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The celebration of International Polar Bear Day (February 20th) and the recent birth of twin polar bear cubs at EAZA Pole to Pole Campaign participant Hellabrunn Zoo offered an excellent opportunity to raise awareness about global warming. The now world-famous twin cubs attracted many visitors and generated great interest in the fate of their fellow species in the wild. Starting this week, visitors will be able to gain an exclusive peek inside the home of the young polar bear family every weekend and bank holiday.
Approximately 50 visitors gathered inside the Conservation Centre at Hellabrunn Zoo, eyes transfixed to the screen, the atmosphere at times so silent you can hear hearts beat. The reason for this hushed reverence is the presence of the biggest stars of the zoo: the eleven-week-old polar bear twins and mother Giovanna can be seen live on the big screen, broadcast directly from their den.
"It was the first time that visitors were able to experience such an exclusive glimpse inside the bedroom of a young polar bear family," said zoo director Dr Andreas Knieriem. "Many of the visitors only came here for this reason. And as the zoo is donating one euro for every visitor to a WWF polar bear patrol in Siberia, also the will be delighted. Although Polar Bear Day fell on a Thursday, outside the school holidays, we were able to raise € 1,502 for a good cause."
Polar Bear Day raised awareness around the world on the plight of polar bears in the wild, who are threatened primarily by climate change and the reduction of their habitat. The rise to stardom of the little ones should help to shed light on these problems. Apart from the screen, the Conservation Centre has an information booth and volunteers to offer visitors advice on what they can do personally to protect polar bears. Anyone can take his/her responsibility to halt global warming by registering your pledge to unplug electronic devices when not in use.
Watch the moment the 33-day old bear cubs opened their eyes for the first time on video here


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ANALYSIS OF NINE YEARS OF RAILROAD PERSONNEL CASUALTY DATA
This report presents an analysis of railroad personnel casualty data for the years 1966 through 1974. The analyses examined the trends of injuries, days disabled, fatalities, and the effect of changes in man hours of employment on these trends. Accident cause categories were ranked year by year based on an index which took account of both the frequency or number of casualties in each cause category and the severity of the casualties, as measured by the median days disabled for each cause category. Also, the frequency-severity index was used to rank job classifications for each year.
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- Shulman, A E
- Publication Date: 1976-11
- Features: Appendices; Figures; Tables;
- Pagination: 96 p.
- TRT Terms: Casualties; Classification; Crash data; Crashes; Data collection; Fatalities; Injuries; Personnel; Safety; Statistical analysis; Statistics
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Railroads; Safety and Human Factors; Society;
- Accession Number: 00157700
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Association of American Railroads
- Report/Paper Numbers: R-252
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ite clay is a
weathering byproduct of rocks, and like DE contains
silica and smaller quantities of other minerals. Despite
the content of silica, bentonite has nowhere near a
hardness of 7.
As for the claim that DE is agatized silica, again
this is not true. Agate is formed from extremely hot
water supersaturated with silica, and possibly some
magmatically dissolved silica. This dissolved silica
deposits in to crevices or vugs within rocks or replaces
organic matter in items such as shells or wood creating
layers of hard silica.
Again, DE is the skeletal remains of phytoplankton
that have died and settled to the bottom of ancient
oceans and lakes. These phytoplankton, nor their remains,
were ever subjected to extremely hot water or magma
to dissolve the silica and redeposit it as a quartz
such as agate.
Food grade DE is extremely soft having a hardness of
1-1.5, as pointed out earlier, far below the hardness
of pure silica that has a hardness of 7. In addition,
food grade DE consists of amorphous, not crystalline,
silica. Amorphous silica is not as hard and sharp like
crystalline silica and does not pose the same health
risks as crystalline silica.
Clumps of DE are also sold as kitty litter. If DE was
so sharp and hard as claimed, cat's paws would
be shredded from scratching in the litter box. Of course
this is not the case since the claims about DE being
hard and sharp to the point of damaging tissues are
Myth: Consuming silica causes kidney
Fact: I have heard people claim that
they got kidney pain within minutes of ingesting DE.
It is hard to say why they experienced this problem,
but it was not from the silica in the DE as I have seen
claimed. A simple fact of anatomy and physiology can
prove this. Once ingested, the silicon dioxide in the
DE has to convert in the stomach in to OA in order to
be absorbed. When the stomach finally empties its contents
in to the in intestines the OA can be absorbed. Next
the OA circulates through the blood where most of the
OA is utilized in the formation of tissues. Finally
traces of OA can reach the kidneys for safe excretion.
No damage occurs to the kidneys since the OA is not
in a solid crystalline form that can cut thinner tissues
of the kidneys. The whole process for the traces of
OA to be absorbed and even smaller traces to reach the
kidneys takes considerably longer than the few minutes
people are claiming to get pain within.

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text: Variation in speech is often quantified by comparing phonetic transcriptions of the same utterance. However, manually transcribing speech is time-consuming and error prone. As an alternative, therefore, we investigate the extraction of acoustic embeddings from several self-supervised neural models. We use these representations to compute word-based pronunciation differences between non-native and native speakers of English, and between Norwegian dialect speakers. For comparison with several earlier studies, we evaluate how well these differences match human perception by comparing them with available human judgements of similarity. We show that speech representations extracted from a specific type of neural model (i.e. Transformers) lead to a better match with human perception than two earlier approaches on the basis of phonetic transcriptions and MFCC-based acoustic features. We furthermore find that features from the neural models can generally best be extracted from one of the middle hidden layers than from the final layer. We also demonstrate that neural speech representations not only capture segmental differences, but also intonational and durational differences that cannot adequately be represented by a set of discrete symbols used in phonetic transcriptions.


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When an Oil Rig off the coast of the United States had a major fire ablaze and in danger and big explosion, the US Coast Guard was called for a search and rescue mission. A Sikorsky Jayhawk was deployed and landing on the helipad of the rig where survivors where ushered aboard the helicopter. A piece of rigging nearly fell on the helicopter but was held up by a strange man who held it long enough for the copter to get safe before the rig exploded.
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An Alien message was picked up that revealed the existence of beings from another world. The message sent by General Zod was asking for a being called Kal-El to be handed into his custody otherwise the world would suffer consequences.
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Status change means Dutch Antilles no longer exists
The Dutch Caribbean dependency the Netherlands Antilles has ceased to exist with a change of the five islands' constitutional status.
Curacao and St Maarten have become autonomous countries within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, joining Aruba, which gained the status in 1986.
Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba are now autonomous special municipalities of the kingdom.
The Netherlands retains responsibility for defence and foreign policy.
The Dutch government will also have initial oversight over Curacao's finances under a debt-relief arrangement.
Collectively, the islands had amassed a debt of around 2bn euros (£1.75bn; $2.8bn), most of it owed to the Netherlands.
The smaller islands of St Maarten, Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba said the debt was mostly run up by Curacao, the largest island and de facto capital of the former Netherlands Antilles.
Curacao complained that it was carrying too much of the financial burden for the federation, especially for Saba, St Eustatius and Bonaire.
Tourism, petroleum refining and offshore finance are the mainstays of the islands' economies.
The Dutch colonised the islands, alongside Aruba, in the 17th Century. The territory, once called the Dutch West Indies, became the semi-autonomous Netherlands Antilles in 1954.
The new status, which came into effect on Sunday, followed referendums over the past few years in which Curacao, St Maarten, Bonaire and Saba opted to leave the federation while St Eustatius supported the status quo.
None of the islands voted for independence.


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Exercise 1 - Finding the best evidence
In conversation with someone who is expecting, you are asked for your thoughts on whether they should consider having umbilical cord blood banked after they give birth. They are wondering if it is worth the cost, and if it poses any risks to the baby. You are unfamiliar with this practice, and want to provide the best evidence possible, but you know you won't have a lot of time to look it up.
 - Using the evidence pyramid as your benchmark, what is the strongest, most relevant piece of evidence on this topic you can find?
 - What tools/search words were most helpful?
What is the 6S pyramid?
The 6S evidence pyramid above is designed to help health practitioners prioritize evidence. The higher up the pyramid your evidence falls, the more weight you should give it in your clinical decision making process. Not every topic will have evidence at all levels – use the highest level that is available.
Currently, we do not have access to Systems level evidence at Mount Royal. The resources listed below will help you look for evidence at each of the remaining levels.
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The old town, occupying a limestone peninsula that sheltered a fishing harbour on the North Sea coast, enjoyed the patronage of the medieval prince-bishops of Durham, who granted its charter of 1201. Modern development dates from the coming of the railway in 1835, when Hartlepool became a port for the Durham coalfield, exporting coal and importing pit props. In 1847 the West Hartlepool dock was added, and a new town was laid out alongside. It grew rapidly with iron and steel, shipbuilding, and marine engineering industries.
As those industries have declined, Hartlepool has come to depend increasingly upon its association with Teesside. The port is now concerned mainly with servicing North Sea petroleum fields, and the town has a chemical industry. A nuclear power station stands at Seaton Carew in the southeast, and light industries have been established northwest of the town. Area 36 sq mi (94 sq km). Pop. (_PHONE_ est.) 9190,900000.


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The subtitle to this book reveals its contents: "The paradox of pet nutrition." Actually, the book is about both human and animal nutrition. The author asserts that there is a big difference between current animal (and human) nutrition and the diet species have survived on since primitive times.
The author explains why it is not very smart to consume less or no fat when you want to lose weight, pointing out that this is exactly what is happening on a large scale, yet the incidence of obesity keeps increasing. The writer explores why people following the Atkins diet can eat as much fat as they want and yet achieve weight loss. Through anecdotes, he demonstrates that, although pet owners are doing their utmost, they often achieve the wrong results. He also emphasises the importance of behavioural patterns in connection with diet. Chapters are dedicated to various animals (The cat: the paradox at its extreme) and elements of nutrition (Minerals: from rocks to nutrients). In addition, explanations are given regarding the labelling of pet foods, and supplements like probiotics and nutricines.
This food for thought is definitely not for dummies, just as the book itself notes, but rather a volume providing thorough explanations on all aspects of nutrition.
Title: Ruined by Excess, Perfected by Lack: The Paradox of Pet Nutrition
Author: R Patton
Publisher: Nottingham University Press, 2011


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What is yoga?
To understand what fertility yoga is, it is a good idea to remind ourselves first of what yoga is. In an age where Instagram yoga is quickly becoming the general benchmark for practising, achieving the picture-perfect pose is becoming the priority, followed closely by physical fitness. The roots of why the practice exists in the first place are often forgotten. Though a much gentler practice of yoga, Fertility Yoga goes back to the roots, helping mind and emotions settle through movement and breath, allowing the practitioner to connect with a deeper part of themselves and find perfect balance.
How we practise yoga frequently reflects how we 'practise' or live life.
The word yoga means 'to unite' and 'to connect' – to connect with yourself, with life, with an experience, and to bring together as a whole the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual dimensions of a person's being. Through yoga, we can experience our mind through our body, through how we move and breathe. How we use our breath in yoga is an uncannily accurate indicator for how we live our lives. If the breath is erratic and shallow when faced with a challenging pose, we may be pushing ourselves beyond our limits, allowing our ego to take over and, as a result, disconnecting from our true selves and becoming off-balance. If on the other hand the breath is calm and deep, we are connected, moving through the challenge with focus, and accepting where we are at that moment – we are balanced. How we practise yoga frequently reflects how we 'practise' or live life.
Modern-day life
Over the last 50 years, the pace of life has increased with the advent of technology; stress is on the rise with day-to-day pressures coming from more to do and less time within which to do it; many more women invest in their careers and choose to start a family later in life; our environment has changed with increased pollution in the air we breathe, pesticides and antibiotics present in the food we eat, chemicals lacing the water we drink, and mobile phones and tablets disrupting our sleep patterns. This all contributes to increased stress on both physical and mental levels. Coincidentally, infertility numbers are increasing with one in seven couples affected by fertility issues in the UK alone, ranging from egg/sperm deficiencies to the inability to carry a pregnancy to term.
Fertility yoga
Countless studies have been conducted on the link between stress and the human body's performance, with the NHS now reporting that one in five visits to a health physician are stress-related. Day-to-day life is already stressful. Add infertility problems to it and the stress levels peak considerably. Yoga, meditation and mindfulness are now being encouraged by the medical profession for stress management.
The whole practice helps to create a safe, nurturing space that welcomes new life.
Fertility yoga is a modified version of classic yoga, conceived specifically to work on encouraging blood flow, energy and space in the reproductive area, and fostering calm, positivity and balance across mind and emotions. Using modified postures, breath work, relaxation, positive mantras and visualisation, it is a more yin practice to balance the yang of day-to-day life. By gently easing stress and tension, fertility yoga helps to rid the body and mind of factors that could be contributing to physical and energetic blockages that are standing in the way of conception or being able to sustain a pregnancy. It allows women and their partners to give themselves permission to relax, reducing the intensity of their lives, and coming back into balance.
The sequences are designed to be gentle, slow and nurturing. They can be planned for specific times of the month and even for each phase of an IVF cycle.
 - Movement and postures are chosen to invite increased energy, flow and good circulation into the reproductive areas of the body, and to work on easing stress and tension out of those key areas.
 - Pranayama (breath work) invites a sense of connection between mind and body to facilitate the flow of energy.
 - Meditation and visualisation help to maintain mindfulness, positivity and calm to keep anxiety at bay.
The whole practice helps to create a safe, nurturing space that welcomes new life, whether it's being used in preparation for conception or during an IVF cycle.
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The Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) River Basin is drought-free according to the U.S. Drought Monitor (as of January 26, 2021). View the latest weekly U.S. Drought Monitor map.
Register here for the next monthly ACF Drought and Water Monthly Webinar on February 23, 2021, at 1-2 pm EST.
ACF Climate Conditions and Outlooks
- 2020 was very warm and wet for most of the Southeast U.S.
- December 2020 was the first colder than normal month in Florida in nearly three years.
- Temperatures have been slightly warmer than normal over the last 30 days.
- There are small pockets of "abnormally dry" (D0) conditions over north Florida, Georgia, and Alabama according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
- Rainfall deficits are starting to build across most of the ACF at 30 to 90 days.
- A "La Nina Advisory" has been issued by NOAA, with a 100% chance of continuing through winter and a 65% chance of continuing through spring.
- The Climate Prediction Center's seasonal forecast favors above-normal temperatures and below-normal rainfall.
- Negative Arctic/North Atlantic Oscillation overwhelmed typical La Nina impacts in December and January.
- Drought development is a risk in the spring as La Nina plays out, especially in the lower ACF.
- The Alabama Office of Water Resources states no reported water availability issues and no changes to the Alabama Drought Declaration since 9/1/2020. Areas of abnormally dry (D0) have risen from 5% to 23% of the state in the past week (as of January 19, 2021).
Real-Time Streamflow & Forecasts
- Real-time streamflows in the ACF basin are currently in the high to much below normal range.
- The upper Flint River basin is currently ranked as moderate hydrologic drought for the 7-day average streamflow.
- The 28-day average streamflow for the Chattahoochee River is currently in the above normal to normal range.
- The 28-day average streamflow for the Flint River is currently in the normal range.
- Real-time groundwater levels across the ACF basin range from above normal to low, with most stations ranked in the normal range.
- Flooding is not anticipated in the short-term in the ACF.
- The National Weather Service Southeast River Forecast Center's 1-month streamflow forecast: near normal, with above-normal flows on the far upper Chattahoochee.
- The Southeast River Forecast Center's 3-month streamflow forecast: near normal.
ACF Basin Reservoir Conditions
- Inflows into the projects are normal/above normal.
- Currently, projects are operating slightly above/right at winter pool elevations
- The ACF system conservation storage is in Zone 1 and is forecasted to stay in Zone 1 for the next few weeks.
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Critical Discourse Analysis: The Critical Study of Language by Norman Fairclough
My career project has focused on how social institutions mediate the tensions between cultures of political economy on one hand and individual freedoms on the other. Critical Discourse Analysis has provided an analytical framework for pursuing this research agenda. In fact, Norman Fairclough's dialectical-relational approach to critical discourse analysis, which is detailed in this foundational text, inspired my first major publication, "Neoliberal Ideology in Community College Mission Statements". Although theories and methods of discourse analysis have advanced considerably since this book's publication in 1995, I constantly re-read it, cite it, and refer it to students. Every time I open the book, I achieve a deeper level of understanding. Critical Discourse Analysis has special meaning for me indeed, and it is an honor to have my name printed in this bookplate.


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Three intake – Nizhyn, Prostorney and Novogrigorievka ready by 85%, said Minister of ecology and natural resources of the Republic of Crimea Gennady Nara. He noted that by supplying water from the water intake Nijinsky Eastern Crimea today is not experiencing the shortage of drinking water.
SIMFEROPOL, 30 Oct. The construction of three large water intakes on the North-East of the Crimea with a total capacity of almost 200 thousand cubic meters per day was completed by 85%, the full completion is scheduled for the end of the year, told reporters in Simferopol, the Minister of ecology and natural resources of the Republic of Crimea Gennady Nara.
The need of the Crimea in drinking water is 260 million cubic meters per year. Currently in the region is the construction of water intake and reconstruction of water supply system for supplying water to the Eastern side of the Peninsula is also expected to create a reservoir for a stable supply of Sevastopol.
"Three intake — Nizhyn, Prostorney and Novogrigorievka ready on 85%. We look forward to the end of these years of work to complete," said Nara.
Nara noted that by supplying water from Nizhyn water diversion and temporary pipeline in the bed of the North Crimean channel Eastern Crimea today is not experiencing the shortage of drinking water.
For a stable South-Eastern part of Crimea drinking water on the Peninsula created 3 new abstraction: Prostorney (12 artesian wells with a total capacity of 75 thousand cubic meters per day), Nijinsky (12 wells, 75 thousand cubic meters per day) and Novogrigorievka (12 wells, 45 thousand cubic meters per day). Well depth from 110 to 180 meters. The total production of water intake is 195 thousand cubic meters per day. Wells drilled to date, the work on the electrification of objects.
Ukraine provided to 85% of needs of the Crimea in fresh water after coming from the Dnieper North-Crimean canal, this water was used for irrigation of farmland. After the reunification of the Crimea with Russia water flow through the channel in the Republic was completely stopped. Part of the problem of water supply of the Crimea were solved after transferring water from the Crimean river Biyuk-Karasu in North Crimean canal, as well as the drilling of new wells.
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Definitions for absorption, electric
The Standard Electrical Dictionary
A property of the static charge. When a Leyden jar is being charged it dilates a little and the capacity increases, so that it can take a little more charge for a given potential difference existing between its two coatings. This phenomenon occurs with other static condensers, varying in degree with the dielectric. With shellac, paraffin, sulphur and resin, for instance, the absorption is very slight; with gutta-percha, stearine, and glass, the absorption is relatively great. The term is due to Faraday. Iceland spar seems almost or quite destitute of electric absorption.
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Ceremonial masks have played significant roles in many native tribal cultures around the world. Several of the most vivid, colorful and striking American Indian ancestral masks come from West Coast American Indian art created by the Northwest Native people. These groups are located in the region from Oregon that stretch all the way through Washington state and British Columbia all the way to southern Alaska next to the Pacific coast.
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Northwest Coast Native American ceremonial masks portray many different types of humans and animals including mythical creatures from Northwest Native legends. Some of the masks were portrait masks where they were created to represent particular persons. Animal masks had exceptional denotation for specific clans since all members of a tribe were apparently descended from particular animals. There are three main types of masks, which vary in their complexity. The distinct face mask is the simplest ceremonial masks of the three and is carved and engraved from a piece of red cedar wood.
Another type of ceremonial mask is a motorized mask with movable parts. This type of mask was essentially created after the Europeans introduced the Northwest Natives to strings and hinges. Northwest Natives soon utilized this European technology to allow the eyes and mouths of masks to open and close.
A third type of Northwest Native American Ceremonial Masks is the conversion mask which is also the most multifaceted type of ceremonial mask. This type of mask has an external mask that can open up to expose an internal second mask form. Occasionally this inner mask structure can also unlock to reveal a third mask formation.


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What are dask bags? explain with example of group by.
Dask Bags contains the operations like map, filter, fold and groupby. These operations can be implemented on python objects with Dask bags.
Dask bags do this in parallel with a small memory foot print using python iterators.
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from dask.distributed import Client import dask client = Client(n_workers=2, threads_per_worker=2, processes=False, memory_limit='500MB') client df = dask.datasets.timeseries() df.groupby('name').x.mean().compute()


text: In a trio of cases handed down on the same day in 1950, the Supreme Court denied constitutional free speech protection to civil rights picketing and labor picketing. The civil rights case, Hughes v. Superior Court, has often been portrayed as an early test case about affirmative action, but it originated in repression of an alliance of radical labor and civil rights activists exasperated by the legislature's repeated failure to enact fair employment law. Seeking a people's law like the labor general strikers and sit-downers of the 1930s and the civil rights sit-inners of the 1960s, they insisted that the true meaning of free speech was the right to speak truth to power. Courts and Congress forced the labor movement to abandon direct action even as it became the defining feature of the civil rights movement. The free speech rights consciousness they invoked challenged the prevailing conservative conception of rights and law. Direct action was a form of legal argument, a subaltern law of solidarity. It was not, as civil rights protest is often portrayed, a form of civil disobedience. What happened during and after the case reveals how the subaltern law and formal law labor and civil rights began to diverge, along with the legal histories of the movements.


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Cats were aloof, intelligent mammals that live in the world of Narnia and Earth.
They maintain a strict sense of decorum amongst themselves, and are always prim and proper. They are also a bit condescending to others who aren't the same, but are very self-assured, as it takes a very great deal to rattle a cat's nerves.
Cats can also be seen in any different color and sizes.
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In The Magician's Nephew, two cats were mentioned when they came out of the ground after the world of Narnia was created.
In The Last Battle, one cat named Ginger was interested with Shift's fake story about Aslan as Tash, and Tash as Aslan, for the combination as "Tashlan". Ginger agreed to assist Shift, in order to allow every Narnian to believe in this false story about Tashlan, after the Calormenes invaded the land of Narnia. Ginger was the first one to enter the stable, as part of Shift's ruse. It backfired when Ginger found the real Tash in the stable. Tash attacked Ginger, causing him to run out of the stable with a shriek and then, to the shock of the Narnian beasts, revert to a dumb beast. He climbed up a tree, and was never seen again.
In the Prince Caspian (Disney movie), while during the Attack on Miraz's Castle, Reepicheep and his fellow mice had infiltrated the tower, so as to secure the controls for the drawbridge, which they could then lower down to allow the other Narnians to enter. While they were there, they came upon a sleeping cat (presumably an ordinary non-talking one). Reepicheep ordered his mice to fall back, while he had a mischievous look on his own face.
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 Any type of algebraic structure on subsets of $S$ that is defined purely in terms of closure properties will be preserved under intersection. Examples are σ-algebras, π-systems, λ-systems, or monotone classes of subsets.
 Note however, this does not apply to semi-algebras, because the semi-algebras is not defined purely in terms of closure properties (the condition on $A^c$ is not a closure property).
 $S$ is said to be a semi-algebra if it is closed under intersection and if complements can be written as finite, disjoint unions:
 - If $A,B∈S$ then $A∩B∈S$.
 - If $A∈S$ then there exists a finite, disjoint collection $\{B_i:i∈I\}⊆S$ such that $A^c=⋃_{i∈I} B_i$.
 In "the condition on $A^c$ is not a closure property",
 - what does "the condition on a set operation such as taking complement is not a closure property" mean?
 - What is the meaning of "closure properties"?
 How do you see the family of semi-algebras (aka semi-rings) of sets isn't closed under intersection?
 2. Michael Greinecker also commented: The family of semi-rings on a set are not closed under intersections.
 BTW, if I am correct, the concept of a semi-algebra of sets is the same as semi-ring of sets in Wikipedia.
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The family of all bounded intervals is a semi-ring on $\mathbb{R}$ but not a semi-algebra (since the complement is unbounded and hence not a finite union of bounded sets). – Michael Greinecker Jan 6 '13 at 0:47
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Closure properties can be formulated in terms of concepts from universal algebra. Let $X$ be the underlying set (in our examples, $X$ is a famly of sets itself). Let $I$ be an index set, $(\kappa_i)_{i\in I}$ be a family of cardinal numbers and $(f_i)_{i\in I}$ a family of function satisfying $f_i:X^{\kappa_i}\to X$ for all $i$. We say that $C\subseteq X$ is closed under $(f_i)_{i\in I}$ if we have for all $i\in I$ that $f_i(x)\in C$ for all $x\in C^{\kappa_i}$. One can show that the family of sets closed under $(f_i)_{i\in I}$ forms a Moore collection.
Let's look an an example: Let $U$ be a set and $X\subseteq 2^U$. We let $I=\{s,c,u\}$, $\kappa_s=0$, $\kappa_c=1$, and $\kappa_u=\omega$. We identify constants and nullary functions, so we can let $f_s=U$. We let $f_c(A)=A^C$ for all $A\in X$, and we let $f_u(A_0,A_1,\ldots)=\bigcup_n A_n$. That $X$ is closed under these three functions means simply that it contains $X$, is closed under complements and countable unionsit is a $\sigma$-algebra.
Now, one cannot write down semi-algebras this way, since there is no unique decomposition of the complement into disjoint sets. If $\mathcal{S}$ is a semi-algebra and $A\in\mathcal{S}$, then there exists a number $n$ and sets $B_1,\ldots,B_n\in\mathcal{S}$ that are disjoint and such that $A_c=B_1\cup\ldots\cup B_n$. Now if there exists a unique such family and if this family only depended on $A$, we could write down this property as closure under some functions in the following way: We let $f_{c_1}=B_1,\ldots, f_{c_n}=B_n$, and for $m>n$ we let $f_{c_m}=f_{c_n}$. We use the last condition because we have no a priori bound on how many sets are needed. But these sets are not a function of $A$, so this property can not be viewed as a closure property.
Here is an explicit example (taken from Alprantis & Border) that shows that the intersection of sem-algebras might fail to be a semi-algebra: Let $X=\{0,1,2\}$, $\mathcal{S}_1=\big\{\emptyset, X,\{0\},\{1\},\{2\}\big\}$, $\mathcal{S}_2=\big\{\emptyset, X,\{0\},\{1,2\}\big\}$, and $A=\{0\}$. We have $\mathcal{S}_1\cap\mathcal{S}_2=\big\{X,\emptyset,\{0\}\big\}$, and $A^C=\{0\}^C=\{1,2\}$ is not the disjoint union of elements of this intersection.
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Thanks! (1) How is $C\subseteq X$ closed under $(f_i: X^{\kappa_i} \to X)_{i \in I}$ related to the example for semi-algebras? (2) For semi-algebras, why do "there do no unique decomposition of the complement into disjoint sets (even then, one would need a hack)" and "a function can have only one value" matter? What is "a function"? – Tim Jan 6 '13 at 14:33
_USER_ I've edited it and hope have clarified these issues. – Michael Greinecker Jan 6 '13 at 22:19
Thanks! I edited some places I thought were typos. Feel free to edit again if I am wrong. I was wondering if the definition of a set operation having closure property comes from some references? – Tim Jan 7 '13 at 14:02
_USER_ All things closure operations I learned from the Handbook of Analysis and its Foundations by E. Schechter. – Michael Greinecker Jan 7 '13 at 14:13
Thanks! Besides the two books, what other books in analysis do you recommend? – Tim Jan 11 '13 at 21:36
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 1. These rules have precedence as set out in section I.A of the Corpora of the Society for Creative Anachronism Inc.
 2. At all times, mundane law has precedence over any and all rules of the SCA.
Changes to the rules
 1. In accordance with section II of the Laws of the Kingdom of Lochac, which can be found at, temporary restrictions on activities normally allowed by these rules may be made by proclamation of the Crown, but they will expire after 30 days unless renewed by proclamation, or permanently incorporated into the rules.
 2. Permanent changes to the rules can only be made using the following procedures, and shall only come into effect after all of these steps are complete:
 1. The change is approved by:
 1. the Crown; and
 2. the Kingdom Seneschal; and
 3. the Board of SCA Ltd, and
 4. the Committee of SCA NZ Inc.
 2. The change is proclaimed by the Crown at an official event.
 3. Notification of the change is distributed to all Group Fencing Marshals.
 4. The Fencing Combat Handbook (this document) is updated.
 5. Notification of the change is published in Pegasus.
 3. The only exception to this procedure is in the case of mundane law changes that contradict these rules. In the event of a change to mundane law, that law will become effective immediately and these rules will be updated as soon as possible.
 4. Typographical corrections and minor changes to clarify wording, that do not change the substance or intent of a rule, can be made by the Kingdom Fencing Marshal without going through this procedure.
Requesting rule changes
 1. The procedure for requesting a change to these rules is as follows:
 1. Discuss the proposed change with the Group Fencing Marshal.
 2. The Group Fencing Marshal forwards the proposed change to the Kingdom Fencing Marshal.
 3. The Kingdom Fencing Marshal conducts appropriate consultation with the fencing community, including discussion with the Kingdom Earl Marshal.
 4. The Kingdom Fencing Marshal formally submits the proposed change to the Kingdom Earl Marshal, and to the Society Fencing Marshal if required.
Experimenting with the rules
 1. Members of the fencing community can propose a substantial change to these rules, such as the addition of a new category of weapons, a new technique, or a reduction in protective equipment requirements.
 2. These changes can only be considered following an approved experiment where training and combat is conducted according to the proposed new rules.
 3. The Kingdom Fencing Marshal can approve an experimental program, subject to the agreement of the Kingdom Earl Marshal and the Society Marshal.
 4. To obtain approval, the people proposing the change must submit an experimental program plan including:
 - a description of the proposed new weapon, technique or equipment change
 - a description of how the experiment will be conducted in training or combat
 - a minimum time frame for the experiment to be conducted
 - a reporting schedule (at least quarterly)
 - anticipated risks
 - contact information for the person who will conduct the experiment and report to the Kingdom Fencing Marshal.
 5. The Kingdom Fencing Marshal will report at least quarterly to the Kingdom Earl Marshal and the Society Fencing Marshal on the progress of the experiment, including any injuries and any concerns from fencers or marshals involved in the experiment.
 6. The Society Fencing Marshal will decide if the rule change should be recommended to the Society Marshal.
 7. The Society Marshal will decide whether to recommend that the SCA Board of Directors approve changes to the Society Fencing Marshals Handbook.
 8. More information about Society experiments is in Appendix 6 of the Society Fencing Marshals Handbook.


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In deciding the best course of action for your particular set of circumstances there can be a number relevant considerations to take into account.
In seeing a psychologist you should be aware that:
 1. To qualify for the Medicare rebate you may find yourself diagnosed with a 'mental illness' by your GP or psychiatrist. In life it can be normal to suffer emotionally as a result of common life events and historical experiences, and from this react with anxiety, depression, and stress but that doesn't mean you have a 'mental illness'. It is normal to experience depression, fear, anger, hopelessness and anxiety when you are dealing with conflict, separation, grief, loss, trauma, relationship issues, chronic illness, family problems, and work related issues. You could also struggle because you come from a toxic or dysfunctional family and have not had the chance to develop skills or beliefs that would help you move beyond this. You could also struggle because you have suffered abuse or traumatic life events and not had the opportunity to process this.
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For the first part, we're being asked to calculate the solubility of Mg(OH)2 in 0.160 M NaOH. Since the compounds are ionic compounds, they form ions when dissociating in water. The dissociation of CaF2 and NaF in water are as follows:
Magnesium is in Group 2A so its charge is +2. Hydroxide is a polyatomic ion (OH–) so its charge is –1:
Mg(OH)2(s) ⇌ Mg2+(aq) + 2 OH–(aq)
Sodium is in Group 1A so its charge is +1. Hydroxide is a polyatomic ion (OH–) so its charge is –1:
NaOH(s) → Na+(aq) + OH–(aq)
Notice that there is a common ion present, OH–. The common ion effect states that the solubility of a salt is lower in the presence of a common ion.
We can construct an ICE table for the dissociation of Mg(OH)2. Remember that solids are ignored in the ICE table.
Based on the given value of the Ksp, what is the molar solubility of Mg(OH)2 in 0.160 M NaOH? Express your answer with the appropriate units.
Calculate how many times more soluble Mg(OH)2 is in pure water.
Based on the given value of the Ksp, calculate the ratio of solubility of Mg(OH)2 dissolved in pure H2O to Mg(OH)2 dissolved in a 0.160 M NaOH solution. Express your answer numerically to three significant figures.
Ksp = 5.61×10−11.
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text: Lassen Meadow Farms is 220 acres with approximately 160 acres of planted Chandler walnuts. The orchard was planted in 2021. Prior to the development, it was virgin ground composed primarily of Class I and Class II soils. Spacing is 27'x27'. The orchard was deep ripped 5+ feet, then disced, tri-planed, and sloped to allow for surface water to drain. A pond was developed to catch surface water, and is also tied into the irrigation system. The orchard was then planted in spring of 2021, comprised of 96% Chandler walnuts and 4% pollinizers on bareroot clonal Vlach rootstock. The irrigation system is new with the orchard. A 430 foot well with 16 steel casing has production that exceeds 3,200 gpm, and is powered by a new Tier 4 John Deere 375 hp diesel motor. Drip emitters currently provide irrigation water direct to the rootzone, and Nelson R-10 sprinklers are positioned in between every tree to provide full coverage. Currently the entire 160 acres is irrigated at the same time, however, the system is designed to run in several sets once full coverage is needed. A pond was also developed on the southwest corner of the property to provide a secondary irrigation source. It is situated to collect rainwater and direct surface waters from higher elevations.


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Helping the rice farmers in Ngoketunjia, Cameroon
This year we introduced rotary weeders to Cameroon to help the farmers; the weeders not only to reduce the time taken for the farmers to weed their farms and to reduce the extremely strenuous physical labour that the farmers have to put into their farms; but more importantly these should stimulate greater plant growth and productivity through active soil aeration and pruning of roots near the surface (that stimulates the growth of larger and deeper root systems).
The farmers have recently started to use the rotary weeders and with the rotary weeders the time taken to work the same plot was reduced from 2.5 hours to 45 minutes !
We introduced two models; one with two wheels and the second with one wheel. The farmers found that the model with the two wheels was best used in the early stages of farming when the plant roots were not deep.
The second model however with the single wheel; was easy to use and resulted in large time savings. The farmers are extremely enthusiastic about this model.
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Whether you are playing Santa's helper or in a school play craft your own Christmas elf hat out of felt or velvet fabric.
Felt or velvet fabric
Needle and thread or hot glue gun
The first step is to make a basic hat pattern from paper. Draw and cut a triangle with a base length and height of 13 inches.
For an adult-sized hat, increase the base and height measurements to 14 inches.
Tie a pencil to a string and stretch the string taut from the apex (or tip) of the triangle until the tip of the pencil touches the midpoint of the triangle's base. While keeping the string taut, draw an arc spanning the two opposite sides of the triangle.
Before drawing the arc, you may find it helpful to tape your paper triangle to the table and the string to the apex of the triangle.
Cut out the pattern. You will have something that looks like a slice of pie.
Obtain a large sheet (at least 22 x 14 inches) of green or red felt. If you want a soft or droopy hat, use thin felt or a soft-type fabric such as velvet.
*In case you don't have a large enough sheet of felt or fabric, you can use 2 smaller sheets. Each sheet should be able to accommodate the hat pattern you made.
Align one side of your hat pattern along the folded edge of the fabric. Trace the pattern onto the fabric.
*If you are using two smaller felt or fabric sheets, trace the hat pattern onto each sheet.
While keeping the fabric folded, cut along the hat outline.
For those who are working with two smaller sheets, cut out the hat outline on each sheet.
Join the straight edges of the folded fabric by stitching them together or by gluing them together with a hot glue gun.
*When working with two smaller sheets, you will have to sew or glue the pair of hat cut-outs together along their two straight sides.
When the glue dries, turn the hat inside-out so that the stitches or the glued edges are concealed inside. You will also notice that you now have a cone-shaped fabric hat.
If you used green felt for the hat, obtain red felt for the zigzag lining at the base of the hat, or vice-versa. We have a template that you can print, cut out and trace repeatedly (approximately 3 times) to make a long band that can go around the entire base of the hat.
Cut out the entire zigzag band. If your felt sheet is not long enough, you can make shorter pieces or glue/sew them together to make a longer band.
Glue (use hot glue gun) or stitch the zigzag band at the base of the hat.
Sew or glue a jingle bell at the tip of your Christmas elf hat.
You may further decorate your elf hat by gluing small pompoms or tiny bells at the tips of the zigzag band.
Have fun wearing your Christmas elf hat!
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Houstonia longifolia Gaertn.
Habitat: Slaty ledges or rivershore gravels, not strongly acidic. [Non-tidal rivershore (non-forested, seasonally wet)].
Range: Maine to Saskatchewan, south to Georgia, Oklahoma.
Aids to Identification: Bluets are small, slender plants with opposite stem leaves, small 4-petaled flowers, and inferior ovaries. The common bluet, Houstonia caerulea, found growing on lawns, has flowers that have a yellow center and horizontally spreading corolla lobes. Houstania longifolia has uniform colored white to pale blue flowers and ascending corolla lobes and occurs in different habitats.
Ecological characteristics: Usually found growing in slight cracks or depressions on rivershore ledges. Maine populations although apparently persistent are not large and the plants tend to be small.
Phenology: Herbaceous perennial, flowers July - September.
Synonyms: Formerly known as Hedyotis longifolia (Gaertn.) Hook., Houstonia purpurea var. tenuifolia (Nutt.) Gray.
Known Distribution in Maine: This rare plant has been documented from a total of 18 town(s) in the following county(ies): Cumberland, Kennebec, Penobscot, Sagadahoc, Somerset.
Dates of documented observations are: 1885, 18XX, 1906 (2), 1909, 1916, 1979, 1984 (2), 1986 (3), 1987 (3), 1988, 1989, 1990 (2), 1994, 1996 (3), 1997, 2000 (4), 2001, 2002
Reason(s) for rarity: Habitat naturally scarce, at northern limit of range.
Conservation considerations: Known populations are small, but the plant seems to persist on the few river ledges where it grows. Heavy recreational use of ledges could pose problems.


text: 3rd conditionals making excuses.Duration: 10 - 15 minutes.Preparation: Print out this sheet. Aims: Fluency with the target expressions. Repeat the exercise for as many weeks as is necessary to achieve fluency. Procedure: Tell the students that they are going to have to make up excuses using the past conditional. Give them an example and show them how to make the excuse. Teacher: Why didn't you do any homework? Student: I would have done my homework if I had had more time. The students have to come up with an excuse which explains why they did or didn't do a particular thing. Use the examples below or make up your own.


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This month the Oireachtas Library is displaying an unusual cartoon book about the unsuccessful Fenian plot to raid Chester Castle on 11 February 1867.
The story depicts a soldier, Ensign Smith, summoned to defend Chester Castle. He and his fellow soldiers play cards, drink and dream of the coming battle.
The plot to raid Chester Castle was spearheaded by John McCafferty, a fiery Irish-American who fought for the confederate army during the American Civil War. More than 1,000 Fenians gathered in Chester on 11 February 1867 with plans to smuggle the weapons to Ireland for the planned rising in Dublin.
To find out more, visit the digital exhibition of the documents in the display case.


YIG sphere
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YIG filter partially disassembled
Yttrium iron garnet spheres (YIG spheres) serve as magnetically tunable filters and resonators for microwave frequencies. YIG filters are used for their high Q factors, typically between 100 and 200.[1][2] A sphere made from a single crystal of synthetic yttrium iron garnet acts as a resonator. These spheres are on the order of 0.5 mm in diameter and are manufactured from slightly larger cubes of diced material by tumbling, as is done in the manufacture of jewelry. The garnet is mounted on a ceramic rod, and a pair of small loops around the sphere couple fields into and out of the sphere; the loops are half-turns, positioned at right-angles to each other to prevent direct electromagnetic coupling between them and each is grounded at one end.
The field from an electromagnet changes the resonance frequency of the sphere and hence the frequency it will allow to pass. The advantage of this type of filter is that the garnet can be tuned over a very wide frequency range by varying the strength of the magnetic field. Some filters can be tuned from 3 GHz up to 50 GHz. YIG filters usually consist of several coupled stages, each stage consisting of a sphere and a pair of loops.
The input and output coils are oriented at right angles to one another around the YIG crystal. They are cross-coupled when energized by the ferrimagnetic resonance frequency, which depends on the external magnetic field supplied by an electromagnet.
YIG filters are often used as preselectors. YIG filters tuned by a sweep current are used in spectrum analyzers.
Another YIG application is YIG oscillators, where the sphere acts as a tunable frequency-determining element. It is coupled to an amplifier which provides the required feedback for oscillation.[3]
References[edit]
 1. ^ YIG Tuned Filters
 2. ^ U.L. Rohde, and A.K. Poddar, "Cost-Effective, Power-Efficient and Configurable YIG Replacement Signal Source," German Microwave Conference-GeMiC 2006, 28-30 March 2006, Germany.
 3. ^ YIG Tuned Oscillators
Further reading[edit]
 - Joseph Helszajn (1985). YIG Resonators and Filters. New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9780608009599.
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Do buy and sell transactions appear on the public blockchain?
The public ledger cannot accurately reflect your actual buy and sell activities as mentioned previously our system shares some similarities with banks.
Nevertheless, this does not apply to the case of sending and receiving digital assets between wallets.
The transactions between wallets will be reflected on the public ledger.
Therefore, the conclusion is the public ledger reflects the wallet-to-wallet transactions, but not the conversion from fiat currencies to digital assets, and vice versa.
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Penalized least-squares for imaging with hypertelescopes
Michigan Tech Research Institute; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Practical considerations such as cost constrain the aperture size of conventional telescopes, which, combined with atmospheric turbulence effects, even in the presence of adaptive optics, limit achievable angular resolution. Sparse aperture telescopes represent a viable alternative for achieving improved angular resolution by combining light collected from small apertures distributed over a wide spatial area either using amplitude interferometry or a direct imaging approach to beam-combining. The so-called densified hypertelescope imaging concept in particular provides a methodology for direct image formation from large sparse aperture arrays. The densification system suppresses wide-angle side lobes and concentrates that energy in the center of the focal plane, significantly improving the signal-to-noise ratio of the measurement. Even with densification, an inevitable consequence of sparse aperture sampling is that the point-spread function associated with the direct image contains an additional structure not present in full aperture imaging systems. Postdetection image reconstruction is performed here to compute a high-fidelity estimate of the measured object in the presence of noise. In this paper, we describe a penalized least-squares object-estimation approach and compare the results with the classical Richardson–Lucy deconvolution algorithm as it is applied to hypertelescope image formation. The parameters of the algorithm are selected based on a comprehensive simulation study using the structure similarity metric to assess reconstruction performance. We find that the penalized least-squares formulation with optimized parameters provides significantly improved reconstructions compared with the conventional Richardson–Lucy algorithm.
Penalized least-squares for imaging with hypertelescopes.
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In this work we present UrbanWater and WatERP, two EU-FP7 projects with the common objective of designing and developing innovative ICT solutions to integrate real-time knowledge on water demand and supply across water distribution networks. On one hand, WatERP proposes to develop a web-based Open Management Platform (OMP) supported by real-time knowledge on water supply and demand, enabling the entire water distribution system to be viewed in an integrated and customized way. The OMP provides inferred information regarding water supplies, flows, water consumption patterns, water losses, distribution efficiency, and water supply and demand forecasts to the user. This information is stored in a Water Data Warehouse using semantics and open standards (such as WaterML 2.0) which are defined in the ontology developed to ensure interoperability and maximize usability. In addition, external linkages to costs, energy factors, control systems, data acquisition systems, external models, forecasting systems and new data sources are made available for easy integration into the system. On the other hand, UrbanWater proposes to develop an ICT-based platform for efficient and integrated management of urban water resources, incorporating weather prediction and water availability data, household consumption data, and water distribution among others. Its design corresponds to a highly flexible Spatial Decision Support System capable of connecting manifold data sources and data processing modules that enable to (i) effectively estimate water demand in urban water areas to manage water distribution networks in an efficient way; (ii) reduce waste of water and economic losses associated to leakages; (iii) smoothen daily water demand peaks in order to save costs; and (iv) provide an off-line and on-line operation framework that allows defining scenarios of availability and demand to test specific strategies for the distribution network operation.
Sancho, David; Rodríguez, Alvaro; Sánchez-Diezma, Rafael; Llort, Xavier; Anzaldi, Gabriel; Rubión, Edgar; Corchero, Aitor; and Rodríguez, Albert, "UrbanWater And WatERP: Decision Support Systems For Efficient And Integrated Water Resources Management" (2014). CUNY Academic Works.


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Experimental Investigation on Atomization Characteristics of Ultrasonic Atomizer 900803
An exeperimental study on the atomization characteristics of an ultrasonic Atomizer utilizing pulse laser holographic system is presented in this paper.
The spatial distribution of the ultrasonic frequency and the pressure amplitude behind the atomizer were measured. It was shown by experiment that the sonic wave from the outlet of the atomizer travels as a spherical wave.
The effects of the air pressure within the ultrasonic atomizer on the ultrasonic frequency and the pressure amplitude were studied.
The effects of air pressure and fuel flow rate on the spatial distribution of the droplets and the SMD mean diameters were obtained.
On the basis of experimental results, the atomization mechanism of the ultrasonic atomizer is discussed.


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The First Baptist Church celebrated the unveiling of their official historical maker this past Sunday in Henderson, Kentucky. The church is the oldest African American church in the county seat dating back to the pre-Civil War era. The Kentucky Historical Society awarded the historical marker to commemorate the everlasting impact that the church has had on the community and the entire Commonwealth. The church was established in 1840 and it has been in the same location since 1866. Many families including my maternal great grandparents attended this church in the late 18th century into the early 19th century before moving during the Great Migration.
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EXPLORE A CAREER IN IT
For most organisations, including merchants and their suppliers, the IT department is responsible for:
Respond to requests for hardware and software
Logging problems and fixes
Repair software on the company systems
Monitor IT performance
Improve the IT performance of the company.
To find out how to start your career and where a career in IT can take you click the tabs below.
SOFTWARE SUPPORT TECHNICIAN
Support technicians in the information technology field are required to maintain the computers, network servers and phone technology in the business.
Average salary (a year) - £15,000 to £26,000
Typical hours (a week) - 35 to 39
How to become a Software Support Technician?
You can get into this job through:
- a college course
- an apprenticeship
- working towards this role
You could take a college course in computing or IT support, like a:
- Level 2 Certificate in ICT Systems Support
- level 3 Diploma in ICT Professional Competence
you may need:
- 2 or more GCSEs at grades 9 to 3 (A* to D)for a level 2 course
- 4 or 5 GCSEs at grades 9 to 4 (A*to C) for a level 3 course.
You could do an intermediate or advanced apprenticeship in IT support, or an infrastructure technician advanced apprenticeship. you'll usually need:
- some GCSEs, usually including English and maths, for an intermediate apprenticeship
- 5 GCSEs at grades 9 to 4 (A* to C), usually including English and maths, for an advanced apprenticeship.
The Building Materials Industry are great supporters of apprenticeships.
To view apprenticeship vacancies click here
You could get started as a trainee technician and do qualifications while you work. You'll need some IT skills to get a trainee job.
Ideally you'll need knowledge or experience in the following:
- the ability to work well with others
- excellent verbal communication skills
- analytical thinking skills
- to be thorough and pay attention to detail
- customer service skills
- to be flexible and open to change
- the ability to accept criticism and work well under pressure
- the ability to use your judgement and make decisions
- You will be expected to know how to use a computer and tools to benefit this job
- Strong IT Skills
Your day-to-day tasks may include:
- Responding to incoming calls into the helpdesk
- Aim to fix all calls
- Customer updates and call management
- Helpdesk information population and maintenance
- Product and industry change investigation and communication
- Continued development and training
- Ensure communication methods are correct
- Make sure escalation processes are followed
- Supplier/ contractor liaison for issues and version updates
- Attend team meetings
- Follow lead logging for any customer / prospect leads generated
- Call escalation within escalation procedures
- Perform remote installations and migrations when required
- Data population and maintenance
Career Progression / Related Careers
- IT manager
- system administrator
- support analyst
- support technician
- support engineer
In Job Training
There are many training courses within the industry to help you build your career. such as:
- Digital transformation of the Builders Merchant Sector
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" I wasn't the brightest spark at school by no means. Didn't achieve what I could have if I had put the effort in to my GCSE's etc. I applied for a MKM apprenticeship and thought 'let's see what happens'. Nine years later I'm still here! It's way over and above what I expected it to be and a lot more glamourous than what people give it credit for. - Glenn Paddison"
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- There are many jobs available at different levels within this type of career. It all depends on what qualifications you have. If you do well academically it may suit you to go to university, then get a graduate-level job. But you can be just a successful by completing you GCSE'S or A levels and get a job with an employer that will train you up by putting you through an apprenticeship.
- Apprenticeships are a great way to start work in your chosen career and study towards your qualification. This type of qualification starts at an intermediate level (equivalent to five GCSES) and can go to higher level (equivalent to a degree).
- This career type can be very rewarding but also challenging. This career is constantly evolving with the introduction of new technologies, so there is always something new to learn.
- You need to be able to work as part of a team. You must be able to analyse and have a logical way of thinking to solve problems. But most of all you need to have attention to detail.


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Candidate: Queen Square
Location: Bristol, UK
Category: The Great Place Award
1. Although the transformation of Queen Square has resulted in a magnificent public space, there is much opportunity to further develop the underutilized spaces surrounding the square
2. The redevelopment of Queen Square over the past two decades reflects the changing economic and social conditions of city living that has seen pedestrian movement re-established to create a successful public space with the capacity to adapt to different needs and expectations of the local community
3. Due to the occupation of the aesthetically pleasing Georgian style townhouses by commercial enterprises, the square is conducive to hosting events and festivals without disrupting residential tenants, making it a vibrant public space
4. Queen Square has a distinctive sense of place, and the city council is emphasizing the importance of high quality management and maintenance of the square, seeking to respect both the people and the ecology
5. The prioritization of pedestrian traffic in the square has resulted in a more sustainable environment that has contributed to the stable and efficient use and occupation of the buildings – as well as the constant daily use of the square, which has further contributed to the social, cultural and economic compatibility between the different users and their needs.
Queen Square (named after Queen Anne) is an impressive Georgian square, claimed to be one of the largest of its type in Europe and the first residential square to be developed in England outside London. The square was built between 1699 and 1720 on the old town marsh as houses for the city's merchants, providing a direct relationship between the merchants' houses and their business on the surrounding quaysides and the Square has reflected the growth and changes of the city ever since. It occupies 2.4 hectares with lawns and wide gravel paths, a statue of King William III (grade-I listed) at the centre and a perimeter of mature plane trees. It is now home to around 70 businesses and in addition to its constant daily use an estimated 40,000 people attended organised formal events in the Square last year.
The space is a splendid example of a historic square restored to its former glory, the trees (magnificent) and the architecture (glorious) combine to provide a welcoming atmosphere aided by the now much reduced traffic flow. Great care has been taken with materials and detailing to ensure that the restoration scheme is historically appropriate and built to the highest quality. The economic success of the scheme is reflected in the current 100% occupation of all the buildings at rentals 16% above average, compared with an average 33% vacancy level in the 1990's.
The space has benefited in the recent past from Bristol City Council's very clear and singular vision, published in 1990, that resulted in the removal of the inner ring road from the square. The road was driven right through the square in 1936 and finally closed in 1992. The removal of the dual carriageway was the most crucial part of the regeneration scheme which was fiercely opposed by many in the city. It took 20 years from the publication of the original concept to completion. The associated regeneration of the space included not only the restoration of the historic landscape of the main square but also the creation of entirely new urban spaces where there had previously been just roads in Thunderbolt Square and Bell Lane. It also helped to build a case for the Brunel Mile and the key pedestrian link of Pero's Bridge which is central to the Harbourside's success.
The current vision for Queen Square is centred on the management and maintenance of the public space, overlooked by the commercial residents (occasionally used for public events). The City council has a committed revenue fund to maintain the space and manage the events. The 'residents' are represented by the Queen Square Association which provides a conduit for the Council and event planners to communicate and consult with the local community. This vision is focussed on the 'inside' of the square without looking beyond the perimeter. There is an opportunity to use the space as a catalyst to regenerate adjacent neglected spaces and streets, particularly on and around Welsh Back and The Grove. Perhaps two new pedestrian bridges across the water to the east and south would provide the movement and permeability that is currently lacking on these two streets? There is a plan for improving pedestrian links with St Mary Redcliffe and Temple Meads Station by way of the provision of green pedestrian corridors alongside existing vehicular routes.
Queen Square is not only providing a significant and sustainable economic benefit by providing high quality commercial accommodation but is also providing for a large number of events that enriches the cultural diversity of the city. The Bristol City Design Group consider it would be useful to carry out research into the economic impact of the Queen Square regeneration and its contribution to cultural life of the city.


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Mocking
Introduction
When testing Laravel applications, you may wish to "mock" certain aspects of your application so they are not actually executed during a given test. For example, when testing a controller that dispatches an event, you may wish to mock the event listeners so they are not actually executed during the test. This allows you to only test the controller's HTTP response without worrying about the execution of the event listeners since the event listeners can be tested in their own test case.
Laravel provides helpful methods for mocking events, jobs, and other facades out of the box. These helpers primarily provide a convenience layer over Mockery so you do not have to manually make complicated Mockery method calls.
Mocking Objects
When mocking an object that is going to be injected into your application via Laravel's service container, you will need to bind your mocked instance into the container as an instance binding. This will instruct the container to use your mocked instance of the object instead of constructing the object itself:
use App\Service;
use Mockery;
use Mockery\MockInterface;
public function test_something_can_be_mocked()
{
 $this->instance(
 Service::class,
 Mockery::mock(Service::class, function (MockInterface $mock) {
 $mock->shouldReceive('process')->once();
 })
 );
}
In order to make this more convenient, you may use the mock method that is provided by Laravel's base test case class. For example, the following example is equivalent to the example above:
use App\Service;
use Mockery\MockInterface;
$mock = $this->mock(Service::class, function (MockInterface $mock) {
 $mock->shouldReceive('process')->once();
});
You may use the partialMock method when you only need to mock a few methods of an object. The methods that are not mocked will be executed normally when called:
use App\Service;
use Mockery\MockInterface;
$mock = $this->partialMock(Service::class, function (MockInterface $mock) {
 $mock->shouldReceive('process')->once();
});
Similarly, if you want to spy on an object, Laravel's base test case class offers a spy method as a convenient wrapper around the Mockery::spy method. Spies are similar to mocks; however, spies record any interaction between the spy and the code being tested, allowing you to make assertions after the code is executed:
use App\Service;
$spy = $this->spy(Service::class);
// ...
$spy->shouldHaveReceived('process');
Mocking Facades
Unlike traditional static method calls, facades (including real-time facades) may be mocked. This provides a great advantage over traditional static methods and grants you the same testability that you would have if you were using traditional dependency injection. When testing, you may often want to mock a call to a Laravel facade that occurs in one of your controllers. For example, consider the following controller action:
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Cache;
class UserController extends Controller
{
 /**
 * Retrieve a list of all users of the application.
 *
 * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
 */
 public function index()
 {
 $value = Cache::get('key');
 //
 }
}
We can mock the call to the Cache facade by using the shouldReceive method, which will return an instance of a Mockery mock. Since facades are actually resolved and managed by the Laravel service container, they have much more testability than a typical static class. For example, let's mock our call to the Cache facade's get method:
<?php
namespace Tests\Feature;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\RefreshDatabase;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\WithoutMiddleware;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Cache;
use Tests\TestCase;
class UserControllerTest extends TestCase
{
 public function testGetIndex()
 {
 Cache::shouldReceive('get')
 ->once()
 ->with('key')
 ->andReturn('value');
 $response = $this->get('/users');
 // ...
 }
}
{note} You should not mock the Request facade. Instead, pass the input you desire into the HTTP testing methods such as get and post when running your test. Likewise, instead of mocking the Config facade, call the Config::set method in your tests.
Facade Spies
If you would like to spy on a facade, you may call the spy method on the corresponding facade. Spies are similar to mocks; however, spies record any interaction between the spy and the code being tested, allowing you to make assertions after the code is executed:
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Cache;
public function test_values_are_be_stored_in_cache()
{
 Cache::spy();
 $response = $this->get('/');
 $response->assertStatus(200);
 Cache::shouldHaveReceived('put')->once()->with('name', 'Taylor', 10);
}
Bus Fake
When testing code that dispatches jobs, you typically want to assert that a given job was dispatched but not actually queue or execute the job. This is because the job's execution can normally be tested in a separate test class.
You may use the Bus facade's fake method to prevent jobs from being dispatched to the queue. Then, after executing the code under test, you may inspect which jobs the application attempted to dispatch using the assertDispatched and assertNotDispatched methods:
<?php
namespace Tests\Feature;
use App\Jobs\ShipOrder;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\RefreshDatabase;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\WithoutMiddleware;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Bus;
use Tests\TestCase;
class ExampleTest extends TestCase
{
 public function test_orders_can_be_shipped()
 {
 Bus::fake();
 // Perform order shipping...
 // Assert that a job was dispatched...
 Bus::assertDispatched(ShipOrder::class);
 // Assert a job was not dispatched...
 Bus::assertNotDispatched(AnotherJob::class);
 // Assert no jobs were dispatched...
 Bus::assertNothingDispatched();
 }
}
You may pass a closure to the assertDispatched or assertNotDispatched methods in order to assert that a job was dispatched that passes a given "truth test". If at least one job was dispatched that passes the given truth test then the assertion will be successful. For example, you may wish to assert that a job was dispatched for a specific order:
Bus::assertDispatched(function (ShipOrder $job) use ($order) {
 return $job->order->id === $order->id;
});
Job Chains
The Bus facade's assertChained method may be used to assert that a chain of jobs was dispatched. The assertChained method accepts an array of chained jobs as its first argument:
use App\Jobs\RecordShipment;
use App\Jobs\ShipOrder;
use App\Jobs\UpdateInventory;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Bus;
Bus::assertChained([
 ShipOrder::class,
 RecordShipment::class,
 UpdateInventory::class
]);
As you can see in the example above, the array of chained jobs may be an array of the job's class names. However, you may also provide an array of actual job instances. When doing so, Laravel will ensure that the job instances are of the same class and have the same property values of the chained jobs dispatched by your application:
Bus::assertChained([
 new ShipOrder,
 new RecordShipment,
 new UpdateInventory,
]);
Job Batches
The Bus facade's assertBatched method may be used to assert that a batch of jobs was dispatched. The closure given to the assertBatched method receives an instance of Illuminate\Bus\PendingBatch, which may be used to inspect the jobs within the batch:
use Illuminate\Bus\PendingBatch;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Bus;
Bus::assertBatched(function (PendingBatch $batch) {
 return $batch->name == 'import-csv' &&
 $batch->jobs->count() === 10;
});
Event Fake
When testing code that dispatches events, you may wish to instruct Laravel to not actually execute the event's listeners. Using the Event facade's fake method, you may prevent listeners from executing, execute the code under test, and then assert which events were dispatched by your application using the assertDispatched, assertNotDispatched, and assertNothingDispatched methods:
<?php
namespace


What are the requirements to get a government job?
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The requirements to get a government job include citizenship, security clearance and registration with the Selective Service System for male applicants. In addition, requirements unique to the job being applied for, including education, experience and job-related qualifications, must be met.
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Most federal jobs require the applicant to be a citizen and a few also need security clearance. However, unless the applicant is offered a job position that demands security clearance, the government will not ask for or bear the expense of a background check.
Additionally, male applicants who are above 18 years of age and were born after December 31, 1959 should be enrolled in the Selective Service System to be eligible for applying for a government job. Alternatively, they should be exempted from this requirement.
Government jobs also require the applicant to have a high school diploma, college or university degree and work experience that is relevant to the job being applied for.
Further, candidates with special job-related qualifications such as training courses and skills such as computer knowledge, language and machinery use are preferred over others if the job demands these. Preference is also given to job applicants who have earned some awards and honors such as publications and performance awards pertaining to the job. Some jobs also require the applicant to possess certain licenses and certificates.
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Chandler Road Bridge Erosion
Significant bank erosion has occurred upstream from the Chandler Road bridge on Spanish Creek and is in need of erosion protection by means of rip rap to reduce the turbidity of the stream from erosion.
Plumas County Department of Public Works ? Engineering
Robert A. Perreault ; Jr.; Director of Public works
Benefit of reduced erosion and turbidity in the creek and tributaries.
DWR Resource Management Strategies
Flood management, Sediment management
Protect, restore, and enhance the quality of surface and groundwater resources, Restore natural hydrologic functions
To the owner of Chandler Road Bridge Erosion
- MS-15 1 file Added 26 Aug 2016 Chandler Road bridge erosion