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When it comes to wind energy, the Irish know their stuff
By Ed Forry, October 2, 2012
By Judy Enright
Special to the BIR
The Irish are a wind-loving lot – and why not when they are so often buffeted by the gales that swirl around the greenest island in the Atlantic? While some here complain that wind turbines block their vistas, the Irish have long embraced the concept of harnessing the wind's energy and all its resulting benefits and you can see turbines atop many hills in the country.
At last count, there were 31 on-shore wind energy projects operating in the Republic with the Airtricity Wind Farm, at Kingsmountain, Tubbercurry, Co. Sligo, producing the most energy – enough to power more than 15,000 homes, they claim.
But wind turbines are modern technology; before they came on the scene, windmill blades (or sails) captured the gusts and transmitted that energy down to the millstones to grind grain. So making use of the prevailing breeze is nothing new for Ireland.
Historians say the first windmills were built in Iran around 600 A.D. and that Ireland once boasted about 500 of them, primarily on the Eastern seaboard where water often ran short in the summer. The first record of an Irish windmill was noted in 1281, in Kilscanlon, Co. Wexford.
Windmills were somewhat more rare in the Midlands, although at one time there were eight in operation within a few miles of Roscommon Town.
There are a number of windmills in Ireland today, including several in Skerries, Co. Dublin; in Blennerville in Tralee, Co. Kerry; in Elphin in Co. Roscommon, and in Ballycopeland in Co. Down. Primarily, they are tourist attractions as better and faster methods for grinding grain have been discovered over the years.
Tralee, Co. Kerry, has long been a tourist mecca, thanks, in part, to the Blennerville Windmill that was built in 1800 by Sir Roland Blennerhasset. Visitors can take a guided tour of the beautifully restored five-story windmill and hear about the various stages of grain milling, and later stop by the excellent restaurant and craft shop on site.
Blennerville was the main port of emigration from Co. Kerry during Famine years and the visitor center at the windmill also has an extensive exhibit that includes models of the so-called "coffin ships." The windmill is open April through October from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily and is well worth a visit.
In addition to the windmill, there is now a 4.5-million Euro Tralee Bay Wetlands visitor park nearby that features many spots – including a viewing tower – from which you can quietly watch wildlife in the protected Tralee Bay Nature Reserve. The Park - in the planning stages for more than a decade - is said to be a leading example of "soft tourism," with multilingual wildlife boat rides through the habitats, light water sports, and walking and cycling trails. The park is expected to draw some 70,000 visitors a year.
Up the road in Co. Roscommon, is the Elphin Windmill that was restored and opened to the public in 1996, thanks to the efforts of a committee of dedicated and focused local residents.
Elphin is an interesting place and a hotbed of Irish history. The poet and playwright Oliver Goldsmith was born in Smithhill, Elphin, in 1728, and Percy French, a songwriter, poet and artist, was born in Clooneyquinn, Elphin, in 1854. And, they say that the famous 12th Century Cross of Cong was most probably made in Elphin, which was a noted center for fine metalwork from the time of St. Patrick, who founded an ecclesiastical site there in 433 A.D.
The Elphin Windmill is on a small road about half a mile northwest of the town and those planning to rebuild the windmill had only a derelict tower and a notation on an 1837 Ordnance Survey map to go by. The map said "ruins of windmill," which indicated that the structure had been derelict for a very long time. Planners suspect that the original windmill was probably built in the mid-1700s by the local landowner, Edward Synge, who was Bishop of Elphin from 1740 to his death in 1762. He farmed extensively and, historians think, built the windmill primarily to grind oats for porridge and oatcakes as well as animal feed.
Most windmills were eventually abandoned in favor of more reliable watermills and by the 1830s, most had ceased operation.
If you're near Elphin in your Irish travels, be sure to stop by the windmill and adjacent visitor center and see the work done by this group of committed residents to restore and share their history.
Spooky time is here again and that's great news for all resident ghosts and goblins.
- Dromoland Castle, just around the corner from Shannon Airport, is offering a Halloween value package from Oct. 30 to Nov. 2 that includes Scary Movie Nights for Little Wizards and Witches, pumpkin carving, castle ghosts, Haunting Horse and Cart Trips, a bonfire, Halloween games, and traditional dining fare. Children under 12, sharing with their parents (maximum two adults and two children), are included in the package at no additional cost. Also included is a full Irish breakfast daily and children's high tea. Contact Dromoland for more information. Dromoland is in Newmarket-on-Fergus, Co. Clare, _PHONE_, on the web at dromoland.ie or contact Preferred Hotels and Resorts at _PHONE_ (preferredhotels.com.)
- In Co. Roscommon, enjoy the Samhain Celtic Fire Festival from Oct. 26-31. Details at rathcrogan.ie
- There will be A Haunting in the People's Park Limerick on Oct. 29, created by Gothicise in collaboration with Limerick City Council. The concept follows the spectral theme of A Haunting; in this case, the haunting quality will come from the past of the Park itself. For more details: _URL_-haunting/
- Ballina, Co. Mayo, will host its third Samhain Abhainn festival from Oct. 27-31 to mark Halloween and the end of summer. The festival offers something for all from the very young to the not so young and includes art workshops, traditional activities, horrible history walking tours, an historical journey with the Jackie Clarke Museum, treasure hunts, murder mystery, and spooky strolls through Belleek Woods. The festival celebrates the unique Irish historical context of Halloween that was originally a pagan festival that started back in 100 A.D. when the Celts marked the season of Halloween or Samhain, an Irish word meaning the "end of Summer." See _URL_.html for more details.
- The always fun Westport House in Westport, Co. Mayo, offers a Halloween Fest from Oct. 27 to Nov. 4 with a Fireworks Extravaganza on Oct. 28. See westporthouse.ie for more.
- The 2012 Achill Sheep Show will take place on Oct. 14. For more information, visit achillsheepshow.com. And, if you're on Achill Island, be sure to take in the events in the Storytelling Festival with drama workshops and other activities from Oct. 27 to Nov. 4. Contact achilltourism.com or visitachill.com for details.
- When you are in Mayo, be sure to stop by the Mayo Peace Park in Castlebar that was designed to commemorate the men and women from Mayo who served and died on foreign battlefields in the major world wars and on UN peacekeeping missions during the last century. The park is opposite the Harlequin Hotel on Lannagh Road. For more, see mayomemorialpeacepark.org
Enjoy your trip to Ireland whenever you go and be sure to look online for more happenings and for deals on airfare and land travel. We're getting into the shoulder season when fares and other prices are generally cheaper.


> is a preferred label for concept ,
 - the triple (, skos:altLabel, ) says that is an alternative label for concept ,
 - the triple (, skos:broader, ) says that concept is a broder concept of .
 - One way to convert Eurovoc into plain SKOS
 2016/06/27 by Yann Voté
 This is the second part of an article where I show how to import the Eurovoc thesaurus from the European Union into an application using a plain SKOS data model. I've recently faced the problem of importing Eurovoc into CubicWeb using the SKOS cube, and the solution I've chose is discussed here.
 The first part was an introduction to thesauri and SKOS.
 The whole article assumes familiarity with RDF, as describing RDF would require more than a blog entry and is out of scope.
 Difficulties with Eurovoc and SKOS
 Eurovoc is the main thesaurus covering European Union business domains. It is published and maintained by the EU commission. It is quite complex and big, structured as a tree of keywords.
 You can see Eurovoc keywords and browse the tree from the Eurovoc homepage using the link Browse the subject-oriented version.
 For example, when publishing statistics about education in the EU, you can tag the published data with the broadest keyword Education and communications. Or you can be more precise and use the following narrower keywords, in increasing order of preference: Education, Education policy, Education statistics.
 Problem: hierarchy of thesauri
 The EU commission uses SKOS to publish its Eurovoc thesaurus, so it should be straightforward to import Eurovoc into our own application. But things are not that simple...
 For some reasons, Eurovoc uses a hierarchy of concept schemes. For example, Education and communications is a sub-concept scheme of Eurovoc (it is called a domain), and Education is a sub-concept scheme of Education and communications (it is called a micro-thesaurus). Education policy is (a label of) the first concept in this hierarchy.
 But with SKOS this is not possible: a concept scheme cannot be contained into another concept scheme.
 Possible solutions
 So to import Eurovoc into our SKOS application, and not loose data, one solution is to turn sub-concept schemes into concepts. We have two strategies:
 - keep only one concept scheme (Eurovoc) and turn domains and micro-thesauri into concepts,
 - keep domains as concept schemes, drop Eurovoc concept scheme, and only turn micro-thesauri into concepts.
 Here we will discuss the latter solution.
 Lets get to work
 Eurovoc thesaurus can be downloaded at the following URL:
 The ZIP archive contains only one XML file named eurovoc_skos.rdf. Put it somewhere where you can find it easily.
 To read this file easily, we will use the RDFLib Python library. This library makes it really convenient to work with RDF data. It has only one drawback: it is very slow. Reading the whole Eurovoc thesaurus with it takes a very long time. Make the process faster is the first thing to consider for later improvements.
 Reading the Eurovoc thesaurus is as simple as creating an empty RDF Graph and parsing the file. As said above, this takes a long long time (from half an hour to two hours).
 import rdflib
 eurovoc_graph = rdflib.Graph()
 eurovoc_graph.parse('', format='xml')
 )>
 We can see that Eurovoc contains more than 2 million triples.
 Now, before actually converting Eurovoc to plain SKOS, lets introduce some helper functions:
 - the first one, uriref(), will allow us to build RDFLib URIRef objects from simple prefixed URIs like skos:prefLabel or dcterms:title,
 - the second one, capitalized_eurovoc_domains(), is used to convert Eurovoc domain names, all uppercase (eg. 32 EDUCATION ET COMMUNICATION) to a string where only first letter is uppercase (eg. 32 Education and communication)
 import re
 from rdflib import Literal, Namespace, RDF, URIRef
 from rdflib.namespace import DCTERMS, SKOS
 eu_ns = Namespace('')
 thes_ns = Namespace('')
 prefixes = {
 'dcterms': DCTERMS,
 'skos': SKOS,
 'eu': eu_ns,
 'thes': thes_ns,
 def uriref(prefixed_uri):
 prefix, value = prefixed_uri.split(':', 1)
 ns = prefixes[prefix]
 return ns[value]
 def capitalized_eurovoc_domain(domain):
 """Return the given Eurovoc domain name with only the first letter uppercase."""
 return re.sub(r'^(\d+\s)(.)(.+)$',
 lambda m: u'{0}{1}{2}'.format(,,,
 domain, re.UNICODE)
 Now the actual work. After using variables to reference URIs, the loop will parse each triple in original graph and:
 - discard it if it contains deprecated data,
 - if triple is like (, rdf:type, eu:Domain), replace it with (, rdf:type, skos:ConceptScheme),
 - if triple is like (, rdf:type, eu:MicroThesaurus), replace it with (, rdf:type, skos:Concept) and add triple (, skos:inScheme, ),
 - if triple is like (, rdf:type, eu:ThesaurusConcept), replace it with (, rdf:type, skos:Concept),
 - if triple is like (, skos:topConceptOf, ), replace it with (, skos:broader, ),
 - if triple is like (, skos:inScheme, ), replace it with (, skos:inScheme, ),
 - keep triples like (, skos:prefLabel, ), (, skos:altLabel, ), and (, skos:broader, ),
 - discard all other non-deprecated triples.
 Note that, to replace a micro thesaurus with a domain, we have to build a mapping between each micro thesaurus and its containing domain (microthes2domain dict).
 This loop is also quite long.
 eurovoc_ref = URIRef(u'')
 deprecated_ref = URIRef(u'')
 title_ref = uriref('dcterms:title')
 status_ref = uriref('thes:status')
 class_domain_ref = uriref('eu:Domain')
 rel_domain_ref = uriref('eu:domain')
 microthes_ref = uriref('eu:MicroThesaurus')
 thesconcept_ref = uriref('eu:ThesaurusConcept')
 concept_scheme_ref = uriref('skos:ConceptScheme')
 concept_ref = uriref('skos:Concept')
 pref_label_ref = uriref('skos:prefLabel')
 alt_label_ref = uriref('skos:altLabel')
 in_scheme_ref = uriref('skos:inScheme')
 broader_ref = uriref('skos:broader')
 top_concept_ref = uriref('skos:topConceptOf')
 microthes2domain = dict((mt, next(eurovoc_graph.objects(mt, uriref('eu:domain'))))
 for mt in eurovoc_graph.subjects(RDF.type, uriref('eu:MicroThesaurus')))
 new_graph = rdflib.ConjunctiveGraph()
 for subj_ref, pred_ref, obj_ref in eurovoc_graph:
 if deprecated_ref in list(eurovoc_graph.objects(subj_ref, status_ref)):
 # Convert eu:Domain into a skos:ConceptScheme
 if obj_ref == class_domain_ref:
 new_graph.add((subj_ref, RDF.type, concept_scheme_ref))
 for title in eurovoc_graph.objects(subj_ref, pref_label_ref):
 if title.language == u'en':
 new_graph.add((subj_ref, title_ref,
 # Convert eu:MicroThesaurus into a skos:Concept
 elif obj_ref == microthes_ref:
 new_graph.add((subj_ref, RDF.type, concept_ref))
 scheme_ref = next(eurovoc_graph.objects(subj_ref, rel_domain_ref))
 new_graph.add((subj_ref, in_scheme_ref, scheme_ref))
 # Convert eu:ThesaurusConcept into a skos:Concept
 elif obj_ref == thesconcept_ref:
 new_graph.add((subj_ref, RDF.type, concept_ref))
 # Replace topConceptOf by broader
 elif pred_ref == top_concept_ref:
 new


Class CloudKit::MemoryTable
 1. lib/cloudkit/store/memory_table.rb
Parent: Object
A MemoryTable implements the essential pieces of the Rufus Tokyo Table API required for CloudKit's operation. It is basically a hash of hashes with querying capabilities. None of the data is persisted to disk nor is it designed with production use in mind. The primary purpose is to enable testing and development with CloudKit without depending on binary Tokyo Cabinet dependencies.
Implementing a new adapter for CloudKit means writing an adapter that passes the specs for this one.
Methods
public class
 1. new
public instance
 1. []
 2. []=
 3. clear
 4. generate_unique_id
 5. keys
 6. query
protected instance
 1. valid?
Public class methods
new ()
Create a new MemoryTable instance.
[show source]
 # File lib/cloudkit/store/memory_table.rb, line 15
15: def initialize
16: @serial_id = 0
17: clear
18: end
Public instance methods
[] (key)
Retrieve the hash record for a given key.
[show source]
 # File lib/cloudkit/store/memory_table.rb, line 32
32: def [](key)
33: @hash[key]
34: end
[]= (key, record)
Create a hash record for the given key. Returns the record if valid or nil otherwise. Records are valid if they are hashses with both string keys and string values.
[show source]
 # File lib/cloudkit/store/memory_table.rb, line 23
23: def []=(key, record)
24: if valid?(record)
25: @keys << key unless @hash[key]
26: return @hash[key] = record
27: end
28: nil
29: end
clear ()
Clear the contents of the store.
[show source]
 # File lib/cloudkit/store/memory_table.rb, line 37
37: def clear
38: @hash = {}
39: @keys = []
40: end
generate_unique_id ()
Generate a unique ID within the scope of this store.
[show source]
 # File lib/cloudkit/store/memory_table.rb, line 48
48: def generate_unique_id
49: @serial_id += 1
50: end
keys ()
Return an ordered set of all keys in the store.
[show source]
 # File lib/cloudkit/store/memory_table.rb, line 43
43: def keys
44: @keys
45: end
query (&block)
Run a query configured by the provided block. If no block is provided, all records are returned. Each record contains the original hash key/value pairs, plus the primary key (indexed by :pk => value).
[show source]
 # File lib/cloudkit/store/memory_table.rb, line 55
55: def query(&block)
56: return @keys.map { |key| @hash[key].merge(:pk => key) } unless block
57: q = MemoryQuery.new
58: block.call(q)
59: q.run(self)
60: end
Protected instance methods
valid? (record)
[show source]
 # File lib/cloudkit/store/memory_table.rb, line 64
64: def valid?(record)
65: return false unless record.is_a?(Hash)
66: record.keys.all? { |k| k.is_a?(String) && record[k].is_a?(String) }
67: end


Theme and conflict in death
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Arthur Miller makes formal choices related to theme and conflict in Death of A Salesman. This results from the historical context and Miller's personal vision. Discuss theme and conflict in Death of A Salesman.Cite speeches and scenes that illuminate the theme in each case and that bring out the conflict.
Write 2 pages, double-spaced.
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The Microscopy Imaging Center of Coimbra (MICC) is a centralized facility where users receive the support required to carry out conventional and advanced imaging techniques, based on Light Microscopy. The unit has combined resources to provide state-of-the-art equipment that is open to all researchers. We offer services to academic investigators or companies. The primary goal of the MICC is to improve the research and teaching environment for the CNC scientific community. To meet these goals, the MICC:
- Provides technical training to local users and visiting researchers;
- Offers consultation on experimental design and image analysis;
- Implements advances in hardware and software relevant for biomedical sciences;
- Provides ongoing education in advanced microscopy approaches by organizing training courses and workshops.
MICC is a node of the Portuguese Platform of BioImaging - PPBI, an infrastructure of National Roadmap of Research Infrastructures of Strategic Relevance, which has recently become part of the ERIC - EuroBioImaging and it is a partner of the Zeiss labs@location community.
Microscopy, bio-imaging, image analysis, epifluorescence, confoca
Services / Technologies
MICC-CNC offers a wide range of different instruments for your research, from sample sectioning equipment to epifluorescence microscopy, high-speed confocal microscopy and laser catapulting microdissection, as well as other supporting equipment. The systems are prepared for advanced applications, including live cell imaging, and single-cell calcium measurement, enabling researchers to image dynamic events and molecular interactions. The P.A.L.M. laser microdissection microscope is a perfect tool for the isolation of the different cell population within a sample, allowing its full characterization.
How to access our resources:
Before you access MICC resources you must read and sign the microscope usage police. This contains simple rules that you should follow when using MICC equipment.
How to Book?
New users must schedule a hands-on training, with one of the MICC team member, before they can book any MICC equipment.
Go to the Agendo- Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology web page: _URL_ and follow the How to book instructions.

source: m-a-p/FineFineWeb


Quick Answer: What Are 60 Year Olds Called?
How often do 70 year olds make love?
Sexual frequency did decrease with age for women, although almost a quarter of partnered women over age 70 had sex more than 4 times a week, according to the survey.
Even if men and women do have sex more frequently, it doesn't mean they are happier..
What age is middle age for a woman?
This time period in the life of a person can be referred to as middle age. This time span has been defined as the time between ages 45 and 60. Many changes may occur between young adulthood and this stage.
Can I retire and collect Social Security at 55?
You can start receiving your Social Security retirement benefits as early as age 62. However, you are entitled to full benefits when you reach your full retirement age. If you delay taking your benefits from your full retirement age up to age 70, your benefit amount will increase.
What do you call a person in their 60's?
Sexagenarian: Someone in his or her sixties. Septuagenarian: Someone in his or her seventies. Octogenarian: Someone in his or her eighties. Nonagenarian: Someone in his or her nineties.
What are 70 year olds called?
A septuagenarian is someone in their 70s (70 to 79 years old), or someone who is 70 years old.
Is 55 considered elderly?
Note that by these definitions, "old" in the 1920s — 55 — is now considered "middle aged" today, and "very old" in the 1920s — 65 — is now considered merely "old" today. … By these measures, women today transition out of middle age around 65, a number that has increased from the late 40s in the 1920s.
What do you call a 60 year old woman?
Noun. sexagenarian (plural sexagenarians) A person who is 60 years old or between the ages of 60 and 69.
What can you do at 60 years old?
Be HealthierRide horseback.Learn a new recipe.Take a Zumba or dance class.Try going vegetarian.Learn yoga.Take a self-defense course.Learn to meditate.Grow your own fruits and veggies.
What is the age range for the elderly?
Although there are different ways to classify this population, some studies have classified elderly adults between the ages of 65 and 74 years as youngest-old, those between ages 75 and 84 years as middle-old, and those aged over 85 years as oldest-old [5].
What are old people called?
Senior citizen Synonyms include old age pensioner or pensioner in British English, and retiree and senior in American English. Some dictionaries describe widespread use of "senior citizen" for people over the age of 65.
What are 50 year olds called?
A person between 50 and 59 is called a quinquagenarian. A person between 60 and 69 is called a sexagenarian. A person between 70 and 79 is called a septuagenarian. A person between 80 and 89 is called an octogenarian.
Is 60 years old considered elderly?
The term "senior citizen" typically refers to someone who is retired and above the age of 60 or 65.
What age is over the hill?
Some sites proclaim that, as soon you turn 40, you're over the hill. Apparently, forty is the average mid-point in life. Before that, you were a high-achieving young person. But after your 40th birthday, you are on the slow, irreversible decline to boring, musty old-age.
What should I expect at 60 years old?
Your skin turns drier and itchier and may look like crepe paper or tissue. Wrinkles, age spots, creases, and bruises become more noticeable. Your sweat glands also get less active. That means you might not sweat as much, but wounds on your skin may take longer to heal.
How do you age gracefully in your 60s?
Tips for aging gracefullyBe kind to your skin. Your skin is your body's largest organ. … Exercise. … Mind your diet. … Mental health matters. … Stay physically active. … Lower your stress. … Quit smoking and decrease alcohol consumption. … Get enough sleep.More items…•
What is the politically correct term for senior citizens?
Pensioners is just okay. And elders is a term embraced by those that see it as a sign of respect. Over-55, over-65, and of course, the ever-popular baby boomers (for the younger old people) are phrases that are widely accepted. Unless you're referring to a frail 99-year-old, please, oh please, do not use elderly!
At what age are you considered over the hill 40 or 50?
To consider that age 50, you are old and past your prime is a matter of judgement. To someone else age 40 or may be age 60 may be considered as being over the hill.
Is 50 a old age?
The World Health Organisation believes that most developed world countries characterise old age starting at 60 years and above. However, this definition isn't adaptable to a place like Africa, where the more traditional definition of an elder, or elderly person, starts between 50 to 65 years of age.


text:
Effects of soil packing on seed germination and seedling response
Djokoto, Israel Kofi
MetadataShow full item record
The purpose of this study was to determine the methods of post-seeding packing which would be beneficial to wheat seedlings and consequently to suggest the types of packers which could be used to the best advantage on the farm. The experiments were conducted in a humidity controlled chamber with Manitou wheat seeded in clay loam soil. After seeding, the soil samples contained in cylinders were compacted with a flat surface at seed level or above the seed. In some cases loose soil was spread on the soil surface. The control was uncompacted soil sample. In two experiments two layers of soil with different moisture contents were used; wet consolidated soil at the bottom and dry loose soil on top. The depth of seeding was about 6 cm. Kernel moisture absorption, germination emergence and the heights of seedlings were determined. Statistical analyses were carried out on the data. Packing at seed level only, promoted early emergence. This called for an introduction of a packer which would pack the soil at seed level and leave the soil above the seed loose. However packing above the seed was useful when there was enough moisture below while the moisture content of the soil at the seed level was not enough to sustain the seedling up to emergence. In this circumstance, packers on the farm could be usefully employed. Initial moisture absorption rate and germination of the wheat seed was independent of packing for the soil conditions considered.


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Most modern wheat cultivars contain major dwarfing genes, but their effects on root growth are unclear. Near-isogenic lines (NILs) containing Rht-B1b, Rht-D1b, Rht-B1c, Rht8c, Rht-D1c, and Rht12 were used to characterize the effects of semi-dwarfing and dwarfing alleles on root growth of 'Mercia' and 'Maris Widgeon' wheat cultivars. Wheat seedlings were grown in gel chambers, soil-filled columns, and in the field. Roots were extracted and length and dry mass measured. No significant differences in root length were found between semi-dwarfing lines and the control lines in any experiment, nor was there a significant difference between the root lengths of the two cultivars grown in the field. Total root length of the dwarf lines (Rht-B1c, Rht-D1c, and Rht12) was significantly different from that of the control although the effect was dependent on the experimental methodology; in gel chambers root length of dwarfing lines was increased by ∼40% while in both soil media it was decreased (by 24–33%). Root dry mass was 22–30% of the total dry mass in the soil-filled column and field experiments. Root length increased proportionally with grain mass, which varied between NILs, so grain mass was a covariate for the analysis of variance. Although total root length was altered by dwarf lines, root architecture (average root diameter, lateral root:total root ratio) was not affected by reduced height alleles. A direct effect of dwarfing alleles on root growth during seedling establishment, rather than a secondary partitioning effect, was suggested by the present experiments.
- Triticum aestivum


text:
To avoid image piracy risks, the exposure to image URLs must be restricted so that only thumbnailed or watermarked images can be obtained. To do this, you can enable source image protection.
After enabling the source image protection, you cannot access images in the following two ways:
- Access directly with an OSS address:
- Request thumbnails with processing parameters:
You can only access images in style mode:
- Access through URL parameters
- Access through separators
- The preceding rules only apply to anonymous accesses to public-read files. After enabling the source image protection, you can obtain source images using a signature-based method.
- The source image protection is designed for protecting image files, and the suffixes of the image files to be protected must be set. For example, if.jpg files are set for source image protection, you can still directly access the source images of.png files.
You can configure the access rules in the Image Processing module of the bucket in the console. Access rules
Configure access rules
- In the left-side bucket list of the OSS console, click the bucket for which you want to set the source image protection.
- Click the Image Processing tab to locate the Access Settings button. See the following figure:
- Click Access Settings to open the Access Settings dialog box, as shown in the following figure:
In the Settings dialog box, perform the following settings:
- Enable source image protection: After enabling the source image protection, you can only access the image file by passing in the stylename or using a signature-based method. Direct accesses to the OSS source file or accesses by passing in image parameters and modifying the image style are not allowed.
- Set the suffixes of the image files for source image protection.
- Customize separators.
- Once you set the needed options, click OK to finish setting the source image protection.

source: openbmb/Ultra-FineWeb


text: Abstract: Many-minds arguments claim that in some way or another, groups of decisionmakers tend to make better decisions than individuals. This essay identifies five general and recurring problems with such arguments, as follows: (1) Whose minds? The group or population whose minds are at issue is often equivocal or ill-defined. (2) Many minds, worse minds. The number of minds endogenously influences their quality, often for the worse. More minds can be systematically worse than fewer because of selection effects, incentives for epistemic free-riding, and emotional and social influences. (3) Epistemic bottlenecks. The epistemic benefits of many minds are often diluted or eliminated because the structure of institutions funnels decisions through an individual decision-maker, or a small group of decision-makers, who occupy an epistemic bottleneck or chokepoint. (4) Many minds vs. many minds. The institutional comparisons that pervade legal theory are typically many-to-many comparisons rather than one-to-many. (5) Many minds vs. other values. Epistemic considerations systematically trade off against other goods, such as the costs of decision-making and the expression of moral norms. The epistemic quality of the laws is a good to be optimized, not maximized.


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R. Mitchell (UK)
Feedback Systems, Bode diagrams, Asymptotic analysis.
In his classic book, Network Analysis and Feedback
Amplifier Design, Bode describes how to obtain using
asymptotic analysis, for a specified amount of bandwidth,
gain margin and phase margin, the 'maximum obtainable
feedback'. This means, how to get the largest possible low
frequency loop gain for a single loop amplifier. One
problem with the method is that, particularly when
specifying too high a bandwidth, it is not possible to
achieve the specified phase margin, with the consequence
that the system step response can be too oscillatory. This
paper considers ways in which the phase margin can be
achieved, whilst still achieving the maximum obtainable
feedback over a large bandwidth.


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Albert Pike described his vision for 3 World Wars in a letter that he wrote on August 15, 1871. This letter graphically outlined plans that were seen as necessary to bring about the New World Order.
Here are extracts of what Pike had to say about each World War.
If you're familiar with the history of World War 1, you'll know that the political alliances of England on one side and Germany on the other, forged between 1871 and 1898 by Otto von Bismarck, were instrumental in bringing about the First World War. In addition, Communism started it's first roots soon after WW1.
After this Second World War, Communism was made strong enough to begin taking over weaker governments. In 1945, at the Potsdam Conference between Truman, Churchill, and Stalin, a large portion of Europe was simply handed over to Russia, and on the other side of the world, the aftermath of the war with Japan helped to sweep the tide of Communism into China. Zionism, too grew in strength such that we have a State of Israel today.
You will notice too the reference to disillusionment with Christianity, which is extremely evident today in the struggles between various denominations and the mass shunning of Christian teachings. This is why there is such a push for a single religion. The ultimate aim, according to Pike, is to accomplish the "universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer". A One World Religion under a One World Government is required before this devilish doctrine can be made public.
As you will notice, everything that Pike wrote about in his letter appears to be reaching a conclusion. Could the planned Third and Final World War be just around the corner? And following that, the Anti-Christ?
We will have to wait and see, but the writing is certainly on the wall.
You can read more about Pike and his letter here


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The Najdi or Nejdi is a breed of domestic sheep native to the Najd region of the Arabian Peninsula. Though it is primarily raised in Saudi Arabia, Nadji sheep are also present in Kuwait, Jordan, Oman and Iraq.[1]
The Najdi has a distinctive appearance that has even been celebrated in Saudi "sheep beauty pageants" not unlike livestock shows and sales in the West.[2] They are a very tall breed, averaging 76–86 centimeters (30–34 inches) in height at the withers.[1] They have long, Roman nosed faces with drooping ears. Ewes are polled and rams may be either polled or have scurs. They are generally black with white faces and white on the legs and tail. Top Najdi ewes can sell for 20,000–30,000 Saudi riyals (US$5,300–8,000), while rams which can sire many more offspring can fetch hundreds of thousands.[2]
Najdi are highly adapted to life in desert conditions, though it is less drought tolerant than some breeds, such as the Awassi.[3] [4] Though its meat may be consumed locally, it is especially valued for its milk and long, straight wool.[4]
 1. ^ a b "Breed Data Sheet". FAO Domestic Animal Diversity system (DAD-IS).
 2. ^ a b "Breeders hold first pageant for Saudi-bred sheep". MSNBC (Associated Press). Oct. 31, 2008. Check date values in: |date= (help)
 3. ^ Alamer, Mohammed; Adel Al-Hozab (2004). "Effect of water deprivation and season on feed intake, body weight and thermoregulation in Awassi and Najdi sheep breeds in Saudi Arabia". Journal of arid environments 59: 71–84.
 4. ^ a b Lancaster, William; Fidelity Lancaster (1999). People, land and water in the Arab Middle East. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-90-5702-322-4.
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These images look at different materials and techniques used in drawn portraits since the sixteenth century, including an interactive view of Graham Sutherland's sketchbook and close up details of materials such as chalk and ink to create effects in portraiture.
Perspective: Seeing where you stand
Try out the two interactive drawing animations that reveal the mathematics of perspective. One looks at the circle, the other at the sphere.
Drawing masterclasses 1 & 2 by American artist and teacher Ron Bowen, including drawing games and a link to the self-portrait drawings in the Collection.
Portraits : Art History
This resource for Sixth Form Students and Teachers considers and compares a contemporary and an historic portrait. Discussion questions about the works are followed by factual information relating directly to the works.
A learning resource for teachers exploring portraits in the Collection which challenge the definition or perception of portraiture.
In focus: Sir Anthony van Dyck
This resource focuses on a limited number of paintings and details, including questions about the practice and historical context of the artist, with suggested lines of enquiry and ideas for classroom activity, plus links for further research.


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There is basically no difference between linking a single Linux PC to a PPP server and linking two LANs using PPP on a machine on each LAN. Remember, PPP is a peer to peer protocol.
However, you DEFINITELY need to understand about how routing is established. Read the NET-2 howto and the Linux Network Administrator Guide (NAG). You will also find TCP/IP Network Administration (published by O'Reilly and Assoc - ISBN 0-937175-82-X) to be of invaluable assistance.
If you are going to be sub networking an IP network number on either side of the link, you will also find the Linux (draft) sub networking mini-howto) to be of use. This is available at Linux Sub networking mini-HOWTO.
In order to link two LANs, you must be using different IP network numbers (or subnets of the same network number) and you will need to use static IP numbers - or use IP masquerade. If you want to use IP masquerade, see the IP masquerade mini-howto for instructions on setting that up.
Arrange with the network administrator of the other LAN the IP numbers that will be used for each end of the PPP interface. If you are using static IP numbers, this will also probably require you to dial into a specific telephone number.
Now edit the appropriate /etc/ppp/options[.ttyXX] file - it's a good idea to have a specific modem and port at your end for this connection. This may well require you to change your /etc/ppp/options file - and create appropriate options.ttyXX files for any other connections!
Specify the IP numbers for your end of the PPP link in the appropriate options file exactly as shown above for static IP numbers.

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I have been looking at different path-finding algorithms for my game. I have almost settled upon D* Lite, but have a question. (perhaps I missed it in the documentation) - Are there any algorithms, D* included, that allow for squares that are less desirable to pass over, but still possible, should there be no other way? I believe that I saw this in A* but I believe that I need it dynamic, as I will be having objects placed and removed from the map.
UPDATE: Is it possible to have levels of undesirable squares? Eg. Some still arent desirable, but are better than really undesirable ones
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Most of these algorithms have a cost for a node. Increase the cost of the less desirable nodes. The algorithm will choose the least expensive path. The cost can be something like an integer or float value, which will allow as many levels of undesirable-ness as you want. – Byte56 Dec 30 '12 at 16:30
Do note that a dynamic algorithm assumes changes while the algorithm is running. If you're just adding and removing objects from your world, you could probably use regular A* if you're not going to be adding objects while the algorithm is running. – Byte56 Dec 30 '12 at 18:10
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See Collaborative Diffusion. This approach is computationally cost-effective and implictly addresses the issue of dynamic obstruction.
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I do not know the algorithm but wikipedia writes:
The original D* was introduced by Anthony Stentz in 1994. The name D* comes from the term "Dynamic A*", because the algorithm behaves like A* except that the arc costs can change as the algorithm runs.
Isn't it enough to put a high cost on the squares that are less desirable to pass over? This way if there are no cheap squares the expensive one are chosen.
Answer to your "Update": This is just a question of cost, the higher the cost of a square is the less desirable the square is.
disclaimer: my answers are based on my knowledge of A*.
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Though widely regarded as an abstract artist in her late career, Prunella Clough always included some figurative elements in her compositions, however subtle, and firmly believed in the intersection between art and everyday life. Her early work was characterized by its limited tonal palette and recurring themes of labor in urban landscapes. In the 1950s, Clough introduced organic plant forms into her compositions and produced her famous paintings of fishermen and dockworkers. Her palette, use of scale, and gesture became looser as her career progressed. Clough studied with the sculptor Henry Moore and, during World War II, she was employed as an engineer's draughtsman and cartographer.
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A Japanese man who says he invented the technology behind the context-based conversion of a sentence written solely in kana into one in both kanji and kana, as well as another related technology, filed suit against Toshiba on December 7, seeking some US$2.3 million in compensation from his former employer.
Shinya Amano, a professor at Shonan Institute of Technology, said in a written complaint that although the firm received patents for the technologies in conjunction with him and three others and paid him tens of thousands of yen annually in remuneration, he actually developed the technologies alone.
Amano is claiming 10 percent of an estimated ¥2.6 billion in profit Toshiba made in 1996 and 1997 — much higher than the roughly ¥230,000 he was actually awarded for the work over the two-year span.
His claim is believed valid, taking into account the statute of limitations and the terms of the patents.
"This is not about the sum of the money — I filed the suit for my honor," Amano said in a press conference after bringing the case to the Tokyo District Court.
"Japan is a technology-oriented country, but engineers are treated too lightly here," he said.
Toshiba said through its public relations office that it believes it paid Amano fair compensation in line with company policy. The company declined to comment on the lawsuit before receiving the complaint in writing.
Amano claims that he invented the technology that converts a sentence composed of kana alone into a sentence composed of both kanji and kana by assessing its context, and another technology needed to prioritize kanji previously used in such conversions.
Using theories of artificial intelligence, the two technologies developed in 1977 and 1978 are still used today in most Japanese word-processing software, he said.
source: Word-processor inventor sues Toshiba over redress, Kyodo News, via Japan Times, December 9, 2007


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Religion and Economics: Trust, Hell, and Keep it Minimal
Robert Barro, an economist at Harvard, and his wife, Rachel McCleary have returned to the question of the Weber thesis with rigorous statistical analysis, a pop article has some of their conclusions.
They found that the trust generated by a close knit community makes more money (and that is why the financial scandals have sent such a shiver in the community). Hell is a better motivator to attend services than theism, mere belief in God does not give enough incentive to waste time on religion. Long term literacy and skills raise income. And one need a certain ideal type of hell-less theism to create the world of Silicon Vally.
Does this explain why learning Torah is an activity that many value but don't spend much time on? Since most Modern Orthodox don't have a clear sense of hell, do they have a sense of punishment that keeps 'em coming or is that why the community seems minimal at times. Is the tight knit social grouping all that is actually valued? What other applications does their reach have for the practices of the Jewish community?
Most strikingly, if belief in hell jumps up sharply while actual church attendance stays flat, it correlates with economic growth. Mere belief in God has no effect one way or the other. Meanwhile, if church attendance actually rises, it slows growth in developing economies.


How to use IP Filters to restrict student access to tests
In this article, you'll learn how to use the IP Filter option on tests to restrict test access to students who are on computers at a specific location.
An Internet Protocol (IP) address is a number assigned to an Internet-connected device. It serves to identify the device and give the device an "address". Because devices are generally connected to networks in a particular location (e.g. your college campus, your home office, the local coffee shop, etc.) IP addresses can be used to identify where a device is located.
IP Filtering for tests works as follows:
 1. You specify that only devices from certain IP addresses may access the test.
 2. When students go to take the test from the correct IP address, they can access the test.
 3. If they go to take the test from the wrong IP address, they are locked out of the test. Here's what they'll see when that happens.
The typical use for IP Filtering is to ensure that only students in a particular location (perhaps surveyed by a proctor) can access a test. You should not use this tool in online-only courses where your students are located all over the place—it'd be a tremendous hassle keeping track of all the IP addresses you'd need.
When adding a new test assignment, you can add an IP filter restriction.
 1. Follow the instructions for setting up a test assignment.
 2. Under Restrictions, check next to Filter IP addresses.
 3. Enter the IP address(es) from which you wish to permit access to this test. Consult with your school's IT department if you need help determining what to enter in these fields.
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text: The flexible pipes are widely used in the oil and gas industry to transport petroleum products. The pipe might burst fails when a large internal fluid pressure acts on the pipe, and the consequences are disastrous. In order to ensure the security and reliability of flexible pipes in the application, the mechanical responses of the pipe subjected to high pressure loads should be carefully estimated. The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the burst pressure of the pipe. Based on the principle of virtual work, a theoretical model for stress and deformations of the pipe is established, which takes the material plasticity into consideration. In addition, a finite element model is developed by ABAQUS to verify the feasibility of the theoretical model. According to the verified model, it is efficient to predict the burst pressure and design its cross-section economically with its serving conditions.


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I'm writing a technical report and I want to emphasize that each sample that I have stored in a buffer has been collected before the following one. Can I say,
The samples from the buffer are known to have been captured consecutively in time?
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Sounds redundant to me. I'd put a period after "consecutively". Alternatively, you might try "in chronological order".
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'In chronological order' does not mean the same as consecutively. A series of events can occur in chronological order, without being consecutive. – Dancrumb Apr 6 '11 at 16:05
_USER_: If a series of events are consecutive then they are also chronological, no? So, consecutive would be a more restrictive term than chronological? – MrHen Apr 6 '11 at 17:10
"Consecutively" implies some higher density; an ordering without gaps. The numbers [1, 2, 5] are not consecutive, but are in order. If I read that a list of samples were consecutive, I would assume that the list presented is all samples at some maximum sampling precision. (Either way, it is grammatical.) – user2400 Apr 6 '11 at 19:12
_USER_: Yes; I just wanted to make the point that 'consecutively' and 'in chronological order' are not equivalent, in case Jal is not a native speaker. – Dancrumb Apr 6 '11 at 21:38
I cannot definitively say that consecutively in time is incorrect, but the phrasing is awkward, at best. I would suggest the good old simple expression, one after other. More formally, you could also say, in succession:
 - The samples from the buffer are known to have been captured one after the other.
 - The samples from the buffer are known to have been captured in succession.
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I think consecutively should suffice; it's as if the 'in time' is an inelegant hint as to what consecutively actually means, to those who aren't sure.
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I think you could easily use the word, "sequentially."
From dictionary.com
se·quen·tial [si-kwen-shuhl]
1. characterized by regular sequence of parts.
2. following; subsequent; consequent.
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Well, it could be used to make a distinction if the word were also serving other meanings:
con·sec·u·tive (kn-sky-tv) adj.
 1. Following one after another without interruption; successive: was absent on three consecutive days; won five consecutive games on the road.
 2. Marked by logical sequence.
 3. Grammar Expressing consequence or result: a consecutive clause.
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If you had just used the word in its logical or grammatical sense, you might add "in time" if you then wanted to be clear about which version a chronological statement was serving.
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Unless you are able to break a fundamental law of physics, consecutively in time is redundant.
If this is a technical report and you're discussing buffers, then your audience should/will probably understand FIFO.
A queue is FIFO, a stack is LIFO.
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Just one word: successively.
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World War I Service Cards FAQS
What are the World War I service cards?
The cards are an abridged version of the military record of the named individual. The information was taken from the service records which may contain more information than is on the cards.
The cards were created by the staff of the War and Navy Departments in 1924-25.
What information do the cards provide?
Why do some cards have only one page and some have two?
All the Army cards have the same pre-printed information on the back. Only when there were additional remarks were the card backs scanned. The Navy, Coast Guard, and Marine Corps cards are blank on the back.
How is race designated on the card?
Race is indicated in the upper right of every card.
"White" typed in the upper right-hand corner indicates the race as "white".
If the word "white" is crossed out, it indicates the race as "colored". For the purposes of the service records, Native Americans were listed as "white".
Both the Navy and the Marine Corps were strictly segregated and did not accept black enlistees or officers. The Army took thirteen thousand twenty-four black enlisted and seven officers nationally.
Do the service cards include women?
Yes. Women served as nurses and Yeoman class (secretary). To find these cards, search these terms:
 - Army: Nurse
 - Army: Nurse RA
 - Navy: Nurse
 - Navy: Landsman for Yeoman
 - Navy: Landsman for Yeoman -Female
 - Navy: Yeoman 1st Class- F
 - Navy: Yeoman 1st Class
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What is the difference between the "National Army" and the "Army"?
Members of the National Army were drafted or enlisted for the duration of the war. Members of the Regular Army were enlisted for time limited contracts (two, three, or four years) or were career soldiers.
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sonus:portals is an innovative game that relies on a haptic controller as the only input device. With the help of three-dimensional audio and the haptic feedback it is possible to navigate through levels without seeing anything!
Throughout five different levels you have to learn to solely rely on your hearing and sense of touch. Your objective is to access the portal of each level in order to reach the next dimension. The organically shaped levels can be imagined as labyrinths with obstacles in place. In order to pass you will have to "feel" them with the help of the haptics-enabled controller.
The dimension portals themselves are sending out three dimensional soundtracks which are unique for each dimension. You will hear a base of instruments no matter where you are but the closer you get to a portal the more instruments you will hear it sending out. The five tracks in the game exclusively have been produced and set up for sonus:portals.
It is also possible to play sonus:portals with other people. The game supports an unlimited amount of players that can take part in one round where the goal is to reach the portal first. Which makes it kind of a race.
You and your competitors are trapped in the dark between space and time. The only way to get home is to be the first. Your journey leads through unkown dimensions where you experience new forms of sound and touch. Left with no sight at all, your only help is your electronical emergeny device. Reach the dimension portals by locating their unique sound and feel the force fields to avoid them.
How to Play
When you start the game you will hear a base soundtrack. This is the ambient sound which you will hear no matter where you are. The goal is to locate the portal specific sound and navigate to the portal. With your haptic device you are able to move your player. The further you push the controller to the front the faster you will move. The same is for walking sideways (strafing). As soon as you are moving you will feel a haptic feedback from your controller representing your walking movement. To rotate use the left and/or the right button.
In the beginning it may be helpful to rotate around a few times to extract the portal sound out of the soundtrack. If a obstacle is in your way you will recognize it by two circumstances: There will be no haptic feedback for walking since you are not moving and you will feel the texture and the direction of the obstacle. You may push against the obstacle and slide along it causing you to feel the texture as you are moving.
If you reach a dimension portal you will feel a strong vibration of your haptic controller and hear a warping sound indicating that you have reached the dimension portal. As soon as you hear a new soundtrack you have reached the next level and are ready to play.
sonus:portals is finally available for download!
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We are invited to the FMX 2008 in Stuttgart to present our project sonus.
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We are excited that you are interested in being part of our group.
This organization is open to all students in grades 9-12.
SADD has five goals:
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2. To help eliminate the drunk driver and save lives
3. To alert high school students to the dangers of using mood-altering
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The Atlantic Avenue Tunnel. Spooky.
It is not often in the city of New York these days that a regular guy can truly influence the history of the city. But Bob Diamond is just one of those people. The story of the Atlantic Avenue tunnel is one that goes back through the annals of New York history, but it is also one that has a modern chapter, of Bob Diamond's quest to unearth and expose the tunnel as a significant New York landmark.
Let's jump back in history a little bit. If you think the argument today between bikers and joggers in the city is a big deal, then transport yourself to Atlantic Avenue in 1844. The street at the time was an extremely busy artery in Brooklyn. So much so that there was actually a Long Island Railroad train running down it. Because of the foot traffic, and the fact that it often took a train up to eight city blocks to stop, people and carriages kept getting hit. It was a major problem at the time (and the Brooklyn Dodgers were even once famously named the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers). To avoid this problem, mostly to make sure his trains were not delayed, the head of the LIRR, Cornelius Vanderbilt, decided to build the world's first underground train system under Atlantic Avenue.
The Tunnel was built in about seven months, using a cut-and-cover method: cutting into the tunnel and then covering it with a wood frame and then bricking it in. There was even a murder that supposedly occurred during the construction, which was done almost entirely by Irish Immigrants. One day, when the workers were told by a British contractor that they would have to miss church and work on Sundays, one of the Irish workers pulled out a gun and shot the contractor dead. Legend has it that the workers then buried his body behind the wall, where it rests to this day.
The tunnel was only open for about 15 years, and the last train ran in 1859 when, due to political reasons, it was shut down. Luckily for us, the contract to close and fill in the tunnel was given to a greedy man named Electus Litchfield. Instead of filling in the entire tunnel, Electus filled in only the ends, capped the holes in the street, and paid someone off to say that it had been filled.
Legends and stories persisted about the tunnel for the next 100 years. Walt Whitman once wrote: "The old tunnel, that used to lie there underground, a passage of Acheron-like solemnity and darkness, now all closed and filled up, and soon to be utterly forgotten."
But the tunnel was not to be forgotten, because of one Bob Diamond. In 1980, as a 19 year old engineering student, Diamond heard a story on the radio about the lost journal pages of John Wilkes Booth being buried in an old subway tunnel hidden under Brooklyn. This was the type of story that had spread around every once in awhile since the tunnel had been filled up, but nobody had yet to find it. Fortunately, Bob had the youthful exuberance that only a young engineering student could have, and so he decided to search for it.
An Engineering Diagram of the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel.
And search he did, hunting through all of the newspaper articles printed in Brooklyn in the 19th and 20th centuries, until he came across an article published in the Brooklyn Eagle in 1911. It was a full page article about the tunnel, which told of a set of plans located in the borough president's office. When he arrived at the office, he was told than the plans were not there, but he persisted and asked if he could look through an old locked box of papers. After breaking open the box, he found plans for the tunnel, with a small circle on it, possibly representing a manhole.
Bob Diamond Discovering the Tunnel Entrance in 1980.
So on one early morning in 1981, with the help of the department of transportation and some friends, Diamond opened a small manhole cover on the corner of Atlantic and Court street. As they looked down the hole, there was a floor of dirt, appearing that the tunnel had indeed been filled in. But he had come this far, and Diamond wanted to make sure. Crawling through a small trench of space he began to dig with his hands until he uncovered what looked like the brick ceiling. Diamond smashed through the bricks, sending a rush of cold, stale air into his face, and revealing a 15 foot drop. He had found the tunnel.
Entrance to the Tunnel.
Because of the find, Diamond was put in charge of the tunnel, and he now leads a crusade to save and improve it. He brought in lights leading all the way down the tunnel attached by a generator and created a stairwell to get down to the bottom from the manhole. He now leads monthly tours to explore the tunnel, explaining his story along with the history of the tunnel. There is even another mystery that he hopes to uncover, about what is on the other side of the far wall of the tunnel. 6 blocks of the tunnel are currently blocked off by a wall of dirt and this is where Diamond believes an old locomotive with the lost pages of John Wilkes Booth diary could be located. It seems that Diamond's exuberance had nothing to do with youth at all.
Far end of the tunnel where it is believed an old locomotive lies with the missing pages of John Wilkes Booth's diary. Too dark back there to focus correctly unfortunately.
Bob Diamond is trying his hardest to preserve an amazing part of New York history, of our country's history, and of the history of subway technology. He has constantly had to fight people from trying to stop him along the way. He hopes to one day open up the end of the tunnel, lay tracks down and run a locomotive tour down the tunnel. I can't imagine a more fitting way for the tunnel to end up, just as it had started.
To visit this one of a kind New York tour, you can find the tour schedules here.
Ceiling of the Tunnel. Perhaps where Bob broke through?
Boarded up hole in the ceiling.
Writing on the walls.
Tour group with flashlights moving.
Flashlights moving down the tunnel.
Me with tripod.


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Hieu Trung Huynh, Yonggwan Won,
Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol, 32, Issue 14, 15 October 2011, Pages 1930–1935
Online learning algorithms have been preferred in many applications due to their ability to learn by the sequentially arriving data. One of the effective algorithms recently proposed for training single hidden-layer feedforward neural networks (SLFNs) is online sequential extreme learning machine (OS-ELM), which can learn data one-by-one or chunk-by-chunk at fixed or varying sizes. It is based on the ideas of extreme learning machine (ELM), in which the input weights and hidden layer biases are randomly chosen and then the output weights are determined by the pseudo-inverse operation. The learning speed of this algorithm is extremely high. However, it is not good to yield generalization models for noisy data and is difficult to initialize parameters in order to avoid singular and ill-posed problems. In this paper, we propose an improvement of OS-ELM based on the bi-objective optimization approach. It tries to minimize the empirical error and obtain small norm of network weight vector. Singular and ill-posed problems can be overcome by using the Tikhonov regularization. This approach is also able to learn data one-by-one or chunk-by-chunk. Experimental results show the better generalization performance of the proposed approach on benchmark datasets.
- Neural networks;
- Online learning algorithm;
- Multiobjective training algorithms


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Working, creating and playing with reusable materials helps children acquire skills such as creativity, confidence, problem solving, focus and persistence. Children communicate their understanding of concepts and the world with materials. Our workshops are intended for teachers who would like to incorporate stimulating arts media and open ended materials into the classroom. A certificate with contact hours will be provided upon the conclusion on the workshops. Workshops offered in the past have included:
Introduction to UpCycling with Young Learners -
Using Open Ended Materials With Children
Workshop participants learn how to collect, prepare, store and display a wide array of reusable materials that young children can use to explore and communicate their understanding of the world. The presentation highlights the benefits of including open-ended materials with children and provides innovative, yet practical, ideas for using them with young children. We start by describing core skills that young children develop by experimenting with reuse materials, and then show how these skills lay the foundation for facilitated group and self-directed work in later years. Participants have an opportunity to try out the activities described in the presentation.
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Materials Workshop - Printmaking and Paper Cloth
Workshop participants explore the possibilities of working with young children to print and make paper cloth From found object printing, to making print plates, to developing a printing process to use with children, many different printing techniques will be shared. We will also make paper cloth, a collage material that is part paper and part fabric. This unique and beautiful product can be used for sewing, book binding and more.


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Once a maximum level is reached in the tank, this innovative overflow siphon, with its skimmer effect, removes particles lighter than water (e.g. flower pollen, oils, etc.) that float slowly to the water surface. Removing this floating layer of surface pollutants through regular overflow from the tank is important in order to maintain high quality water and allowance of oxygen diffusion at the water surface. The coiled baffle in the overflow siphon prevent rodents from entering the tank.
This model is well-suited for PE tanks.


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To fulfill its goals, SOLidariedade has developed two programs:
- Campaining towards Complete Education (CCE)
- Training towards Economic Empowerment (TEE)
The Training towards Economic Empowerment (TEE) program aims to teach youth skills and knowledge so that they are able to start a small business or participate in formal employment.
The Campaigning towards Complete Education (CCE) program promotes the participation and completion of regular education.
Work in the Centro Franciscano, Alvorada – 2016
A major challenge in the Centro Franciscano's is the general level of development of the children. The children attend different public schools in the area; none of them provides some quality in education or care. This causes great knowledge and skill differences between young people. There are children of 12-14 years in the Centro who cannot read and barely write their own name error-free. Of the 40 children older than 14 years, only two attend to high school. The lack of education is firstly a huge frustration among the children who are looking for growth. Secondly, this creates tremendous anxiety and irritation among the children who do not get it, less likely to understand something or 'just' have been forgotten. It will be clear that this has major implications for the work with young people in groups. In the coming years SOLidariedade will pay more attention to the social and emotional development of young people.
Level: Children & Adolescents
- Continuation of computer courses (basic and advanced) for young people aged from 12 untill 16 years.
- Professionalisation of the homework assistance and tutoring English for all ages.
- Continuation of English classes for children/adolescents aged from 6 until 14 years.
- Introduction of a social skills training for children/adolescents aged from 6 until 14 years.
- Introduction SPORT4SOL for all ages: introduction to new sports and renovation of sports and spaces.
Level: team & management
- Excel training for the management of the center.
- Fundraising Training for the leadership of the center.
- Workshop on parent participation for the whole team.
- Workshop social skills (Rock & Water) for the whole team.
- Implementation of a professional HR policy.
- Professionalisation of the financial administration.
- Implementation of a new student monitoring and evaluation system.
- General management support.
- Fundraising for the Center.
Activities in the Colégio Imaculada, Canoas – 2016
Project Ensino Infantil
The Colégio in which Anouk participates is a project funded by the municipality of Canoas. The municipality pays the school fees for 75 children (4-6 years) from the school from the poorest families in Canoas. They can thus follow two years of free Ensino Infantil (2015 and 2016). If the Municipality would not finance this project, these children would not attend school. They are not yet of school age. The grant from the municipality is sufficient for a local and a regular teacher, not for material or subject-specific teachers. Anouk is teaching English to these children. As long as the municipality is funding this project Anouk will participate in the project.
Project tutoring English
The Colégio Anouk weekly tutoring English to a group of students aged 12 to 16 years. They are all students or just have entered and have never had English education, or students who have difficulty with English. Students must register for the tutoring and need to come back for this after school.


shutdown SOCKET,HOW
Shuts down a socket connection in the manner indicated by HOW, which has the same interpretation as in the system call of the same name.
shutdown(SOCKET, 0); # I/we have stopped reading data
shutdown(SOCKET, 1); # I/we have stopped writing data
shutdown(SOCKET, 2); # I/we have stopped using this socket
This is useful with sockets when you want to tell the other side you're done writing but not done reading, or vice versa. It's also a more insistent form of close because it also disables the file descriptor in any forked copies in other processes.
Returns 1 for success. In the case of error, returns undef if the first argument is not a valid filehandle, or returns 0 and sets $! for any other failure.


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Nobody has ever seen a live colossal squid swimming so this is a difficult question to answer. The scientists had to look at how other closely related squid swim and come up with a theory about how the colossal squid moves.
See how scientists think the colossal squid moves in this video:
Cranchiids or glass squids
Colossal squid are part of the Cranchiidae family, known as the glass squids. There are many videos of squid species swimming, including the glass squids.
Cranchiids or glass squids have a very different outward appearance, or morphology, to most squid. They have forward-facing eyes which gives them binocular vision. This also means they cannot hold their arms out directly in front as they wouldn't be able to see! Most other squid have eyes on the sides of the head. They do not have to lift their arms out of their field of vision and can swim with their arms flat.
Cockatoo position – or not?
Most of the time cranchiids hold their arms either up over their heads in the 'cockatoo' position, or down in the 'reverse cockatoo' position.
Scientists think that the colossal squid, like other cranchiids, does not usually swim with its arms held flat out. But there is on-going debate about whether the colossal squid swims in the 'cockatoo' position or
The team reasoned that if the colossal squid held its arms up in the 'cockatoo' position, the lower arms would be longer, as they would have to reach further to meet the tips of the upper arms. Careful measurement of the colossal squid's arms showed that the lower arms are longer. The position and direction of the non-swivelling hooks on the arms also suggest that the colossal squid uses the 'cockatoo' position.
However this is all just a hypothesis – until someone sees a colossal squid swimming we won't know for sure. This is the process of science!


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A "dit name" is an alias given to a family name. Compared to other alias or a.k.a. that are given to one specific person, the dit names will be given to many persons. It seems the usage exists almost only in France, New France and in Scotland where we find clans or septs.
I have a photocopy of a 1471 land record rented by my ancestor Barthelemy Hugon dit Jarret which is called Bartelemeo Hugonis alias Jarreti in this record and some others. There is another Jarret in the area at this time with another dit name, so we can say the dit name was given, in that case, to distinguish the 2 different families. Barthelemy was living in Dauphine, like many soldiers of Carignan Regiment who came here in _PHONE_. While they were not the only ones nor the first to use dit names in New France, it seems those soldiers are responsible for the great extent the dit names reached in Quebec compared to France, Acadia or Louisiana. This would explain, for example, why there is a concentration of families with dit names around Lac St-Pierre where seigneuries belonged often to retired officers from Carignan regiment (Vercheres, Sorel, Contrecoeur, etc. to name a few).
Among some reasons of dit names, we find:
A generic person's name is built like this:
Joseph Jarret dit Beauregard
Joseph is the first name
Jarret is, in this case, the patronym or ancestral family name
Beauregard is, in this case, the dit name
After some generations, it is no more obvious what is the specific patronym or dit name, so we will find Beauregard dit Jarret. Moreover, it is also possible both family and dit names are switched the first time someone used a dit name.
In the records, dit names are actual alias, that is, they can be legally used to replace the original patronym. Because of this, one will find the same person known as:
Joseph Jarret dit Beauregard
Joseph Beauregard dit Jarret
What this means? If you are looking for the marriage of a Joseph Beauregard married with Jeanne Joachim, you may find it as Joseph Jarret married with Jeanne Laverdure (a dit name for Joachim).
Dit names are not the only method of combining or changing family names.
There are also errors like switching first name and family name in one record (for example, I have a Richard VINCENT who is actually Vincent RICHARD), changing a first name to a family name (there is a Claude VINCENT who is Claude-Vincent MENNESON). The only difference with dit names in this case is that the combination happened only one time. There are spelling variations so that a Bourgault would be name Beauregard in a record. There is also a modern concept in Quebec that consists in giving both the names of the father and the mother.
I proposed to use the following convention to distinguish usage:
= for specific dit names (Beauregard=Jarret)
/ for spelling variation (Jarest/Charest)
- for other kinds of name combinations (modern combining of names)
I would suggest this when using standardized names (i.e. not names as found in the record, but names that a searcher would look for) in databases when you are building them in view of exchanging them. You should also write the actual name as found in the record and good genealogy softwares should allow for both names (standard name for search and actual name for printing of charts). If your software supports one name, I suggest to write the standardized name and to put the name read in the record in a note; if it supports many names, the first name would the standardized name and the next would be alternatives. How to find what shall be the standardized name? Micheline Lécuyer, who worked with René Jetté to produce a list of dit names ("Répertoire des Noms de Famille du Québec" des Origines à 1825) suggests, when the name is not the Jetté's dictionary, to use a phone book (usually Montréal or Québec City) and to select the more common form.
Last update: Dec. 19th, 1995


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Cluster-in-Molecule Local Correlation Method with an Accurate Distant Pair Correction for Large Systems
datasetposted on 07.01.2021, 13:08 by Zhigang Ni, Yang Guo, Frank Neese, Wei Li, Shuhua Li
The cluster-in-molecule (CIM) local correlation approach with an accurate distant pair correlation energy correction is presented. For large systems, the inclusion of distant pair correlation energies is essential for the accurate prediction of absolute correlation energies and relative energies. Here, we propose a simple and efficient scheme for evaluating the distant pair correlation energy correction for the CIM approaches. The corrections can be readily extracted from electron correlation calculations of clusters with almost no additional effort. Benchmark calculations show that the improved CIM approach can recover more than 99.94% of the correlation energy calculated by the parent method. By combining the CIM approach with the domain-based local pair natural orbital (DLPNO) local correlation approach, we have provided accurate binding energies at the CIM-DLPNO-CCSD(T) level for a test set consisting of eight weakly bound complexes ranging in size from 200 to 1027 atoms. With these results as the reference data, the accuracy and applicability of other electron correlation methods and a few density functional methods for large systems have been assessed.


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In May 2011, students at LeRoy Central School District in northwestern New York State started exhibiting tics, spasms and nonsense speech. Some even claimed to suffer blackouts and seizures. A total of 19 students from various grades and classes have reported symptoms. After searching for potential infectious causes, the school district last week approved further environmental tests, according to Nature.
New York State Health Department investigators have ruled out some environmental factors and infectious agents, including Streptococcus, which can cause a tic-like syndrome called PANDAS or PANS for Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome.
Although investigators found no contaminants in the air or water within the school, the building is located some 5 kilometers from the site of a 1970 chemical spill that released "cyanide crystals" and trichloroethene (TCE) into the surrounding area, and some worry that this could be affecting the students. Though TCE has been linked to conditions such as cancer, liver damage, nausea, as well as increased risk of Parkinson's, the development of tics is not listed among the observed symptoms of TCE exposure. TCE levels were not elevated in the school water.


Follow these initial post instructions: Choose one of the Aviation Weather Cente
Follow these initial post instructions:
Choose one of the Aviation Weather Center products listed in the AWC orientation activity (previous in the module) to discuss.
Provide the exact URL from the AWC website that links directly to the product you chose to discuss.
Then develop an initial post that concisely fulfills the following, in two separate paragraphs, each paragraph being 100 words or less:
Paragraph 1: Concisely summarize what this product is displaying. In the summary, include whether the product is considered an observation, analysis, or forecast. You do not have to explain how to interpret the information displayed – we will get to that in other activities!
Paragraph 2: Discuss the importance of this product in flight planning and/or safety.
Embed at least one graphic or video that helps visualize some aspect of your initial post discussion.
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text: METEOROLOGY TODAY has for many years been one of the most widely used and authoritative texts for the introductory meteorology course. This eighth edition sees improvements in flexibility for instructors and strengthened learning solutions for students. Author C. Donald Ahrens has been widely praised for his ability to explain relatively complicated ideas so that even under-prepared students can understand them. The text's clear and inviting narrative is supplemented by numerous pedagogical features that help augment students' understanding. Introductory stories found at the beginning of each chapter draw students naturally into the discussion. In-chapter reviews help students master concepts while they study, and four types of end-of-chapter exercises provide opportunities for everything from further review to in-class discussion questions. In addition to these in-text learning aids, the eighth edition sees a complete integration with CengageNOW, the first assessment-driven and student-centered online learning solution created specifically for this course. CengageNOW uses a series of chapter-specific diagnostic tests to build a personalized learning plan for each student, allowing students to focus their study time on specific areas of weaknesses. Each personalized learning plan directs students to specific chapter sections and concept-driven multimedia tutorials designed to augment their understanding. The new edition is available in its original nineteen chapter classic" version, or as a "core" version, which features only the most popular sixteen chapters. The "core" version sacrifices none of the detail that the course needs, but eliminates chapters that may not be directly covered in class. Looking for more flexibility? With the Cengage Learning TextChoice custom solution program, instructors can select and reorganize chapters to perfectly match their syllabus, thereby creating the ideal text solution for the course."


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Type of Spiritual Experience
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Idursulfase (brand name Elaprase) is a drug used to treat Hunter syndrome (also called MPS-II) It is a purified form of the lysosomal enzyme iduronate-2-sulfatase and is produced by recombinant DNA technology in a human cell line.
On Dec, 14, 2015: 147 people reported to have side effects when taking Elaprase. Among them, 1 people (0.68%) has Hallucination.
On Nov, 17, 2015: 147 people reported to have side effects when taking Elaprase. Among them, 33 people (22.45%) have Death.


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In a city defined by water, a look at one way to get to it
The City of Pittsburgh, like many of its formerly industrial brethren, has made a number of moves to reclaim the working waterfront as active places for human activity. In most cases, this involves installing trails in linear parks with recreation nodes in place of the mills and plants that once relied upon water access. In these cases the recreational and riparian reclaimed edge pushes back buildings and their uses from the water they so desperately want to be on. The marina at Washington's Landing provides one exception where use of and engagement with the water occur as a matter of course.
In this simple analysis, we'll look at the six core characteristics that make it work:


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I have all the needed parts listed in the wiki, but I'm lost at "inverting the signal"? I can follow directions and solder easily enough, but have little electrical knowledge. Can someone please help?
Pulling a pin low or high means applying 0V or +5v to it (you have to check the datasheets of the chip for exact values, though most chips work with +5v.). One of the ICs turns emphasis on if it's pulled low (0v on the emph pin), the other turns emphasis on if it's pulled high (+5v on the emph pin). You need to invert the signal, so whenever chip A sends 0v, chip B receives +5v. You can use a hex inverter IC for this.
Or, you can measure the voltage of the emph pin with a multimeter and apply the inverted signal directly, since I doubt that the console actually changes emphasis during function. Meaning if the PCM1725 pin 12 measures 0v, you can just solder +5v to pin 3 of the cs8406.


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Boston University's Department of the History of Art & Architecture is hosting a symposium featuring five late-stage doctoral candidates and recent postgraduates (within three years of defending) in the field of African American art history on November 11-12, 2022. The symposium will feature presentations on recent research, networking opportunities, and a concluding roundtable. This program is committed to advancing the connection and collaboration between diverse members of the Boston University community and emerging scholars of African American visual art, material culture, and architecture. The Present Coordinates: African American Art History symposium will provide honoraria and travel expenses for the panelists to travel to Boston.
Early-career scholars are invited to submit proposals for 45-minute research presentations on a topic of their choosing. Proposals may engage the current state of the field of African American art history; consider innovative and interdisciplinary methodologies; or investigate alternative frameworks and unstudied artists. Full details about proposals, which are due May 15, can be found here: _URL_


Brazil scientists find signs of underground river
SAO PAULO (AP)? Brazilian scientists say they have found signs of a huge underground river flowing far beneath the Amazon River.
Valiya Hamza of Brazil's National Observatory says there are indications of a 3,700-mile (6,000-kilometer) long subterranean river located several thousand feet below the surface.
Hamza says the finding came from studying temperature variations at 241 inactive oil wells drilled in the 1970s and 1980s by Brazil's state-run oil company.
Hamza says the thermal information allowed his team of researchers to identify the movement of water 13,100 feet (4,000 meters) under the Amazon River.


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Learning forms an integral part of Archaeology Scotland's activities. Our aim is to encourage understanding of and promote involvement in Scotland's archaeological heritage for all ages and levels of interest for formal and informal learners.We do this through offering resources for learner groups and providing signposting to other resources.
You can follow the links on the left hand side to find these resources on our website:
Online resources and activities - our online resources are designed to help educators use archaeology with their learning groups. They cover different aspects of archaeology, such as surveying and interpreting evidence. In addition, there are short hands-on activity ideas which can be used to introduce learners to the principles of archaeology
Hands-on loans - we have developed a range of hands-on artefact investigation kits which contain real and replica artefacts and help bring the past closer. Each kit comes with activity ideas and information packs
Equipment loans - subject to availability, we also have some equipment which can be loaned out to help with archaeological activities. Please contact us for further information using the contact details below
Teacher Information base - This is where we have information about what archaeology is and how it links into the Curriculum for Excellence, as well as how it can be used to deliver specific areas of the curriculum. There are also links to other websites which you may find useful.
Youth Engagement Information base - This page is for youth workers, illustrating how they can use archaeology to deliver informal education activities as part of any youth programme. The page provides supoprt and a forum with activity ideas for youth groups and news; it is a place where youth workers can engage with and learn from Archaeology Scotland and each other.
Advice and Support - the team at Archaeology Scotland are always here to help with advice and support for any projects which you may be undertaking, whether it be a class project or units of work, developing archaeology learning activities for your group or looking for ideas for a youth group session.
Continuing Education Research: Click here for Archaeology Scotland's Continuing Education Research ProjectFinal Report. This research project examined the provision and availability of archaeology as a subject for study in adult education in Scotland over the 2010-11 academic year.
Click on the links below to discover more about Learning at Archaeology Scotland or you can either contact us by calling 0845 _PHONE_ or email the Learning team.
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The Sand Ceremony adds a twist to the traditional
unity candle tradition. Like a unity candle the sand is
used to symbolize the joining of the bride and groom
or the joining of their families. The sand unity
ceremony uses two or three (or more for children)
jars or glass containers of colored sand (3 in the
example below) and a large glass container to
combine the sand. Each of the containers of sand
symbolizes the separate lives of the bride and groom
and their families. The combined sand makes a
wonderful wedding keepsake for the bride and
groom and a constant reminder of their commitment
to one another. Craft stores are the best source for natural and colored sand as well as small
glass bottles.
The Unity Sand Ceremony is a bit nontraditional, as you may imagine. It can be difficult to
have the Candle Ceremony outdoors, as candles don't want to stay lit. So the Sand Ceremony
was created, and it has become very popular. The words are very similar, as the wedding
officiant explains the meaning of the unity ceremony. It represents leaving your two separate
lives and joining to make one life together. You can do this without a colored sand for the
minister if you prefer and just have two colored sands, one for bride and one for groom.
"To symbolize the importance of the individuals within the marriage and the joining of two
lives into one entity, 3 colors of sand will now be layered into a base."
(Trista is handed a clear jar of Pink Sand, Ryan is handed a clear jar of Blue Sand. The
minister has one clear jar filled with a Neutral color sand and a large empty jar)
The Minister speaks again:
"We begin with a layer of Neutral Sand which symbolizes that the marriage is grounded."
(The Minister pours a little of the Neutral Sand into the large jar)
"Then we layer the individual colors. This symbolizes that the marriage is based on the
strength of the individuals."
(Ryan poured a little of the Blue Sand in first, followed by a little more of the Neutral Sand
from the minister. Trista then added a little of the Pink Sand, followed by some additional
Neutral Sand from the minister).
"And now we combine the colors, which symbolizes two lives joined as one together forever."
(Ryan and Trista simultaneously pour their remaining sand into the large jar until their jars are
empty. The minister caps off the sand with the last of the Neutral Sand. The minister then
holds the large jar up as if presenting to the wedding audience and places the jar to the side)
Unity Sand Ceremony
"Making the World More Beautiful, Two Special People at a Time."


A study of turbulent fluxes and their measurement errors for di ff erent wind regimes over the tropical Zongo glacier ( 16 ◦ S ) during the dry season
@inproceedings{Litt2015ASO,
 title={A study of turbulent fluxes and their measurement errors for di ff erent wind regimes over the tropical Zongo glacier ( 16 ◦ S ) during the dry season},
 author={Maxime Litt and J.-E. Sicart and Warren Helgason},
 year={2015}
}
Over glaciers in the outer tropics, during the dry winter season, turbulent fluxes are an important sink of melt energy due to high sublimation rates, but measurements in stable surface layers in remote and complex terrains remain challenging. Eddy-covariance (EC) and bulk-aerodynamic (BA) methods were used to estimate surface turbulent heat fluxes of sensible (H ) and latent heat (LE) in the ablation zone of the tropical Zongo Glacier, Bolivia (16 S, 5080 ma.s.l.), from 22 July to 1 September… CONTINUE READING


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Here's a quick way to draw consistent wavy lines. The same technique can be applied for springs.
This isn't intended to devalue your request for a precise geometric tool for this kind of needs, which i agree it's quite useful.
It's just a way to help you solve the problem with the available tools/resources we have at the moment.
because you need a transparent image at the end, I think you have to cut out the spaces. I don't know if it is the right way but you can achieve it like this...
(since we still don't have an offset tool, we have to use expand stroke)
1. write your text, set stroke width and align stroke to outside (stroke width will determine the space between your text and your lines later)
2. convert your text to path and go to Layer -> Expand Stroke (I've switched off visibility of the black text in the screenshot)
3. draw your lines with your appropriate stroke width; highlight your lines, go to Layer -> Expand Stroke and set Geometry -> add, now you have one "line-shape",
make sure your line-shape is underneath your text
4. highlight the line-shape and all the expanded strokes -> Geometry -> Subtract
5. now you have a cutted line-shape
6. Geometry -> divide and delete the small pieces
7. you're done ;-)
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Ciudad Del Carmen
The town takes its name from the July 16, 1717, day of the Virgen del Carmen, when the pirates were defeated and expelled from the island of Don Alonso Felipe de Andrade on the bridge of San Felipe.
Is located southeast of the Yucatan Peninsula in the west of the island of Carmen, which is situated between the Gulf of Mexico and the lagoon of terms.
Stands out an important center of Mexican oil operations, which remains in the Campeche area most important hydrocarbon exploitation of Mexico.
Also, is located in a region southeast of the country with greater tourist potential to have important natural attractions.
The population of Ciudad Del Carmen in 2005 was 154,197 inhabitants. the city grew by 28,173 inhabitants, representing 4.1 percent annual average.
The dishes are made with seafood. Are typical appetizers like shrimp, panuchos, salbutes and also the fried fish and seafood broth.


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Pilgrims and bandits in Ysbyty Ifan
This peaceful village with its rolling hills, farmsteads and stunning scenery has attracted many visitors over the years. If we delve back into medieval Wales we find an exciting history of knights, pilgrims, and bandits.
Knights of St Johns
Until 1190 Ysbyty Ifan was known as Dôl Gynwal (Welsh for Gynwal's Meadow). It was renamed Ysbyty Ifan (meaning hospital of St John) after it came to the attention of the Knights of St John, an order of Hospitallers, who were bound to protect pilgrims on their way to the Holy Land and on religious journeys.
They chose to set up a hospital and hostel to care for pilgrims in Ysbyty Ifan as it was located on several ancient pilgrimage routes, including Bangor-on-Dee and Holywell in north-east, and to Ynys Enlli /Bardsey island off the tip of the Llŷn peninsula.
The Knights had the privilege of sanctuary, and in the troubled time after the Glyndwr uprising in the 15th century, Ysbyty Ifan was one of the hideouts to some of Wales' most famous outlaws and rebels, including gwylltiaid cochion Mawddwy (the red bandits of Mawddwy), and became known as a haven for criminals.
Writing at the end of the 16th century, Sir John Wynn of Gwydir said Ysbyty Ifan had been "a receptacle of thieves and murderers".
Red dragons and religion
With the dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII, the hostel was abolished in 1540, but the neighbouring church remained, to act as the parish church. The building was replaced in around 1860 by the present church, in the Victorian 'early English' style.
The church contains artefacts from the earlier church, many of them from the 14th to 16th centuries. Many of which highlight the connections between Ysbyty Ifan and the Tudor uprising. One effigy is said to depict Rhys ap Maredudd, who recruited soldiers to help Henry Tudor, as he was seen in Wales as the "mab darogan" or the son of prophecy, who would rise and lead the Welsh to defeat the English –Henry was born in Pembroke Castle, so made as much use of this prophecy as possible to garner support.
Rhys ap Maredudd took a local army to meet young Henry Tudor on his way to defeat King Richard III at Bosworth in 1485. Rhys carried the Red Dragon standard of Cadwaladr on the battlefield, and some poets insisted it was he who killed Richard. There is no way we can prove this, but the family did well out of the Tudor victory, with their local power, influence and estate growing.


Earth From Space: Aletsch Glacier, Swiss and Italian Alps
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Earth From Space: Aletsch Glacier, Swiss and Italian Alps.
Parts of the Swiss and Italian Alps are pictured in this satellite image. Extending some 1200 km through central Europe, the Alps occupy an area of about 200 000 sq km and are inhabited by some 20 million people.
Near the centre of the image we can see the Aletsch Glacier, the largest in the Alps. The glacier originates in a large, flat area of snow and ice high in the mountains called Concordia, where three smaller glaciers converge. It extends south, and its meltwater creates the Massa River in the valley below.
Owing to climate change, the glaciers in this region are showing long-term retreat. The melting ice has given birth to new lakes, which pose risks such as flooding and landslides to communities below.
Aletsch and the surrounding mountains are part of the Jungfrau-Aletsch protected area, a UNESCO World Heritage site. The area is of major importance to scientific research in geology, geomorphology, climatic change, biology and atmospheric physics. It features a wide diversity of ecosystems, and its landscape has played an important role in European art, literature, mountaineering and alpine tourism.
One particularly popular tourist destination is the city of Interlaken, located between lakes Thun and Brienz, seen in the upper part of the image. From the city, locals and visitors alike have easy access to the mountains and water bodies, and can partake in a variety of outdoor activities during all seasons.
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Salomon de Caus
Caus or Caux, Salomon de (both: sälōmôNˈ də kō) [key] 1576–1626, French engineer and physicist, educated in England. From 1614 to 1620 he was engineer to the Elector Palatine, Frederick, at Heidelberg. Because of his Les Raisons des forces mouvantes avec diverses machines (1615), an early exposition of the principle of steam power, he has been considered the originator of the steam engine.
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