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Halal and kosher meat will have to be labelled in a victory for animal welfare campaigners.
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Animals slaughtered to be compliant with kosher and halal rules are often killed without being stunned first and have their throats slit.
At the moment, it is not compulsory to label meat as halal, so campaigners have argued that those who eat the products and care about animal welfare should be able to make the choice to buy meat killed in a more humane way.
The Bill is currently in the early stages and is the subject of a public consultation. But ministers have privately said they aim to bring in the law – and that it is supported by the majority of the British public.
Victoria Prentis, minister for farming, fisheries and food, said: 'As a nation, we care enormously about animal welfare and increasingly about environmental standards.
'Consumer information and labelling are part of the toolbox that we have when it comes to creating a better food system for people and the planet. It is something that we will be considering in detail with industry and stakeholders in the weeks and months ahead.'
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The Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation (CAWF), which the Prime Minister's wife Carrie Johnson has long been a patron of, has been calling for this policy change for years.
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text: The incidence of primary intracranial tumors in Manitoba, Canada was reviewed. From 1980 through 1985, 657 tumors were diagnosed. The crude incidence rates were 10.2/100,000 for males and 10.8/100,000 for females. The three most common tumors were: astrocytoma 281 (43%), meningioma 145 (22%), and pituitary adenoma 111 (17%). Average annual incidence rates for all tumors showed a bimodal distribution with one peak in the 0-4 age group (4.2/100,000), and the other in the 60-69 age group (27.2/100,000). For malignant astrocytoma, the age-specific annual incidence rate increased to the seventh decade where it reached a peak of 14.3/100,000. The incidence of benign astrocytoma remained relatively constant with age at 1.1/100,000. The annual incidence of meningioma increased with age up to the eighth decade reaching 7.2/100,000. Of the 145 meningiomas, 56 (39%) were meningotheliomatous, 48 (33%) transitional, 10 (7%) malignant, 7 (5%) fibroblastic, 6 (4%) psammomatous, 3 (2%) angioblastic, and 15 (10%) lacked pathologic diagnosis. The annual incidence of pituitary adenoma showed two peaks, the first occurring in the third decade (2.6/100,000) and the second in the eighth decade (3.2/100,000). Although the incidence of meningioma was relatively high, the clinical features and pathologic patterns of these tumors were not unlike those previously reported in the literature.

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a tweet ID to use as the last position.
You can then view your timeline in Datasette using the following URL:
/tweets/tweets?_where=id+in+(select+tweet+from+[timeline_tweets])&_sort_desc=id&_facet=user
This will filter your tweets table to just tweets that appear in your timeline, ordered by most recent first and use faceting to show you which users are responsible for the most tweets.
Retrieving your mentions
The mentions-timeline command works like home-timeline except it retrieves tweets that mention the authenticated user's account. It records the user account that was mentioned in a mentions_tweets table.
It supports --since and --since_id in the same was as home-timeline does.
Providing input from a SQL query with --sql and --attach
This option is available for some subcommands - run twitter-to-sqlite command-name --help to check.
You can provide Twitter screen names (or user IDs or tweet IDs) directly as command-line arguments, or you can provide those screen names or IDs by executing a SQL query.
For example: consider a SQLite database with an attendees table listing names and Twitter accounts - something like this:
First Last Twitter
Simon Willison simonw
Avril Lavigne AvrilLavigne
You can run the users-lookup command to pull the Twitter profile of every user listed in that database by loading the screen names using a --sql query:
$ twitter-to-sqlite users-lookup my.db --sql="select Twitter from attendees"
If your database table contains Twitter IDs, you can select those IDs and pass the --ids argument. For example, to fetch the profiles of users who have had their user IDs inserted into the following table using the twitter-to-sqlite friends-ids command:
$ twitter-to-sqlite users-lookup my.db --sql="select follower_id from following" --ids
Or to avoid re-fetching users that have already been fetched:
$ twitter-to-sqlite users-lookup my.db \
 --sql="select followed_id from following where followed_id not in (
 select id from users)" --ids
If your data lives in a separate database file you can attach it using --attach. For example, consider the attendees example above but the data lives in an attendees.db file, and you want to fetch the user profiles into a tweets.db file. You could do that like this:
$ twitter-to-sqlite users-lookup tweets.db \
 --attach=attendees.db \
 --sql="select Twitter from attendees.attendees"
The filename (without the extension) will be used as the database alias within SQLite. If you want a different alias for some reason you can specify that with a colon like this:
$ twitter-to-sqlite users-lookup tweets.db \
 --attach=foo:attendees.db \
 --sql="select Twitter from foo.attendees"
Running searches
The search command runs a search against the Twitter standard search API.
$ twitter-to-sqlite search tweets.db "dogsheep"
This will import up to around 320 tweets that match that search term into the tweets table. It will also create a record in the search_runs table recording that the search took place, and many-to-many records in the search_runs_tweets table recording which tweets were seen for that search at that time.
You can use the --since parameter to check for previous search runs with the same arguments and only retrieve tweets that were posted since the last retrieved matching tweet.
The following additional options for search are supported:
 - --geocode: latitude,longitude,radius where radius is a number followed by mi or km
 - --lang: ISO 639-1 language code e.g. en or es
 - --locale: Locale: only ja is currently effective
 - --result_type: mixed, recent or popular. Defaults to mixed
 - --count: Number of results per page, defaults to the maximum of 100
 - --stop_after: Stop after this many results
 - --since_id: Pull tweets since this Tweet ID. You probably want to use --since instead of this.
Capturing tweets in real-time with track and follow
This functionality is experimental. Please file bug reports if you find any!
Twitter provides a real-time API which can be used to subscribe to tweets as they happen. twitter-to-sqlite can use this API to continually update a SQLite database with tweets matching certain keywords, or referencing specific users.
track
To track keywords, use the track command:
$ twitter-to-sqlite track tweets.db kakapo
This command will continue to run until you hit Ctrl+C. It will capture any tweets mentioning the keyword kakapo and store them in the tweets.db database file.
You can pass multiple keywords as a space separated list. This will capture tweets matching either of those keywords:
$ twitter-to-sqlite track tweets.db kakapo raccoon
You can enclose phrases in quotes to search for tweets matching both of those keywords:
$ twitter-to-sqlite track tweets.db 'trash panda'
See the Twitter track documentation for advanced tips on using this command.
Add the --verbose option to see matching tweets (in their verbose JSON form) displayed to the terminal as they are captured:
$ twitter-to-sqlite track tweets.db raccoon --verbose
follow
The follow command will capture all tweets that are relevant to one or more specific Twitter users.
$ twitter-to-sqlite follow tweets.db nytimes
This includes tweets by those users, tweets that reply to or quote those users and retweets by that user. See the Twitter follow documentation for full details.
The command accepts one or more screen names.
You can feed it numeric Twitter user IDs instead of screen names by using the --ids flag.
The command also supports the --sql and --attach options, and the --verbose option for displaying tweets as they are captured.
Here's how to start following tweets from every user ID currently represented as being followed in the following table (populated using the friends-ids command):
$ twitter-to-sqlite follow tweets.db \
 --sql="select distinct followed_id from following" \
 --ids
Importing data from your Twitter archive
You can request an archive of your Twitter data by following these instructions.
Twitter will send you a link to download a .zip file. You can import the contents of that file into a set of tables in a new database file called archive.db (each table beginning with the archive_ prefix) using the import command:
$ twitter-to-sqlite import archive.db ~/Downloads/twitter-2019-06-25-b31f2.zip
This command does not populate any of the regular tables, since Twitter's export data does not exactly match the schema returned by the Twitter API.
It will delete and recreate the corresponding archive_* tables every time you run it. If this is not what you want, run the command against a new SQLite database file name rather than running it against one that already exists.
If you have already decompressed your archive, you can run this against the directory that you decompressed it to:
$ twitter-to-sqlite import archive.db ~/Downloads/twitter-2019-06-25-b31f2/
You can also run it against one or more specific files within that folder. For example, to import just the follower.js and following.js files:
$ twitter-to-sqlite import archive.db \
 ~/Downloads/twitter-2019-06-25-b31f2/follower.js \
 ~/Downloads/twitter-2019-06-25-b31f2/following.js
You may want to use other commands to populate tables based on data from the archive. For example, to retrieve full API versions of each of the tweets you have favourited in your archive, you could run the following:
$ twitter-to-sqlite statuses-lookup archive.db \
 --sql='select tweetId from archive_like' \
 --skip-existing
If you want these imported tweets to then be reflected in the favorited_by table, you can do so by applying the following SQL query:
$ sqlite3 archive.db
SQLite version 3.22.0 2018-01-22 18:45:57
Enter ".help" for usage hints.
sqlite> INSERT OR IGNORE INTO favorited_by (tweet, user)
 ...> SELECT tweetId, 'YOUR_TWITTER_ID' FROM archive_like;
<Ctrl+D>
Replace YOUR_TWITTER_ID with your numeric Twitter ID. If you don't know that ID


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Testifire's use of advanced technologies means that it is able to test an increasingly wide range of detectors. Latest technology stimuli production and delivery renders the product suitable for testing everything from latest technology, complex algorithm, multi sensors to aspirating systems (as well as the more 'traditional' detectors in between).
- Optical point (photoelectric) smoke sensors
Single, laser, dual wavelength or dual scatter types.
- Ionisation smoke sensors
- Aspirating detectors
The unique method of smoke generation used by Testifire provides a smoke profile which is suitable for testing aspirating detection systems. Use of the Testifire Remote Control also allows use with 'holes' along an aspirating pipe run.
- Virtual chamber detectors
Some types of detector - such as those with 'virtual chambers' do not have the physical 'presence' to automatically initiate a test since they do not interrupt the infrared beam within Testifire. The Testifire 25 Remote Control overcomes this challenge by enabling remote manual initiation and end of a test sequence (at a distance of up to nine metres).
- Thermal sensors
Fixed temperature and rate of rise. Testifire features two heat settings. The standard setting allows testing of rate-of-rise and fixed temperature heat settings up to 90°C (194°F). The High Heat setting allows testing of detectors set at higher temperature up to 100°C (212°F).
- Carbon monoxide (fire) sensors
- Multi-sensor or multi-criteria detectors
Multi-sensor detectors may respond to a functional test from a single phenomenon, e.g. smoke, heat. However, a single phenomenon test is not necessarily an adequate test in the field for this type of detector. Each of the detection principles present within the detector (e.g.: smoke / heat / CO) needs to be individually tested for the specific detection principle. Testifire allows the production of different stimuli (e.g. smoke, heat) to be achieved singularly, sequentially or simultaneously in any combination.
Conventional, addressable or analogue addressable detectors of any of the above detector types can all be tested using Testifire.


text: Brantley County dates to 1920 when the state legislature sliced and then combined parts of Charlton, Pierce and Wayne counties. Historians speculate that the county owes its name to either prominent landowner, Benjamin Daniel Brantley, or his son and U.S. congressman, William Gordon Brantley. Nahunta, the county seat, is not an Indian name, as one might guess. It was a timber stop on the railroad labeled N. A. Hunter Siding. The railroad men dubbed it "Nahunta."

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Einstein used a definition of time for experimental purposes, as that which is measured by a clock.
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It means that, for experimental purposes, Einstein used the definition that time is "that (thing) which is measured by a clock".


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These are butterflies in the family Hesperiidae that I have recorded on Isla Colon. Each specimen includes collecting data and observations I have made over years of visits to the island.
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Remix: 9 Roles for Creating Results or Growing a Team with Esther Derby
January 28, 2020
Today we're throwing it back again, this time to our 100th episode where Esther Derby joined us. Esther is an esteemed guide and consultant, specializing in teamwork optimization. She is on a mission to change work environments so that teams and individuals can flourish. In this episode, we discuss responsibility for results versus responsibility for improvement, in terms of management and team style. Esther gives us an overview of the nine-quadrant role statement and how this could be applied in various work contexts. It is fundamental to define and clarify roles not only because it removes uncertainty but also to address differences in expectation. This is not to say that one role is better than another, but rather that they are equally different. Esther also walks us through what makes great teams, how to effectively implement change, and much more. Programming is a team sport and these lessons are useful for any work situation you may find yourself in. Be sure to tune in today!
Key Points From This Episode:
 - Learn more about what Michael's time on paternity leave was like.
 - An introduction to Esther and the work that she currently does.
 - Find out what Esther's six rules for change are and how they relate to improvement.
 - Discover more about the nine-quadrant role statement and the various applications.
 - The benefits of having clearly defined roles and why no role is better than another.
 - How to uncover people's roles on a project and get them to where they need to be.
 - William explains how he tackles pair programming and the partner role.
 - Why Esther believes that focusing on building a team helps individuals improve.
 - Great teams take advantage of the individual members' strengths and compensate for weaknesses.
 - Some effective ways to work on communication aside from mob programming.
 - How Pixar and William effectively implemented egoless reviews on their teams.
Transcript for Episode Remix: 9 Roles for Creating Results or Growing a Team with Esther Derby
[0:00:00.8] MN: Hey, you all. Mike here.
[0:00:02.7] DA: And Dave as well.
[0:00:03.6] MN: Oh, yeah. We're here. If you're listening to this, this is a remix of one of our previous episodes that we want to highlight from the past year. Today, we're talking about the episode 100.
[0:00:16.9] DA: It was a big year.
[0:00:17.5] MN: It was a big year. 100, I remember doing the intro for that particular episode in the bathroom of my house, just hiding from my child.
[0:00:26.6] DA: Hiding from my child who can potentially cry as I wanted to celebrate with all of you, the fact that we actually were able to hit episode 100. Thank you for listening. The episode is nine roles for creating results, or growing a team with Esther Derby.
[0:00:41.9] MN: Yeah. Esther's really great. She's a very good explainer of concepts. I really liked the discussion that we had around these different hats that we put on every day as co-workers. Particularly if you're a consultant, these are different roles that you might see, but I think they apply to everybody and to software engineering.
[0:01:08.1] DA: Yeah. I mean, Esther is definitely a friend of the show. Every time she jumps on the podcast, it's always a great learning experience. We hope that if you are unable to listen to this episode that you appreciate some of the gems that she drops during this episode.
[0:01:24.9] DA: Yeah. She just came out with a new book last summer, called 7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change.
[0:01:29.9] MN: Nice.
[0:01:31.0] DA: Definitely check that out too.
[0:01:32.3] MN: Yeah. We'll probably put the link in the show notes, if necessary. We hope you enjoy the show.
[0:01:37.4] DA: Hey, folks. Thanks for tuning into the 100th episode of The Rabbit Hole. We never would have made it this far without the support of our colleagues, guests, listeners and of course, our fearless leader and host, Michael Nunez. Before we get started with the episode, we have a special update straight from the Bronx on babies, software, and otherwise in the long road to 100. Here we go.
[0:01:58.1] MN: Hey, there. Michael Nunez from The Rabbit Hole. Just a few updates as I've been out for some time. As you may know, I've been on paternity leave. Me and my wife have been spending our time raising baby Giovanni and has been quite an experience I've never felt before.
Oftentimes, you hear software engineers mentioned in a particular part of the application that they've built their "baby." It's a feature, or an entire part of the site. I totally understand what that phrase comes from, but it's not the same. With your "baby" as you're building this feature, you probably have a test environment that you're running your tests and ensuring that your "baby" is doing whatever it is that you want it to do.
It's a nice area that you can try and figure out how it would behave and no one out in the public would ever see those changes as you're building them. Me on the other hand had a completely different experience with Baby Giovanni. There are a ton of books that contradict each other. Baby Giovanni is essentially production. I have to figure out ways to ensure and appease Baby Giovanni. If that includes bouncing, singing, walking around to get him to be happy, then I'm ready to do that. Everything feels all under the gun and you have to make sure you can do it as fast as possible.
One thing that he really likes is that when I carry him and do squats, he seems to enjoy himself. My legs are going to be hella swoll when I come back to The Rabbit Hole. Maybe I'll send a picture and put it on Twitter for you guys. We have a voice-mail number. Feel free to hit us up on the normal channels, which right now is Radio Free Rabbit at Our voice-mail number is _PHONE_. We'd love to hear your thoughts and questions over voicemail as we figure out other channels to receive your feedback. Again, the number is _PHONE_.
Last but not least, a really big thank you. Thanks to both Dave Anderson and William Jeffries in building The Rabbit Hole to what it is right now. I can't imagine that it would be where it is without them. They've been great at contributing and even right now, holding it down. Great, great stuff. I never would have thought that we would make it as far as we have right now without them.
All the editors throughout the way, you probably listened to the first episode and our sound was very different to what it sounds like now. That's thanks to the people responsible for making me sound smart and making the podcast sound amazing.
Last but not least, to all of our listeners. A really big thank you to all of you who subscribe. If you would have asked me two years ago, I would not have thought that I would be part of a podcast that would have 100 episodes. We did it, 100 episodes. Holy crap. I would not have been able to do that without Dave, William, our regular guest, shout out to Emmanuel and many others, and our honorable guests who have appeared on the show.
With that being said, let's dive right in to episode 100 of The Rabbit Hole.
[0:05:18.5] DA: Hello and welcome to The Rabbit Hole, the definitive developer's podcasts in fantabulous Chelsea, Manhattan. I'm your host, Dave Anderson. With me today, I have –
[0:05:27.1] SM: Stephen Meriwether.
[0:05:28.5] WJ: And William Jeffries.
[0:05:29.6] DA: Today, we will be discussing responsibility for results versus responsibility for improvement, in terms of your management and team style and what forms and shapes that takes. With us today, we have the esteemed Esther Derby. How are you doing, Esther?
[0:05:47.9] ED: I'm great. I made it home through the snow, so all is well.
[0:05:54.3] DA: Yeah. Unlike in New York, where we just get snow for a brief duration and then ice and gross stuff after that. I guess it seems that in Minnesota, they have real snow.
[0:06:06.2] WJ: Yeah. It's like a 7-11 slushy mixed with dirt.
[0:06:12.1] DA: That's not the romantic snow. Why don't you introduce yourself for folks who might not be familiar?
[0:06:17.8] ED: Sure. Well, I started my career as a programmer, so I had that in my background. I haven't written code for a while, but that's how I started. I did some testing, because we always used to test our own code. I was a team


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Comprehensive Flood Hazard Management Plans
Comprehensive Flood Hazard Management Plans (CFHMP) contain recommendations on future flood management for problematic areas. Once the plan is adopted by the local government, it serves as a policy document, for the County and Cities that adopt it.
The Plan itself is not a regulatory document, but identifies and prioritizes flood control and mitigation projects for the community. Adoption of the plans increases the chances of State and Federal funding of projects and post flood disaster relief.
The main steps in a CFHMP are as follows:
- Establish a citizen and agency participation process
- Quantify the problems and objectives for flood hazard management
- Determine the need for flood hazard management measures
- Identify and evaluate alternative flood hazard management measures
- Develop a flood hazard management strategy
- Submit the final CFHMP to Ecology
- The Upper Yakima River CFHMP: The Upper Yakima River CFHMP covers the Yakima River between the mouth of the Yakima River Canyon to Union Gap, and the Naches River from
it'smouth at the Yakima River up to the Twin Bridges. The Plan was adopted by the County in 1998 andamended in 2007 and 2018 as new information emerged about the condition of the Yakima River.
- The Naches River CFHMP: The Naches River CFHMP covers the Naches River from the confluence of the Naches and Tieton Rivers to the Twin Bridges northwest of Yakima. The Naches River CFHMP was adopted 2006.
- Ahtanum-Wide Hollow CFHMP: The Ahtanum-Wide Hollow CFHMP covers the entire Ahtanum and Wide Hollow watersheds, focusing on the Ahtanum Valley Floor, West Valley, Union Gap, and parts of Yakima. The Yakama Nation is a partner in the project - Ahtanum Creek forms the northern boundary of the Yakama Reservation. This plan was adopted in 2012.
- The Lower Yakima River CFHMP will be initiated following coordination discussions with the Yakama Nation.

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Self-injury can start early in life, research suggests that early onset self-injury is common around the age of 7, although it can begin earlier. Most often, however, self-injury behaviors begin in middle adolescence between the ages of 12 and 15. This is also the time when adolescent mids are open to suggestion from outside sources most specially the media. The disturbing fact is that the media nowadays is filled with extremely negative influences that can affect they way children act. One of the most popular "forms of expression" right now is the emo scene.
Emo is a fad, a musical form, a fashion sense, a subculture and a lifestyle. The name comes from the musical genre called emotive hardcore. The term Emo itself is usually seen as being short for "emotional." The people in this lifestyle are usually in their early teens through the early twenties. The are most easily identified by their fashion, consisting of black clothes, straight black hair, usually covering one eye, black framed glasses, tight, usually dark clothing, makeup is common, but not required, in both sexes, and gender roles seem somewhat blurred, and great deal of androgyny being indicated. Emo music often speaks of emotional pain, self-injury, suicide, hopelessness, and death. Writing poetry is often a common trait among emos. The poetry often touches on the same themes as the music. There are, of course, variations, as there are in any fad, but the main themes remain.
The emo fad seems to be a bit different from other previous fads in several very important ways. The emo subculture, in its glorification of self-injury, suicide and other negative thoughts seems to have caused an epidemic of self-injury among its followers.
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A witch is a wise woman, a healer. Yet for so long the word 'witch' has had negative connotations. In this book, third generation hereditary witch Lisa Lister explains the history behind witchcraft, why identifying as a healing in past centuries led women to be burned at the stake, and why the witch is reawakening in women across the world today.
This book provides an overview of the different schools of witchcraft and the core principals and practices within them. Discover ancient wisdom made relevant for modern witches:
- The wheel of the year, the sabbats, the cycles of the moon.
- Tools to enhance your intuition, including oracle cards and dowsing, so that you can make decisions quickly and comfortably.
- Understanding the ancient use of the word'medicine'.
- How to work with herbs, crystals and power animals so that you have support in your spiritual work.
- Work with the elements to achieve deep connection with the world around you.
In addition, Lisa teaches personal, hands-on rituals and spells from her family lineage of gypsy witch magic to help you heal, manifest and rediscover your powers.
A compelling book urging modern women to reconnect with their inborn feminine powers and bring the ancient traditions of healing and 'witchcraft' back into their lives. You'll learn how to align your energy with the wheel of the year, the sabbats and the cycles of the Moon, connect with and trust your intuition, use divination tools such as oracle cards, scrying and rune reading to help make decisions about your future, cast circles, create altars and set sacred space.


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Conserving WA's freshwater fish November 15, 2013 The nation's leading freshwater fish ecologists gathered last week to discuss threats to Western Australia's unique freshwater fish species. The symposium was the first of its kind in WA and attracted close to 100 delegates from across the country. "It's a forum to allow researchers, managers and the general public to share knowledge and increase awareness about the plight of our freshwater fish," said Dr Stephen Beatty, a Research Fellow at Murdoch University. Dr David Morgan, a Senior Research Fellow at Murdoch University, said there are a number of environmental factors impacting local species. "Climate change, salination, damming and feral fish species all need to be considered when developing strategies to best manage our waterways and conserve the species which live in them," he said. The symposium was organised by experts from Murdoch University's Freshwater Fish Group and Fish Health Unit, in partnership with the Department of Fisheries. It was supported by the Australian Society for Fish Biology and the Royal Society of Western Australia. "There are several species of freshwater fish which aren't found anywhere else in the world – they are truly unique to WA," Dr Morgan said. "Many have fascinating biological adaptations that enable them to live in environments ranging from the seasonally drying wetlands on the south coast, to the mighty rivers of the Kimberley." Keynote speakers were Dr Brendan Ebner (CSIRO/James Cook University) and Dr Adam Kerezsy (Bush Heritage Australia/Griffith University). Dr Michael Snow, a Supervising Scientist with the Department of Fisheries said a range of presenters shared their knowledge, from "eminent freshwater ecologists to Indigenous rangers from the Kimberley, who presented about Freshwater Sawfish." Other topics discussed included the discovery of species new to science, such as the Blind Cave Gudgeon on Barrow Island and the Little Pygmy Perch – two of the rarest fishes in the world. Dr Beatty spoke about the impact of climate change on WA's freshwater fishes. A selection of papers presented at the symposium will be published in a special issue of the Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia. Print This Post Media contact: Candice Barnes Tel: (08) 9360 2474 | Mobile: 0408 201 309 | Email: _EMAIL_ Categories: General, Research, Schools, School of Veterinary and Life Sciences Research Tags: adam kerezsy, australian society for fish biology, brendan ebner, david morgan, department of fisheries, fish health unit, freshwater fish, freshwater fish group, murdoch university, royal society of western australia, stephen beatty Leave a comment Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website You can use these tags :   <acronym title="">
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Observation of the Post-Construction Performance of a System of Groins along an Eroding Beachby C. I. Moutzouris, Natl Technical Univ of Athens, Athens, Greece,
Document Type: Proceeding Paper
Part of: Coastal Engineering Practice
Abstract: A system of six groins was constructed along an eroding coast of reversing sediment transport. This paper describes the performance of the groin system in terms of the evolution of the shoreline, as function of angle of wave approach and the location of each groin within the system.
Subject Headings: Groins (structure) | Water waves | Erosion | Sediment transport | Shoreline | Transportation engineering | Construction management
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Operation of the alula as an indicator of gear change in hoverflies.
Walker SM., Thomas ALR., Taylor GK.
The alula is a hinged flap found at the base of the wings of most brachyceran Diptera. The alula accounts for up to 10 per cent of the total wing area in hoverflies (Syrphidae), and its hinged arrangement allows the wings to be swept back over the thorax and abdomen at rest. The alula is actuated via the third axillary sclerite, which is a component of the wing hinge that is involved in wing retraction and control. The third axillary sclerite has also been implicated in the gear change mechanism of flies. This mechanism allows rapid switching between different modes of wing kinematics, by imposing or removing contact with a mechanical stop limiting movement of the wing during the lower half of the downstroke. The alula operates in two distinct states during flight-flipped or flat-and we hypothesize that its state indicates switching between different flight modes. We used high-speed digital video of free-flying hoverflies (Eristalis tenax and Eristalis pertinax) to investigate whether flipping of the alula was associated with changes in wing and body kinematics. We found that alula state was associated with different distributions of multiple wing kinematic parameters, including stroke amplitude, stroke deviation angle, downstroke angle of incidence and timing of supination. Changes in all of these parameters have previously been linked to gear change in flies. Symmetric flipping of the alulae was associated with changes in the symmetric linear acceleration of the body, while asymmetric flipping of the alulae was associated with asymmetric angular acceleration of the body. We conclude that the wings produce less aerodynamic force when the alula is flipped, largely as a result of the accompanying changes in wing kinematics. The alula changes state at mid-downstroke, which is the point at which the gear change mechanism is known to come into effect. This transition is accompanied by changes in the other wing kinematic parameters. We therefore find that the state of the alula is linked to the same parameters as are affected by the gear change mechanism. We conclude that the state of the alula does indeed indicate the operation of different flight modes in Eristalis, and infer that a likely mechanism for these changes in flight mode is the gear change mechanism.


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The IFA is proud to announce Professor Jonathan Brown's selection for the prestigious Bernardo de Galvez Prize in recognition of his pioneering work in the study of Spanish Golden Age painting, along with his decades of contributions to the intercultural dialogue between Spain and the United States, and the accessibility and appreciation of Spanish visual culture in the US. Professor Brown's work on Spanish painting focuses not only on the historical context and aesthetic aspects of these works, but on the keys to their conservation and restoration which have been essential to their proper care and preservation.
Professor Brown is one of the world's foremost authorities on the work of Velazquez and is also an expert in such Spanish masters as Murillo, Ribera and El Greco.
The Bernardo de Galvez Prize is an annual award given by the Fundación Consejo España-Estados (the Spain-US Council), a non-profit organization started in 1997 to facilitate reciprocal exchange between the societies of both nations. The award honors Bernardo de Galvez, who was a prominent diplomat, military figure and Governor of the Territory of Louisiana under the Spanish crown. He is remembered for providing essential supplies and ammunitions to the United States during the Revolutionary War.


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Printable Version Pronunciation: kin-dêl Hear it!
Part of Speech: Verb
Meaning: 1. (Transitive) To ignite an actual or emotional fire; to light up as though on fire, as the sun might kindle a resplendent dawn across the horizon. 2. (Intransitive) To become ignited or aroused.
Notes: Exactly what motivated the marketers at Amazon.com to name its new e-book reader the Kindle may never be known. Perhaps they hoped reading books in electronic form would kindle something in us that reading the printed page would not. The frumpy personal noun kindler has been used a time or two. The other noun, kindling "small pieces of wood for starting a fire", is more appealing but not often used in modern times. The derivative most frequently used today is by far rekindle, as an attempt to rekindle an old love affair.
In Play: We don't use this word in its literal meaning much these days, though it is much lovelier than all the synonymous alternatives: "The highlight of the Christmas season for Burney Wood was the moment he kindled the fire in his hearth on which he would later lay the Yule log." We are much more likely to use the figurative sense these days: "Epiphany Wright was the spark that kindled Michael Angelo's creativity and launched him from the boredom of his early life into his successful career as an artist."
Word History: Today's Good Word is another gift of the Vikings, the ancestors of the Danes and Norwegians of today. They began raiding the coasts of England toward the end of the 9th century and then began settling there. Old Norse kindill "candle, torch", from kynda "to kindle", was adopted by the English, probably to refer to kindling, since kindling in those days was often used as torches. The same root that gave Old Norse kindill emerged in Latin as candere "to shine" and candela "a light, torch". English, of course, borrowed the latter as candle plus several other Latin words with the same root, like incandescent. (We are very grateful that Diane Cobb-Cichowski kindled our interest in today's loveliest of Good Words for starting a fire.)
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Bubble Wrap City Artwork
If you and your family shop online, there's a good chance you have some bubble wrap around the house. It always feels a shame to throw it out! Instead, use leftover packing materials to make a great city skyline! Making this skyline is a great way to recycle some bubble wrap, learn the very basics of printmaking, and consider some urban architecture.
small paint roller (usually available in 2 packs at dollar stores or similar)
tempera or acrylic paint
big sheets of paper for printing
1. protect your work surface and kid's clothes – this one's messy!
2. cut shapes from bubble wrap. We tried different squares, rectangles, and triangles.
3. squirt some paint into bowls or plates. Making an urban landscape seemed to call for black, grey and blue, but you could try some other colors!
4. have kids coat roller in paint, then roll paint onto the "bubbly" side of the bubble wrap, one piece at a time.
5. when pieces are quite covered in paint, have your artist flip them over and press onto the paper (like a stamp) with their hands.
6. try different colors on different pieces. You can use the same roller, and let the colors mix. Watch as your "city" emerges!
Scissor-ready kids can try cutting their own shapes (keep in mind, bigger shapes are easier to work with).
If you have some on hand, try different sizes and patterns of bubble wraps for different effects.
Note how different combinations of shapes can make different buildings!


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Why Cities are Better for Watersheds than Suburbs
Development necessarily creates giant swaths of constructed areas that have no unifying ecosystem. It also disturbs existing natural areas that are part of the natural cycling of water, minerals, chemicals, plants and animals. Yet despite these complications, density is valuable in terms of impact mitigation on a per-person basis, as least as far as pollutant loading and watershed health is concerned.
We're used to thinking about pollutant loading on a per acre basis, so considering it on a per capita basis is a readjustment. It's quickly easy to see its value, though. Density, measured in dwelling units per acre (DUA), creates more impervious coverage per acre, and greater impervious coverage increases pollutant runoff — therefore pollutant loading per acre will be higher in very dense areas than in equivalent low-density developments. However, because there are more people in the same development footprint in a high density area, imperviousness is divided up among many, many people, lowering the overall pollutant loading per person. Per capita imperviousness decreases as density increases.
Impervious surface area is so important because it is the "best indicator for watershed health in general and for stream water quality in particular is the amount of impervious cover in a watershed… Polluted stormwater moving over impervious surfaces has no opportunity for infiltration into the soil, and thus remains polluted. Both runoff volume and pollutant concentration rise as imperviousness increases." Watersheds are very sensitive systems. Just 10 percent impervious cover – achieved by as few as one house every two acres — "markedly" impacts stream quality, and 25 percent impervious cover is enough to seriously degrade water quality and stream health.
All this suggests that density should be considered a best management practice (BMP). And Manhattan-type densities aren't necessary to achieve significant reductions in per capita pollutant loading. Even a twofold increase in density can reduce pollutant loading by 20% compared to low-density suburban developments. This is achievable with single-family or townhome style dwellings.
Dense development is one way to reduce per capita pollutant runoff on watersheds. How can landscape design solutions help further? By applying the same principles of open, undeveloped space, a partially exposed rain garden that extends underground or simple suspended pavement will work. These space-conscious solutions manage stormwater on-site, preventing the runoff that damages receiving waters with pollution, higher temperatures, and exaggerated peak flows. These solutions are also invisible once construction is complete, and are ideal for cities and other mostly-impervious areas like plazas, parking lots or parking lanes. As opposed to tanks or pipes that simply contain water, soils and trees actually process it – removing or containing contaminants and preventing re-entry into the groundwater and atmosphere.
Cities are heavily paved. This is part of their essential nature. Despite this plentitude of imperviousness, they are actually the better option in terms of reducing the impact on sensitive watersheds. High-density areas reduce pollutant loading on a per capita basis, acting as a truer indicator of damage to receiving waters than low-density areas. We remain far away from solutions that enable cities to function substantially more like undeveloped areas, but we do have some solutions to improve their ecological utility. Street trees, bioswales, and underground raingardens can play an important role in managing pollutant loading in urban areas.
For more information on this, read "Watersheds, Walkability and Stormwater: The Role of Density," By John S. Jacob.
Sustainable Cities Collective


Why Does Sarcasm Hurt?
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Sarcasm is a double-layered expression — of playfulness, passive-aggressiveness, or awkwardness — which on the surface indicates that the person's acts and statements are neutral, but the second layer beneath the surface signifies aggression. Sarcasm is passive-aggressive by definition. And not everyone can always detect the subtle irony at play. Only a few individuals can … Read more Why Does Sarcasm Hurt?


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Where does my tuition go?
Tuition covers the following:
- The actual lesson time spent with the student.
- The time preparing for each student.
- An individualised plan for each student's course of study.
- Student incentives, prizes, and certificates
- Teacher's training and experience.
- Teacher's continuing education to keep the teacher current on methods and techniques.
Other fees throughout the year may include:
- Studio Binder
- Lesson books ($50-$100 per year)
- Examination fees, if student & parent are to take part in the program (price depends on grade)
- Recital fees
Billing and Payment
- Lessons are billed monthly. This will be the tuition fees per month, not per 4 lessons.
- Invoices are sent on the 1st of each month and payment is due by the 7th of each month.
- Invoices may be sent via hardcopy or e-mail as PDF attachments.
- Payment can be made by bank transfer, cash, cheque and PayNow.
- Books and materials will be provided for purchase by the teacher and included in a separate invoice.


This question pertains to iCLIP, but it could just as easily be ChIP-seq or ATAC-seq or mutation frequencies.
I have iCLIP read counts across the transcriptome and I wish to know if the signals are correlated - that is, where one of them is high, is the other likely to be high.
Often when dealing with such data (e.g. iCLIP data) we know that the data is generally sparse - that is at most positions both signals are zero and this is correct, and also zero-inflated - that is many bases that "should" have a signal are missing that data. So just calculating the Spearman's correlation is likely to give an artificially low value.
What might be a way to asses the association? I should add that the aim is the assess association of binding patterns within genes, rather than (or as well as) between genes.
Things I have thought of:
 - Apply some sort of smoothing to the data (eg a rolling mean). Remove any bases with 0 in both samples. Compute the spearmans.
 - Calculate the average pairwise distance between every read in sample one and every read in sample two. Compare this to data where the reads have been randomised within genes.
In the first case removing all bases with 0 in both samples seems wrong. But if 99.99% of all bases have zero in both samples, then this seems like its necessary for Spearman.
In the second case, the result seems like it would be non-intuitive to interpret. And also calculating this would be massively computationally intensive.
Honestly I'd just use multiBigwigSummary and then plotCorrelation from deepTools for this, but I'm a bit biased. There, the idea would be to consider each gene as a unit (you could instead use bins, but I don't think that would as nicely do what you want), namely by giving the tools a BED or GTF file input. It would then calculate the average signal in each gene/transcript and you could do your spearman's correlation. Features with 0 in all samples could optionally be removed (plotCorrelation --skipZeros).
While you certainly could go the whole 9 yards and use per-base comparisons, that seems a bit overkill and I suspect that it won't really yield appreciably more information (especially when one considers the additional time overhead).
 - $\begingroup$ See my clarification. - I want to look at the spatial patterns within genes, not between them. $\endgroup$ – Ian Sudbery May 18 '17 at 8:44
 - $\begingroup$ _USER_ Ah, good to know, my answer isn't applicable then. $\endgroup$ – Devon Ryan May 18 '17 at 9:02
It depends whether you want to treat the peak intensities as binary (comparing presence/absence of peaks in the sets) or continuous (comparing the relative magnitudes of the peaks).
For starting out, a simple binary comparison may be appropriate. You can use a peak caller of your choosing to identify peaks in each sample according to your desired criteria. Then you can use a similarity metric such as the Jaccard index to quantify the level of agreement among the peaks in the two samples.
One potential obstacle is that defining the boundaries of your peaks won't be totally straightforward. For example, a peak in one sample might have 2 overlapping peaks in the other sample, one on each end. A rough solution for this is to divide the genome into bins (maybe around _PHONE_ bp, depending on your desired resolution). You can treat a peak as present in a bin if more than half of the peak lies in the bin. That way, bins in one sample can be directly compared to the corresponding bins in the other sample. Obviously, this isn't the only way to do this; other appropriate methods exist too.
If you want to treat the peak intensities as continuous, you could apply a similar binning method, taking the "score" of a bin to be the average peak intensity at positions within that bin. You could then throw away all bins with no peaks or only low-intensity peaks throughout the genome. Then you could compute the Spearman's correlation for the remaining bins. I'm guessing it will be harder to find a strong correlation for continuous intensities, because of the amount of experimental variability that is inherently present.
If, after following these steps, the Spearman's correlation is still "artificially low" as you suggested, then this is likely a problem with the underlying data, not the overall analysis; maybe your two datasets actually don't agree that well.
 - $\begingroup$ I was worried about artificially low values when most observations were 0. Excluding cases where observations are 0 in both signals just didn't "feel" right. $\endgroup$ – Ian Sudbery May 18 '17 at 8:47
 - $\begingroup$ _USER_ I see. So you're also interested in the extent to which the "non-peaks" agree with one another. One possibility then is not to throw away the bins where both values are zero, and to report the Spearman correlation. However, since you said the peaks are quite sparse, your zero values will make it hard to see the extent of correlation between the true positives. I agree that it's not "right" to exclude the zero values in Spearman correlation scores, but if you instead use a metric for set intersections (like the Jaccard index) excluding zeroes would be okay. $\endgroup$ – CloudyGloudy May 18 '17 at 16:16
 - $\begingroup$ Looking at the intersection solves the sparsity problem, but not the zero-inflated one: signals from similar looking tracks tend to be close to each other, but not right on top of each other. Honestly i'm starting to think your second suggest is the best there is. $\endgroup$ – Ian Sudbery May 22 '17 at 12:25
 - $\begingroup$ That's true, but if you use the binning approach to define intersections instead of looking for strict overlap, this could help. (i.e. it counts as an intersection if the same bin contains peaks in both tracks, even if the peaks themselves don't directly overlap) $\endgroup$ – CloudyGloudy May 22 '17 at 15:37
Rather than working on the base level, you could probably work on say gene level counts. Kendall's tau, an ordinal association metric, can then be used as an appropriate correlation measure.
If $X$ and $Y$ are your iCLIP replicates, $i$ represents gene index and $(x_i, y_i)$ represents the number of RBP binding sites in $X$ and $Y$ respectively for the $i^{th}$ gene, Kendall's tau is defined as :
$$ \frac{\text{#(concordant pairs)} - \text{#(discordant pairs)}}{n(n-1)/2} $$
Where any two pairs $(x_i, y_i)$ and $(x_j, y_j)$ are concordant if:
 - $x_i > x_j$ AND $y_i > y_j$
 - $x_i < x_j$ AND $y_i < y_j$
Correspondingly they are discordant if:
 - $x_i < x_j$ AND $y_i > y_j$
 - $x_i > x_j$ AND $y_i < y_j$
 - $\begingroup$ Not sure why tex rendering is off. $\endgroup$ – rightskewed May 17 '17 at 18:13
 - $\begingroup$ See my clarification: I'm interested in the patterns within genes, rather than between them. Is tau better at dealing with data where many observations are zero? $\endgroup$ – Ian Sudbery May 18 '17 at 8:46
 - $\begingroup$ If your interest is to study the pattern within genes, does your second sample act as a replicate? I am not sure I completely understand what "within genes" would mean here. $\endgroup$ – rightskewed May 19 '17 at 10:34
 - $\begingroup$ No, I'm trying to determine if two proteins show similar within gene binding patterns. $\endgroup$ – Ian Sudbery May 19 '17 at 11:57
 - $\begingroup$ Mathjax support hadn't been activated. It now has been so your answer renders correctly. $\endgroup$ – terdon Jul 26 '17 at 16:05
It is one of my favorite stories.
Drop a glance to StereoGene software, it for genomic track correlation, it described in a preprint.
You also can run MACS or another peak caller and estimate the correlation of two interval sets using the GenomtriCorr package.
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In January 2019, the UK Government published its Maritime 2050: Navigating the Future strategy. In the strategy, the government highlighted the importance of digitalisation (with well-designed regulatory support) to achieving its goal of ensuring that the UK plays a global leadership role in the maritime sector.
PETRAS Researchers have released a briefing document, led by Dr. Feja Lesniewska (PETRAS UCL Researcher) that has identified six IoT related security and governance challenges for UK ports.
Ports, the gateways for 95% of UK trade movements, were identified as key sites for investment in technological innovation. The government identified the potential of the Internet of Things (IoT), in conjunction with other information-sharing technologies, such as shared data platforms, and Artificial Intelligence applications (AI), to synchronise processes within the port ecosystem leading to improved efficiency, safety and environmental benefits, including improved air quality and lower greenhouse gas emissions.
The six key challenges identified in the briefing document are:
1. Adaptive Risk Management
2. Interoperability of IoT and Legacy Systems
3. Security Management Accountability
4. Due Diligence and Capacity
5. Alignment and Review
6. The Business Case
You can download the full briefing document here.
If you would to contact the Centre regarding this briefing document, please email Dr Feja Lesniewska at _EMAIL_.


How Often To Clean Billiard Balls (Here's Answer)
If you have ever played pool in some dingy place, you may understand how uncomfortable and frustrating it is, especially if the equipment too were unkempt. Although most people may overlook the importance of keeping the pool accessories clean, it is actually an important practice. Consider the daily dust and oil residue from regular handling of the balls for instance, which may eventually make the balls lose their color and shine. Thus, you must clean the billiard balls.
This begs the question, how often should you clean the balls? If you are a keen pool owner, you may want to clean the cue ball right after every frame or practice session. This doesn't end there; at least every week, give the entire set a thorough cleaning. This is not only the balls but also the cue, the pocket bumpers, as well as the triangle.
In this article, we will discuss why billiard balls need cleaning, how to clean them and other related questions. Keep reading for deeper insight.
Why Do You Need To Clean Your Billiard Balls?
We have already mentioned how dust, oil from touching and even chalk can make the balls splotchy, lose color as well as their shine if not cleaned off regularly.
Additionally, the dirt and grime on the balls can be transferred to the felt of the table, making it dirty. This will call for regular cleaning of the felt, of course accelerating its wear and tear.
Dirty balls do affect playability due to imbalance in weight. The ball will not flow properly in the intended direction. Even contact with the cue ball itself will be inconsistent if the surface of the ball is dirty.
Thus, to minimize the wear and tear on the table, and have consistent playability, while at the same time maintaining the balls to their shiny look, cleaning is the solution.
How to Clean Billiard Balls
It is important that you clean your billiard balls the right way, otherwise you may ending up doing them more harm than good. Phenolic resin billiard ball will need special cleaning products such as Aramith Ball Cleaner. The best thing is that phenolic resin is slick and durable, and a simple wipe-down would be enough to keep it clean.
Below is the general procedure for cleaning other billiard ball materials such as polyester and plastic.
 - First, clean the sink or bucket that you intend to use.
 - Fill it with lukewarm water and add a mild detergent
 - Soak in the billiard balls in for five minutes. If your sink or bucket is small, put in a few billiard balls at a time to avoid the balls knocking each other while in the water.
 - After 5 minutes, scrub the balls one after another using a microfiber cloth or soft rag.
 - Proceed to drying them properly using a dry clean towel.
See Also: How to Clean a Pool Table Brush?
The Don'ts of Washing Billiard Balls
Never attempt washing billiard balls in a dishwasher. Disregard any advice about using a dishwasher for billiard ball cleaning because this will cause irreversible damage to your balls. The material used for the manufacture of billiard balls, usually phenolic resin, or a blend of polyester resin does not go hand in hand with the heat in the dishwashing cycle.
The surface appearance as well as the shine will be affected and the warrant will be voided once the manufacturer establishes that the balls were put in a dishwasher, which by the way is very easy to tell.
Ensure that you are using mild detergent or gentle soap with warm water not too hot. Hot water again will damage the surface while strong detergent will be too abrasive on the balls.
Do not leave the balls to air dry, as this will leave spots. Use a towel to dry and ensure that you have dried them thoroughly leaving no marks.
Never use bleach, as it may leave behind a residue of pink dots that may be difficult to remove.
Dealing with Billiard Ball Discoloration/Yellowing
With time, you may notice your billiard balls lose color on the white parts and yellowing in a way. The yellowing is due to exposure to elements such as heat, UV light, and air, making the resin to break down forming the off-white yellowish appearance.
The yellowing does not affect the game in any way, thus it is nothing to be worried about. The only cause for concern for most people is the look/aesthetics.
While the balls may be converted to the original white, you can do something about it to try to restore it a little. You can use a pool ball cleaner or polisher.
Overall, always keep your billiards ball clean so that they play better, last longer, protect the felt, and save you money.
Related Questions
Can you use a glass cleaner to make your billiard balls shine?
Absolutely not. Glass cleaner will act as abrasives on the material of the balls, tampering with the aesthetics and eventually, the effects can be seen through poor playability of the balls.
Will billiard balls eventually wear out?
Billiard balls are usually smooth. However, with continued use, there is some friction between the balls and the table, and with time, they will not be of the standard size because of the wear.
See Also:
Are Old Pool Balls Worth Anything?
How Often Should You Chalk Your Cue
Can You Use Car Wax on Pool Balls? (Here's The Answer)
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MANUAL DE GRAMÁTICA – completamente escrito en espanol! MANUAL DE GRAMÁTICA is now completely written in Spanish! MANUAL DE GRAMÁTICA is the most accessible grammar reference for intermediate and advanced students of Spanish. It combines clear, easy-to-use charts with detailed grammar presentations. Beginning with sentence structure, the text follows a logical progression of topics from parts of speech to verb tenses to the finer points of lexical variation. The text facilitates independent study. Students have the opportunity to self-correct in practice as supporting exercises are followed by answer keys. The text covers all major grammatical rules of Spanish and offers real-world applications of all grammar points, making it an invaluable reference tool for intermediate and advanced literature and language courses.
- Paperback: 544 pages
- Publisher: Heinle; 1 edition (March 23, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: _PHONE_
- ISBN-13: 978-_PHONE_
- Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 1.1 x 9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
Also, some things are just stated, and not explained at all. I have gone through almost five complete chapters so far, and I repeatedly have found myself asking why? Or wishing for examples at least.


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If you have just had a new baby, you must register the birth. This applies to all children born in the Netherlands. You must register the birth within 3 days in the municipality where they were born. The mother, father or the mother's female partner (duomoeder) can register the birth.
You must register the birth of a new baby within 3 days, not counting the day of the birth. For example, was your child born on a Monday? Then you must register the birth on Thursday at the latest.
If the third day falls on a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday, the deadline for registering the birth is extended until the next working day. If that means you have only 1 day to register the birth, you will be given an extra day, to ensure that there are always at least 2 days to register the birth.
Late birth registrations
If you are late registering the birth, then the Registrar of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships (ambtenaar van de burgerlijke stand) will inform the public prosecutor (officier van justitie). You may then have to pay a fine.
A baby's birth can be registered by the mother, father or the mother's female partner.
If the mother, father or mother's female partner are not able to register the birth, then the birth can be registered by:
someone who was present at the birth;
the owner of the house in which the child was born;
an employee of the institution where the child was born, such as a hospital.
If none of these people are able to register the birth, the birth can be registered by or on behalf of the mayor of the municipality where the child was born, or where the child was found if they are a foundling.
You do not have to bring the baby with you when you register the birth.
If your baby was born in a vehicle, for example in a car, ambulance, train or aeroplane, you must register the birth at the place of arrival, i.e. the location where your baby leaves the vehicle. This applies if that location is in the Netherlands.
If your baby is born during an international flight or an international sea voyage and the location where you arrive is not in the Netherlands, there are 2 options:
- if the boat or aircraft is registered in the Netherlands, you must obtain a temporary birth certificate (geboorteakte) from the captain of the aircraft or boat.
- If the boat or aircraft is not registered in the Netherlands, you must obtain a birth certificate from the authorities in the local area.
When you arrive at your destination, you must obtain a temporary birth certificate at your place of arrival and send this as quickly as possible to the civil registrar in the municipality of Den Haag (The Hague).
Bring these documents with you when registering a birth at the municipality:
- A valid form of identification.
- An acknowledgement of parenthood (akte van erkenning) or declaration of surname choice (akte van erkenning of naamskeuze) if issued before the birth.
- A declaration of birth, issued by the hospital or midwife.
The civil registrar at the municipality will issue the birth certificate. This is written proof that you have registered the birth of your child.
The birth certificate contains the following information:
- the baby's details, for example: name, date of birth, place of birth and time of birth;
- the personal details of the parent(s).
The birth certificate is the official proof of birth, and also proves who the child's parents are.
This is how it works in your (future) place of residence
Municipality of Noardeast-Fryslân: Registering a birth
Inform the municipality directly of the birth of your child. You can do so:
- At the service desk
You can book an appointment for this, for more information contact us at _EMAIL_
You pay a fee for a birth certificate. For more information, contact the municipality at _EMAIL_
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Export configurations for supported Amazon Web Services Cloud destinations - Amazon IoT Greengrass
Services or capabilities described in Amazon Web Services documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the China Regions, see Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China (PDF).
Export configurations for supported Amazon Web Services Cloud destinations
User-defined Greengrass components use StreamManagerClient in the Stream Manager SDK to interact with stream manager. When a component creates a stream or updates a stream, it passes a MessageStreamDefinition object that represents stream properties, including the export definition. The ExportDefinition object contains the export configurations defined for the stream. Stream manager uses these export configurations to determine where and how to export the stream.
 Object model diagram of the ExportDefinition property type.
You can define zero or more export configurations on a stream, including multiple export configurations for a single destination type. For example, you can export a stream to two Amazon IoT Analytics channels and one Kinesis data stream.
For failed export attempts, stream manager continually retries exporting data to the Amazon Web Services Cloud at intervals of up to five minutes. The number of retry attempts doesn't have a maximum limit.
Note
StreamManagerClient also provides a target destination you can use to export streams to an HTTP server. This target is intended for testing purposes only. It is not stable or supported for use in production environments.
You are responsible for maintaining these Amazon Web Services Cloud resources.
Amazon IoT Analytics channels
Stream manager supports automatic exports to Amazon IoT Analytics. Amazon IoT Analytics lets you perform advanced analysis on your data to help make business decisions and improve machine learning models. For more information, see What is Amazon IoT Analytics? in the Amazon IoT Analytics User Guide.
In the Stream Manager SDK, your Greengrass components use the IoTAnalyticsConfig to define the export configuration for this destination type. For more information, see the SDK reference for your target language:
Requirements
This export destination has the following requirements:
 - Target channels in Amazon IoT Analytics must be in the same Amazon Web Services account and Amazon Web Services Region as the Greengrass core device.
 - The Authorize core devices to interact with Amazon services must allow the iotanalytics:BatchPutMessage permission to target channels. For example:
 { "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Effect": "Allow", "Action": [ "iotanalytics:BatchPutMessage" ], "Resource": [ "arn:aws-cn:iotanalytics:region:account-id:channel/channel_1_name", "arn:aws-cn:iotanalytics:region:account-id:channel/channel_2_name" ] } ] }
 You can grant granular or conditional access to resources, for example, by using a wildcard * naming scheme. For more information, see Adding and removing IAM policies in the IAM User Guide.
Exporting to Amazon IoT Analytics
To create a stream that exports to Amazon IoT Analytics, your Greengrass components create a stream with an export definition that includes one or more IoTAnalyticsConfig objects. This object defines export settings, such as the target channel, batch size, batch interval, and priority.
When your Greengrass components receive data from devices, they append messages that contain a blob of data to the target stream.
Then, stream manager exports the data based on the batch settings and priority defined in the stream's export configurations.
Amazon Kinesis data streams
Stream manager supports automatic exports to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. Kinesis Data Streams is commonly used to aggregate high-volume data and load it into a data warehouse or MapReduce cluster. For more information, see What is Amazon Kinesis Data Streams? in the Amazon Kinesis Developer Guide.
In the Stream Manager SDK, your Greengrass components use the KinesisConfig to define the export configuration for this destination type. For more information, see the SDK reference for your target language:
Requirements
This export destination has the following requirements:
 - Target streams in Kinesis Data Streams must be in the same Amazon Web Services account and Amazon Web Services Region as the Greengrass core device.
 - The Authorize core devices to interact with Amazon services must allow the kinesis:PutRecords permission to target data streams. For example:
 { "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Effect": "Allow", "Action": [ "kinesis:PutRecords" ], "Resource": [ "arn:aws-cn:kinesis:region:account-id:stream/stream_1_name", "arn:aws-cn:kinesis:region:account-id:stream/stream_2_name" ] } ] }
 You can grant granular or conditional access to resources, for example, by using a wildcard * naming scheme. For more information, see Adding and removing IAM policies in the IAM User Guide.
Exporting to Kinesis Data Streams
To create a stream that exports to Kinesis Data Streams, your Greengrass components create a stream with an export definition that includes one or more KinesisConfig objects. This object defines export settings, such as the target data stream, batch size, batch interval, and priority.
When your Greengrass components receive data from devices, they append messages that contain a blob of data to the target stream. Then, stream manager exports the data based on the batch settings and priority defined in the stream's export configurations.
Stream manager generates a unique, random UUID as a partition key for each record uploaded to Amazon Kinesis.
Amazon IoT SiteWise asset properties
Stream manager supports automatic exports to Amazon IoT SiteWise. Amazon IoT SiteWise lets you collect, organize, and analyze data from industrial equipment at scale. For more information, see What is Amazon IoT SiteWise? in the Amazon IoT SiteWise User Guide.
In the Stream Manager SDK, your Greengrass components use the IoTSiteWiseConfig to define the export configuration for this destination type. For more information, see the SDK reference for your target language:
Note
Amazon also provides Amazon IoT SiteWise components, which offer a pre-built solution that you can use to stream data from OPC-UA sources. For more information, see IoT SiteWise OPC-UA collector.
Requirements
This export destination has the following requirements:
 - Target asset properties in Amazon IoT SiteWise must be in the same Amazon Web Services account and Amazon Web Services Region as the Greengrass core device.
 Note
 For the list of Amazon Web Services Regions that Amazon IoT SiteWise supports, see Amazon IoT SiteWise endpoints and quotas in the Amazon General Reference.
 - The Authorize core devices to interact with Amazon services must allow the iotsitewise:BatchPutAssetPropertyValue permission to target asset properties. The following example policy uses the iotsitewise:assetHierarchyPath condition key to grant access to a target root asset and its children. You can remove the Condition from the policy to allow access to all of your Amazon IoT SiteWise assets or specify ARNs of individual assets.
 { "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Effect": "Allow", "Action": "iotsitewise:BatchPutAssetPropertyValue", "Resource": "*", "Condition": { "StringLike": { "iotsitewise:assetHierarchyPath": [ "/root node asset ID", "/root node asset ID/*" ] } } } ] }
 You can grant granular or conditional access to resources, for example, by using a wildcard * naming scheme. For more information, see Adding and removing IAM policies in the IAM User Guide.
 For important security information, see BatchPutAssetPropertyValue authorization in the Amazon IoT SiteWise User Guide.
Exporting to Amazon IoT SiteWise
To create a stream that exports to Amazon IoT SiteWise, your Greengrass components create a stream with an export definition that includes one or more IoTSiteWiseConfig objects. This object defines export settings, such as the batch size, batch interval, and priority.
When your Greengrass components receive asset property data from devices, they append messages that contain the data to the target stream. Messages are JSON-serialized PutAssetPropertyValueEntry objects that contain property values for one or more asset properties. For more information, see Append message for Amazon IoT SiteWise export destinations.
Note
When you send data to Amazon IoT SiteWise, your data must meet the requirements of the BatchPutAssetPropertyValue action. For more information, see BatchPutAssetPropertyValue in the Amazon IoT SiteWise API Reference.
Then, stream manager exports the data based on the batch settings and priority defined in the stream's export configurations.
You can adjust your stream manager settings and Greengrass component logic to design your export strategy. For example:
 - For near real time exports, set low batch size and interval settings and append the data to the stream when it's received.
 - To optimize batching, mitigate bandwidth constraints, or minimize cost, your Greengrass components can pool the timestamp-quality-value (TQV) data points received for a single asset property before appending the data to the stream. One strategy is to batch entries


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Newly approved legislation criminalizes mortgage fraud for the first time in Florida, where the crime has reached epidemic levels in the wake of a real estate boom fueled in part by risky loans.
Florida leads the nation in mortgage fraud, and Miami-Dade and Broward counties lead the state.
Senate Bill 1824 would make m?ortgage fraud a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in state prison. If two or more properties are involved, the crime would be a second-degree felony punishable by a possible 15-year sentence. If signed by Gov. Charlie Crist, the law would take effect Oct. 1.
Cases have been prosecuted up to now under grand theft and wire fraud laws.
The definition of mortgage fraud includes filing bogus documents with county clerks. The clerks of court maintain property ownership records, in an attempt to crack down on quitclaim deed fraud.
This type of fraud is as easy as filing fake papers indicating a change of property ownership with county clerks. Fake deeds are offered to lenders during a refinancing process, the new "owners" walk away with cash, and the victimized owners often are clueless.
The legislation grew out of identical bills sponsored by Democratic state Sen. Gwen Margolis of Bay Harbor Islands and Democratic state Rep. Dan Gelber of Miami Beach.
During the session that adjourned Friday, the bills were folded into a broader mortgage bill calling for increased notification to borrowers about fees and the loan process.
The final version was sponsored by the Senate Commerce and Banking and Insurance committees, Margolis and state Sens. Mike Fasano, R-New Port Richey, and Evelyn Linn, R-Daytona Beach.
Miami-Dade police Sgt. Richard Davis, who has been chasing white-collar criminals for years, warned real estate professionals at a mortgage fraud seminar last week in Miami that they need to help stop a mortgage fraud epidemic or risk being blamed.
"If you want to see people not trust Realtors, let this go on. They already have suspicions about Realtors," Davis told the seminar attended by about 100 members of the real estate industry.
Florida Real Estate Commissioner Nancy Hogan wants real estate agents to take more responsibility for the paperwork they handle.
Too many people involved in transactions -- from buyers and sellers to mortgage brokers, appraisers and title agents -- "turn their heads, and we allow it. We have to stop thinking the commission comes first," Hogan said at the seminar hosted by the Realtor Association of Greater Miami and the Beaches.
"It enrages me that people think we are so greedy and stupid as to allow this," said Hogan, managing broker of Coldwell Bankers' San Remo Avenue office in Coral Gables.
Mortgage fraud can range from falsified income statements and fake deed transfers to rings of salespeople, appraisers, mortgage brokers and title agents who concoct fake buyers to get homes and loans.
The eagerness of lenders to make risky loans during the residential run-up is coming back to haunt them in delinquencies and foreclosures.
Agents and brokers often are the first to see suspicious purchase contracts and are in a position either to keep
them from going forward or to report them to regulators and police.
Davis wants to establish a Miami-Dade clearinghouse for salespeople, title agents, mortgage brokers and appraisers to consult with each other, learn how to spot fraud and report it.
"Their total concentration should not be on making a dollar," he said after the meeting. "A lot of them unknowingly and knowingly are breaking the law. We don't want to hear 'I didn't know about that.'
The Miami association has formed a task force to educate members about fraud tactics and evidence.
The Realtor Association of Greater Fort Lauderdale has begun bilingual educational seminars about mortgage fraud and foreclosures, chief executive Richard Barkett said.
"What to look for and recognize is one step" in remedying the problem, he said.
Salespeople are being asked to watch for any special requests by buyers and sellers or contract add-ons, notably cash-back deals giving buyers tens of thousands of dollars in cash at closing.
Sellers get more for a property than it's worth, buyers get extra cash for repairs, credit card bills or purchases, salespeople reap bigger commissions and lenders chalk up a heftier loan at a higher interest rate.
But Davis said it's fraud if the lender doesn't know about the cash-back aspect.
A cash payback of $100,000 to buyers getting 100 percent financing isn't uncommon and should prompt calls to lenders, Hogan said. But mortgage professionals say they often aren't aware of cash-back deals.
Casting responsibility elsewhere, real estate agents point to mortgage brokers and other loan originators as the culprits, but often the brokers and lenders are the ones being burned, said Raymond Reyes, head of the Miami chapter of the Florida Association of Mortgage Brokers.
Real estate agents often hide cash-back arrangements in contract addendums that aren't seen by mortgage brokers and lenders, said Michelle LaPiana, an account executive with CIT Consumer Finance in Maitland and former president of the Florida Association of Mortgage Brokers.
The trick also keeps side deals off the federally mandated HUD-1 settlement statement.
Davis said he's seen cash-back deals prepared by attorneys who didn't want the funds reported on the HUD-1 forms because they knew lenders wouldn't approve the loans.
Reyes, managing director of Express Equity Lending Group in Coral Gables, extended the blame up the lending chain to creditors and banking regulators who allowed subprime loans to proliferate.
A report by First American Loan Performance ranked the Miami area as having the nation's fourth-highest rate of subprime loans at 23 percent.
About 13.5 percent of mortgages originated in the U.S. last year were subprime, five times higher than the 2.6 percent approved in 2000, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.
"Greed started at the top with the creditors and has trickled down to licensees," Reyes said.
There would be a smaller mortgage market if the secondary mortgage market didn't buy and securitize the loans, he said.
Jorge Cantero, a broker-associate with Esslinger Wooten Maxwell in Miami, acknowledged real estate agents help perpetuate mortgage fraud, but said enforcement isn't guaranteed even when fraud is reported.
"Very few people like to get involved ... and no one wants to be called a snitch," he said. "When you finally step forward and put yourself in the limelight ... then comes the frustration when nothing happens. You get caught in the wheels of bureaucracy, and the bureaucracy hardly does anything."


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- Tricks of the Trade: Debt and Imposed Sovereignty in Southernmost Kham in the Nineteenth to Twentieth Centuries
- Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 5, Number 2, November 2016
- pp. 378-407
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Southernmost Kham, which borders Burma and Yunnan Province, remained at the juncture of several mutually competing political centers until the first half of the twentieth century. On the fringes of Tibetan, Naxi, and Chinese expansion and increasing political control, several Tibeto-Burman–speaking groups such as the Drung and Nung gradually became integrated into their neighbors' polities. Their political dependency often arose from trading with and accepting loans from commercial agents and from the intermediaries of local rulers, Naxi and Tibetans alike. This article addresses this practice of providing credit, which was developed at the expense of impoverished groups who were often obliged to accept the terms of the transaction. The author particularly emphasizes the connections between this system of debt dependency, the relationship between creditors and debtors that has to be considered in terms of exchange and reciprocity, and the question of political legitimacy. Within this broader context of regional interethnic relations, the article provides a detailed analysis of the concrete terms of the political relationship that existed between Drung communities and Tibetan chiefs of Tsawarong, which contributes to an understanding of the workings of this relationship and its economic, territorial, and even ritual components.


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Muscle Strength Is In The Mind: Just Imagining Arm Exercises Creates A Tangible Effect On The Body
Brain and brawn aren't mutually exclusive—that, in fact, they have more in common than they ever thought. In a small study recently published in the Journal of Neurophysiology, researchers found that much of muscle strength is based on brain activity, rather than on the mass of the muscles themselves. "There's a fair amount of evidence that you'll activate the same parts of the brain doing imagery as you do if you're actually doing the task itself," explained Brian Clark, a physiology professor at Ohio University and the study's lead author. "The basic thought is that the imagery is allowing the brain to maintain those connections."
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TY - THES AU - Sgaravatti Saboredo, Franco T1 - What are the elements that enable the growth of the sport of surfing? DA - 2017 CY - Chur PB - Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft HTW Chur A3 - Luthe, Tobias AB - The industry of surfing has grown so much in the last decades that it has even influenced countries with no access to the ocean, Switzerland is a clear example. Not only that surfing can be practiced in rivers, nowadays technology permits the creation of artificial waves that can emulate waves from the ocean and in Switzerland, there are various projects developing in the upcoming years. The aim of this research study is to analyse the current industry of surfing in the country, to identify who the main players are, future developments and finally, find what are the elements that enable the growth of surfing in Switzerland. In order to accomplish this, an intensive theoretical background analysis was done to gather already existing information. After collecting information, expert interviews were followed by addressing key companies and people involved in the industry. Last but not least, a customer survey was developed to gain further information on the demand side of the industry. M3 - Bachelorarbeit Tourismus M4 - Citavi ER -


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According to data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the British economy in May 2022 recorded 0.5%. m/m rebound increase by 0.2%. Fall in April. This result is much better than the average forecast, which assumed an increase in the range from 0.0 to 0.1 percent.
Also, compared to May 2021, the reading turned out to be higher than expected (3.5 vs. 2.8%), but in this case the slowdown in the growth dynamics was noticeable, since in April it was 3.7%. After the correction of 3.4 percent.
It is worth emphasizing that industrial and construction production grew faster than expected. The economy was also driven by the service sector, where health was at the fore. The Office for National Statistics confirmed that visits to family physicians increased by up to 15% in May.
However, there were also some disturbing factors. These, for example, are signs of poor household spending. Consumer-oriented services, including hospitality and retail, were down 0.1%.
Households spend less in stores and "on the go," with official data showing 0.5 percent. in retail and 5.3 percent. Retreat in sports, leisure and recreational activities.
The Bank of England expects a contraction in the British economy in the second and fourth quarters of this year, followed by two years of recession. GDP is now 1.7%. above pre-pandemic levels.
Recent surveys also show that the risk of a recession in the next 12 months has risen to 45%. And three times higher than expected in early 2022.


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Population diagnostics challenging for poultry veterinarians
By Philip A. Stayer, DVM, MS, ACPV
Corporate Veterinarian
Sanderson Farms, Inc.
Poultry veterinarians managing commercial flocks are epidemiologists of sorts. We have to come up with a population diagnosis based on sampling of subsets.
In poultry production, the most common sampling would include routine necropsy sessions conducted for mid-flock analysis. Typically five to six broilers are gathered from various farms at strategic ages ranging from young to market age. For a processor marketing 1 million birds per week, each fiveto six-bird sample can represent 2 to 3 harvest days, or from 400,000 to 600,000 individuals! You don't need to be a statistician to see there is no way that routine necropsy sessions can adequately reflect the health status of so many other birds.
I became painfully aware of this shortcoming recently while assessing flock health during a period of worse-than-expected broiler performance. "Normal" birds brought to necropsy sessions all had coccidial lesions but at a level that was seasonally acceptable. None had excessive amounts of parasitism.
As time went on, flocks continued to perform poorly. We conducted mortality surveys to assess dead birds along with normal-bird surveys. Even though mortality rates were low, dead birds had lethal amounts of the coccidial species Eimeria maxima and at much later ages than expected for the coccidiosis-control program in place. It was only after we performed dead-bird surveys that we figured out coccidiosis was driving poor flock performance. The experience with coccidiosis was a glaring reminder that normal-bird samples do not necessarily represent overall flock health.
The bell curve
I remember from statistics classes that populations tend to have a bell-shaped distribution, with most members being in the middle. However, if you want to see what's dragging down a population, it seems like the bottom tail of the bell curve would be more informative. Dead birds are obviously at the bottom of the population and should indicate what's hindering surviving birds.
Further complicating population diagnostics is the fact that not all members of a population respond the same way to the same stimulus. Consider feed toxicity in chickens, which rarely affects an entire flock. Some chickens may die while others have no clinical signs. How about lethal dose 50 — the dose of any substance required to kill half of the the animals tested in challenge studies? Why do half of the animals survive and half die when they've received the same dose?
Don't get me wrong. Epidemiology and population diagnoses that depend on smaller subset sampling is valuable in poultry production. They help us evaluate flock health and can provide tip-offs to emerging problems before they escalate any further.
We can also use larger data sets to improve the health of the flocks under our care. Shared industry-performance statistics may be prone to misrepresentation, but by increasing the size of the population, larger trends may be seen that aren't apparent based on one integrator's own numbers. We can learn from others' experience and choose interventions to keep the flocks under our care as healthy as possible with current technology. Whatever baseline used, differences from average can be meaningful even if results aren't statistically significant.
When it gets down to it, population medicine is mostly what poultry veterinarians do. Unlike our companion-animal counterparts, we aren't limited to one animal and one diagnosis. We get to work with whole groups of animals to help the greater community. We are epidemiologists.
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| Blue Douglas Fir, Rocky Mountain Douglas Fir, Inland Douglas Fir, Interior Douglas Fir, Colorado Douglas Fir, Pino Real Colorado|
Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca
In Texas blue douglas fir grows only in high elevations in the Guadalupe and Chisos Mountains in west Texas. It would be useful only in similar environments in high elevation west Texas gardens. In regions elsewhere in the U.S. where it gets much more rainfall, it can reach 250 feet tall and rivals the giant sequoias and redwoods. It makes a handsome conical evergreen tree with aromatic needles of medium to dark green or blue-green.
Plant Habit or Use: upright conifer medium tree large tree
Flower Color: reddish cones scattered along branches or on tips
Blooming Period: spring
Fruit Characteristics: small woody cones
Height: to 80 ft.
Width: to 30 ft.
Plant Character: evergreen
Heat Tolerance: low
Water Requirements: medium low
Soil Requirements: adaptable


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Assessing the effectiveness of a model program they developed, Dartmouth Medical School researchers Dr. W. Carl Cooley, adjunct associate professor in pediatrics, and Jeanne McAllister, research associate in pediatrics, review the experience of four practices in Vermont and New Hampshire who used their program to identify and implement changes to improve the care they deliver to children with special health care needs.
The concept of community-based "medical homes" places where care is managed through coordination of clinicians, educators, therapists, healthcare professionals, and caregivers has been advocated by national health policy makers and the American Academy of Pediatrics as the best model for providing systematic yet individualized care to children with complex conditions and multiple needs.
Still, the changes required for a practice to become an effective medical home can be difficult to make. "Introducing change into a busy pediatric practice is like trying to repair a bicycle while riding it," the authors write. "Even the most motivated practice finds change difficult to implement. Many primary care providers believe that implementing the medical home concept is the right thing to do but question how they can do so and remain solvent."
To make the process easier, the authors developed a medical home improvement tool kit that allows practices to look at key functions of the medical home, assess their own operation, and identify the steps and strategies they will follow to become a medical ho
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Dartmouth Medical School