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Nehushta (Hebrew, NChShThN, "brass object") is the serpent of brass made by Moses and placed on a pole (Numbers 21:8-9) to cure the Israelites of the venomous bites of the fiery serpents in the wilderness. The word Nehushtah "thing of brass" contains a Hebrew pun, the first three letters, NChSh, mean "serpent" and the final two, ThN, mean "dragon."
In Christian interpretation, the lifting up of the brass serpent on a pole is generally held to be a prefigurement of Christ, to cure humanity from the "snakebite" of original sin. By Hebrew gematria there is some basis for this assumption, the numerical value of MShICH, "Messiah" and NChSh "serpent" are identical, 358.
During the first and second centuries CE the serpent was worshipped with reverence by the Christian Gnostic sects of the Ophites and Naasseners. These sects worshipped the Biblical serpent of the Garden of Eden that gave knowledge to Adam and Eve. The serpent was considered the hero because he supplied "gnosis" to the first people which God, considered the demiurge, kept from them.
Some magical theorists claim that Nehushtan, the brass serpent, resides in the upper astral plane possesses redemptive powers while Nachash, the serpent of the Tree of Knowledge, resides in the lower astral and possesses negative powers. A.G.H.
Greer, John Michael. The New Encyclopedia of the Occult.
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Trustable Communication Between Mathematics Systems
Jacques Carette, William M. Farmer, Jérémie Wajs
This paper presents a rigorous, unified framework for facilitating communication between mathematics systems. A mathematics system is given one or more interfaces which offer deductive and computational services to other mathematics systems. To achieve communication between systems, a client interface is linked to a server interface by an asymmetric connection consisting of a pair of translations. Answers to requests are trustable in the sense that they are correct provided a small set of prescribed conditions are satisfied. The framework is robust with respect to interface extension and can process requests for abstract services, where the server interface is not fully specified.


Vallam Kali
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Aranmula Uthrattathi Boat Race
Vallam Kali (Malayalam: വള്ളംകളി, vaḷḷaṃ kaḷi, literally "boat game") is a traditional boat race in Kerala, India. It is a form of canoe racing, and uses paddled war canoes. It is mainly conducted during the season of the harvest festival Onam in autumn. Vallam Kali includes races of many kinds of paddled longboats, the traditional boats of Kerala.
Vallam Kali originated in Assyria, on a New Year's Day in 300 BC. Vallam Kalli events were conducted by several ancient Indian states.
In Kerala, during an early 14th-century war between the feudal kingdoms of Kayamkulam and Chembakassery, King Devanarayana of Chembakassery commissioned the construction of a war boat called Chundan Vallam and he tasked a famous carpenter of the day with the responsibility of creating it.[1] Hence, the technical methods for creating these Snake Boats are around 650 years old. Of the snake boats still in use today, the Parthasarathi Chundan is the oldest model.
Vallam Kali has mainly been conducted during the season of the harvest festival Onam in Autumn. The race of Chundan Vallam is the major event. Vallam Kali also includes races of many other kinds of traditional paddled longboats of Kerala, and is one of the major tourist attractions in the state.
Vanchipattu (lit. boatsong) is the form of poetry in Malayalam language commonly using while Vallam Kali and related festivals. During Aranmula Uthrattadi Vallamkali, the vanchipattu is performed by the participants for its significance in the rituals. Ramapurathu Warrier is considered to be the pioneer of the vanchipattu.
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Geotechnical Drilling Sydney: 4 Tips for Choosing the Best Geotechnical Drilling Company
Selecting a geotechnical drilling contractor is one of the most high-stakes decisions you can make for any project. Picture this: you're finally able to build the project of your dreams.
With any luck, this building will be your legacy. You finally have the budget, materials, and expertise to pull it off. Since you're so excited, you dive in headfirst and start building.
Once you're done, the building is perfect. But in a few years, the entire building collapses into the ground. As a legal, moral, and ethical concern, this is an absolute disaster.
What went wrong? You moved too fast and didn't invest enough focus on geotechnical drilling.
That's why we're here to provide some tips to help you choose the best contractor. Whether you're Googling 'geotechnical drilling Sydney' or relying on word of mouth, you'll be well-equipped to take on your next project.
1. What Is Their Attitude Like?
Attitude is everything for three reasons. For starters, you need to be able to picture yourself working with them. Geotech drilling is a high-stakes job, but that doesn't excuse a sour attitude.
If someone is a pain to work with, you'll find yourself reaching out to them far less than you actually need to. What does this mean? Your project will inevitably suffer.
With a poor attitude, someone will be disengaged from the work they're doing. Disengagement equals apathy, and apathy results in mistakes. Geotechnical drilling in Sydney can be life-or-death since mistakes result in expensive fixes or personal injuries.
2. What Experience Do They Have?
Every geotechnical drilling company has to start somewhere. Each company was on its first project at some point.
However, that doesn't mean that you necessarily would like to volunteer to be their guinea pig. In geotechnical drilling, no two projects are exactly the same.
The more projects a company has accomplished, the more versatile its skillset will be. This will allow them to tackle any projects with enthusiasm and know-how.
3. Do They Prioritise Teamwork?
In Sydney geotechnical drilling, teamwork is everything. This isn't just for the sake of productivity or team morale. Instead, it's crucial to ensuring that your team can protect itself.
You're working in a dangerous environment with hazardous equipment. If your geotechnical drilling contractor can't be trusted to work with others and prioritize their safety, then they shouldn't be working with you.
4. Do They Embody Flexibility and Persistence?
These are character traits you can't easily identify from simply Googling 'geotechnical drilling Sydney'. Working on geotechnical drilling projects means that there will be adverse circumstances.
Each day can present new challenges. But the ability to combat adversity and think outside of the box will prove to be invaluable for your projects.
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How to use Dynamic Groups to manage your contacts
April 21, 2016
We've already explained in this post how to use dynamic groups to create groups based on specific features such as age, gender, location, etc.
This post goes further into this feature and how it can help you organize your contacts based on features, engagement and/or missing information.
Organize contacts by feature(s)
Let's say we're interested in sending a poll to contacts between the age of 15 and 18 years. To do this you first need to find the contacts meeting that age requirement.
Go to the Contacts tab and enter the following query in the search bar:
age>=15 AND age<=18
It should look like this:
In this example, 2 contacts were found fitting the age requirement. We can save these contacts as a group by clicking on Save as Group button. We can now send a message or poll to this particular group.
It is also possible to search for contacts meeting multiple criteria. Let's assume we are interested in contacts who are female, are between 15 and 18 years old and who live in Kampala. In this case we enter the following query in the search bar:
gender=female AND (age>=15 and age<=18) AND district=Kampala
Here again we can decide to save the found contacts as a group.
Organize contacts based on "engagement"
You may remember this post where we showed how to keep track of contacts' participation in RapidPro. We added an "engagement counter" which measures how often contacts participate in flows. We can use this counter to group contacts based on their level of participation using dynamic groups.
Obviously, we first need to define engagement. We could for example decide that contacts who have participated in more than 10 polls will be considered "super" contacts. Now we can search for contacts whose counter is higher than 10 by simply entering this query in the search bar:
We may also want to take the "date of last participation" into account when measuring engagement. For instance, we consider a contact a "super" contact only if he/she participated in more than 10 polls AND has participated in a poll in the last month. To do this we could use this query:
last_participation_date>22-03-2016 AND engagement_counter>10
Using this query allows us too search for contacts that have participated after 22 March 2016 and whose engagement counter is bigger than 10. Note that the last participation date has been added as a contact field which keeps track of when a contact participates last in a poll. See this post for more info.
Identify contacts missing information for follow up
In an earlier post we said that there is no need for using temporary groups in registration flows to keep track of who hasn't responded to what question. Besides using the Split by Contact field feature we can now also search empty contact fields in Contacts. To do this we can use the query missing_field="" (as in quotation marks).
For example, if we look for contacts whose gender is unknown we can use this query:
All contacts that are missing gender information will be returned, which we can save as a dynamic group, for example "missing gender group".
Now we create a simple flow asking for just gender which could look like this:
This flow can be triggered by a campaign if you use the Registration Date as reference, or you can choose the option "Start a flow in the future or on a schedule" under Triggers.
In the case of campaign:
- Go to the Campaign tab and click Create Campaign
- You name the campaign and select the group to be involved and click Ok
- You click Add Event in the next page after which you'll see this screen:
- Here you choose the option "start flow", select which flow, in our case "ask for gender flow" and indicate when the flow should be triggered using the Registration Date as reference.
- You can add as many events as you want: 10 days after registration, 20 days after registration, etc.
In case you choose to use Triggers:
- Go to the Triggers tab and click on "Start a flow in the future or on a schedule":
- In the next screen you can select which flow to trigger, the contacts to receive the flow, the start date and time of the event and whether you want the trigger to be repeated (in our case every month):
Note that as soon as a contact provides his/her gender information he/she will be taken out of the missing gender group automatically (hence the name dynamic group). So there is no need to add an action in the flow to remove the contact from this group!
- Once a dynamic group is saved, any new contact that matches the applied query will be automatically placed in that group. This means that we don't need to run the query again as the groups are updated automatically.
- Space is not allowed in the contacts search bar. For example, the "last participation date" should be entered as last_participation_date. If we're not sure how the field is named we can check under Manage Contact Fields:
- When querying contacts you can use logical comparisons which evaluate to TRUE or FALSE. You may use the equals (=), not-equals (<>), greater-than (>), greater-than-or-equal (>=), less-than (<) and less-than-or-equal (<=) operators. When comparing text values, the equals (=) and not-equals (<>) operators are case-insensitive.
- Make sure that any contact field containing a number such as age and engagement counter are defined as Numeric and date fields as Date & Time. If the format is not set right, the queries may not work! In the screenshot above we see that the "last participation date" field is defined as "Date and Time". The "engagement counter" field on the other hand is defined as Numeric:

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This is a common task. We have a list of dates and we want to get the corresponding weekdays. We can use the WEEKDAY() function to get it and the result will be like this:
On column A we have our dates and on column B, using the WEEKDAY() function we get the number corresponding to the weekday. But this is not a good way of displaying the weekday, we would like it to display it as the name of the weekday, not a number, right? There are numerous ways that we can change that. I'm going to show you two of them.
The first, and simplest way, is to format column B with a custom format. For that, just select the values on column B and right-click to select Format Cells and on the Number tab, choose the Custom Category and insert Type as dddd. This will give the names of the weekdays like "Sunday". If you insert a type ddd it will show you the names like "Sun".
This is how it will look like after the formatting:
Another way you could do this is using the CHOOSE() function with a formula like this on cell B2 and then copy down:
The result will be the same. This last method is just to show you that there are lots of ways of doing the same thing in Excel.

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The History of Pointe Shoes: The Landmark Moments That Made Ballet's Signature Shoe What It Is Today
Pointe shoes, with their ability to elevate a dancer both literally and metaphorically to a superhuman realm, are the ultimate symbol of a ballerina's ethereality and hard work. For students, receiving a first pair of pointe shoes is a rite of passage. The shoes carry an almost mystical allure: They're an endless source of lore and ritual, with tips, tricks and stories passed down over generations.
The history of pointe shoes reveals how a delicately darned slipper introduced in the 1820s has transformed into a technical tool that offers dancers the utmost freedom onstage today.
1730s: Marie Camargo Invents the Ballet Slipper
A lithograph of Camargo in a floral gown and heeled shoes with one leg lifted
Marie Camargo
Courtesy Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library
During ballet's creation in the courts of Europe, dancers wore heeled shoes in line with the era's aesthetic. In the 1730s, Paris Opéra Ballet dancer Marie Camargo was the first to remove her shoes' heels, forging the way for the soft slipper we know today. "Camargo is the transitional point between a heeled shoe and pointe shoe. She is the ballet slipper," says Linda Murray, curator of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. The slipper allowed Camargo to perform leaps and fast allégros that were not possible in heeled shoes, expanding movement vocabulary for ballerinas.
1790s: Charles Didelot's Flying Machine
In the late 18th century, Charles Didelot, a Paris Opéra Ballet dancer-turned-choreographer, invented a wire rigging that allowed dancers to "fly" onstage. The apparatus lifted dancers up onto their toes before they flew. "His ballet Flore et Zéphire introduced the idea of weightlessness," says Murray. "From a choreographic perspective, this is the first notion of what it means to dance on pointe."
1820s–1830s: Marie Taglioni and the Romantic Ballerinas
Lithograph of Taglioni in a dress covered in flowers and pearl jewelry and wings, standing on pointe in a low arabesque
Marie Taglioni in La Sylphide
Courtesy Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library
In 1823, the Italian dancer Amalia Brugnoli introduced pointework to ballet audiences, rising up to the tips of her toes in Armand Vestris' La Fée et le Chevalier. Brugnoli wore lightly stitched square-toed satin slippers, and had to use her arms and a visible amount of effort to get up on her toes. Nevertheless, she inspired the other dancers of the day, including Marie Taglioni, to practice the technique. In 1832, Taglioni became the first to dance a full-length ballet on pointe when she premiered La Sylphide, choreographed by her father, Filippo Taglioni. "Marie Taglioni gets the credit and the blame for introducing pointework," says Eliza Gaynor Minden, the head of design behind pointe shoe company Gaynor Minden. For Taglioni, rising up on pointe was more than just a stunt; she used her shoes—tight-fitting, darned, leather-soled satin slippers tied with ribbons—to convey character and emotion. Other Romantic-era ballerinas, particularly Fanny Elssler, who excelled at fast footwork, pushed pointework even further in the years that followed.
1870s–1890s: Italian Shoes Set the Imperial Standard
Sarah Lane in pink Aurora costume in a pass\u00e9 with one arm in the air onstage
American Ballet Theatre's Sarah Lane in Alexei Ratmansky's reconstruction of The Sleeping Beauty
Rosalie O'Connor, Courtesy American Ballet Theatre
Later in the 19th century, Italian shoemakers developed reinforced pointe shoes with stiff boxes made from newspaper, flour paste and pasteboard. The shoes' cardboard insoles were reinforced with leather. "The Italian ballerinas were able to do more bravura steps on pointe, including sustained balances and multiple pirouettes," says Minden. Italian dancers traveled to Russia, where ballet was extremely popular in the imperial courts, and ultimately influenced Marius Petipa to incorporate pointework into his ballets. He used it to help define his characters, such as Princess Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty, whose long balances demonstrate her poise.
1910s–1930s: Anna Pavlova and Capezio
Black and white photograph of Anna Pavlova in a white swan tutu standing in fifth position on pointe with her arms crossed at her heart
Anna Pavlova in 1905
Herman Mishkin, Courtesy the Museum at FIT
Early-20th-century prima Anna Pavlova had very high, unstable arches, so she put leather soles inside her pointe shoes and hardened the box for more support. When she made her first trip to the U.S. in 1910, Pavlova had her company outfitted in shoes made by the Metropolitan Opera shoemaker Salvatore Capezio, thereby launching the first international pointe shoe brand. While Pavlova helped bring pointe shoes into the modern era, her shoes still had a very rounded toe and narrow vamp, making them much less stable than those worn today. "Footage of Pavlova even shows that she's sort of rocking on her toes the entire time she's on pointe," says Murray.
Close up photo of old heavily darned pointe shoe
Anna Pavlova's heavily darned shoe
Courtesy The Museum at FIT
1920s–1980s: The Shoe Adapts to Abstraction
Reichlen, in pink tights and a black leotard with a black belt, stands in a wide fourth position with her arms in the air.
New York City Ballet's Teresa Reichlen dancing Balanchine's 1946 The Four Temperaments
Paul Kolnik, Courtesy NYCB
Throughout the 19th century, the main purpose of the pointe shoe was to serve a ballet's narrative, distinguishing the mortals from supernatural fairies and sylphs. "But in the 20th century, particularly with the emergence of the Ballets Russes and then George Balanchine, you start to see an interest in pushing the vocabulary of ballet instead," says Murray. Over the next several decades, innovators from Bronislava Nijinska to William Forsythe expanded the physical limitations of ballet technique, leading to a demand for a stronger, more supportive shoe. Designs like the flat, platform box we are familiar with today were developed to give dancers more control.
1990s–Today: New Materials and Methods
Full page ad of two photos of Gillian Murphy with a quote below, and pink Gaynor Minden logo
Gillian Murphy in an early Gaynor Minden ad
Courtesy Gaynor Minden
In recent years, scientific approaches to pointe shoe construction and training have helped the shoe adapt to contemporary choreographic demands. In 1993, Gaynor Minden launched a shoe inspired by the shock-absorption found in athletic footwear, opening the door for other designers to experiment with modern materials to improve shoes' durability and fit. Emerging research in dance medicine has also made pointework safer. Dr. Sue Mayes, director of The Australian Ballet's pioneering Artistic Health program, collects data on all musculoskeletal complaints in the company, and she advises that proper fit for shoes is paramount to injury risk reduction. "The foot needs room to expand and contract to allow the shoe to act as a spring," she says, "We encourage dancers to be reassessed every year, even as adults." Mayes also stresses that proper preparation, gradual reintroduction of pointework after a break from dancing, and full leg strengthening can allow a dancer to perform on pointe without fear. "The last thing we want is for a dancer to feel cautious onstage."
Mayes adjusts the foot of a dancer sitting on a massage table in a studio.
Dr. Sue Mayes working with dancers at The Australian Ballet
Kate Longley, Courtesy The Australian Ballet
Beyond "European Pink"
Two Black dancers in silver tutus put on satin pointe shoes
Ballet Black dancers Cira Robinson and Marie Astrid Mence model Freed's line.
Tyrone Singleton, Courtesy Ballet Black
In the early 1970s, Dance Theatre of Harlem began customizing the company dancers' tights, pointe shoes and ribbons in shades of brown to match their skin tones. The effect was revolutionary for classical ballet. But it isn't until recently that pointe shoe manufacturers have started releasing shades that reflect the diverse skin tones of the ballerinas wearing them. Gaynor Minden released a collection of inclusive satin shades in 2017. The following year, Freed of London followed suit, in collaboration with the London-based dance company Ballet Black. And in the midst of June 2020's nationwide protests demanding racial justice, brands Bloch, Russian Pointe, Capezio, Nikolay, Grishko and Suffolk jumped on board, promising expanded lines released within the year. These options have helped free dancers from pancaking their shoes to match their skin tones, which can be costly and time-consuming. Most importantly, redefining what a pointe shoe looks like breaks down a long-outdated construct and makes ballet more accessible and welcoming to all


Portuguese Traditional Bakers
This documentary is about the traditional bakers of Portugal. In some Portuguese villages bread is still prepared as it was prepared many centuries ago, with knowledge transmitted from generation to generation, from grandparents to parents, from parents to children.
Many older people still go to the traditional bakery to chat with the other villagers while they wait for the bread to bake. Formerly, on long winter nights, traditional bakeries were the places where the villagers met and chatted all night while they warmed. They were true social centres of the village. Often the villagers would bring their pots to the bakery so that the baker could cook the food in the bread oven.
These ovens were called the "people's oven" because they belonged to all the villagers of the village. In the past, it was up to each villager to light the oven, there was a list to announce who had the task.
Nowadays it is still possible to see these ovens of the people working, it is often the bakers themselves who activate them to show the new generations how bread was made in grandparents' time. These bakers today own modern bakeries, but they like to once in a while activate the old oven of the people.
These photographs were taken in villages in northern Portugal.
Villages : Pitões das Junias, Provesende and Favaios, Portugal
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The biggest priority within an organization is, obviously, cost. The employee talent search process can be cumbersome and tedious, let alone expensive. Managers spend long hours reading resumes, conducting interview, and training employees only to repeat the process if the new hire wasn't a good match for the company. Recruiting software investments may streamline operations; leading to savings. An organization may use an ARAP Savings Calculator template to verify the ROI of recruiting software investments.
ARAP Savings Calculator Template Overview
The ARAP Savings Calculator is grouped into two main worksheets: the recruiting data worksheet, and the potential savings calculations for ARAP, plus, a savings summary, and a savings breakdown at the bottom of the template. Each of the worksheets is further divided into subheadings and criteria. Note that the gray fields are reserved for calculating totals. The first worksheet is where the statistical data is entered while savings potential are calculated on the second.
ARAP Savings Calculator Work Flow
- The Hiring Practice section analyzes the effective use of in house application collection and how long positions are vacant. The questions break down the process of collecting applications and resumes, how it's done, how long it takes, and the number of people hired.
- The Annual Staffing section breaks down the dollar cost of full time equivalent work load used to process applications along with the funds spend on outsourcing to recruiting agencies. The work load sows how many employee hours are needed vs. how many are used for application processing.
- The Advertising section is a breakdown of recruiting advertising expenses based on types of media and outsourced firms.
- The Special Programs and Career Fairs section is a list of job fairs, career opportunity programs and cost used for recruiting.
- The Campus Recruitment organizes statistic from recruiting college students through various campuses.
- The final section is a list of other criteria that doesn't fit into a group. This list includes expenses accrued for traveling, meals, relocating, lodging, signing bonuses, and background checks.
- The second worksheet does not require any data to be entered. Each sub section of this worksheet is a reflection of the savings calculated from the six subsections in the first worksheet.
ARAP Savings Calculator Customization Tips
- Company name and date should be entered into rows one and three of the ARAP Savings Calculator, however, they can be placed any ware outside any of the worksheets.
- Criteria relevant to an organization can be added to the first worksheet. Be sure to update every other worksheet and math formulas to reflect the calculation of the added content.
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public static IEnumerable RemoveDuplicates(this ICollection list, Func Predicate)
 var dict = new Dictionary();
 foreach (var item in list)
 if (!dict.ContainsKey(Predicate(item)))
 dict.Add(Predicate(item), item);
 return dict.Values.AsEnumerable();
var employees = (from x in context.Employees
 join t in context.PhonesNumbers on x.EmpId equals t.EmpId
 select new { Employee = x, Phone = t });
//we now have multiple employee records if an employee had more than one phone number
employees = employees.RemoveDuplicates(x => x.EmpId);
Removes items from a collection based on the condition you provide. This is useful if a query gives you some duplicates that you can't seem to get rid of. Some Linq2Sql queries are an example of this. Use this method afterward to strip things you know are in the list multiple times
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18 TCP Redirect: tcp^ via Channels
The net/tcp-redirect library provides a function for directing some TCP port numbers to use buffered channels instead of the TCP support from racket/tcp.
Returns a unit that implements tcp^. For port numbers not listed in port-numbers, the unit's implementations are the racket/tcp implementations.
For the port numbers listed in port-numbers and for connections to "127.0.0.1", the unit's implementation does not use TCP connections, but instead uses internal buffered channels. Such channels behave exactly as TCP listeners and ports.


What is the stitch length regulator on a sewing machine?
A stitch regulator is a tiny computer attached to a sewing machine that constantly adjusts the machine's stitch speed to accommodate the speed of the fabric during free-motion stitching. This ensures balanced, equal-length stitches.
What sewing machines have a stitch regulator?
Bernina is the only home sewing machine brand with stitch regulated technology built-in. I used the Bernina Stitch Regulator to quilt all my Stitching Cosmos quilts!
How do you fix the stitch length on a sewing machine?
Adjusting the stitch length (For models equipped with the stitch length dial)
 1. Raise the needle by turning the handwheel toward you (counterclockwise) so that the mark on the wheel points up.
 2. Turn the stitch length dial to adjust the stitch length that you want to sew.
What is the normal stitch length?
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Can I quilt with a regular sewing machine?
What stitch length should I use for machine quilting?
What is the best stitch length for sewing a straight stitch?
What is the best stitch length for free motion quilting?
Yes, for free motion quilting, set your stitch length to '0'. That way your feed dogs won't be moving while you're quilting because you don't need them. Less wear and tear on those parts.
Basic Settings for Sewing Straight Stitches on a Sewing Machine
 - Stitch Length: 2.5mm or 10 (stitches per inch)
 - Stitch Width: needle centered over stitch plate*
 - Stitch Tension: 4.
How do you troubleshoot a sewing machine stitch?
21 Stitching Problems On Sewing Machines (and easy solutions)
 1. Check the needles isn't bent.
 2. Check the needle size.
 3. Let the machine pull the fabric at its own speed.
 4. Use a table to catch the fabric.
 5. Needle and thread must match.
 6. Check the timing of the machine.
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Why is my sewing machine making long stitches?
Make sure that the thread is in the tension disk and the spool is placed correctly on the machine. Also, double-check to see if the bobbin is in the correct way and threaded tightly. Sometimes, a poorly wound bobbin is the culprit for skipped stitches. Good quality thread also plays a part in nice and even stitching.
What setting should my sewing machine be on?
What does stitch length mean?
Stitch length is basically how long each stitch is sewn by your sewing machine. Changing the stitch length adjusts the feed dogs, which controls how much fabric is pulled through with each stitch. For a shorter length, less fabric is pulled through. For a longer stitch, more fabric is pulled through.
Why is my bottom stitch not straight?
Why is my zigzag stitch sewing straight?
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The Social Significance Of Ghana's 2002 District Level Elections – In The Upper East Region
"This paper attempts to analyse the social structure of the District Assemblies created by the District Assembly Elections of 2002. The Upper East Region of Ghana, which is the poorest region in the country, is the focus of the study. The analysis is situated against the background of the social, economic and political conditions of the region at the time of the District Assembly Elections of 2002. It was discovered in the study that some 61% of the 270 people who were elected to the District Assemblies were mainly teachers and farmers, and that out of thirtyfive women candidates only seventeen, or 48.55% were successful. In addition, only one out of ten disabled candidates was able to make it to the Assembly. The Assemblies created by the Election of 2002, therefore, are predominantly constituted by able-bodied male teachers and farmers. Both society and Government have a major responsibility to ensure that more women get elected in future elections, to ensure their full and free participation in Ghana's democratic political system."


7.6. Column
Column is a data store object or an index object for fast search.
A column belongs to a table. Table has zero or more columns.
Both data store column and index column have type. Type of data store column specifies data range. In other words, it is "value type". Type of index column specifies set of documents to be indexed. A set of documents is a table in Groonga. In other words, type of index column must be a table.
Here are data store columns:
Here is an index column:


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How to Store Cilantro
Cilantro is one of the essential ingredients in a lot of recipes that pays to always have on hand so here are various methods to preserve them.
Cilantro is an amazing cooking herb that is healthy and matches well with a lot of dishes, so it's good to know how you can store cilantro to make sure you'll always have a supply for tasty cooking escapades. There are better ways of storing cilantro than just popping it directly in the fridge (you can, but that doesn't make it last very long). Here are 7 simple ways on how to Store Cilantro to last you a week or more.
Storing Cilantro Method 1: Store in the Fridge
First up is the simplest way to store cilantro and is also the most basic way of keeping it fresh for kitchen use. Make no mistake, this is not a plop it and go situation. Here's how to properly store cilantro in your refrigerator:
 1. Put freshly cut cilantro stems in a container filled with water.
 2. Cover the top loosely with a plastic bag.
 3. Store in the fridge. Set it, but don't forget it entirely. You don't have to watch your stored cilantro like a hawk, but every so often, keep an eye on the leaves and cut them off as they wilt. Also, check the water if the color starts to change and replace it.
Storing Cilantro Method 2: Use an Airtight Container
To go with this cilantro storage method is to go the hydrophobic route. Keep your bunch away from water and DO NOT wash the cilantro! The goal is to try and remove the excess moisture.
 1. Using some paper towels, pat to dry off the cilantro.
 2. After gently patting the bunch, wrap the cilantro with new paper towels.
 3. Store the wrapped cilantro inside an airtight container. Every time you use this type of stored cilantro, try to check for wilted leaves and take those out. Watch out! You should only wash cilantro if you'll be using it straight away because it wilts easy.
Storing Cilantro Method 3: Blanch and Freeze
This method of storing cilantro embraces the use of water more than the previous one because it involves a blanching method.
 1. To blanch, boil some hot water in a pot.
 2. Add in the cilantro until wilted (should be a few seconds).
 3. When done, take out the boiled cilantro and plunge it into a bowl of ice water for a maximum of 30 seconds.
 4. Take out the blanched cilantro bunch and give it a little shake or slight squeeze to remove excess water.
 5. Get some paper towels ready and pat the cilantro dry.
 6. Remove the stems of the cilantro and store the leaves inside a Ziplock bag for freezing. Try to remove excess air from the bag to keep it flat for storage.
Storing Cilantro Method 4: Store as Cubes
Think of this method as cryonics, but a little less morbid with cilantro leaves and water.
 1. Wash the cilantro.
 2. After that, take it aside and allow water to drip off it to dry.
 3. Get some paper towels and pat to remove more moisture.
 4. Coarsely chop the cilantro and transfer that directly to an ice tray. When you split the chopped cilantro for the sections of the ice tray, you may choose to "listen to your ancestors" and go by feeling, or you could take a more measured approach by setting a specific amount for each section so you know how much you are using when you cook with it.
 5. Fill the tray with water and freeze.
Storing Cilantro Method 5: Liquify to Cubify (More Freezing)
Consider this storing technique if you're not particular about preserving the original shape of the cilantro herb, yet want to keep the taste. With this storing method, you can choose to wash or blanch your cilantro before proceeding with the steps below.
 1. Coarsely chop the cilantro.
 2. Place the chopped cilantro inside a food processor or blender and add some olive oil.
 3. Puree the mixture.
 4. Get an ice tray and transfer the liquified cilantro to it for freezing. Again, you can go by feeling or measure a specific amount for each cube.
Storing Cilantro Method 6: Make it Butter
Make it better with butter! You can choose to preserve and enhance the taste of cilantro by storing it like butter. Cilantro butter might sound weird, but boy is it flavorful and really easy to do. All you need are 2-3 cups of finely chopped cilantro leaves for every stick of butter.
 1. First, you have to soften the butter stick by leaving it out at room temperature.
 2. While that's happening, go on ahead and finely chop the cilantro leaves (add lemon zest for a little zing).
 3. When everything is ready, put all ingredients in a bowl and mash them all together (add in some salt if preferred).
 4. Scoop the mashed butter into the baking paper.
 5. Shape the cilantro butter into a regular butter stick or cylinder and wrap it with the baking paper.
 6. Refrigerate the butter and use sit how you would regular butter.
Storing Cilantro Method 7: Dehydrated Cilantro
Dry your cilantro for storage by use of a convection oven or a microwave. Consider this storing technique if you want the longest shelf life possible for your stored cilantro (up to a year!). Although it keeps the original shape of the cilantro, you might have to sacrifice losing a bit of the taste.
 1. To start, preheat your convection oven to 250-300 °F.
 2. Make sure you have clean cilantro by washing it and letting it drip to dry.
 3. For good measure, get some paper towels and pat the cilantro bunch dry.
 4. You'll only be using the leaves so you have to strip or cut them off from the stem using a kitchen knife of scissors.
 5. Get microwave-safe paper towels or regular baking sheets on a tray and lay out the leaves on top as you would when baking cookies.
 6. Place the sheet in a convection oven for 25 minutes or so, keeping an eye on the color. Careful to not let them turn brown.
*If you are using a microwave oven, place the sheet inside and microwave for about 2 minutes. If you aren't happy with the color, continue to microwave in increments if 10-20 seconds.
 1. Take out the tray or sheet and allow the leaves to cool for a few minutes.
 2. Carefully transfer the dried cilantro leaves into a jar using your preferred utensil. You can store them as dried cilantro leaves or crushed cilantro.
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How to Identify the Age of a Windsor Chair
By Jan Czech
Windsor chairs, backs
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Windsor chairs were first manufactured in England in the early 18th century and are named after the English village where they were first made. Around 1740 they were produced in America, first in Philadelphia. As their popularity grew, they could be found in all areas of the country. Windsor chairs come in many shapes, colors and sizes. They are used as dining chairs, side chairs, writing chairs and high chairs. These versatile chairs have not gone out of style and have been in production for over 300 years.
Research Windsor chairs. Before you can accurately determine the age of a Windsor chair, it is imperative that you do your homework. Consult reference books on the topic like, "Windsor Chairs" by Wallace Nutting, and go to websites like Kovels that are devoted to antiques. Visit museums that feature exhibits on early American life. Talk to dealers and collectors.
Examine the chair's construction. An early English Windsor chair will have turned sticks driven through the plant seat to form legs. Above the seat the sticks will connect with a hoop to form the back and arm supports. These chairs had no stretchers, which are horizontal dowels that connect the legs, and no nails were used to hold the chair together
Look at the chair's legs. An American Windsor will have angled legs, whereas the English chair legs were straight.
Check the chair's plank seat to see how thick it is. Generally, older chairs will have thicker seats.
Count the chair's spindles. Generally, the older chairs will have the most spindles.
Study the chair's composition. Windsor chairs were crafted from a variety of woods like pine and birch, with more than one type used in a single chair. A chair with mahogany parts can be dated to the late 19th century because mahogany was difficult to obtain before then.
Determine how the chair is finished. Windsor chairs were painted to hide the variety of woods used to make them and are found most commonly in green, but other colors include shades of red, blue and yellow. A clear finish is rare and may mean the chair has been stripped and refinished.
Consult an expert. Ultimately, an expert on Windsor chairs is the only person who can definitively date your Windsor chair and tell if it is original or a well crafted reproduction.
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Calculate the mass of ice required to lower the temperature of 300 g of water 40°C to water at 0°C.
(Specific latent heat of ice = 336 J/g, the Specific heat capacity of water = 4.2J/g°C)
Let m be the mass of the ice to be added.
Heat energy required to melt to lower the temperature is = mL = m x 336
Heat energy imparted by the water in fall of its temperature from 40°C to
0°C = mass of the water x specific heat capacity x fall in temperature
= 300 x 4.2 x 40°C
If there is no loss of heat,
m x 336 J/g = 300 g x 4.2 J/g°C x 40°C
':. m = (300 xx 4.2 xx 40)/336'
∴ m = 150g


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You may know someone with a big heart, but you probably haven't seen one the size of the whale heart that is on display now in Beaufort.
The heart of a male sperm whale was put on display at the North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort Thursday morning. After a nine-year, 2,300 mile journey, the heart and skeleton of a male sperm whale is ready for the public to see this Valentine's Day week. The whale is named "Echo" and his skeleton currently hangs in the museum.
"We should all think about our hearts more often in many ways. It's good to have this display and since I'm a marine biologist I think it's great to bring biology into it and educate people," said Victoria Thayer.
"It felt very rubbery. I wasn't grossed out by it or anything, but I think it's fascinating that they're able to preserve it like that so that you can actually visualize what the inside looks like." said visitor Nan Holton.
The heart was plastinated at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. Plastination is a process used to preserve body parts where the water and fat are replaced by plastics. Once plastinated, the body part can be touched and does not smell or decay.
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The Wesleyan Connection
Why have a Center for the Study of Religious Freedom at Virginia Wesleyan, a small Methodist liberal arts college? The answer is simple.
Liberal Arts Education
Religious and cultural pluralism are prominent features of our complex and rapidly changing world. If we are to be engaged and productive citizens, we must learn to appreciate diverse perspectives and worldviews. A liberal arts education helps prepare students to do this.
At Virginia Wesleyan, the Center supports this educational goal through its interdisciplinary courses, interfaith forums, and other events.
United Methodist Heritage
Religious freedom has always been part of the Methodist tradition. The United Methodist Church recognizes religious freedom as a basic human right for persons of all faiths. The Church's social principles support the separation of church and state and strongly condemn all forms of religious intolerance.
United Methodist Church Resolution on Religious Liberty
United Methodist Church Resolution on Separation of Church and State
United Methodist Church Social Principle on Church and State Relations
United Methodist Church Social Principle on Rights of Religious Minorities
The United Methodist Church declares religious liberty, the freedom of belief, to be a basic human right. Religious liberty includes the freedom to doubt or to deny the existence of God, and to refrain from observing religious practices. We believe it is the right of a person to be allowed to follow the call of conscience when it becomes impossible to live by both the dictates of the state and the decisions of faith.- United Methodist Church Resolution on Religious Liberty


Allowing parallel iOS UI tests runs in CI
If you have your CI machine set up to run multiple jobs in parallel you might have encountered a problem. You cannot run multiple iOS UI tests in the same simulator at the same time. They will fail.
The problem
Imagine this scenario. You have one CI machine that allows two or more jobs to run in parallel. You have a UI tests job set up. Two of your developers push changes to their branches at (almost) the same time. The CI machine then tries to run two UI tests at the same time in the same simulator and at least one of them fails and has to be retried.
You can of course solve this problem by not allowing parallel jobs on the CI machine, but that slows down the CI process. There is a better way.
The solution
You can create a brand new iOS simulator instance for every job, run the UI tests in this new simulator instance and then delete it when you are done. This way no matter how many iOS UI tests jobs you run in parallel they will all use a separate iOS simulator instance and not affect each other.
Creating a new iOS simulator instance
The first step is to choose a unique simulator name for each job. You can generate some random guid for example. In Gitlab CI I just use the ID of the Gitlab CI job that is stored in the ${CI_PIPELINE_ID} environment variable
First you need to create the new iOS simulator instance at the start of the CI job
xcrun simctl create ${CI_PIPELINE_ID} 'xcrun simctl list runtimes | grep iOS | awk '{print $NF}''
This command creates a new iOS simulator instance with the given name using the iPhone 11 device and the latest simulator runtime. Using the latest simulator runtime makes sure that when you update Xcode on the CI machine you do not have to do any changes to you CI scripts.
Using the new iOS simulator instance
Now that you have a new iOS simulator instance created you can use it to run your iOS UI tests. You can simply pass the name to the xcodebuild command if you use it directly or use it instead of the device type when using Fastlane
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Reading environment variables from iOS and macOS unit tests
In some environments like the CI/CD you might need to read environments variables from your iOS or macOS unit tests.
A typical example might be reading secrets or configuration that is CI/CD specific and you do not want to store it in source control.
In Swift you can read environment variables using the ProcessInfo.processInfo.environment dictionary, for example
let host = ProcessInfo.processInfo.environment["apiHost"]?? "default fallback host"
The problem is this code does not just work, there is one other step you need to do first.
You need to edit your Test scheme and add every environment variable you want to read to the Environment Variables section.
You can rename the variables but for simplicity and readability you should probably keep the same names.
Swift Xcode
Graying out images in Cocoa
I have been working on a macOS application recently where I encountered an interesting task to grey out flags for countries that are disabled.
I first tried overlaying a semi-transparent gray view (fun fact, you cannot directly set a background for a view in Cocoa, you need to use the layer) over the flag image but it did not look very good.
Luckily there is a way to convert a NSImage to grayscale directly in Cocoa.
You first need to create a bitmap representation your NSImage
let bitmap = NSBitmapImageRep(cgImage: cgImage)
convert it to grayscale
let grayscale = bitmap.converting(to:.genericGray, renderingIntent:.default)
and then construct an NSImage from the result.
let grayImage = NSImage(size: grayscale.size)
Putting it all together as an NSImage extension might look like this
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Web scraping with Swift
In a few projects in the past I needed to do web scraping to get some data from websites that did not offer access via an API. I was using C# at the time and scraping web with Html Agility Pack was quite easy.
I now spend most of my time in macOS because of work projects so when I needed to do some web scraping again I did not want to install and set up Mono to do it again in C#. I decided to go with Swift, as I am now quite comfortable with the language after 4 years of using it daily.
The first thing I need to do was to found some library to parse HTML, some Swift equivalent to Html Agility Pack. I found SwiftSoup.
SwiftSoup allows you to access DOM in HTML documents and also HTML fragments. The usage is quite simple, you just need to know a thing or two about HTML.
Let's say you want to parse the Hacker News main page and scrap posts containing some specific keywords.
This is quite an artificial example but the idea is simple. You use the developer tools in your browser of choice to see the HTML of the parts of a website that you are interested in and try to get to them descending and filtering the DOM using SwiftSoup.
You first need to read the website and parse it
let content = try String(contentsOf: URL(string: "")!)
let doc: Document = try SwiftSoup.parse(content)
Looking at the HTML you can see it uses a table layout and all the posts are in a rows of a table with a class called itemlist.
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Swift Xcode
Generating boilerplate Swift code with GYB
How many times how you copied and pasted some code in your current codebase because there was no good way to abstract it? Maybe because it was some repeating code required by a framework or mapping of some data transfer structures.
Writing such boilerplate code is an error-prone waste of time, especially when there is a much better way: generating that code.
There are a few tools to help you do that, one of the most flexible of them being GYB.
What is GYB?
GYB is a lightweight templating system that allows you to use Python to generate text files. Those text files can be Swift source code files or anything else you need.
GYB is used in the Swift standard library codebase so it works well for generating Swift source code and it is a proven technology that works.
You can download GYB to your project from the Swift repository on Github
chmod +x gyb
I put it directly to the project directory and include it in the source control for simpler build and CI/CD setup.
Creating GYB templates
GYB templates for generating Swift source file look like Swift source files with some Python snippets for code generation.
This is probably best shown on an actual example. Let's say you have a list of permissions that the app needs to support. Those permissions are then a part of a protocol and of a few structs.
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Breeding Timing in Cats
Breeding Timing to Maximize Fertility in Cats
Breeding timing refers to a technique that may be utilized to ensure conception in cats by the purposeful timing of insemination during the estrus (heat) period. A fertile female cat is referred to as a queen.
Symptoms and Types
In order to maximize the odds of conception with properly timed breeding, it is best to pin-point, as close as possible, the day of ovulation for the queen. Symptoms of estrus in the queen are evident by her rubbing against objects, being vocal (much more than usual), and an interest shown by the male cat. However, timing of breeding is less critical with cats and ultimately depends on the amount of luteinizing hormone (LH) released, which is triggered via stimulation of the queen's vagina and cervix.
Breeding timing and related fertility-maximizing techniques may be utilized for a number of reasons. This may be deemed necessary if there is an apparent failure to achieve conception in the queen.
For cats, the most reliable method of determining the ovulation cycle is by progesterone testing.
A hormone that is created at the time of pregnancy
The process of the maturation and release of eggs
The period that an animal is pregnant in which the fetus develops from conception to birth
The time period in which a female is receptive to male attention
Ovarian Tumors in Cats
There are three kinds cat ovarian tumors: epithelial tumors (skin/tissue), germ cell...
Reproductive Genetic Abnormalities in Cats
Sexual development disorders in cats can occur due to errors in the genetic coding,...


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Stats NZ has published their latest annual income survey. Some interesting stats:
- Average income from wages/salaries up 6% in the last year
- Average income from all sources up 2.2% and median income from all sources up 2.7% which suggests less income inequality
- Median income for those in paid employment is $45,729 and average income is $53,759
- Median income for those with no qualifications is $39,002, $50,005 for a bachelors degree and $67,003 for a post-grad degree
- Age is a major factor in income. 50% of those in the bottom income quintile are aged under 25, while under 25s make up just 2% of the top income quintile. Those arguing that 16 year olds must get paid $18.40 an hour are basically buts.
- The average income for a couple with two dependent children is $97,924 while for a sole parent with dependent children is $37,126
- Government transfers represent 3% of the income of an average couple with two children and 46% of the income an an average sole parent.
- The median salary/wage for a 40 hour week is $45,009 and the average is $54,229
- 1,197,100 people receive a Government transfer, 1,892,100 are in employment, 323,900 are self-employed


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Scientist for a Day inspires young scientists
Scientist for a Day saw dozens of budding young scientists visit the Australian Museum for Marine Worlds and Urban Explorer.
As the Museum doors opened on Thursday the 14th and Friday the 15th of January, an excited group of budding young marine scientists joined us for 'Scientist for a Day – Marine Worlds'. Together we learnt about what marine scientists do and then our visitors got to try out being a marine biologist with a rather smelly squid dissection! Using some very cool technology, our new marine detectives investigated a variety of the secret weapons that marine animals use and experienced being taxonomists by identifying some Balmain bug species! We also got to see some very special parts of the marine collection in a behind-the-scenes tour.
With the sun shining down on Monday the 18th, we welcomed some young entomology enthusiasts for 'Scientist for a Day – Urban Explorer'. We investigated the spider community of Hyde Park, by finding and identifying webs. Sorting through leaf litter to find and categorise the insects we found helped our young scientists realise that there are many types of life living under our feet, we just need to notice them! For those interested in the tiny spider that was found, our arachnologist identified it as a mature female Ostearius melanopygius. We saw some amazing pinned insects on a behind-the-scenes tour and also got to hold and draw some live stick insects.
If you were a participant in Scientist for a Day, please comment on this story and share what you learnt!
The Australian Museum runs Scientist for a Day programs for 8-12 year olds during selected school holidays, so stay tuned for details of the next adventure.
Ellen McCormack, Operations Coordinator


id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,stage,has_patch,needs_docs,needs_tests,needs_better_patch,easy,ui_ux 6804,QuerySets should allow for ordering by intermediary tables,floguy,nobody,"Right now if one model is related to another model through a third model, ordering as one would expect is not possible to achieve. Here is an illustration (both using patch #6095 and not): {{{ class Group(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=20) def __unicode__(self): return self.name class Person(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=20) groups = models.ManyToManyField(Group, through='Membership') def __unicode__(self): return self.name class Membership(models.Model): person = models.ForeignKey(Person) group = models.ForeignKey(Group) priority = models.IntegerField() }}} This would be the output: {{{ >>> from myapp.models import Group, Person, Membership >>> g1 = Group.objects.create(name='beatles') >>> g2 = Group.objects.create(name='abc') >>> p1 = Person.objects.create(name='John') >>> p2 = Person.objects.create(name='Jane') >>> m1 = Membership.objects.create(person = p1, group = g1, priority=1) >>> m2 = Membership.objects.create(person = p2, group = g2, priority=2) >>> p1.groups.order_by('membership__priority') Traceback (most recent call last):... FieldError: Cannot order by many-valued field:'membership__priority' }}} Without an intermediary model (through=""Membership""), it could happen like this: {{{ >>> Person.objects.filter(id=1).order_by('membership__priority') }}} The idea is that there are some cases where you're absolutely certain that one side of the many-to-many relationship will resolve to a single record (in this case, p1). In those cases, ordering should be possible on the property in the intermediary table. It will become more of a common use case if/when #6095's functionality is added.",,closed,Uncategorized,queryset-refactor,,fixed,,floguy@…,Accepted,0,0,0,0,,


Daisy documentation
5.2.3 ImagesBook Index5.2.5 Upload and link ("attachment")
5.2.4 Links
The format of links to other documents in the daisy repository is:
daisy:
for example:
The daisy link can furthermore include branch, language and version specifications:
daisy:@::
Each of these additional parts is optional. For example to link to version 5 of document 167, on the same branch and language as the current document variant, use:
The can be a number or the strings last or live.
If you don't know the id of a document by heart (which is likely the case), use the "Create link by searching" button on the toolbar.
A link can furthermore contain a fragment identifier. A fragment identifier is used to directly link to a specific element (e.g. a heading or a table) in a document. For this you first need to assign an ID to the element you want to link to (there is an "Edit ID" for this on the toolbar), and then you can adjust the link. The link editor dialogs make it easy by allowing to browse for available element IDs.
5.2.3 Images5.2.5 Upload and link ("attachment")


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Identifiers are used as an internal way of referring to a question in the site. They are most commonly added to questions when you require the use of Advanced Expression Piping (AEP) within your form. They are short, one word, values made up of letters and numbers.
- How to Add an Identifier
- How does the Identifier Appear within the Site
- Reasons you may require an Identifier
In order to add an Identifier to a question:
- Access the Form Builder of the form you are looking to edit.
- Click on the Question you wish to add the identifier to.
- On the left of the screen under the question type dropdown is the Identifier. If you have no value currently as an identifier the value will say None.
- Click on the word None, or if there is a value there click on the current value to be given a text box.
- Enter the Identifier you wish to give to the question.
- Save the form.
- Once the Identifier has been added you will notice it will appear as small, text above the question.
NOTE: Question identifiers are case sensitive, must begin with a letter, and may only contain letters, numbers, and underscores.
TIP! To ensure that you can easily identify the question later, make sure the identifier is related to the question. For example if you have a question that asks for the "Home Address" of your applicant an identifier you may use would be home_address or homeaddress. For longer questions it is still important to keep the identifier short, therefore for longer questions, such as "Name your top 3 favourite colours" your identifier may be favouritecolours or threecolours for example.
When the identifier is added to the question this is how it will be identified internally throughout the site, it will replace the original question which is why it is important that it is related to the question so you can easily identify it later. It will be displayed in the following sections:
- In the Piping Wizard of an Applicant form or a Reviewer form
- When adding a column within a report
- Within all Filters
NOTE: The identifier will not be displayed to any of your end users when they are filling out their forms
Below is a list of reasons for adding an identifier to a question:
- Add an AEP formula to your form
- Use the Piping Wizard within an Applicant Form
- Use the Piping Wizard within a Reviewer Form
- Easily identify long questions
- Easily identify questions that appear more than once in your site
- Easily identify questions that don't have a title


Scrolling Window Layout window
Allows you to customize the appearance of scrolling windows. This window functions much like the Window Layout window. To display the layout window for a scrolling window, double-click the scrolling window in the window layout. To add and manipulate fields and other objects in the Scrolling Window Layout window, use tools from the Toolbox window. Set properties for the scrolling window or objects in it using the Properties window.
When you create the layout for a scrolling window, you are creating the layout for only one line of the scrolling window. This line is drawn in the scrolling window once for each record in the linked table, until the scrolling window is full.
Refer to the following topics for more information:
To display this window
Select a scrolling window in the Window Layout window. Choose Open Scrolling Window from the Tools menu.
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Best Hidden Gems and Off-the-Beaten-Path Attractions in San Antonio, Texas
Some of the state's most well-liked tourist sites are in San Antonio, Texas, a thriving and busy metropolis. The Alamo and the Riverwalk are just two famous places in the area. Yet San Antonio also has a ton of undiscovered jewels and off-the-beaten-path attractions for those who want to venture beyond the usual tourist hotspots. Tourists frequently need to pay more attention to these places yet provide a unique and genuine glimpse into the city's culture, history, and natural beauty. This guide will take you on a tour of some of the top off-the-beaten-path sights in San Antonio, whether you're a resident eager to learn something new or a first-time visitor.
Old Time Wooden Nickel Company's Museum
The museum is located on San Antonio's outskirts, showcasing a collection of over 50,000 wooden nickels. These wooden coins were used as promotional items and souvenirs in the early 20th century, featuring various designs and messages.
Visitors to the museum can learn about the history of wooden nickels and see some of the rarest and most unique examples in the collection. The museum also offers guided tours, which provide even more insight into this fascinating piece of Americana.
Here are some reasons why this museum is a must-visit hidden gem:
- A collection of over 50,000 wooden nickels showcasing the history of this unique American item
- Learn about the various uses and designs of wooden nickels
- Guided tours are available to provide additional information and insight
- An excellent attraction for collectors or anyone interested in Americana history
- The museum also features a gift shop where visitors can purchase their wooden nickels or other souvenirs
- Located on the outskirts of San Antonio, providing a peaceful and unique experience
- A fun and quirky attraction for visitors of all ages
- Provides a glimpse into a little-known aspect of American history
Lost Propaganda Posters
San Antonio, Texas, is full of hidden gems and off-the-beaten-path attractions, and one of the most interesting is Lost Propaganda Posters. This small art gallery and store are tucked away in a quiet corner of the city, but it is well worth a visit for anyone interested in history, art, or propaganda.
Lost Propaganda Posters features a collection of rare and vintage propaganda posters worldwide. These posters were used to promote political causes, social movements, and military campaigns, and they offered a fascinating glimpse into the history of propaganda and graphic design.
Here are some reasons why this small art gallery and store is worth a visit:
- Features a collection of rare and vintage propaganda posters from around the world
- Offers a unique glimpse into the history of propaganda and graphic design
- Educational materials and information about the history and context of the posters are provided
- Visitors can browse the collection and purchase posters or other items, such as postcards or magnets
- A great attraction for anyone interested in history, art, or propaganda
- Tucked away in a quiet corner of the city, providing a peaceful and unique experience
- It offers a chance to learn about the impact of propaganda on society
- A fascinating destination for those interested in learning more about the history and context of propaganda posters
San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA)
The San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) is a premier fine arts institution in the heart of San Antonio, Texas. Founded in 1981, SAMA houses a collection of over 30,000 works of art worldwide, spanning over 5,000 years of human creativity. The museum's collection includes significant holdings of contemporary art, Latin American art, Asian art, and ancient Mediterranean art. SAMA is committed to providing engaging and educational experiences for visitors of all ages and backgrounds, with a range of programs and events that highlight the diversity and richness of its collection.
Here are some reasons why this museum is a must-visit hidden gem:
- Features an extensive collection of art from around the world, including ancient Mediterranean, Asian, and Latin American art, as well as contemporary works
- The museum offers a variety of exhibitions and programs throughout the year, showcasing different periods and styles of art.
- Visitors can participate in guided tours to learn more about the artwork on display.
- The museum also hosts special events, such as art parties and concerts, providing visitors with a unique and engaging experience.
- Located in the historic Lone Star Brewery complex, offering a unique setting and atmosphere for the museum
- The museum's cafe offers a great place to relax and grab a bite to eat while enjoying the artwork.
- An excellent attraction for art enthusiasts or anyone looking to learn more about different cultures and art styles
- It provides a peaceful and quiet escape from the hustle and bustle of the city.
San Fernando Cathedral
San Fernando Cathedral, located in San Antonio, Texas, is a historical and iconic landmark that has stood the test of time for over 200 years. Built in the 1700s, it is the oldest continuously operating church in Texas and has been home to countless religious and cultural events. The cathedral's beautiful architecture and intricate detail make it a must-see for visitors to San Antonio. Its stunning stained-glass windows, ornate carvings, and impressive pipe organ provide a serene atmosphere for prayer and reflection. The cathedral's rich history and cultural significance make it essential to San Antonio's heritage and identity.
Here are some reasons why this historic cathedral is a must-visit destination:
- One of the oldest cathedrals in the United States, with a rich history dating back to the early 1700s
- A beautiful example of Spanish Colonial architecture featuring intricate details and stunning artwork
- Home to the remains of Davy Crockett, William Barret Travis, and other heroes of the Battle of the Alamo
- Offers daily mass services, providing visitors with the opportunity to experience the cathedral as a place of worship and reflection
- The cathedral also hosts concerts and other events, including the popular "San Antonio | The Saga" light show, which projects colorful images onto the cathedral's facade
- Provides a peaceful and serene atmosphere in the heart of downtown San Antonio
- The cathedral's gift shop offers a variety of religious and cultural items, including rosaries, prayer cards, and souvenirs.
- A great attraction for history buffs, architecture enthusiasts, or anyone interested in religious or cultural experiences


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Sample Test Questions in Politics, Government, and Constitution
Multiple Choices. Write the letter of answer on the space provided before each number. Do not encircle. Erasures or change of answers are considered wrong in all items of this exam. Encircled letter is likewise wrong.
______ 1) It is the power inherent in the sovereign State to levy or impose charges upon persons, property, occupation, and others, to defray the expenses of the government and to enable it to fully discharge its functions.
 a.) police power b.) taxation c.) constitution d.) power of eminent domain
______ 2) It is the fundamental law of the land.
 a.) civil code b.) constitution c.) penal code d.) statutes
______ 3) It is a term which refers to the registered voter of the State.
a.) citizen b.) electorate c.) resident d.) constituent
______ 4) It is a prelude to the written Constitution.
 a.) national territory b.) preamble c.) state d.) constitutional convention
______ 5) The House of Representatives in the Philippines belongs to what branch of government as stated in Article VI of the 1987 Constitution?
 a.) executive branch b.) legislative branch c.) judicial branch d.) independent branch
______ 6) It refers to the automatic adoption of international law as part of the domestic law of the country.
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IN RPM 24 MASTER ID has now been renamed to Bypass Code, please redirect to this page for an updated article. _URL_
A master ID is a code that may represent various different things from regions to contracts. This code can be any column on your import spreadsheets/transfers. Commission items can have a master ID imported in the commission data, or a Rep ID can be assigned to a master ID.
Master IDs can be assigned to accounts groups, making it easy to apply a special rule only when the Master ID is imported.
A good example of usage of the Master ID would depends on each set of data coming into RPM, but think of it like a value on each row that you can use to set a special rate or payout. Region being a common usage, or if you wanted to group a set of commission items for internal staff.
Adding a master ID
There are two ways to add a master ID:
1. Automatic: When RPM imports a new master ID it adds it to the system (upload matrix setup).
2. Manual: On the details page of a supplier click Add a master ID


text: Yawed flow conditions introduce unsteady loads in a wind turbine that affect generated power quality and fatigue life. An unsteady phenomenon of special concern is dynamic stall, due to the significant load fluctuations associated with it. Although the assumptions underlying blade element momentum (BEM) models are totally inadequate in yawed flow conditions, these models, modified with engineering models, are still widely used in industry. It is therefore relevant to assess the capabilities of BEM models in predicting the location of dynamic stall on the blade for a rotor in yawed flow conditions. A rotor model is placed in an open jet wind tunnel and tested in yawed flow conditions. The locations of dynamic stall on the blade of a rotor model as a function of the blade position are observed. Two experimental techniques are used; tufts glued to the blade and hot-film anemometry in the near wake. The results from the two techniques are compared and possible causes for differences are identified. Furthermore, the rotor model in yaw is modeled with a simple BEM model, utilizing a Gormont dynamic stall model. The regions of dynamic stall on the blades predicted by the BEM model are compared with the experimental results. The BEM model seems capable of a crude prediction of the dynamic stall locations found for the rotor model in yawed flow conditions.


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How-to: Migrate Accounts From One Server To Another (cPanel)
Hello. I am writing this tutorial because this is a solid method I have used in the past for easily migrating cPanel accounts from one server to another. Using this method, you can transfer accounts from an old server, to a new one, help customers from another host move to your host, etc. This method is very simple, and does not even require root access on one end of the migration. I have found the "Transfer Account from another Server" tool in WHM to not work so well, and break often, so I have used this method.
-cPanel on both servers
-WHM access on the new server (one that the accounts are being moved to)
-root access on the new server
Throughout the instructions I will refer to the server your are transfering the accounts from as the "old server", and the server to are transfering the accounts to as the "new server".
1. Log into WHM of your new server and create a new account called "restore", or anything you like for that matter. Remember the FTP address, username ('restore', in this example), and account password. We will need these for later.
2. Log into the cPanel account you are wanting to transfer on the old server.
3. Click on "Backup >> Generate/Download a Full Backup".
4. Once here, select the backup destination to be "Remote FTP Server".
5. Enter your email address for verification, follwed by all of the FTP account information for "restore", which we created on the new server.
–Remote Server: new server's address
–Remote User: restore
–Remote Password: restore's password
Then, click "Generate Backup". This may take some time to backup the files, depending on how large the account is. You should receive an email provided in the above info once it is complete.
6. Now, log into SSH on your new server.
7. Type in the following commands:
After running the list command above (ls), you should see the tar file of the account on the old server. This means that you have successfully sent the file via FTP to your new server.
8. Now move the tar file to your new server's /home directory with the following command:
mv tar_file_name /home
9. Now, log into WHM on your new server and navigate to "Backup >> Restore a Full Backup/cpmove file"
Once here, you should see the old account's username under "Possible cpmove archives found:".
If you do not, log back into SSH and be sure that the account's tar file has been moved into /home.
10. Type in the account name in the text field in WHM, which is proceeded by "Enter the username for the account you wish to restore:".
11. Click "Restore".
12. Repeate process for additional accounts.
That's all there is to it! I have found this way to work alot more sufficiently for moving accounts from one server to another. Hope you all enjoyed!


Ambato · Population
Question: What is the population of Ambato? Answer: Ambato, Ecuador (Administrative unit: Tungurahua) - last known population is ≈ 165 200 (year 2010). This was 1.106% of total Ecuador population. If population growth rate would be same as in period 2001-2010 (+0.78%/year), Ambato population in 2021 would be: 179 829*.
Population history [1]
Annual population change
[_PHONE_] +3.21 %/year
[_PHONE_] +3.21 %/year
[_PHONE_] +2.68 %/year
[_PHONE_] +1.98 %/year
[2001-2010] +0.78 %/year
GPS coordinates: -1.254, -78.623
Local time in Ambato: 11:46 Sunday GMT-5.
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Ambato on city and population density map
Sources, Notices
1962c, 1974c, 1982c, 1990c, 2001c, 2010c. Legend: e-estimate, c-census, o-other,..
* Unofficial, calculated population.
[1] Sources
El Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos del Ecuador In Spanish
INEC, Resultados de Búsqueda Population files (Spanish)
List of cities in Ecuador (DE) Ret. 2018-04-27
- Hammond world atlas 1976, 1998 (Census 1962, 1974)


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How to clear Diluent/Lyse Empty error.
 1. Check if your Lyse or Diluent containers are empty.
 2. If they are, replace them with new full containers and perform these steps.
 1. Menu>Service>prime all.
 2. Repeat the priming two times.
 3. If you still have Diluent or Lyse in the containers, perform the priming at least three times.


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Mango Kush Full Spectrum Terpene Blend
- Reg. Certificates-FMK
A top seller in the category, this light yet fruity blend is an incredible representation of the strain.
How to Use Terpenes
Use 1%-5% by weight
Warm up your concentrate as you normally would. Calculate how much terpenes you will need to use, by weight. Always measure by weight, and never by the drop. We will use an example of a 100g batch, and our average add back rate of 4%. Using a calculator, input 100 x 0.04 (4%). You should get an answer of 4 grams.
1. WARM MATERIAL AND CALCULATE ADD BACK RATE
Remove your concentrate from heat and allow it to cool down enough so that you can still manipulate it. Concentrates should at the very most be 100°F at the time of adding terpenes.
2. ALLOW MATERIAL TO COOL
Take a pyrex beaker and a scale that is accurate to at least 0.00 decimal places. Place the beaker on the scale, and using the same example of 4% usage in a 100g batch, carefully weigh out 4g of terpenes, using a disposable plastic pipette. Set aside in preparation for mixing.
3. WEIGH TERPENES
Once your material is at 100°F or less, it is time to add back the 4g of terpenes. Pour them into the concentrate, and using either a magnetic stir bar or a hand tool, mix the solution for up to 20 minutes.
4. ADD AND MIX
Many people make the mistake of tasting the product right after mixing. It is always better to let the solution sit for 24 hours. Once it has steeped for a day, and it has passed your visual test, you may apply it to whichever end product the material is going into and give it an official taste test.
5. WAIT AND TASTE
Once you are satisfied with your end product, it is ready to go into production. If this is the first time you have developed this product, be sure to document your add back rate for each terpene product for future use. Always store your finished product between 60° and 75°F. This will help prevent separation, crystallization, and oxidation.
Does NOT contain THC or CBD as all of our products are botanically derived from plants and NOT cannabis or hemp.


What are the requirements to get a government job?
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The requirements to get a government job include citizenship, security clearance and registration with the Selective Service System for male applicants. In addition, requirements unique to the job being applied for, including education, experience and job-related qualifications, must be met.
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Most federal jobs require the applicant to be a citizen and a few also need security clearance. However, unless the applicant is offered a job position that demands security clearance, the government will not ask for or bear the expense of a background check.
Additionally, male applicants who are above 18 years of age and were born after December 31, 1959 should be enrolled in the Selective Service System to be eligible for applying for a government job. Alternatively, they should be exempted from this requirement.
Government jobs also require the applicant to have a high school diploma, college or university degree and work experience that is relevant to the job being applied for.
Further, candidates with special job-related qualifications such as training courses and skills such as computer knowledge, language and machinery use are preferred over others if the job demands these. Preference is also given to job applicants who have earned some awards and honors such as publications and performance awards pertaining to the job. Some jobs also require the applicant to possess certain licenses and certificates.
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MediGO provides all key stakeholders improved logistics and transparency around organ shipments so that they can focus on improving patient care.
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Peer reviewed data suggests that transplant stakeholders—including Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs), couriers, surgeons, and support teams—need to know where organs are and when they will arrive in order to optimize outcomes. This enhancement improves trust and knowledge within the transplant supply chain, and provides both accountability and transparency in a complex system.
MediGO allows all stakeholders to track organs in real-time and communicate with each other on a centralized platform. As a result, patients receive organs of known quality, surgeons can plan better, and hospitals waste less time and money.
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Adjective: enigmatic ,e-nig'ma-tik
 1. Having an unobvious or mysterious meaning; hard to understand
 "prophetic texts so enigmatic that their meaning has been disputed for centuries"; "I didn't grasp the meaning of that enigmatic comment until much later";
 - enigmatical, puzzling
 2. Resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought
 - oracular
See also: ambiguous, incomprehensible, uncomprehensible
Encyclopedia: Enigmatic


Zero-width joiner
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The zero-width joiner (ZWJ) is a non-printing character used in the computerized typesetting of some complex scripts, such as the Arabic script or any of the Indic scripts. When placed between two characters that would otherwise not be connected, a ZWJ causes them to be printed in their connected forms. In some cases, such as the second Devanagari example below, the ZWJ follows the second character, rather than the first.
The character's code point is U+200D zero width joiner (HTML  · ). In the InScript keyboard layout for Indian languages, it is typed by the key combination Ctrl+Shift+1. However, many layouts use the ']' key for this character.[1]
Character sequence Appearance
[ka क] [virāma ्] क्
[ka क] [virāma ्] [ZWJ] क्
[ka क] [virāma ्] [ṣa ष] क्ष
[ka क] [virāma ्] [ZWJ] [ṣa ष] क्‍ष
Character sequence Appearance
[na ನ] [virāma ್] ನ್
[na ನ] [virāma ್] [na ನ] ನ್ನ
[na ನ] [virāma ್] [ZWJ] [na ನ] ನ್‌ನ
[ra ರ] [virāma ್] [ka ಕ] ರ್ಕ
[ra ರ] [ZWJ] [virāma ್] [ka ಕ] ರ‍್ಕ
(Until Unicode 5.0; in later editions, specific code points are allotted[2])
Character sequence Appearance
[Na ണ] [virāma ്] [ZWJ] ണ്
[na ന] [virāma ്] [ZWJ] ന്
[ra ര] [virāma ്] [ZWJ] ര്
[la ല] [virāma ്] [ZWJ] ല്
[La ള] [virāma ്] [ZWJ] ള്
See also[edit]
 1. ^ "ചിത്രം:Inscript.jpg – Malayalam Computing" (in Malayalam). Retrieved 2011-10-22.
 2. ^ "Changes related to Malayalam in Unicode 5.1.0 from 5.0" (PDF). Retrieved 2015-06-12.
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Vietnam cat meat trade revealed: Pets stolen, drowned, bludgeoned and boiled as appetite grows for animal flesh
More than a million cats are killed in Vietnam for their meat every year in a secretive, brutal and growing trade that risks spreading diseases to humans, an undercover investigation has found.
Pets and strays are stolen from the streets and even from people's homes, trafficked across the country without food or water, and slaughtered in unsanitary and agonising ways, according to campaigners.
Thieves have even clashed violently with cat owners, and in some cases have been reportedly killed in brawls.
The animals may be drowned, bludgeoned with a hammer, boiled alive or electrocuted, investigators for the Four Paws animal welfare organisation said. Their findings are based on months' worth of surveillance of holding areas, traffickers and restaurants, and speaking to traders.
A live cat is sold for around £5 a kg, and 1kg of raw meat costs £6.50. Restaurants offer dishes prepared with cat meat for about £5, the research found.
Black cats are worth even more: traders sell them alive for £6.50 a kg, and their meat can fetch £16.50 a kg.
Four Paws and the UK-based Change For Animals Foundation, which collaborated on the research, say cat meat dishes, known as "Little Tiger", are growing in popularity despite increasing pet ownership in Vietnam.
In January, a ban on slaughtering cats was scrapped, leading to a surge in demand for cat meat. It is especially popular in the north but is spreading south, as far as Ho Chi Minh City, the investigation found.
Earlier this year The Independent revealed how sales of dog and cat meat had risen in Vietnam and Cambodia since the outbreak of the coronavirus, because people believe it has "warming" properties that head off flu viruses.
Some restaurants buy animals directly from thieves and slaughter them on site, but most buy from wholesalers or slaughterhouses, according to the researchers. They believe the coastal tourist resorts of Da Nang and Hoi An in central Vietnam are hot spots for cat thefts.
"At the wholesalers we discovered many cats with collars — a clear sign that they were pets. During our research, we also met many pet owners who were desperately looking for their stolen cats," said Katherine Polak, a Four Paws expert and vet in Southeast Asia.
"Authorities usually turn a blind eye because they are often involved in the trade, either profiting from bribes or are consumers themselves."
Lola Webber, co-founder of Change For Animals Foundation, said: "In holding areas, wholesalers keep cats crammed into cages for days until they have enough to cover transport costs.
"Over hundreds of kilometres the cats are transported without water, food and sufficient ventilation to slaughterhouses scattered throughout Vietnam. Some wholesalers even use luggage compartments on regular passenger buses for the trafficking."
Up to 200 cats have been seen in cages on buses.
Many cats die of exhaustion, heat stroke, dehydration or injuries caused by their capture and transportation. After they are inhumanely killed, their fur is removed and the skin burned, before the carcasses are gutted and frozen.
Slaughterhouses are a perfect breeding ground for new diseases to emerge that could infect humans, with potentially catastrophic results, the campaigners say.
"Practices used in the cat meat trade could also potentially lead to the outbreak of zoonotic diseases, as we have seen with Covid-19, due to insanitary conditions, brutal and unhygienic treatment of animals, multi-species transport, holding and slaughtering facilities, and cross-border transportation and handling," said Dr Polak.
She said younger generations consider cat meat an exotic delicacy, but for older people, consumption is usually linked to customs, superstition and the lunar calendar. "Some locals are convinced that eating cat meat repels bad luck. Others eat it, especially from black cats, because they believe it has healing effects, although there is no scientific evidence for this."
The investigations identified northerly Hanoi and the Thai Binh province, with high numbers of restaurants, as popular places for eating the meat.
"We also know that many cats, often pre-killed and frozen, are coming in from Southern China as the cat population is decimated in Hanoi due to the trade," Dr Polak said.
"While the consumption of dog meat in Asia is increasingly being discussed in public, the equally brutal cat meat trade is still relatively unknown."
Two months ago a couple accused of poisoning dozens of pet dogs and cats with cyanide so that they could be butchered were arrested and charged with theft.
Four Paws and Change For Animals are calling on the Vietnamese government to reinstate the ban and strengthen laws to stop pet thefts.
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Ethiopia launching national youth volunteer service program
August 8,2018
The Ethiopian government is launching what is poised to become Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's flagship program of "trans-boundary volunteers."
With this program, youth volunteers are to serve outside of their respective ethnic-based Federal states, seemingly which is why it is named "trans-boundary", in the country.
1000 graduating students drawn from different parts of Ethiopia are taking part in the program which is commencing today. And volunteer youth are to get credit for their participation when they are looking for employment after graduation.
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed met with the volunteers today before they are deployed to where they are assigned.
"When you serve the community as volunteers, you also need to learn and acquire knowledge as well," the prime minister told the volunteers. He meant to emphasize that there is knowledge in the community outside of university and other institutions of higher learning.
Apart from providing new graduates with relevant work experience, the motive of the program is to foster what the government describes as "people to people relation" and national feeling.
Ethiopia has a history of mobilizing youth for volunteer work in the community. Soon after the Ethiopian Revolution in 1974, Colonel Mengistu Hailemariam's government embarked on a nationwide illiteracy eradication program by deploying hundreds of thousands of youth in the countryside in different parts of the country to provide basic education. The program was successful so much so that illiteracy was significantly reduced in the country.
Although Abiy Ahmed's initiative in launching the program seems to be positive and perhaps a move in the right direction, especially if the program is given Ethiopian character as opposed to practices in the west, the political situation in the country could prove difficult to achieve the goals of the program.
This past week, for example, there has been an organized ethnic-based violence in Jijiga and other nearby towns, South Eastern parts of Ethiopia, where more than 29 people were killed and more than 10 churches were burned. Seen from that angle, it is questionable if it is the right time.
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To skew an object by using the resize handles
Select an object or a group of objects or anchor points. The resize handles appear.
Position your pointer near but outside one of the side handles and use one of the following methods:
To skew horizontally, drag the top or bottom side handle of the object to the left or right.
To skew vertically, drag either the left or right side handle.
To skew the object around its center point, hold down the ALT key.
A shape (in blue) being skewed with the top handle
You can skew and create a duplicate of a selection at the same time by holding down CTRL+ALT when you drag.
To skew an object by using the Action Bar
On the left side of the Action Bar, click the registration point icon to indicate which part of the selected object you want to stay stationary during skewing. For example, if you want the upper-right corner of your object to remain in position when the rest of the object skews, click the upper-right corner of the registration point icon.
Adjust the Skew Angle. Drag the pointer up or to the right to increase the value, or drag it down or to the left to reduce the value. Click the field to type a numeric value.
To skew vertically (shear) instead of horizontally, set the Rotation Angle and Skew Angle fields to the same value.