kids, for adults, or just for themselves?
The astrology book that came out in 2015 by Astrology Now and the new book by Astrologer Kids, the astrology app that's being launched today, have been lauded by astrologers and scientists as a clear path to astrology for kids and adults.
But astrologer Mary Ann Hagerty, founder of the website Astrology Plus, thinks those who've used the app will be disappointed.
She tells us that children are far too easy to use astrology apps for both educational and recreational purposes.
And, as an astrologist, I think the app is missing a lot of important information.
Hagerty said that the app provides the same information as a professional astrologian, but it does not tell you everything that you need to know about the planets, the signs, and the planets in your neighborhood, among other things.
Hangerty and Astrologers Plus have partnered with Astrologist Kids to create a free app that will teach kids and parents astrology as well as help them learn about the astrological chart, planets, signs, time zones, and other astronomical concepts.
Astrologers can use this app to track and track with their children the planets and the signs in their neighborhood, to get a good sense of the time zone of the planets as well.
It also includes a map of the stars that is very helpful for kids when they're trying to find the best time to get home from school, Hagerth said.
Haganty said there are a lot more people using astrology books than they should be.
She's also concerned that astrologists may not know all of the important information for the astrologeric.
Astrologists are astrologaries and need to understand astrology because the charts are so important for astrology," Haganty told The Huffington Post."
This app is about helping people learn astrology in a way that is easy to understand and is not confusing to the astro-logician," she added."
There's no doubt that astrology has become much more popular with the growing number of kids, but astrology is still something that a lot people don't really know how to do," Hagertys co-founder, Mary Ann Siegel, told HuffPost.
Astrology is one of the oldest and most recognized forms of astrology.
The astrologic concept has existed for thousands of years.
Some of the earliest astrological books date back to the 13th century and even older texts dating back to about the 7th century.
The word "astrology" is actually derived from the Latin word for "astral" — meaning "direction."
The first reference to astrology is written by Hippocrates in the 4th century B.C. in the treatise On the Nature of Things, which is thought to be the earliest known medical reference to the concept.
But even that ancient text wasn't a comprehensive account of the principles of astrologic medicine.
There were a lot other medical treatises written about astrology and other aspects of the human body.
Many other medical texts were written about medicine as well, but Hippocrates' work is considered the earliest medical treatise, which was known as Hippocrates the Treatiser.
Hamerty, who has studied astrology extensively and has worked with astrologing teachers for decades, says that the new Astrology Kids app will provide the best way to learn about astrologie for kids.
Hagerthy says she hopes the app can help astrologologists get the information that they need."
It will be great for teachers, because it will be really helpful for parents to have that information, which they don't have in the textbooks," Hamerty told HuffPost, referring to astrologery textbooks.
Hagensaid that astrologue for kids is a huge area of study, because astrology encompasses so many different disciplines.
She said that it's important for parents and astrologies teachers to be familiar with each other's work and their own."
I'm really excited about this app because I'm excited about astrologia and I hope it will help children learn astrologie and also teach astrology to teachers," Haggsaid.
Haggs said that while astrology students and parents may not be as familiar with astrology or its methods as they are with other forms of education, she believes the app has the potential to teach them."
If they want to get better at this, I'm sure they can do that.
How to learn astrology by reading it?
In this tutorial, you will learn how to read the astrology from your 3rd house.
Read this tutorial to learn the astrological signs of the planets, signs of Jupiter, signs and planets of the zodiac, and more!
How to read astrology?
The most common astrology sign is the zebra (or zebra) sign, which is a sign for the zenith.
The zebra is also the sign of a person who is strong in their emotions and loves their family, friends and others.
The sun sign is a symbol of the time of the year and of the sun's rising and setting.
This sign is most commonly used for a person with a higher emotional or mental status, like a king or emperor.
The moon sign is used to symbolize the moon and the zigzag line, which marks the zebu.
The eucalyptus tree is a great symbol of love, as the tree grows in a very long space.
The stars and planets sign are used to indicate that there is something happening in the world, such as the birth of a baby, or the death of a loved one.
The planets are the symbol of life and the planets of sign are a symbol that tells us how much we need to care for a loved or important person.
The astrolographic sign of the planet Mars indicates that we need a lot of love and respect, as it is the planet of war.
The signs of Venus and Jupiter are used for those who have strong opinions and are passionate about their beliefs, as well as those who are passionate for their goals, such in business, sports, politics or in any other area of their lives.
A person's astrolometric sign determines their relationship with their astrologer, as those with the best astrological sign will be able to have an intimate relationship with the astrologist and their astrology.
You can learn the signs of planets, the signs and the signs, as shown below: 3rd House Astrology Signs of Mars
5 Astrology Signs for Beginners
Astrology is not only a useful tool for understanding our lives, it can also give you clues to your own future, according to astrologer and astrologist John Llewellyn.
Here are five signs to get you started on the right path in astrology.
Taurines are the brightest of the zodiac signs and their names are pronounced with a 't' like a T. The Taurus sign is a sign of passion and energy.
This means that a Taurus is energetic and will do anything to help others in need.
Tauri is also the sign of a happy family and a happy world.
This sign is also an excellent sign to look for in the days ahead, as well as when you are looking for a new job or moving to a new city.
Scorpios are the three stars in the zebra pattern that symbolize the zenith of the cycle of the seasons.
Scorpions are also the brightest star in the sign.
They are also associated with love and friendship.
Scorpius is also a sign for love, and they are the sign for prosperity.
Capricsorns are the most powerful and beautiful of the sign's six constellations.
Capri is the sign that represents the rising sun, and Capricorns are known for their beautiful faces and their ability to charm people.
Caprisorns are also great at creating new ideas, especially when it comes to politics.
Leo is the zigzag of the sun, the zag of a rope, and the sign to mark a ruler.
This zigzagging sign means that Leo is a ruler who can get things done.
The zig-zag sign is the perfect sign for people looking to be in charge, and is also associated in astrological terms with leadership, leadership abilities, and leadership skills.
Virgos are the four brightest stars in a circle that is symbolized by the four corners of a sun.
Virgins are also called virgins, and Virgons are known as the most popular of the signs.
Virguas are also known for being energetic and loving, as are they the sign representing the heart.
Virgon is also known as a loving lover, and their most important role is as the protector of the heart in your life. 1 of 8


Dominant culture
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A dominant culture is a cultural practice that is dominant within a particular political, social or economic entity, in which multiple cultures are present. It may refer to a language, religion/ritual, social value and/or social custom. These features are often a norm for an entire society. It achieves dominance by being perceived as pertaining to a majority of the population and having a significant presence in institutions relating to communication, education, artistic expression, law, government and business. The concept of "dominant culture" is generally used in academic discourse in fields such as sociology, anthropology and cultural studies.[1]
The culture that is dominant within a particular geopolitical entity can change over time in response to internal or external factors, but one is usually very resilient and able to reproduce itself effectively from generation to generation. In a polycultural society, various cultures are celebrated and respected equally. A dominant culture can be promoted deliberately and by the suppression of minority cultures or subcultures.
Examples and applications[edit]
Native American studies[edit]
In the United States, a distinction is often made between the indigenous culture of Native Americans, and a dominant culture that may be described as "WASP", "Anglo", "white", "middle class", and so on. Some Native Americans are seen as being part of the culture of their own tribe, community, or family, while simultaneously participating in the dominant culture of America as a whole.[2]
Other American groups[edit]
Ethnic groups are said to exist in the United States in relation to a dominant culture, generally seen as English-speaking, of European ancestry, and Protestant Christian faith. Asian Americans,[3] Jews,[4][5] African Americans,[6] Latinos,[7] and Deaf people,[8][9] among others, are seen as facing a choice to oppose, be opposed by, assimilate into, acculturate (i.e. exist alongside), or otherwise react to the dominant culture.
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 1. ^ Gordon Marshall (1998). A Dictionary of Sociology. Oxford University Press.
 2. ^ Maria Falkenhagen and Inga K. Kelly (May 1974). "The Native American in Juvenile Fiction: Teacher Perception of Stereotypes". Journal of American Indian Education. 13 (2). Archived from the original on 2015-01-20.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
 3. ^ Lisa Lowe (1996). Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-1864-4.
 4. ^ Lisa Lowe (review of book by Rabbi Meir Kahane) (2004-02-10). "Why Be Jewish? Intermarriage, Assimilation, and Alienation". The Jewish Eye.
 5. ^ Shlomo Sharan (April 2004). "Assimilation, Normalcy and Jewish Self-Hatred". NATIV Online. Archived from the original on 2008-12-03.
 6. ^ Patricia S. Parker (August 2001). "African American Women Executives' Leadership Communication within Dominant-Culture Organizations: (Re)Conceptualizing Notions of Collaboration and Instrumentality". Management Communication Quarterly. 15 (1).
 7. ^ Penelope Bass (2009-01-29). "Culture and Controversy:The 'Otra Voz' exhibit aims to create conversation". Archived from the original on 2011-07-11.
 8. ^ Joan B. Stone (1998). Ila Parasnis (ed.). Cultural and Language Diversity and the Deaf Experience. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-64565-2.
 9. ^ Carla A. Halpern (1995). "Listening In on Deaf Culture". Diversity and Distinction. Harvard University. Archived from the original on 2013-10-06. Retrieved 2009-01-29.


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(Medical Xpress)—Despite nearly three decades of conflict, Sri Lanka has succeeded in reducing malaria cases by 99.9 percent since 1999 and is on track to eliminate the disease entirely by 2014.
According to a paper published Thursday in the online, open-access journal PLOS ONE, researchers from Sri Lanka's Anti-Malaria Campaign and the UCSF Global Health Group examined national malaria data and interviewed staff of the country's malaria program to determine the factors behind Sri Lanka's success in controlling malaria, despite a 26-year civil war that ended in 2009.
Typically, countries with conflict experience a weakening of their malaria control programs and an increased risk of outbreaks and epidemics, the researchers said.
Chief among its keys to success was the program's ability to be flexible and adapt to changing conditions, the study found. For instance, to protect hard-to-reach, displaced populations, public health workers deployed mobile clinics equipped with malaria diagnostics and antimalarial drugs, whenever it was safe to do so. Likewise, when it was impossible to routinely spray insecticides in homes in conflict zones, the malaria program distributed long-lasting insecticide-treated nets, engaging non-governmental partner organizations familiar with the areas to help with distribution.
The program was able to sustain key prevention and surveillance activities in conflict areas through support from partner organizations and support from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
Otherwise, researchers found that the keys to Sri Lanka's success were the same as those deployed in non-conflict areas: rigorously and consistently providing interventions to prevent malaria among high-risk populations; proper and prompt diagnosis and treatment of all confirmed malaria cases; and maintenance of an effective surveillance system to quickly detect and respond to spikes in cases. Still, challenges remain.
Ensuring Continued Funding Key to Preventing Resurgence
"Sustaining the gains of elimination efforts and preventing resurgence is even more challenging today, especially in tropical settings such as Sri Lanka," said Rabindra Abeyasinghe, MD, the paper's first author, who led the research at the Sri Lankan Anti-Malaria Campaign. "In this era, sustaining the interest of partners and local decision makers, and ensuring continued funding, are becoming increasingly difficult. To avoid the tragic mistakes of the past, we must resolve to continue to devote the necessary resources and energy to the fight against malaria in Sri Lanka."
Sri Lanka has an extensive history of battling malaria, and nearly eliminated it once before. In 1963, during the era of global eradication efforts, the country achieved a low of only 17 cases, down from 92,000 cases in 1953. With funding declines and reduced spraying and surveillance, the country saw a massive resurgence to 1.5 million cases in _PHONE_.
Since 1970, Sri Lanka has worked to bring malaria back under control, with compelling success, the authors said. In 2011, the country recorded just 124 locally acquired cases—about six cases per million people. This reduction is particularly noteworthy, the researchers noted, given that much of the progress was made during the civil war.
"It is very exciting to document Sri Lanka's current progress toward malaria elimination, to add another chapter to our country's ongoing fight against the disease," said Gawrie Galappaththy, MD, a study co-author at the Anti-Malaria Campaign at Sri Lanka's Ministry of Health. However, she said, achieving zero malaria will require continued investments and hard work.
"There is no silver bullet for malaria elimination," Galappaththy said. "Instead, it's a daily commitment to finding the cases, treating the patients and preventing transmission."
Sri Lanka Continues to Face Hurdles in Malaria Control
Today, even with the country's great progress, Sri Lanka continues to face hurdles in its goal of driving malaria transmission to zero. Total malaria cases have dramatically dropped, but the proportion of Plasmodium vivax malaria infections—the more difficult to diagnose and treat form of malaria most common in Sri Lanka—is on the rise.
Another challenge is the shift in the population group at highest risk for malaria. In most of the world, children and pregnant women are most at risk; however following the success of Sri Lanka's control program in protecting and treating these populations, the researchers found that the group most at risk today in Sri Lanka is adult men, particularly those exposed to malaria-carrying mosquitoes through their work, such as gem mining, military service and farming. Sri Lanka is developing new strategies to target these groups.
"Sri Lanka is showing the world how to eliminate malaria," said Sir Richard Feachem, KBE, FREng, DSc(Med), PhD, director of the Global Health Group and senior author of the paper. "The country has made extraordinary progress, reducing malaria by 99.9 percent in the past decade. And all this achieved during a particularly nasty civil war. With continued commitment from the country's Government and supporters, we are confident that Sri Lanka will finish the fight and become a malaria-free country."
More information: The paper, "Malaria control and elimination in Sri Lanka: documenting progress and success factors in a conflict setting," can be found online at PLOS ONE.

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How do you enter dimensions in Autocad?
To Change Dimension Input Settings
 1. At the Command prompt, enter DSETTINGS.
 2. In the Drafting Settings dialog box, Dynamic Input tab, under Dimension Input, click Settings.
 3. In the Dimension Input Settings dialog box, select Polar or Cartesian format as the default.
 4. Under Visibility, select one of the following options: …
 5. Click OK to close each dialog box.
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How do I manage dimensions in Autocad?
 1. Click Home tab Annotation panel Dimension Style. Find.
 4. Click OK.
 5. Click Close to exit the Dimension Style Manager.
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What is a running dimension measurement?
Angular running dimensions are a set of dimensions measured from a zero-degree dimension in a drawing or sketch. … Use angular running dimensions for arc or circle models. For example, you can create and modify angular running dimensions for a flange.
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Check your layer controls, turn on any that are off and see if your dimensions don't appear. If you can see the dimension line, but not the text; this means your text style is too small for the scale. … Another option would be to switch to paperspace (layout) and dimension it this way.
How do you write dimensions?
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 1. Click Annotate tab Dimensions panel Linear. Find.
 2. Specify the first and second extension line origin.
 3. At the prompt, enter r (Rotated).
 4. Enter an angle for the dimension line.
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How do you measure the height of a building?
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How do you hide dimensions in AutoCAD?
How do I hide text size in Autocad?
 1. On the drawing sheet, right-click the dimension, and then select Edit from the menu. …
 2. Select the Hide Dimension Value check box.
 3. Enter a dimension string to display.
 4. Click OK to close the dialog box.
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Closing Statement from Daniel Raven-Ellison
Thank you everyone who has taken the time to contribute to this important question. Reading all of the comments, it's impossible not to think deeply about how relationships between global businesses and local communities are developed.
It's easy to think of global business and local community as two different things. This question is perhaps guilty of leading the conversation into such an easy binary. Of course, "global businesses" are made by multiple and interconnected local communities and many local communities are created by large businesses. Neither local or global are innately better than each other, they are so inextricably linked through uncountable or quantifiable relationships that one cannot exist without the other.
Aju made this point well by saying "global business creates a community of beneficiaries such as employees, contractors, vendors and even customers in the local geography. Except for a thin "live wire" of control that runs to the global headquarters, global business in each region have a very local existence."
Issues of supply and demand are woven through the whole of this conversation. What do people want, what is available and what is on offer are all vital questions, but interlaced through all the comments are issues of power. Who controls what is available to people and what decisions do those people make when consuming an idea, product or place? Mitchell started to address this by asking us to turn the conversation's question on its head by asking "How does a community create a fulfilling relationship with a global business?"
Candy shared a way forward by suggesting "Every community requires collaborative partnerships among business owners/operators engaged in facilitated discussion for the good of the community. This requires a common goal. Whether it is education, social culture...". A practical note that is all about a relationship of working together.
The conversation continues at _URL_. Please join us.
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 May 30 2013: I think we also benefit from discussions around considering LOCAL - and how we define what LOCAL means -- as a function of ownership, rather than solely as a function of geography.
 Global businesses can truly be part of the destination and the local community when they adopt innovative new models of ownership, which include more than just hiring a percentage of employees locally or donating to local charities. That thought may not sit well with many corporate boards or shareholder groups, but that must be part of the discussion.
 Global brands can be active members of the community when they have a stake in the future of the community. There are proven processes corporations can work through to thoughtfully develop meaningful policies and implement social responsibility into organizational culture. Making meaningful connections requires a long-term view and commitment to more than just the bottom line.
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 May 30 2013: So you are proposing more shared-ownership brands?
 - May 31 2013: Hey Billy, I hear what you're saying. Although many large hotels these days are locally owned; they're just flagged with global marques such as InterContinental who operate, distribute, sell and market the properties. Sometimes the brands will have an equity stake, sometimes not. But from what I'm hearing in the industry, that is becoming even less so moving forward. Hotel brands are more and more divesting themselves of ownership due to the volatility of real estate in the last 10 years across so many different global markets.
 It would be cool if someone from IHG wants to refute/confirm/adjust that.
 Billy, curious to hear more about: "There are proven processes corporations can work through to thoughtfully develop meaningful policies and implement social responsibility into organizational culture."
 - May 18 2013: First, a company needs to understand that they are making profit by providing a service or good to a customer base. Instead of just assuming that a certain community needs, wants or will use whatever good or service they already have in production, they must research a prospective community to find out the needs. If the company wants to be part of the local experience, they may need to adjust their good or service to meet these needs. In addition, for this relationship to be a long-lasting one, the company must take into consideration the social, economic, political and environmental capacity to produce, sell, consume and dispose of the product. In addition, the company must become an active contributor, beyond a market, in the community. When we all work for the greater good of each other, we are more successful and profitable.
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 May 20 2013: Thanks for your comment Trista. If I understand you correctly, are you saying that businesses should not only supply what is demanded, but also work to create demand for what a community may want to supply?
 - May 20 2013: Yes, that is exactly what I'm saying! For example, if a community can sustainably supply certain input materials over others, companies wishing to setup factories in this community should take advantage of those particular materials in accordance with public participation instead of simply taking what they want from that community without regard for the communities desire to provide them.
 - Jun 1 2013: In my hometown, Lenoir, NC, we have a bumper sticker. It says S.L.O.B. That is, Support Locally Owned Businesses. A global brand is really no different than a mom and pop shop downtown. The only difference is the scale in which they are working with. Brands like Band-Aid, Windex, Apple, etc. all have earned something that keeps us coming back for more: trust. For the campaign on local businesses to continue to thrive, small companies need to take the first step in getting their name out there. Using social media, word of mouth, advertising, and other means of spreading the word, their businesses will grow. Upon growing, consumer trust will strengthen the backbone of the business. Larger companies have found that being local can really help consumer confidence. Hiring great employees to work as advisors for the company's products can help tie the global Fortune 500 companies to a small town, USA.
 - May 31 2013: Hi Daniel,
 Two questions:
 1) What will happen to the data that you collect in this conversational thread? There are some great ideas emerging and I am wondering if there will be a repository that people can continue to access after the conversation closes in 6 days, 22 hours and 30 minutes.
 2) Are you in San Francisco, or plan to be anytime soon? I'd love to meet up, take you out for coffee at one of my favorite local spots, and catch up in person.
 Zak (at) Brazenworks.com
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 Jun 2 2013: Hi Zak. Many thanks for asking. We are bringing many of the themes together on the Future of Local website (_URL_), but are waiting to see what comes out of the conversations before we plan anything further. I may be in SFO at some point, if so I'll drop you a line - what are your thoughts on the conversation so far?
 - May 27 2013: The Future of Local is a shift in the traditional roles of hotels within their local communities. Wherein the past, a hotel or resort was typically a refuge or escape, with a selected array of major attractions promoted to the guests. More and more, the next generation hotel is becoming a kind of "community accelerator" that brings together visitors with local artisans and small businesses. That has always been the case, more or less, with small independent hotels, but large global chains such as IHG are now placing a priority on this with new initiatives and programming.
 Globalization has created a uniformity of travel experiences in major, and not so major, tourism destinations. Not sure if that point is even worth discussing because it's so prevalent and ingrained in the world's economies. But how global hospitality brands challenge that homogenization is incredibly interesting. I don't think this discussion is about macro/micro economics and labor practices. It seems to me to be about integrating the local destination into the hotel and minimizing a hotel's impact on a destination's character, so the local population can share its cultural experience with the traveler in an undiluted and as authentic manner as possible. How large hotels move forward in that direction is the purpose of The Future of Local.
 Would love to hear from IHG about their plans for that.
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 May 28 2013: A very interesting summary of a handful of big underlying issues, Greg. How would you propose to go about integrating the local destination into a hotel? Where would you start?
 I think the constant balance that has to be found by global businesses between homogenisation and localisation is the key issue, and you'r every right in underlining it. Where should global brands place the needle, knowing that on one hand travellers cherish having their own standards in terms of comfort, whilst on the other hand they are keen on experiencing the true nature of a destination's character?
 Another interesting question could be, still focusing on the hospitality industry, is there such a thing as an ideal size for a hotel so as to minimise its cultural footprint whilst having the resources to bring local culture to like in a meaningful way?
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 May 28 2013: Being a "community accelerator" is an interesting idea... an accelerator to what? I love the idea of hotels not just being somewhere to sleep, but as a gateway to places... a "community gateway" of some kind.
 - May 30 2013: The boutique hotel, PhraNaKorn-Nornlen, _URL_ in Bangkok has done a fantastic job of being


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Objective: Social interactions in children with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are inappropriate and such social problems may originate from a failure to attend to the appropriate cues of affect. The present study aimed to determine the factors predictive of social reciprocity in ADHD and their relationship to sociodemographics.
Materials and Methods: Participants were required to interpret emotional cues depicted in pictures of facial expressions with a test that was adopted from the Reading Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET). Diagnoses were established based on the Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (K-SADS-PL). Moreover, a detailed sociodemographic form, the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), and the Social Reciprocity Scale (SRS) were used for assessment.
Results: This study included 133 children; 64 in the ADHD group and 69 in the control group. There wasn't a significant difference in mean age between the ADHD group (13.22 ± 1.28 years) and control group (12.97 ± 1.27 years). In all, 50% of the ADHD group and 49.3% of the control group were male. The mean RMET score was significantly lower in the ADHD group than in the control group (ADHD group: 20.52 ± 3.95; control group: 23.70 ± 3.55) and the mean SRS score was significantly higher in the ADHD group than in the control group (ADHD group: 65.84 ± 18.83; control group: 36.04 ± 16.32). In the ADHD group attention problems and lower level of ability to interpret emotional facial expressions were predictive of impaired social reciprocity.
Conclusion: The findings show that both the ability to decode facial expressions and social reciprocity were impaired in the ADHD group. These findings highlight the difficulty children with ADHD have with social functioning and interpretation of emotions based on facial expressions.
Keywords: Attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, child, social problems, comorbidity

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Bandwidth usage analysis of service location protocol
A resource discovery protocol allows networked embedded processors and handheld devices to discover each other's capabilities. Service Location Protocol (SLP) has been proposed by the IETF for that purpose. The usage of bandwidth, or the amount of traffic, that such a protocol makes is a characteristic that is particularly relevant when devices are mobile and wireless. Protocols that are less chatty are more desirable because wireless bandwidth is a scarce resource as well as mobile device power. The goal of this work is to characterize the usage of bandwidth SLP makes and to contrast it with the usage of bandwidth that JINI makes, which is another resource discovery protocol. We present equations characterizing the usage of bandwidth made by SLP and JINI.
|Conference||International Workshops on Parallel Processing, ICPP 2000|
Barbeau, M. (2000). Bandwidth usage analysis of service location protocol. Presented at the International Workshops on Parallel Processing, ICPP 2000. doi:10.1109/ICPPW.2000.869087


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In Math 152, Professor Paul Bamberg and his co-teacher structured the class in a seminar format, where students did mini-lectures for each other in class and critiqued each other content as well as style. Each student was assigned a class date. On those days, students would do a short lecture on a topic, using the board to solve problems or present proofs. They were instructed to use the textbook and class notes ahead of time and figure out how to teach the concept. There were problems they could use from the website. They also were encouraged to visit the professor for help. Students were critiqued on both presentation style and content.
Professor Bamberg notes that students found this very useful for going on job interviews in the financial world. Overall, he says that it worked very well.


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Purpose: The aim of this study was to analyze the corneal morphology features and define mutations in the UbiA prenyltransferase domain–containing 1 (UBIAD1) gene in patients with Schnyder corneal dystrophy from a Polish population.
Methods: Five affected and 15 unaffected members originating from 3 families with Schnyder corneal dystrophy were included in the study. Phenotype analysis consisted of visual acuity, slit-lamp biomicroscopy with photography, time domain optical coherence tomography, spectral domain optical coherence tomography, and confocal microscopy. Three patients underwent a penetrating keratoplasty. Corneal buttons obtained from the penetrating keratoplasty were processed for light microscopy.
Results: A novel mutation I245N of the UBIAD1 gene was revealed in 1 proband and associated with the phenotype without central corneal opacities. The analysis of the other patients showed the N102S mutation. In vivo corneal morphology analysis using optical coherence tomography and confocal microscopy confirmed the presence of multiple crystalline corneal deposits in all affected corneas. The histological examination revealed multiple empty widenings of the corneal lamellae that could represent lipids removed from the specimen.
Conclusions: N102S may also be a mutation hotspot in the Polish population, as in other previously reported populations. Corneal crystals formed a characteristic pattern on optical coherence tomography scans.


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Policosanol is a mixture of waxy substances generally manufactured from sugarcane. It contains about 60% octacosanol, along with many related chemicals. In some cases, the terms octacosanol and policosanol are used interchangeably.
Numerous studies have reported that sugarcane policosanol can substantially improve cholesterol profile, with an efficacy approximately equal to that of the most effective drugs used for this purpose. On this basis, policosanol has been approved as a treatment for high cholesterol in about two dozen countries, most of them in Latin America.
However, essentially all positive studies of policosanol were performed and reported by a single Cuban research group—a group with a financial relationship to the product. Independent verification of the product's effectiveness was delayed for several years by various legal obstacles. During the years 2006 and 2007, however, several independent studies of sugarcane policosanol were at last reported. In none of these trials has policosanol proved more effective than placebo.
The tested Cuban policosanol product is manufactured from sugarcane. Octacosanol and related substances are also found in wheat germ oil, vegetable oils,
, and various animal products.
Due to political and patent issues, sugarcane policosanol has not been widely available in the US. Products sold in the US market as "policosanol" are generally derived from beeswax or wheat germ. These products have a significantly different mixture of constituents and could have substantially different effects.
Typical dosages of policosanol in Cuban studies have ranged from 5 mg to 10 mg twice daily.
The Cuban research group that holds the patent on sugarcane-derived policosanol has published approximately 80 double-blind studies on their product. If these reports are to be believed, a total of several thousand people with elevated cholesterol levels have been enrolled in clinical trials ranging in length from 6 weeks to 12 months, and in virtually every one of these trials policosanol proved both more effective than placebo and equally effective as statin drugs.
However, in science, it is always necessary to have independent confirmation of results before a treatment can be considered proven to work. The first truly independent trials of policosanol as a treatment for high cholesterol began to appear in 2006. Of the many studies published since then, enrolling over 500 people, not one found policosanol more effective than placebo.
These results have raised serious doubts about the effectiveness of sugarcane policosanol. In addition, questions are now being raised about other scientific claims made by the patent-holding Cuban research group.
Wheat-germ policosanol, sold in the US as substitute for sugarcane policosanol, failed to prove more effective than placebo in the one published clinical trial of this product.
There is no published evidence to indicate that beeswax-derived policosanol affects cholesterol profile. A study published in Croatia reportedly found benefit with rice-source policosanol, but it suffered from significant problems in design and reporting.
The bottom line
: At present, considerable doubt exists regarding whether any form of policosanol offers cholesterol-related benefits.
One study, again conducted by the patent-holding Cuban research group, reported that policosanol is helpful for
Other potential uses of policosanol have been proposed by non-Cuban researchers.
A small double-blind trial found marginal evidence that policosanol might
enhance sports performance
Marginal benefits were also seen in a very small, double-blind trial of individuals with
; however, this study also reported that policosanol can increase the side effects of the levodopa, the standard drug used for Parkinson's disease.
Finally, in a small double-blind trial, policosanol failed to produce any benefits in
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
: Virtually all statements regarding the safety of policosanol derive from studies reported by the patent-holding Cuban research group. Since the reliability of these researchers is now in question, all of the statements below are similarly open to question.
Given the above caveat, policosanol is said to be safe at the maximum recommended dose. In double-blind trials, only mild short-term side effects have been reported, such as nervousness, headache, diarrhea, and insomnia. A safety study of 27,879 people followed for 2 to 4 years showed that use of policosanol produced adverse effects in only 0.31% of participants, primarily weight loss, excessive urination, and insomnia.
In animal studies, no toxic signs were seen even at 620 times the maximum recommended dose.
In addition, policosanol does not adversely affect the liver.
Finally, policosanol does not interact with three types of medications used for high blood pressure: calcium-channel antagonists, diuretics, and beta-blockers.
On the other hand, policosanol may be a "blood thinner,"
and it appears to enhance the blood-thinning effects of aspirin,
though at least one study failed to confirmed this adverse effect.
Still, to be on the safe side, policosanol should not be combined with aspirin or other blood-thinning drugs, such as
(Trental). There is also at least a remote chance that it might cause excessive bleeding if combined with natural supplements that thin the blood, such as
, and high-dose
. Similarly, individuals with clotting problems should avoid policosanol, and the supplement should not be used during the period immediately prior to or following surgery or labor and delivery.
One non-Cuban report suggests that policosanol might increase the action of levodopa, a medication used for Parkinson's disease, leading to increased side effects called dyskinesias.
The maximum safe dosages for young children, pregnant or nursing women, or individuals with severe liver or kidney disease have not been established.
Interactions You Should Know About
Do not use policosanol except on medical advice if you are taking:
Blood-thinning medications, for example:
Natural supplements that thin the blood, for example:
Keep in mind that policosanol may increase both the effects and side effects of:


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Many HVAC manufacturers, distributors and contractors may not realize that hundreds of thousands of coil failures have occurred during the last decade from corrosion. The cause is most typically environmental pollutants, which range anywhere from salt-air, to household cleaning agents, pesticides, formaldehydes, building materials, and even off-gassing of food. Each of these contaminant sources can initiate corrosion in coil tubing in a year or less when the conditions are right.
For example, refrigeration coils were continually failing in a South American fruit processing plant's banana room that used fruit-ripening ethylene gas generators. Gaseous by-products from the catalytic generator combined with the moisture in the ripening area formed a weak acid that resulted in pinhole leaks in the coil tubing after a year or less.
Aside from fruit processing plants, most coastal area HVAC equipment – whether it's commercial or residential – is also bombarded with corrosion from ocean salt.
Two Common Types of Coil Corrosion
The two most common forms of coil corrosion are pitting and formicary. These two corrosive processes can occur in as little as a few weeks after installation. More typically, corrosion will begin appearing within a oneto four-year period. The ability to distinguish pitting from formicary corrosion might help detect and eliminate the cause.
Pitting corrosion is typically caused by the presence of chlorides or fluorides. Chlorides are found in numerous items such as snow-melting crystals, toilet bowl/tile cleaners, dishwasher detergents, fabric softeners, vinyl fabrics, carpeting, paint strippers, etc. Fluorides are used in many municipal water treatment plants. Unlike formicary corrosion, pitting is usually visible on the exterior of the copper tube with the naked eye. Pitting is caused by an aggressive attack of negatively-charged chloride/fluoride ions carried to the metal surface by condensate. The negative ions attack the oxide film the metal usually uses to protect itself, essentially forming a corrosion driven battery that consumes the copper. After pits have formed in the copper, they will progress through the thickness of the copper tube until a pinhole is formed causing the coil to leak refrigerant.
Formicary corrosion is caused by organic acids such as acetic and formic acids. Acetic acids are abundant in numerous household products such as adhesives, paneling, particle board, silicone caulking, cleaning solvents, vinegar, foam insulation and dozens of other commonly found products in the home or commercial/industrial workplace. Formic acid can be found in cosmetics, disinfectants, tobacco and wood smoke, latex paints, plywood, and dozens of other materials. The corrosion caused by these substances is usually not visible to the naked eye, although black or blue-gray deposits can sometimes be seen on the surface. Formicary corrosion can form a sub-surface network of microscopic corroded tunnels within the tubing wall resembling ant nest-type structures that are substantially larger than the surface pinholes above them. Eventually one or more of these tunnels will progress to the surface of the copper and form a pinhole which quickly results in coil leakage.
Choosing the Right Coating For the Job
The first step a contractor must take when confronted with coil corrosion is to determine if it will happen repeatedly when coils are replaced. It's a difficult diagnosis to determine if the coil corrosion is a one-time phenomenon or a continuing problem in that particular location. In the case of the banana processing plant or a coastal area unit, coils most likely will continually corrode, and their replacement units should have a protective coating. In less corrosive environments, owners should attempt to eliminate in-home corrosive elements such as cleaning solvents from the return airstream by storing them in areas that are not near a return duct. These actions might eliminate the expense and need to coat a replacement unit.
Choosing the most appropriate coil coating for the application could save the project thousands of dollars and eliminate repeat treatments. Choosing the wrong coil coating could reduce heat transfer capabilities and lead to higher energy bills.
Heat transfer is a major issue to consider when coating a coil with any substance, especially in a retrofit application because the coil may no longer perform at its manufactured specification. The thinner the coating, the better the heat transfer, while thick coatings can lead to significantly diminished heat transfer. Another issue is a coating's hydrophobicity, or how well it drains condensation off the coil, to create optimum heat transfer capabilities. Ideally, water would drain quickly off of the coil to avoid reductions in efficiency.
Water accumulation is also detrimental because it can lead to the growth of mold and mildew. Most coatings do not actively resist biological growth, but their hydrophobicity can passively deter such growth.
Four basic coating types are prominent in the HVAC industry:
All four types of coatings offer differing degrees of advantages in terms of corrosion resistance, scratch resistance, flexibility, weight, thickness, hydrophobicity, and heat transfer capabilities.
Polyurethane (PU), invented in the 1940s, is used in a variety of applications. It can be manufactured as hard as fiberglass, bouncy as rubber, sticky as glue, and soft as upholstery foam. Many of the off-the-shelf PU-based coil coatings available to the HVAC trade can be applied in the field. PU formulations are fairly inexpensive, less viscous, more flexible, and thinner (typically 25 to 50 microns) than most coatings. The disadvantage is they are not as resilient or long-lasting as other coatings.
Epoxy, or phenolic-based, coatings are generally the cheapest of available coatings. Epoxies, developed in the late 1920s, are known for their excellent chemical and heat resistance, and are well known for coating floors and other surfaces. The high viscosity of epoxy-based systems leads to thicker coatings (approximately 50 to 100 microns) with poor flexibility and adherence characteristics. An epoxy coating is difficult to apply in the field. Therefore, the coil is typically disconnected and then shipped to a factory setting for a professional treatment. Because they are thicker, epoxy coatings will reduce heat transfer from the air to the refrigerant in the coil, and thus cause a decrease in system efficiency and capacity. Epoxy coatings might best suit new installations where heat transfer losses are accounted for in the system design specifications.
Fluoropolymers, first developed in 1938 by DuPont under the trade name Teflon, are now available in many different forms under a variety of trade names. Fluoropolymers are known for their high resistance to acids, solvents and bases. They are most effectively applied to metal through electrostatic powder coating or a thermal sintering process, as is done during the manufacturing of cookware and other non-stick products. Additionally, many field-use fluoropolymer sprays are available to contractors. The field-use sprays generally have very poor adhesion and their effectiveness will diminish significantly in a very short period of time. The cost of fluoropolymer-based field-use coatings is typically less than the more advanced epoxy and PU based coating system but their lifetime and effectiveness is very limited. Fluoropolymer coatings applied in the correct manner, through thermal sintering or electro-static powder coating, have not gained traction in the HVAC industry due to the expense of such processes and their inability to be performed in the field.
Silanes are well known as excellent coupling agents where two dissimilar materials such as paint (an organic) and glass (an inorganic material) can be bonded together. A variety of silane chemistries are available, many of which are tailored to have particular characteristics such as flexibility, hydrophobicity, and scratch resistance. Thus, the proper formulation of a silane coating can provide a flexible, resilient glass-like coating with good corrosion resistance and water draining capability that bonds extremely well to aluminum and copper (an inorganic). Silanes form an extremely thin coating when cured (less than 10 microns) that has very little, if any, adverse effects on heat transfer. They are very resilient against cracking and corrosion, are hydrophobic, and reduce airflow friction. Silanes can be quite difficult to apply properly in the field unless a trained applicator is hired to do so. The coil surfaces must be cleaned thoroughly and prepared properly for a successful application and therefore, it is best if the coating is applied at an off-site application center. Although silane coatings are typically somewhat more expensive that the other coatings described, they also exhibit the best heat transfer properties and typically have a much greater lifetime as well.
To conclude, our research indicates that a silane-based coating provides the best protection from the environment, and has minimal impact on heat transfer while remaining a long-lasting barrier that protects a HVAC coil against corrosion for an extended period of time (typically five years or more).
Each of the coating technologies described carry different levels of toxicity. Service technicians planning to apply any of these coatings in the field should be outfitted with proper OSHA equipment and the appropriate breathing apparatus.
About the authors:
Joshua D. Sole, Ph.D., is a senior mechanical engineer, and Alan H. Brothers, Ph.D., is a senior materials engineer at Mainstream Engineering Corporation. Sole and Brothers led an R&D team in developing a ductwork coating for the U.S. Navy that reduces duct airstream friction and improves corrosion resistance, resulting in improved duct lifetime and HVAC system efficiency. Mainstream (_URL_) is a Rockledge, Fla.-based research and development company with more than 70 patents and 30 current R&D projects with the U.S. military and NASA. Mainstream's HVAC division markets a variety of service products under the Qwik Products brand (_URL_) which are available through traditional HVAC distributors.


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What is the difference between these command:
find. –type f –name '*txt*'
find. –type f | grep 'txt'
I tried to run this and there is a difference but I want to know why?
The Major difference is FIND is for searching files and directories using filters while GREP is for searching a pattern inside a file or searching process(es)
FIND is an command for searching file(s) and folder(s) using filters such as size, access time, modification time.
The find command lists all of the files within a directory and its sub-directories that match a set of filters.
This command is most commonly used to find all of the files that have a certain name.
To find all of the files named theFile.txt in your current directory and all of its sub-directories, enter:
find. -name theFile.txt -print
To look in your current directory and its sub-directories for all of the files that end in the extension.txt, enter:
find. -name "*.txt" -print
GREP :(Globally search a Regular Expression and Print)
Searches files for a specified string or expression.
Grep searches for lines containing a specified pattern and, by default, writes them to the standard output.
grep myText theFile.txt
Result : Grep will print out each line contain the word myText.
In your first example, you are using the
find utility to list the filenames of regular files where the filename includes the string
In your second example, you are using the
find utility to list the filenames of regular files and feeding the resultant filenames via a pipe to the
grep utility which searches the contents of the pipe (a list of filenames, one per line) for the string
txt. Each time this string is found, the corresponding line (which is a filename) is outputted.
The difference between the two is that in the first case, find is looking for files whose name (just name) matches the pattern.
In the second case, find is looking for all files of type 'f' and outputting their relative paths as strings. That result gets piped to grep, which filters the input strings to those matching the pattern. The pattern 'txt' will filter the filepath results for the pattern. Importantly, the second case will include filepaths that match anywhere in the path, not just in the filename. The first case will not do that.


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Coconut shells have in modern days been put into different uses ranging from jewelry boxes to flower pots. Coconut shells can also be used as oil burning lamps, since they are easy to get, cheap and Eco friendly, and here is how to make one.
- Hard glue
- cotton string
- two coconuts.
- metallic bottle topProcedure
DIY for Oil burning lamps
- Cut the two coconut using the hacksaw into two halves thus having four halves
- Use the knife to remove the flesh
- Remove all the fibers to a smooth surface using the sand paper.
- hold together the two clean halves using the hard glue.
- make a hole on one side of the half big enough to place the glued shell on to serve as a stand
- using the knife make a hole on the bottle top and put through the string.
- place some oil in the shell and place the string in and close.
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Theme III.a: Micromorphological characteristics of plant drugs (vegetal drugs, herbal drugs)
Histology is the microscopic study of plants and animals tissues. Tissues are groups of cells having the same function and working coordinately with each other.
The histology progress has been slow until the nineteenth century, in which the microscope began to acquire a form similar to the present and the microtome, an instrument that allows make very thin tissue sections, was invented by the Czech physiologist Jan Evangelista Purkinje.
In 1907, American biologist Ross Granville Harrison discovered that living tissue could be grown, i.e. grow outside its original organ.
Histology was facilitated by the development in early twentieth century of the electron microscope and by the introduction in 1968 of the scanning electron microscope, as well as a large number of advances carried out on the design of microscopes in recent years.
The techniques of histochemistry and cytochemistry are closely related and have to do with the research of chemical activity taking place in cells and tissues.
For example, the presence of certain colors within the cells may indicate the type of chemical reaction that has taken place.
The histochemical methods are very useful in the study of enzymes, catalyst substances which control and lead many cellular activities.


Sentence for camminy | Use camminy in a sentence
How do you use camminy in a sentence. Journalists, spelling bee organizers, and those who would like to gain additional insight into the meaning of words may find this page particularly useful. The lines of text below use camminy in a sentence, and provide visitors a sentence for camminy.
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Digitaly extended fine art prints
The photographs from the NewBorn series are digitally extended. To experience them, install the Artivive app on your phone or tablet. Open the app and point your phone or tablet at the photographs to make them come to life. Enjoy!
The Story
NewBorn is a story about a life change. It's a story about apathy and unwillingness to change or start something new. It's a story about a sudden change that can occur in one's mindset or is necessitated by circumstances. It's a story about a journey to discovering a better self and making peace with oneself on both physical and psychological level. It might sound familiar to many. But the story can be read in multiple ways, as a story of overcoming addiction, a story about changing ones opinion or attitude, or a story about understanding the meaning of life and accepting oneself as a natural part of the universe.
Gallery of fine art prints
The Book
NewBorn is a very special book. I've put my heart in creating it and I hope you will like it as much as I do. It is a small limited edition of 100 hand-crafted pieces and the photographs inside are digitally extended.
The photography I create always reflects a contradiction between order and disorder both in the physical world and the state of mind.


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Google Drive Solution: 1:1 and Shared - This solution works well in both scenarios because students can quickly and easily login / logout of their Drive account on shared devices.
In a previous post I outlined how Google Drive and the Drive iPad app can be used to create student portfolios. The setup process I suggest is described below.
- Student creates a Portfolio folder.
- Student creates sub-folders for each course or topic within their Portfolio.
- Student shared either the entire Portfolio or specific sub-folders with the appropriate teacher. Folders can be shared with either editing or view-only access within Google Drive.
Documents: Students can create, edit and share Google Documents directly within the Drive app. Documents can then be organized and placed within specific folders in a student portfolio.
Images: Pictures can be taken directly in the Drive app and uploaded to a specific folder or images can be pulled from the camera roll. Use this feature in conjunction with image editing apps (Skitch), mindmapping apps or any app that exports to the camera roll.
Video: Video that is located in the camera roll can be uploaded within the Google Drive app. Use this feature in conjunction with ExplainEverything or iMovie to have students share video without having to publish their content to the web.
Evernote Solution: 1:1 and Shared - This solution works well in both scenarios because students can quickly and easily login / logout of their Evernote account on shared devices.
In a previous post, I outlined nearly every solution that Evernote provides with iPad use. Teachers and students can also use Evernote as a portfolio creation platform. The setup process I suggest is outlined below.
- Student creates a Portfolio Notebook (for a grade level or for individual courses)
- Student uses Evernote as a digital notebook platform and takes notes directly in their portfolio.
- Hand written notes can be taken with Penultimate or students can snap pictures of their hand written notes.
- Student writing or papers can be emailed to the student portfolio using the Evernote email address associated with the account. Further, documents can be emailed to a specific notebook using this trick.
- Screencasting Solutions:
- Explain Everything will export directly to Evernote.
- EduCreations will not export to Evernote, but a link to an EduCreations screencast can be placed in an Evernote note.
- Students can snap images of their work directly into a Evernote note, or images can be edited using Skitch and then sent to their Evernote Portfolio
Sharing an Evernote Portfolio: Once the portfolio is created, students can share the notebook with their teacher. An Evernote notebook can be shared directly to another Evernote user, and the shared notebook becomes viewable on any device.
Drawbacks to Evernote Portfolios:
- Student Age: While there is an Evernote for Schools program, many schools I have worked with have expressed concerns regarding the TOS for Evernote and having younger students make accounts.
- No Collaboration: With a free Evernote account, when a student creates and shared a Portfolio notebook, the collaborator has view only access.
Book Creator Solution: 1:1 - Because books are created and stored locally within the app on a particular iPad, I suggest using this solution for a strictly 1:1 setting or possibly with younger students who are using shared iPads.
Books created with Book Creator can include a combination of:
- Images - from the camera roll
- Recorded Audio
- Video - from the camera roll
Students can use Book Creator through the course of an entire year or throughout a course to slowly compile evidence of their learning and understanding. By using a combination of video (potentially from Explain Everything or iMovie), text, audio and images, students can create a dynamic and unique representation of their learning.
Advantages to Book Creator
- No login required to create
- Books can be exported as PDF (audio & video is lost)
- Books can be exported as iBooks
- Exporting options include any app that has an "open in feature", including:
- Google Drive
I'll be talking more about using iPads in the classroom this summer at the EdTechTeacher Summer Workshops in Boston, Chicago & Atlanta. Join us there!


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Life-Space Team March 16, 2020 3.5 minutes
There are many different strains of Lactobacillus bacteria, some even have specific health benefits. So how can you get more Lactobacillus into your diet?
Let's meet Lactobacillus
You're already in a cosy relationship with Lactobacillus, which lives in your mouth, gut and vagina. You feed it the necessary nutrients and it helps you metabolise food and does its best to crowd out 'bad' bacteria.
Here are some of the most common Lactobacillus strains and their known health benefits:
Lactobacillus and lady bits
Lactobacillus is usually the dominant bacteria in the vaginal flora of healthy women. Lactobacillus helps to maintain our vaginal health by ensuring there's less room for potentially harmful microbes and by producing some antimicrobial compounds that help keep them at
Life-Space Women's Microflora Probiotic contains six Lactobacillus strains to help restore and balance healthy vaginal flora, complementing our dietary efforts.
Lactobacillus-rich foods
Your diet is another way to get some Lactobacillus, so give these five foods a try:
1. Yoghurt
Read the label. L. bulgaricus is a commonly used starter culture with known health benefits. Other strains, such as L. acidophilus, may be added as probiotics.
2. Sauerkraut
This fermented cabbage dish is rich in friendly bacteria, including several strains of Lactobacillus.
3. Kefir
Kefir grains are a combination of lactic acid bacteria and yeast, fermented into a thin yoghurt-y drink. Its precise microbial composition varies, but Lactobacillus is always present.
4. Sourdough bread
Lactobacilli are the most important group of sourdough-fermenting bacteria.
5. Kimchi
This Korean dish even has a Lactobacillus strain named after it, kimchii.
Hopefully you're ready to start loving your Lactobacillus.
Always read the label. Follow the directions for use. Supplements should not replace a balanced diet. If symptoms persist, worsen or change unexpectedly, talk to your medical practitioner.
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Editorial Comment: China Eyes Continued Expansion of Smaller-Scale LNG
Smaller-scale liquefaction in China, the world's second-largest LNG importer, has experienced growth in recent years as China's government integrates more gas into the country's energy matrix. With more than 75% of installed global capacity for smaller-scale LNG production and a market capacity anticipated to reach 20 MMtpy this year, China is expected to remain the global hotspot for smaller-scale LNG through at least the late 2020s.
Unlike conventional LNG plants, which require large economies of scale to make up for significant CAPEX, smaller-scale LNG units require less investment, equipment and energy consumption. The modularization of hardware also allows fast and efficient manufacturing, installation and operation.
Smaller-scale LNG import infrastructure is helping China diversify its energy supply sources and enhance its energy security. China has the world's largest number of LNG trucks, and it is implementing an LNG refueling infrastructure project to build approximately 3,000 CNG/LNG refueling stations by 2025. China also plans to expand its LNG bunkering pontoon fleet to more than 40 vessels.
China's smaller-scale LNG exports. Over the past 20 yr, China has sent small volumes of gas via LNG containers to countries not well served by pipeline networks. The country is further exploring the use of ISO containers to export surplus gas from China. Each ISO tank holds approximately 17 metric t of LNG.
In January, China began exporting small LNG volumes to Cambodia. The imports will help Cambodia meet short-term gas demand for its smaller energy consumers, which represent almost half of the country's total energy demand, until it can buy or rent an FSRU toward the middle of the decade. Cambodia aims to import 100,000 metric t of LNG in more than 5,800 ISO tanks in 2020, which is equivalent to just 1–2 regular-size LNG cargoes.
Growing interest in ISO imports. As an LNG importer, China has received smaller LNG volumes from the international market for peakshaving and other uses. The country is also exploring LNG break-bulk imports in neighboring countries like Japan and South Korea. The break-bulk process involves separating standard-size LNG cargoes into ISO tank containers for delivery to China's coastal and riverbank ports. Potential supply partners include South Korea's Kogas and Japan's Shizuoka Gas.
In the past few years, Chinese importers have also conducted trial runs with LNG exporters in Australia, the U.S. and Canada, opening possible trade routes for smaller-scale LNG. For example, China Energy Reserve and Chemicals Group received around 100,000 metric t of LNG in ISO tank containers from the U.S., Canada and Australia between May 2017 and May 2018.
Also, Canadian natural gas utility FortisBC has an agreement with China's Top Speed Energy Corp. to send 53,000 metric tpy of LNG, or around 60 ISO containers per week, from its Tilbury LNG smaller-scale terminal to China by mid-2021. Although these long-distance deliveries are operationally feasible, their longer-term economic viability must be further explored. GP
The quest for plant availability: Achieving improved compressor reliability and efficiency in downstream operations
Plants in the downstream industry require a great degree of operational availability, equipment reliability and efficiency: These factors are crucial for end users, as thousands of complex and intricate processes are operating in parallel – many of them are driven and safeguarded by compression technologies.
Uniformly, reliability is a universal maxim, and this holds particularly true for handling and compressing challenging gases processed in such plants. In fact, there is a direct, vital link between the reliability of compressor equipment designed for and used in these processes and the availability of the plant.
With a focus on different chemical/petrochemical, syngas and LNG applications our speaker Ulrich Schmitz will introduce to the listeners how centrifugal compression technologies such as integrally geared can be designed and employed reliably to perform the key process challenges of the industry, while also contributing to an efficient operation.
September 24, 2020 10:00 AM CDT


What is the Law Regarding Employment in Alpena?
In Alpena, employment law means those laws governing employee and employer relationships, as well as independent contractors. Hiring procedures, wage disputes, and termination are some issues that are governed by these laws. Employers and employees in Alpena must have an understanding of the employment laws.
"At-Will" vs. Contract Employment Terms
Majority of the time employment is considered to be "at-will", although in some instances there might be an employment contract between the employer and employee for a set period of time. In "at-will" employment, either the employer or the worker may terminate the job at any time, just as long as the reasons for doing so are not illegal. In the instance that the employer and employee have an employment contract, laws from both the state and federal government will apply to the city of Alpena
Anti-Discrimination laws in Alpena
Discriminating at any time of employment such as hiring, workplace environment, and terminating, is illegal according to laws applicable to Alpena residents. People living in Alpena must abide by laws stating it is illegal for employers to discriminate against people who belong to particular classes. These classes may be based on race, national origin, gender, religion, disability, and age.
Employment discrimination claims are often heard by an administrative agency like the EEOC. Furthermore, some attorneys are specialists in the discrimination field.


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Facilitating the Effective Use of Earth Science Data in Education through Digital Libraries
Bridging the Gap between Scientists and Educators
Creating learning modules that utilize Earth data is a difficult task, requiring knowledge about the data, science, curriculum design, and the educational context. The Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) Data Services group hosted a workshop to bridge the knowledge gap between data providers and educators by assembling teams of experts in these areas to create data-rich learning modules. Face-to-face collaboration allowed the sharing of perspectives and encouraged the contribution of individual expertise, facilitating development of data-rich modules.
Though Earth science data and tools are officially freely available to the public, specific data are generally difficult to find, and are often provided in formats that are difficult to use. Digital libraries, such as DLESE (_URL_), provide a portal to educational materials and are moving toward more data integration. Efforts to expand the use of data in education have been slow, in part due to a communication gap between the scientific and educational communities.
2. Bridging the Gap between Scientists and Educators
In an effort to bridge the gap between the scientific and educational uses of data, DLESE's Data Services group facilitated a workshop in May 2004. Participants represented five critical areas of expertise necessary for developing data-rich educational modules: Earth science data providers, analysis tool developers, scientists, curriculum developers, and educators. Participants worked on teams of 5-6 members representing the five areas of expertise. Each team was charged with generating the foundations of an educational module in the form of an Earth Exploration Toolbook (EET) chapter (_URL_ that utilized data, tools, and expertise represented by the team members. One of the most valuable outcomes was that participants could see the issues of data access from new perspectives and respond quickly to expressed needs.
One team envisioned a tool that would facilitate visual comparison of two global data sets. The team's tool developer had a prototype available the next morning, and the team's data provider tapped his support staff to prepare data for the tool. On another team, a curriculum developer had tried for months to bring a specific dataset into a GIS tool; the complementary expertise on the team facilitated accomplishing this goal in minutes. Another team chose to host a smaller, more specific version of the Data Services workshop to focus on their specific dataset and analysis tool. In this workshop, educators provided feedback on the analysis tool directly to the tool builder, resulting in a tool that addresses both scientific and educational needs.
The success of a team depended on team members sharing their perspectives on data use and access as well as the ability to break down the language barriers between data providers and educators. Face-to-face interaction facilitated rapid development.
NSF DLESE Data Services (TERC EAR-_PHONE_, University of Northern Colorado EAR-_PHONE_, UNIDATA EAR-_PHONE_) NSF Earth Exploration Toolbook grant at TERC DUE-_PHONE_.
 Caron, B, and the DLESE Data Access Working Group (DAWG), Building Earth Data Resources into DLESE, pp 29, .
 Manduca, C. A. and D. Mogk, 2002. Using Data in the Undergraduate Science Classroom: A Report from an Interdisciplinary Workshop .
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Use these syllable cards to help children learn how to break words into syllables. These are a great visual practice for children to use help them understand the concept of syllables.
The cards come in both color and black and white. There are cards for 1, 2, 3, and 4 syllable words.
With these cards, children say the name of the picture, and then break it apart into syllables, by touching one dot for each syllable.
These are great for independent practice or center work!


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Global K-exponential controllers are constructed for the tracking control problem of nonholonomic systems in chained-form whose reference targets are allowed to converge to a point exponentially. By using a novel transformation and the cascade-design method, the tracking control problem is converted into stabilization problem of two simple subsystems. Then an LMI design approach is developed for stabilizing subsystems. The assumption on the reference signal is much more relaxed than those given in the previous papers.


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This mural was a collaborative project between the Lummi Cedar Project (Community Partner) Tami Chock. NWIC's Art History Class taught by Ramon Murillo and WWU's Art History Class taught by Julia Sapien Both are the (Instructional component of the project).
This project was a group effort brought together by the Centers for Service Learning at Northwest Indian College and at Western Washington University. The project was meant to foster a sense of cultural understand between Lummi and Bellingham and to build bridges and break barriers, as well as work to end some stereotypes that exist. The artwork will find its permanent home at the Lummi Youth/Teen Center.
The artwork depicted represents thoughts, ideas and heartfelt dialogues and discussions that the Lummi Cedar Project hosted and invited Elders and other members of the community to participate in. Lummi really opened up their homes to allow the students to enter and be able to complete this work!


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How to Adjust Columns Using the Columns Dialog Box in Word 2007
Once you create columns in your Word 2007 document, you can adjust their width and the space between them using the Columns dialog box. To find this dialog box, go to the Page Setup group in the Page Layout tab of the Ribbon. Then click the Columns button and select More Columns from the drop-down menu.
Here are some points to ponder when working with columns:
You can make specific column adjustments in the Width and Spacing area of the dialog box.
If you want a line between the columns of text, put a check in the Line Between box. (Note: There's no attractiveness guarantee for the line.)
The space between columns is the gutter. Word sets the width of the gutter at 0.5 — half an inch. This amount of white space is pleasing to the eye without being too much of a good thing.
Use the Preview window to get an idea of what the heck you're doing.The Columns dialog box.
The built-in Word feature that you can adjust or disable to automatically correct what Word (or you) considers an error.
Allowing an application to automatically correct what it considers errors, such as spelling and capitalization.
Common line art shapes (such as squares, pointing arrows, and speech bubbles) that are available to be inserted into a Word document for decoration or illustration.
A portion of text that is selected in a document; this can range from a single character to the entire document. By marking off text as a block, you can perform certain actions, or use various Word commands, that affect only the text in that block. You can also copy or move the block of text.
A line that is added above, below, or to either side of a paragraph. A border is useful for setting a block of text apart from surrounding text.
Images, both line art and pictures, available in Microsoft Word for a user to place in documents.
A collection of clip art images, both line art and pictures, that a user is free to use in Microsoft Word documents.
A formatting command that ends one column of text and continues that text in another column.
The Word tool that allows you to embed, hide, and read Comments as a reviewing tool.
The window that appears on the left side of the screen where you review Comments.
The feature in Word 2007 with which you can compare changes in one document against another document.
To make an image smaller by eliminating some of the content, much like cutting an image with a pair of scissors.
The part of a fraction that appears after or below the line. For example, in the fraction, 3/64, 64 is the denominator.
One of the five views in Word 2007. This is the most simple and streamlined view.
A specially formatted letter that appears at the beginning of a paragraph. Word offers two styles of drop caps. The first, and most common, begins the paragraph with a large letter that spills down into the text, displacing the first few lines of the paragraph. The second style places the large first letter in the margin adjacent to the paragraph.
In Mail Merge, an individual piece of information in a record, such as first name, last name, date, address, and phone number. Fields are what make a mail-merged document appear customized.
A placeholder in a Word document that holds variable data (such as a date, or an index tag). Field codes show in gray; toggle their view by pressing Alt+F9.
Text that appears at the bottom of a document page. A footer has its own special area and contains special text, such as the page number, document title, author's name, and date.
The white space between columns of text in a document. Word sets the default width of gutters at ½ inch, although you can change this amount.
Pressing Enter (PC) or Return (Mac) to insert a paragraph symbol and create a new paragraph.
Text that appears at the top of a document page. A header has its own special area and contains special text, such as the document title, author's name, date, and page number.
To adjust horizontal spacing so that text is aligned evenly along both the left and right margins. Justifying text creates a smooth edge on both sides.
Creating a special hyphen in Word that will not allow hyphenated words (such as disability-only services) to break at the end of a line (dis-ability-only services).
A special template file where Word stores all the settings for any new document you create. In Word, all documents are based on the Normal document template.
The part of a fraction that appears before or above the line. For example, in the fraction, 3/64, 3 is the numerator.
The built-in feature of Word where you can search for help about Word.
A number that indicates a position in a series, such as 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and so on. Ordinals are one of the main reasons for using superscripts.
One of the five views in Word 2007. In this view, you can see how the document will print according to its page breaks.
The feature in Word that you can open to see how your document will look after printing.
Checking a document for errors, especially spelling, grammar, and layout.
The feature in Word 2007 with which you can assign or restrict editing rights to a document.
A text box that highlights a quote from the document in which it appears.
A collection of thumbnail presets that you can apply to text. You can use these styles to quickly format your document.
1. (noun) In Mail Merge, a collection of information about a person, organization, or event. A record consists of fields, which are individual pieces of information, such as first name, last name, date, address, and phone number. 2. (verb) To set down in permanent form, such as through writing.
The search pane that opens on the right side of the screen when you right-click a word with a wavy red or green underline and then choose Look Up from the menu that appears.
A panel of tabs representing different functional areas in Word. Each tab contains command buttons and icons, organized into related groups. A new feature of Word 2007, the Ribbon replaces the menus and toolbars from earlier versions of Word.
Typically, a block of supplementary material placed in a text box in a document.
A Microsoft Word feature that lets you add several different types of useful diagrams to your document. The idea behind SmartArt diagrams is to represent a bullet list as a diagram of interconnected shapes.
Manually inserting a new line without creating a new paragraph. On a PC keyboard, the shortcut is Shift+Enter.
A feature in many applications that checks spelling (and often grammar) against a built-in dictionary.
1. (noun) A collection of formatting commands that can be applied to text to make a document look more consistent and attractive. 2. (verb) To make consistent with a formatting convention by applying a certain style.
Words that have similar meanings, such as pink and rosy.
A special type of document file used as the basis for formatting new documents.
A special type of shape designed to place text on your Microsoft Word document without regard to the normal page margins.
The way text is arranged in relation to a picture or image in a document.
An option for arranging text around an image in a document, such as In Line with Text, Behind Text, In Front of Text, or Tight.
The built-in Word feature that offers synonyms and antonyms.
The feature in Word with which you can monitor who adds and deletes what from a document. You can hide Track Changes but still have them enabled.
Abbreviation for Uniform Resource Locator. Used in common speech to mean a Web address, such as _URL_.
Faint or faded words or images that appear in a document behind the text. One common example is a Confidential watermark placed diagonally across the page.
A collection of preformatted watermark options in Word.
A Microsoft Word feature that takes ordinary text and transforms it into a preformatted (and often rather artistic) design.
A collection displaying Microsoft Word's many WordArt options.


PizzaScript Parser with RxGo — The Pyramid of Doom
Hello there 👋! In the previous chapter, we introduced a toy programming language - PizzaScript to start our journey into compilers, parsers, Reactive patterns, and many other interesting topics.
In this series of meetups and articles we learn Go, including key libraries like RxGo, explore how programming languages and interpreters work, and experiment with WebAssembly.
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Today, we are going to focus on programming language parsers, overview, and practice with a calculator use case. Additionally, we implement Pratt's top-down operator precedence algorithm in Go using the RxGo library.
Be careful, we use PizzaScript code to explain the problem and show Go implementation at the end!
We already discussed the nature of programming languages and compilers. It all starts with a language definition. Below you can see an example of a language used to define a calculator program written in the Backus–Naur form.
An expression can contain one or multiple operands combined with arithmetic operations. Each operand is a number (a set of digits), possibly preceded by a "+" or "-" sign.
- Hello 👋, does PizzaScript support it yet?
- It does! 📢
Lexer is the first step in analyzing a program. It splits the original text into simple structures — lexemes or tokens. We already know PizzaScript tokens
Parser is the second or syntax analysis step, in which we check if a program is valid against the defined language syntax and produces an abstract syntax tree (AST).
The Algorithm
Now, how are we going to transform lexemes into the AST?
Good question! A nice thing about BNF grammars, as we mentioned last time is that rules can be transformed into a parsing algorithm. Especially, when this notation is following a special "context-free" principle. It is a kind of grammar limitation in which the left part of a rule can contain only non-terminal tokens, whereas the right part can contain both non-terminal and terminal ones.
Non-terminals means they still can be transformed, terminals are final states.
With that in mind, a BNF can be converted into a working program by applying the following steps:
 - the left side of a BNF rule is going to be a function declaration, defined for each non-terminal token,
 - the right side is the function body, consequentially calling functions and checking for terminals,
 - quantifiers (*, +, etc.) are translated into control flow constructions like while, for, if, and so on.
This way to build a parser is known as a recursive descent top-down technique. Wikipedia shows a detailed example of it.
The alternative is bottom-up parsers, which are out of the scope of this article 😄 Luckily, we skip language and parser categories, too 😅
It's straightforward and clean. It has a disadvantage though — you have to implement each combination of operators, operands, and expressions separately. As you can imagine, as PizzaScript grammar grows, that would be a hellish amount of work to maintain.
That is where the Vaughan Pratt parsing algorithm (the so-called Top Down Operator Precedence algorithm) comes into play. It encapsulates the parser's logic into a simple shape.
 - nud (or prefix) stands for null denotation and can operate to the right with no left-context (for expressions like +1, -1, or even -+-1)
 - led(or infix) is left denotation and operates on two operands from left to right (for normal expressions like 1+2, 2*3)
The one not explained yet is the function bp — binding power. It is a key for the Pratt algorithm as it solves another important problem - which token has more priority. Say, * has more priority than +. The canonical example 1 + 2 * 3 should result in a tree, like
In fact, there is a proposal to treat every operator with equal priority 😀 (1+2*3=9) in PizzaScript
This is a picture of an algorithm going through input 3 + 1 * 2 * 4 + 5, where 0, 10 and 20 are default, "+", and "*" binding power respectively.
We recommend going through Pratt Parsing by Jonathan Apodaca — a concise, practical, and very informative article about it.
Let's recap the Pratt algorithm:
 - each operator has precedence or binding power
 - tokens are recognized differently in the null or left position (nud or led)
 - the recursive parse expression function consumes tokens from left to right until it reaches an operator of a precedence less than or equal to the previous operator
Implementation Details & Problems
Let's start with simple ones. Binding power definition and calculation in Go looks like
The led function does nothing more than creating a Node
We will leave the nud implementation for later as it makes more sense with the main parse expression functionality.
Node Type
No matter how exactly we proceed further with our compiler, we will have an intermediate representation (IR) of a processed text. The parser takes an input stream of tokens and builds a hierarchical data structure mirroring the original program — the abstract syntax tree (AST).
The AST format is non-standard across different interpreters, and generally, nodes inside the tree can be of different types. We are going to use a Homogeneous AST model in which all the nodes are of the same Node type. That would help us to simplify the implementation for now, and we can refactor and extend it later.
As one can see, Node is a potentially-recursive structure. Although we stated it as homogeneous, its interpretation or even evaluation still would differ depending on the nodes and tokens it contains.
And we will explore it in future chapters 🤫
The main parse expression
And here is the challenge.
Usually, compilers act more in an "imperative" way, by controlling processed text and position. With the RxGo and Observable patterns, this concept changes from top to bottom. Now, a stream of asynchronous events is the compiler's input and handlers have to deal with it. We saw how it happened with lexer before. Instead of saving and incrementing the current position while reading text, we operate on asynchronously given text chunks.
Last time, we used the RxGo Scan operator
It allowed us to apply the look-ahead technique - to keep the previous iteration and produce a required one based on the previous value. Again, we introduce an intermediate iterator type to decide on produced values.
To implement the recursive nature of the original algorithm, we had to use one other trick and save the aggregated stack. We call it
The Pyramid of Doom
Instead of imperatively taking the next token from stream, it saves the current iterator state. For recursion analogue it uses an iterator's stack.
In the future we want to use the Reduce operator instead.
And the last one — the promised nud function
It copies the stack to maintain the main function's recursion. Also, it recognises when to stop denotation. Currently, it's a token.Type attribute, which should be equal to INT.
Finally, that concludes our second step of parsing expressions.
Next Steps
The upcoming Saturday, 27 March, 10:00 CET we will meet in a live session to dive into the details about that matter. You are very welcome to join! In the next article, we will extend calculator with variables functionality, and overview WebAssembly. Actually, we ask your opinion - what should be our next topic for PizzaScript?
 - More about PizzaScript 🍕
 - Deep dive into parsers, programming languages 🎓
 - Let's compile it to WebAssembly already 💻
Let us know in comments! 🙏
We've just started, feel free to join us on:
And of course, the source code is open. Any feedback, contribution, or help is highly appreciated.
Thanks for your time and have a nice coding!
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