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If symptoms of heart disease are making it difficult or impossible for you to do your job, your employer-provided long term disability policy may provide benefits. Heart disease can be a debilitating ailment and is a common reason for disability claims. The New York disability attorneys at Riemer Hess have helped many clients with heart conditions obtain benefits.Below you'll find tips on filing your long term disability claim for heart disease conditions.
Heart Disease and Long Term Disability
Whether you qualify for long term disability due to heart disease will depend on the nature of your condition and symptoms. When evaluating whether to file a long term disability claim, review your policy carefully. Long term disability insurance policies typically define disability as a condition that prevents you from performing the duties of your occupation (or, in some cases, the duties of any occupation).
Types of Heart Disease
Many heart conditions cause severe restrictions and limitations that prevent you from working. The most common types of heart disease include:
- Ischemic heart disease. Also known as coronary artery disease or atherosclerosis, this condition is characterized by build-up of materials within arteries. The result is that the flow of blood to the heart is restricted. High blood pressure is characteristic of this condition in early stages.
- Arteriosclerosis. This disease causes the artery walls to thicken and become rigid due to fat and/or calcium deposits. When combined with ischemic heart disease, this condition often leads to heart attack.
- Congestive Heart Failure. This condition occurs as the heart weakens and cannot pump a sufficient amount of blood to feed oxygen-starved organs.
Disabling Symptoms of Heart Disease
Getting approved for long term disability due to heart disease conditions hinges on explaining your symptoms, their severity and frequency. A diagnosis alone will not be enough for benefit approval. Your insurance company will want to fully understand the range of your symptoms and how they prevent you from working.
The disabling physical effects produced by heart disease differ depending on the condition, but common symptoms may include:
- Chest pain;
- Shortness of breath;
- Swelling and pain in the hands and feet.
Beyond the symptoms your heart disease directly causes, you can take into account the side effects caused by any medications taken for treatment.
Proving Long Term Disability from Heart Disease
There are two possible approaches to proving that a person is disabled because of heart disease. The first is to show that your symptoms render you physically unable to work. For instance, even sedentary jobs require a worker to be able to walk for up to an hour during a workday. A person with heart disease may not be able to walk for that long without experiencing symptoms. For executives and professionals with demanding jobs, persistent fatigue and shortness of breath can rob of them of the stamina needed for long days and frequent travel.
The second approach is to show that simply performing the job exposes the claimant to significant risk of harm. This situation often occurs when a claimant with a bad heart condition works in a high stress occupation. Even if the claimant could physically perform the duties of the job, they should not because it puts them at significant risk of a heart attack. However, risk of harm disabilities can be difficult to prove because the treating doctor may find it difficult to quantify the risk of a person returning to a high stress job.
Importance of Medical Evidence
Medical evidence supporting a claim of disability because of heart disease is crucial. While other kinds of proof can help your chances, your insurance company will weigh objective medical evidence most heavily when evaluating your claim.
Medical evidence may include:
- Proof of diagnosis. Your doctor's notes and any diagnostic testing results that substantiate your diagnosis should be submitted in your claim.
- Test results and findings. Examples of cardiovascular testing include echocardiograms, stress tests, and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
- An opinion letter from your doctor. Your doctor's opinion is key to your insurance company. Request that your doctor write a report outlining your condition, your symptoms, and the way your heart disease impairs you from working.
- Treatment notes. Your insurance company will require proof of appropriate treatment in order to approve your claim. Make sure when submitting your claim to include medications you're taking and records of regular follow-up visits with your treating doctor(s). If your insurance company believes you are noncompliant or ignoring your doctor's recommendations for treatment, they may deny your claim or terminate existing benefits.
A Long Term Disability Attorney Can Help
At Riemer Hess, our New York disability attorneys believe that the best approach is to combine the two strategies.
We work closely with each client and their employer to develop a detailed description of the duties of the client's occupation so that we can explain exactly what it is the client can no longer do and why they can no longer do it. We also contact the client's treating doctors to collect supporting medical evidence.
Our disability insurance attorneys will compile the client's entire medical history, including the doctor's treatment notes and objective test results. In addition, our attorneys obtain a detailed written report from the treating doctor that includes the client's symptoms; medical signs and laboratory findings; medications and side effects; the doctor's opinion about the client's ability to sit, stand, walk, reach, twist and bend in a competitive working environment; and the doctor's opinion about whether the client can perform the duties of their occupation.
Whether you're thinking about making a claim for disability insurance, your claim has been denied, or your insurance company is terminating your benefits, the New York disability attorneys at Riemer Hess can assist you. Call Riemer Hess LLC, Attorneys at Law, at _PHONE_.


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Does your home have a well water pump?
During a well pump installation, the water pump is installed along a well casing to push water from below the ground into your home. The size of your well water pump system is determined by the size of your home. Your well water pump is placed within the well below water level so that it will not be affected by periods of drought.
The water is pumped into a well pump pressure tank that compresses the air in the tank until it reaches a preset level. The amount of water that is delivered by the well pump pressure tank between the time the pump shuts down, and the time it starts again is called drawdown.
Here are some signs you may need water well pump service or replacement:
- Decreased water pressure
- No water at all
- Pulsing water
- Pump always running
- Dirty water
- Loud or unusual noises
- Air spitting from the faucet
- Unusually high electric bills
The purpose of your well pump is to maintain a constant supply of pressurized water inside your home and piping system. Typically, your well pump is switched on and off with a pressure switch. Meaning, the pump is turned on when the pressure switch senses the pressure is at a minimum point, and off at a pre-set high-pressure point. Another type of well pump and tank system is called a continuous pressure system. This type of system uses a variable speed pump, allowing the pump motor to rotate more rapidly and slowly, pumping more or less water based on the pressure sensing unit.
Replacing a well pump – If your well pump is pumping air, or if your electricity bill has increased dramatically recently, these could be signs that it is time to think about well pump replacement. If when you are turning on your faucet, a mixture of air pressure and water is coming out, this is an indication that something is seriously wrong with your well. One explanation for air leakage could be that your water table has dropped to a point that is below the well pump. If this is not the case, your well pump drop pipe may be broken. In some cases, air spraying from your faucet may not be caused by a change in water table or a broken pipe, but your water table may contain gases. The gases dissolve within the water and later cause water to pray out of the tap. If this is the case, your well pump can often be treated to eliminate the gases.
If your pump is worn down, or blocked, it needs to work much harder which can result in increased energy bills. Additionally, if your check valve is broken, this leads to water flowing back into your well from your pressure tank. This reduces pressure and signals the pressure switch to turn back on, basically resulting in your well pump running constantly.
Your water supply in your home depends on having a properly functioning well system. Whether you need well pump repair or well pump replacement, Kulk's Plumbing can help! Whether we are repairing, replacing, or digging a new well pump on your property, we will provide you with well water pump services that keep long-term future performance in mind.

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text: Performance of a prototype dual-energy digital chest radiography unit in detecting calcified and noncalcified simulated pulmonary nodules was compared with that of a highly optimized, conventional system. Nodules ranging in size (0.5, 1.0, and 1.6 cm), in number (five to 11), and in calcium content (0-25 mg) were superimposed over the lungs of a frozen, unembalmed, human chest phantom. For each technique, six observers examined 50 posteroanterior projections with different randomized nodule locations. Detection consisted of locating and assigning a level of confidence to each perceived nodular opacity. The resulting plots of the true-positive fraction versus the mean number of false-positive calls per projection indicate that for both calcified and noncalcified nodules, the digital unit performed significantly better (P less than.01).


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ROHM's Isolated Power Supply Control ICs for Industrial Inverters
Going without photocoupler or auxiliary winding contributes to greater miniaturization, power savings, and reliability
Willich-Muenchheide/Kyoto, 12th September 2016 - ROHM has recently announced the availability of isolated flyback-type DC/DC converter control ICs for Auxiliary Supply in High Power Industrial equipment such as FA/solar inverters and power storage systems. Following the BD7F100, the company now expands the series with the new BD7F200, covering all applications with a power requirement from 1W to 10W, and including two different packaging options. In addition, ROHM introduces a BD7F100 evaluation kit that facilitates the design of flyback isolated applications.
Isolation is almost always built into electronic equipment to provide protection against shock and damage. With this respect, a broad range of applications such as power metering, industrial programmable logic controllers (PLCVs), Industrial Fieldbus, Industrial automation, insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) and SiC MOSFET gate drivers require isolated DC/DC converters. These devices provide galvanic isolation, improve safety and enhance noise immunity to the systems. With them it is possible to generate multiple output voltage rails and dual polarity (positive and negative) rails. High voltage, high power industrial applications (including power storage systems and solar inverters which are seeing increased adoption) are no exception, requiring even more stringent reliability demands due to the harsher temperature conditions and the need for continuous, long-term operation.
Conventional solutions utilize an optocoupler and other components for flyback-type isolated power supply control for the feedback loop. However, this generates challenges associated with current consumption and reliability (including circuit scale and product life). The BD7F series, thanks to its optocoupler-less architecture, allows designers to simplify the development of the transformer and to reduce costs. It decreases the number of external parts by nearly half by eliminating the need for a photocoupler and a phase compensation network, providing greater energy savings, reliability, and miniaturization. In addition, a newly developed adaptive ON time control method is used to improve load response time (a drawback of conventional isolated power supply ICs), while voltage fluctuation during the load transient is limited to under 200mV, contributing to even higher reliability. Various protection functions add to it as well. In order to offer further support to designers during the device evaluation, and consequentially, in the application design phase, ROHM is also releasing a new evaluation kit BD7F100HFN-EVK-001, implementing the BD7F100HFN and featuring 6 different input and output configurations.
Samples, along with this evaluation board, will be available for purchase. This board enables to be designed for 24V input voltage and 5V output voltage with output current range of 13.8mA to 800mA for maximum output power of 4W.
The BD7F100 Flyback converter Series up to 5W
The BD7F200 Flyback converter Series up to 10W
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The BD7F100HFN-EVK-001 Input 24V Output 5V(max.800mA)
Availability: Fall, 2016
1．High reliability isolation performance
The BD7F series of isolated power supply control ICs are optimized for industrial equipment requiring continuous, long-term operation under extreme conditions. Utilizing state-of-the-art power BiCDMOS processes and leveraging proprietary advanced analog technology allow ROHM to detect the secondary side voltage and current from the primary side. This eliminates the need for an optocoupler or tertiary transformer winding required with conventional configurations, reducing the number of external parts by half which contributes to greater reliability, power savings, and end-product miniaturization.
2．Improved load response characteristics through adaptive ON time control
ON time control, typically used in conventional isolated power supply control ICs, is adopted to minimize output voltage fluctuations caused by instantaneous changes in load current.
ROHM's new adaptive ON time control method limits output voltage fluctuations to 200mV, 65% less than conventional solutions (at a load current of 1A and rise time of 100us). As a result, load response against instantaneous load current fluctuations is improved, increasing reliability considerably.
3. Optional evaluation board makes it easy to verify performance
In addition to the control ICs, an evaluation board (BD7F100HFN-EVK-001) is offered integrating the BD7F100HFN-LB, making it easy to evaluate isolated power supply operation (24V input, 5V/800mA output). Moreover ROHM Semiconductor GmbH is preparing CE certified 6 variant evaluation boards (BD7F100HFN-EVK-30x) in October 2016.
Due to its fully controlled supply chain, ROHM can guarantee long-term availability.


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Longus, sometimes Longos (Greek: Λόγγος), was the author of an ancient Greek novel or romance, Daphnis and Chloe. Very little is known of his life, and it is assumed that he lived on the isle of Lesbos (setting for Daphnis and Chloe) during the 2nd century AD
It has been suggested[by whom?] that the name Longus is merely a misinterpretation of the last word of Daphnis and Chloe's title Λεσβιακῶν ἐρωτικῶν λόγοι ("story of a Lesbian romance", "Lesbian" for "from Lesbos island") in the Florentine manuscript; Seiler also observes that the best manuscript begins and ends with λόγου (not λόγγου) ποιμενικῶν. If his name was really Longus, he was probably a freedman of some Roman family which bore that name as a cognomen.
Other ancient Greek novelists:
- Chariton - The Loves of Chaereas and Callirhoe
- Xenophon of Ephesus - The Ephesian Tale
- Achilles Tatius - Leucippe and Clitophon
- Heliodorus of Emesa - The Aethiopica
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Winter quarters at Brandy Station
During the Civil War, soldiers and officers spent a great deal of time at camps such as the one in this photograph, taken of officers of the 1st Brigade, Horse Artillery, at their winter quarters at Brandy Station, Virginia in February 1864. The eastern theater of the war had witnessed the Battle of Brandy Station on June 9, 1863, which was technically a Confederate victory. However, the battle demonstrated that the Union cavalry had improved greatly since the beginning of the war. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported on battles and movements of troops at the front.
Women were involved in all areas of the Civil War. The role of the woman in this photograph is unknown, but it is probable that she worked to support the troops in some fashion. Thousands of women came to the camps as nurses, and some even worked on the battlefields. Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, is the most famous example of a woman who worked for the Union army as a nurse on the battlefields. Even in the rustic environment of the camps, women still wore the full dresses that were the standard costume for women at the time.
The following articles from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle present reports from the Army:
"From General Meade's Army" (August 7, 1863)
"Meade's and Lee's Armies" (October 17, 1863)
"Recent Army Movements" (November 12, 1863)
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Regulatory framework of the culture sector
What is it about?
Cultural and creative industries operate in a complex business environment defined both by the standard regulations concerning businesses, as well as issues such as intellectual property rights and taxation.
The policies and legislation governing these fields, in other words the regulatory framework, should facilitate artistic creation, cultural diversity, and business activities in the culture sector.
Why is it needed?
The culture sector, like many others, is undergoing considerable and rapid change in the wake of the digital revolution. In response to these changes, governments are increasingly identifying a need for continuous assessment to ensure that the regulatory framework remains fit for purpose.
The increasing importance of digital technologies brings with it, for the culture sector, a need to review intellectual property rights and ensure that artists and organisations can protect their works while ensuring broad access to culture.
Likewise, with audiences and markets increasingly accessible on the internet, there is a clear need to apply the proper policies to online trading, taxation, and even the establishment and operation of businesses.
What is the EC's role?
The Commission serves a variety of functions in the assessment of the regulatory framework, including the management of projects, the commissioning of studies and reports, and ensuring coordination with Member States to apply best practices.
What has been achieved so far?
The Commission has, to date, undertaken a variety of activities, and has achieved several major steps in reforming the regulatory environment. Aside from the projects and platforms support by the Culture and MEDIA programmes, the following legal instruments have been adopted:
In addition to the legal text the Commission has published the following Communications:
Moreover, the Commission has brokered the following stakeholder's dialogues:
What are the next steps?
In addition to managing the Creative Europe programme, the Commission will continue efforts in the field, notably by:


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July 18, 2011 A University of Connecticut scientist has perfected a method for creating quick-changing, variable colors in films and displays, such as sunglasses, that could lead to the next hot fashion accessory.
The new technology also has captured the interest of the U.S. military as a way to assist soldiers who need to be able to see clearly in rapidly changing environments.
The process for creating the lenses, for which a patent is pending, also is less expensive and less wasteful to manufacturers than previous methods. The findings were published July 7 in the Journal of Materials Chemistry.
"This is the next big thing for transition lenses," says Greg Sotzing, a professor of chemistry in UConn's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and a member of UConn's Polymer Program.
The typical material behind a transition lens is what's called a photochromic film, or a sheet of polymers that change color when light hits them. Sotzing's new technology does things slightly differently -- his electrochromic lenses are controlled by an electric current passing through them when triggered by a stimulus, such as light.
"They're like double pane windows with a gap between them," explains Sotzing. He and his colleagues squirt a mixture of polymers -- or as he calls it, "goop" -- in between the layers, creating the lens as it hardens. The mixture of polymers used in this lens, says Sotzing, creates less waste and is less expensive to produce than previous mixtures.
"The lifetime of sunglasses is usually very short," says Sotzing, who points out that people often misplace them. So by making the manufacturing less expensive, he says, commercial retailers will be able to produce more of them.
Another benefit of this material is that it can change colors as quickly as electricity passes through it -- which is virtually instantaneously. This process could be very useful for the military, Sotzing says. For example, if a person emerges from a dark passageway and into the desert, a lens that would alter its color instantly to complement the surroundings could mean life or death for some soldiers.
"Right now, soldiers have to physically change the lenses in their goggles," Sotzing says. "This will eliminate that need." Sotzing will begin a one-year sabbatical at the Air Force Academy in August, where he hopes to develop some of these ideas.
In November 2010, partially based on work supported by the Center for Science and Technology Commercialization's Prototype Fund, the UConn R&D Corporation started a company, called Alphachromics Inc., with Sotzing and colleague Michael Invernale, now a post-doctoral researcher at MIT, as founders. The university has a patent pending for this new technology, which is currently under option to the company. Alphachromics is also testing applications of these polymer systems for energy-saving windows and custom fabrics.
Currently in talks with sunglass manufacturers, Sotzing says that the world of Hollywood could have a market for this technology. He describes applications he calls "freaky," including colors that move back and forth across the glasses, evoking styles like those sported by Lady Gaga.
But Sotzing stresses that the best thing about this technology is the creation of business in Connecticut. Although the glasses won't be made here, the technology will be licensed out of the state and, he hopes, Alphachromics will continue to expand.
"We don't make the sunglasses," he says. "We make the formulation of what goes inside them."
Sotzing's collaborators on the paper are Invernale and Ph.D. students Yujie Ding, Donna Mamangun and Amrita Kumar. The research was funded by the tech/textile company ITP-GmbH.
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- Yujie Ding, Michael A. Invernale, Donna M. D. Mamangun, Amrita Kumar, Gregory A. Sotzing. A simple, low waste and versatile procedure to make polymer electrochromic devices. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2011; DOI: 10.1039/C1JM11141H
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While generating RF prominently offers the "Use MacRoman as the start of the glyph order" option. Why is that?
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Gender differences in muscle force and oxygenation recovery from intermittent handgrip exercise
Yoko Saito, Takeshi Otsuki, Motoyuki Iemitsu, Seiji Maeda, Ryuichi Ajisaka
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To investigate a relationship between gender differences in recovery from skeletal muscle fatigue and muscle oxygenation, we examined whether there is a difference in oxygen supply and consumption of the working muscles after intermittent handgrip exercise between young males and females using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS). Healthy young subjects (25.8 ± 3.9 years; males, n=10; females, n=10) repeated static maximal voluntary contractions (MVC) with a handgrip for 5 seconds followed by 5 seconds rest for a period of 4 minutes in Study 1. The MVC force was measured before, each minute during the handgrip exercise, and 2, 5, and 10 minutes following the exercise. In Study 2, the selected 10 subjects (males, n=5; females, n=5) performed the same exercise and their totaland deoxyhemoglobin/myoglobin level was measured using the venous occlusion NIRS method; and O2 supply index (OSI) and O2 consumption index (OCI) calculated before and after the exercise. In Study 1, females exhibited higher %MVC force at the end of the exercise and during the recovery period than males (p<0.05). In Study 2, the %OSI was significantly lower in females than in males at 5 and 10 minutes in the recovery period (p< 0.05), but no significant differences were detected in %OCI. Furthermore, %MVC of the recovery period correlated with %OCI of the recovery period in females (r=0.724, p=0.015), but not in males. These findings suggest that female working muscles can convert consumed oxygen more effectively after an intermittent handgrip exercise, and therefore, be able to recover muscle force faster.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)433-441
Number of pages9
Journaljapanese journal of physical fitness and sports medicine
Issue number4
Publication statusPublished - 2006 Aug
Externally publishedYes
 - Muscle fatigue
 - Oxygen consumption
 - Oxygen supply
ASJC Scopus subject areas
 - Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
 - Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
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A Government authority may obtain financial records under section 3402(2) of this title pursuant to an administrative subpena or summons otherwise authorized by law only if--
 1. there is reason to believe that the records sought are relevant to a legitimate law enforcement inquiry;
 2. a copy of the subpena or summons has been served upon the customer or mailed to his last known address on or before the date on which the subpena or summons was served on the financial institution together with the following notice which shall state with reasonable specificity the nature of the law enforcement inquiry:
 "Records or information concerning your transactions held by the financial institution named in the attached subpena or summons are being sought by this (agency or department) in accordance with the Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978 [12 U.S.C.A. § 3401 et seq.] for the following purpose: If you desire that such records or information not be made available, you must:
 1. Fill out the accompanying motion paper and sworn statement or write one of your own, stating that you are the customer whose records are being requested by the Government and either given that the records are not relevant to the legitimate law enforcement inquiry stated in this notice or any other legal basis for objecting to the release of the records.
 2. File the motion and statement by mailing or delivering them to the clerk of any one of the following United States district courts:
 3. Serve the Government authority requesting the records by mailing or delivering a copy of your motion and statement to.
 4. Be prepared to come to court and present your position in further detail. "
 5. You do not need to have a lawyer, although you may wish to employ one to represent you and protect your rights.
 If you do not follow the above procedures, upon the expiration of ten days from the date of service or fourteen days from the date of mailing of this notice, the records or information requested therein will be made available.
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Hamo Thornycroft ca. 1880
Sir William "Hamo" Thornycroft, RA (9 March 1850–18 December 1925) was a British sculptor, responsible for several London landmarks.
Hamo Thornycroft belonged to the Thornycroft family of sculptors. His father, Thomas, mother Mary, and grandfather John Francis were all distinguished sculptors. He was born in London. His brother, John Isaac Thornycroft, became a successful naval engineer; their sister, Theresa, was the mother of the poet Siegfried Sassoon; Theresa and sisters Alyce and Helen Thornycroft were artists. Hamo's early training was with his parents and he developed a passionate and precocious attachment to Classical sculpture. He subsequently studied at the Royal Academy of Arts, where his primary influence was the painter-sculptor Frederic Leighton. Hamo won the Gold Medal of the Royal Academy in 1876, with the statue Warrior Bearing a Wounded Youth.
He was the leading figure in the movement known as the New Sculpture. His close personal friend, the critic Edmund Gosse, coined the term "The New Sculpture" in 1894 and formulated its early principles from his relationship with Thornycroft. Thornycroft created a series of statues in the ideal genre in the late 1870s and early 1880s that sought to reanimate the format of the classical statue. These included Lot's Wife (1878), Artemis and her Hound (1880 plaster, 1882 marble), the Homeric bowman Teucer (1881 plaster, 1882 bronze), and the Mower (1884 plaster, 1894 bronze), arguably the first life-size freestanding statue of a contemporary laborer in 19th-century sculpture.
Thornycroft was one of the youngest artists to be elected to the Royal Academy, in 1882, the same year the bronze cast of Teucer was purchased for the British nation under the auspices of the Chantrey Bequest. After 1884, Thornycroft's reputation was secure and he received commissions for a number of major monuments, most notably the innovative General Gordon. Thornycroft continued to be a central member of the sculptural establishment and the Royal Academy into the 20th century. He was knighted in 1917. He increasingly became reactionary and resistant to the new developments in sculpture, even though it was his work of the early 1880s that helped catalyze sculpture in the United Kingdom toward developing new directions. In sum, he provided an important transition between the neoclassical and academic styles of the 19th century and its fin-de-siècle and modernist departures.
Hamo Thornycroft in his studio (c1884)
A blue plaque commemorates Thornycroft at 2a Melbury Road, Kensington.
- Beattie, Susan. The New Sculpture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983.
- Friedman, Terry, ed. The Alliance of Sculpture and Architecture. Leeds: Henry Moore Institute, 1993.
- Getsy, David. Body Doubles: Sculpture in Britain, _PHONE_. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004.
- Gosse, Edmund. "Our Living Artists: Hamo Thornycroft, A.R.A." Magazine of Art 4 (1881).
- Manning, Elfrida. Marble and Bronze: The Art and Life of Hamo Thornycroft. London: Trefoil Books, 1982.
- Read, Benedict. Victorian Sculpture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.
- White, Adam. Hamo Thornycroft and the Martyr General. Leeds: Henry Moore Institute, 1991.
- "Lecture to the Sculpture Students of the Royal Academy of Art, 1885" reprinted in the Journal of the Walpole Society, vol. 69 (2007): 211-26.


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- NAME: Aaron Douglas
- OCCUPATION: Illustrator, Painter
- BIRTH DATE: May 26, 1899
- DEATH DATE: February 02, 1979
- EDUCATION: University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Topeka High School
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Topeka, Kansas
- PLACE OF DEATH: Nashville, Tennessee
- Full Name: Aaron Douglas
- Nickname: "Father of Black American Art"
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Aaron Douglas was an African-American painter and graphic artist who played a leading role in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. His first major commission, to illustrate Alain LeRoy Locke's book, The New Negro, prompted requests for graphics from other Harlem Renaissance writers. By 1939, Douglas started teaching at Fisk University, where he remained for the next 27 years.
"We can go to African life and get a certain amount of form and color, understanding and using this knowledge in development of an expression that interprets our life."
Born in Topeka, Kansas, Aaron Douglas was a leading figure in the artistic and literary movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. He is sometimes referred to as "the father of black American art." Douglas developed an interest in art early on, finding some of his inspiration from his mother's love for painting watercolors.
After graduating from Topeka High School in 1917, Douglas attended the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. There, he pursued his passion for creating art, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1922. Around that time, he shared his interest with the students of Lincoln High School in Kansas City, Missouri. He taught there for two years, before deciding to move to New York City. At the time, New York's Harlem neighborhood had a thriving arts scene.
Arriving in 1925, Douglas quickly became immersed Harlem's cultural life. He contributed illustrations to Opportunity, the National Urban League's magazine, and to The Crisis, put out by the National Association for the Advancement Colored People. Douglas created powerful images of African-American life and struggles, and won awards for the work he created for these publications, ultimately receiving a commission to illustrate an anthology of philosopher Alain LeRoy Locke's work, entitled The New Negro.
Douglas had a unique artistic style that fused his interests in modernism and African art. A student of German-born painter Winold Reiss, he incorporated parts of Art Deco along with elements of Egyptian wall paintings in his work. Many of his figures appeared as bold silhouettes.
In 1926, Douglas married teacher Alta Sawyer, and the couple's Harlem home became a social Mecca for the likes of Langston Hughes and W. E. B. Du Bois, among other powerful African Americans of the early 1900s. Around the same time, Douglas worked on a magazine with novelist Wallace Thurman to feature African-American art and literature. Entitled Fire!!, the magazine only published one issue.
With his reputation for creating compelling graphics, Douglas became an in-demand illustrator for many writers. Some of his most famous illustration projects include his images for James Weldon Johnson's poetic work, God's Trombone (1927), and Paul Morand's Black Magic (1929). In addition to his illustration work, Douglas explored educational opportunities; after receiving a fellowship from the Barnes Foundation in Pennsylvania, he took time to study African and modern art.
Douglas created some of his best-known painting in the 1930s. In 1930, he was hired to create a mural for the library at Fisk University. The following year, he spent time in Paris, where he studied with Charles Despiau and Othon Friesz.
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I cleared up one by one. I also had to rewrite some of the Fortran-specific code, like I/O statements and stuff like that. When that was done I had an exact replica of the original code.
Thanks to the nice formatting of Visual Studio the logical blocks were a lot easier to identify than in the original code. And I could start unravelling the goto statements one by one.
From this experience I have to say that there are some cases where goto statements are actually VERY useful to avoid having to rewrite the same code over and over again, although in a lot of cases the same can be achieved by using methods and calling those repeatedly.
I also used the free version of Silverfrost to compile the original code and perfrom regular checks on my reformatted code to ensure that the reformatting didn't produce errors.
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A generic approach to "decompiling" such a code would be the following:
 - first compile it into a lower level form (e.g., LLVM)
 - perform an SSA-transform on it (it will help to clean up your local variables)
 - split the irreducible control flow (if any)
 - detect loops and ifs and replace them with the proper high level constructs
LLVM's own C backend can provide you with a first draft.
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The best way without doubt is to first rewrite/refactor the FORTRAN code into a better structured and logical way. This will force you to understand the original logic before attempting to port it to C#.
Here's how I would approach it:
 - Understand the existing code and if necessary refactor and even rewrite it in FORTRAN so you can test easily that it works.
 - Port the refactored code to C#
Don't waste your time with an automatic code converter which will just end up with the same mess of goto statements as the original FORTRAN since C# supports gotos and labels, just as C does.
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Failing anything else, you can use goto statements in C#.
The goto statement transfers the program control directly to a labeled statement.
A common use of goto is to transfer control to a specific switch-case label or the default label in a switch statement.
The goto statement is also useful to get out of deeply nested loops...
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To convert any old FORTRAN code to a new language somebody should go through some basic steps in your legacy code (1) for static type checking convert the code to "IMPLICIT NONE" (2) convert all truncated common to full common (3) Remove equivalence (4) convert common to Module of FORTRAN 90
Then you can try to convert to other languages.
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The International School of Billund is covered by the municipality's healthcare programme for children. As such, we are able to offer the following services via our school nurse:
- P1: Examination consisting of individual health interviews including measurement of height and weight as well as sight, hearing and colour vision tests.
- P2: Healthcare teaching programme – content and scope to be agreed with the school nurse.
- P4: Health interviews, individually or in groups. Measurement of height and weight.
- Individual health interviews with children, young people and families with special needs.
- Healthcare teaching initiatives arranged between the school nurse and the school administration – for example, group programmes for overweight children, sex education, etc.
The objectives of the school nurse are:
- To provide children and young people (individually and in groups) with a range of programmes during their time at school to help ensure that they are able to relate to – and act appropriately with regard to – their own health and that of others.
- To provide examinations designed to identify illnesses and/or developmental anomalies and to recommend appropriate remedial measures and treatment, if necessary.
- To identify children and young people with special needs and focus more closely on them, in collaboration with other appropriate contributors.
- To collect knowledge about the healthcare conditions in a class or at a school, with a view to advising teachers, the school administration and/or municipal partners, and to taking the initiative to launch relevant measures targeted at improving health at individual and group level.
- To work with the school's teachers and administration in the context of the children's health.
For more information about public healthcare services in Billund, in general, please contact:
Maria Sloth Christensen, Head of the Healthcare Service in the Municipality of Billund
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For all districts
Sudden death in goats
FIRST PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 1981
By Dr T. R. Thomas, district veterinary officer, Melbourne
Goats are not a particularly hardy species of animals in the higher rainfall areas of southern Australia. They can die quickly from a number of diseases. Any sudden death in a herd should be diagnosed so that measures can be taken to prevent further deaths.
The term "sudden death" is used to describe deaths that occur within 24 hours of signs of sickness occurring. Within this period of illness, whether goats that become sick are noticed before they die will depend on how often and how closely the herd is inspected. Where sudden deaths occur the Department of Agriculture should be notified so that a diagnosis can be made.
Anthrax is a rare cause of death of animals in Victoria. Most farm animals including goats are susceptible. It can occur in outbreaks causing serious losses.
Anthrax should be suspected in animals that die suddenly and show a blood discharge from the mouth, nose or anus. The carcases should not be moved.
The disease is transmissible to man.
The agnote "Anthrax and the farmer" describes this disease in detail in both animals and humans.
2. Clostridial diseases
The clostridial diseases are a major cause of sudden death in goats. The topic is fully covered in the agnote "Clostridia) diseases of goats".
3. Parasite infestations causing sudden death
(a) Acute liver fluke disease
Goats can die suddenly of acute liver fluke disease in the late summer. A post-mortem shows extensive liver damage.
(b) Acute worm infestation
Large numbers of Haemonchus contortus (Barber's pole worm) in the fourth stomach will cause sudden deaths usually in spring and autumn. This worm sucks blood and causes a fatal anaemia which, in goats observed before death, may cause pale mucous membranes and a collection of fluid swelling under the lower jaw. These signs may not be seen when deaths occur suddenly.
The small brown stomach worm (Ostertagia species), the small stomach worm (Trichostrongylus axes) and hair worms of the small intestine (Cooperia species and Trichostrongylus species) can cause sudden death if numbers are large enough. Hair worms are only 5-10 mm long, as fine as a hair, and can easily be missed on postmortem even when present in tens of thousands.
4. Metabolic diseases
Grass tetany and milk fever do not appear to be major diseases of goats. However, "transport tetany" and "capture myopathy" cause sudden deaths in goats.
Losses of feral goats transported long distances are commonly from 10 to 25%. The stress of capture and transport, changes in the routine of feeding and watering and change in climate will quickly cause any concurrent disease to become important. Goats that have travelled may die of induced enterotoxaemia, pregnancy toxaemia and transit tetany.
"Capture myopathy" is a muscular degeneration that occurs in wild animals including feral goats. It is not fatal immediately, it causes death by kidney malfunction later in life.
To reduce these losses, goats should be vaccinated with clostridial vaccine and drenched for parasites two weeks before transport. Dietary changes should be as gradual as possible and stress in transport reduced.
Most acute poisonings of goats are due to toxic plants and insecticides. Poisoning by other chemical agents such as lead and arsenic are uncommon.
Plants that will most commonly poison goats are azalea, rhododendron and oleander. Oleander is an extremely toxic plant which if eaten causes gastro-enteritis, paralysis and death from heart failure.
Azalea and rhododendron cause gastro-enteritis with salivation, abdominal pain and death.
Deaths in goats from insecticides occur when these compounds are not used according to the manufacturers' recommendations, and particularly when they are used excessively. Poisoning may occur when insecticide is accidentally swallowed. Usually there are nervous signs, such as over-excitement, muscular jerking and an inability to stand or walk properly.
Salivation is common and urine and faeces are passed more frequently. There are signs of abdominal pain. Eventually the goat goes into convulsions and dies.
Rat poison may be eaten by goats because it is often incorporated with grain. If large quantities are consumed death can be rapid.
Where poisoning is suspected, veterinary assistance should be sought immediately. There are specific antidotes for most insecticides. Consult the label for directions regarding first aid.
Great care should be taken with any poisonous substance. Since many are attractive to goats, uncontrolled access to them should not be allowed.
Mastitis is common in goats but is not always a cause of sudden death. Mastitis can be hyper-acute or may be so mild as to go unnoticed.
Details of the recognition, treatment, control and prevention of mastitis in goats, can be found in the agnote "Mastitis of goats".
Bloat occurs when goats consume large amounts of lush green leguminous feed such as lucerne and clovers. Bloat can also occur on lucerne hay.
In bloat the food mixture in the rumen or the first stomach forms a foam that the goat cannot belch away. As a result the gases formed by digestion build up. The rumen quickly fills with gas and the animal becomes distressed as pressure from the distended rumen increases. The abdomen is very swollen, and this swelling appears on the animal's left side. Death can occur quickly from failure of respiration and heart action as a result of pressure on the diaphragm.
If the goat is standing and there are no suitable stock medicines available it can be drenched with 60-120cc of either peanut, maize or safflower cooking oil. Oil will break up the foam and allow the gas to escape. After drenching, it may be necessary to massage the rumen or roll the goat over to spread the oil about among the contents inside the rumen.
If the goat is down, death may be close and quick action is usually needed. The goat should be stabbed with a clean sharp instrument or knife in the left flank behind the ribs so as to pass into the rumen. Allow the gas to escape fairly slowly, rather than in one or two seconds as this in itself may be fatal.
This is a life-saving procedure and any resulting infection can be attended to later by a veterinarian. Oil that is used for drenching affected goats can then be poured or squirted into the rumen via the wound created to release the gas.
There are commercially manufactured stock medicines on the market for bloat treatment, which are superior in action to household cooking oils; where bloat in goats is likely, owners should have these stock medicines on hand in the event of an emergency.
Where goats are grazing on lush legumes, access to roughage in the form of hay or dry pasture should always be provided. The bloating potential of pastures varies enormously. Some pastures may cause bloat in 30 minutes. Others may cause it after 24 hours.
The rule is to increase grazing time gradually, and watch for swelling of the abdomen, particularly during periods of lush pasture growth or when a change in the routine of the herd may cause a variation from the usual pattern of intake of food and water. The time spent grazing legumes must be strictly controlled.
8. Cerebrocortical necrosis (C.C.N.)
This disease is also known as Polioencephalomalacia (P.E.M.) or "Stargazing".
Vitamin B, (thiamine) is essential in goats to allow glucose to move via the blood to the brain. If thiamine is lacking in the diet or destroyed by substances in certain plants (such as bracken fern and nardoo fern) signs of C.C.N. can appear. Goats "stargaze", twitch muscles, then go into convulsions and die. Early in the course of the disease animals may appear blind, wander aimlessly or stand motionless. Thiamine given at this stage will often effect a complete recovery. If the goat has gone down and cannot stand without assistance, there is little advantage gained from treatment.
Diets that have a high molasses content can also predispose to this condition.
© 1981 Vic. Dept. Ag.


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This article will guide you through the process of setting up your server with a custom domain with/from Google Domains. Before proceeding with this knowledgebase article, please check on your control panel whether or not your server is utilizing a dedicated IP. A dedicated IP makes the numerical IP for your server end with 25565. If you have something else at the end of your numerical IP you do not have a dedicated IP.
Example of Dedicated IP and normal IP:
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- Log in to your Google Domains account.
- Once logged in, click "My Domains" on the left-hand side to see your domains.
- Click on the specific domain you wish to manage:
- Click the DNS tab on the left-side:
- Scroll down to "Custom Resource Records":
Add an A Record first just like this:
If you do not have a Dedicated IP, you will also need to setup an SRV record just like this:
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Ease on Skis applies principles of the Alexander Technique to learning how to ski. Its aim is to build confidence and ease into every action of skiing, progressing step by step through:
- ~carrying and putting on ski equipment~
- ~trying out movements in warmth and safety indoors~
- ~exploring ski movements on level snow~
- ~using gravity instead of fighting it when skiing downhill~
Unlike conventional ski instruction, which focuses mainly on what to do with your legs and feet, Ease on Skis focuses mainly on how you balance on skis in response to moving downhill. Security is found in the dynamic stability of the back as it follows the head and senses, not in fixed leg positions such as snowplow. Pressure and focus lighten up off your legs, and this helps them move more freely. Panic and stiffness gradually subside, and you learn instead how to stay calm and mobile on your way down mountain slopes. Any skier from novice to expert can use this process to find more grace and ease and control. This dynamic ease that is learned often carries over into everyday life.


Center for Independent Healthcare Education's mission is to enhance the quality of patient care by providing the healthcare team with independent, fair balanced, and scientifically sound educational initiatives that impact their knowledge, competence, and performance. These evidence-based educational initiatives, comprising both live and enduring activities, aim to improve patient outcomes by imparting knowledge and changing behavior of the healthcare team.
We employ instructional strategies for adult learning that address target audience's knowledge gaps and learning preferences. We deliver scientific, evidence-based information that encourages learners to reflect on clinical practice and apply what they learned, enhancing competence and performance.
Center fulfills its mission by successfully partnering with non-accredited medical education organizations to jointly provide continuing education activities.
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Choose a themed list. Choose a letter. Start the timer. It's time for Grammargories!
Inspired by the game Scattergories, students try to beat the clock as they complete themed lists with words representing different parts of speech, and every answer must begin with the same letter.
This engaging and challenging activity is a student favorite!


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Preparation is the key to a mass-shooting incident and that includes a clear idea of your actions before the incident occurs. The first step in your preparation is a review of your agency's guidelines and procedures when responding to a mass shooting. Another important step is to bring all the key agencies together such as law enforcement, fire, EMS, emergency management, hospitals and the school system to discuss this type of event. Every jurisdiction, big or small, should have a Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) or Terrorism Task Force (TTF) to discuss this issue. As with any multi-hazard assessment and planning process, it is wise to conduct a multi-agency exercise (tabletop or functional) to bring all the key agencies together and rehearse the plan once it has been completed.
Safety & Security
When planning to respond to mass shootings, it is important to consider the information that will be released to the public. It is critical for public safety agencies and special operations teams involved in planning and training for mass-shooting and active-shooter events to use Operations Security (OPSEC) in their planning and training efforts. OPSEC is a five-step risk-management process used by military and security professionals to protect sensitive information that adversaries could use.
Critical information on planning and training must be protected. Criminals can take weeks and months to select their targets and plan their operations. To be successful, they need specific information about personnel, response plans, capabilities and infrastructures. It is important that the responders involved in planning and training for critical events identify and treat their critical information as sensitive so that it does not end up in the hands of the "bad guys." (See "Think Like the Wolf," Firehouse, April 2006.)
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program conducts investigations of firefighter line-of-duty deaths to formulate recommendations for preventing future deaths and injuries. For additional information on the program see _URL_
NIOSH has released report FACE-F2004-11 which listed the following recommendations for fire departments involved in the responding to scenes of violence:
- Develop standard operating procedures (SOPs) for responding to potentially violent situations.
- Develop integrated emergency communication systems that include the ability to directly relay real-time information between the caller, dispatch, and all responding emergency personnel.
- Provide body armor or bullet-resistant personal protective equipment, and train on and consistently enforce its use when responding to potentially violent situations.
- Ensure all emergency response personnel have the capability for continuous radio contact and consider providing portable communication equipment that has integrated hands-free capabilities.
- Consider requiring emergency dispatch centers to incorporate the ability to archive location, or individual, historical data and provide pertinent information to responding fire and emergency medical services personnel.
- Develop coordinated response guidelines for violent situations and hold joint training sessions with law enforcement, mutual aid and emergency response departments.
It is important that we take the valuable - and sometimes fatal - lessons learned from past incidents and apply them to future training and planning. Fire and EMS responders will encounter many challenges during their careers, including acts of violence involving weapons. Experience with mass-shooting incidents has shown that:
Pre-planning is critical.
First-arriving units have a drastic effect on the progress of the incident. They must quickly and safely conduct "windshield surveys."
Immediate interagency cooperation and unified command are essential.
Clear communications are necessary for effective operations.
Access to helicopters for overhead assessments is a plus.
All key agencies and supporting entities such as emergency management officials and hospitals should be notified as quickly as possible.
A large and immediate media response should be expected.
Parents, family and friends will converge on the scene.
Fire and EMS personnel should wear helmets and clearly marked clothing.
Body armor should be obtained for those responding into the "impact" area.
Related and unrelated 911 call volume may increase.
EMS may need to implement disaster procedures such as triage tags, casualty collection points and field treatment areas for minor injuries.
Use of tactical medics in supporting law enforcement operations is encouraged.


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The Bc meson is the bound state of bc̄ (or b̄c) whose recent detection is the first step toward completion of the spectroscopy of heavy quark mesonic states. The b-c states have properties that conveniently fill the gap between the J/ψ and the γ states. Thus it is probable that at RHIC the Bc mesons will serve as a probe of deconfined matter. We find that significant differences arise for Bc formation in deconfined and confined matter. Our initial calculations suggest that: (a) The rates of normal hadronic production mechanisms at RHIC energies are not sufficient to produce a detectable number of Bc mesons. (b) If a region of deconfined quarks and gluons is formed, the production (and survival) rate can be enhanced by several orders of magnitude. (c) The observation of Bc mesons at RHIC would signal a source of deconfined charmed quarks, and the rate of Bc production will be a measure of the initial density and temperature of that source.
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Thermoforming with 5Axis trimming
Thermoforming is a manufacturing process where plastic sheet is heated to a pliable forming temperature, formed to a specific part shape in a mold, and trimmed to create a usable product. The sheet is heated in an oven to a high-enough temperature that it can be stretched into or onto a mold and cooled to a finished shape. Vacuum forming, commonly known as vacuuforming, is a simplified version of thermoforming, whereby a sheet of plastic is heated to a forming temperature, stretched onto or into a single-surface mold, and held against the mold by applying vacuum between the mold surface and the sheet.
Specs - Forming Max Size 8 x 4 feet Trimming\Milling max Size 70" x 55" x 28"


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The goals of the proposed work are to improve technical capacity of the Bangladesh Forest Department (BFD) for forest monitoring using US free-of-charge and commercial satellite data and to support collaboration between UMD GLAD and the BFD. The primary technical objective of the proposed project is to support BFD to estimate the forest and and trees outside forests change for the 2015-2020 (2021) interval and to develop the required activity data for REDD+ and UNFCCC reporting. The project's goals and objectives followed request from the BFD for capacity building support and were discussed between BFD and GLAD.
The project will include two stages: (1) supporting 2015-2020 forest change assessment, and (2) supporting 2020-2021 forest change annual update.
The first stage of the project (supporting 2015-2020 forest change assessment) will include the following objectives:
- Supporting national Landsat-scale forest change analysis using NASA SERVIR regional products developed by the GLAD team. Enhancing capacity of the BFD in application of the SERVIR regional data.
- Supporting the national sample-based assessment by providing training, support, and high spatial resolution Planet data for the BFD. Enhancing BFD capacity to perform independent sample-based assessment.
- Supporting data and methods exchange between the BFD, UMD GLAD, NASA SERVIR, and forest departments of other South/Southeast Asia countries.
The second stage of the project (supporting 2021 annual forest change update) will include provision of the Planet data and supporting national annual sample assessment and activity data reporting.


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Metadata Process Flow
These steps describe the flow for creating new style sheets in greater detail.
 1. Using the Reference Configuration Sample (or a a third-party user interface), the administrator establishes a connection with the Metadata Builder engine through a COM Data Control.
 2. The administrator logs in to the Metadata Business Service and selects a Siebel application to view.
 3. The Metadata Builder engine uses the Extractor/Parser functionality to extract and parse the object definitions (located in the SRF file) for the specified application. (The application definitions are defined in Siebel Tools.)
 4. The Metadata Builder engine then creates a hierarchical representation of the entire application in memory.
 5. The Metadata Builder engine uses the XML Builder functionality to generate an XML representation of the application. The XML representation is presented to the administrator in the Reference Configuration Sample as a hierarchical tree structure.
 6. Using the Reference Configuration Sample, the administrator customizes the data in the hierarchical tree structure, selecting the user interface elements desired for each screen. (The administrator can also subscribe for updates and pushed alerts by using the same user interface.)
 7. When the administrator has configured each screen of the application that needs to be customized, the administrator saves the selections as a subscription. The Metadata Builder engine uses the Save Selections functionality to save all the selections (user interface elements, updates, and alerts). If alerts have been subscribed for, the Metadata Builder engine creates business processes and saves them.
 8. The administrator clicks the Create Stylesheets button. The Metadata Builder engine invokes the Style Sheet Builder functionality to generate the style sheets.
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Microsensors Offer First Look At Whether Cell Mass Affects Growth Rate
November 15, 2010
University of Illinois researchers are using a new kind of microsensor to answer one of the weightiest questions in biology "" the relationship between cell mass and growth rate.
The team, led by electrical and computer engineering and bioengineering professor Rashid Bashir, published its results in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
"It's merging micro-scale engineering and cell biology," said Bashir, who also directs the Micro and Nanotechnology Engineering Laboratory at Illinois. "We can help advance biology by fabricating new tools that can be used to address important questions in cell biology, cancer research and tissue engineering."
Biologists have long questioned whether cells grow at a fixed rate or whether growth accelerates as mass increases. Previous studies have used aggregate populations of cells, making it impossible to determine patterns of individual cell growth.
With their small, sensitive microsensors, the Illinois researchers were able to track individual colon cancer cells' masses and divisions over time, a feat never before accomplished. They found that the cells they studied did grow faster as they grew heavier, rather than growing at the same rate throughout the cell cycle.
Each microsensor is a tiny, suspended platform made in silicon on a chip. The platform is a mere 50 microns wide "" half the width of a human hair. The suspended scale vibrates at a particular frequency, which changes when mass is added. As a cell's mass increases, the sensor's resonant frequency goes down.
"As you make the structure smaller and smaller, it becomes more sensitive to the mass that's placed on it," Bashir said. "A cell is a few nanograms in mass or smaller. If we can make our sensor small enough, then it becomes sensitive to cell mass."
The researchers developed an array of hundreds of sensors on a chip. They can culture cells on the chip similar to the way scientists grow cells in a dish. Thus, they can collect data from many cells at once, while still recording individual cellular measurements.
"Imaging acts as a control. You can actually watch the cell divide and grow and correlate that to your measurements. It really validates what you have," Bashir said. "There are lots of optical measurements that now you can integrate with mass sensing."
Through measurements of live and fixed cells, the researchers were also able to extract physical properties such as stiffness through mathematical modeling. Some cell types are stiffer than others; for example, bone cells are more firm, while neurons are more gelatinous. Mechanical science and engineering professors Narayana Aluru and K. Jimmy Hsia, co-authors of the paper, performed extensive analytical and numerical simulation to reveal how cell stiffness and contact area affect mass measurement.
The National Science Foundation supported this work. Other c.o-authors of the paper were postdoctoral associates Kidong Park, Larry Millet and Xioazhong Jin; mechanical science and engineering graduate students Namjung Kim and Huan Li; and electrical and computer engineering professor Gabriel Popescu.
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Sekhmet: The Scarlet Lady
Sekhmet's appearance in Egyptian mythology is that of a lioness, similar to that of Bast, who first appeared as a lion goddess, and whose appearance diminished to the domesticated cat, after Sekhmet's cult grew. The difference in the two was the ferocity of Sekhmet, called as in the title, The Scarlet Lady or Avenger of…Continue readingSekhmet: The Scarlet Lady


but than the durability of the song matters, no song could b listened after a certain limit, yh but wen in a new video format or new musical format, could be.
Errmmm Yh, as u mentioned technology can differrentiate a lil ups nd downs in that huge figure we get splitting those 5 mins,
but songs ain't meant for technologies.. Are they?
Interesting signals are not too random. 211,000,000 bit crypto..
It's just like trying to crack a password, only that it's one-time padded. How would you know that a certain 5 minute chunk of sound was minutes 2 through 7 of the 18-1/2 minutes of the Nixon tape that got erased, or some other conversation that Nixon had when he was talking to Abraham Lincoln, and could that have had the sound of a steam train or a Toyota Prius's generator overlaid in the background. The sound would exist in the set of all possible 5 minute songs, but you'd never know when you unlocked the right one. The United States does not forbid the listening to VLF radio transmissions intended for submarines for this same reason. It's probably really classified military information, even if you found a meaningful sequence of characters, you would have only discovered one of many sets of messages, some of which aren't even secret. Likewise it's theoretically possible to generate all possible 5 minute songs, though it's quite computationally infeasable.
And there can be different songs on 2 identical vinyl records pressed from the same master mold, one was just played one more time beforehand. Or it could be a microphone recording it from a cell phone speaker and another one through a $10,000 audiophool system.
The calculation described assumes a CD contains a single mono audio channel. But CDs, of course, are stereo, so it actually takes TWICE as many bits to store a five-minute song. So if two songs that have distinct stereo mixes but downmix to the exact same mono song are to be considered different, then there are actually 2^423,360,000 possible 5-minute songs: a number with over 127 million digits!


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A Tutorial on Learning With Bayesian Networks
A Bayesian network is a graphical model that encodes probabilistic relationships among variables of interest. When used in conjunction with statistical techniques, the graphical model has several advantages for data analysis. One, because the model encodes dependencies among all variables, it readily handles situations where some data entries are missing. Two, a Bayesian network can be used to learn causal relationships, and hence can be used to gain understanding about a problem domain and to predict the consequences of intervention. Three, because the model has both a causal and probabilistic semantics, it is an ideal representation for combining prior knowledge (which often comes in causal form) and data. Four, Bayesian statistical methods in conjunction with bayesian networks offer an efficient and principled approach for avoiding the overfitting of data. In this paper, we discuss methods for constructing Bayesian networks from prior knowledge and summarize Bayesian statistical methods for using data to improve these models. With regard to the latter task, we describe methods for learning both the parameters and structure of a Bayesian network, including techniques for learning with incomplete data. In addition, we relate Bayesian-network methods for learning to techniques for supervised and unsupervised learning. We illustrate the graphical-modeling approach using a real-world case study.


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An aroused state of psychological tension that typically arises from a need. A drive, such as hunger or thirst, motivates the organism to act in ways that will reduce the tension. So, for example, when you become hungry (tension caused by need for food) you are motivated to eat (method of reducing the tension).


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This study investigates the way in which Maori values areincorporated into environmental decision-making. Recently,the implementation of large resource developments havedrawn protest from Maori communities
focussed attentionon these values.
study examines the nature of thesevalues, associated with the way the Maori people use andperceive the environment,and determines that these are stillstrongly held today.
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specifically considered.From this basis, environmental decision-making procedures
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present procedures. The second optioninvestigates implementing reforms to encourage earlierparticipation


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Ithaca, N.Y.-"In terms of speed and the breadth of material now accessible to anyone in the world, this is really revolutionary," says audio curator Greg Budney, describing a major milestone just achieved by the Macaulay Library archive at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. All archived analog recordings in the collection, going back to 1929, have now been digitized and can be heard at _URL_
. "This is one of the greatest research and conservation resources at the Cornell Lab," said Budney, "and through its digitization we've swung the doors open on it in a way that wasn't possible 10 or 20 years ago."
It took archivists a dozen years to complete the monumental task. The collection contains nearly 150,000 digital audio recordings equaling more than 10 terabytes of data with a total run time of 7,513 hours. About 9,000 species are represented. There's an emphasis on birds but the collection also includes sounds of whales, elephants, frogs, primates, and more.
"Our audio collection is the largest and the oldest in the world," explained Macaulay Library director Mike Webster. "Now, it's also the most accessible. We're working to improve search functions and create tools people can use to collect recordings and upload them directly to the archive. Our goal is to make the Macaulay Library as useful as possible for the broadest audience possible."
The recordings are used by researchers studying many questions, as well as by birders trying to fine-tune their sound ID skills. The recordings are also used in museum exhibits, movies, and commercial products such as smartphone apps. For example, a reserve manager in Africa could use the recordings to train staff to conduct an acoustic survey. A teacher could pull out the sounds of ten birds found on the school grounds and create an interactive learning tool for her students. And a sound engineer working on a movie could find just the right sound to create that proper mood.
"Now that we've digitized the previously archived analog recordings, the archival team is focusing on new material from amateur and professional recordists from around the world to really, truly build the collection," Budney said. "Plus, it's just plain fun to listen to these sounds. Have you heard the sound of a walrus underwater? It's an amazing sound!"
Sample some fascinating Macaulay Library sounds:
- Earliest recording: Cornell Lab founder Arthur Allen was a pioneer in sound recording. On a spring day in 1929 he recorded this Song Sparrow sounding much as they do today.
- Youngest bird: This clip from 1966 records the sounds of an Ostrich chick while it is still inside the egg-and the researchers as they watch.
- Liveliest wake-up call: A dawn chorus in tropical Queensland, Australia is bursting at the seams with warbles, squeals, whistles, booms, and hoots.
- Best candidate to appear on a John Coltrane record: The indri, a lemur with a voice that is part moan, part jazz clarinet.
- Most spines tingled: The incomparable voice of a Common Loon on an Adirondacks lake in 1992.
- Most likely to be mistaken for aliens arriving: Birds-of-paradise make some amazing sounds-here's the UFO-sound of a Curl-crested Manucode in New Guinea.
- Most likely to be mistaken for your dog: Three walrus pups bellowing in an uncanny canine cacophony.
- Most erratic construction project: the staccato hammering sounds of a walrus under water
Pat Leonard, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, _PHONE_, _EMAIL_
Images (L-R): Great Horned Owl by Ruth Baker; walrus by Captain Bud Christman, NOAA; African forest elephant by Peter Wrege; recording sounds in the arctic by Mike Anderson


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On Becoming a Writer
How do we become fiction writers? What do we need to know? How do we learn writing it in the first place? Answers abound: schooling, reading, expert advice, books, conferences. However, the usual answers may be wrong or naively relied upon. And oddly, aspiring writers often avoid the best training.
Can School Teach You to Be a Writer?
Yes, if you love analyzing fiction from an academic perspective. Go ahead, get an MFA if you want to learn how to craft metaphors, subtle characterization and stupifyingly dense prose. Read More…


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From Liquipedia Starcraft 2 Wiki
Game Balance is a concept in game design describing the fairness and balance of power in a game between multiple strategic options.
 Game Balance In General
- Overpowered (often abbreviated to OP) - a unit or ability that is the best choice in a disproportionate number of situations (marginalising other choices) and/or excessively hard to counter by the opponent compared to the effort required to use it. For example, the 1 supply/2 armor/15hp regen Roach from early Beta was overpowered in many ZvT and ZvP scenarios.
- Gimps - a unit or ability that isn't viable to use in most situations. E.g. many considered the Scout from StarCraft 1 to be a gimp. This term is not frequently used in the SC community.
- Nerf - Making a strategy or unit weaker. For example, the Roach was nerfed when its supply count was increased from 1 to 2 in patch 12.
- Buff - Making a strategy or unit stronger. For example, the Roach was buffed when its range was increased by 1 in patch 1.1.2.
 Balance vs. Fairness
- Myth: If a player wins 50% of the time when playing against an equally skilled player, the game is balanced.
- Gimps and OP units don't necessarily affect the probability of victory. Consider a game similar to rock-paper-scissors that has one more option "pinky" which always loses when used. The game rock-paper-scissors-pinky is imbalanced because it has a "gimp". No player would ever use the "pinky". Rock-paper-scissors-pinky is a fair game but its units aren't well balanced.
- Myth: In an imbalanced game with players of exactly equal skill - one player will win more often when they choose the strategic path that is overpowered.
- For example take rock-paper-scissors-wand where wand beats rock and paper. Paper becomes a gimp because wand is superior in every scenario. Wand and scissors are OP (they win in 2 situations instead of 1). The resulting game is just rock-wand-scissors. Using wand as opposed to rock (which isn't OP) doesn't improve the chances of winning because it can be just as easily countered (by scissors).
- Myth: In a perfectly balanced game, players will make their strategic choices based on factors such as their personal preferences, playing strengths, or playing styles rather than on an inherent advantage in one option.
- In any strategic game, all choices should focus on strategic viability. If more than one viable option exists, only then should preference or style weigh in.
 Implications of Imbalance
In competitive gaming, overpowered strategies quickly become prevalent once discovered. Although the game may still be fair, it would become predictable and monotonous. This may leave a portion of the game content unplayed and therefore a waste of time for the players and developers as well.
 Challenges of Balancing
The evolution of strategy in a game over time makes it difficult to determine which strategic paths are inherently more powerful due to design flaws. Players may perform strategies that are considered unfairly powerful until other strategies are discovered that counter them or are considered even more powerful. Due to this fact, some people believe inherent game imbalances do not exist because they believe new strategies will always be discovered that provide counters or are more powerful than the existing ones. On the other hand, people may constantly think inherent game imbalances do exist because they do not believe other strategies will be discovered that provide counters or are more powerful than the current ones.
Some people believe that, regardless of design, discovering and utilizing the more powerful strategic paths are part of the skill in mastering a game. Therefore, they believe imbalances cannot exist because players who use strategies that are weaker, regardless of the reason, would be considered less skilled. Conversely, players who use the inherently stronger strategic paths, what people may believe to be the imbalanced strategies, would be considered the highly skilled players.
Some people believe imbalances cannot be determined, let alone fixed, until every single strategy in a game has been discovered and tested.
 Balance in StarCraft 2
 Parameters pertaining to balance in StarCraft II
- A race or strategy may be favored in a certain match-up on certain maps. For example maps with choke points favor ranged units and maps with cliffs near mineral lines favor drops.
- A spawning position may be favored over another. E.g. the map Scrap Station has different distances between the ramp and the spawn position. This can be critical in ZvZ early game as analyzed in this TL thread.
- Units and abilities - certain units and abilities may be gimps or OP.
- Tech trees - certain tech paths can ease transitions from one strategy to another.
Any change in one of these parameters may affect others. This is part of the complexity of balancing StarCraft II.


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Urgent Probability and statistics Help answer cheak
Two important members of a cricket team are injured, and each has probability 1/3 of recovering before the match. The recoveries of the two players are independent of each other. If both are able to play then the team has probability 3/4 of winning the match, if only one of them plays then the probability of winning is 1/2 and if neither play the probability of winning is 1/16. What is the probability that the match is won?
The following is what i have done:
This is total probablity and we need to find the probabilty that the match is won.
So A= event one players plays
B= event both players play
C= event nither plauers play
Let D be the event that they win the match.
P(D)= P(D l A) * P(A) + P(D l B) * P(B) + P(D l C) * P(C)
P(D l A) = 1/2 P(A)= 1/3
P(D l B) = 3/4 P(B)= 1/3 * 1/3 = 1/9
P(D l C) = 1/16 P(C) = (1-1/3)^2 = 4/9
so i got my answers as 1/2 * 1/3 + 3/4 * 2/3 + 1/16 * 4/9 = 5/18
Can Someone Please Cheak If My Answer Is Correct As I Am Not Really Sure.


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Artificial intelligence used to be a thing people feared would take over the world and turn on humans, but these days AI has become part of our daily lives. You have Siri on your iPhone, and robots could even take over some mundane jobs to allow people to do more things they really enjoy. Now, an AI judge developed by University College London, the University of Sheffield, and the University of Pennsylvania, has been able to accurately predict 79% of 584 human rights cases heard in the European Court of Human Rights.
The AI judge is a machine learning algorithm which was developed to search for patterns in English language data which features articles of the European Convention on Human Rights:
- Article 3: Torture and inhuman and degrading treatment;
- Article 6: Right to a fair trail; and
- Article 8: Right to a private and family life.
The lead scientist in the study, Dr. Nikolas Aletras said that the outcome of the study doesn't mean that an AI judge is coming for your job, but that it would be useful for lawyers to use the data collected by the AI judge:
We don't see an AI judge replacing judges or lawyers, but we think they'd find it useful for rapidly identifying patterns in cases that lead to certain outcomes. An AI judge could also be a valuable tool for highlighting which cases are most likely to be violations of the European Convention on Human Rights.
The findings on the AI judge system suggest that judges of the European Court of Human Rights make decisions based on non-legal facts rather than specific legal arguments. This suggests that real life judges are realists rather than formalists.
Would you trust an AI judge to hear real life human rights cases in the future and formulate judgments?


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Definition of strong gale in English:
A wind of force 9 on the Beaufort scale (41-47 knots or 47-54 mph).
- And it's possible it could become what we call extra tropical, but it would still be a very strong gale force storm at that time.
- It's hard to tell if it was from strong gale force winds or if it was some sort of tornadic activity.
- An exceptionally strong gale of wind blew through and uprooted an old palm tree.
Definition of strong gale in:
- British & World English dictionary
What do you find interesting about this word or phrase?
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