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Open to district residents only. Limit of 12 people, age 16 and up.
This class is for the true beginner. You'll receive an introduction to the fundamental rudiments of general music, guitar music and guitar tablature. Learn to play by practicing finger exercises and note reading. Also covered are the three most common "open" major chords and their progression, fingerings, strum patterns, guitar assessment, construction, preventative and periodic maintenance, strings and changing them, guitar technique and tuning. Students should bring a guitar to class (acoustic guitars preferred; however, only very small amplifiers, 5 - 10 watts maximum, if bringing electric).
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Closing the Gaps Between What Sounds Good and What Gets Done
What We Know
Most leaders struggle to close the gaps between the types of employee behavior they desire and the types of behavior they get. Here are three possible explanations for those gaps:
- Employees understand what they're expected to do, but they're unable to do it
- Employees understand what they're expect to do, but they're unwilling to do it
- Employees don't understand what they're expected to do
Contrary to what many leaders believe, the most common explanation for not getting more of the behavior they expect is because their employees do not understand what they're expected to do.
Too many leaders seem to believe that the words and phrases contained in their mission statements, core values and other such documents adequately describe the things they expect employees to do. Those words and phrases have two things in common:
- They all sound good
- They have little or no impact on employee behavior or organizational performance
According to Jim Bearden, closing the gaps between what sounds good (mission statements, core values or core beliefs), and what gets done (employee behavior) is a key leadership role.
in this powerful workshop jim will
- Lay out 4 truths about the relationship between leadership behavior and organizational responses to challenges & changes
- Describe 6 specific steps leaders can take to get more of the behavior they expect
- Walk us through his 4-step model for expanding & enhancing employee engagement
jim's unique post-workshop component
- Jim will send each participant a series of weekly follow-up pieces focusing on key points covered in the workshop
- In those pieces he will offer additional thoughts about topics covered and suggestions to help participants translate the material covered into effective leadership behavior
Participants won't hear any platitudes or theories, but they will leave with a better understanding of specific Leadership behavior for Closing the Gaps Between What Sounds Good & What Gets Done.

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Apache Commons logo Apache Commons Exec
Building the command line
You have two ways to create the command line to be executed
 - parsing the entire command line string
 - building the command line incrementally
General Considerations
No matter which approach you are using commons-exec does change your command line arguments in the following two cases
 - when the executable contains forward or backward slashes
 - when a command line argument contains an unquoted string
The following executable arguments
will be translated under Windows to
Parsing the entire command line string
Parsing the command line string is easy to use but you might run into problems when tackling complex scenarios. Therefore this functionality was deprecated in the Ant Exec task.
Let's have a look at few examples you would like to stick to parsing entire command line strings
Spaces in command line arguments
Here we would like to invoke a batch file which contains spaces in the path
cmd.exe /C c:\was51\Web Sphere\AppServer\bin\versionInfo.bat
Due to the space in the file name we have to quote the file name either with single or double quotes otherwise it falls apart into two command line arguments c:\was51\Web and Sphere\AppServer\bin\versionInfo.bat.
String line = "cmd.exe /C 'c:\\was51\\Web Sphere\\AppServer\\bin\\versionInfo.bat'";
Building the Command Line Incrementally
This is the recommended approach and caters also for pre-quoted command line argument.
A simple example
Now we would like to build the following command line
runMemorySud.cmd 10 30 -XX:+UseParallelGC -XX:ParallelGCThreads=2
using the following code snippet
CommandLine cmdl = new CommandLine("runMemorySud.cmd");
A complex example
Now let's have a look at the following command line found somewhere in the internet
dotnetfx.exe /q:a /c:"install.exe /l ""\Documents and Settings\myusername\Local Settings\Temp\netfx.log"" /q"
The following code snippet builds the command line using pre-quoted arguments and variable expansion
File file = new File("/Documents and Settings/myusername/Local Settings/Temp/netfx.log");
Map map = new HashMap();
map.put("FILE", file);
cmdl = new CommandLine("dotnetfx.exe");
cmdl.addArgument("/q:a", false);
cmdl.addArgument("/c:\"install.exe /l \"\"${FILE}\"\" /q\"", false);
For the Desperate
When crafting a command line it would be really helpful to see what happens to your command line arguments. The following scripts can be invoked to print your command line arguments for Unix
while [ $# -gt 0 ]
 echo "$1"
and for Windows
IF [%1]==[] GOTO Continue
 _USER_ "%1"


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'Robosquirrel' deployed to research relationship with rattlesnakes
Researchers in California have built a robot squirrel in a bid to better understand real one's (pictured) behavior.
Robot squirrel aids animal behavior study
- Researchers in California create robot squirrel to study behavior of rattlesnakes
- "Robosquirrel" replicates two key behaviors observed in the wild when confronted by the predator
(CNN) -- This might sound a bit nutty, but U.S. researchers are using robot squirrels to learn more about how real ones interact with their main predator, rattlesnakes.
The lifelike robot, built by a team from the University of California, Davis, can replicate two behaviors squirrels display when confronted by a rattlesnake.
Research by the late Donald Owings, professor of psychology at UC Davis, observed that rather than scamper off squirrels would approach a snake "head-first in an elongated posture, making flagging movements with their tails."
He also discovered their tails heat up, which is picked up by a snake's infrared sensor.
But in the wild there is no way to separate the "heat" and the "flagging," say researchers. And that's where the robot comes in.
Snakes will rarely strike a flagging adult squirrel, and if they do they almost always miss
Rulon Clark, University of California, Davis
Out in the field near San Jose, researchers set up "robosquirrel" and a video camera near a foraging snake before retreating out of sight.
The snakes observed appear to accept the robot as real, with one snake even biting the robot's head, according to researchers.
This doesn't happen often in the wild says Clark, because squirrels possess a "remarkable ability" to dodge a snake attack.
"Snakes will rarely strike a flagging adult squirrel, and if they do they almost always miss," said Rulon Clark, assistant professor of biology at San Diego State University.
It's still not clear why squirrels approach such a deadly predator, but Clark says they maybe trying to assess the nature of the threat. In some cases snakes will leave the area after an encounter.
"Robosquirrel" joins a growing list of robot creatures created by UC Davis which include a robot lizard -- used to study display behavior in anole lizards in the Puerto Rican jungle.
Another saw the use of a robot sage grouse hen to study their real-life mating habits.
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Why buy personalised square labels and stickers?
In the vast majority of cases, you can't go wrong with squares and rectangles. They are certainly up there with circles as some of the most popular shapes – and for good reason. Unless your artwork consists of a truly elaborate shape, then virtually any design can fit comfortably into a square or rectangle. Plus, with the ability to adjust the height and width to tailor the overall shape to your needs, it means that you can almost always find the right sized rectangle or square to go with your artwork.
The versatility of rectangles
Rectangle stickers are one of the few types where you can not only change the size, but also the shape. For example, circle and triangle shapes remain fixed, allowing you to simply increase or decrease the size of them. However, rectangles allow you to manipulate the overall dimensions by being able to use custom height and width measurements with FastPrint. Read More
Whilst this means that you can have small or large square labels and stickers of any size, it also means that you can adapt the rectangular shapes to your needs. For example, if you artwork is thin and long, then a smaller height measurement and a larger width measurement will create the ideal shape which is perfectly suited to your artwork. If you have something which is tall but narrow, then simply adjust the height and width to create a shape which suits. If you need a traditional square, then identical height and width measurements will create a square shape in any size you wish.
With this approach, your stickers can be catered to your artwork instead of catering your artwork to pre-set dimensions which you have no control over. This avoids wastage, avoids any unused white background and ultimately makes your square and rectangle stickers look much more professional.
How can I use them?
Printed rectangle labels and stickers are extremely versatile and allow for the vast majority of uses whilst being suitable for any type of artwork. You can use them for promotional advertising, informational needs, branding purposes and more. The shape of the sticker is especially useful if there's a lot of text or individual graphical elements, as the full area of the shape is usable from corner to corner. This is contrary to other shapes such as circles or triangles, where the actual usable space may be far lower depending on the overall shape of the artwork.


Shelly Chauhan
Shelly Chauhan, a chartered psychologist and executive coach, has coached and trained a large number of clients in the corporate world over the past eighteen years on issues such as resilience, stress management and emotional intelligence. In sessions with clients, the conversation regularly turned to parenting as they sought to discover how they could manage their stress levels to be better parents. Having two young children herself, Shelly was only too aware of the challenges of parenting and how parenting guilt and worry could affect other areas of one's life. Over the years she came to realise that at the heart of many of these clients' difficulties was their struggle to notice and regulate their emotional states, and how deeply this affected their ability to connect with, influence and feel genuine empathy for other people, including their children. Based on years of meticulous research into the neuroscience of emotional regulation, stress and human connection, Shelly was inspired to translate this complex research into a methodology combining brain science with practical exercises to help clients enhance their capacity for emotional regulation, wellbeing and connection. Feedback from clients highlights the power of this approach to transform parenting and increase resilience, empathy and general wellbeing both in children and parents. Shelly has a deep sense of compassion towards children. She is committed to helping parents understand how powerful an impact loving connection has on the growing brains of their children and how their need to be loved, understood and accepted is hardwired into us all. Shelly lives in Surrey, England, with her husband and two children, aged ten and seven.
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India Birding Tours
Joining a birding tour in India, a vast country twice the size of South Africa, should be on any birder's wish list! The country shares borders with Pakistan to the west, China and Nepal to the north, Bhutan to the northeast, and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. Sri Lanka lies to the south, the Maldives to the southwest, and Indonesia to the southeast of India in the Indian Ocean. India is the seventh-largest country in the world by area and, with over a billion people, is second only to China in population, although its much higher birthrate makes it likely to reach pole position in less than ten years. It is an extremely diverse country, with vast differences in geography, climate, culture, language, and ethnicity across its expanse, and prides itself on being the largest democracy on Earth.


3 Tips for Dramatic Effects with a Pocket Video Camera
A pocket camera is one of the most basic pieces of video equipment anyone can own since it is easy to carry and operate. However, even this little gizmo is capable of dramatic effects in photography with just a little creativity from its owner. Here are a few tips for creating dramatic effects with your pocket video camera.
1. Time Lapse Effect
This dramatic effect speeds up time, compressing a whole day into just a video clip of five minutes. You can use this for skyline videos to show the passing of hours or for plants to show their growth. All you need is the patience and consistency to take videos at certain times and connect them all in one clip.
2. Slow Motion Effect
Most mini-video cameras already have this camera feature; all you have to do is press the button and shoot. It is very important that the scene you are shooting has movement so ask those you are videotaping to expand their actions and facial expressions to maximize this effect.
3. Focus Effects
Change the focus of the camera to create a smoky or cloudy effect to create a dizzy feel. Shake the camera continually and have the actors move around to create an earthquake scene.


Immigration, Religion, and the West
How do the religious practices of immigrants to the Western World affect their integration? How does the process of immigration affects their faith?
The Syrian Civil War and the advent of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have caused a human disaster of the highest degree. According to recent media estimates, 300,000 have died and 10 million have been made homeless since demonstrations began in the fateful "Arab Spring" of 2011.[1] A terrible situation has become worse. US, Kurdish and Iranian forces are attacking ISIS, but Russian forces in Syria are also targeting US-backed Syrian rebels who are trying to overthrow Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad. There is no end in sight.
Unsurprisingly such misery has generated millions of refugees. Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan have accepted 3.5 million between them,[2] but a tide of refugees is beginning to roll towards Europe. Many countries have absorbed some, and Germany has agreed to accept 800,000.[3] Libya, sub-Saharan Africa, and many other failed states also send tens of thousands of migrants to Europe, and the United States, every year.
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The Bloodstone Lands: Legacies
Every new level (including 1st) each PC adds 3 hero points to their character sheet. These points DO NOT roll over to the next level so use 'em or lose 'em.
Bonus Hero Points can be gained through good roleplay, these bonus points must also be used by the next level or lost.
How to use hero Points:
It's pretty easy. Whenever you roll a D20 you can use a Hero Point to add an additional die to the roll. You must use the Hero Point BEFORE the roll. Once used a Hero Point is gone. One exception to the above rule is for damage. You may use a Hero Point to add or subtract to any damage you roll or take. Again, you must declare the Hero Point used before rolling the damage dice.
Thus Hero Points can be used for all the following rolls: attack, damage, saves and skill checks.
How Much Do Hero Points Add to Your Roll:
Depends on your level:
1-5 = D4
6-10 = D6
11-15 = D8
16-19 = D10
20 = D12


How is the Weather in Olon?
Olon is located right next to Montañita in the Santa Elena province of Ecuador, which has a more Temperate Climate than Salinas, Manta and other coastal cities and towns. The average temperatures according to BING Weather History is:
January - May = 26 to 29°C
June - December = 23 to 26°C
That means it's never cold in Olon. When it rains, it mostly does so at night and never very hard. That makes Olon the ideal spot to stay for a longer while!
Of course, Olon has one of the nicest sandy, wide & long Beaches and romantic Sunsets there are!
Below you can see the current Weather from AccuWeather. But this is not often very accurate, the closest weather station (in Manglaralto) doesn't seem to be very capable of registering and predicting the Weather very accurately.
The area is Green all year, with seasonal streams and small rivers. There is a variety of wildlife to be seen and heard at the Beach and in the Forested Hills. Find many Birds and Butterflies, Howler Monkeys, Deer and other local species!
Olon gives you more options and things to do. The Water Temperature is agreeable all-year-round. When it rains, it's normally in the early morning. There is often a nice breeze from the Ocean in daytime and from the Hills at night, so you don't always need your Air-Conditioning.


text: Enterococcus faecium is a commensal of the human gastrointestinal tract and a frequent cause of bloodstream infections in hospitalized patients. Here, we identify genes that contribute to growth of E. faecium in human serum. We first sequenced the genome of E. faecium E745, a vancomycin-resistant clinical isolate, to completion and then compared its transcriptome during exponential growth in rich medium and in human serum by RNA-seq. This analysis revealed that 27.8% of genes on the E. faecium E745 genome were differentially expressed in these two conditions. A gene cluster with a role in purine biosynthesis was among the most upregulated genes in E. faecium E745 upon growth in serum. A high-throughput transposon sequencing (Tn-seq) approach was used to identify conditionally essential genes in E. faecium E745 during growth in serum. Genes involved in de novo nucleotide biosysnthesis (including pyrK_2, pyrF, purD, purH) and a gene encoding a phosphotransferase system subunit (manY_2) were thus identified to be contributing to E. faecium growth in human serum. Transposon mutants in pyrK_2, pyrF, purD, purH and manY_2 were isolated from the library and their impaired growth in human serum was confirmed. In addition, the pyrK_2 and manY_2 mutants also exhibited significantly attenuated virulence in an intravenous zebrafish infection model. We conclude that genes involved in carbohydrate and nucleotide metabolism of E. faecium are essential for growth in human serum and contribute to the pathogenesis of this organism.


A string of recent rulings make school boards safer places for dissenting views
Schools come by their hostility to freedom of speech honestly; they get it from their school boards, which are habitually hostile to dissenters.
Many school districts forbid speakers from criticizing school employees during the public-comment portion of board meetings. Some go even further and prohibit mentioning any proper names.
That's changing, because of a growing legal consensus that it's unconstitutional to restrict the content of citizens' remarks during government meetings.
On April 4, a federal district judge struck down a North Georgia county's onerous application process that required citizens wishing to address the school board to endure a weeks-long approval process designed to prevent controversies from being aired in public.
In its waning hours on XX, the Georgia General Assembly approved legislation outlawing so-called "One Board" policies that restrict individual school board members from expressing disagreement with positions taken by the board.
That these reforms were necessary speaks to the image obsession of local school districts — not just Georgia, but nationally. Promoting the false impression of harmony has become the paramount concern that supersedes everything else, including public accountability.


Nasa Jigsaw Puzzle with Answer
This Jigsaw Puzzle is dedicated to all the kids who want to become Astronauts. Solving this Puzzle will help you to increase your visual skills. It will also help you to sharp your brain. One Jigsaw Piece is taken from Nasa Puzzle Image of Space Shuttle launch. Can you correctly match this missing Jigsaw Piece in the given puzzle image and solve this Nasa Jigsaw Puzzle?
It is Jigsaw puzzle in which one has to find the missing Jigsaw Piece of Nasa Puzzle Image
Can you find the Missing Jigsaw Piece?
Answer of this "Nasa Jigsaw Puzzle", can be viewed by clicking on answer button. Please do give your best try before looking at the answer.
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Yes, this is correct answer for this Naga Jigsaw Puzzle.


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Canes are strong slender often flexible stems from bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane.
Crops are a short type of whip without a thong used in horseback riding, also known as riding crops.
Feathers are plumage from a bird or other animal. Some feathers are synthetic with plastic spines. Ticklers are flexible wands with rubber strands or feathers.
Floggers are lightweight whips with a handle and multiple lashes.
Paddles are flat blades, usually in the shape of an oar, with a handle. Some are paddles are padded and some have words that leave impressions.
Slappers are two paddles bound together at the handle. When struck against a person, the two paddles hit one another and create a loud sound.
Whips are sticks or handles with lashes or tassels attached to the end.


As evidenced by our name, Village Leadership Academy is committed to developing leaders. At VLA we believe that, "Tomorrow belongs to the children who are prepared today." Our richly diverse leadership development programming is designed with that in mind.
GrassRoots Campaigns (GRC)
GrassRoots Campaigns are service-learning projects geared toward developing leadership skills wherein students work together to help solve a societal problem that is affecting individuals in their community, nation or world. Through their participation, students develop essential leadership skills by: thinking critically, developing public speaking abilities, and planning for and executing programs, presentations and interdisciplinary activities. The leadership capabilities that are gained from participating in the GrassRoots Campaign process are invaluable for our students and put them firmly on the road towards becoming 21st century leaders and innovators. All students in every grade level, Kindergarten through eighth grade, engage in a GrassRoots Campaign each academic year.
Social Justice Curriculum
The social justice curriculum aims to empower and develop a key set of knowledge, critical thinking skills and drive for justice in our students as they seek to better their communities, nation and world. The spiraling curriculum is student-centered, in which they uncover lessons of justice from their lives, global history, and current events. Students learn to embrace their own cultural heritage while respecting the many cultures and histories of the world. Students at every grade level participate in a social justice class four times weekly. This unique and innovative course replaces a more traditional social studies or history class.
Tabura, in the African language of Kiswahili, literally means 'drill' or 'training', as in a drill training team. We use the term to describe the discipline we practice and implement to build and teach practical leadership skills. With this ancient African discipline, we assist our students to challenge themselves to not only be leaders, but to be disciplined leaders, ready to take on whatever challenge they are presented with to move their communities forward. This course is offered to all students in first grade and above.


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The Manitoba Conservation Data Centre (MBCDC) is a storehouse of information on Manitoba's biodiversity – its plant and animal species, as well as its natural plant communities. The MBCDC functions under the umbrella of NatureServe and NatureServe Canada, a network of 75 similar centres throughout Canada, the United States and Latin America. This network, along with a central team of scientists, maintains science-based information about the biodiversity of the western hemisphere.
The MBCDC has developed lists of plant and animal species and plant communities, also known as elements of biodiversity, found in Manitoba. MBCDC assigns each of these elements a conservation status rank, based on how rare the species or community is in Manitoba, then collects detailed information on where the provincially rare elements have been found. These locations, known as element occurrences, are mapped in a geographic information system (GIS) and entered into a species and plant community database. The MBCDC uses a scientifically and empirically defined methodology and rigorous standards common to all CDC's throughout the network. The information has many uses, including conservation and development planning, and is made available to government, the private sector, and the public.
The MBCDC was established in July 1994 through a partnership between The Manitoba Museum, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC), and Manitoba Natural Resources (now Manitoba Conservation and Water Stewardship). The MBCDC is currently part of the Biodiversity Conservation Section of the Wildlife Branch.


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A new RTE radio documentary explores how Kenmare Street in lower Manhattan was named in memory of an Irish immigrant.
The RTE radio doc 'Kenmare Street' tells the story of famine, enforced emigration, New York tenements, politics, and how a kid from the slums of the 'Five Points' got to name a street in Manhattan after his mother's home town of Kenmare.
In 1849, the agent for the Lord Lansdowne landlord of the Kenmare Estate recommended the estate could cut costs if they sent a portion of the destitute population to the US and Canada.
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The cost of the trip would cost less than food and lodgings for one year in a Kenmare workhouse.
Thousands of Kenmare residents took up the offer and immigrated to New York, settling in the notorious Five Points neighborhood, made up of Baxter Street, Orange Street and Worth Street.
Living in one of the most notorious slums in NYC the Kenmare Irish found work in tanneries, taverns and selling food on the streets.
One of the residents, Tim Sullivan, was the son of Kenmare immigrants Daniel O'Sullivan and Catherine Connelly. Sullivan started off shining shoes and doing paper rounds. He soon began running the newspaper distribution, before developing bars and theatres and ending up in politics.
Known as Big Tim or Big Feller, he was one of the city's most powerful politicians in the first decade of the 20th century.
Richard F. Welch, a New York historian, who wrote "King of the Bowery: Big Tim Sullivan, Tammany Hall, and New York City From the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era" describes his legacy.
"Profoundly Irish by birth, heritage and experience, the new district leader held little in the way of ethno-religious prejudices and took people as he found them.
"Brought up in abject poverty himself his worldview was refracted through a prism of class-consciousness that owed nothing to theory or ideology and everything to experience and practicality."
Read More: How 'Typhoid Mary' infected countless and still haunts a New York island
"Sullivan was a master of mass politics in an age when personal contact was everything," he writes.
"The loyalty he engendered in the multiethnic population below 14th Street was based on his big hearted solicitude for his constituents."
Sullivan founded Kenmare street in 1911, in memory of the town his mother emigrated from.
He died aged 51, when he was killed on August 31, 1913, by a train near Pelham Parkway, New York.
As part of the radio documentary, Producer Yvonne Judge travelled to New York and spoke with Senator Mark Daly and historian Ger Lyne. She also spoke with descendants of Big Tim Sullivan among others.
Click here to listen to the 'Kenmare Street' documentary on RTE.


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What do "parergonal" and "parergon" mean in the following sentence? Can anybody suggest some synonym?
Thus, the figurative signification of structure does not escape but instead confirms the parergonal and supplemental status of ornament. If structure in its metaphorical sense is the fully conceived structured idea of the building, then ornament becomes the parergon that reifies the underlying essential idea, the recessive unseen structure. (Source: "Structure/ornament and the Modern Figuration of Architecture" by Anne-Marie Sankovitch)
I checked them out in American Heritage Online English dictionary and Wikipedia, but I wasn't able to figure it out, and I'm struggling because I'm actually not able to understand what Anne-Marie Sankovitch said.
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closed as general reference by Marthaª, MετάEd, TimLymington, tchrist, Mahnax Aug 27 '12 at 17:18
Did you try "define: parergon" using Google, a method that was suggested to you in the answer to a different question of yours? Also, Wikipedia is not a dictionary, so if you are looking for definitions, it is not a good source. You might try Wiktionary instead. Also, since you are reading academic articles, you should probably consult a more sophisticated dictionary. – KitFox Aug 27 '12 at 17:02
Also, "parergon" is defined earlier in that very article. – KitFox Aug 27 '12 at 17:06
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From the OED's entry for parergon:
parergon /pəˈrɝːgɒn/.
Pl. parerga (in 7 erron. parergas).
Etymology: L. parergon an extra ornament in art, a. Gr. πάρεργον by-work, subordinate or secondary business, etc., sb. use of neuter of πάρεργος beside or in addition to the main work, f. παρά beside + ἕργον work.
 1. In Painting: Something subordinate or accessory to the main subject; hence, generally and fig., ornamental accessory or addition, grace, embellishment.? Obs.
 2. By-work, subordinate or secondary work or business; work apart from one's main business or ordinary employment. Also a work, composition, etc., that is secondary to or a derivative of a larger or greater work; an opusculum.
 3. † A supplemental work. (As title of a book.)
Note that senses 1 and 3 are both considered obsolete.
I suggest you gain access to an unabridged dictionary. You aren't going to be happy with all the words that these so-called "learners" dictionaries leave out, like oh maybe... opusculum.
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As documented here on MSDN the PropertyItem object does not have a public constructor.
What to do then when you want to add a property to an image, using Image.SetPropertyItem(..) method?
This post suggests you create some bank of all property items you want, hold it memory and clone from it.
A commenter on that blog suggested using reflection: Get the non-public parameter-less constructor and invoke it. Notable downside for this approach is reliance on internal implementation of the object. True. I'll risk it though.
In my implementation, I added a helper method which simply generates the PropertyItem using System.Activator like so:
public static PropertyItem CreatePropertyItem(int id, int length, short exifType, byte[] buffer)
 var instance = (PropertyItem)Activator.CreateInstance(typeof(PropertyItem), true);
 instance.Id = id;
 instance.Len = length;
 instance.Type = exifType;
 instance.Value = buffer;
 return instance;
Pretty clean and simple. Under the covers, Activator will use some reflection to create the instance, but would also utilize some caching and speed written by not-me. I like not-me code because it means I don't have to write it.
Since one of my my upcoming talks at _URL_ is on the subject of reflection, this all falls neatly into place.


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Alcohol Addiction Treatment
Alcohol Addiction or Alcoholism is a generally spread sickness which influences ordinary existence of a person. Alcoholism can be considered because of numerous components including hereditary qualities, sex, social environment, and psychological well-being of a man.
Alcohol Addiction Treatment in Chennai
Alcoholic is a man who experiences alcoholism while alcoholism is the disease. Alcoholics are continual with alcohol and don't know the amount to drink and can't control over day by day reiteration of devouring alcohol in huge amount, regardless of the possibility that it is bringing on significant issues to his body, work and family.
Manifestations of Alcoholism
It is extremely hard to comprehend the contrast between social drinking and issue drinking (Alcohol Addiction). Alcohol is a broadly utilized and accessible drug which is acknowledged in numerous societies. Alcohol is devoured so regularly by various age bunch individuals and in social capacities also. Additionally alcoholics used to conceal their drinking propensities from their family and friends and family.
Taking after sign or side effects could be of Alcohol Addiction
Alone Drinking
Doesn't know the amount to drink
When to Drink? ( Starts from morning or any odd time)
Professional or individual issues because of alcohol utilization
Financial Crisis because of alcohol utilization.
Hiding their drinking
propensities from their friends and family
Losing his enthusiasm for side interests and exercises which he/she used to appreciate.
Requiring an expansive amount of alcohol to feel better.


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- Thesis title: Low Carbon Energy Service Demands
I am a first year PhD student at the University of Leeds researching Low Carbon Energy Service Demands. My project supervisor is Professor John Barrett and my co-supervisors are Dr Anne Owen and Dr Paul Brockway. I am also working with other University of Leeds academics and students as part of the Leeds branch of the Centre for Research into Energy Demands Solutions (CREDS).
Numerous scenarios that outline a pathway to a low carbon future include ambitious improvements in energy efficiency. These studies identify the multiple benefits of energy efficiency including reducing energy demand, employment, economic growth and addressing fuel poverty. It is often assumed that all, or most, of the technical potential on energy efficiency measures will be realized. It is also assumed that energy efficiency is interchangeable with the energy demand reduction. However, this fails to address many of the complexities associated with delivering the technical potential of energy efficiency. It fails to recognize that improvements in energy productivity is an important driver of growth. While rebound effects within households can be relatively small, in industry, energy efficiency can increase growth and result in even higher energy demand. It fails to address the complex societal and infrastructural system that these efficiency improvements are being conducted. Finally, it fails to address that multiple actors are involved adding to the complexity of the problem.
This project will apply a broader framing of energy efficiency by considering how to deliver "Low Carbon Energy Service Demands". These are defined as the service provided by energy, for example mobility, shelter and warmth, nutrition and leisure. This allows a more detailed assessment of how energy demand reduction can be delivered going beyond the traditional framing of energy efficiency.
The project will understand the energy demand required to deliver UK energy service demands. Using a range of modelling techniques, you will consider how the change or reduction in demand for energy services can contribute to energy demand reduction. Finally, you will consider the wider socio-economic implications of radical changes in delivering energy service demand.
- Consider the embodied and operational energy and emissions associated with energy service demand in the UK for the past 20 years. This analysis will use Multi-regional Input-Output models to undertake this task and apply a range of techniques such as structural path analysis to understand the energy demand through the whole supply chain.
- Assess the mitigation options in reducing the energy demand on energy service demands. This will involve outlining all the options available and devising assessment criteria on the feasibility of these options to reduce energy demand.
- Consider the macro-economic effects of the mitigation. Applying a newly developed macro-economic model, you will consider the effects of your policy options on a range of socio-economic factors.
- 2013, BSc, Geography, University of Sheffield, UK, 2:1
- 2017, MSc, Climate Change and Environmental Policy, University of Leeds, UK, Distinction
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Evolution of UV-B regulation and protection in plants
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie: Advances in Space Research
Plants have evolved under the influence of UV-B radiation and have acquired systems for monitoring it and investing appropriate resources for protection against it, i.e., filters, quenchers of radicals and reactive oxygen species, and repair systems. An hypothesis for how plants monitor radiation has been presented.
- Biology and Life Sciences
Space Life Sciences: Extraterrestrial Organic Chemistry, UV Radiation on Biological Evolution, and Planetary Protection. F3.4(1)-BO.8,F3.1 and F3.5-PPP1 Symposia of COSPAR Scientific Commission F held during the Thirty-third COSPAR Scientific Assembly
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Decoding the receptors and ion channels that control sensory reception and animal behavior
A central question in neurobiology is how animal behavior and decision making is controlled by the environment. Using molecular genetic, electrophysiological, biochemical and cell biological approaches in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, our laboratory is defining the receptors and ion channels that sense the outside world, and impact on decisions ranging from food selection to choosing the ideal thermal landscape, mate selection and others. One of the key sensory receptors that we are characterizing are TRP channels, which in one animal or another responds to virtually all types of sensory inputs and impacts on a wide range of behaviors. We are also deciphering polymodal sensory roles of gustatory receptors and ionotropic receptors, and defining the behaviors that they control. We are unraveling multiple light-independent roles for rhodopsins, and posit that their ancient roles were in chemosensation rather than light sensation. Most recently, we have started developing a variety of strategies to control the mosquito vector, Aedes aegypti, which spreads Dengue, Zika and other diseases.


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The history of mazes and labyrinths goes back to ancient times and the Minotaur and Labyrinth from Greek mythology. From there, mazes were built in pebbles, earth and more, and in 1690 the oldest surviving hedge maze was created – the Hampton Court Maze in Greater London
Who invented the corn maze?
The history of mazes in corn fields goes back to 1993. Don Frantz and Adrian Fisher worked together to design and build the first corn maze in the United States, at Lebanon Valley College, in east-central Pennsylvania. The first corn maze was only on 3 acres and had 1.92 miles of pathway, and was officially certified by Guinness as the world's largest corn maze (though others have long since surpassed that record)
One difference of corn mazes in the US as compared to traditional hedge mazes is the addition of puzzles or other brainteasers that are often needed to be solved in order to complete the maze. Typically a corn maze will also be cut in a particular shape, whereas traditional hedge mazes were generally in geometric patterns
The first corn maze was titled "The Amazing Maize Maze" (see what I mean about those puns?!) and was shaped in the form of "Cornelius, the Cobasaurus"


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Imagine seeing a penguin that's five feet tall and has a very long, straight beak. Imagine a penguin so large it weighs twice as much as a the Emperor penguin, the largest species on Earth. That is, the largest species on Earth currently. If you were alive thirty-six million years ago you might have seen this giant penguin, called the Water King.
Scientists in Peru have recently uncovered the fossils of a Water King, which includes well-preserved feathers and scales. One of the interesting facts discovered is that this species had brown and gray feathers, unlike the black and white we associate with modern penguins.
The scientists have also concluded that based on the flipper structure Water Kings were powerful swimmers and their size could indicate that they were able to dive deeply.
For more on these amazing penguins, visit BBC News.


Optimal cognitive distance and absorptive capacity
B. Nooteboom, W.P.M. Vanhaverbeke, G.M. Duysters, V.A. Gilsing, A.J. Oord, van den
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In this paper we test the relation between cognitive distance and innovation performance of firms engaged in technology-based alliances. The key finding is that the hypothesis of an inverted U-shaped effect of cognitive distance on innovation performance of firms is confirmed. Moreover, as expected, we found that the positive effect for firms is much higher when engaging in more radical, exploratory alliances than in more exploitative alliances. The effect of cumulative R&D turns out to be mixed. It appears to increase absorptive capacity, as expected, but there is clear evidence that it also reduces the effect of cognitive distance on novelty value, making it increasingly difficult to find additional novelty.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1016-1034
Number of pages19
JournalResearch Policy
Issue number7
Publication statusPublished - 2007
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> The optional /hashcode/ argument is a function that takes a key and
> returns a numeric code for it. This code may be used to find
> associations more quickly in the map. Two calls to the /hashcode/
> function on the same key value must return the same numeric code, and
> the /hashcode/ function must always return the same numeric code for two
> objects that compare equal by the /equals/ function. The default value
> for /hashcode/ is the intrinsic global function |hashcode|.
Dost thou desire arbitrary numeric hashcodes or integral ones?
> Map( object )
> When the |Map| class object is called as a function, it creates a new
> |Map| object from |EnumerableId| to |*|, populating the new |Map| object
> with the own properties of /object/.
Making Map(x) do something specialized like this seems like a bad idea. If x is already a Map, I'd expect Map(x) to be idempotent and return x.
Should thou need this functionality, use a static method to get it.
Why does get return null instead of undefined when it fails to find an instance?
A version of get with a second parameter X that returns X when the value isn't present would be useful.
Need a clear() method that deletes all bindings.
The iteration protocol makes a copy before starting to iterate. It might be implemented via copy-on-write but I'd like to see how expensive this is.
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The Supreme Court of Canada is hearing an appeal brought by a Toronto-area man, Pardeep Singh Chouhan, who was convicted of murder and is arguing changes to the way juries are selected was unconstitutional.
Ottawa tried to make juries more diverse. Critics say its changes had the opposite effect
Changes by the federal government to jury selection — brought in to diversify juries and help combat systemic racism in the courts — will actually have the opposite effect, argue a number of associations representing racialized lawyers.
The changes were introduced in the wake of the Gerald Stanley trial in Saskatchewan in 2018. Stanley, a white man, was acquitted by a jury of second-degree murder in the shooting death of 22-year-old Indigenous man Colten Boushie.
Media reports at the time said that the defence was using what were known as "peremptory challenges" to dismiss any potential juror who appeared Indigenous.
Peremptory challenges allowed both Crown and defence lawyers to dismiss a certain number of potential jurors during jury selection without having to give a reason. After the Stanley acquittal, the federal government moved to abolish the challenges.
That change now forms part of an appeal being heard at the Supreme Court of Canada on Wednesday, brought by a Toronto-area man, Pardeep Singh Chouhan, who was convicted of murder and is arguing the removal of peremptory challenges was unconstitutional.
A number of legal groups, including associations representing Black, Asian and Muslim lawyers, have intervened in the case, arguing that the removal of peremptory challenges does not in fact help tackle systemic racism in the courts, and harms a person of colour's right to a fair trial by jury.
They point out that people of colour accused of a crime often used the challenges to help ensure people with perceived biases didn't make it on to the jury that would ultimately decide their fate — in a system where jury pools remain significantly white and Black, Indigenous and people of colour remain overrepresented as accused persons.
Among the intervenors who argue in favour of the ban on the challenges are Toronto-based legal clinic Aboriginal Legal Services, and Debbie Baptiste, Colten Boushie's mother.
The South Asian Bar Association argues in its filing that peremptory challenges were a "crucial tool" for people of colour accused of a crime, allowing them to evaluate whether a potential juror would treat their case fairly.
"Parliament ostensibly eliminated peremptory challenges to increase jury diversity — but the change is fundamentally misguided," the association wrote in its filing.
"At the end of the day, Parliament eliminated the peremptory challenge because a white person — who already starts with every relative advantage in the criminal justice system — abused the power in order to eliminate a minority group from his jury.
"In response to that abuse, Parliament stripped every accused person of colour of his or her peremptory challenges."
The ban on peremptory challenges was introduced in spring 2018 as part of a massive piece of federal legislation known as Bill C-75, the Liberal government's attempt at revamping the justice system.
Former justice minister Jody Wilson-Rayboud said at the time that the bill "aims to bring about a wide-reaching cultural shift in the criminal justice system and how it is administered throughout the country."
But critics have argued that the removal of peremptory challenges was short-sighted, and that regulating their use would have been far better than getting rid of them completely.
"Parliament failed to give proper consideration to the impact of the abolition of peremptory challenges on Black accused, the result of which is the exacerbation of the very issue that it claimed to fix: systemic racism," says the Canadian Association of Black Lawyers in its filing.
"Historically, the primary rationale underlying the use of peremptory challenges was that it allowed the accused person to participate in the selection of his or her trier of fact, thereby adding a sense of legitimacy to the jury."
Debbie Baptiste, Colten Boushie's mother, points out that Indigenous people were systematically excluded from juries for much of Canada's history, and that peremptory challenges are a form of race-based discrimination.
Her filing states that five visibly Indigenous people were challenged by the defence during jury selection at the Stanley trial.
"From the perspective of Indigenous people who have been historically targeted and victimized, the existence of peremptory challenges as mechanisms for discrimination does not support the perception of a fair trial or an impartial jury," says the filing.
Aboriginal Legal Services also echoed the argument in their filing that the challenges have "unquestionably excluded" Indigenous people from serving on juries.
"In 2020, it is impossible to see the retention of these challenges as anything other than antithetical to every notion of fairness," says their filing.
Federal justice minister David Lametti's office said in a statement to the Star that his government's changes to jury selection addressed "long-standing and well-documented concerns that racialized Canadians were being unfairly excluded by the previous process."
Under the new rules, a party can still challenge a potential juror for bias, but it's up to the trial judge to decide whether the person should be dismissed — after hearing the potential juror's self-assessment as to whether they can judge the case fairly.
"Such challenges overlook how bias is difficult to detect by both outsiders (judges) and those who are biased (jurors)," says the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association in its filing.
Toronto lawyer Dirk Derstine, who is representing Chouhan in the appeal before the Supreme Court, said people who have been the subject of discrimination can often tell pretty quickly if someone is biased against them — but it can be difficult to persuade a judge, who is often white.
"We say (the challenge for cause procedure) is inadequate in order to ferret out those who would hold prejudicial views against people," Derstine told the Star.
Jury selection at Chouhan's Toronto murder trial was carried out under the new rules, without the use of peremptory challenges. The Ontario Court of Appeal upheld the ruling that banning the challenges was constitutional, a decision which will be before the Supreme Court next week.
At the same time, the Court of Appeal ruled on when the changes to peremptory challenges should apply. The court found that the right to use peremptory challenges still applied to cases where the accused person had opted for a trial by jury before Sept. 19, 2019, the date the jury selection changes came into effect.
That decision could lead to dozens of homicide and sexual assault cases in Ontario, including Chouhan's, having to be retried because they used the new jury selection method. The Crown is asking the Supreme Court to overturn the Court of Appeal's ruling on this issue.
A coalition made up of the Canadian Muslim Lawyers Association and the Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers proposes in its filing that the government could regulate the use of peremptory challenges, rather than scrap them entirely.
The coalition suggests an approach where the Crown or defence could raise with the judge if they believe the other side is using their challenges for "discriminatory reasons or that there has been a pattern of using the peremptory challenge to eliminate racialized jurors."
And if after hearing from the other side the judge finds that the challenge to a juror was motivated by a discriminatory purpose, the juror should be seated, the coalition proposes.
"I think by eliminating peremptory challenges you're going to risk having all-white juries in trials involving Indigenous accused and racialized accused, and there's going to be nothing that defence counsel can do about it," one of the coalition's lawyers, Nader Hasan, told the Star.
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A PDF Form is a standard PDF document that contains Form Fields. These form fields are placed onto the PDF document using Acrobat 5, Acrobat 6 Professional or Adobe Designer and saved as a normal PDF document.
Just like their HTML counterpart PDF Forms allow the author to capture information from users by way of submitting the entered forms data.
Currently the following PDF Forms fields are available:
There are several major differences between HTML forms and PDF Forms:
HTML forms require a web browser, PDF forms require Acrobat or Adobe Reader to be filled out.
PDF Forms require Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Designer for their creation, anyone with Notepad and a web browser can create/view HTML forms.
Entered data in a HTML form is generally not saved for later use, the data is submitted to an online process. PDF Forms can save their data to various formats locally1 for later processing online or viewing in Acrobat/Reader.
To prefill a HTML form requires the construction of the entire HTML document, to prefill a PDF Form an FDF file can be constructed and later used to open the PDF with its form field data prefilled.
In a HTML form the data and structure are the same, PDF Forms have a separation between the form fields structure and its data.
Construction of a HTML form is far simpler than a PDF form due to the underlying structures of HTML and PDF.
What is FDF?
The Forms Data Format is a standard way to represent form field data. FDF files are based on PDF and have the same syntax and basic object types as PDF except an FDF doesn't need to have a Cross Reference Table.
The Forms Data Format is defined and described within the Portable Document Format specification (link), under the section for Interactive Features>Interactive Forms. It's here that you can become intimate with the inner workings, tags, objects and technical information needed to build, parse and understand FDF.
Below is an example FDF file, it describes the form fields, their properties and of course the form field data.
FDF files are not complex to create; they are text and follow a very logical structure. However when you need to programmatically creates a lot of FDF files it's useful to have a library to perform these tasks; enter the Forms Data Format Toolkit.
As mentioned the FDF Toolkit isn't something you must have to develop or parse FDF files, it does however make life a lot simpler by automating the mundane tasks of reading and writing FDF content.
There are three flavors; Unix, Java and Windows and two versions of the FDF Toolkit available from Adobe; Version 5 and Version 6.
The Unix version of the FDF Toolkit provides wrappers for C and Perl, Windows has ActiveX, Perl and C support and the Java FDF library provides classes for Servlets, JSP and J2SE/Desktop applications.
Why Use PDF Forms
There are two main reasons to use PDF Forms. The first is the Forms Data Format (FDF) and the second reason is the ability to submit entered data in one of 5 different formats.
By providing a way to abstract the entered data from the form design it allows designers and developers the opportunity to separate two disparate functions: Design and Content.
For example an online travel shop could provide dynamic quotes from a database as an FDF file and subsequently have this loaded into a standard PDF quoting template. No special user software is required - only (at a minimum) Reader.
Entered form field data can be sent to a backend process in one of the following five formats:
URL Encoded Format. This is the most common format for browsers. [application/x-www-form-urlencoded]
Multipart/form-data. If you have ever uploaded a file to a web server this is the format it is sent as. [multipart/form-data]
Forms Data Format (FDF). Essentially in the same format as you would build an FDF, this format is specific to Acrobat. [application/vnd.fdf]
XFDF format. This is an XML-encoded version of FDF. Form Data is sent represented hierarchically. [application/vnd.adobe.xfdf]
PDF format. Send the whole document in its entirety. [application/pdf]
This provides the developer with the greatest possible chance for easy integration into existing backend processes.
For example it's possible to place into a Form Field a validation script, calculation script and keystroke script effectively trapping the users wrong input, adding automatically and ensuring only the correct characters are entered.
How to Develop PDF Forms
There are currently three key Adobe tools that provide Forms authoring capabilities. Acrobat v6 Professional, Acrobat v5 and Designer. Despite its name the FDF Toolkit cannot generate form fields, it can purely describe the field name that the Data belongs to.
Adobe's latest Form tool, Designer is able to generate (automatically) PDF Forms based on Database Schema, XML Schema's and even other PDF Forms. It can have very tight integration with XML data structures providing a seamless end-to-end process for designing, validating and storing user entered data. Along with these new development abilities it's now possible to integrate PDF Forms into your pre-existing Web Services.
Where Are They Used?
The largest producer/consumer of PDF Forms that I have found is the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS), as a rough count they have over 800 PDF forms in use today (_URL_).
In this article we looked at what a PDF form is, roughly what they look like and also how they can be generated. The next step is to look at specific examples of how they can be used in a real way.
OK, so you want to stamp your document. Maybe you need to give reviewers some advice about the document's status or sensitivity. This tip from author Ted Padova demonstrates how to add stamps with the Stamp Tool along with related comments.


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The relaxation dynamics of polyisoprene (PI) and nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR) chains at the SiO2 interface were directly probed as a function of distance from the SiO2 surface using time-resolved evanescent wave-induced fluorescence anisotropy, dielectric relaxation spectroscopy, and sum-frequency generation spectroscopy. We found the presence of the dynamics gradient of chains in the interfacial region with the SiO2 surface and tried to assign it to the two kinds of adsorbed chains, namely, loosely and strongly adsorbed, at the interface. The segmental relaxation of chains in the strongly adsorbed layer at the interface could be slower than that of bulk chains by more than 10 orders.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Organic Chemistry
- Polymers and Plastics
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Materials Chemistry


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Ever made an edible Jello rainbow? Although rainbow Jello takes several hours to assemble, the process is simple and it's a great snack for the kids. Here are the steps to make your own rainbow Jello.
Makes approximately 10 servings; double if necessary.
- 1 cup whipped topping (optional)
- 1 small box of each Jello color: red, blue, yellow, green, orange, and purple
Make Rainbow Jello
1Prepare one batch of Jello according to the directions on the packet. For an authentic rainbow effect, start with red and work your way upwards through the color spectrum (or choose purple and work downwards).
- If there is a "quick chill" method involving ice cubes, use that method.
2Fill the bottom of each cup with the first batch of Jello. Make the levels even for the nicest effect, then set the leftover Jello aside.
3Place the pan in the refrigerator for approximately 15 minutes to set.
4Mix a few tablespoons of whipped topping into the leftover Jello mix if desired. If you don't want whipped layers in your rainbow, skip this step.
5Remove the cups from the refrigerator and place a thin layer of the opaque mixture onto the first color if desired. Again, skip this step if you'd prefer not to include whipped cream in the Jello.
6Repeat the steps above for each color, allowing for approximately 15 minutes of refrigerator time between every layer. Garnish with a dollop of whipped topping if desired.
Can I put it in the freezer?wikiHow ContributorYou can, but you may end up with a different texture, and the taste is not as good.
- Though this recipe recommend a 15-minute set time per layer, the actual time will vary based on the temperature of your refrigerator. Before applying additional layers, touch the topmost layer to see if it has set; if it's firm to the touch but still sticky, it's ready for the next layer.
- If the opaque layer starts to set up before you get to spoon it out, place in the microwave for a moment to reconstitute it to a slightly liquid state.
- You may substitute vegan gelatins such as agar or vegetable gums.
- Adding fruit to this recipe, while interesting, disrupts the "rainbow." If you want to make multi-colored Jello fruit salad, go for it! (But don't add pineapple, papaya or kiwi unless it is cooked, because fresh versions contain an enzyme which might prevent the Jello from setting). If you want to make edible rainbows, stick with the recipe.
- Water that is heated in the microwave can overheat and erupt when handled. Always wait for bubbles before you open the door. If you don't get bubbles after a reasonable period of time, do not open the door or reach in until the water has had ample time to cool. Alternatively, just heat it over the stove.
- Jello is not a vegetarian dessert. Gelatin is a protein produced by partial hydrolysis of collagen extracted from the bones, connective tissues, organs, and some intestines of animals such as cattle and horses.
Things You'll Need
- Ten 10-ounce clear plastic cups
- A cake pan or tray large enough to hold the cups
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Español: hacer gelatina arcoiris, Deutsch: Regenbogen Wackelpudding machen, Português: Fazer Gelatina Arco íris, Italiano: Preparare le Gelatine Arcobaleno, Русский: приготовить многослойное желе «Радуга», Français: faire une gélatine arc‑en‑ciel, 中文: 做彩虹果冻, Bahasa Indonesia: Membuat Jelly Pelangi
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November 24, 2017
Expression (12 Dimensions of Culture #7)
Conceal vs. Reveal
Expression is the seventh of the 12 Dimensions of Culture that KnowledgeWorkx uses to map out the intercultural terrain. If you haven't already, you should read our article introducing the 12 Dimensions.
Have you ever been in an intercultural situation where you found someone else's behavior completely inappropriate? Or one where you simply couldn't read the other person, and found them cold? The Expression dimension is about how much emotion it is appropriate to show in a given context.
Whereas the Connecting dimension was all about how inclusive or exclusive your physical space is and how you share information, expression is all about how much you reveal or conceal your true emotions and the unspoken rules that govern that expression.
In a reveal-oriented culture you find people's true emotions easily reflected in their expressiveness, their use of their body in terms of hands and facial gesturing, and the language they use. In these cultures, it is okay to frequently reveal frustration, disappointment, anger, joy, excitement, approval, and so on. While they are quick to express emotion, people from these cultures might also be quicker to forget, let go, and move on after an emotion has been expressed.
In a conceal-oriented culture the expression of emotion is restrained.You are taught as a child to constrain yourself, to be disciplined, to not show your anger, frustration, disgust, and so on. When an emotion is shown, that emotion is taken very seriously, especially if it is a negative emotion.
When what's revealed isn't what's really going on
In some reveal-oriented cultures, the emotions that are expressed are not the emotions that the person feels, but rather, the appropriate emotion to express at a given time to accommodate a relationship or a specific situation. Emotions are revealed that aren't really there; acted; played; pretend. This may be more prevalent in Honor/Shame and Power/Fear worldviews, and can be seen as inconsistent, un-transparent, or even deceitful by people from a more Guilt/Innocence worldview.
Negotiations in the Arab world are a good example of where expression can be a theatre piece. To negotiate a deal you act, and play, to test the other party. You act sad, and see how the other party responds. Act disappointed and see how they respond. You crack a joke to deflate things, and then you put pressure on again… and see how they respond. You continually experiment with emotions in the negotiating process.
Learn how to measure emotion and ascertain the correct dosage in Email and Life
It's important to on the one hand learn how reveal cultures work: whether there are genuine emotions vs. theatrically enacted emotions, and on the other hand to learn how to measure emotion and use the right dosage and appropriate expression in a concealing environment:
The unspoken rules that govern revealing and concealing emotions face to face also extend to email. Of course, expression of emotion in email is a big challenge to begin with, but some cultures have more of a tendency to attempt it than other cultures.
In general, in an intercultural environment, positive emotions in emails are not a problem, but the best choice is to not display negative emotions in email at all. Negative emotions are better talked through face to face if possible, or, if not possible, at least over the phone.
When you're in an intercultural situation, keep a careful watch on how you reveal your emotions, and which emotions are appropriate to reveal in a given situation.
Check out more articles on our KnowledgeWorkx Resource page.
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not lead to a new theorem: as long as the set evolution is smooth, the f and Df are just a special case where f:\Bbb{R}^n\rightarrow\Bbb{R}^1 and even though actually computing everything from the geometric perspective can be interesting, the result stays the same.
in order to move into truly new territory, we need to consider alternative definitions, other measures of change, other types of spaces. An example might be the following:
Suppose that X is a metric space and f:X\rightarrow \Bbb{R}. Suppose that \gamma:\Bbb{R}\rightarrow X is continuous and is a geodesic in the sense that for any three points in \Bbb{R}, s_1 < s_2 < s_3, we have that \rho(\gamma(s_1),\gamma(s_3)) = \rho(\gamma(s_1),\gamma(s_2)) + \rho(\gamma(s_2),\gamma(s_3)).
(1) for any two points in the metric space there is a gamma containing both points and
(2) for all such \gamma, g_{\gamma} \equiv f\circ\gamma is differentiable
(3) and \frac{|g_{\gamma}(s)|}{|f(\gamma(s))|} \leq \lambda
then, we have that
-\lambda \rho(x_1, x_0) \leq \ln\left(\frac{|f(x_1)|}{|f(x_0)|}\right) \leq \lambda \rho(x_1,x_0). (14)
And, again we get the same type of result for this case as we got in the Euclidean cases above.
(Exercise) Prove Equation (14).
(Remark) We start with any metric space and consider curves \gamma:[a,b]\subset\Bbb{R}\rightarrow X for which
l(\gamma)\equiv\sup_{\{\{s_i\}_{i=1}^{n}| a = s_1 \leq s_2 \leq... \leq s_n = b\}} \sum_{i=1}^{n-1} \rho(\gamma(s_{i}),\gamma(s_{i+1})) \leq \infty.
We call such curves rectifiable. We can always reparameterize such curves by arclength, so that \gamma(s) = \gamma(s(t)), t\in[0,l(\gamma)] and l([\gamma(s(d)),\gamma(s(c))] ) = d-c. We will assume that all curves have been reparameterized by arclength. Now define a new metric
\tilde{\rho}(x,y) = \inf_{\{\gamma | \gamma(a) = x\text{ and }\gamma(b) = y\}} l(\gamma).
You can check that this will not change the length of any curve. Define an upper gradient of f:X\rightarrow \Bbb{R} be any non-negative function \eta_f:X\rightarrow \Bbb{R} such that |f(y) - f(x)| \leq \int_{\gamma} \eta_f(\gamma(t)) dt.
Now, if \frac{|\eta_f(x)|}{|f(x)|} \leq \lambda, we again get the same sort of bounds that we got in equation (14) if we replace \rho with \tilde{\rho}. To read more about upper gradients, see Juha Heinonen's book Lectures on Analysis in Metric Spaces.
While there are other directions we could push, what we have looked at so far demonstrates that productive exploration can start from almost anywhere. While we encounter no big surprises in this exploration, the exercise illuminates exactly why the result is what it is and this solidifies that understanding in our minds.
Generalization is not an empty exercise — it allows us to probe the exact meaning of a result. And that insight facilitates a more robust, more useful grasp of the result. While some get lost in their explorations and would benefit from touching down to the earth more often, it seems to me that in this day and age of no time to think, we most often suffer from the opposite problem of never taking the time to explore and observe and see where something can take us.
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Meaning of (धाँख) dhaँkha in english - (धाँख) Dhaँkha meaning
Meaning of (धाँख) dhaँkha in english
Suggested : the act of exalting an odd or capricious notion or desire a sudden or freakish fancy a sudden, unpredictable change, as of one's mind or the weather a sudden, strong blast of wind imagination or fantasy, especially as exercised in a capricious manner
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Usage of धाँख: 1. What a fancy to you taken? He ridiculous fantasies 2. The exaltation of spirits 3. move also told of ideas, feelings and Exciter means, give some impulse to act
(धाँख) dhaँkha can be used as noun. and have more than one meaning. No of characters: 4 including consonants matras. The word is used as Noun in hindi and falls under Masculine gender originated from Hindi language. Transliteration : dhaaँkha
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Watch your child's interest in speaking with other people grow as your child gains conversation skill with Step Into Conversation!
Step into Conversation is a learning tool that provides autistic children with the structure and support they need to hold interactive conversations. The cards provide 21 basic, scripted conversations with areas for the child to fill in the blanks. Icons with labels run along the top of each card and remind the child to Stand, Look, Talk and Listen. They are reminded to Listen after they make each statement.
Step into Conversation comes with fun shoe prints to help anchor the child to the floor so he will remember to face the person and not turn away. Number stickers are used to indicate the number of additional questions and statements required to complete the conversation.
Step Into Conversation Materials Include:
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- A nurse or other health provider will give you this medicine.
- Drink extra fluids for at least one day before your x-ray or scan. Your doctor may ask you to use a laxative before and after your scan to help you empty your bowels. These steps will help your body get rid of the radioactive portion of this medicine as quickly as possible.
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How to Avoid Bruising After Facelift?
I am considering a facelift, however I'm concerned about hematomas. Can you tell me the causes of these after facelifts? Are there things that I can do to prevent one from happening? Do they have anything to do with the expertise of the surgeon?
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Tips to Minimize bruising
The reality is that a well done Facelift requires a relatively large area of soft tissue mobilization. The degree of tissue mobilization often equates to the degree of bruising a patient experiences. In my anecdotal experience, a longer procedure generally correlates with more bruising. Therefore, if you are having multiple procedures done (Facelift, brow lift, eyelid surgery), the extent of bruising is likely to be greater. However, If you are in the hands of an experienced Facelift surgeon, there isn't too much correlation with the degree of bruising and who is doing it.
Facts on hematomas after Facelift: 1) A hematoma is a clinically significant bruise because it represents a clot of blood underneath the skin that can threaten the viability of the skin. 2) Hematomas require drainage in order to preserve skin viability and prevent adverse scarring. 3) Hematomas can and do happen in virtually every surgeons hands. 4) Previous posts have outlined scenarios where a hematoma is more likely to happen. However, the occurrence of this problem can be unpredictable.
Things a patient can do to minimize bruising and/or hematoma: 1) Avoid aspirin and other medications in the non steroidal anti-inflammatory class for 2 weeks prior to surgery. 2) Avoid vitamin E containing products, fish oil, St. John's Wort, Ginkgo, and other exotic and /or other homeopathic treatments for a similar period. In my practice, a list of medications to avoid is provided. 3) If you have high blood pressure and it is not controlled, you need to have this issue dealt with prior to surgery. 4) If you have a history of frequent nose bleeds, easy bruising, heavy periods, this needs to be disclosed preoperatively. 5) Activity restrictions after Facelift are real. If you are too active, the chances of forming a hematoma increase exponentially. Follow your surgeon's activity restrictions.
Things a Surgeon can do to prevent hematoma: 1) Compressive dressing. In my practice, a dressing is placed immediately after surgery, then replaced on the 1st postoperative day. After this period, an elastic strap is worn. This is my preference and works well with my patient population. 2) Some Surgeons place drains in the patient and achieve good results. Drain placement is likely to vary between Surgeons' training, experience, and preference. 3) Postoperative Arnica Montana. This is a homeopathic medication which helps minimize bruising. 4) Use of postoperative anti nausea agents and use of narcotic pain medication only when absolutely necessary. Narcotic medications tend to induce nausea and emesis. Pstoperative vomiting increase blood supply to the face and therefore increase risk of hematoma.
Good luck with your surgery!
Fort Myers Facial Plastic Surgeon
5.0 out of 5 stars 53 reviews
Bruising and Hematoma after Face Lift Surgery
Bruising is very common and not considered a complication with this plastic surgery. A hematoma is a collection of blood under the skin which should normally be drained is a complication. Hematoma is the most common complication with face lift surgery, with an overall estimated incidence of less than 5%. Most hematomas occur within 24hours after the face lift surgery, but may occur several days afterward too.
The most significant risk factors for bleeding with face and neck lift surgery are the following:
 - platsymaplasty or neck surgery
 - hypertension
 - male
 - blood thinners, including herbal medication, ibuprofen, aspirin, and similar medications
 - smoking
While experience plays a role, it is not as important risk factor as those outlined above. The best face lift surgeons in the world still get hematomas.
By following the strict presurgical and postsurgical care instructions of your plastic surgeon, you will reduce the chance you will develop a hematoma after your cosmetic surgery. Best of luck.
Houtan Chaboki, MD
Washington DC Facial Plastic Surgeon
5.0 out of 5 stars 63 reviews
Reducing Bruising and Avoiding Hematoma After a Facelift
During a normal recovery from a facelift some bruising is expected. It usually occurs low in the neck and resolves over 7 - 10 days. Bruising can be reduced by the following measures:
1. Stop all blood thinning medications, supplements and herbal products prior to surgery. Your plastic surgeon should supply a list but the most common include aspirin, NSAID's like Advil, Motrin or Aleve, Ginkgo, Garlic, Ginseng and many more
2. Use Arnica Montana before and a few days after surgery. In my experience this herbal product does reduce bruising.
3. Closely follow your pre-op and post-op instructions concerning reduced activity levels, avoiding lifting and straining, keeping your head elevated at night as well as using ice packs on schedule.
Hematoma formation or development of a blood collection under the skin is unusual and happens in less than 5% of facelift patients. They usually occur in patients with the following predispositions:
1. Men because they have more vascular facial skin due to the beard hair and they have a tendency to become too active too soon.
2. Poorly controlled high blood pressure. Elevate blood pressure just after surgery can causes previously sealed blood vessels to open and bleed
3. Blood Thinning Medications, especially aspirin, which inhibits the normal platelet function needed for clotting following surgery. Aspirin should be stopped a full 2 weeks before surgery
4. Smoking. Nicotine reduces the blood supply to the skin edges and raises the blood pressure. This is all bad for facelift recovery
While the men out there can't change this risk factor, the other 3 can be controlled. Making sure your high blood pressure is well controlled before surgery, stopping smoking 3 weeks prior to surgery and avoiding blood-thinning medications will reduce your risk greatly. Always take your normal blood pressure medicine the morning of surgery (check with your doctor if it is a diuretic).
As for men, they should be especially cautious to avoiding lifting, straining and vigorous physical activity for a full 3 weeks following facelift surgery.
Bruising after Facelift Surgery
You will always have some bruising after a facelift. A hematoma, which is a localized collection of blood, is not a life-threatening complication but can compromise skin circulation and significantly delay post-operative healing. All experienced facelift surgeons have a list of pre-operative instructions regarding dietary and medicinal intake. A pre-operative medical evaluation is usually required. There are also post-operative instructions re activity, diet, and medicines. With due diligence, hematomas are very rare.
Richard W. Fleming, MD
Beverly Hills Facial Plastic Surgeon
5.0 out of 5 stars 22 reviews
Facelift Hematoma
This is a multifactoral issue and there are things that I do in the operating room to decrease the rate of hematoma and there are things we as of you to try to decrease the chance of it happening. Hematoma is rare but the rate is no 0%.
So blood pressure control before, during and after surgery is a must as is pain control. Those two things are what commonly lead to hematomas after surgery. Stopping any medications that can increase your bleeding 2 weeks before surgery will also decrease the rate as well. Things like aspirin, motrin, aleve and others.
Good luck.
Farbod Esmailian, MD
Orange County Plastic Surgeon
5.0 out of 5 stars 59 reviews
Bruising after a facelift can be minimal.
Bruising after a facelift can be minimal, but it depends on the approach. Bruising and even hematomas are more likely with more invasive facelift techniques such as a SMAS lift or a deep plane facelift. These are much less likely with a MACS lift, since there is less undermining of the skin where most vessels are. I have many patients with very little or no bruising after a MACS lift, and have not seen a hematoma in over 200 patients. However, hematomas are not very common after any facelift, since all surgeons try to minimize this risk during surgery. Factors that increase your risk of this include, high blood pressure and blood thinning medications and some dietary supplements. You should always talk to your surgeon prior to surgery about what you can do to minimize any risks associated with your surgery.
Steven L. Ringler, MD, FACS
Grand Rapids Plastic Surgeon
5.0 out of 5 stars 39 reviews
How to avoid bruising and hematoma after facelift?
Like all complications, bruising and hematomas cannot be avoided entirely but they CAN be reduced to a very low rate.
The cause of hematoma can be divided to factors which are either related to you, those related to the surgeon and those related how you do in the first 3 days or so after surgery.
if you have a family history of easy bruising and bleeding you must tell your surgeon and you should be tested to se if you have


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Intuition and Gender Differences
In research related to intuition, some gender differences were noted. Females seemed more attuned to intuitive information from the heart and were more responsive to prestimulus information than were males. Processes in the prefrontal cortex were moderated by the heart. In general, females appear to process the prestimulus more frontally; males process it more in the posterior portions of the brain. The bottom line: the heart and the brain together are linked in the actions of receiving, processing, and decoding intuitive information. The concluding hypothesis was that intuition is a system-wide process in which the heart and the brain (and possibly other body organs or systems) are involved together in responding to intuitive information.
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Plane Jane Complete Learning Package
Includes Plane Jane Model and Plane Jane CD
The concept of Cardinal Planes, which divide the human body into equal halves in three different directions, is used to define how the body moves through space. It also provides the basis for movement terminology such as flexion and extension at the body's joints. Frequently taught in kinesiology, anatomy, biomechanics or related courses, the Cardinal Planes concept is difficult for many students to grasp. Textbook diagrams, severely limited by their two-dimensionality, often add to the confusion. A three-dimensional working model is needed for the visual, kinesthetic/tactile learner. Developed by a college professor, Plane Jane, in prototype form, has been successfully used in the classroom to teach the concept of Cardinal Planes to college-level students for more than 15 years. Students working with the Plane Jane model have found it to be extremely helpful to the learning process, and lots of fun as well.
Plane Jane is a fully three-dimensional one-quarter size human figure, standing in the Anatomical Position, and exhibiting the three Cardinal Planes: Sagittal Plane: dividing the body into left and right halves • Frontal or Coronal Plane: dividing the body into front and rear portions • Transverse Plane: dividing the body into top (superior) and bottom (inferior) portions
Color-coded and detachable, each plane can be demonstrated independently, or in any combination with the other planes.
Jane also comes with a set of three interchangeable arms: each is color-coded to match one of the planes, and drilled to accommodate a plastic rod which represents the axis of rotation. With the axis rod inserted through the arm and into the model, the arm will move parallel to its plane, defining movements within that plane.
A handy foam-lined storage compartment built into Jane's base: complete with hinged lid and magnetic closure, conveniently stows arms and axis rods.
Accompanying each Plane Jane model is an easy-to-use companion CD-ROM. Anatomy, kinesiology and biomechanics instructors and students alike will benefit through its brief live-action video lectures. Each live mini-lecture, presented by Plane Jane's developer, employs Plane Jane in demonstrating the link between movement terminology and cardinal anatomy planes.
Learning is further reinforced through interactive quizzes, ready-to-print activity handouts (in PDF format), and a list of terms and related websites.
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Individual UI component owners (developer/GD) tries to make their component more useable/shining in the process losing the focus in the overall picture. I have somewhere read this to be something like "gold fingering", where individual sculptures were working on a clay model on their own part to form big structure. One guy was supposed to make a finger and he made a golden finger so the term. But if somebody can tell me what is the general term for addressing such thing in software? Also let me know if this is not the forum to address this question where to?
From what I know this process is called Gold plating!


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3D-Printed Third Thumb Enhances Your Human Abilities
The Third Thumb | Danielle Clode |
The Third Thumb | Danielle Clode |
Danielle Clode has designed a prosthetic thumb that's not intended to replace a lost thumb. Instead, it's a wearable that augments overall dexterity for anyone–even you!
The arrival and advancement of new tech such as 3D printing are driving prosthetics to go beyond providing solutions for people with unfortunate physical disabilities.
Designers are rethinking the way prosthetics are made and used, in order to improve the physical performance of humans and increase their capabilities.
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The Thumb-Driven Progress of the Human Civilization
Let's take a minute and think about the most important of human digits: the thumb.
Have you ever considered what it'd be like without that independent finger?
The thumb is morphologically different from other fingers, and is the most mobile, endowing the hand with "prehensility", or the ability to hold and seize objects.
Ask any woodworker who lost a thumb on the table saw, and they'd tell you it's the most challenging of finger amputations, as it alters their life forever after.
There's a reason why humans and primates, occupying respectively the first and second places on the intelligence podium, are the only species to have thumbs.
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The thumb has played a significant throughout the history of humanity. Had the thumb been absent, or placed elsewhere, humans' dexterity would have been dramatically reduced.
Without the thumb, even the most basic tasks that involve hands would be challenging, like grasping objects and making things. We would never have invented complex tools or machinery. Sciences and arts would have remained at an embryonic stage–intelligence notwithstanding.
We can speculate and say that for an alien civilization to thrive, they need limbs that act as our hands and fingers for "intelligent" tool making and using.
Dani Clode's Extra Thumb That you Don't Think you Need
Founded by New Zealander Dani Clode, a grad student at London's RCA (Royal College of Art), DaniClodeDesign is a UK-based startup specialized in product design and industrial design.
"Prosthesis" comes from Ancient Greek, and it means "addition", or "extension" and not "replacement". Taking this definition literally, Clode designed prototype prosthesis, called "The Third Thumb, that doesn't fix a disability but enhances ability.
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The Third Thumb | Danielle Clode
Acting as a body augmentation, the Third Thumb is thought of as a wearable that enhances the ability to perform tasks with hands, such as grasping things, playing music, or using the keyboard.
The Third Thumb, which wraps around the wrist, is made of a flexible, 3D-printed material, and is powered by two servomotors to replicate the dynamic motion of the real thumb.
As they would with car brakes or piano pedals, the wearer use their toes to press down two sensors retrofitted in their shoes. This pedal communicates with the thumb via Bluetooth.
The Third Thumb was a winner of the Helen Hamlyn Creativity Awards.
Three Thumbs up to Dani Clode!
Of which finger would you want an extra?
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The key challenge for REPAiR is to integrate models and methods from, among others, the environmental sciences, geographic sciences and economic sciences with design and spatial planning methods, both on a software and process level.
The integrated models and methods will enable local and regional stakeholders to use the geodesign decision support environment (GDSE) within a workshop setting to develop fast and reliable alternatives for spatial sustainable development strategies. The main objective of REPAiR is to demonstrate the feasibility and validity of the GDSE as a tool for enhancing waste and resource management. To successfully develop, test and implement the GDSE, the following project objectives have been defined:
- To provide decision-makers with comparative assessments of different integrated spatial resource management strategies (WP2, WP6) by combining forecasting methods (WP4), strategy conceptualisations (WP5) and an integrated assessment of economic, environmental and social sustainability in a collaborative decision support environment (WP4).
- To develop an understanding of the characteristics, mechanisms and dynamics of European resource management systems by analysing the relations between waste flows, environmental and spatial quality, allocation and governance in six peri-urban areas using life cycle thinking (WP3).
- To better interpret the link between metabolic flows and urban processes, by extending the assessment of urban metabolism to include urban driver concepts and urban patterns, as well as environmental and spatial quality, and co-benefits (WP3, WP4).
- To improve the knowledge and reliability of waste related data by reversed material flow accounting (WP3).
- To implement living labs in peri-urban areas across Europe in order to develop, test, implement and assess place-specific eco-innovative solutions for resource management to improve environmental and spatial quality and quality of life (WP2, WP5).
- To understand decision making structures and processes in the case study areas with regard to interests and priorities of different stakeholders in order to add transparency to the decision making process (WP6).
- To develop a framework for transferring (a) the key modules of the GDSE itself; and, (b) the solutions and change models that it will produce across differentiated peri-urban areas (WP7).
- To disseminate and ensure the further uptake of the project's insights on aspects of resource management and GDSE development by including local and regional planning authorities, NGOs, public and private waste management companies, and future urban planners in the project. Moreover, open dissemination of insights, tools and technologies is provided across Europe, establishing the foundation for knowledge-based consultancy services that support local implementation of policies and spatial investments aimed at developing a circular economy (WP8, WP2).
The REPAiR consortium consists of a good balance of partners from the case areas. The REPAiR consortium members can rely on their expertise in waste and resource management, spatial decision support, territorial governance, spatial planning and urban design. Moreover, the members have profound knowledge of the six case study areas. This allows us to develop a GDSE that is scientifically sound, apt for local decision makers and adaptable enough to be used in different locations. Together with the members of the user board, the entire REPAiR team comprises a complete range of representatives of the major stakeholders in all the metropolitan regions involved. The REPAiR user board includes key stakeholders for the development of a circular economy like planning authorities and public/private organisations involved in the strategic environmental assessment, and NGOs and industrial actors in waste and resource management.