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The Laboratory for Digital Interaction reunites some of the top lines of current motion capture techniques. It is the first laboratory in Romania dedicated to studying interaction between physical and virtual bodies and thus between the human body and the computer.
The mission of the Laboratory for Digital Interaction is to integrate under this concept the activity of all CINETic laboratories, by developing complex innovative creative projects in research and development.
Combining digital art and live performance, such as acting and dance, is currently considered cutting edge in entertainment, but it will become the common form of art in the future. The fundamental concept of the Laboratory for Digital Interaction is the digital immersive experience.
UNATC has developed an MA in New Media Design which is focused on training professionals and researchers in this field.
- generating and interacting with virtual immersive environments
- motion capture;
- interaction between physical and virtual bodies;
- interaction between human beings and computers through
- computer interfaces;
- augmented reality systems;
- video games and gamified experience.
- My Life Rehearsed in One Leg, directed by Bogdan Mustață
- Me Shakespeare, coordinated by Liviu Lucaci
- Touch-VR, documentary project, directed by Alexandru Berceanu
FACILITIES & EQUIPMENT
- CAVE‑CIN interactive immersive stereoscopic projection system on four screens
- Multifunctional hall (140 sqm), with a holding capacity of 90 seats
- Modula Mr. Mocco—motion control system capable of 6 axis movement as well as learning movements and replicating them
- 1 Red Dragon 5K with Leica Summicron optics
- 2 ALEXA SXT cameras
- Mid‑size Stereotec RIG
- Anamorphic lenses (a set of ARRI anamorphic fixed lenses and a set of anamorphic lenses with Angeniuex zoom lens)
- VICON motion capture system with 8 cameras and a facial motion capture system


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Engaging Absent Fathers: Lessons from Paternity Establishment Programs
Maya Rossin, Columbia University
I provide the first comprehensive analysis of the causal effects of in-hospital voluntary paternity establishment (IHVPE) programs on paternity establishment and consequent family structure and well-being. Using variation in the timing of IHVPE initiation, I show that IHVPE programs increase paternity establishment rates by 38 percent, and reduce the likelihood of parental marriage post-childbirth. The decrease in marriage leads to positive selection into samples of both married and unmarried fathers, providing evidence for an increase in the marriage threshold in father quality. Accounting for selection out of marriage, there is some indication of a net reduction in father transfers: private health insurance provision for children declines, while maternal labor supply increases. On the whole, measures of child welfare such as total family income and child mental and physical health are unaffected, although children's access to preventative care declines. I perform numerous robustness checks to support the validity of my findings.
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I sense something fishy from your flattery, but whatever.
I doubt I can fully answer this question, for I asked the same question years ago.
The answer I was given at the time was that there's no definite line drawn between these two tenses but the difference is that the past tense seals the deal for good whereas the present perfect, rather than "you were doing something and you are continuing that action" as you said, leaves open the possibility of different actions at the point of speech.
(I'm referring mostly to this thread
- see ricardosong and Tdol's explanation on present perfect and the past tense)
I myself would not have been able to answer the question on the spot. But I've given some thoughts and I think this is how I would answer the question. I was pleasently surprized to see myself duducing a lot of ideas from the above explanation.
Regarding your quesiton on why "I have been looking for you," I think it's emphasizing the duration of time between past and present.
What I'm saying is, if you drew a horizontal line to represent time, "have been looking for" would look like a line from a certain point in the past to the present, whereas "was looking for" would look more like a dot in the past describing just that point in time.
That's why you can append extra information, such as when the action was started, to the present perfect form. Like this: I have been looking for you since noon. If you spoke the sentence at 7 in the evening, you are making the connection from noon to the present (7pm), thereby emphasizing that duration. On the same token, if you say "I've been looking for you since we parted our ways 20 years ago," you're saying your search started 20 years ago when we parted our ways and has been an ongoing thing until now. This connects the past and present.
In the case of "I was looking for you," however, there's no connection established between the time of action (past) and the point at which you're speaking the sentence (present). If you add extra information and say "I was looking for you 20 years ago," you are saying you were looking for me 20 years ago but have since stopped the search, showing no connection between 20 years ago (past) and when you're speaking the sentence (present)
And because in the sentence "I have been looking for you" the person the sentence is spoken to and the object of the search are identical, this makes explaining the 'undecided future' aspect of the present perfect tense difficult. Try replacing 'you' with any 3rd person who's not in the conversation (him, her, Jimmy, mike, that creepy guy we met at the party and so on) and you will better understand what I meant in the beginning by "leaving open the possbility of different actions"
If you say "I have been looking for him," it means you have started the search from an unspecified point in the past (which you can specify by appending "since..."), you haven't stopped the search up until the very moment your speaking the sentence, and from that point on you'may or may not' continue looking, because you haven't found him (provided 'he' is not in the conversation).
This funciton of possibility in present perfect, when the object of search becomes 'you' that you're talking to, becomes obsolete, because when 'you' are right in your face, why continue searching? This way, only the function of establishing the connection between past and present is retained. (is what my theory is. If I'm wrong, oh well)
Ok, "looking for" may not be the optimal verb for explaning this concept, because...
- From here on it could get a bit confusing. If my explanation so far was overwhelming enough, skip this part. You should be OK bro, but it might be too difficult for your friend -
...because "looking for / found" works in pairs.
In fact, "I was looking for you" works just fine in your situation, because "and now I've found you" part is omitted. Obviously, when I say this sentence to you, I've found you. You're there. And it's grammatically incorrect to say "I've been finding you," hence the looking for / found pair. Since the omitted part, "I've found you," is already present perfect and connects past to the present, it doesn't matter whether the sentnece before that is simple past or present perfect.
- The confusing part ends here.
Let's try another verb. Just 'be'.
You were mine. (but not now)
You have been mine. (affirming the ownership from one point in the past until the moment the sentence is spoken)
Whatever may happen after has not been mentioned and becomes a possibility with different futures. It's not "continuing the action from the past" as you said. Continuing the ownership may be a possible future, but before the next sentence it's possible neither to affirm or deny it, thus no conclusion can be drawn. It could either be "You have always been mine, but now I'll let you go," or "You have been mine, and you will always be," but before the next sentence, what's only certain is the period from the past to the present and the future hasn't been mentioned yet.
This tense doesn't exist in Korean and that makes it especially hard to explain. My theory is still in a development stage. I'll come up with something more later on. Hope this helps.
- your brother


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Native Americans, as well as most indigenous cultures, consider Medicine, or the power to heal, to be generated by Spiritual Practice.
Medicine, is prayer and ceremony.
Medicine, takes into many modalities of healing - that is the use of massage, sweat baths, mud baths, mineral hot springs, decoctions of herbs, roots and barks, sunrays, pinewood air and smoke, and faith.
Medicine, is the respect for all life. The tea and packing are done the old way with the practice of giving back to Mother Earth and prayers for health. We treat this herbal formula as a gift of nature with the intention to help all on a journey to wellness.
In Native American culture, nothing is done without prayer, whether one is beginning a new day, or conducting a ceremony. Treatment of oneself must first start with the Spirit, then the mind and lastly the body, according to how we were created.
Resources and literature abound in regards to this healthful remedy.
Our herbal formulas are developed to share the elements of Native American, other indigenous remedies, as well as freshly created herbal teas and tonics. By using herbs in our daily life, we assist the plant kingdom to carry out its purpose on this planet. Herbs are nature's forces that must be treated with respect. When herbs are brought together in a formula, they enter into a relationship, creating something new, more than the sum of separate ingredients. Great care and understanding must be taken to create a harmonious blend, one in which the herbs unite and become one in purpose and Spirit. Herein lies the important aspect of our working with the herbs.
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Algae Innovations: 13 Alternative Bio-Energy Concepts
'Pond scum' used to be an insult. Now, it should be an adjective describing something natural, efficient and versatile. Just look at all of the amazingly creative ways in which algae is being used – as a source of light, power, color and even music. These 13 futuristic concepts put algae to work in specially designed solar panels, cars, houses, textiles and interactive cyber gardens.
Algae-Powered Latro Lamp
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This incredible self-powered lamp uses sunlight, CO2 and water to give off a soft glow! The Latro Lamp by Mike Thompson features an algae chamber which uses carbon dioxide from your breath to generate energy. You simply put the lamp in the sunlight, breathe into it and watch it light up. How is this possible? Researchers discovered that a tiny electrical current can be extracted from the photosynthesis process in algae. The lamp has a battery that stores the energy generated by the algae throughout the day.
World's First Algae-Powered Car
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Imagine a world in which all of our cars ran on algae instead of fossil fuels. That may not be too far away – there's already an algae fuel-powered vehicle called the Algaeus. A plug-in hybrid, the Algaeus is actually a Prius with a nickel metal hydride battery running on crude algae fuel made by Sapphire Energy. Amazingly, it can go from coast to coast on just 25 gallons of fuel.
Algaerium Living Textiles
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Living textiles? That's right, these 'threads' by designer Marin Sawa are made up of living, breathing algae specimens in clear tubes; specific combinations of algae and sunlight levels produce a variety of colors, so that the fabric actually responds to its surrounding environment.
Algae-Covered Building
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The Institute of Mechanical Engineers envisions a future in which algae-equipped buildings not only produce energy, but do so but sucking the greenhouse gas CO2 out of the surrounding air. They released a report suggesting that sealed containers of algae photobioreactors could be added to the sides of existing buildings to produce biofuels. Coming up with solutions that work with existing architecture and infrastructure would certainly be less wasteful and more realistic than ultra-futuristic concepts for new construction.
Algae Airships as Self-Contained Cities
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Architect Vincent Callebaut is known for fantastical futuristic concepts that will almost certainly never become reality, but are awfully pretty to look at. This example is called 'Hydrogenase', a series of algae-producing airborne cities that are completely self-contained. Their 'home bases' are floating farms, and the airships themselves produce agile for power.
Algae Solar Panels
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When chemical engineers and plant scientists work together, they can produce sustainable products with a lot of real-life potential – as evidenced by this concept by the University of Cambridge. They're biophotovoltaics – solar panels containing living algae.
The Algae Room
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A winner of the 2009 Dezeen x Design Association container competition, 'The Algae Room' by Jonathan Hagos of studioJonandNina encourages incorporating eco-friendly features into every facet of our lives, including our living environments. Algae production is actually built into the home's walls. "The Algae Room is our speculative reconfiguration of the home, one enabling the domestic growth of fuel; dissipating state fuel production to give individuals more control over the impact they make on the Earth."
Music-Making Algae
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It may not be the most practical application of algae, but it's certainly fun and interesting. French students Marianne Cauvard and Raphael Pluvinage used agar-agar (red algae) to make music. Entitled 'Noisy Jelly', the project molding the gel created by agar-agar into geometric shapes, which are placed on a sensor board that creates music when it's touched.
Interactive Cyber Garden
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This high-tech garden has no plants – just hundreds of little plastic pouches full of various species of algae. These photobioreactors hang from the ceiling. But the display, called HORTUS (Hydro Organisms Responsive to Urban Stimuli) is more than just a close look at pond scum. It's an interactive exhibit. Visitors exhale into the bags of algae through hanging tubes, feeding them the carbon dioxide they need to grow. Each bag has its own QR code which, when scanned with a smartphone, provides info about the algae's growth.
Algae as Large-Scale Transportation Fuel
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There's a car that runs on algae – but what about larger-scale transportation? A company called Heliae is already on it. They're growing algae on a commercial scale. According to the company, costs are still too high for it to be feasible, but in 5 to 10 years it might just work. One of the biggest obstacles is making sure that the process of creating the algae fuel doesn't take more energy to grow than the amount of carbon dioxide that the algae would absorb.
Carbon-Absorbing, Algae-Producing Floating City
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X SEA TY is another futuristic concept for a floating, algae-producing city that absorbs carbon dioxide from the air and releases fresh oxygen. The exterior of the city's buildings would be covered in living walls of photosynthetic algae to produce fuel to power virtually everything inside including lights, appliances and vehicles.
Algae-Powered Eco City
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EcoLogicStudio has an idea for an algae-powered city, too. The Algae Farm is a town designed for a region off the coast of the Baltic Sea, and would involve the creation of algae farms, research labs and different kins of 'activity spaces'. Algae would be grown for food and oil in large towers near lakes and other bodies of water, while more would be grown in underwater farms resembling giant baskets.
Algae-Powered Building Retrofit
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Another smart retrofit transforms a 1960s federal government building in Los Angeles into a clean energy-generating, wastewater-cleaning building of the future. Addressing the problem of all of the aging architecture that we already have in our cities, the design turns an existing building into a power plant that produces all of its own energy using giant glass tubes full of algae incorporated into the exterior walls.
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Meter calibration on the ISA Two
To calibrate the meters on your ISA Two to your DAW, follow the instructions below:
1. Send a test tone to the line input of ISA Two. This can be achieved using the tone generator in your DAW, and the line output of your interface.
2. Connect the line output of ISA Two to a line input of your interface.
3. Monitor the input level in your DAW, and adjust the gain of ISA Two until the DAW input level reads 0dBFS.
4. Adjust the calibration knob on the rear panel of ISA Two until the ISA Two's meter value matches that of your DAW.
Please note that the meter of ISA Two has an adjustment range of +16 to +24 dBu = 0dBFS. If the maximum input level of your interface falls outside of this range, you will need to calibrate your system with an offset. i.e. If your interface has a maximum input level of +14 dBu, you would need to calibrate the meter of ISA Two such that when it reads -2 dBFS, its output level would actually correspond to the maximum input level of the interface.
As always, if you have any questions or concerns you can get in touch with us through our Support Contact Form and we will be happy to help.


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Carolina K-12 (formerly the NC Civic Education Consortium) is a program of UNC-Chapel Hill's Program in the Humanities & Human Values and works to extend the resources of the University to North Carolina's K-12 educators. We offer quality professional development programs which include access to scholars on key topics, innovative lesson plans, and interactive pedagogical training.
Free, High-Quality Professional Development for K-12 Teachers
Carolina K-12 offers free, high-quality professional development programs for North Carolina teachers. Each program or workshop includes presentations by top scholars, innovative lesson plans, interactive pedagogical training, and immersive experiences. Our programs support educators by:
- Deepening teacher content knowledge through exchanges with university scholars, authors, artists, performers, and other humanities professionals
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Morere Hot Springs: The History
Morere Hot Springs thermal area with its rainforest reserve is steeped in history from the time of the Maori through to the European colonising years and later as New Zealand embraced the motor car and began to explore and travel the land.
Enjoying the natural hot water pools at Morere has been a tradition since the 1890s.
In pre-European times the Rakai Paaka, a hapu (family-based sub group) of the Ngati Kahungunu tribe, used the hot springs at Morere to bath in. In the early colonial period around 1895 the Lands and Survey Department gazetted the Nuhaka Thermal Springs Reserve under the Land Act of 1892. Renamed the Morere Springs Scenic Reserve, it has been administered by the Department of Conservation since 1987. In the late 1880s most of the bush in the surrounding region area was felled and burnt to make way for pastoral farming but fortunately the settlers spared the few acres of bush around the hot springs. In the early 1890s the first totara-slab bath house was built by the main thermal outlet and in 1897 a hotel opened for business nearby. As the use of private motor cars became established from the 1950s onwards there emerged a policy to establish scenic reserves along New Zealand's new network of highways where motorists could stop to rest on long journeys. These reserves were most-often created at places of scenic or historic interest. Morere Springs Scenic Reserve, on State Highway 2 between Wairoa and Gisborne, is a well-known example.
The first hotel was followed by a larger two-storied hotel in 1913 which developed into a resort or spa. During the resort's heyday of the 1920s and 30s the hotel offered 50 beds. It became a popular tavern in the 1970s and was destroyed by fire in 1992. The first permanent caretaker of the hot springs was Ned Kennedy, appointed in 1923, who lived with his wife in a tent for two years until a cottage was built.
Prior to the 1930s, when hot water was piped down the Mangakawa Valley to a series of pools closer to the road, bath houses were built over the hot water outlets along the Mangakawa Stream. Known as Nos. 1, 2 and 3 bathhouses each one became hotter as bathers trekked up the valley. The highest, No.3, was destroyed by a landslide in 1962 and No.2 was replaced in 1982 by what are now called the Nikau Pools.
For many years the Morere Hot Springs Scenic Reserve was administered by the Tourism and Publicity Department before being taken over by the Lands and Survey Department in 1971 and subsequently by the Department of Conservation. Today the Department of Conservation administers the reserve while the hot springs are leased to a private concessionaire. The concessionaire also provides cottage, cabin and lodge accommodation.
DELIGHTFUL EAST COAST HOLIDAY RESORT
The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 14, Issue 7 (October 2, 1939)
By W. A. Froggatt
Nestling in a picturesque valley, on the East Coast highway between Napier and Gisborne, is the charming little hamlet of Morere Springs. It is surrounded by mountainous country which, in the immediate vicinity, is covered with some of the finest native bush in New Zealand. This scenic reserve with its hot mineral spas, is under Government control and is the Mecca of hundreds of people during holiday periods. Campers are catered for in a well-equipped camping ground situated on the bank of a small river flowing through the valley.
Entering the reserve through a modern arched gateway one is attracted by the beautifully-kept gardens and lawns that surround the full-sized open air mineral bath and caretaker's residence. Here, too, are to be found fish ponds, rockeries and rustic bridges. Dotted here and there are small archways and alcoves which have been constructed from the native manuka tree. About a hundred yards from the main entrance one enters the portals of Nature's own domain and follows a well-defined path which will ultimately lead one into the very heart of this scenic reserve. The path now follows the course of a mountain stream whose cool, clear waters, originating high up in the bush, flow over a rocky bed, through fern-lined banks, on its way to join a tributary of the Nuhaka river.
Continuing along the path one reaches No. 1 and No. 2 private bath-houses. These bath-houses are spaced at a distance of about 150 yards, and are used principally by invalids. Passing No. 2 bath-house a little more altitude is gained and, crossing the stream by a suspension bridge, one eventually reaches No. 3 bath-house, which, incidentally, is a public bath and about one-third the size of the usual swimming bath. This bath is the most popular during the winter months, as it is quite near the source of the mineral springs and, consequently, the waters are much warmer than those of the other baths. The predominating minerals in these spas include large quantities of calcium and sodium chloride. There is also sufficient free iodine to give them a pungent smell, and colour them a pale brown. In the stream below No. 3 bath-house are several deep pools which prove popular when the weather is warm. These pools are formed by small waterfalls as the stream finds its way to lower levels.
Leaving this bath the climb becomes slightly steeper; this, however, does not distract one's attention from the surrounding beauty. After about ten minutes' more climbing the end of the walk is reached. Here, one gazes into a deep, bush-lined chasm, over the brink of which plunges a small though picturesque waterfall. This is a beautiful sight and, as one rests awhile, it is with a feeling of satisfaction that there has been ample reward for the walk. It is not easy to leave this lovely scene and wend the way back to No. 3 bath-house, where one may bathe in the invigorating mineral waters before continuing explorations further. Leaving the bathhouse one turns off the path at a place marked with the sign, "To the Palm Grove." Actually this track leads through several palm groves and into the very heart of the bush. The track continues up hill and down dale for a couple of miles, eventually circling round to join up with the main path near the No.1 bath-house.
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In other questions that you have asked, you have been mainly concerned with fashion. Therefore, I will answer this question with respect to fashion.
The main reason why the information contained in the artwork of this time is reliable is because it is contemporary. When people paint pictures that depict their own time, they are much more likely to get the clothing styles right than they would be if they painted pictures that were set 50 or 100 years previous. To the extent that the artwork is set in contemporary times, it is a reliable source for what people wore.
However, there are at least two main reasons why the artwork may not be completely reliable. First, it was not painted mainly as a way to document fashion. Instead, it was painted in part for aesthetic reasons. This means that paintings might show people wearing things that the painter likes rather than things they actually wore. Second, the artwork was typically painted for rich patrons of the arts. This meant that it portrayed mainly upper class people. Therefore, it might not be reliable as a depiction of what regular people wore on a daily basis.
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With Congress nearly unable to come to an agreement about the federal budget, many government agencies and institutions feared they may have to cease operations. What would a government shutdown have meant for the average American?
CNN has compiled a searchable table organizing affected government offices and services, which is being updated as more information is made available.
NPR also has an article about what will and will not be closed in the event of a government shutdown.
The Christian Science Monitor has an article about the role a government shutdown would play in Medicare and Medicaid services.
The Wall Street Journal Health Blog also covers possible closings in other health-related services such as the Centers for Disease Control, the Food and Drug Administration, and the National Institutes of Health.
And even if the government shuts down tonight, the Library is always available 24/7 at thelibrary.org.
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rustup provides a number of wrappers for common Rust tools. These are called proxies and represent commands which are provided by the various components.
The list of proxies is currently static in rustup and is as follows:
 - rustc is the compiler for the Rust programming language, provided by the project itself and comes from the rustc component.
 - rustdoc is a tool distributed in the rustc component which helps you to generate documentation for Rust projects.
 - cargo is the Rust package manager which downloads your Rust package's dependencies, compiles your packages, makes distributable packages, and uploads them to (the Rust community's package registry). It comes from the cargo component.
 - rust-lldb and rust-gdb are simple wrappers around the lldb and gdb debuggers respectively. The wrappers enable some pretty-printing of Rust values and add some convenience features to the debuggers by means of their scripting interfaces.
 - rls is part of the Rust IDE integration tooling. It implements the language-server protocol to permit IDEs and editors such as Visual Studio Code, ViM, or Emacs, access to the semantics of the Rust code you are editing. It comes from the rls component.
 - cargo-clippy and clippy-driver are related to the clippy linting tool which provides extra checks for common mistakes and stylistic choices and it comes from the clippy component.
 - cargo-miri is an experimental interpreter for Rust's mid-level intermediate representation (MIR) and it comes from the miri component.


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Stay Mobile and Active with the Help of Physical Therapy
Patients with Parkinson's Disease experience balance impairments, postural and gait dysfunction, and poor movement. If you or someone you know has Parkinson's Disease, physical therapy can help.
LSVT BIG is a treatment program for Parkinson's Disease and other similar conditions. Patients who complete physical therapy from clinicians certified in LSVT BIG are more likely to reduce the risk for falls, reduce the disease progression of Parkinson's, and maintain independent function longer.
Athletico Physical Therapy's LSVT BIG program:
- Month-long, intensive, one-on-one program for PD patients at any stage of the disease.
- Certified LSVT BIG specialists will work with the patient to identify their goals.
- Individualized treatment plans are created based on standard exercises adjusted to the patient's functional level targeted to their specific deficits. These exercises help to allow the patient to move on a more normal scale, improve their speed of movement, and reduce their risk for falls.
Patients May Experience:
- Ataxia (Degenerative disease of the nervous system)
- Impaired Balance
- Fall Risk
- Bradykinesia (Slowness of movement)
- Gait Dysfunction (Changes in your regular walking pattern)
- Postural Dysfunction
- Decreased Coordination
Athletico Physical Therapy Treatment Options:
When working with an Athletico Physical Therapist, each patient is assessed to create an individualized treatment plan. Treatment for Parkinson's Disease can include:
- LSVT BIG Program
- Seated postural exercises
- Standing postural exercises
- Standing balance exercises
- Pre-gait work
- Gait patterning (pattern of walking)
- Functional activities
Request an appointment at an Athletico near you and ask about LSVT BIG treatment for Parkinson's Disease.


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Want to beat your Scrabble friends no matter where you are?WordSolver Android App!
1 Definition of Toupee
The definition of toupee, the meaning of the word Toupee:
Is toupee a scrabble word? Yes!
- n. - A small hairpiece to cover partial baldness
Toupee is worth 8 points in Scrabble, and 10 points in Words with Friends
There are 6 letters in toupee: E E O P T U
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Seoul's S-Poles
By Chris Young
The multipurpose S-Poles can also function as Wi-Fi access points.
A smaller, more versatile version of the utility pole might soon become ubiquitous throughout future smart cities worldwide.
Amongst the implementors of such a technology is Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG), which announced last year that it would install new 'smart poles', or S-Poles, that act as streetlights, traffic lights, environmental sensors, smartphone chargers, Wi-Fi access points, CCTV, and more.
As a Cities Today report explains, the city of Seoul, South Korea, has already installed twenty-six smart poles in six areas of the city. Each pole's function is customized to the requirements of its specific location.
SMG is piloting a version of the S-Pole system, which is also able to charge drones and electric vehicles as well as count the footfall of nearby pedestrians.
The project, which is in the planning stage, would use drones to monitor potential disasters and provide data for emergency rescue teams.
Poles apart from traditional city technologies
The new smart poles will essentially carry out a large number of functions and are being designed to replace several traditional city technologies in the future.
"Smart poles help effectively consolidate the somewhat elaborate road facilities, not only retaining their innate functions but also highlighting various smart technological features," Lee Won-Mok, Director General of Smart City Policy at Seoul Metropolitan Government, explained to Cities Today.
"These S-Poles are expected to improve urban landscapes and enhance the safety, welfare, and convenience for our Seoul citizens. They will also serve as charging stations for drones and electric vehicles, bringing the city one step closer to becoming a smart city."
The project is part of a global shift towards multipurpose street infrastructure, as cities, vehicles, and citizens become more connected. Essentially, this trend is part of an initiative to make the cities of the future less cluttered amidst the surge in new technologies — further examples include smart bins, ground-level traffic lights, and 5G poles that are hidden in plain sight.


10 Products Discovered By Accident
Sometimes, accidents can be a good thing. Everything on this list was either invented for a different purpose or happened because someone made a mistake. Once they were discovered, we can't imagine life without them!
In 1905, eleven-year-old Frank Epperson left his soda-making tools outside overnight. The next day, the stick he'd used to stir the water and flavored powder mixture had frozen, creating the first popsicle. Almost twenty years later, the adult Epperson applied for a patent to make popsicles.
This treatment for hair loss was discovered when scientists noticed that patients taking the blood pressure drug Loniten experienced the added bonus of making their hair thicker.
3Chocolate Chip Cookies
Innkeeper Ruth Wakefield, owner of the Toll House Inn in Wakefield, Massachusetts, was trying to bake a chocolate dessert for her guests, but the chips didn't melt thoroughly. Her guests loved the chocolate chip cookies... and who could blame them?
4Microwave Ovens
In 1945, an engineer working for Raytheon discovered that a candy bar in his pocket melted while he was working with a magnetron device that was used in military radar systems. Realizing that the radiation was cooking his candy, inventor Percy Spencer developed the first microwave, which at the time was more than five feet tall!
According to How Stuff Works: "Fireworks originated in China some 2,000 years ago and legend has it that they were accidentally invented by a cook who mixed together charcoal, sulfur, and saltpeter -- all items commonly found in kitchens in those days."
6Ivory Soap
From About.com: "A soap maker at the Procter and Gamble company had no idea a new innovation was about to surface when he went to lunch one day in 1879. He forgot to turn off the soap mixer, and more than the usual amount of air was shipped into the batch of pure white soap that the company sold under the name The White Soap. Fearing he would get in trouble, the soap maker kept the mistake a secret and packaged and shipped the air-filled soap to customers around the country. Soon customers were asking for more "soap that floats." When company officials found out what happened, they turned it into one of the company's most successful products, Ivory Soap."
Viagra was invented by Pfizer scientists who were working on a drug for heart conditions. The drug's side effect of sending blood flow to another area of the body (ahem) turned out to be a godsend for many people with erectile dysfunction!
This fun kid's product was originally meant to be a wallpaper cleaner!
9Potato Chips
In 1853, chef George Crum was annoyed by a customer who kept sending his fried potatoes back to the kitchen, complaining that they were not crunchy enough. Crum sliced the potatoes very thinly, fried them, and added salt. The crunchy chips quickly became a local hit in New England and were called "Saratoga Chips," after the town in which they were invented.
From SlashFoods: "The Legend of Kaldi maintains that an Abyssian or Ethopian goat herder noticed that his flock was acting especially frisky after chowing down on some bright red berries. After sampling some for himself and verifying the mood shift, he brought the berries to a local imam who studied them, eventually roasting and boiling a batch in water."


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An Active Helper
The first thing we want to do is to automate the common parts and write them in one reusable place, so that we don't have to write them by hand every time for each new active class. To do that, let's introduce a helper class Active that encapsulates a thread behind a messaging interface and provides the basic message-sending and automatic pumping facilities. This section shows a straightforward object-oriented implementation that can be implemented as shown in any of our major languages (even in C, where the class would be written as a struct and the object's methods would be written as plain functions with an explicit opaque "this" pointer). After that, we'll narrow our focus to C++ specifically and look at another version we can write and use even more simply in that language.
The Active helper below provides the private thread and a message queue, as well as a sentinel done message that it will use to signal the private thread to finish. It also defines a nested Message class that will serve as the base of all messages that can be enqueued:
// Example 1: Active helper, the general OO way
class Active {
 class Message { // base of all message types
 virtual ~Message() { }
 virtual void Execute() { }
 // (suppress copying if in C++)
 // private data
 unique_ptr done; // le sentinel
 message_queue< unique_ptr > mq; // le queue
 unique_ptr thd; // le thread
Note that I'll assume message_queue is a thread-safe internally synchronized message queue that doesn't need external synchronization by its caller. If you don't have such a queue type handy, you can use an ordinary queue type and protect it with a mutex.
With that much in place, Active can go on to provide the common machinery, starting with the message pump itself:
 // The dispatch loop: pump messages until done
 void Run() {
 unique_ptr msg;
 while( (msg = mq.receive())!= done ) {
 // Start everything up, using Run as the thread mainline
 Active() : done( new Message ) {
 thd = unique_ptr(
 new thread( bind(&Active::Run, this) ) );
 // Shut down: send sentinel and wait for queue to drain
 ~Active() {
 Send( done );
 // Enqueue a message
 void Send( unique_ptr m ) {
 mq.send( m );
The Active Cookbook: A Background Worker
Now let's use the helper and actually write an active class. To write a class with objects that are active, we must add an Active helper and then for each public method:
 - Have the public method capture its parameters as a message and call Send to send the call for later execution on the private thread. Note that these functions should not touch any member variables. They should use and store their parameters and locals only.
 - Provide a corresponding nonpublic class derived from Message with constructor and data members that will capture the parameters and this pointer, and with an Execute method that will perform the actual work (and can manipulate member variables; these Execute methods should be the only code in the class that does so).
For example, say we want to have an agent that does background work that we want to get off a responsive thread, including the performance of background save and print functions. Here's how we can write it as an active object that can be launched from the responsive thread using asynchronous method calls like b.Save("filename.txt") and b.Print(myData):
class Backgrounder {
 void Save( string filename ) {
 a.Send( new MSave( this, filename ) );
 void Print( Data& data ) {
 a.Send( new MPrint( this, data ) );
 class MSave : public Active::Message {
 Backgrounder* this_; string filename;
 MSave( Backgrounder* b, string f ) : this_(b), filename(f) { }
 void Execute() { … } // do the actual work
 class MPrint : public Active::Message {
 Backgrounder* this_; Data& data;
 MPrint( Backgrounder* b, Data& d ) : this_(b), data(d) { }
 // Private state if desired
 PrivateData somePrivateStateAcrossCalls;
 // Helper goes last, for ordered destruction
 Active a;
Now we can simply enqueue work for the background thread as messages. If the worker's private thread is idle, it can wake up and start processing the message right away. If the worker is already busy, the message waits behind any other waiting messages and all get processed one after the other in FIFO order on the private thread. (Teaser: What if the background thread wants to report progress or output to the caller, or a side effect such as reporting that a Print message is done using the shared data? We'll consider that next month.)
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The Hebrew term Chumash (also Ḥumash) (Hebrew: חומש, pronounced [χuˈmaʃ] or pronounced [ħuˈmaʃ] or Yiddish: pronounced [ˈχʊməʃ]) is a term for Torah in printed form as opposed to the Torah scroll. The word comes from the Hebrew word for five, ḥamesh (חמש). A more formal term is Ḥamishah Ḥumshei Torah, "five fifths of Torah". It is a Hebrew name for the Five Books of Moses, also known by the Latinised Greek term Pentateuch in common printed editions.
Origin of the term[edit]
The Artscroll Chumash
The word "ḥumash" may be a misreading of ḥomesh, meaning "one-fifth", alluding to any one of the five books: as the Hebrew חומש has no vowel signs, it could be read either way. It could also be regarded as a back-formed singular of ḥumashim/ḥumshei (which is in fact the plural of ḥomesh).
In early scribal practice there was a distinction between a Sefer Torah, containing the entire Pentateuch on a parchment scroll, and a copy of one of the five books on its own, which was generally bound in codex form, like a modern book, and had a lesser degree of sanctity. The term ḥomesh strictly applies to one of these. Thus, ḥomesh B'reshit strictly means "the Genesis fifth", but was misread as ḥumash, B'reshit and interpreted as meaning "The Pentateuch: Genesis", as if "ḥumash" was the name of the book and "Bereshit" the name of one of its parts. Compare the misunderstanding of "Tur" to mean the entirety of the Arba'ah Turim.[citation needed]
In the legal codes, such as Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, it is laid down that any copy of the Pentateuch which does not comply with the strict rules for a Sefer Torah, for example because it is not a parchment scroll or contains vowel signs, has only the same sanctity as a copy of an individual book (ḥomesh). In this way, the word ḥomesh (or ḥumash) came to have the extended sense of any copy of the Pentateuch other than a Sefer Torah.
The word ḥumash generally only refers to "book" bound editions of the Pentateuch, whereas the "scroll" form is called a sefer Torah ("book [of the] Torah").
In modern Jewish practice:
 - A printed ḥumash usually sets out the Hebrew text of the Torah with vowel points and cantillation marks, separated into its 54 constituent weekly Torah portions (parashiyyot), together with the haftarah for each portion and, often, translations and notes.
 - A ḥumash-Rashi also contains the Targum of Onkelos and the commentary of Rashi, and usually has no vernacular translation of the text.
 - A Tikkun soferim or Tiqqun Qore'im sets out, in parallel columns, the unvocalized text of the Pentateuch as it would appear in a Torah scroll and the normal printed text as it appears in a Chumash; it sometimes includes haftarot and the five megillot. It exists as an aid for Torah scribes and for those preparing to read from the Sefer Torah in the synagogue.
 - A multi-volume set in Hebrew only, often but not always including the entire Tanakh with masoretic notes (sometimes), Targumim and several classical commentaries, is referred to as Mikraot Gedolot "Great Scriptures."
Various publications[edit]
see also Jewish English Bible translations
 - The Pentateuch and Haftorahs, London 1937, known as the "Hertz Chumash", containing the commentary of former British Chief Rabbi Joseph H. Hertz
 - The Torah: A Modern Commentary Revised Edition. W. Gunther Plaut, ed. New York: Union for Reform Judaism, 2006: associated with American Reform movement
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Joey Skaggs > Works > 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969 > Crucifixion
Year: 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969
Categories: Anti-War Activism, Holidays, Religion, Social Injustice
1966, Easter Sunday
Joey Skaggs created a two hundred pound sculpture depicting a naked rotting skeletal corpse with a human skull, a barbed wire crown of thorns, long human hair, and a metal penis dangling between the legs, to protest the hypocrisy of the Church and man's inhumanity to man. He attached it to a ten foot tall cross made of telephone poles. Casts of his own hands and sculpted feet were pierced by railroad spikes, attaching the body to the cross.
Early Easter morning, Skaggs and an entourage of friends dragged the Crucifix to the top of a barren knoll in Tompkins Square Park on the Lower East Side in New York City. The Crucifix was eventually attacked by irate on-lookers and partially destroyed. Skaggs was confronted by police and City Parks officials and was summonsed. He had to appear in court to answer charges of violating City Park regulations where he was fined and released.
1967, Easter Sunday
skaggs-cruc-1967-198The Crucifix sculpture was shown at a New York University exhibition called Angry Artists: Artists Against the War in Vietnam. During the exhibition, the piece was taken down, broken, and placed into a 55 gallon trash can. Skaggs was told by NYU officials to go get it. When he went to retrieve it, he was thrown down a flight of stairs by two NYU guards who were offended by the piece. Skaggs threatened a law suit. NYU had a hearing and apologized.
After repairing it, he took the sculpture to Central Park and erected it during a "Be-In" held on Easter Sunday. Skaggs and the sculpture can be seen in this clip from the film "Ciao! Manhattan." As Edie Sedgwick, the star of the film, climbs (or rather is pushed) up the rock to where the Crucifix sculpture is standing, Skaggs, on the far left, reaches out to help her.
1968, Easter Sunday
Skaggs erected the Crucifix again in 1968 at the Central Park Easter Be-In which had become a peace rally. An estimated 90,000 people were there. Martin Luther King, Jr. had been assassinated ten days earlier. His wife, Coretta Scott King spoke in his place.
Anticipating future trouble, assuming the Crucifix would be damaged for a third time the next time he took it out, he built a duplicate copy. It was the duplicate that he carried into the Easter Parade on 5th Avenue the next year.
1969, Easter Sunday
Skaggs dragged the Crucifix sculpture through the Easter Parade up Fifth Avenue to the doors of St. Patrick's Cathedral. As he turned towards the Cathedral, the doors slammed shut and the police converged around him. People in the crowd shouted "Kill him, kill him," and police officers kicked the cross into his back. They then made him drag it around the corner to a paddy wagon, all the while threatening, cursing, and kicking him.
The Crucifix fell to the ground and police officers stomped it to pieces. Skaggs seized the opportunity to bolt down the block to Madison Avenue where he jumped into a taxi and escaped. Having anticipated such a problem, he kept the original sculpture in tact for perhaps another day.


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DFI-PFSF Piled Foundations & Ground Improvement Technology for the Modern Building and Infrastructure Sector, (DFI and PFSF)
Pile Foundation Response to Ground Vibration from Rock Blasting
Laddu B. Jayasinghe, Anthony T. C. Goh, Zhiye Zhao, Hongyuan Zhou and Yilin Gui
Ground vibrations from blasting are undesirable and they are very short in duration with high principal frequencies and high amplitude. Structural response to that kind of excitations may differ significantly from that generated by lower-frequency earthquake vibrations. In practice, the damage to nearby structures to generated ground vibrations has been controlled by various codes and regulations available. However, the existing vibrations limits are not always applicable, as they depend on the geological conditions of the site and the dynamic characteristics of the structure. This paper investigated the influence of the rock-soil interface on the response of pile foundation to ground-borne vibration from rock blasting, through numerical simulations using finite element software LS-DYNA. It is found that the slope of the rock-soil interface greatly influences the location of damage and the extent of damage on the pile. The bottom of the pile is subjected to a larger blast pressure and stresses are highly concentrated at the pile bottom. Thus, the pile bottom can fail in shear before it reaches its plastic moment capacity.
|article #2621; publication #1032 (IC-2017)|


side of high disorder score. On the other hand, for disordered proteins, the CDF curve will move upward slightly in regions of low disorder score, then rapidly increase in the regions with high disorder scores. Hence, on the 2D CDF plot, structured proteins tend to be located in the upper left half, whereas disordered proteins are predominantly located at the lower right half of the plot. By comparing the locations of CDF curves for a group of fully disordered and fully structured proteins, a boundary line between these two groups of proteins can be identified. Then, this boundary can be used to classify any given protein as wholly ordered or wholly disordered. Proteins whose CDF curves are above the boundary line are mostly structured, whereas proteins with CDF curves located below the boundary are mostly disordered [37, 42, 46]. The distance of a curve from the CDF boundary can also be used as a kind of measure of the disordered (structured) status of a protein. This distance is further referred as CDF-distance. Originally, CDF analysis was developed based on the results of the PONDR®-VLXT [28]. Recently, other five CDF predictors were built using the outputs of the PONDR®-VSL2 [44], PONDR®-VL3 [47], IUPred [48], FoldIndex [49], and TopIDP [50]. Among these various CDFs, PONDR®-VSL2-CDF achieved the highest accuracy, 5-10% higher than the accuracy of the second best predictor [46].
Another method of measuring the disordered status of the entire protein is a C harge-H ydropathy (CH) plot [29]. CH-plot takes the averaged Kyte-Doolittle hydrophobicity [51] and an absolute mean net charge of a protein chain as the coordinates of the X- and Y-axis, respectively. This plot represents each protein as a single point in such a 2D graph. Since extended disordered proteins typically contain fewer hydrophobic residues and more charged residues than ordered proteins, these two types occupy different areas in the CH-phase diagram and can even be separated by a linear boundary [29]. According to this analysis, all of the proteins located above this boundary line are highly likely to be disordered, whereas proteins below this line are structured. On the CH-plot, the vertical distance from the location of a protein to the boundary line is then taken as a scale of disorder (or structure) tendency of a protein. This distance is further referred as CH-distance.
CDFand CH-plots have different underlying principles. The CDF-plot, being based on the disorder predictors of the PONDR® family, is strongly related to the method of machine learning. Essentially, it is a statistical analysis based on known structures in PDB. The CH measurement has a very intuitive physicochemical background. Charged residues intend to interact with solvent molecules, while hydrophobic residues prefer to avoid contacts with solvent, therefore aggregating together. Hence, the CH-distance provides very important information about the general compactness and conformation of a polypeptide chain. By combining CDFand CH-distances in one graph, we have another method called the CH-CDF-plot [37, 52]. On this plot, each point corresponds to a single protein and represents its CDF-distance at the X-axis and the CH-distance at the Y-axis. CH>0 and CH<0 denote proteins predicted to be disordered and ordered by the CH-plot, respectively. On the other hand, values of CDF>0 represent structured proteins, and CDF<0 correspond to disordered proteins. Hence, the entire field can be divided into four quadrants by cutting lines CH=0 and CDF=0. Lower right quadrant corresponds to proteins predicted to be structured by both CH and CDF, whereas upper left quadrant contains proteins predicted to be is disordered by both methods.
Composition profiling
To gain insight into the relationships between sequence and disorder, the amino acid compositions of Archaea proteomes were compared using an approach developed for the analysis of intrinsically disordered proteins [28, 53]. To this end, the fractional difference in composition between a given protein set (an Archaean proteome), and proteins from the F ully D isordered D ataset (FDD) [46, 54] was calculated for each amino acid residues as described in [28, 53]. The fractional difference was calculated as (CX-CFDD)/CFDD, where CX is the content of a given amino acid in a given proteome, and CFDD is the corresponding content in FDD proteins. These fractional differences for each proteome are then plotted for each amino acid. This analysis was performed using a Composition Profiler, a computational tool that automates this task and graphically summarizes the results [53]. Composition Profiler is available at _URL_.
Results and discussion
Major characteristics of the Archaea proteomes
Archaea are very abundant in nature, play a number of important roles in the cycle of carbon and nitrogen on earth [18]. Although most of archaea live in ocean, many of these microbes are extremophiles since they live, grow and prosper in extremely harsh environments, such environments of highly salty lakes or hot/boiling springs. For the cells of "normal" organisms (e.g., mammals), these types of environment are absolutely lethal, since high temperatures or high salt concentrations will inevitably denature proteins of these organisms, invalidate their functions, and terminate crucial biological pathways, eventually leading to the cell death. However, compared to these normal cells, archaea developed special mechanisms to counteract the harmful influence of these environments. The major components involved in these protective mechanisms should directly target the most abundant bio-substance: proteins. Therefore, the comparative analysis of proteomes of various species living at various habitats should provide crucial information on the similarities and differences of these organisms and on the mechanisms of the adaptation.
Figure 2 presents the size distribution of proteomes of various archaea species analyzed in this study. Although 15 species in the first phylum, Crenarchaeota, belong to the same class, they can be divided into three orders: the first order is Desulfurococcales with 4 species; the second order is Sulfolobales having another 4 species; and the last order is Thermoproteales which contains 7 species. After this division is taken into account, the trends in the proteome sizes of these 15 species became obvious. Figure 2 shows that the members of the Desulfurococcales order are relatively uniform and have the smallest proteomes size in this phylum. Two other orders (Sulfolobales and Thermoproteales) still possess large variability in their proteome sizes. In Euryarchaeota, as shown by taxonomy (2.1) – (2.7) and corresponding proteome size in Figure 2, Halobacteria has the largest proteomes; Methanococci and Thermococci have fewer proteins in their proteomes; whereas Methanomicrobia have the largest fluctuations in proteome size among various species. Apparently, all the species with small proteomes are characterized by a globule-like morphology. The relatively large number of proteins in Halobacteria is also expected, since extra proteins may be needed to help these species deal with the high concentrations of ions in their environment. Finally, Uncultured methanogenic archaeon which belong to the Euryarchaeota phylum has more than 3000 proteins and ranks as one of the largest proteomes in Archaea. Korarchaeota and Thaumarchaeota have middle-sized proteomes. Nanoarchaeota have the only representative Nanoarchaeum equitans, which is the simplest species in Archaea being characterized by the smallest proteome and having only 536 proteins.
Figure 2
Size of proteome of each species: The X-axis is the index of the number of each species, while the Y-axis is the number of proteins. Filled circles represent the size of the proteome of each species. Filled squares indicate the taxonomy of archaea with similar species together and on same level. (1), (3)-(5) indicate species in four phyla: Crenarchaeota, Korarchaeota, Nanoarcgaeota, and Thaumarchaeota. (2.1) - (2.8) are eight different classes in the phylum of Euryarchaeota as shown in Table. 1.
Not only the size of proteome is important, but also the size of proteins in each genome. The length distributions for 5 phyla and 7 classes of Euryarchaeota phylum are shown in Figure 3(a) and Figure 3(b), respectively. Clearly, in general, distributions of protein length among all the species are very similar, although some important subtle differences can be found. The general shape of the distribution is similar to the power-law distribution. All of the species have less than 2% extremely short proteins (less than 50aa). The most optimal protein length for all species is around 100 – 200 residues. Proteins with these lengths constitute approximately 25% of any given proteome. Larger proteins are also very common in all the species: the content of proteins longer than 500aa is around 10% or even higher. Very long proteins (longer than 1000 aa) are not very common and account for several percent, comparable to the proportion of the extremely short proteins. As shown in Figure 3(a), Thaumarchaeota and Kor


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 - You may need to change your BIOS to allow legacy and unsecured boot
 - Unplug any attached storage or controllers
In order to get more information on your boot sequence, you can edit the /boot/boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg file (for Batocera 5.25+, or /boot/boot/syslinux.cfg for Batocera 5.24 and earlier) and replace:
APPEND label=BATOCERA console=tty3 quiet loglevel=0 vt.global_cursor_default=0
APPEND label=BATOCERA console=tty3 loglevel=9 vt.global_cursor_default=0
How to get access to a Linux console for troubleshooting?
 - If you can't use SSH because the network is not available, you can plug a USB keyboard on your Batocera box and:
 - on an x86_64 or x86 PC you can get a console with full graphical capabilities by pressing the [F1] key from the main system menu (to get into the file manager) and then [F4] for an xterm.
 - for other architectures, you can get to a text console by pressing simultaneously [Ctrl][Alt][F3].
Several video issues on PC x86 and x86_64 can be investigated with xrandr as described on this page.
If you use Batocera with a display that provides a high resolution like a 4K monitor, you might have trouble reading the text on the file browser (F1 on a PC) or the configuration screens of a few emulators. You can change the default DPI settings by editing batocera.conf and look for the section:
## DPI
## Workaround when correct DPI setting is not detected
## if fonts are too small, uncomment next line
No sound on EmulationStation and/or when launching emulators? Then your audio output might not be initialized correctly. The best way to diagnose audio issues is:
 1. Lauch Kodi from the main menu, and check that you have sound on when playing a media file (audio or video). You might need to tweak the audio sources from Kodi settings to make it work.
 2. Identify what audio output is used by Kodi. Go back to the audio settings in EmulationStation and find the audio output that looks as close as possible to the one used in Kodi. The names are not exactly the same, but you can identify what is the HDMI output number of sound card ID this way.
 3. You can also diagnose some sound issues with the alsamixer sound mixer that is available when pressing [Ctrl][Alt][F4] (text-mode sound mixer). Make sure that all the outputs are enabled, and they have their volume up.
If you have sound on EmulationStation, and in the emulators, but you can't hear the sound of the video snapshots, here are several steps that may help you:
 1. First, make sure you have enabled video snaps sounds in the menu SOUNDS SETTINGSENABLE VIDEO AUDIO
 2. Then, you can try to connect to Batocera through SSH and enter the following command:
wget -O /userdata/system/.asoundrc
This command will create an alsa config file as /userdata/system/.asoundrc. It should fix your video snap sounds for most SBC like Odroid Go Advance, but maybe not on a PC.
On a PC, depending on your hardware configuration, your GPU and audio chipset, it might be trickier to get it working.
First, through SSH, get the list of audio outputs with the command aplay -l. In my setup, I get:
# aplay -l
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC255 Analog [ALC255 Analog]
 Subdevices: 1/1
 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
 Subdevices: 0/1
 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
 Subdevices: 1/1
 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
 Subdevices: 1/1
 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
 Subdevices: 1/1
 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 10: HDMI 4 [HDMI 4]
 Subdevices: 1/1
 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
If I want to use the audio output from HDMI0, I can see that it is card 0 and device 3. So, to make audio work on my setup, I need to edit the /userdata/system/.asoundrc file and replace pcm "hw:0,0" with pcm "hw:0,3", and then save and on reboot, it worked. This method might not work in 100% cases, but it's worth a try.
Worst case, if it doesn't work and you want to go back to the original state, just remove the file /userdata/system/.asoundrc (or \system\.asoundrc from the network share).
When you try to launch a game, the emulator stops and gets you back to EmulationStation. In most cases, you will find some useful information in /userdata/system/logs/es_launch_stderr.log (or /system/logs/ from the network shared drive).
In case you want to share a snapshot of your system log files to help developers diagnose your systemm you can use the menu SYSTEM SETTINGSDEVELOPERCREATE A SUPPORT FILE It will generate a tarball in /userdata/saves/ named batocera-support-YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.tar.gz (with year/date/time of creation in the filename).
Emulators will not show up in the EmulationStation system meny unless you have a rom in their respective folders. All available cores are always installed by Batocera, you never need to "add" cores.
 - Does not support Encrypted Games - they must be Decrypted
 - Bios may be needed if having graphical issues and boot issues
 - Most games let you invert your controls if you feel the left stick is swapped
 - Compatibility between games and PCSX2 emulator can be checked on this webpage.
 - To access all configuration options for PCSX2, you need to run its app in APPLICATIONS menu of the File Explorer that you can access by pressing F1 on your PC keyboard, from the systems menu.
Gamecube and Wii (Dolphin emulator).
 - To access all configuration options for Dolphin, you need to run its app in APPLICATIONS menu of the File Explorer that you can access by pressing F1 on your PC keyboard, from the systems menu.
When things go really wrong, and you want to "factory reset" your Batocera, i.e. putting all the settings to their default values without losing your ROMs, saves and scraped metadata, there is a method to do it:
 - If you access your Batocera user data from the network, simply rename the directory system from the SHARE network drive into system.old and reboot your Batocera.
 - Or, if you are connected through SSH, just enter mv /userdata/system /userdata/system.old and then reboot.
Those two commands are the same, and upon reboot, all your settings will be cleared out to their default values. You'll have to re-enter some parameters like your wifi credentials and so on… or, you can look at what you have in the previous configuration files like /userdata/system.old/batocera.conf and the files in /userdata/system.old/configs/ and one by one you can set up your previous configuration without re-entering everything (in particular for batocera.conf, you might have many options set in there).
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Acidic – an aqueous substance that falls on the low-end of the pH scale, with values ranging from 0-7
Basic – an aqueous substance that falls on the high-end of the pH scale, with values ranging from 7-14
Chemical Sunscreen – includes ingredients that absorb UVA and UBA sun rays in order to protect the skin
Cosmetic – according to the FDA, a cosmetic is any product that is used to alter the appearance of something, this includes colors, shades, brightness, blurring, etc.
Drug – according to the FDA a drug is any product that alters our current biological state, this includes anti-aging, inflammation, strengthing, etc.
Electrons – negatively charged subatomic particle that is most often involved in reactions occurring
Hydrocarbon – an organic compound containing only hydrogen and carbon atoms
Neutral – an aqueous substance that falls in the middle of the pH scale and possesses a value of 7
Physical Sunscreen – includes ingredients that provide a "shield" against UVA and UVB sun rays in order to protect the skin
Organic – may refer to the sourcing of the ingredients of a product or a compound that only contains carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen
Oxidation – a type of reaction that involves the loss of electrons
Reduction – a type of reaction that involves the gain of electrons


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Chemistry Of Mercury Is Focus
At sites around the world and at his base lab at the Avery Point campus, marine geochemist William F. Fitzgerald has for more than 30 years conducted research and spread the word about how mercury is cycled in the environment. His work has challenged traditional ideas about mercury's effects, and has altered the way scientists once sampled aquatic systems for mercury contamination.
Fitzgerald, who was named a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor last spring, has been called "the father of mercury research." But a former student, Robert P. Mason, now a professor at Chesapeake Biological Laboratory at the University of Maryland, says he's actually the "grandfather" – his former students have now graduated their own students who are also researching mercury.
"He's the world's foremost expert on the chemistry of mercury from an oceanographic and environmental point of view," says W. Berry Lyons, director of the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University and one of Fitzgerald's first Ph.D. students at UConn in the 1970's.
Fitzgerald last year won the Clair C. Patterson Medal, the highest award of the Geochemical Society for environmental geochemistry and one that reflects two important influences on his work. It was awarded in Japan, where an industrial disaster first inspired Fitzgerald to study mercury, and it is named for his mentor, whose research on lead pollution resulted in the lead-free standard for gasoline.
Clair Patterson's clean sampling and laboratory techniques shook up the environmental field when Fitzgerald was a young researcher. At a 1972 National Science Foundation conference at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Patterson "chastised" the marine trace metal community, according to Lyons, for making inaccurate measurements.
"We were trying to measure on a ship – this big piece of metal," recalls Mason, the Maryland professor. The samples were inevitably contaminated, Fitzgerald said, so he threw out his own data and started from scratch. The University provided the funding for a clean lab at Avery Point, and Fitzgerald's group developed protocols that are now used worldwide for analyzing and processing mercury and its highly toxic cousin, methyl mercury.
"I worked with Patterson for 20 years. He was the premier environmental chemist in the U.S. and he was my ultimate standard for thoroughness," says Fitzgerald. In the latest ultra-clean lab at the Marine Sciences Building at Avery Point, a yellow tape on the floor of the anteroom is the point at which street shoes must be abandoned in favor of clean-room attire.
Patterson's legacy of careful data collection is one that Fitzgerald continued. "It takes a lot of patience to wait to publish until everything is well tested," he said. "But it's part of our tradition here, being scrupulous."
That methodical approach may seem out of character for a man that his former students describe as gregarious, warm and, as Mason says, "so enthusiastic when he's in the field."
Fitzgerald has described himself as "somewhat of an Irish Puritan." He was born and reared in Boston, the son of Irish immigrants. His high school chemistry teacher spurred his interest in science, and he studied chemistry at Boston College and Holy Cross. Then, he recalls, "I wanted to do something adventuresome – to do chemistry, but out in nature."
He went to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in a joint Woods Hole/Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate program, and found his niche in oceanography. The best part, he says, was that everyone wore Bermuda shorts and sneakers, and "you couldn't tell who was a boss and who was not." That's his typical attire today, an outfit at home in his Avery Point office with its spectacular view of sailboats moored at a marina.
It's also a style that has set the tone in his research groups, which he calls "Team Hg" after the chemical symbol for mercury.
"He treated us as part of his extended family," recalls Lyons, the Ohio State researcher.
"That talk affected me in a significant way – I wanted to be able to prevent these tragedies," Fitzgerald said. He began studying mercury, and since 1970 when he came to UConn as an assistant professor, he has had almost continuous NSF funding to do so.
In the early 1970's, as environmental studies became popular, "we realized we didn't know very much about the distribution of these contaminants in the environment," Fitzgerald says. His research group raised the awareness of the scientific community to mercury's global polluting capabilities, he says, and he is continuing to add to that awareness, in research on the Long Island Sound and in Arctic lakes in Alaska, among other places.
Mercury is "an incredibly interesting element," Fitzgerald says. Mercury by itself is not terribly toxic, he says, but when it becomes methyl mercury, which occurs principally in bacterial processes in the sediment of aquatic systems, it is highly toxic.
Most methylation takes place in coastal areas, and most fish consumed by humans come from or frequent coastal areas or consume other fish that do. Methyl mercury moves up the food chain from plankton to alewife to lobster, bluefish, winter flounder, and tuna and binds to the protein in fish, residing in muscles (the fillet).
The recent EPA guidelines on how much fish it is safe to eat and avoid mercury poisoning are very conservative and quite protective, Fitzgerald says. But what happens if they are exceeded? he asks.
"We need to study the coastal zone much more carefully and much more extensively," he says.
His own research on Long Island Sound is focused on how methyl mercury is created, enhanced, bio-accumulated, and destroyed. It could provide a template for other researchers, offering questions and strategies to use in studying other coastal areas, he says.
Although mercury has been in decline since 1970 in water, with the elimination of careless plant discharges and better sewage methods, "less" is relative. Methyl mercury is created naturally by sulfate-reducing bacteria (the sulfur smell at low tide on the coast attests to this), but industrial discharges have greatly increased it. He estimates that the upper layers of sediment in the Sound contain 25 tons of mercury, or four to six times as much as in the pre-industrial past.
One of Fitzgerald's latest projects is studying mercury depletion in five remote tundra lakes in Alaska. There, mercury is depleted from the atmosphere and deposited in the lakes. Global warming may be contributing to increased organic matter in the lakes, and this may be leading to less photodecomposition, which has in the past kept methyl mercury production in check.
Even though the systems are diverse – Arctic lakes versus the Long Island Sound – the net production of methyl mercury in the sediment of both places is about 10 percent to 20 percent of the mercury depositing annually, he notes.
As Fitzgerald said in his speech accepting the Patterson Award, there is urgency to his research because of the health concerns that mercury contamination poses, yet "there are more than enough questions for another 30 years of work." Fitzgerald has just received notice of a new three-year, $400,000 NSF grant to continue his research on mercury cycling in the Arctic.


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Shallow Water Surface Drifters
In response to NOAA/COP funded research needs for high resolution Lagrangian analysis of Florida Bay interior basin flow fields, a shallow water drift buoy was designed and developed by AOML and RSMAS in Miami, Florida.
Primary design guidelines required a device capable of operating in water depths of one meter or less for up to a two week period. Small size was a factor both in minimizing windage at the surface and in aiding deployment and recovery efforts. The drifter would also require onboard GPS for accurate positioning. The need for a high-resolution record of the drifterâ€™s track required GPS data to be logged onboard for post-recovery upload. However, in attempts to aid users in the drifterâ€™s recovery, a subset of these data would need to be transmitted to the users during deployment; this is handled by an onboard ARGOS transmitter.
The hull is constructed of a 0.125 inch thick lexan, two-piece thermoformed shell in the general shape of a disc. The top is slightly domed and the bottom has molded fins in an attempt to couple the buoy to the water. Unfortunately, in the first Bay drift test the molded fins proved to be insufficient to keep windage to a minimum, so a "window shade" drogue has been incorporated with excellent results to improve coupling to the water (see Figure).
The drogue is constructed of two crossed, flexible PVC sheets and is approximately 0.75 meters long. The shape of the buoy was analyzed to insure that it would be self-righting if turned over by a wave. When deployed, the hull floats with the top of the dome approximately 3 cm above the waterline. The dimensions of the hull are 33 cm in diameter by 15 cm high and the weight ready for deployment is less than 5 kg.
To derive high-resolution currents, the position of the buoy must be determined frequently. A Motorola 12 channel GPS receiver is built into the electronics to collect this data. It computes 3 dimensional position information at pre-selected rates which are then stored in the buoy memory for later retrieval and subsequent data analysis. A relocation ARGOS satellite transmitter system is included in the electronics to recover the buoy at the end of each experiment. The ARGOS positions are used to get within the general vicinity of the buoy, and then a handheld ARGOS receiver on the boat is used to locate and retrieve the buoy.


Cognitive bias and the paranormal
2nd August 2021. Reading Time: 6 minutes Stuff paranormal investigators need to know, General. 800 page views. 1 comments.
A cognitive bias is an error in the way that we think. Sometimes our brain does play tricks on us and it is important for us to know how our brain works so we can determine if what we have experienced is simply a product of our brain or if it could actually be something more.
What is cognitive bias?
Psychology itself is full of 'effects'. They all demonstrate the different ways we are influenced by our brains. Whether we see things that aren't there, hear things that aren't there, misinterpret information right through to how we behave can all be tied back to one of these 'effects'. While you may think they seem irrelevant, they can be beneficial tools when it comes to investigating the paranormal. While a lot of people complain about electronic equipment not being reliable during an investigation, the same thing could be said about our brains. Knowledge is power and just knowing about these things makes us more aware and in turn, makes us better paranormal investigators. An experience could so much more significant when we can in fact rule out all the little things that trick us into thinking something is happening and we can truly start asking questions.
To make us even more unreliable, there are actually 188 different cognitive bias with new ones are popping up all the time.
Articles about cognitive bias and the paranormal
This is an area that I myself focus a lot of my research on. Here are just some of the articles I have written on different areas of cognitive bias and how they can relate to the paranormal field and our experiences.
The DunningKruger Effect
The Dunning-Kruger Effect is a cognitive bias where a person overestimates how much they think they know about a subject.
Do we cast people into paranormal stereotypes?
Implicit bias is a thought or feeling that we are not consciously aware of, or we may even think we don't have them. Are we implicitly bias towards the different stereotypes within the paranormal field?
Cryptomnesia and paranormal investigating
Cryptomnesia is essentially a memory or information that you know, but you are not aware that you know it. A forgotten memory. Can this impact the information we believe we are receiving during our paranormal investigations?
The observer-expectancy effect
Otherwise known as the experimenter effect, this is a cognitive bias that can cause us to unknowingly manipulate or misinterpret the results of an experiment. Even the questions we ask or the way we guide subjects during a paranormal investigation can affect the outcome of the experiment.
Are we willing to accept evidence?
Once something is added to your collection of beliefs, you protect it from harm. You do this instinctively and unconsciously when confronted with attitude-inconsistent information. Just as confirmation bias shields you when you actively seek information, the backfire effect defends you when the information seeks you, when it blindsides you. Does the backfire effect mean we will not accept information that goes against what we believe?
Perceptual Bias and the Paranormal
How we perceive the paranormal is influenced by our own belief systems. Perception and reality are different. Expectation alters perception. So let's look at an actual study on perceptual bias and the paranormal.
Blindspot Bias and the Paranormal
Sometimes we won't take another person's opinion on board because of their belief system or how they investigate. We think they are biased. At the same time, however, we are failing to recognize that by thinking this way, we too are being biased.
Inattentional Blindness & the paranormal
Sometimes what we are looking for is right in front of us, but we can't see it because we are too focused on something else! If we are too focused on that piece of equipment or too busy thinking of questions to ask etc, we may be missing something right in front of our eyes!
Clustering Illusion or Synchronicity?
The anchoring effect & the paranormal
The anchoring effect is a form of cognitive bias where a person relies too much on information they already know which influences their decision-making process. Let's explore how this can impact us during a paranormal investigation
If you were to look at the list of the 188 cognitive biases, in most cases I would say you would be able to apply it in some way to paranormal investigating. Remember.... knowledge is power and once we can eliminate the trivial things, what we are left with is quite intriguing!
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 - Kd Foreman 4 weeks ago
 Well, rats! Seems like we're all a little more biased than we realized! Thanks for the insight :)
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Traditionally, people have used kettles to boil water. However, we are in the 21st century already, and we all want convenience. The two minutes we wait for a kettle to boil water may add up to be an eighth or even a quarter of our entire life in the end. Nobody wants that, especially where there is an alternative. We want to save time and costs much as possible. That is why hot water dispensers come in handy.
Still not persuaded why you should get a hot water dispenser instead of retaining your old kettle? Let's see some of the benefits of a hot water dispenser over a kettle.
- Office owners, this is the best option to reduce wasted time costs. Imagine each one of your employees taking time out of their lunch break time to boil water every time they needed it? That is a lot of time variance for sure!
- They are instant, and therefore they save you a lot of time.
- If you have an older adult or children living in your house, hot water dispensers are the best as they are convenient for them. They do not have to lift them to pour the hot water, at the press of a button, they have their water in their cups. This significantly reduces instances of accidents.
- They save a lot of energy. Imagine if each one of your family members needed a cup of hot water at different times during the day. A kettle won't allow them to boil the amount of water that they require since most of them have a minimum of 250ml. On the other hand, a hot water dispenser allows you to get just the amount that you need, thus saving a lot of energy.
- Some hot water dispensers are very versatile. They allow you to make temperature adjustments according to your needs.
With all these benefits, let's see some examples of household tasks that make a hot water dispenser come in handy.
- Ever had dishes stuck with leftover food, and you needed to clean them up? How long did you have to wait further to boil water? Next time you are faced with such a situation, you will only press a button and get your hot water.
- Imagine how much energy you consume every time you want to heat baby bottles. This energy would be saved by far if you got an instant hot water dispenser for your home.
- Remember those days you get home tired after work or after a long day, and you just need to fix rice or pasta quickly, but then you have to wait a few minutes to boil water? I'm sure you are already cringing at the thought, but you don't have to wait any other day because getting a hot water dispenser will save you the hustle.
- No one loves stained clothes or table linens. However, sometimes these stains are unavoidable. They are the best gate-crashers ever! Though uninvited, they will always find a way into your house. Removing them will always require you some hot water, and thanks to the hot water dispensers, you don't have to add more time to your preset washing time because you can get the hot water instantly.
Types of Hot Water Dispensers
- Bottom or top loading dispensers, usually, it has a jug placed on the product to give you water. Refiling is easy, and in most cases, it doesn't require professional installation.
- Point dispensers; they are also known as bottles of use dispensers. They provide water using a water line or a tap that is fixed on a wall. Installing this type of dispenser is a bit complex; you will require the services of a plumber.
- Portable dispensers can be easily placed on countertops. Though they are usually small in size, they can hold your daily water requirement.
Are you ready to get your first hot water dispenser or replace your old one already? Let's check some of the ten best hot water dispensers in the market.
1. InSinkErator H-Wave-C
- This device does not only save you a lot of time that you would have lost if you were using an electric kettle but also, it adds elegance and class to your kitchen.
- It gives you nearly boiling water that can be used for multiple household chores such as heating baby bottles, cleaning dirty dishes, removing stains from clothes, removing candle wax from their holders, etc.
- The heating mechanism is exciting and straightforward. Water flows from the supplying tank into the device. Therein, it is heated up to 200 degrees. As you drain the water from the device, it becomes replaced instantly. This gives the device an ability to provide an approximate of sixty cups hourly.
- The device can fit a hole of about 1.5-inch on either your countertop or your sink and can make use of a grounded power source underneath.
- The device can be installed easily, with no need for some special skills. For safety precautions, the device comes with dry start protection.
- This unit saves not only energy but also water, thanks to its instant heating ability. This makes its overall cost of running low.
- It is most suitable for home use.
- Large capacity of about 2-3 gallons
- It has a stainless steel reservoir, thus making it easy to maintain and clean.
- Durable due to its all-metal makeup.
- Ability to produce about 60 cups of hot water per hour
- Three years warranty.
- Easy to install
- Saves both water and energy
2. Breville Hot Cup VKJ318
- This hot water dispenser is very easy to use and accommodating.
- It can give two liters of boiling water within a minute.
- It has a varying cup size adjustment that allows you to choose from nine cups depending on your hot water needs. Whether you need a small or a large cup of water, you can halt the pouring using a manual stop button.
- This unit comes with blue illumination that lights up during the boiling. This does not only act as a safety precaution but also, it is a nice aesthetic that adds a touch of class to the dispenser.
- Filling up this dispenser is easy and straightforward. The water tank is large, and the lid is easy to open. The unit also has the flexibility of either filling it up to fit your one cup needs or filling it up to the maximum to supply your whole family with hot water.
- The drip tray is not only removable but also, it is dishwasher safe. This makes the cleaning way easy. The ability to remove the drip tray allows you to fill a taller cup without strain.
- The unit has limescale that is replaceable, and therefore, this makes your dispenser more durable.
- The water tank is see-through and stylish. This makes the unit classy, and also, it makes it easy for you to know when to fill up the tank. The overall capacity of the tank is two liters.
- The unit is 3000 watts and has no variable temperatures.
- Compact size
- 2l tank capacity
- A see-through water tank
- Blue illumination for both safety and beauty
- Modern design
- Easy to clean
- Adjustable cup option
3. Ready Hot RH-100-F560-CH Hot Water Dispenser System
- This dispenser can give you forty plus cups of hot water per hour.
- It has the provision to adjust the temperatures between 140 to 190 degrees, therefore, allowing you to get near-boiling water depending on your needs.
- The ready hot water dispenser comes with both hot and cold water faucets. This removes the worry, especially so if your kitchen sink only supports a single faucet. The faucets are brushed with either chrome or a nickel finish. Their tone is simple, thus making them appealing and can be matched with almost any kitchen finish. The faucets are very durable and won't corrode or rust with time.
- This hot water dispenser is designed in a way that enhances the overall protection of the unit. There are times when accidents are unavoidable. The water heater has a self-resetting thermal fuse that allows the device to automatically close in case someone starts up the dispenser when dry or if, for some reason, the tank dries up while heating.
- The tank has a capacity of 2.4 liters and thus can hold enough water for all your hot water needs.
- The dispenser runs at 780 watts, and this allows the unit to provide hot water on demand.
- It uses less energy than a 40-watt light bulb, and in the package also comes a pre-installed power cable.
- Due to its ability to give instant hot water, it is ideal for homes, restaurants, cafes, and anywhere else where hot water may be required. You may especially need it when preparing noodles, oatmeal, hot tea or coffee soup, etc.
- A tank with a 2.4litres capacity
- Adjustable temperatures of between 140-190 degrees
- Energy-saving runs at 780 watts
- Automated shut off while the tank is empty
- It can give you up to 60 cups of hot water in an hour.
- Has both hot and cold water faucets
4. Waste King H711-U-SN
- The unit comes with a 1300W hot water reservoir plus a Coronado collection faucet. The unit has a combo system that has both a hot water tank and a satin finish faucet.
- The unit has the superpower of temperature adjustment within a split second. From it, you can get near-boiling water if you need it. It gives you the convenience of having hot water in your house anytime you need it. Making instant drinks such as coffee, chocolate, tea, instant soup, and others becomes easy with this unit in your home.
- Heat recovery in this hot water dispenser is speedy, thanks to its 1300W heating element.
- It has a 5/8 gallon


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- FOOD MASTER
Electronic maintenance management programs have many benefits. For example, once the system has been populated, electronic maintenance management systems can: prompt people when maintenance is due, schedule the work, track progress, monitor parts usage and inventory, provide step-by-step work maintenance instructions for each piece, determine how long tasks took and track costs.
Many companies have rolled calibration programs for process monitoring equipment into the maintenance management system. Some have terminals that allow mechanics, electricians or other maintenance staff members to access the system not only to collect their assignments, but to enter data that indicates work has been completed. This allows the maintenance manager to truly manage the program. In fact, many managers take on the role of both manager and record reviewer; they verify the work has actually been done.
However, a significant percentage of companies have barely scratched the surface with maintenance management systems because it takes a great deal of time and effort to keep the system up and running. Consider how many pieces of equipment, support systems (boilers, compressors and ventilation systems) and monitoring or control devices there are in even a small plant. Each of these units must be entered into the system, and with most units, there are at least two or more levels of maintenance. For example, a filling machine might be scheduled for complete maintenance once a year, but there may also be weekly, monthly and quarterly scheduled work. Simply entering the schedules for each is a significant task.
But if a company makes the commitment to fully and properly utilize the system, its benefits can be applied companywide. Perhaps one of the best examples is that the system allows the company to understand exactly how much it costs to operate each piece of equipment. This provides management with valuable information when buying new equipment or designing programs to optimize efficiencies. Some systems have the capability of capturing hours and costs for both preventive and emergency maintenance, the cost of parts, the time and cost for lubrication and other activities including downtime. This allows the maintenance manager to present management with accurate information on not only how much it costs to operate each piece of equipment, but each processing line.
There are many different maintenance management programs from which to choose. Not only can they help ensure your processing systems are operating properly and your food production is safe, they can also help your company fully understand the costs of operating these systems.


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The Baby Name Uniqueness Analyzer can determine how likely a person with a given name is to encounter another individual with the same name.With the latest trend of selecting unique and unusual names, popular names are not as popular as they once were. The probability that parents in 2020 name their child Liam or Olivia, the top boys' and girls' names, is only 1.04%. Twenty-five years ago the top boys' and girls' names were Michael or Jessica. Back then, a baby had a 1.94% probability of being given either name. In other words, a child born twenty-five years ago is over twice as likely to be given the current year's top name than a child born today. While this trend away from the most popular names may be associated with the current generation of parents, it's been occurring for far longer. Only 4.2% of children born last year were given a name in the top ten. In comparison, twenty-five years ago 7.9% of children would be given a name in the top ten, and 50 years ago that number was 12.5%. A person born into our parents' generation is nearly three times as likely to be given a top ten name than a person born into our kids' generation. As someone who had two other 'Sara's (spelled differently) in her kindergarten class, I am fascinated that the probability of a kindergarten class of 35 in 2021 having any two children with the same name is only 42.5%. The probability of a kindergarten class having three children with the same name? Just 1.3%. That doesn't mean it never happens. With so many kindergarteners in the US, we estimate approximately 2,251 kindergarten classes across the country will have three kids with the same name.
How unique is a given name? You might be surprised
Where does your data come from?
The Social Security Administration (SSA) for baby name popularity and population size. The SSA publishes background information on how the data is collected and distributed for the interested. Average elementary school size comes from the National Center for Educational Statistics. Similar names are computed using a combination of string and phonetic edit distances.
Were there really ten boys named Sarah in 2015?
Looks like! Our data comes direct from the US Census Data, and that's what the Social Security Administration (SSA) reports. With a 3,961,981 babies born in 2015, there's bound to be at least a few reporting errors. There's also going to be a few really far out their names. There may have been 10 boys named Sarah, but there were also 16 girls named 'Abcde'.
Hey, my daughter's/brother's/neighbor's name isn't on the list! What gives?
Congratulations on a super rare name! Your daughter/brother/neighbor is one of a kind! Or, more precisely, one of no more than 4. The Social Security Administration (SSA) does not include baby names when fewer than five babies were given the name.
Love Baby Names? Try our other Baby Name Apps. The Baby Name Explorer lets you explore names based on gender ratio, substring, popularity, or the number of syllables. If you like more unusual names, you may enjoy the Unique Name Generator, Name Blender which merges two names into one or Alternate Spelling Suggester. Finally, the Nickname Finder can help you find that perfect nick name.


Adjectives for friendliness
Friendliness adjectives are listed in this post. Each word below can often be found in front of the noun friendliness in the same sentence. This reference page can help answer the question what are some adjectives commonly used for describing FRIENDLINESS.
apparent, cordial, easy, environmental, extreme, frank
general, genial, genuine, great, greater, greatest
little, mere, more, much, mutual, old
open, perfect, personal, quiet, real, simple
sincere, such, true, usual, utmost, warm
Hope this word list had the adjective used with friendliness you were looking for. Additional describing words / adjectives that describe / adjectives of various nouns can be found in the other pages on this website.
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