solar capacity, wind speed, and building energy load. By decreasing unpredictability, efficiency and utilization of renewable energy would grow substantially
Leaps forward in solar: Neural networks could substantially improve the efficiency and reliability of photovoltaic energy capture, serving as a boost converter and driving the cost of solar power way down
Bill bots: Intelligent autonomous agents could negotiate energy prices for our homes and energy-consuming devices around the clock, removing hassle from billing and conservation but increasing privacy risks by making energy consumption data signatures accessible to 3rd parties.
This intersection is a critical step towards the enablement of an Energy Internet as described by economist Jeremy Rifkin. Rifkin looks at the energy component of a third industrial revolution platform in his book titled the Zero Marginal Cost Society. In it, he describes how Internet technology and renewable energies are merging to create an energy Internet that changes the way power is generated and distributed in society – a paradigm shift in energy similar to what occurred in computing. He describes an emergent system with synergies between five pillars that drive this paradigm shift:
 1. Shifting to renewable energy
 3. Deploying hydrogen and other storage technologies to store intermittent energies
The intersection analysis that Marshall pursues via his posts is a great example of deriving the foresight required to navigate in this emerging future. The other posts in the series on AI and intersections can be found via the links below:
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A newly released report Solar Energy Use in U.S. Agriculture. Overview and Policy Issues published by USDA's Office of Energy Policy and New Uses, serves as an overview of solar energy use by farmers and ranchers in the U.S. that identifies trends and future potential. According to USDA's 2009 On-Farm Energy Production Survey, ninety-three percent of farms with on-farm renewable energy production produce solar energy and 8,000 farms have installed a solar energy system on their farm.
On-farm solar energy production has increased significantly in the last decade. Sixty-three percent of solar panels in agriculture were installed from 2005-2009 and the growth rate was almost five-fold from 2000-2009. Solar energy projects funded under USDA's Rural Energy for America Program also experienced a five-fold increase between 2007 and 2009. The report reviews the regulations and incentives that are available to farmers and ranchers, which has recently boosted installations, and also examines major financial influences.


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 My original posting from Friday seems to have vanished, so here it goes again.
 I am trying to find out how to configure the maximum number of threads for the Spring Integration (SI) message-bus.
 Specifically, what is the default number of pooled threads used by the message bus and how do I configure the max number of threads spawned by SI?
 One of our teammates has the following question:
 If you put a hundred messages on a queue (via an SI channel) does SI spawn a hundred threads to process them or do they handle them sequentially or does it create a number of threads up to the default setting and process that way?
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 You can define a TaskExecutor bean and give it as a reference to the element. If you reuse the same taskExecutor everywhere controlling the number of total threads is trivial.
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Nanoparticles in paints
Paint and coatings industries are seeking for more and more performing products, mainly for world wide market applications (automotive and construction field, for example), able to solve typical problems for surface finishing (corrosion and scratch).
TEC STAR produces nanoparticles that, used as nanofillers for paints and inks, provide new properties to polymer coatings, solving many problems related to the varnish industry:
- increasing scratch resistance and surface hardness
- improvement of UV light resistance
- increasing corrosion protection
- improvement of antiseptic effect (TEC Star anti-microbial)


Three Levels of Liquidity for Greater Access to the Market
Although Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) liquidity can seem complex, here, we explore the various sources of liquidity for ETFs, which contain a portfolio of securities and trade throughout the day like stocks.
Trading Volume Does Not Equal Liquidity
For a stock, the average daily volume (ADV) has always been a strong indicator of liquidity, or the degree to which stocks can be bought or sold in the market without affecting their price. When looking at ETFs, ADV is a partial indication of an ETF's liquidity. That's because, unlike stocks that have a set number of shares, new ETF shares can be created and existing shares can be redeemed based on investor demand. ETFs have different layers of liquidity that allow investors to trade ETFs in amounts that can far exceed an ETF's ADV without significantly affecting the ETF's price.
Three Sources of ETF Liquidity
There are three levels of liquidity to consider for ETFs: on-screen liquidity, nondisplayed liquidity and liquidity from the underlying ETF basket of securities.
Levels of liquidity in ETFs.
1. Liquidity Visible to the End Investor
The most visible source of ETF liquidity is on-screen liquidity, which the average investor has access to via a variety of sources such as a brokerage house. This level of liquidity represents the trading activity that has already occurred on the exchange and is visible in the secondary market, where ETFs are priced and traded like stocks. A market maker publishes quotes that represent the price of available ETF shares they are willing to buy and sell. Investors bargain with other investors as well as market makers who help maintain a fair and orderly market. Market makers are always ready to buy available ETF shares from potential sellers and sell ETF shares to potential buyers.
Typically, there are two prices for an ETF visible to the public: the price at which someone is willing to purchase the ETF (known as the bid) and the price at which someone is willing to sell the ETF (known as the offer or ask). The difference between the two prices is called the spread. Because ETFs hold multiple securities in the underlying basket, the spread of all the securities influences the total spread of the ETF.
2. Liquidity Accessed via Your Broker
As a typical investor, your on-screen view of liquidity is limited on public financial websites. Most often, you will have access only to the highest bid and lowest offer, but you won't see all quotes in an ETF's order book on the stock exchange. You may access this level of liquidity with the assistance of a broker. The broker can see additional levels of quotes that represent additional prices at which ETFs can be traded.
For most ETFs, market makers will publish quotes beyond the visible liquidity, helping to provide market depth. They do this so that larger-size trades may be executed while covering their costs of providing liquidity. You can access this liquidity by providing a limit order to your broker to buy or sell ETF shares at a price beyond the on-screen liquidity. Or, you can contact your broker's ETF block desk, which handles large purchases and sales of ETF shares.
3. Liquidity Access by Specialists
The bulk of ETF liquidity is in the primary market, where the ETF accesses the underlying securities it holds. Here, the creation and redemption mechanism, which is an important process for ETFs, comes into play.
When buying or selling a large number of ETF shares—on the scale of thousands—you can reach out to large institutions that act as authorized participants to create and redeem large blocks of ETF shares directly from the ETF provider or its custodian.
The Creation and Redemption Process Ensures ETFs Liquidity
The creation and redemption process ensures there is sufficient inventory to fill investors' orders. It allows large buy or sell trades to be executed in the ETF with little or no impact to the market.
For an ETF share creation, the authorized participant assembles a portfolio or basket containing the ETF's underlying securities. The authorized participant turns the basket over to the ETF custodian, who holds all the securities in the ETF. In return, the custodian delivers ETF shares that can be bought and sold in secondary markets. This is generally done in blocks of 25,000, 50,000 or 100,000 ETF shares.
Creation/Redemption Process
The creation process in action.
The ETF creation/redemption process occurs when an investor enters an order to buy/sell a large number of ETF shares and there are not enough shares available on the secondary market.
ETF share redemption reverses this process when excess supply of ETF shares needs to be removed from the market. The process helps keep supply and demand in balance and leads to an ETF share price that is generally in line with the value of the underlying securities. These shares are used to fill investors' trades in the secondary market.
Learn More About the Tools of the ETF Trade
This article has provided a short overview of the layers of liquidity for an ETF. For a deeper dive, read our thought leadership paper, Tools of the ETF Trade: Understanding ETF Liquidity and Trading (requires login). You'll learn about:
 - The different sources of ETF liquidity
 - Trading execution considerations
 - Tips and best practices for trading ETFs


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Frederick de Houtman
During subsequent expeditions he added further stars to the list of those observed by Keyser. Between them the following constellations are credited to them as discoverors.
Houtman was the elder brother of Cornelis de Houtman who in a second expedition in _PHONE_ was killed. Frederick was imprisoned by the Sultan of Aceh in northern Sumatra, but made good use of his two years in prison by studying the local Malay language and making astronomical observations.
In 1619 he sighted land on the Australian coast near present day Perth. After sailing northwards along the coast he encountered and only narrowly avoided a group of shoals, the Houtman Abrolhos. Houtman then made landfall in the region known as Eendrachtsland which previous explorer Dirk Hartog had encountered.
The contents of this article is licensed from _URL_ under the GNU Free Documentation License. Click here to see the transparent copy and copyright details


Configure F5 BIG-IP for DirectAccess NLS
Recently I wrote about the Network Location Server (NLS) and its importance for DirectAccess deployments. As I described previously, the NLS is nothing more than a web server with an SSL certificate installed. It should also be made highly available to prevent potential service disruption caused by planned or unplanned NLS server downtime. Any web server can serve as the NLS. In addition, if you have the F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) in your environment, you can easily configure the LTM to serve as the NLS.
To accomplish this, import the SSL certificate for the NLS and create an SSL client profile using its certificate and private key. Next, create a new iRule that contains the following code.
HTTP::respond 200
Configure F5 BGIP for DirectAccess NLS
Finally, create a new virtual server listening on TCP port 443 and assign this iRule as a resource for the virtual server. Once NLS reachability has been verified, update the DirectAccess configuration using the Remote Access Management console or the Set-DANetworkLocationServer PowerShell cmdlet.
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Amazon Honor 8X Quiz Answer 26 December
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Amazon Honor 8X Quiz Answer 26 December
Question 1. What razor-thin country accounts for more than half of the western coastline of South America?
Answer. Chile
Question 2. What is the hardest substance in the human body?
Question 3. Kalia the Crow, Suppandi and Shikari Shambhu belong to which comic book?
Answer. Tinkle
Question 4. Which is the only continent that occupies all four hemispheres?
Answer. Africa
Question 5. The first iron-cased rockets in the world were successfully developed and deployed for military use by _. Fill in the blanks.
Answer. Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan, Kingdom of Mysore
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Grow 2.2 Manual
Grow 2.2 is based upon the original Grow 1.0 suite of programs developed by Meredith Jordan, Keiran Thompson, Ryan Bettens, Alexander Duncan and Michael Collins. A number of significant changes have been made to the original code. The major new features include: - addition of a Quantum Diffusion Monte Carlo (QDMC) module for calculation of the lowest rovibrational eigenstate of a system - python scripts to control the growing process, which replace the shell scripts in the original version. This makes the Grow package more robust and gives it greater portability. - the ability to use the quantum chemistry package Aces2 as a source of ab initio data, in addition to Gaussian. (Note: there is a known bug in the Aces code that calculates numerical second derivatives from first derivatives) - the ability to interpolate potential energy surfaces from density functional data, using any exchange or correlation functional implemented in Gaussian03 - rearranged (modular) input files - a second collection of python scripts to control the growing process, designed to function on machines with queuing systems (NQS, PBS). These additions and improvements have been implemented by Deborah Crittenden and Keiran Thompson. As Grow 2.2 is significantly different to Grow 1.0, this user manual is written as stand-alone documentation, and some information from the Grow 1.0 manual may be reproduced here.


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Roughness perception in haptic virtual reality for sighted and blind people
Psychophysical functions for perceived roughness, relating ln (magnitude estimate of roughness) to ln (groove width), were obtained for blind and sighted participants in virtual reality using the PHANToM force feedback device. The stimuli were sinusoidal surfaces with groove widths between 0.675 mm and 20.700 mm. Group functions showed a similar nonlinearity to those obtained in physical reality using rigid probes (Klatzky, Lederman, Hamilton, Grindley, & Swendsen, 2003; Lederman, Klatzky, Hamilton, & Ramsay, 1999). Individual functions gave a different picture. Of 23 total participants, there were 13 with wholly descending linear psychometric functions, 7 with quadratic functions similar to the group function, and 3 with anomalous functions. Individual power law exponents showed no significant effects of visual status. All analyses gave a power law exponent close to 20.80. The implications for theories of roughness, methodologies of data analysis, and the design of haptic virtual reality interfaces are considered.


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Studying with dyslexia
Dyslexia is a learning disorder which is common among students and can impact your studies at Leiden University.
The symptoms of dyslexia include difficulties in spelling, reading quickly or reading large amounts of texts. Some students have trouble with understanding the meaning of written text quickly. This means that studying with Dyslexia may require additional time and effort. Many students study successfully and accomplish many things despite their diagnosis. Leiden University has a range of study adjustments available to support you throughout your studies.
Adaptations can be made to the ways in which you follow classes and take exams. Special arrangements and facilities offered by Leiden University for students with dyslexia are:
- Text-to-speech software, that reads your study materials aloud whilst highlighting the text. For this you will need digital versions of your study materials. You can contact Fenestra for both the software and the digital versions.
- Extensions to assignment deadlines
- Alternative assignments
- Additional time for exams (maximum of 30 minutes extra for a three hour exam)
- Examination papers in a larger format
- Taking examinations in a separate room with fewer students
- Having an alternative type of examination
- Use of laptop for examinations
- Alternative study plan with a reduced workload
- Taking personal circumstances into consideration for your BSA (Binding Study Advice)
Make an appointment
To arrange special adaptations for your studies, please make an appointment with Fenestra Disability Centre, Leiden University's information centre for students with a disability.
Exception: additional time for exams
If you only require additional exam time and have an official diagnosis, you can submit a request as follows:
- Make a digital copy of your diagnosis, i.e. a letter issued by a doctor or clinic. This can be either in Dutch or English. If you need to have your diagnosis translated from a different language, mention this when completing the contact form – see next step.
- Complete and submit the contact form (select 'Additional time for exams')
After submitting your request
- Within two weeks, one of our staff members will be in touch with you.
- For most faculties, these adjustments will automatically continue for all your exams. However, some faculties unfortunately do not offer an automated system and require you to arrange additional time for each exam individually. Please talk to the study adviser of your programme or with Fenestra Disability Centre if you are unsure whether your faculty offers an automated system or not.
Inform your study adviser
Make sure to let your study adviser know that you have requested advice from Fenestra.
The tips below can help you to study more effectively and keep the difficulties caused by your dyslexia to a minimum. Try a few of them to find out what works best for you. Give it a few weeks. Research proves that it takes 21 days to change a habit.
Planning and organising
- Plan your work well.
- Use a well-structured agenda.
- Make sure you have an organised workspace where you won't be disturbed.
- Install IT aids when necessary, such as a magnifying screen or special software. Fenestra staff can offer advice.
- The Pomodoro technique is a good method to help you concentrate on your studies. For periods of 25 minutes you focus intently on your studies, then take a short break and repeat.
Processing study materials
- Summarise longer texts into a different format such as a list or diagram.
- Study graphics, diagrams and tables carefully.
- Repeat what you have read out loud in your own words.
- Discuss the materials with fellow students to improve your understanding and test what you have learnt.
- Find out if you text books are available in other formats.
- Try to find out in advance what the lecturer is going to cover that day so you can look at the materials in advance.
- Check if the sheets and notes that your lecturer will use are available in the digital learning environment. If not, ask your lecturer for them.
- Ask your lecturer if you may record the lecture.
- Ask a fellow student if you may copy his or her notes.
- You can buy study notes and summaries via SIL and the JoHo.
- Divide your written assignment into smaller steps and complete them one by one.
- If you find it hard to order your thoughts, first record your ideas on a voice recorder, then put them on paper.
- Don't try to make it perfect first time round. Make a rough version. Once you have all the basics on paper, start working on the style.
- Ask someone to check and correct your text. This isn't a sign of weakness. Your lecturers also ask people to edit their work.
- Prepare well. Practice doing old exam papers and let fellow students test you.
- Before starting, read the instructions carefully. Check how many questions you must answer and how much time you have.
- First answer the questions you immediately know the answers to. Then do the questions you find more difficult.
- Try to remain relaxed. Take short breaks now and then and try doing relaxation exercises. Don't feel pressurised by the tempo of other students.
- At the top of essay-type exams, add a brief note explaining that you are dyslexic and apologising for any textual mistakes. Lecturers will take this into consideration.
- If you frequently run out of time in exams, request extra exam time.
Guidance & advisors
Fenestra Disability Centre provides advice on all disability-related matters. If you need support in other areas, there are other advisers available.
See all advisers and guidance services
Additional facilities in the home might be both needed and welcome if you have a disability.
Read more about housing
Students with a disability can incur additional expenses both during their studies and in daily life. There are a number of regulations, funds and special allowances in place that can help to ease the financial burden.
Read more about financial support
Healthcare and home care
In some circumstances you might need additional healthcare or home care facilities or support.
Read more about healthcare and home care
According to the Act on the Equal Treatment of the Disabled and Chronically Ill, it is strictly forbidden to discriminate on the grounds of disability and chronic illness when providing employment, accommodation, goods and services.
Read more about legal protection
Staying in contact with other students might not always be easy but it is very important. Find out about the different ways in which you can meet other students.
Studying with dyslexia
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Low NM runoff from snow accumulation projected
Posted at: 01/09/2013 10:10 AM
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A new forecast projects lower than average water runoff from snow accumulation in New Mexico in 2013.
Forecasters with the federal Natural Resources Conservation Service say flow on the Rio Grande at a measuring point between Santa Fe and Los Alamos is projected to be just under half the average from 1981 to 2010.
In eastern Arizona, the forecast calls for runoff of only 22 percent of the average at Santa Rosa Lake on the Pecos River.
The Albuquerque Journal reports that the projections are based on the first three months of the typical snow accumulation over six months.
Snow accumulation from late fall through early spring provides runoff that feeds water into reservoirs that provide water for cities and farms over dry summer months.
(Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)