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- 1 VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENTS
- 1.1 WHAT IS A VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT?
- 1.2 WHO CAN WRITE A VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT?
- 1.3 VICTIM STATEMENTS AT SENTENCING
- 1.3.1 WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF WRITING A VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT AT SENTENCING?
- 1.3.2 HOW DO I WRITE A VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT AT SENTENCING?
- 1.4 COMMUNITY IMPACT STATEMENTS
- 1.5 VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENTS AT HEARINGS
- 2 VICTIM-OFFENDER MEDIATION
- 3 OTHER INPUT OPPORTUNITIES
- 4 CONCLUSION
- 5 CONTACT INFORMATION
The victim's voice has become an important aspect of the Canadian criminal Justice system. This booklet is designed to help explain to a victim the ways in which they can participate in criminal proceedings, how the process works, and the benefits of doing so. Contact information for each of the provinces, as well as for the Parole Board of Canada for each region, and Correctional Service Canada can be found at the end of this booklet.
VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENTS
WHAT IS A VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT?
A victim impact statement is a statement, generally written by the victim, which describes the harm or loss suffered by the victim as the result of a crime. The purpose of victim impact statements is to give the victim a voice in the criminal process. A victim impact statement allows the victim to participate in the sentencing of the offender by explaining the effects and impact the crime has had on their life.
WHO CAN WRITE A VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT?
A victim impact statement can be prepared by the victim, someone on behalf of the victim, or by survivors of deceased victims. In cases where the victim is a child, or when the victim is incapable of writing the statement, spouses or family members may step in and write the statement for them. You are allowed to have help writing the statement, however it should be written in your own words using your own thoughts.
VICTIM STATEMENTS AT SENTENCING
Sentencing is the first opportunity that victims have to write and submit a victim impact statement. The decision to write a victim impact statement is entirely optional. However, if a victim decides to submit a victim impact statement, it is mandatory that the judge consider the statement in his/her decision.
Once the statement is written, you will give it to the Crown Attorney who will pass it on to the judge. The offender will also receive a copy; however personal information (addresses/ phone number etc.) will not be given to the offender. The statement can be read during sentencing either by yourself as the victim, or by the Crown Attorney, or by the Judge.
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF WRITING A VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT AT SENTENCING?
The presentation of a victim impact statement can be beneficial in a variety of ways. Firstly, it may help you as the victim. By writing a victim impact statement you are playing a larger role in the proceedings and you can be sure that your personal opinion, concerns, and experience are heard not only by the Crown Attorney, but also by the judge and the offender. The victim impact statement has to be taken into consideration by the judge, and as such will play a role in the sentencing decision. Finally, upon hearing the victim impact statement, any losses or expenses you have suffered as outlined in your statement may be considered by the judge.
HOW DO I WRITE A VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT AT SENTENCING?
If you are interested in writing a victim impact statement you must first complete the forms for your province which will be available through either the police or the Crown Attorney (depending on the province). If in doubt of where to obtain these forms, ask the Crown Attorney, or use the contact information found at the end of this booklet.
The statement itself should describe the harm done to you and any losses suffered as a result of the crime. Don't write anything offensive, or try to suggest an appropriate sentence, but rather explain what would make you feel safer which will influence the judge's decision in sentencing. One of the easiest ways to write a victim impact statement is to divide it into three types of effects, such as the following examples:
1) How the crime affected you emotionally and psychologically
- How your life has changed as a result of the crime
- Any reactions you have had to cope with, for example, difficulty sleeping, changes in eating or drinking patterns
- Any changes in how you relate to yourself or others since the occurrence of the crime
- Any counselling or therapy required
2) How the crime affected you physically
- Any physical injuries sustained as a result of the crime
- How long the healing process took
- Difficulties you have experienced as a result of those injuries
3) How the crime affected you financially
- How the crime impacted your ability to work; any missed work days as a result of the crime that resulted in a loss of pay
- Any bills that resulted from the occurrence of the crime
- Any damages or loss of property as a result of the crime
When it comes to length, it is important to get your points across but keep it concise in order to ensure that the statement is read in its entirety. Each province has its own standards and guidelines for victim impact statements, so it is important to verify proper procedure for your province. Contact information for each province is listed at the end of this booklet.
COMMUNITY IMPACT STATEMENTS
WHAT IS A COMMUNITY IMPACT STATEMENT?
A community impact statement is a statement written by a selected person in the community which describes the harm or loss suffered by the community as the result of a crime. The purpose of the community impact statement is to give the community a voice in Court and an opportunity to express the effects the crime had on the community. The community impact statement must be taken into consideration by the Court during sentencing proceedings to establish the impact of the harm against the community.
WHO CAN WRITE A COMMUNITY IMPACT STATEMENT?
A community impact statement can be prepared by any person to act as a community representative. The community representative must have either been harmed by an offence or has knowledge of an offence that has caused harm to the community.
WHAT IS INCLUDED IN A COMMUNITY IMPACT STATEMENT?
There is a standard community impact statement form that is used in all provinces and territories. A community impact statement presented to the court should provide information about:
Reasons for the use of a community representative and impact the offence has on the community. This should include information on how the offence has emotionally, physically, or financially impacted the members of the community. Similar to victim impact statements, the easiest way to write a community impact statement is to divide it into three types of effects, such as the following examples:
- How the crime affected the community emotionally and psychologically
– How the community members' lives have changed as a result of the crime; ability to work, attend school, etc.
– Any changes in community member's relationships with other community members
– Any changes to the community's sense of belonging
- How the crime affected the community physically
– Any changes in the community's transportation and accessibility to services
- How the crime affected the community financially
– Any decrease in property value
– Any decrease in the number of visitors or tourists
– Any concerns that the community representative may have for his/her safety or his/her family and friends safety.
– Aids may be used to fully express how the offence has affected the community (drawings, poems, letters, etc.).
Just like victim impact statements, each province has different standards and guidelines for community impact statements, so it is important to verify proper procedure for your province. Contact information for each province is listed at the end of this booklet.
HOW DO I SUBMIT A COMMUNITY IMPACT STATEMENT?
A community impact statement form can be obtained by the victim services, the police, or the prosecutor. The completed community impact statement form is to be submitted to victim services or to the prosecutor. You are allowed to have help filling out the form by the victim/community impact statement program in your province or territory. For more information, please see A Guide to Responding to Victimization in Your Community.
VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENTS AT HEARINGS
Victim statements are not limited to sentencing, but can also be used during hearings. A victim statement at a hearing allows the victim to present information directly to members of the Parole Board of Canada explaining the continuing impact that the crime has had on their lives as well as any safety concerns that they may hold. The victim can either read the statement at a hearing either in person or by audio or visual recordings. However, the written statement must be submitted at least 30 days prior to the hearing (45 days if it needs to be translated [hearings are conducted in the preferred language of the offender]). The presentation made at the hearing must be the same as given in the written statement. As with the victim impact statement presented at sentencing, a copy will be given to the offender, however none of the victim's personal information will be included.
The statement should be concise and the victim can choose whether to present the statement at the beginning or end of the hearing, following the interview with the offender or (in cases where the offender has an assistant) following the concluding remarks of the assistant.
HOW DO I WRITE A STATEMENT FOR A HEARING?
A victim statement presented at a hearing should provide information about:
- The continuing impact that the crime has on the victim and victim family members. Once again this should include information about emotional/


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Enoch Bartlett (1779–1860) was a farmer from Dorchester, Massachusetts.
He bought Thomas Brewer's farm in Roxbury. This farm had a field of pear trees, which he named after himself, as he did not know the fruit already had a name.
In 1828 a new batch of pear trees arrived from England, and it was realised that the Bartlett pear was the same as the Williams pear, but by this time the name had stuck, and is still the commonest name for this type of pear in Canada and the United States.


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Is happiness really beyond reach?! **** Authored by The Great Humane Eminent Scholar Mohammad Amin Sheikho (His soul has been sanctified by Al'lah) _PHONE_ **** Checked and Introduced by The Researcher and Thinker Prof. A. K. John Alias Al-Dayrani **** Published by amin-sheikho.com at Smashwords Copyright 2012 amin-sheikho.com **** Our web site: _URL_ _EMAIL_ Is happiness really beyond reach?! The civilization of this time has reached the highest degree of development and scientific rise by the inversions and unique achievements which the technical outburst produced; and thereby people nowadays have attained all means that allow them to enjoy a life that is more comfortable than the life they lived before. They put laws and systems in order to employ the natural sources so that they may give them more and more and create for them better and higher ways of living. Thus cars and planes were industrialized, electricity and electronics were discovered, towering palaces were built and large factories were founded and provided with machineries of high technology. Beyond all of that, mankind was seeking after a welfare life so that they may enjoy happiness. However, despite all the plans and the rules they adopted and despite all the means they created, there has still remained one missed cycle in the chain of their life whose absence caused stern spiritual anxiety in the hearts of all humanity. Although modern and developed science prevailed over the countries and supported people with great laws, discoveries and high technique, they have missed happiness and all feelings of heart pleasure. The thick material veil has thrown its dark shadow over the spirits until it closed up the entrances of light and delights into them and deprived them of enjoying the Godly heart life and happiness. Having realized the absence of happiness from their life, a group of scholars turned to look for a way to attain it. They wondered if they can put their hands on the core of happiness by physical laws, so that they may reach it scientifically and enjoy it by following them!! But… Can worldly scientific laws, whatever great they are, control happiness and make it surrender to them and give them its reins?! Will they actually help them taste happiness so that the earth may turn into a garden of paradise?! How great this achievement would be if they could do it!! In the early decades of the twentieth century, one scientific team studied the ways which may help them overrule happiness by physical laws. For this purpose and out of yearning for happiness and loving for finding it, one researching staff in Britannia set to studying this important problem (happiness) and threw an arrow so that they might hit the target which all their inventions were but ways to attain. This British team consisted of master of geniuses, scholars, philosophers, and specialists in psychiatry; they began to study all the social classes of humanity, the upper class and the lower one, the poor and the rich, and searched deeply and carefully into each of them. They examined the measure of happiness existing among the members of each class to know where it could be found, which class might enjoy it and live in it and how one can reach it. They did so trying to introduce a method with rules that can be followed by any society and be taken as a guide that leads people to absolute pleasure all during their life without suffering or disturbance. So, by following these precise rules and laws, everybody shall ride the ship of the happy people to sail in seas of serenity and felicity and enjoy a life filled with joy and delight. They shall roll in eternal bliss and rise up from good and beautiful one to another better and more beautiful with wonders that attract minds and captivate hearts until they become wholly absorbed and immersed in high happiness and great enjoyment. Many are those who seek after a better life so that they may become happier, more comfortable and more peaceful. That is because striving for perfection which is accomplished by the attainment of happiness according to inclusive law that all humanity can apply and be distinguished from other creatures by, is the desired hope. In the world of people of wealth In the view of the majority of people, perfect happiness and good life are not be obtainable unless man has abundant money, great wealth, wonderful palaces and kingdoms to which the heads bow; therefore you see them compete one another in amassing money and treasure as much as possible and make every effort to get them. They make studies, projects and businesses, and may even travel to faraway lands, sea and air to get degrees caring not about the troubles and dangers which they may meet. They look for picking up the fruits of happiness materially and immaterially, concluding favorable trading transactions, or getting great monetary enterprises, and bear for that what they bear. The money, in their view, enables them to get whatever they want and wish, as it removes any obstacle that prevents them from leading a pleasant life with the utmost level of luxury and advancement. So, by money the worldly life will open its doors before them saying: "come on, here I am". But how far! How far!! The British scientific team began to search and to make investigations among that section of society, that is to say, the upper class which contains the rich people and those living in great luxury, so that it might find its long-pursued aim (happiness) therein within material laws; but it was not long until it came back disappointed, having wasted time and effort for nothing. The researchers stood before a bitter fact when they realized the anxiety and restless life of this class. Its members set to remembering their past life, yearning for the days when they were possessing nothing to be mentioned but, however, enjoying a peaceful and pleasant life, far from distress, grief, and troubles. But why?! That is because when they possessed the magnificent palaces and the large factories and workshops, the competition took place extremely between one another then it turned into contention and stormy struggles which, as usual, ended at litigations and taking cases to court. Thus, the hearts of every party became filled with ill will towards the other one until they spent most of their time in scheming and laying plans and machinating against their competitors in order to surpasses and overcome them, they are obliged to spend evenings and nights in preparing and making accounts and therefore they neglect their duties towards their wives and children and consequently they fail to enjoy the homely happiness, amassing money and aggression have distracted them from giving their relatives and families their rights, and of course they completely forgot the share of the needy and the poor people. Not to mention the horrible nights which they spent without sleeping whenever they feel that their competitors are going to gain a lot in their deals whereas they have lost their commerce. As a result, those people cannot feel tranquility or find a way to be at ease. They fear lest they be killed or face ruin and failure. They are the center of attraction for criminals and thieves; therefore worry does not leave their minds. If they could take safe steps for protecting themselves, the possibilities of loss and failure would be always before their eyes. They fear unsalability for their merchandise therefore they are always absorbed in the account of profits and losses. Their hearts are trembling out of their concern lest the structure of the fortune which they have built fall down and vanish. In such circumstances, how can happiness find a way to creep into their hearts?!! Nothing other than distress and chagrin are that which have settled in their hearts. Thus, although they have abundant money and enjoy various materials pleasures they are not happy. Out of curiosity and loving for more inquisitiveness, the team which was looking for happiness began to ask and to speak with those people. It questioned some of them. Perhaps happiness is hidden somewhere behind a puzzle that none knows except the people of palaces and wealth. Yet the answers of those were completely clear and open. They said: "since we became of abundant money we became wholly busy, distressed and unhappy. We tasted no flavor of pleasure or joy, moreover we became remiss in giving rights to their people, for in the midst of such conflicts we have no free time. Thus we neglected the rights of our wives and children, fathers, friends and relatives. We became longing for the sweet sleep as we are always obliged to burn the midnight oil. All of that is out of our concern about our wealth. Indeed, amassing money has deprived us from enjoying this life and thrown us in heated struggles and material aspirations; and because of our large and many occupations, we forgot our religious duties and drew far from our Provider until our heart life became dark and bitter. Apart from this, we have entered into struggles with the workers who wish to destroy us and follow the subversive faiths to overcome us (such struggle is inevitable) Over and above, we humble ourselves before owners of authority so as to stand by us in our strife against our emulators of people of factories and wealth. Thus we have missed happiness, tranquility, safety, heartsease and peace of mind. In fact, we would like now to live as the simple people live so that we may become carefree, sleep in peace and wake up in delight. Oh! Had people known the miserable spiritual life which we live, they would have never thought that money may ever bring happiness. Now, we mention some actual incidents which affirm this fact. We say: Shahn-shah the prior king of Persia and the king of kings gave evidence on T.V. and admitted this undeniable truth before all people. He declared the actual fact which all kings and rich people live in when the revolutionaries kicked him out of his country to America "which later on banished him to Egypt". So, he fell a victim of a spiritual shock and suffered a great distress. He said: "


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iPhone Lightning Cable Can Hack Your Mac: How it works and how to protect yourself
A Lightning cable conducts around 12 watts of power, which is more than enough to charge your iPhone, iPad, or Mac.
It's also enough to charge a secret transmitter implanted into a fake Lightning cable by hackers.
Meet the O.MG cable, a hacking tool that looks like a usual iPhone charging cable to any unsuspecting victims. The cable is sold freely on the internet for $119.99 and there's no saying how many of them have been purchased by malicious individuals.
Read on to learn what cable hacking is and how to protect yourself from it.
Pro tip: To protect your Mac from hacking, use Clario. The app offers a powerful antivirus and 24/7 data breach monitoring, providing you with instant alerts about the hacking of your accounts and leaked data. Here's how to secure your Mac with Clario:
- Install Clario.
- Run a system scan for malware.
- Set up real-time protection.
Secure your data and privacy right now with Clario's free 7-day trial! No strings attached.
What is the O.MG Lightning cable?
The O.MG Lightning to USB-A cable is a hacking tool almost indistinguishable from the standard cable certified by Apple. Just like real cables, the Lightning-USB hacking device supports power and data transfer. However, unlike legit cables, it can be used for remote access to a victim's device.
In 2019, the O.MG cable was created by a security researcher operating under the alias MG. After presenting the cable at a hacker conference, DEFCON 2019, the researcher started mass manufacturing the cable. These days, multiple versions of the cable are sold online, including Lightning to USB-A and USB-C to USB-A.
In 2021, the security researcher developed the O.MG Keylogger cable. As the name suggests, the cable functions as a covert keylogger hacking instrument. By replacing a detachable keyboard's cable with the O.MG Keylogger, cybercriminals can collect a whopping 650,000 keystrokes to steal login details and other sensitive data.
How does the O.MG Lightning cable work?
The O.MG Lightning cable consists of two connectors and a set of wires covered by insulation, allowing it to operate as a legit cable. However, one of the cable's connectors conceals a memory chip and an 802.11 Wi-Fi transmitter. The transmitter is, essentially, no different from those in your iPhone and other Wi-Fi-enabled devices.
Once connected to an iPhone, iPad, or Mac, the Hak5 O.MG cable creates a Wi-Fi hotspot. This allows a hacker to remotely access the device and use it as if they were holding it in their hands. For example, the hacker can run Terminal commands on your Mac or rummage through photos on your iPhone. The cable used for the iPhone charger hack also packs geofencing features, allowing cybercriminals to trigger the delivery of a virus payload based on a victim's location.
The Keylogger version of the USB hacking cable can log keystrokes from the hacked device and send them to the hacker located up to a mile away.
How to protect yourself from a cable hacker?
You should take the following steps to ensure that a cable hacker cannot access your passwords or other sensitive data.
Carefully examine your cable
Cables certified by Apple come with the MFi badge on their packaging. The legit cables themselves bear a 12-digit serial number and the following text: Designed by Apple in California Assembled in Country.
Carefully examine your cable's connectors. If you spot an uneven metallic finish, rough edges or varying insulator width, then you are probably dealing with either a counterfeit cable or O.MG cable.
Check for signs of hacking
Look out for these signs of hacking on your Mac:
1. Sudden spikes in the network activity, which can be tracked via Activity Monitor
2. Check for suspicious users in System Preferences > Sharing
3. Hijacked email or social media accounts
4. Unsolicited software installs
5. Terminal opens randomly
6. Unexpected pop-ups requesting your login details
How to protect your Mac from cable hacking
An O.MG cable is designed to look almost indistinguishable from a real cable. Given how difficult it is to determine a hacking cable by just looking at it, make sure your Mac is protected with an anti-malware solution like Clario.
Clario is a lightweight app with a 24/7 data breach monitoring tool and a powerful antivirus to keep your Mac safe from malware whether it's delivered to your computer via O.MG cable or any other way.
Here's how to use Clario to protect your Mac:
1. Install a Clario free trial and create an account
2. Run a quick malware scan
3. Set up real-time protection
4. Activate Data breach monitor
5. Add emails you want to monitor for breaches
That's it, you're all set!
With hacking cables sold freely on the internet, you have to constantly be on the lookout for a data breach. Or you can simply protect your devices with reliable cybersecurity software and leave hackers empty-handed. Stay safe!

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The present paper reports some clinical and therapeutic observations in natural infection of bovine keratoconjunctivitis caused by Moraxella bovis in water buffaloes (n = 15). The disease has been sparsely reported in water buffaloes. Varying degree of conjunctival or corneal oedema, hyperemia, blepharospasm, serous to mucopurulent ocular discharge, whitish opacity of cornea and partial to complete blindness were common clinical presentations in the affected animals. The infection was confirmed by culture and isolation of the samples collected from middle canthus of the affected eyes. Therapeutic management of the disease with two different antimicrobial protocols viz. parenteral administration of long acting oxytetracycline or topical administration of triple antibiotic (neomycin, polymyxin and bacitracin zinc) ophthalmic ointment resulted in little success. There was uveitis or secondary glaucoma and resultant blindness in the unresponsive eyes.


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There is nothing called fate.
Fate does not exist.
Fate is ever unreal.
Fate does nothing. Only imagination is such.
Except the state of a corpse, motionless is not seen in this world. The acquisition of results arises out of movement or action. Therefore fate is nonsensical.
Fate has been fashioned by fools. Those having that as the highest object are destroyed. But the wise have arrived at this position of excellence by means of manly effort.
Among those with weak intellects, fate is only a consolation in their sorrow. This is a comforting word. Really, there is no fate.
The attainment of fortunate or unfortunate things of a result accomplished by fruitful human effort in this world is described by the word 'fate.'
On obtaining the results of one's own actions, those statements such as 'this is so circumstanced,' have attained fame by the name 'fate.'
Under those very circumstances, the firm belief that there is fate is assumed by the foolish on account of wrong perception, just as a snake is assumed in a rope.
There is nothing called fate which has a form other than one's own former action. That former human effort is indeed described by the word 'fate.'
As much as there is effort, so would there be result quickly. Thus, there is only human effort. That alone could be 'fate.'
Yoga Vasishtha – Chapter I, lines (169 – 176) (182 – 185)
(Source: The Vision and the Way of Vasishtha – published by Indian Heritage Trust,

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The core goal of the health fair is to increase minority awareness of chronic diseases, and how to prevent them. Increasing minority awareness of diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease, stroke, hypertension, and cancer is not just the goal of the Office of Minority Health or of the Health Fair. The goal is also at the heart of the Indiana State Department of Health's mission, which is to support Indiana's economic prosperity and quality of life by promoting, protecting and providing for the health of Hoosiers in their communities.
Identifying and assessing the health needs of minority populations who experience problems in gaining access to preventive and basic health care helps all of Indiana's citizens.
By tracking self-reported race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, health behaviors and risk factors researchers can determine causative agents or reasons that morbidity, chronic illness, and mortality differ between particular racial and ethnic subgroups. This allows state health representatives to formulate programs to address these health disparities.
INShape Indiana Black & Minority Health Fair works towards raising public awareness of the health issues that disproportionately affect minorities. It works, by helping the state collect important data on at-risk populations. It works, by offering a wealth of information to pharmaceutical companies on how to better serve the minority community. And, most importantly, it works towards directly improving the health and well being of the Hoosiers who attend.


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December 7, 2012
Gypsies Arrived in Europe 1,500 Years Ago
Giles Tremlett, The Guardian
In parts of Europe they are still shunned as disruptive outsiders or patronised as little more than an exotic source of music and dance, but scientists have now proved the continent's Gypsies have ancient roots stretching back more than a millennium.
A genetic analysis of 13 Gypsy groups around Europe, published in the Current Biology journal, has revealed that the arrival on the continent of Gypsy forebears from northern India happened far earlier than was thought, around 1,500 years ago.
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Findings from a recent National Center for Education Statistics report suggest a strong relationship between the rigor of a high school student's coursework and the student's academic achievement.
The report, America's High School Graduates: Results from the NAEP High School Transcript Study, analyzed student transcripts for coursework taken, credits earned, and grade point average (GPA). Specifically, the connection between courses taken and student achievement was considered.
Based on a representative sample of 37,700 public and private high school graduates, the analysis of the 12th grade NAEP assessment reveals that students taking more challenging coursework earn higher math and science scores. On average, 2009 graduates earned more credits, including those in career technical education (CTE) courses, than any previous graduating class. Additionally, the overall GPA for students taking classes in areas like CTE increased from 3.03 to 3.39.
Students taking Algebra I before entering high school scored 31 points higher on the math portion of the NAEP than those who did not take Algebra I until high school. Additionally, the study indicates that students taking basic or mid-level curriculum can greatly increase the rigor of their studies simply by adding more challenging science classes. Girls were found to take less science coursework than boys.
The report describes that students taking the most challenging or "rigorous" level coursework earned proficient-level scores on the NAEP test. On average, students taking "mid-level" curriculum or "standard" curriculum (the lowest level of coursework) received basic-level scores on the NAEP exam, indicating only partial mastery of the knowledge and skills needed for success in 12th grade math and science.
The report states that, on average, high school students are taking increasingly challenging coursework, and the increased rigor leads to higher student achievement. We can continue this trend by increasing the rigor of CTE programs of study and by ensuring that CTE students are taking rigorous math and science courses.


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The 1964 Guerrero earthquake occurred on July 6, 1964 at 07:22 UTC (01:22 local time). The earthquake was located in Guerrero, Mexico. The magnitude of this earthquake was given as Ms 7.4, or ML 7.2.
The earthquake affected the states of Guerrero and Michoacán. 40 deaths were reported. The most affected places included Ciudad Altamirano, Cutzamala, Coyuca de Catalán, Tanganhuato, and Huertamo. The earthquake was also felt strongly and caused panic in Mexico City.
Coyuca de Catalán was seriously damaged. The city hall was destroyed. The majority of the houses there were seriously damaged and became uninhabitable. There were great cracks on the ground.


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EDIBLE is an interventional clinical trial in 120 children and adolescents with epilepsy due to Focal Cortical Dysplasia (FCD) type II. The EDIBLE study will investigate the role and possible benefits of a ketogenic diet (KD) taken for six months before resective surgery, on seizure outcome and other factors. Visit this page for more information.
What is DESIRE?
Epilepsy is a condition which affects over 6 million persons in Europe. Among these are 100 000 children who are diagnosed annually with epilepsy. Currently available antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) have not been found to prevent the onset of epilepsy, or to alter the natural course of the disease, and the effect of the medicines we have to date is essentially symptomatic.
DESIRE is an EU funded project which has brought together a critical mass of researchers from 26 different institutions in Europe.
These researchers are using these EU funds to focus on types of epilepsies which have proven to be very difficult to treat ie epileptogenic developmental disorders (EDD), i.e. early onset epilepsies whose origin is closely related to developmental brain processes. EDD are the most frequent drug-resistant pediatric epilepsies and they carry a lifelong perspective of disability and reduced quality of life.
A major cause of EDDs are malformations of development of an important part of the brain – the cortex. EDDs are often manifested as conditions in which epileptic activity itself may contribute to severe cognitive and behavioral impairment in the child. These are called epileptic encephalopathies.
What are we researching in DESIRE?
EDDs collectively represent a major medical and socio-economic burden and yet their diagnosis, what is happening at a basic cellular level and how best to treat are poorly understood.
Thus the main aims of DESIRE are to research:
 1. the possible genetic causes of EEDs and understand what is happening at a molecular and protein level in the brain in these conditions
 2. to find new diagnostic tools (biomarkers) and protocols by studying children with EDDs and thus to provide standardized diagnosis research across Europe.
 3. To find new treatment for EDD using clinical protocols and novel preventative strategies.
Who is involved in DESIRE?
DESIRE is an EU FP7 funded project, involving 26 partners in 11 countries, with eight third parties, more than 250 researchers involved and 19 clinical centres involved in the clinical trial. It is co-ordinated by Prof. Renzo Guerrini, Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Area del Farmaco e Salute del Bambino (NEUROFARBA) Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Italy.
These consortium partners have an excellent track record in genetics, basic neurophysiology, neuropathology and clinical research. Specialized expertise will also be made available by the SMEs involved to help develop novel diagnostic tools for tailored treatment approaches.
How can patients can contribute to DESIRE?
You can do so by contacting one of our partners (see our participants page for a list of participants across Europe) and ask whether it would be possible to participate in one of the various clinical trials. You or your child can participate in these trials if you have epilepsy, by providing blood samples, by participating in the treatment trials, by making our project known to other patients and representatives and if you wish by donating money for further research.
If you are interested to learn more about DESIRE, please contact:
Prof. Janet Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Malta - member of DESIRE WP7, Dissemination and Exploitation.


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Connection guide video for DL28 communication processor
In this tutorial, we want to present you how to setup our DL28 communication processor. We will explain how to properly connect DL28 to power supply and to additional modules.
One of the products we are most proud of is DL28 – data logger that runs on Linux operating system. We have developed it a few years ago, and it had found a lot of applications in the industry, especially in district heating and supervisory systems/projects. One of the ways you can connect it for collecting and transferring information, is with some GSM communication device or directly to ethernet network LAN.
So, in this guide, along with DL28, we also used Decode GT900 GSM terminal for connection over GSM network and Exio module. For easy implementation, all our products are now compatible with 35mm DIN rail. So we mounted them on the rail in order to connect them.
We have made a short connection guide video, so you can see what you should do exactly. Also, we will tell a bit about our data logger communication processor, and about the complete setup.
So, let's dive into it.
DL28 Communication processor
DL28 can be used for remote monitoring, control and system measurement, but also it can be used for data acquisition and for establishing communication links of remote locations.
This product handles data communication connections between measuring and control devices in a heating substation. It also handles integration into remote monitoring and control systems (SCADA) by using diverse transfer routes. You can connect it to SCADA programs in several ways: via local area networks (LAN), wireless computer networks (WLAN), CATV modems, GSM/GPRS/3G routers, as well as via other standard and wireless modems. An established communication link allows for real-time remote monitoring and read-outs of process variables at the heating substation, as well as of alarm conditions.
It has six featured serial connectors, marked S1 to S6 which allow linking of different control, measuring and communication devices, including RS232/RS485, USB Host, USB device, Ethernet inteface, M-Bus master, M-bus slave and USB OTG.
DL28 comes with installed application software, webserver developed for district heating projects and meter supervision. So, once you start up the DL28 device, the software automatically starts running. After several seconds from starting, device's operating system should be up and ready.
You can find very detailed instruction about setup and port testing in our Installation and User Manual.
The DL28 has a plastic enclosure for mounting with a 35mm DIN mounting rail. The front panel features power supply connectors, connectors for USB peripherals, memory cards, Ethernet and serial communication, as well as LED indicators. The communications processor supports microSD memory cards via a push-push connector.
Image showing the position of the connections on the front panel of DL28 is showed below:
DL28 Device configuration
When it comes to device configuration, DL28 has four internal units. Those are processor board, communication board, M-Bus board and base board. They are all connected into single unit. All communication ports are
galvanically isolated, and the same applies to power supply connector. It powers by using DC power supply with the range 18-36V.
You can see the connections between the internal units here:
It sums up to DL28 being a very powerful communication processor, with many possibilities for application.
In this project, it is connected to industrial GSM communication device. We used GT900, one of the most popular Decode's products in the field of Remote Telemetry.
GT900 – Industrial GSM communication device
It has a standard communication connector, DB-9 female plug with RS232 DCE interface. There is a female SMA 50Ω antenna connector, so
it needs external antenna, which comes in the package with the product. Next to antenna connector, it has two LEDs, to indicate power supply and GSM network. Also there is a slot for mini SIM card, and 3.5mm headphone jack for the optional voice port.
GT900 has a wide power supply range, from 8 to 30V DC. Same as DL28, this device can be mounted on DIN 35mm rail, by adding an optional adapter.
GT900 manages communication connection of electronic devices and systems over GSM network. It uses GPRS, CSD and SMS services. It is especially designed for remote convey and control of industrial processes, security systems, and level indicators, such as gas, water and electricity.
Typically, its most popular applications are for POS terminals, vending machines, traffic control, alarms, for remote PLCs reading and control and many other.
Connection video tutorial
In this tutorial we wanted to show hardware setup for DL28. We used 24VDC power supply, and we connected DL28 and GT900, with the help of our Exio device.
First, for easy connection with Exio, we placed the connection cable in DL28. We easily mounted DL28 on 35mm DIN mounting rail next to the power supply, thanks to the mounting adapter we have on most of our products now.
Next, we connected power supply and DL28, using the power input on DL28. Make sure to use the correct inputs. Easiest way to place the wires safely is by using the screw terminal.
Then we connected DL28 and Exio and also put it on the mounting rail. Our product GT900 is then placed on the rail, and connected to DL28 on port S1, which is a serial RS232 port.
Make sure to connect power supply to all devices, including Exio and GT900. They can all operate on 24VDC, so one power supply is enough.
And don't forget the antenna for GT900! We used external GSM 50Ω antenna with 3m cable. After that, at the end, we connected first analog input on the EXIO.
When all is connected, it's time to start the show! Once the power is on, you can connect the Ethernet cable to DL28, so it can enable device setup.
To see how it all goes, you can check the video tutorial below.


Now I have pleiades raster (img.tif) and a RPC model (rpc.XML). In the rpc.XML, there are the following lines which can be used to reset geo information.
And I use the following code to reset geo info of img.tif with the value below.
xmin = 7.393918390116374
ymin = 46.89414037853461
xmax = 7.531577540047203
ymax = 46.98982504658424
first_col = 1
last_col = 18665
first_row = 1
last_row = 19676
def set_geo_info(in_path, out_path, xmin, ymin, xmax, ymax,
 first_row, first_col, last_row, last_col, *args):
 xmin, ymin, xmax, ymax are the longitude and latitude.
 print('Set Geo Information...')
 xres = (xmax - xmin) / (last_col - first_col + 1)
 yres = (ymax - ymin) / (last_row - first_row + 1)
 ds = gdal.Open(in_path)
 band = ds.GetRasterBand(1)
 arr = band.ReadAsArray()
 [y, x] = arr.shape
 driver = gdal.GetDriverByName("GTiff")
 outdata = driver.Create(out_path, x, y, 1, gdal.GDT_UInt16)
 outdata = None
 arr = None
 band = None
 ds = None
The result is kind of correct, but not entirely.
Position shifting wrt shapefile (WGS84)
As you can see, the red line is a shapefile (EPSG21781), while the railway in the result is not entirely overlap with shapefile. The distance of shifting is not consistent for this whole image. The displacement is larger near the edge of this image.
My questions:
 1. Am I heading the right direction to reset geo information?
 2. If 1. is correct, I guess the value which I fed into the gdal is wrong. How do I find the correct value from RPC model (rpc.XML)?
 3. If 1. and 2. is wrong, how do I do it in a right way?
 - Why downvote? Please criticize so I can improve my asking skill. – Lion Lai Jan 18 '19 at 18:14
You can warp the image using the RPCs directly with GDAL, e.g.
gdalwarp -r cubic -to RPC_DEM=my_dem.tif -rpc -t_srs epsg:4326 my_DIMAP_file.XML my_dimap_file_warped.tif
In order to get a good result it is advisable to use a high resolution DEM. You can do the same programmatically if you prefer by using gdal.Warp()
 - Thank you. It works, although there's still small displacement, but it's better than before. I use python elevation packge to download DEM. I think it's the reason why there is still small displacement in the output. – Lion Lai Jan 29 '19 at 13:53
 - I don't know the details of the product that you have, but it is quite possible that it is a so-called "Ortho-ready" product ( see orfeo-toolbox.org/CookBook/recipes/… ) which means the RPCs were created by projecting to a constant height instead of a DEM. In that case the positional accuracy that can be achieved would indeed be limited. – Markus M. Jan 30 '19 at 6:08
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Riemann Sums for Functions of Two Variables
Visualize and calculate a Riemann sum for a real–valued function of two real variables. The x and y axes are partitioned into subintervals of equal width. Set the point on each subrectangle where the function is evaluated to determine the height of the rectangular solid constructed over that subrectangle.
This Demonstration is meant for students of multivariable calculus. It illustrates the concept of a Riemann sum for a real–valued function of two real variables. Choose one of four functions. Then you can freely select a uniform partition of either the x or y axis into 5, 10, 20, or 40 parts. You may also select the point on each subrectangle at which the function is evaluated (to determine the height of the rectangular solid to be constructed over that subrectangle). Initially, the function is evaluated at the center. This feature is included to show that as the partition becomes finer, the choice of this point becomes less consequential, suggesting that in the limit it simply does not matter.


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Sarstedt Research Prize 1990
(Walter Sarstedt, Dr. E. A. Bayer, Prof. Dr. M. Wilchek, Prof. Dr. Dr. Wisser)
On 13 June 1990, the Sarstedt Research Prize was awarded for the third time by the German Society for Clinical Chemistry as part of the opening ceremony for Sarstedt's new research and development centre.
The President of the German Society for Clinical Chemistry, Prof. Dr. Dr. Wisser, presented the Sarstedt Research Prize, worth DM 50,000, to Prof. Dr. M. Wilchek of Rehovot, Israel, and Dr. E. A. Bayer, of the Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel.
Both prize winners received the award for their fundamental work in the use of the biotin-avidin system in biomedical analysis, the ligand receptor system, which has been applied in a wide range of areas of biomedical research.
The use of naturally occurring biochemical binding principles between the substances avidin and biotin enable numerous analytical procedures today, which are used for the early detection of diseases and disease predispositions.
With the biotin-avidin system, the two prize winners provided an important method for a range of disciplines, such as biology, biochemistry, medicine and genetics.


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Tobacco shops pose teen smoke risk
Teenagers are more likely to start smoking if they live in areas with large numbers of shops that sell tobacco products.
Adolescents with the most tobacco outlets in their neighbourhood are almost 50 per cent more likely to smoke than those with no outlets nearby, University researchers say.
The study also found that teenagers from areas with the highest density of retailers are 53 per cent more likely to try smoking at least once.
Researchers argue anti-smoking strategies among teenagers should include reducing the overall density of tobacco retailers.
They say limiting teenagers' access to tobacco products is vital, as long-term smoking usually begins in adolescence.
Tobacco control policies often prioritise the reduction of outlets in neighbourhoods near schools.
However, researchers found no evidence that adolescents attending schools in areas with high numbers of retailers are more likely to smoke.
We were surprised by how strong an influence the retail environment was on teenagers' smoking behaviour. The results are good news because they offer a new tool with which to try and reduce smoking rates.
The study of Scottish teenagers - the first of its kind in the UK - examined the relationship between adolescent smoking habits and tobacco outlet density in teenagers' home and school neighbourhoods.
Teenagers living in all neighbourhoods - not just those with levels of high poverty- were found to be affected.
Edinburgh researchers worked with the University of Glasgow to create a map of tobacco retailers for every postcode in Scotland.
They examined the links between the number of outlets and teenage smoking habits using responses from a survey of more than 20,000 pupils aged between 13 and 15.
The Scottish Government has signalled its intent for a 'tobacco-free' Scotland by 2034. Our research shows that as part of this plan we need to consider regulating the number of retailers selling tobacco in our neighbourhoods.
The study is published in the journal Tobacco Control.
The work was supported by the Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy, and coordinated by the Centre for Research on Environment, Society and Health.


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How to Manipulate Files in R
Occasionally, you may want to write a script in R that will traverse a given folder and perform actions on all the data in the files or a subset of files in that folder.
To get a list of files in a specific folder, use list.files() or dir(). These two functions do exactly the same thing, but for backward-compatibility reasons, the same function has two names:
> list.files(file.path("F:", "git", "roxygen2")) "roxygen2" "roxygen2.Rcheck" "roxygen2_2.0.tar.gz" "roxygen2_2.1.tar.gz"
|Iist.files||Lists files in a directory.|
|list.dirs||Lists subdirectories of a directory.|
|file.exists||Tests whether a specific file exists in a location.|
|file.create||Creates a file.|
|file.remove||Deletes files (and directories in Unix operating systems).|
|tempfile||Returns a name for a temporary file. If you create a file — for example, with file.create() or write.table() using this returned name — R will create a file in a temporary folder.|
|tempdir||Returns the file path of a temporary folder on your file system.|
Next, you get to exercise all your knowledge about working with files. In the next example, you first create a temporary file, then save a copy of the iris data frame to this file. To test that the file is on disk, you then read the newly created file to a new variable and inspect this variable. Finally, you delete the temporary file from disk.
Start by using the tempfile() function to return a name to a character string with the name of a file in a temporary folder on your system:
> my.file <- tempfile() > my.file "C:\\Users\\Andrie\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\ RtmpGYeLTj\\file14d4366b6095"
Notice that the result is purely a character string, not a file. This file doesn't yet exist anywhere. Next, you save a copy of the data frame iris to my.file using the write.csv() function. Then use list.files() to see if R created the file:
> write.csv(iris, file=my.file) > list.files(tempdir()) "file14d4366b6095"
As you can see, R created the file. Now you can use read.csv() to import the data to a new variable called file.iris:
> file.iris <- read.csv(my.file)
Use str() to investigate the structure of file.iris. As expected file.iris is a data.frame of 150 observations and six variables. Six variables, you say? Yes, six, although the original iris only has five columns.
What happened here was that the default value of the argument row.names of read.csv() is row.names=TRUE. (You can confirm this by taking a close look at the Help for?read.csv().) So, R saved the original row names of iris to a new column called X:
> str(file.iris) 'data.frame': 150 obs. of 6 variables: $ X : int 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10... $ Sepal.Length: num 5.1 4.9 4.7 4.6 5 5.4 4.6 5 4.4 4.9... $ Sepal.Width : num 3.5 3 3.2 3.1 3.6 3.9 3.4 3.4 2.9 3.1... $ Petal.Length: num 1.4 1.4 1.3 1.5 1.4 1.7 1.4 1.5 1.4 1.5... $ Petal.Width : num 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.1... $ Species : Factor w/ 3 levels "setosa","versicolor",..: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1...
To leave your file system in its original order, you can use file.remove() to delete the temporary file:
> file.remove(my.file) > list.files(tempdir()) character(0)
As you can see, the result of list.files() is an empty character string, because the file no longer exists in that folder.


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Banyan Trees, Aloe Masculata, and Taro
- Description: Numerous plants and trees along a path. The two large trees in the background of the photograph are called banyan trees. They can be identified by the long aerial roots hanging from the tops of the tree. The pink flowers to the left along the wall are aloe maculata.
- Keywords: tree, banyan tree, Kampong Garden, aloe masculata, plant, leaf, flower
- TIFF File: A high resolution TIFF of Banyan Trees, Aloe Masculata, and Taro (7.3 Mb) is available for download. This is a very large file suitable for printing. For most on-screen purposes, you should use the image displayed on this page instead of this TIFF.
- Source: Florida Center for Instructional Technology, Exploring Florida: Social Studies Resources
for Students and Teachers (Tampa, FL: University of South Florida, 2009)
- County: Miami-Dade
- Date of Photo: 5/28/2008
- Photographer: Roy Winkelman


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Understood the implementation of Human Resources Security Controls in organizations.
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The necessary skills to support an organization in implementing and managing the Human Resources Security Controls.
The ability to help organizations play an active and important role in the KEY controls.
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Remove the black line surrounding text in opencv
asked 2019-06-06 09:08:05 -0500
I am trying to remove the black lines surrounding the text if present any. My purpose is to just have enough portion of the image to extract each character in it. The additional black lines are noise when i am trying to extract characters.
I have tried using floodfill in opencv but the image contains some white pixels before the black line starts in the upper left corner. So it hasn't been fruitful. I tried cropping by means of finding contours but even that does not work. This is the original image
Original Image
import cv2
import numpy as np
img = cv2.imread('./Cropped/22.jpg')
gray = cv2.cvtColor(img,cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
_,thresh = cv2.threshold(gray,1,255,cv2.THRESH_BINARY)
contours,hierarchy = cv2.findContours(thresh,cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
cnt = contours[0]
crop = img[y:y+h,x:x+w]
cv2.imshow('Cropped Image',crop)
and using floodfill
gray = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
 # threshold the gray image to binarize, and negate it
 gray = cv2.bitwise_not(gray)
 bw = cv2.adaptiveThreshold(gray, 255, cv2.ADAPTIVE_THRESH_MEAN_C, \
 cv2.THRESH_BINARY, 15, -2)
 # find external contours of all shapes
 contours,h = cv2.findContours(bw, cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL, cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_NONE)
 # create a mask for floodfill function, see documentation
 h,w,_ = img.shape
 mask = np.zeros((h+2,w+2), np.uint8)
 # determine which contour belongs to a square or rectangle
 for cnt in contours:
 poly = cv2.approxPolyDP(cnt, 0.02*cv2.arcLength(cnt,True),True)
 if len(poly) == 4:
 # if the contour has 4 vertices then floodfill that contour with black color
 cnt = np.vstack(cnt).squeeze()
 _,binary,_,_ = cv2.floodFill(bw, mask, tuple(cnt[0]), 0)
 # convert image back to original color
 binary = cv2.bitwise_not(binary)
 cv2.imshow('Image', binary)
results in the two cases are as follows
Using Find Contours method
But there appears to be no change. And this using floodfill
Using floodfill. which does not remove any borders.
If any can please help out,it will be really great.
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OpenCV's contours will work if you filter the contours by aspect ratio. In the image below the 2nd from the left is thresholded at about 150 using binaryInverse type thresholding. There is a function called boundingRect that will give the upright rect of a contour. Define the contour aspect ratio as rect.width / rect.height and only keep contours with AR < 1 since numbers are tall. This gives the 3rd image from the left. The last is just inverted.
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The differences between men and women, as well as intercourse, pregnancy, and childbirth are explained.
What's Going on Down There? Answers to Questions Boys Find Hard to Ask by Karen Gravelle
J PARENT 612.661 GRA
The physical and emotional changes that occur in boys (and, to a lesser extent, girls) during puberty are described including a discussion of sexual activity, homosexuality, AIDS, and other related topics.
Growing Up: It's a Girl Thing: Straight Talk About First Bras, First Periods, and Your Changing Body by Mavis Jukes J PARENT 612.661 JUK
Pre-adolescent girls are given an explanation of the changes that puberty brings to their bodies, including information about menstruation.
It's A Girl Thing: How to Stay Healthy, Safe and in Charge by Mavis Jukes
J PARENT 612.661 JUK
This is a candid discussion about female development and sexuality in a conversational style covering topics ranging from body changes, drug abuse, and sexuality to sexually transmitted diseases.
Let's Talk Puberty for Boys J PARENT DVD 612.661 LET
This DVD is a concise overview of puberty and its effects on a boy's body.
Let's Talk Puberty for Girls J PARENT DVD 612.661 LET
Topics such as the physical and emotional changes of puberty, maturation, and the importance of good hygiene and healthy habits are introduced.
What's Happening to Me? by Susan Meredith J PARENT 612.661 MER
This book provides a discussion of the mental and physical changes that take place during puberty.
Puberty Boy by Geoff Price J PARENT 612.661 PRI
This book offers a concise overview of puberty and its effects on a boy's body.
Changing You! A Guide to Body Changes and Sexuality by Gail Saltz J PARENT 612.661 SAL
This picture book guides curious youngsters through anatomy, body changes for boys and girls, sexual intercourse, reproduction, and emerging sexuality.
The Period Book: Everything You Don't Want to Ask (But Need to Know) by Karen Gravelle
J PARENT 612.662 GRA
This book explains what happens at the onset of menstruation, information about going to the gynecologist, and how to handle various problems.
The Care & Keeping of You: The Body Book for Girls by Valorie Lee Schaefer
J PARENT 613.04242 SCH
This is a preteen girl's guide to basic health and hygiene from braces to bras, pimples to periods, and hair care to healthy eating.
It's Perfectly Normal: A Book About Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex and Sexual Health by Robie H. Harris J PARENT 613.907 HAR
Children's questions about their developing bodies are answered in a reassuring and responsible way.
The "What's Happening to My Body?" Book for Boys: A Growing Up Guide for Parents and Sons by Lynda Madaras J PARENT 613.953 MAD
Detailed information for boys is presented on body changes (male and female), sexuality, and hygiene.
The "What's Happening to My Body?" Book for Girls: A Growing Up Guide for Parents and Daughters by Lynda Madaras J PARENT 613.953 MAD
Detailed information for girls is presented on body changes (male and female), sexuality, and hygiene.
The Birds, the Bees, and Me for Girls J PARENT DVD 649.65 BIR
The Birds, the Bees, and Me for Boys J PARENT DVD 649.65 BIR
These videos introduce puberty, sex, and childbirth to kids.
It's Your Rite: Girls' Coming of Age Stories J 305.235 ITS
Beginning with "The Bra" and including "PMS and Other Girl Things," girls ages 11 – 18 share their own coming-of-age stories.
101 Questions About Sex and Sexuality: With Answers for the Curious, Cautious, and Confused by Faith Hickman Brynie J 306.7 BRY
A question-and-answer format is used to present information about the physical, emotional, and social topics surrounding sex and sexuality.
101 Questions About Reproduction: Or How 1+1=3 or 4 or More by Faith Hickman Brynie
J 612.6 BRY
Uses a question-and-answer format to present information about physical, medical, and social issues surrounding human reproduction, including birth control, pregnancy, and childbirth.
The Reproductive System by Kerri O'Donnell J 612.6 ODO
The issues of puberty, how the reproductive system works, pregnancy, and birth control are discussed.
The Reproductive System by Pam Walker J 612.6 WAL
This introduction to the reproductive system includes information about the structures that make up the reproductive system, how they work, and the diseases of the reproductive system and their treatments.
The Female Reproductive System by Sophie Waters J 612.62 WAT
This title includes information on reproduction, pregnancy, and birth control.
On the Spot: Real Girls on Periods, Growing up, and Finding Your Groove by Karle Dickerson
J 612.661 DIC
From PMS to first bras to fluctuating feelings, this sassy yet safe book reaches out to girls in their own words, helping them to understand the changes happening in their bodies.
The Boy's Body Book by Kelli S. Dunham J 612.661 DUN
This book discusses the physical and emotional changes associated with puberty in boys and suggests ways to ease the adjustment to these changes.
The Girl's Body Book by Kelli S. Dunham J 612.661 DUN
This book discusses the physical and emotional transitions that girls undergo during puberty, including growth spurts, sexual development, peer pressure, dating, and new relationships within the family.
Everything You Need to Know About Growth Spurts and Delayed Growth by Lesli J. Favor
J 612.661 FAV
This book outlines routine physical and emotional changes that are typical of any period of adolescence for both male and female children.
Ready, Set, Grow! A "What's Happening to My Body?" Book for Younger Girls by Lynda Madaras J 612.661 MAD
The changes in younger girls' bodies as they grow older are discussed, including understanding what


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- Fast paced word game!
- 5 words to find and 5 words to guess
- Encourages quick thinking and talking!
- Develop children's vocabulary
- Team game for 4-10 players
Tic Talk – Word Game
A fast paced word game played in 2 rounds!
In round 1 players roll the dice to generate letters. Then they have to come up with words that include those letters as quickly as possible! The longer you take writing your words down the more time your opponents have to guess them in the next round. Round 2 the teams swap their word list and they have to describe the words to their teammates without using the word written down on the paper. Your team only has as much time to spend guessing as the opposing team took towrite the words! So watch out, you're against the clock! A team game for 4-10 players. This is a great game for developing children's vocabulary and spelling.


Winning Back Lost Customers
Losing current customers for any reason is one of the worst things that can happen to a company. In other words, the effort, time and money spent to win a customer is wasted. Worse is losing the customer to the rival company.
Winning Back Lost Customers
A person who is already a customer is more likely to buy from you. We can say that the current customer is almost 3 times more valuable than the potential customer. Moreover, acquiring a new customer costs almost 6-7 times more than keeping the existing customer.
1.Learn Why The Customer Is Angry
Find out what happened that caused the customer to be offended and abandoned before taking action. Do not make a judgment immediately after the relevant employee in the company has heard this incident, as the situation may be completely different from the customer perspective.
For example, when communicating with a customer who stops shopping from X site because the cargo packages are constantly coming late, make you feel that you are aware of the situation and explain what you can do to solve the problem.
2. Talk to the Customer
Talk to the client face to face or over the phone. There is no need to apologize at the first communication with the outgoing customer. But first, the following two questions should be asked.
Why are you leaving us?
Do you have a request from us to continue being our customer?
These questions usually leave a positive impression on the customer. Because these two questions give people the impression that they "care". The customer who feels important is telling the truth clearly and it remains to offer you solutions for the problem in question.
3. Listen carefully to the customer
"Why are you leaving us?" You can get a wide variety of answers to the question. Not satisfied with customer service, found a more affordable place, found a place close to home… Examples can be reproduced.
Regardless of the answer, listen to the customer respectfully and carefully. Don't get defensive right away. At this point, what you have to do is understand the situation in the middle. If you have difficulty understanding what the customer means, you can ask them to speak more clearly.
In the second question, something is clear in your mind about how to reclaim the customer, but it's still too early to take action.
After talking to the customer, thank him. Apologize for any complaints or inconveniences. Tell the client that you now understand the situation better and will work on the matter.
4. Analyze the Problem
Now you know the middle issue from the eyes of both the company and the customer. You also have an idea of what needs to be done to win back the customer. You must now find out how serious the situation is.
Some customer problems are specific: Things like sending the customer's invoice to the wrong address, changes in the operation, out of order product...
Some problems are related to the system and business model: things like slow customer service, high prices.
5. Make Sure You Want To Win The Customer
Based on the data you have obtained so far, you need to decide whether you want to win back the customer or not.
In general, specific problems are easy and cheap to solve. For example, if the product package sent to the customer is damaged and the customer complains; The problem can be resolved by sending a new product.
However, solving system problems is not that easy and can be costly.
For example, the main problem is the poor quality, irrelevance and slowness of your customer service. If your business model is to reduce costs and therefore give minimum attention to customer service; So what should you do if customer service is secondary to your business model? To fundamentally change your business model to win back a customer?
Or let's say the customer stopped shopping from you because of the high prices. You also offered special discounts to win this person. What if other customers come with such a request? You should consider whether you are prepared for such a scenario.
6. Contact Customer Again
Let's say you decided you wanted to win the customer and wanted to reconnect.
In such a case, do not state that you want to win back the customer. The customer is already aware of the situation. Instead, say that you have taken into account the customer's comments and suggestions and made changes accordingly.
7.Offer Special Benefits
For example, you have a store. You sell household supplies and electronic products. A customer who has been shopping from you for many years does not shop from you anymore due to the recent price increase. In this example, if the main problem for the customer is price increase, you can offer special discounts and advantages to the customer. For example, within the scope of the loyalty program, if you make a purchase of 2000 dollars within three months, you can give a 500 dollar gift voucher. With such discounts and advantages, you can win back the customer's heart and himself.
In addition, you can make agreements with other companies. For example, you can deal with a restaurant as a home goods store. You can give a nice dinner for two at your contracted restaurant to those who buy from you for $ 500 or more. Both you, the restaurant and the customer benefit from this situation.


Teaching Assistants
Teaching Assistants lead discussion sections and grade written work in lecture courses. They may teach 3-4 fifty-minute sections depending on course enrollment and available funding. The number of teaching assistantships available in any semester depends upon the funding allocated by the College of Letters and Science. In addition to a stipend, the positions provide various fringe benefits such as health insurance and tuition remission, meaning that tuition is paid on your behalf. To spread financial aid to as many students as possible, the department does not normally grant students who receive teaching assistantships any other departmental funds (except for prizes, readerships, research/conference travel assistance, or Emergency Aid) during the semester in which they hold their teaching assistantship. The Committee also tries to arrange its nominations for University awards so that students will not hold teaching assistantships and University awards concurrently. The department evaluates all TAs through the instructing professor's class visits and the results of teaching evaluations.


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Jamie Bevan (CCW Warden of Crymlyn Bog and Pant-y-sias) wrote: 'Fen Raft Spider Dolomedes plantarius is currently showing well on the Tennant Canal, alongside Pant y Sais Fen. Known from only two other sites in the UK, it is one of Britain's rarest spiders. With a leg span of up to 7 cm, it is also one of our largest. It spends much of its time on a 'raft' of vegetation on the water surface, using its front legs to sense the vibrations of its aquatic invertebrate prey. It is even known to catch small fish such as sticklebacks! During the breeding season the female spider constructs a nursery web within the marginal vegetation, in which she deposits an egg sac. Hundreds of tiny spiderlings hatch out from the egg sac, which then develop inside the relative safety of the nursery web, before dispersing into the surrounding vegetation a week or so later. The female spider often guards the web while the spiderlings develop. This is generally the easiest time to spot this striking but elusive species. Look for the nursery webs in large sedge tussocks fringing the canal, and the attendant female is usually very close by.'
Ed. Note that there now is new boardwalk at Pant-y-sais that provides great access to the fen. This can be found by walking along the canal towpath from the Jersey Marine end, or off New Road (B4290) at SS/7128 9409. If you park in the old car park head sw along New Road for a couple of hundred metres.


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Mom's depressions alters baby's language learning skills
SRI treatment seems to accelerate a baby's attention to their own language, while unmedicated depression seems to delay that attention.
Tue, Oct 09 2012 at 9:40 AM
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A mother's depression can extend the sensitive period in which babies learn their native tongue, while treatment with serotonin reuptake inhibitors (antidepressants) for moms or moms-to-be seems to accelerate the process, new research finds.
However, scientists aren't yet sure how either result influences babies' ultimate language development.
"The findings highlight the importance of environmental factors on infant development and put us in a better position to support not only optimal language development in children but also maternal well-being," study researcher Janet Werker, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia, said in a statement. Werker and her colleagues encouraged moms and moms-to-be with depression to seek treatment.
"It is really important that pregnant women discuss all treatment options with their physicians or midwives," study researcher Tim Oberlander, a professor of developmental pediatrics at the University of British Columbia, said in a statement.
Babies acquire language (and other life skills) in a series of sensitive periods. Infants are born able to discriminate sounds from any language, but already preferentially process the noises of their native tongue, the result of hearing it while in utero. By about 10 months, however, the ability to discern sounds not present in the child's native tongue begins to vanish. This sensitive period helps explain why people raised bilingual from an early age can sound like a native speaker in both languages, while people who learn a foreign language later will always struggle to lose their accents. [9 Incredibly Brainy Baby Abilities]
Certain medications can influence brain development and plasticity, the ability of the brain to adapt and rewire. According to Werker and her colleagues, between 15 percent and 20 percent of women experience depression during pregnancy, and as many as 13 percent of pregnant women are treated for depression with SRIs, or serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SRIs), a mood-stabilizing medication.
To find out if depression or its treatment influence language development, the researchers tested babies on their ability to tell languages apart. They recruited 85 6-month-old babies, 21 of whom had moms with depression and 32 of whom had moms with depression who had been treated during pregnancy with SRIs.
At 6 months and 10 months, the babies heard recordings of the English syllable "da" and the Hindi syllable "da." To a native English speaker, these sounds are virtually indistinguishable, but they are subtly different: Hindi speakers make their "da" sound by touching the tongue to their top teeth, while English speakers make their "da" by touching the tongue to the roof of the mouth behind the teeth.
In a second experiment, the same babies watched silent videos of people speaking either English or French. Normally, babies can tell the languages apart by mouth movements only until about 8 months of age.
In both cases, researchers determined if babies could tell the difference between the languages by playing one and then switching to the other. They then measured if the babies looked longer at the new sound or not. If they did, the researchers knew they could tell the difference. If they didn't, it was because the new stimulus seemed the same as the old, and thus didn't attract the babies' attention. [Photos: How Babies Learn]
Depression and development
The results revealed that kids of healthy, non-medication-taking moms could generally tell the languages apart at 6 months of age, but lost the ability at 10 months of age, as expected. But babies of moms with depression responded differently. When moms had received SRI treatment, the babies displayed unusual maturity in their discrimination patterns: They failed to discriminate between different languages at 6 months old.
A second experiment that involved playing vowels and consonants for fetuses of 36 weeks gestation found that the early maturation began even then. In fetuses of moms taking SRIs, recognition of native consonants was advanced. (Researchers measured recognition by tracking each fetus's heart rate.)
Likewise, babies of depressed moms showed changes from the norm. These babies seemed to have a longer-than-usual sensitive period of language development. They could still differentiate between different languages at 10 months of age.
In other words, SRI treatment seems to accelerate a baby's attention to their own language, while unmedicated depression seems to delay that attention. Researchers don't yet know whether this effect has any real-world consequences for how babies learn to speak.
"These findings once again remind us that poor mental health during pregnancy is a major public health issue for mothers and their infants," Oberlander said. "Non-treatment is never an option. While some infants might be at risk, others may benefit from mother's treatment with an antidepressant during their pregnancy. At this stage we are just not sure why some but not all infants are affected in the same way."
Depression in pregnancy has also been linked to childhood asthma and aggression, highlighting the need for treatment.
The researchers plan further studies with other types of antidepressants. They report their results on Oct. 8 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Bringing Small Mammals and Non-African Rodents into the United States
photo of a ferret
Unless they are included in a specific embargo, such as Civets and African Rodents, or known to carry disease transmissible to humans, these animals are not covered under CDC regulations.
However, state or local regulations may apply. Pet ferrets, for example, are prohibited in California. Any animal known to carry a disease that can be transmitted to people (zoonotic disease) is subject to regulation 42CFR71.54External.
Additionally, animals carrying diseases of risk to domestic or wild animals are subject to regulations from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiceExternal, as they may be considered injurious speciesExternal.


Swift strokes and sampled constructs (Pt. 1)
Swift strokes and sampled constructs (Pt. 1)
Unlike the flowing, balletic movements of hand-rendered letterforms, there is nothing swift in typographic forms. Intentionally arranging typeforms is slow, staged, expensive, and always deliberate. Typeface-making invites reflection, discussion, and review. Typefaces will stretch the limits of their encoding technologies to maximise the potential to act as agents of design discourse, cultural commentary, innovation and experimentation. This observation applies across typemaking and typesetting technologies -- any variations we perceive are a factor of the number of people working on making typefaces, and the ease with which people can make one more typeface.
(This is a self-contained lecture, but part of a longer narrative; therefore the "Part 1" in the title here.)
Gerry Leonidas
June 14, 2015
 1. ISType | 13 June 2015 Swift strokes and sampled constructs
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 2. dedicated to Richard Southall
 3. None
 4. "Developing a new design the designer is concerned primarily
 with the appearance 0f character images, and only secondarily with the shape of the objects that give rise to them." Richard Southall Shape and appearance in typeface design PROTEXT III, 1986
 5. None
 6. De Aetna 1496/97 (+ previous slide)
 7. Character appearance space: the object identiﬁable as the character
 it represents.
 8. all possible renderings of a shape all possible
 associations by the reader designer intention
 9. Walbaum 6 and 10 pt metal, and Monotype T1
 digital. Left shapes from: Harry Carter Optical scale in typefounding Typography 4, 1937
 10. Where is the typeface?
 11. Punches in the Plantin-Moretus
 12. Matrices in the Plantin-Moretus
 13. Engraving for the romain du roi
 14. Legros & Grant, 1916
 15. None
 16. None
 17. Linotype & Machinery drawing, 1943
 18. None
 19. Richard Southall: "models" and "patterns"
 20. "models" and "instances" Redeﬁned to avoid the overlap of
 "pattern" with hot-metal use, and Alexander's "pattenr language"
 21. model instance [Designer's intentions realised]
 22. model instance instance instance [One typeface, many outputs]
 23. model encoded object instance instance instance [One typeface, encoded in
 one technology, many outputs]
 24. model encoded object instance instance instance encoded object instance instance
 [One typeface, encoded in many technologies, many potential outputs]
 25. model encoded object instance instance instance typographic notions [What gives
 form to the models in the designer's mind?]
 26. No discussion of typefaces is worth having independently
 of the typography that makes use of them.
 27. The things you can readily measure are not necessarily
 the things that are worth measuring.
 28. ATypI 1985
 29. Gerrit Noordzij
 30. "The crux of the matter is that type is
 not pen-written forms, but sharply-cut letters." Sem L. Hartz An approach to designing type, 1992
 31. We reﬂect, research, discuss, theorise.
 32. William Morris and Edward Johnston
 33. Stanley Morison
 34. "The only alternative is a sloped type suﬃciently inclined
 to be diﬀerentiated from the primary type, yet following its design as closely as possible." Stanley Morison Towards an ideal italic The Fleuron, 1926
 35. Herbert Bayer
 36. Type derives from a slow, iterative, deliberate process.
 37. Sketches by Marian Misiak
 38. From Gerard Unger, "Design of a typeface" in Visible
 Language VIII no 2, 1979
 39. From Gerard Unger, "Design of a typeface" in Visible
 Language VIII no 2, 1979
 40. None
 41. From Richard Southall, "Metafont in the Rockies" in
 RIDT, 1998
 42. Emigre no 40
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 44. None
 45. None
 46. "It is a safe rule that he should do nothing
 without a correct understanding of the design of the letters, or having good models before him to allow him to catch the fashion of them, and to make such alterations as he thinks necessary." Fournier, quoted in Counterpunch
 47. Why is this discussion important?
 48. 1. Font-making environments are commoditised
 49. 2. The added value of design is redeﬁned away
 from the visible acts of practice
 50. 3. A typeface does not contain enough information to explain
 51. adhesifny adhesifny EssayText by Ellmer Stefan
 52. adhesifny adhesifny Fenland by Jeremy Tankard
 53. The rules for evaluation are determined by context: trends,
 genres, use scenarios, and the allowance for creativity.
 54. "Rejection or ignorance of the rich and varied history
 and traditions of typography are inexcusable; however, adherence to traditional concepts without regard to contemporary context is intellectually lazy and a threat to typography today." Jeﬀery Keedy The rules of typography according to crackpots experts. Eye 9, 1993
 55. Teşekkür ederim _USER_
 56. "A fashion in type is an encumbrance to the reading
 world until it becomes common." Harry Carter The establishment of common idioms A view of early typography […], 1926


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Yeast recovery and disposal are daily production concerns for beer manufacturers. Understanding the key points for yeast recovery and disposal in beer equipment can help save beer production costs.
1. Yeast recovery and disposal: The timing of yeast recovery is crucial. Previously, we started recovering yeast after diacetyl reduction, but we found that the yeast mortality rate was higher, around 7-8%, which would be detrimental to the next fermentation cycle. Through repeated experiments, controls, and follow-up yeast testing, we discovered that most of the yeast settles at the bottom of the cone after 4-5 days of sealing, with only a small amount suspended in the beer for diacetyl reduction. At this stage, yeast recovery has no effect on diacetyl reduction, and the mortality rate of recovered yeast is reduced to 2-3%. Proper preparation work before recycling is also important. The yeast temporary storage tank must be cleaned with hot water at 80℃, then cooled to 7-8℃, and provided with a certain amount of sterile air to prevent sudden decompression and yeast cell wall rupture. When recovering yeast from the cone tank, it is advisable to take the whiter part in the middle, and after complete recovery, slowly cool it down to about 4℃. The yeast should be used within 36 hours if stored in the yeast tank.
2. When the temperature drops to 0℃, frequent yeast discharge is necessary. Otherwise, due to the high temperature at the bottom of the cone, the self-dissolving yeast will produce its own odor, and the amino acids released during self-dissolution will enter the beer, resulting in a rough bitterness and astringency. Moreover, proteins produced by yeast autolysis are prone to precipitate and form sediments under the beer's acidic conditions, especially during high-temperature sterilization, which compromises the colloidal stability of beer. Therefore, yeast discharge work in the later stage of beer storage cannot be neglected, especially in summer.
3. Yeast's impact on beer flavor: Beer with a pure taste should not have a yeast flavor. However, if the fermentation and storage temperature is high, fermentation is not vigorous, a large amount of yeast is added, or the yeast ages, it can lead to yeast cell autolysis, resulting in a varying degree of yeast flavor in the final beer. Therefore, dead yeast and cold protein sediment at the bottom should be promptly discharged within 24 hours after the tank is full. After meeting the process requirements for diacetyl reduction, cooling should be initiated, and the tank of self-brewed beer equipment should be opened and cooled promptly to prevent yeast self-dissolution.
4. In conclusion, yeast plays a crucial role in determining the flavor of beer during the brewing process. Only by utilizing and managing yeast correctly can good beer be produced.


39.12 Faces
One way to represent a face is as a property list of attributes, like (:foreground "red" :weight bold). Such a list is called an anonymous face. For example, you can assign an anonymous face as the value of the face text property, and Emacs will display the underlying text with the specified attributes. See Special Properties.
More commonly, a face is referred to via a face name: a Lisp symbol associated with a set of face attributes22. Named faces are defined using the defface macro (see Defining Faces). Emacs comes with several standard named faces (see Basic Faces).
Some parts of Emacs require named faces (e.g., the functions documented in Attribute Functions). Unless otherwise stated, we will use the term face to refer only to named faces.
Function: facep object
This function returns a non-nil value if object is a named face: a Lisp symbol or string which serves as a face name. Otherwise, it returns nil.
For backward compatibility, you can also use a string to specify a face name; that is equivalent to a Lisp symbol with the same name.