text: Performing in musical ensembles can be viewed as a dual task that requires simultaneous attention to a high priority �target� auditory pattern (e.g., a performer�s own part) and either (a) another part in the ensemble or (b) the aggregate texture that results when all parts are integrated. The current study tested the hypothesis that metric frameworks (rhythmic schemas) promote the efficient allocation of attentional resources in such multipart musical contexts. Experiment 1 employed a recognition memory paradigm to investigate the effects of attending to metrical versus nonmetrical target patterns upon the perception of aggregate patterns in which they were embedded. Experiment 2 required metrical and nonmetrical target patterns to be reproduced while memorizing different, concurrently presented metrical patterns that were also subsequently reproduced. Both experiments included conditions in which the different patterns within the multipart structure were matched or mismatched in terms of best-fitting meter. Results indicate that dual-task performance was best in matched-metrical conditions, intermediate in mismatched-metrical conditions, and worst in nonmetrical conditions. This suggests that metric frameworks may facilitate complex musical interactions by enabling efficient allocation of attentional resources.


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During World War I, the United States felt they were lagging behind Europe in terms of airplane technology. Not to be outdone, Congress created the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics [NACA]. They needed to have some very large propellers built for wind tunnel testing. Well, they had no bids, so they set up shop and trained men to build the propellers themselves in a fantastic display of coordination and teamwork. This week's film is a silent journey into [NACA]'s all-human assembly line process for creating these propellers.
Each blade starts with edge-grained Sitka spruce boards that are carefully planed to some top-secret exact thickness. Several boards are glued together on their long edges and dried to about 7% moisture content in the span of five or so days. Once dry, the propeller contours are penciled on from a template and cut out with a band saw.

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Fluid Thread Patterns
Thin threads of fluids show how conveyor belt speeds control fluid pattern behavior in both experiments and models. A thin thread of viscous fluid (translucent threads at left) is poured onto a moving belt, creating a dazzling array of intricate patterns. Simulations (gold threads at right) reproduce this rich and complex behavior, confirming the accuracy of a theoretical model developed to describe the phenomenon.
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Setting up Assembly Order management in Dynamics 365 Business Central involves:
- Firstly, open "Assembly Setup" page and fill in the "Number Series" fields accordingly.
- Create your first Assembly Item by changing the "Replenishment" system to "Assembly" and the "Assembly Policy" to "Assemble-to-stock".
- In order to assign the sub-items to the BOM, click on "Assembly BOM" and add the items or resources required to make the Assembly Item.
- You can create a "Purchase Order" and purchase the Assembly Item you created directly and it will increment your inventory readings. However this will not consume the child (sub-items) in the related BOM for that item. In order to increase the Assembly Item inventory and decrease the related BOM items, you need to use the "Assembly Orders" page to create an "Assembly Order" and post it.
- When creating Assembly Orders you can include Items as well as Resources and Machines (a type of resource) based on hourly rates.
- Avoid using "non-inventory" items in BOM because combining Inventory and Non-inventory items on the BOM will be refused by the Assembly Order (an error can prevent you from creating an Assembly Order with a non-inventory Item). If you want to account for fees and charges and would like those tracked just like inventory items, using Resources might be an option (if Item Charges are not fit for your business use-case scenario that is).


Multiplexer & Demultiplexer ICs
Multiplexers are semiconductor ICs that have been designed to control a signal movement within the circuit. Multiplexer devices select one signal input from a several digital or analogue channels and forwards it further to the circuit whilst demultiplexers receives the output signals from the multiplexer and the receiver end converts them back to the original form.
How do multiplexers & demultiplexers work?
Multiplexer ICs selects one of several analogue or digital input signals and forwards the selected input into a single line. The selected lines determine which input will be connected to the output.
Demultiplexers ICs feature a single and multiple output lines. what differentiates a multiplexer and demultiplexer is that a multiplexer takes two or more signals and encodes them, whereas a demultiplexer performs the reverse action.
Types of multiplexers & demultiplexers
Multiplexers an demultiplexers are available in 2 - 1 multiplexer (1 selection line), 8 - 1 multiplexer(3 selection lines), 8 - 1 multiplexer(3 selection lines) and 16 - 1 multiplexer (4 selection lines).
As well as being offered with variations of logic families, the number of pins on the IC, different mount types and support for various types of voltage.
These ICs have a range of application use such as;
 - Audio signal routing
 - PDAs
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 - Communications systems
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It began with the Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve (DDCR). Working alongside the Dubai Government, Emirates established this reserve to protect critical desert habitat and a variety of endangered species – it is still the largest protected area in the UAE today. The DDCR was also the first conservation area officially protected in the UAE, with a constitution and environmental law dedicated to ensuring its status as a nature reserve.
The DDCR takes up a massive 225km2, or 5% of Dubai's total land mass, and also includes a leading conservation-based luxury resort. As well as protecting several endangered large mammal species, such as the Arabian and Scimitar-horned Oryx, the DDCR is a major contributor to both local scientific research and conservation efforts.
100% of all visitor revenue from DCCR is spent on conversation and wildlife care, with Emirates also sponsoring a dedicated conservation team of eight ecologists and wildlife specialists.
After five years of planning, Emirates opened the 1,250 hectare Wolgan Valley Resort & Spa in October 2009 – one of Australia's first luxury conservation resorts. Nestled in the Wolgan Valley beneath spectacular sandstone escarpments, this environmentally sensitive resort is in keeping with the unique wilderness of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage area in New South Wales – about 2.5 hours drive from Sydney. Bordering the Wollemi and Gardens of Stone National Parks, guests enjoy a true wilderness experience during their stay – while still enjoying the finest luxury hospitality.
The resort buildings themselves take up less than 2% of the conservation reserve, and have been designed with green buildings principles in mind – they boast the latest designs to minimise energy and water consumption, such as heat pumps, solar panels and passive ventilation systems. To show this commitment, Emirates was proud to announce that, on opening, the Wolgan Valley Resort & Spa became the first carboNZero©™ certified hotel in the world, and the first carbon neutral resort in the world to be certified through an internationally accredited greenhouse gas programme.
The property is located a short distance from a secret canyon in the Wollemi National Park, in which the Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis) was discovered by an intrepid naturalist in 1994. The Wollemi Pine belongs to a 200 million year old plant family, the Araucariaceae, and its discovery in modern times has become one of the most exciting botanical finds of the century. The significance of its discovery has been compared to the equivalent of finding a live dinosaur in the present time. A number of Wollemi Pine specimens have been planted in an appropriate habitat on site, and its distinctive leaves are the basis for the resort's emblem.
Emirates invested over 125 million USD into this project to ensure the conservation of the unique biodiversity of this region. The property was previously used for cattle grazing and suffered numerous environmental stresses from streambank erosion and vegetation clearance to infestation with feral animals and weeds. Cattle have now been removed from the site and an extensive revegetation programme has been undertaken to stabilise eroding waterways and re-establish vegetation and wildlife corridors.
The whole property is now being used as a private reserve for the conservation of the region's endangered species and the reintroduction of native flora and fauna. Emirates has planted over 125,000 native trees and shrubs across the site and is actively removing feral animals and introduced plant species.
Many small native animal species in the greater Blue Mountains area have been driven to extinction, falling victim to introduced predators such as feral cats, foxes and wild dogs. Emirates has been conducting research into predator control and habitat protection of these species in conjunction with local conservation groups and academic institutions – trialling the use of 'feral-proof' fencing and targeted pest eradication programmes.
Recent sightings of endangered species at Wolgan Valley have included Red-headed Flying Foxes feeding on flowering eucalyptus trees and large numbers of Bronze-winged and Wonga Pigeons. There have also been sightings of Regent Honeyeaters and Spotted-tailed Quolls in the tree line along Carne Creek at night. Quolls (pictured) are medium sized carnivorous marsupials that are at risk from foxes and feral cats and uncontrolled baiting and trapping. This year has seen the Red-rumped Parrot increase in numbers along with the Eastern Rosella and other parrots. With more medium sized parrots available, the Peregrine Falcon will have more food for its young.


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to be a Crane
Wild baby cranes learn from their parents
what food to eat, where to sleep and how to fly. They learn because
they identify with
their parents. Chicks try hard to stay with their parents and imitate
them. Imprinting is a quick way of learning who their parents are so
they can follow them within hours, and they won't get lost.
Chicks born in captivity imprint and learn, too. But their "parent" is
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alm OS-based handhelds and smartphones are powerful, pervasive computing devices that have changed the lives of many users through the applications they house. As a Java developer, why not tap into this widely used platform? You can develop applications for Palm and this article shows you how. Learn how to create a small Java application (more specifically, a MIDlet) and deploy it to an emulated Palm device. The instructions assume that you are familiar with MIDlet programming.
To create a J2ME application for the Palm OS, you need to convert your MIDlet to a PRC (Pilot Resource Code). This article first walks you through the creation of a simple MIDlet and then onto the MIDlet-to-PRC conversion.
Set Up Your Palm OS Emulator
Before you begin programming, set up an environment that emulates the Palm-powered handheld. Download
the PalmOS Emulator, Palm OS Emulator Skins, and the ROM images. In order to download these, you need to join the Palm OS Developer Program (a free process). The Palm OS Emulator is available for Windows, MacOS, and Unix. The emulator download includes a PDF document "Using Palm OS Emulator" that breaks down how to install and use the Palm OS emulator.
To get started, unzip the emulator and ROM zip files into a directory of your choice. Unzip the skins file to a subdirectory called Skins under the directory you created and then run Emulator.exe. Next, choose the option to start a new emulator session, as shown in Figure 1.
|Figure 1: Starting a New Emulator Session|
In the subsequent New Session screen (see Figure 2), use the GUI to point to the ROM file that you extracted.
|Figure 2: Pointing the Session to a ROM File|
After pointing to the ROM file, you will see which devices are supported under the ROM file (see Figure 3). Also, pick a Skin that you would like to use. I chose the Standard-English Skin as shown in Figure 3. Next, click OK.
|Figure 3: Specifying More Options for Your Emulator Session|
At this point, you should see the emulator running as shown in Figure 4.
The emulator you see runs Palm OS. To run Java programs, a Palm device (emulated or the real thing) needs to have a J2ME application runtime environment installed. You will install one next. Keep the Palm emulator running for now.


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1. Who says that all in the courtroom know what the outcome of the trial will be?
The unnamed narrator
2. Who is the young African American man at the center of the trial?
3. Which of the following men did not get into the car to go to the bar?
4. Where did the men in #3 end up going?
White Rabbit Bar and Lounge
5. Who was the owner of this bar?
Alcee Grope
6. Who grabs a gun and starts shooting?
7. Where does Grant drive Miss Emma and Tante Lou?
To Henri Pichot's home
8. Who is the maid at the house in #7?
9. What does Rougon's family own in a neighboring town?
A bank
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Denmark Cyber Army
The cyber power of Denmark depends on a lot of things like budget, technology and knowledge of the fifth domain.
In Denmark, the following languages are spoken:
Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (Inuit dialect), German; English is the predominant second language
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At first contact Czechs may often seem cautious and impersonal and/or indifferent, but with a tactful approach they might become effectively engaged. You have to consider the language barrier if you don't speak reasonably fluent Czech. However, even a few words of Czech will make a good impression. Not too many Czechs are able to communicate in English or French at a comfortable level.
Czechs almost never go straight to the point and meetings start with some small talk. They like very much negotiating and the first meeting is usually just for discussion on a general level. After the first meeting, they decide whether to continue or not. You should be well prepared and remember to allow enough time.
As in most parts of the world, topics such as weather or "where are you from" are safe to begin your conversation with. Explanations regarding the purpose of your visit might also work as an ice-breaker. No special taboos exists, except that vulgarities/obscenities should be avoided as in any other country. Otherwise, anything positive that the person can relate to can break the ice; for instance, it is advisable to know at least a couple of names of Czech players in the NHL.
As Czech culture is characterized by the relatively strong sense of masculinity, other suitable general topics for a conversation are sports, beer, and politics with man, or shopping or prices with women. Czechs are usually critical of politicians but foreigners are not supposed to volunteer their opinion on Czech politics. If you want to speak about politics, remember to be neutral. For instance, don't get dragged into criticizing the former communists (or the communist regime) unless you are sure that this is not controversial topic with you're the person you are talking to; remember that he or she might be one of the former or current communists. (Even now, one in five Czechs votes for the not-too-reformed Communist Party.)
Humour is part of traditional Czech culture, sometimes this is a "wetter" kind of humour than British or Canadian "dry" humour. This does not necessarily mean a "black" humour; at the same time, it is often a humour without any political correctness, sometimes containing "racial slurs." It is also extremely important to realize that Czech have two modes of speaking to one another: a) "vykání" or "polite form"—using the 2nd person plural when talking to an adult; and b) "tykání" or "familiar form"—using the 2nd person singular when talking to a good friend, family member, or a child. When talking in Czech to an adult in the Czech Republic you must always use the polite form (vykání) unless the person asked you to use the familiar mode.
Czechs have, perhaps, a stronger sense of etiquette than Canadians. Coughing or yawning without covering your mouth, spitting in public, littering, chewing a gum when talking to another person, or not offering a seat to an older person or woman on public transit, etc. are considered impolite if not socially unacceptable. Don't forget to behave with a special courtesy to women.
Canadian perspective
When encountering a Czech person for the first time from the country they will instantly make you feel welcome. If you tell them that you are from North America the locals initiate a conversation with you. They want to have the knowledge of our culture and determine the differences between us and their own culture. Conversations topics are usually on how the country is filled with cultural richness, arts, music and food. You're always surrounded by humour (lots of dirty jokes). Laughter comes from their history of overcoming hardship and winning victories. The one topic of conversation to be avoided is politics which always leads to debates about communism and the fall of communism. This topic always seem to leave people very bitter.
Communication styles
Local perspective
Regional /local background, level of education, and individual temperament are key factors in determining peoples' level of comfort with touching and gestures.
Although Czechs generally have quite a developed sense of space in personal dealings with one another, the actual distance depends very much on the context of the situation and the individual inclinations of persons involved. Distance is usually greater when speaking or dealing with not-yet-familiar people. The best guidance here is to observe. After an initial obligatory handshake, gauge each person's degree of comfort with touching and their preference for personal space, and then adjust as needed while maintaining your own level of comfort.
Regular eye contact is required if you want to be judged as trustworthy. Czechs will not necessarily maintain continuous eye contact (especially when they take their time to "think through" their response), but it is considered a sign of ill or "suspicious" intentions if a person refuses to make or is avoiding eye contact.
It is customary to shake hands with both men and women when greeting them. There are set rules for initiating a handshake. For example, it is expected that one should wait until an older person or a woman offers a handshake. In a familiar setting it may be customary that men and women will give each other a hug and /or kiss on each cheek; however, foreigners are advised not to initiate such actions. While talking, men generally do not touch other men unless they have reached a fairly high level of familiarity and comfort with that person. If one of the two persons is of significantly higher age or prestige, he/she might initiate occasional touching to show his/her assurances or for emphasis. This practice applies to a lesser degree for contact between men and women and it is usually considered a test of "good manners" that a man does not initiate any touching. The rules for a woman touching another woman are similar to those for men.
Czechs make relatively little use of gestures, though perhaps they use them slightly more than Canadians. It is interesting to note that they find a lot of gesturing annoying and ill-mannered. There are some gestures that are considered rude: waving a lifted fist, waiving a pointed index finger, pointing at someone, and especially pointing one's finger to one's forehead. A common, if not overly polite way of showing disapproval is by moving one's head from the right to the left while frowning.
Canadian perspective
In the Czech culture, hand gestures are a part of who they are. A non-local may sit and watch a conversation and actually know what is going on through movement and facial expressions. When my husband visited the country for the first time, he had no knowledge of the language at all and he managed to haggle the price of a pair of shoes to half its price simply through the use of hand gestures.
Though they are very accepting of visitors it is important to be more soft spoken to the older generation. Form of verbs and pronouns are the same in Czech as in French, to be formal you use third person (similar to vous) and not as formal you use (the equivalent of tu). Czech people are very loud and expressive and yet very formal and well spoken. They will get very insulted if a person is not well mannered. A simple handshake at every gathering is well received.
Display of emotion
Local perspective
Public displays of affection or anger might be more frequently observable in the Czech Republic than is the case with English Canadians but it differs significantly from one individual to another. It is not a matter whether such displays are "acceptable" but rather that they are tolerated to a larger degree than is the norm in Canada.
Canadian perspective
I find it ironic that such an expressive culture can be so evasive towards public affection. Pornographic magazines are on full view on every newsstand, television is very explicit with a lot of nudity and the younger generation is very uninhibited in its fashion statements. Public affection is almost taboo, but getting angry in public or loud is just a way of being demonstrative.
Dress, punctuality & formality
Local perspective
Work styles and dress code differ between workplaces but it is important to be punctual, orderly, and clean. The norm of working relationship at workplaces is slightly more formal than in Canada. Generally, Czechs are becoming increasingly informal. Women tend to dress nicely and wear sophisticated makeup in the "white-collar" workplace. The bigger the organization and the higher placed officials you visit, the more formal dress is expected, especially if you are to meet people for the first time in their official capacity.
Supervisors, colleagues, or anybody whom you meet for the first time must not be addressed by the first name, unless there is a mutual agreement to do so - which can sometimes come at an informal party but, more often than not, never. Using a person's professional or academic title - "Pane Profesore", "Pane Doktore", etc. - or "Pane", "Paní" (Mr. or Mrs.) with the last name are the only appropriate ways of addressing an adult until otherwise agreed.
In most Czech workplaces deadlines usually come with the expectation that they will be met; although there is often some degree of flexibility. When meeting the deadline is uncertain, people will often negotiate in good faith and/or try to explain or apologize. It is rather uncommon to work considerable overtime in order to meet a deadline, though the nature of the workplace, significance of the task ahead, or institutional custom may sometimes require it. The approach to time in terms of productivity awareness, absenteeism, etc. differs significantly between workplaces. In some of them, attitudes inherited from the former communist regime might prevail; in such workplaces disregard for the time factor is rather high and morale rather low. Also, on average, Czechs call in more paid "sick days" than in most other countries in Europe, if only to take


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Such simple errands as buying new shoes were not easy—or equal—for African Americans in the years of segregation. When Ella Mae learns first hand that she is not allowed to try on shoes at her local shoe store because of the color of her skin, she and her cousin, Charlotte, channel their disappointment and anger into positive action. They figure out a way to ensure that others in their neighborhood can "try on all the shoes they want" and be treated with the respect they deserve. Author Susan Lynn Meyer's beautifully written story sheds light on this disturbing occurrence of inequality and shows the grace and dignity of two young girls determined to make a difference for others in their community.
The story is beautifully illustrated by Eric Velasquez, whose rich artwork flawlessly coveys the strength and depth of Meyer's story. Put together, the text and illustrations reveal the sadness of the inequalities of the past and the brilliance of Ella Mae's determination to rise above prejudice and affirm the humanity of her race.
NEW SHOES is picture book for children ages 6-9. This historical fiction story is a treasure and shares a vital message of the importance of equality and pride in the face of adversity. A must-have book for every classroom and household!
Meyer's message in NEW SHOES is powerful yet gently delivered. This historical fiction picture book bravely approaches the inequitable treatment of African Americans from a new angle, showing how important historical lessons can be integrated seamlessly into the picture book format.
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Due to inclement weather conditions, Charles County Public Schools (CCPS) will operate on a Virtual Instruction, Code V tomorrow, Friday, Feb. 19, 2021. The following applies to students during a Virtual Instruction, Code V.
- Virtual instruction starts on time for all students.
- Learning support centers and internet cafes at schools are closed. This includes those students who are bused to internet cafes for technology access.
- All CCPS meal service is canceled. This includes both curbside meal distribution sites and the mobile meals program.
- Some students may be assigned asynchronous lessons from teachers.
- Students who do not have access to virtual instruction on a Code V day: parents must submit an absence note to the school for an excused absence. Students will have 72 hours to access recorded instruction and allowed to make up assignments.


Vicente Juan Masip
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Vicente Juan Masip (also Vicente Macip;Catalan: 'Vicent Joan Masip'; 1475– 1545) (also known as Joan de Joanes (La Font de la Figuera 1507 - Bocairent 1579) was a Spanish painter of the Renaissance period. He was one of the main members, and was considered the premier painter of the Valencian school of painters.
His father was Vicente Masip (Andilla 1475 - Valencia 1545), and his son was Vicente Masip Comes (c. _PHONE_), known as Vicent de Joanes, who imitated his style.[citation needed] His two daughters, Dorotea and Margarita, were also painters.[citation needed] His most prominent pupil was Nicolas Borras.[citation needed]
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Nokia Lumia 521 - My Lumia phone cannot connect to the internet using WiFi
 1. Restart your phone, check the WiFi connection icon on the phone screen, and move closer to a WiFi access point to get a better signal.
 2. Make sure that your phone is not in Battery saver mode (Settings > battery saver), or connect a charger.
 3. Disable Bluetooth connectivity in your phone while being connected to WiFi (Settings > Bluetooth). Bluetooth and WiFi operate on the same frequency range and may interfere with each other.
 4. If you cannot connect to a network that you have connected to before, try deleting the network from your phone. (To do this, in Settings > WiFi > manage (advanced), under Known networks, tap and hold the network name, then tap Delete.) Deleting the network will delete the associated settings on your phone. After that, tap the WiFi network in the list of networks, then try to connect again.
 5. If there is no SIM card in your phone, try inserting SIM and check that you are not in flight mode. If there is no SIM card in the phone, some of the country specific WiFi features may not be available when your phone does not know its location.
 6. Check if you can connect with your phone to another WiFi network (for example using the internet sharing feature of another phone).
If you are having trouble connecting to your home WiFi network
 2. Check that your password in a secure network of your phone is properly configured and that your phone's security settings match with the settings of your home WiFi network. If you keep getting an Incorrect password error, log in to your wireless router, and change the operating mode 802.11b/g/n to 802.11g only, and then restart/reset the router, and try to create a connection again.
 3. Check that your WiFi network is not configured to filter the access based on the device MAC address. If using MAC based filtering, the MAC address of your mobile device must be added in the filter list. You can find your phone MAC address in Settings > about > more information.
 5. Check on your router's support page that it has the latest firmware installed.
If you are having trouble connecting to a public WiFi hotspot
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OSU's Science & Math Investigative Learning Experiences (SMILE) is a partnership between the university and 14 Oregon school districts - mostly rural, many with a high proportion of American Indian and Hispanic students - to provide science and math enrichment for underrepresented and other educationally underserved students in grades 4-12.
Since its launch in 1988, SMILE has served as a pathway for introducing thousands of students to science learning, moving many of them on to post-secondary education and careers in science. The program also offers workshops for teachers to build their science education skills.
The program conducts a year-round schedule of activities designed to provide hands-on science experience, strengthen students' knowledge, and raise their academic and career aspirations. OSU resource faculty and SMILE Program professional staff provide scientific and pedagogic expertise, access to equipment, mentoring, computer networking, teacher training, and administrative support; the schools provide energetic students and dedicated teachers.
Ocean sciences programming is provided by the Cooperative Institute for Oceanographic Satellite Studies (CIOSS), with NOAA support, and by the College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences. An annual SMILE Oceanography challenge, a day and a half long event in April on the campuses of OSU and Western Oregon University, brings student teams together to solve an open-ended, community-based problem related to oceanography, challenging them to work together to gather data and create and present a plan to address the problem.


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The Grass Cerith
As implied by its vernacular name, the Grass Cerith, Bittiolum varium (Pfeiffer, 1840), lives in seagrass beds. The Grass Cerith is one of the most common species of mollusks in that particular type of ecosystem, where it supposedly grazes on the microalgae that grow on the seagrass blades. Its shell is small, rarely reaching beyond 4 mm (about 0.16 inch). The shell sculpture shows spiral lines and weak axial ribs that intersect forming raised nodules. The last whorl usually has one or two thickened areas called varices. The shell color is extremely variable, usually light-to dark-brown, sometimes with darker mottlings or specklings. The species occurs in broad area of the western Atlantic and is very common locally.
The Grass Cerith, Bittiolum varium, from Sanibel. Photo by José H. Leal.


Pavement Shops
The Effects of the Pavement shops in the boulevard of Puducherry
The boulevard area of Puducherry is attracting domestic and foreign tourists) especially through the French heritage buildings and the rock beach. However, they are littered with non-biodegradable wastes such as plastics and disposable materials, discarded by hawkers selling eatables and the pedlars who sell on the road and these non-biodegradable wastes are posing a threat to the marine life and polluting the sea. Addition to this the vegetable and fruit waste which are degradable also cause a stinks in some streets. This reports aims to provide solution for the issues faced by the Pavement shops and to creating awareness among the people for a trash-free marine environment.
 In general the Municipalities are permitted to enforce reasonable regulations concerning hawking and peddling within their borders. It may be required for such salespeople to obtain licenses; however, municipalities cannot prohibit the business through the requirement of an excessive fee. In such situations where a license is required, a pedlar or hawker must obtain it prior to the time when he or she begins to sell wares and it must be issued to the individual who is actually engaged in the peddling.
The study has the below objectives:
1. To relocate the hawkers to an alternative site.
2. To deteriorate the fees that is paid to the municipalities.
3. To validate the pavement shops to be hygienic and clean.
4. To appoint local authorities to monitor the pavement shops.
5. To eliminate parking of vehicles on either side of the road, as it causes problems to pedestrians.
According to sources, the hawkers were spoiling the beauty of the beach, and so have been asked to move. The tourists and local visitors to the beach front buy snacks etc. and leave the food waste, paper plates, and garbage and plastic cups on the beach itself. At present, there were about 125 hawkers near...


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Let $X$ be a complex manifold and $g$ a hermitian metric on $X$. Consider the Riemannian exponential $\exp_p: T_p X \to X$.
If $\exp_p$ is holomorphic for every $p \in X$, then $(\exp_p)^{-1}$, suitably restricted, provide holomorphic normal coordinates near $p$, with respect to which the metric osculates to order 2 to the standard metric at the origin. This shows that $g$ is a Kähler metric.
However, Kähler is not sufficient to ensure that $\exp_p$ is holomorphic: take $X$ a curve of genus $g \geq 2$. If $\exp_p:T_pX \to X$ is holomorphic, then it lifts to a holomorphic map from $T_pX$ to the universal cover $\widetilde{X} = \Delta$, giving a holomorphic map $T_pX \simeq \mathbb{C} \to \Delta$, which must be constant by Liouville's theorem. In fact, one can see that $\exp$ cannot be holomorphic if $X$ is Kobayashi hyperbolic.
This leaves the question: What are the hermitian manifolds/metrics whose exponential map is holomorphic?
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In the $1$ complex dimension case this forces the metric to be locally isomorphic to the standard metric. The exponential map preserves length in the radial direction, so if it is conformal then it must also preserve length in the other direction. – Tom Goodwillie Jun 16 '11 at 3:52
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NB: I've had a little time to think about this and can now improve my answer, in particular, removing the real-analytic assumption, which, as I suspected, was not necessary. Here is the improved answer:
If the metric $g$ is Kähler, then having the exponential map from a point $p\in M$ be holomorphic makes it flat in a neighborhood of $p$.
Suppose that $\exp_p:T_pM\to M$ is holomorphic near $0_p\in T_pM$ (where we use the natural holomorphic structure on the complex vector space $T_pM$). Let $z:T_pM\to\mathbb{C}^n$ be a complex linear isometry, so that the hermitian metric on $T_pM$ is just $|z|^2$ in the usual sense. Let $Z$ be the holomorphic 'radial' vector field on $\mathbb{C}^n$, whose real part is the standard radial vector field on $\mathbb{C}^n$.
Then $$ {\exp_p}^*g = g_{i\bar j}(z)\ dz^i\ d\overline{z}^j $$ for some functions $g_{i\bar j}$ on a neighborhood of $0\in\mathbb{C}^n$. Since $g$ is Kähler, there is a function $f$ defined on a neighborhood of $0\in\mathbb{C}^n$ such that $$ g_{i\bar j} = \frac{\partial^2f}{\partial z^i\ \partial\overline{z}^j}. $$
Now, the condition that $z$ furnish Gauss normal coordinates for ${\exp_p}^*g$ is easily seen to be that
$$ \mathcal{L}_Z\bigl(\bar\partial f\bigr) = \bar\partial\bigl(|z|^2\bigr). $$ In particular, $ \bar\partial\bigl(\mathcal{L}_Z(f - |z|^2)\bigr) = 0$, so $\mathcal{L}_Z(f - |z|^2) = h$ for some holomorphic function $h$ on a neighborhood of $0$. This $h$ must vanish at $0$, so it is easy, by adding the real part of the appropriate holomorphic function to $f$ (which won't change $g$) to arrange that $h\equiv0$ and, moreover, that $f(0) = 0$. But this now implies that the real-valued function $f-|z|^2$ vanishes at the origin and also is constant along the radial vector field. Thus, $f = |z|^2$, and the metric $g$ is flat in these coordinates.
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I do not like complex numbers and can make a mistake easily...
Let $L_p$ be a complex line in a tangent space $T_pX$. It is easy to see that $\exp_p$ gives an isometric embedding $L_p\hookrightarrow X$ which is also star-shaped with center at $p$; set $L=\exp_p(L_p)$
Take any other point $q\in L$, and let $L_q\subset T_q$ be the tangent subspace to $L$. Note that the maps $\exp_p$ and $\exp_q$ coinside (up to a shift) on the geodesic $(pq)$. [Here I use that if two holomorphic maps coincide on the real line then they coincide in the complex plane.] It follows that $L=\exp_q(L_q)$. Therefore $L$ is totally geodesic.
In other words: For any complex sectional direction in $X$, there is a tangent totally geodesic surface which is isometric to complex plane.
In particular, the sectional curvature in all complex sectional directions is zero and therefore the curvature of $X$ is identically zero; the later stated in Kobayashi--Nomizu, Foundations of differential geometry, Volume 2 IX, Prop. 7.1. (thanks to RdN).
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I don't quite understand your arguement for exp of a complex line to be totally geodesic. But if so there is a lemma in vol II of Kobayashi Nomizu (Prop. 7.1) that says if two tensors with the symmetry and J invariance of a Kahler curvature tensor agree on complex lines they must be equal. It's clear curves have to be flat by Gauss lemma and totally geodesic would mean the second fundamental vanishes, so we can measure R of the ambient space from such curves. Thus the Prop. says total curvature must vanish. – RdN Jun 25 '11 at 16:43
_USER_, Thank you, I will include it in the answer – Anton Petrunin Jun 28 '11 at 10:30
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High-resolution remote sensing satellites (HRRSS) that use time delay and integration (TDI) CCDs have the potential to introduce large amounts of image smear. Clocking and velocity mismatch smear are two of the key factors in inducing image smear. Clocking smear is caused by the discrete manner in which the charge is clocked in the TDI-CCDs. The relative motion between the HRRSS and the observed object obliges that the image motion velocity must be strictly synchronized with the velocity of the charge packet transfer (line rate) throughout the integration time. During imaging an object off-nadir, the image motion velocity changes resulting in asynchronization between the image velocity and the CCD's line rate. A Model for estimating the image motion velocity in HRRSS is derived. The influence of this velocity mismatch combined with clocking smear on the modulation transfer function (MTF) is investigated by using Matlab simulation. The analysis is performed for cross-track and along-track imaging with different satellite attitude angles and TDI steps. The results reveal that the velocity mismatch ratio and the number of TDI steps have a serious impact on the smear MTF; a velocity mismatch ratio of 2% degrades the MTFsmear by 32% at Nyquist frequency when the TDI steps change from 32 to 96. In addition, the results show that to achieve the requirement of MTFsmear ≥ 0.95, for TDI steps of 16 and 64, the allowable roll angles are 13.7° and 6.85° and the permissible pitch angles are no more than 9.6° and 4.8°, respectively.
Walid A. Wahballah, Taher M. Bazan, Fawzy El-Tohamy, and Mahmoud Fathy, "Analysis of smear in high-resolution remote sensing satellites," Proc. SPIE 10000, Sensors, Systems, and Next-Generation Satellites XX, 100001J (Presented at SPIE Remote Sensing: September 28, 2016; Published: 19 October 2016); _URL_
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How To Roll A Tulip?
How do you roll a rosebud joint?
How to roll a rose blunt
 1. Step 1: Grind up your bud.
 2. Step 2: Arrange three rose petals in an overlapping row on a baking sheet.
 3. Step 3: Toast your rose petals.
 4. Step 4: Once the petals are done toasting, line up some ground flower down the center of your row of petals.
How do you roll an elaborate joint?
Sprinkle in your bud, and with your thumbs directly against the glue strip, roll up tightly. When the glue touches the inside of your paper, carefully but firmly lick the outside of the joint where it meets the glue strip (yes, it'll still seal).
How do you roll a joint European style?
Our favorite way to roll a joint and eliminate excess paper is a European rolling technique referred to as rolling 'inside out' or 'backroll'. If you have never tried rolling a rice paper, now is the time.
 1. Flip the Paper.
 2. Arrange and Roll as Usual.
 3. The Inside Out Tuck.
 4. Seal in One Smooth Motion.
 5. Remove the Excess.
How do you roll perfectly?
Take out your rolling paper and hold it so the glue side is facing your feet and the fold is in your direct sight. Fold the paper gently in the opposite direction and roll it between your fingers gingerly until it retains the shape you need.
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Can u smoke eucalyptus?
Yes, we can smoke eucalyptus leaves. For medicinal purposes, eucalyptus leaves are most often used. Eucalyptus leaves contain up to 6% of valuable tannins, bitterness, organic acids, and other compounds. Eucalyptus has an expectorant, analgesic, healing effect – which is very important for smokers.
Can you burn rose petals?
Burning rose petals in a cauldron is a good substitute for burning a white sage smudge stick. Plus, I've noticed that the roses add their own positive energy to whatever space you 're cleansing. Drinking rose tea is a great way to kick back and get magickal.
How do you roll a joint if you can't roll?
How to roll a Joint ( When you can ' t roll a Joint )
 1. Wrap your paper around the chopstick, glue-side facing up.
 2. Lick the glue, keeping the paper stabilized.
 3. Roll the chopstick away from you, wrapping the paper around it.
 4. When it's all the way around (but not too tight) lick the edge and press your hand around the chopstick.
 5. Wiggle the rolled paper out of the chopstick.
Can you use tissue paper to roll a joint?
Tissue paper makes terrible rolling paper because it burns too fast. In an emergency the paper of a brown paper bag works best. But yeah it's probably not like good for you or whatever. Tbh no paper is safe to smoke but you 're better off using something like an apple.
Is Twaxing a waste?
One of the quick and easy ways to smoke concentrates is through a process called twaxing or T-waxing. While this method is easy, it does tend to waste a bit of concentrate compared to other methods.
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How do you roll a tight spliff?
The secret to getting a tight and cylindrical joint is to grab the flower-filled paper by both ends, pinch the tops of the paper with your thumbs and forefingers, and rub your fingers together in an up-and-down motion. By doing so, you effectively push the flower into a tight little log the same width as the filter.
How do you roll a small spliff?
Stand the joint upright and use a toothpick to pack the bud down as far as you can. Push the filter up from the bottom if it sticks out at all. Tightly roll the excess paper and cut it off before you light. Tip: for extra small joints I sometimes cut a rolling paper in half and use smaller filters so I can roll two!
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A Connoisseur's Guide to Wood Fuel
By Gail Damerow
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Heat Value
Cold winter days call for a fire built from a long-burning, dense hardwood. Of all the hardwoods, oak burns with the most uniform flame and, like other hardwoods, produces steady, glowing coals that continue yielding warmth long after the flames die down.
By contrast, softwoods and soft hardwoods burn hot and fast. A fire made from these fuels isn't suitable for producing all-day warmth because it needs replenishing more often than most of us have time for. But it's just what's needed to banish the morning chill on days when the sun soon takes over as the main heat producer. Softwood's also great for warming up the place before going to bed because it doesn't produce long-lasting, unpredictable coals and so will be more easily and assuredly extinguished.
The same properties causing softer woods to produce hot, fast fires also make them great kindling. Softwoods are resinous and ignite more easily at lower temperatures than hardwoods. They also tend to be easier to split into kindling pieces. Our Wood Fuel Properties Chart can help you choose the wood you need for the purpose at hand.
The most difficult woods to split are black gum, elm, and sycamore, which is why you'll rarely see any of them used as kindling. The denser hardwoods, especially those with twisted grain or lots of knots, can also be difficult to split. Regardless of its density or species, green wood is easier to split than seasoned wood.
Seasoning Wood
Seasoning firewood merely means getting the water out. A quarter to half of the weight of freshly cut (green) firewood is water. Green wood is hard to light, burns poorly, and tends to smoke and hiss when it does burn. The white smoke produced is largely steam and the hissing sound indicates that much of the fire's heat is being used to produce the steam. For each pound of water evaporated from green wood you lose 1,050 BTUs.
Whether you buy your wood or cut your own, expect to season it yourself. You'll need two things: sun and air. Fortunately, both are free. The sun's heat provides the BTUs needed to evaporate the moisture and moving air carries the moisture away. All you have to do is stack the wood and leave it in the sun and wind to dry.
Stacking wood off the ground on a rack or platform improves air circulation, retards moisture absorption from the soil, and keeps the bottom row of wood from rotting. Ideal for this purpose are disposable pallets picked up from a farm store or building supplier. If you can't get pallets, stack the wood on a parallel row of straight limbs that are smaller in diameter.
To shed rain, stack pieces with the bark side up and cover the top of the stack but not the sides. You want to keep rain from falling directly on the wood, but you don't want to prevent evaporating moisture from readily escaping. We top our wood with sheets of metal roofing weighed down with a few heavy sticks of wood to keep the sheets from blowing away.
Since drying can take anywhere from 6 to 18 months, it's best to lay in your firewood supply no later than spring for the following winter. Exact drying time depends on a number of variables, including the type of wood you have and how small it's been cut and split. Drying occurs from the outside inward, which is why split wood seasons faster than unsplit wood.
Hardwood, because it's denser, takes longer to dry than softwood. Wood from dead or dying trees contains less moisture to begin with so it seasons faster than wood cut from live trees. And any wood dries more slowly in cool weather and in humid climates.
You can speed up seasoning considerably by cutting the wood into shorter lengths and splitting it into smaller pieces. Stacking the wood in a wind tunnel or a solar dryer also speeds things up. A wind tunnel is any structure that generates a breeze or draft. We once had the perfect wood-drying place in the form of an open-ended shed on one side of our barn. The wind whistled through the shed and dried green wood in no time while the shed's roof kept off rain. A solar dryer speeds things up by concentrating the sun's warmth. Fashion one by covering stacked wood with a sheet of plastic propped away from the wood so that air can readily circulate and moisture will evaporate instead of condensing on the plastic and dripping back onto the wood.
Because it contains less moisture, seasoned firewood is lighter than green wood. As it dries, the wood takes on a weathered look and the ends tend to crack. When you strike two sticks of well-seasoned wood together, they "thwack" like a baseball bat hitting home. Strike two sticks of green wood and all you'll hear is a "thud." Compared to green wood (averaging about 4,000 BTUs per pound), wood that's been air dried to 25% moisture averages 6,400 BTUs. Properly seasoned wood ignites easily and burns at a higher temperature, so it burns cleanly.
Creosote Buildup
Burned in the presence of plenty of oxygen, dry wood produces only carbon dioxide, water, and a little ash — three materials that are readily recycled by growing plants. Green or highly resinous wood, by contrast, produces a mixture of wood tars and other wood extracts, collectively known as "creosote." These unburned, organic compounds are carried by smoke up the chimney and are deposited on the flue wall.
When hot, creosote is a viscous liquid. When it cools, it becomes sticky and tar-like. Eventually it dries into black flakes that peel off the chimney wall and fall down the flue. A serious creosote buildup blocks the flue's airflow, making the stove or fireplace hard to light and causing it to smoke when you finally do get it lit. Worse, creosote can be touched off by sparks, igniting a chimney fire.
A wood fire that burns hot and fast keeps the chimney too hot for creosote to stick. Instead, liquid creosote drips down the chimney and into the stove where it gets burned up. Because green wood can't burn hot, it's more likely to cause creosote buildup than seasoned wood is. And since softwood burns hotter than hardwood, softwood is less likely to cause a creosote problem than hardwood.
Creosote buildup is affected not just by the wood you burn, but by your stove's efficiency. Ironically, the less efficient your stove is, the less likely you are to have a creosote problem. This is because an old, drafty stove burns wood faster and hotter than a tight, modern stove. By the same token, you'll get more creosote if you close down the draft regulator and let a fire smolder before the wood has burned down to coals — another good reason to take the chill out with a small, quick, hot softwood fire rather than a longer, slower burning hardwood fire.
Special Effects
While a chimney fire is pretty spectacular, it's not exactly the sort of special effect you would welcome. Popping and throwing sparks, on the other hand, is a characteristic that can be enjoyable — in moderation. The denser hardwoods tend to crackle only when you poke the fire. Some of the softwoods, by contrast, keep up a running commentary that can get downright annoying.
The most vociferous softwoods — cedar, hemlock, juniper, larch, southern pine, spruce, and tamarack — contain fluid resin trapped in pockets. As the wood burns, its resin evaporates into gases and water vapor that build up pressure until the pocket explodes. Although seasoning minimizes popping by reducing moisture, for safety reasons these resinous woods are best reserved for the wood stove. In a fireplace, burn them only with caution.
One special effect that nearly everyone enjoys is the splendid aroma produced by some species of wood. My own favorite winter smell comes from the cedar kindling that we use to light our wood stove on cold mornings. Other wonderfully aromatic woods are hickory, pine, and logs cut from nut and fruit trees, particularly apple. The smoke produced by fruit wood vaguely resembles the fragrance of the tree's fruit.
While many people enjoy the smell of wood smoke, most would agree that a little smoke is usually more than enough. The smokiest woods are the denser softwoods — Douglas fir, southern pine, larch, and tamarack. Dense hardwoods are the least smoky. All others fall somewhere in between.
Wood Sources
The best way to make sure you get a good variety of firewood is to cut it yourself. If you own a woodlot, you are likely to have plenty of trees that are unusable for other purposes because they are poorly shaped, diseased, or of an undesirable species that takes up space needed for the growth of more valuable trees. While you solve two problems at once by cutting down undesirable trees for fuel, avoid the ones that have begun to rot. Not only have they lost much of their heat content, but they are likely to contain bugs that you don't want in your house.
If you don't own a woodlot, scurry down to the local landfill after a storm and get permission to


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Campaign against the Ecopop initiative
Enigma the communication agency has been mandated by various institutions to elaborate a campaign against the Ecopop initiative.
The initiative Ecopop, on which the Swiss people voted on 30 November 2014, required a punchy campaign, because its content was shocking.
The initiative claimed to preserve Switzerland's natural resources; its actual aim was to address the country's natural population growth. It proposed to reduce Switzerland's immigration limit to 0.2 percent, or 16,000 people per year (this number would be insufficient to cover the economic needs of the small Jura region). This initiative wanted to return to the population density of the 1930s. Action had to be taken against the underlying racist ideology masquerading under the guise of ecological concern. With its cute and attractive name, this initiative could seduce a large part of the population.
All political parties officially opposed the initiative, and the number of proponents appeared small, but we desperately needed to avoid the "David v. Goliath" effect: a media campaign against the initiative could serve to make it look attractive. Its negative effects needed to be immediately apparent, and its seductive spell had to be broken. We couldn't let the initiators speak directly, nor could our campaign become a forum for those favoring the initiative. We really had to use all possible means to highlight the ridiculous nature of this proposal.
In order to raise maximum awareness among voters, we decided to maximize discussion forums, since the Zero Moment of Truth is different for each person. We created a billboard campaign, advertisements in the press, content amplification, and a number of online videos.
We ran a 2-step billboard campaign.
This began with a teaser, which showed shocking texts without naming a purpose or a source.
The texts were directly inspired by the initiative, and showed its significant and negative impact on the economy, the population, and Switzerland in general.
In order to reveal the initiative's real aims, the following texts were used:
- a text showing the initiative's deeply racist agenda
- a text showing its extreme economic impracticality
- a text showing its impossible demographic implementation
The campaign's second step acted as a revealer: it unmasked the initiative's identity and exposed its scope and ridicule.
We added the following baseline: «If this were a joke, it would be bad enough.» Without mocking it directly, we emphasized the ridiculous nature of the text, and the gravity of the initiative.
To further show the absurd and deceptive nature of the initiative, we used an old-fashion design that echoed multiple references, among them charlatanism and 1950s ad design (since the initiative referred to 1950s-erapopulation). The design referenced charlatans that promised the earth and were entirely disconnected from reality. Such people caused more problems than they solved. We thus revealed the gravity of the initiative from a different perspective.
We wrote an article posted on the FER website (Federation of Enterprises from Western Switzerland), that gave five reasons to vote against Ecopop. Headlines and images were A/B tested in order to optimize the click rate. With an amplification system that offered the article on three major online news outlets, we redirected new readers to this article and provided them a fresh perspective on the initiative.
We showed how the Swiss political scene was united against this initiative with videos of individual politicians, such as Pierre Maudet, Robert Cramer, and Céline Amaudruz.
We made their statement more dynamic and didactic by limiting it to thirty seconds. The videos were broadcasted on YouTube, and explained the real and serious consequences of the initiative for Switzerland. Robert Cramer offered an ecological perspective, Pierre Maudet an economic one, and Céline Amaudruz voiced the UDC party's perspective.
On 30 November 2014, the initiative was rejected by more than 74 percent of voters in Switzerland and almost at 79% in Geneva. YouTube videos totaled more than 215,000 views within one month, and debates were very animated on the platform.
Without giving a public forum to the initiators, and by multiplying the arguments against this proposal, we managed to send the message that resulted in a substantial victory for the "no" campaign.


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The Holocaust Deniers Say:
What we know about the destruction of teeth by fire
 - After 30 minutes in fires with temperatures of 752 degrees Fahrenheit (400 degrees Celsius) the front teeth are totally destroyed. The molars (the grinding teeth in the back of the mouth) start to crack.
 - At between 45 and 70 minutes in fires with temperatures between 1832 degrees Fahrenheit (1000 degrees Celsius) and 2012 degrees Fahrenheit (1100 degrees Celsius), all the teeth are totally carbonized. 3
 - In a civilian crematorium furnace, a temperature between 1400 to 2100 degrees Fahrenheit (760 to 1150 degrees Celsius) is generated to ensure the disintegration of the remains. Even then teeth and some bones are still intact and are crushed in a machine. 4
Have teeth been found in the camps?
 - Polish judicial authorities performed excavations on the site in October 1945. They dug nine holes or trenches in the area believed to the extermination part of the camp. They found "... a large number of human bones... such as skulls, parts of skulls, vertebrae, ribs, collarbones, shoulder blades, arm bones, lower legs, wrists, fingers, pelvic bones, thigh bones, lower legs and foot bones. Some of the bones mentioned are either partly burnt or had not been burnt at all... From the size of the various bones one can conclude that they belong to persons of different age groups, from two-year-olds up to very old people, as borne out by toothless jaws and numerous dentures. Among the jawbones found there was one partially burnt specimen containing milk teeth as well as incipient permanent teeth, which indicates that it belongs to a person 7 to 8 years of age." 5
 - Andrezj Kola, together with a team of professionals, drilled 2,000 core samples throughout the area of the camp in Belzec in 1997 and 1998. He found 33 mass graves filled with whole bodies, parts of bodies (some burned, others not) and huge areas of human ash, bone remnants, and wood ash. It is reasonable to believe that some of the ash and bone remnants are probably the remains of teeth although Kola did not identify them separately. 6
 - Most of the teeth would have been destroyed in the fires and the rest would have been pretty well crushed. Their presence today is indeterminable from the rest of the human ashes in the graves.
 - The few whole teeth that would have gotten through the burning and pulverization process are scattered across or buried under acres of land. Finding them in the thousands of tons of human and wood ash would be purely accidental.
 - The research of forensic dentists-whose business it is to know precisely what happens to teeth in fire conditions-shows that exactly the opposite of the Holocaust deniers' claims are true. In fires with temperatures high enough to cremate bodies, most of the teeth are destroyed. Any remaining teeth that did not burn are weakened and so are more easily ground to dust.
 - The Holocaust deniers did not do their research-or if they did they ignored it-preferring instead to trumpet the alleged damage to the "Holohoax" that the spectacular image of 55 million teeth missing from the grounds and mass graves of the Operation Reinhard camps provides.
 - The intact teeth of 1.8 million murdered Jews in the three camps of Operation Reinhard cannot be found because they are part of the deep layers of human ash in the mass graves or are scattered or were dumped into local rivers and ponds.
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In this and next posts we explore kanji whose shapes appear totally unrelated and yet if we look at their ancient writings they did share the same shape, or at least closely related. The shapes shown on the right side were taken from the various kanji. They meant "a vessel; a boat; bowl; cylindrical shape." I find it very interesting to know that the English word "vessel" also means (1) a ship or a large boat, (2) a hollow container especially one used to hold liquid, such as bowl or cask and (3) by extension, a duct or canal holding or conveying blood or other fluid.
In this post we are going to look at kanji that came from these shapes as (a) "a boat" to transport on the water in the kanji 舟船舷舶 and as (b) "a shallow bowl; shallow vessel; tray" to transport by hand in the kanji 般搬盤服. In the next post we explore examples used as (c) "a sail" to transport things on the water in the kanji 凡帆汎 and as (d) "a tube-like shape; cylindrical" in the kanji 同洞胴銅. Let us begin.
(a) as "a boat" to transport on the water
The kanji 舟 "boat"
For the kanji 舟 in (a) and (b) in oracle bone style, in brown, and (c) and (d) in bronze ware style, in green, it was the shape of "a boat." A simple boat such as a canoe was made by hollowing out a log. A boat could also be made with panels of wooden board. (e) in seal style, in red, became the kanji 舟. The kanji 舟 means "boat."
The kun-yomi /hu'ne/ means "boat." /-Bune/ is in 小舟 ("small boat" /kobune/), 丸木舟 ("dugout canoe" /marukibu'ne/) and 渡し舟 ("ferry" /watashibu'ne/). The on-yomi /shuu/ is rarely used other than in a name.
The kanji 船 "ship; vessel"
For the kanji 船the bronze ware style and seal style writings had "a boat" on the left side. The right side 㕣 was used phonetically for /en/ to mean "along." A vessel that travelled along the flow of water meant "ship." The kanji 船 means "ship." [Composition of the kanji 船: 舟 and 㕣]
The kun-yomi /hu'ne/ means "ship; vessel." /Huna-/ is in 船旅 ("voyage; a sea trip" /hunatabi/), 船酔い ("seasickness" /hunayoi/) and 船乗り ("sailor" /huna'nori/). The on-yomi /sen/ is in 乗船する ("to go aboard; embark" /joosen-suru/), 貨物船 ("cargo boat; freight" /kamotsusen/), 客船 ("passenger ship" /kyakusen/), 宇宙船 ("spacecraft" /uchuusen/), 連絡船 ("ferry boat" /renrakusen/) and 船頭 ("boatman" /sendo'o/).
The kanji 舷 "side of a ship; the gunwale"
The Qin-Han era seal sample, in blue, comprised 舟 "boat" and 玄 "thin things like threads" used phonetically for /gen/. Together they meant "the sides of a boat." The kanji 舷 means "side of a boat; the gunwale; the railing of a boad," a very specialized kanji in my view. [Composition of the kanji 舷: 舟 and 玄]
There is no kun-yomi. The on-yomi /gen/ is in 右舷 ("starboard" /ugen/) and 左舷 ("port side" /sagen/).
The kanji 舶 "a large ship"
There is no ancient writing for the kanji 舶. The kanji 舶 comprises 舟 "boat" and 白 used phoneticallly for /haku/ to mean "large" (some views that it is from 伯). Together they meant "a large ship that sailed in ocean." The kanji 舶 means "a large ship." [Composition of the kanji 舶: 舟 and 白]
There is no kun-yomi. The on-yomi /haku/ is in 船舶 ("ship; marine vessel" /se'npaku/) and 舶来品 ("imported goods; foreign article" /hakuraihin/).
(b) as "a shallow vessel; a tray" to transport by hand
The kanji 般 "general"
The left side of (a) and (b) in oracle bone style and (c) in bronze ware style and (d) in Old style, in purple, and (e) in seal style was "a tray." The right side was "a hand holding a weapon or tool," which eventually becomes 殳, a bushu hokozukuri/rumata. Together they originally meant "a hand carrying somethings in a shallow bowl," but the shape was borrowed to mean "general." A new kanji was created for the original meaning of "to carry" by adding another hand, the kanji 搬, our next kanji. The kanji 般 means "general." [Composition of the kanji 般: 舟 and 殳]
There is no kun-yomi. The on-yomi /han/ is in 諸般の ("all sorts of; various"/sho'han-no/) and 般若経 ("the Wisdom Sutras; Prajnaparamita Sutra" /hannyakyoo/). /-Pan/ is in 一般 ("general" /ippan/), 全般的な ("comprehensive; all-embracing" /zenpanteki-na/), 一般化する ("to become universal; generalize" /ippanka-suru/), 一般人 ("people at large; private citizen" /ippa'njin/) and 一般教養課程 ("general culture course" /ippankyo'oyoo/).
The kanji 搬 "to carry; transport"
There is no ancient writing. The kanji 搬 comprises 扌, a bushu tehen, "an act one does using a hand," and 般 used phonetically for /han/. This kanji was created to assume one of the original meaning that the kanji 般had. The kanji 搬 means "to carry; transport." [Composition of the kanji 搬: 扌, 舟 and 殳]
There is no kun-yomi. The on-yomi /han/ is in 搬入する ("to carry something in" /hannyuu-suru/). /-Pan/ is in 運搬する ("to transport; carry" /unpan-suru/).
The kanji 盤 "a tray; a raised flat bowl"
For the kanji 盤 (a) in oracle bone style had "a hand holding a tool" (殳) and "a tray" (舟) (together 般, originally meant "to carry") and "a shallow bowl" (皿). In bronze ware style, (b), (c) and (d) had the same three components. Together they meant "a shallow flat bowl one carries something" or "a tray." (e) in Large seal style, (f) in Old style and (g) in seal style all had 般 at the top. The kanji 盤 means "a tray; a raised flat bowl." [Composition of the kanji 盤: 舟, 殳and 皿]
There is no kun-yomi. The on-yomi /ban/ is in 大盤振る舞い ("lavish feast" /ooban-bu'rumai/), 円盤 ("disk" /enban/), 基盤 ("basis; foundation" /kiban/),文字盤 ("clock dial" /mojiban/) and 地盤 ("ground; subsoil" /jiban/). A Japanese abacus also uses this kanji as in 算盤 /soroban/.
The next two kanji 朕 and 服, what we have been looking at as the shape 舟 in kanji appear as 月.
The kanji 朕 "I (imperial We)"
For the kanji 朕 (a) and (b) in oracle bone style and (c) and (d) in bronze ware style all comprised "a shallow bowl or a tray" (月 or 舟) for transporting things and "two hands holding up an (important) object." Together they meant "to carry something in a tray and present reverentially with both hands." It was used by an emperor as a first-person pronoun "imperial We." In seal style, (e), what was presented became the shape 火 (with no relevance to "fire"). In kanji 朕 the elements on the right side coalesced and became 关. The kanji 朕 means "I (imperial We)." [Composition


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What is the water temperature at the Mariana Trench—the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean?
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When dealing with ocean temperatures it's important to recognize that water temperature generally decreases as you move into deeper water.
The relatively warm surface water of oceans like the Pacific Ocean extends to depths of between 500 and 1,000 feet. Below the surface waters, the temperature drops rapidly, forming a layer called the thermocline.
The thermocline varies in thickness from about 1,000 feet to 3,000 feet. Below this point water cools more slowly. At areas like the Mariana Trench (or the Marianas Trench; both spellings are commonly found) the water temperature ranges from 34-39 degrees F (1-4 degrees C).
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Iditarod Dogs' Endurance Secret Revealed
Racing sled dogs are a mix of breeds, including Siberian Husky and Alaskan Malamute. (Image credit:
Racing sled dogs could be considered the Lance Armstrongs of the canine world, for their strength and endurance. New research sheds light on how they do it.
Sled dogs are best known for "mushing" each March in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, the world's longest sled race. The canine competitors cover 1,100 miles (1,770 km) from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska, sometimes in just nine days.
The dogs often trek through heavy blizzards and endure temperatures as low as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 40 degrees C). The chilly conditions are necessary for the dogs, which would overheat in balmier climes. That's because dogs can't sweat, except through their paws, and they generate a tremendous amount of heat purely from the burning of calories during the race.
Michael Davis of Oklahoma State University's Center for Veterinary Health Sciences has studied the sled dogs for the past 10 years. He runs check-ups on the dogs before and after races as well as during controlled experiments for which he sets up races with groups of sled dogs. The secret to the dogs' feats of day-to-day endurance lies in their ability to "reprogram" their bodies' responses to stress after just one day of competition, something humans can't do.
Davis plans to present his recent findings this week at a conference of the American Physiological Society in Hilton Head, S.C. If you were to attend a race, Davis said, you might be surprised that the dogs are not all purebred Siberian Huskies. Rather, they are mutts, with a mix of Husky, Alaskan Malamute, Pointer and other breeds.
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Davis found that just like human athletes, conditioned sled dogs show body damage during their first day of exercise.
For instance, when any athlete, canine or Homo sapiens, pounds the pavement or icy ground for miles, bits of muscle enzymes and proteins leak out from their cells. Scientists say this is a sign of cell damage.
Our cells do recover in a day or so, but as soon as we go for another run, the same damage happens all over again.
For sled dogs, that's not the case. "If you then take them out and do exactly the same exercise the following day and the day after that, and the day after that, you don't continue to get that leakage [of enzymes and proteins]," Davis told LiveScience.
He added, "In the course of just a day or two, they manage to adapt their system so that exercise that was injuring a muscle cell here and there on the first day is no longer injuring muscle cells."
Davis found the sled dogs somehow reprogram their bodies after that first or second day of training with an athletic armor of sorts to prevent other bodily stresses as well.
Hungry canines
The four-legged fur-balls also have appetites rivaling any human athlete. During race season, the dogs, which weigh a mere 55 pounds (25 kg), consume 12,000 calories a day, Davis said.
For comparison, Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps reportedly eats some 10,000 to 12,000 calories a day during competitions. But Phelps boasts at least three times the weight of a race dog, Davis said.
"The challenge is getting 12,000 calories into a little dog like that and it has to be very calorie-dense," he said. "While they're racing, they're eating a diet that is pushing between 60 and 70 percent fat."
(Every gram of fat contains nine calories, compared with the 4 calories in a gram of protein or carbohydrate).
Whatever it is that allows sled dogs to chow down on so much fatty food and stay healthy could be beneficial to humans. And so results of Davis' findings have implications for humans who have become obese or developed Type 2 diabetes.
"If you feed a diet that's very high fat to a human, a lot of humans become obese and they develop type 2 diabetes. And the dogs don't," Davis said. "There is no such thing as an obese Type 2 diabetic sled dog despite the fact that they're eating a diet that should produce that."
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Q: How to avoid problems with include files?
A: If you declare a class in your code the compiler normally needs to know some information about the used class like e.g. size. But if you just uses a pointer or a reference, the compiler doesn't need to know those information at that point since pointers or references are always the same size (4 bytes on a windows system). So you just need to tell the compiler that there will be a class - in this case called 'CSomeClass' - which will be used later by that declared pointer or reference. In this case you can use the so-called 'forward declaration'...
In this example you would need to provide the complete definition of'some_class' since 'foo' will create one instance of it. Therefore the compiler needs to know the exact size of the class and how it looks like...
In this case you only have a pointer to'some_class'. Since the size of a pointer is independent from the size of the object it is pointing to the compiler just needs to know that there is somewhere a class named'some_class' is defined...
Most of the time forward declarations are used to prevent circular includes. Consider this
In this case you will end up with circular includes. While compiling the 'one.hpp' header file the header file 'two.hpp' will be included. While compiling 'two.hpp' header file the 'one.hpp' will be included. While compiling...
This will give problems even if you use inclusion guards like
Therefore it is not necessarely a good idea to include all the needed header files within your header file. Using forward declarations will avoid those circular includes...for additional information about the whole subject take a look at the following FAQ...
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Quite a number of satellites that can be observed are tumbling, and this causes their brightness to vary with time. This variation can often be seen with the naked eye, and the frequency of the brightness peaks can range between several per second, to once every minute or so. A good example is the recently launched SL-16 rocket, which is currently rotating at 2 or 3 times a second. The tumbling can be started by several mechanisms, but the most common is probably out-gasing. This happens often to spent rockets which have some fuel left over in their tanks once the engine shuts down. Sometimes this fuel is vented deliberately by ground controllers to reduce the danger of an explosion which would create many pieces of orbital debris and pose a hazard to other satellites. Other times the fuels leaks out gradually.
Occasionally, objects will explode in orbit, and the force of the explosion will start the resulting pieces spinning.


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Why Did Jesus Tell His Disciples to Buy Swords?
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Why Did Jesus Say He Came to Bring a Sword?
by Greg Boyd, originally posted at his website ReKnew.
Some, both modern scholars along with church leaders since the fourth century, have used this passage as evidence to argue that Jesus is not altogether non-violent.
When we place Matthew 10:34 in its broader context, it becomes clear that Jesus' teaching not only does not condone violence on the part of his disciples, it actually rules out all violence. As Jesus is preparing his disciples to proclaim the Good News of the arrival of the kingdom of God throughout the region, he warns them that he is sending them out "like sheep among wolves" (Mt 10:16, cf. vv. 5-15).
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Water at the heart of science
From the Mediterranean basin to the valleys of the Andes, the exhibition "Water at the heart of science" presents some of the main French research projects in the field of water. Richly illustrated and educational, it leads to a better understanding of the role of research in the sustainable management of water, a vital resource that is essential to development.
The exhibition was prepared for the International Year of Water Cooperation 2013. It is co-produced by the Institut Français, the IRD (Institut de recherche pour le développement) and the Centre de Culture scientifique et technique de la région Centre. Premiered at UNESCO for the official launch of the International Year for Water Cooperation, it will be shown around the world throughout the year in the institutions of the French cultural network.
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|Start||11.02.2013 08:00 local time|
|End||11.02.2013 17:00 local time|
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|Focal point||Kavuma Lwanga, Barbara|
|Street||7, place de Fontenoy|
|Room||Foyer Room I|
|Permanent Delegation Contact||Permanent Delegation of the French Republic to UNESCO|
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The Muskau Park (German: Muskauer Park, officially: Fürst-Pückler-Park Bad Muskau, Polish: Park Mużakowski), is the largest and one of the most famous English gardens of Germany and Poland.
Situated in the historic Upper Lusatia region, it covers 3.5 square kilometers (1.4 sq mi) of land in Poland and 2.1 km2 (0.81 sq mi) in Germany. The park extends on both sides of the Lusatian Neisse river, which constitutes the border between the countries. The 17.9 km2 (6.9 sq mi) buffer zone around the park encompassed the German town Bad Muskau (Upper Sorbian: Mužakow) in the West and Polish Łęknica (Wjeska, former Lugknitz) in the East. While Muskau Castle is situated west of the river, the heart of the park are the partially wooded raised areas on the east bank called The Park on Terraces. In 2003 a pedestrian bridge spanning the Neisse was rebuilt to connect both parts.
On July 2, 2004, UNESCO added the park to its World Heritage List, as an exemplary example of cross-border cultural collaboration between Poland and Germany. It was added to the list on two criteria: for breaking new ground in terms of development towards the ideal man-made landscape, and for its influence on the development of landscape architecture as a discipline.History
A fortress on the Neisse river at Muskau was first mentioned as early as in the 13th under the rule of Margrave Henry III of Meissen. The founder of the adjacent park was Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau (_PHONE_), the author of the influential Hints on Landscape Gardening and owner of the state country of Muskau since 1811. After prolonged studies in England, in 1815 during the time when the northeastern part of Upper Lusatia fell to Prussia, he laid out the Park. As time went by, he established an international school of landscape management in Bad Muskau and outlined the construction of an extensive landscape park which would envelop the town "in a way not done before on such a grand scale".
The works involved remodelling the Baroque "Old Castle" - actually a former castle gate - and the construction of a Gothic chapel, an English cottage, several bridges, and an orangery designed by Friedrich Ludwig Persius. Pückler reconstructed the medieval fortress as the "New Castle", the compositional centre of the park, with a network of paths radiating from it and a pleasure ground influenced by the ideas of Humphry Repton, whose son John Adey worked at Muskau from 1822 on. The extensions went on until 1845, when Pückler due to his enormous debts was constrained to sell the patrimony. The next year it was acquired by Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, who employed Eduard Petzold, Pückler's disciple and a well-known landscape gardener, to complete his design. Upon his death in 1881, he was followed by his daughter Princess Marie, who sold the estates to the Arnim noble family.
During the Battle of Berlin, both castles were levelled and all four bridges across the Neisse were razed. The Arnims were dispossessed by the Soviet Military Administration in Germany and since the implementation of the Oder-Neisse line in 1945, the park has been divided by the state border between Poland and Germany, with two thirds of it on the Polish side. Not before the 1960s the Communist authorities slowly accepted the legacy of the "Junker" Prince Pückler. The Old Castle was rebuilt by the East German administration in 1965-72, while the New Castle and the bridges are still being restored.
After the Revolutions of 1989 the German and Polish administration joined forces on the redevelopment of the park ensemble. Since Poland entered into the Schengen Area in 2007, visitors may freely explore both parts of the park without cross-border controls.


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New Report Helps Wind Farm Planners Avoid Bird Flyways
Researchers from the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science recently evaluated techniques to design robust marine bird surveys to support offshore wind energy sites that are in the same location as sensitive bird migratory pathways. Spinning turbine blades can kill birds outright or divert them from their natural routes which disrupt their fairly inflexible behavior.
Knowing where the birds travel, coupled with knowledge of wind strength and seafloor depth, are critical parts of wind farm placement. Furthermore, maps of the migration routes and bird abundance evaluations help energy stakeholders build upon past surveys which reduces uncertainty about future survey requirements and costs while increasing efficiency.
The Department of Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management commissioned this report. They posted that study on their website, along with "Guidelines for Avian Surveys" revised to reflect the new information provided by NCCOS.


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The General Assembly of 1933 created the State School Commission to be the fiscal agency for the state's public school fund, succeeding the State Board of Equalization. Membership on the commission was composed of the governor as ex officio chairman, the lieutenant governor, the state treasurer, the state superintendent of public instruction, and one member appointed by the governor from each of what were then North Carolina's 11 congressional districts-for a total of 15 persons. The commission was given broad and plenary powers over the administration of the public schools and the distribution of state funds to schools. The State School Commission continued until 1943, when the General Assembly abolished it and reassigned its powers and duties to the State Board of Education.
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As output rises, the difference between ATC and AVC_______ a) rises b) stays the same c)falls
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The correct answer to this question is C: the difference between these two falls as output rises. To see why this is so, let us start by looking at the definitions of ATC and AVC.
A business can be said to incur three kinds of costs. These are fixed costs, variable costs, and total costs. The total costs are made up of the fixed and the variable costs. Fixed costs are costs that are constant regardless of how much output is produced. These are things like the mortgage payments on a hotel, which does not change regardless of how many rooms are rented out. Variable costs change with the level of output. In the hotel example, costs for water usage and maid service, for example, vary depending on how many rooms are rented.
This helps us understand why average total costs (ATC) and average variable costs (AVC) will converge. As output rises, variable costs rise but fixed costs stay the same. This means that variable costs are getting to be more and more of the total costs. Therefore, the average variable cost curve will move closer and closer the to the ATC curve.
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text: In English, pitch accent placement makes a word prominent. Previous studies have documented that talkers can highlight accentual prominence by such strategies as lowering the jaw more in the stressed vowel of the word. This study examines the acoustic consequences of such supralaryngeal correlates of accenting. Speakers of Australian English produced multiple tokens of dialogues which elicited nuclear-accented and de-accented productions of the names Beeber, Deeder, and Geeger, which have a stressed high front vowel in different consonantal contexts. Recordings were made of tongue--dorsum and jaw movement using the Movetrack electromagnetometer system. The results showed multiple articulatory strategies that varied across talkers and consonantal context. For example, of two talkers that lowered the jaw more in accented syllables, one fronted the tongue to compensate for the jaw lowering in all contexts, whereas another did so only in the velar context. Nevertheless, accenting the word resulted in a consistent raising of the frequencies or amplitudes of spectral peaks in the region of the second and third formants. These results suggest a model of accent as ''localized hyperarticulation'' whereby the talker has multiple articulatory strategies for achieving a perceptual effect of ''sharpening'' the /i/ timbre to increase the word's clarity.


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Adjective: quadratic kwó'dra-tik
 1. Of or relating to or resembling a square
 "quadratic shapes"
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 "quadratic equation"
Noun: quadratic kwó'dra-tik
 1. An equation in which the highest power of an unknown quantity is a square
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The Vital Facts On Why The Government Grants Rural Development Loans
It is helpful to understand why the government gives out Rural Development loans. When you drive through the countryside, you might notice a large number of vacant lots. Many folks would like to claim these properties and leave crowded cities far behind them. The federal government knows that full neighborhoods are good for local economies and so does what it can to fill them.
As you journey through the countryside, you might quickly spot large lots that have no structures on them. Many of these areas are up for sale. With a contract, you could transform a vacant lot into a new homestead.
Lots of individuals desire to abandon their lives in cities and claim quiet spaces for themselves. You might dream of raising your children in a peaceful environment. Those wishes can be realized with Rural Development loans.
The notion of the federal government giving away huge pieces of land is not a new one. In the early part of the last century, many settlers moved into the western and great plains states as participants in land grab programs. It is smart for federal employees to grant Rural Development loans. Homeowners pay taxes that fund helpful programs in their communities.
It is beneficial to comprehend why the government provides Rural Development loans. As you journey through the countryside, you could spot a lot of empty spaces. Many individuals would love to possess those spots and abandon crowded cities. The federal government does whatever is possible to fill scarcely populated towns.
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Veterans are a sizable and policy-relevant demographic group in the United States, yet little is known about their economic well-being. Although having a work-limiting disability is known to be associated with material hardship, no known study compares material hardship between veteran households and nonveteran households or investigates whether work-limiting disability moderates the association between veteran status and material hardship. This study uses data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation to examine how household work-limiting disability status moderates the relationship between veteran status and the likelihood of material hardship. Results suggest the following: nondisabled-veteran households report lower or equivalent levels of material hardship than do households with no veteran or disabled member; regardless of whether a veteran is present, households that include a disabled person have higher levels of every type of hardship than other households do; and disabled-veteran households experience statistically significantly more hardship than nondisabled-veteran households do.
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Non-invasive lower limb small arterial measures co-segregate strongly with foot complications in people with diabetesPopular
Authors: Lanting S.M., Twigg S.M., Johnson N.A., Baker M.K., Caterson I.D., Chuter V.H.
Publication: Journal of Diabetes and its Complications
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Aims: It is unclear how well non-invasive lower-limb vascular assessments can identify those at risk of foot complications in people with diabetes. We aimed to investigate the relationship between a history of foot complication (ulceration or amputation) and non-invasive vascular assessments in people with diabetes.
Methods: Bilateral ankle–brachial index (ABI), toe brachial index (TBI) and continuous wave Doppler (CWD) were performed in 127 adults with diabetes (97% type 2; age 66.08 ± 11.4 years; 55% men; diabetes duration 8.8 ± 7.6 years; 28% on insulin therapy; 31% with foot complication history. Correlations were performed between known risk factors for, and documented history of, foot complication. Regression analysis was used to determine the effect of TBI on the likelihood of a prior foot complication.
Results: By logistic regression, the likelihood of foot complication history was highest in those with TBI < 0.6 (OR = 7.74, p = 0.001); then longer diabetes duration (OR = 1.06, p = 0.05). HbA1c did not independently predict history of foot complications (OR = 1.10, p = 0.356).
Conclusions: Likelihood of previous foot complication in this population was ~ 8 times higher when TBI was < 0.6. Such clinical risk profiling was not shown by other non-invasive measures. Prioritizing TBI as a measure of lower-limb vascular disease may be useful to prospectively identify those at risk of diabetic foot complications.