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Section B. Respect for the religious beliefs of the dead
South Africa's LOAC Teaching Manual (2008) states:
- Parties to the conflict shall further ensure that
- the dead are honourably interred, if possible according to the rites of the religion to which they belonged[.]
South Africa, Advanced Law of Armed Conflict Teaching Manual, School of Military Justice, 1 April 2008, as amended to 25 October 2013, Learning Unit 2, p. 107.


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Indicadores de produção científica - Série histórica 2000-2004 CEFET-RN
Leite, José Yvan Pereira
Araújo, André Luis Calado
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This work presents a historical rescue of the implantation of research actions in CEFETRN. It shows the distribution of research groups in performance in 2004 and analyzes the distributions for educational management, sex, the teaching insertion in group of research and post-graduation titles. These data were collated from the productivity of the researchers in relation to the educational management and the group where it is tied. A growth of 155% of the groups of research was observed, reaching 23 groups, as also a significant increase of formation in post-graduation courses. Productivity grows softly. About 27% of the professors are inserted in research groups, and the Department of Natural Resources, for example, presents 80% of its professors in groups and its intellectual production represents 56% of the whole Institution in the period of 2000-julho/2004. The relation of doctors and students per group of research is 0.6 with growth, respectively of 27.2% and 149.5% in the period of 2002-julho/2004.

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Owning animals – specifically cattle – completely changes the meaning of a snow day. For most, snow is a welcomed sight as it means a day at home – away from the office or classroom – in their sweats enjoying daytime television and a warm fire.
But for cattle owners, snow days are some of the longest and hardest workdays they encounter each year. Cattle were created to withstand cold, snow and wind but that doesn't mean they particularly enjoy the winter weather – especially after a streak of 50-degree temperatures. We have both heifers (first-time mothers) and cows (experienced mothers) calving right now. In fact we had about 20 calves born yesterday, five born overnight and another three this morning. More are expected throughout the day. This is peak calving season for our herd and while we never rule out the possibility of snow, snowfall like this doesn't come along every year.
During storms like this, it's important that we are out, among our cattle, checking to ensure mothers are doing fine, baby calves are staying warm and eating and expectant mothers get to shelter when possible. When we find a calf that looks like it just can't get warm on it's own, we will bring it inside and allow it to dry off and warm up before returning it to its mother.
Diet and proper nutrition are also very important for cattle in the winter. Like humans, cattle with a normal level of body fat are better able to withstand the cold and nursing mothers need all of the nutrition and calories they can get. Even on days like this, we make sure our cattle have all of the feed they need or want. But we are careful to not overfeed them so that all of their energy isn't spent on digestion.
Derek was up most of last night checking on the cows and caring for a few calves. He and his father will spend the remainder of today and tonight making additional rounds, checking the animals as many times as possible. New calves could come at any time and we strive to be there to ensure all is going well. It's not an easy job and the cattle don't always express their appreciation the way a person would but it's what we do, even on snow days.

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text: CIMON (Crew Interactive Mobile Companion) is a robot powered by artificial intelligence.CIMON is the first personal, artificial intelligence-powered companion in space. The robot will help astronauts conduct experiments on the International Space Station (ISS). The CIMON project aims at exploring how astronauts get along with artificially intelligent beings for extended periods of time. A robot like CIMON with human-like personalities could help mitigate the disorientation astronauts may feel in space. The robot described as 'flying brain' was created by German Aerospace Center , in colloboration with IBM, European Space Agency and other partners. CIMON is among 2600kg of cargo that was launched to the International Space Station, atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

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Big data set from sensors is often subject to corruption and losses due to wireless medium of communication and presence of hardware inaccuracies in the nodes. For a WSN application to deduce an appropriate result, it is necessary that the data received is clean, accurate, and loss-less. However, effective detection and cleaning of sensor big data errors is a challenging issue demanding innovative solutions. For fast data error detection in big sensor data sets, in this paper, we develop a novel data error detection approach which exploits the full computation potential of cloud platform and the network feature of WSN. Firstly, a set of sensor data error types are classified and defined. Based on that classification, the network feature of a clustered WSN is introduced and analyzed to support fast error detection and location. Specifically, in our proposed approach, the error detection is based on the scale-free network topology and most of detection operations can be conducted in limited temporal or spatial data blocks instead of a whole big data set. Hence the detection and location process can be dramatically accelerated. Furthermore, the detection and location tasks can be distributed to cloud platform to fully exploit the computation power and massive storage. Through the experiment on our cloud computing platform of U-Cloud, it is demonstrated that our proposed approach can significantly reduce the time for error detection and location in big data sets generated by large scale sensor network systems with acceptable error detecting accuracy.
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The Anglo-Saxon "Lacnunga" is a miscellaneous collection of almost 200 mainly herbal remedies, charms, and prayers found only in a mostly 10th-11th century manuscript in the British Library. The collection is written mainly in Old English and Latin, and includes a version of a remarkable 7th-century Hiberno-Latin prayer known as the "Lorica of Laidcenn". There are also corrupt passages in Old Irish, Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic. It is one of the oldest extant medical collections in Northern Europe. Study of it sheds light on the dissemination, understanding, and translation in Anglo-Saxon England of remedies from classical and classical-derived collections such as the "Historia Naturalis" of Pliny, the "Medicina Plinii", and the "Plinii". The collection also includes a large number of "magical" charms which offer an insight into native beliefs in elves, spirits, witches, and sentient plants. This two-volume edition includes: a detailed discussion of the nature of the collection and its status in Anglo-Saxon England; discussions of the collection's palaeography and codicology, sources, analogues, and language.
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 - If the complaint is a "serious matter" (defined in the Health Professions Act as a matter that, if proven, would result in limitations or conditions on the registrant's practice, or a suspension or cancellation of registration), the complaint will be taken to the Inquiry Committee.
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Homesteaders took advantage of wind power with windmills, which were used to pump water to the surface.
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Nebraska weather is notable for its wide seasonal variations in temperature, precipitation, and humidity. The average low temperature in Beatrice is 12 degrees Fahrenheit in January, and the average high is 90 degrees Fahrenheit in July. Since land heats and cools much faster than water; Nebraska's position in the center of the continent, away from major water bodies, leads to sudden fluctuations in temperature.
Nebraska receives cool, dry air from the Rocky Mountains in the west, as well as warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico in the south. The interaction of these air masses produces frequent and sometimes violent thunderstorms, particularly from April through September. Precipitation averages 28 inches per year in Beatrice. Tornadoes are common in spring months.
Homesteaders harnessed frequent winds with windmills, which pumped precious water supplies to the surface. By the 1870s, windmills were a common sight throughout the countryside. Many of these historic structures still stand today, testaments to the resourcefulness of those who took what benefit they could from an often adverse climate.

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- View Cambodia's countryside by bicycle
- Meet local families and learn about their traditional livelihoods
- Learn how to make rice paper, rice wine, bamboo rice cake, and other traditional products
- Enjoy fresh fruits and a coconut at a local family's house
- Duration: 4 hours
- Maximum of 5 participants
During this tour I will take you on a journey through Cambodia's countryside and the traditional family businesses in Battambang Province. You will see these family businesses and learn how to make rice paper, rice wine, the famous bamboo rice cakes of Battambang, dried bananas, and fish paste. Many of the families have been running these businesses for decades and learned the skills from aunts, uncles, and grandparents. You will also enjoy fresh fruits and a coconut at a local family's house. The easy cycle ride of approximately 25km will take you via flat paved and dirt roads past rice fields, along the Sangker River, through villages and lively markets, glimpsing daily life along the way.
You will also get insight in how the rice grain is used in the production of paper, cakes, and wine. We will educate you on the two rice growing seasons in Cambodia, about the different types of rice and their use. In many ways, the cycle of planting, growing, and harvesting of rice dictates the rhythm of Cambodian life. Many of the families we meet create their traditional products in the period between planting and harvesting their fields.
Along with viewing the production of and sampling traditional Cambodian products you will also get to know more about the history of Battambang and the period of the Pol Pot regime.
The tour starts at 7:30am and ends between 12am-1pm.
This tour started in 2010 in collaboration with a social enterprise and local college students with the intention of providing vocational training to local college students while also educating tourists about everyday life in Cambodia. With this tour you are directly contributing to the local community in a sustainable, environmentally friendly way that facilitates cross-cultural communication between local communities and travelers.
- Friendly, knowledgeable, local student guides
- One drink at Kinyei Café before tour
- Mountain bikes with helmets
- Snacks and water along the way
- Fresh fruits and coconut
- Tuk Tuk pickup before the tour
- Youth - between 10 and 15 years - $17
- Child - under 10 years - $13
The prices for children can be paid on location. We also have baby seats and a tag-along bicycle for smaller children and babies.


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Definition of screed in English:
1A long speech or piece of writing, typically one regarded as tedious.
- There are other misimpressions created by your articles that necessitate a response, but I did not intend for this to become a screed against your writing.
- I have written a tedious screed on the event that is best ignored entirely.
- His writings varied from incoherent screeds to astute examinations of government hypocrisy.
2A leveled layer of material (e.g., cement) applied to a floor or other surface.
- The lift was inoperable, the walls had been left with barely an undercoat on them and there was bare screed on the floors.
- While modest in its material composition - concrete, screed, plasterboard and glass - the building has been made with precision and consistency.
- It is not the moisture in the slab or screed which is important, but the quantity of moisture leaving the slab and generating the vapour pressure.
2.1A strip of plaster or other material placed on a surface as a guide to thickness.
- These screeds will guide the straightedge (called a rod) that is used to level the surface in Step 7.
- If you are building large slabs, could you survive without a laser screed or a power trowel?
- We have seen truss screeds used to span 50-foot wide sections, but that is pushing things near their limit - unless flatness isn't an issue.
verb[with object] Back to top
Level (a floor or layer of concrete) with a straight edge using a back and forth motion while moving across the surface.
- Once the floor is initially screeded, the first hand tool in the superflat process is the saw beam.
- A profile pan located on the back edge of the grout box is equipped with a tamper bar that oscillates vertically to push aggregate below the profile pan as the concrete is screeded.
- After placement, the panels are screeded with a straightedge or vibrating screed in preparation for finishing.
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Standardisation of rates using logistic regression : a comparison with the direct method
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BACKGROUND: Standardisation of rates in health services research is generally undertaken using the direct and indirect arithmetic methods. These methods can produce unreliable estimates when the calculations are based on small numbers. Regression based methods are available but are rarely applied in practice. This study demonstrates the advantages of using logistic regression to obtain smoothed standardised estimates of the prevalence of rare disease in the presence of covariates. METHODS: Step by step worked examples of the logistic and direct methods are presented utilising data from BETS, an observational study designed to estimate the prevalence of subclinical thyroid disease in the elderly. Rates calculated by the direct method were standardised by sex and age categories, whereas rates by the logistic method were standardised by sex and age as a continuous variable. RESULTS: The two methods produce estimates of similar magnitude when standardising by age and sex. The standard errors produced by the logistic method were lower than the conventional direct method. CONCLUSION: Regression based standardisation is a practical alternative to the direct method. It produces more reliable estimates than the direct or indirect method when the calculations are based on small numbers. It has greater flexibility in factor selection and allows standardisation by both continuous and categorical variables. It therefore allows standardisation to be performed in situations where the direct method would give unreliable results.
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Effect of rear-end extensions on the aerodynamic forces of an SUV
Paper i proceeding, 2014
Under a global impulse for less man-made emissions, the automotive manufacturers search for innovative methods to reduce the fuel consumption and hence the CO2-emissions. Aerodynamics has great potential to aid the emission reduction since aerodynamic drag is an important parameter in the overall driving resistance force. As vehicles are considered bluff bodies, the main drag source is pressure drag, caused by the difference between front and rear pressure. Therefore increasing the base pressure is a key parameter to reduce the aerodynamic drag. From previous research on small-scale and full-scale vehicles, rear-end extensions are known to have a positive effect on the base pressure, enhancing pressure recovery and reducing the wake area. This paper investigates the effect of several parameters of these extensions on the forces, on the surface pressures of an SUV in the Volvo Cars Aerodynamic Wind Tunnel and compares them with numerical results. To decrease the dependency of other effects within the engine bay and underbody, the SUV has been investigated in a closed-cooling configuration with upper and lower grille closed and with a smoothened underbody. These results might change if the study would be conducted with a less smooth underbody and in an open-cooling configuration. Extensions with different shapes and dimensions have been placed around the perimeter of the base exterior. The chosen design philosophy of the extensions allowed for different combinations with variable inclination angles depending on their position along the base perimeter, multiple extension lengths and shapes to be investigated. The results show that the extension shape is an important factor in reducing the aerodynamic drag. Significant drag reductions could be obtained while maintaining the vehicle's rear lift within acceptable levels for stability with a kicker attached to the extension. The investigation shows the reduction with a kicker holds for up to 7.5° yaw angles. With a beneficial shape, the extension length can be significantly reduced. The reduced drag is visible in the wake by a more concentric wake.


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This bitmap format is used in the Kodak DC series family of cameras. It is also known under the name Kodak Photogen. KDC is a RAW photo format for the post-processing of photos that has the ability to change key image parameters while maintaining the original level of detail.
This format is used to store background images in uncompressed form in the X Windows System user interface for remote server maintenance. It stores a 'dump' or screenshot of the window or background of the client program. It may include different colors depending on the capabilities of the graphics card that is used to create the XWD file.


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Writing in the International Journal of Food Science & Technology, the researchers note that jumbo squid mantle muscle used to make frankfurter-type products performed well in sensory tests.
The results suggest that the mantle muscle of the cephalopod could open up "a range of possibilities for product development", wrote the authors, led by Anibal Felix-Armenta.
"The importance of the present study lies in that no work has been published about the elaboration of gelled-emulsified type value-added product made of jumbo squid mantle muscle," said the researchers.
Using the mantle muscle of jumbo squid (Dosidicus gigas), reportedly an abundant species in the Gulf of California, the researchers evaluated the formulation, processing and physicochemical characteristics of a gelled-emulsion frankfurter-type product.
The researchers note no changes in the pH or the water holding capacity of the product, a result they took to show as "an indication of the great stability this product can show during cold storage".
Analysis of the sensory qualities, including colour, flavour, aroma, texture and overall acceptability found that colour was most negatively criticised factor. This was followed by aroma and texture, said the researchers.
The panellists involved in the sensory tests said they 'liked slightly' the product. One explanation for this relatively low score, said the researchers, was that this "might be […] the panellists' first introduction to this type of product, as no seafood frankfurter has been introduced in the regional market".
The researchers noted an unfavourable microbial profile, with growth of aerobic bacteria observed during 27 days of storage.
"The results […] indicate that, although a stable product may be manufactured, more work needs to be done to increase the further physicochemical and microbiological storage life of jumbo squid frankfurters," said the researchers.
"This study showed that having a proper post-harvest control of raw material (jumbo squid mantle muscle) results in the production of a wholesome gelled-emulsified type product.
"In general, from the physicochemical stand point, frankfurters showed good storage stability during the evaluated period. However, microbial growth was the decisive factor for their storage life," they concluded.
Source: International Journal of Food Science & Technology Published online ahead of print, doi: 10.1111/j._PHONE_.2007.01709.x"Jumbo squid (Dosidicus gigas) mantle muscle gelled-emulsified type product: formulation, processing and physicochemical characteristics" Authors: A. Felix-Armenta, J.C. Ramirez-Suarez, R. Pacheco-Aguilar, M.E. Diaz-Cinco, G. Cumplido-Barbeitia, G. Carvallo-Ruiz


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In floating environments such as the captions of figures, LaTeX has a \global\_USER_, why is this necessary and what does this switch do?
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The _USER_ switch is used by LaTeX to handle vertical spacing at the beginning of a minipage environment (or a similar construct). If it is true then \addvspace is not adding space. So if, for example, a minipage starts of with a list environment then the space normally added in front of the list (by \addvspace) is suppressed.
The switch will be set to true at the beginning of a minipage environment (or a similar construct) and is normally set to false by \everypar, i.e., the moment textual material appears in that "minipage".
Now in the case of the caption implementation, two different strategies are used: if the caption is wider than the current horizontal width, then it is re-set as a normal paragraph (so the switch would be set to false by \everypar). However is it is small then the box is used directly without triggering the paragraph builder. Therefore one has to set the switch manually in this case.
And the reason that it is done globally is just because the switch is always manipulated globally.
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The float mechanism, like minipage, sets the flag |_USER_| true
before executing the user-supplied text. Many \LaTeX\ constructs
test for this flag and do not add vertical space when it is true.
The intention is that this emulates \TeX's 'top of page' behaviour.
The flag must be set false at the start of the first paragraph. This
is achieved by a redefinition of |\everypar|, but the call to
|\_USER_| removes that redefinition, so it is re-inserted
if needed. If the flag is already false then the |\caption| was not
the first entry in the float, and so some other paragraph has already
activated the special |\everypar|. In this case no further action is
The most important command that tests this switch is \addvspace which is the command that is mostly used to add the vertical space around display environments such as lists. It is a global flag and setting it in a float environment means the float acts in a consistent way even if it floats from somewhere where it is set to somewhere where it would not be set.
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This much I could gather from the source2e, but shouldn't it then be outside the conditional? Why only at the hboxed caption? – Yiannis Lazarides Apr 29 '12 at 19:52
_USER_ Frank just answered the point about caption in his answer – David Carlisle Apr 29 '12 at 19:54
_USER_ I think David's last part of the answer is a red herring. The switch takes care of itself and it only has to be set by \caption because of the caption implementation avoiding normal paragraphs. It is not doing a standardization which happens elsewhere. – Frank Mittelbach Apr 29 '12 at 19:59
Hmm if in doubt I'd believe _USER_, rather than me:-) But I wasn't so much thinking about caption there, as arbitrary addvspace at the top of the float. If the switch wasn't set by the float addvspace would pick up whatever value was current at the point of the float, wouldn't it? Ah we are agreeing. I think. the start of the float is the "elsewhere" that Frank meant:-) – David Carlisle Apr 29 '12 at 20:04
indeed :-) the elsewhere is \_USER_ which sets the switch. And by the way if the caption is at the bottom of the float then it is correct if '\addvspace adds space. – Frank Mittelbach Apr 29 '12 at 20:10
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for closing client connections, session.stop and session.close. Both methods disconnect the client. The difference is that stop also tells the client not to reconnect. You should use close when a recoverable server error occurs, and stop when the client is in an unrecoverable invalid state.
For example, if an exception occurs handling a message from a client, you may want to call close() to force the client to reconnect. On the other hand, if a browser is trying to connect using an old version of your app, you should call stop(). In the browser, you can handle the stop message with a notice to refresh the browser tab.
Events
The client is an event emitter. It fires the following events:
 - close (reason): The client connection was closed. This will happen for a variety of reasons (timeouts, explicit disconnection from the client, disconnection from the server, etc). Once a client has closed, it is gone forever. If the client reconnects, it will do so by establishing a new session.
 - message (data): The server received a message from the client. The data object will be a javascript object.
 - state changed (oldstate, newstate): The client's state changed. Clients start in the 'init' state. They move to the 'ok' state when the session is established then go to the 'closed' state. If a client reconnects, they will create an entirely new session. init -> ok -> closed are the only three valid state transitions.
Client API
For the most part, the client API is identical to websockets.
var socket = new BCSocket(hostname, opts);
opts is optional, and if it exists it should be an object which can contain the following properties:
 - appVersion: Your application's protocol version. This is passed to the server-side browserchannel code, in through your session handler as session.appVersion
 - prev: The previous BCSocket object, if one exists. When the socket is established, the previous bcsocket session will be disconnected as we reconnect.
 - reconnect: Tell the socket to automatically reconnect when its been disconnected.
 - failFast: Make the socket report errors immediately, rather than trying a few times first.
 - crossDomainXhr: Set to true to enable the cross-origin credential flags in XHR requests. The server must send the Access-Control-Allow-Credentials header and can't use wildcard access control hostnames. See: _URL_
 - affinity: Set to null to disable session affinity token passing.
 - affinityParam: Session affinity tokens are sent in the query string as the GET parameter a by default. Your application may override the variable name if there is a query string conflict.
There are a couple of differences from the websocket API:
 - You can (and are encouraged to) call send() using JSON objects instead of mere strings. JSON serialization is handled by the library, and works in all browsers.
 - You can send messages immediately before the session is established. This removes a roundtrip before client messages can arrive on the server.
 - Browserchannel sessions have reconnect support. You should register socket.onconnecting = function() {...} to send any messages which need to be sent as the session is established. This will be called both when the socket is first established and when the session reconnects.
Caveats
 - It doesn't do RPC.
 - Currently there's no websocket support. So, its higher bandwidth on modern browsers. On iOS you'll sometimes see a perpetual loading spinner in the top black bar.
How to rebuild the client
The client uses google's closure library & compiler. There's a couple small bugs that google still hasn't fixed in their library (and probably never will), so I have a patch file kicking around.
Rebuilding the client library is annoying, so I keep an up to date compiled copy in dist/.
 1. Download the closure library as a sibling of this repository
 cd ..
 git clone _URL_
 git checkout -q df47692b1bacd494548a3b00b150d9f6a428d58a
 cd closure-library

 2. Download the closure compiler
 curl _URL_ > compiler-latest.tar.gz
 tar -xvf compiler-latest.tar.gz
 mv compiler-latest/compiler.jar .

 3. Patch the library
 cd closure/
 patch -p0 < ../../node-browserchannel/closure-*.patch

 4. Build
 cd ../../node-browserchannel
 make

Caveats
Java ~1.7 is a hard requirement.
Building this project with Java ~1.6 will fail, and may even fail silently.
Known issue with latest closure-library.
Until the bug introduced in closure-library#83c6a0b9 is resolved upstream, use closure-library#df47692
License
Licensed under the standard MIT license:
Copyright 2011 Joseph Gentle.
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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IJSRP, Volume 7, Issue 2, February 2017 Edition [ISSN 2250-3153]
Prof Vaibhav Gandhi, Dr C K Kumbharana
India is 2nd largest country after China based on its population. Even whole country is divided based on different language, region, rituals and lots many differences. Efficient governance of such large country with such diversity is tough task. Government of India is aggressively using Information and Communication Technologies in their daily work to provide SMART (Simple, Moral, Accountable, Responsive and Transparent) governance to every citizen of India. The tools, technology and methods used in E-Governance application provide a roadmap for effective and timely delivery of services at the door step of citizen. Majority of regular interaction of government and citizen is done through Local Bodies of government. Local Body is classified in Urban Local Body (ULB) and Rural Local Body (RLB). Purpose of this paper is to examine E-Governance implementation in Local Bodies in India.


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PRESS RELEASE – The Msgr. Patrick Anthony Folk Research Centre will present a lecture by Professor Claire Robertson of the Ohio State University as part of its contribution to the Nobel Laureate Festival 2018.
The Lecture takes place at the FRC headquarters at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, January 29, and is entitled, "Saint Lucia's Revolutionary History: It's Important!"
Robertson's most recent book is titled "Gwan moun sé wimed: elders are medicine — Life stories from twentieth century Saint Lucia", her rendering of the life stories of 57 elderly St. Lucians from all over St. Lucia, as related to her in the early 2000s.
She is Professor Emerita of History and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies from The Ohio State University, also adjunct professor at Indiana University in the US.
This work makes her eighth book; two of them have won book prizes. She has also published over 55 articles, many of which deal with slavery in Africa and the Americas, but also with African market women and systems, based on research in Ghana and Kenya. Two of her articles relate specifically to Saint Lucia: "Racism, the Military, and Abolitionism in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Caribbean," Jl. of Military History 77, 2 (April, 2013): 433-61, and "Claiming Freedom: Abolition and Identity in Saint Lucian History," Jl. of Caribbean History 34, 1-2 (2001): 89-129.
Robertson's work covers specialties in African and Women's History, with much interest in the Caribbean. She has been affiliated with the Msgr. Patrick Anthony Folk Research Centre for many years. The Centre greatly facilitated her research.
She is strongly committed to the use of oral history to illuminate the history of ordinary people, whose stories are often extraordinary but all too often ignored.
On a recent visit to St. Lucia, she distributed several copies of this new book to the Ministry of Education, schools, libraries and persons interviewed for the book.
The general public is invited to attend the lecture.


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Cell count gizmo
INSTANT indications of cow cell counts are now possible in the parlour using a device from Germany.
David Gill of UK agents Pro-Products claim that as cell count increases the salt level of milk increases, so measuring conductivity allows cell counts to be monitored.
"It doesnt give a cell count figure because there is no direct correlation between cell count and salt level," he says. A meter reading of 300 is good; when the reading is below 300 then a cow can be monitored and the infected quarter identified and treated before clinical signs of mastitis are seen. Cost is £250. (01772-627200).


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Mutation protocols are a key tool in computational biophysics for modelling unknown side chain conformations. In particular, these protocols are used to generate the starting structures for molecular dynamics simulations. The accuracy of the initial side chain and backbone placement is crucial to obtain a stable and quickly converging simulation. In this work, we assessed the performance of several mutation protocols in predicting the most probable conformer observed in finite temperature molecular dynamics simulations for a set of protein-peptide crystals differing only by single-point mutations in the peptide sequence. Our results show that several programs which predict well the crystal conformations fail to predict the most probable finite temperature configuration. Methods relying on backbone-dependent rotamer libraries have, in general, a better performance, but even the best protocol fails in predicting approximately 30% of the mutations.
Assessing the capability of in silico mutation protocols for predicting the finite temperature conformation of amino acids / Ochoa, Rodrigo; Soler, Miguel A.; Laio, Alessandro; Cossio, Pilar. - In: PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS. - ISSN _PHONE_. - 20:40(2018), pp. 25901-25909. [10.1039/c8cp03826k]


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Vegetative Meaning and Definition in Dictionary
Definitions from Wordnet 2.0
- composed of vegetation or plants; "regions rich in vegetal products"; "vegetational cover"; "the decaying vegetative layer covering a forest floor"
- (of reproduction) characterized by asexual processes
- used of involuntary bodily functions; "vegetative functions such as digestion or growth or circulation"
- of or relating to an activity that is passive and monotonous; "a dull vegetative lifestyle"
Would you like to add your own explaination to this word 'Vegetative'?
Wikipedia Meaning and Definition on 'Vegetative'
- Vegetative: Vegetative describes vegetation. Vegetative may also refer to: Vegetative reproduction, a type of asexual reproduction for plants Persistent vegetative
- Vegetative reproduction: For vegetative reproduction of animals and fungi, see Budding. Vegetative reproduction (vegetative propagation, vegetative multiplication
- Vegetative Sculpture I: (2012). "Vegetative Sculpture I (sculpture)". Inventory of American Sculpture. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 27 December 2012. "Vegetative Sculpture
- Persistent vegetative state: syndrome. After four weeks in a vegetative state (VS), the patient is classified as in a persistent (or 'continuing') vegetative state. This diagnosis is classified
- Vegetative symptoms: be confused with Vegetative state. Vegetative symptoms are disturbances of a person's functions necessary to maintain life (vegetative functions). These
- Permanent vegetative cover: Permanent vegetative cover refers to trees, perennial bunchgrasses and grasslands, legumes, and shrubs with an expected life span of at least 5 years.
- Vegetative treatment system: and a Vegetative Treatment Area (VTA), all these components when used together are considered a Vegetative Treatment System. A Vegetative Treatment
- Vegetative phase change: Vegetative phase change is the juvenile-to-adult transition in plants. This transition is most prolonged and pronounced in woody species. Manipulating


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How paintballs are made
How Paintballs Are Made
Softgels are made on special, very expensive, softgel encapsulating machines. In 1933, Robert Scherer designed and patented the first such machine. Here's how a softgel encapsulation machine works:
- Hot liquid gelatin is formed into two thin but wide gelatin ribbons. Each gelatin ribbon passes over a rotating die. The dies are designed to form a capsule of a particular size and shape, such as a paintball. Softgels can be round like paintballs, oblong, or unusually-shaped.
- Each die with its gelatin ribbon presses against the other die as the dies rotate. Each die has half the gelatin shell. As the dies meet, the fill (whatever goes inside the softgel) is injected into the area between the two gelatin sheets. The dies continue to rotate, pressing the two warm gelatin ribbons against each other and forming a filled gelatin capsule. The seam on a paintball shows where the two gelatin sheets met.
- Finally, the now-sealed gelatin capsule drops away from the rotating dies. It is not, however, ready to use when it drops form the machine. For example, when it drops down, what will become a paintball is rubbery and larger than it will be when it is ready to shoot. These bouncy, not-quite-ready softgels are gently tumbled, and then dried in trays in a climate-controlled environment. The gelatin and fill shrink as they dry.
- At RPS, technicians constantly monitor the encapsulation machines as they run. Technicians will randomly check the encapsulations to see the product meets required specifications. Technicians also check the paintballs when they're dry. Any that are not up to RPS's specifications are removed and destroyed. When ready, the paintballs are packaged to move onward toward the end consumers.
- Paintballs are made from materials such as Gelatin derived from pork skins and beef bones/hides, Poly-Ethel Glycol (PEG), Glycerin, Sorbitol, water, free fatty acids, titanium dioxide, starches, surfactants, emulsifiers and FD+C colorants. A majority of these components are naturally occurring (although processed) such as Gelatin, water and Soybean. Other materials are derivatives of other natural components such as PEG, and starches. All are non-toxic and safe for use in paintball.


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|dc.description.abstract||KULE SYLVESTER (2010-M152-20028)
The Impact of Agro-tourism on Sustainable Agricultural Production in Rakai Agro-ecological Zone
This research study on the impact of agro-tourism on sustainable agricultural production was carried out in the Rakai district agro-ecological zone. The study used both qualitative and quantitative methods to collect data from the respondents. The study was majorly guided by three research objectives, which included; examining agro-tourism practices in Rakai agro-ecological zone; to find out the benefits of agro-tourism on sustainable agricultural production in Rakai agro-ecological zone and; to establish the challenges of agro-tourism in Rakai agro-ecological zone. Both primary and secondary data were collected using observation, oral interviews and a questionnaire. This was done because the researcher had a big sample population of 119 which was selected from the farmers who are involved in different agro-tourism enterprises in the study. From the analysis of both qualitative and quantitative data, the findings revealed that 70% of the people in Rakai agro-ecological zone are involved in agro-tourism as one of their major economic activities and source of income, although they experience so many challenges such as poor market, poor transport zone and limited support from the government. The study concluded that agro-tourism is a good farming practice that builds visiting farmers‟ experiences, confidence & morale, thus enabling/encouraging farmers to increase their productivity and marketing skills. Enterprise mix is characteristic of most agro-tourism farmers visited (Bananas, coffee, cattle, sheep, poultry, maize beans, Vegetables, fruits, Apiary). Basing on the research findings, the researcher recommended that farmers need more help in the use of indigenous knowledge, synthetic pesticides, chemicals and herbicides to control pests, diseases and weeds respectively; there is need for agro-tourism farmers to access credit from micro-finance institutions at reasonable interest rates. There is need for government support through favourable policies, provision of security and other financial help to be provided among farmers in Rakai agro-ecological zone to boost the agro-tourism sector, improve their well-being and contribute to the development of their area.
Key words: Agro-tourism, Production, Sustainable||en_US


text: Tobias Kukulka received his PhD from the University of Rhode Island, where he developed a coupled model of wind and waves. Ocean surface waves play a critical role in the exchange of heat, greenhouse gases, and momentum between the ocean and atmosphere. At the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Dr. Kukulka collaborates with Dr. Albert J. Plueddemann from the Department of Physical Oceanography and Dr. John Trowbridge from the Department of Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, in order to investigate the influence of surface waves on the oceanic boundary layer. Combining state-of-the-art acoustic measurements with numerical analysis, Dr. Kukulka studies subsurface turbulence and the mechanisms responsible for mixing at the air-sea interface. By better understanding of these air-sea interaction processes, which are related to waves and relatively small in scale, Dr. Kukulka's research will improve global climate models.


Arduino/Four wire stepper test
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Motor Inspection[edit | edit source]
Stepper Motor from discarded printer or fax
The motor originally came from a fax or printer that had been discarded. The motor had a label. From this label, specifications to a similar motor were found. There were four, identical red wires attached to it. Since the wires were stranded, solid wires were soldered onto the ends.
Arduino Motor Shield[edit | edit source]
Stepper Motors connect to the arduino through a motor shield. Adafruit makes an inexpensive shield.
adafruit motor shield
Two motor drivers were downloaded as zip files and expanded into a window's machines c:\programs\arduino\libraries folder. The new folder names were to long and contained spaces according to an error message that hid behind some open windows. The arduino IDE would not start. The folders were renamed AccelStepper and MotorShield. Then the arduino IDE started. New examples appeared in the arduino software files > examples folder.
Decoding Wires[edit | edit source]
The four stranded red wires were attached to four different colored solid wires. The connector has 5 holes, with a number 5 on the left. The middle pin was empty. The pair near pin 5 were given the colors blue, then orange. The pair nearest pin 1 were given the colors orange and red.
Motor Connector
Then resistance was measured between blue/orange and purple/red was 10 ohms.
Stepper Test[edit | edit source]
The example sketch StepperTest was found associated with the MotorShield driver. This code suggested that the motor's four wires should be attached to M3 and M4 on the motor shield. Orange/Blue were attached to M3 and purple/red were attached to M4. The sketch was uploaded to the arduino and the motor began to turn. A video was taken.
Wiring[edit | edit source]
Stepper motor wiring is easy. Stepper motors have inductors that turn into electro-magnents like all other motors. The inductors have an internal winding resistance. The 4 wire stepper motor above had two inductors of 10 ohms. There were two pairs of wires. These pairs can be plugged into the adafruit motorshield into a wiring header. The stepper test sketch software assumes you are plugging into the header labeled M3 and M4.
The pairs of wires are determined with an ohm meter. Then one pair is plugged into M3 and the other into M4. It doesn't matter which pair goes where. It doesn't matter which wire of the pair is in the left hole of M3. Hook the motor up. Reverse the pairs, reverse which wire is in the M3 left hole, and the motor will start up in the reverse direction. Messing up the pairs causes the stepper motor drive shaft to oscillate back and forth.
Power[edit | edit source]
Start with powering the motor from the USB cable. Touch the motor, touch the chips on the motor shield to see that things are not heating up. The 10 ohm motor started heating up with just power from the usb cable. Adding an external 9V 650ma DC adapter to the arduino caused the motor and a chip on the motor shield to heat up fast and to heat up too hot to touch. The DC adapter started to buzz and perhaps started to heat up. Here is probably why: I=V/R = 9volts/10 ohms = 900 ma which is much greater than the rated 650 ma. Motors with larger inductor winding resistance remained cool, chips on the motor shield remained cool, but then the adapter started buzzing.
Revolutions[edit | edit source]
Most of the motors tested stepped 7.5 degrees. 100 steps means 750 degrees rotation... two complete circles plus 30 degrees. This was observed on most motors. There was one stepper motor where it appeared that 100 steps was one complete rotation meaning the steps were 3.2 degrees.


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IMPROVING FLIGHT SAFETY – AVOIDING STALL
SRS® is responsible for the wings ability to fly and launch at amazingly low speed despite its high wing loading, preventing the wing and pilot from stalling at critical angle of attack.
SRS® is the most effective tool in aiding automatic wing recovery in case of a stall (exclusive APCO invention – pat. pend.)
A few words on the safety of paragliding, in particular about deep stall problems and possible solutions to avoid it.
The wing design of paraglider should provide for safe flight envelope, preventing the possibility of unintended stall.
Despite this, stall can occur sometimes, but the wing should recover automatically to avoid accident.
A difficult task, – often a real headache for the designer.
APCO team encountered this problem too while developing new wings, but unlike others they took an unorthodox approach in solving the problem.
Simple, ingenious system built into the risers, allowing for instant automatic wing recovery with no pilot input designed by APCO – it is now part of many APCO wings, keeping flying safe.
Named SRS® (Automatic Stall Recovery System) – It is a typical example of APCO's intelligent approach to problem solving and thinking out of the box.
The SRS® function is simple and makes perfect sense if you think about this.
It is only surprising that no one thought of this idea before.
In normal flight the center of pressure is near the leading edge (approximately the first third of the wing's chord – sketch 1.)
During deep stall configuration, the wing's center of pressure moves far back to the geometric center of the chord (sketch 2).
The principle of SRS® function is based on shifting the center of pressure when wing is stalled, creating an automatic leverage mechanism for reduction of wings angle of attack and immediate recovery from stall (sketches 3 and 4).


text: The history of Baja California has been closely tied to the exploitation of pearls since the 16th century. Using rudimentary diving techniques for most of this era, European and Mexican entrepreneurs recovered vast amounts of fine, dark pearls from this region. However, years of overfishing inevitably led to decades when the oyster beds were all but barren. Introduction of the diving suit in the 19th century extended the depth of the beds that could be fished, but overexploitation continued largely unchecked. Cultivation of the pearl oyster Pinctadamazatlanica by Gaston Vives, between 1903 and 1914, greatly slowed exhaustion of the natural stock. His company, CCCP, represented the world's first large-scale cultivation of pearl oysters, and many of Vives's discoveries are used today in renewed pearl-oyster cultivation and pearl-culturing activities in Baja California.


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This paper will give a view on the present situation (Autumn 2005) of the Identity Management (IM) of the Hungarian Minorities' Cultural Societies in the Croatian Slovenija/Baranya and the Lendava area in Slovenia at the border between Slovenia and Hungary.
The Hungarian ethnic group is not an enclave in Croatia and Slovenia, but a group of mixed culture. There is mutuality between the autochthonous Hungarian minority and the majority population in these countries. There are even mixed marriages. People are bilinguals.
The main focus will be on the present mechanism(s) of self organisation (IM from the inside) on the one hand, and how organisations link to the Slovenian, Croatian und Hungarian governments (IM from the outside) on the other hand. It further will be shown how these associations express and trully represent the identity as well as the cultural needs of the minority.
This paper will compare these two above named areas, show differences and similarities from an ethnological point of view.


Chief's Message
Peace making in an ever changing world. For thousands of years, the Lenca rulers of Managuara have not only played a delicate stewardship of the narrow land bridge in the continent, they have also played a mediation role between the north and south cultural blocs. In this video, the current Chief explains that unique role of the House and the Chief. By extension, it is the role of all Lenca descendants, wherever they are.
Who and where are the Lenca? What is their role among other Native Nations?
Filmed at All My Relations Arts, Native American Community Development Institute.


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AU Commission appoints High Level African Panel on Emerging Technologies
4 January 2017
The Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), HE Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, has made a landmark decision by appointing ten (10) eminent experts from various fields to serve on the High Level African Panel on Emerging Technologies (APET). The High Level-APET has been constituted in recognition of the need to harness both existing and emerging technologies for the economic development of Africa.
The appointed ten eminent experts are drawn from diverse professional backgrounds and are critical in terms of providing evidence-based analyses and recommendations that should inform policy direction at the continental, regional and national level on the utilization of existing and emerging technologies.
"The adoption of every technology is sometimes associated with controversies bordering on the mix of benefits and potential adverse effects. The appointed High Level African Panel on Emerging Technologies shall be used as a resource pool from which AU Member States and Regional Economic Communities (RECs) can draw expert knowledge and advice" HE Dr Zuma emphasized.
Chairs & members
The High Level-APET consists of 10 leading experts in various fields, representing both gender and geographical demographics and is co-chaired by Prof. Calestous Juma of Harvard University and Prof. Yaye Kène-Gassama Dia of University Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar. Other members of the panel include: Prof. Roseanne Diab, Executive Officer of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) and Emeritus Professor in the School of Environmental Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal; Professor Berhanu Abegaz, Executive Director of the African Academy of Sciences; Professor Francine Ntoumi, currently, Director of the Foundation Congolaise pour la Recherche Médicale and Senior Lecturer at University M. Ngouabi, Congo-Brazzaville; and Professor Abdallah Daar, Professor of Public Health Sciences at the Dalla Lama Faculty of Public Health, University of Toronto, with a cross-appointment in the department of Surgery.


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Observed relationships between maize yield and climate in Sri Lanka
Karunaratne, A.S. and Wheeler, T. (2015) Observed relationships between maize yield and climate in Sri Lanka. Agronomy Journal, 107 (1). pp. 395-405. ISSN _PHONE_
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To link to this item DOI: 10.2134/agronj14.0043
The present study evaluated the effects of climate variability on maize (Zea mays L.) yield in Sri Lanka at different spatial scales. Biophysical data from the Department of Agriculture (DOA) in Sri Lanka for six major maize-growing districts (Ampara, Anuradhapura, Badulla, Hambantota, Moneragala, and Kurunegala) from 1990 to 2010 were analyzed. Simple linear regression models were fitted to observed climate data and detrended maize yield to identify significant correlations. The correlation between first differences of maize yield and climate (r) was further investigated at 0.50° grid scale using interpolated climate data. After 2003, significantly positive (p < 0.01) yield trends varied from 154 kg ha–1 yr–1 to 360 kg ha–1 yr–1. The correlations between maize yield and climate reported that five out of six districts were significant at 10% level. Rainfall had a consistent significant (p < 0.10) positive impact on maize yield in Anuradhapura, Hambantota, and Moneragala, where seasonal total rainfall together with high temperature ("hot-dry") are the key limitations. Further, the seasonal mean temperature had a negative impact on maize yield in Moneragala ("hot-dry"), the only district that showed high temperatures. Badulla district ("cold-dry") reported a significant (r = 0.38) positive correlation with mean seasonal temperature, indicating higher potential toward increasing temperatures. Each 1°C rise in seasonal mean temperature reduced maize yield by about 5% from 1990 to 2010. Overall, there was a reasonable correlation between district maize yield and seasonal climate in most of the districts within the maize belt of Sri Lanka.
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ZX BASIC:FSqrt.bas
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fSqrt
ZX BASIC uses the ZX Spectrum ROM routine to calculate many of the floating point math functions. Unfortunately, some of the functions are notoriously slow. Square root being one of them - there wasn't enough space in the original ROM design to do a good routine, so they cheated. They calculate x^(0.5) instead, and roll straight into the exponent routine. It turns out that though this works, it's exceptionally slow.
This function uses the Newton Raphson method. It produces exactly the same full floating point result (it even uses the ROM calculator), but it does it about six times faster. If you have a program that's calculating lots of square roots, this will make a big difference. However, note that integer square roots are faster still, and if you are games programming, accuracy might not be so critical. See iSqrt.bas for details.

' Fast floating Point Square Root Function
' Adapted and modified for Boriel's ZX BASIC
' By Britlion
FUNCTION FASTCALL fSqrt (radicand AS FLOAT) AS FLOAT
ASM
; FLOATS arrive in A ED CB
;A is the exponent.

 AND A ; Test FOR zero argument
 RET Z ; RETURN with zero.

 ;Strictly we should test the number FOR being negative AND quit IF it is.
 ;But LET's assume we like imaginary numbers, hmm?
 ; IF you'd rather break it change to a jump to an error below.
 ;BIT 7,E ; Test the bit.
 ;JR NZ,REPORT ; back TO REPORT_A
 ; 'Invalid argument'
 RES 7,E ; Now it's a positive number, no matter what.

 call __FPSTACK_PUSH ; Okay, We put it on the calc stack. Stack contains ABS(x)

 ; Halve the exponent TO achieve a good guess.(accurate with .25 16 64 etc.)

 ; REMember, A is the exponent.
 XOR $80 ; toggle sign of exponent
 SRA A ; shift right, bit 7 unchanged.
 INC A ;
 JR Z,ASIS ; forward with say .25 -> .5
 JP P,ASIS ; leave incREMent if value > .5
 DEC A ; restore TO shift only.
ASIS: XOR $80 ; restore sign.

 call __FPSTACK_PUSH ; Okay, NOW we put the guess on the stack
 rst 28h ; ROM CALC ;;guess,x
 DEFB $C3 ;;st-mem-3
 DEFB $02 ;;delete

SQRLOOP: DEFB $31 ;;duplicate
 DEFB $E3 ;;get-mem-3
 DEFB $C4 ;;st-mem-4
 DEFB $05 ;;div
 DEFB $E3 ;;get-mem-3
 DEFB $0F ;;addition
 DEFB $A2 ;;stk-half
 DEFB $04 ;;multiply
 DEFB $C3 ;;st-mem-3
 DEFB $E4 ;;get-mem-4
 DEFB $03 ;;subtract
 DEFB $2A ;;abs
 DEFB $37 ;;greater-0
 DEFB $00 ;;jump-true

 DEFB SQRLOOP - $ ;;to sqrloop

 DEFB $02 ;;delete
 DEFB $E3 ;;get-mem-3
 DEFB $38 ;;end-calc SQR x.

 jp __FPSTACK_POP

END ASM
END FUNCTION
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text: Editor's note: This is the fifth column in a series that challenges misconceptions about entrepreneurship. Myth: When measuring share of small business employment, the terms "small firm" and "small establishment" mean the same thing. Reality: To determine the share of employment small businesses account for in the U.S., I've always used data from the Office of Advocacy of the Small Business Administration which provides data produced by the U.S. Census on small business employment. The Census data on the SBA Web site shows that, in 2006 (the latest year available), 50.2% of U.S. employment lies in businesses with fewer than 500 employees. But recently I began looking at data from payroll provider Automatic Data Processing (ADP), which uses payroll data to track U.S. employment. ADP's data shows that the share of U.S. employment in businesses with less than 500 employees is more than 30 percentage points higher. In 2006, the ADP data showed that 82.9% of U.S. employment was in businesses with less than 500 employees. Huh? A 32.7% gap in the share of employment in businesses with fewer than 500 employees is much too large to be the result of just some slight difference in measurement. So something else must be going on. What's Behind the NumbersTo figure out what could explain the differences, I took a look at what the two sources are measuring. Both are comparing employment in businesses of less than 500 employees to the overall number of people employed and both exclude employment on farms. So it's not the size of the businesses or the exclusion of agriculture that's the cause of the difference. It's also not their labor force figures. The two sources' estimates of the number of people employed aren't that far off each other—119,917,000 for the SBA in 2006 and 113,475,000 for ADP in 2006. Even if we assume that every employee counted by the SBA and missed by ADP was employed in a large business, ADP's estimates would show that small businesses accounted for 77.2% of U.S. employment, whereas the Census/SBA estimates would show that small businesses only accounted for 50.2% of U.S. employment. The use of payroll data is also not the explanation. Census measures employment on the basis of payroll tax records, using employer identification numbers to identify businesses. ADP gets its estimates from "aggregated and anonymous payroll data that represents approximately 400,000 of ADP's 500,000 U.S. business clients" which are then extrapolated to the overall population. So both sources are using payroll data to measure employment. Different definitions of "business"The difference, it turns out, lies in how the two groups define "businesses." ADP is measuring establishments, whereas Census is measuring firms. And small establishments, it turns out, are very different than small firms. According to the U.S. Census, "an establishment is a single physical location where business transactions take place and for which payroll and employment records are kept." Firms are "groups of one or more establishments under common ownership or control." Many more Americans work in establishments with fewer than 500 employees than in firms with fewer than 500 employees because a lot of establishments are part of large firms. For example, the Gap (GPS) outlet at your local mall is considered an establishment if it has fewer than 500 employees, but it is considered part of a firm if it has more than 500 employees. So if we measure employment at establishments with fewer than 500 employees, everyone working at the Gap outlets in different malls around the country would be considered employed in small establishments. However, if we measure employment at firms with fewer than 500 employees, everyone working at those different Gap outlets (as long as they weren't franchised) would be considered employed at large firms. The difference between the establishment and firm data is corroborated by looking at County Business Patterns, a Census Bureau effort to measure establishments. County Business Patterns shows small establishment employment numbers very similar to those shown by ADP. In 2007, the Census data shows 79.7% of employment was in establishments with fewer than 500 employees, while ADP shows that 83.1% of employment was in "businesses" with fewer than 500 employees. Skewed Employment StatisticsPutting the data together, it is clear that a lot of people work in small establishments that are part of large firms. Unfortunately, most people looking at the different sources of data don't know this, especially since the different sources are saying that they are measuring "businesses." And, unless people look at both sources at the same time, they probably don't even know they are different. But the difference does make it difficult to discuss a basic fact about small business—the share of employment it accounts for. There are probably a number of reasons why measuring small establishments is problematic when seeking to understand small businesses. But here's just one: suppose policymakers want to put in place policies to increase small business employment if small business isn't accounting for an increasing share of total employment. If policymakers look at establishment data, they will get the wrong answer about what to do. The share of employment in small firms has been constant in recent years, while the share of employment in small establishments has been rising. So looking at establishment numbers would give policymakers the impression that small business is accounting for an increasing share of employment. A fact that turns out to be untrue.


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Mizuhiki Necklace (3 Buds) by Tsuda Mizuhiki
Tsuda Mizuhiki have been active in Kanazawa since 1915. This was in the Taishō period, a window of creativity and relative freedom in early 20th century Japan.
The company's founder Soukichi Tsuda, brought a new inspiration to the tradition of mizuhiki ties of colourful cord.
Tsuda's drawings and ideas led to the modern genesis of Kaga-style mizuhiki, which were more three dimensional and celebratory than the original ties for gift envelopes and samurai hair.
The Tsuda company, now in its fourth generation, remain at the heart of Kanazawa, and continue to adapt the forms of Kaga-mizuhiki.
Their range of accessories demonstrate this.
The three awaji type ties on this neckless, take their name from abalone sea snails. These are circular presentations of the colourful cords made by Tsuda Mizuhiki in the way developed in their family business.
The adjustable chain is around 43cm, and each bud is around 1cm in diameter.
There are three colours or colour combinations.


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Evaluation of Numerator Lead Effects on Aircraft Handling Qualities.
AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
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Results of a combined analyticalflight test evaluation to investigate the effects of short period zero T theta 2 on aircraft handling qualities are presented. Two optimal pilot models were used for the analytical portion. 1T theta 2 was varied from 0.1 to 10 for each 4 different short period configurations. Flight testing was accomplished in the variable stability NT-33A aircraft, over a range of 1T theta 2 values at one short period configuration. A pitch tracking task was used to generate RMS pitch errors for both the analytical and flight test phase. Cooper-Harper ratings were also collected during the flight test. Analytical results showed similar trends for all short period configurations, with pilot tracking task performance degrading at low 1T theta 2 values. The bandwidth criterion was of limited use in predicting handling qualities levels based on T theta 2 variations alone. DC gain variations produced minimal differences in pilot performance. Overall evaluation results indicate that T theta 2 placement is an important factor in short period handling qualities and should be included in future revisions to MIL-F-8785C.
- Human Factors Engineering and Man Machine Systems


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ANALYSIS OF THE EFFICIENCY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT SERVICES DELIVERY. AN APPLICATION TO URBAN PUBLIC TRANSPORT
place - urban, mode - mass transit
Urban transportation policy, Urban transit, Transit, Public transit, Public administration, Private sector, Private enterprise, Mass transit, Local transit, Local government, Government transportation, Economic efficiency
The aim of this paper is to compare the efficiency of public and private sectors in the provision of urban transport services. The paper provides the results of an empirical study commissioned by the Regional Audit Office of Catalonia (Spain), in order to evaluate the efficiency with which urban transportation services are delivered in the most important cities of this region. This efficiency study was conducted using the Data Envelopment Analysis model, multiple linear regression, and logit and cluster analysis. The results allow the authors to conclude that, in the cities studied, exogenous factors are not relevant and private management of urban transport service is not more efficient than public management.
Pina, V, Torres, L, (2001.) ANALYSIS OF THE EFFICIENCY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT SERVICES DELIVERY. AN APPLICATION TO URBAN PUBLIC TRANSPORT. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Volume 35, Issue 10, p. 929-944.


Cryptic clue: Horse-drawn vehicle industry
Answer: Diligence
How do we figure this one out?
Wiktionary says:
diligence (plural diligences)
 1. conscientiousness or determination or perseverance when doing something
 2. (religion) One of the seven contrary virtues, opposite the vice of sloth.
 3. A public stage-coach. (19th century, now used only in reference to France or other European countries including Great Britain.)
industry (in the sense of "busily working") would match definition 1, and definition 3 is a horse-drawn vehicle, if an obscure one. I had no idea!
 - wow. i didnt find this where i usually look. _URL_. Good one. I expected it to be something on "vehicle industry", and not "h-d vehicle; industry" as two clues. – JoseK Dec 24 '10 at 14:11
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 _USER_: you'd find it if you searched for "diligence"! – Jimi Oke Dec 24 '10 at 16:26
 - _USER_: but i did that too. _URL_ – JoseK Dec 25 '10 at 5:39
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 _USER_: if you look at definition #2, it says "a large stage-coach", which is basically a horse-drawn carriage. – Jimi Oke Dec 25 '10 at 9:41
Here's the etymology of the third meaning given at the Wiktionary.
From the secondary French sense comes the old usage of diligence for "public stage coach" (1742; dilly for short), from a French shortening of carrosse de diligence.
O.Fr. diligence means "attention, care; haste, speed," so carrosse de diligence means "speedy coach."
The Encylopaedia Britannica expands on how the diligence differs from the american stagecoach.
 - It amuses me that in 100 years we'll be similarly mystified by such words as cassette (what does that have to do with music?) and perchance newspaper (news was printed on paper??) – ghoppe Nov 4 '11 at 18:24


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PIB Supports a Number of Associations for Persons with Disabilities
As part of its Sustainable Social Responsibility Program, Palestine Islamic Bank (PIB) supported a number of associations involved in helping persons with disabilities and providing them with needed care.
The Bank supported the "Jasmine Charitable Society", a society working in the Governorates of Ramallah and Al-Bireh on the care, rehabilitation, and treatment of persons with disabilities, contributing to integrating them in the local community, and enabling them to exercise their basic rights.
In the Governorate of Nablus, the Bank provided its support to "Sanad Association for Persons with Special Needs", an association working to assess and rehabilitate children with special needs, and provide psychological and functional therapy services, as well as physiotherapy, speech-language therapy, and special education services.
In Gaza, the Bank has continuously supported the activities of the "Friendship Association for Autistic Children and Learning Disabilities" to empower the Association's journey to continue providing services for children with special needs, assisting them at developing their skills, responding to their needs, and providing the relevant educational tools in this respect.
Dr. Imad Al-Sadi, Director General of PIB, noted that the bank is keen to provide its annual support for associations that are active in support and care for persons with special needs, whereby such support would enable the associations to keep on providing their services, promote and empower this category of our community, and assist in its integration.
Al-Sadi stated: "In addition to the support provided by the Bank in favor of these associations, the Bank also seeks to ensure the alignment of its transactions, services, and facilities with the circumstances of persons with special needs. In this respect, PIB had already introduced sign language to banking transactions and offered withdrawal and deposit vouchers in Braille."
The mission and vision of PIB revolve around providing comprehensive high quality and modern banking solutions, following the provisions of the Islamic Sharia laws, and investment within an advanced technological perspective. It also sets a deliberate strategy to proceed with the digital transformation process, which resulted in launching pioneering digital services such as the 24-hour digital contact center, Islami Online, and Islami Mobile, which offer a distinctive package of banking services through an easy and secure environment that enhances the digital experience for its individual and corporate customers. PIB has also recently won "The Best Islamic Bank Award" and " The Best Digital Bank Award" in Palestine for the year 2021, according to International Business Magazine (INTLBM).


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Pixley Isaka Ka Seme
Born in 1881, Pixley Isaka Ka Seme was one of South Africa's most important historical figures. He is considered to be father of black attorneys. Seme was one of the earliest black South African to study overseas and paved the way for many others in the dedication to excellence and political awareness.
Named Isaac Seme after his Zulu father, Pixley Seme grew up in Natal and attended a local American missionary school. He showed exceptional promise and eagerness to study overseas, so much so that at the age of 17, Reverend Pixley helped him gain entrance to Mount Hermon School in the US. Here he took on the name Pixley. This passion for education saw Seme go on to complete his Bachelor Of Arts degree at Columbia University and his law degree at Oxford before returning to South Africa in 1911.
Back in South Africa, he opened up a law practice in partnership with Alfred Mangena. A year later Seme, Mangena and a few others called for the meeting of black communities throughout South Africa in Bloemfontein, and started what they called South African Native National Congress (SANNC). This organisation called for black unity despite tribal racism, and was later renamed the African National Congress (ANC) in 1923.
Having become an ANC founder, Seme also launched the SANNC newspaper, Abantu Batho, which was published in Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho and English and established another group, the South African Native Farmers Association. By this time, Seme had an established law practice, and some of his clients included the royal family of Swaziland. In 1928, Colombia University awarded him an Honorary Doctorate of Law (LLD). In 1951 he passed away at the age of 70.


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It is the most important and delicate operation, during which stigmas lose 20% of their initial weight and become special saffron.
We spread the fresh stigmata on metal fabric screens on wood embers. The dehydration is always carried out at more than 70 ° C and lasts about half an hour. To determine if the saffron is well dehydrated, the sense of touch is used and the color, aroma and appearance are observed. This process is vital for the determination of the organoleptic characteristics of saffron (color, flavor and aroma), in addition to the size it reaches.
The dedication we put into this process, the appropriate hygienic conditions, the rapid transformation process and the high temperatures used make a homogeneous saffron of excellent quality, without risks from the point of view of food safety.


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The grand Livadia Palace was created as a summer palace for Tsar Nikolas II. It was designed in the Italian Renaissance style by architect N. Krasnov (1864 - 1939).
Livadia was built on the site of the old palace and took seventeen months to build (from April 1910 - September 1911). Modern technologies were used to build the palace. No expenses were spared and besides Inkerman stone, the architect used all kinds of expensive material to create this beautiful White Palace. Its main entrance was designed in the form of a protruded portico and decorated with Carrera marble. The other portico was built in Arabian style and both are in their original form.
The Livadia Palace is of course known for a significant and historic event of the Second World War which took place here - the Yalta Conference.
This gallery holds pictures of the ground floor rooms where the Yalta Conference was held, as well as the first floor rooms with portraits of Tsar Nikolas II and his family, the Palace grounds and the Romanov family chapel.
Read more on Livadia (White) Palace HERE.


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Suspended load in water are a problem dam reservoir management. Accordingly a pre-construction study on suspended load is needed for dams and other hydraulic structures. There are several methods all of which need the results from the field sampling from the river under study or the conjunctive rivers. Because of limited data, interpolation and/or extrapolation will normally be necessary.
In this research, regarding the absence of gauges on SeydonRiver, data from other stations in the basin were used. The result was used on the area-ratio basis. This study was done using single line Sediment Duration Curve (SDC), double line and seasonal SDC, and, FAO methods. The result are then compared to the PESIAC method resulted in the selection of the best method for study area.


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This article examines the experience of stateless people in Thailand and how they overcome the problem of stigma. In 2020, there were 480,000 people in Thailand classified as stateless. They are individuals who migrated from neighboring countries and who settled mainly along the border with Myanmar. They are mostly members of hill tribes (such as the Akha, Lahu, Hmong, Lisu, Yao) with distinct languages and culture. They do not have Thai identification cards (IDs), which are required to access public services, including health care and higher levels of education, apply for professional jobs, and sell property.
The authors define stigma as "a negative social attitude attached to a characteristic of an individual who may be regarded as having a mental, physical, or social deficiency." The authors employ the framework integrating normative influence on stigma (FINIS), which has three layers: a microlayer focusing on individual characteristics; a mesolayer focusing on family and community contexts; and a macrolayer focusing on the stigma embedded in a larger national cultural context.
The analysis is based on data from qualitative and in-depth interviews with 51 stateless individuals living in five remote hill tribe villages along the border with Myanmar. Sixty-nine percent of the participants were female, 67 percent had no education, 57 percent were farmers, and the participants had a median monthly income of US$93.
- There are various ways in which stigma affects the lives of stateless people. They find it difficult to request assistance and assert themselves (e.g. in a healthcare setting) because they fear mistreatment or drawing attention to themselves. They experience unequal treatment and are treated more poorly than Thai citizens and other hill tribe people who have acquired Thai IDs. They feel that they have limited options for improving their lives.
- Avoidance, trying to get a Thai ID, and practicing speaking Thai are ways in which stateless people cope with stigma. The stateless population reported several approaches to handling stigma, mainly by avoidance, for example not traveling outside their village, not talking with people with whom they are not familiar and keeping track of events that could result in exposure. Trying to get a Thai ID and practicing speaking Thai were other strategies employed to cope with stigma.
- Participants expressed their single goal of obtaining a Thai ID to help them overcome problems of stigma.


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Quality Assurance in Education, Vol. 26 No. 2, pp. 243-262
Surveys that include skill measures may suffer from additional sources of error compared to those containing questionnaires alone. Examples are distractions such as noise or interruptions of testing sessions, as well as fatigue or lack of motivation to succeed. This paper aims to provide a review of statistical tools based on latent variable modeling approaches extended by explanatory variables that allow detection of survey errors in skill surveys.


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Musicians Boycott North Carolina Over Bathroom Law
Pre-Listening Vocabulary
 - celebrity: a famous person
 - boycott: to refuse to attend, use, or buy as a form of protest
 - high-profile: well-known, powerful
 - controversial: causing a lot of debate
 - correspond: to match
 - LGBT: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender
 - violate: to not respect a rule, law, or space
 - NBA: National Basketball Association (US)
Celebrities Boycott North Carolina Over Bathroom Law
Several high-profile, including Bruce Springsteen, Demi Lovato, and Pearl Jam have canceled concerts in North Carolina recently to protest the state's controversial new bathroom. The new state law (HB2) bans individuals from using public that do not correspond to their birth gender. Some companies and organizations, including PayPal and the NBA, have also taken to show support for the LGBT community. Earlier this month, the US Department of Justice filed a suit against the state, saying that the bill violates.
Comprehension Questions
 1. What did Bruce Springsteen recently do and why?
 2. Why does the report mention PayPal?
 3. What did the US Department of Justice do?
Discussion Questions: Do you agree with singer Elton John who called North Carolina's bathroom bill "discriminatory" and "dangerous"? Why or why not?
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While having a large enough stomach capacity plays the major role during most longer food challenges, speed eating definitely plays the main role in most shorter eating contests. When you are attempting a large food challenge, you typically have a lot more time to work with than you do during eating contests. A majority of challenges have a time limit ranging between 30 minutes and 1 hour, while very few challenges have time limits lower than 15 minutes. It is totally the opposite for eating contests. Most contests are 10 minutes or less, and there are very few actual eating contests longer than 15 minutes. In the sport of track & field, there are sprinters and there are long distance runners, and then there are just a few people that excel at both. Sprinting takes speed while long distance running requires a heavy amount of endurance. Not many sprinters can compete in long distance races, and not many long distance runners can compete in sprinting. There are some people that can do both though, and this same concept applies to the world of food challenges and competitive eating too. There are some people that will dominate eating competitions less than 5 minutes because they are great speed eaters, but they don't have the stomach capacity to compete in the longer events. Then there are some people that can dominate large food challenges in under 1 hour, but they cannot compete with speed eaters during eating contests. Then there are some people that can do both because they have a large stomach capacity and are also great speed eaters. Which category do you think applies to you and your competitive eating skill level?
Almost all of the Stomach Capacity Training articles apply strictly to helping you train to increase your body's stomach capacity. You may also have read the article How To Increase Your Jaw Strength which shows you how you can train to increase the strength and endurance of your jaw and mouth muscles during competitions. As mentioned in that article, the 2 major factors involved with speed eating are having a strong jaw with a lot of endurance, and also having the ability to swallow larger chunks of food at a faster rate. The key to speed eating is to focus on swallowing rather than chewing. You need the strong jaw strength to bite the food and chew it up a few times (if even necessary), but then you have to have the ability to swallow it quickly so that you can move on to taking more bites so that you can swallow again and keep repeating the process. You will learn how to eat fast by reading Speed Eating: How To Eat Food Faster in the Eating Contest Tips section, but in this article you will learn how to train yourself to become able to eat fast, which really isn't that hard if you follow these tips:
Practice swallowing with your head up – If you ever watch some of the top competitive eaters speed eat, you will see them holding their head up during almost the entire contest except for when they are grabbing more food. The best way to explain why you should do this is by explaining one of the first steps to giving somebody CPR (mouth-to-mouth resuscitation). Before breathing into their mouth or performing a series of firm chest compressions, you have to tilt the person's head back to allow air to flow more freely in and out. During CPR you do not want the person's airway blocked, and air won't flow freely if the person's head is down. This applies to speed eating and swallowing too. Do you ever chug liquids with your head down? Keep your head up while you are eating and swallowing will be much easier for you. Practice this during all your regular meals at home.
Practice with water first – Before practicing with food, train with water. You goal is to be able to swallow more food at one time, so practice swallowing as much water as you can. By doing this, you are able to get your throat used to swallowing more while also eliminating the risk of choking. You can do this anywhere you are allowed to drink water, which is basically everywhere. Tilt your head back and fill your mouth with as much water as possible, almost to the point where it is dripping out, and then try to swallow. You may not be able to the first time, and you may therefore need to start with a little less water in your mouth. Keep on practicing and building up until you can swallow the whole mouthful of water. Then you are ready to practice safely with real food.
Train with real food – To train your body to hold more food, practice by eating real food. To train your jaw to chew food harder and faster, you need to practice by chewing real food harder and faster. Therefore, to train your body to swallow more food faster, practice swallowing larger chunks of real food faster, but be careful.
Try softer foods first – Now that you know to keep your head up and esophagus open, and you can swallow an entire mouthful of water at one time, you are ready to practice with food. It is not smart to go straight from swallowing water to bigger pieces of steak though, so start by training with softer foods like oatmeal. Cook up some oatmeal for breakfast or as a snack, and then practice swallowing large mouthfuls of it. Feel free to chase the big bites with some water. Definitely keep water on hand either way though because the water will come in handy if you are struggling to swallow the oatmeal after your throat starts getting dry. You may have some other softer foods in your pantry too. Rice, quinoa, and other moist foods can work well also. Using foods like this help you establish great form while all but eliminating your chances of choking. Always train safely!!
After you have progressed from step to step and now feel comfortable swallowing larger chunks of food, you are ready to start training with real foods. You basically want to practice speed eating without worrying about increasing your jaw strength. As mentioned in How To Increase Your Jaw Strength, you want to do one or the other, and you can't really do both. You can do this with any regular meal, but I prefer training with easier to chew and swallow foods like large sandwiches. Unless you are practicing for a steak challenge, really tough foods like steak aren't great for practicing to swallow and eat faster. Those are better for training your jaw strength. The main thing that you need to do is to make sure you don't go crazy. You DO NOT want to risk choking, and therefore you should NOT practice swallowing extra large bites. That is also why you don't want to train at home with really tough foods. You may not want to train when you are out to dinner with your girlfriend, but it is smart to have somebody around you just in case. You can choke anytime at any meal if you are not careful, but your chances increase drastically if you are attempting to speed eat. Always have water or some other type of liquid handy in case you need it. Competitive eating is meant to be fun, and you do not want to hurt yourself doing it. Now that you are trained and ready to practice, read Speed Eating: How To Eat Food Faster.
Thanks for reading hot to train yourself to eat food faster and using FoodChallenges.com!!
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Your Job Performance Appraisal
Making it a Career Boosting Experience
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This book is an invaluable aid, giving you confidence on how to handle daily matters and your career progression a positive boost.
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PATRICK FORSYTH runs Touchstone Training & Consultancy, an independent firm based in the U.K. specialising in marketing consultancy, research and training on marketing issues, sales and communication and management skills.
He is a consultant of many y
Want to give your career a boost? Can your job performance appraisal help? It surely will not if you do not know what you want to achieve from it. You cannot just wing it and it is simply too important to be left to chance. Appraisals represent a unique opportunity to check progress and, more importantly, to look to the future. Being prepared is the first step to making these meetings go well.
This quick and easy guide provides proven, down to earth advice on:
- Preparing for the meeting
- Knowing what to say, how to say it and what questions to ask
- Reacting to what you are told
- What follow up action to take.
This book is an invaluable aid: it can give your confidence, how you handle matters on the day and your career progression a positive boost.
Patrick Forsyth is a consultant, trainer and writer. He is the author of many successful business and career books (including in this series Your boss – sorted! and How to get a pay rise). He runs Touchstone Training & Consultancy.
 1. Introduction: a career boosting opportunity
 2. What's the appraisal process all about?
 1. Why job appraisal?
 2. Assessing your position
 3. Considerations about rewards
 4. The link to employment legislation
 5. Additional factors
 3. The job/career opportunity
 1. Projecting the right image
 2. Consider your specific work plans
 3. Consider success criteria
 4. Development needs
 5. The link to career development
 6. Overall rewards
 4. Preparing for your appraisal meeting
 1. Information: the foundation of success
 2. Collecting the right information
 3. Take the initiative
 4. Coping with systems
 5. Scales of measurement
 6. Think ahead
 5. Your manner and conduct in the appraisal meeting
 1. First impressions last
 2. Listening
 3. The question of questions
 4. Your commentary
 5. The right reaction to criticism
 6. Targeted results
 7. Ratings
 8. Search for opportunities
 9. Action plans
 10. Keep calm
 11. Concluding the meeting
 6. After the meeting
 1. The appraisal cycle
 2. Completing the system element
 3. Link to your work system
 7. Summary: the future
it is a great book and must have.


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Field Wildlife Mix is a traditional British mixed hedge that's suitable for most conditions including coastal and windy sites. Often used for field boundary hedging, allowing you to fade your garden into the countryside and provide a suitable habitat for wildlife. Now available to buy in easy 1 metre packs or discount volume packs. Each metre pack contains 5 plants. Simply plant 2 staggered rows mixing the plants to make a wonderful hedge. Each row should be 30cm apart and each plant 40cm apart in each row.
Field Wildlife Mix consisting of:
Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna)
Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa)
Field Maple (Acer campestre)
Hazel (Corylus avellana)
The amount of each plant will vary depending on stock levels.
Growth rate: Medium 20-40cm per year
Overall height: Medium up to 5 metres
Position: Coastal, Sheltered, Full Sun, Full Shade, Exposed
Root Types: Bare Root, Bare Root with Rabbit Protection
Choose from our wide range of Field Wildlife Hedging Mix sizes and root types, or browse our other varieties of Native Mixed Hedging plants.
Check our range of Native Mixed Hedging or our other popular varieties of hedge that can be used as a great alternative to Field Wildlife Hedging Mix.
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"Discover the untouched beauty of Diglipur, where azure waters meet pristine shores, and lush jungles beckon adventurers. A hidden paradise that captivates hearts and leaves memories etched in sand."
Let's explore the main tourist destinations in Diglipur:
1. Ross and Smith Islands: Ross and Smith Islands are twin islands connected by a natural sandbar. These islands are a paradise for nature lovers, offering crystal-clear turquoise waters, white sandy beaches, and vibrant coral reefs. Visitors can indulge in swimming, snorkeling, and sunbathing while enjoying the breathtaking views and tranquil surroundings.
2. Saddle Peak National Park: Saddle Peak National Park is a must-visit destination for nature enthusiasts. It is the highest point in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and is home to diverse flora and fauna. The park offers trekking trails amidst dense tropical forests, allowing visitors to explore the rich biodiversity, spot endemic bird species, and enjoy panoramic views from the summit.
3. Kalipur Beach: Kalipur Beach is a picturesque black sand beach located near Kalipur Village in Diglipur. Known for its unique beauty and tranquility, the beach offers a peaceful atmosphere, gentle waves, and a chance to witness stunning sunsets. It is an ideal spot for relaxation, beachcombing, and birdwatching.
4. Ramnagar Beach: Ramnagar Beach is a secluded and pristine beach in Diglipur. With its golden sands, clear blue waters, and serene surroundings, it provides a perfect escape from the crowds. Visitors can enjoy sunbathing, swimming, and long walks along the shoreline while immersing themselves in the beauty of nature.
5. Pathi Level Beach: Pathi Level Beach is a hidden gem located about 20 kilometers from Diglipur. It is a relatively untouched beach with calm waters and beautiful coral reefs. The beach is known for its tranquility and is a great spot for leisurely walks, sunbathing, and picnics amidst the serene atmosphere.
6. Lamiya Bay Beach: Lamiya Bay Beach is a secluded beach known for its unspoiled natural beauty and calm waters. It is accessible via a short trek through lush green forests, adding an adventurous element to the visit. The beach offers a peaceful retreat and opportunities for swimming and snorkeling.
7. Alfred Caves: Alfred Caves are a fascinating attraction located near Diglipur. These limestone caves feature stalactite and stalagmite formations, creating an enchanting underground world. Visitors can explore the caves with a guide, marvel at the unique rock formations, and learn about their geological significance.
Diglipur is well-connected to Port Blair, the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, by road and sea. It offers limited accommodation options, including government guesthouses and eco-resorts.
With its pristine beaches, dense forests, and breathtaking natural landscapes, Diglipur offers a serene and offbeat experience for travelers seeking tranquility and a closer connection with nature. It is a hidden gem that showcases the unspoiled beauty of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.