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Ferrets must eat frequently due to their unusual anatomy, therefore, constant availability of food and water is important for ferrets, especially in warm weather. It is particularly essential for pregnant, old, or chronically ill pets, and for growing ferrets. Ferrets that fast more than six hours will become irritable and much more likely to bite.
Ferrets require a high-calorie, high-protein, low-fiber diet. These requirements may be met by commercial ferret diets or premium quality dry cat food. Dog food of any kind in inadequate for growth and good health in ferrets. Even the best quality premium dog food will not support ferret growth or reproduction, although pets have been maintained on dog food supplemented with dairy products or meat scraps.
Grocery store brands of dry cat food are commonly coated with animal fat, making them more palatable to ferrets, but feeding your ferret a steady diet of these cheaper brands can produce health hazards. Even though the product ingredients may be listed as 30 to 35% protein, if the main source of this protein is ground yellow corn, your ferret will not get the nutrition he needs to stay healthy. Premium brands available through veterinarians or pet shops also contain 30 to 35% protein, but the primary ingredient is usually poultry, red meat meal, or meat by-products which meet a ferrets nutritional needs.
Like cats, many ferrets, especially older ones, will refuse certain diets even when nothing else is offered. They may develop a taste for one specific flavor and may be extremely stubborn to the point of starvation when presented with a distinctly different diet. The more recently formulated pelleted ferret diets are well-balanced and palatable to most pets.
Ferrets require a higher caloric diet, and their main source of calories should be from fat. Premium cat foods contain 15 to 23% fat, which is better for ferrets than the grocery store brands. Adding fat to cheaper foods to increase the caloric concentration will give mature animals shinier coats temporarily. However, because ferrets eat to meet their caloric requirement, they eat less of the higher fat diet and soon become deficient of protein and other essential nutrients. The coat then becomes thin and bristly. Growing kits will be stunted or die, adults will be think, reproduction will fail, and some animals will develop diseases or ulcers.
Housed under natural light conditions, ferrets will eat more in the fall and will become noticeably fatter (adding as much as 40% or more to their weight). This is a normal, healthy response and is not a cause for concern. They will, in turn, reduce their intake in the spring and lose the excess weight.
Obesity is rarely a problem in ferrets unless they are fed large quantities of high fat snack foods daily (such as packaged, liver flavored cat treats) in addition to their regular diet. The best way to return obese pets to a more normal body weight is to reduce their snack food consumption.
Ferrets drink more from water dishes than water bottles. Because ferrets rest their feet on the bowl when they drink, a heavy crock is the ideal water container.


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Interactions between plants and herbivores can have a significant effect on plant growth and development, and ultimately, on a plant's economic value. Research has traditionally focused on aboveground herbivores, despite the considerable role that belowground herbivory by both vertebrates and invertebrates can play within a range of ecosystem processes. Root feeders have been classified as agricultural pests but can also be used as biological control agents against invasive species and can affect community dynamics of plants, soil micro-organisms and populations of aboveground organisms. Bringing together a broad range of viewpoints and approaches, Root Feeders presents a comprehensive review of knowledge on root herbivores and illustrates their importance within ecosystems. Chapters discuss problems of visualizing the organisms in the soil, their role in agriculture, grassland and forest ecosystems, and present specific case studies on the management, control and influence of root feeders. Covering all aspects from food web ecology to the effects of climate change, this will be valuable reading for researchers and professionals in agricultural entomology, plant science, ecology and soil science.
1: Methods for studying root herbivory 2: New experimental techniques for studying root herbivores 3: Root herbivory in agricultural ecosystems 4: Root herbivory in grassland ecosystems 5: Root herbivory in forest ecosystems 6: Grape phylloxera - an overview 7: Using biocontrol against root feeding pests, with particular reference to Sitona root weevils 8: Invasive root feeding insects in natural forest ecosystems of North America 9: Linking aboveand belowground herbivory 10: Root feeders in heterogeneous systems: foraging responses and trophic interactions 11: Climate change impacts on root herbivores

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Assassin's Creed 3 is set in an open world and presented from the third person perspective with a primary focus on using Desmond and Connor's combat and stealth abilities to eliminate targets and explore the environment. Connor is able to freely explore 18th century Boston, New York and the American frontier to complete side missions away from the primary storyline. The game also features a multiplayer component, allowing players to compete online to complete solo and team based objectives including assassinations and evading pursuers. Ubisoft developed a new game engine, Anvil Next, for the game.
The game follows the series' standard level-based gameplay during the 21st century, as well as the open world gameplay set in 18th century colonial America, in which the player has access to a huge wilderness known as the Frontier (which is 1.5 times bigger than Rome in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood),the cities of Boston and New York as well as portions of the Eastern Seaboard and Caribbean Sea can be explored via the flagship of the Assassin's Navy, the Aquila., captained by Connor himself, with Robert Faulkner his first-mate advising and teaching him in the ways of the sea.
Free running has been simplified to allow for more fluid parkour in the cities and wilderness, such as climbing and running on trees, mountains, cliffs,etc. Close combat has been modified, allowing Connor to dual wield weapons and take down multiple opponents at once and players no longer need to manage the lock on mechanic.Aiding this, Connor has access to a wide range of weapons which include muskets, pistols, native weapons such as the tomahawk and bow/arrows, a rope dart (used to pull foes or hang them, while on a tree) as well as the Hidden blades. Human shields can be used against firing lines of enemies. Medicine is no longer used as health recovers automatically. Stealth is also revamped, allowing players to use natural elements such as tall grass and trees to hide, along with the ability to blend between any two people.
Assassin's Creed III features new weather simulations such as snow, fog, and rain. The seasons can also change i.e., Summer and Winter, which not only effect visuals but also gameplay, as the player will find running slower in deep snow. Snowfall can reduce visibility for the player and enemies, aiding stealth. Unlike the past games, this one includes animals varying from domestic (horses, cows, dogs) to wild (deer, wolves, bears). The wild ones are found in the Frontier, and can be hunted for meat or marrow in order to be sold. The quality of the kill determines the price, encouraging the player to hunt silently. For this, traps and bait can also be used.
Economy is now based on the Davenport Homestead, which also acts as Connor's adopted home. The site can be visited by people such as carpenters, tailors etc. suffering from displacement due to the war. Helping and interacting with these NPCs will encourage them to settle in the Homestead. From there on, the player can craft various items and trade with them, and then sell the goods to the cities via caravan. The player can also help them build relationships with each other, which will then result in the formation of a small village. The player can also upgrade the Homestead manor as well as Connor's ship, the Aquila.
A revamped version of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood's recruitment feature returns as players can enlist citizens to the Assassins' cause by completing "Liberation" missions. They also have a much larger skill set, which allows them to start a riot, provide a covert escort, act a as a personal bodyguard etc. Other side missions include collecting Almanac pages, exploring underground tunnels to locate fast-travel stations, joining hunting and fighting clubs, investigating frontiersman rumours about UFOs and Sasquatch, "peg-leg" missions in which Connor goes to underground forts and wastelands to uncover the legend of Captain Kidd's treasure, and others.
Assassin's Creed 3 also features naval expeditions. Using Connor's warship, the Aquila, the player can navigate the high seas. Control of the ship relies on environmental factors such as wind direction and speed, local presence of storms, high waves, and rocks. Engagements are by cannon, with broadsides covering both flanks of the ship, and swivel guns that can be used to damage smaller ships which can also be boarded to find treasure. The Aquila is used in the side missions known as "Privateer missions" and is also used in some of the main missions.
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Powered by wind turbines, solar panels, and a biodiesel generator, the NY Sunworks Science Barge (now in Yonkers, New York) is a model for energy-efficient, sustainable urban farming. Using a hydroponic system that requires no dirt, the floating greenhouse uses less water and space than traditional farming in fields. And their state-of-the-art computer technology creates an optimized environment for nourishing tomatoes, cucumbers, strawberries, basil, lettuce and more, "with zero net carbon emissions, zero chemical pesticides, and zero runoff."
It's not only a great educational field trip for school kids from all over the region, but continues to be an example of how growing local food in cities can be fresh, healthy, and sustainable, all while cutting down on transportation costs and fuel needs. From NYTimes.com:
"It's a living science lab that on its first level is a demonstration of how we can grow food with fewer resources and that we can produce what we need without damaging the world around us."
If you want to make your own hydroponic plant-growing experiments, there are kits for kids here and here. Or Instructables has written out steps for making your own hydroponic system using stuff around the house.
If you're in the New York area, visit the Science Barge!

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317:30-5-95.8. Nursing services for adults age 21 to 64
Each facility providing nursing services to adults age 21 to 64 must have a qualified Director of Psychiatric Nursing. In addition to the Director of Nursing, there must be adequate numbers of registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, and mental health workers to provide nursing care necessary under the active treatment program and to maintain progress notes on each member. A registered nurse must document member progress at least weekly. The progress notes must contain recommendations for revisions in the treatment plan, as needed, as well as an assessment of the member's progress as it relates to the treatment plan goals and objectives.

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pylint #8961 tell pylint about dynamic attributes [open]
here is a discussion about how we could tell pylint about dynamic attributes:
Duncan:
Presumably something like the following could work.
class MyClass(object):
 # pylint: dynamic-attributes = foo, bar, baz
 def __init__(self, **kwargs):
 for key, val in kwargs.iteritems():
 setattr(self, key, value)
Maarteen update:
I would prefer to have a way to tell pylint that a class has dynamic attributes without explicitly naming the attributes. In the best case explicitly naming the attributes is duplicating information, in the worst case it is not even possible to name the attributes since they might be different for different executions of the program (read from a user-provided data file, for example).
A possible syntax for this would be similar to what you proposed, but with a slightly different comment:
# pylint: dynamic-attributes
or with a wildcard filter:
# pylint: dynamic-attributes = *
or with a regex filter:
# pylint: dynamic-attributes = .*
or similar to existing warning-suppression syntax:
# pylint: disable-msg=E1101
In the last case, this suppression should not suppress warnings from code inside the class, but from code outside the class accessing attributes on the class.
What would be even handier would be to specify the name of a python list or dict where the list members or keys are the attribute names. Of course this would need to be a class attribute, not an instance attribute. For example:
class MyClass(object):
 attrs = ['foo', 'bar', 'baz']
 # pylint: dynamic-attributes = attrs
 def __init__(self):
 for attr in self.__class__.attrs:
 setattr(self, attr, 'some value')
For the case that attributes are defined outside the class and passed in to __init__ I can not think of a way to handle that one.
Paul update:
What would be even handier would be to specify the name of a python list or dict where the list members or keys are the attribute names. Of course this would need to be a class attribute, not an instance attribute. For example:
class MyClass(object):
 attrs = ['foo', 'bar', 'baz']
 # pylint: dynamic-attributes = attrs
 def __init__(self):
 for attr in self.__class__.attrs:
 setattr(self, attr, 'some value')
For the case that attributes are defined outside the class and passed in to __init__ I can not think of a way to handle that one.
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Thomas Wolfe Memorial
The Thomas Wolfe Memorial, located in Asheville, is centered around the rambling Victorian home where the novelist spent his childhood and adolescence. The house was built in 1883, in the Queen Anne style, and enlarged many times, as Wolfe's mother operated it as a boardinghouse called "Old Kentucky Home" for several decades starting in 1906. Wolfe was born on 3 Oct. 1900 in a smaller house that stood two blocks away, but Old Kentucky Home served as the model for the boardinghouse named "Dixieland" in his epic autobiographical novel, Look Homeward, Angel (1929).
The rooms of Old Kentucky Home have been preserved almost intact, with the original Wolfe family pieces arranged much as they were during Wolfe's youth. At first frowned upon in his hometown for the unflattering portrait he painted of it in his novels (Look Homeward, Angel was banned from the Asheville public library for seven years), Wolfe was later celebrated as one of the city's most famous citizens. His youthful home came to be seen as worth preserving as part of the nation's literary history. A classic of twentieth-century Americana, the house has been preserved as an attraction for people from around the world since 1971 as a National Historic Landmark and since 1976 as a North Carolina State Historic Site.
In 1998 a fire severely damaged many of the house's rooms. A number of artifacts and furnishings were subsequently restored, and architects rebuilt the damaged home. The house was closed to visitors for several years, although the visitors center, exhibit hall, and audiovisual program remained open, and the site continued to host special events. All sections of the Thomas Wolf Memorial were reopened in 2004.
Wilson Angley, "Historical Research Report: Thomas Wolfe and the Old Kentucky Home" (30 Oct. 1974).
David H. Donald, Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe (1987).
Richard F. Knapp, ed., North Carolina's State Historic Sites: A Brief History and Status Report (1995).
George W. McCoy, "Asheville and Thomas Wolfe," NCHR 30 (April 1953).
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The Infinity Gauntlet is a gauntlet used for channeling the power of the Infinity Stones. A knockoff gauntlet was in Odin's vault, which was right-handed, while the real one, which is left-handed, is in Thanos' possession. It grants the bearer infinite power over reality through the use of the six Infinity Stones (Mind, Reality, Soul, Time, Power, and Space) embedded in it.
A right-handed Infinity Gauntlet with replicas of the Infinity Stones is on display in Odin's weapon vault, and is guarded by The Destroyer.
In Thor's hallucination, Thor sees the Infinity Stones being assembled on a cloud-like version of the Infinity Gauntlet.
Because both Loki and Ronan the Accuser failed to retrieve the Infinity Stones for him, Thanos opens a vault and put on his left-handed Infinity Gauntlet, and decides to hunt for the Stones so that he can destroy Earth himself.
The false Gauntlet reappears in Asgard. While Hela explores Odin's vault, she finds the right-handed Infinity Gauntlet and immediately discerns that the "Infinity Stones" within it are replicas and not the real Infinity Stones.
The gauntlet is utilized by Thanos during his invasion of Earth. It is also revealed that he forced a band of dwarves, led by Eitri, to make it. After having collected all of the Infinity Stones by the end of the movie, despite the greatest efforts of the Avengers and the Guardians, Thanos utilizes the Gauntlet's power by snapping his fingers, causing half of all life in the entire universe to disintegrate, but damages the Gauntlet in the process.
Three weeks after Thanos's victory, the Avengers ambushed Thanos at his farm and Thor sliced off his hand that held the Infinity Gauntlet with Stormbreaker. Unfortunately, the Infinity Stones were not on the Gauntlet, forcing Captain America to question the whereabouts of the Stones. Thanos replied that once the Snap was complete, the Stones had no purpose and that he had reduced the Stones to atoms. This forced Thor to slice off Thanos's head and the Avengers returned back to Earth. They leave the charred and useless Infinity Gauntlet behind to rust.
- When holding the Infinity Stones, the Infinity Gauntlet grants the bearer infinite powers when used within the universe of its origin. Thanos successfully uses the Gauntlet to wipe out half the population of the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe, setting in motion the conflict for Avengers: Endgame.
- In Thor, the Gauntlet is depicted as being worn on the wielder's right hand, while in Avengers: Age of Ultron and the Avengers: Infinity War teaser, it is depicted as being worn on the wielder's left hand, like in the comics. It was revealed by Kevin Fiege that there are two Infinity Gauntlets. However, this was disproved in Thor: Ragnarok, in which the right-handed one was revealed to be a fake by Hela.
- This gauntlet, along with its Infinity Stones, were created by Asgardians to show how the item is supposed to look given, as Volstagg explained that the only Infinity Stone Asgard has in its possession is the Tesseract.


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With policy support provided by the Ministry for Innovation and Technology, the National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NRDI Office) created new hubs under the Territorial Innovation Platform (TIP) that adopt a new approach to facilitate
- information flow
- knowledge transfer
- collaboration and
- national and international networking.
TIPs are territorial partnerships that offer an opportunity, at once both in time and space, for directly accessing information about innovation policy directions and for enabling and strengthening cooperation between the local and international stakeholders of the innovation ecosystem and, through this, contribute to transforming the Hungarian economy into a competitive and sustainable knowledge economy.
The Territorial Innovation Platforms contribute to one of the key endeavours of the government aiming to enhance Hungary's competitiveness in international innovation. In this process, the intensification of research, development and innovation activities, as well as the effectiveness of and the efficient use of funds by RDI activities play a pivotal role. The above goals are supported by Prof. Dr. László Palkovics, Minister for Innovation and Technology, as patron.
The TIP charter document was signed by numerous universities in Budapest and rural Hungary and five national professional organisations, including the Hungarian Intellectual Property Office, the Hungarian Association for Innovation, Bay Zoltán Alkalmazott Kutatási Közhasznú Nonprofit Korlátolt Felelősségű Társaság, The National Union of Students in Hungary, ICT Association of Hungary and the local stakeholders of the innovation ecosystem have also joined the initiative.
Through the Territorial Innovation Platforms such partnerships relying on university knowledge bases are created that focus on the main strengths of the dominant actors of the territorial innovation environment. The Platforms are also important elements of the intelligent specialisation strategy making the involvement of the widest possible range of stakeholders of businesses, universities, research institutes and the society in the planning process a key task. TIPs operate locally, under the coordination of the NRDI Office, primarily in the framework of thematic, professional events and workshops.
Through the initiative, the platform members
- will be actively involved in setting up the innovation programmes across the country and can acquaint themselves with the latest RDI policy directions,
- will be able to use the funds in more efficient ways,
- will be informed of the current national and international innovation calls and funds,
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To join the TIPs please, read the information and fill out and return the declaration of accession form available under the Established Territorial Innovation Platforms menu.
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These are devotions with a difference. Instead of listening passively, seniors are invited to share their thoughts and experiences (within the time available). From the outset, everyone is encouraged to be responsive and engaged. This not only stimulates interests but tells participants that their thoughts matter.
These reflections and prayers have been written with elderly residents in housing or care in mind, but they would work equally well with older people in small fellowship groups or even one-to-one with family in their own homes.
These have been chosen to chime with the mindsets of those who are 'up in years'. For example, thoughts on the closeness and reality of heaven mean more to people in their eighties than to those in their teens, or even thirties.
Thoughts of an imminent Heaven can lead to introspection and regrets for things done, or not done, in the past. Elderly Christians love to hear the 'old, old story' of salvation, but physical frailty can lead to mental fragility so they may need reassurances of their personal acceptance through the Cross of Christ.


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Saltos de línea: lion
Pronunciación: /ˈlʌɪən
Definición de lion en inglés:
 - Panthera leo, family Felidae
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king of the beasts;
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1.2 (the Lion) The zodiacal sign or constellation Leo.
1.3A brave, strong, or fierce person.
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conqueror, champion, conquering hero, warrior, knight, paladin
1.4 (usually literary lion) A notable or famous author.
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3 (Lion) A member of a Lions Club.
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 - The lions known in parts of Europe and around the Mediterranean in early times were not African but Asiatic lions, rare animals in the 21st century. The name lion came into English from French, and ultimately from Greek leōn. The Anglo-Saxons had used the Latin form Leo, which was overtaken by lion for the animal, but which is still the name of a constellation and sign of the zodiac.
 In ancient Rome lions and other wild beasts provided entertainment in the amphitheatres. Christians and other dissidents were left at their mercy in the arena, a practice behind our phrase to throw someone to the lions. After the terrible slaughter of British soldiers during the First World War, the phrase lions led by donkeys became popular as a way of encapsulating the idea that the men had been brave, but had been let down by their senior officers. It is not clear who first came up with the description, but the French troops defeated by the Prussians in 1871 were described as 'lions led by packasses'. From medieval times until the opening of London Zoo in the 19th century, the Tower of London contained a menagerie of unusual animals, among which were lions. Not surprisingly, they were a great attraction for visitors to the city, and the phrase to see the lions sprang up with the meaning 'to see the sights or attractions of a place'. From there a lion became a celebrity or noted person, a sense which gave us lionize, 'to treat as a celebrity', in the 1830s. See also beard
the lion's den
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the lion's share
British The largest part of something.
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throw someone to the lions
Cause someone to be in an extremely dangerous or unpleasant situation.
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 - Yellow dogs were also more lion-like in appearance.
Words that rhyme with lion
Brian, cyan, Gaian, Geminian, Hawaiian, ion, iron, Ixion, Lyon, Mayan, Narayan, O'Brien, Orion, Paraguayan, prion, Ryan, scion, Uruguayan, Zion
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Company managers enjoy a high degree of knowledge about the business activities they supervise. This creates a conflict of interest, with self-serving managers making decisions that benefit them rather than the company owners or shareholders. When managers use employer information for personal gain, the event is considered a case of managerial opportunism. Several theories try to explain what events entice managers to engage in this practice.
In "The Ethics of Executive Compensation," Robert W. Kolb presents a study that explains one of the reasons managerial opportunism occurs. Boston College and South Korea's Hanyang University researchers found that managers who are rewarded according to how the companies they run perform are more inclined to manipulate financial statements to increase their personal earnings. Thus, managerial opportunism is more likely to take place when a manager's employment contract includes stock options that fluctuate based on the company's gains and losses.
Too Many Stakeholders
The book "Stakeholder Theory: The State of the Art" defines stakeholders as everyone who benefits from a given company's financial activities. This includes customers, creditors, suppliers, staff, and owners -- or shareholders. According to the authors, some believe that the multiple groups of stakeholders make it easy for company managers to engage in activities that benefit their bank accounts. They hide the self-interest behind how challenging it is to provide gains to all the different categories of stakeholders. Thus, they will focus on boosting the coffers of one group, which happens to be the stakeholder class they also belong to.
Initial Public Offering
In a display of managerial opportunism, managers may sell company shares for the first time publicly when the stocks' value is inflated beyond their worth, say researchers from the University of Oregon College of Business. John Chalmers and colleagues tested this theory by looking at directors' and officers' liability insurance data. If managers know they are selling overpriced shares, it is natural for them to predict a future drop in value. The price change exposes them to lawsuits from shareholders who bought the overvalued stocks. The University of Oregon researchers found that the managers of IPOs they investigated bought higher-than-usual liability coverage just before their stock prices dropped. They admit this does not prove that all managers had engaged in managerial opportunism. The researchers argue, though, that at least some managers knew they had sold inflated stocks, and bought large liability insurance coverage because they expected a devaluation soon.
Managers of accounts such as mutual funds are responsible for selecting stocks and bonds for clients to invest their money in. These types of managers engage in managerial opportunism when they limit the offerings to investment products they are familiar with -- real estate stocks, for instance. The lack of diversification benefits the funds' managers by creating opportunities for them to do well in their roles without much effort, since they never venture outside of financial territory that is well-known to them. While such a strategy might strengthen a manager's reputation as financially savvy, it restricts the investors' choices, thus also limiting their potential sources of profit.
- Journal of Property Investment & Finance: Managerial Opportunism and the Capital Structure Decisions of Property Companies
- The Ethics of Executive Compensation; Robert W. Kolb
- Stakeholder Theory: The State of the Art; Edward Freeman, et al.
- University of Washington Foster School of Business: Managerial Opportunism?: Evidence from Directors' and Officers' Insurance Purchases
- Social Science Research Network: Managerial Opportunism, Cost of Debt Financing and Regulation Changes: Evidence from the Sarbanes-Oxley Act Adoption
- Digital Vision./Photodisc/Getty Images


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A rainforest represents an explosion of life, the peak of biological diversity on Earth.
But the trees that make the current rainforest appeared for the first time during the Cretaceous, at the sunset of the dinosaur realm. So, when did the first rainforest appear? And how did it look like?
Now a British-American team led by Dr Howard Falcon-Lang from the University of Bristol, UK, found in the underground workings of a coalmine, in Illinois, USA, the world's oldest rainforest: it is 300 million years old, from the Carboniferous period, when world most and best coal's resources formed ("carboniferous" = bearing coal).
The plants that made it are all gone now: club mosses (a type of fern), over 40 m (133 ft) tall, covering a sub-canopy of tree ferns and tree-sized horsetails (another type of fern).
Their descendants are all now tiny herbs.
A major earthquake 300 million years ago sank the whole area under sea level and the marine sediments that covered the forest fossilized it.
"It was an amazing experience. We drove down the mine in an armored vehicle, until we were a hundred meters below the surface. The fossil forest was rooted on top of the coal seam, so where the coal had been mined away the fossilized forest was visible in the ceiling of the mine. We walked for miles and miles along pitch-black passages with the fossil forest just above our heads. We were able to make a map of the forest by the light of our miner's lamps." said Falcon-Lang.
This is also the largest fossil forest ever discovered: it has over 10,000 hectares, 10 x 10 km (6x 6 mi).
"As there is nothing like it around today, before our work we knew very little about the ecological preferences and community structure of these ancient plants. This spectacular discovery allows us to track how the species make-up of the forest changed across the landscape, and how that species make-up is affected by subtle differences in the local environment." added Falcon-Lang.
Earth's first rainforests were highly diverse in tree species and changed across the ancient landscape.


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- After measuring, monitor will display frame line diagram and center height value.
- Available to print out inspecting result and save data.
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- It available display spindle hole relative dimension and X&Y axis dimension of suspension frame.
- Available to measure leaning seat tube.
- Available display digital to second decimal place (0.01mm), output port link computer so could prompt got data.
- Max. measuring complete cycle size: 29"
- Available measuring head tube length, seat tube length, rear fork end width, center height of seat stay and chain stay.
- It can record measuring data of center height.
- B.B. shell barcode input by QR code scanner.
- Head tube mold X 2 sets
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A well-designed curriculum provides the foundations for student mental wellbeing.
Designing an academic curriculum involves deciding what to teach (and assess) and how best to teach (and assess) your students. In a well-structured curriculum, these core curriculum decisions are made to ensure that:
- There is 'alignment' between the curriculum elements – within and across year levels
- Curriculum materials and learning experiences are optimally organised and sequenced
- Planned learning activities promote deep learning and student engagement
- Planned assessment encourages desired behaviours and informs learning
When curriculum elements are aligned, learning is optimally sequenced, and student engagement and progress are fostered, students have a sound foundation for both learning and mental wellbeing.
How might the elements of good curriculum design support student mental wellbeing? (You can review these elements in 1.3 Wellbeing essentials)


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How do I parent multiple kids with different personalities?
How do I parent multiple kids with different personalities?
Parenting multiple children can be challenging. Each child likely has a different core ray and therefore requires a unique parenting style to fulfill their individual needs.
The first step is knowing yourself enough to not build any bias towards a child that may be different from you. They may be serving as a reflection for you and teaching you lessons in the process. Make sure that you provide what each child needs, while not feeling guilt towards the others. In life, your role as a parent is to ensure that you provide your child with both the positive and negative parts that they require to learn their individual lessons. Positive parts refer to the things that you want to do such as playing in a pool with them, and negative parts are the things you may not want to do such as punishing them. Every parent does the best they can while raising their children. Most try to be fair and precise while caring for their needs. What many fail to realize is that being fair isn't necessarily what a child truly needs. What is required is unconditional love, which most parents are already ingrained with.
When parenting multiple children you don't have to behave exactly the same with all of them or even keep the same rules since you are raising them as individuals and not a pack. At times they mature differently and require different sets of rules. They may enjoy different activities as well. One method that works well is to see what mood you are in and then engage in that activity with the child that shares the same interest. This is a great way to truly enjoy your time together. If you have a child who is into being popular, you could take them shopping for clothes or talk about their social life to spend some quality time with them. If you have another who is fascinated by books, you could take them to a bookstore or ask them to tell you about their favorite book series. The key is to be fair by making sure that the energy you give to one is also given to the others in a way that is right for each individual. This prevents a parent from developing guilt.
Your children are being raised to function in modern society and you were raised to function in the society the way it used to be. Get to know the different sides of yourself through your children. They may have different interests than you but that could be a great opportunity to learn how to appreciate those differences. Always remember that you are not trying to raise replicas of yourself. A parent's role is not to live life for their child but rather to provide guidance to help your child grow in a way that's right for them. If you were never the popular kid, and your kid is the popular kid, live vicariously through them. Some parents get jealous because they never got to be that growing up. If you were the popular kid, and your kid is the bookworm, live vicariously through them and learn about that part. Don't show your children that you prefer one side to the next, even if you do. If you prefer spending time with one child versus another, don't act extra excited to be with them. In private, you can be extra excited if you like. This will prevent you from feeling guilty for showing a preference to one child, which could then lead to subconsciously manifesting issues with the others. If one of your children says that you are being unfair, you were already feeling guilty about being unfair. In life, your internal feelings always come before the physical world gives you an external physical explanation for your feelings. True joy cannot be faked as children are wiser than you may think and have the ability to pickup on the energy fluctuations caused by your emotions.
Glancing at my hand,
while reading a book.
Sweet family thoughts,
simply overtook
All fingers are siblings,
from eldest to runt.
Each serving a purpose,
all forming a front
The thumb helps us grab,
and hold with a grip.
Without a strong thumb,
most objects will slip
The pointer is wise,
indexing my needs.
Scratching when in doubt,
pointing as I read.
The middle is feisty,
needs to be controlled.
It can be offensive,
when standing alone
Ring finger is pretty,
entranced by beauty.
Gaining most attention,
while carrying jewelry
The pinky a baby,
but helps gain control.
While holding a cup,
it often lets go
The hand is a unit,
close knit family.
All parts work together,
though truly unique.
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ZnSe thin films were synthesized using a photo-assisted chemical bath deposition technique for different deposition time (DT) intervals from 30 to 210 min. The effects on the structure, morphology and optical properties of the films were also investigated. The thermogravimetric analysis showed that the material was thermally stable between 300 and 400 °C. The X-ray diffraction measurements revealed that the prepared thin films consisted of the hexagonal-wurtzite ZnSe and the crystallite sizes increased with an increase in DT. The scanning electron microscopy revealed uniform grain nanoparticles, which gradually turned to flakes as the DT was increased. The presence of the anticipated elementary compositions was detected by energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy. UV–Visible spectrophotometry showed a red shift and both the energy band gap and transmittance were observed to decrease with an increase in DT. The photoluminescence measurements showed emission peaks at 525, 678 and 715 nm, which were all attributed to the intrinsic defects of ZnSe. Cathodoluminescence results showed emission peaks at 424, 517 and 623 nm, which are related to the near band, defect and impurity emissions in ZnSe, respectively. The luminescent analyses showed a decrease in emission intensities of the deposited samples with an increase in the DT even though there was a fluctuation in the photoluminescence.
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Poetry Computer
The poetry computer recited poetry endlessly.
Poetry Computer (detail)
Some videos of it running:
Hand-built computer with hand-installed OS, etc., etc. Made in '99 or 2000 or so. Put up in Landscapes show in 2001.
Poetry Computer
Poetry computer -- I was interested by the ability of a computer to blindly create models of language with no knowledge of meaning. I taught my computer to do this. I used as input things I typed at 3 AM. I made it speak extemporaneously: as it came up with new words it spoke them, then forgot them.


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Mary McAleese announced as Patron of the National Forum
Today the National Forum for Teaching & Learning launches the Student Led 'Teaching Hero' Awards in Higher Education. These Awards will recognise and celebrate students' experiences of great teaching throughout all higher education institutions. This launch is accompanied by the announcement that Prof Mary McAleese will provide invaluable support as the first official Patron of the National Forum. The Forum's mission is to work in collaboration with all higher education institutions to enhance the quality of the learning experience for students.
Prof Sarah Moore Chair of the National Forum said:
'The launch of these awards is a very significant initiative: it highlights the importance of showcasing and sharing examples of best practice, it puts the student voice at the centre of our work and it will help to provide both inspiration and information for our enhancement mandate. Excellent teachers do more than come to lectures prepared. They set us on career paths, share their passion and they inspire and challenge learners in all sorts of ways. Each of us can remember a teacher that made a lasting difference in our lives.
These awards provide students with the opportunity to nominate teachers, who have demonstrated excellence in their teaching and impacted their students' lifelong learning. We are honoured that Mary McAleese has come on board as our Patron. Her chairmanship of the Modernisation of Higher Education in Europe Group has provided a vital blueprint for developing teaching and learning. As an individual she exemplifies lifelong learning and we warmly welcome her support as we work towards our goal of enhancing the quality of the learning experience for all students in Irish higher education."
Mary McAleese said:
"I am delighted to endorse the establishment of Ireland's new National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. Quality teaching and learning depends on dedicated individuals and dedicated institutions supported by policies that put teaching and learning at the core. As patron of the National Forum, I look forward to bringing that vision to life".
The objectives of the Forum's awards are to showcase, strengthen and value teaching excellence in higher education at a national level. Between now and May many thousands of students in higher education institutions both public and private have the opportunity to nominate their teachers that have made a real difference at a key transition in their learning journey through higher education. Perhaps it was when they first started college, changed courses, moved country to attend college or when they returned to education after a long absence. ('teacher' includes all those that are involved in teaching in higher education e.g. supervisors, librarians, tutors, technicians, instructors as well as lecturing staff). Award winners will be announced in June, the Awards will be presented by Prof. McAleese this autumn at a ceremony in Dublin.
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Dumacc is a former scientist and an unwitting part of a Galactic Conspiracy by several governments.
Dumacc was charged by planetary governments to work on Project Sunstorm, harnessing solar flares to turn them into a weapon. The first test of the Project caused an environmental disaster on Tranquis VII, where the Project was located. Dumacc, along with his associate Karter, began to continue Project Sunstorm development in a secret location built under Tranquis, the capital city of Tranquis VII.
When the Brains attacked the city, Dumacc and Karter were left unharmed and saw how the Brains were possessing the inhabitants, turning them into shambling robots as the previous radiation bombing from Project Sunstorm rendered them half-immune. Karter and Dumacc began working on creating a full immunity, but were very concerned about hiding Project Sunstorm from the Brains. After Karter brought Dunkan Bulk and William Furno into the lab, Dumacc had them imprisoned when they refused to stop fighting the Brains. When a security robot was infected, compromising the Project's location, Karter tried to convince Dumacc that they need to transfer the project to another location and sacrifice themselves to preserve it. Instead, Dumacc had Bulk and Furno freed so they could defend the location. Dumacc was then taken over by a Brain and began to activate Project Sunstorm but was defeated by Bulk.
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Dumacc was a good, honest scientist running Project Sunstorm, but was actually a pawn of the governments he worked for.
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Gallium Ga 68 PSMA-11 injection is used with a PET scan (positron emission tomography) of prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) positive lesions in men with prostate cancer. It is given in patients with suspected metastasis (cancer that has spread to the other parts of the body) who are candidates for initial treatment and with suspected recurrence (cancer that keeps coming back) based on an increased serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level.
Gallium Ga 68 PSMA-11 is a radiopharmaceutical. Radiopharmaceuticals are radioactive agents, which may be used to find and treat certain diseases or to study the function of the body's organs.
This medicine is to be given only by or under the direct supervision of a doctor with specialized training in nuclear medicine.


Beuronese Murals - The Visitation
The Visitation of Mary to Elizabeth
After the Annunciation, Mary went with haste to a Judaean town in the hill country, where she visited her pregnant cousin, Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the child in her womb, John the Baptist, leapt with joy. The story is told in Luke (1:39-42). The basilica mural of "The Visitation" shows Mary greeting her cousin just outside the house of Elizabeth and Zachary.
Elizabeth said, "How is it that the mother of my Lord should come to me?" Her kneeling position is a sign of her humility before the Lord and his mother. The two pregnant women, framed by the palm tree, are flanked on one side by a hatted Joseph, with his walking stick and donkey (all of which will appear in the panel of "The Flight into Egypt"), and Zachary, depicted as an aged person (as Elizabeth and Zachary invariably were). Mary's response to Elizabeth's question is the text of the Magnificat, the canticle sung daily at Evening Prayer (Luke 1:46-55).
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Welcome to Cruise Booking Agency Nelson Bay/Port Stephens the number one place to book your Dolphin Watching adventure
Port Stephens is NSW premium destination for dolphin watching enthusiast, with the beautiful Port Stephens harbour boosting an impressive 99% success rate for spotting dolphins.
Port Stephens is the home of some of the states most beautiful sea cultures. There are two different species of dolphin living in and around Port Stephens, Within the Port Stephens harbour the beautiful bottle nosed dolphin grace the Port Stephens prestige waters and the waters outside of the Port Stephens harbour the larger species of common dolphin brave the outer seas of Port Stephens.
If you visit Nelson Bay/Port Stephens (just north of Newcastle) you will be treated to a privileged view inside the world of the bottlenose dolphin. Around 90-120 Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins live permanently in the waters of Port Stephens, making it one of the most popular places in the world for dolphin watching. The rocky coastal headlands and long white beaches of Port Stephens provide an ideal vantage point for dolphin watching from the shore or hope on board one of the many Dolphin Watch Cruises available.
For years the locals of Port Stephens and visiting tourist have been fascinated by both species of dolphin and through cruise booking agency there are various boat cruises that can be undertaken so everyone can take the opportunity to see the dolphins of Port Stephens.
In Port Stephens, the bottlenose dolphin population is divided into two mixed-gender communities. Dolphins often form long-term social relationships with other dolphins living in the same community. These communities have different home ranges, where one community lives predominantly in the eastern section or basin of the port (from the heads to Soldiers Point) and the other lives in the western basin of the port (from Soldiers Point, west to Karuah and Big Swan Bay). The ranges of these communities sometimes overlap, providing for social interaction between the two communities and genetic mixing. The largest community of bottlenose dolphins lives in the eastern section of the Port. This community is mainly comprised of adults, subadults and calves and occupies a small core area focusing on the marine (ocean) environment. Habitats in this area consist of sandy substrates and large seagrass beds with strong tidal influence of coastal waters. A smaller community of generally closely-related bottlenose dolphins inhabits the western section of the Port. These western dolphins focus on riverine (river-like) environments with muddy benthic (bottom) habitats, influenced by often turbid water and freshwater outflow from local rivers. The above paragraph was taken from the Port Stephens Visitor Guide. For further information on Port Stephens – Dolphin Watching – Visitor Guide


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If you want to tell somebody to go away you could shout:
"Hau ab!"
However this is considered as not very polite, much like "Get lost!", or "F*** off!". I am wondering where German "Hau ab" comes from to explain why it is considered as rude in usage. What does it mean literally?
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"Hau ab!" is the imperative of abhauen, which has the colloquial meaning (among others) of to escape quickly.
The Duden derives it from hauen, which means to beat and is said to refer to beating a horse with the spurs on your boots. Grimm's dictionary still mentions the meaning to hurry, to run for hauen and gives the same reasoning:
13) hauen endlich für eilen, streben, laufen. diese bedeutung hat wol ihren ausgang von dem einhauen der sporen in des rosses weichen
Together with the prefix ab- (off, away) you get to run away, to get off quickly.
But note that this old meaning of hauen is no longer present, and Grimm's doesn't say abhauen to mean to escape. If they didn't miss it, the verb must have derived this meaning after this part of the dictionary was written, but before hauen lost its meaning of to hurry.
This gives room to a second theory: according to the book Westjiddisches Wörterbuch, the verb abhauen might derive from abbauen, which is Rotwelsch for to escape, to flee and has Yiddish origins. It is further said to have a Hebrew root that means to come.
A Rotwelsch, i.e. thieve's argot, origin might also have contributed to the derogative touch of abhauen, which in turn can also explain (to some degree at least) why "Hau ab" sounds rather rude, as you mention in your question.
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According to this link, hauen used to mean "hurry" or "run" at some point in addition to "beat", probably originating from "beating a horse to make it run faster". "Ab" is a Latin prefix meaning "away from."
So "abhauen" just means "run away".
I don't think it's rude because of its etymology, but because there are very few polite ways to tell someone to go away in general, because a) you're telling someone what to do, and b) you're telling them "I don't want you here." That's going to come across as impolite pretty much regardless of what words you use.
I don't think "Hau ab!" is any more impolite than "Go away!" "F**k off!" is stronger than that, and a better German equivalent would be "Verpiss dich!"
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Nice explanation. "Hau ab" definitely is stronger than "Geh weg". "Verpiss Dich" is used regionally (but less so recently). – Takkat Oct 4 '11 at 8:03
I agree that it's stronger than "Geh weg", but I'd say "Go away" is still a pretty good translation. English doesn't seem to have as many nuanced ways to tell someone to leave. It goes directly from "Go away" to various vulgarities. – Cass Oct 4 '11 at 8:15
But why "ab" and not "weg"? – Takkat Oct 4 '11 at 8:22
+1 for pointing out that "Hau ab" has not to be impolite. For example "Hau ab" is also somthing you could say to a fugitive if the "bad guys" come to get him. – 0x6d64 Oct 4 '11 at 10:55
_USER_ "Hau weg" means something completely different:… – starblue Oct 4 '11 at 12:06
Hau ab, this comes from the verb abhauen, that's a word for "to run away".
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Women have 39% smaller pension pots
New research has revealed the pensions gender gap is more than double the difference between men and women's average earnings, with women having significantly smaller pension pots.
Profile Pensions' analysis of 20,000 customers discovered the gap is such that it means men can expect to retire on an average of £21,800 per year compared to women, for whom it is £16,900.
Worryingly, one in six women will retire with an income lower than £9,998, which social policy and research charity Joseph Rowntree Foundation states should be the minimum amount for a single pensioner.
The pension gender gap was found to be at its widest in Northern Scotland, where men have an average pension value of £41,603. This is nearly double the size of the average woman's, which is £20,978.
The region with the lowest pension gender gap is Greater London, where the value of the average man's pension pot is 30% higher than the average woman's (£48,778 compared to £34,174).
Overall, the report found UK women hold 39% less in their pension pots than men.
The gap is attributed to women being paid less, and contributing a correspondingly smaller amount each month into their pension savings.
With the report finding differences in pension contributions can be as high as 50% in some cases, it also blamed the fact more women work in part-time employment, plus the fact they are more likely to take time out of the workplace to have children.
In addition, it showed more women were likely to be employed at below the auto-enrolment threshold of £10,000 per annum.
Commenting on the research, Michelle Gribbin, chief investment officer at Profile Pensions, said: "What we see with these findings, sadly, is that the gender pay gap and the gender pension gap go hand in hand."
She said: "Men, on average, earn more than women, and therefore can save and receive larger contributions from employers into their pension pot. It's clear there's much more to be done to help women gain the security they need going into retirement."
She added: "Under current UK law, employers contribute 3% to the employee's pension pot, 4% comes direct from their payroll and the remaining 1% is made up by tax relief. Employees are able to decrease or increase this anytime that they see fit."


To get started with RTXI for your experiments, there are some hardware requirements you need to satisfy. They're pretty easy to meet, and they'll get you set up with a properly performing RTXI installation.
If you are not familiar with RTXI or what it can do, we recommend looking through the manual first.
You will need:
 1. Computer
 2. Data acquisition card (DAQ)
 3. Graphics card (may come with computer)
Most computers built in the last few years will run Linux, but some will perform better for real-time applications. Here are some points to consider when buying new hardware:
 1. What is the CPU type? We recommend using Intel processors, though AMD ones work, too.
 2. How many PCI/PCIe slots are there? You will need one PCI or PCIe slot for a graphics card and another PCI slot for a DAQ.
Also, you should have a machine with at least 4 GB of RAM. While Linux can run with less, you will see degraded performance. Over the past few years, operating systems have been built under the assumption of increasingly capable hardware, and Linux has been no exception.
Note: The current generation of Intel processors (Skylake) requires firmware that is bundled into new Linux kernels, starting around kernel 4.1. The kernel in RTXI 2.2 is based on kernel 3.8.13 and will not run on new machines. When purchasing a computer, make sure it has an older processor. (Haswell/Broadwell will work.)
We are testing a newer real-time kernel. Source code is available on the rttweak branch of our GitHub repository.
RTXI is tested and developed on systems using National Instruments (NI) cards. While the Xenomai project creates drivers for cards made by other vendors, we do not test them and cannot give you a recommendation to use them.
If buying a new NI DAQ, get an M-series card. Do not get an X-series card. Open-source drivers do not currently exist for them, so they cannot be used for data acquisition. For a complete list of what drivers are available for what hardware, look here:
Graphics Card
You should get a discrete graphics card. Using integrated graphics will cause UI computation to be offloaded to the CPU, which at the same time has to handle real-time processes. Based on the systems we've benchmarked so far, you're better off using an AMD card than an Nvidia one. You are also recommended to use open-source drivers instead of their proprietary counterparts.
What this means for you is that when buying/acquiring a computer, you need to check the type of graphics card it has. You also need to check whether it is supported by open-source drivers. (Often, newer hardware needs some time for the people who code the drivers to extend support for them.)
Here is a list of graphics card supported by the Nvidia open-source driver (nouveau) and the AMD one (radeon):
Installing RTXI
Look through our installation instructions to see how to install RTXI 2.2. You can install RTXI with our live CD, or you can install a generic version of Linux and then manually compile and install RTXI and its real-time dependencies. It's up to you.
If you run into issues, look through our available documentation, and if it doesn't help, email us or submit an issue on GitHub. We recommend you do the latter.
Let us know if any links are broken. They are all supposed to point directly to lists of hardware compatible with drivers. If they don't, something went terribly wrong, and we need to fix the links.


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OPTOPHONE. The optophone is an instrument for enabling totally blind people to read ordinary letterpress, such as a printed book or newspaper, without the necessity of printing it in raised type to be read by touch. The instrument was invented in 1914 by Dr. E. E. Fournier d'Albe, then a lecturer in physics in the university of Birmingham. It is based upon the properties of selenium, an element which is a better electrical conductor in light than in darkness. A beam of light is rendered intermittent by the interposition of a revolving siren disc and is then concentrated into a small bright point on the paper to be read. If the point on the paper is white, it will reflect the light; if it is black it will not. A selenium cell placed close to the paper, on receiving the reflected beam of intermittent light, will respond to each flash by a change in conductivity, and if the frequency of the flashes is of the "musical" order (between 30 and 30,000 flashes per second), a telephone receiver connected with the selenium and a battery will sound a musical note. A blind person could thus tell whether the paper is black or white.
That is the principle of the optophone. In practice a small row of luminous points is substituted for a single point, and each point in the row is given a different frequency by suitably perforating the siren disc. The row, usually of five or six points, just fills up the size of the tall letters of the print to be read. When the whole row falls upon the black stem of a letter there is silence in the telephone. As the letters pass their various shapes are indicated by the sounding or silence of the different notes, and after some practice the blind person learns to recognize letters from their sounds, and so to read ordinary type.
The first reading test was given by the inventor in March 1917, the matter read being a leading article in The Times. In Aug. 1918, Miss Mary Jameson, a blind pupil from Norwood, gave the first public reading demonstrations, reading an unknown page from a book at a speed of about two words per minute. Later, with an improved instrument, she attained a speed of about 20 words per minute. A new type of optophone was brought out in 1920 by Barr & Stroud, of Glasgow. In this instrument two selenium cells were used, balanced against each other in such a manner that white paper produced silence, and the black letters themselves made the musical sounds. Reading demonstrations were also given with this instrument, but any advantage in the way of ease of reading was found to be counter-balanced by a greater delicacy and complexity of adjustment. The new type is known as the "black-sounder," and the original type is termed the "white-sounder." The latter type was approved by the Inventions and Research Committee of the National Institute for the Blind in 1921 after an exhaustive series of tests. The optophone is intended to place the world's printed literature once more within reach of the blind. It is applicable, without special preparation, to any language, and can also be used for reading typescript, but not handwriting.
See "A Type-reading Optophone," Roy. Soc. Proceedings (1914); "The Optophone," Journal of Roy. Soc. of Arts (1921); "The Optophone," St. Dunstan's Review, No. 55 (1921).
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Most wood splinters and small objects like a sliver of glass can be removed at home with tweezers and a needle. Sterilize both implements with some alcohol or the flame of a match and then cool them. Wash your hands and the affected area with soap and water. Reassure your child as best you can — if possible, sit him on your lap while you work on the splinter, or have another adult hold and comfort him while you remove it.
If the splinter's sticking out from the skin far enough, you may be able to pull it out easily using just the tweezers. Grasp it gently at the base (where it emerges from the skin) with the tweezers and pull it straight out, tugging in the same direction it's pointed. If it doesn't slide right out, don't pick at it — you don't want to break a piece off and leave the rest embedded.
If a very small splinter is protruding, on the other hand, you may be able to remove it by pressing a piece of strong sticky tape to the site and then lifting up.
If neither of those methods works, or for a splinter that's embedded in the skin with little or no piece sticking out for you to grab, you'll need to use the sterilized needle. First, soak the area in warm water for a few minutes to soften the skin. Then use the needle to gently create a slit in the skin right over the embedded part and carefully remove the splinter with tweezers.
When the splinter's out, wash the whole area thoroughly with soap and warm water. Then cover the spot with a thin film of antibiotic ointment and an adhesive bandage.
If it's a big splinter — a piece of wood, glass, or other debris embedded in your child's skin — or an object that's curved, you'll need to have a doctor remove it. But if it's a very small one, you can try letting it go for a few days. There's a good chance the splinter will work itself out, especially if your child soaks in the tub, since the warm water will loosen the skin around it.
Infections from splinters are uncommon, but do watch for signs while you're waiting — warmth, redness, swelling, pus — and take your child to the doctor if you see any.
Not usually, though they can be. If your child's vaccinations aren't up to date, a splinter can cause tetanus, a potentially fatal infection caused by bacteria that enters the blood through a wound.
The vaccine that protects your child against this bacteria is usually given at 2, 4, and 6 months, again between 15 and 18 months, again between 4 and 6 years, and again between ages 11 and 13. After that, a booster is recommended every ten years throughout life. Call your child's doctor if you're not sure your child has had all his shots.
Try to keep your child from running around without shoes outdoors (and indoors, if you have wood floors). If you break a glass, make sure you vacuum up all the tiny fragments that sometimes scatter. Inspect playground equipment for frayed materials that might splinter off and ask that it be repaired.


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Moduli and Algebraic Cycles
30 August - 10 December 2021
The aim of this program is to explore central questions related to moduli spaces, algebraic cycles, and enumerative geometry. These are subjects at the very heart of geometry, with origins in the Italian and German schools of algebraic geometry from the 19th century. But they are also closely connected with modern developments such as the mathematics of string theory and the theory of motives. The notions of cycles and moduli are intertwined in many subtle ways, often by means of various cohomology theories for algebraic varieties, or the geometry of period domains. One example is Deligne's theorem about Hodge cycles on abelian varieties, which is perhaps the strongest known result in the direction of the Hodge conjecture, and whose proof uses the moduli theory of abelian varieties. As another example, the recent proof by Charles (and Lieblich-Maulik-Snowden) of the Tate conjecture for K3 surfaces over finite fields passes via the moduli theory of K3 surfaces. We expect some specific focus areas of the program to be tautological classes, logarithmic geometry, moduli spaces of sheaves, hyperkähler manifolds, and rationality questions. Participation in the program is by invitation only.
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University of Oslo
KTH Royal Institute of Technology


Latches And Barriers
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Latches and barriers are simple thread synchronisation mechanism which enables it that some threads wait until a counter becomes zero. We will presumably in C++20 get latches and barriers in three variations: std::latch, std::barrier, and std::flex_barrier.
 At first, there are two questions:
 1. What are the differences between these three mechanisms to synchronise threads? You can use a std::latch only once but you can use a std::barrier and a std::flex_barrier more than once. Additionally, a std::flex_barrier enables you to execute a function when the counter becomes zero.
 2. What use-cases do latches and barriers support that can not be done in C++11 and C++14 with futures, threads, or condition variables in combinations with locks? Latches and barriers provide no new use-cases but they are a lot easier to use. They are also more performant because they often use internally a lock-free mechanism.
Now, I will have a closer look at the three coordination mechanism.
std::latch
std::latch is a counter that counts down. Its value is set in the constructor. A thread can decrement the counter by using the method thread.count_down_and_wait and wait until the counter becomes zero. In addition, the method thread.count_down only decrease the counter by 1 without waiting. std::latch has further the method thread.is_ready in order to test if the counter is zero and it has the method thread.wait to wait until the counter becomes zero. You have no possibility to increment or reset the counter of a std::latch, hence you can not reuse it.
For further details to std::latch read the documentation on cppreference.com.
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I set the std::latch completion_latch in its constructor to NTASKS (line 2). The thread pool executes NTASKS (line 4 - 8). At the end of each task (line 7), the counter will be decreased. Line 11 is the barrier for the thread running the function DoWork and, hence, for the small workflow. This thread has to wait until all tasks have been done.

The proposal uses a vector<thread*> and pushes the dynamically allocated threads onto the vector workers.push_back(new thread([&] {. That is a memory leak. Instead, you should put the threads into a std::unique_ptr or directly create them in the vector: workers.emplace_back[&]{ . This observation holds for the example to the std::barrier and the std::flex_barrier.
std::barrier
A std::barrier is quite similar to a std::latch. The subtle difference is that you can use a std::barrier more than once because the counter will be reset to is previous value. Immediately, after the counter becomes zero the so-called completion phase starts. This completion phase is in the case of a std::barrier empty. That changes wit a std::flex_barrier. std::barrier has two interesting methods: std::arrive_and_wait and std::arrive_and_drop. While std::arrive_and_wait is waiting at the synchronization point, std::arrive_and_drop removes itself from the synchronisation mechanism.
Before I take a closer look at the std::flex_barrier and the completion phase, I will give a short example to the std::barrier.

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The std::barrier barrier in line 6 is used to coordinate a number of threads that perform its tasks a few times. The number of threads is n_threads (line 3). Each thread takes its task (line 12) via task.get(), performs it and waits - as far as it is done with its task(line 15) - until all threads have done their task. After that, it takes a new task in line 12 as far as active returns true in line 12.
std::flex_barrier
From my perspective, the names in the example to the std::flex_barrier are a little bit confusing. For example, the std::flex_barrier is called notifying_barrier. Therefore I used the name std::flex_barrier.
The std::flex_barrier has in contrast to the std::barrier an additional constructor. This constructor can be parametrised by a callable unit that will be invoked in the completion phase. The callable unit has to return a number. This number sets the value of the counter in the completion phase. A number of -1 means that the counter keeps the same in the next iteration. Smaller numbers than -1 are not allowed.
What is happening in the completion phase?
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The code snippet shows the usage of a std::flex_barrier.

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 for (int i = 0; i < n_threads; ++i) {
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 while (!finished()) {
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 }
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The example follows a similar strategy as the example to std::barrier. The difference is that this time the counter of the std::flex_barrier is adjusted during run time; therefore the std::flex_barrier task_barrier in line 11 gets a lambda-function. This lambda-function captures its variable current_thread by reference. The variable will be decremented in line 21 and active will be set to false if the thread has done its task; therefore the counter is decreased in the completion phase.
A std::flex_barrier has one speciality in contrast to a std::barrier and a std::latch. This is the only one for which you can increase the counter.

Read the details to std::latch, std::barrier , and std::flex_barrier at cppreference.com.
What's next?
Coroutines are generalised functions that can be suspended and resumed while keeping their state. They are often used to implement cooperative tasks in operating systems, event loops in event systems, infinite lists, or pipelines. You can read the details about coroutines in the next post.

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0 #1 Azeem 2017-02-27 14:17
Nice article!
Addition of some diagram (as shown in CppCon presentations) might add value to this. :


What is TTL, and what is it used for?
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This article will explain what TTL (Time to Live) is, and how it affects your domain names.
TTL stands for Time To Live, and measures the lifespan of data in a computer or network, for example, when you create an SRV record for your domain name. This dictates the length of time it takes for the cache of the server to update, so if you make a change, this is the length of time it will take the propagate.
TTL is measured in seconds, so, for example, a TTL of one hour would equate to a TTL to 3600 seconds.
Please note: When you create records for your domain names through 123-reg, the TTL is automatically set at 14400 seconds, which equates to 4 hours, and cannot be changed manually.
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CENEMS is a user-friendly tool that computes the surface charge density distribution on the surface of the conductors in a multi-conductor system. CENEMS contains a graphical user interface which will allow users to design multi-conductor systems, including drawing conductors, specifying applied voltage and discretization level (the higher the level, the finer the discretization) for the conductors. After running the simulation, users can immediately see the surface charge density distribution on the conductors. CENEMS solves the exterior potential problem and computes the surface charge density by using boundary integral equations and a Boundary Cloud Method (BCM).
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Understanding the Predecessor Tab
Predecessors (and their counterparts, successors) are how you as the project manager tell Project what the logical flow of tasks should be throughout your project. This tab of the Task Information dialog allows you to see all the tasks that are predecessors for the task currently being edited in the dialog. This section shows you how to create a new predecessor.
graphics/one_icon.jpg As in all tabs in this dialog, you can edit the task Name and Duration fields.
graphics/two_icon.jpg The grid on this tab lists all the tasks that are predecessors to the task named in the Name field.
graphics/three_icon.jpg The type of link is shown in the Type field. In this case, Define Requirements has a Finish-to-Start link to this task, meaning that the Define Requirements task must finish before the Write Specifications task can start.
graphics/four_icon.jpg The Lag field lets you define a span of days between the predecessor side of the link and the successor side of the link. This means that if you add a one-day lag on the link shown, Write Specifications cannot start until one full day after Define Requirements finishes.
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From Ohio History Central
Acanthodians were among the earliest fishes with jaws and are found in Silurian through Permian rocks. Their fragmentary remains are found in Devonian, Mississippian, and Pennsylvanian rocks in Ohio. These remains consist of shiny, rhomboid-shaped scales and fin spines. Fin spines of a comparatively large acanthodian, Machaeracanthus, are found in the Columbus Limestone.


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Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859 – 1927), was born in Walsall and moved to London with his family when he was still a young boy. His unusual middle name was from a Hungarian friend of his father. Jerome left school at fourteen, after his the death of his mother. This was not unusual in those days in poor families and Jerome's family was certainly poor. Jerome started work as a railway clerk but had an artistic nature and soon spent time acting with various theatre companies – as well as reading in the British Museum library. His stage experiences led to his first book On the Stage – and Off and to his determination to make a living as a writer. Three Men in a Boat, published in 1889, brought him success and worldwide fame. The critics didn't like Jerome's humour and easy-going style but the public did. The book was a huge bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic. Sales of the American edition reached a million copies, even though it was being sold there illegally! The qualities the critics disliked have now made the book a timeless classic. Three Men in a Boat is a fictional, and hugely exaggerated, version of an actual boat trip up the River Thames that Jerome took with two friends. After this book's success Jerome worked as a novelist, playwright and editor. He made lecture tours, especially in the USA and caused a scandal by publicly criticising the racism in the Southern States. Three Men in a Boat was his only best-seller. It was so popular in Germany that clubs were started for people to make their own boating trips in the style of the trip taken by Jerome and his friends.Présentation de l'éditeur :
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I had a question posed to me through a comment on this blog that I've not really written about dealing with plant propagation
: Why do I use sand instead of soil for cuttings?
Before I answer let me say that most (maybe about 95%) of my successful cuttings were done in sand alone with the rest in either in a sand and peat mix, regular soil, or water. There is no wrong way to root a cutting as long as it produces a healthy plant. If you like rooting cuttings in a jar of water then by all means go for it! There's more than one way to skin a cat (or so I've been told, I'd never do such a thing!)
I use sand for a several reasons:
- It holds the cuttings upright (any potting medium except water should do this).
- It drains well and keeps the cuttings from getting too moist.
- Low fertility (no fertility really) means the energy of the plant goes into making roots and not foliage.
- It is sterile since there is no organic matter for diseases and microbes to lurk.
- The roots have an easy time penetrating the sand and put on some good initial growth.
- It's cheap! (Perhaps the best reason of all.)
- It's easily available at pretty much any hardware store.
Once the cuttings root they need to be transplanted into soil to gain the nutritional value of the soil. Plants that are easy to root (like forsythia, caryopteris, coleus, etc.) will do fine in soil but more difficult rooting specimens may simply rot in soil as opposed to vermiculite or sand as a medium. Peat can be used mixed together with either sand, perlit, or vermiculite and it maintains sterility due to its high acid content.
Why don't I use soil? Let's assume we are talking about garden soil and not soilless potting mixes you find in stores for seed starting. Those should be fine for any propagation purpose. Not all cuttings root easily in soil, but then again not all cuttings root easily. The difference in the sand vs. soil issue is the sterility of the soil. Here is what the Master Gardener Extension at Ohio State University
had to say about the medium for cuttings:
"Insert treated cutting in a moist rooting medium. A suitable rooting medium is half perlite and half sphagnum peat moss. Any disinfested container with drainage is acceptable for use."
"The rooting medium should be sterile, low in fertility, and well-drained to provide sufficient aeration. It should also retain enough moisture so that watering does not have to be done too frequently. Materials commonly used are coarse sand, a mixture of one part peat and one part perlite (by volume), or one part peat and one part sand (by volume). Vermiculite by itself is not recommended, because it compacts and tends to hold too much moisture. Media should be watered while being used."
The problem with soil is that unpasteurized soil can contain bacteria. fungi (like damping off) and microbes that may harm a plant's growth or contain viruses that may spread to other plants. If it is too fertile it may encourage leaf growth (due to nitrogen) which you don't want at the initial stages of rooting, you want roots!
So in the end it comes down to personal preference. Many gardeners have methods of making potting mixes with different combinations of materials for different purposes and rooting plants is the same way. The sand works for me, but if a different rooting medium works for you then by all means use it. As long as the plant is healthy and happy in the end that's all that matters!
What soil mediums do you use for rooting, potting or seed starting? Do you have a favorite mix you use?


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Maximum signless Laplacian energy (2)
Lemma 1 The signless Laplacian spectrum of CS
p,q
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Energy of Graphs p.55/58
Maximum signless Laplacian energy (3)
Among the rst ve s.L.energy graphs
all graphs are close to complete split graphs.
newGRAPH demo: maximum s.L.energy graphs.
Energy of Graphs p.56/58
Maximum normalized Laplacian energy
While energy, L.energy and s.L.energy all have
the same order of magnitude,
the normalized Laplacian energy behaves differently:
it seems to be maximal for trees, and
it decreases as the edge density increases!
newGRAPH demo: maximum n.L.energy graphs.
Energy of Graphs p.57/58
Summary of tasks and problems
1. Which graph on n vertices has maximum energy?
2. Find a better way to apply the Coulson integral formula.
3. Extend the Koolen-Moulton approach to graphs with
more than three distinct eigenvalues.
4. Is it true, given > 0, that for almost all n 1 there
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On March 17, 2014, the federal government introduced two new regulations under Canada's Special Economic Measures Act imposing an asset freeze on senior government officials and other individuals and entities in Russia and Crimea in connection with the recent developments in Crimea. On March 18 and 21, the federal government amended these regulations to designate additional names, including one Russian bank. The Special Economic Measures (Russia) Regulations and the Special Economic Measures (Ukraine) Regulations (New Regulations), together with the subsequent amendments, came into force immediately. The New Regulations follow the designation of certain members of the former Ukrainian government under the Freezing Assets of Corrupt Foreign Officials (Ukraine) Regulations on March 5, 2014.
Similar to the March 5, 2014 Regulations, the New Regulations apply to every person in Canada and every Canadian outside Canada and prohibit:
- dealing in any property, wherever situated, held by or on behalf of any person designated under the New Regulations;
- entering into or facilitating, directly or indirectly, any transaction related to such dealing;
- making any goods, wherever situated, available to a designated person; and
- providing any financial or related service to or for the benefit of a designated person or in respect of a dealing in the property of a designated person.
The New Regulations also prohibit anything that is intended or causes, assists or promotes the contravention of the prohibitions under the New Regulations.
Some limited exemptions apply.
The government also introduced a Special Economic Measures (Russia) Permit Authorization Order and a Special Economic Measures (Ukraine) Permit Authorization Order, which authorize the Minister of Foreign Affairs to issue permits to carry out specified activities that are restricted under the New Regulations.
Regulated financial institutions are required to determine, on a continuing basis, whether they are in possession or control of property that they have reason to believe is the property of a designated person.
All businesses are required to disclose without delay to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police property reasonably believed to be that of a designated person under the New Regulations, together with information about any related transaction. Financial institutions are not required to separately report their search results under New Regulations to their principal regulator.


Dynamics seminar:Ohad Feldheim (Stanford): The power of two-choices in reducing discrepancy
Consider a process in which points are assigned uniformly and independently at random on the interval [0,1]. It is a classical observation that after N points were assigned, the typical discrepancy of the empirical distribution, i.e., the maximum difference between the proportion of points on any interval and the length of that interval, is of order 1/sqrt{N}. Now consider a similar online process in which at every step an overseer is allowed to choose between two independent, uniformly chosen points on [0,1]. -- By how much can the overseer reduce the discrepancy of the selected points?
We show that a significant improvement is possible, providing an explicit algorithm which obtains a discrepancy of O(log^3 N/N) for all $N$ with high probability. This deviates by merely a factor of log^2 N from the lowest discrepancy possible for any sequence of points on [0,1]. We generalise this result to high dimensions to obtain near optimal discrepancy of O(log^(2d+1) N/N) on [0,1]^d using a similar process. We further generalise the results
to settings where the overseer has even less control over the output sequence.
The methods used relate classical results on the "power of two choices" in computer science, observations regarding Haar wavelets in harmonic analysis and properties of stochastic processes drifting towards their means. However, no prior knowledge on these topics is assumed.
Based on joint works with Ori Gurel-Gurevisch for HUJI and with Aaditya Ramdas and Raz Dwivedi from Berkely.
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A strangely-patterned sparrow-sized (6-8 inches) bird, the male Bobolink in summer plumage is most easily identified by its black head and breast, buff-brown nape, light-gray rump patch, and large white wing bars. In its winter plumage, the male Bobolink loses much of striking coloration, becoming mottled brown above and tan below with a brown-striped head. Female Bobolinks resemble winter males. The Bobolink breeds across a large part of southern Canada and the northern United States. This species is a long-distance migrant, wintering in southern South America. Migrating Bobolinks pass southward along the coast of the southeastern U.S. before continuing south to South America via Jamaica. In summer, Bobolinks breed in grasslands, prairie, and, more recently, agricultural fields. During the winter, this species utilizes habitats similar to those inhabited during the summer in the pampas region of South America. Bobolinks primarily eat seeds, grains, and insects. Most North American birdwatchers never visit the Bobolink's winter range in South America. However, this species is relatively easy to observe during the summer months as it forages for food on the ground below tall grasses or on the grass stalks themselves. Bobolinks are most active during the day.
Transient in May and mid-August to late September; more common in autumn than in spring. In migration inhabits fields and marshes. The male is black and buff with a white rump; the female is tawny buff, streaked with brown above.
This record may be for the juvenile on the top right.
Collected By: John R Massie
Locality: Laurel, MD
Catalog ID: 176255
The bird on the left is a male, and the bird at the bottom right is a female.


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The bear-friendly label was designed to award practices that promote coexistence between bears and humans. Bear friendly practices include:
- the effective protection of livestock, beehives or orchards;
- preventing bears from losing fear of human (habituation of bears to humans) by using bear-proof garbage bins. When bears relate food to human, they will try to find it close to humans and their settlements. So, let's keep bears wild and do not leave your trash everywhere;
- development of responsible tourism programs;
- active promotion of bear conservation in the local area.
Honey, cheese, meat products and handicrafts equipped with the bear-friendly label highlight the connection between bears and local communities, which are deeply intertwined in the northern Dinaric region and Alps. Such products give additional value and sense of recognition to the use of bear-friendly practices and improve the coexistence between humans and bears.
Support bear friendly products and services to benefit local community and contribute to coexistence with bears.


CHERNOBYL 35 Years Later by Desiderio
On the 26th of April 2021, 35 years after the nuclear accident that took place on the night of April 26 1986 at 1:23:45 am, the cultural organization Art Company presents the VR Project "CHERNOBYL 35 Years Later", of the visual artist Desiderio, curated by Chiara Canali
Chernobyl was one of the most serious human and environmental disasters in the history of mankind. Over thirty thousand deaths. One hundred cities and villages emptied. Five million people destined to undergo medical checks. Thousands of malformed newborns across Europe. 2.800 square km of water, flora and fauna contaminated forever.
To commemorate the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl tragedy, Desiderio devised a VR project titled CHERNOBYL 35 Years Later, which collects a series of short films and pictorial works made in 2009 on the occasion of the Apocalypse Wow! Exhibition at the Marco Testaccio art museum. The paintings simulate, in a post-apocalyptic light, a planet recently ravaged by devastating destruction, in which a giant snail moves slowly, ridden by the artist who wears a gas mask.
More specifically, the works of the Chernobyl series materializes the effects generated on humanity by the radioactive contamination through a pictorial sequence of portraits that depict children who hold in their arms two-headed pets or pets affected by peculiar genetic duplication diseases. The horror and devastation originated from human error are opposed to the childlike ingenuity of a youthful universe that considers "pets" the deformed beings that the works present.
Desiderio's painting is utopian and visionary and proceeds through flashbacks and flash-forwards, just like it happens in the language of the video; often he creates composition spaces which are similar to real cinematographic sets, artifice theatres, and which become expressive metaphors through which Desiderio criticizes the faults and errors of the past, with the hope they won't perpetuate in the future.


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Pockets of Time is a reading comprehension activity which uses a hands-on, rather than fill in the blank, approach. For every chapter in a story, there is a set of flashcards with that chapter's main events on them. The flashcards are all color coded. All the student does is color the correct borders and then cut out the flashcards. These cards are to be placed into the pocket in the order they happened in the chapter. The color coded answer key makes checking the comprehension of the child as easy as a glance. The cards can be placed in the pockets as the story is read, or after finishing reading to help develop a longer retention period. We have Pockets of Time for a large assortment of elementary levels books.


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Fruit Sensors in Precision Horticulture
What does Precision Horticulture capture?
- It is a concept recently developed in research capturing data collection in the orchard (apple, banana, mango, citrus fruits) or greenhouse (tomato), quality mapping, and decision support.
In-situ data of the fruit can be used in the production and postharvest, the entire supply chain of fresh produce.
What is the expected impact on horticulture?
- Fruit sensors use modern information and communication technology (ICT) for collecting online in-situ data on the fruit development and visualize the crop.
- The fruit information provide an insight in the apparent fruit development aiding maturity monitoring for irrigation, marketing, harvest, and storage decisions.
Partner in the project REMOPACK


In'swine production' (pig farming), the verb 'Farrow' means to give birth to pigs. Needless to say, farrowing is something that only sows do.
The noun farrow means 'a litter of piglets'.
This is an interesting contrast when compared to its definition in regards to cattle farming, where it means a cow is 'not in calf', that is, not pregnant.


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On 12 November 2018, Department of Freshwater Wetlands Conservation of General Directorate of Administration for Nature Conservation and Protection, Ministry of Environment of Cambodia in collaboration with Secretariat of East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP), Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Cambodia, BirdLife International-Cambodia Programme, and NatureLife Cambodia organized the World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) 2018 at one of the potential Flyway Network Sites called Ang Trorpang Thmor Protected Landscape (Sarus Crane reserve) located in Phnom Srok district, Banteay Meanchey province. The purposes of the event are:
-To promote concept of EAAFP
-To educate the public to conserve Sarus Crane and other migratory birds
-To encourage local and public to engage in conserving migratory birds along its flyway
-To promote the value of wetlands and the migratory birds
There were approximately 150 attendees who are officials from Ministry of Environment, Department of Environment of Banteay Meanchey province, site manager, rangers, local authorities, local people, Pong Ror primary school teachers, and students as well as NGOs partners working on natural resource and wetland conservation.