Millions of young boys grew up in the 80's having felt the warmth accompanying the divine act of questing on behalf of Princess Zelda. As time's progressed, so has technology and so has the Legend of Zelda. Zelda's also grown older and more beautiful over the years, almost as though she were keeping in step with her original audience from 1986.
Princess Zelda nabs a spot on a list of pixelated hotties, alongside the company of Joanna Dark from Perfect Dark, Talim from Soul Calibur, Kasumi from Dead or Alive, Peach from the Mario series, Chun-Li from Street Fighter II, Yuna from Final Fantasy X, and more. Check out the rest of the list at Manolith.


My Baby Sweets: A Subtype of Apraxia?
We first heard of apraxia as a possible diagnosis when Sweets was less than 2 years old, but they wouldn't test for it until she was at least 2. When reading about it though, we felt like this was probably the answer to what she had. Her first evaluation said she had some characteristics that were consistent with the diagnosis, and other characteristics that were not, so they would rather hold off and re-evaluate her when she's older. We had a second opinion that just said no, they don't think it's apraxia at all. So, we thought apraxia's out, it's something else. Nine months later, we had another evaluation with a new SLP just to measure progress. This one brought up apraxia and said that's what she has, which surprised me since I thought it had been ruled out! We went for a second opinion again, and the second opinion said no it's not apraxia, but it might be phonological processes, but she can't be tested for that until she's 4. We looked up phonological processes and thought that yes, this seems to describe her better than apraxia did. Now, she's 3.5 and we went in for another eval just to measure progress. Again, this clinician says she would diagnose with apraxia. I asked what about the phonological processes possibility, and she said that she agrees with that possibility, but that she considers that to be like a sub-type of apraxia, but other clinicians might consider it a separate diagnosis. So that might explain why some of them want to say it's apraxia and others want to say it's not. Maybe it's more of a categorization issue than a diagnostic issue. However, in my google-searching on the topic, I am not finding others who classify phonological processes as a type of apraxia. Rather, they compare and contrast the two. So that part still feels questionable to me.


Buckeye Star Alpacas: The New Kid in the Pasture, Mocha!
The New Kid in the Pasture, Mocha!
Early Saturday morning there was a low band of fog hanging over the corn and soy bean fields that surround our home and pastures. The light fog gave an ethereal quality to the scenery and I couldn't resist trying to take some pictures with my little Nikon.
And the view from the back porch.
The animals were still sleeping in the pasture and the morning moisture was clinging to the tips of their fleeces. All except for our new little guy, Mocha; we had put a coat on him the night before because the temperatures were predicted to dip to near 40 degrees overnight. His fleece was still damp in spots from his entry into the world and we didn't want him shivering through the night. Alpaca moms don't cuddle their offspring like some animals. They just lay nearby as you can see from the little purple coated Mocha in the center of the picture.
Our granddaughter, Zaidee, who lives out in Portland, Oregon had the naming rights to the next little baby born on the farm. She relayed a wide selection of names through her mother but the one that seemed to fit was a compromise. One of her suggestions was Latte, which I countered with Mocha Latte. That one pleased both of us and seemed to fit. Mocha has black ears, face, tail and lower legs. The rest of him is a very dark, coffee bean brown. He curiously explores the pasture during his waking hours when he is not nursing. He has made friends with Brutus and Asterius, both of whom run alongside their fence line when Mocha is circling his side of the pasture.
His mama, Mango, keeps a close eye on him at all times and when she clucks her "come here" sound he returns to her side obediently.
This kind of morning has always meant autumn to me and so it was that Rich and I planned to do our fall outside decorating. A couple of weeks ago we ran down to the Amish farm on Rt. 13 and bought a variety of chrysanthemum plants in red, white and yellow. On Friday evening after dinner we ran over to the farm where we bought our pumpkins last year and loaded up the truck. We were all set to decorate. I'll post pictures of our fall display tomorrow when I have finished the final touches.
On Sunday I received a call from a former 7th grade student who is now a senior. Irene wanted to stop out for a visit and to see the animals. I hadn't seen her for a few years and was so pleased to have this chance to catch up with her. She and her boyfriend, Devin, stayed for about an hour and half and we had a nice chat. She told me about her plans for college and the future. As a teacher, it is always good to see that former students are headed toward success. Irene had been in my knitting group after school. It was one of the nicest group of kids ever.
Thanks To Our Visitors at the Open House!
Just Another Beautiful Fall Day!
The Wait is Over! It's a Boy!


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International Women's Day: Be Bold for Change
ANNIKA MCINERNEY & GABRIELLE VERHAGEN
Vol 11, Issue 2
International Women's Day is on 8 March every year. It is a day to celebrate women and recognise the ongoing inequality faced by those who identify as a woman around the world. It is about highlighting an intersectionality of disadvantage and working towards changing it.
This year the theme is 'Be Bold for Change'. This theme resonates for us as women working in the law both because of the historic gender divide within those practicing law, and because of it's capacity to influence society. For us, being bold for change means helping those most marginalised in the community. It means vocalising the inequality that still persists both internationally and within Australia in spite of the fear of being labelled with a derogatory term such as 'feminazi', or facing worse backlash. It means addressing intersectionality and acknowledging our own privilege relative to other women. It means listening to, and learning from, those who have lived experience even if it may be uncomfortable.
The law (and those who work in/with it) is in a unique position to help reflect and shape social values. Law underpins our society, it does not exist in a vacuum, and therefore has a great responsibility to do whatever it can to help those marginalised by our society.
Unfortunately, the law is not known for being bold for change. Our common law system is slow to change, and stuck in precedents and historical jurisprudence. Change does occur, there is no doubt, but it is slow due to the nature of litigation. This means that statute, and thus our politicians, bear the burden of boldly changing Australian law to reflect the modern issues of gender inequality. There have been very publicised attempts at this in particular areas, most notably attempts to deal with domestic violence. The issue is a clear case study of both the power and limits of the law. Domestic violence is overwhelmingly perpetrated by men, and the survivors of it are overwhelming women. Men are also victims of domestic violence, and their experiences should not be ignored or belittled, our focus on women as survivors is simply because statistics show that women suffer it more than men. It is clear that domestic violence is a gendered issue. Laws can punish perpetrators, but can they proactively change the underlying issues that lead to domestic violence? The real question is: how much can the law actually change the lives of the most marginalised women in Australia?
One very clear initiative which could assist women would be to properly fund the community legal sector, something which is yet to occur and will get worse from 1 July 2017, with the Women's Legal Service to lose their duty lawyer. Another would be the increase of community legal education. There is only so much the law can do. We believe that education from an early age on gender issues, including subconscious societal prejudices and relationships, would ultimately be needed to combat the issues which women face. Our society needs to take a bold look in the mirror and start by acknowledging that we are not all equal, and this definitely does not stop at gender.
Our International Women's Day panel Mind the Gap: It's Not All About the Money hopes to address the theme for this year through our panelists and their stories. Magistrate Urfa Masood is the first Muslim woman to be appointed to the judiciary in Victoria. Her appointment is a clear bold shift for the judiciary, one which will hopefully be followed by more diversity. Kristen Walker QC is one of only a limited number of women Queen's Council members, who regularly speaks at the High Court. A recent article in the Age revealed that only 25% of women appear as leading counsel in the High Court. Beth Gaze's academic work has focussed on the intersection of legal and social issues. As stated above, this intersection is key to achieving systemic change within our society. As an advisor on the Equal Opportunity Act 2010 (Vic), Beth has contributed to the rules which underpin Victorian society and the ways we interact. All of these women are promoting bold, systemic change in their own ways, and we are incredibly excited to share International Women's Day with them.
To come and hear these amazing women speak, come to our International Women's Day Panel on the 8th of March at 6.30pm on level 1. Inspire yourselves, and be bold for change.
Gabrielle Verhagen and Annika McInerney are third-year JD students and the LSS Women's Officers for 2017
The rest of this issue
Homeless in the World's Most Liveable City
Curve Grading
At the Movies - Hidden Figures
Knowledge as Empowerment
Women in Law

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At its best, simplicity is beautiful. We see it in the new World Trade Center in New York, the smooth face of a premium smartphone or even in the plain red cups at Starbucks. The 21st century loves simplicity, and that's why branding is moving so heavily in that direction — not just in look, but in the way we feel, experience and interact with companies every day.
There's a new frontier in web domains for business. The .com has been around for nearly two decades, and it's increasingly harder for new businesses to find an address that matches its brand.
But all that changed when ICANN, the company in charge of domain suffixes like .com, .org, and .net, opened up dozens of new suffixes to the public. Now anything from .vegas to .ventures is available to supplement the domains we already know.
The most popular example of creative web domains is from Google, which renamed its parent company Alphabet Inc. But instead of "alphabet.com" (already owned by a business solutions company), it registered the more clever "abc.xyz." Yes, .xyz is one of the new suffixes from ICANN.
And while new companies scramble to claim their stake in the new frontier, others make good use of nationally dedicated suffixes like .ca, which belongs to our neighbors to the north. G1 driving school uses "G1.ca," which might be one of the easiest domains to remember.
By far the most impacted change in branding simplicity is how we physically see the companies and products we engage every day, and no one has embraced "less is more" better than Apple.
Good design is more than what Chief Design Officer Jony Ive calls "the absence of clutter." A MacBook can be considered office decor just as much as it is a productivity or creativity tool. Even Apple's website and commercials are beacons of simplicity that other companies have begun to imitate.
Apple is also very good at avoiding what Fast Company calls "feature-itis," the process of continuing to add features to the brand experience, leading to chaos and confusion over time. Though much has changed with Apple since the Macintosh, the feel of its brand remains the same. Its design is responsible for much of that.
Have you ever seen an old television ad from the 1950s or 1960s? Take a look at this 1952 Betty Crocker cake commercial. It may have been groundbreaking at the time, but the narration from beginning to end couldn't sound more dated in 2016. Now watch Nike's "Fate Leave Nothing"commercial, which doesn't utter a single spoken word.
Betty Crocker sold facts — "a perfect cake every time, or your money back," (she even tells you where to mail the letter). Nike sells emotion and leaves the facts to your imagination.


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Matteo Moretti,
Biased perception, democracy and design
Misinformation is always existed, but its contemporary version produced by a pervasive and massive information ecosystem, it is something relatively new. Among the causes, a news-model that relies on the clicks- and on the attention-business, which causes the promotion of sensationalistic and emotional narratives written to entertain, to touch our feelings; to make us click rather than inform.
The production, the spread, and the consumption of misinformed contents may result very dangerous, especially when combined with the functional illiteracy phenomenon which affects a broader population in Europe, especially in Italy. These are the perfect ingredients to cook biased perceptions, able to significantly impact on our democracy and our daily life.
For example, if we focus on the last EU country members' elections (Brexit, Italy, France, German, and Austrian elections) we cannot ignore the amount of public and political discourse that articulated strong and extreme positions around the migration phenomenon, often based on misinformed contents. A strategy which led thousands of people already exhausted by the financial, economical and employment crisis, to vote anti-Europeans movements under the pressure of biased perceptions. For the sake of democracy, it is important to work toward the filling of the gap between reality and biased perceptions, even though it seems hard, especially relying on traditional counter-information tools.
A possible way out
The author Clay A. Johnson proposes a possible way out: in his book "Information diet" he operates an interesting metaphor comparing the information system we navigate every day with the quality of our food. We spent years before understanding that junk food, despite its appealing look and inviting smell, it is not nourishing and healthy as it seems. Similarly, a certain kind of information is just written to entertain us more than to inform: appealing pictures and inviting titles written to make us click them, to generate an income to the platform that published them, not to provide better information.
The book shares this simple lesson: as we educated ourselves to resist to the junk-food temptation, we should transfer the same knowledge to the information panorama, self-educating ourselves to click and to read only those information written to inform than to entertain. We all, as readers, have a responsibility: we should read meaningful contents and pop out our bubbles, accessing information which not confirm our positions. The proposed news-diet approach is a relevant practice, but it is not enough: it needs a certain kind of self-awareness, which is not so common, unfortunately.
Indeed, we live in societies where the cultural-diversity concept is often seen as a negative thing, societies that are split in cultural, social, political micro-bubbles, and where the concept of debate is a synonym for fight, or even for war.
We should need more experiences to promote a positive perspective of cultural diversity among our cities; to foster occasion to pop-out the bubble in which we use to live; to de-construct the invisible wall which separates the diverse communities in the city, toward a more inclusive idea of what a society should be.
The research on informative practices
It's now eight years, at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, we are researching on all those practices which inform and impacts on society through the research on visual journalism. We frame visual journalism as a design practice which aims to return the complexity of social issues in a more effective way to a broader audience, providing immersive experiences devoted to informing. We explore the field through the production of case studies and the writing academic reflection upon them, working with interdisciplinary teams composed by design practitioners, design researcher, social scientists, journalists, photographer and computer scientists.
Projects such as the "People's Republic of Bolzano", a visual journalism project aimed to reverse the narrative on the Chinese peoples in the city; or "Europa Dreaming" that problematizes the EU policies on migration repositioning the current migration phenomenon in a broader timescale. Projects that have been rewarded with international prizes, that contributed in a significant way to the research around the information design for social issues, and facilitated the opening on debates on complex and multi-faceted topics.
At the same time, we continuously map and collect all those practices and projects that share our same concerns, with a particular focus on the ones which address the migration issue.
Such experiences are unfortunately a few, despite are essential, and they should be supported and empowered. These are new forms of activism aimed to restore a more informed a positively oriented debate on migration, to dismantle cliches and misinformed content, and finally to lead reflections and to facilitates the fostering of new kind of relations between them and us.
Design for migration
Last year, we finally published "Design for migration", the online platform which collects the most important design experiences on the migration issue that we collected in the last years. Thought as a digital commons, the idea is to map and present all those experiences that contribute to a better and informed debate, which raise awareness, which foster new social relations and new practices to include a wider population, through design means. Once such diverse and creative practices are put together in a single place, it creates a strong impact revealing a broader audience such a complex topic as the migration can be addressed in many creative, diverse and efficient ways. The platform works on three different goals: to give new visibility to those projects; connect the designers behind them; inspire a new audience (designer, institutions, social workers, activists) toward the spreading and enriching of creative practices.
Projects such as Talking Hands, designed by Fabrizio Urettini in Treviso. He approached the local migrant's centre with the aim to involve some of the asylum seekers in a series of design workshops. The goal is to teach the Italian language, discover the city, and meet local citizens, through the production of artefacts. Under this view, the designed products are not just an output of a creative process, while the starting point to enable new social relations and behaviours. To craft their objects, asylum seekers are pushed to go out their camp, visit the local shops to buy the needed materials, move across the city to promote their works, deliver their objects once they are sold, and finally managing and investing the money earned. The work behind the making of the objects enables and empower migrants on necessary skills to integrate into modern western societies.
Through different means, the project Lampedusa Cruises, expose a local and heterogeneous audience to the migration issue through a playful and light approach. Founded by the artist Teun Castelein, the project brought in the Amsterdam's canals the Alhadj Djumaa, an Egyptian vessel landed in Lampedusa in 2013. The boat with its Syrian refugees sailing team offers a free canal tour to tourist and citizens, toward the discovery of the history of the city, told by the migrants themselves, which focus the importance of migrants in the development and growth of Amsterdam.
Projects like those are crucial, since them operates in a different way, out of the traditional system, addressing the issue in unexpected contexts, allowing to frame and perceive the migrants and the migration topic in a different, way. Some of the project published on Design for migrations, for instance, works toward the creation of chances to meet the alterity in the city and reduce the distance between reality and biased perceptions.
Now we are in the writing process of a book on the design for migration experience, to reflect deeply on the most significant projects presented on the platform, featuring interview to the designers where they share pro and cons of the processes and practices. The idea is always to inspire and fertilise new bottom-up practices as well as institutional support, providing a broader audience new lenses to look at the reality, one more time.
Integration and inclusion processes are not easy, needs time, willingness and longterm vision, in order to give significant practical results, and very important they need institutional support. As citizens, we should struggle and activate ourselves for new inclusive societies, starting from our everyday life, acting and supporting all those initiative which promotes more inclusive societal practices, as well as claiming our institutions for fresh ideas and projects to give shape our future societies and contrast fight far-right and anti-European movements.
For this reason, we designed Design for migration, thought as a brick to build new bridges, not walls.
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The role of cities in the integration of migrants and refugees
About Matteo Moretti
Matteo Moretti is an information experience designer and a researcher at the Free University of Bolzen. Matteo was a Jury member of the World Press Photo 2017-18, his design projects won both the European design award and the Data Journalism award. TEDx speaker, and Italian Design Ambassador 2018.
Addressing the impact of the precarious working conditions of on-demand gig workers' health and safety in Europe needs regulatory action
Precarity as (new) normality?
Rethinking rights at work – notes from matatu organising in Nairobi
At home in the market: the case of the Latin Village and the struggle to make it work in neoliberal London
The impact of Brexit on UK and EU environmental governance


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We start and end with what our clients want for better health. We focus on their needs and make sure those needs are met through our proposed solutions. We see individuals as experts on their own lives. Our job is to hear their needs and provide the right resources.
We hold ourselves accountable to know and deliver the best available treatment backed by scientific evidence. Beacon continually monitors the latest research and trains our staff with this information.
We recognize the importance of a "whole person/whole health" intervention and work with a multi-disciplinary team; we assess a wide range of possible life and health factors to make sure the treatment plan addresses both the obvious and less obvious issues.
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We offer a written individualized treatment plan – a comprehensive, progressive, personalized plan that includes all prescribed Behavioral Health (BH) services. It is person-centered, recovery-oriented, culturally competent, and addresses personalized goals and objectives.
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I know that the signing should use public key, what if the private key is used in signing the output? Does that mean anybody can use the money in your wallet? And is there any difference between P2PKH and P2SH?
Signing requires the private key, and commits the signature hash of the transaction to the signature. Altering the transaction will change the sighash, and thereby render the signature void.
The public key is required for signature validation. Only the public key hash is shared with the public in form of the address, from which the private key cannot be derived.
P2PKH and P2SH are both standard output scripts in Bitcoin.
A P2PKH(address) output is spendable by the private key associated with the address.
A P2SH(embedded_script) output is spendable by the embedded script and the unlocking script thereof. The P2SH output script acts as a "wrapper" for other output scripts.


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Aung San Suu Kyi's party has asked that the wording of an oath that lawmakers have to take be altered.
Suu Kyi to take Myanmar parliament oath, ending deadlock
The Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said Monday that she would take a swearing-in oath at the country's parliament, apparently resolving an impasse that had been preventing her from taking up her seat in the legislature.
"I will go to the parliament because there is a demand of people who voted for me," Suu Kyi said after meeting with party members.
She and 42 other newly elected members of her party, the National League for Democracy, had been delaying their debuts in parliament because they objected to the wording of the oath they would have to take.
The NLD had asked authorities to amend the oath to say that parliamentarians will "abide by" the constitution rather than "protect" it. But the government of President Thein Sein didn't appear to show any sign of moving to accommodate the request.
Suu Kyi said Monday that she would "take an oath for the country and for the people."
Filed under: Myanmar • World
Good Morning Amerika!
Myanmar! Makers of Bush/Cheney campaign buttons, shirts, and pins as they hammed it up with....Amerika!
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Burma back then?
The Jihad
Man *abide* by Gods law? strange concept Mr. Spock.
And might they place their hand on? If nothing, then at least they're not being hypocrites such as Bush/Obama ect.
Do you mean he forgot to wrap his whopper?
This isn't bobcat, and it isn't JIF, either.
I am glad that Aung San Suu Kyi took the oath...she can do no good for her country until she is an official member of Parliament.
Pick your battles.
i like Suu Kyi Suu Kyi .... it's my favorite...
Mine is Suu Kyi Yaki...
bobcat (in a hat) ©
@banasy©
Oh no you didn't. Groan. LOL
Oh, yes, I did!
C'mon, that was wide open....!
(I knew it was bad....I groaned when I was writing it!)
J. Zeus™
I certainly hope she can make the sort of differences her supporters hope for, but will not hold my breath.
saywhat
Saga of Suu Kyi is inspiring indeed for the oppressed . Hope she succeeds as a law maker.
Good morning @banasy@bobcat@JI-F.
Good morning, saywhat.
@ banasy©
Thank you for being so attentive this morning. This is my first entry today.
BTW Good Morning to you. Hope you are doing well today.
@bobcat (in a hat)© troll
FYI bobcat (in a hat)© doesn't tell Q & A jokes. Good try though.
Good Morning saywhat.
Good morning, Rawr.


In the administration console under Result View of the File Cabinet, it would be beneficial to add the ability to show DW System fields like Stored On, Stored By, DocID, Etc. in the result list. Furthermore, it would be beneficial to have this ability in the Search Dialogs as well.
This is somewhat similar to how the Version Status, Number and Change Comment fields work, they are system fields that have the ability to be shown in the dialog but are set to Not Visible by default.
Make the possibility to hide boolean operators in Search dialog in WEB Client. Now settings made in DW Administration affecting only the DW Windows Client. This feature will ensure that anybody wouldn't hack your hidden fixed value entered into search dialog. Now all defined search dialogs you can workaround by changing the boolean expression into OR mode.
Unfortunately, due to several factors we are currently not able to plan this idea for a future version. The current version does not have a boolean AND/OR in the search dialog anymore.
Potential customers have often inquired about fuzzy search support where words that aren't completely spelled correctly are still found similar to functionality of popular search engines. This is a current feature in some competitive document management offerings.
If you have to search for example field name=Jhon or lastname=Dhoe is not possible on Webclient because always search using AND.
A way to Search for empty or null numbers and dates.
I suggest you provide a way to search for empty or null numbers and dates in index fields.
We would like to be able to make a research in stamps' text or in text annotations. This way we could use text annotation to insert anchors.
Folders is a great concept, but when you have a lot of folders it does not work. If you could conduct a search of the folders then get a list of the folders that contain that search - that would be really nice.
When I go to Settings > searches, to enable which search dialogs I want to be visible. I see a list of 40+ dialogs, but they are not alphabetical so I cannot easily find the one I want!!
It would really be useful if you could do a full text search using a regular expression / regex pattern.
The need here is to find all the documents containing certain types of personal data, e.g. NHS number, credit card number, National Insurance number etc.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE include Reports within the Docuware app. User access, and a list of who scanned X document.
We are currently not considering your idea.
Docuware should create a menu for search dialogues in a tree form so that grouped automatically showing only dialogs over file cabinet and go as needed. Often that choice is not enough for some users who actually work with many dialogs all the time.
Users are used to bring up select list and Filtered Select list (formerly Selective Select list) menu by right-clicking within fields.
All my users keep on right-clicking out of many years of habit with nothing happening. Very frustrating.
When I am doing quality data checks on our documents that are stored in Docuware, it would be much easier to be able to search by what user stored the documents, not what what the document is/when it was stored.
Previous versions of the thick client had a Print Result List button that would print a result list directly to a printer. I have customers that use this to report on recently stored documents. Now they have several more steps to work around this missing button.
2. Click button and select copy to CSV.
3. Open CSV in excel.
6. Select Text to Columns button.
7. Select delimited and then click Next.
8. Select semicolon and then click next.
Right now we are focusing on other topics, so we are not considering this idea for future releases. If the demand for this topic increases, we might add it to future plans.
Currently you can download the resultlist as an csv file and open this in Excel to print it.
i suggest you provide a way to search for documents using system field data, such as "Date Modified" or "modified by"
i suggest you provide a way to search for documents using system field data, such as "Date Modified" or "modified by.
I realize the "store date" search criteria is helpful in 95% of all situations, but in my case there are a few other "date" categories, and my end users are confused very easily. I'm not suggesting a removal of the field (but would be fine too), but at least the option to hide the field for each search dialog.
In Docuware WebClient is some inconsistency.
User can "edit" document from search view/task lists, however after even once check-out/check-in to be able to edit the document user must always use the check-out/check-in. After check-out/check-in "Edit" button from view/task lists becomes inactive.
Please to add "Edit" functionality in the search view/task lists when document was checked-out/checked-in.
Thank you for your idea. Right now we are focusing on other topics, so we are not considering this idea for future releases. If the demand for this topic increases, we might add it to future plans.
The windows client had radio buttons for "And" and "OR" on the search dialog when entering values on more than one index. Example: Email file cabinet has a To index and a From index. I want to search for emails To or From an individual.


In my 20's, having successfully survived my scholarship-funded undergraduate career and embarked on my first couple of real jobs, I was excited to start giving back to the world.
I picked a couple of charitable operations that I thought would make an actual difference –– right away.
The Nature Conservancy got the nod –– partly because of the romance of it: a bunch of business people taking a scientific approach to saving wild land and wild life –– and partly because I saw its work close to home.
The Chaumont Barrens, an eerie bit of landscape from my childhood, is currently stewarded and championed by The Nature Conservancy.
We used to picnic there, little knowing that the weird rocks and odd plants were remnants from the time of the last ice age.
How the years do click by...My contributions aren't exactly princely, but I continue to fund the organizations I like. The Nature Conservancy rewards its donors with a newsletter, and I remember reading about the effort in 1989 to preserve a large tract of undeveloped tallgrass prairie in the middle of the country.
It was a huge project, involving local ranchers and a whole consortium of foundations and philanthropists.
The idea caught my imagination. I sent my modest donation and felt a sense of ownership when they bought the 29,000-acre Barnard Ranch, which has since become the 40,000-acre Joseph H. Williams Tallgrass Prairie Preserve.
Restoration biologists searched high and low for some of the nearly-extinct plant species, finding some forgotten in the unmowed corners of old country cemeteries. Locating a few patches of those 6-foot-tall grasses that used to stretch across 142 million square acres of the Great Plains. The mind boggles.
I imagined the scientists gathering handfuls of seed heads and nursing them to germination with that single-minded fervor known to any gardener.
I kept sending my modest checks, noting with pleasure in 1993 when the first bison were reintroduced to the prairie. 300 of the large beasties were donated by a local rancher.
Imagine that –– bison roaming nearly free!
It was almost as if we didn't have to pave ALL of paradise and put up a parking lot.
The herd has grown to around 2400 head of bison. Careful use of prescribed burns and herd management has meant that the prairie has continued to rebound, sheltering prairie chickens and bunches of the usual mammals in solid numbers.
So when Captain Winnebago and I realized that we were able to make The Big Park Trip, I put Pawhuska, Oklahoma (home to The Pioneer Woman's Mercantile. Go figure.) on the list.
It's not the vast stretches of unspoiled wilderness that our pioneer forbearers found, but after three and a half hours of driving through the property –– it's a reminder of how great the Great Plains were.
And if anyone doubts that truth, go on and continue driving north to the Badlands.


With billions of opinions populating the Video Web, billions of Opinion Profiles will quickly follow. The JARVIS platform will establish the "fair use" of opinion through Opinion Profiles and create an efficient, secure, and decentralized system for assigning value to opinions and compensating people for their work. With Blockchain, JARVIS can be built to a massive scale and handle millions of transactions.
Does JARVIS Need a Token?
Simply put: we are redefining how user content will be valued and assigning value to user content in the billions.
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As of February 1st, 2014, the province of British Columbia changed to a new and different formulation of the lifesaving medication known as 'Methadone'. On September 1st, the province of Ontario is set to follow BC's lead, also changing MMT patients from Methadone to the newer version, known as 'Methadose'. However a portion of British Columbia's patients have already reported this new formulation is not as effective as the old version. Is Ontario headed for trouble by following BC's substitution therapy switch-up?
Currently in Ontario, Methadone comes as a powder that requires compounding by each individual pharmacy (generally at 5mg/ml) prior to dispensing the liquid to patients. In order to cut down on any possible discrepancies in the Methadone mixture strength between pharmacies, as well as to combat diversion and illegal sales, Ontario's Ministry of Health and Long Term Care announced a revised policy for the dispensing and reimbursement of Methadone through the Ontario Drug Benefit (ODB) Formulary, paving the way for the switch.
The new formulation known as 'Methadose' comes as a premixed syrup from manufacturer Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, compounded at a stronger concentration of 10mg/ml, and available in two varieties; dye-free sugar-free flavourless, and cherry flavour. However the dose will still be diluted with Tang prior to ingestion by the patient.
The big question is of course, will this change cause or have any negative effects on MMT patients and their recovery? Mallimckrodt, The Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, as well as many physicians and pharmacists have all been quick to reassure patients that the transition will be smooth, and the only notable difference between the 'done and the 'dose is in volume/concentration, viscosity, colour and possibly taste.
That all sounds well and good until you begin to dig a little deeper, uncovering reports and complaints from BC's recently transitioned Methadose patients which seem to fly directly in the face of the claims of equal effiacy.


According to new data presented at AACR 2018, the anti-PD1 immunotherapy nivolumab given prior to surgical resection of stage 1-3 NSCLC was safe and resulted in major pathological responses in 45 percent of the patients.
Senior author of the study Drew Pardoll, MD, PhD, director of Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy and director of Cancer Immunology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and colleagues enrolled 21 patients with stage 1-3A NSCLC in this trial between August 2015 and October 2016; 62 percent had adenocarcinoma. All patients received at least one dose of nivolumab. The primary endpoints of the study were safety and feasibility. Tumor pathologic response, PD-L1 expression, mutation burden and mutation-associated neoantigen-specific T-cell responses were evaluated.
"The anti-PD1 treatment was tolerated well and there were no surgical delays related to neoadjuvant treatment," Pardoll noted. The median time from second dose of nivolumab to surgery was 18 days, and 20 of 21 eligible patients underwent complete tumor resection.
Responses were observed irrespective of PD-L1-expression by tumor cells. Pathologic response significantly correlated with pre-treatment tumor somatic mutation burden.
After a median follow-up of 12 months, 16 of 20 patients who underwent surgical resection were alive and recurrence-free. Recurrence-free survival at 18 months was 73 percent, and the median recurrence-free survival had not been reached at the time of data analysis.
To test their hypothesis that checkpoint blockade induces the expansion of tumor-specific T cells in the circulation, the researchers analyzed T-cell responses in the blood on the day of nivolumab treatment and 44 days after surgery. "There was a big burst of tumor-specific T cells in the blood within, in most cases, four weeks after initiation of anti-PD1 treatment suggesting that neoadjuvant treatment may have enhanced antitumor immunity systematically," Pardoll said.
"While it is still too early to tell whether our findings will translate into lower relapse rate and improved survival, pending confirmation in a larger study, we are very optimistic that this approach will eventually be practice-changing and may augment or even replace chemotherapy prior to surgical resection," Pardoll said.
"We have to be careful not to compare these outcomes with historical outcomes given the small size of this single-arm study; however these initial results are highly encouraging and, allied to the translational science, will spur interest in further neoadjuvant clinical trials across tumor types," concluded study leader and co-principal investigator of the trial, Patrick Forde, MBBCh, assistant professor of oncology at Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy.


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Wolf Reintroduction to Yellowstone Park, Wolf Pack Dynamics, & Wolf Identification
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Wolf Reintroduction to Yellowstone
Wolves Feeding
Release of the Wolves
Wolf Dynamics
Soft Release Method
Hard Release Method
Coyote or Wolf?
Suggested Reading About Wolves:
Learn how the wolves were reintroduced; trapped, transported, and finally released in Yellowstone.
For the first time in nearly 70 years the howl of the wolf is being echoed throughout Yellowstone National Park. Canis Lupus, the Gray Wolf, one of the largest and most complex of the canine species, has been successfully reintroduced into the Yellowstone ecosystem.
1995-96 capture map-National Park Service
In mid-January 1995, 14 wolves from many separate packs were captured in Canada and then transported into Yellowstone Park and placed into one-acre acclimation pens.
The reasons for not capturing an entire pack, or packs and moving them into Yellowstone is primarily because it is very difficult if not impossible. When a pack hears a helicopter approaching they generally run for cover—the timber. Biologists were lucky to capture one or two individual wolves out of each pack.
Capturing individuals out of different packs also cut down on the chances of inbreeding later on and increased our DNA pool right from the start. Had we captured three entire packs the first year the chances of inbreeding would have greatly increased.
Biologists then placed a dominant male wolf with a dominant female wolf along with several young subordinate wolves into each 1 acre acclimation pen, and within about 24 hours or so the wolves in each of three pens had the entire pack structure figured out, and in each case but one, the newly formed alphas mated and gave birth. The one case were this did not happen was during the second years release (winter 1996-97). When the Nez Perce pack was released. The male wolves went one direction and the female wolves went another.
The three pens were constructed the previous summer at three different locations in the Northern range of Yellowstone; one at Crystal Creek, one at Rose Creek, and the third at Soda Butte creek. The soft release method was used in Yellowstone Park, versus the hard release method which was used in Idaho.
While in their acclimation pens the wolves were fed road kill or winter carrion. Each pack was fed once each week to week and one-half. Wolves in the wild survive on a "feast and famine" type diet and do not eat everyday. We have recorded wolves going 14 days without a meal with no ill effects. A typical pack of six in the wild will consume on average 800 pounds of meat per month. In Yellowstone that would average out to two adult elk and maybe a small deer.
When wolves do make a kill, each wolf will consume on average of 21 to 32 pounds of meat. Meat drunk, the wolves then stagger off a short distance and lay down to digest that massive amount of meat protein. The pack then returns to the kill off an on until the carcass has been cleaned.
The packs released during the winter of 1995-96 fed primarily on elk, although biologists believed the three packs would learn to take bison in the future. Two of the four packs released during the second release period, 1996-97 were observed feeding on bison prior to being trapped in British Columbia. Biologists had hoped that they would begin preying on this overabundant mammal soon after release, although this was initially not the case.
The first bison kill was recorded during the late winter of 1996-97 by two surviving members of the Crystal Creek pack after they moved south into the Pelican Valley after #5M, the alpha male was killed by the Druid Peak pack up near their release site. Today, 90% of all wolf kills are elk, the other 10% consist of bison, deer, moose, and other small game.
In late March of 1995, the three packs known now as the Crystal Creek pack (6 members), Rose Creek pack (3), and the Soda Butte pack (4), were released out of their enclosures and into the wilds of Yellowstone Park, but not without a minor problem.
The enclosure gates were opened in hopes that the packs would leave from that opening. After several days of observation biologists noticed that the wolves were avoiding the gate and spending most of their time in the back portion of the enclosures. The wolves felt so comfortable, and spent so much time in the rear area of the enclosures that the area became known as the "comfort zone."
The wolves were associating the gate with human's and avoiding the gate area. The wolves learned that when humans arrived, they entered through the gate, and considered the gate area as "human territory". A section of the "comfort zone" area fence was then cut with bolt cutters, rolled up and removed. The wolves then exited their acclimation pens through this new opening.
After release the three members of the Rose Creek pack and then the six members of the Crystal Creek pack each made their way northeast out of Yellowstone Park to an area near Red Lodge, MT. The four members of the Soda Butte pack headed out into the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness not far from their release site northeast of Yellowstone. The Crystal Creek pack then turned around and followed the same route back to their release site – 50 air miles, 100 round trip! – where they were then observed by thousands of visitors up until July.
photo courtesy National Park Service/Jim Peaco
On April 26, 1995 the radio collar on the alpha male #10M with the Rose Creek pack triggered a mortality signal. It was subsequently proven in court to have been killed illegally by Chad McKittrick of Red Lodge, MT. With the alpha male's death the pack structure fell apart and the remaining two members: one adult female, #9F and one yearling female, split.
We have learned that it is extremely stressful on a wolf pack when one or both of the alpha's die or are killed and the survivors generally disperse. Some as loners, some travel together in sibling pairs or groups.
On May 3, 1995, just days after her mate was killed, the alpha female, #9F gave birth to eight puppies on private land near Red Lodge, MT. Under normal conditions all members within a pack assist the alpha female in caring for the pups until they have been weaned at about 6-10 weeks of age. U.S.F.W.S. biologists began supplying her with food until it was decided to transport her and her 8 pups back to the Rose Creek acclimation pen, where they were kept until October and then re-released.
The primary reason for capturing #9 and her 8 pups after #10's death was at the time #9 and her 8 pups constituted 48% of the total wolf population in Yellowstone park! It was critical that they survive. Today, we allow nature to take its course and no help is provided to injured wolves or packs.
Prior to this second October release of #9F and her pups a young 2 year old male #8M dispersed from the nearby Crystal Creek pack and began hanging around the acclimation pen falling in love with #9. In mid- August high winds knocked a tree down which opened a small gap in the acclimation pen just large enough for pups to escape. It was feared that coyotes would prey on these vulnerable pups but #8M took over and ran the coyotes off protecting them from danger. Upon release #9F accepted #8M as her new mate, and alpha male. The Soda Butte pack was the only other pack to give birth with one new addition the first year.
Spring melted into summer with no other deaths or unexpected surprises except for the visibility factor. Wolves were visible from the road up until the first of July which went against all predictions. In the wild, wolves are rarely seen. Dr. David Mech visited Yellowstone the spring of 1999 and reported he observed more wolves during his 7 day stay in Yellowstone than during his entire 35 years of research and study of wolves.
Yellowstone Park officials reported 22% more visitors during the month of June alone. Many of the sightings made during the summer of 1995 were false sightings due to a misidentification of coyotes (Canis latrans). This continues today. Many visitors jump from their cars and chase after coyotes thinking they are photographing wolves.
No. 9 and her 8 pups; the Rose Creek pack were re-released in October. One of the pups then gets killed by a UPS truck in the park. No. 8M learns how to be an alpha male. The yearling female that took off on her own after her father, #10M was killed now mates up with a second young male dispersal from the Crystal Creek pack and forms the first natural pack in Yellowstone Park: the Leopold pack. Genetics 101, anybody?
Two more acclimation pens were built for the second release period of 1996-97: one at Nez Perce Creek, and a second on Blacktail Plateau bringing the total enclosures available to four.
During the winter of 1996-97 the Yellowstone reintroduction program ended after releasing 17 more wolves out of the 4 separate acclimation pens. The reintroduced wolves have continued to mate and produce new litters of puppies and 2 year olds dispersing and establishing new packs in newly formed territories where wolves have not been seen in many years.
The idea of reintroducing wolves back into Yellowstone Park started many years ago. I personally had not thought much about it one way or the other until one August morning back in 1992, three years before the reintroduction. I was with a film crew from Busch Productions busy filming grizzlies on a bison carcass when a lone wolf appeared out of the early morning mist.
The hair on the back of my neck stands up even today when I think of it. Here we are miles from the road, nine or more grizzlies coming in to feed along with about 200 ravens, bison, coyotes, elk and this one lone black wolf. I remember whispering to Ray Paunovich every couple of minutes, "I hope you're getting this", and wondering at the same time if this was really happening, or was I dreaming? I've witnessed many unusual or interesting sights in Yellowstone. Anyone that spends 250 days a year traveling the backcountry of Yellowstone is apt to have some exciting experiences but this will always be a morning I will never forget.
A typical wolf pack is a highly structured, highly complex social group. The average pack in the wild consists of six-eight members. The pack size is dependent on several factors: the amount of prey available within the pack's territory, and the wolf density or the amount of wolves in the area. If the prey base is low and the wolf density is high a female may not cycle and give birth. If the opposite is found a female may give birth to many pups.
A typical pack consists of an alpha male, an alpha female – and their offspring. Generally the alpha pair are the only two that breed and the only two in a pack who are genetically different or were born from different packs and unrelated. The remainder of the pack consists of the alpha's offspring. However, in certain instances we have observed brothers and sisters and fathers and daughters mating although this is rare and is caused by the non-availablity of any other potential mates over a long period of time–the need to reproduce is so great that if no other partner is available for a long period of time individuals may mate with siblings or parents.
A small percentage of packs will sometimes have Beta males who will also breed with the alpha female. Beta males generally occur when two brothers disperse from the same home pack as two or three year olds and travel in search of a female and a female accepts both males. The same is true with Beta females.
Yearling females or sub-adults may go through a false cycle when the alpha female becomes pregnant and may become a wet nurse to her new siblings. Packs typically dig dens with the alpha female giving birth in mid- April or early May. The entire pack is involved in the raising of the pups. Prolactin is present in each adult member of the pack when puppies are born, male and female. In humans prolactin is only present in females.
As two-year-olds, some or none may disperse from the pack possibly forming new packs of their own, or may return to their original pack at any time (as long as the original pack occupies the same territory), or in certain instances travel as loners. Some will stay with their original packs for life and just be part of the pack. Those that choose to not leave or disperse will typically not give birth or raise young of their own.
Packs are very territorial and will even fight to the death to protect their territory. The removal or death of the alpha male or female sometimes destroys the pack structure with the remaining members "often" dispersing. We have seen the surviving alpha's traveling with several offspring and often siblings will travel in groups as well. We have even observed all surviving pack members sticking together with the surviving alpha locating a new mate. Just about anything is possible.
The soft release method of wolf reintroduction involves simply placing wolves that have been trapped from one location into a one-acre fenced enclosure for a period of months to acclimate them to their new environment. This "soft release" method was developed some years ago by the U.S.F.S., and then used by Mike Phillips in North Carolina to successfully release Carolina red wolves into the wild. Mr. Phillips was then brought into Yellowstone to duplicate this release method as part of the Yellowstone Wolf Recovery Team.
photo: National Park Service/Jim Peaco
The 1 acre acclimation pens were constructed of heavy gauge wire fence material 10 feet tall, round or oblong in shape with a two-foot wide inverted top. The shape was used to prevent any of the wolves from climbing out over the top of the enclosure. We found that wolves held in square cornered enclosures have the potential to gain momentum while circling the enclosure to reach the top. Wolves are also able to jump so high, that they often are able to jump and grab the chain link fence with their teeth and then pull themselves over. Inverting the top acted as a secondary backup. A four foot chain link ground apron was also added in case the wolves attempted to dig their way out.
Using this type of release is much more successful. By allowing the wolves to first become acclimated to their new surroundings the potential for them to take off and head home is greatly decreased. The key here is to keep the stress level, and the amount of human contact down to a minimum prior to the actual release. Keeping wolves in an acclimation pen is also advantageous in that researchers can choose the best time to release the wolves, and what better time to do so than when the wolves "safeway store on four legs"; elk are walking by the acclimation pen!
Using the "hard release" method is less successful. The wolves have a greater potential for getting into trouble and running for home. This type of release involves: trapping wolves from one area, transporting them to a new area in individual containers and then "kicking them out" into a new area without acclimating them to that area. This type of release was used in Idaho.
A combination of the two types of releases can be incorporated successfully. Two of the four releases in 1996-97 involved using both of these methods together.
Why is the Hard Release method less successful?
Wolves and wolf packs are very territorial and will kill or fight any wolves who have "invaded" their territory. When we captured wolves in Canada and transported them into Yellowstone and Idaho the wolves did not know that there had not been wolves in the release area for over 70 years. Plus, most of the wolves had never seen each other before being released. Hence, the wolves released into Idaho were under an extreme amount of stress and were in fear of their lives.
The wolves kept in the acclimation pens inside Yellowstone Park howled. They howled during the day and at night and during the 10 weeks they were kept in the acclimation pens not once did they hear a response. Wolves cannot resist a wolf howl and will automatically respond if they hear a howl, so that by the end of the 10 week period the newly released wolves were calm and did not fear being killed by other wolves.
The wolves released into Idaho scattered in most cases.
If you are visiting Yellowstone National Park during spring or winter the chances of seeing a wolf are actually quite good, given the right location and time of year. Chances of seeing a coyote are much greater.
For some, it can be difficult to distinguish between coyotes and wolves. Until you have actually seen a real wild wolf, in which case you will never mistake the two again. In general wolves are much larger than coyotes. The legs of a wolf appear much longer in proportion to its body; the legs and muzzle of a coyote are particularly delicate in appearance. Coyotes are rarely pure black or white in color. I have never seen one. Instead, they are often light to dark gray with rust or brown.
From 1995 to present, every pack of wolves that I viewed had at least one black member. That's not to say that you might not encounter a single gray individual, or an entire pack of gray wolves. As time goes on we see more and more gray or light colored wolves in Yellowstone. Wolves are larger than your average german shepard and massive in appearance. Note size of #194M's head in relation to Deb Guernsey's body in photo.
Coyote (Canis Latrans)
Appearance: delicate
Height: 16-20 inches
Length: 3.5-4.25 feet
Weight: 27-33 lbs
Color/Coat: varies, gray to tan with rust
Ears: long and pointed
Muzzle: long and narrow
Legs: thin and delicate
Appearance: massive
Length: 5-6 feet
Weight: 70-135 lbs – (larger in Yellowstone)
Color/Coat: varies, white to black to silvery gray
Ears: rounded and short
Muzzle: large, broad and blocky
Legs: thick and long
"The Wolf," The Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Species, by Dr. L. David Mech. Published by University of Minnesota Press.
"The Return of the Wolf," by Steve Grooms. Published by North Word Press.
"Return of a Predator: Wolf recovery in Montana," by Ed Bangs. Published by Western Highlands.
"Discovering Yellowstone Wolves," by James C. Halfpenny and Diann Thompson. (Self published)
"Looking At the Wolf", by Bruce Thompson. A publication of Teton Science School.
"The Way of the Wolf", by Dr. David Mech.. Voyageur Press.
"The Wolves Of Yellowstone", by Michael K. Phillips and Douglas W. Smith. Voyageur Press
"The Yellowstone Wolf–A guide and source book", Edited by Paul Schullery. High Plains Press
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Never Cry Wolf by Canadian author Farley Mowat is a classic. It's not about Yellowstone but it was groundbreaking in its observations of wolf behavior. Nobody had ever considered them as having such a highly evolved social structure.
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Wolf packs do not have a rigid hierarchy in the wild, they are instead families- what were previously considered the "alpha pair" are actually the breeding pair, and the rest of the pack consists of their offspring. Dr. L. David Mech, who originally popularized the alpha theory, has renounced it due to having recorded the initial research in captive wolves.
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happyhappyjoyjoy I love and grew up with this show. What episodes do you think are the best?
This is a much better final episode than PCA Confidential.
Horrible. How could the girls prove their point if Chase and Logan didn't even know Lola was pretending to be a guy. What idiots. I also agree with the boys. It is part of the boys' dorm and the girls can't just barge up there and then they refuse to leave it. Idiot Zoey also threatens to ban boys from the lounge just because of a dumb roof. Screw Zoey.
They seriously got mad when Logan was trying to scare those kids. Hello? That's THE POINT OF A HAUNTED HOUSE. IF YOU don't WANT TO BE SCARED don't EVEN SHOW UP.
THE BEST EPISODE. OF THE CENTURY.
This episode was so bone-chilling. It literally terrified me when the ghost went after them, and Zoey fell. One of my top favorites.
The ghost's psychotic laugh is unforgettable.
Too bad she just didn't stay in England forever so we don't have to watch her anymore. I would've been happy because she is so irritating.
Quinn & Logan are by far one of my favorite T.V. couples! They seem different on the outside, but they mesh so well together!
Well, it's the clip show episode. It's supposed to be flashbacks of what happened in the show. It's a pretty good clip episode, actually.
Because this one of most fun Zoey 101 episodes of all time and one of my second favourite Nickelodeon shows next to Drake and Josh especially because Drake and Josh was so funny back then and Zoey 101 was so fun back then.
It was a very nice episode because it was very unexpected.And so much fun.
So the chain fails and Coco still drives Zoey to the place. That's so infuriating.
I cheered when she got beat up. The fight she broke up wasn't even a good fight.
Mark's decision was biased. He chose Zoey because Quinn was supporting Zoey.


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Concrete Blocks Used in Great Pyramids Construction
4-Dec-2006 9:00 AM EST
Journal of the American Ceramic Society (Dec-2006)
Great, Pyramids, Concrete, Drexel, University, Barsoum
Newswise — In partially solving a mystery that has baffled archeologists for centuries, a Drexel University professor has determined that the Great Pyramids of Giza are constructed with a combination of not only carved stones but the first blocks of limestone-based concrete cast by any civilization.
Michel Barsoum, professor of materials engineering, shows in a peer-reviewed paper published Dec. 1 in the Journal of the American Ceramic Society how the Egyptian builders of the nearly 5,000-year-old pyramids were exceptional civil and architectural engineers as well as superb chemists and material scientists. Barsoum wrote the paper with Adrish Ganguly, a an alumnus who received a doctoral degree in materials engineering from Drexel, and Gilles Hug of the National Center for Scientific Research in France.
Their conclusions could lead to a seismic shift in the kind of concrete used in construction and provide developing nations a way to build structures utilizing inexpensive and easily accessible materials.
The longstanding belief is that the pyramids were constructed with limestone blocks that were cut to shape in nearby quarries using copper tools, transported to the pyramid sites, hauled up ramps and hoisted in place with the help of wedges and levers. Barsoum argues that although indeed the majority of the stones were carved and hoisted into place, crucial parts were not. The ancient builders cast the blocks of the outer and inner casings and, most likely, the upper parts of the pyramids using a limestone concrete, called a geopolymer.
To arrive at his findings, Barsoum, an Egypt native, and co-workers analyzed more than 1,000 micrographs, chemical analyses and other materials over three years. Barsoum, whose interest in the pyramids and geopolymers was piqued five years ago when he heard theories about the construction of the pyramids, says that to construct them with only cast stone builders would have needed an unattainable amount of wood and fuel to heat lime to 900 degrees Celsius.
Barsoum's findings provide long-sought answers to some of the questions about how the pyramids were constructed and with such precision. It puts to rest the question of how steep ramps could have extended to the summit of the pyramids; builders could cast blocks on site, without having to transport stones great distances. By using cast blocks, builders were able to level the pyramids' bases to within an inch. Finally, builders were able to maintain precisely the angles of the pyramids so that the four planes of each arrived at a peak.
Although these findings answer some of the questions about the pyramids, Barsoum says the mystery of how they were built is far from solved. For example, he has been unable to determine how granite beams — spanning kings' chambers and weighing as much as 70 tons each — were cut with nothing harder than copper and hauled in place.
The type of concrete pyramid builders used could reduce pollution and outlast Portland cement, the most common type of modern cement. Portland cement injects a large amount of the world's carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and has a lifespan of about 150 years. If widely used, a geopolymer such as the one used in the construction of the pyramids can reduce that amount of pollution by 90 percent and last much longer. The raw materials used to produce the concrete used in the pyramids — lime, limestone and diatomaceous earth — can be found worldwide and is affordable enough to be an important construction material for developing countries, Barsoum said.


a novel that setts off to explore the vague and possibly shady psychological paths where conviction mingles with violence. We first get to read a statement by the author about this story, in no way, is to be seen as promoting the tactics deployed by "Felham". But instead to reveal and discuss the mental and social states where such actions take place and are possible.
But unfortunately we get little of this. Or maybe we get what is intended to be shown (if I am to be nice). We get an endless row of technical descriptions and machoist longing for heroism. Somewhat like an animal rights Bond movie - but a book. I'd had enough after 77pages., I gave it a fair chance I believe. It's a pity, the subject is very little explored I feel, and I think anyone who is politically engaged (which to me sort of excludes parliamentarians) needs to reflect upon these issues. Especially since the level of the discussion on violent/non-violent action is so bad, so rigid and only gains the moralist-conservo-'liberal' mainstream-positioning kind of politics.


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Great Yarmouth Mercury > News > Education
Head 'confident' about school return but factory outbreaks 'remain a worry'
Published: 12:46 PM September 5, 2020 Updated: 3:03 PM October 12, 2020
Mel Fearns, headteacher at St George's Primary School in Great Yarmouth. Picture: Victoria Pertusa - Credit: Archant
A Norfolk head teacher has said while she is ready for the return of all 270 pupils next week, she knows coronavirus has a habit of "spreading its tentacles".
Mel Fearns, headteacher at St George's Primary School in Great Yarmouth, with pupils. Picture: Victoria Pertusa - Credit: Archant
Melodie Fearns, who runs St George's Primary in Great Yarmouth, said her staff felt "very confident" about the full-school reopening on Tuesday, September 8.
She said: "We've been open the whole way through the pandemic, but when non-keyworker children had the opportunity to return after May, uptake was low. We only had around 20-25pc attendance.
"That gave us a chance to experiment with how we'd run things come September. Initially, I was terrified. But now, we've got the mobile basins in corridors, half hour lunchtimes to minimise mixing and extend teaching time, we've added more desks to allow for social distancing and we've got enough PPE in stock for all our teachers to be protected.
"I don't feel scared about things from our end at all."
Pupils at St George's Primary and Nursery School celebrate its Ofsted report. Picture: St George's Primary and Nursery School - Credit: Archant
MORE: Head teachers 'ready and confident' about full school re-openingHowever, Ms Fearns said the thing she was "very concerned about" was local outbreaks - particularly in factories.
"We know coronavirus has a habit of spreading its tentacles", she explained.
"Factories remain a big worry for us. A very high proportion of our parents work at Bernard Matthews and Banham Poultry due to the catchment area.
"They seem to be the source of a lot of infections in Norfolk. It'll be awkward and difficult, but we'll need to find out which kids have parents who work there and make sure that if there is an outbreak, they don't come into school.
Teachers have revealed concerns about the knock-on effects of factory outbreaks in schools. Picture: Stuart Anderson - Credit: Archant
"Besides that, there's the fact that 'bubbles' are only partly-effective. If a child has to self-isolate, it's likely their siblings, who will be in another bubble, will have to self-isolate too.
"But the government is clear we should not be closing schools down.
"The only reason we'd shut would be if a local lockdown was imposed or an outbreak occurred."
Ms Fearns added: "Parents will know at my school we usually take a big-stick approach to attendance. If you look at county council figures, we probably have the highest proportion of fines for school non-attendance.
Banham Poultry in Attleborough, where there has been an Covid-19 outbreak. Picture: DENISE BRADLEY - Credit: Copyright: Archant 2020
"But we won't be penalising parents in the same way when we return. Yes, we'll ring you to find out why your child isn't in school, but you won't be prosecuted.
"We know that it's going to take time for people to regain their confidence in the system, but generally, pupils, staff and children are all desperate to be back."I'm confident this will be a very good term for everyone."


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 Edward Tufte (né en 1942 à Kansas City), personnalité américaine en informatique
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Resolved [org.springframework.http.converter.HttpMessageNotReadableException: I/O error while reading input message; nested exception is java.io.IOException: Found strange data: ?Color]
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A: Change the configuration of the ObjectMapper and add
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Antoinette is a Partner in RDJ's Employment Group. She has extensive experience providing practical and strategic legal advice to clients in a range of areas such as wrongful and unfair dismissal; discrimination; absenteeism and work related stress; performance management; temporary and contingent workers; collective redundancies; restrictive covenants and severance agreements. She also devises in-house training sessions and policies for clients in respect of grievance and disciplinary matters, dignity at work and social media.
Antoinette has particular interest in the specialist areas of transfer of undertakings (TUPE ), Vetting and social media in the workplace. She has spoken extensively at various events on legislative and other changes in those areas.
Her clients include multinationals and indigenous companies in the pharma, med-tech, technology, retail and manufacturing sectors, together with leading Universities and educational establishments.


Baikal ice is a beautiful, but lesser-known Russian attraction. For showing the uniqueness of this natural phenomenon we have organized a photo tour to Baikal. It took place between 11-17 March and was led by Hannes Becker, an outdoor and landscapes photographer from Germany.
There are more than 1.2 million followers on his Instagram account. Canon, Sony, Huawei, Lufthansa and NatGeo have chosen him as their ambassador. Hannes travels a lot around the world, but it was his first visit to Russia. Right after he came back from the tour, we had a chance to meet with him and ask him about his impressions from Baikal ice. Watch the video below.
If you want to see Baikal ice, you can book it here.


naniHULA (which in Hawaiian means beautiful dance) is an exciting way to experience the Aloha spirit of Hawaii, while maintaining physical and spiritual health. The expressive stories of each dance, together with the accompanying music, promote feelings of serenity, tranquility and a closer connection with each other and the environment. For those with a more adventurous side, naniHULA can help you to master the captivating and refreshing dances of Tahiti. So please join us at our studio as we would love to share our passion for Hula, Tahitian dance and polynesian culture with you!
Our dedicated Hula Dance and Tahitian Dance instructors offer dance lessons for people of all ages and skill level. Beginner, intermediate, experienced and children dance classes are available. If you are a little shy, bring a friend/partner or drop by the naniHULA dance studio and watch some of our dance lessons.
Our dance instructors perform regularly at various social events, festivals, competitions and on television.
Our dance instructors have studied and performed Hula and Tahitian dance in Hawaii and Japan. naniHULA also invites other professional Polynesian dance instructors from Hawaii and Tahiti to host dance and cultural workshops at the naniHULA dance school.


Ever since his parents split up, Abi had been living with his father. His mother wanted to see him very much but his father took him away and she couldn't find him. When our team arrived at her doorsteps and she laid eyes on her son, she was ecstatic. She never thought that she'd see him this soon. The fact that Abi asked to go back to his mother made her the more emotional. She praised God for listening to her prayers and bringing her boy back to her safely.


Interview with Voters - What else can go wrong?
International terrorism and extremists once again focused on Afghanistan and besides the Taliban and Haqqani Network, international terrorist groups, including ISIS, Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Al-Qaida and other extremist groups have been expanding their reach to the major cities of the country. Augmented of numerous terrorist groups has even concerned Taliban and they have been working to secure their identity and influence. They see some of the international terrorist group as a parallel structure. In the recent attempt to show their existence, Taliban issued their supreme leader, Mullah Omar's biography, but still the Islamic Caliphate is considered a challenge for the Islamic Emirate.
According to a confidential report to the Internal and Defense Committees of the Afghan Parliament, hundreds of terrorists have come to northern Afghanistan from South and Central Asian countries. Some areas of the Northern provinces are under the direct control of IMU and ISIS. The local authorities have been urging central government to support them in the war against these foreign fighters. Latest attacks against civilians and Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) in Badakhshan and Balkh provinces by foreign fighters are an alarm for the Afghans and their allies.
Presence of illegal armed groups of the Northern Alliance, drug mafia and arbitrary decisions of the local authorities in the north has created the atmosphere for growth of terrorist groups. The strategic transit route to Central Asian countries, poppy cultivation, arm smuggling from Russian and Central Asian counties, absence of adequate ANSF and ethnic structure has further encouraged the terrorist groups to choose Northern provinces as their strongholds.
Regional players and opponents of the US and NATO allies, including Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), see the immense existence of western allies in the region as a strategic threat and they have been trying to destabilize Afghanistan and back these terrorist groups in order to force the western allies to withdraw from the region. Russia has been using presence of these terrorist groups as an excuse to further brace its presence in Central Asia. ISI plays a significant role to support and influence local and foreign fighters.
Absence of a political opposition in Afghanistan has created a system of impunity. Weak political parties, dependent parliament and fragile civil society organizations are not in a position to hold the government accountable. Corruption has increased in all sectors, and the civil service system has vastly politicized. However the cabinet seats have already been alienated between The President and his CEO, but they repetitively disagreed on the selection of the cabinet members. The government and parliament have been trying to wedge technocrat and merit based appointments. So far the youth and women can't see their true representatives in the government.
During their campaigns and after the formation of the National Unity Government, The President and his CEO have promised for grave reforms, fighting corruption, gender mainstreaming, security, peace talks, inclusiveness of the government, but so far they have failed to fulfill their promises. High level appointments are based on the ethnic and political affiliations, which has greatly damaged accountability of the government. Fraud during the president election has resulted to the post election crisis and the government agreed to immediately reform the Election Commission. However the parliamentary election to be held this year, but yet the commission is not reformed.
There is not any unify strategy for peace talk, so the process is deadlocked. The President and his CEO, Abdullah Abdullah has their individual and insubstantial approaches. Before the Taliban leaderships were without an address to hold a peace talks, now it's the Afghan government. The President, the CEO and even provincial governors have their own stands for peace talks. The foreign policy of the government is not unified. During the last visit of the Afghan government leaderships to the USA, they have bypassed all protocols and norms. The President and his CEO organized their trip through their friends and campaign member's not through the ministry of foreign affairs or Afghan embassy in DC. Outcome of the visit was nothing significant, but it has increased tensions between The President and his CEO.
Foreign aid has been reduced and due to the uncertain condition the investment and revenue has dramatically reduced. In last one year, hundreds of millions of USD form the aid and revenue money is looted in corruption. In one scandal, 100 millions USD is looted at the ministry of defense, but yet corrupt officials have not been punished. Mafia has been trying to control the private sector and major development projects are either perched or closed. Only this year, the government could not facilitate higher education and jobs for more than hundred thousand high school graduates. Violence against women and human rights violation has increased and the process of transition justice is forgotten.
Increased activities of the ISIS near Kabul city, the barbaric and brutal killing of innocent 27 years young Afghan girl, Farkhunda a mile away from the Present Palace indicates ignorance of the government. Mobilization of the Afghan people across the country and even across the globe to advocate for justice, freedom and democracy, is unprecedented and shows Afghans frustration from the system. Thousands of Afghans people across the country protest against hunger, improper and irregular taxation, lack of service delivery by the government, poverty and unemployment.
Tensions between the President and his CEO over domestic issues, and absence of a cohesive foreign policy, increased foreign interference, poverty, unemployment aids reeducation and increased violence in the society, are the major factors of ongoing crisis in the country. Instead of resolving the issues, the leaderships of the country try to veil the reality and keep the nation and gloom. The ongoing approach of the government will only jeopardize the massive investment made in last one decade by Afghans and their allies.
The government is responsible to secure and build on the gains made by blood and treasure. Afghans are exhausted of dirty political games. Their family cannot be feed by news, fighting and politics; they need at least minimum means of living. If the leaderships of the government with the support of the US and the international community do not take grave and abrupt steps, the insurgents and terrorist group will further gain vigor and the National Unity Government can collapse.
The US government as the closest ally of the government, who was deeply engaged in the formation the National Unity Government, and who has invested by blood and treasure has equal responsibility to rescue the country. The history is witness that revolution in Afghanistan is rapid, but bloody. Prevention is better than cure, so the Afghan people, government and the international community should realize the sensitivity of the issue and immediately take action to tackle the challenges, before it gets too late. Otherwise Afghans and their allies will lament, except the terrorist organizations, mafia and the ISI.


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Green light for walkway from Donegal Town to Killymard
13:19 Thursday 16th of May 2019
Funding has been approved under the Community Involvement Scheme (CIS) for a walkway from Drumrooske, Donegal Town to Killymard church and school at Gortloskey.
This is great news for the local community who have long been campaigning for this project. The road leads to a primary school, a church an old church used as a community facility, and the local graveyard.
Known locally as the Lough Eske Road, this is the main route to two major hotels, numerous B&Bs as well and hundreds of homes and several businesses. It also links to two scenic tourist routes, the Lough Eske Drive and the Bluestack Drive.
Furthermore, it is used by many walkers, joggers and cyclists in the area.
Funding was approved on Tuesday at a workshop with the Roads Department and the councillors in the Municipal District (MD) of Donegal.
Speaking afterwards at the monthly MD meeting, Cllr Noel Jordan (SF) said: "This is a really important piece of infrastructure. It has been a huge health and safety concern for a number of years. It will be benefit children walking to school and people walking to church."
The councillor pointed out that a petition submitted in early 2015 had thousands of signatures.
"There is not a door that you knock on where people don't want to talk about it," he said. "It is a big issue for them.
"This is great news and I really welcome it."
Cllr Tom Conaghan (Ind) also welcomed the funding, saying: "It is unbelievable the amount of traffic on that road going to the hotels in that particular area."
He commended Area Roads Officer Mark Sweeney for the massive amount of preparation work that went into the project.
"I also thank the people that own the land and the farmers who are prepared to put health and safety first."
Cllr Seamus Maguire (Ind) is a past pupil of Scoil an Linbh Íosa which will be served by the walkway.
"I am well aware of the issues," he said. "I pay homage to the late Fr Eoghan O'Frighil whose commitment and drive brought that school to Killymard. I am very happy for principal Enda Nolan and acting Principal Catriona Boyle. This is a very proud day for them."
With local elections taking place later this month, this is the last sitting of the current membership of Donegal MD. Members thanked the various departments within the council for their support on the many projects and achievements over the term of the MD.


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It's no understatement to say that life has changed pretty profoundly of late. The cannonball of Covid has been mighty efficient in blowing holes in all our lives, and who knows if the dust will ever settle again. Paris might bear a big chunk of the French pandemic experience, but this scale of disruption is nothing compared to what the old Dame herself went through in the mid-19th century (when you really wouldn't have wanted to catch anything), when her daily rhythms and very foundations were well and truly shaken. If drastic change is the order of the day, then she's got more tales to tell than all of us put together. And in that story was a man with the biggest wrecking ball of all, Baron Haussmann, he of Boulevard Haussmann fame, and maybe that Miley Cyrus song. Who knows. Like a true Parisian pothole, allow me to fill you in.
Back in the early 19th century, most of Paris was a squalid, congested mess. Crime, poverty and severe overcrowding were rife, and living conditions for the city's poor were as bad as they could get, making it a hotbed of disease, riot and revolution. Even a century before the problem of its fetid and filthy narrow streets had been a major concern, and with a rapidly rising population, plenty of renovation plans had been suggested to improve the situation, though none were put into action until Napoleon I came into power in the early 1800s.
During his reign some major works were started including the city's canal and the famous Rue de Rivoli, though his downfall soon stopped progress in its tracks. For the next 35 years during the restoration of the monarchy and reign of Louis Phillipe, little more of substance was achieved (compared to what would come after at least) until Napoleon's moustachioed nephew came into power in 1848 as Napoleon III, and then things really got moving.
Keen to further the project and make his uncle's ambitious plans a reality, the new Emperor had none of the financial or bureaucratic contraints of his predecessors, thanks to his coup d'etat in 1851. His first project boss, prefect Jean-Jaques Berger, was moving too slowly, and so we meet his replacement Georges-Eugène Haussmann (pictured left) in 1853, an imposing 6'3″ figure of a man, employed for his energy, tenacity and problem-solving brilliance. And so the scene was perfectly set for 17 years of enormous upheaval and radical renovation that saw the old city practically demolished and a new one double the size spring up in its place.
There's far too much to detail here, but the works were as extensive as they could get. Much of medieval Paris was brutally swept aside, 12,000 buildings were razed, and kilometres of straight, wide boulevards cut through old neighbourhoods, lined with strictly regulated and uniform Haussmannian buildings (those on the Rue de Rivoli serving as the model, pictured right). Some of the city's most famous sights were constructed or improved during this time, including the Palais Garnier, Baltard's markets at Les Halles, gares du Nord and l'Est, and many of the city's theatres, mairies, bridges and places. New street furniture including lampposts, trees, kiosks and public toilets were added, as well as much-welcomed areas of green space in the form of improved city parks, quaint squares and the two bookend woods of Boulogne and Vincennes.
The city also doubled in size when in 1860 the annexation of Paris turned 12 arrondissements into today's 20, adding overnight 400,000 residents to its tally. Updated infrastructure was needed, and a new water distribution system, sewers and gas supply were swiftly installed. Not all opinions of the drastic change were positive however, and criticism had been mounting from the start, despite the new-look metropolis being lighter, more open, cleaner, healthier, more efficient and less congested. By 1870 it had reached crisis point, and with a change in the political wind and the Emperor increasingly bowing to pressure from his opposition, Haussmann was shown the door that January.
Work on his projects continued long after he was gone, and today you can't travel far through the capital without seeing his legacy at every turn. It's only in the Marais that you can get an idea of the narrow wiggling streets that existed before the wrecking ball had its way. And whether it's the Parisian streets of old or new that you prefer, until the leash of another lockdown tightens, I plan on taking full advantage of his light-filled avenues whilst I still can.
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A very good day to you. This is Imran Firasat from Spain. On 17th of August there was news published on your courageous site with the title "UK Muslims Call for a Political Jihad Against Imran Firasat". That news was an example of how intolerant, violent and aggressive Muslims have become by following Muhammad´s falsely created full-of-blood religion.
Today I come back to you with some latest movements related to the same matter. After I got the political Jihad threat from the Islamic group "Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK" based in United Kingdom, I had two options: Give up on my war against Islam or respond back more strongly to those Muslims in order to make them realize that we ex-Muslims are better people than they are, not cowards, and are capable of attacking back those who hurt us unnecessarily.
Today I had an appointment with the diplomats of the Embassy of the United Kingdom in Madrid, Spain. I have formally lodged an official complaint in the British Embassy against "Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK" which will be forwarded to the British police and all the relevant agencies of UK. I have explained to the UK authorities that how this Muslim group based in UK is fomenting hate speech, provoking the Muslims for fighting in the name of religion and spreading jihad messages into the society.
Through my complaint, I have asked the British authorities to declare this group a terrorist organization and ban it immediately as its acts should be considered serious crimes under the European and UK´s anti-terrorism law. The British diplomats have promised me that they are going to have a serious look at this complaint and the necessary actions will be taken as soon as possible. On the other hand the Spanish police are also studying this case and if they find this Islamic group guilty of committing crimes of hate speech and spreading terrorism in Europe, then this group will be declared a terrorist organization under the Spanish law, and its representatives will never be allowed to enter in the Spanish territory.
The intention behind submitting this complaint to the UK authorities is to respond back to the violent Muslims and leave a message to them that it is not anymore 2001. We are in 2012, much stronger, united and have woken up against the Islamic illusion and injustice. We are not going to tolerate any more their threats or violent acts. We will fight back but never in a violent way like them, in contrary we´ll adopt the legal measures, because we believe in law and order. They attack on us, we will kick them back. We are not cowardly, poor and illiterate people. We are modern, highly-educated, peace-loving and brave people who will take this fight until end in order to expose Muhammad and Islam´s false doctrine to the world. We are not afraid of Islamic violence anymore. We are desperate to free this world from Islam.
With this message I attach the scanning of a copy of the documents submitted to the British officials in Madrid, stamped by them as acknowledgement of receiving my complaint.
Imran Firasat is a hero.
We need more Imrans. We have a few in America (Walid Shoebat and others) but we need many more. Take care Imran.