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Fully Loaded: Keeping Electrons Flowing | BIKE Magazine
Electrons. For most of us, our lives are utterly reliant on these little buggers for everything from powering our houses to making our cars run to keeping precious cell phones functioning. For so many of us, bikes provide some level of reprieve from other parts of our lives that provide less enjoyment or fewer endorphins. But one thing that's getting ever harder from which to pedal away is our reliance (or desire for) that steady stream of electrons—electronic shifting, power meters, GPS units, ever-fancier dropper posts, lights for when darkness falls, and even e-bikes. For lovers of long rides, bikepacking adventures, or ultra races that span days or weeks, packing or generating electrons to keep all the electronic gadgets working can be a challenge.
For adventures stretching beyond the long day ride or well into the dark hours and requiring long-lasting lights, any need for power devices needs to be supplied by either extra batteries, a dynamo hub that generates its own power, or the sun (we'll leave the discussion of solar panels and photosynthesis for another time). Some bikepackers prefer to rely on devices that run on AA or similar batteries that can be readily purchased along the way. But for phones, cameras, and most lights, that's not a viable option. USB batteries can potentially provide a few charges for most devices. And dynamo hubs can offer an endless source of power for charging batteries or powering lights so long as you keep rolling at an adequate speed.
Using the rotation of the front wheel to generate energy in the front hub, the concept of dynamo hubs seems a bit too good to be true. So long as you're moving, you've got power. In reality, these hubs offer a great option for riders spending longer days on dirt roads or pavement where riding speeds are high enough to generate notable power. At slower singletrack speeds, these hubs can struggle to produce enough energy to power particularly bright lights or charge devices quickly, but they still do generate some power. Generally, don't expect to be able to charge and power numerous devices with a dynamo setup unless you're moving quickly. And dynamo hubs themselves add a bit of resistance to your ride but not enough that you're likely to notice it in any way. The Schmidt SON28 hub ($300+ and a hefty 340 grams) has become the gold standard for dynamos—it's incredibly reliable and withstands the rigors of rough and wet riding.
The Schmidt SON 28 dynamo hub after a couple weeks of generating electrons to keep camera, phone and GPS unit powered on a cross-Arizona ride.
There is absolutely no shortage of lighting options available to bikepackers; everything from small AAA-powered headlamps or flashlights to blindingly bright singletrack-specific 24-hour racing setups. But having adequate light for night riding while not having to carry a backpack full of extra batteries is a balance, especially for ultra racers needing light for successive long nights of riding. For riders planning minimal night riding, simple headlamps or flashlights can work just fine. A light like the Blackburn Dayblazer 800 ($60, 129 grams) offers ample lighting for a few hours or more (300 lumens for ~five hours) and can be recharged via USB if needed. The Fenix BC21R Bike Light ($75; 68 grams) is a similar option that runs on USB-rechargeable and easily replaceable 18650 batteries ($10+, 50 grams), which resemble AA cells on steroids. The benefit of this system is that extra 18650 cells can be easily carried along, and a single battery provides a moderate amount of light for eight hours (200 lumens for 8+ hours). I've used this light for numerous ultras, carrying anywhere from two to 10 extra batteries for as much as a week of nearly-continuous racing. And lights like these are simple and clean for helmet or handlebars—entirely self-contained without any cords.
Left to right: Blackburn Dayblazer 800, Fenix BC21R, Sinewave Cycles Beacon, k-lite Bikepacker PRO v2, and the tiny AA-powered Fenix E12 flashlight.
For riders requiring more hours of lighting or brighter lights, dynamo-specific lights like the k-Lite Bikepacker PRO v2 or the Sinewave Cycles Beacon may be better options. The Bikepacker PRO v2 ($260, ~140 grams for full setup), made in Australia, includes a very small light unit and a separate waterproof box containing the system's electronic innards and a low/high beam switch. k-Lite also offers a separate USB charging module ($145) to add to the system so you can run the light in the dark and charge another device during the day. The light itself provides up to 1,300 lumens, but in my experience, anything remotely resembling that amount of light only happens at 20+ mph. At 10 mph, the light seems to run at about half its maximum power. But at low speeds on technical singletrack, the light seems to provide what looks more like just 100 lumens. A standlight feature provides a few minutes of light after stopping, but for an extended hike-a-bike, the light dims completely after less than 10 minutes. This setup is ideal for the relatively fast speeds of pavement and dirt roads, but on singletrack, it's best when combined with a helmet-mounted unit for additional light.
The Sinewave Cycles Beacon ($350+, ~130 grams for full setup; 1,300 lumens maximum) is made in the USA, like all the company's products. The setup is slick and tidy with all the electronics housed within the light head itself, and a USB charging port is also included in the back of light. Beyond that, the light can be connected to a USB cache battery, and at low speeds, that external battery helps power the light to keep brightness notably higher (at what seems more like 300+ lumens). At higher speeds, however, the dynamo hub powers the light while simultaneously charging the cache battery. In my experience with this system on slower terrain, my 24,000 mAh cache battery gradually drained over the course of a night, becoming mostly depleted by morning and requiring much of the following day of riding to recharge. On dirt roads and other faster surfaces, the reliance on the cache battery is much lower.
GPS units for navigating
Bikepackers commonly rely at least in part on GPS units or phones for navigation, so keeping these powered can be critically important. The AA-powered Garmin eTrex series of GPS units have proven to be the most reliable relatively small options on the market. On a pair of lithium batteries, an eTrex runs for close to 30 hours, and I've been using them for more than a decade with zero complaints. For riders using bike-specific GPS units or wanting to collect power data on long rides (yes, some ultra racers desire this capability), units in the Garmin Edge series offer another option, but with run times of perhaps 12 hours on a full charge (and notably less if the map screen is always on display, depending on model), these require frequent charging from a USB cache battery. And the Edge series can be particularly fussy with variable charging current, so they don't charge well directly off a dynamo hub, necessitating a cache battery.
One additional family of options are GPS sports watches like the Suunto 9 ($500, 85 grams). This watch can run for 120+ hours on a single charge (the longest of any sports watch available), collect location and power data, and the watch offers some rudimentary navigation capabilities. Based on my experience, expecting more like 40-50 hours of runtime for most users is more reasonable. I wouldn't recommend this as a primary navigational device if you're trying to follow a GPX track, but it can serve as a back-up option.
Keeping other devices charged
Keeping the little screens powered (clockwise from left): Garmin eTrex 20 GPS, Suunto 9 GPS watch, Anker USB cache battery, Garmin Edge 810 GPS, Sinewave Cycles Reactor top-cap USB charger and Sinewave Cycles Revolution USB charger.
Finally, for other electron needs for cell phones, cameras, and any additional electronics you may want to carry, one other svelte USB charging option is the Sinewave Cycles Reactor. It's a top cap that mounts in your fork's steerer tube. Installation takes a bit of time—first, tap the star nut a bit deeper into the steerer, thread two small wires through gaps in the star nut, attach a pair of connectors, and plug the wiring into the top cap and a dynamo. Once that's done, slide a USB connector into the Reactor, start pedaling, and charge away. If your adventure plans don't include any notable night riding or light needs, this simple setup allows charging off a dynamo without really adding any other clutter to the front of the bike. Using just this setup on a rugged two-week dirt and 4×4 road tour across Arizona, I managed to keep two smart phones, two GPS units and a Sony A6000 camera powered for the entire trip. Had there been more slow trail riding, though, this would have been too much to keep charged even with full days of pedaling.


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Grit: The Martyn Bennett Story
until June 7;
at Mull Theatre, Druimfin,
Reviewed by Mark Brown
It seems like only last month that actor Sandy Grierson was giving his brilliant performance as Ivor Cutler, the great, eccentric humorist and poet, who died at the age of 83. In fact, it was only last month.
Yet, here he is again, playing the title role in another bio-play, Grit: The Martyn Bennett Story. It is testament to Grierson's extraordinary versatility and charisma that he is equally successful in portraying Bennett, the accomplished musical pioneer behind the fusion of traditional Scottish music with 1990s electronica, who, sadly, died some 50 years younger than Cutler.
Grit is the brainchild of its director, the impressive dramatist Cora Bissett (of Roadkill fame). With a beautifully open, expository script by Kieran Hurley (creator of the fine one-man show Beats), the piece traces Bennett's too short life, from learning to play the bagpipes while still at primary school, to being proclaimed a musical genius, and, ultimately, to his agonising losing battle against a voracious cancer.
The great achievement of this multi-artform piece is that it tells its story with precisely the same lack of regard for artistic boundaries that drove Bennett in his music making. A rave is juxtaposed with projected film of life in the rural communities of the Highlands. Traditional Gaelic song gives way to a splendid trapeze performance.
Grierson's outstanding portrayal is supported excellently by lovely acting from Hannah Donaldson (as Bennett's wife, Kirsten) and Gerda Stevenson (the musician's mother, Margaret, among other roles). Every aspect of the design, choreography and, of course, the music is perfectly measured and combined to create a theatre work of nuance and sensitivity, but also one of tremendous energy and spectacle.
Touching, funny and overflowing with the late musician's palpable lust for life, this is a wonderfully fitting homage to Martyn Bennett.
For further information, visit: corabissett.co.uk
This review was originally published in the Sunday Herald on June 8, 2013
© Mark Brown

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Oklahoma Nanotechnology Education Initiative
The ONEI is addressing new workforce challenges by integrating microtechnology and nanotechnology concepts into career and technology education courses, and the OSU Institute of Technology developed nanotechnology courses. The ONEI has sponsored summer camps for eighth-, ninthand 10th-grade students to introduce them to nanotechnology. These camps also introduce students to nanotechnology's application to Oklahoma industry.
Role of CareerTech:
CareerTech has developed instructional resources schools can use to integrate nanotechnology into existing disciplines and offers summer camps to introduce students to nanotechnology.
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Choropleth Map
Choropleth maps depict variations in spatial data by shading geographic areas according to a statistical measure. They make use of a gradient of hue, value, and texture, and often follow pre-defined geographic boundaries such as census tracts, cities, states, or countries.
The choropleth map can represent various values including percentages, percentiles, rates, integers, and fractions by grouping these values into graduated categories (from small to large etc.).
Raw data must be linked spatially to areas on a map, and categorized into brackets or organized using break points. Common groupings include equal intervals, quantiles, jenks, and natural breaks.
Choropleth maps utilize a gradient of colors, values or patterns to represent the spectrum of values across an area for a given variable. An increase in the statistical value of measure is reflected by a proportionate change in value or texture of the fill in the geographic area of the map.
Good Examples
CNN - Life Expectancy
Quartz - Donald Trump's "mean, mean mean" health care bill is meanest to his most crucial voters (Bivariate choropleth map)
Urban Displacement Project - Displacement Typologies in the Bay Area
Bad Examples
Too many patterns - Map of the US state populations using country flags with comparable population size
Non-intuitive color scheme - Population of the US by State
Misleading due to lack of normalization - population by census block group
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10 U.S. Code § 6254 - Availability of appropriations
The Secretary of the Navy may spend from appropriations for the pay of the Navy or the Marine Corps, as appropriate, amounts necessary to provide and replace medals of honor, Navy crosses, distinguished-service medals, silver star medals, and Navy and Marine Corps Medals, and associated bars, emblems, and insignia.
Historical and Revision Notes
6254 34 U.S.C. 359 (less proviso). Feb. 4, 1919, ch. 14, § 6 (less proviso), 40 Stat. 1056; renumbered § 8 and amended Aug. 7, 1942, ch. 551, § 1, 56 Stat. 744.
The words "the appropriations for the pay of the Navy or the Marine Corps, as appropriate", are substituted for the words "the appropriation 'Pay, subsistence, and transportation of naval personnel' ", to identify by a general description, rather than by the specific appropriation title, the appropriation authorized to be used. Specific appropriation titles vary from one appropriation act to the next. The permanent authority contained in 34 U.S.C. 359 for the Secretary of the Navy to use appropriations available for the pay of the Navy and the Marine Corps is not affected by a change in the titles of those appropriations nor is it affected by a specific authorization in an appropriation act to use, during the life of the act, a different type of appropriation.


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Present your projects with videos
Plan, film, and edit a video presentation about one of your digital maker projects.
Plan a session with this activity
You will need
 - Access to a computer
 - Access to the internet
 - Camera or phone
 - Pens or pencils
 - Scrap paper
Notes and handout (Present your projects with videos)
PDF – 2.5MB
Before you begin
 - You can film anywhere (as long as you have your project there), but you'll need access to computers for editing.
 - It works best if each group has access to a computer, but you could take it in turns if you need to. You could also look in to visiting a local library or school to use their computers.
 - You'll need an Adobe Spark account for this activity. You could create a shared account for everyone (or one for each small group) that the adult leading the activity has access to. If people are over 13, they could create their own accounts and use them to edit their videos.
Set the scene
 1. Everyone should split into small groups. It's useful if everyone in a group worked together on the same project.
 2. Each group should decide which project they'd like to make a video about. People often learn the most from times they struggle or make mistakes, so it often works well for people to focus on a project that didn't go perfectly.
 1. Everyone should use the 'Notes and handout' to guide them as they plan everything out and create a storyboard and basic script.
Make the film
 1. Everyone should use the activity handout to help them shoot a great film. The handout has plenty of tips about lighting and camera angles.
 1. Once they've finished filming, everyone should follow their activity handout to transfer their footage to a computer.
 2. Everyone should get stuck in to editing their film. They should follow the activity handout to get the scenes in the right order and add a backing track and captions.
 3. Once everyone's films are ready, people should take it in turns to share them with the group.
 4. The person leading the activity should check that no one can be identified from anything in the video, that there's no identifying information (such as full names), and that they have proper consent from everyone in the film.
 1. Everyone should check out the information in the activity handout and decide whether to publish their film.
This activity was all about communicating. How was making a video presentation different to presenting something live? People might think about how they could make edits or film things more than once to get it exactly right. How did people feel when it came to showing others the video? Do people think videos made it easier to understand what others were trying to say? Video presentations can also be widely shared. How can people make sure their videos are accessible for as many people as possible? People could think about adding subtitles or translating them into different languages.
This activity was also a chance for everyone to develop skills. What skills did people use to make their videos? Were they confident before they started? How did they feel when they watched their finished video? Was it useful to use videos to reflect on the skills they used when making their digital projects?
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- Vol. 47 No. 1
 - 15 January 2018
Predictors of General Functioning and Correlates of Quality of Life: A Cross-Sectional Study among Psychiatric Outpatients
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Functioning and quality of life (QOL) are negatively impacted as a result of mental illness. This study aimed to determine the: i) socio-demographic and clinical correlates of functioning and; ii) associations between functioning and QOL in a multiethnic sample of psychiatric outpatients. Materials and Methods: This was a cross-sectional study of outpatients receiving treatment from a tertiary psychiatric hospital. Functioning was assessed using the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) scale, while QOL was measured using the World Health Organization Quality of Life-BREF (WHOQOL-BREF) which comprises 4 domains: physical health, psychological health, social relationships and environment. Results: Various socio-demographic and clinical correlates were associated with functioning including employment and marital status, education and diagnosis. Depression was the only clinical characteristic which negatively correlated with functioning (P = 0.035). Amongst the whole sample, multiple linear regressions revealed that functioning was positively associated with all 4 QOL domains (physical health [P <0.001], psychological health [P <0.001], social relationships [P <0.001] and environment [P <0.001]). Further analysis of each diagnostic group revealed that functioning was positively associated with all 4 QOL domains in the anxiety, depression and obsessive compulsive disorder subsamples, while in the schizophrenia subsample, functioning was only significantly associated with the environment domain. Conclusion: Functional impairments were associated with different socio-demographic and clinical characteristics, which should be addressed when planning tailored treatment and interventions. Given that functioning is significantly associated with QOL, it is crucial to regularly assess and monitor them (in addition to symptomatic outcomes and adopting a more holistic and biopsychosocial approach).
Having a mental illness or poor mental health can impede an individual's capacity to realise his/her potential, work productivity and ability to make meaningful contributions to society. The social and economic impact of poor mental health is both diverse and debilitating and can lead to homelessness, poor educational and health outcomes and high unemployment rates.
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Aotearoa New Zealand is home to a large Pasifika population. This illustrated collection of essays is the first of its kind to tell their stories – from the legendary feats of the ancestors of modern Māori, to the politically explosive dawn raids of the 1970s, and beyond.
This beautiful book is lavishly illustrated with hundreds of historical and contemporary photos and archival documents. Drawing on a rich cache of oral history, it is a fresh and surprising record of over a thousand years of discovery, encounter, and cultural exchange. The research for this book commenced in 2003 and produced a major exhibition which opened in 2007.
For more information about the book click on the image above.
To view details about the exhibition Tangata o le Moana: The story of Pacific people in New Zealand click on the image below.


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NOTE - TO DATE. THE DOME IS STILL UNFINISHED. AS IS THIS ARTICLE. NEITHER DOME NOR ARTICLE WILL BE.RESUMED UNTIL THIS AUTUMN. SO PATIENCE PLEASE... MEANWHILE. THE INFORMATION BELOW IS A STEP BY STEP EXPLANATION OF HOW TO BUILD YOUR OWN GEODESIC DOME.
Above, dome nearly completed, without glass and perspex windows (its summer!)
Above photo, interior of dome, nearly completed
Above photo, interior of dome, nearly completed.
However, most governments and legislators would prefer people of low income to live here...
In 'charming' town planning projects that give the local medeival architecture a real boost to their image, eh hem... Spot Ales' medieval fort and, significantly, old prison, it's a job to find it, but if you squint hard enough...
STEP BY STEP PHOTO INSTRUCTIONS...
The first step in building a geodesic dome home is to fully understand and visualise the geometry of the structure beforehand.
To do this it is essential to build a small model version that you can refer back to whenever you get confused or stuck. It's possible to build a dome without first doing a model, but you're more likely to get in a fix, which wastes time and money.
To make a 50cm diameter cardboard model you'll need a pencil, a compass, a ruler, 15 sheets of A4 lightweight photocopy card in one colour, and 5 sheets of the same card in another colour, one large piece of thick cardboard for the base (from a big cardboard box will do), glue, at least twenty very small boston clips, thumbtacks and probably some other stuff too, we'll see as we go along. The two fluffy assistants are optional.
I found a useful video on YouTube showing how to 'construct a geodesic dome' out of cardboard. The instructions are for children so even a maths moron such as myself could follow them! The dome is composed of 10 equilateral triangles that join together 6 pentagons, each pentagon being composed of 5 isosceles triangles.
In all, the dome requires a total of 40 triangles, 30 of them isosceles and 10 of them equilateral. In order to attain the dome diameter of 50cm the 3 sides of the equilateral triangles must be 15cm45 long precisely (to be called length A). The isosceles triangles must have one side measuring, again, 15cm45 and the two other sides measuring 13cm66 (to be called length B).
Being the congenital maths moron I am, it was impossible for me to calculate how to draw two triangles together (to save paper), centering them correctly on a sheet of photocopy paper. So I drew one, photocopied it, cut them both out, then stuck them together on a sheet of paper. In this way I had the template for two triangles neatly fitted together and centered on the A4 paper. I then made 5 photocopies of the template below so as to get 10 equilateral triangles in lightweight yellow card.
To make an equilateral triangle, use your ruler to draw a 15.45cm line at the bottom of your page. Set your compass to exactly 15.45cm. Putting the point at one end of the line, draw an arc approximately where the top point of the triangle should go. Switch the point of the compass to the other end of the line and draw another arc. Where the two arcs cross is the third point of the triangle. Use your ruler to draw the two other sides. To draw the glue tabs, draw a line 1cm parallel to all three sides around the entire outer edge of the triangle. Cut off its points, as in the triangles above, by drawing a straight line to slice off the points of the outer triangles so that the glue tabs can be stuck together without the ends overlapping. To draw the isosceles triangle draw the base line of the triangle again at a length of 15.45cm, but set the compass at 13.66cm instead so as to achieve the two shorter edges. I then made 15 photocopies of the template, this time in blue card, so as to get a total of 30 isosceles triangles.
Carefully cut out all your triangles and, using a book and a ruler, fold the glue tabs carefully along each of their lines.
Apply glue to the tabs and stick the five isosceles triangles together (sticking together the B sides) so as to form a pentagon, leaving the last two tabs unglued. When applying glue be sure to use a scrap piece of paper underneath so as to not get anything grubby. Stick the B sides together two by two. If you try to apply glue to all of the sides at the same time and then try to stick them all together simultaneously, the tabs where you applied the glue first will have dried. So just go edge by edge. Glue needs to be applied to both glue tabs being stuck together and not just one, to ensure a strong fix.
Assemble all six pentagons in the same way, leaving the last two edges open on each one. To be sure that the glue dries completely you may want to leave the next stage for the following day; otherwise, leaving it for a couple of hours should do it. Once dry, the final edges of the isosceles triangles can be glued together. As you pull the two sides against one another you'll see why it was necessary to allow the other sides to dry first, as now the pentagons will be raised into their three-dimensional volume, putting strong pressure on all sides. This is where you now need to attach the small boston clips to clamp the freshly glued sides together. I left them all overnight again, but if you're feeling brave, another couple of hours should do.
Here we have the six pentagons fully assembled on my scruffy old floor. As you can see, my fluffy assistant to the left seems satisfied with the work so far. I have placed the ten equilateral triangles next to the pentagons, ready for the next stage.
Now we need to make the base. Thinking I was very clever, I bought some fancy hard card instead of using the simple cardboard box card suggested in the video. The result was a fiendishly difficult challenge with a Stanley knife when it came to the cutting stage. It was all very scary and not at all appropriate for children... or for fluffy assistants for that matter. So use normal cardboard from a box as it's far easier to cut with no more than a pair of scissors. And it's free.
Cut out your piece of cardboard for the base, making it no smaller than 56cm squared. Find its center by drawing diagonal lines from each of its corners, creating a cross in the center. Here, one of my fluffy assistants is demonstrating how this can be done very easily with a builder's rule, useful as it's so big. A straight plank would also do the trick.
Here is the base with the cross revealing the center of the square. At this point you may wish to take a small break and give yourself a vigorous scratch for good measure.
Now we need to make a big compass out of a 35cm x 4cm strip of card. This card is thicker than the triangles but lighter than the base board. It needs to be quite thick and strong so as not to tear, but not too thick to put the nib of a pencil through it. Place the cardboard strip on another piece of cardboard as we are now going to push thumbtacks into it to create pencil holes. My assistant is helpfully indicating the spacing of these four holes. The one on the far left, let's call it the '0cm hole', will be the point where we pin this card compass into the center of the base. Now place a tack at precisely 16cm to the right of the first hole, then 25cm and finally at 27cm distant from the first hole. We have now created four holes at 0cm, 16cm, 25cm and 27cm.
Tacking the 0cm hole to the center of your cardboard base, use the holes at 16cm, 25cm and 27cm to draw three concentric circles. The fluffy tail is optional in this simple manoeuvre, but adds interest.
Here is the base with the three concentric circles drawn.
Cut out along the center circle to create an inner hole. Cut out along the outer circle to finish the now circular base. Sitting on the circle will prevent it from unexpectedly flying away...
Set the compass to 15.45cm precisely. To make it easier to set it perfectly I drew a line of the right length on a piece of paper, dug the point into one end of the line and carefully pulled the compass to the right length. Place the point of the compass on the circle inside the outer edge of your base and draw an arc further along the line of your circle. Then place the point where your arc crosses the line and draw another arc further along. Continue all around the circle till all the points of your decagon (ten-sided polygon) are drawn.
At this point you will discover if your compass is set precisely or not. If it isn't your last arc will be too far in or out. Cursing loudly at this juncture may help relieve tension. If it's not right, rub out the marks and start again. I actually ended up having an approximate decagon and just bodged along as I do


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North Wexford Historical Society was founded in 2011 by a group of local history enthusiasts who recognised the need for such a society due to the huge interest in history in the area. The launch of the very highly regarded book" Kilnahue Churchyard, Gorey," by Gorey Churchyard Heritage Group in 2011, under the supervision of Archaeologist, Gerry Mullins, was the catalyst for the foundation of the society. Almost all of those involved with this book went onto become founder members of NWHS. Within a short period of its foundation membership grew to over hundred members and has remained constantly over the one hundred mark.
The Society works very hard to make sure that the interests of all members are catered for by providing monthly lectures on topics of local and national historical interest and regular tours to areas of historical interest particularly during the summer months. Among the speakers to date have been Professor Donnchadh O Corrain, who gave the inaugural Dr Aidan Breen Memorial lecture in 2013, Dr Ida Milne, Dr Peadar McArdle, Dr Emmett O'Byrne, Dermot Meleady. Matt Duggan, Brian Donovan ,Ronnie McCormack, Michael Dwyer, John Nangle, Willie Willoughby, Dr Catherine O'Connor, local writer and historian, Philip Casey. Among the many tours conducted by NHWS were tours to Waterford, Tipperary, South Wexford, Glendalough, Ardgillen Castle and Malahide Castle, Co. Dublin. The Society has an education committee, an oral history committee society and a hard working graveyard committee which, to date, has recorded inscriptions in thirteen graveyards/churchyards in North Wexford. The society is also involved in the digitisation of local records.


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Make your own Salt
To test out how they do it, just do this simple experiment at home.
All you need is:
1. One tablespoon of salt.
2. A plate with raised edges.
4. Two cups of water.
Step 1: Mix the salt in water thoroughly. If mixing in a plate is inconvenient then do so in a bowl and then pour the salty water in the plate with raised edges.
Step 2: Keep the plate out in the sun until the water fully evaporates.
You will see tiny crystals of salt left behind in the plate.
That's how salt is made.
The desert soil in the Rann of Kutch has so much natural salt in it or is so saline that no other kind of vegetation can grow there easily.
As much as 60 per cent of India's salt is produced here. If you ever get a chance try watching mountains of salt being made the natural way!
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By Saakshi Khanna; Illustrations by Shiju George
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A comparative study was performed between a novel transpedicular implant (V-STRUT©, Hyprevention, France) and vertebroplasty. This study aims to assess the biomechanical efficacy of this implant in resurrecting and fortifying the osteoporotic vertebra following a vertebral body fracture.A total of 17 vertebrae from 3 human osteoporotic spine segments (T9-L5) were selected. Vertebral compression fractures were generated by eccentric compressive loading until a height reduction of 25%. Then the vertebrae were either fixed using vertebroplasty technique (control group; n = 8) or implanted with V-STRUT© implant combined with bone cement (device group; n = 9). A new compressive loading was performed in the same conditions. Maximal load and stiffness, as well as total energy to fracture were measured.Fracture force and energy to fracture were both increased either after V-STRUT© implantation or vertebroplasty compared to when the initial fracture was generated. Mean increase percentage between the initial value and the post-treatment value for each parameter were +77% vs +39% regarding fracture load and +126% vs +99% for energy to fracture, for the device group vs vertebroplasty group respectively. No pedicle fractures were observed in both groups, nor implant breaking or bending in the device group.These results show the ability of V-STRUT© combined with bone cement to reinforce the vertebral body strength, with an at least equivalent biomechanical performance as vertebroplasty. Further clinical investigation needs to be undertaken to demonstrate any clinical superiority of V-STRUT© over vertebroplasty.A transpedicular device for vertebral compression fracture fixation was assessed.The device increases both load and energy to re-fracture of the vertebrae.The device is at least biomechanically equivalent to vertebroplasty.No pedicle fractures, implant breaking or bending were observed in both groups.


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October 21, 2019
Perioperative Risk Calculators and the Art of Medicine
Author Affiliations
 - 1Division of Hospital Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
JAMA Intern Med. 2019;179(12):_PHONE_. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.4914
"The revised cardiac risk index score1 is 0, so the patient can go to the operating room, right?" While patient histories and physical examinations have continued value in most other fields of medicine, perioperative risk assessment may sometimes be condensed to such a singular thought process. But are risk calculators enough by themselves?
The field of perioperative medicine has seen the development of multiple risk calculators for cardiac risk assessment (Box).1-6 These calculators have been valuable in identifying the risk factors for major cardiovascular outcomes. They are easy to use by surgeons or advanced practice clinicians, anesthesiologists, and internists. Patients who are deemed to be at low or very high risk based on these calculators may not need stress testing, leading to a judicious use of resources. Some calculators, such as the American College of Surgeons' National Surgical Quality Improvement Program universal surgical risk calculator (ACS NSQIP), calculate the risk of multiple complications beyond just cardiac.2 These calculators may help engage patients in shared decision-making before undergoing surgery, especially the high-risk patients who may otherwise underestimate their risk. These decision aids may help motivate patients toward risk-reduction strategies before undergoing surgery.
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 Pre op Stress testing
 Michael Plunkett, MD | Hospital
 The author still advises stress testing before surgery. The CARP study showed the failure of such an approach. And the recent Canadian Heart guidelines eschewed pre op stress testing.
 CONFLICT OF INTEREST: None Reported
 Some newer reflections on risk-calculators
 Neelesh Gupta, MD | University of South Alabama
 I perused with interest the Perspective.
 I agree the preoperative assessment is an important issue. The risk-calculators are helpful, but not fool-proof. Many times patients calculated as having much higher risk escape injury while other patients
 calculated as having lower-risk suffer serious post-operative events.
 The problem gets compounded with the use of more than 1 risk calculator or observing the differences in the guidelines.
 The followings are my inputs:
 1. Risk-calculators are often inaccurate, as the data recorded in electronic health records (EHR) are often inaccurate.
 2. Many important impactful variables like cardiorespiratory fitness, and lifestyle are not captured in
 the EHR.
 3. Artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to make a huge difference in the risk-scores, as AI will take into consideration many more variables than any risk-calculator or scoring system have considered so far, plus it will take into account all high-risk patients, who did not develop any adverse events and all low-risk patients who developed the events.
 4. Thus said, an astute clinical assessment is no substitute for any available risk-calculator. Some patients may experience an adverse outcomes, despite being calculated as low-risk preoperatively.
 CONFLICT OF INTEREST: None Reported
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 Manage the whole individual, and not just a heart in a petri dish
 Umbrine Fatima, MD, FACP | Kenmore Mercy Hospital, Buffalo, NY
 Very well said.
 Increasingly, studies are focusing on cardiac outcomes, which is too narrow in scope. As an Internist who takes care of a whole individual and not just a heart in a petri dish, it irks me when safer cardiac outcomes are glorified at the the expense of some other poor outcomes. It almost appears to have become a marketing gimmick by the pharmaceutical companies, spinning the words (and outcome) to show positive, or at minimum, neutral output, rather than highlight the harms that may be caused to other organs.
 A limit of risk
 calculators is that they are just an aid. If it was as simple as punching some data elements into the calculator to churn out risk, then physicians could all retire.
 I use such tools as only one of many steps of my assessment. Tools can inform me on one fact. They do not make a decision for my patients. Having these tools included in guidelines or heavily relied upon increases liability when we choose to override them since it is hard to satisfy a non-physician jury on the reasons why a physician made a certain decision against the advice of a calculator.
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Jonathan Ward discusses viability of two means for resolution of disputes related to cybersquatting. Cybersquatting occurs when a party registers a domain name that contains someone else's trademark and then attempts to profit by selling or licensing the name to that party. Cybersquatting tends to be classified as direct cybersquatting and typosquatting, and actions involving domain name conflicts fall in four categories: 1) trademark infringement, 2) confusion of source, 3) dilution of a famous mark, and 4) bad faith registration. Recognizing the growing issue of cybersquatting, Congress passed the Anitcybersquatting Consumer Protection Act in 1999, which provided a litigious avenue for dispute resolution. Around the same time, ICANN (the assignor of domain names) adopted the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy, which provided an alternative dispute resolution avenue through arbitration. Mr. Ward presents a comparison between these two options, and concludes that the best method depends on which channel of recourse offers the most benefits at the lowest cost.
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Naturaverde Kids lip balm were among the first in the safety and quality test carried out by Altroconsumo last November. Lip balm is a very important cosmetic product for lip protection: the protective film of lip balm acts as a defense against external agents (wind, cold) and at the same time prevents the natural loss of water from the skin, helping to keep the lips hydrated and soft. For this reason, the choice of lip balm is fundamental, as the verification of the ingredients is fundamental as it is easily ingested cosmetic.
The Star Wars Naturaverde Kids lip balm was selected as the sample for the Altroconsumo test: only ten of the products included in the test panel passed the chemical safety test and then continued with the quality tests. The results of the tests carried out have launched an important alarm relating to the presence of mineral oils in lip products. Moah (Mineral Oil Aromatic Hydrocarbons) and Mosh (Mineral Oil Saturated Hydrocarbon), directly derived from oil refining, are the basis of the composition of most of the lip balms on the market. In particular, Moahs are considered potentially genotoxic and carcinogenic, while some Moshs can accumulate in the tissues of the spleen, liver and lymph nodes and cause microgranulomas.
The manufacturers of lip balm use mineral oils in the formulations because they guarantee better conservation and have a lower cost than vegetable oils. For many years, the danger of Moah (Mineral Oil Aromatic Hydrocarbons) in the cosmetic field has continued to be underlined, suspected of being carriers of carcinogenic molecules, which tend to accumulate in the body. The danger increases considerably in the case of lip cosmetics where the risk increases in relation to ingestion.
The Star Wars Naturaverde Kids lip balm, and therefore all Naturaverde lip balm from the same formulation, were totally free of mineral oils, with an excellent partial and overall rating, the best in the Altroconsumo test ranking. The Naturaverde lip balm formulations, defined in full compliance with European regulations, do not contain mineral oils and other petroleum derivatives (microcrystalline wax, microcrystalline wax, hydrogenated microcrystalline wax, ceresi, ozokerite, paraffin, paraffinum Liquidum, petrolatum, synthetic wax, hydrogenated polyisobutene , polybutene, polyethylene, polyisobuten).
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theta is always negative for long calls and long put
Discussion in 'P1.T3. Financial Markets & Products (30%)' started by qin841121, May 9, 2012.
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 This is a statement by schweser and also investopedia. How can it be true?
 For long put, the longer the option, the cheaper it may get as the expected price of stock will be higher due to interest and because of this the put will decrease in value?
 What is wrong with my logic?
 2. Theta for a long call is always negative. True.
 However, Theta of a long put always exceeds the theta of a call by a fixed amount. Hence for out-of-money puts, the theta may be positive also.
 Another concept to be aware of, theta is measured in terms of "time remaining to maturity (T-t)" in contrast to "time passed (t)" - thinking in terms of "time passed" may be akin to reversing the sign of theta.
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Pitahaya, known as "dragon fruit", is an exotic fruit with excellent nutritional properties; however, the species from the Peruvian coast have been little studied. The objective of the present study was to determine the physicochemical and nutritional composition of two species of pitahaya Hylocereus undatus (Haw.) Britt and Rose (red pitahaya) and Hylocereus megalanthus (yellow pitahaya), cultivated in the central coast of Peru. Proximal analysis, physicochemical and mineral contents were determined by standardized methods. From the results found, the fiber content of red pitahaya (4.30 ± 0.75 g.100 g-1) and vitamin C (14.74 ± 0.53 mg.100 g-1) stand out. The macroelement with the highest proportion corresponded to potassium (215.83 ± 11.72 and 98.41 ± 5.54 mg.100 g-1, for red and yellow pitahaya, respectively). This was followed by phosphorus (28.70 ± 0.28 and 17.99 ± 1.48 mg.100 g-1, for red and yellow pitahaya, respectively) and magnesium (29.88 ± 0.53 and 16.09 ± 2.80 mg.100 g-1, for red and yellow pitahaya, respectively). Regarding the content of microelements, the contents of manganese (5.48 ± 0.1 mg.kg-1) and zinc (5.39 ± 0.25 mg.kg-1) for red pitahaya stood out; and in the case of yellow pitahaya, the highest values corresponded to iron (21.07 ± 0.18 mg.kg-1) and manganese (7.49 ± 1.12 mg.kg-1). The study concluded that red and yellow pitahaya fruits represent an important source of fiber, minerals and vitamin C and they can be used for the benefit of human health and nutrition.
|Translated title of the contribution||Nutritional and physicochemical profile of the pitahaya cultivated in the central coast of Peru|
|Journal||Revista de la Facultad de Agronomia|
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To the Vice Rectorate of Research of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, for financing the project: "Nutritional and bioactive compounds of pitahaya (Selenericeus megalanthus) and its uses and applications in the food industry". Likewise, the Abregú Corporation is thanked for the support provided.
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system is the kinetic temperature of random motions of the grains. Since electric and gravitational energies vary inversely with distance, the cloud must expand as its temperature cools. A simple calculation shows that, in spite of the falling temperature, the number of quantum-states accessible to each grain increases with the three halves power of the size of the cloud. The number of quantum-states grows larger and larger as the cloud expands. In an analog system of this kind, there is no ground state and no energy gap.
An analog form of life, such as Hoyle's black cloud, adapts better to low temperatures, because a cloud with a fixed number of grains can expand its memory without limit by increasing its linear scale. The quantized-energy argument does not apply to an analog system, because the number of quantum-states is unbounded. At late times quantum mechanics becomes irrelevant, and the behavior of the system becomes essentially classical. The number of quantum states becomes so large that classical mechanics becomes exact. When analog systems work classically, the quantized-energy argument fails. That is why survival is possible in the domain of classical mechanics although it is impossible in the domain of quantum mechanics. Fortunately, classical mechanics becomes dominant as the universe expands and cools. But Krauss and Starkman have not yet conceded. I am still expecting them to come back with new arguments which I will then do my best to refute.


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This word has given rise to a host of guesses:
Railey suggests garrula, a chatterbox.
Minshew ventures the Italian girella, a weather-cock.
Skinner goes in for the Anglo-Saxon ceorl, a churl.
Why not girdle, as young women before marriage wore a girdle [girle]; and part of a Roman marriage ceremony was for the bridegroom to loose the zone.
As for guessing, the word gull may put in a claim (1 Henry iv. 1); so may the Greek koure, a girl, with a diminutive suffix koure-la, whence gourla, gourl, gurl, girl.
(The Latin gerula means a maid that attends on a child. Chaucer spells the word gurl.)
Probably the word is a variation of darling, Anglo-Saxon, deorling.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894


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The Zabolotye lake (Russian: Заболотское озеро is a lake in the Sergiyev Posad Rayon of Moscow Oblast. The area of the lake is 3.2 km² (according to other sources - 1.96 km² )), the catchment area is 355 km², , the depth reaches 5 meters. The banks are wooded.
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The lake is located 0.5 km from the village of Zabolotye and 3 km from the village of Verigino .The Sulat River. a right tributary of Dubna River (the Volga river basin) flows through the lake. The elevation above sea level is 127.8 m .
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The lake has a glacial origin, its age is estimated at 10 000 years. For millennia, significant deposits of bottom mud were accumulated in the lake, which was much larger than the present ones, which led to a reduction in its area and the formation of the Dubninsky and Ol'khovsko-Bat'kovskii boggy massifs, as well as the meadows later overgrown with forest.
The lake was and is a resting place for Muscovites. There is evidence that Vladimir Ilich Lenin came to rest near Zabolotoye Lake . From the middle of the 20th century until the 1980s, water quality control measures were carried out and various reclamation projects wer implemented. Since the 1990s, large-scale activities on the lake have ceased. In 2011, the lake and its environs fell under the state program of flooding of marshed, in connection with which the construction of a dam was planned .
A new topographic map shows that the location of the lake is a predominantly swamp, and the name Zabolotye Lake has already been ommitted. .
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The lake is inhabited by crucian , roach , pike , perch . Until the 1960s, the relic seaweed of kladofora lived in thh lake. This has disappeared as a result of reclamation.
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- Вагнер Б. Б. (2007) (in russian). Реки и озёра Подмосковья. Мoscow: Вече. ISBN 978-5-9533-1885-5.
- Озеро Заболотское
- Государственный заказник «Озеро Заболотское и его окрестности»
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Visual representation of information highlights the power of compression. That is the reason why the National Curriculum Framework says "Mathematics is amazingly compressible: one may struggle a lot, work out something, perhaps by trying many methods. But once it is understood it creates one of the great joys of mathematics. A major goal of the upper primary stage is to introduce the student to this particular pleasure. Data handling, representation and visualization are important mathematical skills which can be taught at this stage. They can be of great use as "life skills".
This is an activity for Mathematics class (grade level 6-8). This activity aims at visual representation and its interpretation of data collected from the classroom itself.
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Sinkhole research opportunities
Sinkhole research could help many communities that have already experienced problems with them, but may also help communities avoid sinkhole hazards in the future. Sinkholes and other hydrology-related disasters fascinate me. I would like to explore the specific causes of sinkhole formation and opportunities for detecting sinkholes, such as the use of electromagnetic imaging or ground penetrating radar. Both of these techniques can be used to measure changes in density beneath the ground from a helicopter. Researchers use them to monitor permafrost degradation and subsurface geologic features.
Earlier this week, there was a video of a sinkhole that was swallowing a number of trees in a Louisiana swamp. The sinkhole had been swallowing a lot of land around a former salt mine and has been releasing a lot of methane during the least a year. Check it out here: Raw: Louisiana Sinkhole Swallows Giant Trees – YouTube.
There is a growing source of images and videos related to sinkholes on the internet. I do not know if the frequency of occurrence of sinkholes is increasing, however, as it is very likely and possible that we are simply much better at sharing information very quickly these days. Regardless, families that have been affected by sinkholes would be very grateful for additional information about how to minimize risk from future calamity. Even more importantly, if a sinkhole was identified and a family saved before a disaster, the rewards would certainly be many times greater. Anyhow, this is one subject that I'll keep my eyes on in the future, because we just never know when or where the next disaster may strike.


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Article by Kim Colavito Markesich
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While Connecticut residents live in a state with ample water resources, we are beginning to notice some changes in precipitation trends.
"Connecticut is very fortunate as we're actually quite water rich," says Angie Harris, research assistant in UConn Extension. "We are getting rainfall, but there's a shift in what we are beginning to experience, and what scientists expect to continue, which is more intense rain events less frequently. This type of rainfall can lead to drought conditions for agricultural producers."
In 2015, Connecticut requested over $8 million dollars in federal emergency loans to be made available for crop losses due to moderate drought conditions across the state.
Mike O'Neill, associate dean and associate director of UConn Extension, and Harris are working on a two-year water conservation project funded through the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Regional Conservation Partnership Program. Funding is provided through a $400,000 NRCS grant matched one to one by the College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources.
The UConn team is partnering with NRCS to promote conservation assistance to agricultural producers. The project goal focuses on agricultural water security by helping farmers prepare for drought, improve their irrigation efficiency and establish water conservation practices.
"In the past, NRCS did everything themselves," O'Neill explains. "But now they are outsourcing some of that work because they realize we have partnerships in the community that can be effective in helping people implement agricultural conservation practices. I think this is a very innovative act on the part of the NRCS."
Twelve pilot sites across the state have been identified to include a variety of agricultural operations including greenhouses, nurseries, vegetable growers and dairy and livestock farms.
"We're really trying to target new and beginning agricultural operations because we feel they run the greatest risk of failure as a result of drought," O'Neill says. "We look at what these operations can do in advance to make them more secure when a drought hits. If you can prepare farmers in advance, then when drought occurs, they're not dealing with mitigation or lost crops, they will be able to weather the drought and be successful."
The first step in the project involved review of the operations, followed by a site visit. Then the team installed a water meter at each site. The meter information is easily managed by farmers through an innovative text messaging data collection method developed by Nicholas Hanna, computer programmer with the College's Office of Communications. The program allows operators to check their meter reading once weekly, quickly send the results via text messaging and receive a confirmation of their submission.
The readings are entered into a database associated with their number and farm name. By season's end, the team will chart water usage tied to climate variables such as precipitation and wind, and will then review current watering practices and help owners develop strategies that manage water usage and prepare for drought conditions.
The NRCS will also use this data to help farmers access water saving strategies and equipment.
"In the end, we will be directing them to NRCS for financial assistance to implement conservation practices," says Harris. The NRCS financial assistance programs are designed to help agricultural producers maintain and improve their water program in areas such as soil management and irrigation efficiency.
Some seventy-five agricultural producers have expressed interest in the program thus far, with the number growing weekly. To join the program, farmers complete a water use survey available online. A member of the team will conduct a field site visit. "If farmers are interested in getting a meter, we want to hear from them," says O'Neill.
"We have a really great team working on this project," he says. The group includes Rosa Raudales, assistant professor and horticulture extension specialist in the Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture; Mike Dietz, extension educator in water resources, low impact development and storm water management; and Ben Campbell, former assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, currently an assistant professor and extension economist at the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
In another aspect of the project, the team is partnering with the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and the Office of Policy and Management to explore water needs for agriculture in Connecticut. This understanding could inform policy decisions for future agricultural development within the state.
"This is a teachable moment for us," O'Neill says. "We feel like these agricultural producers are scientists. We have an opportunity to help farmers conserve water, increase profitability and preserve the environment. They treat their business as a science, and we are trying to work with them to help them enhance their science capabilities and make better choices."


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When you run Perfmon.exe with the Active Directory Diagnostics template to generate a report on a Windows Server 2008-based domain controller, the process may stop responding.
This issue occurs because the Reliability and Performance Monitor (Perfmon.exe) console that is running the TraceRpt.exe tool consumes too much memory and CPU resources during the report generation process. If the Windows Server 2008-based server is really busy and lacks resources, the report generation process will stop responding.
To resolve this issue, copy your files to a different computer that has same server role and that has enough hardware resources. Then, run TraceRpt.exe with the files. To do this, follow these steps:
In the Reliability and Performance Monitor (Perfmon.exe) console, click Data Collector Sets, and then click System.
Right-click Active Directory Diagnostics, and then click Start. The file collection process starts on the Windows Server 2008-based domain controller.
After the report status changes to generating report from collecting data for , copy the files to the second Windows Server 2008-based domain controller.
Note You can find the files at the following location:
Windows Server 2008 Standard, Windows Server 2008 Enterprise, Windows Server 2008 Datacenter, Windows Server 2008 Standard without Hyper-V, Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-Based Systems, Windows Server 2008 Enterprise without Hyper-V, Windows Server 2008 Datacenter without Hyper-V


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Based on the popular Collins First Time French Dictionary, this book is designed to introduce your child to the world of dictionaries in a fun and accessible way
- 500 illustrated words in English-to-French alphabetical order
- Example sentences show your child how French is really used
- Audio files for every headword and phrase available free at _URL_
- Learning is easier when it's fun! Collins Very First French Dictionary includes plenty of thematic pages on interesting topics such as colours & clothes, school and animals
- Complete French-to-English index so you and your child can find your favourite French words easily.
Collins Very First French Dictionary follows National Curriculum guidelines for modern foreign languages. Also available is Collins Very First Spanish Dictionary.


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Last Updated: Tuesday - 01/04/2011
February 19, 2001
School district to launch native education project
WESTERN CATHOLIC REPORTER
EDMONTON — Aboriginal students have a hard time adapting to city schools, a situation that often translates into low academic achievement, a high dropout rate and low self-esteem.
Statistics show aboriginal students are struggling in the school system. Their high school graduation rate is about 52 per cent in Alberta compared to 72 per cent for non-aboriginal students.
What makes it even harder for aboriginal students is that the curriculum doesn't reflect their cultural heritage.
That's all about to change as Edmonton Catholic Schools plans to address the problem with the help of a $1.6 million grant from Alberta Learning.
The purpose of the ambitious project is to help aboriginal students achieve higher success, said Bob Steele, division principal in aboriginal education.
"What we are trying to do is work on ways that all our schools can be more effective in working with aboriginal students."
The two-year pilot project and research study, beginning in September, will find ways to increase academic achievement among aboriginal students and lower their almost 50 per cent high school dropout rate, explained native education consultant Louise Breland.
"The idea is to make schools more responsive to the needs of aboriginal students."
A study conducted last year shows aboriginal parents and students want a better kindergarten to Grade 12 school program but they don't necessarily want a segregated school, noted Steele.
"About 90 per cent of aboriginal parents and students want to be able to go to their neighbourhood school with their friends and do well."
Six Edmonton Catholic schools, including elementary, junior high and high schools, will be picked for the project from about 15 that have expressed interest in participating. The final cut will be made in mid-March.
Grant money will be used to train teachers and staff in cultural awareness so they become more sensitive to aboriginal students' needs and make them feel more welcome in the schools.
Liaison workers will be hired to work closely with families and increase their involvement in the school life. "Parents want to feel that they can come to school and feel welcomed and wanted there too," Steele said.
Libraries will carry books by aboriginal authors and all classes will include aboriginal culture so students can see themselves reflected in the curriculum.
"For me, this is very much an issue of social justice and it's about time we had the financial support to tackle it," Breland said.
Steele said the project's research study component will be shared with schools across Alberta.
"I guess what the research will do is tell us what works and what doesn't when it comes to having this group of students come to school and do well and feel good about it."
There are about 1,500 aboriginal students in the Edmonton Catholic school system.
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Olympus Mons, a volcano on Mars, is the highest mountain in the Solar System and stands about 80,000 feet tall. This graph shows lots of information about Olympus Mons. On the left side, the height is given in meters. On the horizontal axis, at the bottom, the graph shows degrees of latitude. This image distorts the volcano. The first 30,000 feet are nearly vertical while the upper 50,000 feet slope gently.
Image from: NASA/JPL


INSERT Procedure Example
To see an example of an INSERT procedure
 1. Load the example model CICSAccts.model into the Design Tool.
 2. The Main entity appears in the model window.
 3. Select Tables from the Model menu.
 4. Expand the Accounts table by clicking the plus sign (+) next to it.
 5. The procedures for the Accounts table appear below.
 6. Click the InsertAccount procedure.
Evaluate the structure of this procedure in the Procedure Editor and in the Tables dialog box.


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A Technology Interface represents a point of access where technology services offered by a Node can be accessed.
A Technology Interface specifies how the technology services of a Node can be accessed by other Nodes. A Technology Interface exposes a Technology Service to the environment.
A Technology Interface specifies a kind of contract that a component realizing this interface must fulfil.
A Technology Interface may be part of a Node through composition, which means that these interfaces are provided by that Node, and can serve other Nodes. A Technology Interface can be assigned to a Technology Service, to expose that service to the environment.
The name of a Technology Interface should preferably be a noun.
Technology. Active Structure.
Client software, Management Interface.


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Vibrations of thick plates and shells
Bridle, Michael D.J. (1973) Vibrations of thick plates and shells. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.
Using an asymptotic series approach, a thick shell theory is proposed for doubly curved sheIls with variable thickness. This theory includes the effects of transverse shear stresses and rotatory inertia. The displacement functions are designed to give non-zero transverse shear stresses internal to the shell, which satisfy the stress-free boundary conditions on the upper and lower surface. Use of the stress-free conditions makes the displacement functions, which vary through the thickness of the shell, dependent only on the middle surface displacements. This theory is applied to the twisted plate. A similar approach is applied to the cylindrical shell, but the effects of transverse normal stress are also included.
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Taking Off the Armor
The Armor Once Served a Purpose, But its Okay to Take it Off Now
Yesterday when I was making my first blog video, it was one of the scariest things I've ever done. I felt completely vulnerable and was trying to 'create' this character of who I would be on the blog. Ironically, once I felt that happening I immediately sat down and just started speaking from the heart – the point of the blog is to be authentic. If we are going to live authentically from the source of power that is the 'real' us, we must first notice the fear, become aware of it, understand it… Once you know the fear and understand it, it can be let go and transformed into something that works for you.
Rejecting something that is a part of you will never work out well. You will only end up fighting with yourself on how you 'should' be. To become whole, and to become the real you, you must gracefully thank and accept all parts of you.
In this video I explain some mental armor I had to put on in childhood – and at one point it served a pretty important purpose. It protected me and kept me safe. Once I understood the original purpose, I could give gratitude to the fear (or the mental armor) for a job well done. It protected me from middle school through high school. Once I had grown up, I had forgotten I even had the armor on. I had accepted it as a part of who I was, even though the real me is completely above it.
Steps for Removing Mental Armor:
 1. Realize a negative thought pattern once served an important purpose in your life, so stop fighting with it and telling it that it's not part of you. It is.
 2. Notice the negative thought pattern, the way it behaves, when it pops up in your awareness; however, do not try to silence it. Simply notice it.
 3. Once you have noticed the thought pattern, and you are more comfortable and calm when it comes around, then the next step is to provide gratitude to it. Thank the thought pattern or idea for the purpose it once served. Then let it know you no longer need it in its current structure/form.
 4. Now release the thought pattern, as if you were erasing words on a dry erase board. Now the dry erase board no longer has the thought on it, and something else can be written. Generally the best way is to instill a new more positive thought pattern that better serves you. Something in the affirmative.
Nothing But Love,
Trey Jackson


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1.1 This test method covers measuring the performance of solid waste size reduction equipment.
1.2 This test method can be used to measure the flow (that is, throughput) of solid waste through the size-reduction equipment, energy usage of the size-reduction device, and particle size of the shredded product.
1.3 This test method includes instructions for measuring energy usage, solid waste throughput, net processing time, and particle size distribution.
1.4 This test method applies only to size reduction equipment that produces a shredded product with a size corresponding to 90 % cumulative passing in the range of 0.5 to 15 cm (0.2–6 in.) on an air-dry weight basis. For material with nominal sizes outside of this range, the precision and bias statements for particle size designation (Section 15) may not apply.
1.5 This test method can be applied to size reduction equipment located anywhere within a processing line.
1.6 The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as standard. No other units of measurement are included in this standard.
1.6.1 Exception—The values given in parentheses are for information only.
1.7 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use. See Section 7 for specific hazard information.
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We visited the Black Rock Desert on June 1st to test our equipment and to get our first baseline measurements. We wanted these initial measurements to occur before the event was underway and while the playa had a minimal population. (Note: The Black Rock Desert is often called 'the playa', a generic term for a dry lake bed, and that's how we will refer to it in this article.)
Almost immediately, our data analysis computer (or possibly just its display) stopped working. (The shake-down was working! We recorded our first success!) Luckily, we had three instruments that recorded data internally:
- MetOne – records particle concentration in particles/liter for particles in six size bins: from 0.3 to 0.5 micrometers (0.5 – 0.7, 0.7 – 1.0, 1.0 – 2.0, 2.0 – 5.0, and 5+ microns).
- Condensation Particle Counter (CPC) – measures the total particle concentration in particles/cm3 from particles of around 6 nanometers and above.
- Dusttrak – total particle mass in milligrams/cubic meter.
Each instrument is more-or-less sensitive to different types of particles. I will discuss about how the particle sources affect the data we measured on the playa. Here is a graph of the concentrations measured with the CPC and MetOne measured somewhere in the middle of the playa.
Small-ish particles, less than 100 to 200 nanometers, tend to dominate the total particle concentration, thus the measured concentrations from the CPC are most sensitive to these small particles. This sensitivity can be seen in the playa data. The occasional spikes in the CPC data are almost certainly due to emissions from the diesel generator blowing in the direction of the instruments. (The wind was low and variable, so the air that the instruments were sampling came from different directions.)
The MetOne measures particles from 0.3 to 5 micrometers in diameter, so the concentrations measured by the MetOne will usually not correlate with the concentrations measured by the CPC. The MetOne seems to be sensitive to playa dust. The spikes in concentration measured by the MetOne seem to be caused by my walking around the area – and thrashing up puffs of dust while practicing my whipcracking skills. There were two times that Ron drove in tight circles around the instruments marked on the graph by two vertical lines denoted by a 'C'. (Note that the number concentration is shown on a log scale, where each tick of the graph denotes a concentration that is 10 times the previous tick.) The dust kicked up from the car clearly resulted in the largest response from the MetOne. And Ron had a fun time doing it.
When you look at the figure with the MetOne and CPC data, you can see that the spikes in number concentration measured by the two instruments are not usually correlated in time. This is another indication that the instruments are responding to two different sources of particles. When they are correlated, it is coincidental. For instance, the particle increases measured just after 3:30 was my walking away from the instruments in the same approximate direction as the generator, and it looks like the wind was blowing from that direction.
The Dusttrak is sensitive to total particle mass. The mass of a particle is proportional to the cube of the particle diameter, Dp3, so the measured mass concentration is much more sensitive to the larger particles. For instance, a particle 1 micrometer in diameter has 8 times the mass of a particle with a diameter of 0.5 microns, and a particle with a diameter of 5 micrometers has 1000 times the mass of the particle 0.5 microns in diameter. You can see this reflected in the playa data. This graph shows the same MetOne date, but with the dusttrak concentrations plotted instead of the CPC data. The dusttrak only really shows a significant response when the playa dust is really getting kicked up, like when Ron was driving around the instruments. (The dustrak data is also shown on a log scale.)
I plotted up a few of the individual MetOne measurements as the measured concentration as a function of particle diameter. This gives a broad idea of what the particle size distribution looks like for that measurement, which is an indication of the source.
The graph shows size distributions from three different time periods; some of the general background (nothing is happening), one where I my walking was affecting the measurement, and some from when Ron was madly driving around the instruments. The plots show that there is a higher concentration of particles in the 0.3 micron bin, and the concentration drops off as the particle size decreases. The two activities, walking and driving, increase the number concentration in each size bin. However the response in the larger size bins, from 1 micron to 5 microns, is much larger than in the smaller size bins. This means that walking, driving, etc., resuspend larger particles – the larger particles are easier to kick back into the air.
I had a MetOne in my house for a period of time last fall, and I added a few of those distributions to demonstrate the difference between what we measured on the playa to what you might see in a home.
The solid red line is a size distribution measured is a typical one measured when there was no particular activity happening indoors. It is not that different from the background playa size distribution, with a slightly higher concentration at smaller particle sizes. The dotted distributions (there are two) were measured while I was cooking. Cooking caused a moderate increase in the number concentration of particles in the 0.3, 0.5, and 0.7 size bins. The dashed line is a time period when I was doing some Thanksgiving prep, and I was doing some serious pan frying I think. The number concentration of particles below 2 microns is about a factor of ten larger than the typical household values. (This is why it is important to use a range hood while cooking. You make a lot of particles, and you really don't want to breath this in. Seriously.)
One final plot to give you all a feel for what we measured and what the numbers mean… The MetOne runs well on batteries, so we left the instrument outside near the car while we wandered off to the hot springs. We left the instrument at approximately 8:20 PM and walked off. There is an interesting spike in the data at around 9:05. The only thing that I can think of to explain this is some creature wandering nearby that kicked up some dust. The number concentrations seem to rise after at 9 PM, which I think is due to the wind kicking up a bit in the evening. I am not entirely sure what started to happen at 9:30. We were walking back to the car, but we were pretty far away at this time. I could be that the wind was blowing in the proper direction to carry any dust we kicked up toward the instrument.


on the cockroach leg from different heights. You can tape straws at different heights to a ruler, to standardize the heights. Be sure to remind students to blow consistently during each trial.
 - You can purchase compressed air in an aerosol canister at an office supply store. Compressed air is often sold in the computer section because it is used to clean keyboards and computer components. As with the drinking straw method, you can hold the compressed air canister at different heights to achieve different strengths of stimulation (you could try using a yard or meter stick and measuring at different distances).
 1. Start a recording, and wait 10 seconds.
 2. Now, touch the keyboard key "1" and stimulate the leg by turning on the compressed air at the lowest pressure (5 psi). Use the hose to direct the compressed air at the cockroach leg. Stimulate it for at least 5 seconds.
 3. Touch keyboard key "2", raise the air pressure to 10 psi, and repeat.
 4. Touch keyboard key "3", raise the air pressure to 15 psi, and repeat as again
 5. Touch keyboard key "4", raise the air pressure to 20 psi, and again...
 6. Repeat for a few more increases in air pressure, stop the recording, and do the spike firing rate analysis as done above.
So what did you find? Think about your results. Did anything about the experiment surprise you? If so, can you explain why? Anything with a nervous system uses rate coding, including us! Think about all the ways your body uses rate coding, for example, think about the difference between a shallow and hard poke in the arm!
Consider ways you could expand the experiment. Maybe you could compare multiple cockroach legs and come up with some average standards, compare a cockroach leg to a grasshopper leg, experiment with electrode placement, or introduce chemical treatments to the cockroach legs! The world is yours,now go out and experiment!
Note: You can also do this experiment on crickets if you do not have access to cockroaches. You can usually buy crickets at local pet stores. See video:
We have some sample recording files of cockroach leg nerves and the cricket cercal system nerves you can use to familiarize yourself with what a "normal" recording looks like.
Science Fair Project Ideas
 - What causes the spikes that you saw? Specifically, what is occurring when the spike is positive? What is occurring when the spike is negative? Keep in mind you are doing extracellular recordings, which record the change in voltage in the area just outside the cell membrane.
 - Why do you think some leg barbs are more sensitive to stimulation with the toothpick than others?
 - Why does lowering the temperature of the cockroach make it stop moving? What are other ways you could anesthetize it?
 - Based upon your initial results, are you primarily listening to spikes coming from motor neurons (neurons that tell muscles to contract) or from sensory neurons (neurons that send information from the periphery into the brain). Why?


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"The crisis of the colliding mystery star is imminent! Can the Earth break free of its orbit?"
- 1 hr 29 min
Gorath is a Japanese science fiction film directed by Ishiro Honda. A space ship, previously sent to investigate Saturn, discovers a star said to be 6000 times larger than Earth. The news raise havoc as the star is feared to be getting closer to Earth, posing a danger to lives. Desperate to save Earth from imminent destruction, a plan is hatched to move it away from the star's path. It is a long process that requires large amounts of atomic energy and is a race against time as the star edges closer with each passing moment.


When food costs at the York County Prison spiked by more than 50 percent last month, county officials suspected something wasn't kosher.
It turns out, they say, the problem was too much kosher -- food, that is.
Kosher food is food that meets the strict standards of Jewish dietary law. The law prohibits adherents from eating certain types of animals, directs how some animals are slaughtered and prescribes how some foods should be prepared and consumed.
Is kosher food better-tasting?
Some York County Prison inmates apparently think so -- at least they find it more appealing than the non-kosher menu on certain days.
Prison officials say they're suspicious of an increase in the number of inmates requesting kosher meals, especially because some of those prisoners specified a different religious affiliation when they entered the prison.
The big tip-off, they say, are the "flip-floppers." Those are the "converts" who suddenly aren't so Jewish on days when the regular meals are more to their liking.
Certified kosher meals, which are pre-packaged and delivered to the prison, are nearly four times the cost of meals made in house, and prison officials say they can't afford anyone gaming the system.
From now on, prisoners who are being served kosher meals and ask to return to non-kosher will be permitted, but those who later ask to return to kosher meals will be denied.
It's a logical reaction, but in practice it will likely be dicey determining who's scamming a meal and who, perhaps, is simply not as devout as others of the Jewish faith.
After all, everyone is entitled to their religious beliefs and the prison is obliged to accommodate them. Who are prison officials to judge what's in an inmate's heart and whether he or she is entitled to accommodations?
Prisoners denied kosher meals can file a complaint and request a hearing, at which time they'll be asked to provide proof of their religious affiliation, such as a statement from a rabbi.
But suppose one of them can't. That doesn't mean they aren't Jewish and don't try to follow kosher rules. It just means they can't prove it to the satisfaction of prison officials.
And will inmates of other faiths have to prove their affiliation before they receive any accommodations?
County officials are wading into very murky waters with this one.
They might be better off trying to find ways to bring down the costs of kosher meals, such as preparing them in house, and make sure they're on par with the non-kosher offerings.
That's better than unjustly denying anyone the right to practice his or her religion.


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Snapper, Vermilion – US
Vermilion Snapper are found from North Carolina to Brazil and throughout the Gulf of Mexico. They reach sexual maturity at a young age and produce many offspring, spawning multiple times per year.
Vermilion Snapper are abundant in the Gulf of Mexico, but are undergoing overfishing in the U.S. South Atlantic though the population is not considered overfished.
The majority of fishermen use hook-and-line gear to catch Vermilion Snapper, which has little impact on bottom habitat and results in moderate levels of bycatch.
This fish may have high levels of mercury that could pose a health risk to adults and children. More mercury info here.


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Carry select adder is the key circuit to achieve high-speed arithmetic operations. This paper presents the Efficient Approximation Carry Select Adder (EA-CSLA) involved in eradicating the carry 1 input path in LSB and attains a reduced amount of delay and hardware simplicity. Furthermore, this EA-CSLA utilizes an algorithmic cell split-up technique which diminishes the propagation delay in all parts of the circuit. The EA carry select adder design includes approximate full adder blocks with less gate count and reduced power consumption. This design is synthesized in Encounter-Cadence 90 nm tool up to GDSII level using Verilog language. Hardware implementation is done and verified through Xilinx System generator and the device Spartan 6 XSLX4T CSG324 is used. The EA carry select adder attains less area, reduced delay, error percentage and delay-entire power product than exact and present adders. The proposed efficient approximation circuit attains a considerable decrease in entire power utilization than existing approximate adder circuits.
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Wood-mosaic has a long history in the Levant, and it is of particular significance to artisans in Damascus. It is often created using a number of different woods, such as walnut, olive, eucalyptus, cherry, lemon, and rose woods. Mother-of-pearl can also be used. The woods are cut into strips and fitted together to create a design, forming long trunks stored by artisans for future pieces. The artisan will select the trunk to use and slice it, and this slice will then be inlaid into wood to create a geometric design. Detailed and intricate wood-mosaic has now all but disappeared as artisans produce less complex designs. In Jordan, a small community of wood-mosaic artisans are practising and preserving the craft by passing their knowledge to a new generation of apprentices.


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Guenther's Marsupial Frog (Gastrotheca guentheri) is a species of frog in the Hemiphractidae family. It is found in Colombia and Ecuador. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montanes, and rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss.
It is the only frog with true teeth in its lower jaw. Recent studies have proposed its teeth have re-evolved after being absent for over 200 million years, challenging Dollo's law.
- ^ Wiens, J. J. (2011). "Re-Evolution of Lost Mandibular Teeth in Frogs After More Than 200 Million Years, and Re-Evaluating Dollo's Law". Evolution: no. doi:10.1111/j._PHONE_.2011.01221.x.