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Imagine if you can estimate seasonal predictions as the Maya’s could! When will Spring begin, when it’s time for the harvest as fall starts? The Maya’s were so good at math, astrology and architecture, that the pyramids in Chitchen Itza can predict the beginning of spring and fall to the day exact! Every year, I get confronted with the accuracy of the Maya calendar by the way of the recurring seasonal traffic to a post I wrote back in 2008. The post where I describe my visit to the March Equinox in Chichen Itza Mexico.
Like clockwork the traffic returns a couple of days in advance of the date the spectacle is taking place, either March 20/21 or September 22/23.
With the tools of today, I wonder how good the old ancient Maya’s would have been to predict the expected results for the harvest, putting the corn into the ground right after March 21, the sign of the beginning of spring! More important, what can we, the analytics SEO junkies of today, learn from the old ways of predicting the seasonal coming of spring, or in our case, user search behavior!
I see a great series in historical research and analytics ahead of me for the coming summer! With the spring starting today, just like the pyramids in Chichen Itza show in the form of a wonderful show of sunlight and the main Pyramid; El Castillo, I found myself a new Summer Project!
If you ever get the chance to visit Chichen Itza during the Equinox, don’t hesitate, go!
Building on my post on the seasonal traffic I get on my San Francisco Tips website (the site is in Dutch), where I concluded most of Dutch folks are looking for their summer holiday in January!Today I just took a look at the day of the week that is driving most traffic, which most interesting implies the Dutch are blocking their Sunday for summer holiday research!
Below you can see the traffic on my San Francisco Tips website from December 1st, until January 24th on a daily basis. All the Sundays are highlighted, where these Sundays represent the day with highest number of visits of the week.
Apart from Christmas or New Year, it’s a pretty consistent picture!
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14731
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STAGE-DIRECTOR Consider for a moment the relationship of the men on a ship, and you will understand what I consider to be the relationship of men in a theatre. Who are the workers on a ship?
PLAYGOER A ship ? Why, there is the captain, the commander, the first, second and third lieutenants, the navigation officer, and so on, and the crew.
STAGE-DIRECTOR Well, and what is it that guides the ship?
STAGE-DIRECTOR Yes, and what else?
PLAYGOER The steersmanwho holds the wheel of the rudder.
PLAYGOER The man who controls the steersman.
STAGE-DIRECTOR And who is that?
STAGE-DIRECTOR And who controls the navigation officer?
STAGE-DIRECTOR And are any orders which do not come from the captain, or by his authority, obeyed?
PLAYGOER No, they should not be.
STAGE-DIRECTOR And can the ship steer its course in safety without the captain?
PLAYGOER It is not usual.
STAGE-DIRECTOR And do the crew obey the captain and his officers?
PLAYGOER Yes, as a rule.
STAGE-DIRECTOR And is that not called discipline?
STAGE-DIRECTOR And discipline what is that the result of?
PLAYGOER The proper and willing subjection to rules and principles.
STAGE-DIRECTOR And the first of those principles is obedience,is it not?
STAGE-DIRECTOR Very well, then. It will not be difficult for you to understand that a theatre in which so many hundred persons are engaged at work is in many respects like a ship, and demands like management. And it will not be difficult for you to see how the slightest sign of disobedience would be disastrous. Mutiny has been well anticipated in the navy, but not in the theatre. The navy has taken care to define, in clear and unmistakable voice, that the captain of the vessel is the king, and a despotic ruler into the bargain. Mutiny on a ship is dealt with by a court-martial, and is put down by very severe punishment, by imprisonment, or by dismissal from the service.
PLAYGOER But you are not going to suggest such a possibility for the theatre?
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14732
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This church was built in the late 10th or early 11th century. It is one of the most representative examples of the Mudéjar Romanesque style in its pre-classical phase. Construction began in stone and was terminated in brick (1087 and 1110). The exterior has a basilical floor plan.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14734
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Knowing the different types of feasibility studies can help you and your organization in assessing the feasibility of projects. Read this article by Ronda Bowen to learn about the different types of feasibility studies and how they can be used to evaluate projects in your company.... The two most popular species of fish, bettas, and goldfish, are at opposite ends of the spectrum. Bettas on average live little more than two years, while goldfish may live for decades.
Utensils: Separate utensils should always be used to prepare different types of foods. For example, never use the same chopping board or knife to prepare raw meat and ready-to-eat foods. For example, never use the same chopping board or knife to prepare raw meat and ready-to-eat foods.
Hello, Here I have 3 different types of Discus fish for sale. They are all healthy, eat hardy and very beautiful in color and shape! Reason for sale is these guys were meant for my children and were their responsibility which they grew tired of, in turn then became additional chores for the adults that I don't need so here they are!
A series of web pages by PBS that attempts to discuss the differences between dialects in the United States Language by Video Short videos demonstrating differences in English accents around the world.
It is likely that aquarium strains are hybrids of different wild species, but they are generally considered to be P. scalare. This species is found throughout a very large range in South America and most of the Amazon River Basin.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14737
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CESER developed a web database and co-developed a weather generator for the 2009 UK Climate Projections (UKCP09).
Regional and global climate model projections can only provide so much information. Vulnerability, impacts and adaptation assessments often require higher temporal and spatial resolution climate information.
DEFRA commissioned a weather generator tool that could be used within the context of the UKCP09 projections.
The aim was to ensure UK climate projections can be used in practical decision-making and engineering design.
The UKCP09 Weather Generator is a downscaling tool. It can be used to generate statistically plausible daily and hourly time series at a 5km resolution. These are consistent with the underlying 25km resolution climate projections.
The weather generator builds on well-established research pioneered by CESER researchers (Kilsby et al., 1998). It was created in collaboration with the University of East Anglia.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14739
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“Qi” (also spelled “Chi”) is the general Chinese term for our life energy. Qi animates matter, infusing it with life. It not only permeates the empty spaces between material objects, it is part of their composition. This life energy can be broken down into three frequencies known as Jing, Qi, and Shen. Jing, focused in the lower tan tien of the abdomen is the densest of these frequencies and is the energy which supports and sustains the physical body. Qi, focused in the middle tan tien in the area of the heart is the energy that composes our emotional etheric body and our meridian system. This frequency can feel very fluid. Shen, located in the upper tan tien in the area of the head, is the frequency of pure light and imbued with the energy of Spirit. These three frequencies of qi must function and be cultivated together as a unit and cannot be separated. Our physical body, much like a Russian doll resides in the center and inside our energy bodies which all operate like a hologram and must be addressed with a holistic approach for healing to occur.
Ultimately, no where in the foreseeable future will I adequately be able to explain to you the intricacies of what Qi actually is by using words; its a meaningless pursuit. The best that I can hope for, is to teach you the tools and meditative practices so that you can experience what Qi is for yourself. It must be experienced to be understood.
Qigong (also spelled Chi Kung/Chi Gong) translates to mean the practiced study and skill of balancing, harmonizing, and deepening our connection with the essence of life. The heart and soul of classical qigong has a very esoteric, shamanistic quality to it and is based on the classics of Taoist philosophy, Zen Buddhism, and Native American traditions. Qigong practice at its core is learning to live a life that is aware, relaxed, and in balance. It is the practice and development of one’s inner vertical pole with heaven and earth while holding center; and the devotion, gratitude, love, and compassion that naturally arise out of this relationship.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14741
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Make Lacrosse An Olympic Sport Again Now!!! For Men and Women!!!
Hello Everyone, my name is Jack, and I believe that Lacrosse should be in the Olympics. I just finished my spring season and now I am going to play high school lacrosse next year. So I have a pretty strong opinion on lacrosse being in the olympics.
Lacrosse was only put in the Olympics in the 1904 and the 1908 Summer Games, and then taken out for this reason: To make it onto the Olympic programme, a sport first has to be recognised: it must be administered by an International Federation which ensures that the sport’s activities follow the Olympic Charter. If it is widely practised around the world and meets a number of criteria established by the IOC session, a recognised sport may be added to the Olympic programme on the recommendation of the IOC’s Olympic Programme Commission.
But the good news is, Lacrosse is likely to return to the olympics shortly, and for good reason; In the U.S., no sport has grown faster at the high school level over the last 10 years. Lacrosse has also been the fastest growing sport at the NCAA level over the last six years, and the game’s taking off internationally.
Putting Lacrosse back into the olympics would make so many people happy. And not just the MLL and College players. Youth Lacrosse players would also be overjoyed by this change. And as a 14 year old I can certainly say that I love to watch lacrosse games and videos all the time. I can't get enough of them. So if the International Olympic Committee and the President of the Organising Committee for the Olympic Games would allow this, so many people would benefit from it.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14742
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An array of sensor patches is arranged in the seat at specific points. The points are chosen to best pick up the pressure points of the body that vary with body shape. For example, across the shoulder blades, the headrest, under the thighs and buttocks. Infi-tex sensors can measure the position and relative pressure of these points. The data is combined to make an identification.
In scenarios where a car is shared by multiple drivers and passengers, once an identification has been made, the vehicle can be setup for their personal convenience and safety. This could be seat position, air con, music, destination information or driving style. Increased popularity of shared ownership vehicles and driverless cars mean giving individual users a personal experience will become increasingly important. As a further development, this data could be combined other biometric data as a security signature for ownership, insurance and payments.
This project is currently at concept level.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14743
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4/26/2010 1 Frontal Lobes (~1/3 of cortex) • Motor control, including speech • Higher cognitive or executive functions • Self-regulation (behavioral inhibition,... Frontal Lobe Functions • Chayer and Freedman 549 found principally in fronto-subcortical dysfunction, and is common in Parkinson’s disease.
primarily tests of parietal lobe function (that is, the specificity Two methods were used to assess the degree of correspond- and PPV of the interlocking finger figure task for parietal lobe ence between the interlocking finger figure scores and other dysfunction was high). (See table 1.) Clock setting and clock tests of neuropsychological dysfunction: (1) a simple correla- face construction... Learn brain function neuropsychology with free interactive flashcards. Choose from 500 different sets of brain function neuropsychology flashcards on Quizlet.
white matter of the parietal lobes had low density areas with CT scanning, and the MRI revealed dilatation of the ventri- cles and basal cisterns, and thickening and abnormal smoothness of the cerebral cortex, especially in the frontal and parietal lobes. The white matter was generally thin, with multiple regions of abnormal signals supratentorially, and Developmental Medicine & Child... Regions of the Frontal Lobes 1. Primary Motor Cortex (M1, Brodmann area 4): The primary motor cortex is located on the precentral gyrus just rostral to the central sulcus.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14744
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Some of you know how much I love to talk about coprolites, otherwise known as paleofeces (literally, “old poo”). Coprolites, preserved animal or human feces, are one line of direct evidence that reveals what people of the past ate. They are of great scientific and comedic value; rarely does something so funny (on a middle school level) have such serious scholarly implications. In this case, it could change our understanding of how and when people migrated to the Americas.
“These two distinct technologies were parallel developments, not the product of a unilinear technological evolution. “Blind testing” analysis of coprolites by an independent laboratory confirms the presence of human DNA in specimens of pre-Clovis age. The colonization of the Americas involved multiple technologically divergent, and possibly genetically divergent, founding groups” (Jenkins et al. 2012).
Check out this link for a funny description of how feces becomes fossilized, then ponder the fact that dried-out old turds are helping scholars answer the biggest questions of American archaeology.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14746
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Burkina Faso, a land-locked nation in the Sahel of Africa, has enjoyed a relatively long period of peace and security, as opposed to many of its neighbors in the region. However, its people still face many challenges, including poverty, inequity for women and youth, and vulnerability to climate change. Winrock’s projects in the West African nation have promoted increased participation of women and girls in the educational, political and economic activities of their home country. Other project work includes the introduction of multiple-use water services that enable poor rural households to improve their health, hygiene, food security and income.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14748
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It is no accident that in the main cities of Albania, pharmacies can be found in every corner, often adjacent to each other. Albania ranks among the countries with the highest number of pharmacists in relation to the population.
In the European Union there are about 84 pharmacies per 100,000 inhabitants, according to data published by Eurostat.
In Albania there are on average of 86 pharmacists per 100 thousand inhabitants, 2 more than the average of European Union countries, according to the number of pharmacists from the Order of Pharmacists and INSTAT for the population.
According to data from the Order of Pharmacists of Albania there are about 2458 pharmacists who have fulfilled the first cycle of recertification.
Among the European Union countries Malta has registered the highest number of pharmacists in Europe per 100 thousand inhabitants, followed by Belgium with 122 and Italy with 116.
In Greece and France there are 105 and 104 pharmacists per 100 thousand inhabitants, about 20 more than in Albania.
Romania, the United Kingdom, Bulgaria and Portugal have as many pharmacists as the EU average.
In countries like Austria and Germany, compared to Albania, the number is lower. According to data from Eurostat, in Austria there are about 71 pharmacists per 100 thousand inhabitants, while in Germany there are about 64 pharmacists, 20 less.
The lowest number of pharmacists has Holland with 21 pharmacists and Denmark with 51 pharmacists per 100 thousand inhabitants.
The pharmaceutical market is experiencing a flourishing era during this decade, and the prospect is being seen with optimism by the big operators. The country's population, with official data (INSTAT) in 2018, is 300 thousand inhabitants less than in 2008, but the use of pharmaceuticals during this period has increased by 1.2 times, while the pharmaceutical market has expanded by 2.2 times in value. Population aging, increased morbidity, longer life expectancy, and greater attention to healthcare have boosted the sales. During 2017, the drug market reached a value of ALL 31 billion (230 million euros), expanding by 16% compared to the previous year. Domestic drug production accounts for approximately 10% of the drug market. While drug imports increased by about 16% during 2017, the domestic production has expanded the market by 0.8%.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14749
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NASA - Earth's 'Tipping Points': How Close Are We?
Click the following links to visit the AGU resource pages for the "Tipping Points" press conference.
> NASA's main AGU 2007 page Abrupt changes in climate are now an established phenomenon in Earth's history, and there is growing concern that our planet may be at a "tipping point" of dramatic climate change, this time due to human factors. Scientists from across different disciplines are now looking at many parts of the Earth system for signs of such pivotal shifts either already underway or likely to happen in this century.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14750
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The quality of education has awakened the interest in researchers worldwide because it is an important aspect in solving the problems in education which can be studied as a complex social system; and of course, there are several ways to model a complex social system. The objective of this paper is to propose a model that deals with problems in education among knowledge societies in situations where conventional analysis is insufficient in describing the intricacies of realistic social phenomena and social actors. We use the Distributed Agency methodology that requires the use of several computational techniques and interdisciplinary theories.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14751
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Information: This is the highest grade of white tea available before one enters the stratosphere in pricing for white teas such as Peony White Needle Tea. Pai Mu Tan leaves are plucked from a special varietal tea bush called Narcissus or chaicha bushes. Secondly the leaves are not steamed or pan-fired (the process used in green teas). The leaves are naturally withered and dried in the sun. If mechanical drying is required it is a baking process at temperatures less that 40°C. Thirdly only special ‘two leaves and a bud’ are selected. These leaves must show a very light green almost gray white color and be covered with velvet peach fuzz down. White teas that are withered in conditions that are too hot with become reddish and in conditions that are too cold they will become blackish.
You will see on this Pai Mu Tan that the tea maker struck the perfect balance between solar and indoor withering resulting in a perfect white tea.
Researchers at the Linus Pauling Institute in Oregon tested white teas on selected rates to test for the ability of white teas to inhibit natural mutations in bacteria and to protect the rates from colon cancer. Interestingly, white teas were found to be more effective than green tea in inhibiting the early stages of cancer but researchers were quick to point out that their study was on rats and the effects should not be extrapolated to humans. The researchers also discovered that white tea contains higher levels of caffeine compared to green tea brewed under the same conditions. They suggested that this could occur because white tea oxidizes during withering whereas in green tea the oxidation process is stopped early in the tea making process by steaming or panfiring. Hot tea brewing method: When preparing by the cup, this tea can be used repeatedly (à la chinoise) - about 3 times. The secret is to use water that is about 180°F or 90°C. Place 1-2 teaspoons of leaves in your cup and let the tea steep for 3 minutes. Then begin enjoying a cup of enchantment - do not remove the leaves from the cup. Once the water level is low - add more water, and so on - until the tea flavor is exhausted. Alternatively for 1 time use, add boiling water and steep for 3-5 minutes according to taste. Milk or sugar will mask the delicate characters of this tea and are not recommended. Look at the pattern of the leaves - they foretell life.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14755
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Failure to pay income taxes can lead to an IRS tax lien.
1 What Happens When the IRS Puts a Lien on a House?
2 How Can I Check If I Have a Tax Lien?
3 How Do I Purchase Real Estate That Has Federal Tax Liens?
Dealing with an IRS tax lien adds a lot of stress to a property owner's life. The lien makes it difficult to sell the property and results in a negative report on your credit history. An IRS lien is sought when you fail to pay income taxes even after receiving a notice of IRS intent to seek a lien. An IRS lien can remain in place for up to 10 years, and the IRS can refile a lien under certain circumstances.
Contact the IRS Centralized Lien Unit by phone (see Resources) to request a letter showing the updated lien payoff amount. This is the amount you must pay to release the lien. The amount owed includes the taxes, penalties, interest and fees paid to record the lien. The payoff amount increases over time.
Wait for a letter from the IRS with the current amount that must be paid to release the lien.
Send payment for the amount of the lien to the IRS. You can pay by money order, certified check, cashier’s check or credit card.
Wait for release of the lien. The IRS is required to send a Certificate of Release of Federal Tax Lien through the mail within 30 days after the lien is paid. If you do not receive the certificate of release, call the IRS and ask for a copy.
If you can prove that a lien should not have been filed, you can appeal and request that the IRS withdraw the lien. This would be an option if you paid the taxes before the lien was filed or the IRS filed the lien too soon. For example, a lien would be filed too soon if it was established before the date by which you were required to make payment to avoid the lien.
If you do not remove a lien, the IRS can seek a levy against your property. A levy gives the IRS title to your home, and they sell it to pay for the tax debt.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14756
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Prescription drugs are necessary for combating diseases and chronic ailments. They have helped in bringing down the mortality rate all over the world. They are generally lab tested and marketed only if they pass the pharmaceutical rules and regulations set by the government. Unfortunately, these drugs can also be used in the wrong way and cause severe health injury.
Some people substitute illegal drugs like cocaine and heroin with prescription drugs. An overdose of prescription drugs can even cause death. Individuals who take prescription drugs for a long period suffer from the adverse consequences of these medicines. In the following, you will find a list of five prescription drugs that can have harmful side effects if taken without medical prescription.
Prednisone is a medicine that can be used in ailments like poison ivy for a shorter duration. This medicine is beneficial when used under the guidance and observation of a doctor. If used for a long period it can affect the patient’s health in a negative way. Some of the health disorders that can result from misuse or long-term use of prednisone is cataract, intestinal bleeding, osteoporosis, hypertension, peptic ulcers and diabetes.
Chemotherapy drugs are used for demolishing the body cells that have been affected by cancer. One such drug is methotrexate. Long-term use of these drugs can cause congenital abnormalities, lung diseases, kidney toxicity, and fetal death.
Blood thinners are very dangerous sort of medicines. They are used for suppressing heart attacks. Coumadin is a very commonly used blood thinner. Long-term use of blood thinners makes the patients prone to heavy bleeding that can cause death.
Lopressor and Tenormin are two Beta blockers that doctors prescribe when the patient is suffering from high blood pressure. These drugs change the way the heart works and reacts. They can also weaken the heart and cause a drop in libido.
A variety of painkillers is available in the market but abuse of these drugs can pose a threat to your life. OxyContin and Percocet overdose or misuse can cause severe breathing trouble and heart related problems.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14757
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According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, prices for new cars were 42.64% higher in 2019 versus 1983 (a $6,395.48 difference in value).
Between 1983 and 2019: Cars experienced an average inflation rate of 0.99% per year. In other words, cars costing $15,000 in the year 1983 would cost $21,395.48 in 2019 for an equivalent purchase. Compared to the overall inflation rate of 2.62% during this same period, inflation for cars was lower.
In the year 1983: Pricing changed by 2.57%, which is above the average yearly change for cars during the 1983-2019 time period. Compared to inflation for all items in 1983 (3.21%), inflation for cars was lower.
Years with the largest changes in pricing: 1975 (8.59%), 1980 (8%), and 1979 (7.94%).
Therefore, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, $15,000 in 1983 has the same "purchasing power" as $21,395.48 in 2019 (in the CPI category of New cars).
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking the Consumer Price Index for New cars in 1953. In addition to cars, the index produces monthly data on changes in prices paid by urban consumers for a variety of goods and services.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14765
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Esther belonged to God's special people, the Jews. Esther and many other Jews lived in the land called Persia. Persia was a long way from their own land.
The king of Persia was angry with the queen and he sent her away. Then he searched for another wife who would be the new queen. He chose Esther.
One of the king's chief officials, called Haman, hated the Jews and he plotted to destroy them. But Esther's uncle Mordecai asked Esther to speak to the king to save the Jews. Although Esther was the queen, Mordecai was asking her to do a dangerous thing. People could not go to see the king if he had not invited them. But Esther did what Mordecai asked. The king was pleased with her and listened to her. The king gave to the evil Haman the punishment that Haman had wanted to give to the Jews.
The book of Esther does not mention the name of God. This is strange for a book that is in the Bible. Sometimes God seems to be silent. We might even think that he does not care about us. The writer of the book of Esther probably wanted his readers to realise that God is always in control. Although we cannot see God, he is always doing things in the world. Nobody can stop his plans. The events in the book of Esther show us that God is in control.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14767
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Are you looking for tools to gain awareness of your interests as well as careers, and college majors? Building career awareness is the first fundamental step in the career planning process to help you unlock your potentials. Finding the correct career tool is a fundamental step to identifying and achieving their career goals. You need a right tool to identify the connection between interests, careers, and college majors.
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) assessment is the most widely used personality assessment in the world – more than 2 million assessments worldwide each year.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14770
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Dr. Michael V. Scanlon is a chief engineer at the US Army Research Laboratory, with a specialization in acoustics and EM sensing. So ‘why’ is Mr. Scanlon coming to Lea County…? Think: MINING.
With on-going federal, state and local agencies working to reduce mining noise – lowering noise exposure, reducing worker hearing loss and achieving compliance with national noise standards – an ACOUSTIC TECHNOLOGY could potentially greatly benefit the New Mexico mining industry.
The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has promulgated Health Standards for Occupational Noise Exposure for the metal, nonmetal, and coal mining industry in an effort to reduce the number of miners who will experience a material impairment of hearing.
The developed Noise Control Resource Guides deal with noise controls that are available on types of mining equipment typically used in different mining environments: surface and underground mining, as well as mills and preparation plants.
In addition, ‘noise pollution’ is a topic that the mining industry manages regularly.
Community noise complaints can lead to costly regulatory investigations and requirements for operational limitations and constraints.
ENTER: Dr. Michael V. Scanlon. As a chief engineer at the US Army Research Laboratory with a specialization in acoustics, Dr. Scanlon has applied his knowledge and technology solutions to a variety of apparatus. The Army Lab’s tagline is, “WARFIGHTER FOCUSED”. As one might deduce, “STEALTH” is an important concept and function of the Army.
An acoustics technology of a caliber meeting army demands might be of interest to the mining industry, as well as related industries, including oil and gas.
New Horizons Foundation (NHF) is pleased to welcome Dr. Scanlon in April, and will be working with him and the federal lab on potential applications for his technology for the oil & gas, mining and other industries in New Mexico, and beyond.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14772
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The age of retirement in the US is rising, and will continue to rise in the future, according to Gallup’s Economy and Personal Finance survey — the average retirement age is 61, up from 57 just two decades ago.
Most non-retired Americans plan on retiring at the age of 66, which is up from 60 in 1995, according to the same Gallup poll.
According to Today.com, data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics also show that for workers 55 and over, the labor force participation rate, which includes both the employed and those who would like to be employed, changed its direction in the early 1990s. About 30% of those 55-and-older were working in the early 1990s. Since 2008, 40% of the 55+ have remained in the work force.
In the early 1990s, about 11% of those 65 and older remained in the workforce. By contrast this April, 19% remained at work, according to the most recent monthly calculations from the BLS. The pattern continues for those 75 and older. In the 1990s, 4% of the population over 75 remained in the workforce. Since December, it has been above 8% each month.
We blame a lot of the rising retirement age numbers on what happened in 2008, and rightfully so. However, these stats show that the retirement age numbers where already on the rise — 2008 just set us back a little further.
How Was the Gallup Poll Conducted?
The Gallup poll was based on telephone interviews conducted from April 4th – 14th with a random US sample of 2,017 adults. There is a sampling error rate of ±3 percentage points for the full group, and a ±5 percentage point rate for the sample of 636 retirees.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14773
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Name the organs of the sensory system and describe their location and functions.
Identify terminology related to the eyes, ears, nose, and throat (the sensory system).
Define meanings of combining forms, prefixes, and suffixes of sensory system terminology.
List and explain clinical procedures and laboratory tests.
Describe common conditions and diagnoses associated with each part of the sensory system.
Recognize and define abbreviations that pertain to the sensory system.
Interpret the medications commonly used for individual sensory systems.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14774
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Rocket Lab’s “Photon” satellite platform, on the right, is shown at the company’s factory alongside an upper stage of the Electron rocket.
Rocket Lab’s primary business is building and launching small rockets, which send spacecraft about the size of a refrigerator into orbit. The company’s Electron rocket is priced at about $6.5 million to $7 million per launch but now, due to the expanded capabilities provided by Photon, Beck said the price “goes anywhere up” from there.
Photon will give satellite companies a new option for testing and operating technologies in space. Previously, a satellite company that wants to launch a sensor for imaging or analytics would need to build its own hardware to house and power that technology. But Rocket Lab’s Photon will give satellite technologies an option that reduces the cost and risk involved with building a spacecraft.
“Launch was the first bit that we needed to solve … but it always seemed crazy to me” that the rocket builder did not also build the hardware for a satellite, Beck said. Photon means satellite companies don’t need to “invest millions of dollars” in bringing together a team and manufacturing complex space hardware.
The company calls Photon a highly-evolved version of the company’s “kick stage,” which Rocket Lab has successfully used four times to deliver payloads to specific orbits.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14775
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Fields of an oscillating electric dipole.
Constructs an instance of the experiment where the dipole has a constant moment "p0" added to an oscillation of amplitude "p1" at a frequency "omega".
An RGB frame-buffer accessible window = < title, width, height, byte-buffer >.
Consturcts a new OutputWindow = < Title, Width, Height, zero-buffer >.
The overall time offset before the image charges start moving.
The rgb version of output which now has the full (width,height) dimensions, with the additional information (if any) computed from the assumed symmetry of the image.
The image as actually computed, which depending on the symmetry can be either 1/4 or 1/2 or the full final image written to file and displayed in "window".
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14776
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"token_count": 174
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Coal mining in Appalachia may bring to mind the archetypal soot-covered miner working deep underground. But in the last 30 years, a big percentage of coal mining has been done under the sun. Surface mining and a technique dubbed “mountaintop removal” have been controversial from the start for their use of explosives and heavy equipment to dig through soil and bedrock to get at coal seams from above.
Yet information about where and how much of this mining has taken place has been hard to come by. Now, reports Yessenia Funes at Earther, researchers have created a new mapping tool to quantify the impacts of surface mining in Appalachia.
Researchers from Duke University and the environmental nonprofits SkyTruth and Appalachian Voices used new web-based mapping tools and Landsat satellite imagery to study land use in the Appalachian coal belt over the last 31 years. They found that since the 1970s, surface mining has impacted 7.1 percent of central Appalachia. The research appears in the journal PLOS ONE.
To create their model, they focused on 74 counties in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. They then analysed more than 10,000 satellite images taken of both visible and invisible light in these counties over the last three decades with a computer algorithm.
It assessed each pixel to determine the “greenness” of each 100-square-foot by 100-square-foot section of the images. The algorithm was capable of identifying any area that was not a road or city and appeared devoid of vegetation as a potential mining site, with about 83 percent accuracy.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14778
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As an Ofsted registered setting we are required to ensure that the children aged 5 and below are supported and enabled to develop in line with elements of the EYFS curriculum. We do not however have to evidence children’s development and learning in the same way as a school or nursery. Our staff will ensure the children who come to us from Reception classes are encouraged to play and grow in confidence whilst being supported through their transition from early years to key stage 1. The playworkers will observe the children’s play and evidence their progress in what we call ‘Play Profiles’, comments and images of the children progressing along their journey with us each term, that parents can take home at the end of the year.
Play is a fundamental right for all children.
Learning through play is a natural process.
Children use play to explore, direct, interact and socialise.
A biological, psychological and social necessity.
Fundamental to the healthy development and wellbeing of children.
Freely chosen, personally directed and intrinsically motivated.
Children determine and control the content and intent of their play, by following their own instincts, ideas and interests.
The prime focus and essence of playwork is to support and facilitate the play process.
The role of the playworker is to support children in the creation of an environment in which they can play.
The playworker’s response to children playing is based on sound up to date knowledge of the play process and reflective practice.
Playworkers recognise their own impact on the play environment.
Playworkers choose an intervention style that enables children to extend their play.
A playworker’s intervention is a balanced risk between the developmental benefit of play and the wellbeing of children.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14780
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"token_count": 356
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Last night I listened to a powerful speaker, Steve Chalke, and learned about Stop the Traffik; an organization committed to the abolishment of human trafficking, the second most lucrative crime worldwide.
Chalke reminded me that when people asked William Wilberforce what they could do to help move Parliament’s hand to abolish the slave trade in England, he told them to stop taking sugar in their tea. In other words, government listens when consumers affect the economic balances of our societies and in the early 1800s, the slaves worked on the sugar plantations. But if no one bought the sugar…they wouldn’t need the slaves.
Forty-three percent of the world’s chocolate comes from cocoa beans harvested in Cote D’Ivoire (the Ivory Coast) of Africa. An estimated 12,000 children have been trafficked to harvest these cocoa beans. No candy bar is worth eating if I know one child has been separated from Mom and forced to work.
Thanks to the Internet and our access to information, we can make knowledgeable consumer decisions relatively easily. Websites and companies like Equal Exchange allow us to learn how to purchase our daily pleasures that are not grown in the United States–mainly coffee, tea, and chocolate. Some tea companies deal exclusively with fair trade teas such as Rishi and Fair Trade Teas. But many tea companies offer some fair trade teas in their selections, and it’s always worth asking.
It’s been said ignorance is bliss and I say, it’s true. Life is easier when I don’t know that the small decisions I’m making affect the lives of others in dramatic ways. But my bliss cannot be my goal. I sang, “Jesus loves the little children…All the children of the world” to my daughter tonight with new understanding. Her innocence and safety has been protected through deep sacrifices on my part. Does that mean my anthropology professors in college were right and I do this because I’m programmed to protect my genes? What a sad testimony to the human spirit that would be! No, I may not be able to take every child under my roof, but if by asking a few questions, spending some extra pennies, and sharing what I know I can help protect another child’s innocence and safety, I will.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14783
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 485
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Common toad is a species of toad found in large parts of Europe, western region of North Asia and parts of northwest Africa. The species is mainly nocturnal. The toad contains toxins in its skin.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14787
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 44
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Scott Kelly experienced thickening of the carotid artery and retina, weight loss, shifts in gut microbes, and a lot more.
Scientists compared Scott Kelly to identical twin Mark Kelly after Scott spent 340 days in orbit on the International Space Station and Mark remained Earth-bound. Both are now retired as NASA astronauts, and Mark is running for a US Senate seat in Arizona.
In research published on Thursday, scientists compared Scott Kelly to identical twin Mark Kelly after Scott spent 340 days in orbit on the International Space Station and Mark remained Earth-bound. Both are now retired as NASA astronauts, and Mark is running for a US Senate seat in Arizona.
Scott Kelly during the flight experienced thickening of the carotid artery and retina, weight loss, shifts in gut microbes, reductions in cognitive abilities, DNA damage, changes in gene expression, and a lengthening of the ends of chromosomes called telomeres, scientists said.
After returning home, the telomere elongation was replaced by accelerated shortening and loss, a potentially negative consequence for cellular health, they said.
The study will help scientists better understand the changes astronauts undergo during long-term space travel, crucial knowledge as NASA contemplates human expeditions to the Moon and Mars.
Scientists noted changes in the expression of Scott Kelly’s genes while in space, with most - but not all - returning to normal after six months back on Earth. A small percentage related to the immune system and DNA repair failed to return to normal, however, indicating potential lasting damage at the genetic level.
Researchers identified five possible causes for the genetic changes, including space radiation and the weightlessness of a zero-gravity environment. The space station where Scott Kelly lived orbits below the Van Allen radiation belt, a shell of energetic charged particles built up outside Earth’s protective magnetic field.
“Radiation is much lower than what we expect it to be going to Mars,” said Steven Platts, deputy chief scientist at NASA’s Human Research Program.
Scott Kelly’s immune system worked fine in space and a flu vaccine administered in orbit performed just as it would on Earth, the study found. NASA called a strong immune system critical for lengthy space missions to safeguard astronauts from disease-causing microbes in the spacecraft environment.
Researchers are planning another years-long study to build on Thursday’s results. “Put me in coach, I’m ready to go,” Scott Kelly joked.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14788
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Or maybe not so funny, but being your colleague’s name?
While good sense of humor is great strength in social life, it easily distracts us from the problem we are solving. In tests it is just additional load for our brains.
But the second example isn’t related to humour. “What’s wrong with it?” you may ask. A problem here is social impact of a personalization.
Imagine situation where this code was written by senior developer and he has used his name and surname in the test data.
A person who just joined the company needs to make changes to this test as part of her new task. If she wants to change it, she may think, if it is allowed to change the name, does it have any meaning, is there a practice to name data after yourself. Would it be offensive if she deletes unneeded tests with senior developer’s name and then adds a new one with her name? This looks like a small issue - it is easy to ask that person right? But what if he is on month long vacation? Or maybe there’s another reason why it is hard to reach him. Situations like this add additional load for our brains.
Personal details prevent us from cleaning after ourselves. And they must be avoided. In addition irrelevant details disguise the real meaning of test data and thus fail to communicate test’s intent. For example, it is not clear if we are working with a person that has to be our employee or not.
Test data values should communicate their meaning well. I use boring names like CustomerName, CustomerSurname. You may develop different naming convention, it does not really matter as long as it helps communication. If I need a list of multiple names, I suffix values with numbers - TestCustomer01. It helps tracing failed tests so that you can quickly spot if your naming maps to the correct order of elements in the resulting list.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14790
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"token_count": 402
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Teeth whitening is an increasingly popular and safe dental procedure that can instantly refresh your smile. It works quickly to whiten stained or discoloured teeth, leaving a fresh youthful appearance.
As we age, our teeth often become darker due to changes in the mineral structure of the tooth. This may be caused by tobacco, coffee, tea, red wine and even antibiotics. Tooth discolouration may also occur following dental trauma, orthodontic treatment and root canal therapy.
We offer patients the choice between in-chair or take home treatment. With in-chair whitening, a light-activated tooth whitening gel is applied to the teeth whilst you sit comfortably in the dental chair for about one hour. During this time you are able to listen to music or watch television and chill.
Take-home bleaching can be done at your own pace, which normally takes up to several weeks to see results.
A combination of in-chair and take-home whitening generally achieves the best and longest-lasting results.
The effectiveness and final result may vary for each individual, and it is essential that your teeth are properly assessed before treatment to give you the best result possible.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14792
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"token_count": 242
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Five years after the launch of YouTube, the number of people capable and willing to document their own lives and upload video to the web has grown exponentially. One of the new forms of documentary filmmaking currently emerging as a direct result of this, is the collaborative documentary.
The One Day on Earth project is one the most ambitious examples, trying to paint a picture of nothing less than life on planet Earth. The project is both a time capsule and a celebration of the individual. It boasts participants from every country in the world, thanks in part to technical support from the United Nations Development Program, which sent digital cameras to disadvantaged areas. On October 10, 2010 (10/10/10), more than 8,000 people filmed what was important to them. The project is a celebration of human diversity and connection, a quality that is magnified in the combined project.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14793
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"token_count": 172
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With assemblies, even more than with parts, the ability to visualize the geometry is highly important to the success of a modeling project. Between manipulating the view and manipulating the model, you have to be able to see all sides of geometry. Add to that section views, transparency, and mixed-mode display with shading and wireframes, and you have some extreme visualization power at your fingertips.
Whether you are working in parts or assemblies, manipulating the view is one of the most important and frequent things that you will do in SolidWorks. You can customize and disable the Heads-Up View toolbar, shown in Figure 3.1, by using the same method that you use for all other toolbars, through the Tools⇒Customize dialog box.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14796
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"token_count": 151
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..... Click the link for more information. , class Magnoliopsida, order Magnoliales, family Myristicaceae.
See G. Milton, Nathaniel's Nutmeg (1999).
Common spice considered to be an aphrodisiac in many cultures. Source of myrisiticin, a mild central nervous system stimulant and euphoric. Some people grind down a nut for fresh nutmeg and take it as a way to get high. Be aware large doses are poisonous and can cause miscarriage. As an intoxicant, can lead to hallucinations, delirium and days of nausea and headaches. Used as an anti-parasitic. A small amount of nutmeg, about the size of a pea, can be taken once daily for a year to relieve chronic nervous problems, as well as heart problems stemming from poor circulation.
Myristica fragrans. A dark-leafed evergreen tree of the family Myristicaceae cultivated for the golden-yellow fruits which resemble apricots; a delicately flavored spice is obtained from the kernels inside the seeds.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14799
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 222
}
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How Can Professional Retirement Planning Services Help You?
Figuring out how to plan for your own retirement can be hard. You don’t know what you need to save or how you can save it most effectively. The close you get to retirement, though, the more important it is that you plan. It’s never too early to start planning, either!
Some retirement planning information is really easy to get on your own. The Internet, of course, is packed with information about planning for your retirement years. You can learn about different types of retirement investment accounts, as well as different strategies for investing on your own.
One interesting thing you can do online is use a retirement calculator. These highly sophisticated calculators will take things like inflation into account so that you can figure out what you need to save for your future. You can figure up what you need to live on each month to maintain a certain standard of living during retirement. Then, using your retirement age and life expectancy, you can figure out how much you need to save to get yourself there.
If you aren’t good with numbers or feel that you need a little direction, professional retirement planning services might be a better option for you. There are lots of good financial planners out there who specialize in retirement.
You may not need to meet with a planner regularly throughout your lifetime. Instead, you can just have one or two meetings to set up a plan and to get your retirement accounts opened. After that, you can just follow the plan that’s already laid out for you. It can just be a big help to have someone knowledgeable help you at the start to help you lay out the game plan.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14801
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 343
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Trading the forex market is all about strategies. Investors make judicious plans about what commodity to trade, when to trade it, and how it should be traded. If it all works out well, that is when a trader is said to have a successful trade; which is the aim of trading the forex market in the first place – to make profits. That is why it is important to make sure that forex data used in speculation are current and correct. One wrong twist of information can cause a devastating loss for a trader.
Forex data is made of information about forex that can help one spot a profitable opportunity that can result to profits. Such information requires a bit of research on the path of the trader to be sure data provided correlates with the market condition. One will need to have articulate analysis skills to be able to do this. If not, it is better to go for cost effective forex data as offered by professional analysts, brokers, or traders. One good benefit of this is that it enables one to trace how the banks trade and possibly spot a pattern with which to trade with.
Forex price data of the past can be helpful. The more far back it goes, the better. One can download up to 10 years of bid and ask prices from the past and use them to develop trading strategies.
With forex APIs, one can develop back test, and automate trading strategies in different software environments. For instance, one can back test a strategy developed from studying historical bid ask prices to find out if it worked in similar market condition in the past; which will go a long way to show how it will work on current market situations.
With this data, one can find out if a market move is as a result of heavy or weak demand in forex transactions that took place in the past. It is possible to also view different levels of real time liquidity and volume, and the market sentiment.
While history of trades in the past may be important for trading the forex market, it is also important to keep in touch with what may be happening currently. This can be done by following information about forex events in the forex calendar; particularly those of them that have to do with bank decisions about one commodity of the other.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14802
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 458
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Estimation of stature is a prime work of Forensic Expert, which helps in identification. It is well known that estimation of stature from measurements of long bones of upper limb is accurate. In this study 107 students (55 males and 52 females) of M. R. Medical College, Gulbarga hailing from Hyderabad-Karnataka region of Karnataka are included. Ulna length (distance between most proximal point of the olecranon process and tip of styloid process of Ulna) of both right and left upper limb, height and weight of each student is measured. This study describes an equation devised for estimation of stature based on percutaneous Ulna length.
An encyclopedia entry for "ulna," which refers to the larger bone of the forearm, between the wrist and the elbow, on the side opposite that of the thumb, is presented.
Focuses on the effect of bread on the height of an individual. How loaves of bread did grow Americans bigger and bigger; Height of the average United States resident; Some of the tallest person in the world.
Presents information on how to estimate the height of children when they grow up. How to estimate the height for boys and girls.
An encyclopedia entry for "ht," which stands for height, is presented.
Reports on the developments of human stature in the U.S. and Europe. Average height of Europeans; Benefit of tall men in the workplace in reference to a recent study; Views of John Komlos on anthropometry; Growth stages; Effect of the food intake on anyone's stature.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14805
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 324
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School districts/students must be a part of the Greater Dane County Advanced Learners Network to participate in the Haiku contest. Students must be currently in the 4th grade. A teacher's guide to writing haiku is attached to this site. Teacher encouragement while completing haiku is very helpful. Entries must be submitted by February 1 and all entries must follow the requirements listed below. A panel of judges will read all entries and determine winners. Winners are announced in March. A booklet containing winning Haikus is published and distributed to student winners and participating districts. Winning authors and the families are invited to attend a celebration in April to honor their work.
ü It is helpful, but not required, for submissions to be typed.
ü Please have students include a title with each haiku.
ü There is a strict limit of 3 entries per student.
ü Please put all entries from a student (1, 2, and/or 3) on one sheet of paper.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14806
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 199
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Women who ate five or more servings of yogurt per week had a lower risk of developing high blood pressure compared to those who rarely ate yogurt, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Epidemiology/Lifestyle 2016 Scientific Sessions.
To examine the long-term effects of eating yogurt on high blood pressure in middle-aged adults, researchers analyzed data on participants in two Nurses' Health Study cohorts (NHS and NHS II) - mostly women between 25-55 years old - and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study - mostly men between 40-75 years old.
The authors also evaluated whether the effects of consuming larger amounts yogurt were different among subjects with a healthy overall diet. To do this, subjects were given a score to reflect how closely their diet matched that of a DASH diet (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) - an eating plan designed to lower blood pressure.
The benefit of eating five or more servings of yogurt on the risk of high blood pressure was strongest among those with the highest DASH scores - that is, those who ate more fruits, vegetables, nuts and beans, other low-fat dairy and whole grains. In the pooled analysis, men and women who had a higher DASH score and who consumed yogurt five or more times per week had a 31 percent lower risk of developing high blood pressure compared with those who had the lowest yogurt intakes (one time per week) and the lowest DASH scores, he said.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14809
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 298
}
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Reiter's Syndrome, also known as Reactive Arthritis, causes inflammation in the larger joints. It manifests itself by producing heat in the joints, pain, swelling, redness.
This form of Arthritis is categorized under the family name Spondylarthropathies. It mainly affects the spine and usually the joints of the spine and sacroiliac joints. It can affect other joints as well, like the ones in arms and legs.
Besides inflammation of the joints, there are other symptoms which are common for this type of Arthritis. It can affect the urinary tract and eyes and cause fever, weight loss, skin rash, ulcers on the skin and in the mouth, inflammation and pain.
There is no particular cause that can be held accountable for developing Reiter's Syndrome. Studies have shown tough that it occurs mostly in people with a special gene marker called HLA-B27 and therefore can be genetically passed on.
Infections of the intestines, genital or urinary tract, can result in developing Reiter's Syndrome. Eating foods which are contaminated with salmonella, causing inflammation of the intestinal tract, is also one of the culprits which can result in this kind of Arthritis. It also seems that young white men between the ages of 20 and 40 are the ones who are mainly at risk of developing Reiter's.
Physical exams, testing for the HLA-B27 gene and any abnormal alteration or change of the skin are included in diagnosing Reiter's. People suffering from this disease can have flare ups that can last from three to six months. They are usually followed by symptom free periods.
There is no remedy for Reiter's Syndrome. The consequences are being treated with medications prescribed by different specialists as the symptoms occur; NSAIDs, eye drops, topical skin creams and antibiotics.
Physical therapy consisting of specific exercises will strengthen the muscles and prevent the joints from stiffening up. Occupational therapists can provide people with arthritis with helpful tips and information on how to reduce strain on their joints, while doing everyday activities.
These solutions are also very beneficial for any other type of Arthritis; strong muscles will relieve your joints and make it easier to cope with this disease.
Being strengthened by God's word is beneficial for everyone; a strong faith will relieve the mind and heart and makes it easier to cope with daily concerns and problems.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14816
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 486
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In the 1850s the American Industrial Revolution made ice commercially available. Ice houses in New York would commonly sell ice to places like Florida. To transport the ice to Florida, the ice houses would send a wagon with a huge block of ice south. The route to Florida would pass right through Baltimore. In Baltimore, children would run up to the wagon and ask for a small scraping of ice. Before long, mothers started to make flavoring in anticipation of their child receiving some ice. The first flavor these mothers made was a current Baltimore favorite: egg custard. Egg custard was an easy flavor to make as all that was in it was eggs, vanilla and sugar.
By the 1870s, the snowball’s popularity had risen to the degree that in the warm summer months, theaters would sell snowballs to keep their patrons cool. Because of this association with the theater, snowballs were thought of as an upper-class commodity. Signs in theaters instructing patrons to finish their snowballs before coming in to the second act are the earliest tangible evidence of snowballs. In the theaters in Baltimore during the time hand shavers were used to shave the ice. Around the city, snowballs were served on newspaper, but in the classy theaters, butchers’ boats were used. In the 1890s, many people started to invent easier ways for snowballs to be made. In that decade, six patents for electric ice shavers were filed.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14817
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 292
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The John Glenn Astronomy Park is dedicated to sparking an interest in science, learning, and exploration by sharing with visitors the wonders of the sky, both day and night. The park is a facility run by the Friends of the Hocking Hills and volunteers to provide a public, dark sky site located in the Hocking Hills State Park. The public is encouraged to visit and observe at the park, however, there is a sign-in requirement when using the site to observe. Please see the John Glenn Astronomy Park website for more information about observing at the site.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14819
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"token_count": 113
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SASA was a summer program for minority students from the Springfield, Mass. area. The collection includes application forms; curriculum materials including worksheets, "pre-tests" and tests; directory of participants; "SASA family alimni list"; and evaluations.
The Springfield Amherst Summer Academy (SASA) was started in 1969 as the Amherst Summer Action Programs with girls at Smith College and boys at Amherst College. In 1970 it was called the Springfield Amherst Tutorial Program. The program was consolidated at Amherst College in 1971. In 1973 it was renamed SASA. It was designed for minority students from the Springfield, Mass. area, to provide them with on-campus living experience and daily classes in remedial studies and cultural enhancement.
The program was an "academic-oriented, live-in summer school program for fifty high school students (mostly from Springfield, Massachusetts)." It provided a structure of academic course work, workshops, and physical activities, as well as planned weekend activities. The participants lived "on a college campus for the purpose of satisfying a minimum of two objectives: establishing communication with Brothers and Sisters on the collegiate leadership level and developing a positive attitude towards collegiate/campus life."
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14820
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 253
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The way WOL works is that the NIC has to receive the magic packet. This packet has a special bit pattern and the MAC address of the NIC. If you want to wake up 5 machines, that is 5 different magic packets. All you have to do is get this packet to the machine.
The two ways are unicast and broadcast. If you broadcast the packet to the broadcast address for the given subnet, then every machine on that subnet will receive the packet. Generally, you have to be on the same subnet that you are targeting for this to work. So if you are in subnet A, you cannot sent it to the broadcast address of subnet B. It is possible to change a switch configuration to allow this but it is disabled by default for security/stability of the network.
You can also unicast to the last known IP address in some cases. Even if your network uses DHCP. This is because the switch may maintain a route to that device in the routing table. The longer the machine is turned off, the least likely this will work.
You also have to configure the machine/nic to enable WOL. This is often a BIOS option. While you are in the BIOS, look for the sleep state or the energy savings levels. Some supper efficient levels will remove power from the NIC so it can’t watch for WOL. For good measure, research if windows can cause issues here too. I know it can remove power from devices to save energy. I can’t say that it will do it for a wired nic but worth validating.
In my environment, I could not enable cross subnet broadcast packets. I got around it by ensuring that I had a computer in every subnet on a list. I BIOS configured those machines to auto power on at a set time and whenever they lost power to power on. Call these my zombie systems.
I then had a set of scripts that would connect to those zombie machines and have them issue the magic packet to their own subnet. So for every machine I needed to wake, each zombie would sent a packet to do it. I could target individual machines or just wake every system we had using that method.
That was one of my favorite things to do. Go to a lab of 50+ machines and wake them all up. The whole room would click on, the fans spin up, and the room glow as the monitors came on all at the same time.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14825
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"token_count": 503
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An optical sensor converts light rays into an electronic signal, and measures the physical quantity of light. When light hits the sensor, the sensor trips an accompanying photoelectrical trigger. A measuring instrument takes the measurement of the electricity output, which increases or decreases depending on the intensity of light. Optical sensors can measure changes in light intensity from single or multiple light beams, working on either a single point or through a distribution of points in an array. Compared to other sensors, optical sensors deliver benefits such as greater sensitivity, freedom from electromagnetic interference, wide dynamic range and electrical isolation. They are compact and lightweight, and amenable to multiplexing. Optical sensors are available in many types, such as diffuse reflective sensors, reflection light sensors and through-beam sensors, basically differentiated by the position of the emitter, receiver and retro-reflector. A diffuse reflection sensor is installed only at a single point and detects objects by reflecting the light from the detected object. Through-beam sensors have the emitter and receiver in separate housings, each aimed directly at the other. Among the various sensors are several types, of different wavelength, switching intervals, range, output and power voltage. Effective installation of optical sensors may require accessories such as reflectors and mounting barriers.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14827
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"token_count": 251
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Mencius 孟子 , also translated as Meng Zi, (c. 372-c. 289 BCE) was a Confucian philosopher regarded by many as second only to Confucius himself. Mencius also refers to the book of the same name. Mencius was born in the state of Zou 邹国, located in present day Shandong province.
Mencius was a pupil of Confucius' grandson, Zi Si 子思. He travelled throughout China and served as an official in the state of Qi. Mencius stressed the importance of the common people and a benevolent government. In this respect, Confusianism 儒家 was diametrically opposed to Legalist thought (法家).
The English text below is based on "The Works of Mencius" by James Legge (Mengzi, 1985), which is available in a bilingual version online at the Chinese Text Project.
The English translation here is from Legge. (Mengzi and Legge, 1985) Both Chinese and English text can be found at the Chinese Text Project. See References.
This text is from King Hui of Liang Part I 梁惠王上.
This text is from the section Gaozi I 告子上.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14828
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"token_count": 270
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DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid) is a molecule that encodes genetic instructions used in the functioning and development of all living organisms. DNA, RNA and proteins are major macromolecules essential for all forms of life. Each cell has a set of chromosomes, and DNA is organized into them.
Genetic information is encoded as a sequence of nucleotides (adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine), usually recorded as A, T, C, and G. DNA molecules are mostly double-stranded helices. They consist of two long polymers of nucleotides (molecules with backbones of alternating sugars and nucleobases (A, T, C, and G) and phosphate sugars.
The first scientists who created DNA had essentially discovered how to build a new biological system as a platform for developing various technologies. They would rewrite and rebuild natural systems to provide engineered surrogates. Gene sequences, in various ways, correspond to different traits in organisms, are developed and incorporated into DNA blocks. They can then be put in a new strand of DNA which when placed in an empty living cell, could make the cell perform a number of functions.
Through artificial gene synthesis, genes were created in the laboratory (Alberts, Johnson, Lewis, Raff, Roberts, & Walters, 2002). Scientists with knowledge to create genes can be said to be in a position to create life. This is because knowledge of gene synthesis can be used in the development of vaccines, gene therapy, heterologous gene expression and molecular engineering (Gong & Sheng, 2004).
After scientist found out that the DNA double helix structure provides a molecule that can store encoded information, they could use this knowledge to manipulate genes in the laboratory and make functioning cells, which are the constituent parts of all living things. The breakthrough to making laboratory DNA would enable scientists generate a DNA sequence in an organism, introduce point mutations and generate some forms of organisms (Gong & Sheng, 2004).
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14829
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 409
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Germany set a new national record for renewable power.
On July 25, the nation met 78% of the day’s electricity demand using renewable energy sources, which exceeded its 74% record that it set last year in May. This was made possible by sunny conditions in southern Germany (where most of the country’s solar panels reside), and storms across northern Europe (most of Germany’s wind turbines have been installed in the north), according to an analysis by Craig Morris, a German energy expert at the Energiewende blog, reported ThinkProgress.
Aside from solar and wind, other renewables have also been big energy contributors.
In Morris’s analysis, he also discovered that on the night of July 22, with no sunlight to produce power, and even with low wind conditions, wind, hydropower, and biomass still managed to generate almost 25% of the nation’s electricity. The energy data that Morris collected for both days was done through the use of an online tool sponsored by the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems.
Last year, 27.8% of Germany’s power came from renewable energy, which is up 6.2% from 2000.
Osha Gray Davidson, the author of Clean Break, a book about Germany’s transition to carbon-free energy, told TakePart that it is quite amazing for such a large industrialized nation to obtain 28% of its power from renewables, and that Germany is a good model for America.
As far as world rankings go, even though Germany has not yet achieved the renewable energy goals of Finland, Norway, and Costa Rica (the latter of which managed to run entirely off energy from renewable sources for 75 days), with 80 million people, Germany has a substantially larger population compared to these countries and a larger industrial industry.
Compared to Germany’s 28%, the United States generates approximately 13% of its power from renewable energy, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14833
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 407
}
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Health insurance expansion expected from the Affordable Care Act is likely to exacerbate the long-standing and critical shortage of rural and primary care physicians over the next decade. Comprehensive medical school rural programs, from which most graduates ultimately enter primary care disciplines and serve rural areas, offer policy makers an interesting potential solution.
In an age of medical school expansion and experimentation, few schools offer programs that focus on addressing the growing shortage of primary care physicians in rural areas.1 One such group, the comprehensive medical school rural programs,2 typically offers preferential admission of students likely to practice primary care in rural areas, strong mentoring, and a required rural curriculum.
We used the American Medical Association Physician Masterfile to determine the current location and specialty of graduates of three rural programs from their inception until 2005 (see accompanying table). The programs were Jefferson Medical College's Physician Shortage Area Program, inception 1978; the University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth, inception 1976; and the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford's Rural Medical Education Program, inception 1997.2 Of 1,551 graduates from these three programs, 63.1% were practicing in a rural area in 2010 (according to the Rural Urban Density Typology 3), and 60.0% were practicing primary care (family medicine, general internal medicine, or general pediatrics), with most practicing family medicine (50.4%). Overall, 82.0% of graduates from the three rural programs were practicing either in a rural area or in primary care, and 41.1% did both. In addition, 61.6% were practicing in the state of their medical school. Ranges of outcomes for the rural programs were similar, with 45.0% to 76.4% of graduates practicing in a rural area, 58.7% to 71.7% practicing primary care, and 76.2% to 89.6% in either a rural area or in primary care. Among graduates who did not go into primary care, 55% were practicing in a rural area.
Given that only one-third of U.S. medical school graduates typically choose primary care1 and that 11% practice in rural areas,4these rural programs almost double the percentage of primary care graduates and increase rural physicians almost sixfold. These findings suggest that expansion of comprehensive medical school rural programs may represent an effective option for increasing the supply of rural and primary care physicians.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14836
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 485
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TFT-LCD Display is developed as a further development is the active-matrix display the control of a matrix of thin-film transistors has been included. A liquid crystal display LCD or TFT-LCD Display is a screen whose function is direction of polarized light affect when a certain level of electrical voltage is applied.
Just like LCD screen which consist of segments that can change independently their transparency controlled with electrical voltage in each segment of liquid crystals, TFT-LCD Display works in the same basic principle. A further development is active-matrix display which is employed in TFT-LCD Display.
TFT-LCD Display contains transistors manufactured from silicon which are formed to a crystalline silicon wafer like structures, they are processed from a mechanically thin film cut section of silicon deposited on any inert mold-able transparent layer like glass. The silicon layer for TFT-LCD is deposited using more complex methods. Transistors take up a small fraction of TCT-LCD display to allow light to pass through.
Material like Polycrystalline silicon is used in high quality TFT-LCD Displays.
TFT-LCD Displays lowers the power consumption, TFT-LCD Display has no radiation unlike Plasma Display. TFT-LCD provides a flicker, distortion-free images, which is ideal for sharp image resolution.
The liquid crystals inside the any variant of LCD display including TFT-LCD are toxic in nature and as the displays are usually used on movable electronic devices, they are liable to break. In that cases, the materials TFT-LCD leaks out and often the user never knows the leaked content of TFT-LCD can be poisonous as the manufactures usually never mention this point and keep the device with leaking materials from the TFT-LCD Displays which touches the sensitive part of the skin and the body might absorb the toxic materials. Users are advised not to use any electronic device with TFT-LCD Display which has a leaking screen, must pack it in a sealed bag and wash the skin to get rid of the toxic material if it comes in contact and consult an specialist Doctor at earliest if needed.
Light Emitting Diode or LED is an electronic semiconductor component. Flows of current in diode is one direction, it emits visible light, infrared or UV Rays.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14839
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 486
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Across the U.S., the holiday is being renamed for people who came before Columbus.
Columbus Day has long been a controversial holiday, with critics who say that rather than celebrate the colonialism and exploitation that came with the explorer's arrival in the Americas, we should commemorate the history and culture of America's indigenous peoples.
In 1992, Berkeley, California, became the first city to recognize the October date as Indigenous Peoples' Day. Since then, other cities have followed, honoring the people who lived on American land before Columbus arrived.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14840
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 108
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The Naphtuhim are descendants of Mizraim, who is a son of Ham, who is a son of Noah (Genesis 10:13).
To a Hebrew audience the name Naphtuhim probably meant Openers or Engravers.
For a meaning of the name Naphtuhim, Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names reads Openings. NOBSE Study Bible Name List does not translate this name.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14844
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 89
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An afploc file extension is related to Apple Mac OS X (macOS) operating system. An afploc file stores connection settings.
The afploc file extension is associated with the Apple Mac OS X (macOS) operating system.
The .afploc file stores network connection settings, such as IP address in XML text file format that are used for on-click connection to computer, or server on a network.
Probably can be viewed in any text editor.
and possible program actions that can be done with the file: like open afploc file, edit afploc file, convert afploc file, view afploc file, play afploc file etc. (if exist software for corresponding action in File-Extensions.org's database).
Click on the tab below to simply browse between the application actions, to quickly get a list of recommended software, which is able to perform the specified software action, such as opening, editing or converting afploc files.
Programs supporting the exension afploc on the main platforms Windows, Mac, Linux or mobile. Click on the link to get more information about listed programs for open afploc file action.
Programs supporting the exension afploc on the main platforms Windows, Mac, Linux or mobile. Click on the link to get more information about listed programs for create afploc file action.
Programs supporting the exension afploc on the main platforms Windows, Mac, Linux or mobile. Click on the link to get more information about listed programs for settings afploc file action.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14848
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 329
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A Genogram/Family Tree is a method of showing relationships between people using a drawing. Why do we create Genogram/Family Trees? Change is a difficult within a family system.
Tree Diagram Template. Improve student math scores with 80% of 4th grade student proficient or above by 2007-2008. Constructed Response (students explaining their thinking) Students are independent, flexible thinking, able to apply in new situations .
Sample Five generation pedigree certificate This example of a pedigree certificate gives an idea of the additional information that might be included with a dog's family tree.
Grandparents Aunts/Uncles Father Mother Aunts/Uncles Grandparents GENOGRAM KEY Female Male XDeceased DYear of death bYear of birth “Focus on the Family, Part I: What Is Your Family Focus Style?” Gotler RS, Medalie JH, Zyzanski SJ, Kikano GE, Acheson LS, Stange KC.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14849
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"token_count": 198
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A film screening is being held across the nation from April 27 to May 23 to mark the country’s major celebrations such as the Reunification Day (April 30), the Labour Day (May 1), the Dien Bien Phu Victory (May 7) and the birthday of President Ho Chi Minh (May 19).
The films to be screened feature the national history, revolutionary soldiers, and young people in both wartime and peacetime.
“Me oi con da ve” tells the story of former military health worker named Nga and her son. The two suffer from serious losses and pains from war and live in difficulty. They share misfortunes and it’s the motherhood that brings a better life to them.
“Giac mo tho cam” describes the efforts of a Muong young girl and her friends to restore the traditional brocade weaving, helping local residents develop the economy.
Meanwhile, the three documentaries reflect the aspiration for a peaceful, united and developed country of Vietnam and the contributions of ex-volunteer youths to national construction.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14852
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n. 1. The scum or refuse matter which is thrown off, or falls from, metals in smelting the ore, or in the process of melting; recrement.
3. Waste matter; any worthless matter separated from the better part; leavings; dregs; refuse.
All world's glory is but dross unclean.
Each ounce of dross coats its ounce of gold.
Noun 1. dross - worthless material that should be removed; "there were impurities in the water"
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14855
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"token_count": 110
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Its fairly simple to become a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) in Auburn, NY by completing a state approved education program and then passing the NCLEX-PN exam. The coursework can be completed in approximately one year if attending school full-time. Many students nowadays prefer online learning over a traditional classroom setting. Some schools offer online LPN programs for Auburn students, although the clinical skills portion of the curriculum must be completed at a local training site. LVN schools usually partner with local hospitals and health clinics to deliver the hands-on training required for practical nursing.
Costs vary by program type but typical LPN training costs range from $500 – $10,000. Private schools usually cost more than public schools, and online learning typically costs more than traditional campus-based programs. Diploma or certificate level programs are usually cheaper than 1-2 year long Associates degree courses. There might be financial assistance available for Auburn students based on need or merit. Student loans might be necessary to cover additional educational expenses such as books, transportation and housing.
Our website collects information from official state and government websites, nursing organizations, job agencies and other sources to provide our users with the most complete list of LPN training classes currently being offered. Our listings include campus-based programs and online LPN programs and is organized by location. See which Auburn, New York colleges and universities currently have open enrollment for LPN training courses. If you don’t see what you are looking for, try using our custom LPN school search tool to identify training programs near you.
Newly licensed LPNs can seek employment in Auburn hospitals, health clinics, doctor offices, podiatry offices, dental offices, convalescent homes and assisted living facilities. LPNs work under the direct supervision of a doctor or R.N. and provide the majority of direct patient care, according to the guidelines set forth by the supervisor. Typical daily job duties include maintaining patient medical records, administering medications, establishing IV lines, monitoring any changes in patient condition and executing the care plan set forth by the supervising physician or nurse. LPNs might be in charge of prepping the patient before undergoing a medical procedure. Other typical LPN duties include changing/dressing wounds, delivering warm compresses or massages, recording vital signs, using healthcare equipment such as catheters, oxygen masks and intravenous IV therapy.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14857
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
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City Dulas Water Mill - Felin Dulas on the Isle of Anglesey (Ynys Môn) in North Wales.
City Dulas, Felin Dulas Watermill - The Mill from the road.
Mentioned in King Edward III's Extant of Anglesey in 1352, there has been a corn mill named Dulas Mill here for over 600 hundred years. The Mill took its' energy from the Afon Coch (Red River) - so called because of the colour it went after copper and other mineral deposits had entered the water from the mines above.
In 1881 on the parish of Penrhoslligwy census, the Mill was being run by a corn miller named Owen Rowlands aged 30 and from Llanrhuddlad. Living with him is his wife and two very young sons. Living with them are two teenage servants, both of whom are also corn millers.
When I visited in Nov 2009 the Mill was for sale, and the owner showed me around the exterior of the building. It appeared that some original internal parts of the Mill had deteriorated, resulting in him having to take out old original timbers which he was in the process of burning. The Wheel had been removed and no longer existed. Two old millstones had been used in the floor lower level as features. When the mill was converted to a dwelling the holed tiles from the corn drying kiln were reused as externel flloor tiles.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14862
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"token_count": 303
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We are designed as a uniquely coordinated, organized structure.
We acquire interferences with our design through habits.
We can become aware of these interferences and learn to think ourselves back to our inherent design.
The question is what do we think? What thinking allows us to effect our design in an efficient manner. Conversely, should we do something?
It comes a slippery slope when we decide to use our already habituated self in a physical manner to make positive change. What are the cues that we often utilize to attempt to modify our habit that is already interfering? HINT: The cues are our habits. Bummer.
In the course of learning, for example, a cha cha routine I was still struggling with the cha cha style. There was so much going on, one (hip action), two (hip action), cha cha cha (thank God no hip action on this one)!
It was so easy to forget that my most important action, in this complex endeavor , was to maintain my WHOLE body as an organizing element. If I stopped tightening the parts of my body that did not contribute to a good cha cha, I could manage the various hip actions/non hip action components that created the rhythm and physical movements required to produce a coordinated cha cha.
I noticed that facing challenges, (i.e. cha cha), provoked an insidious invitation to tighten in places that don’t contribute one bit to a free expression of what I was doing.
I’ve learned that the way around this is to think of what I want instead of my tightening habit, e.g. let my neck be easy, my breathing to continue and my attention to be expansive.
Sending those signals is effectively reducing the tightening habits and viola!, a new foundation is leading the way towards less extraneous tension and more ease . AND strength.
I often think about the simple analogy; a building is not structurally sound without a good foundation.
Our bodies are marvels of design and the most talented, hard working, facilitated dancers among us have issues of interference that can be addressed by learning new thinking skills.
Marjorie Barstow, a student of F. M. Alexander aptly said; “ You have to do the brainwork”.
As a ‘hard working” dancer, what a relief it was to stop doing so much and start thinking more.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14864
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 489
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When Pedro Rafael Gonzalez Chavajay visited United States in February of 1998 his purpose was two-fold: to promote his art; and to get pencils for the children in the public school in San Juan la Laguna where he has been a bi-lingual teacher for over fifteen years. In Guatemala the government provides salaries for the teachers and not much else. The town must provide the school building. Any books, notebooks and writing supplies must be provided by the town and the parents. If a family afford it they will send their child to a private school supported by one of the churches. Each child in these schools has a sponsor, usually someone in the United States, who sends the school money each month to help with the childs education. The children from the poorer families can not pay the nominal monthly tuitionabout four to six dollars a monthand so they must send their children to the public schools. Often a child in the public school will be absent for a period of time. When the childs return, the teacher will often find out that the reason for the childs absence was that he or she didnt have a pencil, and was ashamed to come to class.
Pedro Rafael raised money for the school children at his receptions in Berkeley, CA and Phoenix, AZ. There was enough money to but each of the 800 children in his school three pencils each, and because the assistant manager at Office Max in San Francisco, where the prices of pencils were by far the lowest, reduced the price further, Pedro Rafael was also able to buy a rugged pencil sharpener for the school.
The principal of the school, sent Arte Maya six photographs of the children with their new pencils. The photographs say a great deal about the difference between schools in the United States and Guatemala. When given a gift of three pencils for each student, what school in the United States would bring all the children into the school yard to be photographed with their pencils? What grade school students in the United States would be thrilled to be photographed with their new pencils? These photographs are truely worth a thousand words.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14866
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 441
}
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Lego is celebrating its 60th anniversary. In 1934, its creator named ‘Lego’ after two Danish words which mean ‘play well’. In 1958, the Lego brick as we know it became patented.
The company says that now you can play with the dotted brick in 915,103,765 ways!
The company also works with film companies to keep the toy interesting for changing times. In addition, there are theme parks around the world of famous places made out of Lego.
Difficult words: patent (when the government says that a company can be the only one to make something for a certain time), dotted (with little circles), brick (one Lego piece).
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14868
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 143
}
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Director of the National Gallery during the early years of the Great Depression, Daniel’s directorship saw some major acquisitions including the Wilton Diptych and Titian’s The Vendramin Family.
Sir Augustus Moore Daniel was born on 6 December 1866. His interests were varied and included the study of paintings, but he was also a student of science and medicine.
His first experience of arts administration came when he served as Assistant Director of the British School at Rome between 1906 and 1907. In 1925 he was appointed a Trustee of the National Gallery, and in January 1929 he relinquished his trusteeship to become the Gallery's Director. He remained in this position until the end of 1933. Daniel died on 7 November 1950.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14873
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Although the majority of the documents in the collection are targeted to the general population, quite a few are directed towards specific subgroups of the residents of Madrid. The two major target audiences were women and youths. In addition, there are a smaller number of items addressed to workers and soldiers.
In general, the ephemera both directed towards women and produced by women's groups address the same themes as those items addressed to the general population. Both unity and mobilization factor as major themes. Regarding mobilization, the handbills and broadsides addressed to women place more emphasis women contributing to the labor force, such as working in factories, and the rearguard rather than volunteering for combat positions. Compared to items addressed to the general population, ephemera asking women to volunteer for actual combat positions are rare. This does not mean that women did not serve in combat positions or were not solicited for combat. It may simply be a feature of this particular group of ephemera.
Concurrent with the emphasis on women taking part in workforce is an attempt to allay men's fears that women may be future competition for jobs previously held by men. Many ephemera are careful to point that women are taking on their role in the factories as means to keep production high and allow additional men to join the army. Items of special interest in this section are those rare ephemera that stress the equality of women and urge them to become educated. Both equality and education of women appear to be specific reforms that some groups hoped would become part of the "new" Spain that would result from a Republican victory.
Like women, youths, mostly young men, were also an important pool of laborers for the workforce. Not surprisingly, the major theme of the ephemera directed specifically towards youths is their participation in the work to be done in the factories. Yet, unlike women, youths were more actively solicited to join volunteer combat brigades. Education is also an important theme in this subset of the communist ephemera. Several of the documents stress access to education as one of the key reasons why youths should become involved in the war effort. Finally, youth organizations, like Juventudes Socialistas Unificadas, often hosted their own meetings and festivals to recruit youths and boost morale.
Lastly, this section of the exhibit includes the few examples of documents addressed to workers, an obvious target for the PCE which stressed the importance of an international proletariat revolution, and to soldiers.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14877
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 498
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Asad, Asad L., and Jackelyn Hwang. Forthcoming. “Migration to the United States from Indigenous Communities in Mexico”. ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Research on Mexican migration to the United States has long noted how characteristics of individuals’ sending communities structure their opportunities for international movement. This literature has seldom considered how these characteristics overlap with the concentration of indigenous residents—those with origins in pre-Hispanic populations—in individuals’ sending communities. Drawing on large-scale survey data from 143 communities surveyed by the Mexican Migration Project, supplemented with data from the Mexican Census, this chapter uses multilevel models to describe how the share of indigenous residents in a migrant-sending community relates to different aspects of the migratory process, focusing on (1) the decision to migrate to the United States and (2) the documentation used on migrants’ first U.S. trip. We do not find that indigenous shares are associated with the decision to migrate to the United States. However, relative to respondents living in communities in low-indigenous municipalities, those in communities in high-indigenous municipalities are more likely to migrate as undocumented rather than documented migrants. We conclude that indigenous places are more likely to be sites of economic and social disadvantage and therefore limit the possibilities their residents have for international movement.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14878
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 275
}
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Traditionally, development models in Bangladesh have been based on formulas prescribed by international entities in which the focus has been on improving the financial condition of the individual. Which is why micro-credit has been the centre point of many development activities. Ubinig, a research organisation established in 1983, was the first attempt to deviate from the conventional direction of development and provide an alternative that it says is more in tune with the country's needs. In 1989 Ubinig established Prabartana, a sister concern that promotes indigenous methods of farming and weaving and also assists farmers and artisans to market their products.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14880
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{
"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 123
}
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Native principally in the Mediterranean region, occasionally escaped from herb gardens to roadside banks, refuse piles, and disturbed ground. First collected in 1942 in Berrien Co.
The commercial Greek/Turkish oregano is not the same subspecies commonly cultivated in North America. Origanum vulgare has calyx lobes ± equal. Other species, with more irregular calyx, are sometimes grown.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14881
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 80
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Two years of high school German is enough to know the basics of how the language works and to think you know a thing or two. But it's also enough to realize how big a task it is to be fluent, and how much you still don't know.
In my experience, it seems most people observe the pace of their learning in school and equate that to their expectations over all. In school I thought, "if it took me two years to learn this much, it's going to take me 4 more years to be fluent!"
I reached a reasonable level of fluency in Russian (a very complex language) in just one year. And in Italian (a much easier language) I flew to fluency easily. Sure, I've had some bumps along the way with Turkish and Greek, but those interruptions were the result of motivation, priorities, interruptions, or (recently) tragedies. My learning has never been hindered by the language, or by how difficult it is to learn.
And now that I have learned how to learn, I know that it's not going to take 4 years to be fluent, because time is relative. When you take the responsibility for learning, rather than leaving it up to the school, you can learn more in one day than you'd get in a week or two of school.
But just learning words and phrases isn't enough. I'm also jumping into the fire feet first and reading Blogging IT, a blog on topics that relate to my career, which is written entirely in German.
Do I already understand everything? No. But I understand a lot, and I can infer a lot... and that means I can learn a lot!
So, are you still letting your school experience set your expectations? Or have you decided to pick up the pace?
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14882
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{
"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 368
}
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Neutraceutical supplementation focuses on vitamin and intracellular antioxidant levels to help re-balance hormones found in the human body. These hormones typically decline as you age leading to a number of age-related side affects.
Regenx Medical Institute distinguishes between two types of agents used in the battle to rebalance hormones in both men and women.
Nutritional supplementation may help with both liver metabolism & estrogen metabolism. Neutraceuticals such as Indole-3 Carbinol, Diindolymethane (DIM), Vitamin B 6 and Green Tea are some of the natural agents that the Regenx Medical Institute is researching, testing and evaluating as part of its bioidentical hormone replacement therapy programs.
These key nutrients and fatty acids play an important role in helping metabolic activities in the liver for both men and women. Estrogen is also affected by neutraceutical administration.
Hormone Replacement Therapy using natural hormones or bioidentical hormones is generally considered the safest route to helping correct hormone imbalances under a medically supervised program.
Bioidentical hormones have the same molecular structure as naturally occurring hormones in the body and are extremely effective in helping men rebalance their hormones using testosterone and HGH.
HRT treatment using blended approaches to Neutraceutical agents can assist with combating weight gain, irritability, abnormal menstrual cycles and further assist with the long-term goal of negating muscle loss as men and women age.
Men may often attempt to ignore symptoms such as irritability; fatigue and weight gain as they age. These symptoms may spread further into their lives including lowering their libido and lowering muscle mass. In these instances, HGH therapy and Testosterone may be key bioidentical hormones that help them get their life back on track after undergoing an extensive medical examination.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14883
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Silver Spring, Md. (Aug. 20, 2009) – Empowering parents to support their student’s academic achievement, Discovery Education introduces Parent Corner, a free Web site filled with interactive digital content that engages learners of all ages. Situated at the intersection of home and school, Parent Corner is a trusted resource families can depend on to support teachers’ classroom lessons and aid with homework.
Among Parent Corner’s free resources is Motivation Station, which Discovery Education developed in partnership with Hallmark Cards. Providing creative and useful ideas for motivating students to academic excellence, Motivation Station offers tips and suggestions about fitting in at school, managing homework, dealing with sibling rivalry, and more.
A national survey sponsored by Hallmark Cards showed more than three-fourths of parents are looking for new ways to boost their children’s confidence during the back-to-school season. Hallmark Cards supports parents through both the Motivation Station and a line of products that help encourage student academic achievement in a genuine, authentic way.
In addition, frequent online polls ask caregivers questions about their child’s school environment to help determine the best support tools for students as provided by a variety of experts. Motivation Station also features a special tool where parents and others can design encouraging notes and cards to inspire their student’s academic growth.
Parent Corner’s robust Homework Help resources – including thousands of online videos, simulations, texts, and links – are useful study aids that engage students of all ages in learning. With digital content for all grades and across all disciplines, Homework Help supports academic achievement in the subjects students are currently studying in the classroom, including science, English, social studies, and mathematics.
"The most successful students I’ve ever met were the products of a solid partnership between their teachers and caregivers," said Dale Fulton, Senior Vice President of Curriculum Development, Discovery Education, and a former associate superintendent in the Montgomery County, Md., public school system. "Parent Corner provides parents and others a powerful suite of free digital resources that can help bridge the gap between home and school, and ensures that parents and other caregivers have the digital tools they need to help students continue to learn once they leave the classroom."
Parent Corner also highlights hundreds of activities to keep students motivated and on track during school breaks. To access Parent Corner, visit .
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14886
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Osteoporosis is a “silent disease”. This means there are no symptoms until a bone has broken.
It is a thinning and weakening of the bones so they are more likely to fracture (break). Bone strength is determined by bone density and bone quality.
A “fragility fracture” is when a bone breaks during your usual activities. Fragility fractures result from falls from a standing position or less, that occur at no faster than walking speed, or from a minor bump.
The most accurate test used to diagnose osteoporosis is the bone density test or BMD test. It measures the amount of mineral found in your bones.
The results of this test are reported to you as a T-score. The score indicates if you are developing or have developed osteoporosis.
Your bone density is only one part of your risk for breaking a bone. Other factors that are considered when determining your risk of fracture are your age, your gender, whether you take Prednisone and whether you have already had a fragility fracture.
Therefore the same T-score can mean different things for different people when all of these factors are looked at together. Your doctor will then determine your risk of breaking a bone and what type of treatment is required.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14887
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When your child comes to you in an uncontrollable fit of anger following an incident at school for example, how do you respond or handle the situation?
Do you get angry yourself?
Do you offer reassurance and try to clam your child down with soothing words?
Do you listen to their story?
Do you try and distract them from their emotions with another activity?
Do you try and offer solutions or help them come up with their own?
Do you dismiss it because in your eyes they are overacting?
Do you feel frustrated and powerless because you haven’t a clue what to do?
These might be some of the ways parents respond to a child who is in the middle of an emotional crisis. As parents who have experienced this scenario would probably know, it can take quite some time to get your child to calm down and furthermore resolve the issue, even with a lot of attention and guidance from you. If left alone to ‘work it out’, the child might internalize that anger, without having an appropriate means of releasing it. Sometimes parents don’t have the time, energy and resources to handle a child in crisis. With EFT as an intervention, your child’s emotional crisis can be dealt with in the moment and can be diffused within minutes.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14890
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While the world is certainly experiencing an overall warming trend, much more goes into winter than temperature alone — snowfall depends on moisture in the atmosphere, and under climate change, that is increasing. And snowy weather patterns depend on the large-scale flow of the atmosphere, which is changing, too.
At the same time, research by Diffenbaugh and his colleagues have suggested that at least one odd winter weather pattern affecting the United States of late is getting more common in a way that might be related to a changing climate.
This means, Diffenbaugh said, that storm tracks go around the ridge to its north but then plunge southward over the eastern United States, carrying cold air from the Arctic with them.
There are a lot of ideas, one of which involves changes to the high-altitude jet stream, which plays a powerful role in driving northern hemisphere weather, and which Rutgers University scientist Jennifer Francis suggests has been getting more wavy and elongated of late, intensifying both ridges and troughs and leading extreme weather to get stuck in place for longer.
Francis and her colleagues believe this is tied to the rapid warming of the Arctic, which is lessening the temperature differential between the equator and the North Pole. The Arctic is currently very warm — anomalously so, with especially warm areas over Siberia and Alaska.
Francis said by email that the current situation represents “a great example of this connection between natural variability and climate change,” positing a partial Arctic role in the current dipole. She said she thinks sea ice loss in the Pacific part of the Arctic helps a ridge form over the U.S. West Coast, and matters proceed from there.
“It’s fair to say that at the moment, there are multiple hypotheses that are viable and are being tested,” said Diffenbaugh.
Recent research on winter storms, or cyclones, affecting the U.S. East Coast does suggest the possibility of future intensification due to climate change. A 2014 study by Christopher Marciano and two colleagues from North Carolina State University found that these storms would develop lower pressures and feature stronger winds and more precipitation in a future of higher greenhouse gas emissions and a warmer and more moist environment.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14892
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"Rag Car", "Duffle Coat", "Running Tent", "Runaway Tubes" - all these nicknames mean the same - the historical Velorex.
Originally manufactured in small series by the Stránský Brothers (the factory was later nationalized), Velorex was intended as a vehicle for the disabled.
Several exhibition pieces of this vehicle that have been preserved can be seen in one of the garages in the castle courtyard. This exhibition is arranged in cooperation with the owner of the Velorex cars - Mr. Bernášek from the Villa Barbora restaurant., www.vilabarbora.cz .
The main goal of these trikes was to meet the market demand for a higher safety level and for higher comfort. The indisputable advantage of these vehicles if compared with motorcycles and cars was their more economical operation, maintenance and, last but not least, their lower price.
Shortly after the 2nd World War, demand for small vehicles such as BMW, Zundapp or Messerschmidt skyrocketed. In then Czechoslovakia, the first prototype was manufactured in 1943 in a workshop that belonged to the Stránský Brothers. The frame of the three-wheeler was based on a tube design covered with a thin duralumin sheet. The rest was assembled from motorcycle spare parts and the vehicle was named OSCAR. The demand for any vehicles that followed at that time caused this model to be produced in series and, in 1951, the manufacturing plant was moved to Solnice v Orlických Horách. In November, 1971, production of the three-wheel Velorex cars was discontinued.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14893
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Storm: Hello class, our lesson today features a very famous 16th century piece - Greensleeves. The origin of the composer is not known, so the composer's credit is always displayed as 'Anonymous'. It is rumored that King Henry VIII, could have possibly been the composer, however there is no evidence of his ownership. The Christmas classic 'What Child is This' is composed using the same melody. Greensleeves has lyrics too and is even mentioned by Shakespeare in one of his plays, 'Merry Wives of Windsor'. The composition has even been covered by artists like Jeff Beck. Greensleeves is in the key of A minor with an occasional F# and G# chromatic tones and a 6/8 time signature. Let's get to the music and videos.
Storm: Greensleeves is an excellent composition for developing technique in using two note chords. Here is a video of left/right hand combination.
Storm: Bars 5 and 6 should feel familiar, it's the same as bars 1 and 2.
Storm: Convenient, eh? The main theme will be repeated throughout this song. Here are the next two bars.
Storm: Bars 7 and 8 outline an Am to E, and then back to an A minor progression. The addition of the G# makes a stronger 'cadence' back to the tonic of A. Here are the next two bars.
Storm: Notice that the 'C' chord is slightly 'broken' or 'arpeggiated' in bars 9 and 10, this can be done best on the first beat of the measure to help bring out the melody. Remember to use taste, the emphasis can be overdone. You use the thumb and index for the 5th and 4th strings. Here are the next two bars.
Storm: Bars 11 and 12 move from Am to F to E. Bar 13 and 14 is a re-statement of bars 9-10.
Storm: Here are the last two bars.
Storm: Here's another restatement, the last two bars are the same as bars 7-8. You can look at the song as 2 eight bar forms, which is a very nice arrangement. Well that's it for 'Greensleeves'.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14901
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One of the most important and interesting characteristics of a lake is its thermal structure. The heat content of a body of water is of vital importance in limnology. The metabolism, physiology, and behavior of aquatic organisms are related directly to the temperature of the aquatic environment. Extreme temperatures restrict the growth and distribution of plants, animals, and microbes. Because of the high specific heat of water, large volumes of water change temperature relatively slowly. Therefore, large lakes tend to moderate local climates, provide longer growing seasons for aquatic life, and serve as integrated recorders of recent climatic phenomena. For these and other reasons, the thermal structure and heat content of a body of water must be known with some degree of accuracy in limnological studies.
A bathtub filled with water at 0.5°C has a much greater heat content than does a glass filled with water at a temperature of 25°C.
The use of the word “budget,” as normally defined, is incorrect but the term is firmly entrenched in the literature of limnology. Reference is to the heat storage capacity of a lake.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14903
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This micrograph shows a typical Zea mays vascular bundle in cross section. The phloem consists of angular, thin-walled sieve tubes, between which you can see small, almost square companion cells. You can see the xylem tissue below the phloem. It consists of two large-diameter metaxylem vessels (MX) which are separated from one another by smaller tracheids. A solitary early protoxylem vessel (PX) is all that is left of the first-formed xylem in this vascular bundle. Beneath this, is a large, irregularly shaped lacuna (PXL) - which represents the space previously occupied by the first protoxylem element to be formed in this vascular bundle. Beneath and surrounding the protoxylem lacuna, are mostly lignified, fibrous, thick-walled cells.
The bundle is surrounded by a parenchymatous bundle sheath (BS).
Question: How does the protoxylem lacuna come about? Explain what has happened here.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14906
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Some experts believe it's the sugar rather than the fat in our diets that's contributing to our obesity epidemic. Nutritional therapist Kerry Torrens explains how to spot the 'hidden' sugar you may not know you're eating.
Low-GI, low-calorie and apparently good for dental health. Is xylitol all it's cracked up to be? Nutritionist Jo Lewin investigates..
I decided to go completely off refined sugar last August 2015. I am eating all the same foods I ate before this but lost 17 lbs. That was the bonus. The real benefit is more energy, feeling good all around and feeling like I am free from another addiction.
When you read the amount of sugar per 100g in a fruit yogurt, does that mean the amount of added sugar to the yogurt, or does it include the naturally occurring sucrose in the fruit? It can be as high as 25 grams but if it's fructose is it as bad as added sugar? I've started buying plain natural yogurt as I'm not sure.
Hi there, thanks for your question. The amount of sugar on labels includes all sugars, whether they are naturally occurring or added. As you say flavoured yogurts can be high in sugar so buying plain natural yogurt and adding your own flavours to sweeten is always going to be a better option. Yogurt naturally contains lactose which is natural milk sugar – some people find this sugar difficult to digest because they lack the enzyme needed to break it down.
Unfortunately the total sugars per 100g includes both naturally occurring and added sugars. Bear in mind that an unsweetened yogurt contains around 5-15g natural sugar per 100g. 25g of sugar per 100g sounds like quite a lot. Some people believe fructose is healthier than sucrose as it tastes sweeter per gram, so you'd need less of it, which would mean less calories. However they are both forms of sugar, so should be consumed in moderation.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14914
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"token_count": 400
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The holy place in Moses’ tabernacle was separated from the most holy place by the veil.
22. And he put the table in the tent of the congregation, upon the side of the tabernacle northward, without the vail. 23. And he set the bread in order upon it before the LORD; as the LORD had commanded Moses.
26. And he put the golden altar in the tent of the congregation before the vail: 27. And he burnt sweet incense thereon; as the LORD commanded Moses.
The set up of the Holy place is summarized in - Exodus 26:35 (King James Version) 35. And thou shalt set the table without the vail, and the candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and thou shalt put the table on the north side.
The priests went into the Holy place daily to carry out duties.
Once per year on the day of atonement, the high priest would go from the holy place into the most holy or holy of holiest.
When Jesus first left earth and went to heaven, He officiated in the holy place of the heavenly sanctuary.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14920
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Correlation risk refers to the risk of a financial loss when correlation in the market changes. It plays a central role in risk management and the pricing of basket derivatives.
In risk management, correlation risk refers to the risk of a loss in a financial position occurring due to a difference between anticipated correlation and realized correlation. In particular, this occurs when the estimate of correlation was wrong or the correlation in the market changed.
Assume a financial position is given by ptf weights w1, ..., wd and the distribution of the assets X is multivariate normal.
Then the P&L of the position is: and is hence normally distributed with mean: and variance: which equals if the positions are uncorrelated.
Otherwise, the VaR depends on the correlations of all assets and therefore a change in the correlation may significantly alter the risk of the position.
If the pricing of basket derivatives is considered, the value of the derivative itself depends on the unknown correlation.
In this case, correlation risk refers to the change in the value of the derivative with changing correlation (cega).
By analyzing prices of options on single names and on market indices, Driessen et al show that correlation risk is priced in the options markets.
Practitioners trade priced correlation risk by using short positions in index options and long positions in individual options (dispersion trading). A similar position can be taken with a correlation swap.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14923
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"token_count": 288
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Abbotsford/Chilliwack/Vancouver – Even though every community in Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) and Fraser Health (FH) beat the Canadian average for physical activity guidelines, as many as one in four residents are considered obese, a major risk factor for chronic disease onset. That’s one of the surprising findings from the My Health My Community survey results being released today.
The My Health My Community survey data has been compiled into community profiles, which give a snapshot of each community’s health and wellbeing. The profiles are based on survey results from adults aged 18 and up in 40 communities across FH and VCH, conducted during 2013 and 2014.
The health and wellness data gathered on residents at the community level will help residents, community agencies and local governments understand factors influencing health in their communities.
Access to a family doctor varies across communities; however in areas where residents report having more chronic disease (e.g. diabetes) they also tend to have better access to family doctors.
Opportunities exist to improve lifestyle behaviors including quitting smoking, eating healthy, exercising more, and drinking responsibly.
Compact urban centres better support active transportation modes like walking and biking, as well as have access to more community services.
Residents in rural communities tend to have a stronger sense of community belonging, and are a little better prepared for emergencies.
For each of the communities, the survey reports results in five areas; health status, lifestyle behaviors that impact health, primary care access, the built environment and community resiliency. Social determinants of health—immigration, education, income and ethnicity are also included.
My Health My Community, a partnership between Vancouver Coastal Health, Fraser Health and the eHealth Strategy Office at the University of British Columbia, reflects the goals of the Province’s Healthy Families BC strategy, which focuses on improving the health and wellness of British Columbians through programs that help address healthy eating, healthy lifestyles and fostering healthy communities.
All survey results can be viewed on the My Health My Community website at .
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14924
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 417
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Much news has been brought to our attention regarding the negative effects prolonged periods of sitting has on our health, and in light of the ever-growing number of desk jobs, the issue and its solutions are typically presented toward the working professionals. From the potential risks, like obesity and cancer, to prevention strategies, like taking breaks, going for frequent walks, and incorporating desk exercises and stretches — not to mention the many new alternatives to the standard desk chair, like standing desks and fitness balls — it’s hopefully only a matter of time before we begin to see some positive outcomes. But what about the kids?
Long before desk jobs became concerning, kids were sitting for most of the day at desks as they learned. And they still are.
Her words make me recall my own time as a college student. I had signed up for a four-hour class that would meet once a week, as opposed to breaking it up into two-hour increments that met twice a week. The option to just get a class out of the way and free up other days of the week for me to do with as I pleased was appealing, but the tactic soon proved detrimental. With only one break after hour two of each class session, I could barely maintain my attention. I would doodle, daydream, and play mind games to make the time pass quicker. My brain and my body were numb from being so stagnant for so long. It was a physical and mental setback. I barely remember the lectures, and am unsure if I took anything positive or educational away from the course as a whole.
I always wondered how our teacher put up with us. I’d look around and see a bunch of fidgeting, unfocused college kids. Surely the teacher saw it too, but he would continue on talking, ignoring his very palpable reality of being ignored.
It’s nice to see teachers taking a stand, however; to see them do more than just agree that sitting for so long is neither right nor helpful and instead come up with solutions. Forcing students to sit for such long periods wastes the time of everyone involved.
It seems her students like the solution, too. “It keeps me exercising and focused,” one student noted.
Coming in at $150 per machine, the school officials agree that it’s a small price to pay, and would like to see if the tactic proves useful in Special Education classes.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14925
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Why is that money and power can changes an individual’s personality? Well, when some humans see something desirable and valuable that doesn’t belong to them, they will go to a great extent to have it. Whether, that is stealing, lying or even killing loved ones. This is simply described as greed. Greed and ambition is a common theme in both Shakespeare’s tragic play, Macbeth and the movie “A Simple Plan”. They both share the concept of wanting something and committing crime after crime to achieve it. Similarly, the main characters in both stories become greedy after finding something valuable and their spouse encourages them further. Once in control, the main characters are willing to do anything to keep possession, even if it means to kill love ones.
...ou by making him confess to the murder of the farmer so no one will be suspicious of Hank and Jacob. This displays their greediness because if Lou confesses to the murder, he will be put in jail which means the money would only need to be split between Hank and Jacob, therefore they will receive a greater share. These two sources illustrate the extent that a person will go to achieve power and control; they will even destroy love ones.
Macbeth and “A Simple Plan” are both unique stories with different plots however; these two sources have a common topic of greed. In addition, the stories both portray the theme in similar situations. They both have a greedy family, murders and an ambition for power. To achieve this ambition, they show greediness when they are revealed to power, support cruel deeds and commit multiple murders of love ones.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14926
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"token_count": 335
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This weed is an annual, biennial to short-lived perennial, reproducing by seeds. The stems are erect, up to 1m tall, smooth, and multi-branched. The leaves are alternate, finely divided into thread-like segments, mostly sessile, dark green, and scentless when crushed. The flowers are daisy-like. The heads are radiate; white ray florets around the margin and yellow tubular florets in the center. The seeds are small, 2 mm long, slightly grooved, dark brown, and may have a small pappus.
Scentless chamomile can produce up to 300,000 seeds per plant and thrives in solonetzic soils. The seed survives for long periods in undisturbed soil.
Scout roadsides, waste areas, and the edges of sloughs and water courses for patches of this weed because the seed is light weight and floats readily on water. Take a minimum of 20 weed counts across the field.
Directly affects the development of field crops by competition.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14928
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 223
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We received an interesting note from Professor Paul Hansma about a video he had made attempting to bring together various ideas about pain and neuroscience research into a physical model that could help people better understand persistent pain. He asked for some thoughts and we happily provided some feedback and comments.
Professor Hansma’s video is quite novel and provides a different take of explaining pain – we think it’s worth checking out and adding to your collection of resources to share with patients.
This presentation leaves the unanswered (or unanswerable) question open: How do we progress our understanding from the neuroscience, as explained (i.e. “excited neural circuitry”), to the lived experience of pain?
The black box is perhaps shrinking, but it still exists.
Great outlook but there is no way that positive thoughts, desensitization, reduced use of opioids can heal and better an underlying injury that’s causing extreme chronic pain when the injury is an extensive and permanent nerve transaction with scar entrapment that cannot ever heal or be improved.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14930
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 215
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These flowers seem to be made of lace or cut out of paper, but in reality it is the skeletons of dead mice and rats. Japanese artist Hideki Tokushige argues that the collection called Honebana (Bone Flower) – is his vision of life and death.
Tokushige’s flowers are created from bones of sacrificed animals, he kills nobody. When he have a material, he produces amazing and beauty flowers. Then he photographs them or send to the exhibition, and then breaks down and buries in the ground.
It all began in 2004, when Hideki Tokushige on the way home from work saw a dead raccoon in the middle of the street. Instead, he looked up, quickly get away or throw it in the trash, he took the corpse home. It was the first of a new type of material for sculptures.
“All our life ? is various barriers and restrictions”. When the sculptor only began process of boiling down bones, he allocated a separate pan for this work. Gradually he realized that distinctions between this pan and ware for cooking are imperceptible. The pan for beef or pork boiling, apparently, differs nothing from a pan where the mouse cooks.
And though Hideki’s works at first sight frighten, he simply wanted to show the short-lived nature of beauty, drawing attention to that everything in this world comes to the end.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14932
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Summary: This is the story of a little boy named Peter who has a new baby sister. He notices that his parents are painting his old crib and high chair pink for her. Before they can get to his little chair, he decides to take the chair and run away. He sets up outside the house with his chair and then realizes that he no longer fits in the chair. At the end, he comes inside and tells his dad he wants to help him paint the chair pink for Susie.
Main Themes: The theme of the story is sibling rivalry. It shows how Peter was jealous at first of how his new baby sister was being treated, but then comes around to realize that it is good for him to be supportive and kind to her. It shows themes of adapting to change.
Strengths: This story is classic and timeless in the way it portrays sibling rivalry. Class is not necessarily portrayed in the story. Peter could be in a rich or poorer family. He is illustrated as black but this would not be clear to the reader without looking at the pictures. The author of the book is Ezra Jack Keats and it was written at a time where there were not very many picture books that showed black children, especially ones just living a normal life. Ezra is a Caldecott award winning author. Children often have the feeling of “it’s mine!” when it comes to giving away old toys or things they used but this story does a great job of showing how to do this with a positive mindset- especially if it is something you can no longer fit in or use. The art in the story is simply and children can easily place themselves into the scene or imagine what Peter is going through.
Weaknesses: Something one could point out as a weakness in this story is gender stereotyping. All of the things Peter had previously owned were painted blue. When his little sister is born, they are painting everything pink. These are extremely stereotypical colors for the genders, and it is one of the main points the whole story revolves around. If they wanted to take the color of the toys out the author would have to re-write the whole story.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14934
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"dataset": "gair-prox/c4-pro",
"token_count": 441
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Today was our first day of the Art of Cooking J-term. We spent most of the day working with Chef Justin Kouri at the Recipe for Success house. I think that one of the most important things that we learned and worked on today was to getting familiar with knife skills and general kitchen safety. Knives are very important tools in the kitchen and it’s important to know how to use them properly so that you can be safe. We also used a lot of vegetables in our cooking today, which helped us practice cutting different foods in different ways. Chef Justin also explained to us how we can get healthy foods like vegetables and fruits for a relatively low cost. This is an important thing to focus on because eating healthy is important for living well and we got to make a lot of different dishes from the vegetables we chopped. One of the things that I think will make this J-term experience better is that we all are trying at least a little of everything that we make. This gives us the opportunity to try things that we would not try on our own. We look forward to trying new things and gaining new skills so that we can cook on our own more often.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14937
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"token_count": 237
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This mass of dead fish was recently discovered in the Bayou Chaland area of Louisiana.
Combination of "insults" may have led to the die-off, one expert suggests.
The Gulf oil spill expanded this dead zone when a surge in oil-eating bacteria gobbled up even more oxygen, Chakrabarty said by email.
The body of water where the fish kill occurred becomes isolated during periods of low tide, which may have trapped the fish in a low-oxygen area, said Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries spokesperson Olivia Watkins.
Even so, "fish kills are not uncommon in this area, and if in fact this area was cut off from the Gulf by low tide, these fish would have suffocated," LSU's Chakrabarty said.
"We won't know the ultimate cause until further testing is done."
But LSU fish toxicologist Kevin Kleinow said he would be "very surprised if someone was able to definitely determine the cause of death" for these fish.
That's because fish necropsies are often inconclusive, partly because fish decompose so fast that it's hard to get a fresh enough sample. Additionally, there may be many causes of fish death that are difficult to rule out, he said.
And even if contaminants are found in the dead fish, that doesn’t mean the chemicals were toxic enough to have killed them, he noted.
Gulf Oil Part of Marsh "Assault"
Some pictures of the fish kill—taken by P.J. Hahn, coastal zone management department director for Plaquemines Parish—show brown residue floating near the dead fish. Hahn told National Geographic News the residue is likely oil.
But in terms of spilled oil causing the fish kill, "I would still look at it from a wider vantage point," LSU's Kleinow said.
More likely is that Gulf oil is one of many "combined insults"—such as agricultural pollutants and water diversion, which leads to wetlands loss—that weakened the ecosystem and led to the giant die-off.
"These marshlands are under assault. What we've done through our interactions with these coastal environments—we've altered them significantly," he said.
"The more we impinge on the reserve capacity of these systems, the more they become vulnerable."
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14940
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As you may of heard on the news, gas prices will continue to rise. Experts predicted by the end of 2008, gas prices will be at 6 dollars a gallon and by the end of 2009, gas prices will be at 8 dollars a gallon. That statement brings the question" What can I Do to prevent myself from wasting my money on gas?" Well shocking, there is an answer. You can now convert your car to run on water! This technology is also known as "HHO Technology".
You must know that you cannot run your car on 100% water, but you can run your car on a mixture of water/hydrogen and gasoline. You cannot just put water in your gas tank and then your done. You must convert the water into hydrogen. Hydrogen can be mixed with gasoline to form the compound "HHO". That's where the technology gets its name. HHO fuel is far more efficient than gasoline, which leads to a huge increase is miles per gallon for your car or truck.
Converting your car to run on HHO is actually very simple. You don't even need mechanical skills to convert your car. All the parts needed for the conversion can be found at any hardware store for under 75 bucks. The greatest part is that the conversion will only take about 2 hours with No mechanic skills. If you know a little bit about cars the conversion will only take 1 hour.
The technology has been thoroughly tested and can lead to your car or truck doubling its gas mileage. Also the kit is 100% safe for any vehicle and can be removed in 5 minutes, but why would you want to take it off? Once you have built your own kit, all you need to do is put some water in the container and it automatically converts the water into hydrogen. This technology will save you thousands each year. You could go on a couple of vacations each summer with all the money you will save.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14944
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Edward de Bono of www.thinkingmanagers.com describes a new organization he has established to challenge conventional thinking and promote new ideas.
A World Council for New Thinking has been started to act as an independent source of new ideas.
It is an independent body and has its own voice, instead of being merely a think-tank or advisory body. That way, ideas can be put forward without being subject to politics or censorship.
Six Nobel Prize-winners have already been enlisted for the venture. Also, presidents of universities and editors of major newspapers are automatically eligible to join.
In addition to the council, there is a League of New Thinkers, which is open to everyone. Anyone can come up with new ideas and put them forward. If these ideas stand up well enough, they might receive an invitation to join the council itself. Further details can be found at www.worldcouncilfornewthinking.org.
There is a need for new ideas internationally but also on a national basis, so there can be National Councils for New Thinking in various countries to meet this need.
One such council in Serbia has been set up with the co-operation of Dragan Sakan and the New Moment organisation.
Not only can National Councils be a powerful platform for new ideas but they can also provide training in the skills of lateral thinking and conduct opinion polls to test public response to new ideas.
The role of the councils will be to give thought to new ideas, producing them and making them visible rather than having power to enforce or implement the new ideas. The new idea can enter the public domain and then register as an alternative.
When these ideas become visible they could be copied, borrowed or used directly. They can be modified and put to use. The concepts and values behind new thought and ideas might influence thinking on an issue even if the idea itself is not used.
Perhaps the idea might appeal to the public so much that they pressurise politicians to adopt it. In turn, opposition parties could pressurise the government of the time to use the idea.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14945
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A type of average used by statisticians. It is the middle number in an ordered sequence of numbers- for example the 4 is the median of 1, 3, 4, 8, and 9. The advantage of using this type of average is that it isn’t influenced by any unusually low or high values (outliers).
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14946
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India is primarily an agricultural country, as the sector provides livelihood to more than 50% of the population and contributes 17-18% to the country s GDP. However, India lags behind many other countries as far as agricultural productivity is concerned. The reasons are several.
Most farmers in India don t have access to technology-driven irrigation tools and practices. The technology is either expensive or can t be made available in rural areas because of logistics challenges. Also, farmers still rely heavily on manual labour to plant, pluck, harvest, thresh, separate and bundle the crops. They are not much aware of using safe fertilisers and organic techniques to grow food, improve the quality of soil and crops, prevent soil erosion, and dispose of crop residues responsibly. Even agricultural markets lack regulatory control and work in an unorganised manner. Farmers also lack information on finance and marketing tactics to get the best prices for their output.
If you are an aspiring agripreneur or a farming professional, then agriculture can offer promising career prospects. You can become a crop producer, farm manager, crop analyst, quality controller, agricultural economist, grain broker, farm and land appraiser, weather analyst, yield predictor or farm educationist the list of careers you can pursue is long.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14949
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Yesterday I spoke about the fantastic packaging for Starbucks Kati Kati blend and It started me thinking about indigo dyeing. Here is a super little video about the indigo dyeing process. Shame you can't experience the pong!
Indigo is one of the oldest dyes to be used for textile dyeing and printing. Many Asian countries, such as India, China, Japan and South East Asia have used indigo dyeing for centuries. It was first farmed on a commercial level in India and It was a luxury item imported to the Mediterranean from India by Arab merchants. The Romans used indigo as a pigment for painting and for medicinal and cosmetic purposes. Because of its high value as a trading commodity, indigo was often referred to as Blue Gold.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14952
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If your sleep is currently disrupted because of breathing difficulties, we can help! Sleep apnea is a fairly common sleep disorder which can affect just about anyone. In addition, there are factors that can put you at higher risk of developing this disorder. Let’s take a look at some of these risk factors.
-Weight: The efficiency of your airway can be affected by your body type and health. If you struggle with weight issues, the fat deposits in your upper body can actually impede your airway. And if you have a thicker neck, your airway will also be narrower.
-Age: As you age, sleep apnea is more common if your body has physically changed.
-Gender: If you are male, you are twice as likely to develop sleep apnea as your female counterpart, even though women’s risk increases after menopause.
-Genetics: You can inherit sleep apnea from your forebears. If your family has a history of sleep apnea, you may want to research symptoms and treatment in case you find yourself in their shoes.
-Habits: If you smoke, drink, or take muscle relaxers for other conditions, you will be more at risk for developing sleep apnea.
Don’t let sleep apnea steal any more of your sleep. Dr. Brian Kraft at 801-465-7966 offers help for mild to moderate sleep apnea with an oral appliance that fits over your teeth. The appliance keeps your airway open while you sleep by helping to prevent your tongue from blocking the air passage. Our Payson Dental and Orthodontics team in Payson, Utah, is happy to help you a good night’s sleep again!
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14953
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On the Way for 9-11s works on a 2 year syllabus, consisting of 6 books. It follows on from On the Way for 3-9s and includes material that is not covered in that syllabus. It is designed to introduce children of this age group to simple Bible study. The lessons are grouped in series, each of which is introduced by a series overview stating the aims of the series, the lesson aim for each week and an appropriate memory verse. Every lesson, in addition to an aim, has study notes to enable the teacher to understand the Bible passage, suggested visual aids where appropriate and an activity for the children to do to take home. Because of the emphasis on teaching basic Bible study skills, many of the activities take the form of work sheets. These provide opportunities for applying the lessons learnt. Many of the lessons also include a craft activity. Continuing the series of On The Way for 9-11 year olds, this book covers:- The Early Church (4 weeks); Paul's Fellow workers (3 weeks); Prayer (4 weeks); Parables (7 weeks); From here to Eternity (2 weeks).
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14954
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Putting Questions to Images: The Chatelaine Networking Project began in the summer of 2004, with the idea to digitize the popular Canadian women's magazine, Chatelaine (1928-), for the purpose of creating access to an on-line edition. With the digitization of a single issue (June, 1943), it became clear that the images in the magazine, specifically the advertising images, could provide a wealth of information to scholars with a variety of research interests.
Traditionally, the tools and controlled vocabulary for indexed image databases have been developed primarily for art historians, where the information is categorized by provenance, school and medium. This approach limits the access of researchers in fields outside of museums and archives. What this project has tried to do is develop metadata and a data model that would allow researchers from a variety of disciplines to benefit from the cultural and sociological cues available in the analysis of visual imagery. Generally, there seems to be a problem between the questions researchers are posing to existing image databases--there is a disconnection between the researchers' research concerns and the resulting response to their formulated query.
This database attempts to address the issue of access to images by scholars with little knowledge of art history or experience in a museum setting. A successful model created for Chatelaine magazine could be expanded into an advertising database to encompass images from all Canadian women's magazines.
The Chatelaine Project network group is made up of about 20 participants from the research communities of interest for this project: Humanities and Social Science scholars (History, Women's Studies, English, Cultural Studies, Communications), Marketing and Art History; Librarians; and Computer Science Specialists. Funding for the period of one year was granted by the Image, Text, Sound and Technology (ITST) division of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) in late 2005; and the tenure of the grant was extended to 31 July 2007.
This grant has enabled collaboration between technical and humanities approaches to the material to explore the metadata and analytical issues. Three main phases describe the project: identification of key elements; creation of data model and XML schema; and image indexing. The project has maintained a phased-development approach, and as we approach the end of the grant period we have identified future steps for the creation of an active image database.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14955
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This is an entry-level introduction to writing web applications in the PHP programming language. It focuses in providing the reader with all of the information that they need to know to get started with web development, without covering “advanced” programming concepts. This book is not a reference work: it is intended to teach web application development, as well as PHP, to the reader.
This book covers PHP 5, and makes use of the features of PHP 5 that are not present in previous major releases of PHP, such as PHP 3 or 4. PHP 5 has been out for long enough that nearly every serious hosting provider should have made the upgrade to it by this point in time. PHP 5 has features that simplify the development process for web applications, and it is recommended.
This book makes use of information in Wikipedia as well as on the Internet. As much neutral, objective information as possible is used to allow the reader to perform their own independent research and learning outside of the text of this book as necessary or desired. The goal of this book is to be an extremely high-quality work and to stand on as much pre-published information as available. Citations of, and references to other works should be considered to be normal, and encouraged.
This book is structured to be read from “front” to “back” — from top to bottom in the Table of Contents. This book attempts to build on previously presented topics, so as to allow for logical presentation of content. There are also tasks for the reader to work on, presented throughout the text of the book, with probable solutions presented in appendices to the book. The reader is encouraged to work on the examples, and then compare what they have come up with to what is presented by the book.
The reader is assumed to have no prior experience with writing programs in any language. This is an entry-level work, and so it is intended to be more verbose with regard to the basics than an intermediate or advanced level text on web application programming.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14956
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I have a theory that learning any art form helps you improve and mature in other art forms – and this applies to fishing too. If you love trout fishing and want to become more productive, it makes sense to try for Pike. Stop scratching your head!
My mentor, Jake Lucas, was a pioneer at small stream spinning for trout, but his fishing interests were by no means limited to that. He fished lakes and streams all year for most every species in Michigan, with side trips to other states and Canada. He ice fished, he fly-fished, he bait-fished, he threw lures of every size and make. He made lures. He tied his own flies and developed original patterns. He shot Carp with a bow and arrow. And when he wasn’t fishing he was hunting – and he was very successful at that too.
Feral Tweed, my main fishing cohort, bought a kayak last fall with the idea of catching a monster pike. He lives in Lake County and is surrounded by lakes. As an accomplished trout fisherman he knows when to head to a trout stream and prefers to wait for the right conditions. So why not try something new? To be successful he knows he must innovate and that includes learning where to find the big ones, figuring out what lures work where, learning how to land a Pike in a kayak, learning how to fillet a Pike (they are boney) and finally, how to convince me to drag my bass boat up to Lake County so he doesn’t have to land a monster Pike in a kayak.
I understand Feral’s appreciation of Pike. It goes back to our childhood and hanging out with Jake Lucas (our Grandpa) in his basement. Jake wasn’t a taxidermist, but he had a couple Pike heads mounted to boards. It was the skeletal remains of the heads mostly with the mouths wide open and razor teeth showing. It was just the stuff to capture a little boy’s imagination. One of those head mounts belongs to the Pike pictured with this story – a nineteen pounder.
I don’t know if Feral plans to mount the head of his future monster Pike to a board, but I hope he does. And I hope I’m invited to a Pike fillet dinner. His enthusiasm for Pike is contagious – I may drag my boat up there unannounced.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14958
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Los Angeles City Sanitation staff sample and test water twice a week at three locations in each of the Los Angeles River Recreation Zones, corresponding to the beginning, middle, and end of each zone. Samples are tested in a laboratory for the presence of E. colibacteria, and for each sample a resulting MPN (Most Probable Number) per 100 milliliters (mL) is determined. The bacteria results at each location are compared to State of California water quality standards for water contact recreation (REC-1 and Limited REC-1) to determine if the water quality, in each Recreation Zone, is suitable for recreational activities.
You can goo to to check the latest water quality status of the rec zones.
Water quality is suitable for recreational activities, but swimming in the river is still prohibited. Test results indicate bacteria levels lower than 235 MPN, the limit for REC-1.
Users should exercise increased caution. Test results indicate bacteria levels between 235 MPN (REC-1) and 576 (Limited REC 1) at one or more of the sampling sites located in the recreation zone or above 576 at only one of the sites.
This LA River Recreation Zone is not suitable for recreational activities. Test results indicate levels exceeding 576 MPN (Limited REC-1) at two or more of the sampling sites located in the recreation zone. A Closure Advisory will be issued by the City of Los Angeles and the MRCA will close the recreation zone and post closed signs. The recreation zone will stay closed until further bacteria testing show that the zone is once again suitable for recreational activities.
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gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/14959
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