Cradle to Career data spurs new thinking
Since the creation of the Action Plan for Youth Success in 2014, Cradle to Career has focused on addressing quality, access, capacity, best practices and program design, all intended to impact the initiative's goals and indicators. Analysis of community indicators show that some have increased, some have not changed, and some have decreased. This has prompted new thinking and new questions: why is it that, despite expanded access and better program design, there are children who continue to fall through the cracks?


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The analogy of aural landscape has been often used as a conceptual tool for describing electroacoustic music. It should be distinguished from the more precise meaning of Sonic Landscape or Soundscape used by Soundscape Studies researchers. In particular, the British writers Trevor Wishart and Simon Emmerson have used the term. Aural Landscape encapsulates sound's inherent propensity to suggest physical space (both real and imagined) in playback, as well as listeners tendency to relate the aural to the visual (both real and imagined) when presented with works in an acousmatic situation.
Bibliography: Barret, Natasha (1999). Little Animals: Compositional Structuring Processes
Wishart, Trevor (1986a). Sound Symbols and Landscapes
Wishart, Trevor (1996a). On Sonic Art - Revised Edition

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Florida wildlife officials are looking for beaches where horseshoe crabs are mating.
Spring is the horseshoe crab mating season. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is asking the public to report any sightings of the crabs in action. The survey helps biologists identify horseshoe crab nesting beaches.
Wildlife officials say the crabs provide food for migrating birds and other animals. The crabs also have medical uses, including cancer research.
The commission says overharvesting and loss of habitat have contributed to declining horseshoe crab populations. Shoreline development also disrupts their mating habits.
The state first began surveying horseshoe crab mating sites in 2002. Since then, more than 2,600 reports have been filed from across Florida.


text: Solubility of larval shells synthesized in the presence of NikkomycinZ. Scanning electron microscopy images of shell specimens that appeared affected by an exposure to distilled water. This treatment is known to partly dissolve the amorphous calcium carbonate fraction of the mineral phase. a. A 19 day old larval shell that was synthesized in the absence of NikkomycinZ is shown for comparison. The remnants of the outer shell edge consist of a pattern of columnar depositions with thin filigree-like connections between each other (arrowheads). b. NikkomycinZ treatment of mollusc larvae for 11 days prior to shell extraction at the 19th day reveals that the shell material is more sensitive to the etching by deionised water. The shell edge appears much more porous and the columnar depositions are irregular.

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Sprattah (Noun): A small desert island off the coast of Scotland. No one understands why it is a desert and has a temperature of 200 degrees C when Scotland rarely has a temperature of anything higher than 2 degrees C.
Sprattah is a real island I tell you!
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Best Language Learning Games: Part 3 of 5
Full size imageA Guest Post by Marc Anderson
This article features a language game using lettered dice called Throw It – Create It. Last week, a language game similar to Smart Mouth was shared. The game Scrambleword was featured previously in Part 1 of 5 as one of my top best learning games for ELL students. Here's how you play Throw It – Create It:
Throw It – Create It
How to Play
Throw It – Create It is similar to Boggle. It uses 16 letter cubes that are placed in a covered jar. One player shakes the jar and pours out the letters into a small box lid that is approximately 4 by 4 inches.
Anderson_ThrowIt-Create-ItThe player arranges the letter cubes so none of them are overlapping and sets the box down so everyone can see; the letter cubes should form a grid that is four die by four die. Players search for an assortment of letters for words of three or more letters within a specified time limit.
Words are formed from horizontal, vertical, or diagonal; and to the left, right, and up, and down. To spell words, the letter cubes must be touching from one cube to the next cube.
No letter may be used more than once in a single word. Any word found in a standard English dictionary is acceptable. There are no proper nouns, abbreviations or contractions.
When the time runs out, the players read their lists; if any other players have that word, it is crossed off and no one gets credit for it. You are awarded points for each word that is correctly spelled that no other player has listed. Points can be decided on ahead of time by the students. You might want to have 1 point for three-letter words, 2 points for four-letter words, etc., up to 8 or more letters. The cube "QU" counts for 2 letters.
Materials Needed
 1. 16 blank cubes and a permanent marker or other cubes (see #1 below and white stickers)
 2. One small jar with lid
 3. One small box lid (4 by 4 inches)
 4. Paper and pencils for students
 5. Clock or timer
 6. Dictionary to check spelling
How to Make the Game
 - You can use dice from other games, make wooden dice, or purchase dice either at a learning store or online. If you need to cover up what's on the old dice, use white stickers and then write the letters in permanent marker.
 - Write one letter on each side of the die. There is room for 96 letters. Mix the letters up on the die. You will have:
 - 5 each: A, E, I, O, U, R, S, T, L, N
 - 2 each: J, K, V, W, X, Y
 - 1 each: QU, Z
 - Adjusting points: You can play for totals each round, play to reach a tournament score of so many points, or play for a certain length of time.
 - Adjusting time: You can choose the length of your rounds based on the proficiency of your students; advanced students might do well with only 2 minutes, while lower-level students might benefit from longer periods of time.
 - Adjusting your letters: For lower-level students, you can, when creating the game, change the frequency of the letters you choose to put on the dice. For example, you can provide more vowels in exchange for some of the less-frequent letters, like W, X, or Y.
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401 unauthorized is received when a web server that is hosting the website that the user is performing the inquiry on is sent an HTTP information stream. The receiving client which is the web browser in this case has sent the request, yet failed to provide any authorization tests put before the request in order to allow the resource attempted access on.
This 401 unauthorized error is better known as basic HTTP authorization. The form of HTTP authorization is what is expected of the client side server as placed in the authenticate portion of the header field in the WWW area.
The 401 unauthorized error code is best described as a situation when you are attempting to login to a website such as a bank account website or email website, where you have to enter a username and password to authenticate past the core landing page. Most of the time the 401 error code is displayed when these login credentials have been entered incorrectly unless otherwise customized by the website owner. This same error code can be displayed not only with incorrect credentials, but also if the user account has been suspended by the system administrator can display the 401 unauthorized.
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you make a go decision, there is a small chance you could have a problem occur that would cause you to not go live when planned. The list of factors that would cause you to not go live should be short and defined in advance. For example, if the vendor has a major technical issue making the system unavailable for go-live, if weather prevents any of the vendor team from arriving on-site for the cutover, or if a critical issue that was planned to be resolved before go-live is not. Having these criteria defined and known in advance allows you to use them if something occurs that needs further clarity and agreement with your leadership team.
The go-no-go decision is a crucial step in implementing an EHR system and often can be the difference between success and failure. Planning this step from the start of the project will set you up to have the discipline to complete it when the pressure of the implementation and your timeline is bearing down on you.
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EHR implementation: The go or no-go decision
Read this if you are considering implementing an EHR system.
As the era of multiple Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems wanes, the focus is on a single integrated EHR across the health system. This shift is both an opportunity and a challenge for most hospitals and health systems. On one hand, it brings the opportunity of a single view of the patient for a provider, population health at a system level, and greater efficiencies across departments. On the other hand, it requires implementing an enterprise system, changing processes across every department and location, and going live in a "big bang" manner. Historically, hospitals implemented solutions piece by piece over years of time and didn't implement everything within a year. Moving to a single enterprise-wide system represents a tremendous amount of change in a very short time frame. The risk of resistance to change by your people is significant.
How you address that risk may make the difference in your project's success. Prosci® has a risk assessment tool that looks at two primary dimensions:
 - The scope of the change. Is the change small, incremental, or large and disruptive?
 - The culture of the organization (organizational attributes). Is your organization ready for change or is it change resistant?
Based on the assessment of these two factors you can plot from a change management perspective whether the change is high, medium, or low risk.
Three components of a high-risk EHR implementation environment
 1. Large disruptive change
 It is a fair assumption that if you implement a new EHR system across your entire health system (that impacts every clinical, financial, and operational workflow), it would be a large, disruptive change. And certainly a high risk from a scope of change perspective.
 2. Change resistant culture
 The next question is what is the culture of your organization? Are your people generally accepting of or resistant to change? How do employees remember past changes? How adept is your management team at leading through change? While the scope of the project is often front of mind, leaders may overlook these very important aspects of your culture. In our experience, many organizations have a culture that is at least slightly change resistant, if not more so, particularly if your workforce has been in place for a long time and has not replaced any systems recently. Many people in your organization may only know the way they have always done things and may not have even had exposure to another EHR system. This sets people up to be inherently nervous and even fearful of what a new system may mean for their day-to-day work and even job security.
 3. Change saturation
 Lastly, you add the change saturation to the mix. Prosci ® defines that as when disruptive changes exceed your capacity to adopt them. For healthcare, the last three years have been a lesson in extreme change saturation. People are tired, burned out, and ready for more stability and less change.
When you combine a significant scope, a change resistant culture, and a high level of change saturation, you have created a high-risk environment for implementing a new EHR. So, if you are a senior leader about to embark on an EHR project, what should you do?
 - Start change management as soon as possible—early recognition that an upcoming change will be challenging gives leaders an opportunity to learn early, engage early, and adopt early. Organizations who engage a wide audience early in a complex change have greater opportunity to communicate answers to "why," "what does this mean to me," and "how do I have to prepare "questions.
 - Select the right project sponsor—the single most determinate factor in project success is having an engaged and effective sponsor. The sponsor needs to bring credibility to the change, provide energy to the organization for change, and be visible and transparent as to why this change is needed now.
 - Establish an effective leadership team—for an EHR implementation, the sponsor cannot "go it alone." An effective change leadership team provides consistent messaging and in-depth knowledge of the change and engages in conversations throughout the organization explaining the need for change.
 - Be active and visible leaders—once the leadership team is established, getting out the word is crucial. Leaders should engage in division and departmental meetings, educating teams on the change and the need for change. Repeat appearances and follow-up communications begin to establish a collective understanding across an organization. Rotating leaders through these communication opportunities also brings different organizational perspectives as to why the change is important. Hearing from different clinical, financial, and operational leaders helps people understand the common themes and current ideas on the necessity of the change. Leaders must engage and empower management to understand and support the change.
 - Identify and engage supervisors and influencers—most organizations have team members who are very influential within teams and may not hold management positions. Prosci ® says that a direct supervisor is the best communicator to effect change. In addition, influencers may not have the title but the whole team will look to them for indications that the change is good or not. Training these team members on the importance of the change helps them educate their team members and improves their team's opinions and support for the change.
 - Use vendor backlog to your advantage—vendors are having a challenging time staffing projects that can lead to delays. Use the months you have leading up to project start to focus on change management. Build excitement with your people. Train your leaders to be effective change managers.
 - Rinse and repeat—monitor your change management activities carefully and repeat the processes that prove most effective. Change the content of the messages being delivered, but not the approach on how they are delivered.
 - Celebrate early and often—take the time to thank your teams. Change can be difficult. Rewarding and recognizing accomplishments, big and small, during the project life cycle builds momentum and desire for the upcoming change. Thanking your people with food is always a crowd pleaser. Be sure to make these celebrations public to share the good news.
Most organizations experience challenges when implementing change and an enterprise-wide EHR implementation is the definition of a high-risk change. Starting change management activities early in a project provides the highest likelihood of reducing change resistance and improving adoption. The goal is to have most team members understand the change, the need for change, the impact of the change, and how the organization is going to support the change. An early start provides the smoothest entry ramp into a new world.
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Assessing the risk and managing the change of EHR implementations
Read this if you are implementing a new Electronic Health Records (EHR) system.
Electronic Health Record (EHR) implementations are large-scale, high-risk endeavors that can bring wild success or frustrating failure. While there is justifiably a lot of attention paid to clinical workflow, change management, integrated testing, end-user training, and at-the-elbow support, we want to address a far less exciting, but critical component of EHR implementations—unit testing.
Most EHR implementations use commercial-of-the-shelf software and increasingly cloud-based or vendor-hosted solutions. This software is being configured with little actual custom software development. With this in mind, we define unit testing as the testing of an individual component of configured software. For example, units to test could be a single order, lab test, charge, etc. Integrated testing we define as testing multiple components of configured software through a designed testing scenario to test if the components all work together as expected.
We've seen EHR vendors put an increasingly higher focus on integrated testing and less emphasis on unit testing. With a greater shift towards cloud-based and vendor-hosted solutions, we have seen EHR vendors have a more substantial role in the configuration and build of the EHR software. In this scenario, the client primarily submits data through completed worksheets, documents, and forms to guide the vendors' configuration efforts.
Expand EHR testing for a more successful outcome
The combination of less focus on unit testing and the higher reliance on vendors doing the configuration puts your health system at risk. Integrated testing is great for testing how the system works together—but is not sufficient for broadly verifying if the vendor has correctly completed the configurations.
Think about it. How many orders, tests, assessments, medications, charges, and other configured components can you include in a realistic integrated testing scenario? It's likely that only a fraction of what is likely contained in your order catalog, pharmacy formulary, or charge description master is included. This puts you in a vulnerable situation: the system is configured sufficiently to pass an integrated testing script but not configured at a broad scale.
An effective treatment for this risk is thorough unit testing. For example, test each medication in the pharmacy formulary, try every order set, drop each charge, try every visit type


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Emission spectroscopy of NaYF4:Eu nanorods optically trapped by Fresnel lens fibers
The emission of optically trapped NaYF4:Eu nanorods with a high aspect ratio is studied by polarization-resolved spectroscopy with particular emphasis on the magnetic and electric dipole transitions. High trapping efficiency is observed using converging beams, emitted from diffractive Fresnel lenses directly 3D printed onto cleaved fiber facets. Stable nanorod trapping and alignment are reported for a fiber-to-fiber distance of 200 µm and light powers down to 10 mW. The respective σ and π orientation of the different emission lines is determined. The angle with respect to the nanorod axis of the corresponding magnetic and electric dipoles are calculated
Aashutosh Kumar, Asa Asadollahbaik, Jeongmo Kim, Khalid Lahlil, Simon Thiele, Alois Herkommer, Sile Nic Chormaic, Jongwook Kim, Thierry Gacoin, Harald Giessen, Jochen Fick
Photonics Research 10, 332-339 (2022)
DOI : 10.1364/PRJ.434645


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The Toxic Crocodile is the main antagonist of the 1989 Italian horror film Killer Crocodile.
Illegal dumping of toxic waste in a swamp results in a massive, abnormally aggressive crocodile with a taste for human flesh.
The Toxic Crocodile is a large saltwater crocodile stretching over 30 feet in length.
Powers and Abilities
The Toxic Crocodile possesses the following powers and abilities:
- Sharp teeth
- Powerful muscles
- Armored body
The Toxic Crocodile is killed after it is cut up by a boat propeller.
- The film was shot back-to-back with its sequel.

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One of those really difficult decisions for many purebred dog owners is the one relating to ear cropping.
Some breeds of dogs through the ages have traditionally been recognized partly by the distinctive look of their head; cropped ears have been a trademark for these breeds. Doberman Pinschers, Boxers and Great Danes come to mind right away. And even many of the smaller breeds such as the Miniature Schnauzer have traditionally had their ears surgically changed to give them a distinctive appearance.
In our modern times, many people have come to question the need or advisability of cropping the ears of dogs. The aspect of animal cruelty comes into play in that many people will argue that there is no medical, physical, environmental or cosmetic advantage for the dog to have the pinnas (the ear flaps) surgically altered. And to subject any dog to the "disfiguring" and unnecessary surgical procedure and subsequent taping and bandaging that sometimes needs to be done after the surgery amounts to animal cruelty and is indefensible. There are others that will argue that for some dogs, the cropped ear will help prevent ear canal infections and make the opportunity for pinna trauma and infection much less likely. They will state that the ear cropping is no different philosophically or ethically than any elective surgery such as spaying and neutering or removing protruding dew claws.
The fact is that ear infections are common in all sorts of breeds whether they have cropped ears or not. As a veterinarian with 32 years of experience treating hundreds of thousands of dogs during that time, I cannot find medical justification for cropping a dog's pinnas. So the choice to crop a dog's ears is a personal decision that a purebred dog owner needs to weigh carefully... partly because what you think you will get may not occur. I refer to the disappointing cases where the pup's ears have been cropped and yet, no matter what everyone tries to do, the ears won't stand erect!
Potential reasons for cropped ears not to stand erect...
NOTE: Supplementing a pup's diet with extra calcium in the hope that it will "build up" the ear cartilage is not scientifically or biochemically valid. Adding additional calcium above the usual balance of that mineral with phosphorus and Vitamin D has actually been shown to cause growth problems in dogs. Don't add calcium to a dog's diet in the misguided hope that it will "strengthen the cartilage".
There are all sorts of methods of taping the ears up after the surgery and helping to support the pinnas while they heal. You can do everything right and yet in some dogs the ears will not hold that erect posture... which was the goal of the surgery in the first place! Adding extra Calcium to the pup's diet won't work and can actually be detrimental to the pup's growth. Massaging the pinnas won't help. The pup "loosing it's teeth" has no impact on the strength or rigidity of the pinnas either. Of course all pups should be eating an optimum diet to begin with so supplementing an already high quality diet will have no additional benefits.
As your pup's caretaker, you have a choice. Weigh all the pros and cons, and then make your decision. Expect to be criticized by those who disagree with your choice. I was criticized by a number of breeders for NOT doing the surgery... they seemed put-out by the fact that they had to find another veterinarian to do it. But just as the decision not to do the surgery in my practices was my personal decision to make, so it is your choice whether or not it will be done on your dog.


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Symphony - a unique breastpump
The emotional closeness and relationship between mother and baby during breastfeeding is very special. It's no wonder then that mothers are reluctant to place their trust in a breastpump to express breastmilk. With Symphony, we have developed a breastpump that functions like nature itself.
- breastfeeding mother with Medela Symphony breastpump
Pump breastmilk safely and comfortably
The Symphony breastpump from Medela ensures that you can pump breastmilk comfortably thanks to its special Comfort Flow Zone. This is particularly gentle on extremely sensitive breast tissue. This makes it ideal for expressing breastmilk regularly over a longer period. Further advantages include:
- Symphony can be used for both single and double pumping.
- It is safe and clean because of its special overflow protection.
- It is highly flexible, as it can be adapted to your individual needs.
Natural pumping with 2-Phase Expression
With the help of the University of Western Australia and our own experience, we have developed the unique 2-Phase Expression Technology, which imitates the natural sucking pattern of babies at the mother's breast. This stimulates the flow of milk, meaning that more breastmilk can be pumped in less time, a fact which studies and hospitals have confirmed.


Ayahuasca
Can Ayahuasca Help Grow New Brain Cells?
Patrick Smith · April 15th, 2018
The past few months have seen an explosion of research into the therapeutic potential of ayahuasca, the traditional psychoactive brew used by indigenous South American peoples for generations. It's now looking highly compelling that doses of the plant-based drink have antidepressant qualities, and could also be used to combat addiction and PTSD.
Earlier last year, the announcement that scientists had discovered a potential mechanism for ayahuasca's antidepressant properties was met with great anticipation. Researchers reported that under laboratory conditions several compounds found in ayahuasca could encourage the growth of new brain cells. Since that announcement, we've been excited about getting our hands on the full study!
The researchers, partially funded by the Beckley Foundation, decided to investigate whether components of the ayahuasca brew could encourage the growth of new brain cells (neurogenesis). Many effective treatments for depression (such as fluoxetine, pirlindole, and even electroconvulsive therapy) promote neurogenesis in the brain, and this likely contributes to their therapeutic benefit.
If scientists could show that ayahuasca promotes neurogenesis in laboratory conditions, it would reveal a potential biological mechanism for the brew's antidepressant effects.

Growing neurospheres with ayahuasca
In the study, the scientists took stem cells from the brains of adult mice and grew them in the lab. The well-established technique involved encouraging the stem cells to form "neurospheres," which provide an environment where the cells are free to develop into fresh new neurons. It's not a perfect model, but it gives us a good idea of how these cells would behave in an adult human brain.
The researchers grew the neurospheres in the presence of several compounds found in ayahuasca: harmine, THH, and harmaline. These are all extracts of the Banisteriopsis caapi vine. In the presence of these compounds, the neurospheres grew bigger than when in the presence of a control solution, suggesting that the ayahuasca compounds were encouraging the growth of the stem cells. In addition, the stem cells within the neurospheres began to migrate (an important step before stem cells can start to turn into new neurons) faster when in the presence of ayahuasca compounds, compared to controls.
When grown with ayahuasca compounds, the stem cells in the neurospheres also began to differentiate (change their properties) to resemble neurons more effectively than under control conditions. This means that the stem cells started to lose their stem-cell-like properties, and started making proteins that are found in adult neurons.
Overall, it seems that exposing neural stem cells to harmine, THH, and harmaline encourages them to grow and change into new neurons more effectively than under control conditions.
Could this mean that ayahuasca is stimulating the birth of new brain cells when humans ingest it? Could this be the root of ayahuasca's antidepressant properties?
For us to know for certain, there will have to be further studies. We'll have to compare these findings to other antidepressants, so we can understand how powerful the neurogenic effects of harmine, THH, and harmaline are relative to other treatments. We'll also want to see if we can get the same results using human cells rather than mouse cells, to make the findings more relevant.
Listen to our podcast episode with Rachel Harris talking about Overcoming Trauma With Ayahuasca or Click here to read the transcript

What about the other components of ayahuasca?
Although the compounds used in this study (harmine, THH, and harmaline) are the most prevalent alkaloids in ayahuasca brews, they're arguably not the most psychoactive components. DMT, found in many plants that are often included in ayahuasca preparation, is a powerful psychedelic compound that almost certainly has a crucial role in the psychological effects of ayahuasca.
It's possible that the antidepressant effects of ayahuasca seen in human studies comes down to a combination of increased neurogenesis from the components of the B. caapi vine, and the spiritual benefits of a profound psychedelic experience induced by DMT. Multiple studies into the therapeutic effects of psychedelics have shown that the biggest positive changes are seen in patients who report the most profound spiritual experiences.
So, it seems that ayahuasca combines long-term biological mechanisms (the birth of new brain cells) with an element of immediate spiritual healing (the profound psychedelic experience). How exactly these two modes of action interact is unclear right now – but we know that we can't ignore the mystical component of psychedelic healing.

Avoiding a materialist trap
As studies like this one become more common, we'll begin to understand more about the neurobiological effects of psychedelic substances. But it will be important to avoid falling into the trap of dismissing the spiritual aspect of healing. Neurobiology should never try to explain away our experience of mystical states, or the power of self-healing.
Hopefully, we can develop our knowledge and understanding of ayahuasca by combining shamanic and personal wisdom with objective neurobiology. Only an approach of compromise, rather than dogma in either direction, will help us incorporate ayahuasca into modern Western healing.

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Of the staggers
An eighteenth century view of staggers in horses
source: Henry Bracken
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Diseases affecting a horse's head are called staggers, and are similar to apoplexy and vertigo in humans. Bleeding should be the first resort for such brain diseases, which are caused by overfullness. Horses that stand for a long time and are not given exercise are especially prone to staggers. Brain fever and staggers may have similar symptoms, but the cure is the same. The amount of blood taken from the horse is more important than whether or not blood is let from the affected side. Some four or five quarts of bleeding is the most effective measure, if the horse has the strength for this.
There are special balls for staggers, but they can become a more expensive treatment than the price of the horse. However, cinnabar balls, which include quicksilver, can be given to a good horse. A glyster of senna and common salt is also a useful remedy, with a powder can be made with Afara Bacca herb, which can be blown into the horse's nostrils to ease the head through a watery discharge. There are a number of other recipes for curing staggers, but they tend to be based on superstition rather than an evaluation of why they might be useful, based on medicine, with help from chemistry, natural philosophy, mechanics and mathematics.
There are reports of remedies for staggers, such as putting cloves, rice, ginger, garlic and other objects into horses' ears, and this practice has driven some horses mad. Putting quicksilver in horses' ears is also a common remedy among farriers. German farriers are reported to whisper into horses' ears and turn them round three times. However three is no more magic a number than four, and English methods are more effective.


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Event | 14 December 2012 Online, _PHONE_ Manila time/0600-0800GMT
The higher education sector in the Asia and the Pacific region is facing a number of challenges, including rising tuition costs, a misalignment between education and labor market needs, and inequitable access to education in society.
Share your views and join the global discussion.
 - Is higher education still to be considered a public good?
 - What are the strategic and operational priorities for higher education in the region?
 - How should support for higher education be targeted to achieve a high, sustainable impact?
 - How can developing countries raise the quality of and expand access to higher education within a reasonable, yet ambitious, time frame?
As Asian Development Bank (ADB) Education Practice Leader, Jouko Sarvi coordinated the Higher Education In Dynamic Asia: Study Reports series. He will be online to discuss the reports and the challenges for developing Asia in the higher education sector.
When: _PHONE_ Manila time/0600-0800GMT on Friday, 14 December 2012


text: We perform laser induced fluorescence(LIF) spectroscopy on a pulsed supersonic beam of tungsten carbide(WC) molecules, which has been proposed as a candidate molecular system for a permanent Electric Dipole Moment(EDM) search of the electron in its rovibrational ground state of the X3Delta1 state. In particular, [20.6]Omega=2, v'=4 <- X3Delta1,v"=0 transition at 485nm was used for the detection. The hyperfine structure and the Omega-doublet of the transition are measured, which are essential for estimating the size of the potential systematic uncertainties for electron EDM measurement. For further suppression of the systematic uncertainty, an alternative electron EDM measurement scheme utilizing the g factor crossing point of the Omega-doublet levels is discussed. On the other hand, flux and internal temperature of the molecular beam are characterized, which sets the limit on the statistical uncertainty of the electron EDM experiment. With the given results, the prospect of electron EDM experiment with the X3Delta1 state of WC molecule is discussed.


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Haiti Timber Re-Introduction Program (HTRIP)
The Haiti Timber Reintroduction Project (HTRIP), a project of the Friends of HAS Haiti, assists local farmers to plant tree plots in remote mountain communities. Each community then builds a small tree nursery, voluntarily staffed by project participants. The HTRIP model includes outreach, training and technical assistance to build vitality and self-sufficiency among participants and their communities.
The overarching goal of HTRIP is to plant one million trees in Haiti by 2016. HTRIP hopes to sustain:
- Improved agricultural output
- Income and food sources for participants
- Improved environmental services for downstream communities
- Increased habitat for wildlife species.


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SCADA System for Naval Education and Training Center Sewer Pump Stations
The Naval Education and Training Center (NETC) in Newport, Rhode Island is a naval complex consisting of a variety of training, waterfront, administrative, supply and storage, medical, recreation, and housing facilities. The Naval Underwater Systems Center (NUSC) is also located at NETC and includes research, development, and testing operations. Wastewater generated at the complex is collected through a system of gravity sewers, lift stations, and force mains, and is treated at the City of Newport Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP). The system includes over 21 lift stations, a small WWTP at Fort Adams, and 150,000 feet of sewers and force mains. The wastewater collection system has experienced problems handling peak flows due to excessive infiltration and inflow (I/I) and mechanical failures. Average daily wastewater flows are 2 to 3 million gallons per day (mgd).
Under an initial contract, Weston & Sampson completed work on the upgrade of 18 sewer pump stations at the NETC. The project involved providing standby electric service generators for new sewer pump stations. Additional work included the installation of chlorination equipment, grease traps, tide gate valves, water service extensions, and miscellaneous site work.
Weston & Sampson worked with the NETC to develop a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system. The SCADA system included a remote terminal unit (RTU) at each of the sewer pump stations, two central processing units (CPUs) located in administrative buildings on base, and an average of 36 status monitoring and control points at each station.
Weston & Sampson also completed an additional contract for the design of significant mechanical improvements to 13 existing sewer pump stations and rehabilitation/replacement of approximately 32,400 feet of existing gravity sewers and force mains at the NETC. The work includes six new pump stations to replace existing stations, as well as rehabilitation of seven existing pump stations.
Included in the design of the six new pump stations is the provision of new RTUs, or relocation of the RTUs provided under the earlier contract. Additional status monitoring and control points will be added to the SCADA systems at each new pump station.


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solve linear programms
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GLPK.MIPSolve(Objective_f:POLYNOM, EQ_Poly:LIST, LE_Poly:LIST, GE_Poly:LIST, Bounds:LIST, IntNum:LIST, Binaries:LIST, MinMax:STRING)
Description
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 - @param Objective_f: A linear polynomial which is equivalent to the linear objective function.
 - @param EQ_Poly: List of linear polynomials, which are equivalent to the equality-part in the list of conditions.
 - @param LE_Poly: List of linear polynomials, which are equivalent to the lower or equal-part in the list of conditions.
 - @param GE_Poly: List of linear polynomials, which are equivalent to the greater or equal-part in the list of conditions.
 - @param Bounds: List of lists with two elements. Each List contains the lower and upper bounds for each variable. You can choose between INT or RAT for the type of each bound, if you type in a (empty) string, then it means minus infinity (first place) or plus infinity (second place).
 - @param IntNum: List of variables, which should be integer. Note: For each variable in this list, the borders get rounded (lower bound: up and upper bound: down). In the case that the lower rounded bound becomes greater then the upper rounded bound, glpk returns: Solution Status: INTEGER UNDEFINED - Value of objective function: 0.
 - @param Binaries: List of variables, which should be binaries (0 or 1).
 - @param MinMax: Minimization ("Min") or maximization ("Max"), that's the question.
 - @return List of linear polynomials, the zeros of the polynomials are the points where the optimal value of the objective function is archieved
First we want to discuss a rather easy example.
Example
We want to maximize the Function y = - 1/2x,
with the two conditions y ≤ 6 - 3/4x and y ≥ 1 - x and the bounds 0 ≤ x ≤ 6 and 1/3 ≤ y ≤ 4.
We prename the input of GLPK.MIPSolve-function.
Use S::=Q[x,y];
OF := 1/2x + y;
LE := [3/4x + y - 6];
GE := [x + y - 1];
Bounds:=[[0,6], [1/3,4]];
IntNum:=[x,y];
Then we compute the solution with
$GLPK.MIPSolve(OF, [], LE, GE, Bounds, IntNum, [], "Max");
And we achieve:
Solution Status: INTEGER OPTIMAL
Value of objective function: 5
[x[1] - 2, x[2] - 4]


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Health Impact Assessment (HIA)
The following are external websites that provide useful information and resources about HIAs.
Tools, Data, and Assessment Resources
- Amherst H. Wilder Foundation - Minnesota Compassa href="/divs/hpcd/tracking/hia/hia.html">
Minnesota Compass measures progress in Minnesota, tracking trends in topic areas such as education, economy and workforce, health, housing, public safety, and a host of others.
- Census Reporter
As a Knight News Challenge-funded project, this site uses information from the U.S. Census Bureau to provide a user-friendly interface for navigating data.
- Design for Health (DFH) - Tools, Research, and Resources
DFH bridges the gap between the emerging research base on community design and healthy living and local government planning. One of its four primary avenues is to provide evidence-based tools for conducting HIAs.
- Minnesota Tracking Program - HIA Data User Guide
This guide provides step-by-step instructions about how to access and use data from the Minnesota Tracking Program to conduct a Health Impact Assessment (HIA) using the Data Access Portal.
- U.S. Department of Transportation and Centers for Disease Prevention and Control - Transportation and Health Tool
The Transportation and Health Tool was developed to provide easy access to data that practitioners can use to examine the health impacts of transportation systems.
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Community-Focused Exposure and Risk Screening Tool (C-FERST)
C-FERST is being developed as a community mapping, information access tool to help inform community assessments and decision-making.
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool (EJSCREEN)
EJSCREEN is based on nationally consistent data and an approach that combines environmental and demographic indicators in maps and reports.
Guides, Reports, and Supporting Organizations
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Healthy Places - Health Impact Assessment
The CDC HIA resources include a Parks and Trails HIA Toolkit, Transportation HIA Toolkit, and focused issue areas on: Injury, Mental Health, Physical Activity, Respiratory Health, Social Capital, and Water Quality.
Community Participation in Health Impact Assessments: A National Evaluation
Human Impact Partners and the Center for Community Health and Evaluation partnered to find out how community members participate in HIAs and what outcomes this participation leads to. Released in January 2016, this report offers new insights related to community participation in the U.S.-based HIA practice.
- Health Impact Project
The Health Impact Project, a collaboration of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts, is a national initiative designed to promote the use of health impact assessments (HIAs) as a decision-making tool for policymakers.
- Human Impact Partners (HIP)
HIP works in partnership with communities, public health and academic experts to build capacity to conduct HIAs and strives to create a world in which health is considered in all decision-making.
- Promoting Equity through the Practice of Health Impact Assessment
This report co-authored by PolicyLink and three partner organizations is a tool for advancing health equity in your community through health impact assessment.
- Stakeholder Engagement Tools and Materials
This resource list is meant to help minimize this risk by providing a list of stakeholder engagement tools and materials for easy reference. The listed tools and materials are useful to any HIA practitioner involved in stakeholder engagement activities.
- The Society of Practitioners of Health Impact Assessments (SOPHIA)
SOPHIA is an organization serving the needs of Health Impact Assessment (HIA) practitioners in North America and worldwide. SOPHIA aims to provide leadership and promote excellence in the practice of HIA.
- UCLA Health Impact Assessment Clearinghouse
The Learning and Information Center provides information on completed HIAs, methods and resources, training and other topics to support a better understanding of HIA.
- World Health Organization (WHO)
The WHO works to promote health across all sectors of activity. Explore the vast resources this website provides to learn about the global importance of conducting HIAs.


Saturday, 6 October 2007
MySQL: delay_key_write is good
If you're using MySQL with the MyISAM engine for a high-writes application, delay_key_write is usually very good.
Let me explain further: delay_key_write is a table option which causes the database NOT to flush the MyISAM key file after every write. This is a really good thing, as if you're doing another write very soon anyway, this is likely to just waste I/O time.
This doesn't sound like a good idea right, because it means that if the power fails (or mysql crashes, or something), then you'll be left with a broken index file? No, it's still a very good idea:
 - delay_key_write does NOT appear to affect the MyISAM data file - that will still be flushed according to the normal policy.
 - If you had delay_key_write off, then a power failure or crash during the index write would cause the same level of corruption.
 - Broken MyISAM index files need to be rebuilt, regardless of how little or how much "brokenness" they actually have.
How do you turn delay_key_write on?
It's a table option, so you have to do it at create time. It's possible to do ALTER TABLE, but that behaves how it normally does under MySQL - i.e. it rebuilds the entire table, just to change one flag. This is of course necessary if you're changing the schema, but delay_key_write shouldn't - sadly, it does.
This means that on a large existing table, the ALTER TABLE needs to be done with care (i.e. out-of-hours or during scheduled down time, if at all).
Another option is to set the variable delay_key_write to "ALL" - however, this is not necessarily a good idea as it applies to all tables (in the entire server) whether you want it to or not.
On infrequently written tables, delay_key_write could increase the chance of index corruption.
Our performance testing cycle for delay_key_write is now over - quite frankly we're amazed by how much performance it gives us for so little effort - it will definitely be going into production.
Our servers are being hurt with heavy write-load which is keeping (at least one thread of) mysql almost permanently in I/O-wait - delay_key_write makes almost all of this go away making inserts much quicker and leaving the server more time for other things. It's likely to become essential once our server workload grows even higher.
Riddla said...
excellent little writeup.
this has helped me out plenty.
thank you kindly!
Unknown said...
The concept of delay_key_write is good for performance. Unfortunately it seems to contribute to recurring MyISAM table corruption under high load. We have observed the problem in both 5.0.33 and 5.1.36. I haven't been able to find where this has been fixed in a newer release.
Ninja said...
does this affect the result of select from another process?
for example, the table is
(a, b, c,d);
we have a index [a,c];
if we do not flush the index, then query like
select c from table where a=1
might produce the wrong result?
Mark Robson said...
No it does not affect the other process; it won't make the server return the wrong results, as it uses the indexes still in the key buffer, even if they are dirty.


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- Berberis thunbergii is a small deciduous shrub from 2-8 ft. (0.6-2.4 m) tall. The thin, grooved branches have thin, straight spines. Berberis thunbergii is very shade-tolerant and can form dense stands which shade out and displace native species.
- The leaves are up to 1 in. (24 mm) long and paddle-shaped.
- The pale-yellow flowers occur in drooping clusters of 2-5 and develop in mid-spring to early summer.
- The berries ripen to a bright red color and are 0.25-0.3 in. (7-10 mm) long.
- Ecological Threat
- Berberis thunbergii invades a variety of habitats from shaded woodlands to open fields and wetlands. Berberis thunbergii is rapidly spread by birds that eat the berries thus dispersing the seeds. It is native to Asia and was first introduced into The United States in 1864 as an ornamental. It is still widely planted for landscaping and hedges.
Zouhar, Kris. 2008. Berberis thunbergii, Fire Effects Information System, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory
Global Invasive Species Database. 2011. Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG) of the IUCN Species Survival Commission
Virginia Tech Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation
University of Connecticutt Database of Trees, Shrubs and Vines
Plant Conservation Alliance's Alien Plant Working Group
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
Invasive Plant Atlas of New England
University of Florida IFAS Extension
CABI Invasive Species Compendium
Ohio State University
USDA NRCS PLANTS
USDA ARS GRIN
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text: House alterations have always been associated with sustainability for the future. However, a research at three low cost housing schemes in Shah Alam, Malaysia involving residences, housing contractors and neighbours showed that the construction activities or materials used caused problems and risks to social health, safety and the environment. These problems are related to lack of knowledge, skills and experiences in the building construction. Despite the presence of health and safety requirements, there remains a significant scope for improvement in Malaysia. From the findings, several recommendations are made to improve the living conditions for a sustainable future.


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Ground-water age, flow, and quality near a landfill, and changes in ground-water conditions from 1976 to 1996 in the Swinomish Indian Reservation, northwestern Washington
Water-Resources Investigations Report 98-4014
Prepared in cooperation with Swinomish Indian Tribal Community
- B.E. Thomas and S.E. Cox
This report describes the results of two related studies: a study of ground-water age, flow, and quality near a landfill in the south-central part of the Swinomish Indian Reservation; and a study of changes in ground-water conditions for the entire reservation from 1976 to 1996. The Swinomish Indian Reservation is a 17-square-mile part of Fidalgo Island in northwestern Washington. The groundwater flow system in the reservation is probably independent of other flow systems in the area because it is almost completely surrounded by salt water.
There has been increasing stress on the ground-water resources of the reservation because the population has almost tripled during the past 20 years, and 65 percent of the population obtain their domestic water supply from the local ground-water system. The Swinomish Tribe is concerned that increased pumping of ground water might have caused decreased ground-water discharge into streams, declines in ground-water levels, and seawater intrusion into the ground-water system. There is also concern that leachate from an inactive landfill containing mostly household and wood-processing wastes may be contaminating the ground water.
The study area is underlain by unconsolidated glacial and interglacial deposits of Quaternary age that range from about 300 to 900 feet thick. Five hydrogeologic units have been defined in the unconsolidated deposits. From top to bottom, the hydrogeologic units are a till confining bed, an outwash aquifer, a clay confining bed, a sea-level aquifer, and an undifferentiated unit.
The ground-water flow system of the reservation is similar to other island-type flow systems. Water enters the system through the water table as infiltration and percolation of precipitation (recharge), then the water flows downward and radially outward from the center of the island. At the outside edges of the system, ground water flows upward to discharge into the surrounding saltwater bodies. Average annual recharge is estimated to be about 3 inches, or 12 percent of the average annual precipitation.
Ground water in the outwash aquifer near the landfill is estimated to be between 15 and 43 years old. Some deeper ground waters and ground water near the discharge areas close to the shoreline are older than 43 years.
Analysis of water-quality data collected for this study and review of existing data indicate that material in the landfill has had no appreciable impact on the current quality of ground water outside of the landfill. The water quality of samples from seven wells near to and downgradient from the landfill appears to be similar to the ground-water quality throughout the entire study area. The high iron and manganese concentrations found in most of the samples from wells near the landfill are probably within the range of natural concentrations for the study area.
Ground-water pumping during the past 20 years has not caused any large changes in ground-water discharge to streams, ground-water levels, or seawater intrusion into the ground-water system. Ground-water discharge into Snee-oosh Creek and Munks Creek had similar magnitudes in the summers of 1976 and 1996; flows in both creeks during those summers ranged from 0.07 t 0.15 cubic feet per second. Ground-water levels changed minimally between 1976 and 1996. The average water-level change for 20 wells with more than 10 years between measurements was -0.7 feet and the two largest waterlevel declines were 6 and 9 feet. No appreciable seawater intrusion was found in the ground water in 1996, and there was no significant increase in the extent of seawater intrusion from 1976 to 1996. Median chloride concentrations of water samples collected from wells were 22 milligrams per liter in 1976 and 18 milligrams per liter in 1996.
Additional publication details
- Publication type:
- Publication Subtype:
- USGS Numbered Series
- Ground-water age, flow, and quality near a landfill, and changes in ground-water conditions from 1976 to 1996 in the Swinomish Indian Reservation, northwestern Washington
- Series title:
- Water-Resources Investigations Report
- Series number:
- Year Published:
- U.S. Geological Survey
- Publisher location:
- Tacoma, WA
- v, 58 p.
- Time Range Start:
- Time Range End:
- United States
- Other Geospatial:
- Fidalgo Island;Swinomish Indian Reservation


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The technical term for a loss of variegation is reversion. Variegation can be affected by light conditions as well as other factors, as this information from the Royal Horticultural Society suggests: "Variegation may vary during the year and is often less apparent in late summer. Where there is a permanent loss of colour inadequate light is often the cause. Waterlogging can also lead to loss of leaf colour. Reversion may also occur where more vigorous green shoots outgrow variegated shoots."
Here is a link to some helpful information about variegated plants, from a now-defunct website which was called Enjoy Gardening:
"Understanding all the science behind variegation is quite complicated, so here is the nutshell version. For variegation to be stable, the variegation trait must be caused by a mutated cell or a group of cells that are fit enough to grow and multiply, and those cells must originate in a region of the plant where they are involved in generating new variegated gene cells. For example, if the mutation originates in a section of a leaf or stem where normal tissue can outgrow the mutation, the variegation pattern will often be unstable and disappear. However, when there is an 'island' of mutated cells within a growing point or tip, the variegation has a greater chance of being stable... Of course, to every set of rules there are always exceptions, which is why it's quite common for completely stable varieties of plants to lose their patterns over time. And that's exactly what happens with some variegated Euonymus shrubs when the 'normal' buds produce leaves that have more chlorophyll than the variegated leaves have. Having more chlorophyll allows the normal leaves to grow faster and to out-compete the variegated foliage. In this case, the solution to preserving variegation is to get out the pruners and to lop off the emerging threat of normalcy."
As suggested above, you can try cutting off the non-variegated ('normal') foliage and hope that the variegated foliage will return to dominance.
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Cheque Bounce in UAE and Settlement Procedure
Cheque bounce in UAE is a criminal offense and cheque writer can face a court trial and jail term
Cheque Bounce in UAE and Settlement Procedure
Articles (Gulf Inside) Cheque bounce in UAE is a criminal offense and cheque writer can face a court trial and jail term also can face a travel ban with a bench warrant, drawer of bounced check unable to leave UAE, and cannot enter if already left until settlements.
To know more about the settlement of the bounced Cheque case and how to the removal of the travel ban, you need to follow the below guide.
New Law Cheque Bounce:
According to the UAE Federal Law No-3 of 1987 promulgating the legal code, both criminal, also as civil proceedings, are often initiated against the perpetrator of bounced cheque writer.
What is Cheque Bounce?
A cheque bounce or bounced check may be a cheque presented by the payee and rejected by the drawer bank under below circumstances:
 1. Insufficient funds in the drawer account.
 2. Changed signature on a cheque or refusing it from being paid.
 3. The drawer's checking account was closed before the cheque is presented for payment.
1: The Police Complaint:
To file a complaint about a bounced cheque, the bearer of the cheque should formally open a case with the police station of the respective emirate against the drawer. For registering complaints on the bounced cheque in Dubai, you'll use the Dubai Police app.
After receiving the complaint, the police will contact the issuer of the cheque to notify him/her of the same and request his urgent presence. At the police headquarters, the drawer is allowed to settle the difficulty through paying the complete amount of the bounced cheque. If he/she paid, no further legal proceedings are going to be taken.
If the issuer of the bad cheque doesn't have money to pay, he/she has the proper to request a while to settle the difficulty. Upon such a request, the issuer could also be granted an inexpensive period secured by the deposit of his passport at the police headquarters. However, it highly depends on the cheque amount as in many cases such a guarantee of depositing the passport is rejected by cops if the quantity drawn on the cheque is more than 1 million dirhams or higher.
Point to be noted that cheque bounced may be a criminal offense within the UAE, upon filing the complaint at the police headquarters, a travel ban and bench warrant on the drawer will be issued automatically. Hence, the issuer of the cheque is going to be banned from leaving the country and arrested if he/she tries to flee, or should be detained on arrival in UAE from outside.
Such a travel ban in UAE is often removed only upon settlement of the cheque bounce case, or after serving a sentence.
2: The Public Prosecution:
In case the opponents failed to resolve the cheque bounce case at the police station, the police then transfer the complaint to the public prosecutor in the court.
Based on the evidence presented within the court, the choice might be a bail either by paying the worth of the bounced cheque or by depositing the passport of the defaulter or another guarantor. In case bail was denied, the public prosecutor may order the detention of the drawer until the court hears and decides on the case.
3: The Criminal Court:
The role of the court in UAE is to dive deeper into that bounce check case, opponents' arguments, and available evidence. The court then proceeds to look at whether the crime elements are satisfied or not. The crime elements are the fabric element and therefore the mental element.
Once both of the crime elements are satisfied, and by the authority vested in it within Article 401 of the UAE legal code, the court may decide the sanction of the perpetrator.
This can be confined to a fine assessed solely by the court, supported the conclusion reached and therefore the amount claimed and typically ranging between AED 1,000 and AED 30,000+. The court can also decide the sanction of the perpetrator to be serving a jail term of between 1 year and three years.
4: Civil Court Proceedings:
The criminal court and the civil court function separately but may solve both civil cases and criminal cases. Hence, the sentence issued by the court comes only as a sanction for the act of issuing a bounced cheques with insufficient funds in account or withdrawal all or part of the funds after giving the cheque.
The claimant may present his case to the civil court also to say his right to the disputed amount.
After reaching a conclusion supported the evidence and facts presented by the opponents, the civil court can then demand the issuer of the bounced cheque to pay a sum equal either to the worth of the cheque or its outstanding balance. In case the perpetrator fails again to pay the said amount, his assets could also be attached, and he could also be subjected to a different jail term for failing to comply with the civil court orders.
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If there are not any pending cases against the bounced cheque writer, once the jail term is completed, he's allowed to gather his impounded passport and may also leave the country.
Writing a Cheque:
If the issuer of a cheque realized that he did a mistake by writing a cheque and there have been sufficient funds, it is often remedied at any stage of the legal proceedings by providing account statements of cheque submission date.
How to Remove Travel Ban:
Travel ban against Bounce cheque can only be removed through settlement or completing the jail term, the important point for the drawer is that he/she shall confirm to retrieve the bad cheque and obtain a clearance paper from his debtor or court upon payment of the disputed amount or completing the jail term.
Henceforth, no further legal proceedings will be initiated, and the UAE travel ban and an arrest warrant will be removed automatically.
Recent Developments in cheque bounce case:
To mitigate the non-payment of bounced cheques, the UAE government has recently introduced new regulations to punish such crimes with fines rather than jail terms. This initiative allows the issuer of the bounced cheque to urge employment opportunities or other such alternatives to be ready to repay his debt rather than getting to jail, subject to the orders of the public prosecutor.
Cheque Bounce Penalty:
As per the order, cases of cheque bounce the amount not exceeding AED 200,000 shall be punished with the following fines:
If the quantity is a smaller amount than AED 50,000 the cheque bounce penalty is going to be AED 2,000.
If the quantity is between AED 50,000 to 100,000 the fine is going to be AED 5,000.
If the amount written in the bounced cheque is from AED 100,000 to 200,000+, the cheque bounce penalty will be AED 10,000+.
Conclusion and extra care:
Cheque bounce in UAE can be associated with numerous reasons including illegal termination by the company, bankruptcy, absconding of the cheque writer, etc. In practice, when the bearer of the bounced cheque filed a complaint with the police, the most viable way to resolve the issue for both parties is to settle it at the police station amicably.
It is advisable that don't allow anyone to use your checkbook, as holders of checkbooks can get in trouble for a cheque bounce in UAE even without signing it. The practical experience shows that there are cases where an individual is often subject to legal liability towards a cheque bounce or bounced check case even it's not signed by him.
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Bitbucket Cloud integrates with external services through a set of brokers that run in response to certain events. Brokers are Python scripts that receive information about an event and then take one or more actions. For example, there is a Bamboo broker for integrating with Bamboo. The Bitbucket team developed many of our brokers. Third-party vendors also developed several brokers.
Using the POST service to integrate your application with Bitbucket Cloud
Most third-party web applications have a public RESTAPI. For example, Jenkins has a one. Using a third-party API, you can pass parameters to the service using Bitbucket's POST service. Bitbucket's POST service passes a payload to your third-party web application through its API. Your third-party application is responsible for receiving and transforming the payload.
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 Including a version of BaseBroker (or just the source of the get_local method) would make it considerably easier to write a broker.
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 What events do the brokers fire on? Is it only on a push, or are there others?
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The El Puente Green Light District (GLD) is a strategic ten-year initiative to sustain, grow, green, and celebrate Williamsburg's Southside community. At a time when communities across New York City are facing rapid changes that threaten to destabilize our neighborhoods, the Green Light District seeks to flip the disempowerment of gentrification and put the power of transformation in the hands of its residents and stakeholders. The Green Light District seeks to build equity and sustainability through connecting residents to each other, socially and culturally; sharing knowledge and resources across the neighborhood through partnerships, coalitions, and alliances; improving access to public resources; and building leadership in the community to carry our collective goals forward.
The broad vision of the Green Light District was developed by working closely with local community stakeholders and advisors, and was announced at the formal launch of the Green Light District on September 16, 2011. The Green Light District Community Declaration (Spanish) is more than just a vision, however; it is the conceptual outlining of the goals and objectives of the initiative, and the yardstick against which we measure our success. Each year, the GLD reports back to the community on progress toward those goals at the annual GLD Summit, the first of which was held in October 2012. There are five areas of focus of the Green Light District: Affordable Living, Arts & Culture, Education, Greening Spaces & Environmental Justice, and Health & Wellness. Visit these pages for examples of our current projects!


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The Government's response to its invasive alien species consultation aligns fully with BASC's dedicated work to manage species such as the grey squirrel, muntjac and Egyptian goose.
The Government's aims outlined in their response are to control any current wild population, reduce any further spread and eradicate invasive species where possible.
The response acknowledges a range of appropriate control methods and firmly rejects an attempted campaign to ban lethal control when dealing with invasive species.
Officials recognised a letter writing campaign, noting that many responses were just a single line and unsupported by evidence. Some letters were rejected for being 'threatening in tone'.
Ian Danby, BASC's head of biodiversity, said: "BASC is engaged in a wide range of projects that marry together practical conservation measures such as habitat management with control of invasive species. The support for this continuing work from Government is appreciated."


, Target DB, Schema, and Table Name, Affected Row Counts, Error Message(s), Stack Trace (if available), Bad Data Condition (if there is one), and as much other information as we can harvest from SSIS. The difference between a Failure and an Error is that a Failure is expected in certain circumstances, but an Error is not expected.
In the Unusual Behavior condition, a message needs to be sent to the SendErrorNotice recipients, as in the Failure condition above. However, the Unusual Behavior notification will document the Package Name, Start Time, End Time and Elapsed Time, Data Source, Target DB, Schema, and Table Name, Affected Row Counts, and Bad Data Condition (if there is one), as well as documenting the Unusual Behavior that triggered this condition. For example, a package normally processes 100,000 rows, if it suddenly processes 500,000 rows, this would be Unusual Behavior. Likewise, for a package that typically takes 3 minutes to run, to take 20 minutes to run would be Unusual Behavior.
In the Bad Data condition, the package has not Failed, Errored, or experienced Unusual Behavior. It has experienced rows being routed to the Bad Data path(s) in the Data Flow. Details of the Bad Data need to be sent to the notification recipients that are indicated as SendBadDataNotice in their contact profile. These notifications should include the Package Name, Start Time, End Time and Elapsed Time, Data Source, Target DB, Schema, and Table Name, Affected Row Counts, Bad Data Row Counts, and Bad Data Row Details.
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Multi-threading allows the package to run faster when there are tasks that can be run in parallel. There are two multi-threading conditions that the Framework needs to handle:
 - Master Package Multi-threading of multiple child packages
 - Package Task execution within a package
Re-run ability
Packages should be re-runnable if the data has changed and we need to reload it. For example, bad data was detected, logged and handled. Now the bad data has been fixed, we need to re-run the package for today's data. This implies that the package would know that its last run had bad data, that the package actions need to be reversed and then the package can reload the data for the day. This is most often implemented as a clean-up step at the beginning of the ETL package that makes sure that none of the data it's about to put into the database is already there and removing it if it is. For example, the package was loading data into the final tables when the database ran out of space and threw an error. Once the space issue is fixed, the package would be re-run. First, it would remove the data it loaded in the first run, then it would load the data normally as if it had not been run before.
Restartability
Packages should be able to pick up from the task prior to the failure point and run properly (where this makes sense). There's no need to stage data we've already staged. Typically, when a package fails, it has already done some processing. Packages should be able to roll back the failed task and restart from that point. This is an advanced ETL framework activity. It can be very tricky to deal with restarting a failed package, especially if it has any complexity in it.
The Common ETL Framework Part 1
Defining a Common ETL Framework
SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) provides a mechanism to Extract data from some source, Transform it as necessary, and Load it into the tables in a target database (ETL).
Each SSIS package should implement a common framework for logging, executing, monitoring and error handling so that these details are abstracted from the SSIS developer and are "just part of the template" that they should use for SSIS package creation.
Package automation takes this one step further by automating the creation of packages based on metadata that is configurable at design time. I have selected Business Intelligence Markup Language (BIML) to perform this automation. I will demonstrate how to use BIML to configure and generate packages in future articles in this series.
What Does the Common ETL Framework Need to Do?
The Framework needs to provide the services and behaviors that are common to all ETL packages. These include:
 1. Auditing/Logging. Execution Start, Stop and Error auditing for packages and tasks as they are executed. Auditing/logging verbosity should be configurable so that we can enhance the logging when we need to debug something.
 2. Error Handling. Appropriate error handling. Reroute bad data on read and on write. Break the process only when necessary. Log data, connectivity and process problems.
 3. Notifications and Routing. Intelligent routing so that the appropriate systems and system owners are notified of a failure without spamming the whole department.
 4. Multi-Threading. Master packages need to manage the multi-threading and dependencies of their child packages, watching for errors and handling them appropriately (i.e. Stop or Continue execution of other child packages upon a failure).
 5. Restartability. Packages should be able to pick up from the task prior to the failure point and run properly (where this makes sense). I.e. No need to stage data we've already staged.
 6. Re-run ability. Packages should be re-runnable if the data has changed and we need to reload it. For example, bad data was detected, logged and handled. Now the bad data has been fixed; we need to re-run the package for today's data. This implies that the package would know that its last run had bad data, that the package actions need to be reversed and then the package can reload the data for the day.
 7. Load Strategies. The Framework should handle a variety of data Extract and Load strategies:
 1. Truncate and Replace loads. Where appropriate, table data can be truncated and reloaded. This technique is common for staging tables and for smaller datasets with no dependencies.
 2. Incremental loads. Where appropriate, data can be extracted incrementally and/or loaded incrementally, rather than a truncate and reload. This is often used to keep history. Incremental loads come in several flavors, some use a hash, others a date flag, others a set of change flags. Deletions require special handling in incremental loads.
 3. Cycle loads. Where appropriate, a dataset can be loaded with a Days Old flag set to -1; then a simple update can increment the Days Old flag by 1 to cycle the data by a day. A delete query can then remove rows that are too old to be kept.
 8. Data Retention. The Framework should also handle data retention during the ETL process. There are three strategies for removing data from the primary dataset: deletion, archiving, and flagging. A typical retention plan will employ all three to varying degrees.
 9. Stop/Cancel Job. The Framework should be able to interrupt a job, stopping it immediately, or canceling it at the next step. This also implies that the job is already Restartable or Re-runable.
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Title:Deriving Pairedness in vP structure: Minimalist yet Optimal
Authors:Kyle Wade Grove, Michael Putnam
Abstract:Minimalist accounts lack a natural theory of markedness, whereas Optimality-Theoretical accounts lack derivational procedure. We argue, then, that neither standard Minimalist nor standard Optimality-Theoretical frameworks enable straightforward, parsimonious accounts of what we call pairedness behavior, where a given language exhibits multiple forms occupying the same niche. We adopt a hybrid OT/MP account, first, to explain the unmarked/marked dichotomy of anticausatives in German, and, second, to explain why languages often exhibit direct and indirect causatives.
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The cumulative emotional trauma spanning generations of American Indians and Alaska Natives—also known as historical or intergenerational trauma—continues to affect behavioral health and wellness among families and Tribes. But American Indian and Alaska Native communities are also resilient, drawing strength from their sense of identity and the importance of tradition and culture passed down by ancestors. Special considerations must be accounted for when working with this population. In this section, find information on engaging American Indian and Alaska Native children and families and resources on supporting and strengthening their mental health.
American Indian & Alaskan Native Mental Health
Reviews research on mental health in American Indian and Alaska Native communities and discusses disparities, protective factors, barriers to care, and ways to ensure access to mental health services.
Healing & Wellness
Capacity Building Center for Tribes, Tribal Information Exchange
Presents information on Tribal healing and wellness and provides examples of how American Indian and Alaska Native communities cultivate healing and build leadership from within. The resources also offer tips for child welfare professionals on topics such as self-care, using a trauma-informed approach, and engaging with American Indian families and communities.
Mental and Behavioral Health - American Indians/Alaska Natives
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health
Explores disproportionate rates of specific mental health symptoms within American Indian and Alaska Native populations compared with other ethnic groups within the United States.
Mental Health Disparities: Diverse Populations
American Psychiatric Association
Offers resources specific to Native Americans and Alaska Natives that present information about how cultural values and systemic injustices contribute to behavioral health disparities among indigenous people in the United States.
Missing and Murdered Native Americans (MMNA): A Public Health Framework for Action
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families (2020)
Outlines policies and programs to help Native American children, families, and communities address the consequences of the victimization of Indigenous communities, specifically missing and murdered Native Americans.
Native and Indigenous Communities and Mental Health
Mental Health America (2021)
Provides an overview of the prevalence rates of mental health disorders among American Indian and Alaska Native communities, as well as common treatment issues and access to mental health services.
Outreach & Resources for Native American, Tribal & Indigenous Communities (PDF - 107 KB)
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (2021)
Presents information and resources for Native American, Tribal, and Indigenous communities on missing children from those communities.
Resources Specific to American Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) Communities
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families
Provides a list of trauma-informed resources designed to support service providers in creating culturally responsive services and treatments for American Indian and Alaska Native communities.
TIP 61: Behavioral Health Services for American Indians and Alaska Natives
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (2019)
Offers population-specific information and guidance to providers on delivering culturally responsive behavioral health services.


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Computers are widely utilized in today's weather forecasting as a powerful tool to leverage an enormous amount of data. Yet, despite the availability of such data, current techniques often fall short of producing reliable detailed storm forecasts. Each year severe thunderstorms cause significant damage and loss of life, some of which could be avoided if better forecasts were available. We propose a computer algorithm that analyzes satellite images from historical archives to locate visual signatures of severe thunderstorms for short-term predictions. While computers are involved in weather forecasts to solve numerical models based on sensory data, they are less competent in forecasting based on visual patterns from both current and past satellite images. In our system, we extract and summarize important visual storm evidence from satellite image sequences in the way that meteorologists interpret the images. In particular, the algorithm extracts and fits local cloud motion from image sequences to model the storm-related cloud patches. Image data from the year 2008 have been adopted to train the model, and historical severe thunderstorm reports in continental U.S. from 2000 to 2013 have been used as the ground truth and priors in the modeling process. Experiments demonstrate the usefulness and potential of the algorithm for producing more accurate severe thunderstorm forecasts.
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|IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
|Published - Feb 2017
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- General Earth and Planetary Sciences


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Diabetes Hikes Infection-Related Death Risk Post-Transplant
ATLANTA—Diabetes mellitus is an independent risk factor for infection-related death after kidney transplantation, data presented at the American Society of Nephrology's Kidney Week 2013 meeting show.
Manvir Kaur Hayer, MBChB, and collaborators at the Renal Institute of Birmingham, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, U.K., analyzed data from 19,103 kidney transplant recipients, of whom 2,968 had diabetes mellitus at the time of transplantation. Following transplantation, 2,085 patients died; 433 of the deaths were due to infection. The risk for death from any cause after transplantation was significantly higher for diabetics than non-diabetics (16% vs. 10%), as was the risk for infection-related death (3.3% vs. 2.1%).
No cytomegalovirus-related death occurred among the diabetics compared with 5.7% of non-diabetics.
The study, which the investigators said is the first to specifically look at the risk for infection-related deaths among diabetics in the context of kidney transplantation, found that diabetes, increasing age, receipt of a deceased-donor kidney, socioeconomic deprivation, and peripheral vascular disease were independently associated with death from infection.
"If confirmed, our data suggests targeted immunosuppressive regimens may be required for kidney allograft recipients with known diabetes, although such clinical decisions would need to be balanced against risk of rejection," the authors concluded in a poster presentation.


let and ContentServer page cache fragment knows which assets are used when rendering the page. This information is used during publishing to clean up the cache for the published assets. This means that if a pagelet is rendered with 2 assets, only those two assets can cause the pagelet to be invalidated. If 200 assets are used whilst rendering that pagelet, any of those 200 can cause the pagelet to be invalidated. This means that it is more likely that this pagelet will be uncached with the corresponding need to re-render. If you find that pagelets get flushed too often and they are expensive to re-render, you may want to split them, considering all off the above. There is a special compositional dependency called unknowndeps that would cause a pagelet to always be invalidated upon publish.
 - It allows to switch between cached and uncached fragments on a page. Maybe you want to show something in the MainContent that is personalized, so you can configure Layout and the articles to be cached, and the MainContent to be uncached. With just ContentServer page caching this is not possible.
 - The default style=pagelet from render:calltemplate tag is far from optimal in every case. With less pagelets per page you will get better repsonse times and throughput.
 - If you have uncached pagelets on a page, Co-Resident SatelliteServer is likely to give better responsetimes than Remote SatelliteServer.
 - When tuning constantly ask the question: is the application CPU or memory bound. How can I take that bottleneck away.
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There are several ways to access and manipulate data across a database link. Each has various advantages and disadvantages:
Use SQL that directly references the database objects across the link. This is the easiest way to access remote objects. Depending on the size of the objects involved and the network between the two servers, however, it may be the slowest option from a performance point of view.
Use the OPENQUERY function in SQL statements. This function allows DML to execute on the remote server. This method performs much better than directly querying the linked server, but is not the easiest method to use from a syntax standpoint.
Execute remote stored procedures. For applications that are performing the same database operations as programs, this is the best method for both performance and code reusability.
To access linked objects directly, use a four-part naming scheme to name the object, with these parts separated by periods:
Owner of the object
For example, suppose you want to perform a SELECT statement against a table called products, owned by dbo in the database InformIT across the link named STAGING. This is how the SQL query might look:
SELECT product_id, product_name FROM STAGING.InformIT.dbo.products
Tables can be joined on either side of a database link, and various conditions can be placed on them. Let's assume that the remote product table in the previous example had to be joined locally to a local authors table with a product_id foreign key. The query might look like this:
SELECT a.product_id, a.product_name, b.author_name FROM STAGING.InformIT.dbo.products a, authors b WHERE a.product_id = b.product_id
Updates work in the same manner; just use the extended naming method to reference remote objects. Suppose that the local database has a table named imprints and the description column has been updated recently. We want that change to be moved to the linked server STAGING that also has the imprint table:
UPDATE STAGING.InformIT.dbo.imprints SET description = a.description FROM imprints a, STAGING.InformIT.dbo.imprints b WHERE a.imprint_id = b.imprint_id
Deletes also work this way.
There are some exceptions to this scheme:
Text fields cannot currently be updated across a database link. Updates have to be "faked" by doing a DELETE and then an INSERT for the text fields.
Text field pointers also don't work across links.


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Oswego, New York 13126
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ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY INSTRUCTION
8242 Civility, Citizenship and Character Education/Interpersonal Violence Prevention Education
Civility, Citizenship and Character Education
The Board of Education recognizes that teaching students respect, civility and understanding toward others, as well as the practice and reinforcement of appropriate behavior and values of our society, is an important function of the School System.
Furthermore, the District shall ensure that the course of instruction in grades K through 12 includes a component on civility, citizenship and character education in accordance with Education Law. Character education is the deliberate effort to help students understand, care about, and act upon core ethical values.
Character education shall instruct students on the principles of:
c) Personal responsibility;
d) Respect for others;
e) Awareness and sensitivity to discrimination and/or harassment as defined in the Dignity for All Students Act (DASA);
f) Civility in relation to people of different races, weights, national origins, ethnic groups, religions, religious practices, physical or mental abilities, sexual orientations, genders or sexes;
g) Observance of laws and rules;
h) Courtesy; and
i) Dignity, and other traits which will enhance the quality of students' experiences in, and contributions to, the community.
As determined by the Board of Regents, and as further enumerated in Commissioner's Regulations, the components of character education shall be incorporated in existing
The District encourages the involvement of staff, students, parents and community members in the implementation and reinforcement of character education in the schools.
Interpersonal Violence Prevention Education
The District will utilize the interpersonal violence prevention education package provided by the State Education Department. These materials will be incorporated as part of the health or other related curricula or programs for students in grades K through 12.
Education Law Sections 801 and 801-a
8 New York Code of Rules and Regulations (NYCRR) Section 100.2(c)
Education Law Section 804(4)


text: © 2017 by Trakya University Faculty of Medicine/The Balkan Medical Journal published by Galenos Publishing House.Background: Intraabdominal adhesions remain a significant cause of morbidity and mortality. Moreover, intraabdominal adhesions can develop in more than 50% of abdominal operations. Aims: We compared the anti-adhesive effects of two different agents on postoperative adhesion formation in a cecal abrasion model. Study Design: Experimental animal study. Methods: Forty Wistar albino type female rats were anesthetized and underwent laparotomy. Study groups comprised Sham, Control, Mitomycin-C, 4% Icodextrin, and Mitomycin-C +4% Icodextrin groups. Macroscopic and histopathological evaluations of adhesions were performed. Results: The frequencies of moderate and severe adhesions were significantly higher in the control group than the other groups. The mitomycin-C and Mitomycin-C +4% Icodextrin groups were associated with significantly lower adhesion scores compared to the control group and 4% Icodextrin group scores (p=0.002 and p=0.008, respectively). The adhesion scores of the Mitomycin-C group were also significantly lower than those of the 4% Icodextrin group (p=0.008). Conclusion: Despite its potential for bone marrow toxicity, Mitomycin-C seems to effectively prevent adhesions. Further studies that prove an acceptable safety profile relating to this promising anti-adhesive agent are required before moving into clinical trials.


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Welcome to the website of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity!
Тhe Holy Trinity Church is a part of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada. We are located in London, Ontario. Services are conducted in Ukrainian. To learn more about the history of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada.-
THE CELEBRATION OF THE HOLY TRINITY
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada, by clearly communicating Her teachings and values to us, Her faithful, as individuals and as a community, will foster an environment of love and caring that will challenge us to pursue our fundamental human calling of deification – the process by which human persons grow God-like.
Our church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity. The Holy Trinity Feast Day is celebrated on the fiftieth day after Holy Easter. On the day after, is the Feast of The Holy Spirit. According to the Gospel, on this day the fire of the Holy Spirit came down upon the disciples of Jesus and they began to preach and bear witness to Jesus as the risen Christ, the King and the Lord. This moment has traditionally been called the birthday of the Church. For Ukrainians this feast day is also called Zeleni Svyata. In Orthodox tradition, the church khram is decorated with flowers and the green leaves of spring to show that God's divine breath comes to renew all creation. Green vestments are used. A Divine Hierarchical Liturgy is celebrated if His Grace, our Bishop of Eastern Canada, officiates. The events of the day include a Feast Day Dinner and a special program. On this day our parish welcomes many guests from within the city and beyond.
Our church parish was formed in 1950 by post World War II immigrants to Canada who wished to continue their Orthodox Church traditions in freedom. Construction of a church building was started in 1960, and completed in 1964. The consecration was officiated by His Eminence, Metropolitan Ilarion of Canada and Right Rev. Archbishop Michael of Toronto.
We include in our members and welcome all persons of the Orthodox faith. Now new immigrants and descendants of our founding members worship side by side. Services are conducted primarily in Ukrainian with some English and the responses are sung by a choir in the Kyivan tradition. At present, our services are on a part-time basis.


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Te Papa's collection of pressed, dried plant specimens includes samples of native and exotic species collected in New Zealand and other parts of the world. Many of the foreign specimens currently in the collection were brought into New Zealand in the late 1870s to be used as reference material and to assist with the identification of exotic species and to compare with the native species being discovered.
About 28000 specimens were purchased from the British Museum by the first director of Te Papa's predecessor, the Colonial Museum, Sir James Hector. This collection, known as the Thompson-Baker Herbarium, included samples of mosses, liverworts, marine algae, ferns and other plants. To date, only a small part of this large collection has been adequately curated and many of the specimens are still stored between the same paper sheets or newspaper pages they were placed in by their collectors or previous owners.
During the last three months Joyce Colussi-Mas has been working at Te Papa as a volunteer helping with the curation of the orchid specimens in the Thompson-Baker Herbarium. Joyce has carefully mounted over 500 specimens of European orchids on acid-free card, protected by a flimsy (thin paper sheet) and placed any loose labels, with information such as scientific name, place and date of collection, collector, into small cellophane envelopes and attached them to the card. Jonathan Frericks, MSc student at Victoria University of Wellington, also helped to mount some of these orchids.
The collection includes terrestrial orchids collected in countries such as France, Germany, Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and Russia. Some of the labels are written in Latin, German or French. Luckily, Joyce's first language is French and all those notes from orchids collected in France or Belgium are being translated into English.
Collection records of c.100 specimens have been examined so far and it seems most of these orchids were collected between the late 1770s and 1870s. Until now, one of the oldest orchid specimens we have found was collected on 16 July 1768. This orchid specimen is about 244 years old.
After studying the labels of each specimen we will know what species and how many different species of orchids are in the Thompson-Baker Herbarium, where and when these orchids were collected, and who the main collectors were. We already know that J. G. Baker, one of the owners of this collection, was a curator at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew (UK) and contacting this institution will be our next step to find out more about the origin and stories behind these orchids.


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In this section we discus how to analyze grain boundary by intersecting them with certain lines. Lets start by importing some EBSD data and computing grain boundaries.
% load some example data
mtexdata twins silent
% detect grains
[grains,ebsd.grainId,ebsd.mis2mean] = calcGrains(ebsd('indexed'));
% smooth them
grains = grains.smooth;
% visualize the grains
plot(grains,grains.meanOrientation)
% extract all grain boundaries
gB = grains.boundary;
hold on
plot(gB,'LineWidth',2)
hold off
Let start by defining some line by its endpoints and plot in on top of the boundary plot
xy1 = [10,10]; % staring point
xy2 = [41,41]; % end point
line([xy1(1);xy2(1)],[xy1(2);xy2(2)],'linestyle',':','linewidth',4,'color','white')
The command intersect computes the intersections of all boundary segments with the given line
[x,y] = grains.boundary.intersect(xy1,xy2);
hold on
scatter(x,y,'blue','linewidth',2)
hold off
% find the number of intersection points
sum(~isnan(x))
ans =
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