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Franca Limentani Identified
December 11, 2012
Franca Limentani's picture was taken on July 15, 1946, so it could be sent to the family in the United States that was helping her and her family right after the end of World War II. In May 1946, Mrs. Mina Tropp contacted the American Jewish Congress and chose to help four children: two young girls in Rome, Franca Limentani and Bruna Tagliacozzo, as well as Peter Cohen in Romania and Leon Pulka from Cherbourg.
Franca remembers that Mina's husband was called Ralph, that Mina was of Polish origin, and that they lived in New York City, where they ran a restaurant inside the hotel Oliver Cromwell. Franca still has the letters she and the Tropps exchanged between 1947 and 1956. Mina had a house in South Carolina, spoke Yiddish, and had two sisters, Esther and Dora, and one brother, Ralph. Franca also remembers that the Tropps had a young granddaughter.
The Tropps helped Franca's family by sending parcels with food, medicine (including insulin for Franca's mother, Virginia, who was diabetic), and sometimes money. Franca sent this photo in her first letter to Mrs. Tropp, whom she never met. It was mostly Virginia, who died in 1962, who kept up the correspondence with the Tropps. Franca still gets emotional reading the telegram the Tropps sent her on her wedding day.
When Franca looks at the photo taken in 1946, she recalls her childhood innocence and her adolescence. She also can't help thinking of her sister, who died at age 20. Franca thinks of herself as lucky: She had a mother and a sister who took care of her and she survived.
Franca was born in Rome on May 14, 1932. During the Holocaust, her family went into hiding along with another family, the Tagliacozzos, in a neighbor's apartment on Via dei Giubbonari. She remembers the neighbor was named Luigi Leggeri and he had four children: Antonietta, Nicoletta, Sigismondo, and Maurizio. He worked for the Vatican restoring paintings. The two families hid in the attic that Mr. Leggeri used as his workshop.
Franca's father, Davide Limentani, was captured on March 24, 1944, and later died in the Ardeatine Caves. On May 8, 1944, Franca's two brothers, Settimio and Angelo, were captured along with the young Angelo Tagliacozzo. They think that Angelo Tagliacozzo was probably followed while going to visit his fiancé. But it is also possible that the fascist police were just looking for some partisans. Franca is not sure. When the fascist police arrived at the apartment, Franca's brothers and Angelo Tagliacozzo escaped to the roofs. But when the policemen threatened to arrest all the women and children in the house, the three young men surrendered. Franca remembers that, as tragic as her brothers' capture was, the police kept their word and did not take the women and children away. Her brothers were taken first to the prison on via Tasso and then to the Fossoli camp for a period of time. When they were there, Franca remembers they would communicate through notes they would sew inside their shirts' collars and cuffs when they sent their laundry home to be washed. Most of those notes begged the family to leave the attic on Via dei Giubbonari as it was not safe anymore, so Franca and her mother and sister left.
The women lived for a while in a convent, but the nuns wanted Franca's mother to leave, so they all left. Then, they found refuge in different apartments, always in Rome. That period was a bit less hard, but they were very worried about Franca's father and brothers, from whom they had no news at that point. Franca learned later that her father had been killed. Settimio and Angelo were both sent to Auschwitz; Settimio was able to survive because he was sick when the Germans evacuated the camp so they left him in its infirmary. He was liberated by the Russians and, after a long and difficult journey, was able to reach Rome in September 1945. Franca tells us that her brother is mentioned in Primo Levi's work, La tregua (The Truce), which narrates the Italian author's return home after the liberation of Auschwitz.
Franca's brother Angelo never returned, and her family does not know for sure what happened; they believe he probably died during one of the death marches from Auschwitz. Angelo Tagliacozzo, the other young man captured with Franca's brothers, died in Dachau, on February 20, 1945.
Franca Limentani married at age 19 and had three children. She has spent her life taking care of her family. Her husband, Marco, had a small business that sold auto parts and died in 1993. They were happily married for 42 years and always lived in Rome.


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Best Time To Visit Yzerfontein
Yzerfontein is characterized by a warm-summer Mediterranean climate with warm summers and very mild winters. Light rainfalls are expected throughout the year, though in the winters, the amount received is higher.
- Winter: There is a decline of a few degrees Celsius from end of May to mid-September. Temperatures hover around 12 – 13 degree Celsius and precipitation levels are very high.
- Summer: October to mid-May is summer season. The weather is usually hot and dry with the scale ranging around 20 degree Celsius. Precipitation levels are quite less during this period.
The best time to visit Yzerfontein depends on your interests. If you are planning a visit to the West Coast National Park with your friends and family, then plan a visit in the months of October to April. Though the weather is hot, rainfall expectancy is low and thus is ideal for outdoor visits.
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Maximum rain recorded in Yzerfontein is 631.91 mm in July.
Months with no rains or lowest rains in Yzerfontein is November.
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Most humid month in Yzerfontein is July.
Least humid month in Yzerfontein is January.

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Electricity market report July 2022 update
In the first half of 2022, many electricity markets continued to experience skyrocketing prices, particularly in Europe, reflecting deep uncertainties over both fossil fuel supplies and the economic outlook. Russia's invasion of Ukraine shattered any hope of energy prices declining in the near term following the strong increases seen in the second half of 2021. In Europe, the situation prompted heightened ambitions and strengthened policies to advance clean energy transitions and reduce dependency on fuel imports. But in the short term, it also resulted in a partial return to coal-fired electricity generation. Sluggish economic growth is expected to dampen global electricity demand growth in 2022 and 2023 to less than half the rate seen in 2021. Despite gas-to-coal switching and low nuclear power plant availability in Europe, global electricity sector emissions may decline slightly in 2022 and 2023 – reflecting a combination of slowing power demand and displacement of fossil fuels by renewables. This July 2022 update of the IEA Electricity Market Report presents the latest forecasts for global electricity demand, supply and emissions through 2023. In light of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, also provide a special focus on the situation in Europe, discussing recent developments and future plans.

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Negotiating Natural Resource Agreements
Petersen Consulting has worked for both industry and First Nations to negotiate and create successful and sustainable working relationships. These negotiations are typically on mining, forestry and hydroelectric projects.
We have negotiated dozens of Impact Benefit Agreements, Exploration Accommodation Agreements and Long Term Forestry Agreements, collectively called Industry Agreements.
Our team does not just negotiate Industry Agreements. We assist in the formulation and implementation to ensure that all parties to the agreement obtain mutual benefit.
There is no cookie cutter approach to negotiating and authoring Industry Agreements. Each Industry Agreement will be as unique as the profile, priorities and objectives of each First Nation and resource company involved.
By having experience working for both First Nations and industry, we can successfully negotiate the differences.
As part of the journey of negotiating and implementing Industry Agreements, we can provide the following services:
- Workshops to explain the potential content of Industry Agreements and what issues are important. We will also provide real examples of various business contracting models that have been used in Industry Agreements such as competitive set aside, open book negotiations and competitive contracts.
- Revenue sharing options
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work the room
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 1. (idiomatic, of a host, hostess, or guest) To interact enthusiastically with the attendees at an event, by moving among them, greeting them, and engaging them in conversation.
 As a campaigning politician, he really knew how to shake hands, kiss babies, and work the room.
 2. (idiomatic, of a performer or public speaker) To interact with one's audience, taking cues from its reactions and adapting one's performance or words to elicit the audience's attention and enthusiasm.
 - 1989, Alvin Klein, "Theatre: 'Jerry's Girls,' Revue, in East Windsor," New York Times, 26 Feb. (retrieved 3 July 2008):
 In show business parlance, Miss Hudson knows how to "work the room." Her comic turns are as rooted in vaudeville as her high-style wit is straight out of the smart supper club circuit.


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 || (GET_MODE_SIZE (MODE) == 4 * UNITS_PER_WORD \
 && ((REGNO) & 3) == 3 && (REGNO) <= 23)))
/* How to renumber registers for dbx and gdb.
 Registers 0 - 31 remain unchanged.
 Registers 32 - 59 are mapped to 72, 74, 76 ...
 Register 60 is mapped to 32. */
#define DBX_REGISTER_NUMBER(REGNO) \
 ((REGNO) <= 31 ? (REGNO) : ((REGNO) < 60 ? (REGNO - 32) * 2 + 72 : 32))
/* We must not use the DBX register numbers for the DWARF 2 CFA column
 numbers because that maps to numbers beyond FIRST_PSEUDO_REGISTER.
 Instead use the identity mapping. */
#define DWARF_FRAME_REGNUM(REG) REG
/* Define the classes of registers for register constraints in the
 machine description. Also define ranges of constants.
 One of the classes must always be named ALL_REGS and include all hard regs.
 If there is more than one class, another class must be named NO_REGS
 and contain no registers.
 The name GENERAL_REGS must be the name of a class (or an alias for
 another name such as ALL_REGS). This is the class of registers
 that is allowed by "g" or "r" in a register constraint.
 Also, registers outside this class are allocated only when
 instructions express preferences for them.
 The classes must be numbered in nondecreasing order; that is,
 a larger-numbered class must never be contained completely
 in a smaller-numbered class.
 For any two classes, it is very desirable that there be another
 class that represents their union. */
 /* The HP-PA has four kinds of registers: general regs, 1.0 fp regs,
 1.1 fp regs, and the high 1.1 fp regs, to which the operands of
 fmpyadd and fmpysub are restricted. */
enum reg_class { NO_REGS, R1_REGS, GENERAL_REGS, FPUPPER_REGS, FP_REGS,
 GENERAL_OR_FP_REGS, SHIFT_REGS, ALL_REGS, LIM_REG_CLASSES};
#define N_REG_CLASSES (int) LIM_REG_CLASSES
/* Give names of register classes as strings for dump file. */
#define REG_CLASS_NAMES \
 {"NO_REGS", "R1_REGS", "GENERAL_REGS", "FPUPPER_REGS", "FP_REGS", \
 "GENERAL_OR_FP_REGS", "SHIFT_REGS", "ALL_REGS"}
/* Define which registers fit in which classes.
 This is an initializer for a vector of HARD_REG_SET
 of length N_REG_CLASSES. Register 0, the "condition code" register,
 is in no class. */
#define REG_CLASS_CONTENTS \
 {{0x00000000, 0x00000000}, /* NO_REGS */ \
 {0x00000002, 0x00000000}, /* R1_REGS */ \
 {0xfffffffe, 0x00000000}, /* GENERAL_REGS */ \
 {0x00000000, 0x00000000}, /* FPUPPER_REGS */ \
 {0x00000000, 0x0fffffff}, /* FP_REGS */ \
 {0xfffffffe, 0x0fffffff}, /* GENERAL_OR_FP_REGS */ \
 {0x00000000, 0x10000000}, /* SHIFT_REGS */ \
 {0xfffffffe, 0x1fffffff}} /* ALL_REGS */
/* The following macro defines cover classes for Integrated Register
 Allocator. Cover classes is a set of non-intersected register
 classes covering all hard registers used for register allocation
 purpose. Any move between two registers of a cover class should be
 cheaper than load or store of the registers. The macro value is
 array of register classes with LIM_REG_CLASSES used as the end
 marker. */
#define IRA_COVER_CLASSES \
{ \
 GENERAL_REGS, FP_REGS, SHIFT_REGS, LIM_REG_CLASSES \
}
/* Defines invalid mode changes. */
#define CANNOT_CHANGE_MODE_CLASS(FROM, TO, CLASS) \
 pa_cannot_change_mode_class (FROM, TO, CLASS)
/* Return the class number of the smallest class containing
 reg number REGNO. This could be a conditional expression
 or could index an array. */
#define REGNO_REG_CLASS(REGNO) \
 ((REGNO) == 0 ? NO_REGS \
 : (REGNO) == 1 ? R1_REGS \
 : (REGNO) < 32 ? GENERAL_REGS \
 : (REGNO) < 60 ? FP_REGS \
 : SHIFT_REGS)
/* Return the maximum number of consecutive registers
 needed to represent mode MODE in a register of class CLASS. */
#define CLASS_MAX_NREGS(CLASS, MODE) \
 ((GET_MODE_SIZE (MODE) + UNITS_PER_WORD - 1) / UNITS_PER_WORD)
/* 1 if N is a possible register number for function argument passing. */
#define FUNCTION_ARG_REGNO_P(N) \
 ((((N) >= 19) && (N) <= 26) \
 || (! TARGET_SOFT_FLOAT && (N) >= 32 && (N) <= 39))
/* How to refer to registers in assembler output.
 This sequence is indexed by compiler's hard-register-number (see above). */
#define REGISTER_NAMES \
{"%r0", "%r1", "%r2", "%r3", "%r4", "%r5", "%r6", "%r7", \
 "%r8", "%r9", "%r10", "%r11", "%r12", "%r13", "%r14", "%r15", \
 "%r16", "%r17", "%r18", "%r19", "%r20", "%r21", "%r22", "%r23", \
 "%r24", "%r25", "%r26", "%r27", "%r28", "%r29", "%r30", "%r31", \
 "%fr4", "%fr5", "%fr6", "%fr7", "%fr8", "%fr9", "%fr10", "%fr11", \
 "%fr12", "%fr13", "%fr14", "%fr15", "%fr16", "%fr17", "%fr18", "%fr19", \
 "%fr20", "%fr21", "%fr22", "%fr23", "%fr24", "%fr25", "%fr26", "%fr27", \
 "%fr28", "%fr29", "%fr30", "%fr31", "SAR"}
#define ADDITIONAL_REGISTER_NAMES \
 {{"%cr11",60}}
#define FP_SAVED_REG_LAST 49
#define FP_SAVED_REG_FIRST 40
#define FP_REG_STEP 1
#define FP_REG_FIRST 32
#define FP_REG_LAST 59


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Discan is both a scale and a method in clinical psychology. As a scale, it is a type of ordered-metric scaling that yields a scale with internal reliability, and scale-points in excess of the number of initial anchors, more than would be the case with the Likert scale, though not as many as are achieved by the Analog scale.
For example, four descriptive anchor-levels yield 14 scale-points. In Louis Thurstone's tradition, it is scored by paired-comparisons. Seeking optimality, it is a compromise between the competing merits and demerits of the Likert scale and the Analog scale. Its use in clinical psychology derives from the influence of the late M.B. Shapiro.
For more detail, see Nomothetic and Idiographic
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November 30th – December 1st, 2006
University of Alberta, Edmonton
The Space Exploration Advisory Committee of the Canadian Space Agency held its semi-annual meeting November 30-December 1, 2006 at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. The committee gave feedback on current CSA planetary exploration program elements and new CSA initiatives that impact the CSA planetary exploration program.
The committee visited the storage facilities for the recently acquired pristine Tagish Lake meteorites. Publicity and media inquiries resulting from a Science magazine paper written by NASA researchers on primitive, pre-solar organic compounds found in Tagish Lake, were coincident with the SEAC meeting.
Actions and Recommendations
ACTION (SEAC): To co-ordinate a SEAC study on the need for a Canadian lunar and planetary institute using LPI and analogous models and report back at SEAC XV.
ACTION (SEAC): To send the Chair names and contact information for proposed new members by January 1st 2007
Recommendation 1: SEAC recommends six Discipline Working Group contracts be awarded in order to represent the diversity of the community
Recommendation 2: SEAC recommends providing access to international analogue sites for Canadians.
Recommendation 3: SEAC recommends that the Canadian Analogue Research Network (CARN) welcome international participation in Canadian analogue sites
Recommendation 4: SEAC recommends that Canadian Space Exploration Workshop activities be placed in the context of the CSA Space Science and Exploration Thrust
Recommendation 5: The SEAC meeting agenda should include periodic open and closed sessions.
Recommendation 6: SEAC should hold regular additional teleconferences to which CSA could submit agenda items.


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Introduction to the Mathematics of Seismic Imaging
Organized by Gunther Uhlmann (University of Washington)_URL_
07/29/13 - 08/09/13
The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, CA
In this two week program we will develop some of the mathematical foundations of seismic imaging that is a basic tool used in "Imaging the Earth Interior". This is one of the components of the Mathematics of Planet Earth year in 2013.
The goal in seismic imaging is to determine the inner structure of the Earth from the crust to the inner core by using information provided by earthquakes in the case of the deep interior or by measuring the reflection of waves produced by acoustic or elastic sources on the surface of the Earth. The mathematics of seismic imaging involves solving inverse problems for the wave equation. No previous experience on inverse problems will be assumed.


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Manual Handling for Health Care Workers
Manual handling, also known as manual tasks, is any activity requiring effort to lift, move, push, pull, carry or hold any object, including a person.
Poor manual handling practice is one of the most common causes of injury in the health care industry. These injuries are frequently severe and cannot always be completely treated, leading to chronic problems.
AVELING's Manual Handling for Health Care Workers course will teach you how to safely identify, plan and perform manual handling tasks to assist in maintaining an injury-free workplace.
- Retail and/or warehousing industry workers should take AVELING's Manual Handling for Retail and Warehouse online course.
- Office environment workers should take AVELING's Manual Handling and Ergonomics for the Office online course.
- Mining and/or construction industry workers should take AVELING's Manual Handling for Mining and Construction online course.
- Hospitality industry workers should take AVELING's Manual Handling for Hospitality Workers online course.
Any nurse, orderly, carer or health care professional who may need to lift, move, push, pull, carry or hold clients or objects in their workplace, home or vehicle.
Key benefits of AVELING's online Manual Handling course:
- Logon anywhere, anytime
This training course is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You can take the course anywhere on a laptop or standard PC with an Internet connection.
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We keep track of your progress throughout the course. This enables you to take the course over several days or weeks if needed.
- What is manual handling?
- The risks and consequences of manual handling
- Legal requirements and responsibilities
- Assessing manual handling tasks and minimising risk
- The dangers of patient handling and traditional lifting and moving techniques
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A Certificate of Participation will be emailed at the end of the course.
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|Let's Celebrate Pet Birds!|
T.J. Lafeber D.V.M.
Emotion-The Key to Birds Being Companion Animals
How much friendship, companionship or affection can be expected from pet birds?
What we're really interested in is determining birds' emotional capacity.
Birds demonstrate happiness, fear, aggression, jealousy, appeasement, defensiveness, nervousness and loneliness.
Most importantly birds can love people. Radiating from this affection comes the desire to perform, entertain and relate to their owners. Thus they sing, talk, mimic, dance, play, do tricks and display.
The next time you approach a frightened, nervous, hostile bird-possibly angry-remember that the pendulum of emotions swings in both directions. They have feelings just as strong in the opposite direction. A bird that shows anger can have just as an intense love. Unpleasant characteristics can be surpassed by pleasant ones.
All of these emotions can be observed in birds:


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In this paper, we propose a normalized least mean squares algorithm with variable step size with low computational cost, and only three parameters that are simple to choose.
New paper: An Adaptive Algorithm for Sampling over Diffusion Networks with Dynamic Parameter Tuning and Change Detection Mechanisms
Recently, we proposed a sampling algorithm for diffusion networks that locally adapts the number of nodes sampled according to the estimation error. In this paper, we extend the results, proposing some improvements to the algorithm.
Papers published in SBrT 2021
Simpósio Brasileiro de Telecomunicações (SBrT) is the most important brazilian symposium on telecommunications and signal processing. In the 2021 edition, that happened from September 26th to 29th, we had 4 papers published:
New paper: A Sampling Algorithm for Diffusion Networks
Conference paper presented on the 28th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) in which we propose an adaptive sampling method for the diffusion networks.
New paper: A Low-Cost Algorithm for Adaptive Sampling and Censoring in Diffusion Networks
This paper summarizes the results obtained by Daniel G. Tiglea during the period he was working to obtain the M.S. Degree.
New paper: An Adaptive Sampling Technique for Graph Diffusion LMS Algorithm
Conference paper presented on the 27th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) in which we propose an adaptive sampling method for the diffusion algorithm for adaptively learning from streaming graphs signals.


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Why did some of my employees disappear from the NCEdCloud IAM Service?
If you have staff members in your LEA or charter school who were using accounts in the IAM Service but they no longer show up, the first place to check is typically the payroll system that your LEA or charter school uses. This occasionally happens with 10 and 11 month employees when their work/job Start Dates are not present or not in the upcoming school year in the payroll system.
Why is an employee's email wrong or missing in the NCEdCloud IAM Service?
Employee email address originally came from the HRMS system when NCEdCloud was first set up. However, many PSUs complained that those records were only updated if an employee changed jobs, and frequently had an old email listed. This process was changed a few years ago to obtain employee email address in a specific order by searching 2 or 3 source systems to find staff email address. The process now starts with PowerSchool, then checks LINQ HR (if used by the LEA), and lastly HRMS.
Who can see the "My Students" tab in the IAM Service Profiles view?
The ability to see the "My Students" tab in the Rapid Identity Portal under Profiles view, is based on whether the employee who logs into the IAM Service has one of the designated "Teacher Job Codes". Job Codes are setup by the NCDPI and are assigned to an employee through their payroll system and stored in the UID system. Below are the job codes (sometimes referred to as object codes), that allow an employee to see the My Students tab.
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Home Base Maintenance Periods typically involve downtime of PowerSchool and sometimes other Home Base applications. However, during such downtime, other IAM Service integrated applications remain available.
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Upstream data processes produce the user data that is provided to the NCEdCloud IAM service early in the morning on Monday through Saturday. If an updated data field value is entered into that field's source system prior to that source system's cutoff time, then the data is provided to the IAM service the following day. (Note that data is typically NOT provided to the IAM service on Sunday mornings).
What settings in the Chrome browser can affect logins?
There are a couple of Chrome settings that may improve your experience in using the NCEdCloud IAM Service:
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How are elevated privilege roles requested?
The Tech Director/CTO for an LEA or Charter School should be the first person to claim their account and request the LEA Administrator Role. To request a privileged role for others, choose the 'Workflow' button on the left menu and then choose the 'Requests' tab along the top. Select the desired role checkbox(es) (LEA Administrator, LEA Data Auditor, LEA Help Desk, LEA Student Help Desk, School Help Desk, and School Student Help Desk) and click the Submit Requests button.
How do I see a list of employees or students in my LEA?
The My Employees tab or the My Students tab under Profiles in the IAM Service relies on a "Search" function. You need to enter some criteria to select the users you want to lookup. The easiest search is to enter an asterisk * wildcard in the search window and click the Search button. This will only return the first 1000 matching records, however, which is the limit of the query.


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Stockstadt developed as a medieval town north of the Roman
settlement. "Stocestat" is documented as early as the 9th century.
The custom house was built from _PHONE_, a reminder of the
strategically important harbour location. From 2007-2008 the St.
Anna Chapel - which was built in 1458 and torn down in 1925 - was
The paper factory (1900) plays a large role in the community and is a big employer. Today it belongs to the South African Sappi Group.
The market town has a silver helmet in its coat of arms, a reminder of the community's Roman history
Region: Obergermanischer Limes
In terms of area, antique Stockstadt was one of the largest Roman settlements at the Main. The fort's grounds are now completely covered by the paper company Sappi Stockstadt GmbH. The vicus stretched to the Main shore, where a harbour was located. The numerous antique shrines in the vicus are an indication of the importance Stockstadt had at the Main Limes. It's location allowed Stockstadt to function as a major reloading station for goods.
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I found in the literature many references on the representability of quotients of group schemes but almost nothing about subgroups. For this reason I hope that my question is a silly one and that what I am asking is well known to experts. Let $G$ be a group algebraic space over a base which is the spectrum of a discrete valuation ring. Let $H\subset G$ be a subgroup functor of $G$ which is also an etale sheaf. Under which conditions is it known that $H$ is a group algebraic space? We can assume that $G$ has a trivial obstruction and deformation theory if it could help. We can also assume that $H$ is the kernel of an homomorphism of group sheaves $G\rightarrow K$ but $K$ is not necessarily represented by an algebraic space.
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The aroma profile of culinary ingredients is the starting point of Foodpairing® and the scientific research. As a first step, Foodpairing® determines the aroma profile of a specific ingredient — like
a simple strawberry — through gas chromatography coupled mass spectrometry (GC-MS).
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Australian consumers showing high interest in Asian vegetables, new trend
Almost one third of Australian consumers have shown "significant interest" in buying more Asian vegetables, according to a new study from the Australian vegetable industry.
The study, which surveyed 741 Australian consumers, is part of ongoing research by representative body for Australian vegetable and potato growers, AusVeg. The research is funded through Horticulture Australia Limited, using the National Vegetable Levy, and matched funds from the Australian Government.
"This new data supports trends over the last eight years showing that both the value and the gross production of Asian vegetables in Australia are continuing to rise," said Andrew White, Manager of Industry Development and Communications at AUSVEG.
"Asian vegetables used to be considered a market niche catering for Australians of Asian descent in particular, but now about 25 per cent of consumers in general are incorporating Asian vegetables into more traditional Australian cuisine styles as well," Mr White said.
According to AusVeg, monthly trends in 2013 showed that consumption of Asian vegetables was up by around 20 per cent since July 2013, and that shoppers were very likely to recommend them to friends and family.
"Asian veggies are seen to be good value for money, quick to cook and prepare, while also tasting great, which ticks all the boxes for consumers," Mr White said.
Buk choy best known Asian vegetable
Buk Choy had the highest spontaneous awareness among consumers, followed closely by Choy Sum, according to AusVeg.
However, the research also showed a large portion of consumers could not name any varieties, indicating that there was "still potential for boosting sales by increasing awareness of Asian vegetables overall".
"Communicating the health benefits of Asian vegetables is particularly important as 90 per cent of Australian adults still don't eat the recommended daily serves of vegetables," Mr White said.
Preference for individual purchases
The study showed that Asian vegetables have a monthly consumption rate of about 89 serves per month, with most consumers preferring to purchase them individually rather than in packs.
"The popularity of Asian vegetables is on the rise, and the future purchasing intent data suggests consumers are likely to continue enjoying the convenience, health benefits and great taste of vegetables in this category," Mr White said.
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Qt Quick Extras Overview
Qt Quick Extras provide a set of UI controls to create user interfaces in Qt Quick.
Getting Started
If you are building Qt Quick Extras from source, you can follow the steps used for most Qt modules:
make install
Using the Controls
import QtQuick.Extras 1.4
Interactive controls
A checkable button that triggers an action when held in long enough
A circular dial that is rotated to set a value
A popup menu that displays several menu items along an arc
A push button that toggles between two states
A control that can have several spinnable wheels, each with items that can be selected
Non-interactive controls
A gauge that displays a value within a range along an arc
A straight gauge that displays a value within a range
An indicator that displays a colorized QPicture icon
An indicator that displays active or inactive states
Creating a basic example
import QtQuick 2.2
import QtQuick.Extras 1.4
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: Help, please. I have a word problem concerning insect larvae survival. Soon after they hatch, they must search for food. The survival rate depends on many things and environmental temperature is one of them. For a certain speces of insect, a model of the number of larvae N(T) that survive the searching period is given by N(T) = -0.6T^2 + 32.1T - 350 where T is the temperature in degrees Celsius. I have to answer the following questions:
: a. At what temperature will the maximum number of larvae survive and round my answer to the nearest degree.
: b. What is the maximum number of surviving larvae and round my answer to the nearest whole number.
: c. Find the x-intercepts to the nearest whole number, for the graph of this function.
: d. Write a sentence that describes the meaning of the x-intercept in the context of this problem.
: I am totally clueless as to how to work this in order to answer these questions. Any help would be appreciated.
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The design of vibro compaction method is mainly based on experiment and engineering practice.
The stress distribution and foundation soil strength can be determined according to the load of upper building.The formula of calculation is accorded to the standard of building foundation.
1) the strip foundation or independent foundation can only be used in the base range.
2) raft base and box base are usually piled on the whole foundation, and 1-3 rows of bollards can be arranged according to the need.
Space of piles and piling method:
A normal triangular or square style layout is generally adopted.There are several methods for pile spacing design:
1) field test method.
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ADVANCED CONCEPTS ENTERPRISES, Inc.
ACEs is committed to protecting the environment and preventing pollution in all of our activities in accordance with customer and legal requirements. Our goal is to educate employees and others who work on behalf of ACEs about the importance of protecting the environment and supporting our customer's environmental programs. We are also implementing internal programs to establish and meet environmental objectives and targets.
Impact. For each environmental aspect, the corresponding actual or potential environmental impact(s) has been identified. Example environmental impacts include but are not limited to:
a) impact to, or improvements to air/water/land/groundwater quality (pollution),
b) reduction or conservation of natural resources (resources),
c) depletion of, or conservation of landfill space (waste), and
d) recycled material (recycling).
Each environmental aspect and associated environmental impact(s) have been evaluated to determine those which have or can have significant impacts on the environment.
Training. All ACEs personnel meet competency requirements based on appropriate education, training and/or experience to ensure:
a) awareness of the importance of conformity with ACEs' environmental policy, procedures, and the EMS,
b) awareness of ACEs' or the customers' significant environmental impacts, actual or potential, and the benefits of improved personal performance,
c) awareness of their roles and responsibilities in achieving conformity with the requirements of the EMS, and
d) awareness of specified operating procedures and the potential consequences of departure from those procedures.
Training requirements for contract tasks, to include any required environmental training or expertise, are specified in the Performance Work Statement/Statement of Work and are tracked and verified using contract specific Quality Control Plans (QCPs).
Evaluation. Evaluation of compliance to all requirements is accomplished using internal assessments, including during any internal environmental audits. The goal of these periodic evaluations is to identify to any legal or other requirements and the extent to which they are being fulfilled.


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A constant function is a linear function for which the range does not change no matter which member of the domain is used.
for any x1 and x2 in the domain.
With a constant function, for any two points in the interval, a change in x results in a zero change in f(x).
Graph the function f(x) = 3.
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Create a Hogwarts Floor Plan
Grade Levels: 3 - 8
Students will learn about the concept of scale and other mapping skills as they create a floor plan of Hogwarts School.
- Graph paper
- Make sure that students have a good understanding of the terms floor plan, bird's eye view, and scale
before they start drawing any floor plans.
- A floor plan is a diagram of one room, apartment, or entire floor of a building, usually drawn to scale
- For a bird's eye view explain that students will be drawing a map of Hogwarts as if they are looking at it from above.
- Scale is the ratio between the size of something and a representation of it.
- Scale can be demonstrated by measuring the perimeter of your classroom with a yard stick and then converting those measurements into squares on a piece of graph paper. Show students that one foot could equal one square on the graph paper, if that's the scale they choose.
- Ask each student to practice this by drawing a bird's eye view of the classroom (on graph paper) using the same scale.
- Decide on symbols to be used
to represent desks, chairs, windows, etc., then show students how to make a map key and a scale at the bottom of
their practice map.
- Once you decide on a scale for the classroom measurements, it will help to use this same scale for the
Hogwarts floor plans.
- Once its time to draw Hogwarts, have the class
generate a list of all of the rooms they can remember from the story.
- Direct students to
draw a floor plan showing a bird's eye view of all of the rooms at Hogwarts. The floor plan also needs to include a map key and a scale.
- Once the floor plans are completed, put them on a bulletin board and you'll have Hogwarts on display in your classroom!
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May is full of holidays and events that you can incorporate into your standard curriculum. Our Educators' Calendar outlines activities for each event, including: Children's Book Week (5/13-19), Biographers Day (5/16), and Memorial Day (5/27). Plus, celebrate Asian-Pacific-American Heritage Month, Clean Air Month, and Physical Fitness & Sports Month all May long!
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Many people like to buy fresh fruits and vegetables from the farmers market. The farmers market is a special market where farmers sell the crops they grow. They sell different crops at different times of the year. Sometimes the farmers even make sweet desserts with their fresh fruit. Follow this farming family through the seasons and learn how to weigh and measure food along the way. How many apples do you think they need to make an apple pie?
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Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT)
Moral Reconation Therapy is a systematic treatment strategy that seeks to decrease recidivism among juvenile and adult criminal and substance abuse offenders by increasing moral reasoning. Its cognitive-behavioral approach combines elements from a variety of psychological traditions to progressively address ego, social, moral, and positive behavioral growth. Traditionally, Moral Reconation Therapy takes the form of group and individual counseling using structured group exercises and prescribed homework assignments. The Moral Reconation Therapy workbook is structured around 16 objectively defined steps focusing on seven basic treatment issues: confrontation of beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors; assessment of current relationships; reinforcement of positive behavior and habits; positive identity formation; enhancement of self-concept; decrease in hedonism and development of frustration tolerance; and development of higher stages of moral reasoning. Under normal outpatient MRT, participants meet in groups once or twice weekly and can complete all steps of the MRT program in a minimum of 3 to 6 months. The group is open ended and will have members at several different steps in the group at any given time.


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Tampa Bay Regional Water Supply and Drought Update: Final Update
Rains Providing Adequate Surface Water Supply Conditions
CLEARWATER – Tampa Bay Water has transitioned from a Phase 3 to a Phase 2 water shortage status due to the increased production from the Tampa Bay Regional Surface Water Treatment Plant. The Phase 2 status is designated under the agency's modified Water Shortage Mitigation Plan. This is the final water shortage status update for this dry season.
June and early July rainfall created adequate river flow in the Alafia River and Tampa Bypass Canal, providing enough water for the surface water treatment plant to now produce about 80 million gallons per day (mgd). The increase in surface water supplies offsets about half of groundwater supplies and all water supplied by the Tampa Bay Seawater Desalination Plant. The Tampa Bay Seawater Desalination Plant will remain offline for at least the rest of the summer.
The regional reservoir remains offline while its interior liner is reconstructed until late summer 2014. Without this source of supply, Tampa Bay Water's water shortage phases are highly dependent on river flow and can change when dry periods return and surface water flows decline.
The function of the agency's Water Shortage Plan is to identify when changes in water supply conditions and/or rain patterns occur. Tampa Bay Water expects conditions to continue to improve throughout the summer, which could move Tampa Bay Water out of any water shortage phase by mid-September.
Regional water facts in June 2013:
Rainfall totals in June averaged about 12.42 inches, which is about 5.61 inches above normal. Heaviest rainfall was experienced in a swath across Pasco County and parts of northern Hillsborough County between 14 and 19 inches, with the lowest rainfall occurring in central Pasco and southern Hillsborough counties between 6 and 9 inches. However, rainfall amounts were generally consistent across the entire region with about 11-14 inches.
Hillsborough River was 205 percent of the mean monthly flow of June and the Alafia River was 107 percent of normal.
It is predicted that both rainfall and temperatures will be above normal from July to September, with early July rainfall patterns following this prediction.
Regional water demands averaged about 223 million gallons per day, about a 20 mgd drop from May 2013 demand.
Tampa Bay Water remains well below its permitted groundwater pumping limits.
Regional watering restrictions are set by the Southwest Florida Water Management District and remain in a Phase 3 shortage until July 31, 2013.
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Jews, Latinos Uncovering Their Heritage, Dr. Steven Windmueller in the LA Times on Jewish-Latino Relations
Jews, Latinos Uncovering Their Heritage
A conference focuses on immigrants who hid their religion after fleeing to Mexico's frontiers to escape the Inquisition in the 1500s.
By Daniel Hernandez
Times Staff Writer
January 27, 2006
Five hundred years ago, when it was still illegal for them to sail to the New World, hundreds, maybe thousands, of Sephardic Jews from Spain secretly found ways across the Atlantic.
Many were escaping the Inquisition, which eventually spread to the colony's capital, Mexico City.
In the late 1500s, facing the threat of arrest and death, some Jews in Mexico journeyed to the colony's northern frontier, eventually settling in what is now New Mexico. They were Jews in secret, or crypto-Jews. For generations, their Mexican American descendants have practiced Catholicism but retained customs suggestive of a Jewish past, such as observing the Sabbath.
This was the historical foundation established at the start of a conference this week that explored past, present and possible future connections between Jews and Latinos.
The conference, called "Latinos and Jews: A Conference on Historical and Contemporary Connections," brought together scholars, activists and people curious about their heritage.
The gathering, in a packed classroom at UC Irvine, focused on two major points of intersection for Jews and Latinos: the history of crypto-Jews and Jews in colonial Mexico, and the intermixing of Jews, Latinos and others in Boyle Heights, which scholars called Los Angeles' first multiethnic working-class neighborhood.
The example of New Mexico came up repeatedly - the two communities are linked, even if those links aren't always apparent.
"The fabric of Jewish history and heritage is so much richer than we thought," said Stanley M. Hordes, adjunct research professor at the University of New Mexico and author of "To the End of the Earth: The History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico." "There is not a mutual exclusivity between being Spanish and Jewish," he said.
The all-day discussion Monday was at turns spirited, humorous and contentious. At one point, a few participants had a brief but pointed exchange on the prevalence of anti-Semitism among Latinos and Catholics.
George Sanchez, a history professor at USC, has spent years interviewing former residents of Boyle Heights. His presentation centered on a period when the neighborhood's vibrant multicultural patchwork was evident in the makeup of Roosevelt High School, which was founded in 1923.
There was a point in the school's history, Sanchez said, quoting one of his many interviews, where "you could divide the sports activities by race, with varsity football dominated by huge Russians - and some Jews - Mexicans and blacks in varsity track and tall Slavics in basketball."
Many audience chortled to themselves, but everyone laughed when Sanchez finished: "Debating was mostly the Jewish students."
Young people back then, Sanchez said, saw beyond their ethnic differences to create a common culture. "In Boyle Heights, as elsewhere, youth often played a critical role in initiating inter-ethnic relations, be it in interracial marriage, political coalition-building, or multiracial dance venues," Sanchez said.
The conference, co-sponsored by the American Jewish Committee and the UC Irvine Center for Research on Latinos in a Global Society, comes at a critical point in the history of Jewish-Latino relations.
Only in recent years has interest rapidly grown in the possibility that innumerable Mexicans and Mexican Americans could add a bit of Jewishness to their often mishmash background of European, Indian and sometimes African, Arab and Asian heritage. In New Mexico, some Latinos are using DNA studies to determine whether they have Jewish roots.
Jewish and Latino advocacy organizations have begun round-table discussions about potential political and cultural alliances, with many noting the 2005 election of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa as an example of such coalition-building. Polls showed that Villaraigosa captured 84% of the city's Latino vote and 55% of the Jewish vote.
Villaraigosa's election led some participants at the conference to recall the election in 1949 of Edward R. Roybal to the Los Angeles City Council. The first Mexican American elected to the council since 1881, Roybal represented a heavily Jewish electorate in his Eastside district.
As a few conference panelists and participants noted, Jewish activists have been far more proactive in reaching out to Latinos than the other way around. The backgrounds of those attending the conference proved the point.
When Arturo Vargas, executive director of the National Assn. of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, asked those in the audience to raise their hands if they identified as Jewish, most of the room responded. When he asked for the Latinos to raise their hands, only a few did.
Still, participants and speakers said they were encouraged by the dialogue.
"[Latinos are] the emerging community in L.A. and the Jewish community has been slow to become aware of the richness of the Latino community, and the potential for conflict as well," said Steven Windmueller, director of the School of Jewish Communal Service at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles.
Boyle Heights was once home to the largest Jewish community west of Chicago. Most in the community were Ashkenazi Jews. The neighborhood is overwhelmingly Latino today and just south of Cesar Chavez Avenue - which used to be Brooklyn Avenue - the Breed Street Shul is waiting to be reopened.
Built in 1923, the home of Congregation Talmud Torah fell into disrepair as Jews moved to the Westside. The Jewish Historical Society of Southern California stepped in to prevent the demolition of the shul in the 1990s. Now a renovation effort is underway to make the building a neighborhood cultural center.
The shul is an artifact of a rich cultural history that includes Jews, Latinos and many others, said Steve Sass, president of the historical society and director of the Breed Street Shul Project.
"What I understand is that people were used to living side by side, they were all immigrants, English was not their first language, there was a Depression," Sass said. "This was the other Los Angeles... We need to learn from that, learn from before, when people lived in proximity and were learning about each other's culture."
Sass was joined at the shul Wednesday by Juaquin Castellanos, a longtime Boyle Heights activist and Mexican immigrant. Castellanos is a recent addition to the Breed Street Shul Project's board of directors. "And I'm learning a lot - holidays, things like that," he said.
He gestured toward busy Cesar Chavez Avenue, adding that, even among Latinos, "We still call it Brooklyn."
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How to graph NBA data with SAS
People have always been fascinated by sports statistics, and with the recent popularity of fantasy sports there is an increased demand for custom analyses of the sports data. With those folks in mind, I have created a simple example that SAS programmers can use as a starting point for analyzing NBA data.
Before we get into the nitty gritty details, here's a picture of my friend Simone's son playing basketball (in the bright shirt, with the ball). He's tall, in shape, and smart, so I think he'll do well in basketball. Who knows, maybe one of these days we'll all be plotting his data in our NBA graphs!
I had recently read about some examples that demonstrate how to use the Python and R programming languages to analyze the NBA data, and decided to try my hand at using SAS to do something similar. With a bit of digging, I found the magic url that can be used to download the data for a specified player & season. I then wrote some SAS code to import the data directly from the Web page, into a SAS dataset.
After scrutinizing the data a bit, I determined that the 0,0 origin coordinate was in the middle of the basket, and all of the shots were shown in relation to one end of the court. I looked up the dimensions of an NBA basketball court, then determined the coordinates of the 4 corners, and created a map polygon I could use to represent the court in Proc Gmap. I then converted the shot data into an annotate dataset that would plot the missed shots as red x's and the made shots as blue o's. Here's what things looked like so far:
The above graph is nice, but it would be even better with some points-of-reference so we can see 'where' the player was when he made the shot. Therefore I worked out the coordinates of all the markings on the court, and created a special annotate dataset to draw them on the map (using annotate draw and polygon functions). Wow - what a difference that makes!How to graph NBA data with SAS _TAG_ Click To Tweet
The Proc Gmap approach is a good starting place for a spatial analysis, but how about analyzing the data over time? It was a simple matter to feed the data into Proc Gplot, and generate the following. Do you notice any trends in Stephen's shot data? Can you explain the outliers?
Just for Fun:
Here's a little quiz, to test your NBA knowledge, combined with your visual analytics perception skills. Below are three graphs - can you tell which goes with Kevin Durant, Lebron James, and Marc Gasol:
(Once you've made your guess, you can 'cheat' and look at the filenames of the images for a hint!)
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 1. So cool! I went to Virginia Tech with Stephen's father, Dell Curry, before the school became well-known for its football program. Dell was year ahead of me.
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 I can't remember exactly what page I got it from. I did a bunch of Google searches, and tried out several existing web-based NBA data query tools, and copy-n-pasted the URL from one of them, and trimmed it down a bit to do what I was wanting :)
 4. I wanted to imitate your work, but the code doesn't work!
 There was no observation in'my data', and I am poor at SAS, so I could not find what is the problem.
 Please comment..
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 Have you defined the'my_proxy' macro variable, as described in the comments? Each site will have a different/unique proxy, so you need to define that based on your site...
 %let my_proxy=;
 The my_proxy macro variable's value is then utilized in the filename statement, to get to the data...
 filename temp_url url &url proxy="&my_proxy";
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M E M O R A N D U M O F U N D E R S T A N D I N G
The purpose of this Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) is to establish and promote a strategic and cooperative partnership between IBICT and euroCRIS.
euroCRIS is a not-for-profit, statutory association (_URL_), governed by Dutch law, dedicated to the development and implementation on an institutional, national as well as international level of top-quality research information systems and their interoperability, based on CERIF (Common European Research Information Format). One of euroCRIS's main objectives is the promotion of cooperation and exchange of expertise between stakeholders in the research information domain, in particular by setting up Strategic Partnerships with international organisations in the field of Research Information.
IBICT (http:// _URL_), the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology is a Research Unit linked to the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation (MCTI) and is responsible for information systems related to research and innovation in Brazil. Its main mission is to promote the competence, the development of resources and the infrastructure of information on science, technology and innovation (ST&I) in Brazil.
Both euroCRIS and IBICT share a vision of realising optimal research information infrastructures through the setup and support of Current Research Information Systems (CRIS), enabling the information management of research projects, researchers, research organisations, and research outputs, whereby a CRIS is regarded as the major tool in creating an overview of all data related to science, technology, and innovation be it on a Federal or State level. Both organisations acknowledge the importance of international standardisation in the setup of CRIS and research information exchange between systems and more specifically the key role for the Common European Research Information Format (CERIF) in this respect. Besides, IBCIT is of the opinion that the implementation of a CRIS-system is crucial in the further development and improvement of Research Information in Brazil.
The motivation for this MoU is to share knowledge and experience and to support each other's endeavours in the fields defined in the agreement.
The strategic partners will work together:
(a) To promote the setup of an optimal CRIS-infrastructure in Brazil, including the following aspects:
- Formulation of an appropriate Research Information Policy and Management Framework, both on a national and state level.
- Choice and implementation of appropriate CRIS software (CRIS systems).
- Realisation of compatibility between CRIS and related information systems based on international standards.
- Setup of an adequate support framework for the (use of the) CRIS infrastructure.
- Development of services based on the CRIS infrastructure for the various stakeholder groups.
- Organisation of trainings for the various user and stakeholder groups (researchers, research managers, policy makers, funders, etc...).
(b) To promote the realisation of optimal research information policies and practices, and in this respect to influence policies and policy makers on both a national (governmental) and international level (e.g. the EU and Latin America) on:
- The importance of CRIS and e-infrastructures based on CRIS as primary resource for research information.
- The importance of the use of international standards in research information and more specifically the implementation of CERIF, the Common European Research Information Format.
- The support to policy formulation for the conception and implementation of CRIS systems (through examples and good practices)
- The need to establish interoperability between information systems at various levels
(c) To make known and communicate each other's activities and accomplishments with their stakeholders and at each other's events.
In order to achieve the above mentioned objectives, both partners agree on the following concrete actions for collaboration:
Upon request by IBICT euroCRIS may provide support and assistance to IBICT concerning:
- policy formulation related to the conception and implementation of CRIS systems (e.g., examples and good practices);
- providing arguments in the convincing of decisions makers;
- the evaluation of new software options that could be used to implement CRIS systems in Brazil;
- the implementation of DSpace-CRIS as one of the software options;
- training in CERIF and in the establishment of CRIS services based on CERIF;
- the realization of compatibility between information systems; and
- general trainings and awareness raising concerning the meaning and importance of CRIS systems.
The support rendered by euroCRIS will be based on reimbursement of expenses for travel and hours spent. The concrete details of the support activities will be worked out in separate agreements between the partners.
- Representatives of euroCRIS shall be invited to conferences and seminars organised by IBICT
- Representatives of IBICT shall be invited to the euroCRIS annual Strategic Membership Meeting and to the CRIS biennial conferences. The person(s) attending will be designated by IBICT.
- IBICT agrees to participate in appropriate euroCRIS Task Groups to contribute to the development of the IBICT-CERIF roadmaps.
- Best practices in IBICT-implementation through CRIS will be specifically highlighted within the work of the euroCRIS Best Practice Task Group.
- A common distribution list will be created for the euroCRIS/IBICT joint group.
- Both organisations will periodically offer information on activities of the other partner in their respective communication channels.
- For reasons of efficiency in time and costs, communication will be through teleconference or webinar when appropriate.
The logo of both strategic partners will be placed on each other's website under the respective heading with a hyperlink to the homepage of the strategic partner. Both parties shall approve any public announcement regarding this MoU. Each party may suggest that its logo be used in accordance with provided guidelines.
Liabilities and Termination
This agreement does not define a financial relationship between the strategic partners, but does not exclude that such relationships could be negotiated. The agreement does not restrict the rights and responsibilities of each partner nor increase them. This agreement remains in force until terminated in writing by each party. Upon termination, both parties will remove the logo and hyperlink of the other party from their websites.
January, 8, 2016
For IBICT For euroCRIS
Cecília Leite Oliveira Ed Simons
Director Chair of Management Board


What is the chemical resistance of Findenser?
General guidance
Findenser is resistant to the majority of solvents and splash-resistant to dilute acids and alkalis at room temperature. Extended exposure to acids or alkalis will attack the outer metal surface of the Findenser. It is important to clean off any chemical spills immediately after they occur.
Further detail
The inner body of Findenser and the cone/socket, i.e. the wetted parts that come into contact with the substance being evaporated during normal use, are borosilicate glass 3.3, which has very good chemical resistance. (See TB 101 Glass Technical Data sheet available here for further details.)
The metal finned jacket is anodised aluminium and the plug and seal are acetal and HT silicone.
Please consider the chemical compatibility of your chemicals with these materials. You can consult chemical resistance tables online.
It is not feasible for our R&D Laboratory to test Findenser with every possible chemical, so we cannot provide data.
As well as wiping off any spills, ensure there is not a significant concentration of corrosive chemical vapours in the air around the Findenser (e.g. by using the Findenser within our guidelines, so the solvent is retained in the Findenser/flask).
There is an advised cleaning protocol detailed in the FAQ entry, 'Should I clean my Findenser? If yes, how?'


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C is for Coven Board Book
C is for Coven is a reinterpretation of a classic alphabet book, matching each letter of the ABCs with a rhyming phrase that teaches kids about witchcraft. Instead of A is for Apple and D is for Dog, A is for Altar and D is for Drawing Down the Moon. This bewitching and adorable board book will make learning the ABCs fun, magical, and memorable for the whole family.
Founded by children's book author Andrea Stein, Moon Dust Press is dedicated to creating resources for children being raised in homes practicing alternative spiritualities, breaking down stereotypes about witchcraft and Pagan practices in children's literature, and providing needed diverse representation.
Moon Dust Press is committed to producing high quality, beautifully illustrated, and entertaining books that allow children and parents to find the magic in every day life


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In quality control, gathering relevant and timely data is essential to monitor and determine process variation. Since process data are obtained through measuring instruments that contain uncertainties, an ideal measurement system that has a statistical characteristic of zero error does not exist. Measurement System Analysis (MSA), one of the requirements of ISO/TS 16949, is an experimental and mathematical method of determining the variation arising from measurement systems rather than from a process or product. MSA is used to minimize the risk of wrong decisions regarding process control. Recently, the fuzzy approach has been utilized to cope with the vagueness of the obtained data in MSA studies. This paper analyzes the use of Fuzzy MSA in a company that manufactures automotive parts.
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BA/BS in Christian Studies/MA in Education Ministry Leadership
The joint BA/BS in Christian Studies/MA in Education Ministry Leadership degree plan prepares students for careers in church-related vocations, providing a seamless interface between undergraduate and graduate degrees. Through Christ-centered higher education, students prepare to work as leaders in local church ministry—serving in roles such as ministers of education, ministers of adults, ministers of youth, ministers of business administration, ministers of missions, and more.
credit hours (ba)
credit hours (bS)
Developing A Christian Mind
Foundations for Excellence
Natural Science (1000 or 2000 level courses only)
Social Science (1000 or 2000 level courses only)
Total General Studies Hours
BA/BS in Christian Studies
Shared Undergraduate/Graduate Courses
MINS 5303 - Foundations of Spiritual Life
THEO 5313 - Applied Hermeneutics
Electives with Concentration in Education Ministry or Concentration in Christian Leadership:
Electives with Concentration in Music Ministry:
TOTAL UNDERGRADUATE WITH SHARED HOURS REQUIRED
A 120-credit-hour minimum for a bachelor's degree is required. Students must complete all Undergraduate hours and shared undergraduate/graduate hours prior to enrolling for remaining Graduate hours.
- In order to satisfy the "Undergraduate only" portion of an accelerated degree plan, sufficient lower-level and upper-level elective hours must be taken to complete the minimum number of Undergraduate credit hours required for each specific accelerated degree.
- As part of this accelerated degree plan, 6 shared Graduate hours will be counted toward a minimum of 36 upper-level Undergraduate credit hours required for all bachelor's degrees.
REMAINING GRADUATE REQUIREMENTS
credit hours (Ma)
MA in Education Ministry Leadership Courses
*MA in Education Ministry Leadership Focus Concentrations
Christian School Leadership
Communication in Ministry
Discipleship in Ministry
Small Group Ministry
General Studies in Ministry
TOTAL ADDITIONAL GRADUATE HOURS REQUIRED
TOTAL CREDIT HOURS REQUIRED FOR ACCELERATED DEGREE
Note: Church Membership Requirement (for Admission into the Master's Ministry Degrees, Advanced Ministry Certificate Programs, EDD in Educational Leadership—all concentrations, and PHD in Leadership Studies' Ministry Concentration): Within the last 12 months, the applicant must have been an active member of a Christian church that holds Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and who holds solely the Old Testament and the New Testament as sacred Scripture.
(S-L) = Course(s) with field-based service-learning component.
Graduate School of Ministry Portfolio
Dallas Baptist University's Ministry Degree Programs seek to provide an academic experience that enables all candidates to engage and impact Christian Ministries of the 21st century. The Portfolio is designed to be an individualized collection of documents that represent the candidate's preparation for future ministry positions, demonstrating the candidate's ongoing knowledge, skills, and ministry experiences.
The Graduate School of Ministry provides candidates the opportunity for self-reflection through the compilation of documents in an electronic Portfolio. Documents in the Portfolio may include signature Assignments, Resume, and Philosophy of Ministry among others.
Throughout the program, the candidate will collect designated documents and upload them to the portfolio within Blackboard. The Portfolio will be used to assess development as the candidate proceeds through their designated ministry program. It is the candidate's responsibility to meet with their GSOM Program Director to discuss the Portfolio required documents prior to graduation.
Refer to course descriptions for course requisites.


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Co-inspiration between social and conventional enterprises
to promote equal access to decision making positions
One of the most important activities of the project consists of carrying out national qualitative studies that aims at establishing the state of arts of the participation and access of women to decision-making positions in conventional enterprises and enterprises in the social economy in each partner country. The research will also take into consideration cultural, historical and political factors that came into play in each country and shaped the evolution of equal participation of women and men to economic decision-making.
The studies will gather:
It aims at reaching one expected result of the project, which is having an improved knowledge among key stakeholders on the access of women to decision – making positions in the sector of conventional and social enterprises in the six partner countries.


View Source Nebulex.Caching.SimpleKeyGenerator (Nebulex v2.5.1)
Default key generator implementation.
It implementats a simple algorithm:
 - If no params are given, return 0.
 - If only one param is given, return that param as key.
 - If more than one param is given, return a key computed from the hashes of all parameters (:erlang.phash2(args)).
Based on the default key generation in Spring Cache Abstraction.
This implementation aims to cover those simple/generic scenarios where the key generated based on the arguments only, fulfill the needs. For example:
defmodule MyApp.Users do
 use Nebulex.Caching
 alias MayApp.Cache
 @decorate cacheable(cache: Cache)
 def get_user(id) do
 # logic for retrieving a user...
 end
 @decorate cache_evict(cache: Cache)
 def delete_user(id) do
 # logic for deleting a user...
 end
end
The key generator will generate the same key for both, cacheable and evict functions; since it is generated based on the arguments only.


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Study: You Could Be A Jerk (And Not Have A Clue)
Researchers at Columbia Business School have revealed an essential truth of life at the office: the boss could be an overly-assertive, insensitive, polarizing jerk and be completely unaware of his or her behavior. That's news? Perhaps not, but it is a news release from Columbia Business School, where researchers paired up developing professionals for mock negotiations over issues such as licensing rights. After the deal–making, each person answered questions about their own assertiveness and their counterpart's assertiveness. The negotiators were then asked to guess what their counterpart said about them. The envelope please….The studies found that, generally speaking, negotiators have a lot of work to do in the self–awareness department. For example, one study found that 57 percent of people actually seen by their counterpart as under–assertive thought they had come across as appropriately assertive or even over–assertive. They also found that 56 percent of people actually seen by their counterpart as over–assertive thought they had come across as appropriately assertive or even under–assertive. Wait, there's more: the researchers found that many people getting assertiveness right mistakenly thought they were seen as pushing too hard.


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Phytotaxa 541 (1): 073–078
Copyright © 2022 Magnolia Press Article PHYTOTAXA
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Accepted by Sin Yeng Wong: 4 Mar. 2022; published: 22 Mar. 2022
Lithocarpus eiadthongii (Fagaceae), a new stone oak species from southern part of
AROON SINBUMROONG1,5, SUKID RUEANGRUEA2, ATCHARA TEERAWATANANON3,4 & SARAWOOD
1 Protected Area Regional Office 4 (Surat Thani), Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, 84000, Thailand.
2 Forest Herbarium (BKF), Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, 61 Phahonyothin Rd., Chatuchak, Bangkok
3 Natural History Museum, National Science Museum, Technopolis, Pathum Thani 12120, Thailand.
4 Center for Advanced Studies in Tropical Natural Resources, Kasetsart University, Bangkok 10900, Thailand.
5 Department of Forest Biology, Faculty of Forestry, Kasetsart University, Bangkok 10900, Thailand.
A new species of the genus Lithocarpus, L. eiadthongii, from southern part of Thailand is described and illustrated. Its
colour photographs are also provided and its conservation status is assessed. The new species is superficially similar to L.
melataiensis, L. pusillus and L. vuquangensis in terms of leaf and fruit size. Notwithstanding, it differs from the three species
in several aspects e.g. leaf apex, leaf blade covering, cupule stalk, cupule size, nut size and nut enclosure.
Keywords: Asia, conservation, diversity, oak, tree
Lithocarpus Blume (1826: 526) is the second largest genus, coming after Quercus Linnaeus (1753: 994), of the oak
family Fagaceae Dumortier (1829: 11). So far, of 514 scientific plant names of species rank for Lithocarpus, 336 are
accepted species names (The Plant List, 2013). According to previous works (e.g. Barnett, 1940; Soepadmo, 1972;
Phengklai, 2008; and Strijk et al., 2014a,b), Thailand possesses a relatively low number of Lithocarpus species. A
comprehensive work on Thai Fagaceae (Phengklai, 2008), reports 56 species of this genus occurring in Thailand. In
later days, only two new records (L. corneus (Lour.) Rehder (1917: 3569) and L. gigantophyllus (Hickel & A.Camus)
A.Camus (1931: 40)) and a new species (L. orbicapus Strijk (Strijk et al., 2014b: 34)) of this genus were reported from
the country (Strijk et al., 2014a,b; Strijk & Son, 2019). During field excursions in southern part of the country for the
Flora of Thailand project, an unknown Lithocarpus species was collected and studied.
Materials and methods
Identification using conventional herbarium techniques was made according to Barnett (1940), Soepadmo (1972),
Phengklai (2008) and Strijk et al. (2014b). The holotype of the new species, L. eiadthongii, was designated and all
isotypes were examined. The vegetative and reproductive characters were measured using a stereomicroscope and
graticule (Olympus SZ30). Dimensions given in the description are based mainly on the types, and are accompanied
by observations made of living plants in the field. Morphological traits and natural distributions of its most similar
species, L. melataiensis Julia & Soepadmo (1998: 137), L. pusillus Soepadmo (1970: 270) and L. vuquangensis Ngoc
& V.H.Nguyen (Ngoc et al., 2018: 21), from their protologues and type specimens from following herbaria were
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also examined: A, K and L, here appropriate, cited (_URL_ and taken into account to complete the
comparisons. The designated type specimens were deposited in BKF, KUFF and THNHM. Herbarium acronyms follow
Index Herbariorum (Thiers, 2020, continuously updated) except for the herbaria of the Kasetsart University, Faculty
of Forestry, Bangkok, Thailand (KUFF) and the Natural History Museum, National Science Museum, Technopolis,
Pathum Thani, Thailand (THNHM); the abbreviations have been coined for use in this study.
Lithocarpus eiadthongii Sinbumr., Rueangr. & Sungkaew, sp. nov. (Figs. 1 & 2)
Diagnosis:—Lithocarpus eiadthongii is superficially similar to L. melataiensis, L. pusillus and L. vuquangensis. In
terms of leaf characters, it may look like L. vuquangensis, but it is, however, much different from the latter in terms
of fruit characters (having cupule size of 4−7 mm high by 8−13 mm across; cupule surface with (5)6−9 lamellae; nut
size of 0.8−1.5 cm across; nut basal scar of 4−8 mm across in L. eiadthongii vs cupule size of ca 14 mm high by ca
18 mm across; cupule surface with 4−5 lamellae; nut size of 2.1−2.4 cm across; nut basal scar of ca 11 mm across
in L. vuquangensis). Whilst, in terms of fruit characters, it may look similar to L. melataiensis and L. pusillus, but L.
eiadthongii differs from the latter two in having a stalked cupule of 3−6 mm long (vs sessile cupule in L. melataiensis
vs sessile to stalked cupule of 2−3 mm long in L. pusillus. Moreover, in terms of leaf characters, L. eiadthongii is much
different from the latter two in having a leaf acumen of 3−10 cm long and leaf undersurface with sparsely white to
creamy-white waxy to glabrous (vs leaf acumen of 15−22 mm long and leaf undersurface with densely yellowish brown
tomentose, sometimes with simple hairs in L. melataiensis vs leaf acumen of 10−30 mm long and leaf undersurface
with densely greyish brown tomentose by adpressed, minute, stellate hairs in L. pusillus) (Table 1).
Type:—THAILAND. Ranong province: Mueang Ranong district, Ngao subdistrict, Namtok Ngao National Park,
hillside, UTM 47P E459665 N1090233, elev. 214 m, 4 July 2020, Sinbumroong 04072020 (holotype: BKF!; isotypes:
BKF!, Kasetsart University, Faculty of Forestry, Bangkok, Thailand!, Natural History Museum, Thailand!).
Description:—Medium to large sized evergreen tree, 15−35 m tall, 20−85 cm in diam. at breast height; buttresses
usually present, up to 2 m tall. Outer bark greyish brown or greenish grey, smooth and lenticellate, usually with
superficial horizontal lines, becoming finely winding- and shallow-fissured to finely scaly. Inner bark easily detached
from the sapwood, reddish brown to dark brown, surface of inner bark facing sapwood equipped with numerous
longitudinal ridges resulting numerous longitudinal and slightly depressed purplish lines with 0.5−1.5 cm long on
white to slightly creamy sapwood. Branchlets yellowish green in vivo and reddish brown to dark brown in sicco,
grooved, sparsely covered with white wax and lenticels, becoming glabrous. Terminal buds tiny, ovoid, ca. 1 by 1 mm;
scaly, scales ovate, spirally imbricate. Stipules not seen. Leaves simple, spirally arranged along twig, not crowded near
the end of each flush; blades narrowly elliptic, lanceolate-elliptic, oblong-ovate to lanceolate-ovate, (linear-elliptic
in sapling stage,) thin coriaceous, rigid, 6−12.5 by 1.5−3.5 cm; adaxially green, glabrous, dull to glossy, abaxially
pale greyish to creamy green, sparsely covered with white to creamy-white wax to glabrous; base acute or cuneate to
slightly attenuate, apex acute to bluntly acuminate, acumen 3−10 mm long; margin entire, sometimes slightly undulate;
midrib thin, slightly raised on both surfaces; secondary veins (9−)11−13(14) pairs, thin, obscure to slightly distinct both
sides, subparallel, at an angle of 50°−60°, slightly arcuating and faintly anastomosing near the margin; veinlets fine
reticulated, irregular or areolate, obscure on both sides; petiole 6−10 mm long, 1.3−2 mm in diam