DSDM has three basic phases Pre-project, Project life cycle and Post project phase.
 1. Pre-project phase: - In this phase project is identified, project funds are allocated and commitment from all stake holder is ensured.
 2. Project life cycle phase: - This is the most lengthy and detail phase in DSDM. This is where all actual project execution happens. This phase is explained in a more detail manner in the coming section.
 3. Post project phase: - In this phase system is operating smoothly. The main activity conducted in this phase is maintenance, enhancement and project defect fixes. Maintenance, enhancement and defect fixing can be viewed as iterative and incremental nature of DSDM.
Figure: - DSDM Phases
Can you explain in detail project life cycle phase in DSDM?
There are in all five phases in DSDM project life cycle:-
 1. Feasibility Study: - During this stage the can the project be used for DSDM is examined. For that we need to answer questions like "Can this project fulfill business needs?", "Is the project fit for DSDM?" and "What are the prime risks involved in the project?".
 2. Business Study: - Once we have concluded that the project has passed the feasibility study in this phase we do a business study. Business study involves meeting with the end customer/user to discuss about a proposed system. In one sentence it's a requirement gathering phase. Requirements are then prioritized and time boxed. So the output of this phase is a prioritized requirement list with time frames.
 3. Functional Model Iteration: - In this phase we develop prototype which is reviewed by the end user.
 4. Design and Build Iteration: - The prototype which was agreed by the user in the previous stage is designed and built in this stage and given to the end user for testing.
 5. Implementation: - Once the end user has confirmed everything is alright its time to implement the same to the end user.
Figure: - DSDM Project Life Cycle
Can you explain LSD?
Lean software development has derived its principles from lean manufacturing.
Below figure 'Principles of LSD' shows all the principles.
Figure: - Principles of LSD
Let's understand in brief about the principles.
Eliminate waste: - Only deliver what's needed to the end user. Anything more than that is a waste. In short anything which does not add value is a waste. In short we can by pass tasks and still deliver then it should be bypassed.
Decide as late as possible: - Software systems are complex. The more they are near to execution more is the clarity. So delay decisions so that they can be based in facts rather than assumptions. For instance your team decides to use automation testing, but when you complete execution you come to know changes are delivered every day by the developer. After execution you conclude manual testing is the best option. Bad part will be if you have already bought an automation tool, its waste of money.
Deliver as fast as possible: - faster a product is delivered, faster you will get user response and faster you can improve in the next iteration. The concept is not fast coding, but try to deliver is small user identified chunks for better understanding.
Motivate team: - Team members are the most important aspect for success of any project. Motivate them, given them roles; keep your team spirit high and whatever you can do to make them feel good in the project. A highly motivated team delivers project on time.
Integrity: - Software system should be delivered in loosely coupled components. Every component or module can function individually and when integrated with the project it works perfectly well. It should be a plug and play from the end user point of view. This spirit is derived from how actual production system work. You can assemble a car with wheels from one organization and seats from other organization.
Can you explain ASD?
ASD (Adaptive Software Development) accepts that change is a truth. It also accepts in principles that mistakes can happen and it's important to learn from those mistakes in the future. Below figure 'ASD Cycle' shows three important phases in ASD.
Figure: - ASD Cycle
Let's understand all the three phases in a detail manner.
Speculate (nothing but planning):- This is the planning phase of ASD cycle. Below figure 'Speculate' shows in detail what happens in this phase.
Define Project Scope: - This is the first phase in the main speculate phase. In this we set the main goals and what's the scope of the entire project.
Set Time for Scope: - Timelines are decided for the scope identified in the previous phase.
Decide the number of iterations: - Depending on the time lines and the scope we identify how many iterations will the project have.
Break Scope to tasks: - In this section we break the scope in to tasks. Tasks are nothing but development activity which a developer has to do to complete the scope.
Assign task to developers: - Assign those task to developer.
Now that we know who will do what task, its time for coding / execution.
Figure: - Speculate
Collaborate (coding / execution):-Execute as per the task and test it.
Learn (Review and give feedback to planning):- At the end of iteration see what lessons we have learnt and apply the same for the next iteration.
From all the methodologies shown above, XP is the most used for Agile. One of the important points to be noted about all the XP methodologies described above is that every body believes in accepting change. Principles of all the agile methodologies are more or less same. So do not get confused just understand what every methodology concentrates on. For instance FDD plans around features, Scrum uses product owner and catalog for describing a project, DSDM gives importance to RAD. So understand the main theme of the methodologies but yes the common acceptance is every one believes on 'Accepting Changes'.
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Obey. Submit. Obey. John Piper on Domestic Violence.
Obey. Submit. Obey. John Piper on Domestic Violence. May 10, 2018
In 2012, evangelical theologian John Piper "clarified" his early comments on women's submission to an abusive husband by explaining that women should go to the authorities if the abuse they suffered met their state's legal definition for abuse—because they are bound to obey the authorities, not for their well-being.
No shit, Sherlock.
In other words: What should a woman do if her husband tells her to break the law? After all, that woman is called by God to obey both her husband and the civil authorities on earth. Here, she can't do both.
What exactly does this have to do with abuse? Certainly, there are cases where abusive men force their victims to commit crimes, but I doubt that this is so common as to justify placing it up front.
Okay, two questions.
First, did it really have to take this long to get to a positive statement that what an abusive husband is doing is wrong? Second, if a woman relates directly to Christ, what is the point of spiritual headship?
This second question, of course, is a longer conversation, but it's one that I have started to see as increasingly relevant. Protestants have long argued that there is no mediator between God and man but Christ—this was part of their rejection of the Catholic Church, with its pope and priests. Why, then, set up a husband as a sort of mediator between wife and God? Why create spiritual headship at all? Why not a priesthood of all believers?
The import of this section, of course, is that an abusive man is breaking the law of God, and that it is therefore in the purview of the church to discipline him and to take him to task for his sinful actions.
What in the blazes is this?!
Notice why Piper says that going to the authorities may be in order—not because an abusive man is dangerous, or because he should be behind bars. Not because his wife's safety is at risk. No! The wife should go to the authorities because if she does not, she is both participating in her husband's sin and breaking the law. Yes, really.
The entire reason Piper gives for reporting domestic violence to the authorities is that the law bans domestic violence and the Bible states that believers are to obey the civil laws. Way to make women feel valued. Way to make women feel cared about. Or like they matter.
Plenty of people participate in victim blaming by asking abuse victims why they didn't go to the police. Piper goes a step further. He informs abuse victims that if they do not go to the police, they are helping their husband commit a crime by hiding his offense. And they are sinning.
Abused women do not need one more finger pointed at them. They need to be told that they matter. That their life matters. That their happiness matters.
I highlighted the important part there.
Do you know what I would prefer to see here? Some explanation of the ways in which abusers manipulate the story so as to get the church on their side and isolate their victim. There's a sort of implicit assumption in Piper's statement here that the church will be able to easily identify an abuser and see through his excuses, that the church will believe women and take their words seriously, when reality is often far different.
There is a larger conversation that needs to be had here. Piper shows at least a little bit of understanding of the situation abused wives' frequently face, with his nod to not wanting a husband to lose his job. But there is so much more he never really addresses. Up in point 3 he refers to "civil protection." What exactly is that?
As one blogger noted:
It's almost as though Piper is living in a parallel universe. He just doesn't seem to get it. Does he have any understanding at all of the law or of tyrannical husbands? The only civil protection a wife can obtain in such circumstances is a restraining order, and until the matter goes to court, she would be expected to flee the dangerous home. There is no such thing as 'civil protection' that arrives at the beck and call of a beaten wife and hangs around her home to protect her. And let's not be naive. Is the abusive husband really going to give her permission to leave him and perhaps take the children with her? The scenario has no relevance to the real world and carries dangerous implications.
Piper claims that "the women of the church should know that there are spiritual men and women in the church that they can turn to for help." But what kind of help? Financial help? A safe house? Job training? Logistics? I don't see a lot of acknowledgement, in Piper's post, of everything a woman goes through when leaving an abusive husband. Besides—is leaving actually allowed?
Piper says that an abused woman should go to the church for help. He also says that she should make a report to the authorities of any abuse that reaches the criminal level. But what then? The authorities do not come in and remove abused women and take them to a safe house. They do not kick abusive husbands out, or jail them before trial (bail for domestic offenses tends to be low). What is the woman, in practical terms, to do?
Remember—all of this is predicated on the idea that a woman should respond to domestic violence in a way that is still submissive to her husband—her abuser. Telling the church and asking them for help is still submissive, because they are to obey God over their husband; the same is true for reporting criminal abuse to the authorities. But what about leaving? What about kicking an abusive partner out of the house? What about divorce?
Here's the problem—church men do not have the legal authority to step in and act as an authority. They can talk to an abuser and tell him to discontinue his ways, but they cannot punish him in any way beyond telling him he is no longer welcome at church. This utter lack of specifics—should church men offer a home for an abused woman, so that she can move out?—is maddening.
If anything comes across loud and clear, it is that even in acting to (presumably) get out of an abusive relationship does not give a woman permission to be anything short of submissive to her husband. So here's a question—if the civil authorities do not tell her to leave (and that is not something they usually do), can she? If her pastors do not tell her to leave, is she allowed to get out? She does not appear to be allowed to act in any way for herself.
Obey your husband. If he mistreats you, tell the church and the civil authorities and obey them. Never, make your own decisions. Value your own dreams. You matter. No.
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A cable ferry (known as chain ferry, swing ferry, floating bridge, or punt) is a ferry that is guided (and in some cases propelled) across a river by cables connected to both shores. Early cable ferries used either rope or steel chains, with the latter resulting in the name "chain ferry". Both of these were replaced by wire cable in the 19th century.
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Malgas Ferry on the Breede River, Western Cape, South Africa
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Obese Primates
February 22, 2011
from The New York Times
Update: The following post is very rant-like, my apologies. The research on monkeys upsets me. Do we have to do this to these creatures who can't make choices to prove that not getting outside and moving one's body and eating poorly can be deleterious to health? I'm glad we have medical interventions that can help. I also wish that we all could observe a better social ethic around living healthily. Seeing monkeys and humans lose the graciousness of their being in this way makes me ache. There is no other way to say it.
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This article in the NYTimes described obesity research being conducted on primates. Why does reading about primates confined to cages, eating bad foods as they gain pound after pound, tear me apart more than my knowledge of all the people who live this way? So many people get out of bed, trudge to work, eat donuts/muffins/bagel with coffee on the go, sit or stand all day enclosed in a small space, snack to forestall boredom and fatigue, eat unhealthy take-out lunch, then sit, stand and snack some more until its time to go home and watch TV (and snack). Are we any different than those poor research primates, save the fact that no one is studying us? (more…)
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Dibber was Sabalom Glitz's uneducated but sensible henchman from the planet of Salostopus in the galaxy of Andromeda.
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Circa the year 2,000,000, Dibber accompanied Sabalom Glitz to Earth (which was known as Ravolox at the time). Prior to this visit, Dibber had spent some time in prison. Dibber and Glitz were hired to acquire Time Lord files stolen by a group of Andromedans known as the Three Sleepers. To do so, they had to disable the black light power system that powered Drathro, an L3 robot that protected the Three Sleepers and the data that they had stolen.
Before carrying out their plan, they were imprisoned by Katryca, warrior queen of the Tribe of the Free. During their escape, Dibber destroyed the black light system receiver with a grenade. Dibber and Glitz then made their way into Drathro's base built out of the remains of the London Underground, where they were able to convince the dying Drathro they had a black light power system on their spaceship. Drathro fell for their lies and followed them towards the surface with the Time Lord data files. Drathro collapsed and blew up, burning the files in the process. (TV: The Mysterious Planet)
Accounts differ as to Dibber's activities after that point in his and Glitz's timeline. One account stated that Dibber was later killed while carrying out a heist with the aid of the Sixth Doctor and Frobisher, (PROSE: Impractical) while another claimed that he was still alive and working with Glitz after Glitz's exploits on Iceworld. (PROSE: Head Games, Goth Opera)
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ZoneSmart is a hand on field day exploring Management Zones. The morning group sessions will rotate through the four pillars of zone creation: Yield, Elevation, Soil and Remote Sensing.
During lunch we will explore the integration of the Yield, Elevation, Soil and Remote Sensing maps discussed in the morning sessions that lead to the creation of management zones and how to apply prescriptions to optimize field performance. Also a panel session will explore how to manage big data, including best practices and tips.
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Sense of Place: How 'The Cedars' got its name
"The Cedars" is located about seven miles north of Cazadero, in the middle of Sonoma County's sparsely populated northwest, one of the most remote places in the region.
It was probably named by the U.S. Geological Survey in the 1940s. Locals have called the area "Red Slide" since the 19th century. "Cedars" refers to the extensive woodlands and pygmy forests of Sargent cypress found there.
This conifer grows only on serpentine soils, which are high in magnesium and iron. Many plants can't survive such conditions; those that can sometimes evolve into new species. Hence The Cedars is home to at least seven plants found nowhere else in the world, including forms of manzanita, fairy lantern and jewel flower.
This island of rare plants and unusual soils points to a rare geologic event. Long ago, the Earth's mantle, which normally lies deep underground, pushed through the crust all the way to the surface, creating thousands of acres of peridotite rock. This peridotite weathered into The Cedars' serpentine soils.
Because of its geology, The Cedars' springs and seeps are highly alkaline (pH 11 or 12) and saturated with methane and hydrogen. Biologists consider them to be one of the harshest environments on Earth and extremely hostile to life.
If The Cedars sounds otherworldly, it is. Conditions in its springs are thought to resemble that of the early Earth and Mars. Amazingly, scientists have found unique microbes living in them — microbes thought to be fundamentally different from nearly all other known life forms. They may provide clues about life on other planets.
Roger Raiche, who has championed protection of The Cedars for many years, calls it "an area of great botanic, geologic, and scenic magnificence." To preserve this hidden jewel, The Cedars is not open to the public, but guided tours can be arranged through _EMAIL_.
You can reach Glen Ellen-based historical ecologist Arthur Dawson at _EMAIL_.

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About the Book
Eddie is bored. He finds ten little easter eggs sitting on the wall…what does he do?
He tries to play with them!
Sing along and count as Eddie Chick learns his 1,2,3 as he plays with Easter Eggs.
About the Author
Mare Robbins has the development and education of children close to her heart. With three children of her own¬—raising kids is a hands-on experience that she has tapped on to create her books. It's never too early to introduce books to children—and less of a steep hill when you start with things they like and enjoy.
Mare loves to create for children, and when she's not writing, she enjoys spending time with her family.


Everything about number 138
Discover a lot of information on the number 138: properties, mathematical operations, how to write it, symbolism, numerology, representations and many other interesting things!
Mathematical properties of 138
Questions and answers
Is 138 a prime number? No
Is 138 a perfect number? No
Number of divisors 8
List of dividers 1, 2, 3, 6, 23, 46, 69, 138
Sum of divisors 288
Prime factorization 2 x 3 x 23
Prime factors 2, 3, 23
How to write / spell 138 in letters?
In letters, the number 138 is written as: One hundred and thirty-eight. And in other languages? how does it spell?
138 in other languages
Write 138 in english One hundred and thirty-eight
Write 138 in french Cent trente-huit
Write 138 in spanish Ciento treinta y ocho
Write 138 in portuguese Cento trinta e oito
Decomposition of the number 138
The number 138 is composed of:
1 iteration of the number 1 : The number 1 (one) represents the uniqueness, the unique, a starting point, a beginning.... Find out more about the number 1
1 iteration of the number 3 : The number 3 (three) is the symbol of the trinity. He also represents the union.... Find out more about the number 3
1 iteration of the number 8 : The number 8 (eight) represents power, ambition. It symbolizes balance, realization.... Find out more about the number 8
Mathematical representations and links
Other ways to write 138
In letter One hundred and thirty-eight
In roman numeral CXXXVIII
In binary _PHONE_
In octal 212
In hexadecimal 8a
In US dollars
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USD 138.00 ($)
In euros
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138,00 EUR (€)
Some related numbers
Previous number 137
Next number 139
Next prime number 139
Mathematical operations
Operations and solutions
138*2 = 276 The double of 138 is 276
138*3 = 414 The triple of 138 is 414
138/2 = 69 The half of 138 is 69.000000
138/3 = 46 The third of 138 is 46.000000
1382 = 19044 The square of 138 is 19044.000000
1383 = _PHONE_ The cube of 138 is _PHONE_.000000
√138 = 11.747340124471 The square root of 138 is 11.747340
log(138) = 4.9272536851572 The natural (Neperian) logarithm of 138 is 4.927254
log10(138) = 2.1398790864012 The decimal logarithm (base 10) of 138 is 2.139879
sin(138) = -0.22805225950086 The sine of 138 is -0.228052
cos(138) = 0.97364889304952 The cosine of 138 is 0.973649
tan(138) = -0.23422432986761 The tangent of 138 is -0.234224
Some random numbers


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For mining drilling rig selection, our target is choosing the right rig for right purpose, let's have the further explanation on how to achieve this target. There are totally two parts for this topic, here is the part one.
Field of Application
OPEN PIT MINING (METALS, INDUSTRIAL AND BUILDING MATERIALS)
- Production drilling
- Pre-split drilling
- Overburden drilling in open cast mining
- Other drilling in open pit mines like wall stabilizing, roads, foundations for buildings, stationary crushers, conveyors etc, secondary breaking of oversize rocks, sampling drilling etc.
- road cuts, airfields, railways, foundations, canals, earth and rock fill dams, tunneling etc.
- Aggregates "travel" max. 45 km
- Often categorized as open pit mining
- Aggregate, sand producing quarries
DIMENSION STONE QUARRIES
- Slot drilling
- Line drilling
- Splitting Squaring
- Pilot hole drilling
- Drill or Drill & Blast
- All suitable and unsuitable applications
Target of all applications
- Their real question generally should be whether they can find quality and quantity of drilling with minimum cost to maximum their profit
- The minimum cost is either total process or drilling and blasting or that of drilling, depending on their application
- But what is the priority?
Annual Cost – Unit Operation
When talking about Annual cost, the whole system cost should be included such as drilling, Blasting, Loading, Hauling, Crushing etc.
Cost per Ton – Degree of Fragmentation
Below picture is showing the relationship between Cost per Ton and Degree of Fragmentation for Drilling, blasting, Secondary Breakage, Loading, Hauling, Crushing respectively
Combined Unit Operational Cost
This Chart shows the combined/systematic Unit Operation Cost(From drilling to crushing) to Degree of Fragmentation
The rest of part of how to select mining drill rig will be introduced in part two.
- How Drilling Tools Selection Impacts Borehole Quality
- TOP 6 BRAND / Manufacturer For Drill Rigs
- How to Select DTH Hammer Drill Bit
- How to Select Rotary / Tricon Drilling Bit
- 7 Rules on How to Design Reverse Circulation System
- 6 Advantages of Reverse Circulation Vs Direct Circulation On Bore hole drilling
- 8 Points on How to Select Water Well Drilling Rig


ads use lozenges, a Bavaria symbol, and Rothschild-and-Rhodes Illuminati elements (e.g. of the Round Table) were from Bavarian-Illuminati elements).
English Freys use a white-on-green horse that I had seen in the last update page. Finding it, it turned out to be in the Sing Coat. The Frey write-up: "An arm embowed in armor holding a sword enfiled by a moor's head.
The Foray surname (from "Forres"), which could apply to Freys/Frys, was first in Moray (it should be said that Moray was also called "Fortriu" under the Mackays and Macbeths). I would suggest a trace of green-Shielded Freys to the green-Shielded Forets/Forests (of Savoy).
I had traced the MacBeth clan of Fortriu to the Baits/Beiths using a sword piercing a boar's head, and a "fortuna" motto term. The latter were first in Fife (beside Forfar), where I traced the Forets/Forests. I say this because the Frey Crest is a sword piercing (official term = "enfile," perhaps code for a File-like surname). It therefore appears that the Freys do trace to Foret and/or Foray elements at Fortriu/Moray (last I traced Forets/Forests, I did so to Segovesus Gauls in the Black Forest, at PFORZheim).
I had traced "Fife" to the Vey/Vivian surname, and that in turn had been traced to Morgan le Fay of Avalon (dressed in green and gold at her Wikipedia's article). Like Forets, both the Morgans (surname) and the Pfeifers use a green Shield with gold symbols. Veys use a purple lion that should link to the purplish Bruce lion.
Veys (Massin/Mason colors probably for a Melusine-of-Avalon reason) show a gold Shield with symbol-less red Chief, identical (not including symbols) to the Fife/Phyfe-surname Shield, while the Annan Coat also uses a red symbol-less Chief. Both Baits and Fifes use "virtute," a Vere code in my opinion.
Veres trace their Melusine of Avalon forward in time to Angers/Anjou, and that's cause for a little look at the Angers Crest, using the French Ray symbol, an "escarbuncle." English Rays use three white stags running on a green Shield much like the three Frey white-on-green horses. That's very conspicuous because I've just traced "Frey" to "Dumfries" for the first time, while Rays were first found in Dumfriesshire! That convinces me in short order that Frey elements (not yet sure if the Frey god applies) were at the root of "Dumfries."
There are two Fries Coats if you're interested, and the one with red-on-white crescents smacks to me of the Speers/Sprees, but also of the Touts/Tutts that I think are encoded in the "Tout' term of the Foret motto. Let's not forget that Tutt-like Dudleys-of-Masci use the Massin/Mason lion too (or that Massins use a Speer-evoking motto), and that red-on-white and white-on-red crescents (see Spree/Sprey Coat) are used also by Tattons-of-Masci who in turn use a Massey/Vere-like the Dutton Shield.
THEN, we find that two Tate Coats use ravens, but also that Scottish Tates use a near-copy of the Annan(dale) Shield and Chief (I think the red Tout box is link-able to the red Annandale Chief). People from these north-African bloodlines are the $&^%^$_TAG_ who insist on running Euro-American affairs, who think they have God-given rights to control/engineer the global future.
But God has a plan starting in Iraq and moving into Egypt, and fake-Israelite globalists will be sucked into the trap:
"The Camp David agreement is over," said Dr. Ayman Nour, head of the Party of Tomorrow, in an interview with an Egyptian radio station, according to a report by Channel 2 News. Dr. Nour spent several years in jail in Egypt, and the US lobbied for his freedom. He now intends to run for the presidency of Egypt, in election due to be held in a few months time.
...Dr. Nour is not identified with the Muslim Brotherhood, but is rather considered a liberal and a democrat. His remarks are therefore all the more worrying, although for the time being they are the only statements of their kind heard from such a source.
The time could be here fast when certain globalists like frogs (I trace "Frey" and "Frigg" to Phrygian-rooted "frogs" i.e. the Franks>Varangi) come to an alliance with the anti-Christ.
Updates Index
If you've come to this book beginning at this webpage,
Table of Contents
(The link below is now working)
The 2011 Update in the 2016 chapter tells why
I'll be watching Iraq until the summer of this year, at least.


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New Curriculum Educates Youth on Value-added Agriculture Opportunities for Rural Development
AMES, Iowa — The Agricultural Marketing Resource Center (AgMRC) offers a new, free curriculum to educate youth on opportunities for rural development through value-added agriculture. The curriculum, located on the AgMRC website, _URL_, provides instructors with full lesson plans on agritourism, aquaculture, livestock, biomass and renewable energy. Information for the curriculum is drawn directly from the website.
AgMRC, located at Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, is an electronic, national resource for producers interested in value-added agriculture. Users of the website can browse commodities and products, investigate market and industry trends, study business creation and operation, read research results and locate value-added resources.
"Our goal is to continue to promote and advance opportunities within value-added agriculture," said Ray Hansen, director of AgMRC. "Educating the future of agriculture on value-added opportunities is crucial to the continued economic development we see happening in rural America."
Vocational agriculture instructors can utilize lesson plans to engage students in a natural versus organic debate, the creation of posters, interviews of value-added businesses within their community and a case study analysis of their own value-added ag enterprise.
Additional curriculum materials will be added throughout the fall of 2012. The full curriculum is available at _URL_
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Understanding Resource Timing
It is crucial to understand the phases in which resources are gathered over the network. This is the foundation for fixing load issues.
TL;DR
 - Understand the phases of resource timing.
 - Know what each phase provides to the Resource Timing API.
 - Realize different indicators of performance problems in the timeline graph, such as series of transparent bars or large green chunks.
All network requests are considered resources. As they are retrieved over the network, resources have distinct lifecycles expressed in terms of resource timing. The Network Panel uses the same Resource Timing API that is available to application developers.
The Resource Timing API provides a rich level of detail about each individual asset's time to be received. The primary phases of the request lifecycle are:
 - Redirect
 - Immediately begins startTime.
 - If a redirect is happening, redirectStart begins as well.
 - If a redirect is occurring at the end of this phase then redirectEnd will be taken.
 - App Cache
 - If it's application cache fulfilling the request, a fetchStart time will be taken.
 - DNS
 - domainLookupStart time is taken at the beginning of the DNS request.
 - domainLookupEnd time is taken at the end of the DNS request.
 - TCP
 - connectStart is taken when initially connecting to the server.
 - If TLS or SSL are in use then secureConnectionStart will start when the handshake begins for securing the connection.
 - connectEnd is taken when the connection to the server is complete.
 - Request
 - requestStart is taken once the request for a resource has been sent to the server.
 - Response
 - responseStart is the time when the server initially responds to the request.
 - responseEnd is the time when the request ends and the data is retrieved.
Resource Timing API diagram
Viewing in DevTools
To view the full timing information for a given entry of the Network Panel you have three options.
 1. Hover the timing graph under the timeline column. This will present a popup that shows the full timing data.
 2. Click on any entry and open the Timing tab of that entry.
 3. Use the Resource Timing API to retrieve the raw data from JavaScript.
Resource Timing Information
This code can be ran in the DevTools console. It will use the network timing API to retrieve all resources. Then it filters the entries looking for one with a name that contains "style.css". If found it will be returned.
performance.getEntriesByType('resource').filter(item => item.name.includes("style.css"))
Resource Timing Entry
Queuing
A request being queued indicates that:
 - The request was postponed by the rendering engine because it's considered lower priority than critical resources (such as scripts/styles). This often happens with images.
 - The request was put on hold to wait for an unavailable TCP socket that's about to free up.
 - The request was put on hold because the browser only allows six TCP connections per origin on HTTP 1.
 - Time spent making disk cache entries (typically very quick.)
Stalled/Blocking
Time the request spent waiting before it could be sent. It can be waiting for any of the reasons described for Queueing. Additionally, this time is inclusive of any time spent in proxy negotiation.
Proxy Negotiation
Time spent negotiating with a proxy server connection.
DNS Lookup
Time spent performing the DNS lookup. Every new domain on a page requires a full roundtrip to do the DNS lookup.
Initial Connection / Connecting
Time it took to establish a connection, including TCP handshakes/retries and negotiating a SSL.
SSL
Time spent completing a SSL handshake.
Request Sent / Sending
Time spent issuing the network request. Typically a fraction of a millisecond.
Waiting (TTFB)
Time spent waiting for the initial response, also known as the Time To First Byte. This time captures the latency of a round trip to the server in addition to the time spent waiting for the server to deliver the response.
Content Download / Downloading
Time spent receiving the response data.
Diagnosing Network Issues
There are numerous possible issues that can be uncovered through the Network Panel. Being able to find these requires a good understanding of how clients and servers communicate and the limitations imposed by the protocols.
Queued or Stalled series
The most common issue seen is a series of items that are queued or stalled. This indicates that too many resources are being retrieved from a single domain. On HTTP 1.0/1.1 connections, Chrome enforces a maximum of six TCP connections per host. If you are requesting twelve items at once, the first six will begin and the last half will be queued. Once one of the original half is finished, the first item in the queue will begin its request process.
Stalled series of requests
To fix this problem for traditional HTTP 1 traffic, you would need to implement domain sharding. That is making multiple subdomains on your application to serve resources from. Then split the resources being served evenly among the subdomains.
The fix for HTTP 1 connections does not apply to HTTP 2 connections. In fact, it hurts them. If you have HTTP 2 deployed, don't domain-shard your resources as it works against how HTTP 2 is engineered to operate. In HTTP 2, there is a single TCP connection to the server that acts as a multiplexed connection. This gets rid of the six connection limit of HTTP 1 and multiple resources can be transferred over the single connection simultaneously.
Slow Time to First Byte
AKA: lots of green
High TTFB Indicator
A slow time to first byte (TTFB) is recognized by a high waiting time. It is recommended that you have this under 200ms. A high TTFB reveals one of two primary issues. Either:
 1. Bad network conditions between client and server, or
 2. A slowly responding server application
To address a high TTFB, first cut out as much network as possible. Ideally, host the application locally and see if there is still a big TTFB. If there is, then the application needs to be optimized for response speed. This could mean optimizing database queries, implementing a cache for certain portions of content, or modifying your web server configuration. There are many reasons a backend can be slow. You will need to do research into your software and figure out what is not meeting your performance budget.
If the TTFB is low locally then the networks between your client and the server are the problem. The network traversal could be hindered by any number of things. There are a lot of points between clients and servers and each one has its own connection limitations and could cause a problem. The simplest method to test reducing this is to put your application on another host and see if the TTFB improves.
Hitting throughput capacity
AKA: lots of blue
Throughput capacity Indicator
If you see lots of time spent in the Content Download phases, then improving server response or concatenating won't help. The primary solution is to send fewer bytes.
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1442. Use of a wrist-mounted device for continuous outpatient physiologic monitoring after transsphenoidal surgery: a pilot study
Authors: Tyler Scott Cole, MD; Jakub Godzik, MD; Clinton Morgan, MD; Andrew Little, MD; Peter Nakaji, MD (Phoenix, AZ)
Introduction:
Patients who undergo transsphenoidal surgery may experience electrolyte and fluid disturbances in the postoperative period. Our goal was to determine whether use of a wrist-mounted device capable of tracking a comprehensive array of physiologic parameters is feasible in this setting and whether changes or trends in these parameters after discharge can help predict aberrant physiology in these patients.
Methods:
Wrist-mounted physiologic tracking devices that transmit data via Bluetooth to a mobile device were used to monitor patients. Preoperative baseline data and postoperative data were recorded and aggregated daily to compare within-patient and between-patient trends.
Results:
Of seven enrolled patients, one patient was readmitted to the hospital for symptomatic hyponatremia. Device adherence during the preoperative period ranged from 88.9% to 100%. Postoperative data completeness ranged from 78% to 93% with the exception of oxygen saturation (25% completeness). The patient with hyponatremia had a significantly lower baseline level of activity before and after the operation compared with other patients. Among patients who were not readmitted, activity variables decreased by 48% to 52% after the operation (P < .001). Postoperative activity variables for the patient with hyponatremia were stable compared with preoperatively; however, the patient experienced a significant decrease in heart rate (26% decrease; P = .04). When all postoperative trends in physiologic variables were analyzed via hierarchical clustering, the patient with hyponatremia clustered separately. This suggests a possible physiologic signature unique for patients with hyponatremia.
Conclusion:
Wrist-based physiologic tracking devices are feasible for surgical patients. Patient activity significantly decreased after surgery. A significant decrease in heart rate was detected in a patient with hyponatremia, reflecting the known intravascular volume expansion in this state. This hyponatremic patient also had a lower level of baseline activity compared with the other patients. Wrist-mounted physiologic trackers represent a new modality to monitor postoperative outpatient recovery.


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By my reading of FA 2004, in order for a registered pension scheme to accept a contribution from an individual, the individual must:
- be UK resident, and
- be under 75, and
- have "relevant earnings" (of any amount > £0) chargeable to income tax (which might then be covered by the personal allowance).
So if a child is, say, entitled to a £1 share of the profits from a furnished holiday let, then a contribution of £3,600 can be made "by or on behalf of" that child. The pension fund can accumulate and grow tax-free until the child retires or dies.
Is that right?
Let's call the child Sam and assume he's currently 3.
Sam's parents have money to burn and want to make the best possible provision for Sam. He has a Child Trust Fund or Child ISA to which they make the maximum annual contribution (of £3,600?).
Does a £3,600 pension contribution make any sense?
If it does, what would happen to the pension fund if Sam died in his minority? and what would happens to it if he died in his majority but without dependents?

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Behavior of Concrete Integral Abutment Bridges
Jimin Huang, Catherine E French, Carol K Shield
Report no. Mn/DOT 2004-43
Projects: Behavior of Concrete Integral Abutments
Topics: Bridge design and sensing
Integral abutment bridges have been increasing in popularity over the past 30 years due to low construction and maintenance cost and good earthquake resistance. However, their behavior is not fully understood with respect to thermal movements, time-dependent response, soil-structure interaction, and skew effects. In order to quantify--and predict--those conditions, researchers monitored a prestressed concrete Integral Abutment bridge from initial fabrication through seven seasonal cycles.


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Pathways to Professional Development
Benefits of Participating in the Career Lattice
- Strengthen the employment opportunities in the early childhood field. Statistics show there is a high rate of turnover in the early care and education field. Statistics also show offering training opportunities to staff enhances recruitment and retention. A professional development system can provide a means to enhancing recruitment and retention of staff.
- Improve the quality of care to children. Professional training and education enhances adult caregiver knowledge and skills, which leads to increased quality of care provided to children and families.
- Offer paths allowing practitioners to further their education and encourage their individual efforts to improve skills and knowledge. The Career Lattice offers recognition for a variety of paths practitioners can follow to continually develop their professional abilities such as:
- enrichment training,
- a national recognized Child Development Associate (CDA) credential,
- associate's degree, and more.
- Each practitioner determines her or his own path. Increased compensation should be attainable as people move from one level of the Career Lattice to the next.
- Encourage the development of articulation agreements supporting a continual pathway for transfer of education credits.
Training opportunities should support a practitioner's ability to advance her or his career in meaningful ways. Through the Pathways project, practitioners can support efforts early childhood training programs are making to recognize the previous training individuals have completed as they move forward to more advanced training levels.
- Enhance public recognition of early childhood practitioners as professionals. The foundation of the Pathways project is to promote public awareness of the important role that practitioners play in every community in South Dakota. By registering with the Career Lattice, a practitioner's professional achievements will be recognized within her or his program and local community.
- Offer support to new early childhood professionals.
The Pathways project is a professional movement providing training and support critical to retaining qualified people who have a passion for working with children and families.
- Encourage efforts toward increased compensation.
The early education field is one of low pay and little or no recognition, partly because there are minimal requirements to open a small child care business or to work in a child care program. Individuals who take the initiative to increase their training and education through the professional development system should see their compensation increase as a result.
- Combine resources and join forces allowing for more accessible, higher quality training. Individual practitioners, programs, early childhood agencies and organizations need to unite and share resources in innovative ways to increase the availability and affordability of quality training and professional development opportunities.
- Provide a consumer education tool for parents who have the right to learn about the qualifications an early childhood practitioner should have. The Career Lattice serves as a tool for parents to learn about the qualifications a practitioner should have in order to provide quality care and education to their children.


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obvious • pocket • significant • diverse
point • subdued • roots
 1. Our goal as a university is to create a environment for our students.
 2. The solution to this problem is pretty.
 3. There is a large of foreigners that live in this neighborhood.
 4. He was very after his surgery because of all the medication the put him on.
 5. All of these things to the fact that it is time for me to make a big change in my life.
 6. There is no real difference between the two computers.
 7. Although she has lived in England her whole life, she still feels strong in her birth country.
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Mike compares Canada and the U.S. from a Canadian's perspective.
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The most obvious difference is that Canada is a lot colder than the United States.
If something is 'obvious' it is easy to see or understand without a lot of effort. It is something that is noticeable. Notice the following:
 1. There was a small sign next to the road, but it wasn't that obvious.
 2. It's very obvious that you aren't interested in what I'm saying.
cultural pockets
In the U.S., there are many more of those cultural pockets.
A 'cultural pocket' is an area where a group of people from one particular culture live in a community. Notice the following:
 1. Why would a cultural pocket of Puerto Ricans form in a place that is so cold?
 2. There are cultural pockets in the United States where you feel like you are almost in a different country.
The U.S. has many, many more sort of culturally diverse areas.
If a place has people who come from all different countries or cultural and religious backgrounds it is considered to be 'diverse.' Notice the following:
 1. One of the cool things about living in a big city is that the people are very diverse.
 2. The student population at my university is very diverse.
significant difference
I think diversity is one significant difference between Canada and the U.S.
A'significant difference' is a different that is very big or important. Notice the following:
 1. The most significance difference about my life here is that I don't drive anywhere.
 2. The only significant difference between Sara and her twin is that one is a little taller.
point to
One thing that many tourists point to as a reason for going to Canada is that it's safer than in the U.S.
Used like this, 'point to' means the same as'refer to.' The meaning of the sentence is that the reason that tourists give for going to Canada is that it's safer than the U.S. Notice the following:
 1. All of the evidence points to the fact that we are looking for at least 3 criminals in the bank robbery.
 2. She points to her desire to have a safe home for her family as a reason for moving out of the city.
roots or subdued
I think the roots in Canada are a little bit less and subdued.
'Roots,' in this sense, are cultural traditions or feeling of belonging or wanting to stay in a place. When something is'subdued' it exists, but not in as strong or obvious a way as in other places. Notice the following:
 1. She put down very strong roots during only a few months in Asia.
 2. My dog is a lot more subdued now that he is older. He was wild as a puppy.


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Lizenz: Print on Demand
The Islamic missionary movement Dawat-e Islami was founded in 1981 as the Barelwi version of Tablighi Jamaat. Both new religious movements of piety and self-improvement show to some extent characteristics comparable with the religious change promoted by Pentecostalisms. World religions have undergone a dramatic transformation during recent decades with consumers' preferences of new religious goods and services shaping the religious change. The modernity-specific tool kit of religious change that translates and reframes religious symbol-systems seems to be similar among different traditions of faith: Stressing "lay" leadership, new voluntarism, individual transformation and the increasing imperative to share one's faith with "unbelievers", these re-traditionalized belief-systems are transformed into lived, experienced traditions. Tradition thus becomes an activity.
|Date Deposited:||23 August 2010|
|Faculties / Institutes:||Miscellaneous > Individual person|
|Controlled Subjects:||Südasien, Islam, Mission, Reformbewegung|
|Uncontrolled Keywords:||Südasien, Islam, Mission, Reform, Barelwi Tabligi Gama'at Da'wat-e Islami, South Asia, Islam, Reform ; Barelwi Tabligi Gama'at Da'wat-e Islami|
|Subject (classification):||Religion and Philosophy|


text: This study examines the evolution of exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) into import, producer, and consumer prices in Peru from 1995Q2 to 2022Q4 using time-varying parameter and stochastic volatility VAR models. Findings reveal a resurgence of ERPTs into import and producer prices since 2009, particularly during the period of a strong US dollar following the 2013 taper tantrum and from 2020 to 2022. Increased uncertainty surrounding the exchange rate and future macroeconomic policies, triggered by the political uncertainty following the 2021 general elections, may have contributed to this trend. Short-term ERPT exceeds long-term ERPT, which might reflect prevalent price dollarization in Peru's import and producer prices. Consumer ERPT remained stable at around 10% until 2009, then increased to 15%, indicating lower levels of price dollarization. This paper sheds light on ERPT dynamics in Peru, carrying implications for policymakers in emerging economies.


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MySQL Question
Count by months in MySQL database?
How do you count the total number of entries by month?
id, date
01, 2010-09-28
02, 2010-03-28
03, 2010-09-28
04, 2010-03-28
For example. How could you pick only dates from September and have them count as an output of
Edit: Edited the dates to put them in the right format.
select month(date), count(*)
from yourtable
group by month(date)


go from one place to another place in one campus or between campuses. They want to find the shortest path between their source place S and target place T. Can you help them?

Input

The first line of the input is a positive integer C. C is the number of test cases followed. In each test case, the first line is a positive integer N (0<N<=100) that represents the number of roads. After that, N lines follow. The i-th(1<=i<=N) line contains two strings Si, Ti and one integer Di (0<=Di<=100). It means that there is a road whose length is Di between Si and Ti. Finally, there are two strings S and T, you have to find the shortest path between S and T. S, T, Si(1<=i<=N) and Ti(1<=i<=N) are all given in the following format: str_Campus.str_Place. str_Campus represents the name of the campus, and str_Place represents the place in str_Campus. str_Campus is "North", "South", "East" or "Zhuhai". str_Place is a string which has less than one hundred lowercase characters from "a-z". You can assume that there is at most one road directly between any two places.

Output

The output of the program should consist of C lines, one line for each test case. For each test case, the output is a single line containing one integer. If there is a path between S and T, output the length of the shortest path between them. Otherwise just output "-1" (without quotation mark). No redundant spaces are needed.


Quick Answer: What Is _USER_ In Spring Boot?
What is _USER_ in spring?
This is called Spring Java Config feature (using _USER_ annotation)..
What is _USER_ in spring boot?
Spring Boot _USER_ annotation is used to mark a configuration class that declares one or more _USER_ methods and also triggers auto-configuration and component scanning. It's same as declaring a class with _USER_, _USER_ and _USER_ annotations.
What is the difference between _USER_ and _USER_?
The _USER_ annotation is used for auto-wiring in Spring framework. … The _USER_ annotation also serves the same purpose, but the main difference between them is that _USER_ is a standard annotation for dependency injection and _USER_ is spring specific.
What is difference between _USER_ and _USER_?
What's the difference between _USER_ _USER_ _USER_ & _USER_ annotations in spring?
The difference between them is, _USER_ is used to annotate compound classes, _USER_ is a marker for automatic exception translation in the persistence layer, for service layer we need to use _USER_. You can refer Spring Documentation to know more.
What is the difference between _USER_ and _USER_?
What is the difference between _USER_ and _USER_?
Using the annotation _USER_, you can tell Spring where do your Spring-managed components lie. … On the other hand, _USER_ is a generic annotation for any Spring-Managed component. For example – If you create a class called Testing inside the package com. example.
What is a bean class in spring?
Why _USER_ is used in spring?
Spring Component annotation is used to denote a class as Component. It means that Spring framework will autodetect these classes for dependency injection when annotation-based configuration and classpath scanning is used.
What is the use of _USER_ in spring boot?
_USER_ is the most generic Spring annotation. A Java class decorated with _USER_ is found during classpath scanning and registered in the context as a Spring bean. _USER_, _USER_, and _USER_ are specializations of _USER_, which are used for more specific cases.
What is Yaml used for?
_USER_ Indicates that an annotated class is a "component". Such classes are considered as candidates for auto-detection when using annotation-based configuration and classpath scanning. A _USER_ is also a _USER_, but a _USER_ cannot act like a _USER_.
What is use of _USER_?
In computing, configuration files (commonly known simply as config files) are files used to configure the parameters and initial settings for some computer programs. They are used for user applications, server processes and operating system settings.
What is the difference between _USER_ and _USER_?
_USER_ auto detects and configures the beans using classpath scanning whereas _USER_ explicitly declares a single bean, rather than letting Spring do it automatically.
What is _USER_?
The _USER_ annotation is used with the _USER_ annotation to tell Spring the packages to scan for annotated components. _USER_ also used to specify base packages and base package classes using thebasePackageClasses or basePackages attributes of _USER_.
What is bean life cycle in spring?
Bean life cycle is managed by the spring container. When we run the program then, first of all, the spring container gets started. After that, the container creates the instance of a bean as per the request and then dependencies are injected. And finally, the bean is destroyed when the spring container is closed.
Is _USER_ a singleton?
2 Answers. Yes, that is correct, _USER_ is a Spring bean and a Singleton. About singletons – spring beans are all in singleton scope by default. The only thing you have to have in mind is that you should not store state in field variables (they should only hold dependencies).
What are examples of configuration items?
What does _USER_ do in spring?
What is _USER_ used for?
_USER_ is used to mark a method as one that creates a bean and Spring will then add it to the context for us. The return type of the method defines the type of bean that is created, so both of the beans created in this example will be referred to by the type MyBean rather than their implementations.
What's a configuration?
In communications or computer systems, a configuration of a system refers to the arrangement of each of its functional units, according to their nature, number and chief characteristics. Often, configuration pertains to the choice of hardware, software, firmware, and documentation.


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What is naive about Naive Bayes? Have an exam later, and this was a question on the sample paper we received. We haven't found a good clear answer yet, could anyone explain this?
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You need not be embarassed Peddler, you have asked a good question. +1 – Yavar May 16 '12 at 8:40
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There's actually a very good example on Wikipedia:
In simple terms, a naive Bayes classifier assumes that the presence (or absence) of a particular feature of a class is unrelated to the presence (or absence) of any other feature, given the class variable. For example, a fruit may be considered to be an apple if it is red, round, and about 4" in diameter. Even if these features depend on each other or upon the existence of the other features, a naive Bayes classifier considers all of these properties to independently contribute to the probability that this fruit is an apple.
Basically, it's "naive" because it makes assumptions that may or may not turn out to be correct.
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I must say, I'm fairly embarrassed I asked this question now! Thanks Laurent! – Peddler May 16 '12 at 8:36
+1 for statement starting from "Basically, it's "naive"...." – Yavar May 16 '12 at 8:39
The wikipedia article explains it correctly, but I disagree that "it makes assumptions that may or may not turn out to be correct". With right amount of training data it does a good job of filtering out the irrelevant parameters. The "naive" part is that is does not consider dependence between the parameters.. and hence may have to look at redundant data. – Chip May 16 '12 at 8:50
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If your data is composed of a feature vector X = {x1, x2,... x10} and your class labels Y = {y1, y2,.. y5}. Thus, a Bayes classifier identifies the correct class label as the one that maximizes the following formula :
P(y/X) = P(X/y) * P(y) = P(x1,x2,... x10/ y) * P(y)
So for, it is still not Naive. However, it is hard to calculate P(x1,x2,... x10/ Y), so we assume the features to be independent, this is what we call the Naive assumption, hence, we end up with the following formula instead
P(y/X) = P(x1/y) * P(x2/y) *... P(x10/y) * P(y)
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- 3a moth or butterfly which bears crescent-shaped markings on the wings, in particular:
- an orange or brown American butterfly with a silvery mark on the underside of the hindwing (genus Phyciodes, subfamily Melitaeinae, family Nymphalidae). a brownish European moth with a pale mark on the forewing (several species in the family Noctuidae, in particular Celaena leucostigma).
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TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ALTERNATIVE REPORT ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE AFRICAN UNION CHARTER ON THE RIGHTS AND WELFARE OF THE CHILD, UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD (UNCRC) AND THE TWO OPTIONAL PROTOCOLS IN UGANDA
Uganda Child Rights NGO Network (UCRNN) is a coalition of child-focused organizations including community-based, national and international organizations working for the welfare and rights of children in Uganda. The Network undertakes joint advocacy, capacity strengthening, research and monitoring child rights in Uganda. Monitoring and reporting on the commitments made by the Government of Uganda in the various child rights legal frameworks has been UCRNN's core undertaking since 1998. Established in 1997 to spearhead the writing of the NGO Alternative Report to the UN Committee of Experts on the Rights of the Child, the Network has to date presented Five CSO Alternative Reports to different treaty bodies and has been involved in generating other country monitoring reports including the Global Monitoring reports as detailed below:
- Presented the first alternative report to the UN Committee of Experts on the Rights of the Child in 1997;
- Presented the first periodic report on the implementation of the UNCRC in Uganda in 2005.
- Presented two reports on the progress of implementation of the two Optional Protocols (Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography and OP Children in Armed Conflict) in 2008;
- Presented one report to the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child in 2009.
- Presented one report to the UN Human Rights Council for Uganda's Universal Periodic Review in 2010.
- Supported the development of an alternative report on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2011.
- As a host to End Child Prostitution and Trafficking (ECPAT) Uganda generated the Country Monitoring Report on Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC).
- Generated the Uganda Joint Monitoring Report on Children in Armed Conflict.
- Made contributions to the various global Horizontal Notes presented to the UN Security Council on Monitoring and Reporting Mechanisms of Grave Violations in Armed Conflict.
These processes have generated useful information and recommendations to state and non-state actors and informed various interventions designed to improve the wellbeing and protection of children. UCRNN continues to mobilize and coordinate its members and other like-minded CSOs in monitoring the implementation of the UNCRC, the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child and other regional and international child rights instruments.
The treaty mechanisms that are embedded within the various international and regional instruments require State Parties to report on the progress of implementation of the provisions therein as an accountability mechanism on children's rights. Child rights monitoring and reporting seek to ensure the government's compliance with national and international obligations. In this regard, Uganda has consistently endeavoured to fulfil its reporting obligations under the UNCRC, the UNCRC Optional Protocols and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC) The second periodic report to the CRC is due for submission in 2015 for the CRC and due to the Committee was due
Civil society organizations under the umbrella of UCRNN will in 2020 compile and submit an alternative report to that of the Government of Uganda on progress in the implementation of the CRC and ACRWC in Uganda. In accordance with Article 45 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights Child (UNCRC), that expressly makes provision for the role of NGOs in the reporting process, UCRNN intends to submit Uganda's Alternative Report on the implementation of the UNCRC, its Optional Protocols in Uganda and the ACRWC. UCRNN, therefore, seeks to commission a consultancy firm to develop (i) the Alternative Report and (ii) Voices of Children Report for submission to the ACRWC and addendums to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.
- Purpose of the consultancy
The purpose of this consultancy is to develop Uganda's Alternative Report on the Implementation of the ACRWC, UNCRC, and the two Optional Protocols in Uganda.
- Scope of assignment
This will largely be a research undertaking having a national coverage in order to generate experiences on the progress of implementation of the CRC and ACRWC at different levels. The consultant will undertake the generation and compilation of comprehensive information on the status of child wellbeing and rights, culminating into Uganda CSO Alternative Report to the African Union Committee on the Rights and Welfare of Children and UN Committee of Experts on the implementation of the CRC and its two Optional Protocols. This will involve conducting an extensive review of literature, conducting wide consultations with different stakeholders as well as children and young people.
Specifically, the consultant is required to undertake the following key tasks:
- Desk review of existing laws, policies and procedures on the rights of children and their implementation in Uganda.
- Desk review of children's rights situation especially concerning the situation of the sale of children and child pornography and children in armed conflict or children affected by conflict.
- Review literature on the status of child wellbeing and child rights from a variety of sources including government, civil society, and other regional and international research studies undertaken since 2005.
- Review the consolidated 3rd, 4th and 5th periodic report submitted by Government of Uganda to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.
- Conduct national consultations with children on their views and experiences on their enjoyment of their rights.
- Conduct wide consultations and interface with relevant state and non-state actors involved in child rights work including consultations with youth representatives, NGOs, development partners/donors, representatives of UN Agencies, government officials at national and district levels to supplement the data from secondary sources.
- Assess progress made by Government of Uganda in the implementation of UNSCRC against the Concluding Observations and Recommendations to the 1st periodic report submitted and adopted by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in 2005, and Concluding Observations on the Optional Protocols adopted in 2008.
- Assess progress made by the Government of Uganda in the implementation of ACRWC against the Concluding Observations and Recommendations to the last periodic report submitted and adopted by the African Union Committee on the Rights and Welfare of Children.
- Produce a first draft of the CSO Alternative Report, and the Children Report, reflecting the emerging issues and other issues not reflected in the government report, if any and submit to UCRNN.
- Prepare, lead and facilitate a validation workshop of the draft reports for UCRNN members, other CSO actors, networks and relevant stakeholders including children and youth.
- Finalize the report by integrating input/feedback from the workshop and any other comments from relevant stakeholders and submit the final reports to UCRNN.
- Expected Outputs
The consultancy will yield the following outputs:
- An inception report, detailing the approaches of the Consultancy;
- An Alternative Report to the African Union Committee of experts on the Rights and welfare of the Child and UN Committee of Experts in line with the reporting guideline.
- A Children's Report incorporating their concerns and recommendations
- Required Skills and Experience
- Experience in child rights and human rights, especially in the context of evaluation and assessment of the situation of children in Uganda.
- Experience in producing alternative reports on child rights and other human rights reports.
- Experience in carrying out participatory consultations and research and working with multiple stakeholder groups including children.
- Sound understanding of development issues in Uganda, particularly child rights and the roles of NGOs in a broader development context.
- Proven expertise in child rights and rights-based approaches.
- Proven experience in consultancy and researches.
- Ability to deliver a quality product within the stipulated timeframe.
- Should have no history of child abuse.
- Accountability and Responsibilities
For purposes of coordination and oversight, the NGO Advisory Committee on Child Rights Monitoring in Uganda has been constituted. The Consultant will therefore work with and be accountable to the NGO Advisory Committee on Child Rights Monitoring in Uganda and the UCRNN focal Point on reporting.
The assignment is envisaged to will take duration of 2 months.
- Expression of Interest
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Why Do Horses Weave?
Why Do Horses Weave?
Horses that weave often do so while standing at the stall door. Increasing visual or physical contact with other horses and optimizing turnout time can help reduce weaving.
Photo: Anne M. Eberhardt/The Horse
Q. I'm curious about my horse's weaving. I know that excess calories/energy can play a factor, as can stress or some other trigger (though I haven't really been able to spot a consistent "trigger" for my horse's episodes—it can range from being handled in his stall to standing and the apparent anticipation of being tacked up), but what I'm most curious about is at how early of an age would a horse begin weaving, and why would he pick that over some other habit—is weaving simply something that just "felt right" to him, when he was scanning the stereotypy catalog? Is it the kind of thing where one kid might start chewing her nails in class while the other taps his foot? And, while I'm on the topic of foot-tapping, are some horses more "rhythmic" than others? I know this might sound strange, but I've noticed my horse sways ever so slightly (though not with his head/neck) when his feet are being handled by the farrier. It reminds me a little of the YouTube video of the horse bobbing his head to a song on YouTube, for instance, only not as charming (to the farrier, at least!).
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A. Weaving is a rhythmic swaying in place that usually involves a lateral excursion of the head and neck and a concurrent shifting of weight between the front feet, such that the entire front end of the horse is usually involved, as well as sometimes the hindquarters. Usually the horse does this standing right at the stall door. A number of researchers are working hard to better understand weaving in horses but realize our knowledge of all stereotypies is ever evolving. Always remember horses are built to walk and eat and have social relationships, and when these are thwarted, behaviors that we find undesirable or disconcerting can result.
Why did your horse "pick" weaving out of the catalog? Weaving and other locomotory stereotypies seem to be associated with the urge to walk, forage, and socialize. In part, we think this because one thing that seems to reduce weaving is the placement of a mirror in the horse's stall. Increasing visual or physical contact with other horses and optimizing turnout time also can reduce weaving. And, interestingly, bedding on straw may reduce weaving, perhaps because the horse can forage on straw when other feed isn't available. So this is opposed to an oral stereotypy suck as cribbing, which we tend to link with early (like creep feeding) and contemporary high concentrate diets more than thwarted movement and socialization.
Many believe that the genesis of stereotypies is some management factor or stressor in young horses, often around weaning time and around the 2-year-old mark when early training begins. Certain diet and feeding regimens (such as high concentrates and limited foraging) seem to be a common factor in the development of stereotypies. Weaving specifically has been associated with foals weaned alone, in a box stall, as opposed to a group-weaning scheme. I saw one study that reported 60 months (5 years) as the median age for weaving to begin. Obviously, not all horses will develop a stereotypy even though exposed to early "risk factors." Genetics, predispositions, and intervening management all might play a role.
Researchers think more proximate triggers can be any one of the following, as you have already experienced. A big factor is predictability in routine and his ensuing anticipation of an activity. Another is a too short duration of a rewarding or natural activity, such as turnout or feeding, so he will weave after these events are over. Another is frustrated access to something he wants, such as exercise or social contact.
Early on, there could be a learned element, such an inadvertent reward when he's weaving. Then the horse weaves because of anticipation or frustration. Finally, the weaving becomes "emancipated" from any specific triggers and, perhaps as you are seeing, he just does it with no apparent trigger at all. Remember too, all stereotypies seem to become internally rewarding to the horse.
In summary, the origin of the weaving might have been long ago and, as such, is well out of your control. Trigger factors might be hard to identify and not feasible to really change. There are management schemes that could serve to reduce the urge to weave.
As far as the subtle swaying with the farrier, it could be that is your horse's manner of weaving with a foot held up in the air. But I always have to consider a horse that shifts or sways when one foot is held up that maybe there's some discomfort either with flexion of the up leg, or more weight-bearing on the other legs. Not a red alert, just something to tuck away for future reference.
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