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Two Interesting Resolutions from ACC '17
The Anglican Consultative Council Meeting in Hong Kong
As yet the full list of resolutions in their final form as actually passed at the meeting of recent days in Hong Kong has yet to emerge. However, two of the resolutions passed at an earlier stage are in their final form and are set out below.
In each case it is arguable that they could have wide ranging implications for the Communion and the place of the ACC within it and as such will be discussed further in these pages in the coming days.
B17:04 Reception of Ecumenical Texts in the Anglican Communion
The Anglican Consultative Council endorses the following process for the reception of ecumenical texts in the Anglican Communion:
- When any ecumenical bilateral dialogue of the Anglican Communion has completed an agreed statement, it is first sent to IASCUFO.
- IASCUFO studies the agreed statement and reaches a common mind on whether it recognises the statement 'as consonant with the faith of the Church as Anglicans have received it'. IASCUFO then prepares resources, advice, and draft recommendations to be taken to the next meeting of the ACC.
- The ACC then formally welcomes the agreed statement by resolution, and commends the text, together with IASCUFO's advice, to the Member Churches of the Anglican Communion for study, reflection and response within a timeframe set by the ACC.
- At the meeting of IASCUFO immediately prior to an ACC, the members of the commission will be joined by an ACC reference group, comprising some members of the ACC for further reflection on ecumenical statements in the light of the provincial responses and any other considerations. The task of this enhanced commission will be to evaluate whether an agreed text has a sufficient level of consensus in the Member Churches for a recommendation to be made to the ACC.
- The Standing Committee nominates up to 15 people to form the ACC reference group. The constitution of this group is recommended to be:
- two primate members of ACC;
- two bishop members of ACC;
- two priest or deacon members of ACC;
- two lay members of ACC;
- relevant Anglican Co-Chairs of bilateral dialogue in question (e.g., with the Roman Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, the Lutheran World Federation, the World Communion of Reformed Churches, the World Methodist Council, and any other new dialogue partner).
- Having obtained sufficient support from the Member Churches, IASCUFO and the ACC reference group will then invite the ACC to recognise, by resolution, an ecumenical text 'as consonant in substance with the faith of the Church as Anglicans have received it' and as providing 'a sufficient basis for taking the next steps towards the reconciliation of our Churches, grounded in agreement in faith'.
C17:01 Anglican Communion Safe Church Commission
The Anglican Consultative Council, recognising the failures of the past, is determined that every church in the Anglican Communion is a safe place for everyone, especially children, young people and vulnerable adults, and therefore:
- approves the 'Guidelines to enhance the safety of all persons – especially children, young people and vulnerable adults – within the provinces of the Anglican Communion', and authorises the Standing Committee to amend the Guidelines, in consultation with the Anglican Communion Safe Church Commission
- requests each Member Church and each extra-provincial Church under the direct metro-political jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Canterbury to take the following five steps:
- adopt the Charter and implement the Protocol, where it has not done so;
- implement the accompanying guidelines;
- report to ACC-18 on the steps taken to adopt the Charter, and to implement the Protocol and guidelines;
- appoint a representative with the responsibility of liaising with the Commission regarding the adoption of the Charter, implementation of the Protocol and the guidelines, and the development of recommendations for the enhancement of the safety of children, young people and vulnerable adults in the Anglican Communion; and
- encourage those with safe church/safeguarding responsibilities in the Member Church to join the Anglican Communion Safe Church Network.
- requests the Secretary General to reconstitute the Anglican Communion Safe Church Commission with the terms of reference as approved by the Standing Committee.
(N.B. the documents referred to here will also be made available and are already on the ACC Website and merit attention.)


text: This paper presents a novel method for feature selection by proposing an improved artificial immune recognition system (IAIRS) using the opposite sign test (OST). We use the nearest neighbor algorithm as the classifier. Forty-four data sets from the UCI and KEEL repository and from eight benchmark gene expression micro-array data sets were collected for evaluation purposes. This evaluation measures the effectiveness of the proposed approach. To investigate the capability of IAIRS, we compared our result with several features selection methods and classifier based methods. Moreover, we compared our results with the results obtained by several well-known algorithms from the previous literature. The performance measures were based on accuracy and the Cohen Kappa. A non-parametric statistical test was used to justify the performance of our proposed method. We confirmed that IAIRS is significantly better than other methods.

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Blancco Drive Eraser issue report is a detailed report that contains additional system information and log files which can be used to understand and reproduce a problem that has occurred with Blancco Drive Eraser. The issue report file is encrypted and it can only be opened by Blancco personnel. The issue report file's default name is in the following format: "". If the issue report file is opened, for example with some text editor software, the following comment line will be shown: "issue". This comment entry makes it possible to quickly tell the difference between a normal report, an issue report and a crash report.
If you are having a problem with the Blancco Drive Eraser, and the most common troubleshooting tips and user manual instructions do not seem to help, it is time to contact Blancco's Technical Support team. When contacting Technical Support, it is important to include the Blancco Drive Eraser issue report in the contact ticket. It is recommended that the issue report file should be zipped before adding it as an attachment.
To collect the issue report:
Drive Eraser:
 1. Connect a USB memory stick to the computer.
 2. Click the Report issue button, or press F2.
 3. Select the USB memory device from the "Select media" list.
 4. It is recommended to use the default issue report name, but it is fine to add more details to the file name (for example if you are sending more than one issue report).
 5. Write a problem description to the "Problem description" field.
 6. Click "Save" to save the report on a USB stick, or click "Send" to send the issue report to Blancco Management Console.
Management Console:
Is used when erasure control is set to "Management Console" on Blancco Drive Eraser.
 1. Navigate to Live Management page under Process Management.
 2. Select correct Drive eraser session.
 3. Select "Fetch Issue report" from Manage Session drop menu.
 4. Write a problem description to the "Comment" field.
 5. Refresh "Live Management" page and download issue report from "Manage Session" Drop menu.
In addition to collecting the issue report, there should a description of the technical issue included in the support ticket:
 - What is the exact problem?
 - Was there some specific error message?
 - What steps were taken before the problem occurred?
The best moment to collect the issue report is right after the problem has occurred. For example: An erasure process has been finished, but Blancco Drive Eraser reports "Verification failed" for all of the hard drives, even though there should be no obvious reason for this to happen. Now is the best moment for collecting the issue report. The whole erasure process has been completed, and now the issue report log files will more likely show what went wrong in the verification part of the process. If the issue report is collected right after Blancco Drive Eraser is started, and before the verification part fails, then the log files will only provide process details up that point.
In some cases it is not possible to save the issue report (for example system crashes during startup, software freezes during erasure, etc.). In cases like these there is a possibility to collect a Blancco Drive Eraser crash report (Blancco 5 version 5.8.0 or newer).


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Let $(Y,\|\cdot\|)$ a Banach space and $b\colon Y\to \mathbb{R}$ a nonnegative convex function such that, for some $\mathcal{E}>0$, the set $\{y\in Y\,:\, b(y)<\mathcal{E}\}$ is nonempty and bounded.
I need prove that exist $z\in Y$, $c>0$ and $C>0$ such that $b(y)-b(z)\geq c\|y-z\|$ for $y\in Y\backslash B_C(z)$.
Note: $B_C(z):=\{y\in Y\,:\, \|y-z\|\leq C\}$.
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Let $\epsilon_0$ be the fixed positive constant such that $F_0 := \{ y \mid b(y) < \epsilon_0\}$ is nonempty and bounded. Fix $z\in F_0$. Then we have that if $y \in Y \setminus F_0$, $b(y) - b(z) \geq \epsilon_0 - b(z) =: \delta_0 > 0$.
By assumption $F_0$ is bounded, hence there exists $C > 0$ such that $B_C(z) \supset F_0$. (Here I take $B_C(z)$ to be the open ball; a simple modification of the following argument also allows for closed balls.)
Let $c = \frac{\delta_0}{2C}$. Now we verify this choice of $C$ and $c$ is good.
Given $y \in Y\setminus B_C(z)$, let $\tilde{y} = \frac{C}{\|y-z\|} (y-z) + z$. By convexity of the function $b$ we have that
$$ \frac{C}{\|y-z\|} (b(y) - b(z)) + b(z) \geq b(\tilde{y}) \geq b(z) + \delta_0 $$
Hence we have that
$$ b(y) - b(z) \geq \frac{\delta_0}{C} \|y-z\| > \frac{\delta_0}{2C} \|y-z\| = c \| y - z\| $$
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The Enlightenment On Trial: Ordinary Litigants And Colonialism In The Spanish Empire
The Enlightenment on Trial: Ordinary Litigants and Colonialism in the Spanish Empire
This is a history of the Enlightenment--the rights-oriented, formalist, secularizing, freedom-inspired eighteenth-century movement that defined modern Western law. But rather than members of a cosmopolitan Republic of Letters, its principal protagonists are non-literate, poor, and enslaved litigants who sued their superiors in the royal courts of Spain's American colonies.
Despite growing evidence of the Hispanic world's contributions to Enlightenment science, the writing of history, and statecraft, the region is conventionally believed to have taken an alternate route to modernity. This book grapples with the contradiction between this legacy and eighteenth-century Spanish Americans' active production of concepts fundamental to modern law. The Enlightenment on Trial offers readers new insight into how Spanish imperial subjects created legal documents, fresh interpretations of the intellectual transformations and legal reform policies of the period, and comparative analysis of the volume of civil suits from six regions in Mexico, Peru and Spain.
Ordinary litigants in the colonies--far more often than peninsular Spaniards--sued superiors at an accelerating pace in the second half of the eighteenth century. Three types of cases increased even faster than a stunning general rise of civil suits in the colonies: those...

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Definitions for virgaˈvɜr gə
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
streaks of water drops or ice particles falling out of a cloud and evaporating before reaching the ground.
* (used with a sing. or pl. v.).
Origin of virga:
1935–40; < L: rod, streak
light wispy precipitation that evaporates before it reaches the ground (especially when the lower air is low in humidity)
A type of note used in plainsong notation, having a tail.
A streak of rain or snow that is dissipated in falling and does not reach the ground, commonly appearing descending from a cloud layer.
Origin: From virga.


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The filters which are applied over the data items. By default, no filter is applied.
Example
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 <kendo:dataSource-filterItem></kendo:dataSource-filterItem>
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Configuration Attributes
field java.lang.String
The data item field to which the filter operator is applied.
Example
<kendo:dataSource-filterItem field="field">
</kendo:dataSource-filterItem>
logic java.lang.String
The logical operation to use when the filter.filters option is set.The supported values are: "and" or "or".
Example
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operator java.lang.String
The filter operator (comparison).The supported operators are: "eq" (equal to); "neq" (not equal to); "isnull" (is equal to null); "isnotnull" (is not equal to null); "lt" (less than); "lte" (less than or equal to); "gt" (greater than); "gte" (greater than or equal to); "startswith"; "endswith"; "contains"; "doesnotcontain"; "isempty" or "isnotempty". The last five are supported only for string fields.
Example
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The value to which the field is compared. The value has to be of the same type as the field.
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operator String
The filter operator (comparison).The supported operators are: "eq" (equal to); "neq" (not equal to); "isnull" (is equal to null); "isnotnull" (is not equal to null); "lt" (less than); "lte" (less than or equal to); "gt" (greater than); "gte" (greater than or equal to); "startswith"; "endswith"; "contains"; "doesnotcontain"; "isempty" or "isnotempty". The last five are supported only for string fields.
Example
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kendo:dataSource-filterItem-operator
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the denormal range instead of being flushed to zero as soon as the value is too small to represent with normalization. This default is the same default established by I64 at process startup. LIB$WAIT Problem and Solution
The use of LIB$WAIT in code ported to OpenVMS I64 can cause unexpected results. An example in C follows.
float wait_time = 2.0;
On OpenVMS I64 systems, this code sends an S_FLOATING into LIB$WAIT. LIB$WAIT expects an F_FLOATING, and gives a FLTINV exception.
LIB$WAIT can accept three arguments. The previous code sequence can be rewritten with LIB$WAIT using three arguments to run correctly on both I64 and Alpha systems. The following revised code works correctly when compiled without the /FLOAT qualifier:
_TAG_ __ia64
 int float_type = 4; /* use S_FLOAT for I64 */
 int float_type = 0; /* use F_FLOAT for Alpha */
 float wait_time = 2.0;
A better coding method is to include LIBWAITDEF (from SYS$STARLET_C.TLB) in your application and then specify the floating point data types by name. This code can be maintained more easily.
LIBWAITDEF includes the following symbols:
The following example shows how to include libwaitdef.h in the code and how to specify the floating-point data type names. This example also assumes that the program is not compiled with /FLOAT.
_TAG_
_TAG_ __ia64
 int float_type = LIB$K_IEEE_S; /* use S_FLOAT for IPF */
 int float_type = LIB$K_VAX_F; /* use F_FLOAT for Alpha */
 float wait_time = 2.0;
4.8.5 Incorrect Command Table Declaration
An incorrect declaration of a command table in code ported to OpenVMS I64 can cause unexpected results. For example, for an application, the Command Definition Utility is used to create an object module from a CLD file. The application then calls CLI$DCL_PARSE to parse command lines. CLI$DCL_PARSE may fail with:
%CLI-E-INVTAB, command tables have invalid format - see documentation
The code must be modified so that the command table is defined as an external data object.
For example, if in an application, on VAX and Alpha, the command table (DFSCP_CLD) is incorrectly declared in a BLISS module as:
This should be changed to
Or if it was in a FORTRAN module incorrectly declared as:
then it should be changed to
Similarly, in an application written in C, if the command tables previously were defined as follows:
int jams_master_cmd();
The code should be changed to be an external reference:
extern void* jams_master_cmd;
The changed, correct declaration works on all platforms: VAX, Alpha or I64.
4.8.6 Code that Uses Threads
OpenVMS I64 supports all the thread interfaces that have been supported on OpenVMS since thread support was first introduced. Most OpenVMS Alpha code that uses threads can be ported to OpenVMS I64 without change. This section describes the exceptions. The major porting issue for code that uses threads is the usage of stack space. I64 code uses much more stack space than does equivalent Alpha code. Therefore, a threaded program that works on Alpha might get stack overflow failures on I64.
The default stack size is larger on OpenVMS I64 to help alleviate overflow problems. If the application requests a specific stack size, then the change to the default will be irrelevant, and the application source code might need to be changed to request more stack. HP recommends starting with an increase of three 8-Kb pages (24576 bytes).
Another side effect of the increased stack size requirement is increased demand on the P0 address region. Thread stacks are allocated from the P0 heap. Larger stacks might cause the process to exceed its memory quotas. In an extreme case, the P0 region could fill completely, in which case the process might need to reduce the number of threads in use concurrently (or make other changes to lessen the demand for P0 memory).
HP recommends that you familiarize yourself with the most recent improvements to thread support in OpenVMS, as documented in the HP OpenVMS Version 8.2 Release Notes. One change to the POSIX Threads C language header file PTHREAD_EXCEPTION.H caused problems when porting an application that relied on its former behavior.
The DCL command THREADCP is not supported on OpenVMS I64. For OpenVMS I64, the DCL commands SET IMAGE and SHOW IMAGE can be used to check and modify the state of threads-related image header flags, similar to the THREADCP command on OpenVMS Alpha. For details, refer to the HP OpenVMS DCL Dictionary.
The THREADCP command is documented in the Guide to the POSIX Threads Library.
If you want to change the setting of threads-related image flags, you need to use the new command SET IMAGE. For example:
$ SET IMAGE/FLAGS=(MKTHREADS,UPCALLS) FIRST.EXE Thread Routines cma_delay and cma_time_get_expiration
Two legacy threads API library routines, cma_delay and cma_time_get_expiration, accept a floating point format parameter using the VAX F FLOAT format. Any application modules that call either of these routines must be compiled with either the /FLOAT=D_FLOAT or the /FLOAT=G_FLOAT qualifier to get VAX F FLOAT support. (However, if your application also uses double precision binary data, then you must use the /FLOAT=G_FLOAT qualifier.) For more information about floating point support, consult your compiler's documentation.
If a C language module (which uses either cma_delay or cma_time_get_expiration) is compiled by mistake in an IEEE floating-point mode, a compiler warning similar to the following will be displayed:
cma_delay (
%CC-W-LONGEXTERN, The external identifier name exceeds 31
characters; truncated to "CMA_DELAY_NEEDS_VAX_FLOAT______".
If an object file which triggered such a warning is linked, the linker will display an undefined-symbol message for this symbol. (If a linker-produced image was subsequently executed, the calls to these routines would fail with an ACCVIO.) These compiler and linker diagnostics are intended to alert you to the fact that these CMA routines require the use of VAX format floating-point values, and that the compilation was done in a manner that does not satisfy this requirement.
These routines are no longer documented in user documentation but are still supported for use in legacy applications.
4.8.7 Code With Unaligned Data
HP recommends that you align your data naturally to achieve optimal performance for data referencing. Unaligned data can seriously degrade performance on both OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS I64.
Data is naturally aligned when its address is an integral multiple of the size of the data in bytes. For example, a longword is naturally aligned at any address that is a multiple of 4, and a quadword is naturally aligned at any address that is a multiple of 8. A structure is naturally aligned when all its members are naturally aligned.
Because natural alignment is not always possible, OpenVMS I64 systems provide help to manage the impact of unaligned data references. Alpha and I64 compilers automatically correct most potential alignment problems and flag others.
In addition to performance degradation, unaligned shared data can cause a program to execute incorrectly. Therefore, you must align shared data naturally. Shared data might be between threads of a single process, between a process and ASTs, or between several processes in a global section.
Finding the Problem
To find instances of unaligned data, you can use a qualifier provided by most I64 compilers that allows the compiler to report compile-time references to unaligned data.
Table 4-1 Compiler Switches for Reporting Compile-Time Reference
Compiler Switch
Additional assistance, such as an OpenVMS Debugger qualifier to reveal unaligned data at run time, is planned for a future release.
Eliminating the Problem
To eliminate unaligned data, you can use one or more of the following methods:
 - Compile with natural alignment, or, when language semantics do not provide for this, move data to be naturally aligned. Where filler is inserted to ensure that data remains aligned, there is a penalty in increased memory size. A useful technique for ensuring naturally aligned data while conserving memory is to declare longer variables first.
 - Use high-level-language instructions that force natural alignment within data structures.
 - Align data items on quadword boundaries.
Software that is converted to natural alignment may be incompatible with other software that is running translated in the same OpenVMS Cluster environment or over a network. For example:
 - An existing file format may specify records with unaligned data.
 - A translated image may pass unaligned data to, or expect it from, a native image.
In such cases, you must adapt all parts of the application to expect the same type of data, either aligned or unaligned.
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India: Mining policy destroying biodiversity
October 11th 2012
The Indian government's mining policy is destroying the country's biodiversity and tiger habitats, an NGO on Sunday [7 October] claimed and sought a re-look into the 'massive' expansion plan of coal fields in forest areas. Hours before the start of the UN biodiversity conference in Hyderabad, Greenpeace asked the government to 'demonstrate leadership' by protecting the rich biodiversity that lies within its own borders. 'The government's present policy of increasing coal mining is destroying the environment including the habitat of the endangered Indian tiger. It is also forcing tens of thousands of its own citizens to leave their homes,' a Greenpeace statement said. 'The Indian government must stop the destruction of vital biodiversity,' it said ahead of the UN's 11th Conference of Parties of the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) to be inaugurated by environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan tomorrow, seeking a halt in the 'massive expansion plan' of coal fields.
[Greenpeace] said its mapping study shows that 13 coalfields in the central Indian landscape alone will destroy more than 1.1 million hectares of pristine woodland. 'As a consequence of this environmental vandalism, over 14,000 tribal people in one region alone will lose their homes and livelihoods, with many indigenous communities being forcibly removed and placed into so called 'rehabilitation centres' with no way to earn a living,' it said.
Source: Times of India
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There are a number of office types provided under the PBR Act. MaPS assists with setting up offices, relocations, refurbishments, office equipment and maintenance, as well as security.
Parliamentarians are provided with an annual budget for office expenses under the PBR Act. This budget covers items such as stationery, printing and communication, nationhood materials and some ICT and telecommunications.
Parliamentarians receive insurance, injury compensation and legal assistance in relation to the conduct of their parliamentary business. Additional public resources may be provided to you in exceptional circumstances.
The Parliamentary Business Resources Act 2017 (PBR Act), together with the Regulations, determinations of the Remuneration Tribunal, and determinations and delegations made by the Minister or the Prime Minister under the PBR Act, establishes the framework to provide work expenses to current and former parliamentarians.


Geotechnical Drilling Sydney: 4 Tips for Choosing the Best Geotechnical Drilling Company
Selecting a geotechnical drilling contractor is one of the most high-stakes decisions you can make for any project. Picture this: you're finally able to build the project of your dreams.
With any luck, this building will be your legacy. You finally have the budget, materials, and expertise to pull it off. Since you're so excited, you dive in headfirst and start building.
Once you're done, the building is perfect. But in a few years, the entire building collapses into the ground. As a legal, moral, and ethical concern, this is an absolute disaster.
What went wrong? You moved too fast and didn't invest enough focus on geotechnical drilling.
That's why we're here to provide some tips to help you choose the best contractor. Whether you're Googling 'geotechnical drilling Sydney' or relying on word of mouth, you'll be well-equipped to take on your next project.
1. What Is Their Attitude Like?
Attitude is everything for three reasons. For starters, you need to be able to picture yourself working with them. Geotech drilling is a high-stakes job, but that doesn't excuse a sour attitude.
If someone is a pain to work with, you'll find yourself reaching out to them far less than you actually need to. What does this mean? Your project will inevitably suffer.
With a poor attitude, someone will be disengaged from the work they're doing. Disengagement equals apathy, and apathy results in mistakes. Geotechnical drilling in Sydney can be life-or-death since mistakes result in expensive fixes or personal injuries.
2. What Experience Do They Have?
Every geotechnical drilling company has to start somewhere. Each company was on its first project at some point.
However, that doesn't mean that you necessarily would like to volunteer to be their guinea pig. In geotechnical drilling, no two projects are exactly the same.
The more projects a company has accomplished, the more versatile its skillset will be. This will allow them to tackle any projects with enthusiasm and know-how.
3. Do They Prioritise Teamwork?
In Sydney geotechnical drilling, teamwork is everything. This isn't just for the sake of productivity or team morale. Instead, it's crucial to ensuring that your team can protect itself.
You're working in a dangerous environment with hazardous equipment. If your geotechnical drilling contractor can't be trusted to work with others and prioritize their safety, then they shouldn't be working with you.
4. Do They Embody Flexibility and Persistence?
These are character traits you can't easily identify from simply Googling 'geotechnical drilling Sydney'. Working on geotechnical drilling projects means that there will be adverse circumstances.
Each day can present new challenges. But the ability to combat adversity and think outside of the box will prove to be invaluable for your projects.
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If you find yourself looking for 'geotechnical drilling Sydney', then take heart! We've got exactly what you need. Contact us today—we'd be thrilled to partner with you on your project!
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Although many people use the terms interchangeably, there is a significant difference between a nanny and an au pair.
Differences between an au pair and a nanny:
- Au pairs are, by definition, young people from overseas who travel legally to the U.S.to care for children on a cultural exchange visa. Nannies can be anyone employed to care for a child in its own home.
- Nannies can work part-time, full-time or even overtime. Au pairs working conditions are regulated by the U.S. Department of State, so there are rules that must be followed. An au pair can work up to (but no more than) 45 hours a week, 10 hours per day.
- Nanny fees vary widely depending on if they are part-time or full-time, how many children you have, and where you live. The cost of hosting an au pair can be broken down into two main parts: Fees paid to an agency for the program administration and year-round support, and a minimum weekly stipend of $195.75, paid directly to your au pair.
- Some nannies are professionally trained and are in the field as a career. Others become nannies as a temporary way to earn money while they decide on college or other career paths. Au pairs are not professionally trained but many of them have hundreds, even thousands, of hours of experience as babysitters, tutors, kindergarten assistants, camp counselors and sports instructors.
- Nannies are employees. Au pairs are not considered an employee but rather an extended family member. The term au pair means "on par".


Enjin to promote equality as high-ranking UN Global Compact member
NFT blockchain company Enjin (ENJ/USD), a pioneer in its field, has become the first NFT platform to join the United Nations Global Compact. Enjin joins as one of the highest-ranking members, which is Participant. Membership in the organization, which offers guidance in environment, human rights, and labour, comes with a serious commitment to equality and sustainability.
Enjin's remarkable accomplishments in environmental protection
Enjin's achievements in decarbonizing NFTs on Ethereum (ETH/USD) are nothing short of remarkable. The company joined the Crypto Climate Accord and launched JumpNet, an eco-friendly blockchain, to support the Global Compact's ninth Principle directly. This places emphasis on the diffusion and development of eco-friendly technologies. The blockchain consumes just 0.01% of the energy that Ethereum does, which remains the network NFTs most commonly use. Enjin is also developing the Polkadot-based (DOT/USD) Efinity, a sharded Proof of Stake parachain.
Irakli Beridze, Head of the UN AI and Robotics Centre, welcomed the partnership, saying:
"We are excited to work with Enjin to explore how blockchain and NFTs can contribute to the fulfilment of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. While we are struggling to recover from the global pandemic and its impacts, we are experiencing exponential growth of technologies like AI and blockchain. More than ever, we need to take advantage and harness the potential of these new technologies to ensure that we are better equipped and more united in the future, in order to make our planet a more liveable, equitable place for all."
Enjin will explore ways for NFT tech to become the monetization and financial backbone to combat climate change and deploy permission-less access to NFT markets to eliminate inequalities between different countries, making it possible for NFT users and creators to compete with equal standing across the globe.
Enjin CEO Maxim Blagov commented the development:
The company's membership comes against the backdrop of the understanding that social and environmental sustainability is key to unlocking trillions in value in the near future. Enjin has addressed highly publicized criticism against NFTs on account of their carbon footprint by establishing a detailed plan to enable carbon-neutral NFTs and releasing JumpNet.
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Effect of Phosphorus on Microstructure and Properties of Al-Mg2Si Alloys Subjected to Electromagnetic Stirring
Al-Mg2Si composite has such advantages as low density, high elastic modules, simple manufacture technology and low cost. However, its strength and ductility need to be enhanced. Thus, the alloying element P was added to control the microstructure of Al-Mg2Si alloy and furthermore improve the mechanical properties of the composite. The experimental results show that the microstructure of the Al-Mg2Si alloys subjected to electromagnetic stirring can be significantly refined and the mechanical properties of the alloy get improved due to the addition of phosphorus. It is found that the best modification effect can be achieved when the adding amount of phosphorus is in the range from 0.7% to 1.1% and the holding time is about 15 minutes, and the mechanical properties of the Al-Mg2Si alloys get markedly enhanced.
Yungang Li, Pengcheng Wang, Liqun Ai, Xiaoming Sang and Jinglong Bu
Y. Y. Ren and Y. M. Li, "Effect of Phosphorus on Microstructure and Properties of Al-Mg2Si Alloys Subjected to Electromagnetic Stirring", Advanced Materials Research, Vols. 291-294, pp. 652-657, 2011


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Everyone's taste buds have their preferences. Some individuals prefer to bake their chicken, while others prefer to roast it, and yet others crave fried chicken. The dispute over which cooking method produces the juiciest, delicious chicken with crispy skin persists. So, in this piece, we've compared baked vs. roasted chicken in the hopes of finally resolving this age-old debate.
What Exactly is Roasting?
Roasting is a method of cooking that includes heating food over a high temperature with dry heat, usually above 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Roasting food is most commonly done in an oven, but it can also be done over an open flame or in a closed barbeque. Roasted foods include roast chicken, fillets, beef tenderloin, and vegetables like brussels sprouts and potatoes. Most convection ovens offer a roast option, which circulates hot air in the oven for a more even cook.
Broiling, another high-heat cooking technique, should not be confused with roasting. Broiling is cooking something over high heat in a typical oven with the heating element directly above the food.
What Exactly is Baking?
Baking is cooking food with dry heat at mild temperatures, usually below 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Baking alters the structure of a dish while it cooks. When a liquid batter or dough is baked, it becomes a solid food. Bread, cakes, and other desserts are examples of this type of food. A convection bake option is found on most convection ovens, which circulate hot air throughout the oven for equal cooking.
What is Baked Chicken?
Baked chicken is chicken that has been baked at a reduced temperature in an oven. Baking chicken that has been marinated in buttermilk and spices for hours or even days is a fantastic method to prepare it.
The end product is juicy inside with crispy skin on the exterior and a flavor explosion. Baked chicken can be prepared in various ways, including filling it with cheese and ham or seasoning it with salt and pepper.
Baked chicken, regardless of the recipe you choose, has the bonus of being lower in fat than fried or roasted chicken because it doesn't use any oil or butter for cooking.
What is Roasted Chicken?
Roasted chicken has been roasted at a higher temperature to brown the skin, usually in an open and uncovered skillet.
Any housewife's kitchen should have roasted chicken on hand. It's quick and simple to make, and it tastes fantastic. In diverse recipes, roasted chicken is combined with a variety of other spices and seasonings, resulting in numerous variations. But they all taste fantastic.
What is the Difference Between Roasted and Baked Chicken?
Baked chicken is cooked in an oven, whereas roasted chicken is cooked in an open pan with fat or oil on a roasting rack.
The main difference between these two cooking methods is that one utilizes an open pan while the other uses a confined space for heat to flow around it; as a result, baked chicken is juicier than fried chicken.
Because there is more steam produced, as opposed to direct contact with high temperatures, which causes browning of the meat.
The skin of the roasted chicken is crispier than that of baked chicken.
On the other hand, roasted chicken allows the skin to come into direct contact with hot oil and crisp up as it cooks.
You might not even need sauce with all that sweetness from roasting and the dripping fat from the bird itself.
The flavor of roasted chicken is derived from the cooking process, but the flavor of baked chicken is derived from the seasoning applied before cooking.
You can easily baste the chicken with sauce or seasonings while roasting.
When it comes to baked chicken, however, the flavor is determined by how the meat is marinated before baking.
You may also take the chicken out of the oven to give it a coat of sauce outside to prevent it from burning or drying out.
Roasted chickens have more fat than baked birds, making them juicier and more flavorful.
The fat from roasted chicken will flow out and be partially retained inside the bird due to the difference in cooking methods, making it juicer and more delicious.
Keep your eyes open while roasting chicken to avoid drying the flesh and scorching the skin.
What are the Similarities and Differences Between Baked and Roasted Chicken?
To some extent, baked chicken and its roasted version are comparable. Here are some of the similarities between the two chicken dishes:
They are chicken meals with crispy skin and succulent flesh on the interior.
Crispy and gorgeous caramel color can be achieved by using a high heat temperature and cooking for a long time.
The chicken flesh should be soft and juicy when cooked properly.
They can be served with the same side dishes.
The smokey, sweet-and-savory flavor of roasted and baked chicken comes from the chicken meat and marinating herbs and spices.
Because they're very comparable in texture, you may serve baked or roasted chicken with roasted veggies, salad, or rich and creamy mashed potatoes.
When Should Chicken be Baked or Roasted?
It's important to understand the difference between roasting and baking chicken. If you're not careful, baked chicken can come out a little dry. It's easy to overcook the chicken and dry it out as the liquids have been baked. Dry chicken, of course, is not only less juicy but also less flavorful.
Roasting, on the other hand, can cause the same issue. You can dry the chicken and burn it to a crisp if you roast it for too long. Remember that roasting occurs at a higher temperature with heat coming from all sides, so making a temperature or time mistake can ruin your roasted bird. It has the potential to become not only blackened but also scorched.
Roasting is the way to go if you want a crisp outer shell on your chicken. Baking doesn't allow for that, and if you bake the chicken to the point where the skin is crispy, you've probably entirely dried the bird out. One of the benefits of roasting a chicken is that you get that crispy skin while still getting luscious, juicy chicken meat on the inside. That's a fantastic combo that's almost too good to be true.
You can roast a chicken in a roasting pan, which is usually a deep dish pan like the one used to roast a Thanksgiving or Christmas turkey. Why wait until the holidays to enjoy succulent roast chicken? Using a roasting pan and basic roasting methods, you may obtain that delicious experience whenever you want. You don't need additional heating equipment to roast a chicken in your oven.
What is the Distinction Between Roasting and Baking?
Even while these cooking procedures are practically comparable in today's kitchen, there are a few differences.
The structure of the food is the fundamental difference between different cooking methods. Cooking items with a solid structure before the cooking process begins is known as roasting (think: meat and vegetables). Baking entails items that lack structure at first becoming solid and losing their "space" during the cooking process (think: cakes and muffins)
Temperature: According to several sources, the oven's temperature setting distinguishes these two cooking methods. To develop a browned, tasty "crust" on the outside of the food being cooked, roasting requires a higher temperature (400°F and above), whereas baking requires a lower temperature (up to 375°F).
While many baked foods have fat on the inside, an outside layer of fat, such as vegetables or meat drizzled with olive oil, indicates roasting.
Roasting is usually done in an open, uncovered pan, whereas baking is usually in a covered pan.
What Types of Chicken are there, and How are they Classified?
Chickens are divided into groups based on their age and weight. Young chickens are soft and cook quickly, whereas older chickens require lengthy, moist cooking.
The amount of time it takes to cook a chicken depends on your method and the part and size of the bird you're cooking. For outstanding poultry cuisine, consider the following weights and cooking methods:
Broiler-fryers: Young chicks weighing 1-1/2 to 3-1/2 pounds, aged 7 to 10 weeks. Broiled, fried, or roasted are the best options.
Roasters: Chickens a little older (16 weeks) weigh between 4 and 6 pounds. Roasting and rotisserie cooking is ideal.
Capons are little, castrated roosters that weigh between 5 and 7 pounds. These meatier birds have a higher fat content than roasters and richer flavor.
Adult chickens (1 to 1-1/2 years old) weighing 4-1/2 to 7 pounds are called stewing hens. Their flesh is rougher and stringier, but it has a lot of flavors, so it's great for soups, stocks, and stews.
Chicken parts: Almost every recipe can benefit from cut-up chickens, usually broiler-fryers. Choose halves or quarters, or select specific sections such as breasts, thighs, wings, and drumsticks, as well as legs (thighs with drumsticks attached).
Boneless, skinless pieces: These simple solutions, a popular choice among today's cooks, offer convenience and faster cooking times. Breasts and thighs that are boneless and skinless are commonly accessible, and cutlets (also known as supremes) and tenders are two other options.
For a Safe Roast Chicken, How Long Should I Cook it?
The USDA recommends roasting the chicken until its internal temperature reaches 165 degrees Fahrenheit.
There's a lot of advice about what that means in minutes per pound or prodding your bird to see whether the juices flow clear,


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Dog agility is a dog sport in which a handler directs a dog through an obstacle course in a race for both time and accuracy. Dogs run off-leash with no food or toys as incentives, and the handler can touch neither dog nor obstacles.
Consequently the handler's controls are limited to voice, movement, and various body signals, requiring exceptional training of the animal and coordination of the handler.
In its simplest form, an agility course consists of a set of standard obstacles laid out by a judge in a design of his or her own choosing in an area of a specified size. The surface may be of grass, dirt, or rubber. Depending on the type of competition, the obstacles may be marked with numbers indicating the order in which they must be completed.
Courses are complicated enough that a dog could not complete them correctly without human direction. In competition, the handler must assess the course, decide on handling strategies, and direct the dog through the course, with precision and speed equally important. Many strategies exist to compensate for the inherent difference in human and dog speeds and the strengths and weaknesses of the various dogs and handlers.


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Olivier Garcia "Formula One"
The exhibition presents a selection of designer furniture by Olivier Garcia. The artist offers a very personal interpretation of materials and colors of the pinnacle of the automotive world: Formula 1. The "Formula One" concept originated from a simple idea: using the materials and fabrics of the automobile industry as an inspiration for interior design. Why? As the artist explains: "I've always been fascinated by the world of F1, with its state-of-the-art technology and its bright colors. So recently I decided to start incorporating these colors into my furniture".


11.4. Installing and running Sphinx (building the PRRTE docs)
As with all content in the Developer's Guide, this section is only relevant for developers who work in the PRRTE code base itself. End users who install a binary PRRTE package or build from an official PRRTE distribution tarball do not need to have Sphinx installed.
11.4.1. Installing Python
The Sphinx tool is written in Python, and therefore needs to have Python available. As of late 2022, Sphinx requires Python >= v3.7.
This documentation does not contain detailed instructions for installing a Python version sufficient for using Sphinx. Consult your local OS documentation for how to obtain Python >= v3.7, or search the internet for further information.
11.4.2. Installing Sphinx
The Sphinx documentation recommends installing Sphinx (and its required Python dependencies) via pip, which typically requires connectivity to the general internet.
Note
If you are running on MacOS, you may be tempted to use Homebrew or MacPorts to install Sphinx. The Sphinx documentation recommends against this. Instead, you should use pip to install Sphinx.
There are three general ways to install Sphinx; you only need one of them.
11.4.2.1. Install Sphinx in a Python virtual environment
The preferred method of installing Sphinx for PRRTE documentation development is to install Sphinx in a Python virtual environment. This places Sphinx in a sandbox that will not conflict with other pip-installed Python modules. This example installs Sphinx and other Python modules in the ompi-docs-venv tree under your PRRTE Git clone directory:
# Create the Python virtual environment
shell$ cd TOP_OF_PRRTE_GIT_CLONE
shell$ python3 -m venv ompi-docs-venv
# Or: python3 -m virtualenv ompi-docs-venv
# Or: virtualenv --python=python3 ompi-docs-venv
# Activate the virtual environment
shell$ . ./ompi-docs-venv/bin/activate
# Notice that the shell prompt changes
# Now install the required Python modules
(ompi-docs-venv) shell$ pip3 install -r docs/requirements.txt
# Or: python3 -m pip install install -r docs/requirements.txt
Note that sourcing the activate script will change your prompt to put the name of your virtual environment directory at the front, just as a visual reminder that you are operating in a Python virtual environment. You can run deactivate to leave the virtual environment.
Important
You will need to source the activate script to put Sphinx in your PATH before running configure.
11.4.2.2. Install Sphinx globally
If Python virtual environments are not desirable on your system, you can install Sphinx globally on your system (you may need to run with root privileges):
shell$ cd TOP_OF_PRRTE_GIT_CLONE
shell$ pip3 install -r docs/requirements.txt
# Or: python3 -m pip install install -r docs/requirements.txt
This will install Sphinx and some Python modules required for building the PRRTE documentation in a system-wide location.
This will likely install the sphinx-build executable in a location that is already in your PATH. If the location is not already in your PATH, then you need to add it to your PATH.
Important
You will need to ensure that Sphinx is in your PATH before running configure.
11.4.2.3. Install Sphinx locally
If you cannot or do not want to install Sphinx globally on your system, the following will install Sphinx somewhere under your $HOME. It is the same pip command as shown above, but with the addition of the --user flag (you should not need root permissions to run this command):
shell$ cd TOP_OF_PRRTE_GIT_CLONE
shell$ pip3 install --user -r docs/requirements.txt
# Or: python3 -m pip install install -r docs/requirements.txt
This will install Sphinx and some Python modules required for building the PRRTE documentation in a system-wide location.
You will likely need to find the location where sphinx-build was installed and add it to your PATH.
Note
On MacOS, look for sphinx-build under $HOME/Library/Python/VERSION/bin (where VERSION is the version number of Python). Or it may have installed to /usr/local/bin/sphinx-build. YMMV.
Important
You will need to ensure that Sphinx is in your PATH before running configure.
11.4.3. Running Sphinx
PRRTE's build environment is setup to invoke Sphinx automatically; you should not need to invoke Sphinx manually.
Important
You will need to ensure that Sphinx is in your PATH before running configure.
As long as configure found Sphinx, make will invoke Sphinx to build the documentation. You can also run make directly in the docs/ directory to build just the docs and skip building the rest of the PRRTE software. This can be a huge time-saver when iteratively writing, rendering, and viewing/proofing documentation.
Note
The fully-built HTML and man page docs are included in official PRRTE distribution tarballs. Meaning: if you download an official distribution PRRTE tarball, the pre-built HTML and man page files are included in the tarball.
Sphinx is a requirement for developers who want to build the PRRTE docs. End users do not need to have Sphinx available to build PRRTE or have its docs installed from an official distribution tarball.
11.4.3.1. Sphinx execution time
Sphinx is stateful: subsequent runs can be significantly faster because Sphinx will only re-render HTML files that have changes. This is a nice time saver for PRRTE (e.g., if you are iterating over writing the docs and running make to see how they rendered in HTML).
Caution
Sphinx is only somewhat smart in its partial re-rendering. If you change a title in an RST file, for example, Sphinx will (by default) only re-render that page. The Tables of Contents / left hand navigation on other pages may not be updated.
You can always force a full re-render via:
shell$ cd docs
shell$ rm -rf _build
shell$ make
11.4.3.3. Viewing docs locally
Once you have built the docs in your local Git clone, you can view them locally in the build tree:
 1. Open docs/_build/html/index.html in a browser to view the HTML docs. For example, on MacOS, the following command opens the build tree docs in the default web browser:
 shell$ open docs/_build/html/index.html

 2. Use the man command to view the Nroff files in docs/_build/man (you may need to use an absolute or relative filename to prevent man from using its search paths). For example:
 shell$ cd docs/_build/man
 shell$ man ./prterun.1

Alternatively, you can view these files in their installed locations after running make install:
 1. The HTML docs are installed (by default) to $prefix/share/doc/prte/html. You can use a web browser to open the index.html in that directory to view the docs locally. For example, on MacOS, the following command opens the installed docs in the default web browser:
 shell$ open $prefix/share/doc/prte/html/index.html

 2. The man pages are installed (by default) to $preix/share/man. If your man page search path includes this location, you can invoke commands similar to the following to see the same content that you see in these HTML pages:
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Drone quadracopters throw and catch inverted pendulum
Let the spear-throwing killbot FUD commence
Video All those stories you've read lately about drones invading your privacy by photographing you from afar?
Kids' stuff … now that we have the evidence below of drones throwing and catching an inverted pendulum.
That trick has been accomplished by boffins at ETH Zurich's Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, where a "Flying Machine Arena" exists and is used to train flying 'bots.
The Institute and Arena scored plenty of attention back in 2011 with this video of quadracopters juggling, after a fashion.
Now Masters student Dario Brescianini has taught the drone 'quadracopters an even tougher trick: throwing and catching inverted pendulum, essentially a pole with its centre of mass above its pivot point. Because the inverted pendulum used has two weights on its mid-section, its motion is rather more complex than that of a ball. Teaching a quadracopter to toss and catch one is therefore a rather harder problem.
Here's how the team solved it, according to Robohub:
"First, a state estimator was used to accurately predict the pendulum's motion while in flight. Unlike the ball used in the group's earlier demonstration of quadrocopter juggling, the pendulum's drag properties depend on its orientation. This means, among other things, that a pendulum in free fall will move sideways if oriented at an angle. Since experiments showed that this effect was quite large for the pendulum used, an estimator including a drag model of the pendulum was developed."
"Second, a fast trajectory generator was needed to quickly move the catching quadrocopter to the estimated catching position."
"Third, a learning algorithm was implemented to correct for deviations from the theoretical models for two key events: A first correction term was learnt for the desired catching point of the pendulum. This allowed to capture systematic model errors of the throwing quadrocopter's trajectory and the pendulum's flight. A second correction term was learnt for the catching quadrocopter's position. This allowed to capture systematic model errors of the catching quadrocopter's rapid movement to the catching position."
The results can be seen in the video below, which at 1:34 features a puff of smoke as the flour-filled bag that is the pendulum's rudimentary shock absorber bursts.
The video is undoubtedly impressive, but it is also worth noting that military drones have vast area viewing and target acquisition capabilitie. BAE's "Gorgon Stare", for example, can track multiple objects within a 4KM radius beneath a drone.
But as any modern story story about semi-autonomous flying vehicles has to worry about cheaper models and how they will fill suburbia with privacy invading aerial cameras, we'll do so by imagining a pendulum with a sharp tip and quadracopters capable of identifying a human target at which to lob them.
Were such a rig to be developed, and it doesn't look like a massive stretch given the ingenuity on display, we'd have flying, spear-throwing, killbots to contend with. Which makes even sharks with lasers look kind of lame. ®
Thanks to Jack Clark for the Gorgon tip.


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Say $X \to Y$ is a surjective map of algebraic varieties, and $Z \subset Y$ is nonreduced. Then is the preimage $Z \times_Y X$ also nonreduced?
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In Allen's notation, take:
$R = k[t]$, $X = \operatorname{Spec} R$
$S = k[x,y]/(y^2 - x^2(x-1) )$, $Y= \operatorname{Spec} S$.
with the map defined by:
$y = t(t^2+1)$
$I=(x)$, $Z = \operatorname {Spec} S/I$.
$S/I$ contains a nilpotent, $y$ so $Z$ is non-reduced. $X \to Y$ is a surjective map of varieties. $X \times_Y Z = \operatorname {Spec} R/RI = \operatorname{Spec} k[t]/(t^2+1)$, which is reduced.
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This is local, of course. So $R \leftarrow S : \phi$ is an injection of domains, and $I \leq S$ is a nonradical ideal; is $R \phi(I)$ a nonradical ideal of $R$?
Say $s$ descends to a nonzero nilpotent of $S/I$. Then $\phi(s)$ will likewise be nilpotent in $R / R\phi(I)$, and the injectivity says it will be nonzero.
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What about $C[x] \leftarrow C[x^2, x^3]: \phi$, the ideal $I = (x^2)C[x^2, x^3]$, and $s = x^3$? – Vivek Shende Jul 22 '13 at 1:07
In fact, this is not true for every injection of domains! Let $R= k[x,y]$, $S = k[x,xy]$, $I= (x, x^2y^2)$. One needs at least to use the fact that the map is a surjection, not just an epimorphism. – Will Sawin Jul 22 '13 at 2:21
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What does Harmony Stand for?
Harmony comes from the Latin harmonĭa, which derives from the Greek ἁρμονία , which means agreement, concordance, combination, and the verb ἁρμόζω (harmozo), which means to adjust, connect.
Harmony occurs when there is a balance and a convenient and adequate proportion, concordance and correspondence of some things with others, and where appropriate, pleasing to the senses, for example, to the eye, such as colors. Something in harmony is usually something really beautiful, cheerful, pleasant, relaxing and peaceful, although in music, for example, there is also harmony that produces tension, or is dissonant.
In music, especially in western music, harmony is the art of uniting and combining different sounds, but consistent and pleasing to the ear, which are emitted simultaneously.
It is also called harmony to science, technique and discipline that allows both the formation, succession and modulation of the chords (combination of three or more different notes that sound simultaneously or in an arpeggio), such as the chaining and combination of these forming a musical composition.
The harmony works as accompaniment, frame and base of one or more melodies.
In the literature, harmony is called the pleasant variety of sounds, pauses and measures that results in both verse and prose for the proper combination of syllables, voices and clauses used.
The expression 'have harmony with' or 'live in perfect harmony' can mean having an agreement, a good friendship or relationship, a relationship of peace, good communication and good correspondence or compatibility of opinion and action with someone or with a group.
However, the concept of harmony depends on each culture and each era, that is, what was harmony in the second century, may not be in the twentieth century and what is harmony in China, may not be in Spain.


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This cycle sets three poems written by Andrew Motion at three distinct stages of his career. Motion (b. 1952), currently Poet Laureate, cites 'In the Attic' as "the first one I'd ever done which felt anywhere near right". The subject matter of the text, composed when he was 20 years old, is a theme that Motion has returned to throughout his creative output: the ten years his mother spent in a coma and her subsequent death. 'To Whom it May Concern' represents a sardonic outlook on the state of contemporary poetry, while 'What Language to Speak' sets two meditative sentences from the extended poem, 'Lines of Desire'.
The settings are simple, largely modal and influenced by the sonorities achieved in Samuel Barber's works for piano. There is an air of slow recitative in the outer numbers, which aims to create the sense of melancholic recollection prevalent in the text.


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What is Amber, Identifying Fakes and the Biggest Amber Scam No One Talks About, How was Amber Formed, Amber History, Inclusions, Powers, Testing Amber, & much more.
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What is Amber
Amber, also know as "Liquid Gold Frozen in Time" is fossilized resin from ancient conifer trees from millions of years ago. Kings and Queens prized Amber to be more valuable than gold. Amber was formed from tree resin and not tree sap. When the tree resins dripped down the trees and to the ground trapping debris such as insects, flowers, mosses, leaves, seeds and all other like materials that were in its path and preserved them forever. There are even scorpions and small lizards that have been entrapped. Many extinct Species of flowers and insects have been discovered, that have been preserved in Amber. Amber also has inclusions called sun spots, which are small round or oblong disc shapes. The small sun spots, which are usually clustered together have a shiny & glittery appearance. The Gemstone Amber is one of the birthstones listed for the sun sign of Taurus, please do not confuse this with traditionally known Zodiac Birthstones. The resins became fossilized through a natural polymerization of the original organic compounds during the course of many millions of years. A Specific time period has not been established. Scientifically known to have been formed 30 to 90 million years ago during the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods, even the Jurassic peroid. I have been fascinated with everything Amber since I was in school many years ago. Over the last 30 years, I have Acquired a very extensive collection from around the world.
Identifing Fakes & The Biggest Amber Scam No One Talks About
Ok, this is probably what most of you reading this want to know, right?! I am not going to talk about refractive indexes, density, gravity etc, because that will do you absolutely no good when trying to identify "Real Amber" when buying on Ebay or even after you have it at home. I will give easy ways and precautions to identify the real deal from the fraudsters and I will give some pictures to help. First and foremost, look at where the seller is located. China and India sell the most fake Amber on Ebay and in the big cities around the world I have ever seen and they will advertise it as "Real" "Authentic" "Genuine" "Grade A" "Natural" "Baltic Amber". What they do not say is that the item is an "Authentically Real & Natural Genuine Grade A piece of plastic!!!! For someone who knows what real Amber looks like, a picture is worth a thousand words, but for those who dont, it can and is very deceiving. The most common and easiest way to identify fakes are the ones with bugs and sun spots in them.
First, the Amber with bugs. When bugs/insects got caught up in the real Resin/Amber, their legs, antenna, and wings are caught in distressing character. The fake Amber bugs/insects look as if they were paid big bucks for their frozen pose in time, every part of there body is displayed perfectly. The same principle should be taken into concideration with flowers and scorpions.
Second, Amber with Sun Spots, also referred to as Sun Burst. Not all Genuine Amber have them, please keep that in mind. In real Amber, these inclusions are very small, too small in size and are irregular. In the fake Amber, this is hard to achieve. The fake Amber will have large disc shapes that are very uniform and perfect looking.
Third, This is the biggest worldwide Amber scam and no one talks about it!!!. Pendants, earrings, bracelets and rings that are stated to be red/cherry, blue, green and cognac. This is a more clever technique using real Amber. The real Amber used in this technique is usually lemon/yellow or light honey in colour. What is done to produce the fake red/cherry, blue green and cognac is: the back side of each piece is burned and/or has a jewellers colour paste that reflects through the light coloured Amber to give these colour effects and is used almost in all Amber jewellery that have a silver, gold or some other type setting. There are several ways to identify this. Look at the back of the piece, and you will see it is very different from the front side. You will see if it was burned or has a smooth dark coloured finish and that is what is giving the colour that is not real. The second way is, turn the piece sideways and view the Amber stones from side to side and you will see that the real Amber colour is lemon/yellow or light honey. This technique is widely used to reduce the cost of maufacturing the jewellery an is past on to the consumer as real red/cherry blue green and cognac, at higher prices and making it appear as if you are getting a great deal. Using these genuine colours would be very very expensive. If you already own Amber jewelry or are buying it in person, check using the method I just described and if you are purchasing this kind of jewellery online, on Ebay or any other aution/website, ask if it is "colour enhanced", because that is never stated. These pieces are still gorgeous, but your not getting what is advertised and you are being duped with real Amber with fake colours!!! The majority of this jewellery is manufactured in Poland and other New England states and Thailand. Sorry sellers, someone had to blow lid about this. I will be writing another review, dedicated specifically to this, to help consumers know what they are buying.
How Amber Was Formed
Amber is one of the few precious substances on earth we consider a gem which is not of mineral origin. There are a couple of scientific theories as to how Amber came to be. I will share the most popular and widely discussed theory here. When a tree is injured or is subjected to a radical climate change, it will produce resin. The radical climate change that took place millions of years ago, during different periods in time, produced large amounts of resin. Amber deposits and its availablity, scarcity and protection will be discussed later and that is some amazing information in itself. Many large Amber deposit are sea born, meaning that rivers and stream carried the Amber to seas and oceans. The most famous and sought after is Baltic Amber from the Baltic Sea and is considered the finest Amber in the world. There are Amber deposits worldwide that run in large veins underground similiar to that of minerals. It is widely known that Amber was produced from conifer trees, mainly the Pinus Succinifera because of its large secretions of resin, conifers are needle bearing trees. However it is known by certain colors that deciduous trees are included such as cherry and plum trees. Deciduous are leaf bearing trees. Sub tropical Amber came from a wide variety of conifer and deciduous trees.
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Model Administrative Rules (MARS) and Search LogicUCC, Online UCC System, Revised Article 9
Following up on our post from earlier this week, What are "Standard Search Logic" and the Model Administrative Rules?, here's a behind-the-scenes look at how we created an online UCC search system that follows MARS guidelines.
An FCS online search report is intended to satisfy the requirements under the UCC Revised Article 9 Model Administrative Rules (MARS), which provide state filing offices with a set of guidelines for producing a legally compliant UCC lien search report. The FCS Online Search System was designed to satisfy the requirements under MARS while providing the searcher with increased flexibility.
Flexible search logic generates a more inclusive search report and addresses the inconsistencies in searches performed within states that did not effectively adopt the MARS guidelines. Further, these specially designed broad-based searching features aid in locating involuntary liens such as Federal and State Tax Liens, Judgment Liens and liens that may not be located in state databases limited to the MARS guidelines for the reporting of UCCs.
We recommend that users structure their search strings so possible variations of the name including abbreviations, alternate spellings and initials may be located. A successful search begins before the name is ever keyed into the system by considering what possible variations may exist and then using the proper search string to locate those name variations.
From the International Association of Commercial Administrators
T503 Search methodology – Search results are produced by the application of search logic to the name presented to the filing officer. Human judgment does not play a role in determining the results of the search.
503.1 Standard search logic – The following rules describe the filing office's standard search logic and apply to all searches except for those where the search request specifies that a non-standard search logic be used:
- 503.1.1 There is no limit to the number of matches that may be returned in response to the search criteria.
- 503.1.2 No distinction is made between upper and lower case letters.
- 503.1.3 The character "&" (the ampersand) is deleted and replaced with the characters "and" each place it appears in the name.
- 503.1.4 Punctuation marks and accents are disregarded. For the purposes of this rule, punctuation and accents include all characters other than the numerals 0 through 9 and the letters A through Z (in any case) of the English alphabet.
- 503.1.5 The following words and abbreviations at the end of an organization name that indicate the existence or nature of the organization are "disregarded" to the extent practicable as determined by the filing office's programming of its UCC information management system:
- 503.1.6 The word "the" at the beginning of an organization debtor name is disregarded.
- 503.1.7 All spaces are disregarded.
- 503.1.8 For first and middle names of individual debtor names, initials are treated as the logical equivalent of all names that begin with such initials, and first name and no middle name or initial is equated with all middle names and initials. For example, a search request for "John A. Smith" would cause the search to retrieve all filings against all individual debtors with "John" or the initial "J" as the first name, "Smith" as the last name, and with the initial "A" or any name beginning with "A" in the middle name field. If the search request were for "John Smith" (first and last names with no designation in the middle name field), the search would retrieve all filings against individual debtors with "John" or the initial J as the first name, "Smith" as the last name and with any name or initial or no name or initial in the middle name field.
- 503.1.9 If the name being searched is the last name of an individual debtor name without any first or middle name provided, the search will retrieve from the UCC information management system all financing statements with individual debtor names that consist of only the last name.
- 503.1.10 After using the preceding rules to modify the name being searched, the search will retrieve from the UCC information management system all Unlapsed Records, or, if requested by the searcher, all Active Records, that pertain to financing statements with debtor names that, after being as provided in this rule 503, exactly match the modified name being searched.
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Riemann–Siegel theta function
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In mathematics, the Riemann–Siegel theta function is defined in terms of the Gamma function as
\theta(t) = \arg \left(
- \frac{\log \pi}{2} t
for real values of t. Here the argument is chosen in such a way that a continuous function is obtained and \theta(0)=0 holds, i.e., in the same way that the principal branch of the log Gamma function is defined.
It has an asymptotic expansion
\theta(t) \sim \frac{t}{2}\log \frac{t}{2\pi} - \frac{t}{2} - \frac{\pi}{8}+\frac{1}{48t}+ \frac{7}{5760t^3}+\cdots
which is not convergent, but whose first few terms give a good approximation for t \gg 1. Its Taylor-series at 0 which converges for |t| < 1/2 is
\theta(t) = -\frac{t}{2} \log \pi + \sum_{k=0}^{\infty} \frac{(-1)^k \psi^{(2k)}\left(\frac{1}{4}\right) }{(2k+1)!} \left(\frac{t}{2}\right)^{2k+1}
where \psi^{(2k)} denotes the Polygamma function of order 2k. The Riemann–Siegel theta function is of interest in studying the Riemann zeta function, since it can rotate the Riemann zeta function such that it becomes the totally real valued Z function on the critical line s = 1/2 + i t.
Curve discussion[edit]
The Riemann–Siegel theta function is an odd real analytic function for real values of t. It has 3 roots at 0 and \pm 17._PHONE_\ldots and it is an increasing function for values |t| > 6.29, because it has exactly one minima and one maxima at \pm 6.289835988\ldots with absolute value
3.530972829\ldots. Lastly it has a unique inflection point at t=0 with \theta^\prime(0)= -\frac{\ln \pi + \gamma + \pi/2 + 3 \ln 2}{2} = -2._PHONE_\ldots where the theta function has its derivation minimum.
Theta as a function of a complex variable[edit]
We have an infinite series expression for the log Gamma function
\log \Gamma \left(z\right) = -\gamma z -\log z
+ \sum_{n=1}^\infty
\left(\frac{z}{n} - \log \left(1+\frac{z}{n}\right)\right),
where γ is Euler's constant. Substituting (2it+1)/4 for z and taking the imaginary part termwise gives the following series for θ(t)
\theta(t) = -\frac{\gamma + \log \pi}{2}t - \arctan 2t
+ \sum_{n=1}^\infty \left(\frac{t}{2n}
- \arctan\left(\frac{2t}{4n+1}\right)\right).
For values with imaginary part between -1 and 1, the arctangent function is holomorphic, and it is easily seen that the series converges uniformly on compact sets in the region with imaginary part between -1/2 and 1/2, leading to a holomorphic function on this domain. It follows that the Z function is also holomorphic in this region, which is the critical strip.
We may use the identities
\arg z = \frac{\log z - \log\bar z}{2i}\quad\text{and}\quad\overline{\Gamma(z)}=\Gamma(\bar z)
to obtain the closed-form expression
\theta(t) = \frac{\log\Gamma\left(\frac{2it+1}{4}\right)-\log\Gamma\left(\frac{-2it+1}{4}\right)}{2i} - \frac{\log \pi}{2} t,
which extends our original definition to a holomorphic function of t. Since the principal branch of log Γ has a single branch cut along the negative real axis, θ(t) in this definition inherits branch cuts along the imaginary axis above i/2 and below -i/2.
Riemann–Siegel theta function in the complex plane
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Riemann Siegel Theta 2.jpg
Riemann Siegel Theta 3.jpg
 -1 < \Re(t) < 1
 -5 < \Re(t) < 5
 -40 < \Re(t) < 40
Gram points[edit]
The Riemann zeta function on the critical line can be written
\zeta\left(\frac{1}{2}+it\right) = e^{-i \theta(t)}Z(t),
Z(t) = e^{i \theta(t)} \zeta\left(\frac{1}{2}+it\right).
If t is a real number, then the Z function Z\left(t\right) returns real values.
Hence the zeta function on the critical line will be real when \sin\left(\,\theta(t)\,\right)=0. Positive real values of t where this occurs are called Gram points, after J. P. Gram, and can of course also be described as the points where \frac{\theta(t)}{\pi} is an integer.
A Gram point is a solution g_{n} of
\theta\left(g_{n}\right) = n\pi.
Here are the smallest non negative Gram points
n g_{n} \theta(g_{n})
-3 0 0
-2 3._PHONE_...
-1 9._PHONE_...
0 17._PHONE_... 0
1 23._PHONE_... π
2 27._PHONE_...
3 31._PHONE_...
4 35._PHONE_...
5 38._PHONE_...
6 42._PHONE_...
7 45._PHONE_...
8 48._PHONE_...
9 51._PHONE_...
10 54._PHONE_... 10π
11 57._PHONE_... 11π
12 60._PHONE_... 12π
13 63._PHONE_... 13π
14 65._PHONE_... 14π
15 68._PHONE_... 15π
The choice of the index n is a bit crude. It is historically chosen in such a way that the index is 0 at the first value which is larger than the smallest positive zero (at imaginary part 14._PHONE_...) of the Riemann zeta function on the critical line. Notice, this \theta-function oscillates for absolute-small real arguments and therefore is not uniquely invertible in the interval [-24,24]! Thus the odd theta-function has its symmetric Gram point with value 0 at index -3. Gram points are useful when computing the zeros of Z\left(t\right). At a Gram point g_{n},
\zeta\left(\frac{1}{2}+ig_n\right) = \cos(\theta(g_n))Z(g_n) = (-1)^n Z(g_n),
and if this is positive at two successive Gram points, Z\left(t\right) must have a zero in the interval.
According to Gram's law, the real part is usually positive while the imaginary part alternates with the gram points, between positive and negative values at somewhat regular intervals.
(-1)^n \, Z\left(g_{n}\right) > 0
The number of roots, N\left(T\right), in the strip from 0 to T, can be found by
N\left(T\right) = \frac{\theta(T)}{\pi} + 1+S(T),
where S(T) is an error term which grows asymptotically like \log T.
Only if g_{n} would obey Gram's law, then finding the number of roots in the strip simply becomes
N\left(g_{n}\right) = n + 1.
Today we know, that in the long run, Gram's law fails for about 1/4 of all Gram-intervals to contain exactly 1 zero of the Riemann zeta-function. Gram was afraid that it may fail for larger indices (the first miss is at index 126 before the 127th zero) and thus claimed this only for not too high indices. Later Hutchinson coined the phrase Gram's law for the (false) statement that all zeroes on the critical line would be separated by Gram points.
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Bulacan is a province in the Philippines located in the Central Luzon region and is one of the most economically prosperous provinces in the country The province is known for its wide range of tourist attractions and historical sites, many of which are related to the Spanish colonial period. It is also home to several key industries and holds an important place in Philippine culture.
Essay topics about Bulacan can explore many interesting aspects of the region. Here are five essay topic ideas that can explore different areas of this fascinating region:
1. Exploring the Historical Sites of Bulacan: This essay topic will explore some of the most important sites in Bulacan that are related to the Spanish colonial period, including Paseo de Santa Isabel, Barasoain Church, and Biak-na-Bato National Park.
2. Examining the Economic Development of Bulacan: This essay would look at the history of economic development in the province, from the establishment of the country's first industrial park to the booming business and commercial sector that has been established in the region.
3. Examining the Religious Culture of Bulacan: This essay would explore the religious culture of Bulacan, from the traditional Christian churches that have been in the region for centuries to the new religions that have sprung up in recent years.
4. Exploring Bulacan's Unique Cuisine: This essay would look at some of the classic dishes from Bulacan, including the popular "bulalugaw" dish, as well as some of the unique dishes that have been created in the province by its creative chefs.
5. Analyzing the Tourism Industry in Bulacan: This essay would discuss the growth of the tourism industry within the province, from the classic attractions that have made it a popular destination to the modern activities and venues that are now drawing visitors from all over the world.


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A Research Paper By Beth Ostrander, Life Coach, CANADA
Does Practitioners Specialization Have a Blind Spot Supporting Clients on Pleasure-Related Topics?
Within Positive Psychology, pleasure is listed as one of the controllable factors that increase happiness.1A2016 study aimed to replicate findings of 2011 study by Giannopoulos and Vella-Brodrick
Confirmed that interventions based on pleasure, engagement, and meaning are effective in increasing well-being and ameliorating depressive symptoms across different cultural settings and for longer periods than expected2
I have witnessed the positive impact of this with clients in my blended coaching practice as a Life Pleasure Coach. Unfortunately, I have heard from several clients that they could not speak about pleasure with other their previous Practitioners (e.g., coaches, counselors, therapists). As I noticed this coming up, I began to think perhaps some Practitioners were missing out on a powerful tool. In some cases, the clients did not feel safe bringing up the topic. In other cases, the clients were directed to take the issue elsewhere, sometimes without being provided with referrals. I wondered if Practitioners were expressing healthy professional boundaries or if there was more at play.
Over time, I chatted casually with many colleagues and have heard a common theme of concern about a client raising Pleasure-Related Topics. Since pleasure is taboo, it is no wonder that Practitioners experience some anxiety when Pleasure-Related Topics arise.
This has led me to explore with more intentionality the comfort level Practitioners have around Pleasure-Related Topics.
It is important to make two notes here:
Note #1: This research is not designed to confirm a Practitioners specialization. It is to explore a Practitioner's comfort level supporting their client with Pleasure-Related Topics. Not every Practitioner is going to specialize in Pleasure-Related Topics. However, Practitioners require a certain level of comfort providing general support for any topic a client raises. For example, if a client brings money up in the session, a Practitioner who isn't a money coach or a financial advisor would have a level of ease providing support on the topic. They would also be comfortable providing referrals if their client wanted to explore the topic more deeply.
Note #2: This research paper is not solely about sensual pleasure. The word "pleasure" is often translated to mean sensuality or sex only. In this research Pleasure-Related Topics include:
- Pleasure in General: for example, a client struggling to make time for self-care or making time to enjoy a date night when life is hectic.
- Body-Related Issues: for example, a client working through body image issues that are affecting their ability to select clothing for a work event or a first date.
- Intimacy: for example, a client grappling with the degree of vulnerability they want to show when sharing life details with a co-worker or with a loved one.
- Sex & Sexuality: for example, a client is concerned about telling friends and family members that they are questioning the state of their marriage or exploring their sexual orientation.
- Pleasure-Related Shame: for example, a client feeling guilty and shameful for having an abundance of things while others in the world go hungry or for desiring something that conflicts with their religious beliefs.
To explore this topic deeper, I conducted a 3-hour workshop for Practitioners called "Practitioners Workshop: Introduction to Authentic Pleasure". Twelve (12) Practitioners participated and received a pre-workshop questionnaire and a post-workshop feedback form. Some Practitioners also participated in a conversation before/after the workshop. The following demographics were represented ("Unconfirmed" = not disclosed or not asked):
- Practitioner Types: Social workers, Therapists, Coaches (ICA & other), Reiki
- Religions: Catholic; Jewish; Evangelical Christian; None; Unconfirmed
- Heritage/Cultures: Latin American, Filipino, British; Lebanese; Danish; German; Italian; New Zealander; Unconfirmed
- Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual; Pan-sexual; Unconfirmed
- Genders: CIS gender men; CIS gender women; Unconfirmed
Three main themes arose while exploring the Practitioners comfort level with Pleasure-Related Topics during client sessions.
- Raising the Topic
- Key Areas of Concern
- The blind spot around Pleasure-Related Topics.
Finding #1: Raising the Topic
Two of the indicators used to explore the Practitioners' level of comfort with Pleasure-Related Topics were related to how often the topic was raised with clients. First, the Practitioners were asked how often they raised Pleasure-Related Topics. Secondly, they were asked how often their client raised the topic. It was noticeable that 0% of the Practitioners "always" introduced Pleasure-Related Topics and 20% of Practitioners "never" introduced the topic. When it came to asking about the frequency that their clients raised the topic, the practitioners said that10% of their clients "never" introduced Pleasure-Related Topics. Overall, clients raise Pleasure-Related Topics slightly more often than practitioners.
The idea of "code words" for taboo subjects was introduced. When asked to consider what common "code words" their clients use in place of saying "pleasure", the Practitioners listed: Joy, Enjoyment, Desire, Happiness, Peace, Love, and Intimacy. When asked to consider what common "code words" their clients use in place of saying "pleasure-related shame", the Practitioners listed: Indulgent, Dangerous, Risky, Selfish, Destructive, Guilty, Sinful, Wrong.
After the Practitioners spent 3-hours in the workshop learning about and discussing Pleasure-Related Topics with their colleagues, they registered that their clients were bringing up Pleasure-Related Topics more than they had realized. Several Practitioners expressed that they likely have missed opportunities to support their client's self-awareness.
Pleasure wasn't even on my radar at all – professionally or even personally – and now I'm being more conscious. Pleasure is important to me, but it's never talked about. Therapist
Most Practitioners agreed they would now be more alert for "code words" and some Practitioners decided to include Pleasure-Related Topics in their client intake process.
Finding #2: Key Areas of Concerns
Three Key Areas of Concern showed up from this research:
- Information & Skill Gap
- Lacking Recognition of Pleasure-Related Issues
- Managing Personal Reactions.
Within each area, the Practitioners expressed the following specific concerns:
Key Area: Information & Skill Gap
- "Competency in addressing these topics"
- "An academic understanding of these terms/topics/areas"
- "Information about what pleasure is, what blocks pleasure, pleasure limits"
- "New approaches"
Near the end of the workshop, a coach put her pen down and asked to share. She had begun the workshop intending to gain information to support her clients more effectively. She shared that she now understood it was just as important to examine her awareness around Pleasure-Related Topics.
Key Area: Lacking Recognition of Pleasure-Related Issues
- "How to recognize when a client is experiencing pleasure-related shame."
- "Identifying and speaking about unidentified shame (they don't resonate with the word shame because its unconscious or they're too ashamed to admit being ashamed)"
- "Information about what pleasure is, what blocks pleasure, permission to feel pleasure"
- "How to speak with others to encourage them to explore and discover their pleasure."
- "A better understanding of pleasure, intimacy, and body-relatedness and how to recognize when a client needs help in one of these areas."
- "Bridging language for people who may be uncomfortable talking about sex and shame."
- "It has not come up so far with clients"
- "Most of my clients are business clients, we don't speak about these things and I know that they impact all areas of our lives."
Before the workshop, a therapist shared with me over the phone that she was nervous to bring up the topic with her all-female clients. She didn't think she had achieved enough success around pleasure in her own life. She shared her struggles taking time for herself as a solopreneur, her challenges with body-image issues, and her difficulties communicating with her partner about intimate issues.
Key Area: Managing Personal Reactions
- "Having an open mindset for the topic"
- "How to address my triggers when they arise in session."
- "Learning something that might relate to me personally in terms of intimacy in my partnership as well as how this topic can be useful in my coaching practice."
- "Feeling more comfortable and open when it comes to talking about Pleasure Related Topics with my clients."
- "Have a more positive attitude towards pleasure. Be better accepting of pleasure and drop the judgment."
- "More confidence."
During the case study debrief, a therapist shared that he had experienced a personal reaction when another Practitioner raised a Pleasure-Related Topic that he considered morally questionable. He was shocked by his judgemental reaction since he considered himself to be very open-minded.
Finding #3: Exposed Blind Spot:
The Practitioners all shared that they began the workshop with a "blind-spot" around supporting their clients with Pleasure-Related Topics.
The Practitioners shared the following specific blindspots that came into view for them:
- "Allowing others to truly tap into what are their pleasure, as well as my own."
- "Shame is often not explored in my practice."
- "My struggles with talking about pleasure with my clients."
- "Understanding of what I didn


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Dry Ice: Alaska Native Artists and the Landscape is an exhibition including works by contemporary Native Alaskan artists that explore the multiple meanings of and associations with the Alaskan landscape.
"Dry Ice"—a term that denotes frozen carbon dioxide, which when taken out of a frigid environment rapidly dissolves from a solid form into a gaseous state—is meant to evoke the shifting significance of the Alaskan polar landscape in contemporary Native art. Given the central place of Alaska and its landscape in recent national debates surrounding the environment and the oil crisis, the subject of this exhibition is both timely and important to present outside of Alaska.
The exhibition features the work of Alaska Native artists, including Brian Adams, Susie Bevins-Ericsen, Perry Eaton, Nicholas Galanin, Anna Hoover, Erica Lord, Da-ka-xeen Mehner, and Larry McNeil. Each explores their relationship to the landscape, through a variety of interpretations and media, combining traditional and innovative forms from mask-making and skin sewing to photography and installation.
Dry Ice is curated by Julie Decker, Ph.D., of Anchorage, Alaska. Decker is the director of the International Gallery of Contemporary Art in Anchorage, a frequent guest curator of the Anchorage Museum and the author of numerous publications on art and architecture of Alaska.


Designing Interior Environments that Support Human Health
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Purpose of Article
The article looks at how designers can create interior environments that promote human health, wellbeing and productivity
of the occupants. The article talks the reader through the various aspects of interior design that impact human health
and wellbeing, and introduces strategies that can help achieve a healthier indoor environment.
Learning Objectives
1. Understand the impact the design of an interior environment can have on its occupants in terms of health, wellbeing
and productivity.
2. Understand how human health and wellbeing is now an important and essential aspect of holistic sustainable design.
3. Understand the connection between environmentally-focused design strategies commonly seen in green building
rating systems, and human health-focused interior design strategies.
4. Differentiate the various interior design strategies that can positively impact different aspects of human
health and wellbeing.
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December 17, 2012 | City College
Images of colonial-era Dominican historic sites and monuments comprise collection
The CUNY Dominican Studies Institute at The City College of New York (CUNY DSI) announced today that it has made accessible on the Internet an extensive collection of photographs of places and monuments from early colonial times of the Dominican Republic.
The searchable collection, titled "First Blacks in the Americas," contains more than 2,900 photographs, organized in 57 sets, of historic monuments built during the Dominican Republic's colonial period. These buildings, churches, houses and sites of industrial and artisan production date to when what is today the Dominican nation began to develop as the first colony of the Spanish empire in the Americas.
"These photographs constitute a valuable visual tool to understand what life was like for the forebears of today's Dominicans during their first three centuries of history," said Dr. Ramona Hernández, director of CUNY DSI. "At the time, these places constituted the diverse scenarios where generation after generation of inhabitants of La Española lived, worked and worshiped as they constructed, first, a colonial society and, then, an independent nation under the name of Dominican Republic."
CUNY DSI Assistant Director Anthony Stevens-Acevedo led the effort to shoot, compile and upload the photographic collection to Flickr.com, an online photo-sharing system.
Two CUNY students, Xiomara Sandoval, a student in the M.A. program in education at CCNY, and Yuberkys Pietrera Nova, an undergraduate in the B.A. program in education at Lehman College, assisted him.
Students, teachers, professors, researchers and other persons interested in studying Dominican history can use the images freely for research and educational purposes. The CUNY DSI Library will work with teachers from Upper Manhattan schools to create lesson plans that use the photos and conduct on-campus workshops for students. Commercial use of the photos requires formal permission from CUNY DSI under the Creative Commons license under which the images were published.
The images can be applied to teaching an array of themes about the Dominican culture's past. Examples include: ancient building systems, working conditions and types of work associated with construction and architectural styles and life conditions and life styles associated with each type of building.
"We think this is the first collection online with this number of photos of Dominican historical sites that has been uploaded for public use so far," said Dr. Hernández. "We have noticed the scarcity of images of this kind that exists online, and, in the face of this, we have decided to make ours available to the public interested in Dominican issues."
The photographs in this collection are part of current projects undertaken by CUNY DSI that focus on early Dominican people, including:
- "First Blacks of the Americas," a micro-website devoted to disseminating the stories of the African population that arrived in La Española during the 16th century and their descendants;
- "Juan Rodríguez and the Beginnings of New York City," about the inhabitant of La Española who arrived in what is today New York in 1613 onboard a Dutch vessel, and
- "The Spanish Paleography Digital Teaching and Learning Tool," which will help the public learn how to read the handwriting styles used in Spanish manuscripts of the 16th and 17th centuries.
This collection of images contributes to an increased public awareness about the rich monumental and material heritage Dominicans have, Dr. Hernández added. She noted that the Dominican heritage speaks of a historical and cultural continuity that runs from the time the first Europeans arrived in 1492 and began to interact with local aboriginals and Africans until the present day.
"These buildings and monuments have an important history to tell; a history of which the Dominican people in the United States is the most recent chapter," Dr. Hernández stated. "This is a history that must not be forgotten because, to a large degree, it explains who Dominicans are and their way of being as a people."
Accessing the collection
There are two ways to view the collection of photographs in the CUNY DSI online account on Flickr.com.
To view the images by thematic set, go to: _URL_ which leads the visitor directly to the CUNY DSI "photostream" page in Flickr. Click on the link to the "First Blacks in the Americas" collection. When the page for that collection opens as a mosaic photos, click on any of the thumbnail image buttons to open the respective set of photographs.
To view images by thematic or subject categories across the entire collection, go to _URL_. Type the tag-words "CUNY DSI" and "Dominican Republic" or "Hispaniola" in the "search" box, followed by any of the other thematic tag-words that have been assigned to the photographs, like "colonial period," "colonial churches," "colonial houses," "colonial mills," "colonial walls," etc.
On the Internet
Photos: Three of the more than 2,900 images of colonial-era buildings and monuments made accessible via FlickR by the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute.
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