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Make Your Site Searches, Indexes, and Site Maps Accessible P
Make Your Content Accessible with Site Searches
Having site search allows a person to bypass the structure and content of a site and go directly to the content they desire. The site search feature should be easy to find and simple to operate. An advanced search form could be provided, but it should not be the default option. The search form should be easily found, and have a clearly labeled search text box and/or button.
Your site search feature is most usable if it appears on every page, though that is not required. It should appear on the home page, without forcing users to click a link to reach a search page. The search feature should have a character width of about 25 to 35 characters, so users can type and edit their queries easily.
Site search can be marked up with the "search" ARIA landmark role, <form role="search"> to make it more easily accessed by screen reader and keyboard users. This role differentiates the search form from all other forms on the page.
What Does Web Accessibility Mean to the Disabled?
Most of us are familiar with how Accessibility applies to physical business places. However, little thought has been given to how Accessibility applies to the Internet. Accessibility on the World Wide Web demands that we break down barriers and open a clear path for everyone.
This means that web pages must be designed so that those with Visual, Hearing, Motor and Cognitive disabilities have an equal opportunity to navigate and access every web page.
Site Maps or Site Indexes Promote Accessibility
There are three main types of site maps or indexes:
Structural Indexes
Graphical Indexes
Alphabetical Site Indexes Enhance Accessibility
Alphabetical site indexes list all of the important areas of content on a site in alphabetical order, much like the index at the back of a book. This may be unnecessary for small sites. It may be impractical for very large sites, because these lists can become too lengthy to use effectively. However it is also one of the most useful ways for a user to find information on the majority of sites.
Well-designed alphabetical site indexes include synonyms of words and concepts that users may want to search for. For example, in a site about classical composers, alphabetical site indexes should account for the fact that users may try to find out information about the composer Claude Debussy by looking under the first name, last name, or even terms such as "French composers," "impressionistic music," or even the names of his compositions such as Claire de Lune or Reverie. The example below cross-references terminology about web technologies.
The more comprehensive your alphabetical index, the more useful it is. For large sites, developers may need to create multiple pages for long indexes, perhaps providing a page for each letter of the alphabet.
Structural or Topical Site Indexes
A structural site map is a list of links to the contents of a web site, organized by topic or category.
Most structural site maps mirror your site's organization. For example, if a site has 3 main "tabs," or category links at the top of each page, these 3 categories could be your method to organize the content of the structural site map. Generally, your site map organization should reflect some navigation or structural organization of the site.
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Graphical Site Maps Bring Accessibility
Graphical site maps are an alternative to the more common text-based versions. These graphics may look similar to the organizational charts often used by businesses to delineate their hierarchical relationships of employees. Below is a screenshot of a graphical structural site map of a fictional company:
The above example is simplistic, but the idea would be the same for more complex sites. However, one problem with graphical site maps for complex sites is that they would need large structural maps. Perhaps larger than could be easily understood.
There are many ways of representing a site's organization graphically. Photos or graphics could be used in the headings to group and illustrate concepts. Circles or boxes could be drawn around related pages.
A furniture store could use a floor plan of a house to organize the names or photos of different types of furniture. All of the links to kitchen items could literally be placed in the diagram's kitchen, and so on. This type of concept can be quite powerful when carefully used and tested for usability. The creativity involved in can easily backfire, resulting in a confusing mess. Be creative, but test solutions to ensure they work.
Graphical site maps are usually unnecessary if the visual design of the site navigation provides obvious visual cues to the structure of the entire site. Another primary issue is screen reader accessibility. It would be unfeasible and unusable for such a graphical site map image to be given adequately descriptive alternative text. If used, other mechanisms for providing access to the site structure may be necessary.


Many businesses are currently growing due to the use of social media platforms. By using social media platform, you are able to post attractive marketing quotes that will appeal to audience. You are, in this case, advised to consider the following tips in order to reach out to many customers.
The first thing that is worth noting when engaging on social media marketing is the issue of preferences and choices. In the course of creating advocacy campaign or posters, you must have understood your preferences and perceptions of the audience in terms of availed products or services. Before get familiar with the intended audience on social media, there is need of involving the use of homework and research. In addition, the research will also involve the aspect of asking relevant questions to the intended audience, in relation to their experience in marketing. It, in this case, vital for you to have personal interaction with the said customers, within a specification location. By locating one place, you will be in a good position of knowing what the customers require in normal circumstances.
The second method that you ought to use in order to attract more traffic is the aspect of presenting meaningful and dependable information on social platform. Various researchers have, in this case, confirmed how many people are at the font of posting information that are not related to their brand, the development that has made them to fail in a business perspective. You are, however, required to analysis the relevancy of your information prior to posting it. Apart from this, there is need of sticking the marketed products, as this will warrant customers to trust you and the company. On the other hand, the process of building a brand depends on the confidentiality of your posted information, as many clients tend to trust what is posted. The success of your process will also depend on how you are going to engage with other service providers such as Oodls and others.
Finally, the incorporation of social media is used a complimenting tool in marketing and advertisement. Additionally, the integration of twitter and other social platforms in marketing has helped many people to get aware on the existence of various products on the market, thereby increasing sales and overall profit margin. As compared to the use of posters and billboards, social media takes a wider market perspective as it is reachable by everyone from across the globe. In order to succeed in this case, you are required to involve the use of social media.


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Top 5 Things Flyers Fans Should Be Thankful For
By THW Archives November 27th, 2013
(Eric Hartline-USA TODAY Sports)
The Flyers' season started out bad – real bad. After three games, Peter Laviolette was canned; the team was at the bottom of the barrel in the NHL standings; the offense wasn't scoring; the defense didn't play defense; there was no consistent effort. The team was in such disarray that they held a players-only meeting to discuss their horrid gameplay.
Over the following couple weeks, the Flyers were able to string together a nice winning streak making themselves contenders – not pretenders. Now Flyers fans have reason to cheer on this festive Thanksgiving Eve. The horizon is bright for the once struggling franchise.
It's the age-old story. Fans have heard it countless times before. The team has not had a great goalie since Ron Hextall lead the Flyers to the Stanley Cup in 1997. The crease has become a revolving door for many brave netminders daring to step foot to their eventual demise.
However, Philadelphia no longer has the "goaltending controversy" label thanks to Steve Mason. Mason boasts a 2.17 goals-against-average, which is better than goalies like Halak, Quick, Crawford, Lundqvist, Anderson, and Bobrovsky. Coupled with a .931 save percentage, Mason has been a consistent bright spot on this Flyers team.
His back-up, Ray Emery, isn't doing too shabby either – 2.54 GAA/.910 SV PCT. For once, blame isn't being put on the goalies and that's relatively refreshing.
How "G" got his groove back
It took Claude Giroux six games before he got his first point. It took him 15 games before he scored his first goal. Off to a sluggish start, the "elite-level" captain was playing anything but. He was snakebitten and wasn't creating opportunities that fans had been accustomed to in previous years.
In the first 14 games, Giroux had zero goals and seven assists. In the past eight games he's notched three goals and six assists and his line seems to be clicking like days of old. Getting off the schneid was key for G's confidence and has helped him regain his form in recent weeks. At times in the early going he looked disinterested, but he's slowly gained that fire that made him such a success last season.
Let's face it. The Flyers wouldn't be in the fortunate position they are in right now without some help from other teams. They beat up on Edmonton (who just can't seem to get anything going), Ottawa twice (one of the most porous defenses in the league), New York Islanders (a team with no solid #1 goalie), and Buffalo (need I say more?). They did manage to squeeze out a 2-1 victory over Pittsburgh, but fell to a lackluster Florida Panthers team. Overall, having to play against some of the league's worst opponents have given the Flyers a chance to turn things around.
Buying in
The time it takes for a new coaching system to be implemented can take months. When Craig Berube was introduced as head coach of the Philadelphia Flyers, talk was he'd stress the defensive aspects of the game and develop an all-around style of play that creates offense from their defense. In recent games, fans are beginning to see these strategies take shape.
Philadelphia has played sound defensively with very few lapses. Every player is being held accountable for what they do on the ice. As a result, the team is playing as a cohesive unit and can now begin challenging the rest of the Metropolitan division for a playoff spot. And this system took weeks to adapt to…not months.
East vs. West
Can't beat around the bush here. The Western Conference is superior to the Eastern Conference. Philadelphia finds themselves with a fighting chance to be playoff bound each and every season. This is not to say that teams in the East are dreadful. They have a few prominent teams, but on the whole, it's no comparison to the juggernauts of the league – Chicago, St. Louis, San Jose, etc.
Currently, the top six teams in the NHL (points wise) are all based out West. Only Boston and Tampa are the two Eastern Conference teams in the top 10. Furthermore, there are only two Western Conference teams in the bottom 10 – Edmonton and Calgary.
See! The City of Brotherly Love has loads to be thankful for this Thanksgiving.
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Second, I don't really know what to write about today.
A lot of stuff has been going on for me, but I don't feel like writing about any of it, so here's just kind of a summary of what's going on.
1) skating test last Thursday. Went okay, passed one test failed the other. About what I expected.
4) auditioned for this today: http://www.sosplayers.org which went extremely well and I got in so yay!
5) I tried going to a Lutheran church last Wednesday and everyone was super nice and cool and I feel bad but it really just wasn't for me (went to Catholic Church as a child… Not the greatest experience in my particular case which is why I have deep seated issues with religion in general BUT that's a long story).
Ps Vicki your graphs and stuff are super interesting so thank you for that!


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Das Aufbaugymnasium Nagold war von 1956 bis 1991 eine höhere Schule in Nagold im Landkreis Calw. Das denkmalgeschützte Schulgebäude wurde von 1878 bis 1881 als Lehrerbildungsanstalt erbaut und dient heute Wohnzwecken.

Geschichte
Ende der 1870er Jahre beschloss die württembergische Regierung zur Behebung des Lehrermangels im Land die Einrichtung eines staatlichen Lehrerseminars. Es war das vierte seiner Art nach den älteren Einrichtungen in Esslingen, Nürtingen und Künzelsau. Die Stadt Nagold, die sich als Standort bewarb, setzte sich unter anderem gegen die Konkurrenten Calw und Herrenberg durch. Unweit des Bahnhofs entstand in den Jahren 1878 bis 1881 auf einer Terrasse über der Nagold ein imposantes Schulgebäude nach Plänen des Stuttgarter Oberbaurats Karl von Sauter. Der Bau im Stil der italienischen Neorenaissance hat eine 93 Meter breite Hauptfront mit einer Verkleidung aus Hochdorfer Lettenkohlensandstein. Zum Schulkomplex gehörten ein großzügiger Garten mit Turn- und Spielplatz sowie eine Turnhalle. Finanziert wurde der Bau aus den französischen Reparationszahlungen nach dem Deutsch-Französischen Krieg.

Der Schulbetrieb wurde schon im Frühjahr 1880 provisorisch aufgenommen. Am 8. Juni 1881 fand die feierliche Einweihung statt. Erster Schulleiter wurde Julius Brügel (1881–1903, später Leiter des Lehrerseminars in Esslingen). Eine Präparandenanstalt in einem eigenen, zunächst von der Stadt Nagold angemieteten Gebäude, bereitete bis 1911 Zöglinge auf den Besuch des Lehrerseminars vor. Von 1882 bis 1938 bestand außerdem eine Seminar-Übungsschule, in der die Seminaristen ihr erlerntes Wissen praktisch umsetzen konnten.

1938 wurde das Lehrerseminar geschlossen. 1938/39 war im Schulgebäude eine Aufbauschule für Jungen untergebracht. Die Schüler wurden jedoch nach Kriegsausbruch auf die anderen württembergischen Aufbauschulen verteilt und im Schulgebäude ein Lazarett eingerichtet.

Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg errichtete das Kulturministerium für Südwürttemberg-Hohenzollern mit Zustimmung der französischen Militärregierung vier neue Lehreroberschulen in Nagold, Saulgau, Schwenningen und Ochsenhausen. Die Einrichtung in Nagold, die im Herbst 1947 den Betrieb aufnahm, knüpfte an die frühere Tradition der württembergischen Lehrerausbildung an. Aufgabe war die Vermittlung der notwendigen Allgemeinbildung für angehende Grund- und Hauptschullehrer. Die Absolventen der Lehreroberschule besuchten anschließend ein Pädagogisches Institut bzw. die Pädagogische Hochschule und erhielten dort die lehrerspezifische Ausbildung.

Mit dem 1. April 1956 wurde die Lehreroberschule in ein Staatliches Aufbaugymnasium umgewandelt, in das Schüler der 7. und 8. Jahrgangsstufe aus Volks-, Mittel- und höheren Schulen nach einer Aufnahmeprüfung eintreten konnten. Das Aufbaugymnasium war mit einem Internat verbunden. 1962 fanden die ersten Abiturprüfungen statt. 1991 wurde die Schule von der Landesregierung geschlossen.

In das frühere Schulgebäude zog 1991 ein Ausbildungszentrum der Straßenbauverwaltung ein. Nach der Zusammenlegung der Ausbildung am Standort Rötenbachtal, gab es verschiedene Projekte zur Entwicklung des Baus. Das Land veräußerte die Immobilie schließlich an einen Investor, der das Schulgebäude zu Wohnzwecken umbauen ließ.

Quellen
 Archivbestand des Aufbaugymnasiums Nagold im Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Abt. Staatsarchiv Sigmaringen, Wü 90/4 T 1

Literatur
 Vom Lehrerseminar zum Aufbaugymnasium. 1881–1991. Hrsg. vom Verein der Freunde des Staatlichen Aufbaugymnasiums Nagold. Nagold [1991]

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Bauwerk in Nagold
Kulturdenkmal in Nagold
Umgenutztes Bauwerk im Landkreis Calw
Schule im Landkreis Calw

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The case against gratuitous tinkering with ministerial posts was eloquently aired by the Commons constitutional affairs committee this year. "Reshuffles have a negative impact on the effectiveness of the government," the cross-party group of MPs reported, adding that parliamentary scrutiny suffered, too, since "it is difficult to hold ministers to account for policies they oversaw if they have moved to new posts." So perhaps we should be grateful that David Cameron avoided attempting anything more substantial.
The "cloth cap" reshuffle was a fun thought at the start of the day, but it could hardly survive Hugh joining Hugo as minister of state at the Foreign Office, any more than the "women on the way up" narrative could withstand the retirement of Chloe at 31. With promotions for four former George Osborne aides, if the reshuffle tells coalition Kremlinologists anything, it is – a week after the PM's doggedly Conservative conference speech – that his administration remains wedded to the chancellor's retrenching course. The public will not notice this rearrangement of the Tory middle order, and is right not to – it changes little.
Against expectations, the moves made by Nick Clegg were more instructive. The ousting of Michael Moore – a respected if low-profile Scottish secretary – in favour of Alistair Carmichael was purportedly about energising the referendum campaign against independence, but in truth had more to do with the uphill struggle the Lib Dems will face in their 11 Scottish seats in 2015. So this could be a sign that we have, at last, reached a stage of the game where Mr Clegg is going to assert the self-interest of his party more trenchantly. A desire to form a more distinctive faction within the government was also evident in swapping Norman Baker for Jeremy Browne at the Home Office. Whereas Mr Browne's resignation letter was littered with Conservative slogans, about "internationally competitive" business tax rates and endemic "welfare dependency", Mr Baker is an anti-establishment and eccentric figure. In the midst of the great NSA spying scandal, it is a bold move indeed to put a man in the Home Office who has raised questions about the dark hand of state power in the death of Iraq weapons expert David Kelly.
If Mr Cameron was right to resist too much tinkering with a team whose direction he was happy with, the question for Ed Miliband was different – whether he would finally do what he had never previously felt strong enough to do, and impose real strategic authority over his team. Initially surrounded by a shadow cabinet that preferred his brother, the Labour leader has since promoted a couple of lieutenants, but other voices remained who never got over his victory, or even – arguably – the departure of Tony Blair. For some, the only plausible formula was to reheat the agenda of the party's great ghost, whereas the younger Miliband has always believed that this was tantamount to pretending that neither the financial crisis nor Iraq had ever happened.
The debate over Syria caught the gung-ho Jim Murphy on the wrong side, and his shunt towards international development gives the leader a freer hand to develop a post-Blairite approach to defence. While Liam Byrne has made some interesting speeches on benefits, he was always half-tempted to play at out-toughing the Tories. Rachel Reeves, who replaces him in shadowing work and pensions, instead shares her leader's gut opposition to the coalition's shredding of the safety net. She will need all her talent to turn this into a winning battle strategy, on terrain where the left has been on the run.
Other appointments were meticulously plotted to avoid factionalism – telegenic historian Tristram Hunt rises to be shadow education secretary, while Douglas Alexander takes charge of the election campaign. Neither man initially backed the younger Miliband brother, but both can work with him well. With Ed now feeling as content with his team as Dave, is it too much to hope that this time next year we might avoid any tinkering at all?


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Vertical Divide is a challenging new numerical puzzle game
Vertical Divide ($2.99) by Emmet Morris is a new number puzzle game that will keep your brain stimulated for hours to come. If you are a fan of other games like Threes! and The Mesh, then you will love Vertical Divide.
As you have probably guessed from what I do here at AppAdvice, I definitely consider myself a word person, and not a big fan of numbers, personally. However, one of my favorite game types are puzzles, and my love of puzzle games does not stop me from trying the numerical ones, even though I am probably terrible compared to many other players out there. My scores in Threes! are abysmal compared to what I've seen some of my friends get, and I always end up failing on The Mesh at around the same point. Still, that doesn't stop me from playing and just having a good time, so naturally, I was excited when I first heard about Vertical Divide.
The visuals in Vertical Divide are simple and clean, which should appeal to all of the minimalists out there. In fact, the game has a style that is very reminiscent of Threes!, which may rub off the wrong way for some, but I believe the developer is just drawing heavy inspiration from one of the most popular iOS games ever made. For me, I don't mind the "inspiration," because it just works well. Vertical Divide features a lot of whitespace, grays, and soft pink and blue number tiles that contrast nicely against the background. Animations in the game are smooth and fluid, and the upbeat, quirky soundtrack is rather pleasant to listen to. Overall, the heavily-influenced design of Vertical Divide is familiar and comforting, despite the completely different gameplay involved.
There are two game modes in Vertical Divide: Classic and Strategy. While the gameplay remains the same in both, there is just one difference: Classic spawns blocks at random, and Strategy has a specific sequence for the spawning blocks. I would recommend starting out with Classic before attempting Strategy, as the game does take a bit of getting used to before you understand the basics. In fact, Vertical Divide has a rather drawn out tutorial in the beginning to explain how the game works, so I endorse reading it thoroughly to get the basics.
Essentially, the board will start out with some pink "1" blocks. The game spawns blue blocks at the top, and you need to move them by dragging your finger horizontally on the screen, then release to drop the blue tile on the board in the column you want. The blue blocks need to be placed on each other so that the bottom one will be divided by the top one. You can also combine blue blocks that are next to each other so that they are a larger number, but then you also need to divide by a large number as well. The division result will then remove that many pink blocks underneath. However, if you don't divide evenly, the remainder gets added back on the board as pink blocks. Once the board is filled to the top and you can no longer make any moves, then it is game over.
I know — it all sounds a bit confusing at first, but once you see the game in action and try a few rounds, you'll pick it up quickly. But don't be fooled by the simplistic appearance, as the game is much more challenging than it looks. Despite only having two game modes, the game has a high amount of replay value, since you'll keep coming back in attempts to beat your previous high score. There is also Game Center integration for leaderboards so you can compete with friends.
I've only just started Vertical Divide recently, but so far I'm enjoying the challenge that the game brings, despite not being a big numbers person to begin with. The game looks great with the minimal aesthetics, the music is fun to listen to, and the unique gameplay is interesting and refreshing. The only thing I don't like about the game is the fact that you can't see which column you're going in without looking at the top, and sometimes a slight adjustment in your positioning results in the number tile going in the wrong column. I hope the developer considers optimizing the controls, as it would lead to less frustration down the road. For now, though, you just have to be very careful with where you're putting that number down.
I recommend giving Vertical Divide a try if you're in the mood for a simple but challenging numerical puzzle. You can get Vertical Divide on the App Store as a universal download on the iPhone and iPad for just $2.99. There are no in-app purchases.
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(10:30PM Wednesday - 2/16/22) A winter storm will continue to impact the region and state, tonight through Thursday evening. This winter storm is expected to produce a swath of accumulating snow/sleet/ice, heavy rainfall with minor flooding potential, and an isolated severe t'storm risk across the region and state during this time.
Over the past several days model guidance has been honing in on the potential for a winter storm to affect the region and state through Thursday. A large majority of model guidance has shown a consensus solution for the past day or so, and lingering outlier model guidance has finally come into agreement as well. Even so, as the winter storm continues to unfold some changes to the forecast are still possible. Stay tuned to updates over the next several days regarding this winter storm.
A cold front has been moving through the region today and will continue to tonight, associated with a storm system moving through Southern Canada. This frontal boundary will become nearly stationary by Thursday morning, near the Ohio Valley in the region and Southern Illinois. Furthermore, a storm system will develop in the Southern Plains tonight, and will then track through the Ohio Valley on Thursday, and eventually into the Northeast on Friday. This storm system will bring a renewed push of precipitation and main impacts of this period across the region and state, Thursday morning through Thursday evening.
Tonight - Thursday Morning, Feb 16-17th ~ Cold Front/Lead Wave Event:
A cold front has been moving through the region today and will continue to tonight, associated with a storm system moving through Southern Canada. This frontal boundary will then become nearly stationary by Thursday morning, near the Ohio Valley in the region and Southern Illinois. Precipitation in the form of rain developed ahead of the cold front, across portions of Missouri, Iowa, Northern/Central Illinois and Wisconsin this afternoon. This area of rain continued to expand as it further developed and pushed northeastward, spreading into other portions of Northern and Central Illinois this afternoon and evening. This activity will continue across Northern and Central Illinois tonight, and has also started to push into Southern Illinois as well early tonight with it expected to continue overnight tonight. Isolated to scattered t'storms will be possible with this activity across much of the state through tonight. Colder air has started to filter in behind the cold front across Northern and Western Illinois, with this expected colder air expected to continue to push southward behind the cold front overnight tonight. As this colder air filters in, rain will transition to a mix of rain/freezing rain/sleet/snow across portions of Northern and Western Illinois overnight tonight, and then continuing into Thursday morning. Some snow/sleet/ice accumulation will be possible across portions of affected areas of Northern and Western Illinois, tonight into Thursday morning. Windy conditions featuring wind gusts of 30-45MPH that had been in place much of the day across the state have subsided this evening, with winds remaining lighter overnight tonight.
As the main storm system moves through the region, an associated renewed push of precipitation will move across the state and region with the main impacts expected, Thursday morning through Thursday evening. This renewed push of precipitation, in the form of snow/sleet/ice, will move into Western Illinois by mid morning Thursday. This area of precipitation will then spread across portions of Northern and all of Central Illinois late Thursday morning through mid Thursday afternoon, before ending Thursday evening. A transition zone will set up much of the day on Thursday across portions of Central Illinois, generally between I-72 and I-70. Across this zone, precipitation types will from south to north will range from freezing rain to sleet to snow. This transition zone will eventually change over to snow for a time, before precipitation ends between mid Thursday afternoon into Thursday evening. North of this transition zone across affected areas of Northern and Central Illinois, most precipitation will fall as snow. Periods of moderate to heavy snow will be possible at times, with snowfall rates of 1"+ an hour likely at times. Additionally, windy conditions are expected Thursday morning into Thursday evening across a large portion of the state. During this time wind gusts upwards of 20-40MPH will be possible, which will cause some blowing and drifting snow for areas experiencing snow.
The main risk for an isolated severe t'storm risk will exist across far Southern Illinois, Thursday morning into Thursday afternoon. Areas of rain and isolated to scattered t'storms will be ongoing Thursday morning across Southern Illinois, in the vicinity of a nearly stationary frontal boundary in place. An isolated severe t'storm cannot be ruled out with this activity. As the main storm system moves through the region, an arc of rain and t'storms will accompany the low pressure and cold front that sweeps across Southern Illinois, Thursday morning into Thursday afternoon. Ahead of this activity, an environment will be in place supportive of some severe t'storm risk with this activity. This environment will feature marginal instability of up to 500J/KG, dew points in the mid 50's to low 60's, good shear, good forcing, and modest lapse rates of 5.0-7.0C. This environment will be supportive of upwards of an isolated severe t'storm risk (levels 1) across far Southern Illinois. Damaging winds, hail and an isolated tornado will be the severe weather threats.
This Afternoon - Thursday Evening, Feb 16-17th ~ Heavy Rain/Flooding Event:
Persistent periods of rainfall are expected across the southern half of the state tonight through Thursday afternoon, associated both with a frontal boundary becoming stationary across Southern Illinois and the main storm system moving through. During this period of time, periods of heavier rainfall will be possible. Widespread rainfall totals of 1-3" are expected across the southern half of the state during this period of time, with locally higher amounts possible. Due to the combination of frost depth/frozen ground and the expected rainfall, some localized/minor flooding will be possible for some areas. Further north across Northern and Central Illinois, rainfall totals of 0.50-2.00" through early Thursday morning could lead to some instances of localized/minor flooding potential, due to frozen ground not being able to absorb lingering snow melt and rainfall.
Impacts...
-An axis of of snow/sleet accumulation of 2-5" to 4-7" across portions of Northern and Central Illinois, with locally higher amounts likely. Snowfall amounts will taper north and south of this main axis.
-Ice accumulations of a glaze (Up to 0.10") across much of the state, with an axis of 0.10-0.25"+ ice accumulation across the heart of the state.
-Widespread heavy rainfall across the southern half of the state, with widespread rainfall totals of 1-4" expected. These rainfall totals could cause localized/minor flooding potential for affected areas.


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Animating Fairfax with 2722 Merrilee Drive
DESIGN BRIEF | April 2021
MV+A Architects is kicking off the design of 2722 Merrilee Drive – a 239-unit, seven level mixed-use building adjacent to the Dunn Loring-Merrifield Metro station in Fairfax, VA. Designing and planning for our client, Elm Street Development, MV+A worked with VIKA, Studio 39 Landscape Architecture, and McGuireWoods to lead the rezoning effort for the site approved earlier this year, paving the way for the project to move forward.
2722 Merrilee will extend the exciting development occurring adjacent to the Dunn-Loring Metro further down Merrilee Drive, which connects to the urban shopping district, Mosaic District, to the south. The added development will create an excellent terminus to Halstead Square Road and the Halstead mixed-use development to the east, along with a new private road to the south of the site acting as an extension of Halstead Square Road. In the future, this road can expand and continue all the way to Dorr Avenue.
At the southeast corner of the site, a retail plaza will form the heart of the project surrounded by retail space envisioned for food use and neighborhood serving uses. Outdoor dining and public art will animate the space with seating areas allowing a moment of rest for pedestrians moving along Merrilee Drive.
The frontage along Merrilee will be enlivened by a residential lobby and amenity spaces featuring a generous streetscape including seating areas and street trees with bioretention areas.
On the northeast corner of the site, a new fitness plaza will add public fitness equipment that is in addition to the western building's interior fitness center.
The building's interior will consist of a central courtyard space with a swimming pool, communal seating, and cooking areas for the building's residents.
The simple yet elegant building will feature symmetrical arrangements of smaller bays along its south elevation, which will break down its scale and provide visual interest. Balconies will provide shade and shadow on the façade to activate the exterior.
Along Merrilee Drive, the residential upper levels are set to give the retail and residential lobby below a better pedestrian scale and prominence. Residential terraces and balconies will activate the façade, and the building will be clad in high quality brick with large windows to add to the overall refined design.
This is MV+A's first project with Elm Street Development, but we are currently working with the developer on other projects as well. We look forward to the beginning of construction on this project and others to come. Construction on 2722 Merrilee Drive is anticipated to begin in 2022.
MV+A Crosses the Atlantic
The Zung family in front of an okapi statue in their Gombe neighborhood of Kinshasa.
For those of you who do not know, MV+A's very own Russell Zung is working remotely from Africa! Russell and his family moved to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in September of 2020 after his wife took a two-year posting with the State Department in the country's capital of Kinshasa. Below is a short Q and A with Russell to see how things are going after six months of living there.
How has your role at MV+A shifted while working in Kinshasa?
"I was initially concerned how things would be affected with working remotely when this move was confirmed in January of 2020, but then the COVID-19 shutdowns hit and forced everyone to immediately shift to a work-from-home environment. As a result, the only difference from my current WFH setup from my DC WFH setup is a different internet provider and time zone. In many ways, my role has not changed at all since most of our staff continues to work remotely. The main difference has been my ability to be at job sites to periodically review projects under construction. Fortunately, we have plenty of other skilled architects to step in and provide the site reviews, though I still remain intimately involved in the execution of these projects."
What have you enjoyed about Kinshasa since moving there?
"First, our apartment is easily twice the size of our twelve-foot-wide DC rowhouse, and I forgot what it was like to not have to literally step over one another during our daily routines. The second is the warmth. I never considered myself a hot weather person, but I must admit it has been nice walking my dog in shorts, a t-shirt, and sandals all year long. Finally, the fact that every day you see something that legitimately surprises you. Kinshasa is a massive city, now the biggest on the African continent with over thirteen million people. I have described it as a hot-mess of a city filled with color, chaos, and characters, and it is always interesting."
What aspects of Congolese culture have been an adjustment/culture shock?
"There are so many. Functionally, the country is French speaking and very few people speak English. So, if you want to see a guy bumble through the day using broken French phrases, then follow me around and you will see it is possible. Another major difference is that it is a cash culture. Whether it be getting gas, buying groceries, eating at a nice restaurant, or buying furniture, cash is a must. As a result, you must be very conscious of managing your ability to have enough physical cash in hand before you go out. Driving was also an incredibly big shock. The only way to describe it is organized chaos and it all works in flows. So, if you want to cross eight lanes of two-way traffic, you must slowly and methodically move yourself out into the river of traffic and allow the other vehicles to just flow around you.
I also doubt you can imagine the level of poverty in the population – unemployment is estimated to be around 40%. Even those formally employed may only be making $100/month, if they even get paid at all. As a result, there is a massive informal economy. Everyone is out hustling to get by. We live in the commune of Gombe, which is one of the two more affluent parts of the city. Immediately outside of our apartment walls is an informal carwash, a snack stand, two lunch counters, and a barber shop. Each enterprise starts setting up at 6:00 a.m. and they work the entire day, earning just enough to get by. This setup is everywhere throughout the city.
Another unmistakable item is trash. It is nearly impossible to describe the amount of trash in the city, piled in internal water ways, street corners, ditches, and informal dump sites. Only about five months ago have public-use trash receptacles been placed, and I have witnessed the benefit, but there is a long, long way to go."
What do you miss most about living in DC?
"Hands-down, the Vietnamese food at Eden Center in Falls Church, VA. We would go there almost every weekend and get pho, bún, or bubble tea."
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NATO plans to put pressure on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi until his troops stop attacking civilians, NATO spokeswoman Carmen Romero said on Friday. 29.04.2011, Sputnik International
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NATO plans to put pressure on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi until his troops stop attacking civilians, NATO spokeswoman Carmen Romero said on Friday.
"It is clear that there must be a political solution in Libya," Romero told journalists in Brussels. "But we are determined to keep up the military pressure until all attacks and threats of attack against civilians have ended; the regime has withdrawn all military and paramilitary forces to their basis; and full humanitarian access is guaranteed."
"This is what foreign ministers agreed [at their mid-April meeting] in Berlin. And this is what we will continue to do, for as long as it takes to achieve those goals," the spokeswoman said.
The unrest in the country, which began in mid-February, has already claimed thousands of lives, with Gaddafi's troops maintaining their combat capabilities despite NATO airstrikes against them.
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More than half of the world's murdered women in 2017 were killed by their mate or family members, making home "the most dangerous place for a woman," according to a published UN study Sunday.
In this study released on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime calculated that out of a total of 87,000 female homicides worldwide in 2017 about 50,000 (58%) were committed by their mate or family members.
About 30,000 (34%) were committed by the victim's partner.
"This represents about six women killed every hour by someone they know," said the Vienna-based UN Office on Drugs and Crime.
The vast majority (around 80%) of homicide victims worldwide are men, but "women continue to pay the highest price in terms of gender inequality, discrimination and negative stereotypes", said the head of the UN Office, Yuri Fedotov.
According to calculations by the UN Office, the overall rate of female homicide victims is 1.3 per 100,000 women.
In addition, Africa and the Americas are the regions of the world where women are most at risk of being killed by their partner or a family member.
In Africa, the rate is 3.2 per 100,000 women, in the Americas 1.6, Oceania 1.3 and Asia 0.9.
The lowest rate is observed in Europe, where it stands at 0.7.
According to the UN Office, "no tangible progress" to combat this scourge has been made in recent years "despite legislation and programs developed to eradicate violence against women".
The findings of the report "underscore the need for effective crime prevention and criminal justice to address violence against women". The report also calls for better coordination between the police and the judiciary so that perpetrators of violence are held accountable for their actions.
The report finally advocates the importance of involving men in solutions, especially through education from an early age.


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Movember campaign targets schools, increases teen participation
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The first day of December marks both the start of summer and time for Movember participants to shave off their moustaches, much to the delight of many high schools after a campaign by The Dentsu Aegis Network targeted schools with clean shave rules.
Called 'Right to Grow', the Movember campaign aims to tackle New Zealand's rate of male youth suicide by starting a conversation about men's health. This year, Barnes, Catmur & Friends Dentsu, Carat, MKTG and Amnet decided to bring in teenage males by extending the campaign to high schools.
It centres around an open letter distributed directly to 178 schools, asking principals to relax the clean shave rules for November. "You can give them the chance to grow, not just a moustache, but a healthy mindset," it reads.
Creative director Mick Stalker says the creative tapped into a rights issue for young men.
"It doesn't seem fair that those most at risk are not allowed to participate in Movember. Getting these guys to talk about their issues when they're young, gives us the best chance of real change."
The letter was distributed with a poster and, after being sent to schools, copies of the letter were then shared with nationwide news media while a targeted Facebook campaign drove the conversation online.
Full page press ads then appeared in all major newspapers, featuring the letter on a principal's desk and an invitation to the public to have their say. This was all supported by nationwide OOH and digital media campaign featuring the 2017 global Movember brand creative.
Dents Aegis Network head of strategy Jacquie Bennett describes Movember as her passion project as mental health is a serious issue in New Zealand and it is too often ignored.
"Every year we search for new ways to generate talk ability for Movember, which has become increasingly challenging as the charity sector is so cluttered now."
Initial results indicate the 'Right to Grow' campaign has been successful in generating over 30 news hits, including several television and radio impressions. Registrations are up with a solid 25 percent increase in 15- to 19-year-old participants, and a significant 40 percent year on year increase in donations has been achieved to date.
The entire campaign was delivered as a pro bono initiative for the Movember Foundation and all media placement was donated by media owners free of charge.
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1. High Atlas (Live) (4:20)
2. More Than This (Live) (3:49)
3. 1960 Caracas (Live) (4:23)
4. Magdalena (Live) (4:00)
5. Stormy Weather (Live) (3:20)
6. Take A Chance With Me (Live) (7:10)
7. Love Is The Drug (Live) (5:23)
8. No Church In The Wild (Live) (4:12)
9. Let's Stick Together (Live) (4:42)
10. Out Of The Blue (Live) (4:30)
UK live release by the British guitarist best known for his work with Roxy Music. Live At The Curious Arts Festival captures Manzanera and the band's show stopping performance at this well-known UK literary festival, held in July 2015. The set list included storming versions of Roxy classics, such as 'Take a Chance with Me', 'More Than This' and 'Love is the Drug' with Sonia Bernardo giving these songs an electrifying new twist, she is indeed a star in the making. The band packed full of talent, many still in their 20's, crackled and sizzled, inspiring Manzanera, whose playing on this set shows just why he is one of the world's greatest guitarists.
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Montana's Public Schools do a great job for most students, but as every parent knows, children aren't all the same. One likes to run, the other likes to sit in the corner with a book. One likes to play videogames while the other prefers football. And while most do very well in public schools, there are some who do not.
Unfortunately, nearly 15,000 students drop out of Montana schools every year. So what's the solution when one of our wildly diverse youngsters isn't thriving in their public school? Forty-two other states have implemented various forms of school choice. School choice refers to a broad range of policy proposals aimed at providing some diversity in the field of education. As great as Montana's public schools are, it's unrealistic to hold them to a standard where they have to be the perfect fit for every single child. Some children just need a different environment and school choice is about providing options.
Unfortunately Governor Bullock's Department of Revenue threw a monkey wrench in the works claiming tax credits were the same thing as government spending and arguing that the bill was an unconstitutional appropriation of public dollars to religious schools. They then passed rules barring any religious schools from participating, that's over 95% of the private high schools in the state. Fortunately, this issue has been litigated all the way to the United States Supreme Court which rules tax credits are not appropriations, and therefor tax credit scholarships are perfectly constitutional. Law suits challenging the Montana Department of Revenues action have been filed in both state and federal court, and we anticipate a quick and decisive victory!
Another form of school choice is public charter schools – they are public schools typically emphasizing a particular discipline such as the arts, technology, science, or a particular trade. Charter schools have more freedom to innovate and they're also held to a higher standard of accountability.
Another cutting edge idea is education savings accounts where 70-90% of the dollars traditionally used to educate a child are put into an account to be used at any accredited school of the family's choice. Since we spend roughly twelve thousand dollars on average each year to educate a child, these dollars add up fast, and any money leftover can be spent on college tuition.
School choice has always been controversial when someone has a monopoly, competition looks scary. The end result though is that everyone improves; the public schools, the alternatives, and most of all our kids. Forty-two other states have school choice and last year, Montana became the 43rd. Join us as we seek to ensure that every child is allowed to find their perfect educational fit!
As a staunch conservative, I find this blog to be highly inaccurate although I appreciate the idea of choice immensely. The issue isn't with the Governor, it lies with the State's Constitution that expressly prohibits such state/private ties in monies or funds and not a 'monkey wrench' from the Dept of Revenue?
Section 6. Aid prohibited to sectarian schools.
(1) The legislature, counties, cities, towns, school districts, and public corporations shall not make any direct or indirect appropriation or payment from any public fund or monies, or any grant of lands or other property for any sectarian purpose or to aid any church, school, academy, seminary, college, university, or other literary or scientific institution, controlled in whole or in part by any church, sect, or denomination.
Also Bill 410 is not characterized correctly in your piece. The bill made no reference to alternatives outside of public school, which is listed in the bill's definition as the 'eligible public school' or 'qualified education provider' that is essentially accredited through the state of Montana providing 'state standardized assessment test.' Within the purpose of the bill (copied from the state's website) is not for the traditionally defined private school. (http://leg.mt.gov/bills/2015/billpdf/SB0410.pdf). At issue is the intent of the bill which Ironically is written out in SB 410.
Section 1. Purpose. Pursuant to 5-4-104, the legislature finds that the purpose of innovative educational programs is to enhance the curriculum of public schools with supplemental private contributions through tax replacement programs. The tax credit for taxpayer donations under [sections 1 through 6] must be administered in compliance with Article V, section 11(5), and Article X, section 6, of the Montana constitution.
The problem with your argument is that a tax credit is not an appropriation. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled on that as well as Montana courts. The case law, in fact, is unanimous — without a dissenting case. Tax credits are not appopriations. So that section of the Montana constitution does not apply.
The fact that tax credits are not an appropriation also agrees with common sense. A tax credit is money the state chooses not to tax. If the state doesn't tax it, I never pay it. If the funds never leave my checking account and enter into the state's checking account, then it is not possible for the state to spend those funds. The state cannot appropriate money it never owns.
In addition to agreeing with court rulings and common sense, the fact that tax credits are not appropriations agrees with present practice. Montana has many tax credit programs that include donations to religious organizations among the eligible organizations. Foremost among them are the college contribution credit which is given for donations to private universities, including religious schools; the qualified endowment credit, which is given for supporting the endowment of any one of more than a thousand non-profits, including religious non-profits; and the elderly and dependent care credits, which are given for expenses related to care of either group at any facility, including faith-based ones.
I invite your attention to section 8, definitions, and particularly the definition of Qualified Education Provider. You might particularly enjoy sub (a) of that definition.
In short, SB410 is very clearly not in violation of Montana's constitution based on unanimous case law including rulings already issued on SB410, based on common sense, and based on the state of Montana's present practice. That is why the court has already ruled in favor of SB 410 applying to religious schools, and why we anticipate continued favorable rulings as the case moves through the courts.


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Facebook 'knowingly' violated data privacy laws — British lawyers
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British lawmakers on Monday accused Facebook of "intentionally and knowingly" violating data privacy and anti-competition laws as they called for social media companies to assume clear legal liabilities for content shared on their platforms.
Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company.
"Social media companies cannot hide behind the claim of being merely a platform.
"It cannot maintain that they have no responsibility themselves in regulating the content of their sites,'' a major report by the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee released on Monday.
The committee, which reviewed a trove of internal Facebook emails, accused the tech giant of being "willing to override its users' privacy settings in order to transfer data to some app developers.''
The lawmakers also accused chief executive Mark Zuckerberg of showing "contempt" of the British parliament by choosing not to appear before the committee nor "respond personally to any of our invitations."
The committee called for the establishment of a compulsory code of ethics overseen by an independent regulator to draw a rulebook of acceptable and unacceptable behaviours on social media.
"The process should establish clear, legal liability for tech companies to act against agreed harmful and illegal content on their platform,'' the report said.
The regulator should have the ability to launch legal proceedings "with the prospect of large fines being administered" for non-complying companies.
The committee also called for electoral law to be changed "to reflect changes in campaigning techniques" and for "absolute transparency of online political campaigning." (NAN)
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Piper: +1I let the sane packages be removed and re-installed what I needed ie. colord libkf5sane5 and xsane. No problems so far.
Reading that thread is not encouraging. I hope "someone" takes some responsibility -- more than I see there.
I'm not in the mood to reinstall printers today, that are currently working just fine. I think I will wait awhile and see whether the situation gets better.
On my system (simply openbox) full-upgrade indicated libsane-common to be kept back this morning.
Reinstall of libsane-common showed to me, that libsane1 had to be replaced by libsane.
Then the upgrade of sane/xsane worked fine with no problems.
Could libsane1 be the cause of all your problems too?
Does that mean libsane1 is dead and libsane is back?
Not really the end of the story - so stay tuned.
Today I re-installed libsane and after a du all works fine.
Hopefully all the sane related packages can be rebuilt against libsane and then things will be "sane" again (pun).
Lets just keep our fingers crossed.


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Why Do Guys Exaggerate?
Are the high-profile episodes of exaggerated claims by NBC's Brian Williams, Fox News's Bill O'Reilly and the VA Secretary Robert McDonald unique to guys?
Is the tendency to inflate one's credentials something that is more common to men? Is it a "guy thing"?
My personal theory is that, while it might not be a behavior exclusively practiced by one gender, it is one I have seen more often displayed by men.
Plenty of ink and air time have been dedicated to their transgressions: Williams (claimed to have been on a helicopter that was shot down in Iraq), O'Reilly (numerous disputed claims about what kind of danger and wartime reporting he experienced in various settings, including the Falklands war) and McDonald (who in a conversation in January with a veteran claimed that he had been in the special forces, when in fact, he had not.)
Williams and McDonald issued abject apologies, Williams though only after years of telling his story and being called out by a serviceman who was on the helicopter that was shot down.
Set aside the trouble these incidents have caused and the public relations battles that have ensued.
It just strikes me as so much guy-like behavior.
Each man was looking to see who is the bigger guy on campus or trying to find some slight advantage over others, even if it meant burnishing or unconsciously distorting their records.
There is a big part of me that believes that none of them committed these acts fully knowingly.
That may sound naive, but I think these transgressions spring from a certain part of the male brain:
The same part that is loathe to ask for directions. The same part that does not like to display weakness or lack mastery of a particular topic. Or, God forbid, to acknowledge that someone has achieved more than you or did something to distinguish themselves.
Let's face it: Most men live lives of quiet humdrum routine that are not going to garner headlines. So war stories (literally, in the case of O'Reilly) are a way to stand out from the rest of the pack, even for just a moment.
I know, for instance, I have been guilty of this.
For years I had made a certain claim to fame because I was confident that was how I recalled it. But when I recently researched it, I found — to my embarrassment and dismay — objective documentation that said otherwise.
I had thought for years that I was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 2000. The term "finalist" has a strict definition in the context of the prizes.
In fact, I had made the cut to the top 25 of those entries considered for a Pulitzer or as a finalist. BIG difference!
It was not a claim that I talked much about or one that I relied on to get a job or promotion but it was a construct that I relied on internally to satisfy my own ego.
It underscores just how memory is fallible and malleable.
So while I have read and watched the stories of Williams, O'Reilly and McDonald, I am cautious about being too quick to judge their motives.
It may be objectively that what they said happened, in fact, did not.
But those lapses might just simply prove that they are human.
Or, more specifically, hu-men.
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Feedback is a word in English that means feedback; we can use it as a synonym for response or reaction, or, from a more technical point of view, to refer to a method of control systems.
In this sense, the feedback may be the reaction, response or opinion which gives us a partner as a return on a specific subject: "I presented my report to shareholders and the feedback was very positive".
On the other hand, as feedback may be called the method of control systems, in which the results of a task or activity are reintroduced again in the system in order to make the necessary modifications, either to control the system, either to optimize their behavior.
As such, the term is used, in the latter sense, in specialized areas, such as management, engineering, communication, psychology and electronics, among others.
comes from the English, and is composed with the verb to feed, which means 'feed', and back, which translates into Spanish 'back' or 'return'. Your translation can be 'feedback' or 'feedback'.
Within a system, the feedback can be both positive and negative, depending on the consequences having within its operation. Thus, the negative feedback is the one who helps maintain balance in a system, countering and regulating the consequences of certain actions, while positive feedback is the one where the system grows or evolves into a new State of equilibrium.
See also positive and negative feedback.
Make sure that the message served its communicative intention, and so that the transmitter can vary, reconfigure or adapt the message to the receiver according to the response that go with this.
Thus, for example, if the message is altered by some sort of barrier (noise, distance, etc.), the issuer may increase voice until the receiver so feedback that the message has arrived properly. In this way, the receiver completes the process of communication with feedback, i.e., the response or reaction of the receiver to the sent message.
On the theories of business management, as feedback is called action review, assess and consider the performance of a person or group of persons in the performance of a job or task. As such, it is an action that reveals the strengths and weaknesses, strengths and negatives, of the work undertaken in order to correct, amend, or improve it.
In psychology, the feedback is a tool of interpersonal communication that allows us to say to our partners, verbally or not, the effect causing us their words or actions. Behaviors of individuals, in this sense, work inside feedback loops, this means that a person's conduct affects that of others, being that the first, in turn, will be also influenced by behaviors that come back, and so in the future.
In electronics, as well as in areas related, such as electrical engineering, referred to as feedback to the feedback of a system, which, as such, involves the transfer of the output signal to the input of the same system or circuit, resulting in an increase in the output level (positive feedback) or a decrease in the level of output (negative feedback).
Also in a sound system, feedback is the return of a fraction of the output of an amplifier or microphone to the input of the same signal, which causes a distortion of the sound produced as a result.


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Axolotls are the larval form of the Mexican Salamander amphibian and are an animal model used in limb regeneration studies. Axolotls take about 12 months to reach sexual maturity, males release spermatophore into the water and the female may take them up, eventually laying around 200-600 eggs on plants. Egg development takes two weeks, the tadpole-like young remain attached to the plants for a further two weeks. The sequence of axolotl embryonic developmental stages was characterised in the late 1980's.[1]
Multiple sequences and factors are involved in stability/degradation of Awnt-1, Awnt-5A and Awnt-5B mRNAs during axolotl development.[2] "Following fertilization in amphibian, early cleavage stages are maternally controlled at a post-transcriptional level before initiation of zygotic transcriptions at the mid blastula transition (MBT). ...Altogether, these results show that oocyte maturation and late cleavages following MBT are two important periods when axolotl Wnt RNAs are highly regulated."
The axolotl limb: a model for bone development, regeneration and fracture healing.[3] "Among vertebrates, urodele amphibians (e.g., axolotls) have the unique ability to perfectly regenerate complex body parts after amputation."
Expression of heat-shock protein 70 during limb development and regeneration in the axolotl.[4] "Using molecular biology and biochemical techniques, we have characterized both the spatiotemporal and quantitative expression patterns of Hsp-70 in axolotl development and regeneration. Our results show that Hsp-70 is expressed and regulated during axolotl development as in other vertebrates. Our data also demonstrate an up-regulation of the RNA transcript for Hsp-70 during limb regeneration as early as 24 hr after amputation that is maintained up to early differentiation. We also demonstrate a similar pattern of expression for the protein during regeneration. Finally, we show that axolotl Hsp-70 is induced threefold after heat-shock as observed in other vertebrates."
The following stage information is based upon.[5]
The effect of thyroxine on the early larval development of the axolotl. The same control and 30 nM T4-treated (TH) sibling animals were photographed at the days postfertilization noted. T4 was added from day 14. (Bar = 1 cm.)[6]
↑ Bordzilovskaya NP, Dettlaf TA, Duhan ST, Malacinski GM: Developmental-stage series of axolotl embryos. In Developmental Biology of the Axolotl. Edited by: Armstrong JB, Malacinski GM. New York: Oxford University Press; 1989:201-219.
↑ Bordzilovskaya, Dettlaff, Duhon, Malacinski, Developmental-Stage Series of Axolotl Embryos. In: Armstrong, J.B. & Malacinski, G.M.: Developmental Biology of the Axolotl, Oxford University Press (1989).
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Situation: Couple has serious health issues and too much of total wealth riding on real estateSolution: Use some savings to reduce mortgage exposure, keep adding to RRSPs and RESPsA couple we'll call Oscar, who is 37, and Mary, who is 43, make their home in Ontario with two children ages 11 and 13. Mary worked…
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Situation: Couple has serious health issues and too much of total wealth riding on real estate
Solution: Use some savings to reduce mortgage exposure, keep adding to RRSPs and RESPs
A couple we'll call Oscar, who is 37, and Mary, who is 43, make their home in Ontario with two children ages 11 and 13. Mary worked until the spring of 2017, then went on long-term disability after treatment for cancer. She now receives net disability payments of $5,771 per month, which is a good deal less than her former salary of about $12,083 per month. Oscar, also disabled, is unemployed. Adding income from a pair of rental properties, and the couple brings in $8,436 per month after tax.
They currently have $400,000 in equity in their home, and another $430,000 in two rental properties. Altogether those properties are carrying approximately $793,000 in mortgages. They plan to move to a new house with an $875,000 price tag for which they will use equity in their present house, GICs and other financial assets for a down payment.
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Oscar and Mary are committed to real-estate investing. They have done well with it through Mary's extended illness and Oscar's unemployment, but they are at significant risk. They have a 4-to-1 ratio of property to other assets. If they can have $5,000 per month in retirement, they can maintain their standard of living. But the risks they are taking to create their income — a huge commitment to real estate — are high.
Family Finance asked Derek Moran, head of Smarter Financial Planning Ltd. in Kelowna, B.C., to work with Oscar and Mary to find ways to reduce portfolio risk in what may be a permanent retirement.
"This file is about very bright people with a lot of real estate," Moran says. "We can clarify the consequences of that high allocation."
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Oscar and Mary have $40,000 in a Registered Education Savings Plan for their two children. They should increase present contributions of $88 per month for each child to $208 per child, for a total of $416 per month or about $5,000 per year. That will qualify them for two $500 Canada Education Savings Grants. Cash for contributions can come from $101,000 cash that the couple keeps for emergencies and potential investments. If the RESP grows at three per cent per year after inflation, it will become about $80,000 and provide the kids with $40,000 each for university. That would cover four years of courses and books and be sufficient if they live at home, Moran explains.
The couple has three properties — their $525,000 home which Mary owns and two $550,000 rentals that Oscar owns. The rentals generate $39,492 annually, about 4.5 per cent on their equity, before income tax and $2,665 per month after tax. They have bought a fourth property, an $870,000 house.
Rather than making the existing home a rental, it would be better to sell it, Moran advises. After five per cent selling costs and primping, they would net about $500,000. Such a sale would allow them to pay off the existing $257,000 mortgage, with $243,000 left over. They could add that to their $502,000 in GICs, for a total $745,000 and put it toward their new house, leaving them with a mortgage of $125,000 on their new property.
With the $2,000 per month payment that they are able and willing to make on the new house, they would be mortgage-free before Mary is 50, and their expenditures would drop by $2,000 per month.
If they make their current home a rental, Oscar and Mary should take appropriate business cost deductions. That would raise cash retention and increase the return on owner's equity, Moran adds.
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Several years ago, Oscar had a serious illness that left him with a disability. As a result, he qualified for a Registered Disability Savings Plan. He adds $1,500 per year and the government adds $3,500 per year to the $70,000 balance. The matching grant is available for another 12 years to his age 49. Then it can grow for 10 more years and he can spend it from age 60 onwards.
If Oscar continues to contribute to the RDSP and receives his matching contributions with the money growing at three per cent per year after inflation, it will become $170,765 at his age 49. The matching will be over, but if he continues to add $1,500 per year, the account will grow to $246,690 in 2019 dollars by his age 59. Then, starting at age 60, he would be able to take $12,590 per year for the following years to his age 90.
Neither will receive a full Canada Pension Plan benefit. We'll estimate 80 per cent of the maximum $13,855 present benefit for each with payments starting at age 65. Each should receive full Old Age Security benefits of $7,360 at 65.
The couple's RRSPs have a total value of $225,000. If Mary adds $6,000 per year to her RRSP account to fill space and it grows for the next 22 years at 3 per cent after inflation, then at her age 65 it would have a value of $748,470. That sum if spent to exhaust all capital and income for the next 30 years would support payouts of $38,190 per year.
Adding up retirement incomes and assuming that they sell their present home for cash to reduce the cost of buying the new one, then, when Mary is 65 they would have two rents which total $39,492 per year, RRSP income of $38,190 per year, one RDSP benefit of $12,590 per year, one CPP benefit of $11,084 per year and one OAS benefit of $7,360 per year for total income of $108,716 per year. With splits of eligible income and after 19 per cent average tax, they would have $7,340 per month to spend. That's slightly below their current budget.
Once Oscar is 65, their income would rise. They would gain one OAS benefit of $7,360 and one more CPP benefit of $11,084 for total income of $127,160. With splits of eligible income and 20 per cent average tax, they would have $8,475 per month to spend, about present take-home income.
With reduced expenditures in retirement, Oscar and Mary should have more than enough to make ends meet. A relatively large percentage of their income will still depend on their rental properties, though, so they are susceptible to changes in the rental market.
"A big allocation to rentals has been their salvation," Moran says. "It is also their risk."
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