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In the picturesque Piana di Sibari, in Calabria, stands POSSIDENTE FRUIT, an established farm that has conquered the palate of many with its zero kilometer organic clementines and oranges, with an authentic flavor and with the particularity of the edible peel. Behind this success, there is a family history and a passion for agriculture that shines in every tree.
The POSSIDENTE FRUIT adventure began many decades ago, when the Possidente family, in love with their lands, decided to devote themselves to agriculture with a single goal: to grow high quality fruit in harmony with nature. Since then, from generation to generation, the passion for the land and the commitment to sustainability have shaped the soul of the company.
Today, POSSIDENTE FRUIT is a point of reference in the production of organic clementines and oranges. Respecting the environment and the health of consumers, the company has obtained the prestigious BIO certification, certifying the quality of the products and the commitment to ecological agricultural practices.
What makes POSSIDENTE FRUIT a true agricultural jewel is its privileged location. Located in the municipality of Corigliano-Rossano, surrounded by the majestic mountains of the Sila and the Pollino massif, the company enjoys a unique temperate microclimate. With the proximity of the Ionian Sea, the right amount of sun and rain, and the fertile soil, the ideal conditions combine to give the fruit "unique organoleptic properties in the world".
The decision to offer clementines and oranges with edible peel is a tangible sign of the care and attention that POSSIDENTE FRUIT dedicates to the final product. This feature, in addition to ensuring a sustainable use of the fruit, allows you to fully appreciate its goodness, adding a touch of originality to consumer tables.
The constant commitment to sustainability and product quality is reflected in the satisfaction of POSSIDENTE FRUIT's customers. Each bite is a sensory journey through the splendid Calabrian landscapes and agricultural traditions handed down with passion.
The company firmly believes that environmental sustainability and product quality are closely linked. Therefore, POSSIDENTE FRUIT continues to innovate and invest in eco-friendly agricultural practices, ensuring that its contribution to the environment is always positive.
In conclusion, POSSIDENTE FRUIT is much more than a farm. It is the result of a passion handed down from generation to generation, a deep love for the earth and nature which manifests itself in the tasty organic fruits that reach our tables. Discovering the authentic flavor of POSSIDENTE FRUIT clementines and oranges is an emotional journey, a journey to the heart of Calabria and its dedication to sustainable cultivation.


Ballast Resistors, Resistance and Coils
What is a Ballast Resistor and what does it do and why?
A Ballast Resistor is an electrical device that reduces voltage to the coil so that more energy is available for the spark plugs during starting.
Why would a Ballast Resistor be fitted in a car?
Traditionally, ignition systems didn't use a ballast, meaning that the ignition system used a 12v coil with a 12v feed from the battery via the ignition switch.
This system is fine when the engine is running, however can be problematic when starting. Because the starter motor draws a huge amount of current from the battery, the spark plugs are left with less energy to create the spark. This is worsened in colder starting temperatures or when the starter motor is worn, when even more energy is drawn by the starter motor leaving even less available for the spark plugs.
To counteract this distribution of energy, ignition systems were changed to use a 9v coil instead of a 12v coil. A 9v coil gives the same output as a 12v coil when provided with a 12v feed, resulting in a better spark for starting with less energy draw on the starter motor.
Once the engine is running, the 12v feed is cut and the coil continues to run on the 9v feed.
Which coil should I use if my car has a ballast resistor?
Using a non-ballasted coil would mean that you are running a 12v coil on a 9v feed, resulting in a weak spark. You can however use such coils provided you remove the ballast resister.
Never try to run a ballasted coil when a ballast resistor is not present in the ignition system!
Can I fit a Powerspark Electronic Ignition Kit if I have a ballast resistor?
If you have a ballast coil installed with a ballast resistive wire or a ceramic block then you can keep the coil as it is, there is no need to change it BUT if you change the coil you do need to match it to a ballast if one is present and not bypassed.
Some customers report that bypassing the ballast resistor by disconnecting the ballast feed wire ( from the starter solenoid or built into the loom) and providing a direct 12 volt feed from the starter solenoid/relay or fuse box to the ignition coil has proved to be a success and has given good results.


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E-learning teams are noticing and becoming aware of the immense potential of UXD (User Experience Design) practices in addition to the learning design methods used until now. "This article is an early attempt to define the elements of learning experience design or LXD and to explain the importance of Information Architecture and Information Design in this new emerging scenario."
Knowledge of Information Architecture and Information Design can help e-learning teams look into providing enhanced learning experiences.
"Information architecture (IA) and information design (ID) are two fields that are taking the Web experience to a new level. They form the foundations of what is now widely known as user experience design (UXD).
At its core, Information Architecture deals with the structure of a website. It has strong connection to the library sciences. If you have a large website handling many documents, then the task of easily finding, browsing and navigating these documents is the responsibility of the information architect. Typically this would entail building labeling systems, creating taxonomies and controlled vocabularies, designing the navigation and optimizing the searching of documents.
"Information design addresses high level information problems to provide the most possible clarity, understanding and effectivenessâ€¦ In order to achieve that ambitious end, information design must be open to any and every discipline or field of thoughtâ€¦ information design must actively encourage and participate in research that increases our understanding of information and the effect that it has: how and why people respond to information, how the human brain processes information and builds knowledge, as well as how humans organize knowledge and convert it into improved behavior and operation. Better understanding of these factors will enable us to create the best possible information, interfaces and communications."
(Dirk Knemeyer, Chief Design officer at Thread Inc.:)

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The airway epithelium develops into a tree-like structure via branching morphogenesis. Here, we show a critical role for localized differentiation of airway smooth muscle during epithelial bifurcation in the embryonic mouse lung. We found that during terminal bifurcation, changes in the geometry of nascent buds coincided with patterned smooth muscle differentiation. Evaluating spatiotemporal dynamics of α-smooth muscle actin (αSMA) in reporter mice revealed that αSMA-expressing cells appear at the basal surface of the future epithelial cleft prior to bifurcation and then increase in density as they wrap around the bifurcating bud. Disrupting this stereotyped pattern of smooth muscle differentiation prevents terminal bifurcation. Our results reveal stereotyped differentiation of airway smooth muscle adjacent to nascent epithelial buds and suggest that localized smooth muscle wrapping at the cleft site is required for terminal bifurcation during airway branching morphogenesis.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Molecular Biology
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all)
- Developmental Biology
- Cell Biology

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Susan Pulford Blight and John Blight were married in Stoke Damerel, Devon, England on 11 August 1844. There is an interesting story of their journey by Sue Reid. Apparently John Blight left for Australia on the Ellen leaving his pregnant wife Susan and his children in Plymouth. Susan sold his bakery business and boarded the Eliza sailing from Plymouth on 22 August 1852 with her sister-in-law Elizabeth Blight and her children. She then advertised in the Melbourne Argus each day for a week: Mr John Blight, per ship Helen [sic] from Liverpool, is requested to communicate with his wife, who has arrived in the Eliza. Address care of Dalgety, Gore, & Co. The child born soon after Susan's arrival in the Colony of Victoria was named Ellen Eliza Victoria Blight after the vessels they had emigrated upon, and the new colony in which they found themselves.
Her persistence won out and the family was reunited.
Susan and John Blight had six children: Nell born 3 January 1853, married John Harvey; Jane Watson Blight, married William Glover. John and Susan's death certificates record six children while John Blight's obituary records only five children. (Edith Louisa Blight had predeceased him in 1878).
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
The portrait of Susan Blight by Thomas Flintoff is shown on the cover of Women of the Diggings by Dorothy Wickham.
Post 1854 Experiences
Corfield, J., Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
The book written by Mary Fleay Beasy gives an account of her mother Maude Glover Fleay, the daughter of Jane Watson Blight and William Glover.
Some family details are also given in another book about artist Maude Glover Fleay.
Dorothy Wickham, Women in 'Ballarat' _PHONE_: A Case Study in Agency, PhD. School of Behavioural and Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Ballarat, March 2008.
Dorothy Wickham, Blood, Sweat and Tears: Women of Eureka in Journal of Australian Colonial History, 10, No, 1, 2008, pp. 99-115.
Dorothy Wickham, Women of the Diggings: Ballarat 1854, BHSPublishing, 2009.
Clare Wright, The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, Text Publishing, 2013.
Dorothy Wickham, Not just a Pretty Face: Women on the Goldfields, in Pay Dirt: Ballarat & Other Gold Towns, BHSPublishing, 2019, pp. 25-36.
- Genealogical Society of Victoria, Ancestor Volume 29, Issue 2, June 2008, p. 7.
- Letter from Sue Reid dated 4 February 2012.
- Dorothy Wickham, Women of the Diggings: Ballarat 1854, BHSPublishing, 2009.
- Mary Fleay Beasy, The artfull [sic] duchess, 1974
- Rosemary Fleay Thompson and Mary Fleay Beasy, The Girl from Sulky Gully: A Review of the Life of Australian Artist Maude Glover Fleay 1869 -1965, 1999.

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Words by Colonel Henry Heveningham (_PHONE_), using the first few words from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night as a starting point. Henry Purcell made several settings of these words.
If Music be the food of love
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Socket.SendFile Method (String)
Sends the file fileName to a connected Socket object with the UseDefaultWorkerThread transmit flag.
Namespace: System.Net.Sockets
Assembly: System (in System.dll)
public void SendFile(
 string fileName
Type: System.String
A String that contains the path and name of the file to be sent. This parameter can be null.
The socket is not connected to a remote host.
The Socket object has been closed.
The Socket object is not in blocking mode and cannot accept this synchronous call.
The file fileName was not found.
This overload sends the file fileName to the connected socket. The flags parameter defaults to UseDefaultWorkerThread (0), and the preBuffer and postBuffer parameters default to null. If fileName is in the local directory, it may be identified with just the name of the file; otherwise, the full path and name of the file must be specified. Wildcards ("..\\myfile.txt") and UNC share names ("\\\\shared directory\\myfile.txt") are supported. If the file is not found, the exception FileNotFoundException is thrown.
This method uses the TransmitFile function found in the Windows Sockets 2 API. For more information about the TransmitFile function and its flags, see the Windows Sockets documentation in the MSDN Library.
SendFile synchronously sends a file to the remote host specified in the Connect or Accept method. SendFile can be used for both connection-oriented and for connectionless protocols.
If you are using a connectionless protocol, you must call Connect before calling this method, otherwise SendFile throws a SocketException exception. If you are using a connection-oriented protocol, you must either use Connect to establish a remote host connection or use Accept to accept an incoming connection.
If you are using a connection-oriented protocol, SendFile blocks until the file is sent. In nonblocking mode, SendFile may complete successfully before the entire file has been sent. There is no guarantee that the data you send will appear on the network immediately. To increase network efficiency, the underlying system may delay transmission until a significant amount of outgoing data is collected. A successful completion of the SendFile method means that the underlying system has had room to buffer your data for a network send.
The following code example creates and connects a socket and then sends a file to the remote host. The file "test.txt" is located in the root directory of the local machine.
// Establish the local endpoint for the socket.
IPHostEntry ipHost = Dns.GetHostEntry(Dns.GetHostName());
IPAddress ipAddr = ipHost.AddressList[0];
IPEndPoint ipEndPoint = new IPEndPoint(ipAddr, 11000);
// Create a TCP socket.
Socket client = new Socket(AddressFamily.InterNetwork,
 SocketType.Stream, ProtocolType.Tcp);
// Connect the socket to the remote endpoint.
// There is a text file test.txt located in the root directory.
string fileName = "C:\\test.txt";
// Send file fileName to remote device
Console.WriteLine("Sending {0} to the host.", fileName);
// Release the socket.
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Supported in: 4, 3.5 SP1
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Strategic Impact Advisors shares their strategies and audio content to build women's digital financial literacy.
Women's barriers to mobile money include a lack of education, training, and a support network. To address this, Strategic Impact Advisors (SIA) developed Hey, Sister! Show Me the Mobile Money!, a digital financial literacy campaign that uses audio content. Funded by USAID, the campaign is open-source and available in multiple languages
In a recent webinar, SIA shared their strategies for developing Hey Sister audio content.
"We know from research done by MIT and Georgetown that access to mobile money can move women out of poverty," said Shelley Spencer, founder and CEO. "But literacy is the top barrier to women's use of mobile internet service in low- and middle-income countries. So we looked at how we could bring digital literacy and financial literacy together."
In a recent Amplio webinar, Strategic Impact Advisors presented their Hey, Sister! digital financial literacy campaign and shared their strategies for designing audio content.
Designing Audio Content for Women's Digital and Financial Inclusion
In the creating the Hey Sister content, SIA recognized that women have different needs, with different levels of digital and financial literacy. They wanted to offer short, bite-size learning for better retention and harness the power of storytelling. When the pandemic struck, SIA chose to go with IVR (interactive voice response), which uses audio content.
Hey Sister includes 10 short lessons available in 10 local languages. Messages follow three women as they help, teach, and support one another to use mobile money to manage their finances safely. The women are based on archetypes developed by IDEO.org.
There's also a facilitator's guide to train the trainers.
"The target audience is women, but the audio content is available for anyone to use. For SIA, the targeting is done through local facilitators, not just a digital delivery channel," Spencer explained.
"SIA has country leads in Ghana, Uganda, and Malawi who recruit organizations that are working directly with women. Facilitation is key. That's where you can take this content and put it on any platform you want—including Talking Books. That's typically what the facilitators are doing. They're downloading the content and taking it to play within a group setting."
To learn more about how to partner with the Hey Sister project, contact Sarah Sitts at _EMAIL_.
Bridge the Gender Divide
If you'd like to learn more about how to use Amplio Talking Books to deliver audio content like Hey Sister, get in touch!


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Noun: ostiary 'ós-tee,e-ree [N. Amer], ós-tee-u-ree [Brit]
 1. The lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church
 - doorkeeper, ostiarius
 2. Someone who guards an entrance
 - doorkeeper, doorman, door guard, hall porter, porter, gatekeeper
Derived forms: ostiaries
Type of: clergyman, guard, Holy Order, man of the cloth, Order, reverend
Encyclopedia: Ostiary


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My role at Te Papa is to identify feathers and hair in the ethnological collections, however on occasion I come across something interesting in my research including the following mystery. While identifying the feathers in the museum's Māori textiles collection, I counted eight piupiu (skirt or waist garment) with the letter 'M' sewn into the waistband. It had already been recorded that one or two had the initial 'M' in the waistband. This was unusual but to find eight was a surprise and left me asking why they were added, and by or for who were they initialled. It is usually not museum practice to label collection items in this manner.
The letter 'M' in the waistbands of all but one of these piupiu is yellow, one is natural cream. They were fashioned from natural and dyed yellow harakeke (NZ flax: Phormium spp.) or naturally yellow pingao (golden sand sedge: Ficinia spiralis). It seems the fibres were softened (not scraped) and using a needle, threaded into the waistband to form the letter 'M' on the outer side of all eight piupiu. A knot holds it in place on the inner side of the garment.
Most of their histories were unfortunately not known or recorded upon inclusion into the museum. Just that they have been in the collection for some time, at least for 50 years. Some were also registered together so have concurrent numbers. A small group were apparently received and registered around 1962, but not much more can be found. It is estimated they were made mid 20th Century and are modern examples of piupiu waist garments.
Many large Māori events happened around the mid 1900s. One possible theory as to their origins and a reason for sewing a letter into the waistband is that the piupiu belonged to members of a kapa haka (Māori cultural performance) group. The letter 'M' could have been sewn into the waistbands so as not to be lost or confused with piupiu belonging to other groups. The letter 'M' perhaps identifies the person's initial of who made the piupiu, or it could have been the name of the kapa haka group that wore them.
The piupiu registered ME012027 has a patterning described as korirangi (shining cuckoo bird) which is similar to the fine barring across the feathers of the breast and belly of the bird. These kinds of piupiu were made initially for men. The other piupiu have different variations of the korirangi patterning which originated on the East coast but is today very common. The piupiu all have simple plaited (whiri) waistbands. Several piupiu have variations of diamond patterns which are known as 'pātiki or pātikitiki' (ME012017 & ME012023). A type of 'mumu' design has also been used in ME012016.
If these piupiu look familiar, or you remember family or friends talking about their old kapa haka group please ask them to contact me if they have any information.
Hokimate Pamela HarwoodBicultural Science Researcher, Te Papa Tongarewa
 Mead, Sydney. M. (1969).'Traditional Māori Clothing: A study of technical and functional change'. Wellington: Reed. 238pp.


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Speaker: Savinkov Rostislav, junior researcher of the Interdisciplinary Scientific Center "Mathematical Modeling in Biomedicine" of the Peoples Friendship University of Russia.
Topic: Algorithms for building networks of fibroblast reticular cells.
Annotation: The network of fibroblastic reticular cells (FRC) is a rather complex structure from the point of view of formation. Therefore, in order to best reproduce its topology, experiments were conducted with various algorithms for its formation, in search of the best option. The report will describe both the simplest method and more complex variations, including non-stationary construction, taking into account the length of the formation of the structure in time.


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Graffiti Vandalism in Riverside
Winners were recognized at a City Council meeting on May 21, 2013. View the winning Poster Contest entries HERE. View the winning Video Contest entries HERE.
Take Back the Wall
The City of Riverside spends more than $1.3 million each year for Graffiti abatement. In addition, money is spent by other public agencies, utility companies, and private property owners to remove graffiti from their properties.
Nationwide, the American public spends nearly $12 billion each year to fight graffiti.
What is Graffiti?
Graffiti consists of inscriptions, slogans and drawings scratched, scribbled or painted on a wall or other public or private surface.
Today, graffiti is a sign of urban decay. James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government at Harvard University and author of "Thinking About Crime," together with George L. Kelling, a research fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government Harvard, first introduced the world to the Broken Window Theory.
The theory contends that if a broken window is left unfixed it can quickly encourage more crime and vandalism to the neighborhood because it sends a message of indifference to observers. Graffiti is one element of the broken window theory. Once graffiti shows up somewhere, if left untreated, generally more graffiti follows.
Graffiti has become everyone's eyesore and everyone's problem. It generates fear of neighborhood crime and instability. It is costly, destructive, lowers property values and sends a message that people of the community are not concerned about the appearance of their neighborhood. It is against the law, and in cases where the cost of clean-up equates to $400 or more, is punishable as a felony. Graffiti is not art; it is vandalism and criminal.
Parents may be liable for up to $25,000 for each graffiti incident pursuant to Civil Code 1714.1.


VFX Screen Replacement
VFX Screen Replacement
Filming a device like a mobile or tablet on camera and getting a sharp, clear image can be a tricky thing to get right, that's why we use something called 'screen replacement' which falls under the VFX (visual effects) category and can save the director and editor (also any other members of the creative team) a lot of time and money.
The process is fairly simple for the editor to add the desired footage to the screen, below is a step by step guide of how a basic screen replacement would be done;
Step 1:
Assuming that the camera is set to the correct settings (exposure, focus, etc) the device would be filmed with a chroma green or blue screen (green is the best for this as it has the highest contrast to the edge of the device: in most cases)
Step 2:
When ready, the editor will take the video file, correct any colours to match the look of the film and proceed to place motion trackers on the corners of the device so that when the device moves, the markers will too.
Step 3:
Once all of the points line up to the edges of the device the editor will then proceed to make sure the screen still looks natural round the edges and also create a mask for anything that may appear in front of the screen
Step 4:
When the mask is complete the desired per-recorded video (or still images) is attached to the shape that was made by the corner points from step 2
Voilà, and there it is, if you would like to try it yourself you can search 'VFX screen replacement' on Youtube.


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During prolonged storage seeds progressively lose viability and as the rate of ageing is tightly linked to conditions of storage in this work wheat seeds stored for different periods at different temperatures were used. Seeds were categorised as viable, non-viable or of intermediate viability. The object was to determine whether ageing is associated with changes in the activity of RNases and nucleases in the aleurone of wheat seeds. The aleurone dies during post germination and this death appears to be programmed. As some plant nucleases are involved in PCD, these enzymes were studied to follow aleurone cell fate during the imbibition of seeds with different viability and stored at different temperatures. Worth noting was the appearance of a particular Zn2+- dependent nuclease (p40) and of a DNA ladder pattern on the second day of imbibition for all materials used, except for viable cold stored seeds, where Zn2+-dependent nuclease and DNA laddering appeared on the fourth day of imbibition. Results obtained support the correlation between induction of nuclease activities (p40) and DNA laddering. Ageing was characterised by the same pattern of changes with a more precocious degeneration in less viable seeds. Cold storage seems to delay the DNA ladder in viable material.
|Autori:||GRILLI I; BUSELLI R; BOTTEGA S; RUFFINI CASTIGLIONE M; SPANÒ C|
|Titolo:||Nucleolytic enzymes and DNA degradation in aleurone layers of imbibed aged wheat seeds|
|Anno del prodotto:||2008|
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- The current regime does not impose appropriate obligations of transparency or accountability. There is insufficient transparency around how declared collecting societies are using statutory funds, as well as who benefits from the remuneration paid under the statutory licence.
- Declared collecting societies have an inappropriate degree of discretion regarding how statutory funds will be used.
- There is no effective oversight of declared collecting society compliance in the current governance arrangements. The current triennial Code Review process has been ineffective in addressing concerns that have been raised by statutory licensees.
Declared collecting societies – and in particular, Copyright Agency – have strayed beyond what UA considers to be their appropriate role. Copyright Agency has adopted a commercial, profit-making approach to administering the statutory licence. This approach appears to regard universities' changing copying practices, that have led to universities relying less and less on the statutory licence, as a "threat" to its business model. To address this "threat" Copyright Agency is taking steps to ensure that statutory licensing income continues to increase. While this kind of approach may be appropriate for commercial licences, it is not an appropriate way to administer the statutory licence. It is therefore timely to consider whether operational separation between the commercial and statutory functions of declared collecting societies is needed to ensure that commercial imperatives are not applied to statutory functions, and that statutory funds are not used for non-statutory purposes.
There is currently no effective check on the ability of declared collecting societies to exploit their monopoly position to engage in what amounts to rent seeking from publicly funded entities. The high cost of Copyright Tribunal proceedings has greatly limited the scope of the Copyright Tribunal to play this role. The ACCC should be given an oversight role over declared collecting societies with a view to ensuring that they do not use their market power in a way that is contrary to the public interest.
The shortcomings cannot be fixed through Code of Conduct amendments.
Broad reform is required that includes:
- Legislative obligations for declared collecting societies to have regard to the interests of licensees as well as their members;
- Mandatory guidelines, to be issued by the Minister, that set the standards of transparency and accountability that declared collecting societies are required to meet; and
- An effective mechanism for ensuring compliance with such guidelines.
This role could be played by the ACCC.


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Digital Libraries & Open Access
"Digital Libraries & Open Access. Interoperability Strategies"
4 February 2011, The British Academy - London, UK
The one-day workshop at the British Academy in London on 4 February 2011 delivered important insights into Open Access Repositories and interoperability strategies from multilple perspectives. Over 40 Library and Information Science professionas from leading organisations across Europe were able to learn from and network with international experts in the field.
Experts presenting at the Workshop addressed interoperability challenges within the context of digital libraries and open access repositories from multiple perspectives, highlighting top-level challenges that need addressing and the best practices key to achieving open, interoperable information systems. The workshop offered a forum in which to:
- Trigger the multi-disciplinary debate about research on Digital Libraries and Open Access
- Discuss DL.org project results, and existing frameworks and best practices for interoperability within the communities of practice
- Propose common strategies for interoperability: start discussing how to implement a mechanism for exchanging, sharing and integrating results between DLs and OARs communities
- Create new connections and partnerships, and explore ways for a closer cooperation between researchers and the communities of practice
The DL.org Workshop took place at the British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH, England. DL.org would like to thank the Academy for the excellent facilities and catering services.


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Winter Weather Possible
The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Weather Advisory for freezing rain and sleet, which is in effect from midnight Wednesday to noon Thursday.
Arctic air has moved across Texas. Freezing rain and sleet are possible. Temperatures should rise above freezing after noon Thursday.
Freezing rain and sleet could cause icing of less than 1/10 of an inch. This will make for patchy ice on roads and hazardous driving conditions in some spots.
A Winter Weather Advisory means that periods of snow, sleet, or freezing rain will cause travel difficulties. Be prepared for slippery roads and limited visibilities and use caution while driving.


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Save at Museum of Air and Space with The Paris Pass
Museum of Air and Space
Paris Pass Benefits:
Free Entry with the Paris Pass
Normal Entry Price: Adult: €9.00 Child: €7.00
TheMuseum of Air and Space is located in the south-eastern edge of the Le Bourget Airport, 10 km north of Paris. Occupying over 150,000 square metres of land and hangars, the Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace is one of the oldest aviation museums in the world.
Their collection includes more than 150 aircrafts and a wide range of aviation paraphanalia from as far back as the 16th century. The Ballooning Era room is fascinating, as are all the modern air and spacecrafts, including the prototype for the Concorde and a number of Swiss and Russian rockets.
The Museum of Air and Space occupies a vast space. It is fascinating simply to walk around and soak in the amosphere.
This museum is a must for anyone interested in aircraft and the evolution of human flight. There is a utilitarian beauty and a fascinating history to every object on display; each is the work of sweat and struggle. Each aircraft has a story to tell and it is this that makes the Museum of Air and Space so diverting.
Come experience the Museum of Air and Space today with the Paris Pass and receive one entry for either Forfait Avions or Planète Pilot (or depending on the current programme, the simulator or planetarium)!
Please Note: This attraction does not provide free entry for those under 18 years of age. They will be charged an admission fee at the gate.
Full List Of Attractions Included
Best way to spend your money while rapidly experiencing Parisian hotspots.
The Paris pass offers access to every significant site in Paris as well as public transit. If you are in Paris for a brief time and want to experience the most you can while saving money, the Paris pass is what you're looking for.
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The Paris Pass was worth every penny I spent and so much more!!
The Metro passes alone are a gold mine! Makes travel soooo much easier in the city! And then there are all the great places you get into for free!
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independent existence that can be uniquely identified. An entity is an abstraction from the complexities of a domain. When we speak of an entity, we normally speak of some aspect of the real world that can be distinguished from other aspects of the real world.
An entity is a thing that exists either physically or logically.
An entity, strictly speaking, is an instance of a given entity-type.
Если определять сущность как в википедии, то это все что угодно. Количество в документе тоже тогда сущность. Как и ограничение, что остаток больше 0. То есть абсолютно бесполезное понятие.
У меня более конкретное определение объекта — то, что явно создается при помощи new, имеет идентификатор (один) и т.п.
Количество в документе тоже тогда сущность.
"independent existence" означает состояние и поведение, что означает необходимость определять объект как один и тот же в разные моменты изменения поведения. Если мы хотим выделять количество как один и тот же объект в разные моменты времени, то да, это будет экземпляр сущности, а его тип сущностью. В соответствующих предметных областях выделяют такие классы. Например в каких-нибудь анализаторах кода будет объект, соответствующий интовой переменной в анализируемом коде.
У количества в документе мы состояние и поведение не выделяем, поэтому оно не сущность. А у документа выделяем, поэтому оно сущность.
У меня более конкретное определение объекта — то, что явно создается при помощи new, имеет идентификатор (один) и т.п.
Ну вы же уточняли, что я подразумеваю, я подразумеваю общепринятое определение. То, что вы используете другое определение, не делает мои рассуждения неправильными.
Если общепринятое определение вам не подходит, вам надо создать полностью свою непротиворечивую систему терминов и предупреждать об этом, чтобы не вводить в заблуждение собеседников. Например вам нужно дать название тому, что создается при помощи new, но имеет 2 поля для идентификатора, пояснить, откуда в логической предметной области взялся какой-то оператор new, либо не использовать термины "сущность" и "объект" вне контекста языка программирования, и т.д.
У количества в документе мы состояние и поведение не выделяем, поэтому оно не сущность
Не понимаю в чем разница количества в документе и цены товара на складе. Кроме того что первый показатель от одного объекта, а второй от двух.
Если общепринятое определение вам не подходит, вам надо создать полностью свою непротиворечивую систему терминов и предупреждать об этом, чтобы не вводить в заблуждение собеседников
Мое соответствует классическому ООП. Там есть классы и их можно делать new. Все остальное методы / процедуры.
Например вам нужно дать название тому, что создается при помощи new, но имеет 2 поля для идентиф


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DESCRIPTIONThis function returns information about which visuals support double buffering. The argument num_screens specifies how many elements there are in the screen_specifiers list. Each drawable in screen_specifiers designates a screen for which the supported visuals are being requested. If num_screens is zero, information for all screens is requested. In this case, upon return from this function, num_screens will be set to the number of screens that were found. If an error occurs, this function returns NULL, else it returns a pointer to a list of XdbeScreenVisualInfo structures of length num_screens. The nth element in the returned list corresponds to the nth drawable in the screen_specifiers list, unless num_screens was passed in with the value zero, in which case the nth element in the returned list corresponds to the nth screen of the server, starting with screen zero. The XdbeScreenVisualInfo structure has the following fields:
count specifies the number of items in visinfo. visinfo specifies a list of visuals, depths, and performance hints for this screen.
The XdbeVisualInfo structure has the following fields:
visual specifies one visual ID that supports double-buffering. depth specifies the depth of the visual. perflevel is a performance hint.
The only operation defined on a perflevel is comparison to a perflevel of another visual on the same screen. The visual having the higher perflevel is likely to have better double-buffering graphics performance than the visual having the lower perflevel. Nothing can be deduced from the following: the magnitude of the difference of two perflevels, a perflevel value in isolation, or comparing perflevels from different servers.
- One or more values passed in screen_specifiers is not a valid drawable.


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Federal University of Minas Gerais-UFMG (SMARH) and Humboldt University (IRI THESys)/Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM)
Caroline is a PhD candidate at Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Department at UFMG (Brazil) and IRI THESys under the umbrella of the "Water security for Whom" project (Water security for whom? – Social and material perspectives on inequality around multipurpose reservoirs in Colombia – IRI THESys (iri-thesys.org)). And is also an Consultant at Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM) in Brazil.
She has a degree in Business Administration and Environmental Engineering, with a master's in Modelling and Analysis of Environmental Systems. Before her PhD, she was working in research institutes linked to Universities and in NGOs, together with farmers and official agencies, especially in the Brazilian Legal Amazon and Atlantic Forest. There she developed spatial, statistical and econometric models to identify and predict deforestation, forest
restoration and suitable agricultural areas. In the last years, she worked in projects that aimed improve cattle ranching and agricultural systems (intensification, technical assistance, etc.), and remunerate the farmers persurplus native vegation and carbon stocks.
Caroline also collaborated in the creation and analysis of public policies related to the protection of natural resources. Her research interests are: Land and water use changes around infrastructures; Agri-food systems transitions and Sustainable Food Value Chains and Policies and financial mechanisms to protect and restoring forest (PES, REDD+).


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A slice of 'Green Qutub' beckons nature lovers
By Rahul Chhabra, Dehradun, March 12 : When the foundation of Delhi's historic Qutub Minar was being laid in the late 12th century, a deodar seed germinated in the Tehri Garhwal mountains in what is now Uttarkhand.
For the next 700 years, the sapling grew into a colossal tree of almost the same height as Qutubuddin Aibak's 72.5 metre victory tower. A slice of this gigantic tree, also known as the 'Green Qutub', is on display at a museum here.
When felled around 1919-20, the 704-year rare deodar tree had a girth diameter of nearly 2.75 metre - almost the same as the top of Qutub Minar.
A preserved piece of the tree's girth, which has a mean radius of 140 cm, is a centre of attraction for visitors who flock to the timber museum at the Forest Research Institute (FRI), which comes under the union environment and forests ministry.
"The girth is indeed a sought-after exhibit. Nothing similar or of the same age and dimension is, perhaps, known to exist in the country," FRI Director P.P. Bhojvaid told IANS.
Though the reasons for the rare tree's end are not known, the records at the British-era institute reveal that it was felled and carried away on elephants and mules.
"The girth of the tree was brought by a European in four pieces, as carrying it in a single piece would have been cumbersome. What we see today in display are four pieces joined together to make a uniform single circular chunk of timber," said a museum official.
Caption: The slice of the girth of a deodar tree, which survived for over 700 years, at a museum in Dehradun.
Bhojvaid said the age of the tree was calculated by the European experts, who worked in FRI in the 1920s, by counting the rings in the girth. Each ring in the girth represents an year and there are over 700 of these in the deodar tree.
For the ease of visitors at the museum, a line has been drawn to show the mean radius of the girth - with 20-year sections marked right up to 704 years.
According to N.S.K. Harsh, head of the forest pathology division of FRR, "The tree must have had a grand canopy and offered a magnificent sight. It could have been 60-70 metres high - almost the size of Qutub Minar or a 15 storey building."
A tree's survival for 704 years would in itself have been interesting to study, he said, adding that there were no records in the institute on who brought the girth here or what happened to the tree after it was cut seven centuries ago.
Apart from the deodar tree's girth, the museum also showcases a girth of a 330-year-old teak tree, brought from Parambikulam in Kerala.
A 2000-year-old fossilized piece of wood brought from Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh by a Briton, A.E. Lawrie, is also at display at the museum. The high density piece of wood is oval-shaped and about a foot wide. It was found under the foundation of a house by Lawrie, about whom there are no records.
(Rahul Chhabra can be contacted at _EMAIL_) --IANS


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This article discusses a useful method of presenting information known as the Times Square Method (named after Times Square in New York, where this technique of presenting information has been used for a long time). This method displays information to the user by scrolling text across the screen, usually at the top or bottom of the display. This method has in recent times becomes popular in news broadcasts. In terms of mobile applications has the advantage of allowing us to overcome limitations in terms of screen size, but scrolling large amounts of text across the same piece of screen space.
Despite the advantage of allowing lots of information to effectively share the same screen space, this technique does have some potential drawbacks, which this article does well to identify. Probably the most significant problem is that this way of displaying information requires quite a lot of visual attention. Furthermore, the movement of the text across the screen can be distracting. In addition, not all users will be comfortable with the same scrolling speed and care needs to be taken to localize the direction of scrolling according to the user's language. While it is common for Western languages to read from left to right, this is not true for all languages.
The article provides some useful advice for addressing the potential usability problems of the Times Square Method. Providing customization options is extremely important, as users need to be able to adjust attributes the speed, directionality, font and color according to their personal preferences. This will help to ensure that users are comfortable using the "ticker" as it conforms to their requirements. Another common problem with these sort of ticker controls is that users will often only catch the last few words of a sentence which might grab their attention. It is important, therefore, that users be able to scroll back to read the full sentence if they so desire.

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Green is CoolRecyclingAre Egg Cartons Recyclable and What To Do With Them? How to Recycle Egg Cartons?
Are Egg Cartons Recyclable and What To Do With Them? How to Recycle Egg Cartons?
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Eggs, a popular household staple that is used as a breakfast product by most families. This essential and most definitely common ingredient is usually bought in a crayon of either, 6, 12, or 24 and is an ingredient that is not only enjoyed alone but in a variety of different ways too. From scrambled eggs to egg fried rice and numerous baked desserts it is uncommon for the paper egg cartons to start making their way into bins and eventually landfills. The truth is when it comes to egg cratons, most peek are perplexed as to where they actually belong, are egg cartons recyclable or compostable or both? In this article, I am going to be explaining to you exactly where to put your egg cartons and why we choose this method as a way to save protect and conserve our beloved planet earth.
What Are Egg Cartons Made Of?
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Knowing exactly what your egg cartons are made of will ultimately help you to determine whether egg cartons recyclable or not. Look just like us humans not all eggs are the same size and shape and thus all belong in different styled and sized containers, made of material that is best suited to that egg's needs. For example, if an egg is bigger, smaller, or more fragile and thus is its container built for that exact purpose. Most commonly there are three different types of materials that egg cartons are usually made of, these are :
Paper Egg Cartons
These types of egg cartons are made from molded pulp which is actually a mix of recycled papers, cardboard, and various other materials. These are the most common type of egg cartons as they are the most cost-effective for the consumer and manufacturer. This type of packaging is also relatively sustainable and environmentally friendly due to its reuse.
Styrofoam Egg Cartons
Styrofoam, unlike the paper egg cartons, is not the most environmentally friendly and is actually made from material that is most commonly used for the packaging of hardware and construction materials. This material is used because of its highly protective abilities, ensuring the eggs have less chance of breaking.
Clear Plastic Egg Cartons
Clear plastic egg cartons are exactly what their name suggests 'clear plastic'. Most commonly they are made from previously recycled mixed plastic are often found in the very residential parts of cities and towns.
Where To Recycle Egg Cartons
For some reason or other egg cartons seem to get left to the last thought, many people have absolutely no idea what to do with them or where to put them, they usually end up in a pile and eventually thrown into the bins. But when it comes to the question "can you recycle egg cartons? " the answer is yes! Not even only in the classic sense but also in various other ways in which egg cartons can actually be reused or repurposed. Where and how you recycle your egg cartons really comes down to the material they are made of.
Are Cardboard Egg Cartons Recyclable?
Not only are cardboard egg cratons recyclable but they are also the most simple and easy ones to recycle too. Because they are already made from recycled mixed papers they can go straight into the recycling bin along with cardboard and other paper-related materials. They can simply be transferred or put into the same pile as other paper and cardboard items that come out of your household.
Recycling your cardboard egg cartons is actually relatively important especially if you have no intention of reusing or repurposing them in any other way. Because they can be recycled and are made out of materials that will be reused in making other products, recycling them is marginally saving a piece f the environment or a part of a tree having to be cut down and used to make more of the exact same products we could have recycled in the first place. This however is not the only thing you can do to so call recycle your egg cartons, some other more creative recycling ideas include :
 - Crafts
 - Painted
 - Kids activities
 - Organize small items such as beads and nails
 - Donate to underprivileged schools
Can You Recycle Styrofoam Egg Cartons?
Styrofoam egg cartons are no the same as aper egg cartons and simply can not just be added to the recycling pile and await curve side pick up. Whilst there are ways that foam can be recycled, the market for such recycling has not taken much to the public and seems to only really happen on smaller occasions as of right now. So again a way to reuse and get the most sustainability of your styrofoam egg carton is to reuse it as much as possible before it has to land up in the bins.
How To Compost Egg Cartons
do you recycle egg cartons
So you've now learned a couple of different ways how to recycle egg cartons, but that is not the only option when it comes to doing the most environmentally friendly thing possible with your remaining containers. When it comes to giving back to the environment and making use of the scraps of the products we use on a daily basis, composting has become one of the most popular ways to combat this mass excess of "leftovers" we have. Cardboard egg cartons for example are the perfect addition to any compost pile and can actually aid the process of degradation quite intensely. This s because the properties of the materials cardboard egg cartons are made of break down extremely quickly and help to create a very rich fertilizer for your garden, flowers and plants and helps the germination process happens as organically and as rapidly as possible. Having a compost pile with a combination of materials such as cardboard egg cartons and shredded paper along with scraps of leftover food, vegetables and fruit peels will provide the most effective solution for your garden and also help you to achieve zero-waste status.
Do You Recycle Egg Cartons?
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When it comes to what you land up deciding to do with your empty egg cartons is simply up to you, the biggest key and piece of advice I can give is just to not forget about them if you know you are on the last egg or your pile of cartons is adding up simply assign yourself some time to sort out your needs, maybe you need some of an upcoming kids party, or for the next days recycling collection perhaps you want to increase the fertility of your garden or get some alone time while distracting the kids with an egg carton arts and crafts session. At the end of the day, the choice is all yours. Upon some recent server, many people reported that they simply either had no clue what to do with their egg cartons or that they didn't realize that the materials they are made of could be recycled, and thus they land up in places they shouldn't and thus can no longer be reused or repurposed for the benefit of our environment and planet.
The Bottom Line
At the end of the day not only have we answered in bearing the question "are egg containers recyclable?" but also discussed the wide variety of different options you have when it comes to reusing, recycling, and repurposing the egg containers bought for your particular family household. As you can see there is absolutely no reason why your old egg cartons need to land up in our landfills and pollute our lands, oceans, and atmosphere when there are so many things we can do with them. So the next time you finish the last egg in the carton think about where you are going to put that carton and how it can also help benefit you and possibly something in your home in the next few days.
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The vortex tube is a device used for generation of cold and hot air streams from compressed air. This simple device is very efficient in theseparation of air streams into two different temperatures streams. Cold air coming out of vortex tube can be used for air conditioning and refrigeration purpose. The coefficient of performance (COP) and outlet cold air temperature difference (?TC) of vortex tube are considerably influenced by its thermophysical and geometrical parameters. The present study deals with the experimental investigation on the effect of 2, 4 and 6nozzle number on COP and?TC of thevortex tube. Vortex tube with length to diameter ratio (L/D) 15'0°, 15'4°, 16'4°, 17'4° and 18'4° where 0° and 4° are diverging angles, cold end orifice diameter(do) 5, 6 and 7mm and valve angle (O) 30°, 45°, 60°, 75° and 90° have been experimented with inlet pressure (Pi) 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 bar. The effect of nozzle number on COP and?TC for acold mass fraction (CMF) varying from 0 to 1 was studied and the validation of experimented and simulated value of COP and?TC for pressure varying from 2 bar to 6 bar was done.The experimental results are validated with simulation results. Experimental result indicates that COP increases with increase in inlet pressure but decreases as a number of nozzle increases.The simulation result holds true with anexperimental result where the value of COP decreases with increase in CMF value and?TCdecreases with increase in CMF. The best result was achieved for2 nozzle numberwhere it produces maximum 0.1237 COP for CMF = 1 and maximum?TC about 20.3794 at CMF = 1. The best COP experimentalandCOPsimulationwere achieved for 2 nozzle number as0.136668811 and 0.062378066 respectively at 6 bar inlet pressure.Also, the best?TCvalue of experimental and simulation was achieved at 6 bar pressure as 7.2 and 11.80075 respectively.
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Snehal Bharat Bhote, K D Devade. Investigations on Thermal Performance of Multi-Nozzle Ranque-Hilsch Vortex Tube. Int. J. Tech. 2018; 8(2): 65-78. doi: 10.5958/2231-3915.2018.00010.X


Reporting to the Sr Manager of Phishing Defense Services, the Threat Analyst is responsible for actively monitoring and processing phishing threats reported our customers
Essential Duties/Responsibilities
Monitor Triage systems for new customer reported suspicious emails
Perform initial assessment on reported suspicious emails to determine if email poses a threat to the customer, or is benign
Initiate threat analysis case for emails that pose a threat to the customer, and escalate to Sr. Threat Analysis team member.
Assist Sr. Threat Analysts during investigations.
Maintain ownership of cases opened for customers including updating cases, communicating with the customer, and documenting resolution
Assist in production of monthly customer reports
Maintain adequacy of skills by attending approved conferences, training, and other related events
Assist with creation and maintenance of products including updates and upgrades, backups, and troubleshooting
Response to customer requests submitted via ticketing systems and other communication channels
Other duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required
Ability to apply critical thinking to cyber threat investigations
Ability to recognize need for prompt escalation of malware review
Proficient in common technologies such as networking, operating systems, email Infrastructures such as Exchange and Office 365, anti-virus programs, and advanced threat detection systems
Proficient in common end-user applications such as web browsers and productivity applications such as MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint that are commonly targeted by malware
Education and/or Experience:
Minimum 3 years general security experience or education including demonstrated ability to perform phishing and malware analysis
Industry recognized certifications in Malware Analysis and Incident Response preferred
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Potassium (K) soil test levels have the greatest potential to vary between fall and spring. Soil test K levels are usually lowest in the dry conditions of late summer prior to harvest and peak in the early spring. Potassium is released from crop residues as the crop matures and crop residues degrade, and this release continues through the winter months. In addition, potassium can be released from the soil through prolonged saturation and freeze/thaw cycles in the winter months. With these processes combined, the question becomes how much higher soil test potassium levels will be in spring- versus fall- collected samples.
A simple approach is to select a location in a field such as a grid or zone sample location and physically mark it with a flag. Collect 6-8 cores at a depth of 6-8". It is important to pull the same number of cores at the same depth each time samples are collected. Collect the cores as close as possible to each other and the flag. Do this in the fall and in the spring.In most cases, spring and fall potassium levels are usually within 5-10%. Spring soil sampling does not always result in higher potassium soil test level; this depends on crop residue release and weather patterns. Below is an example of some actual field data collected in northeast Indiana in a clay loam soil with a corn/beans/wheat crop rotation with fertilizer applied after the spring sample collection. The key to proper soil sampling is consistency. Sample the at the same depth, following the same crop at the same time of year.


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Sahera Khan is Muslim, Deaf and British South Asian, her native language is British Sign Language. She lives in London and is a freelance writer/creator, artist/actress, filmmaker and YouTuber.
Sahera's first breakthrough professional performance was at the Victoria and Albert Museum in a pop-up performance The Fruit and Vegetable Olympics in Spring 2019. She is a member of 1623 Theatre Company and is a trustee and Media Relations Officer for the Deaf Ethnic Women's Association, supporting D/deaf Ethnic women and girls to achieve better quality of life, rights, education and employment. She also does occasional support work with D/deaf children.
We talk to Sahera about her journey into the creative industries, how the creative sector can be more accessible and how her faith influences her creative practice.
You have a multiplicity of creative skills including writing, acting and filmmaking. How did you develop a career in the creative sector?
My creativity was learnt through education, as I joined short courses to develop my writing which then went onto writing my own stories which I thoroughly enjoy. I wrote nine kindle books and my short film 'He Stood Me Up' for BSL Zone and was commissioned. This then led me into acting and filmmaking, which I had developed through short courses and workshops. This experience built my confidence and my creative skills, however, I am still learning and attending some courses, workshops and researching information.
As a Muslim, Deaf and British South Asian woman, how does your identity affect your creative practice?
My identity is very important such as my religion and being deaf, of course there are some barriers being deaf within my creative practice. Such as accessing hearing creative industries. For example I need British Sign Language Interpreter, it is also rare to find Muslim roles for the stage or screen.
Your native language is British Sign Language, do you feel the arts and cultural sector accommodate people who are deaf or does more need to be done in terms of access and inclusion?
Yes and no. It really depends on whether organisations can offer access and inclusion including paying for BSL Interpreters. I feel it is important everyone is included; diversity should be both accessible and inclusive in the creative sector.
How does your faith as a Muslim influence your creative practice?
My faith is important to me, my writing, acting and videos relate to my faith. I have written and performed a short play 'Am I Dulhan Yet?' and I adapted a storytelling piece 'The Cockerel and the Fox' which explore my identity through faith. My faith influences me to allow creativity in my stories and experience.
What do you enjoy most, writing, acting and filmmaking and why?
I enjoy acting the most, because when I was young I always want to be actor. As I matured and understood the entertainment industry and arts cultural sector better, I realised it could relate to my faith. I like to read the scripts, filmed, meeting new people and I liked to see my face on a variation of screens.
You recently premiered your new show No Words, No Safety about Deaf and Disabled women's safety. What do you hope the audience gains from the show?
I hope the audience understood that my work as a BSL performer was relevant to recent events taken place in the United Kingdom. I hope it impacted women about their safety and to escape from dangerous situations such as domestic violence.
What is the most memorable moment of your career so far?
My most memorable moment of my career was 'Throwaways' (on stage) from Lambert Jackson production. It was an amazing and high profile production with performers from the West End.
As a volunteer trustee and Media Relations Officer for the Deaf Ethnic Women's Association, you support D/deaf Ethnic women and girls to achieve better quality of life, rights, education and employment. Why is this important to you?
Deaf Ethnic Women's Association (DEWA) is a campaign to support deaf women and their rights, it is important to me to support DEWA and supporting women. This is a very unique organisation and rare. Through my support, I have also learnt about DEWA and receive regular updates and training, including how we support, how to apply for grants. Through my role, I have learnt about different issues such as forced marriage, mental health and isolation.
What does the future of Islamic arts and culture look like to you? What are the opportunities and potential?
Inshallah, I would like to see more Muslim creative's in arts and culture; theatres, TV and films, also to stop the negative portrayal of Muslims on film. I would like to see Deaf Muslim artists and hearing Muslim artist's integrate and also encourage hearing artists to learn British Sign Language and Deaf Awareness. Finally, potentially create a platform for Muslim Creative's Directory over the world for opportunities to network and more.
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Above: White storks at Knepp Estate, which is home to The White Stork Project, led by a pioneering partnership of private landowners and nature conservation organisations. This year's released storks will encounter other individuals and may follow leader birds in migration. 'They may spend winter in a range of locations depending on the storks they encounter on the way,' said Dr Aldina Franco. Photo: Kevin Harwood
A FURTHER EIGHT captive-bred young white storks, bred at Knepp Estate in West Sussex, are being tracked by researchers to reveal more about their diverse migration choices.
They follow four other juvenile storks that fledged from two nests in the wild at Knepp earlier this year (see News, June 3), and are part of the White Stork Project, which aims to re-establish the species as a breeding bird in the UK.
The birds are being GPS tracked by a team at the University of East Anglia (UEA), who say there is a "high level of excitement and anticipation" after deploying the tracking devices. "We don't know what the birds will do or if they will survive the migration," said the UEA's Dr Aldina Franco, who leads a research group investigating changes in the migratory behaviour of birds.
European storks migrate to Southern Europe and Africa in the autumn and have two main routes – the eastern and western migratory routes – with a migratory divide in Germany.
Previously unpublished data from a 2019 trial, where researchers from the UEA and the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust fitted GPS trackers to eight storks, showed that many of the birds spent the winter at landfill sites in Southern Europe and Northern Africa.
But initial data from the eight birds released this year indicates that the migratory storks crossed to Europe via Dover to Calais. Three storks are now in Spain using landfill sites, two are in France and one is still in the UK. One stork died in the UK and one in France is no longer transmitting.
"In 2019 some of my colleagues were positive the UK storks would remain in the country, others thought they would migrate using the western migratory route, while I thought they follow their parents' route towards the east," commented Dr Franco.
"In fact, we were all right, and astonished to see the diversity of strategies individuals adopted."
The combination of sightings and GPS data from the 2019 juveniles has shown they are integrating with wild populations of storks, following the more experienced birds once they meet them in Europe.
Lucy Groves, White Stork Project officer for the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, said: "I am looking forward to seeing if our 2020 juveniles pick the same or different routes."
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AbstractWhile our previous work has shown that replacing existing vaccines with thermostable vaccines can relieve bottlenecks in vaccine supply chains and thus increase vaccine availability, the question remains whether this benefit would outweigh the additional cost of thermostable formulations.
- The potential effects of introducing microneedle patch vaccines into routine vaccine supply chains.
- Authors: Wedlock PT, Mitgang EA, Elsheikh F, Leonard J, Bakal J, Welling J, Crawford J, Assy E, Magadzire BP, Bechtel R, DePasse JV, Siegmund SS, Brown ST, Lee BY
- Issue date: 2019 Jan 21
- Cost-effectiveness analysis of rotavirus vaccination in Argentina.
- Authors: Urueña A, Pippo T, Betelu MS, Virgilio F, Hernández L, Giglio N, Gentile Á, Diosque M, Vizzotti C
- Issue date: 2015 May 7
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- Authors: Vitale F, Barbieri M, Dirodi B, Vitali Rosati G, Franco E
- Issue date: 2013 Jan-Feb
- Epidemiological and Economic Impact of Monovalent and Pentavalent Rotavirus Vaccines in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Cost-effectiveness Modeling Analysis.
- Authors: Paternina-Caicedo A, De la Hoz-Restrepo F, Alvis-Guzmán N
- Issue date: 2015 Jul
- Analysis of the Universal Immunization Programme and introduction of a rotavirus vaccine in India with IndiaSim.
- Authors: Megiddo I, Colson AR, Nandi A, Chatterjee S, Prinja S, Khera A, Laxminarayan R
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Implants are reported to cause lumps under the skin, bleeding from the nose, tingling when separated from the surface nerves that have grown around them, and a general sense of relief from intrusion and invasion when removed. All of these symptoms would be true of any foreign object in the body, which would be a detectable lump, cause bleeding at the still healing entry point, require cut nerves for removal if nerves have grown around it, and weigh on the mind, especially if conscious awareness of the implant's purpose was not established. Unique to alien implants is their capacity to cause what many contactees describe as a jolt or buzz in the brain, a sensation they cannot biologically reconcile. Some contactees seek medical advice, convinced they have a brain tumor or, if they experience a momentary loss of muscular control, perhaps epilepsy. Combined with the ear problems many contactees experience, many also suspect a disease of the inner ear, and run repeatedly to this specialist or that, seeking an explanation. What causes the jolt or buzz, and what purpose does it serve?
Implants, as we have explained, are locating devices, allowing the contactee to be quickly located prior to a visitation. The devices respond to a signal sent in all directions, an answering call. To generate the signal, the implant utilizes the nervous system, which operates by electrical impulses of a sort, and thus is detectable to the contactee. A temporary disruption of local nerve traffic, along with a local reaction to the strength of the signal sent through brain, bone, and muscle. Within a dead body, the implant would not respond to the locating signal, thus informing the visitors, who in any case eventually learn of the death of their contactee via spiritual routes, of a death. Implants also respond with a unique signal, generated from the DNA of the contactee, so that the implant response confirms not only that the contactee is alive but that the implant is still located within the proper body. Thus, when contactees experience a jolt of buzz in the brain, they should not be alarmed. All is working as intended, and what they are experiencing confirms their link to the visitors they have asked to meet.


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Sci Rep 2017 02;7:41662
Bacteriophage capsids constitute icosahedral shells of exceptional stability that protect the viral genome. Many capsids display on their surface decoration proteins whose structure and function remain largely unknown. The decoration protein pb10 of phage T5 binds at the centre of the 120 hexamers formed by the major capsid protein. Here we determined the 3D structure of pb10 and investigated its capsid-binding properties using NMR, SAXS, cryoEM and SPR. Pb10 consists of an α-helical capsid-binding domain and an Ig-like domain exposed to the solvent. It binds to the T5 capsid with a remarkably high affinity and its binding kinetics is characterized by a very slow dissociation rate. We propose that the conformational exchange events observed in the capsid-binding domain enable rearrangements upon binding that contribute to the quasi-irreversibility of the pb10-capsid interaction. Moreover we show that pb10 binding is a highly cooperative process, which favours immediate rebinding of newly dissociated pb10 to the 120 hexamers of the capsid protein. In extreme conditions, pb10 protects the phage from releasing its genome. We conclude that pb10 may function to reinforce the capsid thus favouring phage survival in harsh environments.


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Another technique commonly used for contrast enhancement is dark-field illumination (Abramowitz, 1987b; Davidson, 1999). In this case, the sample is
illuminated at an angle that cannot be accepted by the objective's aperture. In this case only the highly diffracted rays enter the objective. Hence only highly scattering or diffracting structures can be observed using this technique. Dark-field illumination requires blocking off the central light that ordinarily passes through and around the specimen, allowing only oblique rays from every angle to reach the specimen. This requires the use of special condensers that allow light rays emerging from the surface in all azimuths to form an inverted hollow cone of light with an apex centered in the sample plane. If no specimen is present and the numerical aperture of the condenser is greater than that of the objective, the oblique rays cross and all such rays miss entering the objective. In this case the field of view is dark. Because only the rays diffracted or refracted from the specimen reach the objective, this technique gives a high contrast image of the structures in the sample that diffract or refract the light.
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Label (Mac OS)
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In Apple's Macintosh operating systems, labels are a type of seven distinct colored and named parameters of metadata that can be attributed to items (files, folders and disks) in the filesystem.[1] Labels were introduced in Macintosh System 7, released in 1991,[2] and they were an improvement of the ability to colorize items in earlier versions of the Finder.[1] Labels remained a feature of the Macintosh operating system through the end of Mac OS 9 in late 2001, but they were omitted from Mac OS X versions 10.0 to 10.2,[3] before being reintroduced in version 10.3 in 2003,[4] though not without criticism.[5] During the short time period when Mac OS X lacked labels, third-party software replicated the feature.[6][7]


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By Father Louis Sogliuzzo
There are certain characteristics of education at Le Moyne College that identify it as a Jesuit school. We are challenged to seek the more, never settling for merely the acceptable. Our students learn to respond with their talents to offer the best contribution for the greatest number of people. This is called the Magis.
We are also committed to Cura Personalis, which means the care of the whole person. A Jesuit educator sees the student through this lens and responds accordingly. Learning to respond to the full nature of the human person confronting us at the moment is the goal.
Father Louis Sogliuzzo is chaplain of Campus Ministry and director of the Panasci Family Chapel at Le Moyne College, and a board member of InterFaith Works.


User privileges in Python containers
When containerizing an application for production, your goal should be to port existing code into a separate runtime environment without introducing unforeseen security concerns. For this reason, you should select the default port for Python: Django (8000) and Python: Flask (5000) during execution of the Add Dockerfiles to Workspace command, or opt for a port greater than 1023. This will allow VS Code to configure the Dockerfile with non-root access and prevent a malicious user from elevating permissions in the container, ultimately obtaining host machine root access. When you choose Python: General, the Docker extension configures non-root access by default, since no port is chosen. However, in all cases, to use a non-root user within a container, you must ensure each resource your application needs to read or modify can be accessed.
If a user selects ports less than 1024 when adding Dockerfiles to workspace, by default, we cannot scaffold a Dockerfile that will run the container as a non-root user. This is because ports in this range are called well-known or system ports and must execute with root privileges in order to bind a network socket to an IP address.
This guide will help you to:
 - Configure a non-root user in your application by modifying your Dockerfile and tasks.json.
 - Fix potential errors due to running as a non-root user.
Running your containerized app as a non-root user
The Add Dockerfiles to Workspace command for Django and Flask automatically sets up non-root privileges if you choose a non-system port. If your current Dockerfile and tasks.json is not setup for non-root usage, follow these steps:
 - Run Add Dockerfiles to Workspace.
 - Choose Python: Django or Python: Flask.
 - Select a port greater than 1023.
 - Overwrite your current Dockerfile and tasks.json.
If you chose Python: General, non-root privileges will be set up by default, but you may want to modify your Dockerfile and tasks.json as described below to add port access.
Docker file changes
Within the Dockerfile, you must expose a non-system port, create a working directory for your app code, and then add a non-root user with access to the app directory. Lastly, ensure your exposed port matches the port binding of the Gunicorn command. The CMD command below configures Gunicorn for a Django container. For more information on configuring Gunicorn, refer to the documentation on Gunicorn configuration for Django/Flask apps.
# 1024 or higher
EXPOSE 1024
# ... other directives such as installing requirements.txt file
# Creates /app in container if it does not already exist
# Ports code into /app
WORKDIR /app
ADD . /app
# Switches to a non-root user and changes the ownership of the /app folder"
RUN useradd appuser && chown -R appuser /app
USER appuser
CMD ["gunicorn", "--bind", "0.0.0.0:1024", "pythonPath.to.wsgi"]
Modifications to tasks.json for Django\Flask apps
After choosing a non-system port and setting up the container to run as a non-root user, we must ensure the docker run task within tasks.json also expects the same port.
Django Apps
{
 "type": "docker-run",
 "label": "docker-run: debug",
 "dependsOn": ["docker-build"],
 "python": {
 "args": [
 "runserver",
 "0.0.0.0:1024", //Change the number after the colon
 "--nothreading",
 "--noreload"
 ],
 "file": "manage.py"
 }
}
Flask Apps
{
 "type": "docker-run",
 "label": "docker-run: debug",
 "dependsOn": ["docker-build"],
 "dockerRun": {
 "env": {
 "FLASK_APP": "flask_folder/flask_project.py"
 }
 },
 "python": {
 "args": [
 "run",
 "--no-debugger",
 "--no-reload",
 "--host 0.0.0.0",
 "--port 1024" //Change this port number
 ],
 "module": "flask"
 }
}
Potential errors when running as a non-root user
Following the guide up to this point should eliminate most configuration issues caused by running as a non-root user. However, we have compiled a list (non-exhaustive) of common errors you may run into.
If you encounter any other problems due to running as a non-root user, please report the issue in the Docker Extension repository. We love your feedback!
Invalid file permissions
If you are reading, writing, or creating a file within your container, a non-root user might not have access to folders or files in specific directories unless directly given.
For example, if you added to your Dockerfile:
RUN mkdir /extra
The /extra folder will be created in the root directory of your container outside of the /app folder. Therefore, if you tried to create and write to a file named file.txt with:
f = open("/extra/file.txt", "a")
f.write("We wrote some text")
f.close()
You will see the error:
Exception has occurred: PermissionError
[Errno 13] Permission denied: '/extra/file.txt'
To solve this issue, we need to correctly add permissions to the non-root user to gain access to this specific file or directory in the container. Within your Dockerfile, add:
RUN useradd appuser && chown -R appuser /app
# Adds permission to appuser (non-root) for access to the /extra folder
RUN chown -R appuser /extra
Note: This is just one example of how to add permissions. There are many ways to do so and it is your responsibility give the least permission possible to specific files and folders.
Binding to an inaccessible port
If your container starts and stops immediately after F5 without producing logs in the Debug Console, we can try to diagnose the issue through these steps:
 1. Open and modify your launch.json file:
 {
 "name": "Docker: Python - Django",
 "type": "docker",
 "request": "launch",
 "preLaunchTask": "docker-run: debug",
 "removeContainerAfterDebug": false, //add this line
 "python": {
 "pathMappings": [
 {
 "localRoot": "${workspaceFolder}",
 "remoteRoot": "/app"
 }
 ],
 "projectType": "django"
 }
 }
 2. Hit F5 to run your container again.
 3. After the container exits once more, navigate to the Docker Extension, right-click the container, and select View Logs.
User clicking view logs on their container
In a Django app, you may see the error:
Error: You don't have permission to access that port.
In a Flask app, you may see the error:
self.socket.bind(self.server_address) PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied
This likely means you are exposing a system-port (ports less than 1024) while attempting to run as a non-root user. This incompatible configuration is demonstrated in the image above.
To solve this issue, modify your Dockerfile and tasks.json file in the manner shown above.


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UK MOD orders autonomous minesweepers for Royal Navy
The UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) has awarded Atlas Elektronik UK (AEUK) a £25 million (US$34.2 million) contract for the supply of three examples of its Combined Influence Minesweeping (SWEEP) unmanned minesweeping system.
The SWEEP system is designed to detect even the more modern "smart" digital sea mines that target ships and submarines passing overhead. Each system comprises an autonomous surface vessel (ASV) that tows a sensor unit fitted with magnetic, acoustic, and electric technology to identify and neutralise different types of sea mines.
The system is controlled by a portable command centre that can be based at sea or on land. The technology, which has been developed in the UK, can be rapidly deployed by land, sea, and air.
The first system will be delivered by AEUK in late 2022 and will enter operational evaluation before service at a later date.
Once in service, the vessels will be the first ever uncrewed minesweepers in operation with the Royal Navy.


February 23, 2012 Newsletter for HWU
This is an incredible energy technique that you can use by itself as well as including it in your daily 5-minute routine. I've used it many times around 3 pmwhen my energy runs out and my brain fogs up. It works!
The Daily Energy Routine (continued) – the Wayne Cook Posture
When you are stressed or exhausted your meridians begin to run backward so you will be compelled to rest. Tapping or massaging your K-27 points can often restore the natural direction of the meridian flow. But in more extreme cases, not only do the meridians run backward, but their energies may become quite chaotic. The Wayne Cook Posture reorders these chaotic, scrambled energies.
This procedure is named to honor Wayne Cook, a pioneering researcher of bioenergetics force fields, who invented the approach which has been modified by Donna Eden into the form presented here.
It is very powerful as it will calm you, bring order to your thinking and help you better understand confront the problems that you face. I have used it to help me when my brain feels "scrambled" after working intensely on the computer for several hours, or focusing keenly on a problem whose solution eludes me!
The Wayne Cook Posture will:
 - Untangle inner chaos
 - See with better perspective
 - Focus your mind more effectively
 - Think more clearly
 - Learn more proficiently
Even more exciting is that this technique is effective even when you are so upset that you cannot quit crying, you find yourself snapping or yelling at others, you are sinking into despair or feeling that you are beyond exhaustion. This posture helps process stress hormones. And the effect is almost immediate, you will begin to feel less crazy and less overwhelmed.
To do the Wayne Cook Posture, sit in a chair with your spine straight (time—about 90 seconds):
 1. Place your left foot over your right knee. Wrap your right hand around the front of your left ankle and your left hand over the ball of your left foot, with your fingers curled around the sides of the foot.
 2. Breath in slowly through your nose, letting the breath life your body as you breathe in. At the same time, pull your leg toward you, creating a stretch. As you exhale, breathe out of your mouth slowly, letting your body relax. Repeat this slow breathing and stretching four or five times.
 3. Switch to the other foot and reverse the hand positions (left hand around front of right ankle, right hand over ball of right food). Again breath slowly and stretching four or five times.
 4. Uncross your legs and "steeple" your fingertips together so they form a pyramid in front of your chest. Then bring your thumbs to rest on your "third eye," just above the bridge of your nose. Breath slowly and deeply about three or four full breaths.
For a demonstration please watch the following YouTube video:
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text: The 3M(TM) Organic Vapor/Acid Gas Cartridge/Filter 60923 P100 helps provide protection against certain organic vapors, acid gases and particulates in a variety of environments. The cartridge/filter combination may be used for respiratory protection from certain organic vapors, chlorine, hydrogen chloride, sulfur dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, hydrogen fluoride, and non-oil and oil particulate concentrations up to 10 times the Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL) with half facepieces or 50 times PEL with quantitatively fit tested full facepieces. This cartridge/filter is not for use in environments that are immediately dangerous to life or health (IDLH). Recommended applications for the cartridge/filter include chemical manufacturing, laboratories, petrochemical, and pharmaceuticals. Inventory needs and training requirements for safety equipment are reduced because this respirator cartridge/filter selection works for many different applications. This cartridge/filter is commonly used in the following industries: chemicals, general manufacturing, and pharmaceuticals.This organic vapor/acid gas cartridge/filter works with 3M(TM) Half and Full Facepieces 6000, 7000 and FF-400 Series with bayonet attachment holders. The cartridge is NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health) approved for environments containing acid gases and non-oil and oil particulates. The cartridge has been assigned the color code "Magenta/Yellow" in the NIOSH system. Breathing organic vapors, acid gases and particulates can pose a risk to your health. NIOSH, a Federal government regulatory agency, has tested and approved the 3M(TM) Organic Vapor/Acid Gas Cartridge/Filter 60923 to help reduce exposure to certain organic vapors, acid gases and particulates.


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A recent judgment from the Victorian Supreme Court's Insurance List, Guastalegname v Australian Associated Motor Insurers Ltd VSC 420, provides a succinct summary (and helpful refresher) of the principles to be applied when interpreting a policy of insurance.
The case concerned the interpretation of a soil movement exclusion in a Home Building Insurance policy providing cover for a range of insured events including storm. A storm caused heave of the clay soil beneath the foundation slab of a building. This resulted in lifting of the home's slab, walls and roof frame, which in turn resulted in cracking and other consequential damage.
It was necessary for the Court to determine whether "heave", which was accepted to mean the upward movement of the earth supporting a building because of the expansion of clay soil, fell within the natural and ordinary meaning of the soil movement exclusion. The exclusion stipulated there was no cover for:
"damage, loss, cost or liability caused by or arising from or involving:
- erosion or washing away of soil, earth or gravel,
- the washing away or movement of the surface of any path or driveway which has a surface consisting of a loose material such as gravel, stone or dirt,
- soil movement or settlement,
- subsidence or landslide unless caused by the insured event of earthquake, …"
It was concluded that, in the context of the policy as a whole, the natural and ordinary meaning of the soil movement exclusion is that damage to the building caused by any kind of soil movement is excluded. "Heave" was found to fall within the natural and ordinary meaning of the soil movement exclusion and the insurer had reasonable grounds to rely upon the soil movement exclusion to decline indemnity for rectification cost claimed by the insured.


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63 listing 11 minerals, of which (at zero production growth) 5 have life expectancy less than oil and 5 more.
- The distinction between reserves and resource base is explained in Tilton (as 14 above) p 62.
- Buchholz et al, as 5 above. Modelling of depreciation is introduced on p 551 and the stated result is on p 553 (case θ = 1 and δ > 0).
- OECD Consumption of Fixed Capital as % of GDP 2013 (latest year available) Total (of OECD countries) 16.5% (_URL_ assumed similar for non-OECD countries.


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HENDRICKSON MARSH may not be a big wetland complex, but it is one of many "stepping stone" wildlife areas in Iowa that are utilized by migrating critters big and small each spring and fall. It is an important resting and feeding area for birds especially when the cold icy winds of winter start to lock up the last open waters of northern Iowa.
This wetland area we know today has an interesting natural history that is thousands of years old. Glacial history buffs and scientists of earth history know that rocks and sediments in Iowa tell of at least eight past glacial advances during the last 2.5 million years. The most recent glaciation, the Wisconsinan, was at its maximum about 15,000 years ago. Since glaciers, in human terms, don't do anything fast, the gradual natural earth warming cycle that would bring on the present interglacial, began to melt the ice. The retreating leading edge of the ice left markers on the landscape all the way from Des Moines northward into the Dakotas, Minnesota and Canada. There were even short 'bursts' of readvancing ice but in the long run, ice was turning into water.
Hendrickson Marsh is a marker of its glacial past. Along the lateral edge of the Wisconsinan ice, a block of ice filled with rock, gravel and other debris broke off from the main ice mass. While the main ice mass continued to melt, the ice block at Hendrickson sat in place. It melted slowly with the inevitable outcome being that the sands, gravels and mix of other organic debris accumulated along its margins. Over time, water did find an escape route. That route today is called Clear Creek. The main depression left by the ice block is now the main water impoundment area of Hendrickson Marsh.
T-R PHOTO BY GARRY BRANDENBURG
Hendrickson Marsh, an 802 acre state wildlife area, is getting ready for more water. Today's photo was made on Aug. 13 with the view looking southeast. Water levels are low now. Stop logs at the dam control structure are in place to allow any late summer or early fall rains to fill this old geologic basin. The marsh has benefited greatly from a complete drawdown of the water in 2007, killing and removal of rough fish, which in turn allowed emergent vegetation to grow on the mud flats. When water fills the basin this fall, migrating waterfowl and many other small birds will have a great place to rest and feed before continuing on their migration.
During late Pleistocene time in Iowa, the land was recently ice free but still under the intense impact of severe cold. Tundra-like conditions existed in Iowa from 21,000 to 16,500 years ago. Plant life slowly gained a foothold, filling the void first with coniferous forests of spruce, larch, hemlock, fir and yew. As the ice edge made its way toward Canada, vegetation zones migrated northward too. The coniferous forest gave way to deciduous trees which in turn gave way to more grasses typical of prairie grasslands as the climate became warmer and drier.
Iowa's glacial and interglacial sediments also tell the story of animal life roaming the tundra and forests. The list includes mastodon, mammoth, musk ox, bison, caribou, camel, deer, moose, giant sloth, giant beaver, and wolf. Human occupation goes back to about the Paleo-Indian interval of 9,500 to 7,500 years B.C. All of these are documented and on display at the State Historical Museum in Des Moines.
Fast forward to the present. In the mid 1960s, Kimberly Marsh as it was then called, was purchased by the Iowa Conservation Commission. It was given the name Hendrickson Marsh in honor of Iowa State University George Hendrickson, a professor of wildlife management. A dedication ceremony was held on June 13, 1970 to recognize the teacher. The land purchase started out with 601 acres. In 1988, an additional 178 acres became available. A few years ago the final 35 acres were acquired.
Waterfowl management is the main focus of the area by DNR wildlife professionals. There always are spinoff benefits for other wildlife such as deer, beaver, muskrat, rabbit, pheasant and a host of songbirds, shorebirds and predators such as eagles and hawks. For the duck or goose hunter, it is a great place to spend time. For any casual observer of wildlife, it is a must stop during forays in the outdoors. Even the bald eagle nested here in 2011. Next time you visit Hendrickson, remember this wetland is an important'stepping stone' for wildlife survival.
A recent sighting in Asher Creek was recorded by video cameras. A pair of large snapping turtles was in the shallow water in what appeared to be a lock down battle of snapping jaws and churning water. As it turned out, this was part of the mating ritual for snappers. Mating can happen any time between April and November throughout the nationwide range of this reptile. The female has the ability to store sperm for up to two years or until conditions are just right for her to allow fertilization. Later she will crawl onto dry land looking for soils that will be warmed by summer sunshine. She digs a hole with her very muscular back legs, deposits up to 80 eggs, refills the hole with soil and returns to the safety of water. Incubation is left to the sun, soil temperature and time. Young snappers have a shell about the size of wristwatch face. They instinctively crawl toward water after hatching. The system works well since snapping turtles are a common critter.
Recent summer heat caused several 'blowups" of the concrete surface of the bike path paralleling highway 330. Marshall County Conservation Board staffers Marty Malloy and Jeremiah Mankin have been working to remove the damaged sections and prepare them for new concrete. If all goes as planned, the patches will be done next week. Be alert for workers on the trail.
Recent wind storms took out lots of trees and damaged many others in county park areas. Most of the damages have been cleaned up but there will always be new discoveries along foot trails. For Iowa River fishermen or canoeists, all the boat ramp access sites are usable. Boat ramps are located at Three Bridges, Furrow Access, Timmons Grove and at the Forest Reserve.
The water in the Iowa River continues at very low rates. For those segments of the river downstream from Marshalltown, numerous tree snags litter the river bed. In some places, getting a canoe through them will remain a challenge. Use caution if boating. Even seemingly mild flow rates can lock a canoe against debris and not let you escape. Always respect the power of water.
Garry Brandenburg is a graduate of Iowa State University with BS degree in Fish & Wildlife Biology. He is the retired director of the Marshall County Conservation Board. Contact him at PO Box 96, Albion, IA 50005.