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Undergraduate nursing students endure unique stressors that potentiate negative consequences to their mental health. Mindfulness-based interventions may improve these negative mental health symptoms in nursing students. The objective of this review is to assess available research regarding the effects of mindfulness-based interventions on the negative mental health symptoms of undergraduate nursing students. The databases CINAHL Complete, PubMed, and PsycINFO were searched for relevant research. Search terms were brainstormed and individually assessed to determine relevancy to the research question. In order to be incorporated into this systematic review, all assessed studies needed to include (1) an intervention rooted in mindfulness, (2) a sample of nursing students in a 4-year program (3) research outcomes pertaining to mental health, and (4) publication in a peer-reviewed source. Of the 74 articles found within the initial database search and 14 hand-picked articles, 7 studies met the inclusion criteria. Of these 7 studies, 3 were randomized controlled trials, 2 were quasi-experimental studies with a pretest, post-test design and control group, and 2 were mixed-method studies. Overall, these research studies found that mindfulness interventions significantly decreased negative mental health symptoms in nursing students such as anxiety, stress, and depression. Though the results of these studies support the effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions as a means of improving mental health symptoms, many of these studies lack generalizability and possess small sample sizes leading to insufficient statistical power. Though more randomized controlled trials with sufficient power and well-executed designs must be conducted, initial research suggests that interventions rooted in mindfulness may improve the negative mental health symptoms of undergraduate nursing students.
Sartorius, Erin, "Mindfulness’s Effects on Undergraduate Nursing Students' Negative Mental Health Symptoms: A Systematic Review" (2018). Honors Projects. 702.


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Project WET is an instructional resource designed by teachers and water resource professionals FOR K-12 classroom teachers. It covers topics such as water chemistry, water quality and human health, climate and weather, water demand management, water conservation, cultural values about water, and how to launch action programs and water festivals. Participants receive a newly-updated 592 page resource manual that contains 65 current activities.
Especially relevant to Saskatchewan classrooms is the fact that the program has a cooperative learning base incorporates a variety of learning styles and was field tested in a wide variety of classrooms, including many multi-ethnic and multi-grade classrooms.
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For most people, vacations are a rarity. Typically, we splurge on one—and only one—vacation each year, saving our money as much as possible.
We limit our travel because we think vacations are expensive. With the cost of airfare, rental cars, hotel stays, and even excursions rising every year, few of us can afford to shell out thousands of dollars for more than a single trip.
Guess what? You can travel more often than you think.
Everyone can afford to travel, to enjoy a vacation. Scoring vacation deals is possible—you just need to do a little research. Find deals and discounts that make hopping on a plane and exploring a new locale cheap, and you can both save money and take a vacation.
Here’s your guide to the websites that are sure to help you to save on flights, hotels, entertainment, and include some great tips, tricks, and expert advice. You’ll be surprised, but traveling on a budget is easier and more fun than you think.
Airfare can be one of the biggest costs of any vacation, totaling more than $500 roundtrip for a single person.
You have two options when you want to save: you can choose to fly a budget-friendly airline, or you can scour third-party sites to find deals on most major airlines.
Southwest, JetBlue, Frontier, and Spirit are the top affordable airlines. Though their routes are a bit more limited than the bigger names in air travel, you can find fares for as little as $69 one-way to locations.
Be flexible when picking your flights. Opting for a less convenient time, like a middle of the night redeye flight, or a less convenient airport, such as Long Beach instead of Los Angeles, also helps you save when booking online. You’re going to get the best deal possible if you’re open to other choices— most people want the easiest travel, meaning airlines will cut the cost of less desirable flights.
To increase your potential savings, set up alerts for flight deals by subscribing to every airline’s newsletter and loyalty club. Frontier, for example, offers crazy deals every other week (you might able to catch a limited-time $20 flight!).
Can’t find a deal? It’s common to see hotel prices unchanged across the board—but you may have a discount hiding in your own wallet. AAA and AARP members typically get a small percentage off hotel stays. Also, be sure to join the rewards program for any hotel chains you stay at. Each stay will earn you points toward a free or deeply discounted future stay.
When it comes to online deals, there are two ways to find discounts: the individual cruise lines’ websites and CruiseSheet.com. CruiseSheet.com collects the lowest-priced cruise choices as well as the cruises offering the biggest discounts on one site. However, if you don’t find what you’re looking for, you might be able to find a deal directly from the cruise line you’re interested in.
Cruise lines offer their lowest fares during three periods: when a cruise first goes on sale (about a year in advance), when a cruise is about to depart, and during the off-season (fall and winter). Search and book during these times or seasons, and you could save big.
The vacation you’ve been putting off or saving up for is in reach— you can make it happen with these smart deal-hunting websites and tips.
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This Sunday 20 February, Ellen MacArthur, will helm her record-breaking 75ft trimaran B&Q up the River Thames before speaking live on stage next to the Cutty Sark, in Greenwich.
This special visit to Britain’s capital city is in recognition of all the support from well-wishers around the UK.
Four years ago after finishing second in the non-stop solo Vendée Globe race around the world, Ellen sailed her Kingfisher to the UK’s capital city to thank everyone for their support. This Sunday Ellen will once again be returning to London – the home port of registration for both B&Q and Kingfisher.
The activities will centre around the famous orange trimaran navigating the River Thames from Greenwich up to Tower Bridge before returning to a pontoon close to Greenwich Pier where Ellen will disembark to appear on stage in Cutty Sark Gardens to talk about her 71 day, 14 hour, 18 minute and 33 second record voyage around the world. B&Q will be berthed near the Cutty Sark, one of the most famous ‘record-breaking’ tea clippers.
You can watch Ellen from the banks of the River Thames between Greenwich and Tower Bridge, and hear her speak at the Cutty Sark Gardens. The trimaran will be berthed at a pontoon moored away from the river bank so it will not be possible for the public to view the trimaran directly.
And you can track the progress of the trimaran’s journey from her arrival port in Falmouth on the west coast all the way round to entry to the River Thames. The B&Q trimaran plans to depart Falmouth tomorrow afternoon Thursday 17 February to make the delivery trip to Greenwich.
Go to Team Ellen for the latest information.

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Failing acrylic sealer on stamped concrete near a pool at a private residence in Knoxville, Tenn.
In the world of home aquatics, salt-chlorinated swimming pools are all the rage. Also known as salt-water pools, they’re purportedly gentler on the skin and eyes. Apparently, though, they’re harsher on the concrete pool deck.
We talked to a selection of industry experts — concrete experts, pool people, concrete product manufacturers — and there are a variety of opinions as to whether there really is a problem, and what that problem is. However, a majority of our experts believe there are real issues involving concrete sealers around salt-chlorinated pools.
Salt water is aggressive. In the mid-2000s, as salt-chlorinated pools started to soar in popularity, reports of problems involving deterioration of stone copings began to crop up. Softer, more porous stone — certain limestones, for example — were apparently being eroded on pool copings and deck areas where there was consistent splash-out. Freeze-thaw damage was being reported. The solution offered was to seal the stone.
Issues with concrete appear largely to involve sealers used to protect decorative concrete. They are suffering delamination. It can appear as light spots on the surface. Sometimes the spots are quite large.
Scott Creager, owner of Creager Decorative Consulting Inc., Dallas, Texas, is quite definitive that salt water is destroying sealers.
According to Creager, it usually takes two years or more, occurring mostly in places where there is frequent dripping water or where there’s greater traffic wear.
He describes troubleshooting a pool deck at a retirement home in Virginia. “They had applied our Spray-Deck cementitious product and had an acrylic sealer. When the deck was constructed, it was a conventional chlorine pool. A year later they switched to a salt-water pool. They had an area of flaking where they were putting wet kickboards and where people were walking out of the pool. It would only happen where they had a crack in the concrete or there was a control joint.
This description suggests that a problem can occur even without sealer failure if the salt water can find its way around a sealer edge, such as at a crack. The fact that the sealer bond held, but the concrete itself failed, seems significant.
Cofoid’s observations of the problem are very specific. “Typically big areas flake. I think it starts with little pinholes and places at control joints, because water finds a way. Like cancer, it starts off small, probably a spot you can’t even see. In a short amount of time it starts to flake and spreads from there.” He believes it can happen in 4-5 months.
Acids are known to deteriorate concrete, and pool water can become too acidic if not properly monitored and rebalanced as needed. Salt-chlorinated pool chemistry, however, tends to shift in the other direction, becoming too alkaline. The exact mechanism of the problem has not been definitively identified.
Chris Sullivan, vice president of sales and marketing with ChemSystems Inc., does not believe there is a particular problem with salt-chlorinated pools. Most of the problems that he has seen are attributable, he believes, to inadequate maintenance. “Any pool water, chlorinated, salt or brominated, it has a lot in it. As water inevitably gets out of the pool and lands on the pool deck, the water evaporates, and the mineral content in the water ends up on the deck surface as a white haze. It may be more prevalent in regions where you have high mineral content in the water to start with. When the water evaporates, those minerals are going to be left on the surface. There’s no way to avoid it. Eventually, you’re going to get deposits.
“Salt itself is not going to eat or affect the plastic layer of sealer,” Sullivan states. “(But) if you don’t have good adhesion between sealer and concrete, when water gets underneath that sealer, it can cause the sealer to delaminate. If liquid water sits on most of these sealers long enough, it will get through.
Assuming you believe there is a problem, what can you do about it?
Cohen is also against sealers near pools, because of slip-fall hazards. “Anytime we seal concrete around swimming pools, we increase the slipperiness. I’ve yet to find a sealer that meets its claims in being nonslippery around a swimming pool.
For those who want sealers, there are some available that are specifically marketed for salt-water resistance, such as DuPont StoneTech Professional Salt Water Resistant Sealer. Though designed primarily for stone, it is also applicable to concrete. Rick Cofoid reports that his company, Increte Systems, is working on a solution to the problem, but it is still in the R & D phase.
“Just apply a decorative overlay and it will hide everything.” Or, “Use acid to strip that sealer.” These are just a couple of the myths or just plain wrong recommendations concrete contractors may have come across recently.
Unstable subgrade is the primary culprit in cracking, shifting and settling in concrete around pools. We can all agree that concrete is only as good as what you put it on top of.

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According to Forrester Research, “Relevant knowledge at the right time is priceless in the enterprise“. This is particularly true in the highly competitive pharma industry where knowledge is hidden in a deluge of structured and unstructured data of all kinds, buried among publicly available sources such as trade databases, scientific publications, and patents, as well as internal repositories like R&D data, clinical trials, recorded patient interviews, and more! Sinequa and SciBite team up to provide a winning combination of Cognitive Search and powerful Life Sciences Semantics to help leading pharma organizations unlock the wealth of R&D data.
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Even the Cat in the Hat needs Flea Protection!
One flea, two fleas, a million fleas, GET OFF ME! Fleas are a critter that nobody wants to have. Understanding how the flea life cycle works is important to protecting your pet. Luckily, you can prevent your pet from getting fleas in the first place.
Adult fleas will lay eggs while on top of an animal host. The eggs will typically fall off of the host and get burrowed into carpet fibers or furniture upholstery. Depending on temperature, the eggs can hatch within 2-12 days. The larvae lack legs and will crawl around the carpet eating debris. The larvae will spin a cocoon and turn into the pupal stage. They will remain in that stage for 5-14 days. Once ready, an adult flea will hatch out of the cocoon and search for a host – such as a dog or cat.
Knowing that fleas can survive in the carpet or upholstery can give anyone the creepy-crawlies. Breaking the cycle can help protect your pet (and you!) from flea bites. Vacuuming the carpet, upholstery, and pet beds is important to removing many of the eggs and larvae. Aside from vacuuming the home, providing your pet with a flea preventative is a good way to stop the cycle. Flea preventative products kill adult fleas and larvae in the immediate surroundings of the pet, and if any adult fleas hop on the pet they will die before being able to lay more eggs.
At South Town Animal Hospital, there are 3 ‘flea & tick’ prevention products we recommend to our clients. They each have their individual qualities that owners pick to best fit their pet and their lifestyle. Two of these products, Frontline and Nexgard, are both dosed monthly but applied differently. If your pet willingly takes treats, Nexgard is a yummy beef flavored chewable. Frontline is a liquid topical application that is put in between the shoulder blades. This is a good option for the picky eater who doesn’t like treats or is allergic to beef. If you prefer to give things minimally, the third product is Bravecto. It is a chewable tablet except given once every 3 months.
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Alternate name(s): "Black-billed Tern", "Southern Tern"
White-fronted Terns are medium-sized terns. During the breeding season they have a black cap that extends well onto the nape of the neck, white front (throat, neck, chest, belly and vent) and grey wings. The black eyes are surrounded by the black cap, while the frons (base of the bill) has a narrow white saddle. The slender bill is black, the short legs and feet are also black. In eclipse the front of the cap becomes white, with a mottled black-and-white front part of the cap. Juvenile birds have a scalloped brownish-grey mantle, mottled dark-grey wings, and a mottled cap covering most of the head (except a narrow white saddle at the frons).
Compared to Common Terns, adult White-fronted Terns have lighter wing tips, longer wings and a more deeply forked tail. At rest they show a white line along the upper edge of the folded primary flight feathers.
Note that second-year White-fronted Terns are very similar to second-year Common Terns.
See White-fronted Tern at Wikipedia .
The global distribution of the White-fronted Tern is available HERE . White-fronted Terns used to be endemic to New Zealand, where they still are the most common terns, and the Tasman Sea.
Since the 1970ies, White-fronted Terns have started colonizing Australia, where they are, except for a small breeding colony in the south-eastern Bass Strait, non-breeding migrants. They reach the Australian coast in an area from roughly the SA/VIC border to the NSW North Coast, including the East coast of Tasmania and the islands in Bass Strait. Occasionally White-fronted Terns are found farther West, up to about Eyre Peninsula, SA, and farther North, up to about Fraser Island, QLD.
White-fronted Terns are found on the open ocean, the Australian pelagic and on the coastline on coastal rockfaces, beaches, sandspits and bars.
White-fronted Terns were spotted by T. Morris on two occasions, at Town Beach, Port Macquarie, NSW, in August 2011 and at Point Plomer, Limeburners Creek NP, in October 2012.
A White-fronted Tern was also seen by us on a pelagic to the edge of the continental shelf, 22 nautical miles (40 km) from Terrigal, NSW, in July 2013.
M. Eaton reports spotting White-fronted Terns at Caloundra Headland, QLD, in January 2018.


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Marx on the peasantry: class in itself or class in struggle?, Katz, Claudio J., The Review of Politics; 54(1), Winter 1992, pages 50-72.
Class and Rationality: Olson's Critique of Marx, Barbalet, J. M., Science and Society; 55(4), Winter 1991-1992, pages 446-68.
Surplus Profit and Class Relations in Two Stages of Capitalism, Sau, Ranjit, Science and Society; 54(2), Summer 1990, pages 179-92.
Class, Politics, and Planning: From Reductionism to Pluralism in Marxist Class Analysis, Low, Nicholas P., Environment and Planning A; 22(8), August 1990, pages 1091-1114.
Productive Labor, Class Determination and Class Position, Lash, Scott M., Science and Society; 42(1), Spring 1978, pages 62-81.


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Social network giant paid users aged 13 to 35 to install the app and allow Facebook to track all of their smartphone activity, including what apps were being used, sites visited, what messages said and who they were sent to.
Facebook needs to stop paying lip service to the fight against disinformation and take more concrete actions, the Mozilla Foundation said in a letter posted Monday.
The letter was co-signed by the Open Data Institute and 30 other groups representing human rights advocates, journalists and technologists. It charges that CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s company has been dragging its feet and blocking transparency tools ahead of the EU’s parliamentary elections in May.
“Promises and press statements aren’t enough; instead, we need to see real action over the coming months, and we will be exploring ways to hold Facebook accountable if that action isn’t sufficient,” the letter says.
Facebook has come under fire since the 2016 U.S. presidential election for not moving fast enough to stop the flow of fake news and misinformation, for the tactics it employs against enemies and for its leadership structure.
TEENS ARE CREATING FAKE IDENTITIES ON INSTAGRAM CALLED FINSTAS. SHOULD WE WORRY?
The letter calls out what it claims are contradictory statements and actions emanating from Facebook, including its restrictions on who can monitor political advertisements placed on the network and the tech giant’s reported efforts to block access to transparency tools.
The letter demands the following from Facebook: Roll out a functional open Ad Archive API to permit advanced research and the development of tools to analyze Facebook ads shown to European Union users. Ensure all political advertisements are easy to distinguish from other content and accompanied by extensive targeting criteria. Stop harassing researchers who are creating tools to provide more transparency into the online giant’s advertising platform.

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You get swirl-free paint finishes after removing fine paint surface defects with the 3M Perfect-It 8" Foam Polishing Pad. This single-sided gray polishing pad has a convoluted surface and a flat back design. It is suitable for use with Perfect-It Machine Polish, Hookit Back Up Pads or Perfect-It Back Up Pads. Resulting in high sheen on paint surfaces, this foam pad refines minor sand scratches, surface defects, and scuff marks to produce smooth surfaces.
The convoluted design makes it easy for the polishing pad to glide smoothly over surfaces. This enables it to hold polish well so that the pad can work smoothly on the painted surface. The foam does not absorb polish, thus resulting in material savings and better results. Offering good flexibility, the polishing pad adapts to any contour and helps in applying an even coat of polish all over the vehicle surface. Containing two pads in a bag, the Perfect-It 8" Foam Polishing Pad is free of silicone and wax. You can use it on all types of paint and clearcoats.

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India on Thursday afternoon successfully put into orbit its seventh and final navigation satellite – IRNSS-1G – with its own rocket in copy-book style.
With this, India successfully completed putting into orbit all the seven navigation satellites to complete the system in the sky.
Exactly at 12.50 p.m. the PSLV rocket standing 44.4 metres tall and weighing 320 tonnes tore into the afternoon skies with fierce orange flames at its tail.
Gathering speed every second, the rocket raced amidst cheers of ISRO officials assembled at the rocket port.
At the rocket mission control room, scientists were glued to their computer screens watching the rocket escaping the earth’s gravitational pull.
Just over 20 minutes into the flight, the PSLV rocket ejected its sole passenger – IRNSS-1F – at an altitude of 488.9 km.
Soon after this, the satellite’s solar panels were deployed.
The satellite’s control was then taken over by the Mission Control Facility (MCF) at Hassan in Karnataka.
The MCF will manage the satellite’s orbit raising operations firing the on-board motors till it is placed in its slotted orbit.
While GPS and Glonass are fully functional global systems, the Chinese and the Japanese systems offer regional coverage and Europe’s Galileo is yet to be operational.India will formally join the select group of nations owing such system once IRNSS is declared operational after checking the systems – space (satellites), ground (ground stations) and the user-end signal receivers.

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The things two people do to each other they remember.
If they stay together, it’s not because they forget; it’s because they forgive.
If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.

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After fully recharging the laptop, we set up the machine in power-save mode (as opposed to balanced or high-performance mode) and make a few other battery-conserving tweaks in preparation for our unplugged video rundown test. (We also turn Wi-Fi off, putting the laptop in Airplane mode.) In this test, we loop a video—a locally stored 720p file—with screen brightness set at 50 percent and volume at 100 percent until the system conks out.


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It’s not stress that kills us. Rather, it’s how we deal with stress. It is our failure to adapt to stress that allows sickness and disease to manifest.
This is Our Belief: That ALL diseases (pathology) come from a failure to adapt to any one of the three-dimensions of stress.
Have you ever known of a smoker, for example, who lived into their 80’s, while most smokers die early from this stress? Some bodies adapt better to smoking. On a less serious level, how many times does a cold or flu go through your house where everyone gets sick but you? Your body adapted better than the rest of your family. Whether it’s a cold, cancer, or any other condition, your manifestation of the condition depends on your body’s resistance, its ability to adapt.
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Tempura shrimp, lobster salad and avocado inside, wrapped with soy paper,and topped with eel and crab.
Tempura oyster, avocado and inside, topped witj seafood salad.
Spicy tuna, spicy samon, spicy yellowtail avocado insade, wrapped in soy paper, topped with tuna and salmon... all in the shape of a heart.
Torched kobe beef eel sauce, green onions and fish eel on top, toro, lobster and avocado inside.

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The top-seeded Beckman Blazer Baseball team downed the 4th-seed Iowa City Regina, 8-0 in a Class 2A state semifinal at Principal Park in Des Moines last night.
In Class 1A yesterday, #1 Mason City Newman shutout St. Mary’s of Remsen 2-0. Martensdale-St. Mary’s beat Akron-Westfield 6-1 as those two winners meet in the 1A title game at 11am Saturday morning.
Today, Class 3A and 4A semifinal’s take the stage.
Davenport Assumption battles Dubuque Wahlert at 1:30 after Harlan and Sioux City Bishop Heelan hook up at 11am.
Iowa City West takes on West Des Moines Dowling at 5pm before Johnston plays Waukee at 7:30pm.

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I really liked this, proving that I enjoy puns and I am also a nerd. Oh well.
THE CANON OF PHILOSOPHY STUDENT KARAOKE SONGS.


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As your child progresses through his or her English/language arts education, you may find yourself creating more focused lesson plans. When your child was in the elementary school years, he or she needed to learn the foundational elements of English/language arts by studying the subject broadly. However, by the time your child enters the middle and high school years, he or she is ready for more challenging work.
You can teach your child specific skills that round out and develop his or her English/language arts knowledge by selecting the Prentice Hall Writing and Grammar curriculum for homeschooling. This program delves deep into Writing and Grammar, helping your child become proficient in those subjects. With plenty of hands-on activities, Prentice Hall Writing and Grammar is an engaging program that will simultaneously solidify your child’s knowledge and help you teach new material well.
Each Grade of Prentice Hall Writing and Grammar is broken into three chapters: Writing, Grammar Usage and Mechanics, and Academic and Workplace Skills. Each Grade gets incrementally more difficult and introduces new concepts. The Writing portion helps your child develop his or her ability to compose arguments and express him or herself. The Grammar Usage and Mechanics chapter builds your child’s understanding of the way the English language is structured. Finally, the Academic and Workplace Skills chapter ensures your child has the abilities he or she will need in college and beyond.
Turn in writing with minimal to no grammar errors. Recognize grammar mistakes in his or her own writing. Establish and maintain a tone appropriate for whatever type of writing he or she does. Articulate thesis in all parts of essay writing.


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We use the Royal Mail for our delivery services. Delivery charges are calculated automatically based upon your orders size and weight and your chosen delivery method. You are able to choose from the following delivery options at checkout.
For your security all items are sent by recorded post and must be signed for. If there is no one available to sign for the delivery the Royal Mail will leave a card telling you where to collect your order or how to arrange for re-delivery at a time convenient for you.
Delivery Charges are the same as for UK Mainland Delivery above although delivery times may take slightly longer.
We use the Royal Mail Airmail service for our delivery. Delivery charges are based on the Royal Mails International Signed For Airmail service and apply to all of Europe the whole of Russia and some Asian countries. Delivery charges are calculated automatically and are based upon your orders size and weight.
For your security all items are sent by recorded post and must be signed for. If there is no one available to sign for the delivery the postal service will leave a card telling you where to collect your order or how to arrange for re-delivery at a time convenient for you.
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There are many people who feel that if a plant doesn’t produce food then there’s no reason to grow it.
Well, it is possible to design an entire landscape with edible plants as there are trees, shrubs, vines and ground covers that produce edible fruits and foliage. Don’t forget that many herbs can be used as ornamentals in the landscape, too.
Many people are already growing blueberries, figs, grapes, loquats and many types of citrus in their yards. But there are also several tropical fruits that can be grown here, such as Abiu, Sugar Apple, Canistel, Guava and Black Sapote.
For anyone interested in growing some of these tropical delights, check out our website at http://fruitscapes.ifas.ufl.edu/ for a complete list of fruit crops. For now, here is some information on a few of the tropical fruits you can choose from.
Bananas are a true tropical favorite and perhaps the best known of the tropical fruits. There are many different cultivars that are available with a wide variation in fruit type and quality. Bananas are not cold tolerant, so for those that live in colder areas, be sure and choose a cultivar that can produce fruit in nine months or so. Often, even if the plant gets hit by a freeze, it will re-grow from the roots, so rarely are plants totally killed by a freeze. If you don’t choose a fast-maturing variety, you may not get many bananas produced. Some of the longer-maturing varieties are better suited for Merritt Island, the beaches and South Florida. Banana plants grow rapidly during the warm and wet summer months. Because they reproduce from underground rhizomes, a single plant can quickly spread out, producing multiple trunks in a matter of a few months. Fruits develop in clusters on the end of flower stalks, usually within one to two years. Shortly after producing the fruit, the stem dies. Bananas do best in full sun and moist, well-drained soil. Though they will tolerate partial shade, the growth and fruit production will be diminished.
If you grow Jackfruit, you will certainly get your neighbors’ attention. This tree, which grows 30 to 40 feet tall, produces a fruit that can weight up to 60 pounds! There are a few cultivars that produce smaller fruits that only weigh 3 to 10 pounds.
The outside of the fruit is rough and thick but the inside contains a pulp that is sweet and aromatic. The pulp color can vary from amber to yellow to dark yellow or orange. The time it takes from flowering to a mature fruit ranges from 150 to 180 days.
For optimum fruit production, trees should be watered during prolonged dry spells.
Today is the day the big Annual Fruit Tree Sale by the Brevard Rare Fruit Council! The sale runs from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Melbourne Auditorium located at 625 E. Hibiscus Blvd. They will be selling about 60 different types of deciduous, subtropical and tropical fruits. Get there early because they sell out fast!


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Phew! Do you feel like an emotional husk after yesterday's big wave carnage and confounded trying to keep up with a blast of events happening at the same time? Spike summarises for us.
What a crazy day of surfing, and its been and will be happening today, again, at the business end of the surfing and SUP season. Stephanie Gilmore just won the women's WSL Championship Tour after surfing in one heat but the clincher for her was when main challenger Lakey Peterson was eliminated from the Beachwaver Maui Pro in cranking 8 foot surf.
Then, Keana Kennelly won the women's BWT last night by trying to commit hara kiri on waves already bordering on tow only. The same went for the men afterwards. Even they were in way over their heads, so to speak. Did you know they called off the men's event not because they thought it too dangerous (at first) but because they literally 'lost' Russel Bierke at Jaws last night? For me, the red light was already flashing like a strobe light watching the women's suicidal commitment.
Gut wrenching stuff! Then we had to watch the same trait to end life as we know it by the men. Was that barrel that Twiggy planed into - a hair's breath away from another flotation vest-ripping, bone-snapping over the falls death dance - the biggest barrel paddled into in the history of .... like everything?
It was insane. Well, we have more of the same tonight. Tighten your britches bru, stomach in, chest out! Try stock up on adrenaline after it was sucked dry last night.
Today is a busy day in the water world of waves and SUP. The Vans World Cup is on at Sunset beach and Jordy Smith joins six other Saffas in the lineup (and seven if you count Benji Brand), with Jordy winning his Round 1 heat and leapfrogging Round 2 direct to Round 3. Dylan Lightfoot, Mikey February, Adin Masencamp, Matthew McGillivray, Beyrick De Vries, and David van Zyl are all through to four-man Round 2 heats with the top two joining the top two who went direct to Round 3. Oh, and Sunset is fire ing.
The ISA World SUP and Paddleboard Champs just wound down the day in China, with the SUP Surfing done after Riyue Bay was fed by waves from a typhoon. Sadly, despite a good show, Thomas King dropped out in Repecharge Heat 7, two heats from the final. But he's into the Men's technical race repercharge, as is Kimon dos Santos, which is one heat from the final. Tarryn King has made the women's final main event of Technical Racing, with Tamsyn Foster into the repecharge.
Then there's the Taiwan Open World Longboarding Champs running in a parallel time zone in Taiwan. Four Saffas are there. Steezy Sawyer (24) of Jeffreys Bay, Sam Christianson (20) Alfonzo Pieters (29) and Chrystal Hulett (22). Matthew Moir had a wildcard entry, but apparently has too much work going on, and couldn't attend.
Even without Mouse, this is the most experienced group to attend a WSL Longboard Championships. Steezy Sawyer, despite breaking his board and taking a sip of piss in a bizarre bit of miscommunication, is through to Round 3 and is a big favourite. Muizenberg local Pieters was knocked out in Round 2, but Christianson prevailed in the last heat of the day a short while ago (11am SA time). Hulett is up early tomorrow.
Jinsun Harbour has had lank swell, and the longboarders are ripping. In a first for the WSL, world champions from two separate disciplines will be crowned at the same venue when the WSL Junior Surfing Championships follow the longboarding from 1-9 December.
"Round 2" of the big wave surfing at Jaws (and conditions look just as hairy, though hopefully a little more benign) will be called at around 7pm this evening SA time.
You'll be spoiled for choice, with the Vans Triple Crown event at Sunset also set to kickstart this evening around the same time, or a bit later. PLUS we have the women's Beachwaver Maui Pro continuing too, and the surf as you know is GOING OFF in Hawaii.
By the way, amidst the women's CT world title excitement, spare a thought for Ventura native Sage Erickson, who was on the opposite end of the spectrum shored up by Gilmore's elation. Like Lakey, she was eliminated in Round 2 by Nikki Van Dijk, which means she fails to requalify for 2019. She also narrowly misses requalifying via the QS by one heat at the Port Stephens Toyota Pro earlier this month.
Anyway, get the AV going, and get ready to bounce around to different events like a crazy person.


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History is being made as the Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors meet again for the National Basketball Association Finals for the third straight year in a row. Game 1 and Game 2 were played in Oakland, California June 1 and June 4, respectively.
Kevin Durant and Steph Curry have been unstoppable together. The Warriors took Game 1 and Game 2 in front of an enthusiastic crowd ready for their home team to claim the ring this year.
The Warriors won Game 1 113-91. Kevin Durant had 38 points, making three three-pointers, grabbing nine rebounds and eight assists.
Steph Curry had 28 points, shooting 11 for 22 from the field, making six of his 11 three-pointers and handing off 10 assists. Draymond Green also came through for the Warriors with 11 rebounds.
For the Cavaliers, LeBron James had 28 points, shooting 9-20 from the field, making two three-pointers and eight for 12 of his free throws. He also grabbed 15 rebounds, three of which were offensive, and tallied eight assists.
Kyrie Irving had 24 points and made three three-pointers. Kevin Love had 15 points, made three three-pointers, all of his free throws and 21 rebounds, five of which were on offense.
The Warriors outscored the Cavaliers every quarter, had 12 steals compared to the Cavs’ zero, and only four turnovers compared to the Cavaliers’ 20 which ties an NBA Finals record for the least number of turnovers in a game.
”Twenty in the Finals is not going to get it done,” Kyrie Irving said.
The Warriors had a better shooting percentage from the field and made more of their three-pointers when it counted.
”We did a great job of covering the three-point line but other than that they played a hell of a game,” LeBron James said.
The Cavaliers left Kevin Durant wide open for six slam dunks in the first half. Steph Curry is now the fifth player in NBA history to record 300 career playoff three-pointers.
The Cavaliers came back with more of a fight for Game 2 June 4, but the Warriors still came away with the win 132-113.
Kevin Durant had 33 points, shooting 13-22, making four three-pointers, having 13 rebounds, three steals and five blocks.
Klay Thompson poured in 22 points, shot 8-12 from the field, made four three-point shots and had seven rebounds.
For the first time in NBA Finals history, two players, LeBron James and Curry, both had triple-doubles.
Curry had 32 points, made four of his 11 three-pointers, all 14 of his free throws, grabbed 10 rebounds and handed out 11 assists. LeBron James had 29 points, shooting 12-18 from the field, capturing 11 rebounds, 14 assists and three steals.
Kevin Love scored 27 points with seven rebounds, Kyrie Irving had 19 points with seven assists.
The Cavaliers were only trailing by four points at the half. They had 15 steals over the Warriors’ five and only nine turnovers compared to the Warriors’ 20. They took more shots, but did not shoot as well as the Warriors did.
The Warriors had seven blocks compared to the Cavaliers’ one and hit 91.7% of their free throws. Their largest lead was 22 points.
James now has eight career NBA Finals triple-doubles to tie Magic Johnson.
Steph Curry made all 10 of his free throws in the first quarter which ties with Paul Pierce for most in a single Finals quarter.
At the conclusion of Game 2, Klay Thompson recorded his 78th postseason game of his career to move past Jeff Mullins, a former Warriors player from 1966-76, for the most postseason games played in franchise history.
Game 3 was played in Cleveland June 7. The Warriors finished an exciting game at 118-113 to lead the series now 3-0.
Kevin Durant finished with 31 points, shooting 10 for 18 from the field, making four three-pointers including the defining shot that put the Warriors ahead 114-113 with 45.3 seconds left to play. Durant also went seven of eight from the line, grabbed eight rebounds and four assists.
Klay Thompson had a great night with 30 points, shooting 11 for 18 and making six three-pointers.
Curry had 26 points, making five three-pointers, all of his five free throws, grabbed 13 rebounds, and tallied six assists.
Draymond Green came away with eight rebounds and seven assists, while Andre Iguodala grabbed four steals.
LeBron James continues to lead the Cavaliers with 39 points in Game 3, shooting 15-27 from the field with 11 rebounds and nine assists.
Kyrie Irving followed right behind James with 38 points, making all six of his free throws, but missing all seven of his three-point shot attempts.
Kevin Love only recorded nine points, but grabbed 13 rebounds and had six steals.
Throughout this game, there were 19 lead changes and 10 times where the two teams tied. Overall, the Cavaliers had fewer turnovers than the Warriors, but could not follow through on their three-point shots.
The Warriors made 91.7% of their free throws taking easy points away from the Cavaliers and hit close to half of their three-pointers.
After trailing by six points with only three minutes left to play, Kevin Durant helped the Warriors take back the lead with 14 points in the fourth quarter. This marks the Warriors’ 15th straight win in postseason play which is the most ever for any major professional sport.
Steph Curry has made at least one three-pointer in every one of his 73 career postseason games thus far. The Warriors had nine three-pointers in the first quarter alone which broke an NBA Finals record previously held by five teams including the Warriors themselves back in 2015.
LeBron James is now in fourth place only a single point behind Michael Jordan on the NBA Finals scoring list. He is now the first player to ever appear in 20 or more NBA Finals matchups with two franchises.
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Cooperstown, New York is where baseball present meets the traditional values of baseball past. It’s where visitors pay homage to the heroes of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and can experience baseball at a whole new level.
Cooperstown Dreams Park is home to what is considered the greatest tournament in America.
Since it’s for players twelve years or younger, the Central Coast Waves from Paso Robles will experience a once in a lifetime opportunity to visit the field of dreams as they compete in the American Youth Baseball Hall of Fame Invitational Tournament at Cooperstown Dreams Park.
“It’s a huge opportunity to get to do this. A lot of people want to, but never get the chance. We’re the lucky few who get to do it,” Kade Mitchell said, Central Coast Waves first baseman.
Over 1,000 teams from the country attend the tournament each year over the summer. During each weekly session, teams have the opportunity to meet 104 teams. Head Coach Micah Utter explains the importance of being exposed to other teams. “The thing that is most exciting for them I think is to see the other teams that they’re going to play the competition level that they’re going to see there,” he said.
“There’s a lot of teams there. We may not be the best but I want to have fun and get to know my team,” said Caleb Powell, Central Coast Waves right fielder.
Stepping up to the plate means more than just baseball for the team.
“Our motto and our mantra that we try to live by is, we’re teaching these boys a lot about life and a little bit about baseball. We’re trying to raise good, respectful, conscientious members of society,” Utter said.
While learning about life and the game, the Central Coast Waves are living the dream.
“I’ve always been a really big baseball kid but I never knew what Cooperstown really was until I came to the Waves, which was about three years ago. It’s always been my dream and I’m pretty sure this just made my dream come true,” said Nicholas Bender, Central Coast Waves pitcher.


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Phony debt-relief companies topped the list of scammers shopping too-good-to-be-true offers to Illinois residents in 2015, with schemes targeting student loan borrowers rising fast, Attorney General Lisa Madigan said Monday.
Marking the start of “Consumer Protection Week,” Madigan said that scams seem to track the economy, or rather, the losers in economic tumults.
When the economy collapsed in 2008, debt-related scams surpassed identity theft as the most common consumer complaint, Madigan said. With a weak job market, college graduates who were oversold by pricey for-profit colleges and stuck with college debt have become targets for scammers.
Out of the 25,000 consumer complaints the attorney general’s office received last year, 3,350 complaints were about overly aggressive collection agencies and scammers offering debt relief. Another 1,523 complaints were made against for-profit colleges and student loan hustles.
Madigan’s office also is investigating Navient Corp., the student loan servicing company formerly known as Sallie Mae, and last week filed a lawsuit against a Lombard company that claimed to help student loan relief assistance.
Madigan said Navient staff tend to steer students struggling to make payments into “deferments” of their payments, which allows students to put off making payments. But interest continues to pile up, and then is added into the principal of the loan once payments resume. Madigan said that means borrowers pay much more in the long run than if Navient made them aware of other options available for cash-strapped graduates.
The AG’s office last week filed a lawsuit against National Student Loan Rescue, a Lombard company that claims to help borrowers reduce their monthly payments, remove wage garnishments or even have loans forgiven. The lawsuit alleges the company charges steep fees and does little more than fill out paperwork to enroll in free programs that are available through the federal government. The suit is the eighth Madigan’s office has filed against an alleged student loan relief scam operator.
The Chicago Sun-Times was unable to reach National Student Loan Rescue officials Monday.
Madigan’s office also offers a “Student Loan Helpline”, (800) 455-2456, which offers assistance to student borrowers.

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text: Add a pop of Christmas color to another room in your home or at work with this 6.5 foot Dunhill Fir Tree. It has 650 fun multi-colored lights. Once you experience how easy and cheerful this tree is, you will wish you had more that one.


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Take exit 4 off MASS Pike and look for Rte. 5 south......the hotel is 1.25 miles on the right (after Friendly's Restaurant).
From Rte. 91 (north or south)....Take exit 13B..and take a right at lights off ramp and the hotel is 1/8 mile on the right.
BUFFET AT THE CLARION IS NO LONGER!
At this time, the Clarion has put Buffets on hold.
If there IS A CHANGE, WE WILL PUT IT IN OUR FLYER OR TRY TO NOTIFY YOU!


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Displays as dark ruby red with violet hues. The bouquet of dark forest fruits such as cassis, blackcurrant and plum lead effortlessly into a well structured back bone of mint and vanilla oak. Opening up with lovely cassis, blueberry and ink like fruit intensity whilst fine-grained texture gives balance. The mid palate is quite dense with another seasoning of blueberry, plum and chalky tannins. A hint of vanilla roasted chestnut oak and dark chocolate adds further complexity and a lovely lingering finish.
Sourced from a single vineyard in the Terra Rossa soils of Coonawarra, the fruit is picked at dawn by hand then sorted by bunch and run through the destemmer. Fermentation is conducted in large oak vats, followed by malolactic fermentation and ageing in a combination of Old and new American Hogsheads to preserve more fruit flavour.
Lunch Like Its Your Last Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon Nv is rated 4.6 out of 5 by 5.
Rated 5 out of 5 by HJWC from Very good Coonawarra Cabernet I have already purchased the Shiraz but to me this Cabernet just shades that at the moment. Will also improve with cellar time but still drinks well now with an hour or more air time. Will be looking for more soon.
Rated 4 out of 5 by CZ18 from Very enjoyable A very enjoyable wine - easy drinking and very smooth.


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Windows as a service is all about spreading the work of traditional deployments over smaller, more manageable updates. With Windows 10 Insider Preview builds, you can take that strategy even further—by kicking off your deployment project before the next Windows update has been released.
Explore new features and provide input to help better shape them for your business.
Engage Microsoft earlier for help with compatibility issues.
Reduce the workload required for pilot deployments by spreading validation over time.
Deploy updates sooner and maximize the 18-month support window for each Semi-Annual Channel build.
What’s more, we’ve added support for Insider Preview builds to many of our Windows deployment and management tools, making it easier than easier to test and deploy new features—as well as refinements to your existing deployment and management processes.
The first thing you’ll want to do is join the Windows Insider Program for Business to gain access to the latest Windows Insider Preview builds. You can register with either your Microsoft account or your work account in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). Using your work account enables you to install and manage Insider Preview builds centrally within your domain. This is ideal for setting up labs and testing Inside Preview builds on multiple PCs across your organization.
To add Insider Preview builds to your overall deployment plan, we recommend exploring the latest features using the Fast Ring and validating those features with a larger set of users and devices using the Slow Ring.
Fast Ring builds are released earliest in the development process, making them ideal for exploring new features and capabilities on a small set of PCs. It is also the best time to use the Feedback Hub app to provide us with feedback on what works, what doesn’t work, and what could work better for your organization. This feedback goes directly to our engineering teams and helps us make adjustments and enhancements as quickly as possible.
Once you’ve had a chance to explore the latest features in an Insider Preview build, we recommend that you move to validating those features with a larger set of users and devices through the Slow Ring. Slow Ring builds are released a bit later than builds in the Fast Ring, making them more stable and better suited to validating both apps and infrastructure. Add app owners and other business leads to your test group to generate richer feedback. And, as you expand your group of Insider Preview Build users, you can use Device Health in Windows Analytics to centrally monitor device, device driver and application issues.
What’s the best way to get application compatibility and infrastructure issues in front of Windows engineers during your validation process? How can you configure Windows Analytics to monitor your Insider Preview builds? What are some of the other differences between the Fast and Slow Ring?
The Windows 10 AMA space on Tech Community will open for a 24-hour window beginning at 10:00 a.m. PT on Tuesday, June 26, 2018.
You can post your questions anytime during the 24-hour window. To submit a question, simply click Start a new conversation—and do this for each new question.
Getting Started with the Windows Insider Program for Business.


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Why focus on ecosystem services in rural communities?
1Can Rewards for Ecosystem Services reduce the wealth inequality gap?
2Can Africa overcome the perfect storm?
This blog is part of the Agriculture and Ecosystems Blog’s month-long series on Ecosystem Services.
Which side of the fence (a fence in a well managed field, of course) do you sit on in the land-sparing vs. land-sharing debate?
Researchers involved in the new Bridging Agriculture and Conservation Initiative, led by Bioversity International, are looking at this question from a research angle that has not been addressed fully before in the scientific community.
To help us answer this question, we can already study and document examples like The Volcanica Central Talamanca Corridor in Costa Rica, one of several biological corridors in Central America that was created to ensure the movement of critically endangered species across the region. Conservation practices in this agricultural landscape contribute to conservation objectives. However, broadening the corridor effort beyond conservation to provide livelihood benefits and improved ecosystem services like clean water was the key to success in bringing this community together. In return, integrating biodiversity conservation and ecosystem restoration in Costa Rica has provided healthier and cheaper ways to make vital crops more resilient – for example, using live fences to help control coffee pests.
While there are nuances in scale and local context that are important, we feel that within agricultural landscapes, land sharing holds greater possibility for sustaining agricultural production in the long term, especially at small scales. Here’s why.
The world is facing the dual challenge of sustainably providing enough nutritious food for more than 9 billion people while conserving the natural resource base upon which we are all dependent. Solutions are needed – very soon.
The only way to move forward is to acknowledge this duality, which logically leads to the need to integrate agriculture and conservation objectives.
As the main driver of land conversion, biodiversity loss, and alteration of several global biogeochemical cycles (including nitrogen, phosphorus and carbon), agricultural landscapes and their ecosystems have to be part of the conservation agenda as we go forward. We must move toward agriculture that actively contributes to protecting biodiversity, storing carbon, cleaning water, and other ecosystem services.
What is really needed in this debate is greater nuance as to how land is shared. At very large scales, land-sparing allows for focusing agricultural activities on those portions of the landscape best suited to supporting production functions: access to water, fertile soils and proximity to market. Similarly designating areas for conservation ensures core habitat for wildlife not suited for cohabitation with humans is secured. This scale of perception also allows a greater focus on services provided by protected areas that can not be met by integrating conservation within agricultural areas and the integration of this understanding into the planning process.
At the scale of agricultural landscapes however, a land-sharing approach recognizes the contribution of conservation efforts to supporting agricultural production such as pollination and pest control services, and in securing the multiple benefit provided by these landscapes, clean water for example, The challenge for researchers is to demonstrate how managing biodiversity for these service to and from agriculture can contribute to increasing the productivity, value, and resilience of the farming system.
The scientists committed to Agriculture and Conservation Initiative are committed to working across disciplinary boundaries to develop a pragmatic understanding of what it means to reduce poverty, conserve biodiversity and food insecurity within the context of the planet’s boundaries and to detailing ways in which farmers, industry, consumers and government can achieve multiple benefits from sustainable farming practices. They call for better integration of agricultural and conservation objectives in the global effort to reduce poverty and improve the lives of the poor. They propose that the only means to sustainably feed a growing global population while protecting the natural resource base upon which we are all dependent is through greater ecological intensification of agricultural landscapes.
As we continue to debate land sharing, land sparing and new approaches to agriculture and conservation, let us remember to keep science and the lessons from our landscapes and ecosystem services at the forefront.
What are your thoughts on land sharing and land sparing? In what contexts and scales do you think agriculture and conservation can work together?
Fradi, Fajr; Diwediga, Badabate; Le, Quang Bao; Bonaiuti, Enrico; Lala-Pritchard, Tana; Hemingway, Charlotte; Thomas, Richard. 2017. Composantes de l'outil GeOC. Amman, Jordan: International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) (Executive Producer).
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Fradi, Fajr; Diwediga, Badabate; Le, Quang Bao; Bonaiuti, Enrico; Lala-Pritchard, Tana; Hemingway, Charlotte; Thomas, Richard. 2017. Cartographie du type du contexte socio-ecologique. Amman, Jordan: International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) (Executive Producer).
Over the past month, this blog has highlighted WLE’s approach to agricultural development through an ecosystem services lens. This post highlights blogs featured throughout the month on ecosystem services.
We are celebrating the launch of WLE's Ecosystem Services and Resilience Framework with a month long focus on ecosystem services, provided from natural and human-modified ecosystems, starting with the blog posts surrounding the Ecosystem Services Partnership conference.
The Volta exemplifies a number of tradeoffs in building dams at a range of scales. The WLE Volta Scoping Study that recently took place along a transect from Accra in Ghana to Kaya in Burkina saw many of these tradeoffs in evidence.
A thought provoking perspective on an argument (sparing vs. sharing) that still rages. As you say, land sparing at large scales on land that is unsuitable for agriculture, is an effective way of conserving some elements of biodiversity. What the land sparing argument rarely seems to address, however, is that vegetation associations, habitats and species are not randomly arrayed across the landscape. There are many vegetation types that will only occur on productive soils that are also highly suitable for agriculture. Similarly, there are many species that are reliant upon these vegetation types situated on gently sloping, deep soil land forms.
As demand for food and fiber grows, land sparing is rarely going to be a realistic option in highly productive landscapes that have yet to be agriculturally developed. However, under a carefully planned and well implemented land sharing regime at the farm or multiple farm scale, one can retain elements of native and semi-natural vegetation and habitats, and integrate them into production systems. Such an approach can fulfill a number of goals: i) habitats and species not generally catered for by the ‘national park type’ system can be conserved; ii) the close juxtaposition/integration of production land with areas of high ecological function, allows the provision of a range of ecosystem services (e.g. movement of predatory arthropods into crops) that will benefit production; iii) the integration of conservation and production in a practical sense, may change the sometimes adversarial relationship between farmers and conservationists.
Land sharing and biodiversity-driven ecosystem services for agriculture are inextricably linked; consequently the development and implementation of effective and rapid ways of measuring ecosystem service delivery (and communicating findings) are of paramount importance from poverty alleviation, food security and biodiversity conservation perspectives.


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You are given 2n numbers ( 1 to n and 1 to n ). You have to arrange these numbers in a sequence such that between any two i`s , there exists exactly i-1 numbers. Is it possible for all n? If no, what are the values of n for which this is possible?
I have not been able to solve it. Sudhanshu Tungare (IITB 2008 EE Alumnus, Morgan Stanley) claims to have a solution. Cheers!
Part solution posted by Nishant Totla (CSE IITB Senior Undergraduate), Richie and Sarat in comments! Complete solution posted by Siddhant Agarwal (EE IITB Alumnus, CMI Grad student) in comments! Thanks a ton.
It is easy to show that such sequences cannot exist for every n. Essentially, it can be shown that a necessary condition is n ≡ 0,1 (mod 4).
Suppose the number i (0<i<n+1) occurs at positions xi and yi (xi<yi). Then the condition is that yi-xi = i.
From hereon, S denotes summation from i=1 to n.
But, we also have Syi + Sxi = 2n(2n+1)/2, as the yi and xi are positions in the sequence. Adding the two equations, we have 2.Syi = n(5n+3)/2.
Which gives Syi = n(5n+3)/4. Since Syi is an integer, so must be the RHS. This can happen only when n ≡ 0,1 (mod 4).
Building upon Nishant's work, I complete the proof by showing that there exists a sequence for number of the form n=4k,4k+1.
I will present an algorithm to construct the sequence. It will be clear to see that the sequence is properly defined and satisfies the conditions.
_ will represent unfilled elements in the sequence.
Step1: Take all even numbers. Nest them together.
Step2: Put the biggest odd in the middle and put the other biggest odd number in the proper place on the right hand side.
This algo is almost the same as the previous algo.
impressive sequence construction by siddhant. its elegant and also looks simple now.
Another easy proof of the necessary condition.For an arrangement let f_i = no of nos between the i's , let g_i = | f_i - (i-1) |. We seek an arrangement when Sum g_i = 0; Let S = Sum g_i.
Any arrangement can be formed from 112233..nn by series of swappings. On the other hand any single swapping changes S by an even no. So an arrangement is possible only if S_0 = even. but S_0 = sigma i from 1 to n-1 = n(n-1)/2 . So this has to be even. so n =0,1 (mod 4).
I was reading through Richie's solution and wanted to share a solution which is a little different from his.
Let f_i be the function as defined by Richie. So sum i from 1 to n f_i=n(n-1)/2 = S(say).
Lets look at the summation S in a different way. We take a pair of numbers and see how that pair contributes to S.
Each of the nC2(n choose 2) pairs will contribute either 0 or 2 to S. Let 'm' be the number of pairs whose contribution is 2.
Solution for the necessity part by Nishant Totla, Richie, Sarat are all correct. Thanks. You all basically have a combinatorial argument to count a function in two different way and since some parameters are integers, you get a constraint on n.
Solution for the construction part by Siddhant Agarwal is awesome! Thanks a lot. I was not able to reach even close.

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Is Buying Cheap Yarn a False Economy?
In this article we are going to look at cheap yarn, and whether it’s a good idea to buy it!
Yarn is the very foundation of your finished work of crochet.
It comes in a sometimes baffling array of thicknesses and material composition.
Not to mention the range of hues, tones and patterns it can contain all by itself.
When you first start out with crochet the temptation can be to simply buy the cheapest yarn out there and give it a go.
It’s what I did, and I am still crocheting today so it can’t have been that bad an idea.
The first piece I ever made was a mouse. I overstuffed him and had incredibly inconsistent stitch sizes, but I was still thrilled with my efforts.
I used a real economy wool, and it had a bit of a scratchy texture to it, but it did the job. The little mouse held up absolutely fine on my shelf for a while, but then I gave him to my baby to play with.
It took her approximately five minutes to unravel his tail and pull his arms off.
I assumed it was my mistakes in it’s creation, coupled with the fact that really it wasn’t an age appropriate toy, causing this to occur.
Therefore, without questioning the material, I moved on to making granny square blankets. Unfortunately, that’s where I hit some serious yarn related trouble. And started to realise that maybe it wasn’t just my inexperience.
Does cheap crochet yarn snap?
My first few granny square blankets were made for my own baby, and as gifts for my adored niece and nephews.
I put a lot of effort into their colours and patterns, and was as pleased as they were when they were presented.
Unfortunately, just days after they began being used they started to snap.
The wool simply wasn’t holding up to daily wear and tear that a functional blanket goes under.
I wondered whether the kids were simply being really rough with them, but when I picked up the rest of the yarn at home and pulled it between my hands it snapped when under very little pressure.
Snapping when put under fairly limited tension was not the only problem I experienced.
The strands of the blankets soon started to fray. They wouldn’t necessarily rip apart, but they looked really quite shoddy. Bits of wool sticking up in places that the effect was meant to be smooth and consistent.
Frankly, I was a little bit devistated by the condition of these items I had put my heart and soul into, and so were to children I had given them to!
There are a large range of different textures of crochet yarn available. Some like my current brands of choice are smooth and silky.
For example, the yarns pictured here I chose for their feel as well as their colours.
They glide through your hand as you work, reducing tension and giving a lovely soft feel to your finished product.
Some, for example the Alpaca wool that is quite fashionable at the moment, are more coarse. But cheap wools tend to fall more into the rough category.
This is not necessarily a bad thing when you are first learning to crochet, if you can avoid the other downsides I just mentioned.
When you are not used to gripping yarn in your off-hand, the added friction can be helpful in keeping your yarn in place and therefore your stitches tight.
In addition to this, of you are a fan of the rougher feel to your finished piece, this is again no bad thing. A friend of mine makes gorgeous crochet hand warmers out of a coarse yarn, which have a really high quality finish.
Therefore the texture is a matter of personal preference, and it is of course not going to break the bank to give it a go with a cheaper but harsher feeling yarn, as long as you have given it a tug first to make sure you aren’t going to have it snap on you later!
There are some wool/yarn brands out there who package their product in what I feel is a misleading manner. Giving the appearance of being better value for money, without actually providing more yarn.
They wind their yarn loosely, so that it looks like a larger quantity.
This is why it is very important to check the weight.
On the shelf 100g of ‘Women’s Institute Soft and Silky’ yarn looks about a third of the size of 100g of ‘James Brett Top Value Knitting Yarn’. The price difference is mear pennies, but first glance you are getting a lot more for your money with the value yarn.
So make sure you always read the label, to check what you are really putting your money in to.
If you buy a big batch of cheap wool, it might seem like a bargain at the time. The problem is that you will almost certainly find that you are more reluctant to use it.
The top of my wardrobe contains a large bag of yarn that I deem not good enough to go in my daily use box. Which if you think about it, is a bit silly. If I don’t think it’s good enough now, what on Earth makes me think it will be good enough in the future.
It is only a misplaced sense of pride, mixed with buyer’s remorse, that keeps me under the clearly thinly veiled illusion that one day it will become anything more than toy stuffing.
But at least there are an awful lot of toys I will be able to stuff with yarn ‘scraps’ – even if they are straight of the roll.
Which Yarn Should I Use for Crocheting?
It can be difficult to decide which yarn to choose for your crochet project.
A lot of the above points’ validity depends upon your intended purpose for your creation.
If you want to make childrens toys or blankets for their beds, then you are probably going to require a product that is going to withstand a lot of fairly boisterous use.
If you are going to sit your piece delicately on a shelf, and all that it will need to withstand is a light dusting once a week, then this is far less of a concern.
Remember, items like doil for potplants might not get moved around a lot, but when they are moved the friction put across them is considerable.
There are some incredibly expensive yarns out there. I buy most of mine either online or from my local branch of Hobbycraft, so that I can see and feel them before I invest.
Personally I don’t believe that there is any need to buy the most expensive yarns available, unless they are in a colour choice that you cannot find in one of the middle price brackets.
I have a couple of lovely yarns from the high range, but I do not think they give any nicer or stronger finish than their mid-range counterparts.
When I buy yarn and there isn’t any special offer or sale on, I expect to pay anywhere from £3 to £6 per 100g.
Prices will vary depending upon where you live, not just in the world but within the UK as well. There is no harm in shopping around, and finding the best value store in your area or online shop once you know what kind of yarns you favour.
Is Cheap Yarn a False Economy?
Buying cheap yarn can be a real false economy. From misleading packaging, to longevity and feel of your finished product. There are plenty of potential pitfalls. This doesn’t mean however that you won’t get away with it sometimes!
You need to decide what you are prepared to invest in your new hobby or business, and work from there.
It’s important to remember too that it’s not the price, it’s the quality that matters. Test out the yarn before you buy it if you can. Tug it between your fingers, and if it snaps walk away. Rub your nail gently down a strand and check whether it has started to fray.
Do your homework, read reviews from experienced crocheters, and above all use your common sense.
A quality finished product is going to come with a higher price tag. But that doesn’t mean it has to be the highest out there. It’s up to you to decide whether it’s a price worth paying.

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