Exhibition recognises sugar's Pacific foundation
Updated June 19, 2013 17:21:27
Audio: Queensland Art Gallery curator of Pacific art Ruth McDougall talks about the 'Sugar' exhibition. (ABC Rural)
The earliest days of the sugar industry and its dependence on workers, willing and unwilling, from the Pacific are on show in Brisbane.
Postcards, photographs, music and recorded anecdotes have been pulled together to mark 150 years of Australian South Sea Islander contributions to Queensland.
Ruth McDougall is the Queensland Art Gallery's curator of Pacific art and says some of the postcards in the collection date from the 1870s.
"These were lithographs majorly produced for sending overseas to really promote Queensland as a destination for investors and sugar was a major part of that promotion exercise.
"And you see from those very early images that the South Sea Islanders are right in there, that they are part of the story of sugar from the beginning."
The workers came from islands in Melanesia, including Vanuatu and the Solomons, and from Polynesian and Micronesian islands such as Samoa, Tuvalu and Kiribati.
Ms McDougall says some were contracted to work in Australia but most, including young children, were kidnapped.
"The term that South Sea Islanders use is 'blackbirding'.
"Quite often they were enticed from the beach onto the ships and when they arrived they were adopted and worked as domestics or were taken out to cattle stations to work as well."
Frank Robert Boah, known as Bobby, from Mackay features in one of the recordings which forms part of the exhibition.
He's visited the village where his grandfather was born and heard how he was taken from a reef.
"The ones that were close to shore, they ran away up into the scrub or the forest.
"But me grandfather was too far out and they caught him.
"There's a lot of people don't know, they think we're Aboriginals because of course we're dark.
"But we've got a different history altogether."
Ms McDougall says after Federation in 1901, and the start of the White Australia Policy, all bar 1600 of the South Sea Islanders were deported.
The exhibition called 'Sugar' is running until October 7 in Brisbane.
Topics: sugar, history, immigration, brisbane-4000, pacific
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UK researchers develop ultrasonic needle
A University of Glasgow-led project, which is developing this new type of surgical needle, is one of 15 engineering projects to share in 12.2 million pounds of funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
Margaret Lucas, Professor of Ultrasonics at the University's School of Engineering, and her partner researchers at the Universities of Dundee and Edinburgh have received 982,000 pounds to support three years of work to develop a needle which vibrates at ultrasonic frequencies.
Previous ultrasonic cutting technology developed by Prof Lucas and her team is capable of removing the shell of an egg without damaging the membrane below.
The technology would allow doctors to penetrate bone with needles with much less force than is currently required, improving the effectiveness of biopsies and allowing a more effective delivery of drugs to parts of the body obscured by bone.
Ultrasonic needles could also make it easier for doctors to penetrate areas of hard tissue without affecting the surrounding soft tissue.
Previous research carried out by Professor Lucas has led to the development of ultrasonic cutting tools precise enough to remove sections from the shell of an egg without breaking the membrane underneath.
Professor Lucas said: "We've been working for several years to explore the applications of ultrasonic vibrations to allow surgeons to cut through bone more quickly and easily, and we're excited about the potential of applying
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2. Place the bit in the ding and line up the drill so it is exactly perpendicular to the pot.
3. Press the drill firmly into the container and then drill through the container in a single motion. To prevent your drill bit from slipping around when working with metal containers, first make a shallow hole with a very small drill bit and then drill completely through the pot with the larger bit.

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Chevy Equinox: SVC Tire Monitor
Your Chevy Equinox is equipped with a tire pressure monitor system. This system notifies you if the tire pressure is too low. When you get the Service Tire Monitor warning, it indicates that there is a problem with the tire monitoring system itself. Id does not mean that the tire pressure is (necessarily) too low.
If you do get this warning message, the first thing you should do is check the actual tire pressure. This message can occur when the tire pressure is extremely low, or extremely high
Once you confirm that the tire pressure is normal (you can look on the inside of the driver's door jam to see what the tire pressure should be), it is safe to drive the vehicle as though you don't have a tire pressure monitoring system. But, you will need to check the tire pressure regularly until the system has been repaired.
SVC Tire Monitor Chevy Equinox
Equinox SVC Tire Monitor Warning: Causes
Here are the most common reasons that the SVC Tire Monitor warning illuminates in the Equinox:
1. Tire Pressure Too High/Low
If the tire pressure is way outside of factory specs the SVC Tire Monitor warning can come on. This is know to happen when the weather is extremely hot or cold. Check the actual tire pressure and start from there. The system will report if a tire is OVER INFLATED so don't just eyeball it.
Chevy Equinox SVC Tire Monitor Causes
2. Wrong Wheel
If you put a new wheel on your Equinox, you'll need to have the tire pressure sensor migrated over to it or synced. Otherwise, there's nothing for the system to communicate with and the SVC Tire Monitor warning will populate in the message center.
3. Bad Tire Pressure Sensor
Your Equinox's tire pressure sensor sits inside the wheel and is constantly checking the tire pressure. The life of a tire pressure sensor is a tough one, and they do have batteries that can fail. If you are driving a vehicle that is ten years old or older, the battery very well could be the cause of the sensor failure. Unfortunately, replacing the sensor is usually the only way to fix it.
Conclusion: SVC Tire Monitor Chevy Equinox
Most tire shops will be able to handle replacing the TPMS sensor for you. If you'd like to take a stab at it yourself, this article goes over how to identify which sensor is at fault, and how to go about resetting the TPMS system. Just remember, as long as you are aware of the actual tire pressure in your Equinox, there is no immediate danger that comes from driving with the SVC tire monitor warning active.
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Hangzhou's climate is Humid Subtropical with four distinctive seasons. The average annual temperature in Hangzhou is 16.2°C (61.2°F). The summers are hot and humid, while winters are relatively cool and dry. In July, the hottest month, the average temperature is approximately 33.8°C (92.8°F); in January the average temperature is about 3.6°C (38.5°F). Hangzhou receives an average annual rainfall of 1450 mm. In mid-summer, Hangzhou, along with other cities in Zhejiang province, suffer typhoon storms, but typhoons seldom strike it directly. Generally they make land along the southern coast of Zhejiang, and affect Hangzhou with str ong winds and stormy rains.
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Hangzhou is a travel destination which has four traditional seasons, predictable by the standard calendar. The summers are warm and the winters are cool. In spring, everything is in bloom and in autumn there are colored leaves everywhere. Because of this, it is relatively comfortable to visit the area at any time of year and travelers can pretty much be guaranteed beautiful natural scenery during any month. Visitors interested in seeing the plants in bloom but missing the bulk of the rain should aim for heading to the area just after the rainy season ends in late June. Travelers interested in enjoying winter activities should wait until at least December if not early January. This is when the snow falls in the area, covering the lake and making the area particularly beautiful.
In terms of actual temperature, the hottest month of the year is July which has an average high temperature of just over ninety degrees. The coldest month of the year is January when temperatures hover just above freezing. The wettest month of the year is usually June, which averages eight inches of rain and the driest months are the winter months. Travelers can obtain comprehensive annual climate information for the area at _URL_


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To change a department name, its parent department and code:
- Open the Users section and go to the Departments tab.
- Select a department and click Edit Department in the top menu.
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Rage against the Bathing Machine
Neatorama just featured this great and strange photo of bathing machines, and I was completely intrigued. Apparently, the sheds on wheels were popular in the 19th century (even Queen Victoria had one!) and were there to--what else?-- protect a woman's chastity. At the time, beaches were segregated, so men and women used separate sections. In fact, because it was considered coarse to see a woman in her bathing suit, ladies entered the machines in their street clothes, changed into their swimwear in the dark room (there were no openings for light in the sheds), and then had the little room pulled toward the water.
To actually enjoy the ocean, women employed "dippers" to help them descend into the water at an appropriate pace, dunk them with appropriate vigor, and pull them out at the appropriate time (there were a lot of rules). Perhaps the most fascinating thing about the bathing machines, though, isn't the fact that they existed, but just how prevalent they were. While some beaches and resorts used horses to pull the things into the water, others had wooden ramps for the wheels, and steam-powered cables to push and pull the machines in and out. Once mixed gender beaches became the norm in the early 1900's, however, the machines went the way of the dinosaurs. Story via the geniuses over at Neatorama.


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The Gopher applied positive jing in battle in concurrence with Toph's utilization of neutral jing.
Jing is a term that describes the myriad of options toward which one can direct his or her energy, both internally and externally. According to Bumi, they correspond to tactics and strategies in battle.[1]
Known types
According to Bumi, there are, at least technically, eighty-five distinct types or "degrees" of jing, although only the main three have been mentioned:
 - Positive jing, corresponding to advancing or attacking.
 - Negative jing, corresponding to retreating or evading.
 - Neutral jing, corresponding to waiting and listening, or, as Bumi described it, "doing nothing".[1]
Positive jing
Octopus form
The octopus form is one of the many techniques in waterbending that allows waterbenders to maintain a balance between positive and negative jing.
Positive jing is an aggressive expression of chi. As such, it complements the more aggressive tactics of firebenders during combat. Firebenders typically prefer action to inaction or conflict avoidance, relying heavily on preemptive strikes to overwhelm their opponents with sheer power. These positive jing attributes are also found in the attitudes and personalities that are common among the people of the Fire Nation.
Negative jing
Negative jing is mostly exercised in airbending, reflecting the Air Nomads' pacifistic lifestyle and their philosophy that all life is sacred; they assert that fighting is only to be used as a last resort when conflict cannot be avoided.[2] Airbenders are more mobile fighters compared to earthbenders and possess a highly dynamic fighting style; to "avoid and evade" is recognized as a typical airbender tactic.[3]
In the case of waterbending, common maneuvers involve following the moon and the ocean's example of "push and pull".[4] As such, waterbenders will alternate between and maintain a balance of both positive and negative jing in combat, allowing them to turn defense into offense as they use their opponent's force against them while conserving their own.
Neutral jing
Toph's vision
Seismic sense is a specialized technique under earthbending which utilizes concepts involved with neutral jing.
Neutral jing is stated to be the key to earthbending. Fundamentally, neutral jing involves listening, though seemingly doing nothing, and waiting for the right moment to strike. When in combat, earthbenders are more stationary combatants, usually waiting for their opponent to come to them, while standing their ground and meeting their opponents' attacks head-on, before delivering a deadly strike of their own. Neutral jing forms the basis of true earthbending, and is the concept used by the first earthbenders, the badgermoles. The idea is also fundamental in seismic sense, a perceptive fighting style used by select benders, one of whom was Toph.[5]
As highlighted, someone who has mastered neutral jing is someone who waits and listens before striking. Bumi relied on neutral jing while earthbending, to the extent that he refused to flee Omashu even when Aang came to his rescue. His desire to wait for an opportune moment to strike was initially baffling to his soldiers and to Aang, although the Avatar later accepted Bumi's decision.[1] The monarch eventually freed himself during the Day of Black Sun, recognizing it as the precise moment to strike as his captors were defenseless without their firebending.[2]
Discussion about the concept of jing between Avatar Aang and King Bumi:
"I don't understand. Why didn't you free yourself? Why did you surrender when Omashu was invaded? What's the matter with you, Bumi?"
"Listen to me, Aang. There are options in fighting, called jing. It's a choice of how you direct your energy..."
"I know! There's positive jing when you're attacking, and negative jing when you're retreating!"
"... and neutral jing when you do nothing!"
"There are
three jings?"
"Well, technically, there are eighty-five, but let's just focus on the third. Neutral jing is the
key to earthbending. It involves listening and waiting for the right moment to strike."
"That's why you surrendered, isn't it?"
"Yes, and it's why I can't leave now."
"I guess I need to find someone else to teach me earthbending."
"Your teacher will be someone who has mastered neutral jing. You need to find someone who waits and listens before striking.
Aang and Bumi.[1]
 - Jīng or Jīn (勁) means "power" or "energy" in Chinese.
 - Knowledge of jing seems to have been well known or was at least common knowledge prior to the Hundred Year War, as Aang and Bumi seem to understand its ideas with relative ease, while many modern earthbenders fail to exhibit knowledge of the concept.
 - The concept of jing, while it can be reflected as the differences of options open to a person in battle, actually also corresponds to all aspects of a person's life and not just on the battlefield.
 - A parallel to the series' concept of jing would be the "fight or flight" response in psychology; certain personality types are more inclined to act in accordance to a particular jing.
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Constructing an Open Box: An open box with a square base is requried to have a volume of 10 cubic feet.
a) Express the amount A of material used to make such a box as a function of the length x of a side of the square base. MY answer: S=x^2 + 4x(10/x^2)
b)How much material is required for a base 1 foot by 1 foot?
c)How much material is required for a base 2 feet by 2 feet?
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HE (high-efficiency) laundry detergents are specialized formulas made to use in HE washing machines. The main difference between a HE detergent and a regular one is the amount of suds. HE detergents produce less suds and are designed for the lower water environments of HE machines.
How can you tell if you have an HE washer? Does HE detergent actually work? Can you use non-HE detergent in HE machines? Read on to find out.
Do You Have a HE Washer that Needs High-Efficiency Detergent?
What does HE mean on laundry detergent?
If you're shopping for an HE detergent for your high-efficiency washer, look for the blue and white oval with the letters "h" and "e" surrounded by a white swirl on the label. It should be the same symbol you saw on your washer.
The HE symbol might be located on the front of the bottle, or on the reverse, near the washing instructions and ingredients. When you see HE on a laundry detergent bottle, you'll know that this detergent is designed for HE washing machines.
HE Detergent vs Regular Detergent: Which Should I Use?
There are various types of laundry detergent for the various types of washers, kind of like there are different types of fuel for different types of engines. Just as you wouldn't put gasoline in a diesel car or truck, you should only use HE detergent in a HE washer.
You're probably wondering, "can you use HE detergent in a regular, non-HE washing machine?" The answer to that is, yes! While you should not use regular detergent in a HE washer for the reasons stated above, it is fine to use HE detergent in a conventional washing machine. You should increase the amount you use since more water in the washer cycle will dilute the detergent further. And remember, don't expect as many suds! HE laundry detergents are low-sudsing by design.
HE detergent vs Ultra-Concentrated Laundry Detergent
While almost all detergents today are HE, only some have the added feature of being ultra-concentrated. Detergents with the HE symbol on the bottle are formulated for the low-sudsing, low-water environment of an HE machine. Ultra-concentrated laundry detergents can be used in regular, non-HE washing machines and in HE washers if they are also HE detergents.
Swash® Liquid Laundry Detergent is both HE and ultra-concentrated - it's an 8x detergent. What sets ultra-concentrated detergents apart is that they use less water in their formulation. Large bottles of laundry detergent are diluted with water, while concentrated laundry detergents contain less water and are less diluted. As a result, you don't need to use as much detergent in every load to get the same cleaning performance.
Since ultra-concentrated detergents will be combined with water inside your washing machine, they don't need to dilute the detergent inside the bottle. By reducing the water and concentrating the detergent, you can have a smaller bottle that is easier to ship, pour, and store, taking up less room in your laundry area.
Can I Use Swash® Laundry Detergent in an HE Washer?
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I'm wondering if tailf can generate blocking I/O which will slow down server responsiveness due to logging.
For ex. assuming the following setup:
Debian 5.1 linux server (foo) which is managed via terminal (foo is hosted on EC2).
Foo runs several applications, each writing to their own log file. For the sake of example, Apache httpd to /var/log/apache/access.log & Tomcat 5.5 to /var/log/tomcat5.5/myApp.log.
If I open an ssh connection to foo, (note: Internet link, high latency, relatively slow upload) and run tail -F /var/log/apache/access.log can't I reach a situation where the kernel blocks httpd's writes to this log file and thus slows down httpd's performance because of the wait enforced on each thread?
To give some numbers, let's assume that foo logs ~200kb of log data per second which needs to be pushed over the wire to the ssh client.
Another theoretical aspect: What would happen if the /var/log file system set on an infinite size ram (remember: Theoretically speaking) so that the hard disk seek time is eliminated?
Third aspect, what would happen if I'd open the ssh connection from a really slow link (Let's assume that foo is traffic shaped to push only 5kb/s upload)?
Would love to hear what you think guys.
Thanks for reading, Maxim.
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I don't think there will be some blocking over I/O here. When you do "tail -f", what's happening is
 1. your shell process, let's say bash, will spawn a new process 'tail'.
 2. tail will open the file, move file pointer to the end, wait for 3 seconds and check whether there are new data.
 3. if there is new data, tail will push it back to the bash using unix pipe.
 4. this data gets transmitted from server to your machine by bash + ssh.
So as you can see, a slow internet connection won't affect step #2, which is the key for I/O performance anyway.
Plus, tail opens file in'read-only' mode and, an educated guess, logs are open in 'append-only' mode, so there shouldn't be much locking here to worry about. If this is still a bit concern for you, then you may want to try out the inotail which is based on latest linux inotify api to avoid polling the file.
Hope this helps, Alex
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I don't think it is likely. I believe the writes will be cached in ram and since they were just written I imagine that tail will be reading those pages from ram as well. The pages will be periodically synced to disk. I would be surprised if Apache blocks on waiting for the logs to be written out to disk myself.
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MySQL Question
Count by months in MySQL database?
How do you count the total number of entries by month?
id, date
01, 2010-09-28
02, 2010-03-28
03, 2010-09-28
04, 2010-03-28
For example. How could you pick only dates from September and have them count as an output of
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Model by IP UNKNOWN FAILURE Error
When you model a device by IP, the following error pops up:
Error creating the model in landscape <>:
Often the cause of this error is because the IP address being used is in the AutoDiscovery IP Exclusion List.
Check for the ip address in the IP Exclusion List:
1. Log into OneClick as an ADMIN user
2. Find and select the VNM model
3. Click on the Information tab
4. Find and expand the AutoDiscovery Control -> Modeling and Protocol Options subview
5. Check for the ip address in the IP Exclusion List
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- a durable, lustrous, reversible fabric as of silk or linen, in figured weave, used for table linen, upholstery, etc.
- Damascus steel
- the wavy markings of such steel
- deep pink or rose
Origin of damaskItalian damasco, after Classical Latin Damascus (the city)
- Obs. of or from Damascus
- made of damask
- like damask
- deep-pink or rose
- to ornament with flowered designs or wavy lines
- to make deep-pink or rose
- A rich patterned fabric of cotton, linen, silk, or wool.
- A fine, twilled table linen.
- Damascus steel.
- The wavy pattern on Damascus steel.
transitive verbdam·asked, dam·ask·ing, dam·asks
- To damascene.
- To decorate or weave with rich patterns.
Origin of damaskMiddle English Damascus, damask from Latin Damascus from Greek Damaskos
(comparative more Damask, superlative most Damask)
- Relating to, or originating at, the city of Damascus.


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Armor Stand
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Armor stands are a type of furniture. Much like the weapon rack, the armor stand can be used to create a barracks. After being built (b-a), you may define the barracks dimensions (b-a, then +-). It can also be placed in a noble's room to appease them.
When used in a barracks designated for individual and squad equipment, dwarves will prefer to store their armor on stands instead of stockpiles. Doing so in concert with weapon racks will allow you to create centralized armories for your military.
Armor stands do not block dwarf movement.
Stockpile storage always takes priority over furniture, making armor stands all but useless for their practical purpose.


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Definition of adenylate cyclase in English:
noun[mass noun] Biochemistry
An enzyme that catalyses the formation of cyclic adenylic acid from adenosine triphosphate.
- The cAMP is produced by adenylate cyclase, and that enzyme is activated by phosphorylated IIA Glc.
- The response of cells to the binding of glucagon to its cell surface receptor is the activation of the enzyme adenylate cyclase which is associated with the receptor.
- When epinephrine contacts a cell membrane, it triggers the allosteric activation of adenylate cyclase, the enzyme that creates cAMP. cAMP then allosterically activates a protein kinase.
Definition of adenylate cyclase in:
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Making Reusable iPhone Widgets with Interface Builder
One annoying thing about Interface Builder, at least for the iPhone, is that there is not a direct way of making reusable widgets that are both made *in* Interface Builder and *for* Interface Builder. I came up, though, with a set of instructions and helpers that make the process fairly painless. The class is called IBView, and should be used as the parent class for your reusable widget.
Here's how to create the widget:
 1. Create a class for your new widget, called MyWidget. Inherit from the IBView class (code provided below). Create all of the IBOutlets you want for your widget.
 2. Create a view with the same name as your widget class in Interface Builder. If your widget was named "MyWidget.m" then your interface should be called "MyWidget.xib". DO NOT set the class of this view or any subview to be of the MyWidget (or whatever class you are create) type. DO NOT do it.
 3. Set the "File's Owner" of your interface in Interface Builder to be the name of the class that you are creating - MyWidget in this case.
 4. Set up any connections you want between your IB view and File's Owner (i.e. your widget).
Now, your widget is created. You can now use the view in any IB panel by doing putting in a generic UIView, and setting the class name to your new class (MyWidget in this case).
Important caveat - one consequence of creating the view in Interface Builder is that there will be an extra view between the main view represented by your class and the rest of the elements of your class. Basically, your custom view acts as a generic view, and then *loads in* your Interface Builder file as a subview, meaning that the toplevel view in Interface Builder will sit under your MyWidget view. This is usually unimportant if you are just using IBOutlet stuff, but if you do advanced view management, it would be important to know that a view sits between you and the rest of your sub-widgets.
Okay, here is the code for IBView.m - just very simple code, with a tiny bit of Objective-C magic thrown in:
_TAG_ "IBView.h"
_USER_ IBView
-(void) loadViewsFromBundle {
NSString *class_name = NSStringFromClass([self class]);
NSLog(@"Loading bundle: %@", class_name);
UIView *mainSubView = [[[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:class_name owner:self options:nil] lastObject];
[self addSubview:mainSubView];
-(id) initWithCoder:(NSCoder *)coder {
self = [super initWithCoder:coder];
if(self) {
[self loadViewsFromBundle];
return self;
- (id)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame {
self = [super initWithFrame:frame];
if (self) {
[self loadViewsFromBundle];
// Initialization code.
return self;
And IBView.h is super-simple:
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And that's all there is to it!


What key is 21 guns?
F major
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Why is it called 21 guns?
The 21-gun salute, commonly recognized by many nations, is the highest honor rendered. The custom stems from naval tradition, when a warship would signify its lack of hostile intent by firing its cannons out to sea until all ammunition was spent.
Did David Bowie write 21 guns?
On its release, however, many rock critics noted the similarities between the melody of the song's chorus and "All the Young Dudes," a song recorded by the glam rock band Mott the Hoople in 1972, but written by David Bowie. Rather than risk a lawsuit, Green Day decided to list Bowie as a songwriter on "21 Guns."
Is 21 guns a protest song?
"21 Guns" is a protest song, protesting war. This song is an anti-war song which targets world peace. Although this song doesn't protest a specific war, it protests war in general. … The song references the 21 Gun Salute, which is performed as a military honor.19 мая 2013 г.
What is the F note on guitar?
Here is the basic version of the F chord. … It is played by barring the first two strings with the first finger on the first fret, then picking up the A note with the second finger on the second fret of the 3rd string, and grabbing the F note with the third finger on the third fret of hte 4th string..
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Objective: To describe a technique for treating pyometra in dogs using a 3-portal laparoscopic-assisted ovariohysterectomy (LAOVH) and evaluate outcome. Study Design: Retrospective case series. Animals: Dogs (n=12). Methods: Dogs with open or closed-cervix pyometra with moderately sized (1-4cm) uterine horn diameters based on preoperative ultrasonography and no evidence of perforation were included in the study. A 3-portal technique for LAOVH was used. A wound retraction device was inserted into the caudal portal after enlargement of the incision to 3-4cm to simplify removal of the uterus with minimal tension. Results: Twelve dogs (median weight, 23.3kg; range, 2.1-46.0kg) met the inclusion criteria. Median uterine diameter was 3.0cm (range, 1.2-4.0cm). Median surgical time for LAOVH was 107minutes (range, 82-120minutes). Complications included mild hemorrhage from the uterine vessels in 1 dog during uterine removal through the wound retraction device and intra-abdominal uterine rupture in 1 dog which necessitated conversion to an open approach. All dogs recovered from surgery and were discharged. Conclusions: LAOVH can be used for treatment of select cases of canine pyometra. Careful case selection is mandatory to improve success and minimize conversion to an open approach. Gentle handling of the reproductive organs is imperative to avoid iatrogenic uterine rupture.
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Item Importer (Project Red)
This page is about the Item Importer added by Project Red. For other uses, see Item Importer.
Item Importer
ModProject Red
TypeSolid block
Required modulesExpansion
The Item Importer is a machine added by Project Red which works like a diode for the Pressure tube and the Pressure Resistance tube. When activated by redstone, this machine blocks items from passing through, redirecting them instead to an alternate route. If none is found, it will route back to its source until either a new route is created or the machine is deactivated. It can also be used to pull items out of an inventory and put them into a pressure tube network if both a redstone pulse is applied, and the wooden part is facing a valid inventory.
If the mod MineChem is installed, then the Item Importer can be decomposed with the Chemical Decomposer into different chemical compounds of MineChem.
Example of a tube system. The item passes from Block Breaker (left) to an Item Importer (middle) into a chest (right) connected with Pressure tubes.
The Item Importer allows items to pass in the tube system of Project Red, but only in one direction. The sides can not be used. The machine pumps automatically from the wooden side to the cobblestone side. When provided with a redstone signal, this machine will not allow items to pass, nor will the path be considered valid by the routing logic. This gives it functionality similar to a relay, allowing you to control when an inventory is connected to the pipe network. This is especially useful if you want to count the contents of a chest designed for automation without its inventory constantly changing.
It is also possible to use a comparator to ensure that chest is only filled up to a certain point with a product, before moving on to the next.


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I recently did a CS3 SmartTalks webinar on HR Actions and it made me take a step back and think about a lot of things. Most of all: why would I use HR Actions instead of paper forms? Here are my top reasons for using HR Actions instead of a paper form:
- On a paper form the person filling it out can just skip fields that might be really important. HR Actions allows you to mark the required fields that you want the form user to populate.
- On a paper form the person that fills it out can just put anything in the boxes. HR Actions give the form user a customized drop down list of items for them to select from.
- On a paper form if the person filling it out has questions about who needs to approve it, they will probably have to call around to find out where to send it next. HR Actions shows the forms routing at the bottom of the form based on the forms requirements and any business rules you setup in the system.
- Once someone starts filling out a form, you don't know how long it is in the 'paper' shuffle before it finally makes it to the HR/PR department. It could have gotten side tracked many places along the way and stuck on a desk of someone on vacation. HR Actions allow the form initiator, anyone approving the form, and the HR/PR team to see where form is at, if it is stuck, and allows the HR/PR team to help a form along if it does get stuck somewhere.
- A paper form has to be entered into the HR/PR system. HR Actions is just a click of the 'Save' icon to save it into Sage HRMS or Abra Suite.
- The data keyed into the HR/PR system could have typos done. HR Actions is keying in by the form initiator, and the HR/PR team can 'audit' the form to make any corrections they find.
- Once the form is entered into the HR/PR system, the next step is usually filing the paper. Later when you need to find it you have to go to the paper files and find it.
- HR Actions is your 'online file cabinet.' Imagine if all of your personnel related forms went through HR Actions - you would be able to retrieve items online instead of going to the file cabinet.
That's my list. Let me know if you have other reasons you can think of that HR Actions is better than a paper form.


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In string theory, a worldsheet is a two-dimensional manifold which describes the embedding of a string in spacetime. The term was coined by Leonard Susskind around 1967 as a direct generalization of the world line concept for a point particle in special and general relativity.
The type of string, the geometry of the spacetime in which it propagates, and the presence of long-range background fields (such as gauge fields) are encoded in a conformal field theory defined on the worldsheet. For example, the bosonic string in 26-dimensional Minkowski space has a worldsheet conformal field theory consisting of 26 free scalar fields. Meanwhile, a superstring worldsheet theory in 10 dimensions consists of 10 free scalar fields and their fermionic superpartners.


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New York Passes Wage Theft Protection Act
On December 13, 2010, New York State Governor David A. Paterson signed the Wage Theft Prevention Act ("WTPA") into law. The WTPA is intended to help protect employees working in New York against violations of their wage and hour law rights.
The WTPA requires employers to provide information to employees about how they are being paid. For example, employers must notify employees, in writing, of:
 1. Their rate and basis for their pay, such as whether they are paid by the hour, shift, day, week, salary, piece, commission, or otherwise;
 2. Any allowances the employer claims as part of the employee's minimum wage, such as tip, meal, or lodging allowances; and
 3. Their overtime rate, number of regular hours worked, and number of overtime hours worked for employees who are not exempt from overtime.
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How could I accurately run a function when the minute changes? Using a setInterval could work if I trigger it right when the minute changes. But I'm worried setInterval could get disrupted by the event-loop in a long-running process and not stay in sync with the clock.
How can I run a function accurately when the minute changes?
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First off, you should use setInterval for repeating timers, since it (tries to) guarantee periodic execution, i.e. any potential delays will not stack up as they will with repeated setTimeout calls. This will execute your function every minute:
function f() {
 console.log(new Date);
setInterval(f, 60 * 1000);
Now, what we need to do is to start this at the exact right time:
function repeatEvery(func, interval) {
 // Check current time and calculate the delay until next interval
 var now = new Date,
 delay = interval - now % interval;
 function start() {
 // Execute function now...
 //... and every interval
 setInterval(func, interval);
 // Delay execution until it's an even interval
 setTimeout(start, delay);
repeatEvery(f, 60 * 1000);
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You can try to be as accurate as you can, setting a timeout each X milliseconds and check if the minute has passed and how much time has passed since the last invocation of the function, but that's about it.
You cannot be 100% sure that your function will trigger exactly after 1 minute, because there might be something blocking the event-loop then.
If it's something vital, I suggest using a cronjob or a separate Node.js process specifically for that (so you can make sure the event loop isn't blocked).
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You may have to read the comment of MMJ within the linked article. – KooiInc May 29 '12 at 8:26
This may be an idea. The maximum deviation should be 1 second. If you want it to be more precise, lower the milliseconds of setTimeout1.
function checkMinutes(){
 var now = new Date().getMinutes();
 if (now > checkMinutes.prevTime){
 // do something
 console.log('nextminute arrived');
 checkMinutes.prevTime = now;
1 But, see also this question, about accuracy of timeouts in javascript
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If in his application a callback from a previous function gets triggered just before checkChange that callback might take 1-2 seconds (if he needs to process something on the spot), so he cannot be 100% sure, right? – alessioalex May 29 '12 at 8:17
True. That's why I added a footnote. Aside from that: a method taking 1-2 seconds processing time would trigger me to optimize my scripting. – KooiInc May 29 '12 at 8:23
+1 nice simple example.... – ManseUK May 29 '12 at 8:48
My first thought would be to use the Date object to get the current time. This would allow you to set your set interval on the minute with some simple math. Then since your worried about it getting off, every 5-10 min or whatever you think is appropriate, you could recheck the time using a new date object and readjust your set interval accordingly.
This is just my first thought though in the morning I can put up some code(its like 2am here).
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I've put up a possible solution for you:
/* Usage:
 * coolerInterval( func, interval, triggerOnceEvery);
 * - func : the function to trigger
 * - interval : interval that will adjust itself overtime checking the clock time
 * - triggerOnceEvery : trigger your function once after X adjustments (default to 1)
var coolerInterval = function(func, interval, triggerOnceEvery) {
 var startTime = new Date().getTime(),
 nextTick = startTime,
 count = 0;
 triggerOnceEvery = triggerOnceEvery || 1;
 var internalInterval = function() {
 nextTick += interval;
 if(count == triggerOnceEvery) {
 count = 0;
 setTimeout(internalInterval, nextTick - new Date().getTime());
The following is a sample usage that prints the timestamp once every minute, but the time drift is adjusted every second
coolerInterval(function() {
 console.log( new Date().getTime() );
}, 1000, 60);
It's not perfect, but should be reliable enough. Consider that the user could switch the tab on the browser, or your code could have some other blocking tasks running on the page, so a browser solution will never be perfect, it's up to you (and your requirements) to decide if it's reliable enough or not.
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Secure shoelace knot is a variation of the two loop shoelace knot. It is one of several more secure
alternatives to the common shoelace knot. Secure shoelace knot is made by looping the top part of the
knot twice instead of once, which results in a finished knot of almost identical appearance but with
the laces wrapped twice around the middle.
It is relatively easy to tie and easy to untie.
Good for slippery laces.
Used for tying shoelaces in sports, mountain climbing, boating and other activities where secure
yet easily untied knot is needed.
To release just pull by the free ends just like ordinary shoelace knot.
Way more secure than the standard shoelace knot.
Turquoise Turtle Shoelace Knot, Shoemaker's Knot, Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot, Surgeon's Shoelace Knot,
Double Slip Knot
1. Start by tying an overhand knot just like in standard shoelace knot.
2. Fold both lace ends into loops.
3. Put one loop over the other.
4. Feed one loop through the hole in the middle.
5. Feed second loop through the hole from the opposite side.
6. Pull both loops to tighten the knot.


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The Windows Script Host Object Model has many useful properties and methods for dealing with files, folders, disks, etc. One common use is for searching for a file in one or more sub-folders. The example function below illustrates how to use the
FileSystemObject along with the
Files, and File objects to iterate through sub folders to find a particular file.
To use this example in your macros you must add a reference to the Windows Script Host Object Model library. To do this select Tools > References, then scroll toward the bottom of the list and select Windows Script Host Object Model.
' 'This function requires a reference to: 'Windows Script Host Object Model (C:\Windows\System32\wshom.ocx)"'Public Function FindFile(ByVal strFileName As String, _ ByVal strStartPath As String, ByRef strFoundPath) As Boolean Dim objFSO As FileSystemObject Dim objFiles As Files Dim objFile As File Dim objFolders As Folders Dim objFolder As Folder strFoundPath = "" 'Set new instance if File System Object Set objFSO = New FileSystemObject 'Get all sub folders in the starting folder Set objFolders = objFSO.GetFolder(strStartPath).SubFolders 'Iterate through all sub folders For Each objFolder In objFolders 'Get all of the files in this sub folder Set objFiles = objFolder.Files 'Iterate through files in this sub folder For Each objFile In objFiles 'If we find the file store the path name and exit If StrComp(strFileName, objFile.Name, vbTextCompare) = 0 Then strFoundPath = objFSO.BuildPath(strStartPath, objFolder.Name) FindFile = True Exit Function End If Next Next FindFile = False End Function


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Associations to the word «Vertex»
VERTEX, noun. The highest point of something.
VERTEX, noun. (anatomy) The highest surface on the skull.
VERTEX, noun. (geometry) The common point of the two rays of the angle, or its equivalent structure in polyhedra (meeting of edges) and higher order polytopes.
VERTEX, noun. (mathematics) A point on the curve with a local minimum or maximum of curvature.
VERTEX, noun. (graph theory) One of the elements of a graph joined or not by edges to other vertices.
VERTEX, noun. (computer graphics) A point in 3D space, usually given in terms of its Cartesian coordinates.
VERTEX, noun. (optics) The point where the surface of a lens crosses the optical axis.
VERTEX, noun. (nuclear or particle physics) An interaction point.
VERTEX, noun. (astrology) The point where the prime vertical meets the ecliptic in the western hemisphere of a natal chart.
VERTEX COVER, noun. (graph theory) a set of vertices which touch all the edges of a graph
VERTEX, noun. The point of intersection of lines or the point opposite the base of a figure.
VERTEX, noun. The highest point (of something); "at the peak of the pyramid".
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TradeLog allows a user to hold long-term positions open and close them in the future while actively trading the same security. See: Holding Long-Term Open Positions
Once the long-term holding is closed, the closing trade will have to be manually matched with the open long-term position.
To match closing trade records with the long-term holding if the closing position was imported:
1. Select the closing trade records that need to be force matched with the holding. See Selecting Multiple Trades.
2. Click Edit, Edit Record(s). See Editing a Trade
3. Use your TAB key to move the cursor to the Matched column. See: Display Matched Tax Lots
4. Enter the SAME lot number as the holding.
5. Hit your ENTER key TWICE to save.


Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Practice Expedition April 2018
The Bellshill Academy Bronze Duke of Edinburgh group recently completed their first overnight expedition to Strathyre in Stirling. The group successfully navigated from Kilmahog to Balquhidder, working as a team to read the map and navigate using a compass. The group also worked on their expedition aim to track their steps and use the outdoors to increase their fitness. The school group of S6 pupils were also joined by a group of pupils from S3-4 who are completing their Duke of Edinburgh award via the local youth group in the Orbiston area of Bellshill. Both groups had an enjoyable expedition and worked hard to learn the skills they will need to pass their final expedition. The pupils are now focusing on their exams and will complete their final expedition to Auchengillan at the start of June.


Create a Gmail signature:
An Email Signature is a text, like contact information, that is automatically added in the end of Gmail messages as a footer. This is a getintopc official site.
How to Change Signature in Gmail
Create or change a signature on Android:
Set up a signature which shows up just for emails you send from the Gmail app.
 1. Open the Gmail app in your Android phone.
 2. At the top left, click on Menu.
 3. Scroll down and then click Settings.
 4. Select your that Google Account where you want to add a Signature.
 5. Click on Mobile Signature.
 6. Enter the text which you want for your Signature.
 7. Click OK.
Create Signature on computer:
You can add up 10,000 characters in your Gmail Signature.
 1. First, open Gmail.
 2. At the top right, press Settings. then See all settings.
 3. On the Signature section, type your Signature text in the box. If you like, you can format your message by putting an image or changing the text style.
 4. In the bottom of the page, press Save Change
You can manage multiple signatures.
You may use so many different Signatures for your emails. For Instance, you might set a Signature default for your new emails you compose or reply to. You can also select a different Signature with every email you send.
If you want to change your Signature while you type an email, in the bottom of the window, press Insert Signature pen.
If you have more than one accounts in the Gmail app, you need to change this setting for every account.
Add or Change Signature on iPhone:
 1. Make sure you have installed the Gmail app.
 2. In iPhone or iPad, open the Gmail app.
 3. Click to the Menu.
 4. Scroll down, and then click on Settings.
 5. Click on your account.
 6. Press on Signature settings.
 7. Turn on the Mobile Signature setting.
 8. Create or edit your mobile Signature.
 9. To save, click Back.


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You can obtain information about the current state of a channel including a list of unique user-ids currently subscribed to the channel and the total occupancy count of the channel by calling the hereNow() function in your application.
To call Here Now you can use the following method(s) in the AngularJS V4 SDK:
You can obtain information about the current list of channels to which a uuid is subscribed to by calling the whereNow function in your application.
If the app is killed/crashes and restarted (or the page containing the PubNub instance is refreshed on the browser) within the heartbeat window no timeout event is generated.
To call whereNow you can use the following method(s) in the AngularJS V4 SDK:
The state API is used to set/get key/value pairs specific to a subscriber uuid.
State information is supplied as a JSON object of key/value pairs.


A GROUP of primary school pupils recreated the Tour de France with a ride along the Padiham Greenway.
Youngsters at Padiham Green Primary School cycled up and down the idyllic route in the event they had titled the 'Tour de Greenway'.
The Year 3 and 4 students were headed by headteacher Mark Dixon, and school teacher Jennifer Morton, who cycled on a tandem.
Miss Morton swapped the yellow jersey for a bridal dress to celebrate her impending wedding this summer.
The Year 3 and 4 classes have been learning about the First World War and the Tour de France as part of their studies. They have now learn about local soldiers who were killed in France during the conflict and have decorated the Greenway with information about them.
Youngsters from the lower years at the school lined the route to cheer on their fellow students as they cycled past.


August 23, 2012 in Biology / Plants & Animals
Have you ever heard an opera singing ape? Researchers in Japan have discovered that singing gibbons use the same vocal techniques as professional soprano singers. The study, published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, explains how recording gibbons singing under the influence of helium gas reveals a physiological similarity to human voices.
The research was led by Dr Takeshi Nishimura from the Primate Research Institute at Kyoto University, Japan. His team studied the singing of a white-handed gibbon (Hylobates lar) at Fukuchiyama City Zoo, in northern Kyoto.
A gibbon's song is acoustically unique among primates, with a loud melody which can be heard over two miles away. In the wild use their songs to communicate with neighboring pairs, strangers and potential mates through impenetrable jungle where visibility is poor.
"The complexity of human speech is unique among primates as it requires varied soft sounds made by the rapid movements of vocal tracts," said Dr Nishimura. "Our speech was thought to have evolved through specific modifications in our vocal anatomy. However, we've shown how the gibbons' distinctive song uses the same vocal mechanics as soprano singers, revealing a fundamental similarity with humans."
To explore these similarities the team conducted the first acoustic investigation on non-human primates using. The gas is famous for making human voices appear high pitched by shifting the resonance frequencies of the upwards. The gas is useful for studying animal vocal mechanisms as it increases sound velocity and resonance frequencies.
The team recorded 20 gibbon calls in normal air atmosphere, before recording 37 calls in a helium-enriched atmosphere. The resulting sounds, which are available as audio files, reveal how gibbons can consciously manipulate their vocal cords and tract to make their distinctive sound.
"The lowest frequency of harmonics is amplified in a gibbon's song when performed in normal air," said Nishimura. "However, in a helium-enriched atmosphere the tuning of the vocal cord vibration and the resonance of the vocal tract are altered as the gas causes an upward shift of the."
This supports the theory that, as with humans, there is independence between the origin of the sound and the vocal tools used to manipulate it.
This shows that gibbons use the same process for producing speech as humans, whereby acoustic sound originates from the larynx and is controlled by a filter, determined by the shape of the supralaryngeal vocal tract. This manipulation forms speech and is known as the'source-filter' process of speech production.
Singing gibbons always, and with minimal effort, adopt the complex vocal techniques which are only mastered in humans by professional soprano singers. This discovery suggests the development of complex vocal abilities in humans was not due to unique evolutionary modifications. Instead it shows that humans share the biological fundamentals of vocalisation with other primates, but in speech have simply acquired another of its most sophisticated forms.
"This is the first evidence that gibbons always sing using soprano techniques, a difficult vocalisation ability for humans which is only mastered by professional opera singers," concluded Nishimura. "This gives us a new appreciation of the evolution of speech in gibbons while revealing that the physiological foundation in human is not so unique."
More information: Hiroki Koda, Takeshi Nishimura, Isao T. Tokuda, Chisako Oyakawa, Toshikuni Nihonmatsu, Nobuo Masataka, 'Soprano singing in gibbons', American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Wiley, July 2012, DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22124
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To perform clustering or similarity searches on trajectories of moving objects, an appropriate definition of the distance (or similarity) between two trajectories is important. Typically, the trajectory of a moving object is represented as a sequence of consecutive locations in a twoor three-dimensional space, in contrast to the one-dimensional case, which is common in timeseries databases [33, 52]. In addition, distances for moving object trajectories should be robust to outliers since measurements in mobile environments are noisy and the movement of objects may contain "gaps." Some distance measures proposed for moving object trajectories are investigated below.
For example, consider two trajectories of moving objects on the (x, y)-plane given as A = ((ax,1, ay,1),…, (ax,n, ay,n)) and B = ((bx,1, by,1),…, (bx,m, by,m)). Their lengths are n and m, respectively. When n = m, we can apply the Euclidean distance (L2 distance), which is simple and also the most popular:
Although the Euclidean distance can be evaluated efficiently, it cannot be applied when two trajectories have different lengths.


Selection Criteria
Acceptance into the Program is competitive and requires the commitment and ability to successfully complete the two years. The average overall and science GPA of accepted students is approximately 3.4 and the average composite and science ACT scores is 21. This varies each year and is dependent on the applicant pool. Each applicant receives points based on their academic performance in each of the following categories:
 - Cumulative Grade Point Average (Retention GPA will be considered)
 - Science GPA
 - ACT/SAT Composite Score
 - ACT/SAT Science Score
Additional points towards selection are also given based on the following categories:
 - Dental office experience/observation (verified)
 - GPA greater than or equal to 3.0 for 35 or more college credits
 - BS/BA degree or advanced degree
Based on the points received from all the above categories, applicants are ranked and the top 28 applicants are invited to a group orientation and group interview with the dental hygiene faculty.


How do I decide how many classes to take?
If you are an incoming frosh, we recommend signing up for 12-15 units of coursework in your first quarter. Keep in mind that adjusting to Stanford is at least the equivalent of a 3-unit course, so give yourself some room to breathe! After your first quarter, you can try taking on more if you like. In order to graduate in 4 years, you'll need to take an average of 15 units per quarter.
Important Deadlines
You will need to sign up for at least 12 units by the end of the first day of classes in order to be considered a full-time student. (See Also: What is a Unit?)
The official deadline to add and drop classes (Final Study List deadline) is the end of week three. However, while you can drop classes all the way through the third week, you should attend any classes you might take starting the first week of classes. Professors are often very reluctant to allow students to add a class that they have not been attending, and you may have missed work that cannot be made up.
After the third week of classes, your schedule for the quarter is set (the Final Study List deadline is 5pm on Friday of Week 3).
Things to consider as you choose the best combination
Number of classes
How many classes should you take? It depends. It depends on the classes, it depends on the workload, it depends on your other commitments, it depends on who you are and how you learn. This decision is best finalized after classes start--the ideal approach is to attend more classes than you expect to take, and by the end of Week 1, decide which of those classes make the best combination for you that quarter.
Typically, expect classes of 3-5 units to be main academic classes that can fulfill requirements and count toward a major, while classes of 1-2 units are usually lecture series or athletic classes, with fewer assignments outside class. Students will combine these in an infinite variety of ways.
12-15 units is ideal for your first quarter. The maximum number of academic units a first-quarter frosh may enroll in is 20. Students past their first quarter may request an exception to take 21 or 22 units in certain cases. See your Academic Advising Director or AARC advisor for details.
Cognitive shifting between types of studying/work often shows a better result than focusing in on one kind of learning. And it leads to less burn out. Most students do best with a balanced workload demanding a mix of exams and essays, of reading and problem sets, of STEM and humanities topics.
Four main academic classes may be nicely balanced among math, Spanish, chemistry, and history, but if you have two essays and two midterms all due in the same week, you might want to tweak something. It's useful to actually write down all the major deadlines on the Quarter-at-a-Glance planner, and then evaluate the commitments you are making.
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Part of speech: noun
Origin: French, mid-17th century
A small or minor literary or musical work.
Examples of Opuscule in a sentence
"While this book could be considered an opuscule, it means a lot to me personally."
"The opuscule doesn't even sound like it was written by the famous poet."
This noun originally comes from the Latin word "opusculum," a dimunutive of the word that means "work." If you are working on a project, no matter how big or small it is, you can refer to it as your "opus."
Did you Know?
A magnum opus is the complete opposite of an opuscule work. The former term refers to the most important work of an artist's career, often one that they are most recognized for.


LVM, TLC NAND and the power of 2 problem
Now when you just create a few partitions and ensure they are aligned, this is not going to be an issue. However, if you use LVM and intend to create and delete a lot of logical volumes over time, you'd want them to be aligned on the erase block. With current versions of LVM, you can't do that for TLC NAND drives. LVM requires a physical extent size that is a power of 2 – and there is no number that is both a power of 2 and dividable by 1.5.
There are two workarounds that I have found:
 - Create a VG with 512kb physical extents and always make sure that you use lvcreate with an extent count that is a multiple of 3
 - Create a VG with 1MB physical extents and always make sure that your newly created volumes are multiples of 3MB
However, neither of these workarounds allow for the "set it and forget it" benefits of LVM, because they cannot be enforced – if you forget to keep this in mind or make a math error, your alignment will be off. You also can't rely on other tools to create volumes for you because they may not allow for such granularity in choosing sizes.
This is ultimately a limitation of LVM that it should overcome, but I have not found any evidence that it can work without its power-of-2 requirement. I need to take this up to the mailinglist, but until that time, here's a quick script that will verify the alignment of logical volumes in a volume group:
The output will look something like this:
In the example above, there are a number of extents that were deliberately misaligned as they were not divisible by 3.
To find out which logical volume the misaligned extents belong to, you can use lvdisplay -m and search the output for the extent number.
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- Download and install ESET Security for Microsoft SharePoint Server (ESHP)
- Manage ESHP using ESET Security Management Center
ESET Security for Microsoft SharePoint Server (ESHP) must be installed manually on each Web Server in your SharePoint farm, and cannot be installed remotely using ESET Remote Administrator or ESET Security Management Center. Before you begin the installation process, make sure that you have the following items available:
- Your ESET-issued product license file (emailed to you following your purchase of ESET Security for Microsoft SharePoint Server)
- The Administrator username and password used to access your Microsoft SharePoint Site(s)
Ensure that your SharePoint administrator account has the following:
- SharePoint Farm Administrators privileges
- Access to website collections
- 'Log on as service' privileges
- Your SharePoint account is member of the SQL SysAdmin role on the database server (if SharePoint is configured to connect to the database using Windows authentication)
For more information on configuring a SharePoint administrator account, see the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article: _URL_
- Click the appropriate link below to download the ESHP installer file. Save the installer (.msi) file to your Desktop:
- When the download is complete, double-click the installer file to launch the ESET Security Setup Wizard.
- Select your language and click Next.
- Read the End-User License Agreemeent. Select I accept the terms in the License Agreement and click Next.
- In the Installation mode window, select Complete and click Next to continue.
- Verify and update the install location for the ESET Security Product, Module or Data folders if necessary. Click Install.
- Click Finish. ESET Security will open automatically.
- When the installation is finished, select an activation option. In this example, Enter a License Key is selected.
- In the Product activation screen, type the License Key included in the email you received following your purchase of ESET Security and click Activate. If you do not have this info, click here to have it resent.
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Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Education and Skills Thomas Byrne says the failure by Minister Bruton to engage constructively with teaching unions on pay equality could lead to major industrial unrest in schools across Ireland.
Deputy Byrne made the comments after the INTO rejected the new public service pay agreement negotiated last month. The ASTI and TUI are also in the process of balloting members on the pay agreement.
"Currently new entrants to the teaching profession start on much lower salary scales as compared to their established colleagues. The difference in pay scales means that a new teacher will earn up to €100,000 less than their colleagues over the course of their career. This is having a detrimental impact on morale in schools as new teachers are understandably disillusioned.
"We cannot have a situation where schools are closed again in Autumn and Winter. We saw the negative impact that this had last year on students. Students have already suffered enough, and Minister Bruton must work constructively with the teaching unions to avoid a repeat of this.
"The outcome of the INTO ballot clearly demonstrates the level of frustration amongst teaching staff. New teachers understand why separate pay scales were implemented during the economic crisis, but they have been left in the lurch as the Government has not set out a pathway for securing pay equality as the economy recovers.
"Minister Bruton needs to give a firm commitment that he will work constructively with all the teaching unions to avoid any closure of schools later this year is working towards achieving pay equality for new teachers as public finances improve. The current situation is eroding morale in schools and simply cannot be allowed to continue.
"The Minister must also recognise that failure to provide leadership on the pay equality issue could lead to widespread industrial unrest in schools right across the country," concluded Deputy Byrne.


text: We investigate hydrogen isotope and nuclear quantum effects on geometries and binding energies of small protonated rare gas clusters (Rg X, Rg = He,Ne,Ar, X = H,D,T, and = 1–3) with the any particle molecular orbital (APMO) MP2 level of theory (APMO/MP2). To gain insight on the impact of nuclear quantum effects on the different interactions present in the Rg X systems, we propose an APMO/MP2 energy decomposition analysis scheme. For RgH ions, isotopic substitution leads to an increase in the stability of the complex, because polarization and charge transfer contributions increase with the mass of the hydrogen. In the case of Rg H complexes, isotopic substitution results in a shortening and weakening of the rare gas-hydrogen ion bond. For Rg X complexes, the isotope effects on the rare gas binding energy are almost negligible. Nevertheless, our results reveal that subtle changes in the charge distribution of the Rg X core induced by an isotopic substitution have an impact on the geometry of the Rg X complex. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.


In 1958, nuns and children died in fire at school in Chicago
Judith Bainbridge
The front page of The Greenville News on Dec. 2, 1958
Three nuns and scores of children died when fire swept through Our Lady of the Angels School in northwest Chicago on the afternoon of Dec. 1, 1958. One of the worst school tragedies of the century, the fire, which started in the corner of a basement corridor, climbed rapidly up a staircase to classrooms on the second floor where seventh and eighth graders were taught. The nuns, who belonged to the order of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin, died when they were overcome with smoke while they were trying to lead the children out of the building.
When firemen arrived on the scene, they discovered children crying and hanging out of upper floor windows. Some youngsters escaped by crawling out the doors while others were killed sitting at their desks. Initially concerned that the fire had been an arson attempt because the 40-year old building was solidly built, fire investigators later discovered that two boys had been sneaking a cigarette at a location where oil-soaked rags had been thrown. The perpetrators were not discovered.


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Exchange System Discovery Tool Overview
The Exchange System Discovery Tool is a non-intrusive and highly secure tool that examines and analyzes selected mailboxes and reports on the collected message data. The tool output is a set of reports created from the statistics generated from a zip file uploaded to the CommVault Cloud where it staged on a virtual machine using Commvault.
The Exchange System Discovery Tool can be used to:
- Perform archive prediction to reclaim space after the archive.
- Provide data protection estimates and backup window timeframes.
- Analyze and track mailbox usage and distribution.
The key features of the tool include:
- The ability to run on a proxy without any load on the Exchange server, provided the proxy is on the same domain as the Exchange server.
- The ability to discover more than one Exchange server at a time.
- The ability to run multiple instances of the tool simultaneously.
How It Works
Request an account for Cloud Services from your Account Representative, and then log in and download the Exchange System Discovery Tool. The tool output is a set of reports created from the statistics generated from a zip file uploaded to the CommVault Cloud where it is staged on a virtual machine using Commvault.
The collected message data includes the following:
- Message size
- Message count
- Attachment details
- Recipient details
- Modification time
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Measuring the gain in income from migration is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general population, making it hard to obtain an appropriate comparison group of non-migrants.
This paper uses a migrant lottery to overcome this problem, providing an experimental measure of the income gains from migration. New Zealand allows a quota of Tongans to immigrate each year with a lottery used to choose amongst the excess number of applicants. A unique survey conducted by the authors in these two countries allows experimental estimates of the income gains from migration to be obtained by comparing the incomes of migrants to those who applied to migrate, but whose names were not drawn in the lottery, after allowing for the effect of noncompliance among some of those whose names were drawn.
We also conducted a survey of individuals who did not apply for the lottery. Comparing this non-applicant group to the migrants enables assessment of the degree to which non-experimental methods can provide an unbiased estimate of the income gains from migration.
We find evidence of migrants being positively selected in terms of both observed and unobserved skills. As a result, non-experimental methods are found to overstate the gains from migration, by 9 to 82 percent. A good instrumental variable works best, while difference-in-differences and bias-adjusted propensity-score matching also perform comparatively well.
McKenzie, David, John Gibson and Steven Stillman. 2010. "How Important is Selection? Experimental Vs Non-experimental Measures of the Income Gains from Migration. Journal of the European Economic Association (June) 8. no. 4: 913-45.


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Using your hat:
- To remove the bobble, grasp the hat as close to the magnet as possible with one hand and the bobble with the other and snap (as if you were breaking a KitKat). This way you avoid pulling on the hat and the seams.
- To store the hat and its three bobbles in the box, remove the bobble from the hat, put the bobbles in the hat, roll it widthways and put it in the box.
- Some hats (meads) have a "loose" effect - they are designed to fall backwards so feel free to pull them back a little to put them on.
- Our materials are tested for pilling, however, like with any fabric it happens after a while. To delay this, avoid carrying your hat in the bottom of a bag or in a place where it could rub and turn it over if it does.
Caring for your hat:
- Wash at 30 °C or 40 °C without the bobbles! It's more environmentally friendly and it works very well. The bobbles don't go through the wash because there is a small spot of glue to hold the threads together.
- Air-dry flat, avoid tumble drying clothes, it's not very environmentally friendly and it will damage your super hat.
- Clean the bobbles with a damp cloth, do not machine wash.


Navigate inside entity objects
Hi All, I am working on an application, where i have list of questions that need to be answered by user. I have all the question created already in a Master Entity and i am using this entity to show questions on a page where i have a template grid (4*4) showing all question number and data view (listing to list view ) to show the correspond questions. Now i have option to click on question numbers to show the question on right in a data view but i want a button also which will navigate me through the question. Like i am on question 1 and i click next and move to question 2. Is their any way by which i can achieve this? Thanks
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You can try doing the following
 1. In your entity you must have some attribute that determines the order of the question
 2. Develop two buttons in dataview (previous and next)
 3. When pressing the next button, retrieve the current object in dataview,
 4. Based on the order from the object, get the question with next order, pass it to the dataview and refresh it.
 5. I already have my doubts on this, but this is for you to try
Another option to try would be
 1. Try having a template grid showing all details of questions and limit the items shown to 1 with pagination enabled.
 2. But you can not have listen to widget option working between two template grids.


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Users may notice that phone numbers and email addresses are missing from the Raiser's Edge Mobile App when viewing a constituent record. When viewing the same constituent record in the database the phone numbers and email addresses are listed.
We are currently evaluating this issue and will update this article when we have more information
Steps to Duplicate
1. Log into the Raiser's Edge Mobile App 2. Select Menu (three horizontal lines) 3. Select Search 4. Enter Constituent Name 5. Click Search button on phone (Magnifying Glass) 6. Click on Constituent Name 7. No Phone Numbers or Email Address listed


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Skip to comments.Discoveries might reveal origins of Southeastern N.C.'s first inhabitants
Posted on 05/10/2010 4:19:52 AM PDT by Palter
WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH | A local captain and his crew have discovered a unique rock and nearby artifacts that might help reveal how the first people came to Southeastern North Carolina thousands of years ago.
Geologists said the rock, called black chert or novaculite, was previously thought to only be available in vast quantities in the mountains of Arkansas. Zulu Discovery, a local underwater exploration company, found a very dense version of the rock dozens of feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean off Wrightsville Beach. Chert was used by the first people in North America, called Paleo-Indians, to create the stone tools they needed to survive.
The discovery of black chert off local shores could rewrite America's prehistory by supporting a theory that Paleo-Indians might have come to the continent via a coastal route rather than by land, said Phil Garwood, a geology instructor at Cape Fear Community College who first identified the local rock as chert. The exact route Paleo-Indians followed will always remain a mystery, but clues have come in the form of the tools they left behind.
This is a piece of the puzzle, Garwood said.
In collaboration with CFCC, Zulu Discovery founders Capt. Jim Batey and his son Rusty Batey hope to find grants and other sources of funding to continue their research and exploration of the areas where they've found the rock and artifacts. The Bateys don't want to reveal the exact depths or locations of their finds, fearing the disruption by other divers of their efforts to study the material.
Continuing their research, Zulu Discovery and CFCC met with state geologists and an underwater archaeologist recently to present their findings and get some advice on what to do next.
Kenneth Taylor, chief of the N.C. Geological Survey, was one of those geologists.
One of the things about it, when you look at samples of chert very, very hard, very, clear chert, that has to come from Arkansas. There's not an outcrop of this stuff in North Carolina, Taylor said, explaining the prevailing theory. Now there is. If there are archaeological artifacts that prove its first peoples' or native peoples'... This is outstanding. It's outstanding. It then says that they had a ready source nearby.
The rocks weren't underwater thousands of years ago.
It's offshore today, but it wouldn't have been covered by the ocean at that time because the ocean didn't come that far inland, Taylor said.
Not just a piece of cement
The North Carolina black chert, dubbed SeaViculite by Zulu Discovery, was found by accident.
Zulu Discovery diver Kevin Rooney picked up the unusual rock last summer as he searched underwater ledges for shark's teeth and fossils.
He brought it up just to see what it was, just to bring it to the surface and analyze it, Rusty Batey said.
At that time, no one suspected it was anything special.
We just thought it was a big square piece of cement, Rusty Batey said.
It wasn't until several months later, when Jim Batey got tired of seeing the rock in his yard, that they got their first clue to the rock's significance. Jim threw it to Rooney, telling him to get rid of the cement-colored stuff, when a piece of it broke off, revealing a lustrous black interior.
I knew it was something that needed to be looked at. It was so unusual, said Jim Batey, who added that he'd never come across anything like it in his 45 years of deep-sea diving.
Jim gave it to Tim Shaw, a marine technology instructor at CFCC, who showed it to Garwood.
If there's one rock in the world I know, it's chert, said Garwood, who studied chert in Australia. Chert is a sedimentary rock, believed to have formed when the shells of ancient, microscopic sea creatures fused together, Garwood said.
People might have been picking up those rocks for years and they just didn't know what it was, Taylor said. It took showing the find to someone who knows rocks, like Garwood, to make the significant connection, Taylor said.
Garwood said the SeaViculite is being analyzed by a laboratory at the College of Charleston in Charleston, S.C., and so far the lab has found an 85 percent probability that the SeaViculite is the same material used to make tools found in Southeastern North Carolina.
The artifacts Zulu Discovery has found near the underwater chert sites and identified by Garwood include an ornament called a gorgot, a scraper used to clean hides, a knife and a stone used to start fires.
Rusty Batey said he's mailed at least 30 samples of the SeaViculite to flint knappers people who make stone tools and others for examination.
Jim Batey said the crew plans to take an archaeologist from the state's Underwater Archaeology Branch to one of their chert sites. In addition to showing him the sites, they want the archaeologist, Nathan Henry, to examine a possible artifact that looks like it might be a pot of some kind. A video shot underwater by Zulu Discovery's Video Ray Pro III remote operated vehicle shows a half moon shape wedged under a ledge. The Zulu Discovery diver didn't want to try to pull out the potential artifact, fearing it's destruction.
The question of whether parts of the chert locations need to be preserved as culturally significant sites is another reason Zulu Discovery is working with the state and college on the project, alternately called Operation Chert and Project SeaViculite.
This may be a very significant site archaeologically if indeed it turns out there is cultural material associated with the rock, said Richard Lawrence, director of the state's Underwater Archaeology Branch.
We don't want to disturb a site if it's an Indian site, Jim Batey said.
The company has not yet determined whether mining the chert, which would require permission from the federal government, would be a profitable venture. In addition to its historical value, chert has commercial value, including its ability to sharpen knives, surgical instruments and wood carving tools.
We don't know where it's going to go right now, Jim Batey said.
The company plans to continue exploring the SeaViculite sites they've already found and look for more.
You could make your projectile points for the next whole year by wintering over at that location, Taylor said, of the large pockets of chert already found by Zulu Discovery. That's incredibly fascinating.
Zulu Discovery owner Jim Batey holds a piece of North Carolina black chert that his crew found off the North Carolina coast.
'supporting a theory that Paleo-Indians might have come to the continent via a coastal route rather than by land'
And this tells us how people came to North Carolina?
What am I missing?
"What else floats on water?"
Wasn't Mayberry in NC?
Paleo-Indians butchering a bison at the end of the Ice Age. Pembina State Museum exhibit
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These guys might be about to make fools of themselves. Chert was used for ballast. It was also used to pave roads. For all they know, it could have washed out to sea in a nor'easter back during the depression, or was dumped by a ship during the Civil War.
LOL! Your question shows an awareness of NC cue but falls short.
Eastern. And you say Eastern or Western, not East or West. :]
The first BBQ came to the US from Haiti via North Carolina. Barbeque is actually a Carib Indian word for roasted human arm.
And now, you know the rest of the story.
Or, it was dropped overboard by Indians say, 600 years ago while they were out fishing, geeze.
Well, now, I beg to differ.
The pit cooking method was taught to the very earliest English colonists, there are descriptions of pit cooking methods taught by the Croatan and the Powhatan. The sauce is a survival of Elizabethan "catsup" which was a vinegary sauce with herbs and spices. It's the first authentically American food, being a fusion of English and native. It really should be our Thanksgiving dinner, imho. Far more authentic than that sanitized and romanticized tale of our putative Pilgrim Fathers, those Johnny-Come-Lately communards, lol.
I've been a history buff with a nack for odd or forgotten history for years, and one of those odd bits is the origin of southeastern pit-cooked barbecue. I've never in my life heard this NC-by-way-of-Haiti cannibal cuisine tale before in my life, and I've actually researched it for years.
If you're pulling our legs, you're doing a pretty good job of it. If you're not, please source, starting with the etymology of "barbeque" from Haitian Creole. Bar-beek, like Martinique? I'm just baffled.
The Carribean connection to NC was Barbados and Cuba, not Hispaniola. Pit cooking was widespread before Haitians ever conjured their voodoo demon and slaughtered their overlords in their sleep back in the late 1700's.
For once, I


How to Increase Land Value
How to Increase Land Value
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Land is the human being's most basic resource, according to Henry George, Defined as all air, soil, minerals and water, land supports life. It is mankind's source of wealth and is used directly or indirectly to produce all goods and services. There is a fixed amount of land available, and demand for land is the only thing that determines its value. It's worth what only what someone is willing to pay for it, but there are ways to raise land's value.
How to Increase Land Value
Use conservation methods such as conservation tilling to keep organic matter in the soil and adding sodded waterways to prevent soil erosion. Improve drainage by installing drainage tiles and add nutrients that have been depleted to soil.
Improve the appearance of land. Remove junk and repair structures, such as fences and sheds. Remove weeds, mow the grass and make sure there are no environmental hazards, including chemicals, unused wells or underground storage tanks.
Plant trees. According to GMO head Jeremy Grantham, timberland will be the best asset through the year 2012. The value of timberland has gone up every year since 2001, with a higher rate of return than stocks. Tax benefits are available to owners of timberland.
Landscape the grounds. Plant grass, gardens and shrubs that are easy to maintain and look great. Add rocks, ornamental plants and ponds or waterfalls to increase land value.
Keep careful records that show what improvements were made to the land and when they were completed. Include materials used and warranties or guarantees that are offered.
 - Join a school improvement team and a crime watch group in your community. Improved schools and a lower crime rate add to the value of your land.
 - Some improvements to land begin to decline in value in about 10 years.


What is Squonking?
Squonking is a term used to describe a bottom fed atomiser. The term comes from the noise a bottle makes when you squeeze it (squonk). The squonker was made as vapers got tired of re dripping into an RDA. Mods were designed with a bottle inside that you can fill with e-liquid. A "squonk" pin with a whole through the middle is then installed into the atomiser to allow liquid to rise from below when you squeeze the bottle This fills the chamber with eliquid and wets the wicks. The act of letting go of the bottle draws the excess from the chamber.


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How Much Does Calcium Chloride Cost?
Calcium Chloride is a salt of calcium and chlorine. This chemical compound often includes brine and is used for refrigerating plants; ice and dust control on roads; and desiccation. Calcium chloride is hygroscopic in nature and should be kept in tightly sealed air tight containers.
As a desiccant, calcium chloride is used to absorb moisture mainly on the road since it is thrown on the road which makes it hold the dust down. This chemical compound is often sold in bags in various amounts. This is one of the factors being considered for the price of it. Other factors that affect the price are the types of calcium chloride as it can be used in a number of ways.
How much is it?
- A pallet of calcium chloride can cost anywhere from $550 to $650, while a single bag can run anywhere from $12 to $25. Ice melter that is designed to melt the snow and ice in the winter months can cost $10 to $18 per 5 to 10 pound container.
- Calcium chloride used in the food industry is usually sold in bottle. Food grade calcium chloride is water soluble and is used in food preparation, such as in the process to obtain firmness of certain vegetables. A 500g bottle can cost anywhere between $18 and $24.
- Calcium Chloride is also sold in a pellet form, which is stored in buckets. This product is sold for $30 to $55 per 50 pound bucket. For example, the PELADOW brand sells a 50 pound bucket for $30 to $40. The chloride that commonly comes in pellet form can be a great solution for icy driveways as well as melting snow.
What are the extra costs?
- If you're going to be using the product to thaw or melt ice, you'll need to spread it evenly; this is where a hand held spreader may come in handy. This device can cost anywhere from $14 to $26, depending on the size.
What is going to be included?
- Calcium chloride comes packaged either in a clear container or a bag. Ice melter containers may have a cap that can act as a spreader to make it easier.
How can I save money?
- Calcium chloride is not an everyday household item. Purchase an appropriate amount every time you need it and save any remaining product after use. A good time to get a discount is after the winter season as many retailers are trying to get rid of their overstock.


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Warm compresses can hasten the resolution of inflammation and infection in the eyelids.
Types of warm compresses
The best way to warm the eyelids is to use a wheat bag eye mask. These provide both heat and moisture as wheat bags must be wet before heating. Wheat also holds its heat for longer than other methods. Dampen the outer covering of the wheat bag and place it in your microve. How long to heat your bag in your microwave will require a little experimentation. You want the wheat warm, not scalding.
There are three other common techniques:
- The simplest method is to fill a bowl with very hot water from the kitchen tap, wet a flannel in this water, wring it out, and place it over the inflamed area. Unfortunately flannels cool quickly. Once again, be careful not to make the flannel too hot
- A thermos can be filled with boiling water. The thermos mouth is placed underneath the eyelid, allowing steam to warm the affected skin. You must be careful not to place your eyelid too close to the thermos mouth
- Finally, you can use a hot wooden spoon. The wooden spoon is heated by placing it in a boiling kettle or pot of water. After a minute or two the spoon is withdrawn and dried carefully on a towel to remove all boiling water. The warm wood is then placed over the eyelid
How long and how often?
Hot compresses should be applied for about 10 minutes, four to six times a day to begin with. After a few day, just one treatment is usually enough.
What to expect
Please note that due to the application of heat the skin around the area will look pink or reddened after treatment. It is important that you don't confuse this with progression of infection or inflammation. An assessment of whether the changes in the lid are getting worse should be made an hour or two after treatment, not immediately following treatment.