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Everything You Need to Know About Step Through Bikes
The world is changing every day, and you'll never know what is going to happen in the future. Of course it's the same when we are talking about the bicycle industry. Nowadays, people have many options for buying bicycles. Not only are their styles simplified, but they are also even equipped with batteries to meet people's various needs. If your impression on a bicycle still is that you have to pedal hard to make it move, or you are considering what kind of bicycle frame to choose, Step-Over or Step-Thru? Then don't miss this article. We will tell you the difference between the two models, as well as the PROs and CONs of these two frames, especially the Step through bikes. Hope it will help you to choose the right electric bike.
What is a Step Through Bike?
As early as around the late 19th and early 20th century, the Step-Thru model has been developed. In the early 20th century, because of people's clothing styles in the period, especially women, they were required to wear dresses rather than pants. But the Step-Over design of traditional bicycles often causes a lot of trouble for them. They need to lift their legs to mount the bicycle, which is very inconvenient and indecent. At this time, women gradually found the advantages of Step-Thru. This kind of classic and elegant design allows them to easily mount the bike without lifting their legs. Also, some feminist activists once said: "The popularity of the Step-Thru model is also a symbol of women being valued. When a woman rides a bicycle, she is showing people a sense of freedom, independence, and self-reliance." Therefore, the Step-Thru model has become more popular with ladies since then. And with the development and improvement over the years, the Step-Thru design has overcome some of the previous shortcomings and adapted to the current riding rules, becoming very humane.
Now, with the rise of electric bicycles, people have more choices. The E-bike with Step-Thru design has always been loved by the majority of ladies. In addition to its convenient and elegant characteristics, the equipment of batteries makes riding easier. Ladies can just wear what they want, whether long skirts or dresses, which is absolutely a piece of good news for women who are not as strong as men.
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The Difference between Step Through Bikes and Step Over Bikes
After briefly understanding the history of Step-thru, you might ask: What is the difference between Step-Thru bike and Step-Over bike? And what kind of frame should I buy? Don't worry, we will answer it from the frame structure, the different uses of the two bicycles and their applicable people.
About the frame
Before introducing these two different frames, you need to know the basic structure of a bicycle. Usually, a bicycle frame consists of two triangles: a main triangle and a paired rear triangle, and the difference between Step-Over and Step-Thru lies in the main triangle. The main triangle generally consists of a head tube, top tube, down tube, and seat tube. In addition to the head tube, the other three tubes are combined with the paired rear triangle to form a diamond shape, which is the basic structure of the original bicycle.
However, according to Wikipedia: A step-through frame (also known as open frame or low-step frame) is a type of bicycle frame, often used for utility bicycles, with a low top tube that connected in the middle of the seat tube instead of the top, or even without a top tube (cross-bar), resulting in a lower standover height. Due to the lower or absent top tube, Step-Thru E-bike usually has a thicker tubing. The purpose of this is to make the bicycle structure more stable. And a step-over frame has a higher top tube (cross-bar) connected to the top of the seat tube instead.
Different Uses
The Step-Thru model was originally designed to be used for transporting goods and delivery. Delivery men do not need to cross the high frame frequently to get on and off the bike, which is very convenient for them during their repetitive work. Then, as we mentioned before, the ladies found the convenience brought to them by Step-Thru, and this model became popular among women. Until now, Step-Thru design has become a trend in the bicycle industry. Moreover, it is also the prototype of the folding bicycle that has emerged in recent years. This simplified model is more conducive to folding.
The traditional model (Step-Over) has a more stable crossbar structure, so it appears more in rising terrains such as mountains and hills, as well as in long-distance bicycle trips or some cross-country bike competitions.
Applicable People
Of course, different models are suitable for different people. So which electric bicycle is suitable for you, we will help you make a choice.
Due to the simple and elegant design of the Step-Thru model, we believe it will be the best choice for most ladies. If you choose to buy a traditional model, it will bring you a lot of trouble. Except for making you look indecent when you lift your leg, the Step-Over design will easily scratch your dresses and cause damage to them. So please make your own consideration. In addition to women, Step-Thru is also a good choice for the elderly and those with leg injuries and mobility impairments. And for delivery men and other people who need to get on and off the bike frequently, Step-Thru is also a treasure because it reduces the difficulty of their work and saves more time.
As for the Step-Over model, due to its more stable design, it is more suitable for bicycle enthusiasts and those who like challenges. Besides, it is also used in many professional cycling competitions and is the best choice for professional riders. Or for some very tall people, traditional models are more of their flavor.
What are the pros of step-through bikes
In addition to the advantages of low dress requirements and effortless mentioned before, Step-Thru also has the following more advantages:
Lower height requirements
For some people who are not tall enough, Step-Thru is definitely the most suitable model. With its moderate size, you can easily mount the bike and equally easy to get off.
Better safety performance
Compared with traditional bicycles with the high top tube, Step-Thru has better safety performance, because when you lose your balance, you can cross through the bicycle without getting entangled, which may greatly reduce the occurrence of accidents.
More possibilities in the future
With the popularity of electric bicycles in recent years, another type of bicycle has also appeared, that is, folding electric bicycles. The structural basis of folding bicycles is Step-Through. The compact design of Step-Through makes the popularization of folding bikes possible. Perhaps in the future, Himiway will consider developing and launching a folding bicycle.
What are the cons of step-through bikes
Everything has advantages and disadvantages, and so does the Step-Through model. So what are the cons of Step-Thru, let's take a look.
The total weight of the bike may be heavier
Because of the lack of a top tube, the overall structure of the bicycle is not so strong. Therefore, compared with the traditional diamond frame, the Step-Through frame is usually equipped with thicker tubes and other small structural elements, which may increase the overall weight of the bike.
Load and climbing ability is not very strong
Excessive weight and inclined slope may cause the frame to bend, thereby reducing pedaling efficiency and shortening the life of the frame. So please be more cautious when climbing mountains.
Fewer places to install accessories
Most Step-Through frames on the market lack places to install accessories, such as water bottles and pumps, etc., which may cause inconvenience to long-distance cycling.
Difficulty in lifting
When you need to lift it for certain purposes, such as transporting it to another place or repairing it. Because the lacking or sloping tube near the center of gravity, there will be some difficulties to lift it.
However, for Himiway Step-Thru, we considered various possibilities to overcome these difficulties. So we decided to assemble the top tube to a lower position, and install bolts on it for mounting accessories. It not only solves the problem of installing accessories and lifting, but also enhances the load-bearing and climbing ability, the best choice when buying a Step-Through.
If you want to have a more elegant, more convenient, and safer bicycle, such as Himiway All Terrain Step Thru Electric Bike, then you can make your choice now!
If you are still wondering which one to choose, look through our guide for buying a step thru please.


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Analysis of Heart Rate Variability During Focal Parasympathetic Drive of the Rat Baroreflex
thesisposted on 04.05.2020, 20:29 by David Jacob BustamanteDavid Jacob Bustamante
Autonomic control of the heart results in variations in the intervals between heart beats, known as heart rate variability. One of the defining components of autonomic control is the baroreflex, a negative feedback controller that balances heart rate and blood pressure. The baroreflex is under constant command from the branches of the autonomic nervous system. To better understand how the autonomic nervous system commands the baroreflex, a baroreflex reflexogenic animal protocol was carried out. Heart rate variability analysis and baroreflex sensitivity were used to quantify the neural control of the heart. This thesis reconfirmed the existence of sexually dimorphic properties in the baroreflex through the use of heart rate variability analysis and baroreflex sensitivity. It was discovered that there are many caveats to utilizing heart rate variability analysis, which have to be addressed both in the experimental protocol and the signal processing technique. Furthermore, it was suggested that the slope method for quantifying baroreflex sensitivity also has many caveats, and that other baroreflex sensitivity methods are likely more optimal for quantifying sustained activation of the baroreflex. By utilizing various heart rate variability signal processing algorithms to assess autonomic tone in Sprague-Dawley rats during rest and sustained electrical activation of the baroreflex, the null hypothesis was rejected.

source: openbmb/Ultra-FineWeb


The Rutile network.
Rutile is a decentralized hosting platform. This means that anyone can participate in becoming a server and start hosting someone's website.
The network is secured by a subset of Blockchain, called the (Block)DAG. This allows data to be permanently stored, which is useful for transferring value and creating self-executing (smart) contracts. And to have transactions be executed parallel to each other.
The Rutile chain uses Proof-of-Stake for securing its chain. People can participate in the network by staking RUT tokens. The more RUT tokens they stake the higher chances of getting picked.
Once a participant gets picked to validate transactions it must check if all transactions are possible. If the participant is honest it can collect the fees from the web application.
However, if a participant acts maliciously it will get punched by burning the stake they have put in. This incentives participants to do honest work and keep the network secure.
People who participate in the Rutile network gets rewarded with RUT tokens. They earn this by acting fast on requests and changing the state of the web application.
Storage included.
Rutile has storage included in its network. This allows you to store and read files from the network. The storage layer is powered by IPFS. Rutile takes care of the incentives to store the files and the availability of the files.
Serverless based.
Rutile is serverless based. This means that your code only runs when it's requested to run. The non-serverless code runs all the time even when you don't need it, while you still pay for it. With Rutile, you only pay for what you need.
All serverless functions are written in WebAssembly. This means you can write your code in any programming language that can compile to WebAssembly, allowing you to use your existing skills and team.


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What is Museum2you?
An environmental education program for communities across NSW on the issues of sustainability, climate change and biodiversity.
Reaching out to communities across NSW
Councils, libraries, regional museums, community groups and organisations across NSW can host a Museum2you mini exhibition to make teaching and learning about important environmental issues empowering and engaging. The Museum2you display and resource module contains useful information on environmental issues as well as practical ideas and activities to help individuals and groups facilitate change in their communities.
What you get
Each Museum2you exhibit box contains:
- information panels
- display support material
- specimens and objects
- practical activities
- education resource packs
Just a click away
Experts at your fingertips
Museum2you includes access to online discussions and video conferencing links with Australian Museum experts where communities can ask questions, gather information and participate in professional development or practical workshops.
The Museum2you website is also a great place to find useful information on sustainability, climate change and biodiversity.
Twitter and Blogs
Connect with us and join our social network. Follow Museum2you on Twitter and get updates, links, and tips about environmental topics. Check out our blogs and take part in lively discussions on issues surrounding climate change, sustainability and biodiversity or share your thoughts and feedback about Museum2you.
Isabelle Kingsley, Education Project Officer - Museum2you

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Labial commissure of mouth
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Labial commissure of mouth
Fourteen Nylon sutures used to approximate the edges of this left cheek laceration, extending from the left commisure towards the left ear, allowing it to heal with considerably less scarring than it would without sutures.
Latin commissura labiorum oris
TA A05.1.01.012
FMA FMA:77268
Anatomical terminology
The commisure is important in facial appearance, particularly during function such as smiling. As such it is of interest to dental surgeons.
Diseases that involve the commisure include angular chelitis.
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Automated Index Partition Rebuilds
This post provides an example of a stored procedure which A) identifies the last two partitions of an Azure Synapse Analytics SQL pool table (which uses the columnstore index (default)) and B) rebuilds the index for these two partitions. Additionally, a sample PowerShell-based Azure Automation runbook is included for scheduling the execution of this procedure.
This post follows up on the previous post regarding a Power BI template to be used to analyze the health or quality of a columnstore index. For example, the template shared may help you find that the last one or two partitions such as partition numbers 39 and 40 out of 40 partitions may have many open (uncompressed) and/or not-optimized rowgroups. The cause of these low quality partitions could be that recent and ongoing data processing events are impacting these partitions (inserts,updates). Perhaps partitions 39 and 40 refer to the current and prior month for example.
Why Automate Index Rebuilds?
Large fact tables in data warehouses containing hundreds of millions or billions of rows are processed incrementally. For example, a nightly data warehouse load/processing job may impact only the last 15 days of data whereas older data does not change. Queries accessing the partitions for this recent data, such as Power BI in DirectQuery storage mode, will perform better if the indexes for the given partitions are rebuilt/optimized. Additionally, automating the index rebuilds avoids the manual work of periodically finding partitions to rebuild and running rebuild scripts.
*The relatively rare scenarios in which all historical data or large parts of it need to be reloaded or processed would still require a one-time rebuild of all the partitions impacted.
Index Partition Rebuild Procedure
A (.sql) file containing a sample stored procedure as well as a (.ps1) file containing the sample Azure Automation runbook script are available on my GitHub repository.
The stored procedure contains the following logic:
 1. Retrieve the last (maximum) partition number and the one prior (-1) containing rowgroups and store these integer values as variables
 - A query against the sys.pdw_nodes_column_store_row_groups catalog view and other system views is filtered for a particular schema and table name is used to retrieve these values.
 - Retrieving from the row groups system view ensures that the partitions retrieved have row groups (data)
 - If you were to query sys.partitions, you would retrieve the latest/highest partition numbers for the table but these may reflect future time frames and thus not contain data
 2. Unicode string variables are defined and set to contain two ALTER INDEX SQL statements, one for each partition
 - Notice that the integer variables containing the partition numbers is cast to nvarchar(3) within the concatenation of three strings. Without this data type conversion, there would be a type conversion error.
 - A unicode string is required (N'…..') for the sp_executesql system procedure
 3. The sp_executesql system procedure is used to execute the two ALTER INDEX SQL statements
Why dynamic SQL?
The ALTER INDEX statement requires the partition number to be a positive integer literal. Therefore, you can't simply pass in a variable (or an expression that casts this variable to a different type) to an ALTER INDEX statement. The dynamic SQL approach addresses this requirement by building up an ALTER INDEX SQL statement containing the partition number as though it was a normal, hand-entered SQL statement.
Additionally, dynamic SQL leaves open the potential for greater reusability as described in the next section.
More dynamic and reusable?
In the example shared, the name of the schema and table are hard coded into the stored procedure. You could make the procedure more flexible and reusable by parameterizing the names of the table and schema. With these two parameters defined and required as part of the procedure, you could have several small scripts which simply call the procedure with different parameter values reflecting different tables rather than having multiple procedures with each procedure dedicated to one table.
The decision (one or many procedures) may be driven by how many large fact tables you need this for. If you only need to automate the index rebuilds for 2-3 tables, procedures dedicated to a single table or one one procedure which rebuilds partitions for all 2-3 tables may be sufficient.
Beyond the partition numbers containing rowgroups, you could modify the system view query to retrieve the partition numbers containing the highest percentage of open or not-optimized rowgroups. With this more advanced logic, you'd know that your index rebuilds are constantly targeting partitions that would benefit the most from a rebuild. You could go further with conditional (IF..ELSE) logic that first determines if a partition actually needs to be rebuilt and only then rebuild the partition if this is the case.
Azure Automation Runbook
There are several tools available for scheduling and orchestrating the SQL stored procedure. Probably the most common tool in Azure Synapse environments is Azure Data Factory (ADF). Within an ADF pipeline, the Store Procedure Activity could be executed following regular data loading and processing activities. If ADF pipelines are used to load the Syanpse SQL pool, this integrated approach would generally be preferable.
If data warehousing and other Azure environment processes are being handled via Azure Automation runbooks, scheduling runbooks which call the SQL procedure may make sense too. The example for this post contains the following three steps:
 1. Retrieve the values for four automation variables
 - This includes the server, database, SQL user and password
 2. Two PowerShell SqlClient objects are defined – a SQL connection and a SQL command
 - The connection object is essentially just a standard connection string that references the variables from Step #1
 - The command object is based on both a SQLQuery variable containing the EXECUTE statement as well the connection object.
 - Setting the CommandTimeout property to 0 ensures the command will wait to execute indefinitely. The default is 30 seconds.
 3. The connection is opened and the SQL command is executed
 - With the stored procedure executed, the connection is closed
Wrapping Up
Thanks for visiting Insight Quest. If automatically rebuilding the indexes for certain partitions of your tables is relevant to you, I hope this post was useful. With healthy/optimized indexes being automatically maintained, users can get more value out of the data via greater performance and teams responsible for maintaining the data warehouse can focus on other value added activities.
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As with most third century Roman Empresses, very little is known about her. Probably of senatorial family, she became regent on her son Hostilian, when Decius and Herennius were defeated and killed in the Battle of Abrittus to sink into obscurity after her husband and sons perished. It is assumed that her ancestors settled in Etrurian lands. Herennia married Decius probably before 230 and gained the title Augusta. Her sons were Herennius Etruscus and Hostilian.
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Helping people with computers... one answer at a time.
Keeping data on your computer secure is important. Being able to password protect a folder seems an obvious approach. Unfortunately it's not that simple.
Can I put a password on a folder so that only I can see its contents?
Yes and no.
You can do something similar to password protecting it using Windows security features. It depends, though, on using the computer the "right" way. On top of that, I actually don't really recommend it. If you have something that you want to password protect and keep secure, I recommend a slightly different approach.
Windows allows you to place restrictions on who can do what with a folder, or even a file. In Windows Explorer, right click on a folder and Properties, and then click on the Security tab:
Here you can see the properties of a folder on my machine called "books".
Here you can control who has access to that folder. The default way my machine is set up, everyone can examine the contents of that folder. I can remove that and further restrict on an account-by-account basis which users can access that folder, and whether they can modify, read or even see the folder contents.
It's actually very powerful, if a tad complex.
However, it's based on Windows user accounts. Thus if you give your own account full access to the file, as I assume you would, then anyone that can login to the machine as you can immediately access the file. There's no real password on the folder, it's your ability to login to Windows using your login password that controls your access to the file.
And since it's based on Windows user accounts it assumes you're actually using different user accounts for different people. It's very common for that not to be the case.
The approach I prefer, and in fact use myself, is to use the free open-source tool TrueCrypt.
With TrueCrypt, you create a single file on your computer's hard drive that is encrypted. If someone looks at that file all they see is random data - there's no way to know what that file contains.
Once you "mount" that file using TrueCrypt, and supply the correct password or pass-phrase to unlock it, the contents of that file appear as another drive on your system.
For example, I might have a file "c:\Windows\secretstuff.tc". There's nothing you can do with that file without TrueCrypt and the password to the file. Since I know the password, I can mount it using TrueCrypt and suddenly a new drive appears - say "P:". That drive then contains all my protected files. I can change them, update them, delete them - whatever. Once I'm done, I can hide them all again by simply unmounting the TrueCrypt drive.
It's both simple and elegant.
And it's not tied to Windows, user accounts or anything else. In fact, you can copy your encrypted file to another machine entirely and mount it with TrueCrypt. Even using other systems such as Linux.
And while any encryption is vulnerable if you pick a bad password, the actual encryption algorithms used by TrueCrypt are "industrial strength" and nearly impossible to crack with current technologies.


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Fan Activism and Community: Case Studies in Connected Learning
This collection of case studies features three communities who build on fan interests and engagement to unite, inspire, and drive social change. These communities include Harry Potter enthusiasts, StarCraft gamers, and wrestling fans who use their shared passions as springboards for creative production and building peer-supported communities of learning. In some cases, fans even leverage their shared interests toward activism and political action.
Each case study examines a different expression of fan activism or fan-centered connected learning; these examples include groups who raise awareness about problems of social equality, literacy, and human rights, as well as fan communities who foster academic and life-relevant skills such as digital media production, communication and management skills, and traditional academic skills such as writing. While some of the case studies focus more directly on supporting and empowering those within their community of fans, others harness their shared interests to change the world around them.


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The Daning River, the largest tributary of the Yangtze River, is home to some of the Yangtze region's most spectacular scenery, including the Three Little Gorges. The clear blue waters of the Daning sit in stark contrast to the silty brown hue of the Yangtze, and the scenery along the river alternates between sheer cliff walls, verdant hills and the terraced fields of the villages on the banks.
Often shrouded in mist, the cliffs along the river extend thousands of feet in the air. Karst caves along the cliffs hold one of the river's most famous and mysterious relics: the suspended coffins of the ancient Bo minority group.
Archeologists don't know how the wooden coffins were placed into the caves, some more than 1,000 feet (305 kilometers) above the river, but they suspect the action of placing the coffins so high was auspicious and a mark of respect for the dead. Since the completion of the Three Gorges Dam, the water level in the river has risen substantially, making it easier to spot the remaining coffins high up in the cliffs.


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Definition of logwood
n. - The heartwood of a tree (Haematoxylon Campechianum), a native of South America, It is a red, heavy wood, containing a crystalline substance called haematoxylin, and is used largely in dyeing. An extract from this wood is used in medicine as an astringent. Also called Campeachy wood, and bloodwood. 2
The word "logwood" uses 7 letters: D G L O O O W.
No direct anagrams for logwood found in this word list.
Words formed by adding one letter before or after logwood (in bold), or to dglooow in any order:
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Code of Conduct & Behaviours
It is the sole responsibility of all parents and guardians, to read and inform dancers of the following code of conduct.
Académie Extrava Danse Academy (EDA) developed a code of conduct intended to nurture the self-esteem and self-discipline of each individual. Through shared responsibility of families, students, and staff; EDA wants to maintain a safe and harmonious environment for learning dance. Together, we must strive to develop a positive atmosphere based upon respect for people, property, and community. We maintain high expectations for our students. As a result, students, teachers, employees, parents need to conduct themselves in a responsible manner, be kind, courteous, and respectful of the rights and property of others.
Students, teachers, employees, and parents are responsible to each other for their conduct during training/ performing hours, and any and all activities hosted or attended by Académie Extrava Danse Academy. Our Code of Conduct promotes appropriate behavior and a series of realistic and effective responses to inappropriate behaviors.
1. Respect at Académie Extrava Danse Academy
Expectations include:
 - Respect for Peers: Students, parents, teachers, and employees are expected to recognize the uniqueness of all individuals and to respect the rights of other students.
 - Respect for Self: Students, are encouraged to gain self-awareness and self-confidence as they practice self-respect and self-control.
 - Respect for Property: Students, parents, teachers, and employees are expected to show respect for school, community and private property.
 - Respect of staff, teachers, and assistants
 - Respect of Parents, caregivers, and other pupils involved directly or indirectly to the dance community.
 - Parents and caregivers are expected to respect each other and act in an appropriate, and considerate fashion toward one another on studio premises and at any and all activities hosted or attended by EDA.
2. Student Required Behaviors for success in their dance training
Expectations include:
 - Students are expected to attend all classes and be punctual. Absenteeism should only be for illness or unavoidable appointments or situations.
 - Class Preparation and Participation: Students are expected to take an active part in learning by coming to class fully prepared to work with a positive and constructive mindset, and by participating in a co-operative manner.
 - Teachers will teach and train with the dancer's safety as a priority. Constructive corrections, feedback, and guidance will be given to students in order to foster a growth mindset.
 - Students must, therefore, maintain a growth mindset and are encouraged to think positively about themselves and their dance training.
Source: _URL_
3. Harassment/Abuse
According to the Canadian human rights commission;
"Harassment is a form of discrimination. It includes any unwanted physical or verbal behavior that offends or humiliates you. Generally, harassment is a behavior that persists over time. Serious one-time incidents can also sometimes be considered harassment.
Harassment occurs when someone
 - makes unwelcome remarks or jokes about your race, religion, sex, age, disability or any other of the grounds of discrimination;
 - threatens or intimidates you because of your race, religion, sex, age, disability or any other of the grounds of discrimination;
 - makes unwelcome physical contact with you, such as touching, patting, or pinching."
Source: _URL_.
The harassment or abuse of any person within the studio will result in realistic and effective responses from the director or appropriate representative. Proven harassment may result in immediate removal from classes, the competitive team, or the studio.
4. Addressing Bullying and harassment.
Académie Extrava Danse Academy takes any bullying and harassment seriously and will make every attempt to address any claims of bullying using the following procedures to encourage dancers' communication between one another, build, interpersonal problem-solving tools, and build confidence.
When a bullying claim is made, EDA will follow these steps in the following order;
 1. Ask students to approach one another and positively/constructively communicate;
 1. What was said ("When you said___/When I overheard you say___")
 2. How it made them feel (it made me feel_____)
 3. how it has affected them either in or out of the dance class. (I now feel ashamed/embarrassed/unmotivated/nervous to ___)
 2. Return to the teacher/director to quickly discuss how the communication between students went.
 3. If unsuccessful, the teacher or director will positively and constructively discuss with and make every attempt to resolve the issues between students involved.
 4. If still unsuccessful, EDA will reach out to all parents of students involved via email (_EMAIL_) to open a dialogue conducive to resolving any issues of bullying or harassment.
 5. If harassment or bullying persists and is proven with sufficient tangible proof, pupils who are caught harassing, in any form, could be subject to loss of privilege such (such as assisting, Competitive solo, duo, or trio, or group) and could face immediate expulsion.
5. Rules at Academy Extrava Danse
- Photography of any kind by parents, guardians, or other students is prohibited without informed consent by all pupils or parents/ legal guardians of pupils being photographed. This is to ensure the security and privacy of individuals are respected.
- Unless otherwise decided by the teacher, all classes will take place in the appropriate studio and will be delivered behind closed doors to maintain the dancers' full attention and focus, and to minimize distractions and interruptions from outside.
- All lengthy conversations or queries should be dealt with by contacting the studio administration via the appropriate points of contact (_EMAIL_ or _PHONE_). This is to assure classes stay on the preset schedule.
- All communication regarding emotionally charged, or difficult situation should be made to the appropriate points of contact (_EMAIL_ or _PHONE_). For non-emergency queries, please allow 24 to 48 hours for a reply.
- When emotionally charged, or difficult situation arises, we suggest that a period of at least 24 hours be taken before contacting EDA administration/ director.
6. Safe Studio environment
The following witnessed situations can lead to suspension and/or expulsion from Academie Extrava Danse Academy. Suspensions can and will affect competitive examination, or performance attendance. The director or an appropriate representative of EDA reserves the right to make and enact any final decisions pertaining to a situation that can or would be considered harmful to the mental and physical safety of all families at EDA pertaining to any and all situations happening within the studio or activities hosted or attended by Académie Extrava Danse Academy.
 - Uttering a threat to inflict serious bodily harm on another person;
 - Swearing at a teacher, student, staff member, parent. or another member of the EDA community.
 - Confrontational, threatening, or intimidating behavior towards any individual on the EDA premises or during EDA activities, performances, or events.
 - Committing physical assault on another person that causes bodily harm requiring medical attention
 - Stealing or damaging the properties of others. (EDA is not responsible for the recovery, repair, or reimbursement of any lost/ stolen or damaged items, inside or outside of the studio)
Helene Tassie
Owner/ Artistic Director
Académie Extrava Danse Academy
*Version françaises à suivre


WPF PerspectiveCamera LookDirection
I have been converting a bunch of demos to the November CTP of WPF and I came upon an interesting problem. The LookAtPoint property of PerspectiveCamera was changed to LookDirection. So I happily renamed it, compiled and ran, but nothing appeared inside of the Viewport3D. I asked Tim Sneath if there was anything that might cause this. He pointed out that LookDirection is a Vector3D instead of a Point3D. My LookDirection was set to (0,0,0). This worked great for LookAtPoint because (0,0,0) is a valid 3D point to look at, but (0,0,0) doesn't work for LookDirection.
When I asked Jordan Parker of the WPF team for an explanation of what was happening he explained that the definition of LookDirection is LookAtPoint – Position. You will end up with a zero length vector if LookAtPoint = Poisiton. A zero vector is not a viable direction. Ok so that explains why I don't see anything, now how do I fix it?
This diagram shows how cameras worked with LookAtPoint and how they work with LookDirection. I have done this in 2D to make explanation easier. On the left I have two cameras marked with blue arrows. They both have a LookAtPoint set to (1,1) so regardless of what there position is they will look at the green dot. On the right I have two cameras marked with red arrows showing how things LookDirectionwork with LookDirection. The red camera in the lower left at position (-2,-2) is pointing at the green dot because it's LookDirection is set to (1,1), but the other red camera at position (2,2) is not facing the green dot because it too has a LookDirection set to (1,1). Note that the reason that the camera a position (2,2) can't see the green dot is because of the direction it's facing. To get the red camera at position (2,2) to look towards the green dot we would need to set the LookDirection to (-1,-1), which would cause the camera to face directly towards the green dot, because of the camera's position. Something to note here is that a camera doesn't actually look at a single point it looks at all the points in the direction it's facing. Also the LookDirection is normalized so there is no difference between setting the LookDirection to (1,1) or (100,100), they would both result in the camera facing in the same direction.
In the demo I am porting the camera is looking at a box and rotating the camera around the box. I could just rotate the box. Instead I used Jordan's definition of LookDirection and subtracted the position I wanted to look at from the camera position. This gives me the direction I should apply to LookDirection. If I wanted to look at (0,0,0) I would do something like the following every time I updated my camera position.
PerspectiveCamera pc = (PerspectiveCamera)this.Camera;
Point3D objectPosition = new Point3D(0,0,0);
pc.LookDirection = new Vector3D(objectPosition.X – pc.Position.X, objectPosition.Y – pc.Position.Y, objectPosition.Z – pc.Position.Z);


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a wind that is strong enough to cause at least light damage to trees and buildings and may or may not be accompanied by precipitation. Wind speeds during a windstorm typically exceed 55 km (34 miles) per hour. Wind damage can be attributed to gusts (short bursts of high-speed winds) or longer periods of stronger sustained winds. Although tornadoes and tropical cyclones also produce wind damage, they are usually classified separately
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Fuad, a young boy from the kingdom of Cor, must leave his home to travel the Known World in search of the legend his heart believes to be true. The Golden Scrolls, written thousands of years ago, could hold the answers to the mysterious darkness that has been consuming kingdoms, with Cor in its path. But is the legend true or simply another fable of the renowned
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Google Coding Conventions
Only deviations from the Google style guide will be documented here.
We use JsDoc comments as outlined in the Google style guide with but we name the variable name directly after the _USER_ tag and the type without curly braces.
Generally we encourage inline comments. These help readers of your code to understand the logic without having to understand every line of code. It's also a good practice to write inline comments before you write code so that you first think about the logic and semantics you want to implement and then about the syntax.
We do not generally use the _USER_ and _USER_ markers that Google recommends. We do, however, implement the following nomenclature for class members (properties and methods):
- We group members by visibility and class (static) vs. object (instance) membership:
- private static class variables (start with underscore)
- private instance variabes (start with underscore)
- protected instance variables (discouraged)
- public static class variables or instance variables are not allowed!
- public static methods
- public methods
- protected static methods
- protected methods
- private static methods (start with underscore)
- private methods (start with underscore)
- Sections are divided with a three line // style comment indicating the class member category.
- An underscore at the start of the name marks a class member private. You are not supposed to use such a member outside scope even if the visibility is not enforced by closure.
- Protected class members are named like public methods but they must not be used outside of the inheritance hierarchy of the current class.


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Architectural Purpose in The Sea Ranch
The Uniqueness of California's Famed Sea Ranch Community
The Sea Ranch is a stunningly beautiful and unique planned community located along a desirable stretch of the California coastline. Its uniqueness is without question as few communities earn their own exhibit at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art or begin as a challenge given to a group of college faculty members. The community has changed some during its more than 50-year history, but the changes are far less than what most people would expect in today's modern world. The Sea Ranch remains a place unlike anywhere else on the California coastline, or perhaps in the entire country.
How it Began
The Sea Ranch began in 1964 when Al Boeke, a local developer, hired a group of faculty members from the University of California to help create his vision. The architectural experts took on a challenge to transform a 5,200-acre sheep ranch into a nature-driven residential community. The land consisted of ten miles of coastline just three hours north of San Francisco and was a very desirable development spot.
How it Worked
The architecture in the community is exquisite, but carefully designed so it does not take attention away from the beauty of nature. Many of the homes include sloped roofs so they blend with the sloped terrain. The gray wood houses disappear into nature and stayed unpainted for that purpose. Every step taken received careful thought, so the natural world experienced as little disruption as possible.
The design of buildings arose after the architects studied the land where it would sit. The priority was always what existed naturally, and the homes became a part of the topography. Trees, shrubs, and bushes became privacy fences, windbreaks, and more instead of cleared out and replaced with grass seed or flower gardens and swimming pools as they would have been in other areas.
The Sea Ranch remains so valuable today because it is a functioning community that continues to follow by the same restrictions as its original design. It is proof that people can live comfortably and luxuriously without needing to pave or destroy nature. The area also offers an interesting vacation rental destination for those that want to experience what the coastline of California was like before the over development of all ocean-view property took place in the country.
Why it Excels
Community members remain committed to the original plans for the area. Today, the population of the community is around 1,300 people on 2,288 lots. New homes continue to go into the area, but each retains the basic look of the original buildings. The designs of the first homes were so ahead of their time, they look modern even according to 21st century standards. Open floor plans, a focus on views and natural light, and design features like ladders rather than staircases and lofts that make it easier to have more in less space.
Condominium One, a home built in 1964 and considered the first important building of the community, has a place on the National Register of Historic Places. It took only a year before a style of the home named after the community became one of the most desirable architectural styles around the world.
The builders were protective of nature, but also of the structure already on the property when they began. The only remaining structure from the original 19th-century farm was a barn built-in 1870. The barn remains on the property today and received a complete restoration in the 1980s.
How to Enjoy
It is still possible for people to make The Sea Ranch their home. The community allows new development if the homes meet the same design standards as the existing houses. Acceptable changes include the use of materials that make the homes more fire-resistant. The newer houses often stay small, and sometimes include multiple tiny connected structures to prevent monopolizing the view. It is an unusual tactic for builders developing a coastline, but this is also a place that originally advertised itself as a destination where " The terrain is rugged, the surf treacherous, the ocean cold." And it still succeeded.
Visitors that want to experience what life is like at the Sea Ranch can do so at a vacation rental. The rental houses available through the community are immaculate, and many have unbeatable ocean views. The community offers visitors a chance to see if they enjoy a calmer and more nature-centered life. Recreation centers, playgrounds, and picnic areas are located within the community. An on-site library is open to everyone and offers a change of pace for the quieter days of a vacation. Nearby the Sea Ranch are plenty of urban areas and natural sites that offer an endless amount of day and night activities of all types.
The desire of the architects that began The Sea Ranch project was to create a community where people would " live lightly on the land" The examples of this include the use of locally sourced Redwood boards for the siding of Condominium One in 1964. Today, when developers removed a tree from property to build a new home, the wood from the tree became the benches in the same yard. Visitors that want to experience the uniqueness of the community should honor the original planners and builders and plan to " live lightly" as well during their stay.


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Dried fruit and nuts are sometimes consumed together as a whimsically-named product: "trail mix". That's not the only reason these two products fall in the same category on this web page. Both dried fruit and nuts are natural products that usually undergo post-harvest processing before they are sold to customers or consumers. Moisture mistakes for both these product categories are similarly painful: too much water means mold; too little means lost profit, not to mention quality issues.
Most growers or buyers use moisture content to determine if tree nuts or dried fruit are too "wet". This can cause problems. First, the moisture level that causes mold is different for every kind of nut or dried fruit. Second, loss-on-drying moisture isn't a very precise method for measuring moisture - the answer you get depends on the method you use.
Water activity is different. It's a snap to identify bad batches that could mold: any product over 0.7 aw can mold, anything under that value won't. It doesn't matter what your product is. Using water activity as a standard can eliminate the guesswork over whose moisture meter is right. Two water activity meters measuring the same sample will give the same reading. If you really want to know your moisture content, a new version of AquaLab can give you both moisture content and water activity from the same reading.
Dried fruit and nuts last a long time on the shelf, but not forever. In the end, lipid oxidation and other chemical or enzymatic reactions make the product unpalatable. Because water activity is a measure of energy, it influences how quickly these reactions occur.


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You can delete a task from the List View of Tasks or the Summary View of the record provided you are an Admin user or have delete permissions.
- To delete a task from the List View, go to Essentials > Tasks. Select the task and click the Delete icon displayed above the list view records.
- To delete a task from its Summary View, open the task, click the More icon located beside the task name and click the Delete icon.
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Definition of transferral in English:
The action of transferring someone or something: the transferral of ownership in the form of a takeover
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- Both parties will also identify research areas that will improve the delivery of the TB control programme by monitoring patient transferral.
- Indeed, a number of events since sovereignty transferral in 1997 directly point to that erosion.
Words that rhyme with transferralconferral, deferral, referral
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Inserting headers and footers.
Similarly, to insert a footer, choose Footer.
Fields are covered in detail in Chapter 14 (Working with Fields).
Portrait headers on landscape pages
When you define a header and footer on a landscape page, they will be aligned with the long side of the page. If your landscape pages are going to be inserted between portrait pages, you might want the headers and footers to be on the short sides of the landscape pages, so the final printed product looks like the contents of the landscape pages have been rotated 90 degrees on portrait pages.
You can set up portrait headers and footers on landscape pages by using a trick involving frames. These are a bit tedious to set up, but once you have done so, you can copy and paste them to other landscape pages. There does not appear to be a way to make this part of the landscape page style.
To set up portrait headers and footers on landscape pages:
 1. Calculate the required margins so the text area of the landscape page is the same size as the text area on the portrait pages, taking into account the space for headers and footers on the portrait pages. For example, this book uses the margins shown in the following table. The landscape right and left margins are 1 cm larger than the portrait top and bottom margins, respectively. This difference accounts for the extra space used by the portrait header and footer (0.5 cm for the height of the header or footer and a 0.5 cm gap between the header or footer and the main text).
 2. Portrait page (right page) Landscape page (right page)
 Top margin 1.5 cm Right margin 2.5 cm
 Bottom margin 1.5 cm Left margin 2.5 cm
 Left (inner) margin 2.8 cm Top margin 2.8 cm
 Right (outer) margin 1.8 cm Bottom margin 1.8 cm
 3. Create the landscape page style.
 4. Measure the distance from the upper and left edges of the page to the upper left-hand corner of the space where you want the footer to appear. Measure the width and length of the space the footer will occupy (to match footers on portrait pages).
 5. Measuring the location and size of the footer frame.
 6. In a blank paragraph in the text, type the footer text or insert fields such as the page number or the chapter number and name—to match the footer text and fields on the portrait pages. Assign the Footer style to this paragraph so the typeface, font size, and tab settings match those of the footers on the portrait pages.
 7. Select the text (including the fields) you just entered. Choose Format > Character. On the Character dialog box, choose the Position tab and set Rotation / Scaling to 270 degrees (counterclockwise). Click OK.
 8. Rotating the footer text 270 degrees.
 9. With the text still selected, choose Insert > Frame. In the Frame dialog box, choose the Type tab and enter the width, height, and horizontal and vertical position for the footer.
 10. Defining the size and position of the footer frame.
 11. If your footer has a line above the text, on the Borders page, select a right border and specify the line width and spacing to the frame's contents.
 12. Specifying the border position, line width, and spacing to contents.
 13. Click OK to save these settings. The footer should now appear in the required position and orientation. Repeat these steps (using appropriate measurements) to set up a portrait header on the landscape page.
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The VG interface offers customers a safe and cost-effective interface between test adapters and test system. It is a standard interface that can be applied to all standard test fixtures and test systems. The interface is mechanically closed in a so called VG-receiver. This is a mechanical fixture which is actuated by a hand lever. The VG-receiver connects the two sides mechanically. Into the receiver and each adapter so called VG-block can be used as modular interface. This allows a flexible design of the interface with signal blocks, Coaxblocks, vacuum block, power block in different configurations.
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text: Since 1991, NOAA/PMEL has routinely detected Tertiary waves from NE Pacific ocean earthquakes using the U.S. Navy's SOSUS hydrophone arrays. Tertiary (T) waves are seismically generated acoustic waves (between 5--50 Hz) that propagate over great distances in the oceanic sound channel with little loss in signal strength. Low attenuation, combined with the availability of detailed ocean acoustic velocity models, have made T waves extremely useful for monitoring seafloor earthquakes; T waves allow for highly accurate epicentral locations, and a reduction of the detection threshold by almost two orders of magnitude. However, it is still not well understood how seismic energy generated at the earthquake source propagates through the seafloor--ocean interface and couples to the sound channel. Hence, the relationship between earthquake source parameters and the T-wave amplitude recorded at the hydrophone are not directly known. The goal of this paper is to empirically compare earthquake magnitude, seismic moment, and fault orientation (radiation pattern) to an event's T-wave source level to see if systematic relationships exist. T-wave source level is estimated by deconvolving instrument gain and the transmission loss from the T-wave signal, thus resulting in the earthquake's acoustic energy at the seafloor--ocean interface.


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Elements Spreadsheet provides the capability to define header and footer rows.
This NEW feature is available since the version 3.1.
Purpose of headers and footers
This feature is designed to help you organizing and browsing your spreadsheet data with :
- Compatibility with Confluence table headers
- Sorting function
- Filtering function (coming soon)
Compatibility with Confluence table
When creating a table in the Confluence editor, you can specify a line as a header. Thereby, when you are browsing the Confluence page, this header line allows you to sort the data and is fixed (the header line remains visible when you are scrolling the table content) :
Elements Spreadsheet is compatible with these behaviors. If you are using one or more headers rows in your spreadsheet document, it will be rendered in the same way as a Confluence table, allowing you to use the native Confluence table sort and fixed header.
These features are currently not available with the new Confluence cloud editor.
When headers and footers rows are used, only the rows between the last row header and the first row footer are sorted. This can be useful to avoid sorting table headers or footers calculations. Furthermore, when rows are set as headers, the column
How to use them
Currently, the Elements Spreadsheet editor allows you to define up to three rows for a header, three header columns, and three footer rows.
- The header rows must be consecutive relative to the first row (top)
- The footer rows must be consecutive relative to the last row (bottom)
- The header columns must be consecutive relative to the first column (left)
You can enable and disable them by using the toolbar button, or via the context menu.
|Row can be set as row header|
|Column can be set as column header|
|Row can be set as row footer|
|Row cannot be set as row header|
|Column cannot be set as column header|
|Row cannot be set as row footer|
|Row is set as row header or can be unset to a normal row|
|Column is set as column header, or can be set as normal column|
|Row is set as footer from the last row, or can be unset to a normal row|
When using headers and/or footers, some constraints are applied on your document to preserve sorting / filtering options :
- Inserting lines/columns before a header or after a footer is not possible
- A cell selection mixed from a header/footer and non-header/footer areas cannot be merged


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| When to Sow: Anytime
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| (Xi Shu, Happy Tree, Tree of Life)
Chinese tree with proven anti-cancer properties. The bark, stem and leaves contain camptothecin, an alkaloid effective against leukemia, colon cancer and other tumours, and it blocks the replication of the HIV virus that causes AIDS. Drugs derived from the tree are ringing up sales in excess of $1 billion. In traditional Chinese medicine it is used for the treatment of colds, psoriasis, cancers and leukemia of the liver, gallbladder and stomach. Due to overharvesting in China it is endangered in the wild, but it is now in cultivation in India and Japan. It was introduced to America in 1930s and is growing in Florida and Georgia. The tree reaches 20m/65ft.


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Forward points represent the difference in price between currency rates for two different delivery dates. Typically, they are expressed as the number of pips added to or subtracted from the current spot rate of a currency pair to obtain the forward rate for delivery on a specific value date in the future. They may also reflect the difference between two forward rates for two different dates in the future.
Forward points are mainly affected by the difference in interest rates between two currencies. This is because forward currency trades are contracts in which one party implicitly borrows one currency from, and simultaneously lends another to, the second party. For example, if someone is selling US dollars against euros for delivery in three months' time and the US 3-month interest rate is higher than the euro interest rate, the forward rate will normally be lower than the spot rate to offset the interest differential that otherwise benefits the holder of dollars. This relationship is known as the Covered Interest Parity.
Forward points are also affected by the Cross-Currency Basis. The cross-currency basis indicates the amount by which the interest paid to borrow one currency by swapping it against another differs from the cost of directly borrowing this currency in the cash market. Prior to the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) the cross-currency basis was almost always very close to zero for developed currencies. After the GFC, the cross-currency basis has become much more volatile and has occasionally widened significantly. This is often a reflection of strains in global interbank markets. Specifically, heightened concerns about counterparty risk and constrained bank access to wholesale dollar funding inhibited arbitrage during the GFC, and again during subsequent crises. It is also believed to reflect regulatory constraints on arbitrage activity by market-makers such as banks.


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i have downloaded some SRTM Dem files here: They are from the USGS site.
I would like to export them as 3d.
I have ran through a few tutorials online, eg 1) 2)
But still don't get it.
Question: 1) so are the SRTM DEM files exportable to be viewed in 3d via Arcscene/ Arcmap? 2) how do you do it?
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When you downloaded the data what format did it come in? By definition, if the data is a raster format, it can be considered 3D data, as it has a x,y,z value. If you are looking to have it extruded in ArcScene then you will want to do a few of the following things.
Assuming your data is in a usable raster format (ie: GeoTiff) then you will want to do the following: - Open the Properties of the data in ArcScene and change the Symbology (ie: Standard Dev. 2 and change the statistics to From Current Display Extent - On the Base Heights Tab change the radio buttom from No elevation values from a surface to Floating on a custom surface and choose the SRTM raster file (this will make the raster have 3D visual appeal - Finally you can play with the visual rendering which is located under the Rendering tab. The Higher the rendering, the more memory it needs from your computer and graphics card.
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A football place kicker is about to attempt a field goal from the 30-yard line. He is lined up directly in front of the left goal post; but since there is a wind coming from the right side of the field, the kicker aims for the right goal post. This means that, from above, the ball will be kicked at a 79º angle to the 30-yard line.
A.) The player kicks the ball at this angle with enough force to make the ball go 47 miles per hour, and the wind is blowing at 10 miles per hour. Use a vector sum of these two forces to show that, under these circumstances, the kicker will miss the field goal.
B.) To make the field goal, the resultant force of the kick and the wind actually should have a magnitude of 50 miles per hour and a direction of 85º. To counteract the 10-mph wind, with what speed--and at what direction--should the football player kick the ball?
I am needing help figuring out the answers to this question. I would appreciate if someone could give great detail in explaining how to do this step by step to finding answers so I will know how to do it.


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Internet's Impact on Museums and Libraries
Open Lib/Info Sci Education Forum [_EMAIL_]; on behalf of; Kevin OConnell [_EMAIL_]
_EMAIL_ Fri 7/03/2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 6, 2008
IMLS Press Contacts
Jeannine Mjoseth, _EMAIL_
Mamie Bittner, _EMAIL_
Wanda Monroe, _EMAIL_
IMLS Announces Results of Study on the Internet's Impact on Museums and Libraries
"Museums and libraries are alive and well in the digital world!" Radice said. "The InterConnections report shows how people currently search for information and makes the case that the libraries and museums must provide service both online and in person."
IMLS sponsored this national
study through a cooperative agreement with a
Libraries and museums are the most trusted sources of online information among adults of all ages, education levels, races, and ethnicities. Libraries and museums rank higher in trustworthiness than all other information sources including government, commercial, and private Web sites. The study shows that the public trust of museums and libraries migrates to the online environment.
The explosive growth of information available in the "Information Age" actually whets Americans' appetite for more information. People search for information in many places and since the use of one source leads to others, museums, public libraries, and the Internet complement each other in this information-rich environment.
The Internet is not replacing in-person visits to libraries and museums and may actually increase onsite use of libraries and museums. There is a positive relationship between Internet use and in-person visits to museums and public libraries.
The InterConnections report provides evidence that public libraries and museums are thriving in the Internet Age as trusted providers of information to people of all ages.
To view the report, please go to _URL_ .
The 2008 WebWise Conference on Libraries and Museums in the Digital World on March 6, 2008. The annual late winter WebWise Conference draws museum, library, information systems, and other professionals to explore new research and innovation in digital technology. The 2008 conference, co-hosted by IMLS and The Wolfsonian–Florida International University (The Wolfsonian–FIU), with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, highlights the growing convergence between libraries and museums in collection and information management. For more information, go to _URL_ .
Joint use conference proceedings now available
Open Lib/Info Sci Education Forum [_EMAIL_]; on behalf of; Sarah McNicol [_EMAIL_]
_EMAIL_ Mon 5/11/2007
For any public, academic, special or school library considering any form of joint/dual use library or library based service partnership.
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The following document was posted on the JSC Web site on 2008/01/25:
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Knowledge 2008: Map of Human Knowledge
chaim Zins [_EMAIL_] _EMAIL_ Wed 6/02/2008
Dear Friends & Colleagues,
Knowledge 2008 is an ongoing R&D project aimed at mapping human knowledge and facilitating efficient information searching. The project is composed of 6 parts:
Map, Portal, Smart Search, Encyclopedia, Overview, and Forum:
Knowledge 2008: Map of Human Knowledge
Overview. A systematic map of human knowledge. The knowledge map maps 500 major fields. Human knowledge is composed of 10 pillars. Each pillar is divided into relevant categories and presents the relevant field.
Unique characteristics. To better evaluate the map let us look at its unique characteristics:
1. The 10 pillar structure, which is based on the Knowledge - Supernatural - Universe - Humans model is unique.
2. The distinction between categories of the map (e.g., Theory) and fields of knowledge (e.g., Philosophy of Knowledge) is unique.
Imagine that the Map mirrors a library. The pillars are bookcases. The categories are shelves, and the fields of knowledge are books. The Library of Human Knowledge has 10 bookcases, 100 shelves, and a collection of 500 books.
3. The Theory - Embodiment structure is unique. The map has a Theory - Embodiment structure. It is manifested within the map level, the pillar level, and the field level.
[in the map level: Pillar 1 is 'the theory' part of human knowledge (HK). It is composed of the meta-knowledge of HK. Pillars 2-10 are 'the embodiment' of HK. They are composed of our knowledge on the explored phenomena (the supernatural, the universe, the living world, and humans. In the pillar level: Each pillar has 'a theory' category. In the field level: Each field has 'a theory' sub-field (e.g., Philosophy of Medicine, Literary Theory, Philosophy of Art)
4. The categories of the map were formulated in this research.
Knowledge 2008: Portal to Human Knowledge
Overview. A systematic portal to top quality resources. Currently, the portal includes hundreds links to top resources in all fields of knowledge.
Knowledge 2008: Smart Search
Overview. A systematic user interface of Internet search engines. It is designed to facilitate an efficient information searching. Currently, it is implemented for Google search engine.
Rationale. Search words are essential for formulating effective search queries. Unfortunately, most searchers are not familiar with the relevant search terms. It is assumed that in every field there are main keywords that relate to the core knowledge of the field. The idea is to develop a systematic user interface that presents the main keywords in the major fields of knowledge.
Knowledge 2008: Encyclopedic Portal to Wikipedia
Overview. A systematic portal to the Wikipedia Encyclopedia. The portal implements the knowledge map for facilitating systematic access to Wikipedia's encyclopedic articles.
Rationale. Wikipedia is a general encyclopedia. It is free and popular. Undoubtedly, Wikipedia is a significant international, intercultural, and interdisciplinary project despite the poor quality of many articles. Note that the map can be implemented in other encyclopedias.
A concise overview of the knowledge map.
An academic and professional forum (via email) on the theoretical and practical aspects of the project.
Please feel free to reflect. Thanks.
Knowledge 2008 : Map - Portal - Encyclopedia - Smart Search - Overview - Forum
Knowledge Map of Information Science
Chaim Zins, PhD.
Knowledge Mapping Research
Homepage: _URL_ Knowledge 2008: Map of Human Knowledge
LC releases final report on future of bib control
Open Lib/Info Sci Education Forum [_EMAIL_]; on behalf of; B.G. Sloan [_EMAIL_]
_EMAIL_ Fri 11/01/2008
Library of Congress Subject Headings report
McGarry, Dorothy [_EMAIL_] Science-Technology Division Wed 5/03/2008
From: Miller, David [_EMAIL_]
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 7:21 AM
Subject: [ccs-sac] Library of Congress Subject Headings report
Hello, everyone -
Pardon me if you've all seen this announced already (I'm only on a couple of mailing lists and look at a handful of blogs), but this doesn't seem to have received a lot of play yet.
The report "Library of Congress Subject Headings: Prevs.
Post-Coordination and Related Issues" is out from CPSO, and is available at _URL_
Mark Perkins lists [_EMAIL_] _EMAIL_ Thu 1/11/2007 5:52 PM
ISOC Netherlands and ISOC Belgium participate in the launch of OpenDoc Society
A new member-based organisation, OpenDoc Society, will try to bring a global community of


Example sentences for: joked
How can you use "joked" in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
 - Although the hijackers slit the throat of one passenger in private, they did not disclose this murder to the other passengers, who at times joked and conversed with their captors.
 - In the province of computing, that feat was accomplished not by Gates--who has never fought to reduce the price of computing power, lest his margins suffer unnecessarily--but by the boys at Intel, led by Gordon Moore, Andy Grove, and the late Robert Noyce--who, years before his death, joked with IBM execs that computers in the future would not only be more powerful than IBM mainframes, but would be smaller, and much, much cheaper.
 - Since the launch of Slate nearly three years ago, we've joked about how you'd know when online magazines were ready for mass consumption.
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JOURNALISM! NYT Wonders Why 'Pornography Literacy Classes' Would Anger NYC Parents
The New York Times pondered on social media this week over why parents in New York City would be upset that their young children are subjected to "pornography literacy classes" and "sex-positive education" at two elite private schools.
"Pornography literacy classes are supposed to teach students how to critically assess what they see on the screen. But when a sex-positive educator taught her curriculum at two elite New York City schools recently, some parents were outraged," posted the newspaper on Twitter.
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It was great news to hear that "Language Learning with Technology" (Stanley 2013) was nominated and consequently won the Duke of Edinburgh English Speaking Union English Language Book Awards. A big congratulations to Graham for his continued effort with technology and language learning, I have always enjoyed reading his contributions to this field and was first introduced when I read "Digital Play" (Mayer & Stanley 2011). Nevertheless, my latest book review is published in IATEFL Voices (please see below). This book is particularly invaluable for teachers who would like to gain more confidence when incorporating technology in the classroom and I would highly recommend language teachers and schools to consider getting it.
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Elk Calls
How do hunting calls work?
Our knowledge comes from years of hunting with every conceivable kind of call. We were always searching for something better. From sticky reeds to hard to use calls we tried em all. For Elk, Deer, Turkeys and more we have always preferred to call them. There is just something about using a game call to lure your quarry. An in-depth and broad reaching subject. Understanding how hunting calls work could fill a book.
We set out to make something that solved all problems in our Reel design. Once we came up with what we thought was an original design that does exactly that. We had to prove it and that brought us to a long patent process. We have read many patents from the last 200 years. On everything from toy noise makers to game calls that are currently popular.
With having read so many patents for game calls. We understand the inner works of what generates the sound and makes your hunting calls work. While we were writing and going through the patent process. As well as years of spending every free second calling game. We have an intimate knowledge of how these devices work.
How do hunting calls work? It is a broad question but it is surprisingly a narrow subject.
Many hunting calls for different species are similar. The mechanisms for generating sound are adaptable. They can be adjusted to imitate multiple species. What makes hunting calls work for one species can make them work for another.
From duck calls to deer calls, turkey calls to elk calls, and so on. How do calls work? We will run through how some of the more popular designs function. We will go into depth on what makes hunting calls work.
Turkey call photo
Turkey call
How do mouth reeds work?
The current mouth reed design uses a small aluminum frame that is shaped like an oval. It is bent into a semi circle around a flat flexible membrane. Leaving the edge of the latex between the bottom of the arch that is formed exposed. The exposed taught edge vibrates when air is blown off the plane of the membrane and over its free edge.
Currently latex is the most popular membrane material. There can be one or multiple membranes stacked so one slightly overhangs. Or sometimes just stacked vertically. There are many different ways to install the membranes or reeds.
Tape is then used to make the call block the airflow. A piece of tape in the original shape of the aluminum is folded around the frame. The call looks roughly the same shape as the bite of your mouth. Think a sharkbite out of a surfboard, with tape covering everything but the reed. The structure that makes these hunting calls work is simple.
How to use mouth reeds
The reed call is placed in the roof of the mouth with the reed facing the teeth. The user uses their tongue to direct the airflow under the reed. A combination of airflow control and tongue pressure controls the volume and pitch.
Due to the stretch of the reed they are easier to use with a higher volume of air. The start up velocity of the reed makes low volume sounds more difficult.
They can be cut in a myriad of geometrical fashions on the exposed edge of the upper reed. This allows the vibration pitch to lower as the reed vibrates slower. Combining this with a uncut reed or several allows multiple pitches to be played.
The uncut reed vibrates at the high rate underneath the overhanging upper one. A dampening reed can be added to make the sound more realistic.
These cut multiple reed calls were popularized for Turkey hunting originally. They make the high to low yelps of a hen turkey. With their multiple reeds providing excellent high front end and raspy back end notes.
An uncut single or double stacked reed produces a higher pitch. It is easier to use than a cut reed and many people learn with uncut reeds. They are excellent for hunting falls turkeys. They can also be used for other animals… mainly Elk
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Elk Reel Call
How do mouth calls work for Elk calling?
At some point someone realized that they could be adapted to Elk Calls. We researched the subject and the history is vague. Some of what we could find mentions Wayne Carlton of Montrose Colorado popularizing their use.
We will publish a follow up article on this page someday perhaps on an in depth history of elk Calling. We are excited to do some real fact finding on the subject.
However what was once a latex turkey call can be taken by a skilled user and made to make Elk vocalizations. In the early 80s this became increasingly popular to use and many hunting call companies quickly caught on.
Rocky Jacobson popularized a palate plate configuration in the early 90's that adds some control to the call. He sold his patent application to Will Primos back then. The two have been making them ever since with their respective companies.
The palate plate is a structure that sits up above the reed. Whether a metal tab that bends up from the aluminum frame. Or a dome structure that spans above the aluminum frame.
The palate plate or dome over the reed keeps it from stretching too far. It limits the user to only reaching a high note of a certain pitch. The reed stretches with the tongue being placed up on it and the pressure being increased. The vibrational rate increases as more pressure is applied so the pitch elevates.
A single reed or double reed configuration with the upper reed extended beyond the lower are popular. They can be used with a grunt tube to change the pitch and amplify the sound effects the user is making. Especially when Bugling. All shapes and sizes of tubes have been tried over the years.
Bugling with a mouth call
A bull Elk is a massive animal, weighing up to 1000 pounds. They have a deep guttural sound they make due to the size of their lungs and the long windpipe and mouth. The bugle or grunt tube helps mimic this.
Though when a herd bull elk shakes the forest around you with a thunderous challenge bugle. He leaves little doubt that it is not a sound made by a man. We are sure there are some world champion elk callers that will not agree. So be it, not everyone will agree on anything.
This fact alone is why we choose to be more lovers than fighters when elk calling. In our part of hard hunted OTC territory here in colorado at least. Our reel calls allow you to sound so spot on like a cow or calf elk and that also influences our approach.
We do bugle sometimes to get a long distance response. Or if we are close enough to see the bull in heavy timber for example. We do this when we want him to think another bull is in between him and the low volume chirps we've made. Our calls allow you to call super quietly to make him think his cows are further away.
The only other time we bugle is to pretend we are a couple of juvenile bulls. As in just a herd hanging out in a happy herd scenario. However if they will respond to you just making cow and calf vocalizations probably don't bugle.
Opinions on how good we bugle vary
Why? Give the elk the most realistic sounds we think and humans just do a better female elk. Some people may argue and some people love to bugle, and if it works for you then keep dropping em! We know plenty of guys that bugle in bulls so it is just a matter of personal preference.
It is just the fact we don't weigh 800 pounds coupled with our personal experience. We have spent an awful lot of time on OTC public land and hear more fake bugles every year than you can imagine.
The user of an Elk mouth reed uses a lot more tongue pressure to control the call than a turkey mouth call user. Long airflow notes with sliding pressure changes and voice inflection are more common.
A user takes a deep breath and starts with a grr sound then works the call adding pressure from below an increase in air and cuts the voice inflection. The note soars as pressure is applied and it and increased airflow increases the vibrational rate of the reed. The pitch drops as the user reduces pressure. To end the note you can add a growling grunt.
It takes skill to bugle with a mouth reed. Trying to sound like the king of the forest with a mouth call takes real skill and years of practice.
The abrupt air flow cut offs of a Turkey hen cutting for example don't come into play with elk talk. The practice of calling turkeys helps one to adapt to Elk calling. And vice versa though it is not as common as going from turkeys to elk.
Hard to use and fragile design
All mouth reed calls we have come across take skill by the user. They are not very durable, the metal gets easily bent, the reed wears out quickly. Putting a tape wrapped metal frame with organic latex rubber in your mouth speeds their demise.
The saliva in your mouth contains pre-digestive juices. Washing your mouth calls with clean water and carefully storing them helps. If there are multiple reeds drying them with toothpicks in between the reeds is a good plan.
Plan on going through and replacing your mouth reed calls. They are relatively cheap but you'll buy a few a few times every spring and fall every year. They seem to stretch and get out of tune relatively fast. We quickly recognized they are not as economical as they seem. It was one of the issues we took into account when designing our current and future calls.
Our current Reel calls have non organic reeds that have been proven to last for


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Is there a mathematical reason (or possibly a historical one) that the "elementary" functions are what they are? As I'm learning calculus, I seem to focus most of my attention on trigonometric, logarithmic, exponential, and $n$th roots, and solving problems that have solutions which are elementary functions. I've been curious why these functions are called elementary, as opposed to some other functions that turn up rather naturally in mathematics. What is the reason that these functions take up most of our attention, and is there a reason that some additional functions are not included amongst the elementary functions? In other words, what property or properties do these functions possess that separates them from non-elementary functions (if there is one)?
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Those elementary functions are the familiar functions since from lower level maths. They are the most useful functions regarding mathematics and they play a very vital role in applications. That's makes them elementary. – Hassan Muhammad Mar 9 '12 at 5:22
Here is a reverse kind of question/discussion What is a special function – AD. Mar 9 '12 at 5:30
The polynomial, exponential, sine, and cosine functions are "elementary" because they are very useful and will more frequently arise naturally in an investigation (whether within math or in an application) than most other functions. So everyone needs to know them. But why are they so useful? I think fundamentally it's because they are solutions to some of the simplest differential equations you could write down. The polynomials are the functions whose nth derivative is constantly 0. The sine and cosine functions satisfy $y'' + y = 0$ and the exponential function satisfies $y' = y$. – Mike Benfield Apr 26 '12 at 13:06
_USER_: or if one wishes to be a bit more inclusive, the exponential function, the sine, the cosine, and their hyperbolic counterparts all satisfy the differential equation $y^{(iv)}=y$. – Guess who it is. Apr 26 '12 at 13:31
As far as I can see, there's no reason to have a fixed, unchanging notion of "elementary function." More useful are statements like: "The least set of entities that includes the entities [...] and is closed under the operations [...], also includes the entities [...] and is also closed under the operations [...]. Furthermore, all entities in this class can be uniquely expressed in the form [...]." Substitute the word "entities" for the word "functions" and you'll get lots of interesting notions of "class of elementary functions." – goblin Nov 4 '13 at 3:40
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As Sivaram Ambikasaran mentioned the description on Wikipedia is fine.
I believe the class of elementary functions, $E$, is commonly thought of as a construction of the form
 1. All polynomials are in $E$
 2. The exponential and the logarithm function is in $E$
 3. The sine and cosine functions are in $E$.
 4. $E$ is closed under addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and composition (finitely many operations of these).
 5. $E$ is the smallest set with the properties 1-4.
This applies to both real or complex valued functions.
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Some examples of functions that are elementary
 - $f(x)=1-x^2$
 - $s(x) = \sqrt{x}$ (see addendum below)
 - $g(x)=\arctan x$ (see addendum below)
 - $U(x)=\sin\frac{1}{\log(1+x^2)}$
 - $A(x)=|x| = \sqrt{x^2}$
 - $_2F_1(1,1,2,x) = \log(1-x)$ (a Gauss Hypergeometric notation that ends up in a elementary function)
Some examples of functions that are not elementary
 - The Sine integral $\operatorname{si}(x)=\int_0^x\frac{\sin t}{t}dt$
 - The Error function $\operatorname{erf}(x)=\frac{2}{\sqrt{\pi}}\int_0^x e^{-t^2}dt$
 - The Cantor function
 - The characteristic function of an interval.
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The nomenclature elementary function is of course used since the functions that are elementary can be deduced using finitely many applications of elementary operations on basic "high school functions".
Edit 3:
Convinced by comments - removed closed under inversion in step 5. Added log in step 2.
Addendum (2013-02-28):
To see that the square root function $s(x)=\sqrt{x}$ is elementary using the above definition just note that $$ x\mapsto \frac{1}{2}\log x = \log x^{1/2}=\log\sqrt{x}$$ and hence $$s(x)=\sqrt{x}=\exp(\log\sqrt{x})$$ is elementary too. Perhaps $\arctan$ is a bit harder to deduce from the other steps in the construction of $E$, first note that \begin{eqnarray} \tan x=\frac{\sin x}{\cos x}= \frac{e^{ix}-e^{-ix}}{i(e^{ix}+e^{-ix})}= -i\frac{e^{2ix}-1}{e^{2ix}+1}=\\ -i\frac{e^{2ix}+1 -2}{e^{2ix}+1} = -i\frac{e^{2ix}+1 }{e^{2ix}+1}-i\frac{-2}{e^{2ix}+1}=\\-i +i\frac{2}{e^{2ix}+1} \end{eqnarray}
Hence if we solve for, $e^{2ix}$ in the above identity we get \begin{eqnarray} e^{2ix}=\frac{2}{1-i\tan x}-1= \frac{2-(1-i\tan x)}{1-i\tan x}= \frac{1+i\tan x}{1-i\tan x} \end{eqnarray} and taking the complex logarithm (more precisely the principal branch of the logarithm) we get $$x=\frac{1}{2i}\log\frac{1+i\tan x}{1-i\tan x}$$ That is $$t\mapsto \arctan t =\frac{1}{2i}\log\frac{1+it}{1-it}$$ belongs to $E$.
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_USER_ Could you please explain what you mean? What you look at is an equation - not a function. – AD. Mar 9 '12 at 9:28
This nice, concise definition of $E$ falls short of explaining why we consider its elements "elementary". Note that polynomials are merely finite applications of addition and multiplication; $n$-th roots undo "powers" (repeated multiplication). Exponentials are merely powers with a different focus (base held constant rather than exponent); logs undo those. Trigs get into the club via ties to the complex exponential. Perhaps what makes elementary functions "elementary", then, is that they're fundamentally "arithmetical". – Blue Mar 9 '12 at 11:19
I don't think you can include function inversion in your list. For one, the inverse of $x \mapsto xe^x$ is not usually considered elementary. For another, _USER_'s comment might be referring to the inverse of $x \mapsto b = \sin x - ax$. – Rahul Mar 9 '12 at 13:04
Correct. Do not include function inversion. Instead of writing down what you remember, why not cite a definitive reference? – GEdgar Mar 9 '12 at 15:58
A minor note: it would probably be good to explain how $\sqrt{x}$ is an elementary function under your definition, since that's a bit non-trivial (you have to go through exp and log to get it). – Steven Stadnicki Feb 28 '13 at 18:38
The original truly elementary functions are rational functions built up with the basic arithmetic operations.
Arctan and log are necessary and sufficient to integrate rational functions while sin/cos and exp are the solutions of the simplest differential equations and serve as a basis for the simplest interesting class of differential equations.
So, in a way, trigonometric functions, log and exp are the next thing found if one adds calculus to basic arithmetic.
But of course, it remains always slightly arbitrary since it is hard to justify the exclusion of elliptic functions, for example.
Yet, few people would argue that the elementary functions aren't simpler/satisfy simpler relations than elliptic functions in most respects.
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"At one time... every young mathematician was familiar with $\mathrm{sn}\,u$, $\mathrm{cn}\,u$, and $\mathrm{dn}\,u$, and algebraic identities between these functions figured in every examination" - E.H. Neville – Guess who it is. Apr 26 '12 at 13:26
The good old times. – Phira Apr


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guided tours at the castle "Klammstein", the oldest building of the Gastein valley
Can you imagine the exciting stories these old walls would tell if only they could speak?
Burg Klammstein, at the entrance to the valley, isn't only the oldest building in Gastein, it was also from here that the earliest settlement of the region began. A fact attested to by numerous prehistoric finds. In fact, it was back in the year 1272 that a first fortification was built to protect the people who lived here. Since that distant time, it has survived everything that history has thrown at it.
And that was a lot, as you will impressively discover during your visit to the castle's own museum.
If you are hunting for the roots of human habitation in Gastein, it is impossible to ignore Burg Klammstein. Built in the 13th century, it was often a source of disagreement between the Lords of Goldegg, the ruling family of this region, and their feudal overlords, the Salzburg archbishops.
And those disagreements were not always peaceful in nature. Later, and until the 16th century, the castle oversaw mining activities in the valley and was the seat of law enforcement. Later, when the castle was no longer used, it fell into ruin.
That is, until the 1970s, when partial restoration work was begun. Today, the main tower of Klammstein houses a museum which casts light on the castle's rich and long history.
Even now, it remains enthroned impressively at the entrance to it's valley, around 60m above the access road and welcoming every visitor to Gastein.
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Balally Parish Meetings 24th, 25th & 27th September 2018
A series of meetings, to chat about the future of Balally Parish, will be
held as follows;
24th, 25th & 27th September, after the 10am Mass
24th, 25th & 27th September, 7.30pm in the Parish Centre Coffee Dock
You are all welcome to come along and participate.
Items to be discussed include;
2. Why are we no longer captivating so many of our young people for the message of Jesus Christ?
3. Which models of pastoral activity and reflection are most likely to win the hearts of young people for the message of Jesus?
4. How do we teach young people about prayer?
5. How can our parishes respond to these challenges?
6. Which aspects of our dominant culture make it harder for people to understand the message of Jesus?
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Girls play on a trampoline near a home built into a rock at the Rockland Ranch community outside Moab, Utah, Nov. 2, 2012.
Jim Urquhart, Reuters — The "Rock," as it is referred to by the approximately 100 people living there in about 15 families, was founded about 35 years ago on a sandstone formation near Canyonlands National Park in Utah. Polygamy was a part of the teachings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was brought to Utah by faithful Mormons in the late 1840s. The mainstream Mormon church abandoned the practice in 1890, but an estimated 37,000 Mormon fundamentalists continue the practice today and believe plural marriage brings exaltation in heaven.
EDITOR'S NOTE, Nov. 15: This post was originally headlined "Mormons practice faith from Utah cavern." It has been updated to more specifically reflect the small fundamentalist community depicted in these photographs.
Enoch Foster, a fundamentalist Mormon practicing polygamy, prays before a meal with his first wife Catrina Foster, second from left, and several of his 13 children from two wives in their home blasted from a rock wall at the Rockland Ranch community outside Moab, Utah, Nov. 2.
Fundamentalist Mormons, some of whom are monogamous and others who practice polygamy, harvest the community garden along with their children at the Rockland Ranch community outside Moab, Utah, Nov. 3.
Bradee Barlow, a fundamentalist Mormon practicing polygamy, holds her newborn daughter Lucy while she shops at the store room at the Rockland Ranch community outside Moab, Utah, Nov. 2.