Jianwaishu SI-14 Acupuncture Point
Jianwaishu SI-14
Chinese: 肩外俞
Pinyin: Jiān Wài Shū
Location
3 cun lateral to the lower border of the spinous process of the 1st thoracic verrtebra (T1), on the vertical line drawn from the vertebral border of the scapula.
How to locate
The levator scapulae muscle originates on the upper aspect of the medial border and the superior angle of the scapula. In this area, it is often myogelotic and therefore well defined and often sensitive to pressure (trigger point).
Jianwaishu SI-14 is located just superior to the actual muscle insertion. It is not located on the scapula, in contrast to Quyuan SI-13.
Main actions
 1. Opens the Channel
 2. Expels Wind
Needling
0.5–1 cun vertically or obliquely in a medial direction.
Caution: Pneumothorax.
Commentary for Jianwaishu SI-14
The function of Jianwaishu SI-14 is quite similar to this neighboring point Quyuan SI-13. It opens the Channel by removing the Obstruction. Therefore, it treats symptoms like pain in shoulder, scapula, arm and elbow. It is also effective when the patients are not able to turn their neck.
It should always be checked for sensitivity on pressure in case of shoulder issues.
In additional to that, it is also able to expel Wind in general, so as to treat Painful Obstruction Syndrome (Bi Syndrome) by Exterior Wind Invasion.


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When should Santa Clara residents conserve water? Always!
Whether it was a year of heavy rains or a winter without many wet days, residents need to conserve water whenever possible. Between 1950 and 2000, the U.S. population nearly doubled, but the country's thirst for water nearly tripled!
Depending on geographic location and time of year, landscape water use can account for 1/3 of a residence's total water use. Indoors, the average household uses 200 gallons of water each day. Wastewater from bathtubs, faucets, dishwashers, showers, washing machines and toilets is piped through the sanitary sewer system to the San Jose/Santa Clara Water Pollution Control Plant where it is treated and discharged as fresh water into the Bay.
Although this is "fresh water," it still threatens the fragile ecosystem of the San Francisco Bay-Delta. This is an estuary where salt water and fresh water meet. Too much fresh water upsets the balance of the wetlands, converts salt marsh habitat and endangers wildlife including two endangered species, the salt marsh harvest mouse and the California clapper rail.
The wetlands serve as a natural filter for pollutants. This is critically important since the Bay and Delta irrigates nearly half of the nation's fruits and vegetables and provides drinking water for more than 20 million Californians.

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Penalty Kicks Addition
Penalty Kicks Addition - Addition Math Game
Content Skill: Addition
Common Core State Standards: CCSS.Math.Content.2.OA.B.2 - Fluently add within 20 using mental strategies. By end of Grade 2, know from memory all sums of two one-digit numbers.
Think you've got what it takes? Let's see you get one past the goalkeeper in this exciting soccer math game. But be warned, the goalkeeper's tricky. If you love soccer, you'll love learning the math facts in Penalty Kicks.
Welcome to Penalty Kicks
Step 1
At the opening screen, hit the play button to begin playing a new game.
Kick the ball into the goal
Step 2
Try to kick the ball into the net by clicking and dragging where you'd like to kick. If you're on a mobile device, tap, and drag where you'd like to kick.
Answer a math equation
Step 3
After your kick, you'll be asked to answer a math equation. Answer correctly to get another chance to make a goal. Good luck.
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Step 4
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Maps of Meaning Audiobook
Maps of Meaning Audiobook
Written By: Jordan B. Peterson
Narrated By: Jordan B. Peterson
Publisher: Random House (Audio)
Date: June 2018
Duration: 30 hours 52 minutes
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Maps of Meaning Audiobook Summary
Peterson wrote the book for more than 13 years in an attempt to "explain the meaning of history". In it, he briefly reflects on his childhood and on being raised in a Christian family. The responses to his questions about the literal truth of Biblical stories seemed ignorant, causing him to lose interest in attending church. During adolescence and early adulthood he tried finding the answer to "the general social and political insanity and evil of the world" (from Cold War to totalitarianism) and for a short period of time he embraced socialism and political science. Finding himself unsatisfied and falling into a depression, he discovered inspiration in the ideas of Carl Jung and decided to pursue psychology.
Peterson began to write Maps of Meaning in the mid-1980s, and used text from it (then titled as The Gods of War) during his classes teaching as an assistant professor of psychology at Harvard University. He initially intended to use it in an application for academic tenure at Harvard, but found that he was not emotionally up to the task, nor was he "in the position to make the strongest case for myself". The prospect of steady employment was attractive as he had two children by then, and so he decided to accept an offer from the University of Toronto in 1998.
According to Craig Lambert, writing in Harvard Magazine, the book is influenced by Jung's archetypal ideas about the collective unconscious and evolutionary psychology. It includes theories of religion and God, natural origin of modern culture, and the bibliography includes Dante Alighieri, Hannah Arendt, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Northrop Frye, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the Brothers Grimm, Stephen Hawking, Laozi, Konrad Lorenz, Alexander Luria, John Milton, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean Piaget, B. F. Skinner, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Voltaire, and Ludwig Wittgenstein among many others.
Maps of Meaning Audiobook Reviews
It's not an exaggeration to say that this book changed the way I view the world. Actually, it wasn't just the book; like many others, I also follow Dr. Peterson's University of Toronto lectures that he generously posts for free on Youtube.
So, I'm going to take a stab at briefly reducing some of the overarching themes found in the book for someone thinking about picking it up. Although, don't expect the book to be reduced; it's quite technical in parts.
The world can and should be viewed as a place made up of experiences or tools, rather than simply objects, which is how we've been trained to do as post-Enlightenment human beings. That's the primary difference between a person in 2017 CE and a person in 2017 BCE. It's not intelligence; it's a matter of viewpoint.
Thus, if you asked an ancient Sumerian to describe a coffee cup, he'd probably say something like: "It looks like a nice place to store my liquid." If you asked a man today, he might say: "Well it's a small object made out of glass with a handle on it."
Maybe you're thinking so what: What difference does that difference in mindset make? Actually I think it's central to Peterson's views. A modern atheist, for example, may say, "look there's a coffee cup; I can see it; I can touch it; I can break it; therefore it's real! I can't see God and I can't touch God, therefore there is no God." Peterson argues that of course modern people often come to that conclusion. We've been trained to think differently than the people who wrote the Bible, for example.
But they didn't see the world as a place that was made out of objects. They were interested in handing down collective wisdom and experiences to the next generation. Stories like Genesis, for example, which find earlier versions of itself being told by Zoroastrianists, may have been handed down via the oral tradition for tens of thousands of years before that. Our ancestors were handing down a psychologically correct blueprint for how to live. Why is it psychologically correct? Well, look around you. Is there evil in the world? He cites the logic of Solzhenitsyn and Jung to answer that question with an emphatic yes!
For example, Jung said "…inasmuch as I become conscious of my shadow I also remember that I am a human being like any other."
The shadow Jung refers to represents the capability of man to do malevolence. Jung is telling us that if we understand our capacity to do evil, we have a real shot at harnessing our capacity to do good.
So there's good and there's evil, neither of which can be quantified or measured by science. But if we live in a scientific world and there is no way to measure or quantify evil, then does that mean nothing is good, and thus, nothing is evil?
This leads me back to Peterson's idea that mythology found in the collective unconscious and handed down via religious stories is psychologically correct and since it has formed the basis for western civilization for two millennia now, pulling the rug of Judeo-Christian ideas out from underneath our feet has been/will be disastrous for our future.
It's very difficult to reduce the concepts into something reasonably small, because there's so much more, and I butchered half of what I did write. But at least this may give you an idea of what to expect in the book. Big thanks to Peterson for putting his lecture videos up on Youtube. I recommend watching those as a companion to the book.
Also, there is a brand new abridged version of the book available through PDF, released for free today, and it's only about 15,000 words. That's about the equivalent to a 75 page paperback book. For a lot of people, that's going to be much preferable to his 500+ page unabridged version.
Dr. Peterson is actually giving away the full book on his website at (edit: I first wrote this review back in July of 2017, so I'm not certain these last two statements are still true)
Listen To Maps of Meaning Audiobook
Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief is a 1999 book by Canadian clinical psychologist and psychology professor Jordan Peterson. The book describes a theory for how people construct meaning, in a way that is compatible with the modern scientific understanding of how the brain functions. It examines the "structure of systems of belief and the role those systems play in the regulation of emotion", using "multiple academic fields to show that connecting myths and beliefs with science is essential to fully understand how people make meaning".


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ZwischengoldgläserArticle Free Pass
Zwischengoldgläser, (German: "gold between glasses"), drinking glasses decorated with engraving in gold leaf laminated between two pieces of glass. The term is usually applied to beakers, goblets, and tumblers produced in Bohemia during the late 17th and early 18th centuries, but examples have been found in Roman catacombs of the 3rd century. These early glasses were made as follows: The inner side of the bottom of the glass was covered with gold leaf and a design scratched through the gold. A disk of glass was then fused to the inside bottom, leaving the gold sandwiched between two layers of glass. The 17thand 18th-century technique was similar: Two glasses were made of identical shape, one slightly larger than the other. Gold leaf was applied to the outside of the smaller one and a design scratched on it; the smaller glass was then fitted into the larger and bonded to it. See also Mildner glass.
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Meaning of Vasant Panchmi: The Vasant Panchmi is also spell as Basant Panchami which reflects the arrival of spring season. The day is celebrated as the Saraswati Pooja where goddess Saraswati is worshiped. The day is celebrated on the fifth day of the Magh month of 'Shukla Paksh', therefore the Vasant Panchami is also called as the 'Shree Panchami' or 'Saraswati Panchami'.
Maa SaraswatiGoddess of Learning:Goddess Saraswati is worshiped on the day of Vasant Panchami. Maa Saraswati reflects the symbol of vedic knowledge and wisdom. Goddess Saraswati is the goddess of great learning, wealth of humanity and wealth of knowledge. According to the Hindu mythology the goddess is sitting with the white attire, white flower and white pearl and sitting on the white lotus which is floating on the water.
Rituals:The mythological history of the goddess Saraswati is associated with the holy rituals that are performed on the banks of river Saraswati. She is also worshiped as the goddess of speech which is also attributed to the formation of words.
Celebrations:On the day of the festival there is the environment of great festivity and the festival also marks the end of the winters. On this day the yellow color is of great significance, people also offers the yellow flowers in worship and also puts yellow tilak on everyone's forehead. At everyone's home the Kesar Halwa is prepared on the day which is also in yellow color. The devotees also visits temples and offers the prayers to the various gods.
The Vasant Panchmi is the festival that is celebrated in North India and is also the festival of nature and there is no story that is associated as it is in the case of the mostly Hindu festivals. On the day of festival goddess Saraswati is generally worshiped by the teachers and students in the northern and eastern part of the country.
Prasadam:The 'Prasadam' of the goddess at the time of the Basant Panchami differs from place to place and community to community. Some of the devotees offers 'Ber', a fruit that is found in Northern and Eastern India or 'Sangari' is the type of bean that is grown on the roots of the radish plant.
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UK: Impacts of a Deposit Refund System for One-way Beverage Packaging on Local Authority Waste Services
A UK study designed to answer the question: 'What would be the impacts of the introduction of a deposit refund system for oneway beverage packaging on local authority waste services in England?' shows councils would benefit from the introduction of a deposit return scheme (DRS). It finds that, while it is true that some valuable materials may be removed from existing recycling services, far from leading to additional costs, a DRS would be likely to yield net savings, overall, once other factors such as the likely impact on residual waste arisings are taken into account. Overall, it is estimated UK councils would save around £35m per year. Similar savings could be expected from a NZ scheme if introduced.
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Monte Carlo Simulation of Line-of-Sight Distance Measurements
This Monte Carlo simulation of line-of-sight distance measurement is based on the small angle formula (SAF), which has two arguments: (1) measured width of a reference object, and (2) measured angular diameter of the reference object from the standpoint of the observer. In this example, the reference object is 5 feet in diameter; its measurement errors are normally distributed with a mean of 5 feet and 0.95 quantile of feet. The angular diameter of the reference object from the observer's standpoint is ; its measurement errors are triangularly distributed with limits of. One hundred pseudorandom argument sets based on those distributions are mapped to the SAF and scatter-plotted using their 0.9 ellipsoid quantile against a set of SAF results. The correlation plots indicate that these results are loosely correlated with the measured reference object width and highly correlated with the measured angular diameter.

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ILLINOIS STATE ARCHIVES
Abraham Lincoln in Illinois
A Selection of Documents from the Illinois State Archives
AN ACT TO PERMANENTLY LOCATE THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS
February 7, 1837
Although a Senate bill, this piece of legislation was written by Abraham Lincoln and helped mark one of the major accomplishments of his state legislative career. It was part of the numerous maneuvers by Sangamon County legislators to move the state capital from Vandalia to Springfield.
Upon the organization of Illinois as a territory in 1809, Kaskaskia, located on the Mississippi River in southwestern Illinois, became the capital city. It continued as the capital when Illinois became a state in 1818. Illinois before the Civil War was generally settled from south to north. This meant the population center of the state continuously moved northward. In 1820, the state moved the capital to the town of Vandalia, which was farther north than Kaskaksia. However, the statute moving the capital called for it to be reviewed after twenty years.
Lincoln and eight other legislators represented Sangamon County, then a much larger area than it is today. The average height of these two senators and seven representatives was six feet tall, earning the delegation the nickname the "Long Nine." Going in to the tenth session of the Illinois General Assembly (_PHONE_) Lincoln led this bipartisan delegation, which was determined to have the capital relocated to Springfield.
Stephen Douglas, who opposed moving the capital to Springfield, later said of the "Long Nine," that "They used every exertion and made every sacrifice to secure the passage of the bill." Indeed, they would later be accused of voting for building projects in other legislators' districts in exchange for the votes for Springfield as state capital.
This document calls for a joint House-Senate meeting to vote on the location of a new capital. The joint House-Senate vote actually took place February 28, 1837. It took four ballots before legislators selected Springfield. Its nearest rivals were Alton, Vandalia and Jacksonville.
Springfield continues to serve as the state capital. Shortly after the vote, on April 15, 1837, Lincoln moved to Springfield and joined the law firm of John Todd Stuart.
Points to Consider
Why would Vandalia only have been made a temporary capital city?
Why would the moving of the state capital be a major achievement for Lincoln?
Why would Lincoln move to Springfield after this bill was passed?


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The Roaring Twenties
learn everything there is to know about the 1920s.
Speakeasies were places where people whent to secretly drink during the prohibition. The prohibition was a law that made alcohol illegal.
In the twenties women became more independent and started to take risks. They began to dress less and drink more. They showed more skin and went out to more parties, these women were called flappers.
Ku Klux Klan
In the twenties America was segragated between blacks and whites. There was there was a horrible group of racists that when around hanging blacks and burning down there houses. They called themselves the KKK or the Ku Klux Klan.


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OpenZFS – What Makes OpenZFS the Ideal Storage Solution for University Environments
As commercial storage becomes increasingly expensive, more and more of the Education vertical is looking at Open Source solutions for storage. This article series will focus on providing a better understanding of why OpenZFS is a cost-optimal, future-workload ready solution for Schools and Universities and will take a deeper dive into the demands of HPC (High Performance Computing) and how to best leverage OpenZFS in that context.
Let's Starting at the Beginning – What is OpenZFS
If you're new to our article series, you might not have been acquainted yet with OpenZFS. Check out our other technical introductory write-ups such as Basics of ZFS Snapshots and Introduction to ZFS Replication to dive deeper into the topic.
OpenZFS is an open-source file system and volume manager renowned for its advanced data management and protection features. With its robust capabilities, OpenZFS emerges as an excellent choice for university infrastructures. The unique requirements of educational institutions, such as managing large volumes of data, ensuring data integrity, and facilitating collaboration, align perfectly with the strengths of OpenZFS.
By harnessing its power, commercial users such as universities can optimize their data storage and management, safeguard critical information, promote seamless collaboration, and achieve cost-effective solutions. What we'll do in this article, is explore the reasons why OpenZFS stands out as a compelling candidate for university infrastructures.
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The Challenge of Storing Data in University Environments
Universities have diverse storage requirements due to the wide range of activities they engage in. This also means some very unique challenges that regular users might not encounter on a regular basis just because of the dynamic environment.
So what are some of the key use cases and challenges that universities are faced with?
- Research Data: Universities are centers of research, and they generate and store massive volumes of research data. This can include experimental data, scientific simulations, genomic data, training sets, and other data-intensive research outputs.
- Student Information: Most academia, schools and universities are tasked to handle vast amounts of student information, including academic records, enrollment data, grades, and personal details. This data needs to be securely stored and easily accessible for administrative purposes, student services, and compliance with privacy regulations.
- Multimedia Content: Universities often produce and store multimedia content, including lecture recordings, video tutorials, virtual labs, and multimedia presentations. These resources require significant storage space and efficient retrieval mechanisms to support distance learning initiatives and provide educational materials to students.
- Institutional Archives: Universities maintain institutional archives to preserve historical records, publications, manuscripts, and other valuable intellectual property. These archives require long-term storage solutions that ensure data integrity, accessibility, and preservation over extended periods.
- Collaboration and File Sharing: Universities foster collaboration among researchers, faculty, and students. Hence, storage systems must support easy and secure sharing of files and data sets, enabling efficient collaboration, version control, and synchronization across multiple users and locations.
- Data Protection and Disaster Recovery: Universities handle critical and sensitive data, necessitating robust data protection mechanisms. Storage solutions should include features such as data redundancy, snapshotting, backup, and disaster recovery capabilities to minimize the risk of data loss and ensure business continuity.
- Compliance and Security: Universities need to adhere to data protection regulations, privacy laws, and security standards. Storage solutions should provide encryption options, access controls, auditing capabilities, and compliance features to meet these requirements and safeguard sensitive information.
Addressing these storage requirements effectively is crucial for universities to support their academic, research, and administrative activities. OpenZFS provides a comprehensive set of features that align with these needs, making it a suitable choice for university infrastructures. We'll explore this in our next session.
Should Universities Choose Open Source or Commercial Storage Solutions?
The answer is definitely a predictable one: "It depends". Infrastructure solutions are often a function of budget availability, knowledge, flexibility and just general interest. Knowing how your organization deals with technology will tell you more about which one is the right one for your use case.
While commercial storage solutions may offer certain benefits such as dedicated support and specialized features, the cost-effectiveness, flexibility, transparency, community collaboration, and expertise utilization offered by open source solutions like OpenZFS make them highly suitable storage solutions for universities. These factors align well with the budget constraints and diverse expertise found within university environments, enabling them to optimize their storage infrastructure while focusing on their core academic and research objectives.
Open source solutions like OpenZFS can put the user in the driver's seat by essentially being a lot more customizable, at a far lower cost. But let's take a step back and look at all the advantages it provides:
- Cost-Effectiveness: Budget considerations play a significant role in IT decision making at universities, and open source solutions can be more cost-effective than commercial alternatives. OpenZFS, being open source, is free to use and doesn't require costly licensing fees. Importantly, this advantage is linear, the more storage connected to OpenZFS, the more budget is saved on licensing. This allows universities to allocate their limited resources to other critical areas, such as research, teaching, and infrastructure development.
- Flexibility and Customizability: Open source solutions provide the flexibility and freedom to tailor the storage system to specific university requirements. Universities often have unique storage needs due to the diverse range of academic disciplines and research areas they cater to. OpenZFS, as an open-source platform, allows for extensive customization and integration with existing infrastructure, making it easier to adapt to evolving storage demands.
- Community and Collaboration: Open source projects foster vibrant communities of developers, contributors, and users. The collaborative nature of these communities ensures continuous improvement, bug fixes, and knowledge sharing. Universities we some of the founding members of the open source movement and can continue to benefit from this active community by accessing support forums, documentation, and engaging with experts who can provide valuable insights and assistance. The collaborative environment promotes innovation and ensures that the storage solution remains up-to-date with the latest technologies and best practices.
- Transparency and Security: Open source solutions provide transparency in terms of their source code, allowing universities to audit and verify the security and integrity of the system. This transparency helps identify and rectify vulnerabilities promptly, ensuring a higher level of security for sensitive university data. Additionally, open source software benefits from the collective efforts of a large community, which enhances its overall security through rigorous testing and peer review.
- Expertise and Knowledge Sharing: Universities often have a pool of skilled IT professionals and researchers who can contribute to and benefit from open source solutions. OpenZFS allows universities to leverage the expertise of their own staff members and encourages knowledge sharing within the institution. This collaborative environment promotes professional growth, fosters a culture of innovation, and empowers universities to actively participate in the development and improvement of the storage solution.
OpenZFS And High Performance Computing (HPC)
Universities rely on HPC primarily for advanced scientific research. HPC allows researchers to conduct groundbreaking studies in fields such as physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, climate science, and computational mathematics. These disciplines often involve complex simulations, data analysis, and modeling that require significant computational power. HPC enables researchers to tackle large-scale problems, perform intricate calculations, and explore scientific phenomena that would be otherwise impractical or impossible.
Looking at this graph, we can easily see HPC plays a crucial role in driving innovation and technological advancements in every field, however academia has a strong reason to rely on it. It supports the development of new algorithms, data analysis techniques, and simulation methods. Universities can leverage HPC to pioneer new research methodologies, explore interdisciplinary collaborations, and push the boundaries of knowledge in various domains.
So how does OpenZFS play in the HPC market? Let's go over the advantages a bit.
OpenZFS prioritizes data integrity and reliability by employing advanced checksumming techniques. This ensures the accuracy and consistency of stored data, which is vital for HPC applications that depend on precise data for accurate research outcomes.
OpenZFS efficiently handles large-scale data storage. It supports scalable storage pools, allowing universities to seamlessly expand their storage infrastructure as data volumes increase. Its extensible storage configurations maximize performance and capacity, meeting the demanding requirements of HPC workloads.
The flexibility of OpenZFS is another advantage. It offers features like caching, compression, and deduplication, optimizing storage utilization, improving performance, and reducing costs. Snapshotting and cloning capabilities enable researchers to create reproducible experiments and efficiently manage multiple versions of datasets at a lower cost of storage.
OpenZFS ensures high availability through fault tolerance mechanisms. Software-based RAID (RAID-Z) safeguards data against drive failures, and hot-swapping of drives minimizes downtime during hardware replacements, ensuring uninterrupted cluster operations.
In one of the next articles in this series, we will dive deeper into what it means to deploy OpenZFS for HPC clusters and what some of the technical limitations are.
OpenZFS emerges as the ideal solution for university infrastructures, even in the context of High-Performance Computing (HPC). Its technical prowess and unique features make it well-suited for the complex requirements of university environments.
OpenZFS shines in its ability to customize and optimize storage resources. With features such as transparent compression, adaptive caching, and strong checksumming, it optimizes storage utilization, enhances performance, and reduces costs. The Copy-on-Write nature of ZFS ensures data integrity and efficient data management, both of which are critical for research activities in universities.
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The Start of a Legal Intifadah
1. "Palestine can join the Rome Statute for the International Criminal Court and file a Complaint with the ICC against the illegal settlements and settlers, who are committing war crimes;
2. "Palestine can join the Statute for the International Court of Justice, sue Israel at the World Court, and break the illegal siege of Gaza;
3. "Palestine can join the Law of the Sea Convention and get its fair share of the enormous gas fields lying off the coast of Gaza, thus becoming economically self-sufficient;
4. "Palestine can become a High Contracting Party to the Four Geneva Conventions [this deals with the laws of war];
5. "Palestine can join the International Civil Aviation Organization and gain sovereign, legal control over its own airspace;
6. "Palestine can join the International Telecommunications Union and gain sovereign legal control over its own airwaves, phone lines, bandwidths."


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Effects of non-local exchange on core level shifts for gas-phase and adsorbed molecules
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2014
Density functional theory calculations are often used to interpret experimental shifts in core level binding energies. Calculations based on gradient-corrected (GC) exchange-correlation functionals are known to reproduce measured core level shifts (CLS) of isolated molecules and metal surfaces with reasonable accuracy. In the present study, we discuss a series of examples where the shifts calculated within a GC-functional significantly deviate from the experimental values, namely the CLS of C 1s in ethyl trifluoroacetate, Pd 3d in PdO and the O 1s shift for CO adsorbed on PdO(101). The deviations are traced to effects of the electronic self-interaction error with GC-functionals and substantially better agreements between calculated and measured CLS are obtained when a fraction of exact exchange is used in the exchange-correlation functional.


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St. Kate's to host international science education meeting
The National Center for STEM Elementary Education at St. Catherine University will host the 16th annual GLOBE partners meeting, "Building a global community of Citizen Scientists," July 15-20.
The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) program is a worldwide hands-on, primary and secondary school-based science and education program.
More than 100 educators from all over the world will be attending the meeting and for the first time, their students will have the opportunity to share their research projects in a Student Science Symposium during the poster sessions of the meeting.
St. Catherine University's St. Paul campus and the Crowne Plaza Hotel in nearby Bloomington will be the hubs for a week of innovative training, sharing discoveries and expanding the GLOBE community.
More about GLOBE.gov
The GLOBE is an inter-agency organization funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF).
It is building a global community of citizen scientists by connecting educators and students with innovative teaching techniques, hands-on activities and emerging protocols from scientists.
The National Center for STEM Elementary Education has received funding for this program from 3M and the National Science Foundation (NSF).


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Gastric Motility Disorder in Cats
By: Dr. Bari Spielman
Read By: Pet Lovers
Obtaining a complete medical history and performing a thorough physical examination are necessary in order to create an appropriate diagnostic plan for the patient with a gastric motility disorder.
Certain diagnostic tests must be performed to diagnose a gastric motility disorder, and to exclude other disease processes that may cause similar symptoms. A thorough work-up begins with a broad general baseline of tests, and in many cases, more specialized or advanced testing may be indicated as well. It is important to note that an accurate diagnosis is necessary for an appropriate treatment regime.
A complete blood count (CBC) will evaluate for the presence of infection, inflammation, and anemia, associated with some diseases that cause gastric motility disorders.
A biochemical profile evaluates kidney, liver, electrolytes, total protein, and blood sugar status. All of these parameters are important to establish on these patients. A low potassium level is not uncommonly seen as a cause of motility disorders.
A urinalysis helps evaluate the kidneys and hydration status of the patient.
A fecal flotation must be performed to rule out parasites as an associated cause.
Abdominal X-rays evaluate the abdominal organs, presence of fluid, and the presence of a foreign body or tumor.
Your veterinarian may recommend additional tests to insure optimal medical care. These are selected on a case-by-case basis.
An ACTH stimulation test may be recommended to rule out hypoadrenocorticism (Addison's disease). It is a safe, simple, timed blood test that measures adrenal function and can usually be performed at your veterinary hospital.
Bile acids are a simple timed blood test that evaluates liver function. The test is very safe and can be performed at your veterinary hospital.
A blood lead level may be indicated in these patients where there has been known or possible lead exposure.
Chest X-rays are an important part of the work up for the chronically vomiting patient, as tumors and other types of cancer can metastasize (spread) to the lungs.
Abdominal ultrasound evaluates the abdominal organs and helps assess for the presence of tumors. Organs, lymph nodes, and masses can be sampled with a needle or biopsy instrument with the guidance of ultrasound. This procedure is relatively safe, but may necessitate a mild sedative. It is often recommended that a specialist perform the procedure.
An upper gastrointestinal (GI) barium (dye) series may be considered in those patients with chronic vomiting associated with gastric motility disorders. It may help diagnose foreign objects or tumors that are not apparent on X-rays, or confirm a diagnosis of GI ulceration. A safe dye is given to the patient by mouth, and is then watched as it travels through the GI tract. It is a non-invasive test that can often be performed by your regular veterinarian, although in some cases may necessitate transfer to a specialty hospital.
Gastroscopy may be of benefit in the vomiting patient. Although it is usually within normal limits in patients with idiopathic or primary gastric motility disorders, it may facilitate the removal of foreign bodies, help evaluate for ulcer disease, and sample tissue for the presence of inflammation or cancer. Hospitalization is brief, and healing is generally quick and uneventful. It does, however, necessitate general anesthesia, and therefore is associated with minor risks. It is often necessary to refer the patient to a specialist, and is performed when other diagnostics are either inconclusive or support the diagnosis of a gastric foreign body.
Lastly, an exploratory laparotomy should be performed as a diagnostic tool in any individual that has had an extensive diagnostic and treatment course, with little to no response. It is an invasive test, but it is necessary in a handful of cases for a definitive diagnosis and possible therapy or cure.
In patients with gastric motility disorders, little is as important as finding the underlying cause to insure appropriate therapy. Most patients are treated as outpatients, although in critically ill animals with severe vomiting and dehydration, hospitalization and intensive therapy is necessary. Therapy for gastric motility disorders include:
Dietary manipulation is important in the management of primary gastric motility disorders. Dietary modification should include small frequent feedings of an easily digestible product. Diets should be formulated that are liquid or semi-liquid consistency and low in fat and fiber content. The specific disease should be addressed with the appropriate feeding regime.
On severe cases intravenous fluid and electrolyte therapy may be necessary to correct dehydration, acid-base, and electrolyte abnormalities.
Antiemetic drugs to stop vomiting should be used with caution. It is best to identify and treat the underlying cause of vomiting; however, in selected cases they may be recommended.
Antacids to decrease acid production by the stomach, such as Tagamet (cimetidine), Pepcid (famotidine) or Zantac (ranitidine), may be of benefit in some cases, especially where ulceration is associated.
Gastrointestinal protectants and adsorbents to protect or sooth are felt to coat an "irritated" intestinal lining and bind "noxious" (harmful) agents. Sucralfate (Carafate) liquid helps smooth and coat an inflamed or ulcerated stomach.
Promotility drugs to increase movement such as metoclopramide (Reglan) may be of benefit in some cases.
Surgery is indicated for those patients with gastric outflow blockages, including tumors and foreign bodies.


How To Pierce Your Eyebrow
A needle in your eyeball is the last thing you want when wondering how to pierce your eyebrow. Attempting to pierce your eyebrow yourself could result in damage to your eye, not to mention contracting a bacterial infection or disease along with the damage. Finding a professional piercer that sterilizes instruments, needles and jewelry is the best bet for when you decide to pierce your eyebrow.
 1. Take a tour of local tattoo and piercing shops. Ask questions about sterilization, procedure and jewelry options. Inquire about the aftercare the piercer provides and the steps involved for cleaning the area around where you pierce your eyebrow.
 2. Take care of your body. The night before you pierce your eyebrow, do not drink alcohol and sleep for at least eight hours. Eat a large meal before your eyebrow piercing appointment to prevent feeling dizzy or fainting. Avoid aspirin and caffeine because these products thin your blood.
 3. Bring state issued identification. Professional piercing shops follow state law. A piercer checks the age on your identification and copies the card onto a release form before performing the piercing. If you are under eighteen, call the shop and find out all of the paperwork necessary that you and a parent need to bring.
 4. Be honest on the release form. Piercers have you fill out a legal document, called a release form, for several reasons. The document not only protects the piercer and the shop if you do not take care of your piercing, but also alerts the piercer to any potential problems you may have during the procedure or while healing the eyebrow piercing.
 5. Visit your doctor before the piercing shop. If you have diabetes, hepatitis, HIV or AIDS, obtain a written note detailing that you can heal an eyebrow piercing. Some piercers refuse to pierce people with immune deficiency disorders without written permission from a doctor.
 6. Listen to your piercer. Follow the aftercare guidelines the piercer give you to the letter. Just because your friends put dirty hands all over eyebrow piercings, doesn't mean that you should. Remember that your piercer knows best, after all, the piercer is a professional.
Eyebrow piercings swell for the first two weeks of healing. A professional piercer inserts jewelry during the piercing to allow for this swelling. Some people swell more than others and taking an anti-inflammatory during the healing period will reduce the swelling after you pierce your eyebrow. When changing shirts, be mindful of your eyebrow piercing to prevent ripping or tearing the jewelry out.
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A PFD – a Personal Flotation Device – is an equipment which serves to prevent an individual from drowning by keeping him or her afloat. Simply speaking, it's what is generally known as a life jacket or a life vest. PFDs are an essential item that needs to be taken at all times when engaging in water-related activities at sea, or farther out in lakes – this includes kayaking, canoeing, boating, etc.
PFD life jackets are divided on the basis of how they are inflated – as self inflating life jackets and manually inflated life jackets. As the terms suggest, the former is automatically inflated without manual intervention (by reacting to water pressure or to water itself, for example), whilst the latter requires manual operation to inflate the jacket (by pulling a cord, blowing into tubes, etc.) Besides this classification, life jackets have also been divided on the basis of the time that rescue efforts will take in case of an emergency, during which time the life jacket has to support the individual in the water and prevent him or her from drowning:
- Offshore Life Jackets/ Type I PFDs – these are built for conditions where the waters are rough or remote, thereby making rescue efforts take a considerable time. As such, they are bulky, but very buoyant – enough to keep even an unconscious person face-up in the waters. They are also built with very bright colours, so that the person may be easily located. These type of PFDs are required when boating activities take place far out in the seas, lakes, or oceans, or when waters are rough.
- Near-shore Life Jackets/ Type II PFDs – these are built for calm waters, which are not too far off from a shore and where rescue will come relatively quickly. They are less bulky than type I PFDs, but also less buoyant. Only some types will keep an individual face up regardless of his status. They are ideal for boating and other water activities which take place in relatively shallow waters.
- Flotation Aids/ Type III PFDs – these are built for shallow waters, where rescue will come very quickly. They are aids – not body suits – and do not restrict movement as much as types I and II. However, they are not very buoyant: they will keep a person above the water, but will require his efforts to remain face-up in the water.
- Throwable Devices/ Type IV PFDs – these are meant only to aid rescue efforts, that is, they are not meant to be singly used by the drowning individual. They are either rings or cushions which are thrown by the rescuers to further help the individual – as such, they require the individual's efforts to keep him afloat.
- Special Use Devices/ Type V PFDs – certain water activities such as canoeing, kayaking and the like have poor compatibility with types I and II life jackets, either because they are bulky and restrict movements, or because they are not buoyant enough. PFDs especially created for specific water activities fall within this last category – they are to be used only for the related activity though.


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Pulse width modulation (PWM) AC drives can generate elevated differential mode voltages due to the reflected wave phenomenon, fast rise times and peak voltages. While many users are familiar with differential mode voltages, common mode voltages created by PWM inverters are less familiar. Problems associated with common mode voltages can include erratic behavior of the controller resulting in time out errors, ground faults, and in the most extreme cases, premature failure of the motor bearings, motor windings, and cables.
Many solutions to protect motors are present in the market. This paper presents data showing how three filters: a typical dV/dt filter, a dV/dt filter utilizing a triple defense core, and a common mode choke, perform in providing both common mode and differential mode filtering. The data shows that a typical dV/dt filter does not provide common mode filtering and a common mode choke does not provide differential mode filtering. Only the filter containing the triple defense core provides both common mode and differential mode filtering to protect the motor. This paper will also discuss how the various topologies lend themselves to providing the required protection.


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Giribaile Dam – Reservoir
The Giribaile Dam was built between 1992 and 1997 on the Guadalimar riverbed. The reservoir is part of the Andalusian municipalities of Ibros, Vilches, Rus, Canena, Ubeda, Navas de San Juan and Sabiote.
Tributary of the Guadalquivir, the Guadalimar river rises at the foot of the Cerro Almenara, in the Sierra de Alcaraz, Albacete.
The reservoir belongs to the Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir (area of Jaen).
The reservoir basin has a surface area of 2932 km2 and an average annual contribution of 336,90 hm3.
The type of dam is loose materials with vertical clay core, fixed spillway lip with lateral weir, has a crest length of 685,80 m and a dam volume of 2.400.000 hm3. Its crest elevation is 355,50 meters and the height from foundation is 266,50 m ( m.s.n.m.)
Reservoir capacity: 475,08 hm3.
Giribaile Dam & Reservoir Purpose-Objectives
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The GFZ Geothermal research platform Groß Schönebeck is situated northeast of Berlin on the southern edge of the North German Basin. Two research wells form a geothermal doublet and give access to water-bearing horizons at depths between 3,9 and 4,4 km at temperatures of 150 °C. They are used as an in situ laboratory for investigating deep sedimentary structures and fluids under natural conditions. The activities cover research in a holistic approach along the whole chain of geothermal technologies, from the geothermal reservoir to the provision of power, heat and chill.
The downhole laboratory represents an important pilot project for the geothermal technology development in Europe. In situ experiments and borehole measurements can be performed with the focus of studying how to enhance the productivity of low-permeability geothermal reservoirs to create Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS). Facilities for testing plant components and materials complete the research facility.
recent project: Fracture-dominated development of a deep geothermal reservoir for electricity generation in the North-German Basin – Seismic exploration, concept and well planning at the Groß Schönebeck site – RissDom-A
- Geothermal research platform Groß Schönebeck
- Data publication: Reinsch, T., Blöcher, G., Kranz, S. (2015): Data from the Groß Schönebeck Research Platform 2011-06-01 - 2013-12-31 (Report), (Scientific Technical Report - Data ; 15/02), Potsdam : Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, 71 p. | _URL_ | GFZpublic | _URL_ | _URL_ |
- Fracture-dominated development of a deep geothermal reservoir for electricity generation in the North-German Basin – Seismic exploration, concept and well planning at the Groß Schönebeck site – RissDom-A
- Qualification of geothermal technology - integration of subsurface and surface systems
- Longterm-Corrosion investigations and -monitoring in saline thermal waters
- Entwicklung von thermodynamischen Daten für die Belange der thermodynamischen Gleichgewichtsmodellierung von Prozessen in tiefen, geothermalen Schichten
- Geothermal research power plant Groß Schönebeck
- Feasibility of geothermal power production from deep hydrothermal reservoirs - Completion of the Groß Schönebeck-doublet with the 2nd well


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Video: Methanol to fuel sustainable shipping initiativeS. Himmelstein | June 25, 2021
The world's first methatug — a tugboat powered by renewable methanol as a future-proof fuel for carbon-neutral shipping — is expected to be operational by early 2022 in the Port of Antwerp.
In addition to the port, which is supplying the vessel, the Fastwater project includes Belgian engineering company Multi, which conducted feasibility studies, and Swedish shipbuilder Scandinaos, responsible for designing the vessel's modifications. Methanol pipe and tank installation and engine conversion requirements will be engineered by Anglo Belgian Corporation, and injector adaptation will be overseen by German company Heinzmann.
Funded by the Horizon 2020 European research and innovation program, the Fastwater project will help the Port of Antwerp, the fifth largest bunkering port in the world, achieve its goal of becoming a sustainable, carbon-neutral multi-fuel facility by 2025. Other project facets will demonstrate the feasibility of a methanol-powered pilot boat, coast guard vessel and river cruiser. Business plans will be elaborated including the life cycle performance analysis of investment cost, fuel cost, carbon dioxide savings and pollutant reductions to commercialize the developed solutions.


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OBJECTIVES: The Transtheoretical Model of behavior change (TTM) postulates that behavior change is a process involving progress through five distinct stages of change (SOC). One of the key components for progress to a later stage is decisional balance (pros and cons of changing to the target behavior). The goal of the present study is to test the two dimensions of decisional balance as postulated in the TTM in the context of exercising behavior.
METHODS: The analyses are based on data from an online survey of 266 freshman students at the University of Zurich; participants self-reported their frequency of exercising and their weighing of the importance of 49 pros and cons of exercising.
RESULTS: The results indicate that a two-dimensional solution of decisional balance is insufficient. The analysis of pros and cons of exercising yielded a seven-factor solution with in part different progressions through the SOC.
CONCLUSIONS: With the subdivision into different pros and cons, intervention programs can be developed that better match the needs of participants in terms of fostering and decreasing the most important pros and cons of exercising.


The Benefits Of PETG
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Polyethylene Terephthalate Glycol-Modified (also known as PETG, PETE or PET to its friends) hits something of a middle ground between acrylic and polycarbonate and therefore it is probably best to look at it in relation to the two, as well as independently. Needless to say if PETG is capable of going up against these two heavyweights, there is no comparison between it and glass; not only is PETG far more sturdy, it is also transparent, easy to fabricate and can be printed on with very little hassle.
Like acrylic, PETG is 100% recyclable and can be used to produce or manufacture a wide range of goods. Capable of being sterilised, it's a renowned food safe material, which thanks to the cost effective means that we have of producing it and the ease with which it can be fabricated, means that it is often used as a container for foods, soft drinks and other liquid beverages.
Naturally colourless and clear, a wide number of colours can be added to PETG as it is processed, and it can also be injection moulded or extruded as a sheet. PETG is a Thermoplastic, which means that it can be shaped and reshaped over and over again by simply heating it up. It's important to note that this process causes absolutely no degradation to the material itself, allowing it to be recycled and repurposed indefinitely.
PETG's damage resistance is far higher than that of acrylic, to the point that it rivals the impact resistance of Polycarbonate (which has an impact resistance 30 times that of glass). Unlike Polycarbonate however, PETG can be fabricated easily, making it an easy material for DIY practitioners and professional craftsmen to work with.
In addition to being a prominent material in the food and beverage industry, PETG is also popular in the construction, medical and manufacturing industries, due to the qualities mentioned above. It is often used to fabricate point-of-purchase stands, exhibition kiosks and other types of retail displays; and as a result of its strength, durability, colour range and printable surface, it has garnered a good reputation as a reliable signage material.
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Climbing roses lost blooms and leaves - Knowledgebase Question
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Question by Glynda333
March 9, 1998
Last year my climbing roses suddenly lost their blooms and leaves and by the middle of summer I had 2 sticks growing. Why happened and what should I do this year?
Answer from NGA
March 9, 1998
Disease is the most likely culprit, and it would be difficult to diagnose which disease without more information. For example, blackspot fungus causes black spots on the upper leaf surfaces, then yellowed leaves, finally defoliation. Rust is a fungal disease that causes powdery orange spots on the undersides of the leaves and eventual curling of the leaves. Viruses can cause mottled leaves, yellow circles on leaves and stunted plants.
As soon as you notice any of these fungus disease symptoms on your roses, remove and destroy any affected leaves and spray your plant with a compost tea. This can be made by putting a gallon of finished compost that contains some manure into a 5-gallon bucket and filling it with water. Leave the mixture in the shade for about 2 weeks, then filter the solution and spray. For best results, spray in the evening and repeat every 3 or 4 days.
Viral diseases cannot be cured, and plants should be dug up and destroyed.
Also, since many foliar diseases rely onhigh humidity for spread, water your plants in the morning and prune in the early spring to improve air circulation.
Good luck this year.
spray drift from any nearby plants, lawn or trees being sprayed with herbicides or insecticides. There are several diseases of roses that could be the culprit.
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What are the protections for the safety devices of the induction melting furnace?
The protection system is a guarantee for the safe operation of the induction melting furnace and does not enlarge the fault. Therefore, the protection system has extremely high protection sensitivity and reliability. This system has the following safety protections
Overcurrent, voltage protection device
Cut-off, cut-off protection device
Power failure, phase loss, and undervoltage protection
Cooling water pressure, water temperature, flow rate and other alarm device protection
Leaking furnace, reliable grounding protection


an owner to keep your Dragons eyes healthy.
Diet is probably an obvious one but you need to supply your Bearded Dragons with a balanced diet that contains protein from insects and vitamin from vegetation to aid in overall health including the eyes.
The number of insects and vegetation you need to feed them will vary depending on their age.
Below is a chart that shows the % of protein and vegetation both baby and adult Bearded Dragons need in their diet as a rule of thumb.
You also need to provide your Dragon with the correct calcium, vitamin D3 and vitamin supplements. Here's a guide that shares the recommended supplements for a Bearded Dragons to keep them healthy.
Lighting is so important for Bearded Dragons. Without the correct basking temperatures, they won't be able to digest their food and therefore won't be able to use any of the nutrients they've consumed through their food or supplementation.
UVB lighting is also essential as they need this for many reasons including the absorption of vitamin D3.
Without both a balanced diet and high-quality lighting then they will struggle with their health and their eyes and likely to suffer as a result.
If you're not sure how to set up the lighting in your Bearded Dragons tank then take a look at this complete lighting guide.
What Other Senses Do Bearded Dragons Use?
One of the most overlooked senses that a Bearded Dragons uses to keep safe among other things is its tongue.
Bearded Dragons lick just about everything in order to understand more about their surroundings.
They use this licking behaviour to test the temperature of objects and check the scent of their owners as well as realising their position in the social hierarchy or the group.
Here's a post that details exactly why Bearded Dragons lick and why it's vital to their safety.
How many eyes do Bearded Dragons have? Bearded Dragons actually have 3 eyes. They have 2 eyes that are located at the sides of the skull and they also have a third eye called the 'parietal eye' that is located at the top of the skull and is in the form of a grey spot covered by a thin layer of skin.
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I know that I know nothing
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Antisthenes · Aristippus
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The phrase "I know that I know nothing" or "I know one thing: that I know nothing" (Ancient Greek: ἓν οἶδα ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα hèn oîda hóti oudèn oîda; Latin: scio me nihil scire or scio me nescire), sometimes called the Socratic paradox, is a well-known saying that is derived from Plato's account of the Greek philosopher Socrates. This saying is also connected and/or conflated with the answer Socrates is said to have received from Pythia, the oracle of Delphi, in answer to the question "who is the wisest man in Greece?".
In Plato
The saying, though widely attributed to Plato's Socrates in both ancient and modern times, actually occurs nowhere in Plato's works as is. Two prominent Plato scholars have recently argued that the claim should not be attributed to Plato's Socrates.
[…] οὖτος μὲν οἴεταί τι εἰδέναι οὐκ εἰδώς, ἐγὼ δέ, ὥσπερ οὖν οὐκ οἶδα, οὐδὲ οἴμαι
– This man, on one hand, believes that he knows something, while not knowing [anything]. On the other hand, I – equally ignorant – do not believe [that I know anything].
The impreciseness of the paraphrase of this as I know that I know nothing stems from the fact that the author is not saying that he does not know anything but means instead that one cannot know anything with absolute certainty but can feel confident about certain things.
Chaerephon, a friend of Socrates asked Pythia, The Oracle of Delphi : "Is anyone wiser than Socrates?". The answer was: "No human is wiser". Socrates tried to find someone who is wiser than himself, since he denied any knowledge, among politicians, poets, and craftsmen. It appeared that politicians claimed wisdom without knowledge; poets could touch people with their words, but did not know their meaning; and craftsmen could claim knowledge only in specific and narrow fields. The interpretation of Oracle's answer might be Socrates' awareness of his own ignorance.
καὶ νῦν περὶ ἀρετῆς ὃ ἔστιν ἐγὼ μὲν οὐκ οἶδα, σὺ μέντοι ἴσως πρότερον μὲν ᾔδησθα πρὶν ἐμοῦ ἅψασθαι, νῦν μέντοι ὅμοιος εἶ οὐκ εἰδότι.
– So now I do not know what virtue is; perhaps you knew before you contacted me, but now you are certainly like one who does not know. (trans. G.M.A. Grube)
Here, Socrates aims at the change of Meno's opinion, who was a firm believer in his own opinion and whose claim to knowledge Socrates had disproved.
It is essentially the question that begins "post-socratic" Western philosophy. Socrates begins all wisdom with wondering, thus one must begin with admitting one's ignorance. After all, Socrates' dialectic method of teaching was based on that he as a teacher knew nothing, so he would derive knowledge from his students by dialogue.
There's also a passage by Diogenes Laertius in his work Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers where he lists, among the things that Socrates used to say: "εἰδέναι μὲν μηδὲν πλὴν αὐτὸ τοῦτο εἰδέναι", or that he knew nothing except that he knew that very fact [i.e. that he knew nothing]
Again, closer to the quote, there's a passage in Plato's Apology, where Socrates says that after discussing with someone he started thinking that
τούτου μὲν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐγὼ σοφώτερός εἰμι· κινδυνεύει μὲν γὰρ ἡμῶν οὐδέτερος οὐδὲν καλὸν κἀγαθὸν εἰδέναι, ἀλλ' οὗτος μὲν οἴεται τι εἰδέναι οὐκ εἰδώς, ἐγὼ δέ, ὥσπερ οὖν οὐκ οἶδα, οὐδὲ οὄιμαι· ἔοικα γοῦν τούτου γε σμικρῷ τινι αὐτῷ τούτῳ σοφώτερος εἶναι, ὅτι ἃ μή οἶδα οὐδὲ οἴομαι εἰδέναι
Where the translation is roughly
I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.
Alternate usage
The secondary usage refers to statements of Socrates that seem contrary to common sense, such as that "no one desires evil." In this usage, the term does not refer to a strict paradox, but rather to either of two surprising and unacceptable conclusions drawn from the Socratic dialogues of Plato: (i) the startling consequence of Socrates' association of knowledge and virtue, according to which nobody ever does wrong knowingly; (ii) the view that nobody knows what they mean when they use a term unless they can provide an explicit definition of it. Although this last is sometimes called the Socratic fallacy, this can be regarded as being uncharitable to Socrates, whose concern was not simply with meaning, but more with notions like justice or reason, for which our inability to provide principles may well reflect ignorance and muddle.
See also
- Gail Fine, "Does Socrates Claim to Know that He Knows Nothing?", Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy vol. 35 (2008), pp. 49-88.
- Fine argues that "it is better not to attribute it to him" ("Does Socrates Claim to Know that He Knows Nothing?", Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy vol. 35 (2008),p. 51). C.C.W. Taylor has argued that the "paradoxical formulation is a clear misreading of Plato" (Socrates, Oxford University Press 1998, p. 46).
- Plato, Apology 21d.
- Stokes, Michael (1997). Apology of Socrates. Warminster: Aris & Phillips. p. 18. ISBN 0-85668-371-X.
- Plato; Morris Kaplan (3 February 2009). The Socratic Dialogues. Kaplan Publishing. p. 9. ISBN 978-1-4277-9953-1. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
- Plato, Meno 80d1-3.
- I know that I know nothing from a blog view
- p. 14, Terence Irwin, The Development of Ethics, vol. 1, Oxford University Press 2007; p. 147, Gerasimos Santas, "The Socratic Paradoxes", Philosophical Review 73 (1964), pp. 147-64.


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Continuous and seamless conveying system that can handle tight curve radii and complex, three-dimensional layouts.
With the continuous and seamless conveying system Easychain, even narrower curve radii can be realized than with the „bigger brother" Deniway. This is particularly noticeable when complex, three-dimensional layouts are required. In addition, the highly modular system can be quickly installed and converted. The system is based on rollers that reduce friction and thus both energy consumption and wear. That is why Easychain is robust, reliable and largely maintenance-free.
- Linkages between production processes
- End-of-line processes
- Transport of SLC
- Conveying, sorting and distributing in one system
- 3D-capable for optimum space utilisation
- Material flow over long distances with no transfer points
- Modular and extensible design
- Energy-efficient technology thanks to rolling friction
- Proven and reliable technology
- Cost-effective in operation, service and maintenance


Sales Cycle - The Timeline From Making Contact With A Prospect To Finalizing The Sale
Sales Cycle
What is the definition of a sales cycle? A sales cycle is the time from when a salesperson first makes contact with a prospect to the moment when a sale is made or finalized. For example, if a copier sales rep makes a cold call from a list of prospects and reaches one, that is the start of the sales cycle. When she finalizes the deal and makes delivery of the copier that is the end of the sales cycle. The time in between the initial cold call and delivery is the sales cycle.
How long should a sales cycle be? That is a question that cannot be answered without including dozens of other variables. A sales cycle could be one day, or it could be one year or more; it all depends on the industry, the market, the individuals involved, and dozens of other factors.
As a general rule, the larger the deal or the more complicated the product or service, the longer the sales cycle will be. A tire salesman selling tires could go through multiple sales cycles a day, whereas a firm engaged in say, million dollar deals with the government, will face many more challenges, including tendering to RFPs (request for proposals), sales presentations, and reports; a sales cycle like this could last for months or even years.
It is a goal of many sales organizations to move propects through sales cycles as quick as possible. The more efficient the sales cycle, the more prospects will go through, the more sales that will be made. More sales equals more revenue. Thus, an efficient sales cycle provides benefits for the organization and many organizations provide sales training for their staff to help them improve their own personal sales cycle with their cliants and prospects.
A sales cycle is sometimes also referred to as the gestation period.


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This paper presents a new acquisition method and the application of the technology for the acquisition of a person's foot. The sensor is designed to meet the requirements of measuring a variety of feet under various ambient optical conditions that can, in other circumstances, seriously affect the data measurements and reduce the reliability of the system. The most important distinction between this ranging method and other more classical approaches is the high tolerance of the method to external optical perturbations as well as reflections from other sensor heads. This allows its use in conventional "store" or "medical offices" that are usually bright places.
Three-dimensional Image Capture and Applications III, Electronic Imaging 2000.


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The symbol for the element iron.
The symbol for iron.
A silvery-white, hard metallic element that occurs abundantly in minerals such as hematite, magnetite, pyrite, and ilmenite. It is malleable and ductile, can be magnetized, and rusts readily in moist air. It is used to make steel and other alloys important in construction and manufacturing. Iron is a component of hemoglobin, which allows red blood cells to carry oxygen and carbon dioxide through the body. Atomic number 26; atomic weight 55.845; melting point 1,535°C; boiling point 2,750°C; specific gravity 7.874 (at 20°C); valence 2, 3, 4, 6. See Periodic Table. See Note at element.
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- Fax over ip
communications (FoIP) Transmission of a facsimile over an IP networking instead of PSTN, analogous to Voice over IP. (1999-04-26)
noun, Computers. 1. a modem that can send and receive faxes, as documents or pictures.
noun See fax-back


uploaded imageIn a two-dimensional tug-of-war, Alex, Betty, and Charles pull horizontally on an automobile tire at the angles shown in the overhead view of the figure. The tire remains stationary in spite of the three pulls. Alex pulls with force of magnitude 214 N, and Charles pulls with force of magnitude 157 N. Note that the direction of Charles' force is not given. What is the magnitude of Betty's force?
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Encourage kids to read with this fun, flowery bookmark they create themselves!
This activity is appropriate for:
pre-k - 1st grade / 4 - 6 years
You will need:
- Instruct students to cut out a 6" x 2" rectangle from construction paper.
- Have students arrange the collage flowers on their bookmark. When they like the arrangement, they should glue them down.
- When the glue is dry, encourage students to decorate the bookmark using crayons, markers, colored pencils or glitter (if desired).
- To make the bookmark more durable, have students cover it with contact paper.
- Now, have students punch a hole in the top of the bookmark.
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ALMOST half of the baby rats sent into orbit by NASA on a mission devoted to neurobiology have diedapparently because their mothers neglected them.
On 16 April, the space shuttle Columbia blasted off for the Neurolab mission (This Week, 11 April, p 18). But within days, the youngest became dehydrated and sickly. Only 45 of 96 rats aged one week or less at launch were still alive as
Crew members have put the surviving pups on antibiotics and are trying to rehydrate them by introducing droplets of isotonic sports drinks into their ...
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The Food Technology, Safety and Quality Diploma Program is designed to help students develop a hand-on approach to food safety and quality, while allowing them the opportunity to earn food safety certification. The program incorporates the specialized knowledge and skills required to implement the fundamental principles of quality assurance. Additionally, the program is designed to be equally useful for entry level or ongoing career development in the food and beverage industry
This program is equally beneficial to those who want to complement their pre-existing skills and knowledge by upgrading. The AAPS's integrated approach affords students with the foundation and knowledge to develop, implement, and maintain the food safety program using tools such as GMPs and HACCP to ensure that products comply with national and international safety and quality standards.
Diploma in Food Technology, Safety and Quality Courses Include:
Food safety certifications are necessary to work in many food and beverage related environments, including for food and beverage servers, people who work in food preparation and people who work in an institutional setting, as well as large scale food manufacturing. Many employers also have a preference for candidates who can meet a high caliber of skills and standards for food safety and quality. Additionally, possession of the right qualifications can also help a person with industry experience advance their career, including training others.
Students who are registered in the Food Technology, Safety and Quality Diploma Program are eligible to attend the training session "Food Handling Certificate" free of charge ($70 Value) and obtain the certificate issued by the City of Toronto.
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The Nigerian Tulip International Colleges is the pioneer organizer of the International Science Olympiad (ISO); an international competition in science subjects of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Computer and Biology with participating countries drawn from more than 20 countries around the world. The competition creates an international atmosphere where students from different countries interact and share their experiences and cultural values.
NTIC represents Nigeria as an ambassador in the field of education in international arena. The Nigerian Tulip International Colleges have demonstrated that Nigeria can take the leading role in Africa and the world by organizing the International Science Olympiad. During the event, Nigeria also emerged as the best national team in ISO 2013 held in Abuja at the Nile University of Nigeria, Abuja. In the same year, Nile University of Nigeria took over the organization and planning of ISO. In 2013, Federal Ministry of education, Nigeria has also decided to partner with Nile University and NTIC, in the organization of this prestigious competition.
The new students (JSS1) of NTIC are given a period of 2 months for them to get used to the learning environment in NTIC. After the first term first examinations, an Olympiad Selection Examination is given to all JSS1 students. Considering the Olympiad Selection Examination results and the 1st exam results, 8 to 12 students are selected to Olympiad Group in all branches of NTIC.
These selected students are given 4 periods of weekly Olympiad Lessons after the closing time. Three Olympiad Camps are held in a year; once after the end of each term. Until the Second Olympiad Camp, students are only given Olympiad Lessons in Mathematics.
During the Second Olympiad Camp, students are given 4 Mathematics, 2 Physics, 2 Biology and 2 periods of Chemistry Lessons daily. At the end of the camp, students are to write Olympiad Exams in each subject. Apart from this, students are asked to write their preferences among these Olympiad subjects. Considering both the results of the examinations and their preferences, students are shared into 4 categories:
Students are to continue in their respective Olympiad Groups all along their Olympiad Life. Until the end of JSS3, students in Mathematics-Informatics Group are given 4 periods of Mathematics Olympiad Lessons and 2 periods of Informatics Olympiad Lessons weekly. From the beginning of SS1, students in Mathematics-Informatics Olympiad Group are shared into two groups; Mathematics or Informatics.


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In 1875 Saint Mary's Academy was established by the Holy Cross Sisters as a boarding and day school for young ladies in Salt Lake City. The original adobe cottage was situated on First West and between First and Second South, roughly on the site of the present day Salt Palace.
Although Salt Lake City had only eight to ten Catholic families in total, by the end of the first school year in 1876, there were 100 day pupils and 25 boarders. Students, both Catholic and non-Catholic were arriving from all over the Frontier. Apart from Utah, they often came from Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Nevada.
The Holy Cross Sisters had a "Programme of Studies for Academies and Select Schools" which became a pattern of education for all community academies, including the one in Salt Lake City. The program in general consisted of 3 primary classes, 3 preparatory classes and 4 academic classes. The academy represented a no-frills curriculum emphasizing the arts, languages and humanities, very similar to Catholic schools curricula even today. The sisters taught piano, zither, organ, guitar, banjo, harp, mandolin, flute, cello and violin as part of their musical education. Saint Mary's Academy had its own orchestra as well. The academy offered the following subjects in the art department: drawing; oil painting and water colors; plain sewing and ornamental needlework; china and mirror painting; portrait drawing in crayon; sketching scenes in pastel; and the making of an elegant English lace known as Honiton.
At the end of every school year exhibition days or commencement programs were held for parents and visitors, during which the students demonstrated their newly developed skills and knowledge. Programs included musical numbers from operas and other musical works. The students also demonstrated their level of literacy in literature and philosophy by reading literary works such as poems, drama excerpts or even their own essays. At times these presentations were given in foreign languages. During this occasion gold medals were awarded to the best students in Christian doctrine, penmanship, studies, drawing, painting, vocal and instrumental music, plain sewing and ornamental needlework. Apart from the series of presentations, student works of art such as needle work, paintings, maps and class work of papers in mathematics, history, grammar, languages and bookkeeping were exhibited.
In 1898 Mother Lucretia introduced the annual May procession, which was held on the last day of May. The Children of Mary carried banners and sang hymns, as they passed in procession through the academy grounds to an outdoor shrine, where the Sodality president crowned the "Lady Queen of the May".
Seeing the example of commitment shown by the Sisters, some of the students later joined the Holy Cross Congregation. Louise Heffernan was among the first graduates. She was the daughter of Brigadier General Heffernancommander at Fort Douglas. Louise became the first postulant to enter the novitiate from the West. She received her holy habit in 1878 and made her profession in 1881. Louise Heffernan, later known as Sister M. Rita completed her graduate studies at Harvard University and became the head of the English department at Saint Mary's Academy in Notre Dame, Indiana.
Saint Mary's Academy was the first female Academy in the Western region run by the Holy Cross Sisters. The Academy was most attractive to those students that aspired to a liberal education of the highest quality, an education that would "best qualify them for active participation in the affairs of every-day life, to embellish their characters with the refinement of art, and above all make them noble, God-fearing women."
Because of the growing numbers of students a decision was made to purchase a new home for the academy. In 1923 the Holy Cross Sisters purchased a building from the Country Club on the Thirteenth South and Thirtieth East Street in Salt Lake City.
The new St. Mary of the Wasatch, under the direction of Sister Madeleva Wolff CSC was opened in 1926. This school had, beside the high school program, a full liberal arts college program and a pre-nursing program taught in cooperation with the Holy Cross Hospital. Student enrollment began to decline in the late 1940s and it was decided to close St. Mary of the Wasatch in 1970. Neither the Sisters nor the diocese had the resource to provide the major renovations the facilities required. In 1972 the building was sold. The memory of the school still carries on in the hearts of its students.
Andrea Ventilla is a doctoral student in the History of Education at the University of Pecs, Hungary.


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During an investigation related to helping preschool teachers facilitate language acquisition in their English Language Learners, the teacher participants reported that the English language development of immigrant children was delayed when compared to native-born students. In addition, they held the view that language was the key obstacle to the ELLs' learning and socialization in their setting. Therefore, in order to stimulate conversation between the preschoolers and their teachers, cameras were given to native-born and immigrant three and four-year-olds. After selecting three favorite pictures, the children were invited to talk about the photos three times with their teacher. The conversations were scribed as a language experience story. The language samples were analyzed based on mean length of utterance and Stage V (Brown, 1973) linguistic complexity. Data analysis revealed no statistically significant differences in mean length of utterance between the native-born and immigrant preschoolers. Analysis of Stage V complexity revealed statistically significant differences, with the immigrant preschoolers exhibiting more Stage V characteristics than the native-born preschoolers.
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You bet there is!
We call it the Activities (click to open it in a new tab), and you can always find it via the Activities button on your Dashboard:
- This report maintains a running total of CPD hours for each of your memberships. If nothing is showing up yet, it's probably because you still need to add a membership.
- If you complete an item inside CPDone that applies to more than one of your memberships, the activity will be added to all of your relevant memberships, automatically!
- Similarly, you can add External CPD activities to your total; e.g. if you wish to record training days or accredited practical activities.
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How Performance-Based Assessments Designed by Student Interns Promote Interest-Based Skill Development
At Del Lago Academy, we believe that learning is not bound by the walls of our school. Rich and transformative learning experiences happen at home, in the community, and at places of work. Our internship program allows scholars to leave campus and build relationships with mentors that help shape their identity and learn about the work that happens in our region. For 6 weeks each spring, scholars spend 2 days a week building skills and knowledge in places of work, such as laboratories, catering businesses, hospitals, and departments within our city government. A recent goal with this work has been to promote deeper internship experiences with more intentional skill development.
As part of the Competency X project, we wondered if we could leverage our approach with ePortfolios and Digital Badges to promote skill development that was more relevant to both the scholar and their work context. We knew that some of our internships were job shadow experiences with menial tasks. Our idea was that we could have a mentor and scholar co-create a performance-based assessment to capture the skill development that was most important in that place of work. The hope was that this assessment would shift the goal setting a scholar does with their mentor. The goals would be designed around novel competencies that are needed in specific work context. Scholars would capture authentic evidence and mentor validations in a portfolio and recognize this evidence with a co-created digital badge. The digital badge would be open and accessible for others to earn and can help inform future applicants about the context specific work in an internship.
We piloted this approach in 2017 and launched a second iteration this year that resulted in more authentic, open-ended, and process-oriented assessments and evidence of learning than we captured in the past. The process of co-creating a performance-based assessment began with identifying an area of growth in their internship industry and work towards innovating a solution for that area. To help them identify this growth area, we used a model of reflection, evaluation, and innovation called Roses, Buds, and Thorns, illustrated in the figure below.
Model of Reflection, Evaluation, and Innovation: Roses, Buds, and Thorns:
We asked scholars in their industry performance assessment to collect evidence and reflections on a Rose, a task that needed to be fostered, a Bud that needed only some minor adjustments, and a Thorn that needed to be rearranged or eliminated. Scholars collected learning evidence in a portfolio and used this to help identify their own Roses, Buds, and Thorns for skills they needed for success. Scholars then designed an assessment to capture and inform their own growth and recognize it with a digital badge.
Aisha Wallace-Palomares interned at Zero Waste San Diego, an organization dedicated to developing zero-waste initiatives. Aisha, a young woman fully dedicated to social and environmental justice, recognized their dedication to their mission and capitalized on their commitment by developing a proposal of her own:
As an intern I created a proposal to create a "Sustainability Innovation Center" at the Central Library. This would ensure the ability for people across all socioeconomic levels to access resources and information relating to sustainability and environment. There would be a rooftop garden, a composting area, window farming, rain harvesting, and a demonstration area.
Aisha recognized that the commitment and resources of Zero Waste San Diego was already there, as was the commitment of the Central Library to evolve into a true champion for their community. Her proposal combined the resources and commitment of both of these organizations to redesign existing space and bring a new resource to the community. Her reflections post-internship demonstrated the development of interest-based skills that really could not be taught from a podium or measured through a traditional assessment. Her proposal demonstrated strong written and spoken communication skills, collaboration and creativity, professionalism, and advocacy.
Next, we gave Aisha and other scholars the opportunity to find their own Roses, Buds, and Thorns with skills they needed for this level of success in their internship. Scholars collected evidence of their learning, and then reflected on the extent to which they mastered skills that they identified as Roses, Buds, and Thorns. The evidence was captured in a portfolio and recognized by a digital badge. Below are some examples of these digital badge based performance assessments.
We learned a tremendous amount from the badges scholars created with their mentors. These badges will soon be open on our digital badge platform and serve as a recruiting tool for future internship applicants. Teachers, administrators, mentors and internship program organizers will be able to view scholar badge profiles to discover scholars who have the skills and interests that fit the requirements of a particular job/internship role or mentorship program. The scholar co-created badges can currently be found in portfolio entries, such as the ones below:
This work by scholars indicates the power that comes from youth participating in the performance assessment design process. Our learning with this work will be continually shared at Competency X. We are continually inspired by the Assessment for Learning movement that aims to help us all broaden the definition of success and create more equitable opportunities for learners to advance with goals they set for college, career, and life.
OER Resources for Co-Created Badges


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Fluency Timer, from Needleworks Education, is a one-minute digital timer that automatically records students' fluency readings. Using Fluency Timer will revolutionize fluency assessment, provide an instant independent work time activity, and help reading fluency to skyrocket.
Why Use It?
Research has shown that having students listen to themselves reading increases students' reading fluency as they hear their own mistakes and work to correct them. By recording fluency assessments, teachers can review results, share results with parents, and allow students to hear themselves.
Fluency Timer is fully compatible with DIBELS, Open Court, Treasures Reading, Houghton Mifflin, Core K12, and any other program with fluency assessment components. In addition, Fluency Timer can be used with one minute story retelling.
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