What is the Employee Retention Credit? Everything you need to know
Employee Retention Credit is designed to help small businesses who have been severely affected by the coronavirus pandemic to keep employees on their payroll.
What is the Employee Retention Credit? Everything you need to know
Employee Retention Credit (ERC) was passed as part of the CARES Act back at the start of April. It is one of two new employer tax credits (the other being Credit for Sick and Family Leave). The ERC's purpose is to help businesses who have been hit economically by the coronavirus pandemic to keep employees on their payroll. ERC is a refundable tax credit against certain payroll taxes equal to 50 percent of the wages up to $10,000 which an employer pays to employees after 12 March 2020, and before 1 January 2021.
Employers whose businesses have been partially or fully suspended due to governmental orders due to Covid-19 crisis, or businesses that have a significant decline in gross receipts compared to 2019 will be eligible for Employee Retention Credit.
For each employee, wages (including Medicare expenses) up to a maximum of $10,000 can be counted to determine the amount of the 50% credit. That means the maximum credit for an employer can receive for each employee is $5,000.
Because ERC applies to wages which were already paid after 12 March, many employers can get access to it by reducing upcoming tax deposits or by requesting an advance credit by submitting Form 7200, Advance of Employer Credits Due To Covid-19 by fax, email or on paper to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Advanced payments will be issued by paper check to employers.
Businesses can apply for ERC if their gross income for the first calendar quarter of 2020 (total sales or the total amount received for services) has been 50% less than the gross receipts they filed during the same quarter in 2019. Employers should keep records for the relevant calendar quarters in 2019 and 2020 to document the significant decline in gross receipts. The records should be available for IRS review for at least four years.
Some companies however, will not be eligible for ERC – for example, if an employer receives a Small Business Interruption Loan under the Paycheck Protection Program. Similarly, employees are not counted for this credit if the employer is allowed a Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) under section 51 of the Internal Revenue Code for the employee.
How to claim ERC credit
In order to claim Employee Retention Credit, employers must report their total wages bill plus related health insurance or Medicare costs for each quarter on their quarterly employment federal tax returns, (this done by submitting Form 941 in the case of most employers), beginning with the second quarter. The credit is taken against the employer's share of social security tax but the excess is refundable under normal procedures.
If an employer chooses not to claim for ERC in one calendar quarter, they will still be able to claim in the following calendar quarter - as long as they meet requirements specified above.
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Spread.NET 17 Formula Reference
Formula Functions / Functions A to C / ASC
In This Topic
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 This function transforms full-width (double-byte) characters to half-width (single-byte) characters.
 Syntax
 ASC(text)
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 For the arguments, you need to give either a text value or a reference to a cell containing the text to be changed.
 Remarks
 If the text does not contain full-width letters, then the text is not changed.
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 Accepts string data. Returns string data.
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 ASC("SPREAD") gives the result "SPREAD"
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 This function is available in Spread for Windows Forms 11.0 or later.


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Ultimate Backcountry Connectivity: Top 4G Routers with Sim Slots
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The Pakistan Monument is a national monument in Islamabad that is shaped like a petal.
The Pakistan Monument is a national monument in Islamabad that is shaped like a petal. It is situated in the western Shakarparian Hills and the best place to visit in Islamabad. The magnificent Monument was erected to reflect Pakistanis' unity and patriotism. It also honors the martyrs who laid down their lives for the sake of our country and its people.
The majestic dome-shaped Monument's architecture represents our history, culture, and heritage. Due to its picturesque location and unique architecture, it is one of Islamabad's most popular tourist destinations. Moreover, it can be seen from the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi due to their high elevation. Therefore, it offers an insight into Pakistani's beautiful history and helps one observe and focus on the city of Islamabad.
Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf suggested building a national monument in Islamabad in 2002. President Musharraf tasked the Ministry of Culture with collaborating with the Pakistan Council of Architects and Town Planners to organize a design competition for the landmark after the foundation stone was laid in 2004.
The theme and concept represented Pakistan's resilience, unity, and commitment. Twenty-one different architects from all over Pakistan submitted plans, and the council selected three to be considered. Finally, Mr. Arif Masoud was entrusted with the task of creating the Pakistan Monument.
The magnificent Pakistan Monument was completed in 2006 under the supervision of Engineer Syed Mahmud Khalid. The inauguration ceremony took place on March 23, 2007, and the Pakistan Monument was opened to the public.
In 2015, the complex received 1500 tourists a day on average, with 0.57 million visitors. Aerial view of the Monument shows it as a star (center) and a crescent moon (formed by walls forming the petals), which represent the Pakistani flag's star and crescent.
The Monument is constructed on approximately 2.8 hectares (6.9 acres) of land, and its design is influenced by Mughal architecture – the dome-shaped structure is modeled after Mughal muqarnas. However, as a refined and modernized version of the Mughal muqarnas, what we see in the landmark is a blend of history and technology.
The Monument's architecture symbolizes Pakistani unity and solidarity. The memorial and the museum are the two main buildings. The four central petals reflect Pakistan's various provinces and cultures: Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. On the other hand, the smaller petals reflect the minorities of Gilgit Baltistan, Azad Jammu, and Kashmir.
The grand structure is built of marble imported from Spain and granite imported from Brazil. The petals' inner walls are adorned with stunning artwork. They depict many Pakistani landmarks, including the Minar-e-Pakistan, the Khyber Pass, the Badshahi Mosque, and Pakistan's independence story.
Looking at the first petal of the National Monument, you will appreciate the elegance of the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad, the Shah Jahan Mosque in Thatta, and the Makli Necropolis in Sindh, the port city of Gwadar, and the detailing of the Rohtas Fort near Jhelum.
The second petal depicts portraits of our creator, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the Mother of the Nation, Fatima Jinnah, and Pakistan's historical landmarks. Finally, it shows a crowd applauding during one of Quaid-e- Azam's appearances.
Photos of Allama Iqbal, our national poet, the Mahabat Khan Mosque, Shah Rukn-e- Alam's Tomb Lahore Fort, and the Indus Valley Civilization make up the third petal.
Finally, photographs of the famous Sheesh Mehal, the Uch Sharif Tomb, Islamia College Peshawar, the Ziarat residency, the Khyber Pass, and a few other magnificent places in Pakistan are reflected in the artwork on the fourth petal.
If you look closely, you'll find that each of these petals has an illustration that depicts a story about Pakistan. A team of talented artists led by Kausar Jahan and Zarar Haider Babri put in about 119,000 hours of devoted effort to create these petals.
The four pillars that show Quaid-e-Azam's motto "Unity, Faith, Discipline" in English and Urdu are among the Monument's other features. A massive fountain rises from the Monument's base, providing a magnificent sight for tourists. A wall next to it is dedicated to all involved in the Monument's construction, with handprints of architects, engineers, designers, and laborers. At the main Piazza's entrance, the chief architect, Arif Masoud, is carved in stone.
A stunning terrace with circular entrances adjacent to the Monument offers a 360-degree view of the entire city. Because of its architecture, the Pakistan Monument is a fantastic place to visit; the venue is a bonus.
Several portraits, wax sculptures of historical figures, and other historical images can be found in the heritage museum. It is a timeline of our history, beginning with 7000 BC and ending in 1947.
It explains the origins of Islam, the Mughal period, the pre-partition history of the Pakistan movement, and the significant events that led to the subcontinent's partition.
The reference library, which has an Audio-Visual Facility, is available to anyone searching for old national documents, historical speeches, books, and manuscripts. The museum also has a meeting room and a Panorama Hall (auditorium) seating for sixty-two people.Share this tour


spellcasters are slow, figure out how cards could speed up spell use.
 - Initiative cards Many GMs swear by these: Initiative Cards from The Game Mechanics
 Rules Do you tend to look up the same rules all the time? Do one or more PCs trigger the same rules frequently, causing pauses while charts and books are referenced? Do you wish you could be more creative or tactical with the options your game's rules present, but don't have the time or inclination to memorize a lot of new rules?
 Create rules cards. Put one rule or rule sub-set on a card. Keep them handy for fast reference in-game. For example, in D&D you might craft cards for: - Grappling - Bull rush - Trip - Drowning - Nauseated, Fatigued, Exhausted
 Create copies of cards to hand to multiple players. Have idle players create reference cards for you (as long as their handwriting is legible).
 Create cards that can be placed in front of players to indicate modifiers or current states. For example, you might create a set of Fatigued rules D&D cards. If a PC is fatigued, you hand them a card, which summarizes the rules on one side, and displays on the other side, in giant red letters, -2 STRENGTH / -2 DEXTERITY. Players keep the -2 side up unless they need to glance at the rules.
 - Fluff Cards with flavour text are awesome as reference and player handouts. Imagine having key NPCs described and pictured on cards the players can read during encounters or sessions later as reference.
 Same goes with game world information. Rather than fielding the same questions over and over, create reference cards so players can get the information fast without interrupting. For example, create a calendar card with day and month names, or craft a money card with all the currencies and exchange rates listed.
 Information such as kingdom and race profiles are served well by card format too. Whenever places and people enter the campaign, hand out the cards for players to read and study when they're not involved in play.
 If you craft enough fluff cards, consider giving the players their own card box to file cards in. You might have your own box full of GM-only info, and the players have theirs. If you game in the same world often, you can just hand the players a box of reference cards.
 - Monopoly property cards For inspiration, check out the property cards from the Monopoly game. Look at all the info jammed onto them, front and back. They are colour coded, contain icons, have a chart, and contain game rule information. Very well designed. What design could you craft for cards that would benefit your GMing, players, and game sessions?
 Your design could be a template. Then you could print out blank cards and fill them out in-game to track info effortlessly. For example, you could craft an NPC template and give the players a stack of blank cards. As the PCs meet NPCs, players can fill out cards as part of a PC reference system. Such cards would be more useful and dynamic than static player game logs.
 - Spells and effects Andre has a great tip at ENWorld:
 - As for feats, I'm seriously considering printing cards for feats, abilities, and spells that have temporary effects. My group plays at a table, so if, for example, bless is cast, the caster could just place the card on the table. Ditto if the barbarian rages, or the bard sings. I think it would make it much easier to remember all the various stuff going on." En World Forum: Homemade item cards?: Andre
 - Tracking information VV_GM over at Treasure Tables has a good tip:
 "I try to limit my notes nowadays. After one of my posts here one day I realized that I was keeping track of too much stuff. Now I try to focus on developing a strong plot before the game that entices the players to roleplay. I write the minimal details of the scenes on a card, and then add notes to that particular card during play. The cards are all indexed by a number/letter in the upper left corner. This way I'm not thinking in terms of 'I should make a note of every NPC the players meet,' but instead I'm focused on making a note of what is unique to that scene in particular." Treasure Tables Forum: DM aid sheets: VV_GM
 - Spells and buffs Do the PCs use a standard array of spell defenses, senses, and buffs when preparing for combat? You can note this on a card and use it for reference to save a lot of game time. Create cards for various common situations, such as undead, single tough opponent, Evil sub-types, and so on.
 Add checkboxes to spells and temporary effects, if you like, and check things off as each round passes for quick and easy duration tracking. If you make a card template for this on your computer, you can print out a bunch for disposable use. Alternatively, depending on the size of the cards, you can put them in card sleeves, badge holders, or luggage tags and use wet/dry erase markers so the cards are reusable. You could also laminate cards for re-use.
 - Combat, modifiers, and situations In a campaign I'm playing in, my PC has three typical attack options, plus a couple of standard modifiers if the lazy cleric is in a buffing mood. I have gridded these out on paper so I don't have to do any calculating each time I roll the dice. However, a card-based system would be even better. I just select the card relevant to the current scenario and place it in front of me.
 For example: - Power attack +3, Blessed, two-handed - Power attack +3, Blessed - Power attack +3, two-handed - Trip - Disarm
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4. General Card Tips
 - Here's a neat tip for storing and protecting your cards from SiderisAnon at ENWorld:
 "For actual use of the cards, I bought a bunch of cheap sleeves at Wal-Mart for baseball cards. The player puts them in their character folder (cheap school folders with the three prongs). We were already keeping character sheets in clear sleeves in those folders, so people could mark on them with the wet erase markers." En World Forum: Homemade item cards?: SiderisAnon
 - Colour coding Buy multi-coloured index cards, cardboard, or paper for printing on. Assign each colour to a category for whatever system you are using.
 - Storing cards on a ring Scott M at Treasure Tables has this tip:
 "When I'm DMing WoD games, I condense NPCs to a 3x5 card shorthand (two sided if they're complex), punch a hole on the upper left corner, and put it on a ring." Treasure Tables Forum: DM aid sheets: Scott M
 - Paper clip tacking Frank's paper clip tip at Treasure Tables is cool:
 "If your game system has spells or other conditions that are confusing to remember everything about, put that information on a card. You could even use a piece of writeable tape to make a reinforced place for people to mark what turn the effect ends for them (for spells). Or print a row of numbers on the bottom and use a paper clip to indicate the turn." Treasure Tables Forum: Index Cards: Frank
 - Checkbox tracking Frank has another good tip:
 " On index cards for magic items: I made an array of checkboxes on cards for wands so that it was easy to keep track of the charges by just crossing off boxes." Treasure Tables Forum: Frank
 - Avery label templates Avery makes cards and stickers in sheets for easy computer printing. Pick a size and start your own card system:
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D&D Scourge of the Howling Horde
Scourge of the Howling Horde is a stand-alone adventure designed for a group of 1st level characters. Perfect for new players or seasoned players, it features an easy-to-use encounter format and includes useful DM advice for beginning and experienced Dungeon Masters.
D&D Scourge of the Howling Horde at RPG Shop
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1. Cosmetic Containers For Counters Storage
From: Kate Manchester
Caboodles or train cases are great for storing counters. There's another by Lori Greiner that is fairly large that might possibly work too (though they're a little pricey). Also, the plastic boxes used for soap, or plastic lunch boxes (if you have smaller containers) work.
Portable Cosmetic Make-up Organizer
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2. Don't Forget The Outside Of Your GM Screen
From: Joel Tolson
While GM screens can be useful for hiding die rolls and notes, or storing notes for easy access, commercial (and many make-shift) GM screens forget that the outside is nearly as important as the inside. I have made my own screen out of two thin, clear sheets of plastic sandwiched together. This allows me to slide my notes inside, facing me, and to also slide in some scenery facing out. If my players are near a waterfall, I will slide in a picture of a waterfall; if there are mountains in the distance, I'll slide in a picture of some mountains. Pictures themselves are easy to find all over the Internet. I tend to keep an eye out for new pictures to use all the time and have a rather extensive library to choose from whenever I need a random backdrop.
Making my own GM screen also means it isn't as high as commercial ones, so that I am not as separated from my players as I might otherwise be.
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A GROUP of primary school pupils recreated the Tour de France with a ride along the Padiham Greenway.
Youngsters at Padiham Green Primary School cycled up and down the idyllic route in the event they had titled the 'Tour de Greenway'.
The Year 3 and 4 students were headed by headteacher Mark Dixon, and school teacher Jennifer Morton, who cycled on a tandem.
Miss Morton swapped the yellow jersey for a bridal dress to celebrate her impending wedding this summer.
The Year 3 and 4 classes have been learning about the First World War and the Tour de France as part of their studies. They have now learn about local soldiers who were killed in France during the conflict and have decorated the Greenway with information about them.
Youngsters from the lower years at the school lined the route to cheer on their fellow students as they cycled past.


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Attention to mixed methods studies research has increased in recent years, particularly among funding agencies that increasingly require a mixed methods approach for program evaluation. At the same time, researchers operating within large-scale, rapid-turnaround research projects are faced with the reality that collection and analysis of large amounts of qualitative data typically require an intense amount of project resources and time. However, practical examples of efficiently collecting and handling high-quality qualitative data within these studies are limited. More examples are also needed of procedures for integrating the qualitative and quantitative strands of a study from design to interpretation in ways that can facilitate efficiencies. This paper provides a detailed description of the strategies used to collect and analyze qualitative data in what the research team believed to be an efficient, high-quality way within a team-based mixed methods evaluation study of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) high-school education. The research team employed an iterative approach to qualitative data analysis that combined matrix analyses with Microsoft Excel and the qualitative data analysis software program ATLAS.ti. This approach yielded a number of practical benefits. Selected preliminary results illustrate how this approach can simplify analysis and facilitate data integration.
Handling the qualitative side of mixed methods research
By Terri Dempsey.
September 2018 Open Access Peer Reviewed
Dempsey, T. (2018). Handling the qualitative side of mixed methods research: A multisite, team-based high school education evaluation study. RTI Press. RTI Press Publication No. MR-0039-1809 _URL_
© 2020 RTI International. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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Under the leadership of GEOTEST Ltd, the geotechnical, geological and hydrogeological foundations for the expansion and renovation of 31 kilometres of national road in the canton of Bern have been assessed.
The Swiss national roads are continuously and incrementally being renovated and widened on behalf of the Federal Roads Office FEDRO. For the planning stage of the three most recent sections (N1: Wankdorf to Schönbühl, Schönbühl to Kirchberg / N8: Spiez to Interlaken West), GEOTEST designed the foundations for the planned measures, concepts for the maintenance, and is supervising the implementation.
A comprehensive probing concept was necessary for the baseline survey. On the N1, various bridges had to be widened for the expansion, numerous retaining walls had to be replaced and newly built, and many associated measures, such as slope cuts and noise protection walls, had to be planned. For this purpose, the geotechnical-geological and hydrogeological foundations were surveyed directly on and alongside the national road and summarised in more than 60 structure-specific reports with technical construction-related conclusions and recommendations.
The section of the N8 along Lake Thun includes the hydrogeological-geotechnical ground work for the stability assessment of over 50 structures and retaining walls. In addition, in the section between Faulensee and Leissigen-West, local subsidence of the road has occurred repeatedly for years as a result of the underlying gypsum karst. Using a combination of pile driving, core drilling and geophysical methods (georadar and hybrid seismics), the rock surface and critical structures under the busy national road were localised. In this way, a geological model of the subsurface was created that can be used to localise karst cavities in the subsurface. Future renovation measures can thus be planned and implemented in a more targeted and economical manner.
For the survey of the geotechnical limiting factors, a total of 94 core drillings, 240 pile driving probes, and over 100 laboratory analyses were planned, supervised and evaluated for the three sections of the N1 and N8.


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The Predictive Value of Cytokines on Response to Preoperative Chemoradiotherapy in Patients With Rectal Cancer (CYTORECT)
Rationale and background: Predictive factors are needed to discriminate chemoradiotherapy responders from non-responders and to individualize the treatment regime. Various cytokines play a role in processes affecting tumour growth and metastasis. Furthermore, cytokines might influence treatment response. Various cytokines are abnormally expressed in colorectal cancer patients, are associated with colorectal cancer or determine response to chemoradiotherapy. Therefore the investigators want to investigate whether levels of circulating cytokines could predict response to preoperative chemoradiotherapy in patients with rectal cancer.
Hypothesis: The investigators hypothesis is that the varying levels of circulating cytokines in the blood of rectal cancer patients may predict the response to preoperative chemoradiotherapy.
Study design: This study is an explorative clinical pilot study in which the investigators will collect 4 ml of blood from a selection of rectal cancer patients during a regular venipuncture before, during and after preoperative chemoradiotherapy and before and after surgery. Cytokines will be measured in blood plasma and in tumour and healthy tissue from the resection specimen using multiplex immunoassays. Plasma cytokine measurements will be linked to pathological response to identify which cytokines and corresponding levels can predict response to preoperative chemoradiotherapy for patients with locally advanced rectal cancer. Furthermore, blood plasma cytokine measurements before and after surgery will be compared to evaluate the effect of tumour resection on the immune response. In addition, preoperative blood plasma cytokine levels will be compared with cytokine levels in normal and tumour tissue to test whether circulating cytokine levels are representative for tissue cytokine levels.
Study population: Thirty patients (≥18 years) with locally advanced rectal adenocarcinoma eligible for preoperative chemoradiotherapy (oral capecitabine and 45-50 gray (Gy) in total; fractions of 1.8-2 Gy) and surgery.
Country of recruitment: The Netherlands
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Were most cave painters women? Their hand prints say yes.
Cave paintings around the world often include hand stencils, impressions left by blowing paint around a hand. A new study measured those hands and concludes that 75 percent of hand prints in Spain and France show women's hands, not the hands of men or boys as has long been assumed.
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 Male and female hands are different both in size and in the ratio between the fingers. These differences enabled Dean Snow of Penn State to examine hand stencils in cave paintings (the outline impression of a hand left by blown paint) and determine that most of the measurable hand prints came from women, not men or boys.
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Look at your hands. Is your ring finger longer than your index finger? And is your pinkie finger almost as long as your ring finger? If you answered yes to both questions, you're probably a man. (That or you're a woman with "man hands.")
The role of finger ratios to sex has been known for years, but a new study has taken that conclusion and pushed it in an unexpected direction: underground. Specifically, into caves that were painted about 30,000 years ago.
Ancient humans made hand prints or hand stencils on every inhabited continent in the world, but these cave paintings have always been attributed to men, because they're often associated with paintings of the creatures that early humans hunted, and probably for other reasons related to latent sexism. Smaller hands were attributed to young men or boys.
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"When I first became aware of the digit ratio measure, by reading John Manning's book," says Dean Snow, an emeritus anthropology professor at Pennsylvania State University, "I walked over to the shelf and pulled off a book that's been sitting there for 40 years. I opened the flyleaf and there was a hand stencil from the cave at Pech-Merle, which I ended up using in my work. If John were anywhere near right, that was a woman's hand. It was not masculine at all. And so I thought, 'Wow, there were women down there! At least one. I wonder how many more there were?'"
Because physical traits differ with geography, Dr. Snow limited his study to caves in northern Europe. He also gathered hand measurements from over a hundred students of northern-European ethnicity, to create a modern benchmark. He found that hands fall along a continuum, from very dainty, feminine hands to very masculine hands, with a big grey area in between. He eventually developed a two-step process to predict sex just based on hand prints.
First, measure the lengths of the fingers and palm, and put the numbers into a formula Snow developed. That sorted modern hands into male and female with about 80 percent accuracy. But adolescent males, whose hands haven't reached full size, too often got lumped in with women, so Snow added a second step: look at the ratios between the fingers.
For women, the index and ring finger are often the same length, though occasionally the pointer is longer. For men, the ring finger is often noticeably longer. Then compare the pinkie to the others. In most males, young or old, the pinkie is nearly as long as the ring finger, extending up past the ring finger's highest knuckle. In women, the pinkie can be a good inch or so shorter than the ring finger.
The second step alone could distinguish young men from women with 60 percent accuracy, which Snow acknowledges is more ambiguous than he'd like. But then he found something even more surprising: the overlap between male and female hands is a modern problem.
Back in the Upper Paleolithic, physical differences between males and females – what scientists call "sexual dimorphism" – was more pronounced than it is today.
"If you scale all hands in a modern sample on a single scale, they scale from very, very feminine to very, very, masculine, and there's a great deal of overlap in the middle," Snow explains, "but when I plotted the cases from the caves against the modern distribution of several hundred individuals, the cave specimens all came out at the very ends – and in some cases beyond the ends – of the modern range of differences between males and females."
Snow visited 11 cave regions across France and Spain, focusing on caves famous for their numerous hand stencils. Unfortunately for anthropologists, blowing paint around a hand doesn't always leave a precise print of the hand, plus thirty or forty thousand years of erosion have damaged most of the samples. Of the hundreds of hand prints he examined, Snow was able to take precise, reproducible measurements of just 32, including five from Pech-Merle, the site whose photograph had launched his study.
"Now, 32 doesn't sound like a very big sample," Snow acknowledges, "but it's actually pretty big compared to the sample sizes archaeologists are often dealing with." Plus, traveling around Europe isn't always cheap: "It was as many as I could get with the amount of funding I had."
So what did he find? Only 10 percent of the hand prints on cave walls in Spain and France were left by men, and another 15 percent came from adolescent males. Fully 75 percent of the hand prints on cave walls were female.
Traditional explanations for the hand prints have focused on hunting or perhaps shamanism, but the prevalence of women's hands has reopened the question of what they mean. One researcher has suggested that these could relate to midwifery or fertility, either of humans or the animals drawn on the cave walls. But it could be that women were more involved in hunting and religious rituals than previously thought.
Snow is less captivated by the "interesting but still speculative ideas about what it might all mean," instead focusing on the groundbreaking recent discovery that cave paintings can be given surprisingly precise ages
"Are these hand stencils the same age as the animals they surround, or not? Are all the hand stencils from one part of the upper Paleolithic, or are they distributed across the whole time range? We don't know – yet."
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Collaborative Action Research (CAR) uses research to critically examine current arrangements, make changes based on evidence and monitor the impact of those changes.
At its core, CAR should involve two or more organisations working together, to share ideas and perspectives, for the accomplishment of a shared goal.
In education, CAR can help to improve student learning and individual and wider professional practice, and combat professional isolation.
It has three steps:
- Defining the problem (what are we trying to accomplish?)
- Detailing the anticipated outcome (how will we know that a change is an improvement?)
- Developing sustainable models of change (what change can we then make that will result in improvement?)
The Scottish Attainment Challenge is about achieving equity in education, ensuring every child has the same opportunity to succeed.
It focuses on improvement activity in literacy, numeracy and health and wellbeing in specific areas of Scotland:
- West Dunbartonshire
- North Ayrshire
- North Lanarkshire
- East Ayrshire
A full explanation is available on the Scottish Government website.
The Pupil Equity Fund (PEF) is aimed at closing the poverty-related attainment gap.
It is given directly to schools and is spent at the discretion of the head teacher working in partnership with their local authority. Some 95 percent of schools in Scotland have been given funding for pupils in Primary 1 to S3 known to be eligible for free school meals.
The RICs are 'virtual' bodies, formed with the aim of improving education and closing the poverty-related attainment gap in the schools in their areas.
They work together to give advice and support to schools, and to share examples of good work across local authority borders. There are six RICs in Scotland:
- Forth Valley and West Lothian Collaborative
- Northern Alliance
- South East Improvement Collaborative (
- South West Collaborative
- Tayside Regional Improvement
- West Partnership.
Those living in poverty often face the greatest challenge to reach their full potential.
Thanks to the Child Poverty (Scotland) Act 2017, Scotland has statutory targets to reduce the number of children experiencing the damaging effects of poverty by 2030.


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Libertad o Muerte! represents the wars of independence of the Spanish Colonies in America. A turn-based (each turn being 6 months of real time) game, with a huge map of Latin America and nearby regions.
Players can take control of the Patriots or the Royalists, and guide them through _PHONE_ to achieve their military objectives, managing military resources, armies and fleets and starting or reacting to events. Cunning play of the event cards received each turn will be critical to final success.
- Huge map divided into areas covering all of South America, Central America and the Caribbean, as well as remote locations such as, Cádiz, California, Texas and part of the USA in 1810.
- Hundred of land and naval units depicting historical leaders and forces.
- Most important cities and forts in the represented regions.
- Military Resources Production and Management.
- Two deck of cards, one for each player, cards represent historical events and also bring into play various type of assets and tricks (economics, combat, new troops, fate, etc…).
- Mexico: Covers the rebellion in Mexico, Texas and Florida _PHONE_
- La Plata _PHONE_: Covers the rebellion in the Viceroyalty of Peru and the Viceroyalty of La Plata.
- Bolivar: Covers the rebellion in the Viceroyalty of Nueva Granada and part of Peru. 1810. 1822
- Grand Campaign _PHONE_: The full campaign unifying the rest of scenarios.
- ¡Early Years! _PHONE_: A medium-sized campaign, its the Grand Campaing limited to the first 5 years of the war.
Two players, either in hot seat or PBEM mode. Solo play versus the AI.
According to the scenario, from 4h00 to many hours when playing the Grand Campaign.


Apama 10.3 | Apama Documentation | Using Apama with Software AG Designer | Using Query Designer | Creating queries in Query Designer | Adding query parameters

Adding query parameters
A query can specify one or more parameters. Parameters enable a query definition to function as a template for multiple query instances. A query that defines parameters is referred to as a parameterized query. An instance of a parameterized query is referred to as a parameterization.
A parameterized query offers the following benefits:
*Patterns of interest may be customized from a single generic query. This can significantly reduce the amount of code that needs to be written and maintained.
*Parameterizations exist only at runtime. There is no need to maintain a file for each instance.
*Parameters can be used throughout the query in which they are defined. For example, you can use them in the definition of inputs, in find actions, and in user-defined actions. Values do not need to be hardcoded.
You can add zero, one, or more parameters to a query.
For more information about how the use of parameters affect queries, see Query lifetime.
* To add a parameter to a query
1. In the Query Designer Parameters pane, click the plus sign to add a new parameter.
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A Parvenu is a person that is a relative newcomer to a socioeconomic class. The word derives from the French language; it is the past participle of the verb parvenir (to reach, to arrive, to manage to do something).
The word "parvenu" typically describes a person who recently ascended the social ladder, especially a nouveau riche or "new money" individual. The famous Molly Brown, who survived the Titanic sinking in 1912, was considered a "new money" individual due to her impoverished, Irish immigrant roots and lack of social pedigree.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines a parvenu as: "A person from a humble background who has rapidly gained wealth or an influential social position; a nouveau riche; an upstart, a social climber. Also in extended use. (Generally used with the implication that the person concerned is unsuited to the new social position, esp. through lacking the necessary manners or accomplishments.)"
The term designates individuals not socially accepted by individuals already established in their new class. It is a form of classism.
See also the short story called Parvenue by Mary Shelley.
Several examples might include athletic and entertainment professionals born and raised in poverty and suddenly finding themselves with significantly higher sources of income due to their new-found celebrity status. The established old money factions of society often choose to exclude these individuals from their ranks, with the argument that such people are tasteless in their spending and use their wealth to flaunt their economic standing rather than practice philanthropy, maintain discretion, and otherwise acquiesce to the accepted behavior of the social class.
The Bonaparte family were considered parvenu royalty by other royal families of Europe. Napoleon III tried to marry into Swedish and German royalty, but was unsuccessful due to his status as parvenu. Other examples may have worked their way up the ladder, originally poor immigrants to the United States. Originally immigrant workers, they would have found themselves able to take advantage of the growing opportunities in the U.S., moving on to become civil servants, "white collar" (business/office) workers and finally to the "gentry". Such an example might be John Jacob Astor, whose family once skinned rabbits for a livingTemplate:Fact and went on to build such icons of New York City as the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel with his brother. Many believe this phenomenon is not as common in Europe due to the centuries old, well-established social hierarchy of European countries, nor is it as common in present-day U.S. due to largely the same reasons.
 - In the novel, The Great Gatsby, Gatsby represents the newly rich, through his illicit activities including selling bootleg liqueur, and his decadent parties.
 - In The Cherry Orchard, Gayev regards Lophakhin as a parvenu, as many critics interpret his remarks.
 - Pip from Dickens' Great Expectations would be considered a parvenu by many.
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The Cape wagtail (Motacilla capensis), also known as Wells's wagtail, is a small insectivorous bird which is widespread in southern Africa. It frequents water's edge, lawns and gardens. It is a mostly resident, territorial species, but has been known to undertake limited altitudinal migration or form flocks outside of the breeding season.[3] Like other wagtails they are passerine birds of the family Motacillidae, which also includes the pipits and longclaws.
Cape wagtail
M. c. wellsi at Lake Bunyonyi, Uganda
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Motacillidae
Genus: Motacilla
Species:
M. capensis
Binomial name
Motacilla capensis
Range, showing subspecies:
 M. capensis wellsi
 M. capensis simplicissima
 M. capensis capensis
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In 1760, French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the Cape wagtail in his Ornithologie based on a specimen collected from the Cape of Good Hope. He used the French name La bergeronette du Cap de Bonne Espérance and the Latin Motacilla Capitis Bonae Spei.[4] Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and are not recognised by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature.[5] When in 1766 the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his Systema Naturae for the twelfth edition, he added 240 species that had been previously described by Brisson.[5] One of these was the Cape wagtail. Linnaeus included a brief description, coined the binomial name Motacilla capensis and cited Brisson's work.[6] The genus Motacilla had been introduced in 1758 by Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae.[7] The specific name capensis denotes the Cape of Good Hope.[8]
Three subspecies, occurring in three distinct regions[3] are currently recognised:[9]
 - M. c. simplicissima Neumann, 1929 — Angola to southeastern DRC, Zambia, the Caprivi Strip, northern Botswana and western Zimbabwe;
 - M. c. capensis Linnaeus, 1766common Cape wagtail; Namibia, South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini, Zimbabwe and central Mozambique;
 - M. c. wellsi Ogilvie-Grant, 1911 — Highlands of the eastern DRC to Uganda and Kenya.
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The Cape wagtail has a dull plumage and a relatively short tail, with olive grey breast and face, with a tan supercilium and dark lores. The underparts are creamy white and may show a faint pinkish wash on the lower breast and belly. The breast band is dusky and the sides of the breast and the flanks are olive-grey. The brownish black wings have pale edges to the feathers and the tail is blackish with the two outer tail feathers being white. The juveniles are similar to the adults but browner above and yellower below.[10] There is no colour or plumage distinction between males and females. The Wagtail also has an iconic black triangle on its chest.
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M. c. capensis on the South African south coast
Cape wagtails are found in eastern and southern Africa from Uganda, the eastern DRCongo and Kenya, through Zambia and Angola to southern Africa, south to the Western Cape and the Cape of Good Hope.[11]
Cape wagtails can be found in almost any habitat that has open ground adjacent to water, and also along the rocky coastline, in farms, villages, cultivated land, parks, gardens and urban centres.[11] In east Africa it is generally found above 2,000 m (6,600 ft) in altitude.[10]
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The Cape wagtail's main food is invertebrates. Foraging occurs mainly on the ground or in shallow water, and they will consume carrion. It has been observed feeding on insects attracted by lights or caught in car radiators. It has also been recorded as eating fiddler crabs, sandhoppers, snails, ticks, tadpoles, small fish, small chameleons and human food.[11]
The Cape wagtail is a monogamous, territorial solitary nester, and breeding pairs stay together over a number of breeding seasons. Like many territorial birds, the males will fiercely attack their own reflection when seen in mirrors or windows. The nest is built by both sexes and consists of a cup made of a wide range of materials, both natural and artificial, which is lined with hair, rootlets, wool and feathers. The nest is situated in a recess within a steep bank, tree, or bush, or in a man-made location such as a hole in a wall, a pot plant, or a bridge. It breeds all year round but, egg-laying peaks from July until December (mid-winter to early summer). Between one and five eggs are laid, which both parents take turns incubating for 13–15 days. Once hatched, the chicks are fed by both parents, until they leave the nest after 14–18 days. Once fledged, the adults continue to feed them for another 20–25 days, and the young become fully independent around 44 days - 60 days after fledging.[11]
It has been recorded as host of the following brood parasites: Diderick cuckoo (Chrysococcyx caprius), Jacobin cuckoo (Clamator jacobinus), and Levaillant's cuckoo (Clamator levaillantii). Predators include the rufous-breasted sparrowhawk (Accipter rufiventris), as well as cats and rats (Rattus spp).[11]
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References
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 1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Motacilla capensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22718371A94577804. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22718371A94577804.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
 2. ^ "Cape Wagtail Motacilla capensis Linnaeus, 1766". Avibase. Denis Lepage. Retrieved 22 October 2016.
 3. ^ a b c d Hockey, P. A. R.; Dean, W. R. J.; Ryan, P. G. (2005). Roberts Birds of Southern Africa (7th ed.). Cape Town: Trustees of the John Voelcker Bird Book Fund. pp. 1091–1092. ISBN 0-620-34053-3.
 4. ^ Brisson, Mathurin Jacques (1760). Ornithologie, ou, Méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes & leurs variétés (in French and Latin). Vol. 3. Paris: Jean-Baptiste Bauche. pp. 476–478, Plate 25 fig 3. The two stars (**) at the start of the section indicates that Brisson based his description on the examination of a specimen.
 5. ^ a b Allen, J.A. (1910). "Collation of Brisson's genera of birds with those of Linnaeus". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 28: 317–335. hdl:2246/678.
 6. ^ Linnaeus, Carl (1766). Systema naturae : per regna tria natura, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis (in Latin). Vol. 1, Part 1 (12th ed.). Holmiae (Stockholm): Laurentii Salvii. p. 333.
 7. ^ Linnaeus, Carl (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis (in Latin). Vol. 1 (10th ed.). Holmiae:Laurentii Salvii. p. 184.
 8. ^ Jobling, J.A. (2018). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
 9. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Waxbills, parrotfinches, munias, whydahs, Olive Warbler, accentors, pipits". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
 10. ^ a b Zimmerman, Dale A.; Turner, Donald A.; Pearson, David J. (1996). Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania. Helm. pp. 505–506. ISBN 0-7136-3968-7.
 11. ^ a b c d e "Motacilla capensis (Cape wagtail)". Biodiversity Explorer. I


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1. Begin with a slightly melted ice cube in your mouth. Kiss your guy and pass it back and forth. As it gets smaller and smaller, hide it in different places so he has to try to find it with his tongue.
2. Use the ice cube to trace a chilly path along his naked body and then follow it with your tongue. The temp change will heighten his pleasure, while the anticipation of watching where your lips go will send him over the edge.
3. Put the ice in your man's hand and guide it so that he draws circles around the outside of your breasts, slowly working his way toward your nipples.
4. While giving your guy oral, alternate putting your lips over his penis and lightly rubbing his shaft with the ice cube. The combination of your warm mouth and chilly temperature will make his jaw drop.
5. Ask him to touch you with it over your thin-skinned spots: wrists, inner elbow, behind your knees. Stimulating those sensitive areas feels so sensual.
6. When your guy is going down on you, have him alternate between lightly touching your clitoris with the ice and using his mouth and tongue. If you're extra-sensitive down there, try it with your underwear on.
7. Place the ice cube between your breasts and run it back and forth so that your skin feels cool and wet, then guide your man's penis between them for a hands-free massage.
8. Have him lightly run the ice cube along the soles and the perimeter of your feet. Believe it or not, the area of the brain that processes touch down there is nearby the zone that registers sensations to your genitals, speeding up your arousal.
9. Give your guy a sexy scalp rub with one hand and use the other to trail the ice along his hairline and temples, all the way down to the base of his neck.
10. Post-sex, slowly move the ice cube across your guy's back for a frisky cooldown, then ask him to return the favor.
Sources: Eric Garrison, certified sex counselor and author of Mastering Multiple Position Sex; Patti Britton, PhD, author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Sensual Massage


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Below the "License key" link are links to the documentation page you are reading now. (They are for those who didn't come here first)
 - At the bottom of the Downloads page is the Installation Packages drop-down menu. From the menu, choose your distribution, release #, and architecture. Then click "view files":
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 - You will now see your chosen tarball. In this case, it would look like this:
betterlinux-install-1.0.1-1-centos64-x86_64.tar.gz
 - Download the tarball by clicking the "Download" button next to it:
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 - Move the License Key file and tarball to your server (see below for an easy way to do this).
NOTE: Depending on your browser, the license key file may appear as either of these:
license.key
license.key.txt
The name of the license key file will not affect its function provided the name is consistently used and the file's contents are accurate.
Here is one easy way to get the tarball and license file onto your server:
 - First, move the tarball to your server and unpack it since it creates the directory where you will put your license file.
You can pull the tarball directly to the server:
 - Right click on the tarball link in Downloads and copy the url address:
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 - In any directory on your server, paste the copied link after the wget command. It will look like this:
wget _URL_
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 - Hit return and the tarball will download from the BetterLinux repository.
 - Unpack the tarball: (this will create a long list of files)
tar -xvf betterlinux-install-1.0.1-1-centos64-x86_64.tar.gz
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 - Recall that unpacking the tarball creates a new directory in the same directory where you unpack it. It's called .../betterlinux-install-1.0.1-1. Put the license key file (license.key) into this new directory.
NOTE: If it's easier, instead of moving the file, you can just make a new file called license.key and then copy and paste the license key text into it, like this:
 - Change directory to .../betterlinux-install-1.0.1-1
 - Using vi, create a file in this directory called license.key:
vi license.key
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 - When you hit enter, a file by that name is created and opened.
 - Type i, which starts input mode (allowing you to enter text).
 - Copy and paste the contents of your downloaded license key file into this new file:
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 - Still in vi, hit escape (esc) to exit input mode and re-enter command mode.
 - Type :x and hit enter. (this saves and exits vi)
You are now ready to run the install program:
In the .../betterlinux-install-1.0.1-1 directory, among other files you will see bl-install* and bl-cpanel-install*:
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 - Even though you are installing BetterLinux on a cPanel box, you have to run bl-install* first. If cPanel is on your box, the installer will auto-detect it and offer to install bl-cpanel-install* for you automatically after bl-install* runs.
 - From within the .../betterlinux-install-1.0.1-1 directory, run bl-install* with the license key file right after it, like this: (remember to type your license key file name correctly if it has a different name)
./bl-install-1.0.1-1 license.key
 - When this portion of the install completes, you will see this notice:
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 - Before rebooting, you are given a chance to run the cPanel portion of the installer. Say "y" to this and hit enter. This will install cPanel configuration scripts and optionally replace MySQL with the BetterLinux version.
 - If you say no, you can run the bl-cpanel-install script after the bl-install script completes. This is done by running the following command:
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 - As the cPanel configuration script runs, you are now prompted to answer a series of questions. You can see these questions with explanations here: Bl-cpanel-install options and prompts.
 - After responding to all prompts and confirming your responses, you will have successfully configured BetterLinux. Cpud, iothrottled, and CloakFS will be running on the system.
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 - When BetterLinux 1.0.1-1 appears in your shopping cart, click the "Checkout" link:
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 - Enter your personal information, create a password, and agree to terms of service. Then click "Complete Order."
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 - You are now taken to the "Order Complete" page:
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 - Here, you are given your order number, which you will need to submit support tickets from the client area. You are also given notice that your email confirmation is on its way.
 - Open your BetterLinux welcome email. It includes your email verification link and login information. Please note that your link will expire if not used quickly. The verification takes you to the Downloads page where you will be automatically logged into your account: (if you are not logged in for some reason, log in now)
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 - If you are not automatically taken to the downloads page, click on the "Continue to Downloads" button at the bottom of the Order Complete page:
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 - If you click on the "Continue to Downloads" button before verifying your email address, you will be taken to the Email Verification page: (You will not be able to go beyond this point without verifying your email)
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 - On the Downloads page, click the "License key" link to download your license key: (you'll see what to do with it momentarily)
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Below the "License key" link are links to the documentation page you are reading now. (They are for those who didn't come here first)
 - At the bottom of the Downloads page is the Installation Packages drop-down menu. From the menu, choose your distribution, release #, and architecture. Then click "view files":
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 - You will now see your chosen tarball. In this case, it would look like this:
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 - Download the tarball by clicking the "Download" button next to it:
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 - Move the License Key file and tarball to your server (see below for an easy way to do this).
NOTE: Depending on your browser, the license key file may appear as either of these:
license.key
license.key.txt
The name of the license key file will not affect its function provided the name is consistently used and the file's contents are accurate.
Here is one easy way to get the tarball and license file onto your server:
 - First, move the tarball to your server and unpack it since it creates the directory where you will put your license file.
You can pull the tarball directly to the server:
 - Right click on the tarball link in Downloads and copy the url address:
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 - Hit return and the tarball will download from the BetterLinux repository.
 - Unpack the tarball: (this will create a long list of files)
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 - Recall that unpacking the tarball creates a new directory in the same directory where you unpack it. It's called .../betterlinux-install-1.0.1-1. Put the license key file (license.key) into this new directory.
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If you have a medical emergency, please contact your health care provider or go to the nearest emergency room.
Children and adolescents may suffer psychological trauma as a result of disease, specifically the type of disease, epidemic, or pandemic which arises suddenly, spreads rapidly and widely, results in death, and may not have a known cure. As there is daily news coverage regarding potential health risks from occurrences of H1N1(swine flu), SARS (severe acute respiratory disease), West Nile Virus, and others, the NCTSN will be compiling and providing information on several diseases to address the common questions of parents and families.
The Psychological First Aid Field Operations Guide, 2nd edition (PFA), developed by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network and the National Center for PTSD, can assist mental health and other practitioners intervening with children and families exposed to disasters, including epidemics. Access PFA in English, Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese by clicking here.
The CDC web site features comprehensive information on other infectious diseases, including influenza, SARS, bird flu, H1N1(swine flu) and West Nile Virus. The Department of Health and Human Services Pandemic Flu.gov site provides government-wide information on influenza outbreaks.
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Suppose you have to specify the moment in time when a given event occurred, a "zero time". The record must be accurate to the minute, and be obtainable even after thousands of years. All the measures of time we currently have are relative to a well defined zero, but the zero is not easy to backtrack exactly.
One possibility would be to take a sample of Carbon with a well defined, very accurate amount of 14C, and say: the event occurred when the 14C was x%. At any time, measuring the rate of decay, you would know when the event occurred. This however, requires a physical entity to measure, which may be lost.
Another way would be to give the time lapsed after a well defined series of solar eclipses. In order to define precisely the context, you would say a list of (say) five consecutive eclipses and the places on Earth where they were total, and then a time gap from the last of the set. At any time in the future, you can backtrack the specified conditions into a celestial mechanics program and find when the event occurred.
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Advanced Systems Teaching (ASysT) LabThe ASysT lab is organised around 64-bit computers (''U4600'') based on a 100 MHz MIPS R4700 processor. The U4600 was developed by Kevin Elphinstone (former UNSW PhD student) and Dave Johnson. It is especially designed to allow experimentation with operating systems code. Presently, these machines run the L4 microkernel.
Technical details:The nodes are based on a locally designed and manufactured ATX form factor motherboard. The motherboard features:-
The nodes are hosted on UNIX computers, presently PC's running Solaris. These contain a development environment which allows you to compile code, link it with the L4 microkernel, and download it to the U4600 via ethernet. The hosts also interface to the serial port on the U4600 for console I/O.
How to use:Make sure that ~cs9242/bin is in your PATH, and that the environment ARCH is set to pc.i86.linux. The former is normally achieved by using the newclass command, the latter is set up automatically by the default shell initialisation files. Also make sure that you are using GNU make (this is also ensured by the default initialisation files).
Use the Makefiles supplied with the examples (like the one in ~cs9242/public_html/src/hello_world/). Typing
Note: make must be done locally on the host machine connected to your U4600, or the boot image will end up in the wrong boot directory.
You also need to run a terminal emulator on the host to be able to talk to the U4600. Use the command
Turn on the U4600, you should get another greeting message and a
If you do not get the prompt, some program is actually executing on the U4600. Press the INTERRUPT button (the smaller of the two buttons on the box) for about 1/2 second, and you should get a ''KDBG>'' prompt. Type
If you type
Note that you are running an operating system, which is not expected to terminate. To stop execution, hit the INTERRRUPT key (reset button) on the U4600. This will get you into the L4 kernel debugger, which is unlikely to be of much help for you (but if you want to try, it is documented in Appendix C of the L4 Reference Manual). However, you can then type
Alternatively you can hit Control-D when in the kernel debugger. This will exit the debugger and resume the execution of the interrupted code.
A failed assertion (assert(0)) has the same effect as hitting the interrupt key. Alternatively, you can send a BREAK from the terminal emulator (Misc->Break).
If you INTERRUPT the U4600 but it doesn't get into the kernel debugger, you may have found a bug in our L4 microkernel. Please report it to us.
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The mass sensing of adsorbed molecules in sub-picogram sample with ultrathin silicon resonator is discussed. The hydrogen storage capacity of a small amount of carbon nanotubes (CNT) which are mounted on an ultrathin resonator is measured from the resonant frequency change. It is believed that this technique will provide a new sensing method to investigate the adsorption characteristics of nanoscaled materials, and further improvements of the resonating sensor will make ultimate sensing enabled to measure the adsorption characteristics of even one nanostructure.
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Let $A$, $B$ and $C$ be discrete countable groups. Let $\alpha$ be an action of $A$ on $B$ and let $\beta$ be an action of $B$ on $C$.
Question Does there always exist a group $G$ which has $A$, $B$ and $C$ as subgroups and such that the group generated by $A$ and $B$ is $A\ltimes B$ and the group generated by $B$ and $C$ is $B\ltimes C$?
One obvious situation when such a group $G$ exists is when the action $\beta$ extends to an action of $A\ltimes B$. Then we can take $G=(A\ltimes B)\ltimes C$. But I'm interested in situations when $\beta$ doesn't extend.
For example take $A$ to be the infinite cyclic group with generator $t$, $B$ to be the free group on infinitely many generators indexed by $\mathbb Z$ (denote the generators by $g_n, n\in \mathbb Z$), and $C$ to be the rational numbers. Let $g_n$ act on $C$ by multiplication by $n$ if $n\neq 0$ and by identity for $n=0$, and let $t$ act on $B$ by sending $g_n$ to $g_{n+1}$.
Question In this specific situation does there exist $G$ as above?
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The solution below via HNN-extensions shows this works in general, by appealing to 'big' groups. An interesting further question is "When does there exist a group $G$ as above, generated by $A, B$ and $C$?" – Jonathan Kiehlmann Jul 7 '11 at 11:55
The amalgamated product is generated by $A,B,C$. You probably meant something else. – Mark Sapir Jul 7 '11 at 13:24
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The answer to the specific question is "yes". Let $U$ be the semidirect product of $C$ and $B$. Then as $G$, you take the HNN extension of $U$ with the free letter $t$ and associated subgroups equal to $B$, with the automorphism provided by the shift of generators. The result then follows from the usual properties of HNN extensions. The same argument applies in general when $A$ is cyclic.
In general you can take the semidirect products and take their amalgamated product with amalgamated subgroup $B$.
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From safe field bus to real time Ethernet system
Since the introduction of the first safe field bus system SafetyBUS p into the market in1999, safety engineering applications in compliance with the machinery directive are possible by means of a software based communication system. SafetyNET p is the result of the consistent further development of SafetyBUS p and features far greater performance and function.
Whilst the idea of diverse applications using the traditional field bus with its small spectrum is unattractive, the same proposition using Ethernet evokes a completely different response. With safety related applications, the reaction time required to control a potentially dangerous action in particular was often a decisive factor. Thanks to the characteristically 100 times greater spectrum in comparison to the conventional field bus, it technologically now makes more sense to combine the use of various services. The result of consistent development of the well known field bus SafetyNET p, it was always designed to operate as a publisher-subscriber network and therefore does not require a control centre. This enables modular system architecture and individually designable sub-network.
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Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) images of Delaware Bay, Chesapeake Bay, and the Appalachian Mountains acquired on March 24, 2000 during Terra orbit 1417. The large image on the right was taken by the MISR camera viewing straight down (nadir). The series of smaller images, from top to bottom, respectively, were taken by cameras viewing 70.5 degrees forward, 45.6 degrees forward, 45.6 degrees aftward, and 70.5 degrees aftward of nadir. These images cover the environs of Newark, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, and Richmond. Differences in brightness, color, and contrast as a function of view angle are visible over both land and water. Scientists are using MISR data to monitor changes in clouds, Earth's surface, and pollution particles in the air, and to assess their impact on climate.
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Laser scanner based collision prevention system for autonomous agricultural tractor
Aalto University, Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Otaniementie 17, 02150 Espoo, Finland; e-mail: _EMAIL_
In manned agricultural vehicles, the automated systems assist the driver by reducing the workload. This is achieved e.g. by using an automatic guidance system to steer the tractor along the desired path. However, increasing automation tends to cause a reduction of awareness, so risks to collide obstacles in the field are higher. In this study, an autonomous tractor was equipped with front side laserscanner (LIDAR) to sense the environment in front. The laserscanner scans the environment at 50 Hz rate. The theoretical maximum range of the sensor is 25 m, but it was found in the tests, that in agricultural field conditions, the feasible range is not more than 7 m, due to the sunlight disturbance. Agricultural vehicles weigh tons, so the deceleration is limited and the limited range causes challenges to detect the obstacle and decelerate without colliding it. The developed algorithm is able to detect solid objects, like electricity poles in the trajectory. The deceleration algorithm is based on the known dynamics and actuator delays of the tractor locomotion system, by taking into account the maximum deceleration rate. In field tests, the system was evaluated in grass fields. In the first test, the system was tested with real electricity poles with no implement. In the second test, the system was tested with a mower and by using artificial obstacles placed into the grass. The system was able to detect the obstacles with high accuracy and stop precisely, but in the corners of the field the system caused false positives when the sensor was sensing beyond the edges of the field plot.


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Charles Nephi Watkins was born in England, the oldest of five children. His parents moved to first to New York City soon after he was born and then on to St. Louis, Missouri where his father died in 1863, when Charles was about 8 years old. His widowed mother lived in St. Louis for several years before she remarried in 1867. In the early 1870's Charles' family, including his maternal grandparents, moved west to the Bear Lake area.
Charles married Emily Horsley in the Logan Temple in 1884. They had no children.
In 1891 when Jacob Spori resigned as principal of Bannock Academy, Karl G. Maeser, General Superintendent of Church Schools, sent Charles N. Watkins as a replacement. Charles was not as well educated or as highly trained as Spori, but he worked hard to build and maintain the school. He strove to up hold the educational and spiritual standards set by Jacob Spori. The Academy continued to struggle to pay its way. There was only one other teacher at the school, so Charles was involved not only with administering the academy, but also with teaching on a full-time basis. He served until 1894 when he resigned as principal for health reasons, but continued to teach at the academy until 1896.
Charles died in 1896 and is buried in Paris, Idaho.
Emily Horsley Watkins
Emily Horsley Watkins was born in Providence, a small town in Cache Valley of northern Utah. Her parents were from Birmingham, England. They joined the Church and came to Utah in 1864. By 1866, the family had settled in Cache Valley. They lived in this area for a few years before moving north to Paris, Idaho in 1871. Emily was the fourth of ten children.
Emily married Charles N. Watkins in the Logan Temple in 1884. They had no children. She died in 1907.
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The approach is led to selection of a design and theoretical definition of inertial catapult parameters. At use of an inertial drive carriage motion implements at the maximum g-load on all way of boost that ensures it uniformly accelerated motion and reaching in the end of a way on directing maximum a velocity of flight UAV at limitations on longitudinal g-loads.
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Bud Mars was the first man to fly an airplane in Hawaii on December 31, 1910. Piloting a Curtiss B-18 biplane, he flew to 500-feet over Moanalua Polo Field, Oahu. He repeated the flight the next day to the thrill of thousands of spectators.
- The Curtiss B-18 biplane made of spruce, ash, bamboo, steel tubing and silk was piloted by J. C. Bud Mars. Mars took nine seconds to get airborne and climbed to 500 ft before landing safely.
- Mars is interviewed before his historic flight at Moanalua Polo Field. "I am proud to have been the first man to fly over these beautiful islands." Honolulu Advertiser 1-1-1911
- Bud Mars' biplane on the grass at Moanalua Field where approximately 3,000 people witnessed the first flight of a heavier than air machine over Hawaii soil.
- Residents gather to watch the first flight in Hawaii by Bud Mars
- As the biplane with its gigantic wings swept over the grass field and rose into the air there was a general whoop of exultation and spontaneous applause from spectators.
- Mars made several flights that day.
- Spectators lined the polo field as Mars flew over the field.
- JC Bud Mars' biplane on his history making flight was an entirely new machine which had never been in the air before. It was christened Skylark after its maiden flight.
- "The biplane swooped down like a monstrous hawk charging on its prey..." Honolulu Advertiser 1/1/1911
- Promoters sold tickets to Honolulu spectators for $1 each. Some 3,000 people paid the administrative charge, and hundreds of others watched from nearby hillsides.
- Mars landed in the center of the polo field after the flight and was interviewed and photographed by the press.
- Mars was disgusted that so many viewed his flight without paying. He left the islands in early January 1911 for Asia, discouraged that he hadn't covered his costs.


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Description: BACKGROUND Computing devices are routinely used at work, at home, and everywhere else. Computing devices advantageously enable electronic communication, data sharing (e.g., documents, pictures, music, film, etc.), the use of application-specific software,and access to information for electronic commerce through the Internet and other computer networks. The term computing device generally refers to desktop computers, laptop computers, mobile computing devices (e.g., personal digital assistants (PDAs), cell-phones, etc.), as well as any other type of computer system. A computing devicetypically includes a processor and a memory as well as other types of electronic devices, such as, a disk drive. A disk drive is composed of many different components that are assembled during a manufacturing process. For example, disk drives typically employ a moveable head actuator to frequently access large amounts of data stored on a disk. Aconventional disk drive has a head disk assembly ("HDA") including at least one magnetic disk ("disk"), a disk clamp to mount the disk to a spindle motor that rapidly rotates the disk, and a head stack assembly ("HSA") that includes a moveable actuatorarm and a head gimbal assembly ("HGA") with a moveable transducer head for reading and writing data. The HSA forms part of a servo control system that positions the moveable head over a particular track on the disk to read or write information from andto that track, respectively. An important part of the disk drive manufacturing process is to ensure that when disk drives components are assembled together that the amount of debris and contamination particles is kept to a minimum. Contamination particles and debris maycome from misplaced components, scraping, and from the manufacturing devices themselves, such as, the drivers that connect screws to components of the disk drive to assemble the disk drive. Unfortunately, contamination particles and debris may createdefects in the disk media or in