How to Plan A High Calorie Diet For Athletic Dogs
How to Plan A High Calorie Diet For Athletic Dogs
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If you are a parent to an athletic canine you must pay close attention to their diet and asses whether they are indeed an athletic dog or just one that has high energy. What qualifies for an athletic dog? If your dog does either of the following they are an athletic dog:
 - Is a working dog and must stay alert for long hours
 - Is involved in high agility sports
 - Is a working dog and trains for long hours everyday
 - Accompanies you in morning jogs/runs that are more than 30 minutes long
 - Has a rigorous training session and often does shows
 - Runs/Plays continuously for more than half an hour everyday
If your dog does any one or more of the activities above, they are an athletic dog and therefore need a special athletic diet. However, just like for human athletes, there is no one diet that serves all high agility dogs. Similarly for dogs, their diet should be planned according to their workout routine, the amount of calories they burn and their breed and body type.
Things to Keep Before Outlining A High Calorific Diet For Athletic Dogs
The first step is to find out how many calories they burn in a day. We suggest consulting your vet about your dog's metabolic energy requirement and basing it to create a detailed calorie chart. The next step is to divide the calories into small equal portions to feed them throughout the day. For athletic canines it is ideal for them to eat small quantities of food frequently throughout the day rather than having two large portions.
Small portions of carbohydrates are good for dogs but instead of grains, try to source their starch from complex carbohydrates like potatoes and other dog safe vegetables. Carb loading is a common practice done by many athletes and though it works well for us, there are various reasons why it is not as effective for dogs.
Research shows that dogs have more mitochondria (small organelles present within cells that provide energy) in their cells than humans do. This means that they do not burn glycogen as their primary source of energy, rather, they burn fat. So, don't load their system with carbs, weeks before an event. Chances are it will ruin their performance instead of enhancing it. Energy drinks (which many allow their dogs to sip on) and glucose will not help them as much as a hard boil egg will.
Another important thing to keep in mind is how often they are in their peak. Some dogs must maintain a stable agility level as they are working every day in the year. Others must maintain their peak only during certain months of the year and live the rest like a high energy dog. If your dog falls in the latter category, make sure you gradually change their diet to a performance enhancing meal during their training months. Performance enhancers are usually lot more expensive than a regular meal, but since you need lesser amounts of it, it is a reasonable exchange. It is made to keep your athletic dog light and active.
Performance enhancers work well if they are taken for a short period of time. Gradually increase their intake as they are closer to their peak in fitness and decrease it slowly after they have completed the season. Too much of any high protein and fat diet can easily cause obesity if they are not burning as many calories.
To make sure that we provide our athletic canines with the best, we must understand that athletic dogs and highly energetic dog are different from each other. If you have an athletic dog – one that is constantly involved in various canine sports – you will have to specially form a diet that caters to their needs. If your dog does strenuous activities a few times a month, like trekking with you, or going to the beach during the weekends, they largely fall into the second category. This means that though they are not 'athletic' their energy levels are above average dogs. They have a good metabolism and you can get away with a few extra (dog safe) fruit pieces and treats in the day. Fruits have antioxidants that help dogs the same way as it helps humans. It nourishes them and supplies the rest of their body. But, because of the increased amounts of mitochondria, it does not provide them with instant energy.
If your dog isn't a working dog but walks for long hours every day, they will not be considered an athletic dog but will require more calories than an average dog. In this case you need not alter their diet completely, but you can add a small portion of healthy fats to it. Just add half a teaspoon of olive oil, coconut oil or fish oil (like salmon oil), to their daily diet. This will not only enhance the taste, but also help them restore energy from the rigorous workout they had with you earlier.
Lastly, it is important to understand your dog and their needs. High calorie diets are effective only when they are burning that many calories. Otherwise, it just becomes a recipe for obesity. So, watch them closely, keep tabs on their weight and only make changes if it is necessary.
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Holocaust Memorial Day takes place on 27 January each year and is a time for everyone to pause and remember the millions of people who have been murdered or whose lives have been changed beyond recognition during the Holocaust, Nazi Persecution and in subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.
Commemorated each year in Bury St Edmunds where a service in the Abbey Gardens at the existing Holocaust Memorial sees dignitaries and civic leaders join locals for a moment of quiet reflection and memorial, this years ceremony (2015) will be marked by the unveiling of a one and a half metre teardrop sculpture which will form a centrepiece to a new Peace Garden. The Memorial Garden Trust, a registered charity, has raised more than £11,000 for the project in the Abbey Gardens.
Rob Lock from the trust said:
"In addition to providing a more dignified setting for the annual holocaust service the Peace Garden is also designed to commemorate the murder of 57 Jews in our town on Palm Sunday, 19 March 1190. It is an event in our town's history that the trust felt needed to be publicly acknowledged.
"The teardrop is a natural and universal symbol of pity and persecution, of human suffering and sorrow. It is made from polished stainless steel; its mirrored surface reflects back to us the role we all must play in opposing humanity's inhumanity."
The Peace Garden, which is being installed by Urban Forestry, also includes 57 cobble stones – one for each of the victims of the 1190 massacre. There will also be two stone benches as seating for quiet reflection. The trust was formed by local residents and is supported by St Edmundsbury Borough Council, St Edmundsbury Cathedral, and members of Suffolk's Jewish Community.
St Edmundsbury Borough Cabinet Member for Leisure, Culture and Heritage, Cllr Sarah Stamp said:
"The teardrop memorial is a very poignant symbol. Although this is an area that forces us to think about the worst acts carried out by mankind, the trust has also raised the funds and created a cultural space that they should feel proud of."
Back then Hatter Street was recognised as the Jewish quarter of the town and referred to as Heathenmans Street. It was claimed that Moyses Hall could have been their synagogue but this has now been disputed, largely because it would have been next to what was then the medieval pig market. It is more likely that the higher ground along Hatter Street between numbers 25-26 served as the synagogues location, a case strengthened by the evidence of a well beneath the basement, necessary for ritual bathing and washing. Other claims for Moyses Hall is that its name is a derivative of 'Moses' and that it was built by wealthy Jewish merchants of the town. However, 'Moses' and 'Moyses' are both common Suffolk names.
By the 1190's, the Jewish population in England numbered approximately some 2,500 people and until this time they enjoyed relative freedom of movement, the right to own real estate and access to education when compared to the Jewish people who lived in mainland Europe. However all was not rosy, In 1189, they were taxed at a much higher rate than the rest of England to finance the Third Crusade. Jews might have comprised less that 0.25% of the English population but they provided 8% of the total income of the royal treasury. This financial contribution did not render them beloved of the people though and the pro Christian ideology of the Crusades engendered an anti Semitic rhetoric.
In 1181, a dispute broke out between William the Sacristan (Sexton) of the Abbey in Bury St Edmunds and his associate Samson. Alongside the local townspeople, the Jews sided with William but unfortunately, it was Samson who came to power the next year as Abbot. In 1190, after the Coronation riots, Samson demanded that the Jewish people in the town should be placed under his authority rather than the Kings and when they refused, they were expelled under guard.
This was set among a nationwide background of disempowerment for Jews. In the same year, King Henry II enacted the "Assize of Arms", ordering that all weapons owned by Jews should be confiscated on the grounds that their protection came from the King and therefore they would not have any reason for owning arms. The weapons were turned over to the King's forces, leaving them with little defence and protection when riots broke out less then ten years later.
The 1189 coronation of Richard the Lionheart saw further state sanctification of their persecution when Baldwin who was the Archibishop of Canterbury, persuaded Richard to not accept gifts from Jewish dignitaries, and further, to banish them from the palace which was interpreted by the watching crowds to mean the King favoured persecution. That same day, a pogrom against the Jews in London occurred and again, the next day. Reluctant to get involved in protecting them at the start of his reign, Richard did not enact a severe punishment of the rioters which saw the civil unrest spread to Norwich, Lincoln and Bury St Edmunds alongside other towns.
The church and locals seized on every opportunity to justify their prejudices. When Saint Robert of Bury, a young choirboy from the abbey was found murdered (crucified), allegedly on Good Friday, his death was blamed on the town's Jewish community. Robert was buried in the Abbey church and in his Chronicle, Jocelyn of Brakelond, a monk in the Abbey during Samsons rule, even attributed miracles to him. Rumours based on the belief that the Jews had gained their wealth through sacrificial murders began to percolate through the town and their community became the focus of much anti semitic feelings. Regionally, the Jews of Norwich were accused of torturing a Christian child named William, using his blood for the Passover Seder, then killing and burying him and despite the entreaties of Pope Innocent IVs to ignore such ridiculousness, the image of Jews being dangerous to Christians became the dominant one.
After nine more years, anti semitic feelings had increased and it has been suggested that the catalyst to the massacre may have been a 'vanquish the infidels' type sermon, preached in the abbey church at a time when anti Jewish sentiments were even more heightened, it being Lent. The abbey was no longer a reliable place of sanctuary for them but Samson is recorded as claiming the Abbey was not the Kings property and therefore these 'Jews were not Saint Edmunds men.'
On Palm Sunday, the 19th March, a group of Christian Crusaders rampaged through Bury St Edmunds and killed 57 Jews followed by the obtaining of a writ by Abbot Samson, leader of the monastery, to have the survivors expelled. Previously the monastery had sheltered Jews when there was a threat of a pogrom but recently the monastery had gone into debt to Jews and therefore took advantage of the opportunity to escape having to repay those debts. Much building work had taken place in the Abbey and some major debts had accrued under Abbot Hugh, despite the churches moral teachings against usury. The offer of consecrated vestments and other articles as security against the debt gives clues about their extent and the pressure upon the monastery to do everything it could to expunge them.
Six months after the massacre of the Jews, Jocelin recorded in his Chronicle that Samson's expelling of the remaining Jews showed that he was a 'man of great virtue', an expulsion that was granted after he appealed to the King for permission to do so in October 1190. On July 1290, King Edward the First ordered their expulsion from the whole country, making England the first country to do so. There is some disagreement as to how many were forced to leaveeither 4000 or 16,000 which is some differenceand their return was not officially sanctioned until the 17th century, some 350 years later.
This event is relatively unknown in the town and wider annals of regional history and the translation of Jocelyns Chronicle that is stored in our Records Office itself omits the event. The opening of the Peace Garden, coming at a time when Jewish people all over the world face renewed persecution alongside other faiths and creeds, could not be more timely and significant. When the Holocaust happened, we did it to our own people-NOT a group of people living separately as 'others.' Europe placed them in a ghetto, they did not ghettoise themselves. The Holocaust destroyed a living and vibrant part of our European culturemusic, art, economics, politics, the sciences and left a gaping hole, a rent or whatever ugly image you wish to use which has yet to fill in. And when it does, the scar will still be there and we should continue to remember. There is no such thing as the 'past. '

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Notes on Cultural Competence
The key to international business negotiations with Thailand can be
summarized in one word: Patience.
-John Paul Fieg, A Common Core:
Thais and Americans.
Thais respect hierarchical relationships, as such rank is always respected and social relationships are
defined as one person being superior to the other (in terms of occupational status, age, family role,
gender, etc.) As such, parents are superior to their children, teachers to their students, and bosses to their
subordinates. The eldest person in the group is always revered.
Thais DO NOT normally shake hands when they greet one another, but instead press the palms
together in a prayer-like gesture called a wai. Generally, a younger person wais an elder, who
returns it. Watch how the Thais do it, and you will soon learn.
Never return the gesture to children, wait staff, clerks, or other people of lower rank. Simply
smile and nod in response.
Thais always introduce people of lower rank first..
Titles and rank are important. When possible, address Thais by title and first name.
Acceptable topics of conversation:
o Family, but only after you've developed a relationship (avoid complimenting


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Stressed Out Bees Get the Blues13 June, 2011 at 20:16 | Posted in Animal welfare, Environmental issues, Nature, Science | 2 Comments
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Bees are more likely to make pessimistic judgements when they are stressed, according to an article published online in Current Biology on June 2.
Humans are more likely to be pessimistic when experiencing stress, and prior research has shown that other vertebrates like dogs, rats, and birds are also more likely to make decisions reflecting negative emotions due to stress.
This new study shows that bees, which are invertebrates, are more similar to humans cognitively than previously believed.
"Bees stressed by a simulated predator attack exhibit pessimism mirroring that seen in depressed and anxious people," said Geraldine Wright, leader of the research team at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom, in a press release.
"In other words, the stressed bee's glass is half empty," said first author Melissa Bateson in the release.
The researchers first trained honeybees to associate one scent with a sugary reward and a second scent with bitter quinine. The bees demonstrated they can differentiate the scents as they were more likely to extend their mouthparts toward the sweet odor.
Half of the bees were then shaken vigorously for one minute to simulate a beehive attack, while the other half of the bees were left alone. The bees were then exposed to the two scents again as well as to new scents made by combining the two.
The team found that the shaken bees were less likely than the unshaken bees to extend their mouthparts toward some of the new scents. "We show for the first time that agitated bees are more likely to classify ambiguous stimuli as predicting punishment," the article summary states.
The researchers also found reduced levels of serotonin and other neurotransmitters in the shaken bees' circulation systems. Imbalance in serotonin levels is believed by some scientists to cause depression in humans.
"What we have shown is that when a honeybee is subjected to a manipulation of its state that in humans would induce a feeling of anxiety, the bees show a similar suite of changes in physiology, cognition, and behavior to those we would measure in an anxious human," said Wright.


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The Laotian Community
Compiled by Clifton L. Holland
A Laotian American is a resident of the United States who was originally from Laos or whose parents were originally from Laos. They constitute one group of Asian Americans.
Laotian immigration to the United States was at its height after the Vietnam War. Most Laotian Americans live in the states of California, North Carolina, Georgia, Texas, Illinois, Tennessee,Kansas, Minnesota, Oregon, or Washington. There are also large communities in Ohio, Iowa, Florida, and Pennsylvania. There are about over 200,000 ethnic Lao in America. 4,000 - 7,000 more Americans are mixed with another ethnic group and Lao. Ethnic Lao would be considered both Lao American and Laotian American.
Although many Hmong people are from Laos, Hmong Americans are usually not considered to be Lao American because they are not of the Lao ethnic group. However, the category of Laotian American includes the Hmong and other Laotian groups, as well as Ethnic Chinese and Ethnic Vietnamese from Laos.
Maps of Laotian population by census tracts in the Los Angeles area:
The IDEA Strategic Mapping and Information Service, directed by Clifton L. Holland, has produced a series of computer maps on ethnic and religious diversity in the Los Angeles 5-County Region by census tracts, based on the 1990 Census of Population. See the following links:
Los Angeles County:../laco/laotian.pdf (note PDF format). Orange County:../orco/d-as-lao.pdf (note PDF format).
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Find information on stone-eating bacteria and learn when it was first observed.
Stone-eating bacteria belong to several families in the genus Thiobacillus. They can cause damage to monuments, tombs, buildings, and sculptures by converting marble into plaster.
The principal danger seems to come from Thiobacillus thioparus. This microbe's metabolic system converts sulfur dioxide gas (found in the air) into sulfuric acid and uses it to transform calcium carbonate (marble) into calcium sulfate (plaster).The bacilli draw their nutrition from carbon dioxide formed in the transformation. Nitrobacter and Nitrosomonas are other "stone-eating bacteria" that use ammonia from the air to generate nitric and nitrous acid, and there are still other kinds of bacteria and fungi producing organic acids (formic, acetic, and oxalic acids), which can attack the stone as well.
The presence of these microbes was first observed by a French scientist, Henri Pochon at Angkor Wat, Cambodia, during the 1950s. The increase of these bacteria and other biological-damaging organisms that threaten tombs and buildings of antiquity are due to the sharp climb in the level of free sulfur dioxide gas in the atmosphere from automotive and industrial emissions.


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St Patrick's Trian
Kids love this place, which in three separate and highly interactive exhibitions tells the history of Armagh, the story of St Patrick and recounts the tale of Gulliver's Travels.
The name Trian [say: Tree-an] is taken from the three old divisions of Armagh – into Irish Town, English Town and Scots Town, but the stories it tells have much wider interest and they are very well told.
The Armagh Story
You will have driven through Armagh by the time you see this, and will see how the city grew, from it's earliest pre-Christian origins though the arrival of St Patrick, raids by the Vikings and the development of a fine Georgian city right to the modern day.
It is not a dull presentation – kids are engaged with drawings and via interactive screens and get to join in with activities along the way.
St Patrick's Story
Much of what was know about St Patrick is contained in The Book of Armagh, a treasure of early Christian Ireland which is on display here in facsimile (you can see the original in Trinity College, Dublin).
In this part of the Trian we learn not just about St Patrick, but about how these manuscripts were created. Visitors can trace some of the images from the book – after they have learned to make their own ink and quill pen! Interactive displays allow you to converse with and question some of those involved in creating the book.
Here the world expands and you become a tiny lilliputians, donning costumes and sitting in huge chairs, as you enter the home of the giant Gulliver to hear his amazing story.
It's really fun and you even get to tie up the giant!
Visiting St Patrick's Trian
The exhibitions are open year round, all day Monday-Saturday, afternoons only on Sunday. More detailed info at the website.
There is an auditorium at the site where events of various kinds, including musical events, are held. There is no information about these on the website, so you will need to contact them to find out if there is anything on when you are in the area.
The is a nice bright and airy cafe at the centre, serving good snacks and light meals, with a terrace to eat on if the weather allows.


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FRIENDS for Life
FRIENDS for Life is an evidence-based prevention program proven to be effective in building emotional resilience and teaching strategies that are practical and useful for coping with times of worry and change. These are important skills that can help children cope with stress, which they can use throughout their life.
The FRIENDS program was developed by Dr. Paula Barrett, a clinical child psychologist in Australia, and is being used in schools and clinics around the world. FRIENDS normalizes the emotional state of anxiety and promotes self-confidence in dealing with difficult or anxiety provoking situations. It helps children acquire important life skills, which include:
- Awareness of their feelings
- Relaxation skills
- Problem-solving skills
- How to face feared situations gradually
- Building peer support
- Identifying positive role models
- Looking for pleasant events
- Positive thinking skills
- Use of positive self-talk
- Self-rewards for being brave
- Evaluation of performance in terms of effort and partial success
When: Please contact the Parenting Program Coordinator at _PHONE_ for information about when the next group will be held.
For information or registration, contact the Parenting Program Coordinator at _PHONE_ or by email at _EMAIL_. A complete schedule of upcoming parenting courses is available on our Schedule of Current Events.


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Sándor BálintArticle Free Pass
Sándor Bálint, Hungarian form Bálint Sándor (born Aug. 1, 1904, Szeged, Hung.—died May 10, 1980, Budapest), Hungarian ethnographer and eminent researcher on sacral ethnology and popular Roman Catholic traditions.
Bálint completed his studies at Szeged University, then taught at the teacher-training institute from 1931 to 1947. He was a professor of ethnography at Szeged University from 1947 to 1951 and again from 1957 to 1966. (For political reasons, he was forbidden to teach between 1951 and 1956.) The leading subjects of his research were the folk culture of the Great Alfold area and the cultural history of the town of Szeged.
His Szegedi szótár (1957; "Szeged Dictionary") is an important document for the study of dialect and ethnography. His other publications include A szegedi paprika (1962; "The Paprika of Szeged"), A szegedi nép (1968; "The People of Szeged"), Szegedi példabeszédek és jeles mondások (1972; "Parables and Sayings from Szeged"), and Szeged reneszánszkori mûveltsége (1975; "Szeged's Renaissance Culture"). His four-volume work Szögedi nemzet: A szegedi nagytáj népélete (1976; "The Szöged Nation: Folk Culture of the Szeged Area") is a comprehensive study.
His ethnographic monographs on church history and ritual include Népünk ünnepei: az egyházi év néprajza (1938; "Our Popular Religious Feasts: The Ethnography of the Church Calendar"), Az esztendõ néprajza (1942; "Ethnography of the Calendar"), Sacra Hungaria (1944; "Sacred Hungary"), Karácsony, húsvét, pünkösd (1974; "Christmas, Easter, Pentecost"), and the two-volume Ünnepi kalendárium (1977; "Calendar of Religious Feasts"). These works focus on the conventions of religious feasts, the role of vocabulary in preserving customs, and traditions regarding surnames. Búcsújáró magyarok ("Hungarian Pilgrims"), written with Barna Gábor, was published posthumously in 1994.
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Can Data Be Racist? UK Researcher says 'Yes'.
David Blatt, Data Specialist for One Vision One Voice, sits down with UK academic David Gillborn to discuss the myth of neutral, objective data collection, how racism can be embedded in the way an organization collects data, and how to overcome this challenge.
David Gillborn, Professor of Critical Race Studies and Director of the Centre for Research in Race & Education (CRRE) at the University of Birmingham, UK
David Gillborn is Professor of Critical Race Studies and Director of the Centre for Research in Race & Education (CRRE) at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is best known for his research on racism in educational policy and practice and, in particular, for championing the growth of Critical Race Theory internationally.
OVOV reached out to Gillborn after reading his paper connecting quantitative data and critical race theory.
Q: You are known for your work on Critical Race Theory (CRT). What is CRT?
A: Critical Race Theory (CRT) views racism as being much more subtle and widespread than is usually recognized. In particular, CRT sees racism (acts that systematically disadvantage one or more minoritized groups) as woven through the everyday routine fabric of how institutions operate – including institutions that believe they are providing a service to all (schools, universities, hospitals, social work etc.).
Q: In your recent journal paper called "QuantCrit: education, policy, 'Big Data' and principles for a critical race theory of statistics" you challenge the neutrality of data collection. How would you explain "QuantCrit" to those who do not know a lot about quantitative data or CRT?
A: My co-authors and I tried to identify some principles, inspired by CRT, that could act as a prompt to help people think more critically about race/racism when they are confronted by numbers. This is important because stats are one of the first weapons people use to try and shut down critical debate.
Q: My understanding is that your article identified 5 principles that can impact the neutrality of data collection.Can you state what they are?
A: (1) the centrality of racism, (2) numbers are not neutral, (3) categories are neither 'natural' nor given (4), data cannot 'speak for itself' and (5) using numbers for social justice
Q: Why do people believe that quantitative data is colour-blind, neutral, factual, and objective?
A: They're told to believe that quantitative data is colour-blind, neutral, factual, and objective. Most people feel ill equipped to critique numbers. We're intimidated because we're told that numbers are complicated and that you have to be clever to understand them. Numbers are constructed by researchers in exactly the same way as interview data. Someone has to choose to collect the numbers – which numbers to collect? When to collect them? Where to look? Who to ask? Every one of these questions will change the number that you end up with. So don't ever believe that numbers are just cold facts lying around waiting to be counted.
We're good at judging qualitative data because we do it all the time in real life; we're constantly making judgements about what people tell us – we need to develop the same kind of questioning skills around numbers.
Q How is using "race" as a category problematic?
A: The labels that we use to define 'races' are socially constructed. So, when someone states that 'race' is related to something (like unemployment, qualifications, likelihood of being in prison) I suggest that you replace 'race' with 'racism' – because 'race' is just a label. Racism is the process by which the label is related to different life chances.
For example, a news reporter might report some stats and say that 'Race is a factor in unemployment.' A lot of White people will assume that means that there's a problem with minorities that makes them less employable. I think a more meaningful description is 'Racism is a factor in unemployment' – that forces you to question where the problem lies – not with the unemployed, but with the system.
Q: If quantitative data suffers from bias and non-neutrality how can it ever be trusted?
A: In the same way that any other data can be 'trusted.' We need to make a judgement based on sensible questions about where the data is from. How convincing is it? Whose interests does it serve? Is the finding credible? No research is automatically trustworthy.
Q: In your paper you state that "one of the tasks of QuantCrit is to challenge the past and current ways in which quantitative research has served White Supremacy." What do you mean when you say White Supremacy?
A: In CRT we use the phrase 'white supremacy' in a much broader way than is traditional. Traditionally people think of 'white supremacy' in terms of obvious and crude racism such as fascists and Neo-Nazis.
But in critical race theory we view white supremacy as much more subtle and extensive. A quote that I find useful is from Frances Lee Ansley: "[By] 'white supremacy' I do not mean to allude only to the self-conscious racism of white supremacist hate groups. I refer instead to a political, economic, and cultural system in which whites overwhelmingly control power and material resources, conscious and unconscious ideas of white superiority and entitlement are widespread, and relations of white dominance and non-white subordination are daily re-enacted across a broad array of institutions and social settings."
Q: Many quantitative child welfare researchers have stated that disproportionality in child welfare for Black children is attributable to higher risk, such as higher poverty rates, rather than anti-Black racism in referrals and in the child welfare system. However, critical race scholars, advocates, and members of the Black community believe that anti-Black racism in referrals and in the child welfare system leads to disproportionality. How can quantitative researchers and child welfare database designers apply QuantCrit to resolve this debate?
A: It's true that some minoritized groups ARE more likely to live in poverty. But that's not an accident. That's BECAUSE of anti-Black racism. Similarly, Black folk tend to have lower educational qualifications, their income is more precarious, they're more likely to get into trouble with the law. ALL of these things reflect the influence of racism. So it's not an either/or question. It's not poverty OR racism. It's poverty AND racism for many!
QuantCrit can't resolve this question in a way that everyone will agree. No approach can!
Some statisticians argue that they can compare like-with-like by using regression models to look for the separate influence of different factors. But where racism exists it often runs through the very factors that people try to 'control' out. For example, if you 'control' separately for things like income, home ownership, educational attainment, parental education etc. – all those things will have been shaped (at least in part) by racism.
Q: How can Children's Aid Society CEOs, upper management, quality assurance staff, and child protection workers apply QuantCrit to their work to inform their decision making?
A: Don't accept numbers at face value.
Critically engage with numbers to explore how racism might be at work (often in hidden ways) and think about these issues when collecting data. Think about which groups are questioned and what data is collected and who does the analysis?
The obvious and traditional ways of doing things have tended to produce racist outcomes; so don't assume that the traditional way is best – why not assume that the traditional way is probably biased. How can you improve on it?
Q: Is there anything else you would like to share to a broad child welfare audience made up of researchers, database designers, CEOs, upper management, child protection workers, etc.
A: Questions about racism feel unbelievably threatening to most white people. Even well-intentioned ones feel unsure about what words to use, how to phrase something… But there is no rule-book here and everyone makes mistakes. The more we work across the usual class/race/gender/dis-ability lines, the more we get used to asking strange questions and thinking in new ways. The easiest thing is to blame poverty – white folks understand poverty and they don't feel culpable for it. But racism challenges white people on every level and, deep-down, white folk know they benefit from racism, even if they're certain that they personally are never racist. That's a hard thing to come to terms with but its essential if you want to try to be part of the solution rather than yet another part of the problem.
Gillborn gave OVOV permission to post his paper on myOACAS. To view and download Gillborn's paper go to: or find it on the OVOV Members Site


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Random Student Name is a tool for randomly selecting students from your class. It will select in an unbiased fashion and without repetition until all members have been selected.
Typically Random Student Name is used for deciding 'who will answer the next question', or for dividing your class into random pairs or teams for group work.
At the beginning of the school year teachers can set their class list (up to 32 students). Random student name is easy to edit when students need to be added or taken from your class list. It is also easy to temporarily omit a student from the list in the case of students which may be absent on a particular day.
This is one of many creative interactive activities available from John Short's wonderful website:
A 60 second timer with a difference!
A sure-fire way of getting your students' attention in 10 seconds.
If I had to recommend just one book about classroom management, it would be "Tools for Teaching" by Fred Jones. Fred Jones has observed teachers (good and bad) in classrooms for over 30 years and through observation and experiment has distilled the essence of good classroom management into this book. I highly recommend it. Failing that, Fred has put summaries of his classroom management strategies on his website at


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What is Peak Demand?
When temperatures are extremely hot, increased demand for electricity can cause Firelands' power supplier, Buckeye Power, to reach a new peak in demand for power. Peak electric loads mean increased costs for all consumers. Electricity costs more during the summer, due to the peak demand for electricity in hot weather. This is reflected in Firelands' summer rate schedule (June through September), which is higher than the rate for the rest of the year.
A PeakBuster is a load management device that allows Buckeye Power to remotely control and reduce the electric demand during peak demand periods. Members who participate in Firelands' PeakBuster program are eligible for special incentives and rebates offered by the co-op. PeakBuster control devices are installed for water heaters, central air conditioners, heat pumps, and geothermal systems to help reduce costly demand during peak times — 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. on very hot summer afternoons.
When demand for electricity is likely to reach record levels, we ask memembers to help lower demand by reducing use of electricity and avoid using major appliances during 'peak' demand times and RAISE your cooling thermostat four degrees.
Peak alert bulletins are posted on our website, Facebook and Twitter pages; and also via text and email alerts to members. Peak Alert messages are broadcast on local radio stations ONLY during the most extreme weather conditions. Click here to learn more about levels of electricity demand and ways to reduce peak.
Thank you for helping us manage peak demand!
Buckeye Power is a member of the PJM Interconnection, which coordinates the movement of electricity through all or parts of Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia. The PJM region has an area of 168,500 square miles, a population of about 51 million and a peak demand of 144,644 megawatts.
Because of the large geographic area served by the PJM Interconnection utility group, there is a greater potential for summertime demand peaks to occur involving Buckeye Power and Firelands. Even though very hot weather may not be present in Ohio, Firelands members may be affected by load management efforts to reduce high demand elsewhere in the PJM Interconnection utility group to keep power costs as low as possible for all consumers in the group.
Peak demand is very costly and continues to be a growing concern for all electric utilities. New generation facilities are needed, but what will they cost? Global climate change issues and greenhouse gas laws require special treatment and scrutiny for any new power plants. This means the cost of constructing future new generation facilities will be extremely expensive, and whatever the cost, consumers will pay the bill.
Cooperative electric loads have grown to the point that the excess generation capacity built decades ago has been used up. Buckeye Power's current generation mix includes base load coal-fired generation, natural gas-fired peaking units, hydroelectric generation, livestock waste digesters producing bio-gas for generation, and a wind turbine farm. This generation portfolio helps ensure that Ohio co-op members will have sufficient power supply beyond 2020.
Like those co-op members in the 1970s who paid for generation capacity they "grew into" over several decades, we take advantage of opportunities today to ensure our power supply for tomorrow and for the next generation. "The power we generate at our own plants is less expensive than power we may have to buy from the energy markets," said Firelands General Manager April Bordas. "If we can keep our energy demand lower, we don't have to buy the 'high-priced stuff' from outside markets, and we all save money."
Ohio's electric cooperatives offer load management programs to encourage their members to help reduce high demand during very hot, humid summer weather and at other times when high demand occurs. In addition, Buckeye Power continues to investigate various renewable energy options to add to its generation portfolio.


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Publisher : The Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
DOI : 10.22634/KSME-A.1918.104.22.1688
Title & Authors
Thermoviscoelastic Stress Analysis by the Finite Element Method Sim, Woo-JIn; Park, In-Kyu;
Uncoupled, quasi-static and linear thermoviscoelastic problems are analyzed in time domain by the finite element approximation which is developed using the principle of virtual work and viscoelasticity matrices instead of shear and bulk relaxation functions as in usual formulations. The material is assumed to be isotropic, homegeneous and thermorheologically simple, which means that the temperature-time equivalence postulate is effective. The stress-strain laws are expressed by relaxation-type hereditary integrals. In spatial and time discritizations, isoparametric quadratic quadrilateral finite elements and linear time variations are adopted. For explicit derivations, the viscoelastic material is assumed to behave standard linear solid in shear and elastically in dilatation. Two-dimensional examples are solved under general temperature distributions T = T(x, t), and compared with other opproximate solutions to show the versatility of the presented analysis.
Thermoviscoelastic;Thermorheologically Simple;Hereditary Integral;Viscoelasticity Matrix;Finite Element Method;


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Rapid Voltage Change (RVC)
A rapid voltage change is a fast rise or fall of the RMS voltage. This can be caused by the switching on of a specific load or by a sudden change in source voltage. Sudden source voltage changes can occur in solar grids when the sun is obscured by clouds. Source voltage changes can also occur in wind farms when then wind speed decreases. Load switching can cause a rapid voltage change if the rating of the load is a significant fraction of the fault level of the supply voltage.


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GEF3D Coordinate Systems
In GEF, there usually is one global coordinate system and figure-local coordinate systems to deal with. Generally, mouse coordinates can be translate to the global coordinate system and the figure-local coordinate systems in a simple and straightforward fashion, and users of the framework seldomly have to deal with these issues. In GEF3D however, there are more coordinate systems involved and dealing with those can become cumbersome. This article aims to describe the concepts of coordinate systems and coordinate system conversion in GEF3D.
In GEF3D, there are three types of coordinate systems that framework users have to deal with:
- screen coordinates (also called mouse coordinates in GEF or window coordinates in OpenGL)
- global world coordinates (3D coordinates in world space)
- figure-local 3D coordinates
- surface coordinates (2D coordinates on the surface of a 3D host figure)
- figure-local 2D coordinates (only applies to embedded 2D editors)
On top of that, the following conversions are possible:
- global world coordinates <-> figure-local 3D coordinates
- surface coordinates <-> global world coordinates
- screen coordinates + depth value -> global world coordinates
- screen coordinates -> figure-local 3D coordinates
- screen coordinates -> surface coordinates
To explain more about these concepts, we will first describe in greater detail the coordinate systems and the conversions. After that, we will explain how embedded GEF editors and their tools relate to the GEF3D coordinate systems and how GEF3D provides 2D coordinates to them.


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Posted: July 25, 2012, 9 a.m. EDT
Q: I think my baby mouse is sick. She has not been urinating for the last 48 hours, and this happened twice. Also, three days ago her pee was a very hot orange color. I'm so very worried about my baby.
A: When any animal does not produce urine, it is a cause for worry. This usually occurs for two reasons. First, if an animal becomes very dehydrated, it may produce very little urine while it remains depleted of water. A mouse may become dehydrated due to something as simple as the water bottle not working or not being filled. Or a mouse may become dehydrated because it is sick and is not drinking water. The second reason animals do not produce urine is due to kidney disease. In some stages of kidney disease, the response is to stop producing urine.
In either instance, dehydration or kidney disease, the lack of urine is a significantly bad sign. Urine helps the body regulate water and electrolytes. Urine also helps the body remove harmful waste products. When urine is not produced, the body becomes metabolically unbalanced, which can lead to very serious disease and further organ dysfunction leading to death in a number of days.
Finally, sometimes the animal is producing urine but a blockage in the urethra prevents it from urinating. This could be another reason why your mouse cannot urinate. If this is the case, it is an emergency that needs to be addressed as soon as possible.
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extraction (equilibrium) constant
The _USER_@ constant at zero _USER_@, \(K_{\text{ex}}^{\text{0}}\), is the _USER_@ of the distribution reaction expressed in terms of the reacting species. Thus, for the gross reaction: \[\text{M}_{\text{aq}}^{n+} + n\text{HL}_{\text{org}} \rightleftharpoons \text{ML}_{n,\text{org}} + n\text{H}_{\text{aq}}^{+}\] in which the _USER_@ HL initially dissolved in an organic phase reacts with a metal ion Mn in aqueous solution to form a product MLn which is more soluble in the organic phase than in water, \[K_{\text{ex}}^{\text{0}} = \frac{a_{\text{ML } n,\text{org}}\hspace{2pt}a_{\text{H}^{+},\text{aq}}^{n}}{a_{\text{M}^{n+},\text{aq}}\hspace{2pt}a_{\text{HL},\text{org}}^{n}}\]
 1. When concentrations are used instead of activities or mixed terms are employed as when H+ and/or Mn are measured with an electrode, the appropriate name is _USER_@ constant, symbol \(K_{\text{ex}}\), accompanied by a careful definition. \(K_{\text{ex}}^{\text{0}}\) may be termed the thermodynamic _USER_@ constant.
 2. The _USER_@ constant is related to other terms relevant to such systems by: \[K_{\text{ex}} = \frac{D_{\text{ML},n}\,\beta_{n}\,K_{a}^{n}}{D_{\text{HL}}}\] where \(\beta_{n}\) is the overall _USER_@ of MLn and \(K_{a}\) is the _USER_@ constant of HL. Where the _USER_@ HL is more soluble in water than the other immiscible phase it may be more convenient to define a special _USER_@ in terms of \(\text{HL}_{\text{aq}}\): \[K_{\text{ex}}^{0} = D_{\text{ML},n}\,\beta_{n}\,K_{a}^{n}\]
 3. In distribution equilibria involving non-aqueous systems, e.g. liquid SO2, molten salts and metals, the mass action _USER_@ for the relevant _USER_@ process can be identified with \(K_{\text{ex}}\) which should be explicitly defined in this context.
 4. In actual practice, it may be necessary to include other terms to take into account other complexes formed by auxiliary reagents and the _USER_@ and/or _USER_@ of the various species. In such cases, \(K_{\text{ex}}\) must be defined with reference to the relevant explicit chemical equation. An example is complex formation between the metal ion and an uncharged _USER_@ ether or _USER_@ molecule followed by ion-pair _USER_@: \[\text{M}_{\text{aq}}^{n+} + \text{L}_{\text{org}} + n\text{A}_{\text{aq}}^{-} \rightleftharpoons \left ( \text{ML}^{n+}.\text{A}_{n}^{n-} \right )_{\text{org}}\] \[K_{ex} = \frac{[ \text{ML}^{n+}.\text{A}_{n}^{n-} ]_{\text{org}}}{[ \text{M}^{n+} ]_{\text{aq}} [ L ]_{\text{org}} [ A^{-} ]_{\text{aq}}}^{n} \]
 5. Use of Ringbom's 'conditional _USER_@ constant', \[K_{\text{ex}}^{\text{eff}} = \frac{{a_{\text{H}^{+}}^{n}}^{n} [ \text{ML}_{n}' ]_{\text{org}}}{ [ \text{M}' ]_{\text{aq}} [ {\text{HL}' ]_{\text{org}}}^{n}}\] in conjunction with alpha coefficients is useful.
 6. The phases can also be specified by the formula of the solvent or by other symbols (preferably Roman numerals) or by overlining formulae referring to one phase, usually the less polar one. The subscript aq (or w) is often omitted; aq is preferable to w as the latter is appropriate only in English and German.
 7. The qualification 'equilibrium' is often omitted.
 8. The terms _USER_@ and _USER_@ must not be used in this sense.
Orange Book, 2nd ed., p. 89 [Terms] [Book]
PAC, 1993, 65, 2373. (Nomenclature for liquid-liquid distribution (solvent extraction) (IUPAC Recommendations 1993)) on page 2383 [Terms] [Paper]


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A Peruvian elder visited Mt. Mitchell, NC in 2009 and performed a despacho ceremony. He stated that the Appalachian Mountains "were crying out for ceremonies". I feel many places around the earth could benefit from us doing whatever we can to honor, appreciate, and show our respect. It doesn't need to be elaborate or hours in length. You don't need to fast or pray for days. Here are some ideas, always follow your heart with what feels right to you.
1. Say thank you and acknowledge beautiful landscapes. Leave natural offerings based on what feels right to you as you say thank you. Many cultural groups offer everything from tobacco to flower petals.
2. Create a special land blessing ceremony for where you live. Just say and do what comes from your heart. No rules when from the heart. If you need "instructions" find books or consult others who have done one.
3. Meditate in places of power for you.
4. Join in on global water blessing meditation or create your own.
5. Say thank you every time you shower/take a bath or use a natural resource in some way.
6. Donate time to clean up places you care about or donate money to state parks or organizations that preserve areas.
7. Hike, camp, canoe, do something out in nature and be fully present…greatest gift we can give ourselves and each other is to be present…same applies to the natural world. Be present.


I'm looking for a solution for a certain problem. I have two sets of vertically evenly-spaced circles with equal gaps between circles in each column. I would like to know a way to find a point to achieve a perfect snap of both columns, so that they form an "interlocking" pattern.
I have a feeling it has to do with tangents, but the best I can do is to run a script that builds tangents between two circles. I tried it and I can't see a way for it to be helpful. I also tried googling for a solution, but none of the keywords that I used yielded a helpful result.
I tried drawing an equidistant line between two vertical circles, snapping another circle (1) to the bottom circle (2), and rotating it (1) so that its centre snaps with said line, but it's far from elegant. The cursor floats and I can only get a snap if I do that 15 times, checking how far the center point is from the line.
Reference image attached (right element is snapped manually and not in a perfect way): enter image description here
Many thanks!
Draw the circles one on top of each other then use the rotate tool (r. Yes rotate tool not selection tool), move the pivot to center of each successive circle and rotate.
Alternate approach use numeric input in linetool and draw a zig zag with length of 2 times radius (or sum of different radiuses). Then move circles to snap centers to zigzag corners.
If you have trouble figuring angle to use darw a circle at first position with double the radius and find intersection with horizontal line.
Thats mathematics for you.
 - PS sorry no computer at hand so no pictures – joojaa Oct 4 '20 at 12:42
 - Thanks! All it took was drawing two circles with 2x radius, aligning them with two vertical circles and the point of intersection is what I'm looking for. Thanks! – Jerry Oct 4 '20 at 13:48
 - _USER_ you should consider accepting the answer if it solved the problem. Otherwise the webpage stops working correctly. But no hurry. – joojaa Oct 4 '20 at 15:58
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Administrators will use this section to manage any services and applications that are connected to the SmarterTrack installation, including live chat translations, external feeds, ticket transferring across SmarterTrack instances and more. To access this section, log into the management interface with an administrator account. Then click on the Settings icon. In the Configuration area of the navigation pane, click on Connected Services. The settings will load in the content pane and the following tabs will be available:
Use this tab to edit the following settings:
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that method. Because the flash chromatography method operates at lower pressures, the columns used are made of polypropylene and polyethylene which are much more cost efficient.
|Flash vs. HPLC Chromatography||Flash Chromatography||High-performance liquid chromatography|
|Pressure||Medium pressure||High; up to 5000psi|
|Media particle size||5 to 15 microns||25 to 50 microns|
|Cost of materials||Low||High|
How Can Consumers and The Industry Benefit From Flash Chromatography
Because flash chromatography is such a safe and efficient method for testing and separation, it is an incredibly useful tool in the industry of hemp and cannabis extraction. There are a number of reasons why chromatography is necessary in this industry including cannabinoid separation, THC remediation, and testing of materials for quality and safety.
For separation purposes, flash chromatography is highly efficient for product formulation. For example, the popularity of so-called "designer spectrum" products are increasing as the technology to make them has improved. These are products that are formulated with specific levels of cannabinoids and terpenes in order to achieve a desired effect. This is very common in the recreational cannabis extract industry in which products are formulated with exact ratios of THC to CBD as some customers prefer a certain level of each in their chosen product.
Why THC Remediation is so Important
As mentioned above, the need for remediation in CBD products is essential to keep a product legal. Without remediation, levels of THC in a CBD product can reach above the 0.3% legal threshold and render the product useless since it cannot be sold. Flash chromatography is the most effective method to remove THC from a distillate in large enough quantities to make it an efficient process. While there are other ways to separate cannabinoids, this is the most effective and cost efficient in a large scale extraction process.
Perhaps the most important thing that flash chromatography is used for in the extraction industry is testing. There can be a number of different materials in an extract that can disrupt the formulation process, or worse, be harmful to the consumer if not properly removed. Chromatography's original use was for identifying and testing materials in a solution. When a distillate undergoes flash chromatography, it is capable of testing and removing materials like residual solvents, pesticides, metals, etc. All of which could make an otherwise quality product unusable.
It is clear now that chromatography has changed the hemp and cannabis industry for the better and has become a staple in the extraction process. With testing becoming vitally more important to increasingly strict federal regulations, large scale chromatography can be used as the most efficient method to test and remediate extracts to ensure potency and purity. Not only that, chromatography is one of the most effective ways of creating specific extracts with its capability of separating cannabinoids into their individual components for product formulation down the line.
If you are looking for a highly efficient chromatography solution that can help you in large scale testing and separation of your extracts, take a look at the pure99 high performance liquid chromatography system from extraktLAB. This chromatography solution is a highly efficient separation technology with a 5-7 L/min throughput and a fully integrated falling film evaporation system for onboard solvent recycling making it the most efficient chromatography system for full scale extraction operations. If you want to take your separations to the next level, contact us today.
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should be based on single cell detection, and there are plenty of cases where single cell measurements are superfluous. However, too often we fail to appreciate the huge mistakes we can do in biology when we forget the assumptions we do when using population measurements.
But which assumptions do we really do?
Often implicitly, when doing population measurements (e.g., Western blots, sequencing, proteomics, etc…) we assume that populations of cells we measure are homogeneous and synchronous. Or at least we assume that these differences are unimportant and that they can be averaged out. In the best cases, we try to enforce a degree of synchronicity and homogeneity, experimentally. In reality, one of the most important assumptions we implicitly do is that the system we analyse is an ergodic system. In physics and statistics, an ergodic system is a system that, given a sufficiently long time, explore all its possible states. It is also a system where – if sufficiently sampled – all its states are explored and, consequently, averages over time on a single cell and averages over a population at a given time are the same. However, there are limits to this assumption in biology. The obvious example is the cell cycle. There is significant literature about ergodicity and cell cycle [e.g., 1, 2, 3] and how this principle can be exploited, but…
The lottery for cell division makes you grow faster.
There is a particular phenomenon that we encountered while we were working on this project [4] that fascinated me for its simplicity and consequences. How cells can increase their fitness (i.e. their growth rate)? One obvious answer is by dividing faster. Another, at first glance less obvious answer, is by exhibiting an heterogeneous cell cycle length. Let's consider a population of cells that divides every 24 hours. Over one week, these cells will have 128 times the original population size. Now, let's consider cells that divide on average every 24 hours but exhibit variation in cell cycle length, randomly, with a standard deviation of 4 hours and a normal distribution. Cells with 20 hours or 28 hours long cell cycle are equally probable to occur. However, in one week, cells with a 28 hours long cell cycle length will grow 64 times and cells with a 20 hours long cell cycle length will grow about 380 times. On average, these cells will grow ~200 times, that is much faster than cells dividing precisely every 24 hours (128 times). This is true for any pair drawn at equal distance from the two sides of the average; these pairs are equiprobable, thus cells dividing at a given average cell cycle length grow faster at increasing heterogeneity. Let's remember that this can occur not just in the presence of genetic differences, but even just for stochastic variations where the progeny of one cell will not keep the same cell cycle length but will keep randomly changing according to an underlying distribution. This is a phenomenon that has been observed experimentally, for instance, in yeast [5] with single-cell measurements but that is occurring in any cellular systems as described in [1] and our own work [4]. Population measurements might conceal these very important phenotypic or mechanistic differences.
The sum of two normal distributions is not another normal distribution.
The beauty of the normal distribution is that it is such a 'well behaved' distribution and, at the same time, it represents many physical and biological phenomena. If a population we are characterizing is made of two normal distributions, their average is the average of the normal distribution. If these have the same average, the variance of the sum will be the sum of the variances. These basic and useful mathematical relationships can be also rather misleading. In fact, while these statements are mathematically correct, two populations of cells that 'behave rather differently', for instance in response to a drug, cannot be averaged. For instance, one cell population might be killed with a given concentration of a drug. Another population might be resistant. By detecting 50% cell death, we could assume – incorrectly – that dosing at higher concentrations we could kill more cells.
The plot shown below illustrates this basic principle. The blue and red distributions, averaged together, exhibit the same variance and average of the yellow distribution but they represent very different systems. If the blue distribution represents the sizes of cats and the red distribution the sizes of dogs, the yellow distribution does not represent the size distribution of any real animals. In other words, the average phenotype is not a real phenotype and, in the best case scenario, when there is a dominant population, it represents the most frequent (the mode) phenotype. In all other cases, where the homogeneity of the phenotype is not checked, the average phenotype might be simply wrong.
This is a very simple illustration of a problem we frequently encounter in biology, trusting our population measurements (averages and standard deviations over experimental repeats) without being sure of the distributions underlying our measurements. In the figure above, the purple distribution is a distribution where the average is the correct average of the blue and red distribution, but the purple distribution is the statistical error of the assay and it is unrelated to the scatter of the biological phenomenon we are measuring. Sometimes, we cannot do anything to address this problem experimentally because of the limitations of technologies but it is very important – at least – to be aware of these issues.
Just for the most curious, I should clarify that for two Gaussian distributions with relative weights A and B, we can define a mixing parameter p=A/(A+B). The average of the mixed population will be simply μP=p*μA+(1-p)*μB, i.e. for p=0.5 is the average of the means. The apparent variance is σP^2 = p*σA^2+(1-p)*σB^2+p(1-p)*(μA-μB)^2, i.e. σP^2 is the average of the variances summed to the squared separation of the two averages weighed by the geometrical averages of the mixing parameters of the two populations.
Collective behaviour of cells is not an average behaviour, quite the contrary.
When discussing these issues, I am often confronted with the statement that we eventually do not care about the behaviour of individual cells but with the collective behaviour of groups of cells. There are two important implications to discuss. First of all, when arguing the importance of single-cell measurements, we do not argue the importance of studying individual cells in isolation. Quite the contrary, we should measure individual cells in model systems the closest to the physiological state. However, many assays are incompatible with the study of cell behaviour within humans and we resort to a number of model systems: individual cells separated from each other, 2D and 3D cultures, ex and in vivo assays. The two arguments (single cell measurements or measurements in more physiological model systems of tissues or organisms) are not the same.
Second, collective behaviours are not 'average behaviours'. There are great examples in the literature but I would advise just even to visit the websites of two laboratories that I personally admire. They nicely and visually illustrate this point, John Albeck's laboratory at UC Davis and Kazuhiro Aoki's laboratory at NIBB. Collective behaviours emerge from the interaction of cells in space and time as illustrated by waves of signalling or metabolic activities caused by cell-to-cell communication in response to stimuli. The complex behaviours that interacting cells exhibit, even just in 2D cultures, can be understood when single cells and their biochemistry are visualized individually. Once again, phenotypes or their mechanism might be concealed or misinterpreted by population or snapshot measurements.
This is, of course, not always the case. However, my advice is to keep at least in mind the assumptions we do when we perform an ensemble or a snapshot measurement and, whenever possible, to check they are valid.
At FLIM impact (Episode I)
What has been the impact of fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy to science and to the biomedical community in particular? Is FLIM a niche technique, one of those techniques that always promise but never deliver?
The top 10 most cited papers
Excluding reviews, the list of the top 10 most cited papers, albeit representing a very narrow window on the impact that FLIM had on the broader community, is rather instructive. Do consider, we are missing all those papers where FLIM was used but not cited in title or abstract. Most of the top 10 is made of applications to cell biochemistry, demonstrating the potential and the impact that fluorescence lifetime has. FLIM helped to understand how signalling work in living cells and animals, helped to identify drugs and to study disease. Some of the top cited papers are more technical, such as Digman's paper on the phasor-transform or Becker's paper on TCSPC widely cited because of their influence on contemporary FLIM techniques from a perspective of data analysis and technology. Other papers date back to the initial years of FLIM with applications to biochemistry. Overall, from this list, we understand (if more evidence was needed) that FLIM had a deep impact on the understanding of cell biochemistry albeit, historically, FLIM has been limited to the specialist laboratory.
I would like to highlight also another small observation, perhaps just interesting for the specialists, and not visible from other bibliometric analyses. Tom Jovin and a group of scientists trained by him (e.g., Dorus Gadella and Philippe Bastiaens) left a significant footprint in the field, directly driving biomedical relevant applications while pushing, at the same time, technological or methodological developments. Many others are linked to this 'school' directly or indirectly, scientists that use/develop a microscope to do biochemistry.
 1. Mapping temperature within cells using fluorescent polymers by Ok


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September 10th, 2010
When the boys and girls of Spirit Lake, Iowa, load their backpacks for classes this fall, each child in grades 5 to 12 will be packing a lap top computer provided by the school district.
This bit of good fortune was funded by a special initiative. But it is not the first time Spirit Lake has stepped up to embrace new technology. In 1993 – when "renewable energy" was not widely discussed — it became the first school district in the nation to install a wind turbine, a move that has saved the district some $200,000 in energy costs.
When that pokey Wind World 250 KW turbine, financed by the state and a federal grant, was paid off, Spirit Lake put up another turbine, this one a hefty 750 KW NEGMicon, in 2001.


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Always wanted to be near the sea, enjoying the sunsets and listening to the sound of the waves? Being on the water has always been associated with wellbeing, and for a reason… or better, six. Here are 6 reasons why sailing will make you, and those around you, happier… and healthier.
1. Negative Ions
Breathing is what keeps us alive, the better the air, the better we fuel our bodies. Fresh air makes us feel more awake, active and alive. When sailing you are exposed to clean, fresh air, away from the polluted air of cities and cars. The sea air is richer in negative ions, which help the body absorb oxygen and make us feel better. They naturalize free radicals, revitalize metabolism and help to purify the blood.
2. Vitamin D
Sailing often means spending more time outdoors, getting the benefits of the sun and charging our bodies with essential vitamin D, which helps our bodies to absorb calcium and phosphorus, essential for our bones. Having said that, when sailing it is also important to protect our skin from too much sun, using protective hats, clothing and sun cream.
3. Sounds of Nature
A form of pollution is the sound pollution that we suffer living in cities or near industrial areas. Whilst sailing, we listen to the waves and sounds of water and the wind in our sails. Nature sounds are relaxing and give us a feeling of calm and wellbeing. How many Spas recreate those sounds with artificial fountains or recordings? Living near the water will get you the real thing.
4. Physical fitness
Being near water reduces stress. It makes us feel physically better and more relaxed and boosts our immune system, allowing us to live a healthier life. Sailing also keeps us active and exercised, with all the benefits that an active life provides.
5. The Blue Mind Effect
Being near the water sets our mind in a relaxed, happier state. Recent studies point out how our brains react when we are near the sea, rivers or lakes, making us feel better mentally. Wallace J. Nichols explores the scientific reason behind this in his book 'The Blue Mind'.
6. Feeling of accomplishment
Learning the skills to sail a boat and being able to sail to your destination gives you a feeling of self confidence and accomplishment. Sailing is a constant learning, helping to keep your mind active.
Well, there you have it…
…6 good reasons why sailing not only will make you happier, but will keep you healthier. So why don't you come sailing with us? Whether you are an experienced Skipper or a total novice, take the helm, learn new skills and enjoy the benefits of sailing.
Thank you Marie Wynants for our cover picture!


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The group focuses on organic matter (OM) stabilization in the soil-plant system as affected by global change. We try to solve a paradox: why plant derived OM stays in soil for centuries even though energetically it should be mineralised much faster. We hypothesise that this persistence is due to ecosystem properties rather than chemical features. We are particularly investigating three topics: the pyrogenic OM, the root derived OM and soil OM vulnerability.
- Mirjam Studer (PhD candidate)
- Beatriz Gonzales Dominguez (PhD candidate)
- Juliane Hirte (external PhD candidate)
- Cordula Friedli (external PhD candidate)
- Pierre Stevenel (external PhD candidate)


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Patent application title: Accessory platform for archery bows
William L. Leven (Lancaster, CA, US)
IPC8 Class: AF41B520FI
Class name: For archery projector bow handle or attachment thereto for stabilization thereof
Publication date: 2010-09-30
Patent application number: 20100242940
An accessory platform for archery bows is provided. The accessory platform
includes a substantially disk-shaped portion provided with a hole in the
center thereof, a plurality of holes are provided around a periphery of
the disk-shaped portion and a base cushion is provided in the hole and
includes means to couple the disk-shaped portion directly or indirectly
to an archery bow. The accessory platform is utilized to absorb vibration
when an arrow is shot from the archery bow and to balance the weight of
the archery bow.
1. An accessory platform for archery bows comprising:a substantially
disk-shaped article provided with a hole in the center thereof;a
plurality of holes provided around a periphery of said article; anda base
cushion provided in said hole and including means to couple said article
to said archery bow, said base cushion for isolating said article from
said archery bow.
2. The accessory platform according to claim 1, wherein said disk-shaped article is made from a material selected from the group consisting of metal, plastic and elastomers.
3. The accessory platform according to claim 2, wherein said base cushion is made from an elastomer of 35 to 80 duro.
4. The accessory platform according to claim 3, wherein said hole in said disk is provided with at least one notch and said base cushion is provided with at least one projection which fits into said notch for preventing rotation of said disk.
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to accessories and devices designed to absorb the vibrations generated when an arrow is shot from a bow and to balance the bow to the user's requirements.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
In the prior art there exists several devices for absorbing vibration of the bow during the time period when an arrow is shot from the bow. In addition, some of these devices are also capable to some extent of balancing the bow. Such prior art devices can be found in issued United States patent numbers:
TABLE-US-00001 4,135,486 4,370,670 5,273,022 6,526,957 6,802,307 6,997,174 7,318,430
While the devices described in the above-identified United States patents may absorb vibration and balance the bow to some extent, they all have one or more defects such as being heavy, cumbersome, being affected by the wind and providing limited adjustability.
INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
Applicant incorporates by reference all of Provisional Application No. 61/209,595.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Accordingly, it is a general object of the present invention to overcome the deficiencies of the prior art.
In particular, it is an object of the present invention to provide an accessory platform for an archery bow which not only absorbs the vibration but also provides substantial adjustability in balancing the bow to the user's specifications.
In keeping with the principals and objects of the present invention, the above described objects are accomplished by a unique accessory platform for archery bows. The accessory platform includes a substantially disk-shaped portion provided with a hole in the center thereof, a plurality of holes are provided around a periphery of the disk-shaped portion and a base cushion is provided in the hole and includes means to couple the disk-shaped portion directly or indirectly to an archery bow. This accessory platform is utilized to absorb vibration when an arrow is shot from an archery bow and to balance the weight of the archery bow pursuant to the requirements of the user.
IN THE DRAWINGS
The above mentioned features and objects will become more apparent with reference to the following description taken in conjunction with the accompanied drawings wherein like referenced numerals described like elements and in which:
FIGS. 1A, 1B and 1C are top, side and bottom views of one component of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a perspective view of one portion of another part of the present invention;
FIGS. 3A and 3B are perspective views of still another portion of the present invention; and
FIG. 4 is a perspective view of the present invention in use.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Referring to the FIGS. 1A, 1B, 1C, 2, 3A and 3B, shown therein are the basic components of the accessory platform of the present invention. In particular, the present invention comprises a disk 2, thus is shown in the FIGS. 1A through 1C. The disk 2 can be made from a hard or pliable material such as a metal, plastic or elastomer. The disk 2 is generally disk-shaped, but could be provided in other shapes depending on the application such as a star shape, a square, a hexagon, etc. and could be made in various diameters. Around the periphery of the disk 2 is a plurality of mounting holes 4. These mounting holes 4 are for the purpose of mounting other elements to the disk 2 and the primary elements which might be added to the disk 2 are weights 6 such as are shown in FIG. 4. The weights 6 may be provided in each one of the mounting holes or depending on the balance desired by the user, again be provided in only one hole or any other number of holes and positions which the user may desire in order to provide the proper balance. Still further, the holes 4 may be threaded or unthreaded of all the same or different sizes, and of various numbers, depending on the application.
The disk 2 is further provided at its center with a hole 8. The hole 8 may be further provided with radially extending notches 10 on a bottom surface of the disk 2. These notches 10 are utilized to prevent the disk 2 from rotating on its mounting.
A cushion base comprising two parts shown in the FIGS. 2, 3A and 3B. The cushion base comprises a lower portion 12 which has a raised portion 14 which fits into the hole 8 from the bottom side of the disk 2. The bottom portion 12 is provided with the threaded means 16A and 16B provided on both sides of the lower base 12. The two threaded mounting means 16A and 16B are not connected to each other and are separate elements and are molded or installed into the lower base 12. Screw mounting 16a threads into a hole 17 in the upper base 18 so as to mount the lower base 14 and the upper base 18 together. The upper base 18 is further provided with a projecting portion 20 which includes projecting tabs 22. The projecting tabs 22 fit into the notches 10 in the disk 2 and together with the notches 10 prevent the disk 2 from rotating. Still further, the upper and lower base portions 18 and 12 are made from a shock absorbing material such as an elastomer and such elastomer can be 35 to 80 duro depending on the application.
In operation and as is shown in FIG. 4, the disk 2 with weights 6 can be attached to a stabilizer 24 of an archery bow by means of the top threaded portion 16B. The stabilizer 24 can then be attached to an archery bow, not shown. Still further and in other applications, the disk 2 may be attached by means of the cushion base directly to an archery bow, again not shown, without the utilization of a stabilizer. One or more weights 6 are provided on the disk 2 in whatever configuration the user desires in order to balance the archery bow to the user's specifications. It should be apparent that the disk itself does not function as a weight.
With the stabilizer 24 mounted on the archery bow, not shown, and the disk 2 mounted to the stabilizer 24 by means of the bottom portion 12 of the cushion base, the vibration generated when an arrow is shot from a bow is absorbed by means of the cushion base while the weights 6 provided on the disk 2 maintain the balance of the bow.
While the present invention has been described in terms of a separate cushion base from the disk 2, one of ordinary skill in the art could also make the cushion base and the disk 2 as a single molded part. It should be apparent to those skilled in the art that the above described embodiment is but one of many embodiments which could be made based upon the principals and objects of the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Patent applications by William L. Leven, Lancaster, CA US
Patent applications in class For stabilization thereof
Patent applications in all subclasses For stabilization thereof


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The MC_Proxy_ID field needs to be added for each sObject that is to be mobilised by MobileCaddy. These instructions cover the steps to do this.
- Go to Setup and select the object you are going to mobilise from the left-hand Build -> Customize menu structure. In the below screenshot we are going to add the MC_Proxy_ID field to the Accounts object.
- Select the Fields menu item
- On the following page click the New button
- On the next (New Custom Field) page select the Text Area data type option, and click Next.
- On the next page (Step 2, Enter the Details) enter the value MC_Proxy_ID into the Field Label and Field Name boxes as per below, and click Next.
- On the next screen (Step 3. Establish field-level security) if you are in developer environment you can just accept the defaults, but in production it is good to ensure that any profiles for users who you are going to deploy mobile apps to have read/write access.
- On the following page (Step 4. Add to page layout) untick all options and click Save. You should now have successfully added the required MC_Proxy_ID field to the sObject.


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Copperhead was a term applied to northerners who favored the Confederate cause during the Civil War. The name came from the poisonous snake, which had a reputation for striking and injecting its venom with no warning.
The Copperheads were opposed to the abolition of slavery, sought to undermine the Lincoln administration, and openly agitated against the Civil War, urging that peace be made with the south. The best-known Copperhead was an Ohio politician, C.L. Vallandigham, who at one point was arrested by the Union Army and sent into exile to the Confederacy.


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How to Create a Custom LinkedIn Profile URL
Close up of a laptop with the Linkedin homepage open.
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 For home business owners and freelancers, LinkedIn offers a tremendous opportunity to promote your business, network with influencers, and build your professional online presence. However, when you initially join LinkedIn, you're given a long, difficult to remember profile URL. This can be a problem when trying to share it with others you want to network with. The solution is to create a custom URL for your LinkedIn Profile that can make it more recognizable and easier to use.
By customizing your URL, you'd change:
(The caps are to show you what you can change. Your Linkedin Profile URL doesn't require caps.)
Why You Might Want a Custom LinkedIn URL
There are several reasons to create a custom URL on LinkedIn. One is for search engine optimization (SEO). Search engines, including Google, use keywords within a URL to help it decide what web pages to deliver in search results. A URL of would have a better chance of ranking well in Google for a search using the keywords "freelance writer Ohio" than would the first URL of
Another reason to create a custom Linkedin URL is ease of use and recognition. Having a line of numbers at the end of a URL looks messy and difficult, and it's more likely to be ignored. Whereas, a URL with your or your business' name at the end will be clear what it's linking to. While LinkedIn URLs aren't as straightforward as they could be, the custom URL is still easier to remember than the default one.
Choosing Your Custom URL Profile Name
You have a few options in creating your custom URL. One is to use your given name, such as Joe Smith. The other option is to use your business name. Finally, you can use a combination of the two, such as Joe Smith Freelance Writer. Some things to consider when deciding what to use include:
 - What are you branding? Do you want you or your business name to be the focus of your endeavor? How do you want to be known in the professional world?
 - How easy is it to use? While combining your name and business allows you to use both, it also creates a long URL that can be difficult to use if people have to type it in (i.e. off of a business card).
 - Will your name change? Traditionally, this is more of a problem for single women who get married and decide to take their husband's name. However, I've seen many couples hyphenate both their names, in which case, it impacts men, as well. In this case, using your business name might be better.
You are allowed to change your LinkedIn customer URL up to five times in a 180-day period; however, this is not advised. First, changing your URL means you have to update it everywhere you used the old URL. Further, people with the old URL will have difficulty finding you. Finally, after 180 days, someone else can use your old URL, which could potentially lead your clients and customers to the other person instead of you. For this reason, pick a name you know you can live with for a long time.
How to Create a Custom URL for a LinkedIn Profile
The instructions below work on your public profile.
 1. Log into LinkedIn.
 2. On the main menu bar at the top of the page, hover over Profile with your mouse and select Edit Profile.
 3. Hover your cursor over the current profile URL under your profile picture. The settings icon will appear next to the URL. Click it.
 4. On the right-hand side of the page, you'll see a section that says, Your Public Profile URL. Click on the edit icon next to it.
 5. In the edit box, type the custom name you'd like in your URL. You can have five to 30 letters or numbers, but no symbols or special characters (i.e. you can't use "*" or "!"). Your custom name is NOT case sensitive, so JoeSmith and joesmith will both work in the URL. When you're done, click Save.
 6. If your custom URL isn't already in use, you're all set. If it is in use, you'll need to submit a new custom URL. You can add your middle initial or your business name or type to create a unique URL. For example, if JoeSmith is taken, you can use, "JoeQSmith," "JoeSmithSellingWords," or "JoeSmithCopywriter."
Be sure to update your new LinkedIn URL on your website, blog, and other marketing materials.


Example sentences for: advisable
How can you use "advisable" in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
 - There's still some dark sand exposed during low tide, mixed with broken coral, so it is advisable to wear shoes if you want to swim in the sea.
 - If large volumes of synthetic reconstituted water will be needed, it may be advisable to mix 1 L portions of concentrated stock solutions of NaHCO3, MgSO4, and KCl for use in preparation of the reconstituted waters.
 - Moreover, if it is deemed advisable to have the names in alphabetical order to make it easy to find a given street, it would be a simple matter to put Karachi Street between Istanbul and Lisbon Streets, Bach Boulevard between Jerusalem and Copland Boulevards followed by Debussy.
 - If large quantities of high quality deionized water are needed, it may be advisable to supply the laboratory grade water deionizer with preconditioned water from a CULLIGAN®, CONTINENTAL®, or equivalent, mixed-bed water treatment system.
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The ALS project is developing technologies with the intent to improve the productivity and reduce the cost of mass excavation. In a typical mass excavation application, a loading machine digs material from a face and dumps the material in a truck, with a throughput of hundreds of trucks per day. The process is repetitive and continues day and night and in most weather conditions. The type of loading machine and truck can vary, as can the material to be loaded which may range from sand to hard rock. Other issues include maintaining safety of all machines and personnel in the loading area and coordination of multiple machines to achieve a prescribed goal.
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The derivative is 0 at a stationary point--in fact that's the definition
of stationary point
Not sure if you'd need a picture of the graph or not; don't think you would.
It just looks like an upside down parabola, but starts at 0 and cuts back through the x-axis.
The curve (C) has the equation
The point A on C is a stationary point (is just a point at where the parabola turns back down [the tiny bit where it's flat]), and C cuts the x-axis at the point B.
Show that the x-coordinate of B is 3.
[I would of thought that if i substituted 3 into the above equation, y would equal 0?] it equals -9 however.
Find the coordinates of A.