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'War of the Worlds: Transnational Fears of Invasion and Conflict, _PHONE_', Lancaster University, 8 September 2017
The second biennial conference of the Invasion Network was held at Lancaster University in September. The network brings together scholars from different fields, mainly history and literature, who study invasion fiction, a popular literary genre in Britain in the years before the First World War that depicted – as the name suggests – imagined invasions of the British Isles. One of the aims of the conference was to expand the time frame for such literature, from pre-1914 fiction into the inter-war years, and to draw connections and comparisons to other parts of the world outside of Britain. As with the last conference, this one was structured as a workshop, with a keynote address followed by two panels, and ending with a roundtable discussion on the wider theme of transnational invasion fears.
The papers led to discussions on the link between invasion stories and other, related forms of fiction, and on the xenophobia often implicit in such narratives. While the conference itself had 1933 as its end point, the conversation around the roundtable at the end of the day brought up the links to modern events – it was difficult, for example, to avoid talk of Brexit, the language of the British press, or the current political landscape in the United States. The resonance of books like The Camp of the Saints (1973), by Jean Raspail – reportedly among the favourite novels of Steve Bannon – and Michel Houellebecq's controversial Soumission (2015) illustrates how fiction is still a favoured medium for portraying imagined sinister threats to the body politic. In addition, fictional future-war stories continue to be written – like last year's 2017: War with Russia, by General Sir Richard Shirreff.
The conference opened with a keynote from Professor David Glover (University of Southampton), under the title '"The Stage of Civilian Controversy": From Invasion to Conspiracy and Beyond'. Glover discussed the fluidity of the invasion narrative – a point that was brought up throughout the conference – and how invasion literature can be seen as a genre where paranoia works as an ideology. Thinking of the literature as 'conspiracy', as the concept is discussed in Jerry Palmer's Thrillers (1978), offers a useful way of analysing the fears expressed in the stories. Fear of the 'other' is particularly prevalent in such narratives, and, as Glover pointed out, invasion fiction can encompass literature ranging from descriptions of military confrontation in the near future, to more subtle threats of enemies within, or spies in hiding. More generally, much of the fiction remains preoccupied with a perceived internal weakness and national or imperial decline, rather than identifying a concrete external foe, a point that was underlined during the subsequent discussion.
The first panel followed on from the keynote with a discussion of a varied set of texts, beginning with a quantitative analysis of British enemies and allies by Derek Linney (University of Edinburgh). The panel, like the keynote, highlighted the complexities of the genre, and the discussion that followed focused on how the stories fit in a wider analysis of British and European society in the period under discussion. Michael Hughes' (University of Liverpool) paper pointed out the lack of invasion literature in Russia, while Christian Melby (King's College London) discussed the way the empire was presented in British fiction. Harry Wood (University of Liverpool) rounded off the panel with a paper on the reception of invasion texts.
The links between British fiction and stories published on the other side of the Atlantic were explored in the second panel, with an informative paper by Anthony Taylor (Oxford University) on the populist politics of stories like Ignatius Donnelly's Caesar's Column (1890), as well as other American tales with eschatological overtones. Michael Matin (Warren Wilson College) continued the focus on the US, but from a British perspective, with a paper on the propaganda efforts of Wellington House during the First World War. Such officially sanctioned stories aside, the question of the extent to which fiction directly impacted on, or were inspired by, political and social developments was also raised. Despite indications that authors tapped into existing fears, more research is needed here, as Harry Wood's earlier paper pointed out.
Both panels also pointed out the nuances of the genre, and its reception in society. The second panel discussed the popularity of authors like William Le Queux, whose The Invasion of 1910 (1906) can be ranked among the best-sellers of Edwardian fiction, even if the actual number of printed copies is difficult to assess. Ailise Bulfin (Trinity College Dublin) observed that the story was decidedly popular, which seems to indicate that the genre was received with open arms by its readers. Whether or not they agreed with the xenophobia, or read the stories simply for their entertainment value, or something in between, is a question that was discussed both here and during the roundtable session. Daniel Renshaw (Brunel University London) finished with a paper that looked at the fear of migrant 'others' expressed in stories like Dracula (1897).
Overall, the conference provided a highly informative forum for debate, and offered an opportunity to go beyond existing studies of invasion literature, both spatially and temporally. In the conversation around the roundtable it was evident that there are still many avenues left to explore. In-depth studies of audiences, and of the circulation of printed stories outside of their home country, are still largely missing. Seeing continuity and change over time, as well as further investigation of the geographical extent of such literature, should provide fertile ground for future study. Hopefully some interesting points and some conclusions on these as well as other issues will be discussed at the next Invasion Network conference.


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Sugar Glider - Petaurus breviceps
The sugar glider (Petaurus breviceps) is a small, omnivorous, arboreal, and nocturnal gliding possum belonging to the marsupial infraclass. The common name refers to its preference for sugary foods like sap and nectar and its ability to glide through the air, much like a flying squirrel. They have very similar habits and appearance to the flying squirrel, despite not being closely related—an example of convergent evolution. The scientific name, Petaurus breviceps, translates from Latin as "short-headed rope-dancer", a reference to their canopy acrobatics.
The sugar glider is characterised by its gliding membrane, known as the patagium, which extends from its forelegs to its hind legs, one on each side of its body. Gliding serves as an efficient means of reaching food and evading predators. The animal is covered in soft, pale grey to light brown fur which is countershaded, being lighter in colour on its underside.
The sugar glider is endemic to parts of mainland Australia, New Guinea and certain Indonesian islands; and it was introduced to Tasmania, probably in the 1830s. It is a popular exotic pet but is prohibited in some regions, including parts of Australia and the United States.
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1. Log in to _URL_
2. Click REPORTS on the menu bar
3. Click DELIVERY REPORTS (DLR)
4. Search for the message using the following criteria.
a. Select the COLUMN: Service (Text or Call), Status, Mobile & Sender.
b. Enter the Search criteria eg Mobile number
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2. Then click DLR Downloads.
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Julia Basilica (Basilica Giulia) - PHOTOGRAPHER COMMENT
Virtual tour panorama showing the remains of the Julia Basilica in the Forum Maximus in Rome.
Julia Basilica (Basilica Giulia) - FURTHER INFORMATION
Julia Basilica (Basilica Giulia) - Rome visitor guide showing a virtual tour of 'Julia Basilica (Basilica Giulia)' linked to an interactive map with local and travel information. 360° panoramas from Roma.
The Julia Basilica (Basilica Giulia) was built in the Roman Forum. Construction began in 54BC under Julius Caesar, and was completed after his death by Augustus. The Basilica was destroyed by fire in 2BC when it was rebuilt and dedicated to Gaius Caesar and Lucius Caesar, from which the name Julia Basilica comes.
The basilicas of ancient Roman were not places of worship, but large covered areas used as meeting places. The Julia Basilica housed tribunals overseen by 180 jurors and other events when the weather was too poor to have them outside. The basilica was about 100m long and 50m wide. There was a 80m x 16m central court surrounded by aisles over which the second storey gallery was built.
The Julia Basilica continued an unfortunate liaison with fire. It burnt down again 283 and was restored by Diocletian. Eventually, Alaric the Goth put a final end to the Julia Basilica by destroying it with fire during the sacking of Rome. After that all useful building materials was plundered for other projects. All that now remains are a few scattered pillars and the basic floor plan. The central court and the aisles can still roughly be made out. Some of the stones have makings carved into them which formed permanent board game layouts people would play between meetings.
This panoramic image was taken from the Southern edge of the Julia Basilica. This is one of the few shady areas in the whole of the Roman Forum. From this point various other ruins in the Forum can be seen. To the far right of the Julia Basilica are 3 surviving columns of the Temple of Castor and Pollux (built in gratitude for victory at the battle of Lake Regillus in 495 BC).
Moving left from here is the Temple of Romulus and then the intact Temple of Antonius and Faustina (now the church of S Lorenzo). Near the middle in the background is the Curia (the senate house where Roman senators met during the Republic) and then the church of SS Luca e Martina. To the left of this is the Arch of Septimus Severus, partially obscured by the Column of Phocas (a monument dedicated to the Byzantine emperor Phocas 608). Finally the Temple of Saturn is to the right, but all that really remains of this are a few columns.
You can get a very good understanding of the layout of the Julia Basilica from a vantage point on the Palatine Hill.
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Metro: Cavour (B), Colosseo (B).

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Pressure is an important thermodynamic parameter, allowing the increase of matter density by reducing interatomic distances that result in a change of interatomic interactions. In this context, the long range in which pressure can be changed (over six orders of magnitude with respect to room pressure) may induce structural changes at a much larger extent than those found by changing temperature or chemical composition. In this article, we review the pressure-induced phase transitions of mostdoi:10.3390/cryst9120630 fatcat:2vd263kphzbuzo7gezfw3niksm


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Our country is located on two plant genes center and three main flora center, should have an important position in terms of both biological and genetic diversity. This benefit Turkey's case is unique and must provide benefits. However, this wealth of different factors (construction, industrialization, fire, etc.) are threatened. The protection and conservation of this diversity is the source for vegetable research and breeding programs are required.
Here wild fruit species distributed in Eastern Anatolia these reasons, transitional forms, Survey of the local or improved varieties, harvesting, storage, evaluation, production, processing of information and to ensure necessary to investigators; Erzincan Horticultural Research Institute working on the project has started in the year _PHONE_, interim results were published reports in 2007 and 2011. Erzurum between 2011-2015, Iğdır, Artvin, Gumushane, Bitlis, Ardahan, Van 38 mulberry made with surveyors working in the province, 34 apple, 10 pear, 7 quince, 6 plums, 4 peaches, 2 apricots, 7 cherries and 1 almond example have been identified and brought necessary vaccination materials was studied and transferred to a collection of garden next year. Mulberry collection of gardens 6x6 m, garden and other collections were established to be 5x4 m with 3 trees. Studies on the collection of garden continues.
Key Words: Genetic-recourses, Fruit, East Anatolia, Ex-situ conservation
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The flange thickness and rim inside thickness of the wheelset are key parameters that influence the wheel-rail contact. With the speed continuous increase of the rail vehicles, the wear of wheelset is becoming more and more serious, thus accelerating the changes of wheelset's flanges, which will certainly bring security hidden troubles to the operation of railway, so it is very important to realize dynamic measurements of the wheelset's flange thickness and rim inside thickness. This paper proposes a novel real-time measurement method to wheelsets based on the image processing. This system based on the triangular principle uses CCD (Charge-coupled device) to obtain the information of the wheelsets. In this system, the flange thickness can be uncontacted measured in real time. The standard deviation of the rim inside thickness is 0.47mm and that of the flange thickness is 0.635mm, and the error range is Â±0.8mm, and Â±1.0mm, respectively. When the train passes through the measurement system at the speed of 5km/h, the measurement results show that the measurement system can meet the measuring requirement on line.


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The Scunthorpe problem occurs when a spam filter or search engine blocks e-mails or search results because their text contains a string of letters that are shared with an obscene word. While computers can easily identify strings of text within a document, broad blocking rules may result in false positives, causing innocent phrases to be blocked.
Origin and history
The problem was named after an incident in 1996 in which AOL's dirty-word filter prevented residents of the town of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, England from creating accounts with AOL, because the town's name contains the substring cunt. Years later, Google's filters apparently made the same mistake, preventing residents from searching for local businesses that included Scunthorpe in their names.
Other examples
Mistaken decisions by obscenity filters include:
Refused web domain names and email addresses
- In April 1998, Jeff Gold attempted to register the domain name
shitakemushrooms.com, but he was blocked by an InterNIC filter prohibiting the "seven dirty words" which was active between 1996 and the transfer of control to ICANN. (Shitake is from the Japanese name for the edible fungus Lentinula edodes.)
- In 2000, a Canadian television news story on web filtering software found that the website for the Montreal Urban Community (Communauté urbaine de Montréal, in French) was entirely blocked because its domain name was its French acronym CUM (_URL_); "cum" (among other meanings) is English-language slang for "semen".
- In February 2004, in Scotland, Craig Cockburn reported that he was unable to use his surname (pronounced "Coburn") with Hotmail. Separately he had problems with his workplace email because of the string cialis within his job title of software specialist. He was told by Hotmail to spell his name C0ckburn (with a zero instead of the letter "o"); Hotmail later reversed the ban. In 2010 he had a similar problem registering on the BBC site where again the first four characters of his surname caused a problem for the content filter.
- In February 2006, Linda Callahan, a resident of Ashfield, Massachusetts, was initially prevented from registering her name with Yahoo! as an e-mail address as it contained the substring Allah. Yahoo! later reversed the ban.
- In July 2008, Dr. Herman I. Libshitz was initially unable to get the e-mail address he wanted from Verizon because it contained the substring shit. A spokesperson commented: "As a general rule (since 2005) Verizon doesn't allow questionable language in e-mail addresses, but we can, and do, make exceptions based on reasonable requests. The one from Dr. and Mrs. Libshitz certainly is reasonable and we regret the inconvenience and frustration they've been caused."
Blocked web searches
- The filter of the free wireless service of the town of Whakatane in New Zealand blocked searches involving the town's own name, because the phonetic analysis used by the filter deemed the "whak" to sound like fuck. The town name is Maori, and in the Maori language "wh" is most commonly pronounced as "f".
- Gareth Roelofse noted: "We found many library Net stations, school networks and Internet cafes block sites with the word'sex' in the domain name. This was a challenge for RomansInSussex.co.uk because its target audience is school children."
- In July 2011, web searches in China on the name Jiang were blocked following claims on the Sina Weibo microblogging site that former president Jiang Zemin had died. Since the word "Jiang" also means "river" in Chinese, searches related to rivers including the Yangtze (Cháng Jiāng) produced the message "According to the relevant laws, regulations and policies, the results of this search cannot be displayed."
Blocked emails
- In October 2004, it was reported that the Horniman Museum in London was failing to receive some of its e-mail because filters mistakenly decided that its name was a version of the words horny man.
- Problems can occur with the words socialism, socialist, and specialist because they contain the substring Cialis, the brand name for an erectile dysfunction medication commonly advertised in spam e-mails. Blocking of the word specialist is liable to block emailed résumés and curricula vitae and other material including job descriptions.
Blocked for word with two meanings
- In May 2006, Ray Kennedy from Manchester in the UK found that e-mails that he had written to his local council to complain about a planning application had been blocked as they contained the word erection when referring to a structure.
- In October 2004, e-mails advertising the pantomime Dick Whittington sent by a teacher from Norwich in the UK were blocked by school computers because of the use of the word Dick, sometimes used as slang for penis.
- In February 2003, members of Parliament at the British House of Commons found that a new spam filter was blocking e-mails to them. It blocked e-mails containing references to the Sexual Offences Bill then under debate, and some messages relating to a Liberal Democrat consultation paper on censorship. It also blocked e-mails sent in Welsh because it did not recognise the language.
- Resumes of magna cum laude graduates have been blocked by spam filters because of inclusion of the word cum, which here is Latin for with but in English is sometimes used as slang for semen.
- Blocked e-mails and web searches relating to The Beaver (based in Winnipeg) caused the publisher to change its name to Canada's History after 89 years of publication. Publisher Deborah Morrison commented: "Back in 1920, The Beaver was a perfectly appropriate name. And while its other meaning is nothing new, its ambiguity began to pose a whole new challenge with the advance of the Internet. The name became an impediment to our growth".
- A councillor in Dudley found an email flagged for profanity by his council's security software after mentioning the Black Country dish faggots.
- In 2007, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds blocked ornithological terms such as cock (male bird) and tit, Shag and Booby from its discussion forums.
- Residents of Penistone in South Yorkshire.
- Lightwater in Surrey suffered similarly because its name contains the substring twat.
- Residents of Clitheroe (Lancashire, England) have been repeatedly inconvenienced because their town's name includes the substring clit, which (among other meanings) is short for "clitoris".
News articles damaged
- In June 2008, a news site run by the American Family Association filtered an Associated Press article on sprinter Tyson Gay, replacing instances of "gay" with "homosexual", thus rendering his name as "Tyson Homosexual".
- The word "ass" may be replaced by "butt", resulting in "clbuttic" for "classic" and "buttbuttinate" for "assassinate".
- In December 2011, it was reported that software used by Virgin Media had filtered words including "Arsenal" (for "arse"), and "Canal" (for "anal").
See also
- Censorship by Google
- Cupertino effect
- Detecting spam
- Medireview – arose as blindly replacing "eval" with "review" in the word "medieval"
- Clive Feather (25 April 1996). In Peter G. Neumann. "AOL censors British town's name!". ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy.
- Declan McCullagh (23 April 2004). "Google's chastity belt too tight".
- Paul Festa (27 April 1998). "Food domain found "obscene"". News.com.
- "Foire aux questions". radio-canada.ca. Retrieved 24 February 2011.
- Barker, Garry (26 February 2004). "How Mr C0ckburn fought spam". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 24 February 2011.
- Cockburn, Craig (9 March 2010). "BBC fail – my correct name is not permitted". blog.siliconglen.com. Retrieved 24 February 2011.
- "Is Yahoo Banning Allah?". Kallahar's Place. Retrieved 24 February 2011.
- "When your name gets turned against you". Archived from the original on 5 August 2008. Retrieved 3 August 2008.
- "F-Word Town's Name Gets Censored By Internet Filter". Retrieved 27 July 2011.
- Chin, Josh (6 July 2011). "Following Jiang Death Rumors, China's Rivers Go Missing". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 7 July 2011.
- Kwintner, Adrian (5 October 2004). "Name of museum is confused with porn". News Shopper. Retrieved 24 February 2011.
- "Comment headaches". The Peking Duck. 21 November 2004. Retrieved 24 February 2011.
- BBC E-mail filter blocks 'erection' 30 May 2006
- Sam Jones Panto email falls foul of filth filter The Guardian 14 October 2004
- BBC E-mail vetting blocks MPs' sex debate 4 February 2003
- BBC Software blocks MPs' Welsh e-mail 5 February 2003
- Maher, Kris. "Don't Let Spam Filters Snatch Your Resume". Career Journal. Retrieved 11 February 2008.
- "Canada's The Beaver magazine renamed to end porn mix-up". Agence France-Presse. 12 January 2010. Retrieved 12 January

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Question: What Happened To France After The Franco Prussian War?
What area did France have to give to Germany after the Franco Prussian War?
AlsaceAfter this war, France had to give Prussia some mainly German speaking regions previously under French control.
These were the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine.
Prussia took steps to unite the independent German states into one country, the German Empire.
The historical term for this is the Unification of Germany..
Could France have won the Franco Prussian War?
Why did France want revenge on Germany?
How much did France pay Germany after the Franco Prussian War?
After the Franco-Prussian War, France owed Germany an indemnity of 5 billion francs. Under the Treaty of Frankfurt, France agreed to pay this amount by 1 March 1875.
What political changes did the end of Franco Prussian War bring to France?
What political changes did the end of the Franco-Prussian War bring to France? The defeat of Napoleon III in the Franco-Prussian war ended the Second French Empire, which gave way to the Third Republic.
Why did Prussia and Austria attack France?
July 25: Austria and Prussia threaten to invade France if any harm comes to the Royal Family. The warning, known as The Brunswick Manifesto, reaches Paris on July 28. July 29: Robespierre calls for the removal of the king. … He is captured by Prussian Army as it crosses the border into France.
Why did Britain declare war on Germany ww1?
Britain declared war on Germany on 4 August 1914. The declaration was a result of German refusal to remove troops from neutral Belgium. In 1839 the United Kingdom, France, and Prussia (the predecessor of the German Empire) had signed the Treaty of London which guaranteed Belgium's sovereignty.
Is Germany going to war with France?
Germany has declared war on France and Belgium today. This is their third war declaration this week, having already declared war on Russia and invaded Luxembourg. France has very limited defences along the Belgium border, making it vulnerable to attack on that front. …
Why did Bismarck want to isolate France?
Bismarck had defeated each of his enemies – Denmark, Austria, and France – in isolation. He realised that a powerful united Germany could not expect to fight another carefully insulated war. … France was bitter at her loss in the recent war and Britain did not wish to get involved in European affairs.
What ended the rivalry between France and Germany after the world wars?
What provoked the Franco Prussian War?
What did France lose in the Franco Prussian War?
Why did France hate Germany after ww1?
First World War The long-term French reaction to defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871 was Revanchism: a deep sense of bitterness, hatred and demand for revenge against Germany, especially because of the loss of Alsace and Lorraine.
Why did Germany want Alsace Lorraine?
Is Germany still paying for ww2?


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 Importing each layer separately increases the size of your image file. To reduce the size of the image, you can merge the layers.
 To import the layers that you have not imported before, repeat the above steps and choose the required layers. The layers get added to the corresponding PSD folder in the Library.
 - To flatten the layers and then import them as a single image, select Flattened Image.
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 When you flatten layers, you cannot edit each layer separately within Adobe Captivate. Use this option only if you are sure that layer editing is not required and the image is ready to use.
 - To import any layer comps, click Multiple and select the layer comp from the drop-down list. The layers in the selected layer comps appear. Select the check boxes corresponding to the layer comps you want to import.
 3. Select Scale According To Stage Size to automatically resize the image to the size of your Adobe Captivate project.
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You can reuse PSD items, such as layers and layer comps, using one or all the following ways:
 - To reuse a PSD item in a slide, drag-and-drop the item from the Library onto the slide.
 - To reuse a PSD item in a different project, open the target project. Then, drag-and-drop the item from the current project's Library into the target project. You can also copy and paste the item into the target project.
 Alternatively, in the target project, select File > Import > External Library, and open the project from which you want to import the PSD items. When the Library panel of the selected project appears, select the item and drag-and-drop it into the current project.
 If a PSD file by the same name exists in the target project, Adobe Captivate matches the modified date of the two files. If the dates are same, the layers get copied into the corresponding PSD file folder in the Library. If not, the layers are copied as normal images.
Edit PSD files
 1. In the slide or PSD folder in the library, select the imported PSD file, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS), and then select Edit PSD Source File.
You can also edit the file from image properties (Window > Properties).
Update PSD files
If the files in the Adobe Captivate library and the original files are not in sync, the status column in the library changes from to .
To update and bring the resource on slide in sync with the source,
 - Select the PSD on stage, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS), and then select Update from Source.
 - Click Update in the Property Inspector (Window > Properties).
 - Click the status icon in the library.
 - Select the PSD folder in the library, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS), and then select Update from Source.
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The first two options update the PSD both on stage and in library. The last two options update the resource only in the library and the updated resources do not take effect on stage.
If you remove or relocate the PSD, then a question mark icon appears in the status column. Click to relink. You can also do this action from the Image Properties dialog box.
The procedure for linking to a new PSD file is same as importing a new PSD file.
Working with SVG images
Captivate supports SVG graphics enabling you to develop scalable graphic content.
Import Scalable Vector Graphics into Captivate, and roundtrip them using Illustrator or any other vector editing applications.
Inserting SVG images
Insert SVG in either blank or responsive projects by clicking Media->SVG
Inserting svg files
Inserting svg files
Navigate to the folder where the SVG image is stored and click Open to insert the image into your project.
Editing SVG images
Edit the SVG using Adobe Illustrator or any other vector editing applications by clicking Edit SVG in the Property inspector.
Launching an image-editing application directly from Captivate
Launching an image-editing application directly from Captivate
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Edit with Adobe Illustrator option is disabled (as shown below) if Illustrator is not present on that machine. In this scenario, when a user clicks Edit SVG, the user is prompted to open the file with another svg image editing application.
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You can resize the image from within the Property Inspector using these options:
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 - Custom: This button is selected if you change the size of the SVG image
 - Fit to Stage: Resize the image so that it fits the stage
 - Fit to Bounding Box: Fit the SVG exactly to its bounding container. On further modification, the SVG no longer maintains its aspect ratio on resize. You can use this option to avoid possible truncation in some SVG images.
Replacing SVG images
You can replace an existing SVG graphic with another one.
 1. Click on the SVG image to open the Property Inspector for that image.
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 Replacing an existing SVG image with a new one
 3. In the Select Image from Library dialog that opens, click Import. Navigate to the folder and select the image you want to use.
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Create watermark images
You can create a watermark image by setting the transparency of an image.
 1. In an open project, select Insert > Image.
 2. Select an image or browse to a new location for a different image. Click Open. The image gets inserted.
 3. Set the image Alpha to 50% or lower in the Image Edit area of the Property Inspector. A low number results in a dim version of the image and a higher number displays a brighter image.
 4. Position the image on the slide as required.
Change JPEG quality
Adobe Captivate automatically sets the quality of JPEG images in projects. However, you can adjust this setting depending upon the images used in your project. Using higher percentage values allow high-quality images but also increases file size.
 1. In an open project, select Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Adobe Captivate > Preferences (Mac OS).
 2. In the Category panel, select SWF Size And Quality from the Project menu.
 3. Enter your preferred value in the JPEG Image Quality text box.
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Use Ansible Vault to share encrypted Bash environment variables across projects.
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Ansible is a great tool to automate mundane or complex tasks. It also allows code reuse by passing variables to roles or collections. This is important when sharing code across a large base of users.
However, sometimes those variables are credentials that are specific to a user's access or password rather than a service account credential like you might use in Ansible Automation Platform. You wouldn't want to share sensitive credentials with your team, let alone place them into a Git repo for the world to see. Sometimes these variables are derived from an environment file, such as your .bashrc. And they could be things you need to access from the shell, not only in an Ansible playbook.
This is where Ansible Vault comes into play. Ansible Vault is a command-line tool that allows you to encrypt and decrypt any structured data file. In this article, I'll show you how to protect your shell environment variables while making them available for your typical Bash commands and your Ansible playbooks, roles, and collections.
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Use encrypted environment variables with Ansible
First, create a .bash_vault file in your home directory:
$ touch ~/.bash_vault
Next, append the following code to your .bashrc file:
export EDITOR=vi
BASH_VAULT=${HOME}/.bash_vault
function bash_vault.load(){
 echo "Loading bash vault..."
 source <(ansible-vault view ${BASH_VAULT})
}
function bash_vault.edit(){
 ansible-vault edit ${BASH_VAULT}
}
function bash_vault.reload(){
 echo "Reloading bash vault..."
 source <(ansible-vault view ${BASH_VAULT})
}
After updating your .bashrc, create your secrets in the .bash_vault file. In this example, you want to keep your usernames, passwords, and destinations secret from prying eyes:
APP1_API_USERNAME='mike.wazowski'
APP1_API_PASSWORD='Ey3b4LL!'
APP1_API_URL='_URL_'
APP2_API_USERNAME='james.sullivan'
APP2_API_PASSWORD='H41rB4ll!'
APP2_API_URL='_URL_'
APP3_API_USERNAME='randall.boggs'
APP3_API_PASSWORD='Ch4m3l0N!'
APP3_API_URL='_URL_'
export APP1_API_USERNAME APP1_API_PASSWORD APP1_API_URL APP2_API_USERNAME APP2_API_PASSWORD APP2_API_URL APP3_API_USERNAME APP3_API_PASSWORD APP3_API_URL
After updating your .bash_vault file, you must encrypt it using ansible-vault:
$ ansible-vault encrypt .bash_vault
New Vault password: ****
Confirm New Vault password: ****
Encryption successful
Now, validate you've encrypted the environment variables:
$ cat .bash_vault
$ANSIBLE_VAULT;1.1;AES256
66623436333962663336333666306230366230336465333865326363666232383365326233333836
6630393461333137633865303134616262353230636163330a386338366663633230343537303335
3635...shortened for brevity....
Reload your .bashrc file and reload the encrypted shell variables stored in .bash_vault using the functions available in your .bashrc file. You will be prompted for your Ansible Vault password:
$ source .bashrc
$ bash_vault.load
Loading bash vault...
Vault password: ****
Write a playbook showcasing how Ansible can access these variables:
- name: Example playbook to show vaulted shell variables
 hosts: localhost
 gather_facts: false
 become: false
 tasks:
 - name: Debug app1 shell variables
 ansible.builtin.debug:
 msg:
 - "{{ lookup('env','APP1_API_USERNAME') }}"
 - "{{ lookup('env','APP1_API_PASSWORD') }}"
 - "{{ lookup('env','APP1_API_URL') }}"
 - name: Debug app2 shell variables
 ansible.builtin.debug:
 msg:
 - "{{ lookup('env','APP2_API_USERNAME') }}"
 - "{{ lookup('env','APP2_API_PASSWORD') }}"
 - "{{ lookup('env','APP2_API_URL') }}"
 - name: Debug app3 shell variables
 ansible.builtin.debug:
 msg:
 - "{{ lookup('env','APP3_API_USERNAME') }}"
 - "{{ lookup('env','APP3_API_PASSWORD') }}"
 - "{{ lookup('env','APP3_API_URL') }}"
[ Write your first playbook in this hands-on interactive lab. ]
Finally, run the playbook to showcase the results:
$ ansible-playbook -i localhost, bash_vault_example.yml
PLAY [Example playbook to show vaulted shell variables] ************************
TASK [Debug app1 shell variables] **********************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
 "msg": [
 "mike.wazowski",
 "Ey3b4LL!",
 "_URL_"
 ]
}
TASK [Debug app2 shell variables] **********************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
 "msg": [
 "james.sullivan",
 "H41rB4ll!",
 "_URL_"
 ]
}
TASK [Debug app3 shell variables] **********************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
 "msg": [
 "randall.boggs",
 "Ch4m3l30N!",
 "_URL_"
 ]
}
PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
localhost : ok=3 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0
Use variables on the command line
But wait, these are shell environment variables, so you can also access them using the command line outside of Ansible.
Typically when users run commands, Bash stores them in command history. You can override this using set +o history or clear it using history -c, but sometimes you need the history to recall previously executed long commands more easily.
By using Ansible Vault-created environment variables, the history shows the variable name but not the variable value. To test this, first execute a command that uses one of the variables:
# Run a curl command with our encrypted shell variables
$ curl -o /dev/null -s -w "%{http_code}\n" ${APP1_API_URL}
# CURL RESULTS
200
Then review the history to check that it shows the variable name and not the variable value:
# Run the history command to check our shell variables
$ history|tail -2|grep -v history
# HISTORY RESULTS
1034 curl -o /dev/null -s -w "%{http_code}\n" ${APP1_API_URL}
Change the vaulted variables
If you need to add, delete, modify, or review your Ansible Vault-created


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Henkel: Sustainable thermal insulation for packaging
Thermolite packaging from Henkel and LBP Manufacturing is a sustainable thermal insulation for packaging formulated from renewable material and applied in-line during the converting process to create multi-functional packaging containers.
By Gretchen Edelbrock, Products Editor
Thermolite provides thermal insulation, barrier resistance, structural integrity, and impact resistance, while improving the overall sustainability of the package. It delivers immediate value because it transforms common substrates into high-performance packaging products. Reduction in raw material can result in cost savings and supply chain efficiencies, and can enhance the sustainability of the packaging.


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About Seed Beads
Seed beads, also known as rocailles, are versatile beads used in embroidery, jewelry stringing, and all kinds of bead weaving applications. The smallest seed beads can go under trade names such as Antiques or Delicas, or they can be simply designated by size, where the bigger the number the smaller the bead. For example, 11 0 seed beads are very small (2mm), but 6 0 seed beads are bigger (4mm).
Although simple bead stringing projects are always a possibility, weaving with seed beads -- which can be done with a loom or off-loom -- is getting more and more popular. Bead weaving is nothing new, it has been practiced by Native Americans for centuries, and enjoyed a surge of popularity among Victorian women.
A common weaving technique for seed beads is peyote stitch. See our videos referenced above for demonstrations of this and other common bead weaving styles. Weaving involves the use of needles, so we've included the most appropriate beading needles above as well. Seed beads can also be used in a variety of sewing, threading, or wire projects.
Fireline thread is very good for bead weaving. It is pre-waxed, doesn't fray, and has very strong tensile strength. However, Nymo thread is good for loomwork because it's very thin, which is an advantage when your project requires that the needle pass through the same bead hole many times. Dandyline from Beadalon is also a nice thread that is strong, waterproof, and does not fray.
Basically, seed beads can be used in any design, whether it's loom weaving, threading, or embroidery, whenever you want to add small points of color or intricate detail. Other ideas include a bead-encrusted picture frame, monogrammed bags, and beaded zipper pulls. The possibilities are limited only by your imagination!
Getting to Know Seed Beads
How Many Seed Beads are in a Gram?


text: Modern Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are capable of supporting thousands of concurrent threads. However, they provide relatively little guarantee with respect to the coherence and consistency of the memory system. Thus, GPUs are prone to multitude of concurrency bugs related to inconsistent memory states. Many such bugs manifest as some form of data races at runtime, and being able to identify these data races can help programmers improve software reliability. Mechanisms that enable efficient and effective data race detection at runtime can form the basis of powerful tools for enhancing GPU software correctness. Most prior works in data race detection for GPU focus on the software-based approaches that incur significant performance overhead. Furthermore, they often focus on the smaller shared memory, while neglecting the larger global memory. We believe that adequate hardware support can enable efficient data race detection in all levels of the memory system for GPUs. In this paper, we propose a hardware-accelerated data race detection mechanism, HAccRG, for efficient data race detection in GPUs. HAccRG provides hardware support for tracking data dependencies across a large number of threads and detects various forms of data races. We incorporate HAccRG on both the shared and global memory spaces in GPU. Our evaluation shows that, with moderate hardware support, HAccRG can detect data races in GPU kernels with a small overhead: 1% for the shared memory and 27% for combined shared and global memory data race detection.


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South Kent School's first High Altitude Balloon mission marked the culmination of one of the Fall term's Center for Innovation classes. The students launched and recovered their payload after a three hour flight and a distance of approximately 130 miles .
"Cardinal I" was a triangular frame piloted by veteran Mission Commander C. "Red" Bird. The frame carried a payload with several sensors, a GPS tracker, two GoPro Hero 3 HD cameras, a 600 g. weather balloon (5 feet in diameter when inflated with 95 cu. ft. of helium), and a recovery parachute. Prior to the launch, the South Kent students filed an official NOTAM (NOtice To AirMen) with the FAA.
While aloft, Cardinal 1 communicated with its satellite every six minutes. Its location was updated in real time for the team to follow in the mission's "chase vehicle". These GPS signals were lost during a blackout period which began at roughly 20,000 feet. GPS tracking resumed once the GPS reestablished contact on descent/reentry. Cardinal 1's on-board flight computer also recorded temperature, atmospheric pressure, altitude, date and time, ground speed, latitude, longitude, and heading at regular intervals during the flight. Video was recorded on both cameras for the flight's first 110 minutes until the sub-zero temperatures temporarily "bricked" the GoPros.
The parachute deployed at just under 90,000 feet (about 17 miles or 27 km.), the burst altitude of Cardinal 1's large weather balloon. This was well into the stratosphere which, at South Kent's latitude, is between 30,000 and 160,000 feet. The parachute deposited the payload gently into the top of a stately maple tree in Hollis, NH – approximately 130 miles from South Kent School – where it was retrieved with the generous assistance of a local tree company's bucket truck.
The South Kent students who will be responsible for "Cardinal II" will focus on greater stabilization of the airframe and more effective insulation of the GoPro cameras. Go Cardinals!


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1 in 10 Brits are treated by GP for depression
DEPRESSION is Britain's most common illness — affecting one adult in ten, a poll of GPs reveals.
Family doctors treated 5.1million patients for bouts of the blues in the past year. The figure is up from 4.9million cases in the previous year, The illness was once suffered in silence — but in the past five years increasing numbers of adults are being diagnosed.
Experts have warned that financial pressures caused by the economic downturn can intensify feelings of depression and anxiety.
Beth Murphy of charity Mind said: "Many people are struggling to cope, with job insecurity, unemployment and financial worries all having a negative impact on mental health."
Celebrity sufferers include Loose Women star Denise Welch, 54. Treatments include anti-depressant pills and counselling.
The figures — gathered from 8,000 GP practices — were published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre.
They showed that the most prevalent condition, as opposed to a disease, was high blood pressure which is suffered by 7.6million people — mainly over-45s.


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CSULA Public History Project – 2013
On June 10, 2013 board members Walter Dominguez, Shelley Morrison, Betty Huebner, Greg Ramirez, and Keith Rice attended a presentation by "Public History and Community Engagement" students on the campus of California State University, Los Angeles. The students presented proposals for public history projects and exhibitions, based on their interviews with our board members. The board members were very impressed by the ability of the students to "think outside of the box." They discovered extremely creative ways to connect neighborhoods from the Valley to Watts through their past participation in social justice movements. We have provided audio clips from the presentations, so that you can experience the sense of pride we feel for these exceptional history students who will be graduating from CSULA this month.
CSULA Public History Project Update
On April 20, 2013 board members Leonora Barron, Greg Ramirez, and Keith Rice welcomed Professor Mark Wild and his "Public History and Community Engagement" students to the Museum of Social Justice. The board members introduced the students to the history of La Plaza UMC and its service to the community over the last 100 years. The Museum of Social Justice was born out of La Plaza's commitment to social justice and public service. The tour consisted of a presentation of a short documentary on the Church and Museum produced by Board President Walter Dominguez, a tour of the Church sanctuary, and an introduction and presentation by Leonora, Greg, and Keith, followed by a question and answer session. To better understand the processes of how institutions like the Museum emerged, and the skills required to make them work, the students will conduct oral history interviews with board members. The results of the interviews and proposals created by the class will be available on our website in May 2013.
CSULA Public History Project
Mark Wild, History Professor at California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA)
and a Museum of Social Justice advisory board member, will bring his senior seminar
class to the Museum of Social Justice to explore the civic role of history in nonacademic
settings. The course, "Public History and Community Engagement," is a capstone of
the undergraduate history major at CSULA. At the end of the program, students will
apply the skills they have learned to address the role of public history in civic life and
the engagement of community participants in historical projects outside the classroom.
Like all students at CSULA, these students represent a wide variety of Los Angeles'
cultural communities and will reflect their diverse set of experiences and perspectives in
their work. These students will learn about the long history of La Plaza United Methodist
Church, the history of their surrounding neighborhood, and the ways in which the
Museum and other nearby institutions use history to promote community empowerment
and social justice. They will pay particular attention to the processes on how institutions
like the Museum emerged, and the skills required to make them work. A key feature
of the course will be intensive individual interviews with key personnel involved in the
Museum. Based on this work, students will devise proposals for public history projects
addressing the complex history of Los Angeles; they will share these proposals with the
Museum as it develops its own programming for the first years of its life.


running the algorithm on an empty volume), while O(k) measures the algorithm dependent overhead which is determined by the complexity of the surface and the type of mesh generation. Since it is mesh generation that we want to study, ideally we'd like to keep n fixed and let k vary. Another way to say this is that we want to construct some family of volumes with ever increasing surface areas. A simple way to do this is to use trig functions of increasingly higher frequency. For example, consider the following volume which is described b a functional equation:
\sin( \frac{\omega}{2 \pi} x ) + \sin( \frac{\omega}{2 \pi} y ) +\sin( \frac{\omega}{2 \pi} z )< 0.
As \omega increases, the number of chambers increases as well, along with the surface area. This gives us a pretty good way to control for the complexity of surfaces in an experiment. I implemented this idea in a node.js script that takes as input a mesher and runs it on a volume of some specified size. To control for cache warm up and JIT issues, the script runs each program some number of iterations on a non-empty volume (in my experiments, I found 10 iterations to be sufficient on a volume where \omega=4). Garbage collection costs are amortized by repeated runs (10 in this case). All experiments were performed on a 65x65x65 volume with 0 \leq \omega \leq 10.
Here is the data from running this benchmark on the naive culling method:
Naive Meshing Results:
 0 81.80 0 0
 1 129.05 82488 20622
 2 147.85 114696 28674
 3 166.50 146016 36504
 4 180.80 178792 44698
 5 206.10 209256 52314
 6 208.45 243672 60918
 7 258.85 272304 68076
 8 267.60 306640 76660
 9 278.45 334968 83742
10 297.15 371496 92874
The first column is \omega. The second column is the average time required to mesh the volume in milliseconds. The third and fourth columns are the number of vertices and faces respectively. These results shouldn't be too surprising. As the frequency increases, the number of surface elements goes up, and so it ends up taking longer to generate the mesh. In the 0 frequency case, you get an empty volume, and so the time required is reduced to just the overhead of iterating over the volume. Just for fun, here are the results for stupid meshing:
Stupid Meshing Results:
 0 6.95 0 0
 1 2733.65 _PHONE_ 823296
 2 2848.05 _PHONE_ 823032
 3 2727.35 _PHONE_ 823296
 4 2673.40 _PHONE_ 822258
 5 2729.50 _PHONE_ 823296
 6 2741.10 _PHONE_ 823272
 7 2687.75 _PHONE_ 823296
 8 2729.20 _PHONE_ 821628
 9 2682.40 _PHONE_ 823296
10 2772.95 _PHONE_ 823284
This may at first seem a little bizarre, but it makes sense. For stupid meshing, iterating over the volume is basically 'free'. The only limit at the end is the memory bandwidth. Another weird thing is that the number of primitives in the stupid mesh does not scale with surface area, but rather with volume. In this case, the volume of each region is relatively constant and so the run-time quickly spikes to 2.7 seconds or so, then stays flat as the frequency changes.
Anyway, let's now get to the main point, which is how well greedy and monotone meshing stack up:
Greedy Meshing: Monotone Meshing:
 0 92.40 0 0 0 79.00 0 0
 1 99.10 20712 5178 1 92.20 20202 11034
 2 103.10 44068 11017 2 110.10 43326 23631
 3 110.35 61644 15411 3 122.30 60420 32778
 4 126.00 87984 21996 4 144.60 86328 47319
 5 134.25 102024 25506 5 155.80 100056 54033
 6 151.40 129344 32336 6 192.10 127074 68871
 7 153.60 142416 35604 7 197.40 139476 75273
 8 167.85 172140 43035 8 227.60 167410 92843
 9 164.90 182256 45564 9 239.60 178302 96081
10 198.30 213452 53363 10 297.60 209838 113559
A victory for greedy meshing! Not only did it beat monotone meshing, but for sufficiently complicated geometry it is also the fastest method overall. Though this is not exactly a fair apples-to-apples comparison, since greedy meshing spits out quads while monotone meshing generates triangles. This fact alone is enough to account for nearly a 30% difference in performance, and explains some, but not all of the discrepancy between these two charts. The remainder of the overhead is most likely due to the fact that Monotone meshing is a more complex algorithm and that it has to do a bit more work per triangle, while greedy meshing is a bit simpler, but does more work per voxel.
While I believe that the general conclusions of these benchmarks are valid, I wouldn't say that this definitively proves greedy meshing is faster than monotone meshing. Javascript is far from the best language to use for doing benchmarks, and these implementations are not particularly tuned for performance. There may also be subtle bugs lurking in the code somewhere, like silent out of bounds accesses, that could end up having disastrous consequences for performance (and account for nearly the entire gap between the two algorithms). I've also tried to control for as many variables as I could, but it is still possible that I overlooked something and that there is some systemic bias in these results.
Conclusion
We've now seen at least two different ways to do better than naive meshing in Minecraft, and there are probably many others out there. Portponky from r/gamedev sent me some C++ code to generate meshes, though I've not yet looked at it carefully enough to figure out how to port it to Javascript (sorry!). I am still quite curious about it though, since it seems to be doing something quite different than either the greedy method or monotone triangulation. Anyway, that's all for now. If you have any questions or other interesting thoughts you'd like to share, please leave a comment!
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26 Responses to Meshing in a Minecraft Game (Part 2)
 1. Anonymous says:
 The problem with T-junctions is roundoff error. Roundoff might make the fill rule miss pixels between the polygons, and leave small gaps.
 This is entirely dependent on your hardware. Testing it on just one card is not enough to conclude it is safe. Probably modern cards do less rounding and handle this better, but if you ran it on older hardware, you might see problems.
 2. Olreich says:
 The T-Junction aliasing only shows up at extreme angles, and to be honest, isn't that noticeable. But it is there, and does create some slightly more grainy terrain (such as what one would see in the distance in minecraft)
 3. This shit happens to me al the time. Try an intel card, with floating point values on the meshes, further away from 0.
 4. mikolalysenko says:
 Ok, I'm convinced that there is something to the whole T-junction thing, but it is pretty difficult to replicate consistently. If anyone has a good method for generically reproducing this issue, I'd appreciate any suggestions.
 - Ian Bullard says:
 The t-junction issue is mitigated in Minecraft-like engines because of the nature of the data. Every triangle is either parallel or perpendicular to their neighbor and each vertex is at a whole number.
 You can try to force gaps to appear by drawing far from the origin (as vanitylicenseplaten suggested) and rotating the mesh. Essentially that will force rounding errors on the video card. Cheaper video cards use smaller floating point numbers in hardware so they'll show up more often.
 Even then, I doubt it'll be that noticeable. If you were writing a terrain engine with smooth hills the t-junction problem is very noticeable. I wouldn't worry about it if I were you.
 - JohnW says:
 Cracks in T-Junctions generally appear due to the hardware snapping vertices to sub-pixel locations. The less sub-pixel accuracy the more a crack is likely to appear. The PS1 for example would snap each vert to the pixel center at low screen resolutions and T-Junctions were rife on subdivided Polys (to counter the affine texture mapping). Modern graphics cards probably store the line equations for triangle edges during rasterization at very high precision making cracks very rare.
 The best way to test for T-Junctions is to manually quantize positions


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Daily Life in Ancient Egypt
1. Auflage Dezember 2007
2007. 256 Seiten, Hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4051-1855-2 - John Wiley & Sons
Preis inkl. Mehrwertsteuer zzgl. Versandkosten.
Auch verfügbar als Softcover.
Using the life of a young girl and her family as a model, this book recreates the daily life of the middle-class residents of the ancient town of Lahun during Egypt's Middle Kingdom period. This perfect snapshot in time has been painstakingly recreated using recently published textual data and archaeological findings.
* Provides an illuminating and engaging re-construction of what daily life was like in ancient Egypt
* Describes the main issues of everyday life in the town - from education, work, and food preparation to religious rituals, healing techniques, marriages, births, and deaths
* Authentically recreated through the use of recently published textual data and archaeological findings directly from the settlement of Lahun and other sites
* Includes photographs and illustrations of actual artifacts from the settlement of Lahun
Aus dem Inhalt
List of Illustrations.
1 The Setting.
3 Close to Home.
4 The Stuff of Life.
5 Crafts and Trades.
6 Learning Earning and Leisure.


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By RAWLINGS OTIENO
A Sh28 billion Waste to Energy solutions initiative will see Nairobi city residents have a cleaner environment.
The Waste to Energy solutions will generate at least 70 mega Watts per hour of electricity to the national grid and address the perennial black out menace in the city.
Sustainable Energy Management (SEM), a German company will turn solid waste, organic and inorganic, recyclable and non-recyclable material into energy and at the same time make the city clean.
Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero said that the modular plant by SEM is designed to take daily input of approximately 1,000 tons of waste of all kinds generated by Nairobi residents.
This project he said will make the city clean and get rid of the waste as well as create job opportunities for the youth.
"The project shall provide employment of 1,000 inhabitants in the first project and 250 employees directly on site in the second phase of the project. "We want to make sure that the city is clean and the Dandora dump site is cleaned," said Kidero.
Memorandum of Understanding
Speaking during the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the County Government and the German business moguls yesterday, Kidero said the two waste collection and management projects are designed to interact closely together in order to streamline waste logistics and also ensure reliability of the feedback to the SEM plant.
Delegation of German Industry and Commerce in Kenya Country Director Ingo Badoreck on his part said the SEM plant would emit very minimal pollution into the environment and at the same time making the city clean of waste.
Badoreck noted that the German business community would continue investing in other areas apart from sustainable energy management.
"We are pleased to sign this Memorandum of Understanding and hope that after the final signing, we will be able to set up the plant within 24 months to make the city of Nairobi clean," said Badoreck.
He disclosed that there are over 50 German companies in the country employing over 3,500 workers and hope the figure would increase significantly once the plant is set up.
The integrated project offers opportunities and benefits to Nairobi and shall ensure a clean environment, provide clean energy and create employment opportunities for unemployed youths.
Garbage management is a major challenge in urban centres with garbage collection and handling demanding extra resources as well as community contribution.


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how tall is Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee Height
5′ 8″ (172 cm)
Bruce Lee (_PHONE_) was a famous Chinese-American actor, martial artist, philosopher, and filmmaker. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential martial artists of the 20th century and is known for popularizing martial arts in the West.
Interesting Facts about Bruce Lee:
- Bruce Lee was born on November 27, 1940, in San Francisco, California, and died on July 20, 1973, in Hong Kong.
- He was a child actor in Hong Kong films before moving to the United States at the age of 18.
- Bruce Lee is known for his role in the TV series "The Green Hornet" and the films "Fists of Fury", "Way of the Dragon", and "Enter the Dragon".
- He created his own martial arts style called Jeet Kune Do, which emphasized simplicity, directness, and efficiency.
- Bruce Lee was also a talented dancer, having studied cha-cha, tango, and waltz.
- He was an accomplished philosopher and writer, and his book "Tao of Jeet Kune Do" is a classic in martial arts literature.
- Bruce Lee was an advocate for physical fitness and a healthy lifestyle, and he trained regularly in weightlifting and cardiovascular exercise.
- Despite being only 5'7″ and weighing around 140 pounds, Bruce Lee was incredibly strong and agile, able to perform feats of strength and acrobatics that were considered impossible for his size.
- He was posthumously inducted into the Martial Arts Hall of Fame in 1999 and the Asian Hall of Fame in 2004.
- Bruce Lee's death at the age of 32 was attributed to cerebral edema, a swelling of the brain, possibly caused by a reaction to a prescription painkiller. His sudden passing shocked and saddened millions of fans around the world.


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June 19, 2012 Intensive field work by researchers David General of the Palawan State University, The Philippines and Gary Alpert of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University has led to the discovery of nine genera of ants that had never been recorded before in the Philippines. Another two new genera were discovered by other researchers in a remote mountain region.
The study was published as the 200th jubilee issue of the open access journal Zookeys.
About 30% of all currently known ant genera have been recorded in the Philippines, with a land area roughly the size of Italy or Arizona. At least 474 species of ants are known from the archipelago. In addition, several dozen new species remain to be formally described and given scientific names. "New species have been found even in highly disturbed places like university campuses," reported Mr. General.
"The complex blend of climatic diversity, geologic history and island structure of the country has likely led to rapid development of new ant genera and species, a phenomenon that deserves much further exploration," Dr. Alpert surmises.
The discoveries were made on a private reforestation project on the fringe of a single protected area, the Mt. Isarog Natural Park, on Luzon Island. Unfortunately, the study site was poached and all the trees have been cut down, wiping out 27 years of stewardship. Habitat destruction continues to threaten the ants of the Philippines and the plants and animals that depend on them.
Many islands, mountains and unique habitats remain unexplored for their ant communities.
Ants are very common and easily recognizable insects but are poorly studied in the region. This new study may spur interest and provide such a reference for people who want to study ants in the Philippines.
Other social bookmarking and sharing tools:
- David General, Gary Alpert. A synoptic review of the ant genera (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the Philippines. ZooKeys, 2012; 200 (0): 1 DOI: 10.3897/zookeys._PHONE_
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The Thermal Properties of Polystyrene/Magnetic Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane (POSS ) Nanocomposites Prepared under Magnetic Field
Polystyrene composites containing polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS1) were prepared by bulk free radical polymerization under magnetic field and no magnetic field. XRD studies indicate dispersion of POSS1 in PS/POSS1 97/3 nanocomposites prepared under magnetic field is better than those prepared without magnetic field. The PS/POSS1 nanocomposites also display much higher initial decomposed temperature in comparison with neat PS. The initial decomposed temperature of PS/POSS1 nanocomposites prepared under magnetic filed are higher than those with same content of POSS1 without magnetic field.
Yun-Hae Kim, Prasad Yarlagadda, Xiaodong Zhang and Zhijiu Ai
X. Y. Song et al., "The Thermal Properties of Polystyrene/Magnetic Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane (POSS ) Nanocomposites Prepared under Magnetic Field", Advanced Materials Research, Vols. 335-336, pp. 203-206, 2011


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The Semantics of Polysemy
Reading Meaning in English and Warlpiri
Series:Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] 30
Aims and Scope
This book, addressed primarily to students and researchers in semantics, cognitive linguistics, English, and Australian languages, is a comparative study of the polysemy patterns displayed by percussion/impact ('hitting') verbs in English and Warlpiri (Pama-Nyungan, Central Australia).
The opening chapters develop a novel theoretical orientation for the study of polysemy via a close examination of two theoretical traditions under the broader cognitivist umbrella: Langackerian and Lakovian Cognitive Semantics and Wierzbickian Natural Semantic Metalanguage. Arguments are offered which problematize attempts in these traditions to ground the analysis of meaning either in cognitive or neurological reality, or in the existence of universal synonymy relations within the lexicon. Instead, an interpretative rather than a scientific construal of linguistic theorizing is sketched, in the context of a close examination of certain key issues in the contemporary study of polysemy such as sense individuation, the role of reference in linguistic categorization, and the demarcation between metaphor and metonymy.
The later chapters present a detailed typology of the polysemous senses of English and Warlpiri percussion/impact (or P/I) verbs based on a diachronically deep corpus of dictionary citations from Middle to contemporary English, and on a large corpus of Warlpiri citations. Limited to the operations of metaphor and of three categories of metonymy, this typology posits just four types of basic relation between extended and core meanings. As a result, the phenomenon of polysemy and semantic extension emerges as amenable to strikingly concise description.


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Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference (한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집)The Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering (한국소음진동공학회)
This study is put a focus on the identification of sound characteristics according to the interior configuration of sound absorption material and air gap. Noise barrier is general consists of front perforated panel, air layer, sound absorption material, air gap and back plate. Noise barrier is required to the NRC value of 0.7. The absorbing performance of the noise barrier relies on the opening ratio of the perforated panel and the efficiency of the absorbing material. This study has observed the effect of opening ratio and hole size, the increase of sound absorbing performance by the configurations of sound absorption material and air gap. New designed noise barrier is achieved the acoustical performance of 0.87 the measurement in a reveration room.


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What's the difference between A and B in the following statements?
A: Raise your hand if you want to talk in class.
B: Every student needs a chance to contribute and be heard because every voice matters.
A: No talking in the hallways.
B: We respect others' learning time by being quiet in the hallways.


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|Office of Community
Oriented Policing Services
U.S. Department of Justice
A Guide to Developing, Maintaining, and Succeeding With Your School Resource Officer Program
Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), July 2005.
Many SRO programs have experienced difficulty recruiting, screening, retaining, training, and supervising SROs. This new COPS report documents promising methods that selected SRO programs have used to address these potential problem areas of SRO program operations. The information in the report is intended to enable other SRO programs-and jurisdictions that are thinking of starting SRO programs-to benefit from the experiences of these selected programs by adopting or adapting some of their approaches to establishing and maintaining a successful program.
Blueprints for Violence Prevention
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), July 2001.
Through the Blueprints for Violence Prevention Initiative, OJJDP provides information to communities on a broad array of violence prevention and intervention programs that have proven to be effective. This bulletin describes the demanding criteria established by the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence to designate model Blueprints programs. It also outlines the activities of the 11 programs (out of the more than 500 that have been reviewed to date) found to meet those rigorous standards. The document provides contact information for each program, and discusses replication and funding resources.
Bomb Threats in Schools
Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), February 2005.
This guide addresses the problem of bomb threats in schools, public or private, kindergarten through 12th grade. The guide reviews the factors that increase the risk of bomb threats in schools and then identifies a series of questions that might assist departments in analyzing their local problem. Finally, the guide reviews responses to the problem and what is known about these from evaluative research and police practice.
Bullying in Schools
Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), January 2004.
There is always concern about school violence, and police have assumed greater responsibility for helping school officials ensure students safety. As pressure increases to place officers in schools, police agencies must decide how best to contribute to student safety. Bullying in Schools provides police with information about the causes and extent of bullying in schools and recommendations for developing effective approaches and practices that contribute to student safety.
COPS Gangs Toolkit
The COPS Gangs Toolkit consists of resources for law enforcement officials, educators, and parents to address specific types of crimes committed by gangs. The following resources provide details of community policing solutions to youth crime and school violence. The COPS Office encourages law enforcement agencies to analyze their local gang problems and use these resources, as appropriate.
COPS Innovations: Assessing School Related Crime and Disorder
Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), September 2001.
This report is based on the activities of COPS School Based Partnership grantees. Tips and recommendations are provided for developing successful school based problem-solving efforts
COPS Innovations – Creative Partnerships: Supporting Youth, Building Communities
Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), September 2002.
This COPS Innovations piece highlights community policing approaches to developing partnerships with youth. Three youth-focused programs funded by the COPS Office serve as examples of partnerships that law enforcement, schools, and community organizations can form to address issues of juvenile crime and victimization.
COPS School Safety CD-ROM
Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), March 2005.
The School Safety CD-ROM contains more than 30 COPS Office and other U.S. Department of Justice agency links and documents related to youth violence, gangs, bullying, and drugs, and is a resource for local policy makers, school administrators, parents, and students.
Early Warning, Timely Response: A Guide to Safe Schools
Department of Education, August 1998.
This guide offers research-based practices designed to help school communities identify early warning signs and develop prevention, intervention, and crisis response plans. The guide includes sections on characteristics of a school that is safe, early warning signs, getting help for troubled children, developing a prevention and response plan, responding to crisis, resources, and methodology.
Gang Reference Card for Parents English
Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), July 2005.
This quick and easy reference guide provides common warning signs of gang involvement. Parents are encouraged to familiarize themselves with local gangs symbols, seek help early, and consider contacting school officials, local law enforcement, faith leaders, and community organizations for additional assistance.
Guide to Using School COP to Address Student Discipline Problems
Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), September 2001.
This Guide is designed to help school administrators, police officers assigned to a school, and non-sworn school security staff reduce student discipline and crime problems using a new software application called the School Crime Operations Package, or School COP. School COP is designed to enable you to record and store detailed information about incidents involving student misconduct and crime.
Kids, COPS, and Communities
National Institute of Justice (NIJ), June 1998.
This NIJ Issues and Practices Report is designed to help law enforcement administrators and officers understand and institute a strategy to help prevent violence-specifically, community-oriented policing services carried out in collaboration with youth-serving organizations.
RetroGrade: How School Crime Sets You Back Training Video
Florida Regional Community Policing Institute (FLRCPI) and Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS).
This 30-minute, MTV-style video is based on true cases. It alerts students not only to the criminal and legal aspects of the various crimes, but also to the moral and ethical issues involved. Instructors may pause the tape between each scenario and discuss with students the ethical decision-making conversation that began on the screen. Winner of local and national video awards, RetroGrade can be an important tool for any concerned SRO, teacher, counselor, or administrator. It is a product of the COPS-funded Florida Regional Community Policing Institute.
School Violence: An Overview – Creating Safe Schools and Conflict Resolution Education
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), June 2001.
This document provides an overview of the current state of school violence, a guide to comprehensive safe school planning, and a way to prepare youths for a less violent future through conflict resolution skills.
School Vandalism & Break-ins
Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), August 2005.
This guide addresses school vandalism and break-ins, describing the problem and reviewing the risk factors. It also discusses the associated problems of school burglaries and arson. The guide then identifies a series of questions to help you analyze your local problem. Finally, it reviews responses to the problem, and what is known about them from evaluative research and police practice.
SRO Performance Evaluation: A Guide to Getting Results
Circle Solutions, Inc and Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), August 2005.
The evaluation captures the lessons-learned from a COPS-funded, 2-year pilot project conducted by Circle Solutions, Inc. The result is a step-by-step guide to help law enforcement and school personnel use school resource officers (SRO) effectively. To better address school crime and disorder, it also provides guidance on how to match the SRO's actual performance to their evaluations.
Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), September 2004.
This guide addresses the problem of underage drinking. It begins by describing the problem and reviewing factors that increase the risks of it. The guide also identifies a series of questions that might assist you in analyzing your local problem. Finally, it reviews responses to the problem and what is known about these from evaluative research and police practice.
Violence After School: Juvenile Justice Bulletin
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), November 1999.
This OJJDP Bulletin is gives readers quick, focused access to some of the most critical findings from the wealth of data regarding school violence. The data reported in this Bulletin document the need for schools and communities to develop strategies for youth during the after-school hours.


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With the crossover craze in full swing more and more people drive vehicles with higher ride heights. While sitting up higher may seem like a good thing, that isn't necessarily the case. Ride height just like everything else is a tradeoff. When you bring a vehicle's center of gravity up, there are some adverse effects. To really see how ride height impacts safety we've highlighted three areas that it impacts.
There's little doubt that when you sit up higher than the person in front of you, you can see better than them. Increasing the ride height of a vehicle does have a positive impact on visibility in most respects. However, everything that applies to lower-riding cars still applies to vehicles that sit up higher.
Blind spots are much the same, the placement of A, B, and C pillars likely won't change, and many of the same issues will persist. Also, with so many people buying tall-standing crossovers and SUVs the likelihood that you'll be able to see over the top of the person in front of you is less likely.
A rollover is a highly dangerous incident. Rollovers occur when a vehicle rolls upside down from its side. This can happen if a vehicle is hit at a certain angle or if there is a loss of control that forces it to turn sideways at speed.
Unfortunately, when a vehicle has a higher ride height, it is more susceptible to this type crash, meaning SUVs and crossovers are the most susceptible to it. Cars that have relatively low ride heights benefit from a low risk of rollover due to their low center of gravity.
In addition to the vehicle's susceptibility for rollover, ride height affects how a model handles. Lower center of gravity means the vehicle will handle curves and weight transfers differently. This means lower cars are generally safer on a technical roadway with a lot of complex turns.
Still, many automakers have gotten very good at creating SUV and crossovers that handle remarkably well despite their higher ride height. Mazda, for example, has a lineup of crossovers that handle better than many cars out on the road. As time goes on more automakers will create crossovers and SUVs that handle exceptionally well. That being said, there are still limits to how good these vehicles can get.
According to the IIHS, a vehicle's ride height can have an impact on how much damage it does to another vehicle. A high ride height paired with high structural rigidity and a heavy weight can do some serious damage to other, lower riding vehicles and endanger those passengers.
The IIHS notes that injury and death rates were higher for car drivers involved in accidents with SUVs or trucks. This means in some cases a tall-standing SUV or crossover will be safer in the event of an accident, but all of that really depends on the type of accident.


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I have been set a probelm to do from my High school calculus class, I have gone through it and don't think I had any major probelms but I would love if someone on this forum could go through the question, so I can get a level of my understanding. Its 1 question with 7 parts (a-f):
The concentration of alcohol in a persons bloodstreams 't' hours after the person stopped drinking is given by c(t)= 0.8t / t^2+1. when C(t) is less than or equal to 0.08
A) interpret meaning of C(1/2)
B) find experssion for C'(t), which is the rate at which the concentrations of alcohol is changing.
C) write equation for the tangent line to C(t) when t=1
D) Interpret the meaning of the equation of the tangent line found in part C
E) Find the time it will take for the concentration level to get up to and then back below the legal.08 level.
F)theoretically, is there always a trace amount of alcohol in your bloodstream after some has been consumed? use limit theory to explain your answer.
desperately looking for help from anyone, & any help is much appreiciated!


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The Commonwealth of Dominica is the most northerly and largest of the Windward Islands, and is known as the nature island of the Caribbean. It covers an area of 751 km² (290 mi²).It is heavily forested and is renowned for its lakes, waterfalls and over 365 rivers. The highest point is Morne Diablotins, which rises to 1,524 km (5,000 ft) above sea level. The average annual rainfall is 1,981 mm (78 in). The agricultural sector includes production of bananas, citrus, coconuts, cocoa, herbal oils and extracts. Historically, banana production has employed over one-third of the labour force – directly or indirectly. However, the sector has been facing challenges with the loss of the preferential European Union markets for bananas. There has been diversification into other crops such as citrus fruits, vegetables, coffee, patchouli, aloe vera, cut flowers, mangoes, guavas, and papayas. Increasingly the Government is promoting the island as an "ecotourism" destination. In 2009 agriculture recorded a decline in growth as a result of the effects of Hurricane Dean. However, some 40% of the population is still dependent on agriculture which contributed 17% of GDP in 2009.
The research and development portfolio of CARDI Dominica is quite varied and it includes work on roots and tubers, fruit crops and hot peppers. The Unit has long history of technology development for root crops such as yam, dasheen and tannia and it has now begun work on sweet potatoes. It also has a long standing relationship with the Dominica Export and Import Agency (DEXIA) with the development and transfer of hot pepper production technologies to support the export trade of the commodity. Similarly, the Unit has partnered with the Nature Island Pineapple Producers Association (NIPPA) for the development and promotion of pineapples on the island. In collaboration with its other partners, CARDI Dominica has initiated activities to develop undercover / protected agriculture systems.
- Characterise sweet potato accessions in Dominica
- Assess the pungency of "Bonda Ma Jacque" landrace hot pepper.
- Preliminary investigations on the effect of different rates of N and K applications on pineapple (ratoon crop) yields
- Identify and validate pineapple varieties for agro-processing
- Validate CTV resistant root stocks and root stock/scion combinations.
For highlights of work by the CARDI office in Dominica, Click here


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Welcome to the Cyprus Centre for the Research and Study of Music (C.C.R.S.M.), a non-profit academic organization dedicated to the development and promotion of cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary research and study of music. Here you will find information and all the latest about our organization, various activities organized, services and publications offered.
The Cyprus Centre for the Research and Study of Music, C.C.R.S.M. is a non-profit organization registered in the Republic of Cyprus in 2012 and began its financial activities in March 2014. Its mission is to promote and advance the research and study of music; innovation, expression, participation, creation and communication in music, encompassing a diverse range of musical genres, of creating and learning, participating and performing. The centre promotes cross-disciplinary, interdisciplinary research across cultures and societies, embracing the multidimensional and multidirectional 'heteroglossic' musical worlds.
Recognizing the fundamental power of music and its tremendous significance in people's lives CCRSM aims in bringing together and actively engage and challenge musicians and/or creators, educationalists and/or researchers, children and/or adults, cultural entrepreneurs and investors all of which always strive to go one step further. CCRSM serves as a centre for the creation and implementation of new ideas related to music leadership, music learning and music professional development in Cyprus, its regional communities, the Mediterranean basin and Europe at large. The centre's activities are centered in the Mediterranean, a fascinating place of human interactions, conflicts and mixing, diverse syncretism and conversion of diversities. For some people it represents a rich cultural melting pot, while for others a colorful mosaic of localised cultural and musical behaviors and practices.
At the same time C.C.R.S.M. provides a platform and a bridge for ongoing music research, interaction and dialogue with global perspectives. It acknowledges the formulation of multilayered, 'heteroglossic', multicultural and intercultural musical narratives and musical identities and their impact in human musical practices at each psychological, social, historical, cultural, ethnic, political, economic, local and global context. In turn, the centre aims in closely observing, investigating and celebrating such human phenomena. They provide rich opportunities for collaborative work, individual intellectual and emotional fulfillment and promote peace and intercultural understanding between persons and groups.
Our logo has a twofold meaning as it is inspired from both the family name of the founder of the organization, "Pierides"(masculine ending in Greek: Πιερίδης, female Pieridou:Πιερίδου) and the ancient Greek and Roman myths of Pierides Muses. Our logo signifies the fusion of geographically different socio-historical cultural and musical worlds and our fundamental underlying principles.
Most symbols on the logo are, interestingly, of feminine gender in Greek language: the sea (θάλασσα), the Muse (Μούσα), the harp (Άρπα), the note (Νότα), the jay (κίσσα), the earth (γή), the music (μουσική), the creation (δημιουργία), the production (παραγωγή) and the knowledge (γνώση). Since ancient times, people have believed that the female cannot exist without the protection of and union with the masculine. Therefore, the curved line on the top of the logo represents Uranus, also known as Ouranós, the embodiment of the sky or heavens, and known as "the god of the sky". He was the first son of Gaia - the earth which is represented in our logo by the bird. Ouranós also became Gaia's husband. The sky also symbolizes the spiritual element in music experience which assists in the elevation of the human spirit and soul. Finally this line also represents the timeline from the past to the present that is pointing to and continues in the future.
If observed from left to right, just like a journey from past to present, on the left of the logo there is the Muse of Music singing and holding an harp, a figure of Mousayétis Apollo, their combination representing both the female and masculine elements in the musicmaking. On the right of the Muse's back a bird emerges, a Eurasian jay, Garrulus glandarius (in Greek = κίσσα) which is found in abundance in the forests of Troodhos Mountains in Cyprus. It is an intelligent, self-conscious, shy and cautious bird well hidden in the leaves of the forest trees with a harsh croaking and voice imitation abilities.
Lastly, the music stave, also representing the Mediterranean Sea seems to be stemming from the harp in a wave-like direction to the right, from past to present. Although the stave is fundamental in western musical notation the impressionistic notation with sails and anchor symbolizes the flow of musical interaction and the fluidity of different and varied musical meanings that are possible through processes of diversification, hybridization and syncretism in each historical moment.
According to a Greek myth, Pierides might have been the patronymic of the nine daughters of King Pieros of Emathia, who gave each of his nine daughters a name of the Muses. Pierides (in plural form) were also called the Muses who were born and lived in Pieria Greece, not far from Olympus, and thus also called Olympiades (Vakhes in Euripides). Likewise in Latin mythology, e.g. in Ovid's Metamorphosis, Pierides referred to the Muses in general.
In a different version, we learn that the most ancient seat of worship of Muses was in Pieria, where Apollo was directing their choir and thus was also known as Mousayétis. Pierides had beautiful voices and their singing was very sweet but became so arrogant considering themselves better than the Muses that they challenged them in a singing contest. The Muses as expected won and punished the presumptuous maidens by transforming them into chattering birds. These birds belong to the corvids or crow family which includes a large number of species such as the European magpies and Eurasian jays. These species, though cacophonous are nature's most intelligent birds and among the most intelligent of all animals.
Vanity and arrogance led to the destruction of the inherent gift of beautiful divine singing, according to the myth. The transformation to an earthy but intelligent species, such as the Eurasian jay, points to the fundamental brain intelligence and social skills necessary for survival on this planet. In a metaphorical sense, such transformation exemplifies brain intelligence which leads to contemporary human bright discoveries, exquisite creative accomplishments and important research findings.
To our understanding, the myth also points to the continuous interaction between the divine and the earthy, ideas and actions. Throughout the centuries written language and books have been prime forms of knowledge sharing and research support. Therefore the bird holds a book with his mouth as a symbol of knowledge and research.
We believe that music is a fundamental human biological trait and a human capacity to formulate organized, meaningful sounds. More than that, it is an embodied phenomenon, a mindful social practice, a creative experience and exciting narrative in the journey of life. At the same time it is a phenomenon that has always attracted human research, which in turn, enriches and advances music making, learning and participation. Our efforts are nested in the often called 'cradle of western civilization and culture' the great sea, the Mediterranean.


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Costume and Textiles
Embroidered Coif (Unassembled)Made in England, Europe
Artist/maker unknown, English
Linen plain weave with silk and gilt thread embroidery in outline, chain, twisted chain, plaited braid, straight, couching, knotted, and detached buttonhole filling stitches and bullion knots; gilt spangles
Currently not on view
1967-125-1Purchased with Museum funds, 1967
LabelCoifs, or caps, were worn by women when entertaining at home from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century. This coif's scrolling vine motif was influenced by "Tree of Jesse" designs from opus anglicanum. The "Jesse" pattern was inspired by a passage from the Book of Isaiah, which details the Messiah's lineage, starting with Jesse of Bethlehem, father of King David. To assemble this coif, the embroidery would be folded in half and stitched across the top and secured with a drawstring closure on the bottom. When worn, the assembled coif would form a point at the woman's forehead.


Invertebrate abundance and health are acquatic biomonitoring indicators to evaluate the effects of water pollution and climate change.
STINAPA is monitoring invertebrate abundance in Lac Bay, Bonaire since 1999 at irregular time intervals. During monitoring the species and the number of individuals of that species is counted at 66 different locations.


How to focus input tag element using hooks in Reactjs?
February 14, 2021 - 3 min read
To focus an element on an input tag element in reactjs, the basic idea is to get a reference to the input element tag and then use the focus() method on the input tag element on render.
TL;DR
// Import useRef and useLayoutEffect hooks
import { useRef, useLayoutEffect } from "react";
export default function InputTag() {
 // First Get Reference to the Input element in the DOM
 const inputElementRef = useRef();
 // Now We can focus the element
 // using the useLayoutEffect hook
 useLayoutEffect(() => {
 inputElementRef.current.focus();
 });
 return <input ref={inputElementRef} type="text" />;
}
Explanation
The above code is the full working code if you don't need the explanation.
Now let's discuss it each step by step,
First, let's import the useRef and the useLayoutEffect hook from the react. We will discuss why we are using these hooks in a minute and also make a functional component called InputTag.
// Import useRef and useLayoutEffect hooks
import { useRef, useLayoutEffect } from "react";
export default function InputTag() {}
Now we can write the JSX (the rendering part) for the input tag element so that we can render the input tag.
// Import useRef and useLayoutEffect hooks
import { useRef, useLayoutEffect } from "react";
export default function InputTag() {
 // Input tag element
 return <input type="text" />;
}
Now we need to get a reference to the input tag using the useRef hook and passing the reference value of the useRef hook to the input tag's ref attribute like this,
// Import useRef and useLayoutEffect hooks
import { useRef, useLayoutEffect } from "react";
export default function InputTag() {
 // First Get Reference to the Input element in the DOM
 const inputElementRef = useRef();
 return <input ref={inputElementRef} type="text" />; // Input tag element
}
This is how we get a direct reference to a DOM element in React.
Since we got the reference to the input tag element, now we need to use the focus() method to automatically focus the element when the page is rendered to the screen.
All the referenced DOM elements using the useRef hook will have a property called current in which we have the full properties and method of that particular DOM element. So in our case the focus() method of the input tag element can be accessed in the inputElementRef.current.focus().
We need to call the focus() method inside the useLayoutEffect hook.
This is because the useLayoutEffect hook runs after every state changes, DOM elements are referenced by React, and just before everything is rendered to the screen.
So just before everything is ready to be rendered to the screen the useLayoutEffect hooks are run.
It can be done like this,
// Import useRef and useLayoutEffect hooks
import { useRef, useLayoutEffect } from "react";
export default function InputTag() {
 // First Get Reference to the Input element in the DOM
 const inputElementRef = useRef();
 // Now We can focus the element
 // inside the useLayoutEffect hook
 useLayoutEffect(() => {
 inputElementRef.current.focus();
 });
 return <input ref={inputElementRef} type="text" />; // Input tag element
}
Now the input tag will be focused on render.
That's all! 😃
See the above code live in Codesandbox.
Feel free to share if you found this useful 😃.