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The Anglo-Irish writer Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin, Ireland on November 20, 1667. His father died when he was still a very young child, so he spent the first five years of his life in England, with a nanny who was given charge of him.
In 1682 he entered university in Dublin, from which he graduated a few years later. Subsequently, he went to England and accepted a position as Sir William Temple's secretary. Sir Temple was an important retired statesman. Swift proved himself in his service and gained his trust. After some years of successful work in the service of Sir William Temple, Swift returned to university, this time to Oxford. An increasing discord with Sir William lead to Swift's return to Ireland. He decided to get ordained as an Anglican minister and in 1694 was sent to Kilrott, which he left only a short time later due to the bad working conditions. Subsequently he returned to work for Sir William in 1695. During this time, Swift completed his works "A Tale of a Tub" and "The Battle of the Books". Swift met Ester Johnson, the illegitimate daughter of Sir Temple's.
Ester Johnson and Swift shared a deep mutual affection. When his master died in 1698, Swift returned to England and accepted a position in the church. During this time, Ester Johnson moved to Trim, so they lived nearby. With his previous books and "Dissensions in Athens and Rome", which was published anonymously in 1701, Jonathan Swift became successful and won the corresponding respect as a writer. Around 1710 Swift became politically active for a short time and wrote sharp-tongued political satire. That year and the following year, he was the editor of the Tory weekly "Examiner".
Alongside his marriage to Esther Johnson, Swift entertained an eleven-year secret relationship with a young lady called Miss Vanhomrigh, who did not know that Swift was married. She died in 1723 shortly after his revelation. In 1726 his notoriously famous novel "The travels into several remote nations of the world by Lemuel Gulliver" were published. Swift's wife died in 1728. His health deteriorated considerably. Jonathan Swift died in Dublin on October 19, 1745.


SMS Gateway 4.4 - User's Guide
Table of ContentsPreviousNextIndex
5. Sending a message
To send a message you can use the sms command. Before you can send a message the SMS daemon, smsd, must be running.
Start smsd like this:
# smsd
When smsd is started it creates a lockfile called LCK.smsd in SMDIR. If you get a message that smsd is already running whent you try to start it although you know it is not, the lockfile has not been removed properly from the SMSDIR directory. Remove it manually. You can use the -debug option to get smsd print debug information on stdout.
The basic way of using the sms command is by supplying a recipient number and a message as argument:
# sms _PHONE_ "Hello world!"
This will send the message "Hello world!" to the recipient _PHONE_.
5.1 Scheduling a message
You can schedule a message for transmission at a specific time by using the -t option to sms.
# sms -t 22:00 _PHONE_ "Test message"
This will send the message 22:00 in the evening.
5.2 Specifying the sender a message
It is possible to set the sender, or originating address, on a per-message basis. Please not that all SMSCs (Nokia SMSC via CIMD2 for example) allow the application to specify the sender.
# sms -sender 46123456 _PHONE_ "Test message"
5.3 Sending a flash SMS
It is possible to send a so-called flash SMS by using the -msgclass parameter. A flash SMS is a SMS that will be immediately displayed in the phone displayed and that will not be stored on the SIM card..
# sms -msgclass 0 _PHONE_ "Test message"
A value of 0 means a flash SMS, the default value is 1 (message stored on SIM card).
5.4 Using a list of recipients
You can send the same message to many recipients by using the -l option with sms. The format of the file is one recipient number per row.
# sms -l reclist "Test message"
This will send the message to all recipients in the file reclist.
5.5 Sending raw messages
Sometimes a character translation will be done on messages before they are sent out. This can be avoided using the "-raw" parameter with faxsend. If specified the messages will be sent out exactly as supplied.
5.6 Using mappings
It is possible to apply a character mapping to an outgoing message. The mapping, which is a one-to-one mapping must be defined in the config file and then referenced using the -mapping command with faxsend.
Sample mapping (in config file) translating all 'a' into 'B'.
MAPPING atoB <
# Map ASCII 97 ('a') to ASCII 66 ('B')
97=66
>
Sample command line using the mapping:
# sms -mapping atoB 123456 "Test message with letter a"
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Tapping the Liquid Gold
WATER BATTLE SITES
Central Plains Water scheme: involves taking water from the Rakaia and Waimakariri rivers and storing it in a reservoir in the dammed Waianiwaniwa Valley. The water will be used to irrigate 60,000ha bounded by the rivers, SH1 and the Malvern foothills. Red Zones: Environment Canterbury has labelled many blocks of land as red zones areas that have no more groundwater allocation to spare for irrigation. But farmers keep fighting for more water through legal challenges. Project Aqua: The lower Waitaki River was the site where Meridian abandoned a bid to build six new power stations by diverting two-thirds of the river through channel alongside the river.
Canterbury has 78,162 kilometres of rivers and 4753 lakes with a surface area of 702 square kilometres, an area the size of greater Christchurch.
The Canterbury region has 70 per cent of the country's irrigated land and generates 24% of the nation's power through hydroelectricity.
The aquifiers on the Central Plains are fed by seepage from the rivers and by rainfall. They supply almost all the water for irrigation and for human use.
The groundwater of the Canterbury Plains is a large continuously flowing body of water within layers of silts, sands and gravel down to a depth of 500m.
The Waimakariri River is the source of Christchurch's pristine untreated drinking water through the underground aquifer system. It's also one of the largest and best examples of a braided river in New Zealand.
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کنگنا (and who integrates who when East and West meet)
In writing about Bhangra Rap, I talked about how 'foreign' and 'native' art forms are put together in Pakistani pop. More often than not, it is the foreign or Western art genres that govern the structure. Local elements – such as South Asian instruments like the sitar or dhol, or lyrics in local languages – are the ornamentation.
The reason early Coke Studio was interesting, was that it was the most prominent and explicit attempt to reverse this dynamic. Coke Studio music was structured around Eastern tradition with Western ornamentation on top. This didn't happen in all songs, but by and large the arc of Rohail Hyatt's first stint in Coke Studio was the subversion of the then preeminent order of Pakistani pop, in terms of what genre played host and what played guest.
Kangna is arguably the best recording from Coke Studio. And the accompanying behind the scenes videos (the standard Coke Studio BTS, and an additional Special Feature on the House Band), the most extensive for one song that I am aware of, help explain why.
Fareed Ayaz and Abu Muhammad perform what the Coke Studio House Band's dholak player Babar Khanna calls 'Classical Qawwali'. Classical Qawwali is an innovation attributed to Nusrat as well. The main idea here is that this form of Qawwali incorporates ragas from Hindustani Classical, into the rhythm-and-poetry-focused genre of Qawwali. In itself, this is an innovation worth talking about. So I'll go on a little diversion and then we'll come back to Kangna.
Bringing classical to qawwali is more than a surface level bricolage. Classical ragas represent a strongly developed tradition, which requires knowledge and practice to sincerely perform. To understand ragas, it is worth discussing how melody is constructed. Seeing this through the lens of both Western and Eastern musical systems will also help understand how the two interact.
Melody is changing the pitch of sound into pleasing and recognizable combinations. The pitch of sound is an analog quantity, in that you can smoothly move from a low pitch to a high pitch by infinitesimal amounts. To make these movements audible and reproducible, music is made in a standardized system of particular pitches. This is referred to as a 'tuning system'.
In the predominant Western tuning system, a particular pitch and another with twice the frequency are said to be an octave apart. Each octave is then divided into 12 notes. The keys of a piano, and the frets of a guitar correspond to one note. Melodies are created by picking a subset of these notes, and ordering them. These subsets of notes are called scales.
Scales tend to have moods associated with them. What is called a major scale, sounds happy. A minor scale sounds sad and haunting. It is unclear if there is something inherent about these combinations that evokes these feelings, or if it is something we have learned culturally. Musicians rely on our subconscious associations of feelings with scale as they construct melody.
Now to Hindustani music. Tuning systems in North Indian Classical music subdivide octaves into a different, larger set of notes than the predominant Western system. But as Western instruments are added, South Asian music is simplified to fit Western tuning. The differences and nuances of the two tuning systems is hence, lost.
But a core difference between the two traditions is what the music is centered around. If Western music is built around a piano, Hindustani music is built around the human voice. The human voice – unlike the piano – is analog. Moving from a one key in a piano to the next causes a discrete jump in pitch. The human voice is able to smoothly modulate from one to the other. So Hindustani music's first governing principle is a level of additional complexity that is beyond the fundamentals of Western music. Even when the additional steps in tuning are lost in musical instruments, the one place where the remaining 'microtones' or 'shrutis' remain is in the voice.
This brings us to ragas. A raga, like a scale, is a collection of notes. Ragas tend to not only specify the set of notes they are made of, but also rules about the order in which notes should be hit, and characteristic movements between those notes. Each raga can be associated with a mood, venue, and/or time of day.
In Western music, there is also a tradition of common note movements within scales. These are called modes.
So in a sense, ragas are closely analoged with modes, but they have a different, parallel historical tradition. This tradition is passed down in formal coaching from musician to musician, but is also slowly internalized by audiences as they listen to songs set in ragas all their lives. Over time, just as we begin to learn that major scales sound happy, we also learn to recognize certains ragas as evoking a particular time, such as a the season of barsaat, or more generally as sounding of home. You can feel them, even if you can't name them.
The Western and Hindustani Classical traditions present two different ways of identifying notes, and selecting within them to create recognizable melodies. These are a function of different historical and technological trajectories. The Western tradition, given its breadth of published literature, proliferation through modern pop culture, and availability of instruments, offers an easier pathway for modern musicians in Pakistani cities. As a result of this, the Hindustani tuning system is less prevalent. And for many musicians in urban Pakistan, Western scales are more accessible than Hindustani ragas. The Hindustani tradition progresses orally for the most part, such as in the music of Fareed Ayaz and Abu Muhammad, and of other musical gharanas that settled on each side of the border after partition.
Back to Classical Qawwali. The innovation of this genre was to position the formal knowledge of ragas into the environment of Qawwali. Doing so is not just a question of transplanting a simple set of notes from one melody into a Qawwali performance, it is an immersion of Qawwali in the historical tradition of ragas. The exercise is only complete if the structure and ethos of the raga, as determined through its historical development, is truthfully represented in the setting of a Qawwali.
Qawwali is concerned with a performance of spirituality that inculcates a sense of devotion and is designed to make an audience feel a rush of energy that can be directed to something larger than themselves. This fever is induced by rhythm and lyrics – the beat pushes you into a trance or maybe onto your feet, and the poetry fires you up behind a motif.
Classical Qawwali uses the additional power of a raga to add another mood onto this fever. It is in a sense, a doubly-hard art form. Because it promises to uphold not one, but two historical traditions in a performance driven by improvisation and learned mastery of rhythm and pitch.
Kangna however, is not just a Classical Qawwali. It takes this genre further by then ornamenting it with prog-rock.
Fareed Ayaz and Abu Muhammad chose this particular melody because they decide they want to have some fun. Instead of taking something simple to Coke Studio, they took something uncommon even by Eastern standards. The core difficulty of Kangna is that the song is structured around a 10-beat cycle. (Most music you hear is in a 4-beat cycle; 3 is also common. Other variations exist, but are rare.) In general terms, the more beats you add to a cycle, the harder it is to play. This is because it is hard for a mind and body to memorize and repeat a complex set of movements, especially in a pattern it does not encounter normally.
The other complication of this song (and this is not limited to Kangna but is inherent to the Classical and the Qawwali genres) is frequent improvisation. Where most of Western pop is essentially a script of notes to be played from back to front, Eastern songs and qawwalis in particular are more a loose structure around which each performance can be based. The performer utilizes their years of academy in mastering the underlying structures (the raga and the taal, the pitch and the rhythm) to then conduct an infinite array of variation on top.
The House Band understand this situation, and instead of trying to keep track of the improvisation, decide they will play only two riffs while the Qawwals do whatever they want on top. The riffs draw from prog-rock, a genre of Western pop known to take pride in musical virtuosity and experiment with funky time signatures.
One main riff underpins most of the song, and this is built around the bass-line of Pink Floyd's Money. That song too was in an odd time signature (a 7-beat cycle), and provides a good template on how to supplement the Qawwali: a moody musical line repeated over and over. The variety is added by the voices on top.
The second riff the House Band plays is a way to get into the chorus, and is modeled around the music of the band Yes. The song Roundabout is a very interesting parallel.
The improvisation that the Qawwals do on top of the basic 10-beat structure has its own set of complications. When the Qawwals improvise, they don't really worry about the underlying 10-beat structure. They may switch to a totally different pattern, but when they decide to come back they do so in a way that fits the original 10-beat cycle they departed from. The House Band


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2nd April 2019
Geothermal is a risk to our drinking water and agriculture
The proposed geothermal plant is a risk to our drinking water and agriculture. The environmental effects may be temporary or irreversible and may include changes to the landscape and land use, by gases emissions into the atmosphere, on surfaces and subsurface water, land subsidence and seismic activity.
A research paper about geothermal in Turkey outlines the possible environmental consequences.
Air and chemical pollution can be:
- Hydrogen Sulphide and its derivatives (H2S) are emitted, causing a bad smell and acid rain;
- Emitted carbon dioxide (CO2) and H2S are heavy gases and can linger, causing increased pollution for local people who live close to the geothermal plant;
- Radioactive element radon, toxic elements arsenic, mercury, ammonia, boron and other polluting heavy metals;
- Waste steam is normally sprayed over surrounding vegetation, while waste water is pumped into streams and river untreated, as treatment is considered too costly to be economically viable.
Dissolved minerals (e.g., boron, mercury and arsenic) contained in the liquid streams generated during the exploration, stimulation and production phases, may poison surface or groundwater and harm local vegetation.
Boron toxicity has a negative effect on the metabolic functions of plants. The boron toxicity can cause a reduced yield in plants, owing to the plant tissues death and reduced photosynthetic activity due to the high level of boron.
Fluids emerging from the geothermal area often contain high boron concentrations and cause environmental problems for irrigation waters in agricultural areas, where boron contaminates aquifers and soils.
Heavy metals are often found in water samples of drilled wells. They can contaminate fresh water sources or surface water. To a certain extent they enter our bodies by contaminated water used in vegetable cultivation, via animal food products, via drinking water and by the air.
Heavy metals are also dangerous for humans because they tend to bio-accumulate, i.e., increase in
concentration in human bodies over time. They damage the central nervous system and cause loss of memory, severe trembling, respiratory problems, birth defects, heart disorders and other health issues.
Energy security and food security in SVG is needed for us to have economic security and national security. Therefore, it is necessary for SVG to reject the high risk geothermal project and turn to safer, simpler and cheaper energy sources such as the renewable energy of solar and wind.
The SVG Parliament should pass legislation to (a) give the authority to build a further two hydro-electric power plants on the Colonarie river (b) mandate that VINLEC disclose every month the statistic related to the purchase of diesel for production of electricity, and (c) cut the price of electricity to twenty two cents per unit for private residential and domestic use, but retain the Fuel Surcharge tariff. This would shut out the need for the dangerous geothermal power plant in SVG.
The SVG Parliament should also pass legislation for zero tax and customs duty on all solar and wind equipment, so private households and businesses can import such equipment and generate electricity themselves. This would help Vincentians reduce their electricity bill and / or create a source of income.
Geothermal is an unnecessary risk to our drinking water and agriculture. The project should be abolished.
Warrant Officer Ivan O'Neal BSc (hons), MSc, MBA.
Leader of SVG Green Party
CC: The Hon Prime Minister of SVG
The Hon Leader of the Opposition of SVG
SVG Christian Council
SVG Chamber of Industry and Commerce

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MacGregor Campbell, consultant
Here's a freaky twist on a classic illusion.
Thomas Papathomas, a vision researcher at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, has created a new variation on the hollow-mask illusion - where viewers find it difficult to distinguish whether they are seeing a mask's interior or its exterior.
Papathomas's version uses both a hollow mask and a hollow torso, each inverted from the other so that when the head is concave, the torso is convex, and vice-versa. As the torso and head rotate, in the same direction, they appear to rotate oppositely to one another, resulting in the head appearing to twist unnaturally.
Papathomas calls this the "Exorcist Illusion," referring to a famous scene in the 1973 horror movie, The Exorcist, in which a girl possessed by the devil twists her head around a full 360 degrees.
This illusion requires no satanic involvement however. A constantly rotating hollow mask - or torso - appears to rotate in one direction when the exterior is facing the viewer, and the opposite direction when the interior faces the viewer. Since the brain and the torso are inverted from one another, when one appears to rotate clockwise, the other seems to rotate anticlockwise.
Papathomas created this illusion for the Neural Correlate Society's 2012 Illusion of the Year contest.


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Since you didn't show any work, I'll guess that you need help getting started.
gierose wrote:A car weighing 12.0kg (2700lbs) is parked on a driveway that is at 15 degree angle with the horizontal. Find the components of the car's weight parallel and perpendicular to the driveway?
Draw the right triangle representing the driveway (one leg), the perpendicular (the other leg), and the base. The right angle is where the car is. Draw the height line, being perpendicular to the base; the height of the right triangle is 12. (I think this may be a typo, though; 12 kilograms does not correspond to 2700 pounds.)
The height line forms two right triangles, with the legs of the original triangles being the hypotenuse of each new triangle. Use trig ratios and the given angle measure to find their lengths.
gierose wrote:A woman on the ground sees an airplane climbing at an angle of 35 degrees above the horizontal. She gets into her car and by driving at 70 mi/h is able to stay directly below the airplane. What is the airplane speed?
Draw the right triangle formed by the height, the ground, and the path of the plane. Label the base angle with the given value, and the base with "70". Use trig ratios to find the value of the hypotenuse.
If you get stuck, please reply showing your steps and reasoning so far. Thank you!


When the Duke of Windsor met Adolf Hitler
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image captionThe former King Edward VIII was welcomed by Adolf Hitler
Images of the Duke of Windsor meeting Adolf Hitler during a 1937 visit remain controversial. As 60 photos showing the duke and his new wife meeting the Nazi leadership sell at auction for £6,830, BBC News examines the story behind the pictures.
The unofficial royal visit to Germany caused much controversy and the former King Edward VIII has since faced numerous accusations of being a Nazi sympathiser.
However, royal historian Carolyn Harris said his motives were "peaceful" and linked to the acceptance of his new wife, the American divorcee Wallis Simpson, for whom he had abdicated as king in 1936.
She said the duke was "eager to carve out a new role for himself and ensure that his wife was treated as a full member of the Royal Family even though she had not received the title of Her Royal Highness - an issue that was of great concern to the duke".
King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson
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image captionThe trip was arranged so Wallis Simpson (seen here in a picture not part of the auction) could experience a state visit
 - The only British sovereign to abdicate voluntarily, Edward stepped down in 1936 so he could be allowed to marry the American divorcee Wallis Simpson
 - They married in June 1937 and were given the titles of Duke and Duchess of Windsor
 - For the next two years they lived mainly in France
 - After the outbreak of war, the duke was appointed governor of the Bahamas
 - He died of throat cancer in 1972 in Paris and was buried near Windsor
 - The duchess died in 1986 and was laid to rest alongside her husband
Source: BBC History
She added: "There was no precedent for an abdicated sovereign assuming an active public role on behalf of the current sovereign and the Duke of Windsor was frustrated that he appeared to be expected to live a quiet life in exile."
So the duke jumped at the chance to go to Germany when invited by its government, even though the British government did not support his decision and would have preferred the couple keep a low profile.
media captionThe Duke and Duchess of Windsor arrived at a railway station in Berlin where they were greeted by Nazi officials and a cheering crowd
His equerry Sir Dudley Forwood, who compiled the photo album, also said years later the unofficial trip was not a bid to support the Nazi regime, but instead to enable the duchess to experience a state visit.
Timothy Medhurst, of Duke's Auctions in Dorchester, Dorset, said the images showed the couple "in a relaxed environment being shown around by Nazis who are clearly proud of their nation".
"It is a unique piece of history compiled at a time when the Nazi war machine was preparing for European conquest and the systematic slaughter of millions of people," he added.
image copyrightDuke's of Dorchester/PA
image captionRoyal historian Carolyn Harris said the duke's motives for visiting members of the Nazi regime were "peaceful"
Ms Harris, who specialises in European monarchy, said: "The Duke of Windsor was familiar with Germany - he had numerous relatives there - and seems to have envisioned a diplomatic role for himself as a mediator between Britain and Germany."
He shared the views of other senior figures in the British government "who thought a lasting peace could be negotiated through diplomacy", she said.
According to royal biographer Andrew Morton, he officially went there to look at housing conditions, an issue that he had been interested in when he was king.
"But the real reason was to show Wallis a good time and see exactly what it was like to enjoy a royal tour, and they were treated like royalty," he said.
"She was treated like a royal princess, not like the Royal Family treated her, like an outcast and an outsider.
Mr Morton added that despite being "thrilled" at the time, the couple later realised they had made a "ghastly mistake" after their actions upset American trade unions and Jewish organisations.
The trip did not mean the duke was a Nazi, he said.
image copyrightDuke's of Dorchester
image captionThe equerry's invitation to the funeral of the Duchess of Windsor in 1986 was included in the album sale
Ms Harris told BBC News that in 1939, when war was imminent, the duke contacted Hitler "hoping to negotiate a peaceful solution, attempting to draw upon the rapport they developed during the 1937 visit".
However, she said his ties with Nazi Germany "made him a liability" for Britain during World War Two, which led to his appointment as Governor of the Bahamas "which removed him from Europe for the remainder of the war".
But Edward and Wallis "continued to cause anxiety for the British government" during their time in the Bahamas "as their visits to the United States attracted an enormous amount of public attention and the Duke of Windsor expressed pessimism about an English victory".
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image captionThe auctioned photos show the duke meeting several Nazis during his trip
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image captionThe duke and his wife visited many places, including a mine, a winter relief headquarters, a light bulb factory and a school
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A myelogram is a type of radiological procedure for detecting pathologies of the spine and spinal cord. Although it is rarely used today due to the development of CT scans and the MRI, it is still used in rare situations where those procedures are contra-indicated, or they have been performed on a patient with spinal pain that has found no results.
In a myelogram, contrast is injected directly into the spinal column, usually through a lumbar puncture. The contrast spreads through the cerebro-spinal fluid and a series of X-rays are taken.
In some cases, a CT scan may be performed instead of X-rays. This is used in patients where an MRI is contra-indicated due to some type of medical implant.
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The ocean has been assumed as the main sink of microplastics (MPs), however, soils may also receive MPs from different sources and through different pathways, which may affect the biota and their role in soil functions. To the best of our knowledge, only one study, until now, reported the effects of MPs on the survival and fitness of soil organisms (Lumbricus terrestris). In our study, epigeic earthworms, of the species E. andrei, were exposed to different concentrations of MPs (0, 62.5, 125, 250, 500 and 1000 mg/kg soildw) in an OECD artificial soil and tested for reproduction, survival and growth of adults, following a standard protocol. The size of the polyethylene MPs to which earthworms were exposed ranged between 250 and 1000 μm. No significant effects were recorded on survival, number of juveniles and, in the final weight of adult earthworms after 28d of exposure, to the different concentrations of MPs. Nevertheless, FTIR-ATR of earthworms and histopathological analysis of the gut provided evidences of damages and immune system responses to MPs.
A. Rodriguez-Seijo, J. Lourenço, T.A.P. Rocha-Santos, J. da Costa, A.C. Duarte, H. Vala, R. Pereira, Environmental Pollution, Volume 220, Part A, January 2017, Pages 495–503

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PEGASO (2010 - 2013)
PEGASO is an ICZM project for the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. It is the FP7 project, supported by the EU. The main objectives of the project are: identifying and assessing the main threats in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea; looking at existing scientific data that can give more insight on what is happening; and bridging science with decision making. Such a complex work is based on the ICZM Protocol for the Mediterranean. In this context, PEGASO's main objective is to help the countries to put the ICZM Protocol into practice.
PEGASO works in 4 main directions:
 1. Working with the countries to know how they are equipped for the implementation of such a policy, through the creation of a PEGASO ICZM Governance Platform, where needs can be expressed, information exchanged and collaborations strengthened (WP2);
 2. PEGASO develops a number of sustainability tools (indicators, accounting methods, scenarios, social and economic valuation, guidelines for coastal and maritime planning, etc.) (WP4) with and for the Governance Platform, which includes also 10 case study areas, where the tools will be tested at different scales (WP5);
 3. All this work needs to gather relevant data and information at different scales: available remote sensing images for the two basins (for land and sea assessment), national data, as well as regional/local monitoring, statistics, etc. All these data are organised in a Spatial Data Infrastructure for the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, reinforcing the governance through a network of geo-nodes that allows sharing data amongst all partners and end users, each institution being the owner and manager of its own node; and
 4. An important action of capacity building is envisioned for the collaboration between Southern institutions and around the Black Sea to build a common knowledge base for coastal and sea management and planning purposes, and to make stakeholders and decision-makers aware of what it is possible to do in order to stop or mitigate unwanted threats, and adapting as much as possible to risk, to reach a more resilient environment and equitable society, how to monitor well using the best existing technology in use in the countries, finally learning to work together, to collaborate on main issues, in a governance model that will adjust in organizing itself along the project life.
The role of PAP/RAC in PEGASO
The work package (WP2) has been led by PAP/RAC. WP2 is going to provide important support to enable ICZM to build upon current scientific work and information, as well as the experience from the past EU projects within the same or similar thematic fields. An assessment of ICZM governance in the Mediterranean and Black Sea coastal regions is going to be made, creating the bridge between scientists and end-users. The willingness and readiness to prepare an ICZM Protocol for the Black Sea will also been assessed.
At the heart of this work package is the "ICZM Governance Platform" which, during the project lifetime and beyond it, is going to foster links between the world that provides the necessary scientific input and the worlds of decision-making, policy formulation and the everyday management actions at the local level. The Platform allows these worlds to meet, exchange, discuss, and argue if necessary to avoid scientists becoming isolated in their own closed universe of ever expanding data, and decision-makers forced to look only at short-term solutions because they are not able to interpret and/or use these data in a proper way.
Most importantly, the ICZM Governance Platform will facilitate the application of the ecosystem approach to the Mediterranean and Black Sea coasts - linking the knowledge and information of the different elements that are required for the equitable and sustainable management of both coastal land and waters.
Platform Components
The Platform is a forum where partners share the data, information, methods and tools they have at their disposal with Mediterranean and Black Sea end-users and CASES who will help enrich the initial data input and transform it, in a joint effort, to what we can call know "knowledge". This kind of joint effort is called the "adaptive management", which can be defined as being science-based, participatory and strategic.
Pegaso platform
The Platform is:
 1. structured to last after the project;
 2. helps find good ICZM solutions;
 3. assesses the readiness/preparedness for the implementation of the ICZM Protocol (Mediterranean);
 4. assesses the willingness/readiness to prepare an ICZM Protocol for the Black Sea;
 5. offers solutions for smoother implementation/preparation of the Protocol.
Besides the "official" members of the Platform all ICZM addicts, coast-lovers, people that want to engage themselves to make our coastal zones resilient, healthy, productive and attractive, have been invited to join the PEGASO team and to contribute by their knowledge and experience. We are more than happy to welcome them in the PEGASO family.
Specific WP2 Objectives
 1. To take an initial stock of scientific, technical, legal, and institutional knowledge base to create a Platform for desired policy changes in Mediterranean and Black Sea coastal areas.
 2. To integrate scientific, policy, managerial and societal views and attitudes towards ICZM governance in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea regions.
 3. To develop a methodology for evaluation and assessment of ICZM governance in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea regions.
 4. To assess end-user needs, define target groups and stakeholders.
 5. To build a shared ecosystem-based ICZM Governance Platform for Mediterranean and Black Sea regions, aimed at assisting decision and policy makers, professionals, private sector and civil society elements to plan actions and assess their impacts in coastal and marine areas.
 6. To facilitate implementation of the regional legal instruments.


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the wiring diagram is made up of wires and the connections of these wires. the wires are drawn with graphical symbols and the circuit breakers or other controlling devices are shown in the schematic on the right side.
Star Delta Wiring Diagram With Timer Pdf Free
the electrical symbols used in the wiring diagram should be used with the wire size and the terminals. some of the symbols used are a vertical line, horizontal line, dot, circles or other shapes. the symbol for the terminals is n, the capital letter indicates a male terminal and the lower case letter indicates a female terminal. the symbols used are required for a wiring diagram.
you will not be able to operate the crane without a crane operator. crane operations need various safety equipment to provide protection for the people working. you need a safety walkie-talkie to transmit your message to a crane operator if you are operating the crane.
safety walkie-talkie: a safety walkie-talkie is a radio transmitter and receiver available for the cranes in a crane company. the two-way radio is required for the crane operator and persons operating the crane. the radio provides a safety distance by sending a voice message between the crane operator and personnel. the operator and all the persons may communicate with each other even when they are in a distance away from each other. the radio walkie-talkie enables one to talk with the other as long as he is within range.
this motor schematic shows various details of the electric motor with wiring. the details can be checked in order to understand the basic motor working. the details will help you in knowing the electric motor. this motor diagram also shows the wiring of electric motor. for example you can see the motor winding name, supply voltage etc.


Story: Evolution of plants and animals
Page 6. Plants in a mild climate
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Adaptations
New Zealand has mild winters, moderately warm summers, and well-distributed rainfall. The adaptations of plants and animals in more seasonal climates are absent. New Zealand's indigenous plants tend to be sensitive to frost and cold. Even some alpine plants such as New Zealand's Veronica (formerly Hebe) – popular in British gardens – cannot survive a cold British winter. Only a few native trees and shrubs lose their leaves in winter, and adaptations protecting plants from frost (such as hard cases covering winter buds) are uncommon.
New Zealand plants are mainly evergreen perennials. Annual herbs, or those that die back in winter and store their bulbs underground to re-sprout in spring, are uncommon. Similarly, few insects undergo diapause – a state of suspended development during unfavourable periods, which is a common adaptation in insects in highly seasonal climates.
Naturally-caused fires are rare in New Zealand, and few trees and shrubs have the defences common in fire-prone areas, such as thick bark, buds below the bark, large storage roots, and fire-promoted release of seeds. The woody plants that do have these features are usually of Australian origin (mānuka), or are closely related to Australian species (matagouri).
Herbs to bushes
Dense, evergreen forests and lack of natural grasslands below the treeline are probably the reason for 'insular woodiness' – where herbaceous ancestors rapidly evolve into woody descendants. New Zealand has woody members of the daisy family, the carrot family and the plantain family, which are often herbaceous in temperate continental regions.
New Zealand's largest flowering plant genus is Veronica, formerly Hebe, with 121 native species (hebes and their relatives). These plants, which range from small trees to alpine cushion plants and a tiny lake-shore herb, diversified from a single ancestor during the last 10 million years. Their ancestor was probably a low-growing northern hemisphere plant similar to the common speedwell (Veronica arvensis). It's thought the evolution of woody hebes like Veronica stricta was aided by the familiar enclosed leaf buds, which give protection to the delicate stem tips.
How to cite this page:
Matt McGlone, 'Evolution of plants and animals - Plants in a mild climate', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, _URL_ (accessed 23 October 2020)
Story by Matt McGlone, published 24 Sep 2007


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The cement industry has long been dependent on the use of fossil fuels, although a recent trend in replacing fossil fuels with alternative fuels has arisen. 1, 2 However, when unconverted or partly converted alternative fuels are admitted directly in the rotary kiln inlet, the volatiles released from the fuels may react with sulphates present in the hot meal to form SO 2 . Here Maria del Mar Cortada Mut and associates describe pilot and industrial scale experiments focusing on the factors that affect SO 2 release in the cement kiln inlet.
|Journal||Global Cement Magazine|
|Publication status||Published - 2014|


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-❈• Flower Science Experiment for Kids: DIY Glowing Flowers from Fun at Home with Kids
Make a Glowing Flower: Tonic water, which contains quinine, was used to impart a blue glow to this carnation.
Make real flowers GLOW? Trippy. Gorgeous. Cool. Click through for simple tutorial. Would look amazing as DIY table centerpieces at a glow party.
These may look like fireworks or pretty flowers but they are STARBURST JELLYFISH!
Group 4: LIFESHOCKS This group consists if those who have powers over life and death, and electricity Captain: Alice First hire: Willow
Fractal Dahlia 8x10 - Fine Art Photography.#Repin By:Pinterest++ for iPad#
La fórmula se pulveriza sobre las flores y plantas que se colocan a continuación, al lado de una luz especial para hacer brillar
Science Fair Projects for primary and elementary students! There are so many awesome ideas here! I cannot wait to try the glowing flowers science experiment!
Glow in the dark flowers
Rather than painting with glow-in-the-dark paint, you soak it!


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Structuring Your Module or Course
What's a Module, What's a Course?
Students in a Geology of the National Parks class work to estimate the average rate of erosion of the Grand Canyon
For InTeGrate, a module
refers to a set of web pages that describes the activities that go on over a period of time less than a full academic term, generally about two weeks of a typical semester. The web pages include descriptions for how a faculty member could conduct the module: what to do and why to do it. They also include any additional elements a faculty member might need to support the students: materials that could substitute or augment a textbook and support the core activities. This might include textbook-like written background materials, classroom or lab handouts, datasets, visualizations, videos etc. A given module will be tested within courses at 3 different institutions (by the original developers), but the courses themselves may be unique (beyond their use of the common module). Thus, writing the description of the module in a general way helps ensure that the core of the module as described reflects the elements that are transportable/adaptable to different institutional contexts. In addition, a set of case studies will describe the actual experiences and local modifications made at each of the institutions that taught a version of the module.
is similar to a module, but refers to a set of web pages that describes the activities that go on over the period of an entire academic term. Each course is developed and then tested at 3 different institutions. The web pages focus on describing the shared elements of those 3 experiences. The web sites describing the course should describe it in generic terms so as to reflect the common experiences of the 3 developing institutions. Each course will also include case studies for each individual implementation by the materials authors and testers.
It makes sense to think of a course
as containing a series of modules
in a particular order. If this is the case, then the arrangement of web pages used to describe the course will reflect this. View Published Materials »
The other sort of module
In the context of the tools we're using to build the site there is a different sort of module. The Content Management System (CMS) groups pages into collections the same way you use folders or directories to group files on your computer. In the context of the CMS, we refer to these collections as modules. So you'll want to be cognizant about when module means collection of CMS pages and when it means a unit of curriculum (which may be described in a set of web pages that span several CMS modules). If you are confused, just ask!
How Materials are Organized and Used
All InTeGrate modules and courses follow a common structure. There is a central backbone of web pages containing information aimed at faculty. These pages introduce faculty to the materials, provide a step-by-step description of the content of the course or module, and end with case studies of how the course or module has been implemented at specific institutions. Throughout this backbone of pages, we link to various supporting materials: descriptions of specific student activities, and pages designed to be used directly by students during the course or module.
InTeGrate modules and courses are not stand-alone online learning tools for students to use independently. They are designed to support faculty in delivering their own version of the course or module to their students in their own classroom. It's assumed that the faculty member will need to adapt the materials to fit their own context.
InTeGrate Module Structure
The structure of an InTeGrate module
Each module starts with a standard page which introduces the module, talks about the context in which it might be useful, and its particular strengths. Following that is an overview page that describes the overall pedagogy and flow of the module as subdivided into a series of Units. The individual Units are then described on separate pages using a format called the Activity Sheet
. This format is purposefully designed to allow the individual Units to make sense as an independent resource. The units are followed by a page that describes the Goals and Assessments used in the module. The module concludes with a series of case studies about how the module was implemented at several institutions. The structure of this information is described in more detail in the Teaching Materials Format
The main audience for the backbone of the module is faculty members interested in teaching the module (or some variant or derivative thereof). These pages are represented in blue in the diagram. Supporting these pages are materials directed at students The main 'Student Materials' page acts as a syllabus style overview of the module; outlining the overall sequence and providing links to the core student materials and supplementary readings. This includes both separate files that may live as downloads 'in' the Units (e.g. student handouts, datasets) as well as self-contained sets of pages with background materials or other supporting information intended for students and represented in green in the diagram.
These student materials will be available in three formats: (1) within the main module in the context of the faculty-oriented material, (2) as stand-alone downloads, which faculty can post in their local LMS (such as Blackboard or Moodle) or other class website, and (3) as isolated web pages within a separate area of the InTeGrate site to which faculty can direct their students. This is described in more detail in the Student Materials Formats
InTeGrate Course Structure
The structure of an InTeGrate course
Courses have the same basic structure as modules but contain embedded modules. The overview for the course will also cover a longer period of time than a module. To the extent that the course can be meaningfully broken into separate modules, each module will be described either briefly on the Overview page itself or in more depth as a set of pages that mirrors the module organization described above. The mix of modules that are described briefly versus those described in more depth will be driven by the overall requirement to focus on those elements that are likely to be consistent across many different implementations of a course. Since implementations of a given course are likely to be more diverse across institutions than implementations of a given module the case studies section of a InTeGrate course is likely to be richer and more detailed than it would be for a single module.
Our Fake Course provides a more concrete example of how this structure would play out as a set of web pages. Detailed guidance can be found on the following pages that cover the Teaching Materials and Student Materials.


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A new study from the University of Utah shows that individuals who describe themselves as being more mindful have more stable emotions and perceive themselves to have better control over their mood and behavior throughout the day. Higher mindful people also describe less cognitive and physiological activation before bedtime, suggesting that greater emotional stability during the day might even translate into better sleep. The study results will be presented later this month at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society.
Prior studies of mindfulness—paying attention in a particular way, on purpose in the present moment and non-judgmentally—have typically been conducted with participants trained in mindfulness, for example meditation or other interventions. In contrast, this study examines naturally-occurring traits of mindfulness. Using a novel method for data collection, the participants wore a monitor that measured cardiac functioning and were prompted periodically throughout the day to rate their emotional state and mental functioning. Examining these processes during normal daily living builds on prior mindfulness research conducted in laboratory-controlled settings.
"This study gives us a better understanding of how mindfulness affects stress responses throughout the day," says Holly Rau, a graduate student involved with this research. "People who reported higher levels of mindfulness described better control over their emotions and behaviors during the day. In addition, higher mindfulness was associated with lower activation at bedtime, which could have benefits for sleep quality and future ability to manage stress."
How the study was conducted:
A total of 38 subjects, recruited from the community and University of Utah undergraduate psychology courses, participated in the study. They ranged in age from 20 to 45, and one-third were male. On the first day of the study, each participant completed a baseline assessment that included standard questionnaires, resting physiological assessment, and cognitive testing before beginning two days of experience sampling.
In the daily life portion of the study, participants wore a cardiac impedance monitor and responded to questions about their emotional state several times a day for two days. At the end of each day, participants also completed questionnaires about their ability to regulate their emotions and behaviors and were asked to rate their level of cognitive and physical arousal before falling asleep.
Researchers found that greater emotional stability, better self-rated control of emotions and behaviors and lower pre-sleep arousal (a measurement of cognitive and physical symptoms of anxiety) were all significantly associated with higher trait mindfulness. Results suggest that mindfulness may be linked to self-regulation throughout the day, and that this may be an important way that mindfulness contributes to better emotional and physical well-being.
Future research will examine the link between moment-to-moment mindfulness, physiological markers of stress throughout the day and sleep quality. Examination of similar measures of mood, self-regulation and sleep quality in everyday life in the context of mindfulness intervention is another important direction for research.
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Places We Protect
Boundary Mountains Preserve
Maine
A rainbow covers a daytime moon as it arcs into a forested mountain ridge after a storm.
Boundary Mountains Preserve A rainbow arches over Caribou Mountain in the 9,608-acre newly-conserved forest. © Mark Berry/TNC
A remote mountain forest provides important habitat for wildlife.
Overview
Description
Boundary Mountains Preserve is an important link in a large swath of contiguous forest located adjacent to over 22,000 acres of public lands in Quebec. The preserve extends a corridor of permanently conserved lands northward to a total of over 260,000 acres, representing a key link in a major pathway of ecological connection from the White Mountains in New Hampshire through the western Maine Mountains and Quebec borderlands and beyond.
The preserve includes a healthy, mature mountain forest, featuring 3,648-foot Caribou Mountain, 3,333-foot Merrill Mountain, and a dozen other peaks over 2,700 feet in elevation. It is important headwater habitat for the Kennebec River as well as headwater streams that feed into the nearby Moose River, providing great habitat for wild brook trout.
The preserve is managed as an ecological reserve, where the forest is shaped by natural processes such as wind, ice, and other weather events. Beyond providing valuable wildlife habitat, ecological reserves are important to scientists studying the growth of forests and how they respond, in the absence of timber harvesting, to challenges such as climate change, forest pests, diseases, and airborne pollution. Maintaining the carbon stored in this mature forest and providing opportunity for trees to continue pulling carbon from the atmosphere also benefits the climate.
This preserve is very remote and difficult to reach. Safe travel to and within the preserve requires high vehicle clearance, good tires, including spares, and the ability to repair your vehicle without help. There is no cell phone coverage and no facilities.
Access
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
A remote mountain forest provides important habitat for wildlife.
Hours
Sunrise to sunset. No overnight stays permitted.
Size
9, 608 acres
Explore our work in Maine
a woman sits among stones on a mountain talus slope.
Taking a Break Kira Bennett Hamilton rests on a talus slope during the bioblitz at Boundary Mountains Preserve. © Nancy Sferra/TNC
Biodiversity at the Boundary
By Kira Bennett Hamilton
Hobblebush (Vibernum lantanoides) was the first new plant I learned to identify in the Boundary Mountains Preserve. The aptly named shrub grows in vast, curving thickets throughout the woods in the Northeast and Canada. Hobblebush branches easily interlock and occasionally curve down to the ground and re-root in moist soil, forming hoops and tangles ideally suited to trip up hikers like us.
Though the late August day was hot and humid, some of the hobblebush foliage was already darkening to mottled autumnal purple as my colleagues and I pushed our way up the steep slope of Merrill Mountain in western Maine. At 3,333 feet in elevation, Merrill Mountain does attract some peak baggers, but it's not an easy day trip—it requires a long drive on private logging roads to access, and there's no trail to the top.
But that remoteness was exactly what appealed to us. My colleagues at The Nature Conservancy in Maine and I were on a "bioblitz" expedition to our newest preserve to conduct an ecological inventory of all the plants, animals, mosses, mushrooms, butterflies, and fish we could identify. Nancy Sferra, our director of land management, would use that species list to develop a management plan for the preserve, as certified land trusts must do for all the land we care for. Our ecological inventory would also serve as a baseline for the preserve, so over the years and decades to come we can observe how climate change, pollution, invasive insects, and other influences shape the natural communities in the Boundary Mountains.
Helping the Experts
Sferra, our senior conservation scientist Joshua Royte, and our stewardship field assistant Nate Reed have many decades of naturalist experience between them, and they chatted excitedly about the ferns and mosses underfoot as we walked. As a fundraising staffer with little field experience, I was tagging along on the bioblitz to take photos, write stories, and maybe help carry equipment. Sferra had suggested early in the trip that I could help out with taking notes, but even that proved a challenge—she and Royte bandied around common and Latin names of species so quickly that my unfamiliar ears could barely keep up.
"Nice ostrich fern over there."
"Check out that Euphrasia americana.
"Have you documented gem-studded puffballs yet?"
"Wow, I think that's the biggest balsam poplar I've ever seen."
We picked our way gingerly over a steep talus slope covered in loose rocks, looking for bundled leaves, fur or scat that might indicate the presence of a rare rock vole nest or bat hiding place. Seeing none, we paused to have lunch and admire the sweeping view over the mountainous, forested landscape. Reed checked our GPS to confirm our location and pointed out peaks: Merrill Mountain, 3,648-foot Caribou Mountain, and a dozen other peaks over 2,700 feet high are all located on the preserve's 9,608 acres.
Connected, diverse ecosystems are more resilient to climate change.
Director of Land Management
Boundary Mountains Preserve is an important link in a large swath of contiguous forest that stretches over more than 260,000 acres from the White Mountains in New Hampshire through the western Maine mountains to the Quebec borderlands, and beyond. Its cold, clear headwater streams feed into the Kennebec River via the Moose River and Moosehead Lake. These lands were long stewarded by the Abenaki people and retain cultural significance for them still. Today, the Passamaquoddy Tribe and the Penobscot Indian Nation care for nearby Trust lands.
"This preserve is valuable because it's connected to other large tracts of forest," Nancy Sferra explains. "Connected, diverse ecosystems are more resilient to climate change."
Connected and Resilient
The preserve is part of a larger strategy by TNC to mitigate the causes of climate change through conservation and make our landscape more adaptable to whatever the future holds. Wildlife species in North America are shifting their ranges an average of 11 miles north and 36 feet upward in elevation each decade. Many species are approaching–or have already reached–the limit of where they can go to find hospitable climates. Research by TNC and partners also shows that nearly 60 percent of U.S. lands and waters are fragmented by human development, preventing species from moving naturally to find new and more hospitable habitat.
Maintaining the carbon stored in mature forest and providing the opportunity for trees to continue pulling carbon from the atmosphere mitigates climate change.
TNC is managing the forest as an ecological reserve, where the forest is shaped by natural processes such as wind, ice, and other weather events. Beyond providing valuable wildlife habitat, ecological reserves are important to scientists studying the growth of forests and how they respond, in the absence of timber harvesting, to challenges such as climate change, forest pests, diseases, and airborne pollution. This bioblitz is one way to add to that understanding.
After finishing lunch among the rocks, it was time to head uphill again—and back into the hobblebush—on the way to the summit of Merrill Mountain.
"It's important we protect the range of natural areas in all their expressions around Maine," Royte explained, "from the streams and wetlands in the valleys to the tops of mountains, and the many habitats in between."
On one rocky hillside, Royte and Sferra dropped their packs in excitement to confer over a field guide.
"Look over there, near the intermediate ferns—the one with the bronze scales, that's Braun's holly fern."
"That's really uncommon in Maine, and critically imperiled in other states. When you do see it, it's often with some Maine-listed rare plants"
"Keep your eyes out for other rare plants nearby."
By the end of the bioblitz, the team had identified over 150 plant species, found scat and tracks from moose, deer, and bear, heard a scattering of late-summer birdsong, and documented a robust population of native brook trout in Number One Brook. But there's always more to do.
"In reality, we're really just scratching the surface here," says Sferra. "Given our small team and limited time, there are still a lot of holes in our knowledge."
Before You Visit
There are no trails or facilities at the preserve. Camping and pets are not permitted to protect the natural processes and habits of wildlife. The preserve can be accessed via private seasonal logging roads, however safe travel requires high vehicle clearance, good tires, including spares, and the ability to repair your vehicle without help. There is no cell phone coverage and no facilities.


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Abstract #4531
MR Fingerprinting SChedule Optimization NEtwork (MRF-SCONE)
Ouri Cohen1
1Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States
MR Fingerprinting schedule optimization can reduce scan times and improve accuracy but typically relies on minimization of indirect metrics rather than the actual reconstruction error due to the computational challenges involved in calculating the reconstruction error at each iteration of the optimization. Here we introduce a Deep Learning framework that can overcome these challenges and allow direct minimization of the reconstruction error. The proof-of-principle is demonstrated using simulations on a numerical brain phantom.
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How Healing from Sex Trafficking Happens for Survivors
Updated: Mar 2, 2020
Hello Friends,
I have so much joy as we move closer to opening the first Sanctuary this year. We have a lot to do and a long way to go, but we can finally approach the starting line! As we focus on preparing to get the program in place, I wanted to share a bit more about how transformation in the Sanctuary will happen. Starting survivors' healing journeys is complex work. We're so glad we have a team of experts like Dr. Vanessa Snyder to guide us.
Dr. Snyder is designing the therapeutic elements that will aid survivors' restoration. She's currently the Director of the Institute for Trauma and Recovery at Richmont University. She's been researching best practices in accompanying survivors for almost ten years! Our Uncaged team sat down with her to learn from her expertise. We're excited to share a snippet of that conversation with you below!
As always, we are so grateful for your encouragement and support.
Uncaged: Can you tell us a little bit about the trauma that happens in sex trafficking?
Dr. Snyder: I think one of the distinctions of trauma in sex trafficking is its complexity. Many trafficking survivors already have a history of some kind of trauma, or many traumas, during their developmental years. Those traumas may include abuse, neglect, poverty, war, or a host of other things. But trafficking becomes an additional horror they experience. Trafficking is a trauma that occurs over a long period of time. Most traumatic events happen in one occurrence -- a car accident, a death, events like that. In sex trafficking, survivors experience many traumatic incidents over a lifetime.
Dr. Vanessa Snyder (L) specializes in therapy for survivors.
The fact that it's sexual trauma magnifies the already devastating effects. Sexual experiences are always powerful. The sexual nature of the trauma can bring in a spiritual element to the wounds. For survivors, the trauma can become deeply ingrained in the mind, body, and soul.
Uncaged: Wow. Given that the trauma is that complicated and intense, is healing really possible?
Dr. Snyder: Yes! Healing is absolutely possible, but it looks different for each individual. We have to make space for what survivors think health looks like for them. Sex trafficking takes away survivors' ability to say who they want to be and what they want their lives to be like. The last thing we would want to do is repeat that pattern when we're trying to help!
Uncaged: That makes sense. If it depends so much on the individual, what do best practices look like?
Dr. Snyder: Healing for all survivors of sexual abuse, and particularly sex trafficking, includes some necessary components across individuals. For example, every survivor of complex trauma needs a place that is safe and stable. We know that sex trafficking takes away three things from survivors: 1) Voice 2) Choice and 3) Power. Equipping survivors to heal means giving back their ability to choose, speak, and direct their own lives.
At the Sanctuary, that means we actually give survivors the choice to stay or to leave. Gradually, we give survivors the chance to make choices with different levels of impact. They can choose what they want to eat for breakfast. They can choose what they want to do in their academic empowerment session. Eventually they have to re-learn how to absorb good and bad consequences for choices they make. Our job is to provide a safe space where they can explore at their own pace, and boundaries help make the space safe.
Uncaged: When you describe that balance, it almost sounds a bit like a family.
Dr. Snyder: It does have some similarities to a family: community, connection, and relationship. Survivors need to experience consistent care, from a variety of people. Staff members at the Sanctuary will be trained in a trauma-informed way. Every interaction at the Sanctuary will either accelerate or impede healing. In therapy, we often say that 60% of healing work happens in the formation of relationships.
Uncaged: The model you're describing at the Sanctuary sounds incredible! We know that a lot of people around the world want to pour into the work there. How can people far away support survivors?
Dr. Snyder: That's a great question. First and foremost, I would invite everyone to pray for survivors. It's a long, hard road for them even after they're free, and prayer makes an enormous difference. The second suggestion I'd offer is for people to take stock of their own skills and abilities. Then, they can see how they could join Uncaged and other anti-trafficking organizations' efforts. No one person, not even one organization, will turn the tide on Human Trafficking. We all need to have our hands open to connect globally. Every person has valuable talents and treasures to share. And we need every gift to end this evil.
Uncaged: Thank you so much, Dr. Snyder. We're so grateful for your work and your vision.
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District, in partnership with the Delaware River Basin Commission and New York City Department of Environmental Protection, has initiated a feasibility re-evaluation study for Francis E. Walter Dam and Reservoir.
The primary authorized missions of the F.E. Walter Dam are to reduce flooding risk and support recreation. Aside from these two primary missions, the study will also consider fisheries, additional recreation, water supply (as related to low flow augmentation under drought), water quality, to identify possible improvements to the existing structure, infrastructure, and F.E. Walter Dam operations. This study will examine whether potential improvements to infrastructure or operational methods could allow water in the reservoir to be used for additional purposes that could support the ecological health of the Delaware River Basin and future public demands. In particular, the study will examine reservoir management options that could release additional water under drought conditions to help repel salinity downstream.
Since this study effort exceeds allowed Congressional funding and time limits, a policy exception request is currently under consideration by the Secretary for increased time and funding to complete the needed engineering analysis. If this exception is granted, the updated study completion date is anticipated for March 2027.


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2016 Distinguished Healthcare Diversity Advocate
The Distinguished Healthcare Diversity Advocate award recognizes individuals of color who have made a difference in the diversity and inclusion realm through their research or achievements, and exemplify the ability to excel in the healthcare field.
- Creates or spearheads innovative diversity initiatives that establish and foster a more inclusive and equitable work environment
- Sustains a record of accomplishments or contributions to the healthcare industry throughout the scope of his or her career
- Demonstrates active involvement in community outreach programs
- Retains a commendable reputation with colleagues, superiors, and patients
- Exhibits and demonstrates a commitment to the highest ethical standards and professional excellence
- Demonstrates a consistent pattern of commitment to the recruitment, training, development, and retention of individuals from all populations
Requirements of Award Winners
Send bio and a photo, which needs to be in 300dpi resolution and in jpeg or gif style, to event coordinator.
Call for Nominations
- A call for nominations is sent out through email blast, and social media networks.
- Individuals nominate award winners online or via email.
- A local awards committee is formed, composed of 3-5 people with diverse backgrounds who research potential award winners.
- They seek input from the State Council Board of Directors and council members.
- Award winners are notified by email of their selection by Dennis Kennedy, Founder and CEO of the National Diversity Council.


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Info about Kiunga, (Kenya)
Kiunga names are also KIU, Kiunga, its latitude is -_PHONE_, and its longitude is 41._PHONE_.
Kiunga is famous for activities like diving, scuba diving, snorkeling, paddle, water skiing, sailboats, water sports, kayaking, fishing, beaches, paddleboarding, swimming, playgrounds in all Kenya.
More details about Kiunga in Kenya (KE)
Kiunga meters above mean sea level, called also meters above sea level (MASL), is under 0 meters. That is why it is an ideal place if you and your family want sea places.
Kiunga things to do and activities: best trip destination for:
Interactive Kiunga (Kenya) Map and attractions
Interactive map of Kiunga, Kenya (KE).


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During a visit to the headquarters of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Bishop Miguel Angel Nguema Bee of Ebibeyin recounted the moving story of the first catechist to be martyred in Equatorial Guinea, José Si Esono, who the local Church would like to see beatified. The bishop also spoke about the role played by catechists in the country today.
Located on the west coast of Africa, Equatorial Guinea became independent from Spain in 1968. It then went through an 11-year period of communist dictatorship, during which the Catholic Church was persecuted, public worship was forbidden, and churches were converted into cocoa and coffee warehouses. It was the lay catechists who undertook the task of evangelisation at this time.
During a visit to the international headquarters of Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), the Bishop of Ebibeyin, Miguel Angel Nguema Bee, recalled these times of persecution. "I remember when I was small, in the 70s, my grandmother and my mother would take us to work on a farm on Sundays. They'd make us grab our tools and we'd head into the woods, where we would be met by a catechist and celebrate the Word of God. We'd take spiritual communion and spend two hours in discussion, before returning to the community, as if we had been working". If it had not been for catechists, many Christians would have been unable to keep the fire of their faith alive in those years of cruel dictatorship.
The importance of catechists in Equatorial Guinea goes back to the first evangelisation, and includes the likes of José Si Esono, a young catechist who was born in the village of Ebansok and was martyred in the thirties.
José Si Esono had never heard of Christ. But one day he went to the coastal city of Bata, as he often did, to sell his coffee. "Amidst the bustle of the market, a Claretian missionary came up to him, spoke and taught him to pray the rosary. José noticed that after reciting this prayer with the priest, that the things he had come to do in the city turned out to be easier than usual", Bishop Miguel Angel explains. When he returned to his community, José decided he would teach everyone to pray the rosary. The people asked him: "What does it mean to pray?" They wanted to know more about the rosary, which was a novelty for them. He answered that there was a white man in Bata who had taught him and that he would invite him to come to them. When he next returned to Bata to sell his coffee, he sought out the missionary and, when he found him, said: "My people already pray the rosary, but now I want you to come and explain to us who this Mary is, who we are praying to."
100 years of evangelisation
That is how the Claretians arrived in Ebansok. "There weren't even any roads!", the bishop exclaims. "It was a dangerous 125 km trek through the bush", he explains. Amongst other things, travelling to and from Bata was made dangerous by the fact that there were many tensions between different ethnic groups and the trip involved crossing the territory of hostile peoples.
"This catechist managed to get his entire community to embrace the Gospel", Bishop Miguel Angel continues. "What is more, he also got them to accept white people. Whites were considered hostile, colonists who mistreated and oppressed, but he managed to get the people not to attack the Claretians, by interceding on their behalf. And that is how the first mission in the Diocese of Ebibeyin began. In 2024, we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the arrival of the Gospel into my diocese."
José Si Esono is remembered as wearing a wooden cross around his neck, which seems to foretell his future martyrdom. Years after he began the mission, Esono started to explain that the people should not keep praying to their amulets and praying to Jesus at the same time. He asked those who still wore their amulets to bring them to him, to burn. The chief of the village became angry and refused. At this point he stopped seeing him as a catechist who had taught them to pray, but rather as someone who "wanted to erase the beliefs their ancestors had passed down to them", the bishop explains. They accused him of witchcraft and burned him alive.
His martyrdom left a witness of unshakeable faith. "We want to open a beatification process for José Si Esono", Bishop Miguel Ángel says, concluding that "he was a remarkable example of great faith, thanks to whom evangelisation managed to penetrate to these areas".
The importance of training catechists today
Catechists continue to be very important in the country. "Catechists are not simply people who spread the faith and prepare the faithful for the sacraments. They also play leadership roles in the communities. Without them, there would be no faith", Bishop Miguel Angel explains.
"In my diocese we only have 46 priests, and it is difficult to serve the more than 347 chapels we have. Which is why the catechists continue to celebrate the Liturgy of the Word and run the community prayer services during the week. He adds that "in Guinea the work of the catechists is valued enormously. They do this job fulltime, as volunteers. They find it important to dedicate a large portion of their lives to God." Around 380 catechists in the Diocese of Ebibeyin receive nine months of special training, and constant accompaniment, to carry out their work.
Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) supports pastoral work in Equatorial Guinea, helping to sustain priests with mass offerings, supporting the construction and renovation of churches and parish houses, providing vehicles for pastoral services, and covering the costs of international courses for seminary formators.


ELECTRONS IN WIRES JUMP FROM ATOM TO ATOM DURING A CURRENT?
Wrong. When individual atoms of copper are brought together to form a bulk metal material, something unexpected happens. The outer electron of each copper atom leaves its parent atom. Rather than orbiting single atoms, the outer electrons all begin "orbiting" around and among ALL the atoms in the metal. In a sense, the metal's electrons are "jumping" from atom to atom all the time, even when there is no electric current applied. As a result, metals act like a solid sponge which has been soaked with "liquid charge." That's what makes wires so wonderful: they act like pre-filled pipes. They are filled with "liquid electrons." Not all of the electrons become "loose" and begin wandering. Many are held back, and they remain attached to the atoms. Only the outer electron(s) become part of the "electron sea." Different metals donate different numbers of electrons to the sea: in some metals, each atom only loses one electron, while in other metals two or more become free. The metal is composed of a mixture: a solid grid of positively-charged atoms which are immersed in a see of movable electrons. When there is an electric current in a wire, it is these movable electrons which flow. These electrons are not stuck to individual metal atoms, so the electrons do not need to "jump" during an electric current. The orbiting motion of the metal's "liquid" electrons takes place at high speed. However, this motion is similar to the random thermal vibrations of a gas. For this reason we normally ignore the electrons' wandering motion, just as we ignore the vibration of air molecules when we talk about "wind." Air molecules keep moving fast even when there is no wind at all. And electrons in metals always wander around at high velocity, even when the electric current is zero.
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There is a part of my mind that stubbornly thinks about science. I have a life, job, wife and family but without my Van Der Graaf Generator life would be incomplete. I am a great believer that this amazing universe came into being through process: movement >pressure > density > mass. Maybe I believe in an non viscous ether. Anyway this is where I can share my thoughts.
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The Architects Who Made London
15 February—4 June 2008
In the Architecture Space
Adjacent to the Royal Academy Restaurant
Installation photograph of 'The Architects Who Made London' display 2008. Photograph by Richard Bryant/ arcaid.co.uk
Against a backdrop of contextual photographs of London by Richard Bryant, this display looks at six architects from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century who have had a significant impact on the London we see today. Drawings, plans and photographs of their major London buildings, illustrate the impact of architects including Norman Shaw, Lutyens and Lubetkin on the capital.
Through their buildings and urban visions, their ideas influenced the physical and social structure of the city. In contrast to previous generations of architects, they faced often outwardly incompatible tasks, such as creating an identity for railway suburbs on the city's expanding fringe, giving a semblance of unity to the ceremonial approach to Buckingham Palace, or developing an architectural idiom for social housing.
10am-6pm every day except Friday
Click here to download the accompanying handout (309 KB)
This display has been curated to complement the lecture series The Architects Who Made London with Maxwell Hutchinson.


Quick Answer: Does alcohol affect gym gains?
How does alcohol effect muscle building? Research shows that an acute bout of moderate alcohol intake does not accelerate exercise induced muscle damage and also doesn't affect muscle strength.
Why is alcohol bad for building muscle?
Alcohol contributes to protein breakdown more than your nutrition does to protein synthesis. When the body degrades muscle protein, it breaks down more muscle than it builds. In other words, never building muscle. Many try combining protein sources with alcohol to outweigh the negative effects.
Does alcohol kill gym gains?
Not only does alcohol have zero nutritional value, some studies say it may even disrupt muscle protein synthesis, and muscle growth. (Google it if you have a day or two to kill.) … This can hinder protein synthesis.
Is drinking alcohol bad for gym?
Alcohol is detrimental to sports performance because of how it affects the body physically during exercise and its adverse effects on the brain's functions – including judgment – that will impair sports performance.
Can bodybuilders drink alcohol?
The bad: Drinking in excess can lead to severe health problems such as liver damage, obesity, and cancer. When it comes to drinking while bodybuilding, if you end up binging, you could be sabotaging your sleep, nutrition, and good intentions to work out the next day.
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Does alcohol hurt muscle growth?
Will one beer ruin my gains?
There are no studies specifically investigating the impact of a single beer post-workout. But those who love a good post-gym drink will be happy to know evidence suggests drinking about two of your favorite brews won't undo your hard work at the gym.
Does drinking beer ruin your workout?
If your goal is increasing performance and strength, it's best to limit your alcohol intake after working out, even if you don't eliminate it entirely. Alcohol can slow your protein synthesis, the process in your body that aids muscle growth, and can increase dehydration.
Does alcohol stop muscle repair?
Does alcohol affect your game? Barnes' research on male and female athletes has found that alcohol can also increase the loss of force associated with exercise-induced muscle damage. This can affect the rate of recovery.
Can I workout drunk?
Alcohol is a depressant, meaning it slows you down. Your reaction time, strength, endurance, and aerobic capacity will all likely suffer, so your workout won't just be potentially dangerous — it's bound to be less than optimal. The full effects of alcohol aren't immediate.
Does drinking alcohol reduce stamina?
Alcohol depletes your body's zinc resources, which can result in a reduction in endurance.
Can you drink alcohol and be fit?
Moderate beer consumption is actually healthy, so I set out to define "moderate" as well as educate on the basics of caloric intake and caloric expenditure. The radioman was not suffering from a beer belly but an INACTIVITY BELLY! Yes, you can still drink beer and be very fit.
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Does alcohol reduce stamina?
Alcohol slows reaction time and impairs precision, equilibrium, hand-eye coordination, accuracy, balance, judgment, information processing, focus, stamina, strength, power and speed for up to 72 hours (three days). slows recovery. Alcohol can interfere with recovery by delaying muscle repair.
Is 3 beers a day too much?
Can one night of drinking ruin my diet?
The truth is that, even if you eat super healthy most of the time, too much alcohol can hinder your weight loss and can even lead to weight gain.
Is beer good for muscle growth?
Alcohol and Testosterone
An increase in circulating testosterone, of about 17%, has been seen in both young men who drank a little (about 2 beers for a 150-pound person). However, such a small boost—more variation is seen from day to day or even within the same day—is unlikely to help boost your muscle growth.
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NRM Targets
What are the Adaptation Pathways?
In an attempt address climate change impacts and implement adaptive practices, Cape York NRM developed 'adaptation pathways' and relevant actions outlined in the look, listen, learn and link framework that integrates the planning by doing process to achieve NRM targets. These pathways propose concurrent and coordinated actions to reduce the effects of climate change and improve community and ecosystem resilience. Each overall adaptation pathway can be independent or work together with other pathways. Each adaptation pathway has multiple steps and directions to work towards the overall target. Each target also has identified assumptions, opportunities, implications, limits, barriers and challenges, risks and perverse outcomes, example monitoring indicators and the scale of the change.
How are they identified?
These adaptation pathways were developed during the NRM planning project, over the past three years. Each pathway has a section identifying how it was identified and developed. The pathways are also constructed to pay respect to everyone involved, whether through on-ground works, partnerships, workshops, reporting, technical studies, research or other plans.
The information and tools presented in each Cape York Atlas site relate to the adaptation pathways that can be taken to reach the NRM plan targets.


Clarification on multiple schemas with same namespace
From: John Kaputin (gmail)
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 15:38:11 +0100
Message-ID: <_EMAIL_>
To: _EMAIL_
Cc: John Kaputin
I want to confirm that I have interpreted WSDL 2.0 spec correctly on
multiple schemas with the same namespace.
My interpretation is:
1) The element may contain multiple with the same namespace.
2) The element may contain multiple with the same
Is this correct?
Part 1 Section 3.1.2 "Inlining XML Schema" confused me a bit with the text:
"It is NOT an error to import two or more schemas from the same
targetNamespace. "
This text mentions 'import' but the section heading is 'Inlining'. Is
this a typo or should the text be in section 3.1.1 "Importing XML
The only mention of multiple inline schemas with the same namespace is
in the Primer section 3.2.2 "Multiple Inline Schemas" which states:
" two or more schemas may have the same target namespace provided that
they do not define the same elements or types"
This statement or words to this effect should probably be in the Part
1 normative spec too.
John Kaputin.
Received on Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:38:44 GMT


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There's (at least) two different types of normalmaps you can use, world-space and tangent-space.
With world-space normalmaps the normals are already pointing in the right direction. On the back-side of a cube the normals are pointing backwards, on the front side they point forward. This means that every face on the cube needs to be mapped uniquely, faces can't share the same uv-space on the normalmap, unless the face orientation is the same. This can be a disadvantage (with tangent-space normals you could share uv space), but often you want a unique texture for all faces anyway, like when the cube has a scar on one side, but not the other.
World-space normalmaps are easier to program, and should be slightly more efficient, because you don't need to rotate the normals, to align them with the surface of the mesh. Your mesh doesn't even need to contain normals at all, if you do the lighting calculations in the pixel shader. You only need to rotate the normalmap normals with the main world rotation matrix of the object. That's one matrix multiplication per pixel, not a big problem nowadays. If your mesh doesn't need to rotate at all, this method will be very fast, because you can use the normals directly, without any extra rotations.
In tangent-space the normals in the normalmap are relative to the vertex normal and bi-normal they belong to. They need to be rotated first, to align them with the mesh surface orientation. That's a little bit of extra work, but it allows you to share texture space between faces of different orientation, but maybe more important, it will work on deformable meshs, like skinned characters.
To build the surface-alignment rotation matrix you just combine the vertex normal, the vertex bi-normal, and their cross product into a float3x3. You can do that in the vertex shader, and pass the matrix on to the pixel shader. You probably want to incorporate the object rotation matrix as well, that way you only need one matrix multiplication in the pixel shader. It shouldn't be too complicated, your mesh just needs to have those bi-normals.
Whichever method you use, you need to have the right type of normalmap. Tangent-space normalmaps are usually mostly purple, because the normals tend to face in a forward direction only. World-space normalmaps tend to use a larger color space, as the normals can point in all directions.
Wouldn't that make the lighting dependent on the camera position?


Creating Bilingual Apps
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Creating Bilingual Apps
Fulcrum has enjoyed considerable growth in the past six months and we're excited about that, considering that we are just getting started and many more innovative features are on the roadmap for 2013 and beyond. What we didn't anticipate or predict a year ago was the growth of our international user base, especially on the Android OS. A large majority of our current user base resides outside of the United States and English is not their first or even second language, and in some cases, English is not spoken or understood at all. We recognized this at the outset when we started creating Fulcrum in the cloud for a global audience, we needed to enable any language on any device, based on user-driven requirements and we needed to make it simple, elegant and effective.
We continue to work through many underlying engineering issues to improve the multi-lingual capabilities in fulcrum, but the ability to design, deploy and use fulcrum apps in any language is a reality today. Here's a short example of how to achieve this under the current architecture. As we improve these capabilities, we'll update the FAQ and support documentation.
First, we'll build the app in English as we would want it, including all conditional fields, choice lists, classification sets, visibility and requirement rules. This is a simple illustration showing two sections of a commercial building survey app we've built for commercial customers. I've shown choice fields with complex visibility rules in the following graphics to provide an example of the versatility of using different languages throughout the app design and implementation.
Field Settings
Choices Selection
Change Choices
Once we have this built and tested on a mobile device (this is important to minimize rework before we build the second language sections of the app), we then recreate the sections exactly as they are in English, except this time we will edit aspects of the app to represent the language(s) we want to use in the field. We're working on the ability to clone and copy an entire section, including all logic, field relationships and rules, but for the time being, this is how to get the job done.
When I do this, I typically open two browser tabs when logged in to the Fulcrum account so I can have a side by side view of the fields and choices I need to implement in the other languages, instead of toggling back and forth in the same view.
Change Data Name
The process is fairly straightforward, and if the user is a native speaker, it will be a simple task to translate the English field labels and values to another language, in this case, Arabic. In building this app, I enlisted the help of some colleagues and friends who are native Arabic speakers. This is always preferred because of the contextual relevance of many geospatial terms differs if machine-translation is used such as Google Translate or Babelfish. These can provide a high percentage of correct, literal translations, but in our experience, the issue arises in not knowing which percentage is incorrect, or inaccurate in a geospatial setting, and so we would advise getting a first-hand, native speaker to provide any translations, and if the person is familiar with the geospatial industry, that's of course, even better for the end results.
Once we've recreated the sections and subfields, conditional fields, visibility and requirement rules, we can then begin to edit for the secondary language(s), in this case, Arabic. I would also recommend pairing the bilingual sections in a sequential list vs. grouping the sections of one language together.
Changed Field Settings
Pairing Bilingual Sections
You will notice in the Data Name field in the Arabic language section, this still reads in English. It is important to leave this field in English, since this is the database name within the fulcrum architecture and at this writing, only supports English. There are a number of technical reasons why this cannot be changed to the secondary language, but suffice it to say, it's necessary to leave it in English and as I've shown in the example, simply append the Data Name label with the name of the target language, in this case, it would be "street_names_arabic". This is also helpful for any non-Arabic speaking people that may need to modify, manage or use the app or the resulting data from the field, in knowing what the field or choice list refers to in the original English section, in this case, "street_names".
Once I'm done building the first section in Arabic, I move on to the next section and repeat the process until all sections, fields, choice lists, etc. in your app are duplicated and translated to the secondary language(s).
Repeat Process
Then, to enable this properly on the mobile device, we need to provide the user with a choice of language on the handheld devices. Configuring it in this way, particularly when using the default options, will present the proper language version on the mobile device.
Proper Language Display
The next step in the process is the assign visibility rules to the individual language sections so that when a user chooses a language (default or not) on the mobile device, the selected language fields are presented to the user. Note; we do not advise presenting both (or all) languages to a user on the mobile device while in the field collecting data, as this is an inefficient use of time on location, particularly if the objective is to generate a bilingual database. This is better handled with post-field work by backend processing, translation, transliteration and faster processing speeds.
Here's the interface for configuring the visibility rules for the Building Address section in English based on the choice of language above.
Configuration
The same configuration is set up for the Building Address section in Arabic, based on the choice of language. Again, it is important to configure this for each section that you want to present to the user on the mobile device so that it shows up in the language they choose.
Configure Language
To demonstrate this on an iPad, the following graphic shows the user choosing English and all of the subsequent sections, fields, and choice values are presented in English. Including the street name fields on the mobile device. This is as the user would expect and need to conduct the field work.
Select English
Streets In English
Choices In English
However, if the user prefers or needs the form to be presented in Arabic, then a simple choice in the first field instantly modifies all sections, field names and choice values on the mobile device, enabling the user to complete the work assignments.
Select Arabic
Streets In Arabic
Choices In Arabic
Have you taken advantage of the bilingual capabilities of Fulcrum? We would love to hear about it. If not, get started with Fulcrum for free to create your own custom bilingual apps.
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This week we have enjoyed finding out more about life in the Polar regions. Our learning has included comparing how we live to how the Inuits live. We have also discussed weather patterns in the polar regions compared to the United Kingdom.
We had particularly good fun when we pretended to be on the television telling the audience the weather in the UK. We also enjoyed making penguins out of toilet rolls.
A positive, purposeful and enthusiastic atmosphere


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We seek a highly motivated individual who can help with all aspects of fabrication. We are a fast-paced company with high-expectations, we seek someone who is as passionate about the work as we are. This position will ensure the precise fabrication processing of all of our fabrication related projects.
- The ability to follow blueprints and building plans.
- Sound knowledge of woodworking tools and methods of all aspects of carpentry, from building of large structures to cabinetry.
- Measure, cut, or shape wood, plastic, metals and other materials, using hand and power tools.
- Install interior and exterior structures and fixtures
- Help erect, level, and install building frameworks
- Construct building frameworks, including walls, floors, and doorframes
- Follow established safety rules and regulations and maintain a safe and clean environment.
- Able to provide knowledge to junior carpenters.
- Able to provide customer service.
- Experience in installation of elements for the trade show industry and larger interior and exterior projects.
- Mechanical knowledge an asset.
- A desire to work in a fast-paced, challenging environment
- Detail oriented
- Proficient problem-solving skills
- Dedicated team-player
ASTOUND is committed to providing barrier-free and accessible employment practices in compliance with the Accessibility for Ontarian's with Disabilities Act (AODA). Please let us know if you require accommodation at any stage of the recruitment process.