Ernst Feßmann Explained
Ernst Feßmann
Birth Date:6 January 1881
Birth Place:Pfersee, Bavaria
Death Place:Pullach, Bavaria
Allegiance: (to 1918)
(to 1933)
Serviceyears:1900–37, 1939–43
Rank: General der Panzertruppe
Commands:3rd Panzer Division
Battles:World War I
World War II
Ernst Feßmann (6 January 1881 – 25 October 1962) was a German general of the Heer (German Army) who led the 267th Infantry Division in the early stages of World War II. Prior to the war, he was also notable for commanding one of the first Panzer Divisions.
A Bavarian born in 1881, Feßmann joined the Bavarian Army in 1900 as an Fahnen-junker (officer cadet) and was commissioned as a leutnant (lieutenant) in the cavalry. After service in the German Imperial Army during World War I, he was retained in the postwar Reichswehr (Imperial Defence). After a two-year period on the staff of the 7th Kraftfahr Battalion (motorcycle battalion), he was appointed its commander in 1924. Two years later, he was given command of the 17th Cavalry Regiment.
From 1931 to early 1933, Feßmann led the motorised battalion of the 2nd Artillery Regiment, before a period in the Soviet Union at the Reichswehrs secret Panzertruppenschule (armoured training school) at Kazan. Following Adolf Hitler's disbandment of the school in late 1933, Feßmann was made commander of the Kraftfahrlehrkommando (Motor Vehicle Training Command) at Zossen. He later commanded the Panzer Lehr Brigade.
In March 1935, the Reichswehr was reorganised as the Wehrmacht (Defence Force) and the Heer (Army) branch began a significant expansion which extended to the creation of the Panzerwaffe (Armoured Force). Feßman was appointed commander of the 3rd Panzer Division in Berlin on 15 October 1935, with the rank of generalleutnant (equivalent to the rank of major general in the United States Army). His new command was one of the first three panzer divisions to be created. The other two were the 1st Panzer Division formed in Weimar and commanded by Maximilian von Weichs and the 2nd Panzer Division formed in Würzburg and commanded by Heinz Guderian.
The 3rd Panzer Division was known as the Bear Division, after its divisional symbol and its 1st Panzer Regiment was drawn largely from Feßmann's previous command, the Kraftfahrlehrkommando. Most of its panzer companies, which initially each consisted of only eight tanks, began equipping and training with Panzerkampfwagen I (armored fighting vehicle mark I). Feßmann retired from the Wehrmacht in September 1937 as a general der panzertruppe (General of Panzer Troops) but returned to active service at the outbreak of World War II.
Appointed commander of the newly formed 267th Infantry Division on 26 August 1939, Feßmann served on the Western Front and took part in the invasions of Belgium and France. After the fall of France in May 1940, his division garrisoned a sector along the English Channel for a year, before being transferred east for Operation Barbarossa. Before the invasion of the Soviet Union began, he was replaced as divisional commander by Generalmajor Friedrich-Karl von Wachter (generalmajor is equivalent in rank to a brigadier general in the United States Army). He took up a staff post at Frankfurt and served here until he retired again in 1942. He was officially discharged from the Wehrmacht the following year. Settling in Pullach after the war, he died on 25 October 1962.


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2002-2003 Governance Implementation Task Force
2002-2003 Annual Report
Summary: The Governance Implementation Task Force reviewed progress made in the development and delivery of chapter benefits, a proposed schedule and process for the deployment of a chapter network, a proposed chapter agreement, and refinements to the criteria for chapter status. The task force also reviewed proposed changes to the ACHE Bylaws for 2003.
The Governance Implementation Task Force was established to oversee the activities of ACHE staff in implementing the recommendations of the 2000-2001 Governance Task Force and to consider further efforts needed to implement the direction of that report. The task force met August 29, 2002. A summary of the task force's activities follows:
PROPOSED GOVERNANCE AND CHAPTER DEPLOYMENT SCHEDULE
The task force reviewed and approved a proposed schedule of activities needed from September 2002 through November 2003 to provide the policies and infrastructure to support the formation of ACHE chapters.
REFINEMENTS TO THE CRITERIA FOR CHAPTER STATUS
The task force reviewed and approved proposed adjustments to the previously approved criteria for chapter status. The changes were made to clarify the criteria and add new criteria felt to be needed in order to insure a positive working relationship between ACHE and prospective chapters. The changes also adjusted the window of time by which the chapter must comply with several of the criteria. The revised criteria were placed on the fall district meeting agenda for discussion by Regents and demonstration group liaisons.
PROPOSED CHAPTER AGREEEMENT
The task force members carefully reviewed the contract language proposed by ACHE legal counsel for the contract between ACHE and the prospective chapter. They made a number of detailed suggestions which substantially changed the content and form of the contract. The task force asked ACHE staff to revise the contract with the assistance of legal counsel and distribute it to the demonstration groups for review and comment.
CHAPTER FORMATION PROCESS
The task force considered the issue of how to go about the formation of chapters. They endorsed using a market planning approach to identify geographic service territories for all prospective chapters in each district. They concluded that this process holds the best probability of resulting in the orderly allocation of viable member markets among existing affiliated groups and would aid in identifying those parts of the country where new organizations are needed. The task force recommended that the approach be reviewed at fall district meetings with Regents and demonstration group liaisons.
The task force reviewed changes to the American College of Healthcare Executives Bylaws that will be considered at the 2003 Council of Regents Meeting. Those changes address the following issues:
- Provide for ACHE Chapters
- Make the Board of Governors the primary legislative body representing the affiliates; the Council of Regents will then serve as an advisory council
Powers that must be transferred from the Council of Regents to the Board of Governor to effect this change are the powers to:
- Make all policy decisions
- Approve all proposals pertaining to dues and assessments
- Approve all changes to the Regulations Governing Admission, Advancement, and Recertification
- Approve all changes to the Bylaws and Articles of Incorporation
- Approve all changes to the Code of Ethics
- Designate Districts
A marked up copy of the American College of Healthcare Executives Bylaws reflecting these changes can be found in the 2002-2003 Bylaws Committee Report.

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Come Holy Spirit Renew the Creation
St. Gregorios Orthodox Church,
"The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars; the Lord breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon" –Psalms 29: 5
The cedars of Lebanon (Cedrus libani) are mentioned frequently throughout the Old Testament (see Ezekiel 31:3, Psalm 104:16, Amos 2:9). These coniferous trees are well known for their height (up to 130 feet) and massive trunk (up to 8 feet in diameter). In Biblical times, these trees were highly valuable due to their superior building quality----even King Solomon found it worthy enough to build his temple in Jerusalem with (1 Kings 5:6). The psalmist is well aware of its features when referring to the cedars to describe the power and strength of the Lord.
When considering the cedars of Lebanon, we can find that many of its characteristics are in line with how we should live our own lives:
UsefulNot only do these trees provide an excellent source of timber, they also provide shelter to birds and other living things. We should lead a life where we are of use to those around us. Consider: How useful have we been this week to others in our life?
RootedFor every ten feet that these cedars are above ground, the roots below go down 30 feet! Being deeply rooted is what allows these timbers to stand upright through many storms and other natural disasters. If we are to grow in Christ, we must first be rooted in Him. When we stand firm in God's love for us, we are better able to withstand the storms of grief, disappointment, and pain. Consider: Are we deeply rooted in Christ? Do the roots go beyond what others can see?
CooperativeWhen there are neighboring trees around, cedars will often intertwine and grow together as one. If one tree becomes weak, its limbs will be sustained by merging with the healthy tree. We are expected to carry the weak amongst us and also allow others to carry us when we are weary. Consider: Have we been able to bear the burden of those in need? Have we accepted help from others in times of struggle?
As we read the entirety of Psalms 29, it seems that the psalmist is in the middle of a thunderstorm while hearing the voice of the Lord. Just how powerful is His voice? Powerful enough to break the cedars of Lebanon. Let us grow to be like the cedars of Lebanon (Psalms 92:12), while keeping in mind the awesome power of God who sits as King forever.
Heavenly Father, thank You for being the God of judgment, strength, and power over all the earth. We pray that we can be more like the cedars of Lebanon. Help us to be useful to those around us, deeply rooted in You, and cooperative with others. We love You for all that You do for us. In Jesus' name we pray, Amen.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
It's impossible even for the devil to cut down a tree that is so deeply rooted, so useful, and so cooperative.


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It's called the Salt and Ice Challenge.
The game is played by putting salt on the skin, pressing ice on top of it and holding it in place until the ice melts or until the pain becomes too severe.
Numerous people have posted youtube videos of themselves participating in the challenge, which experts say can cause severe burns to the skin, similar to frostbite.
Officials at Pennsylvania's Phoenixville Middle School became concerned after they say they heard students talking about the game.
They quickly took action and sent a letter warning parents.
"Our goal is to provide you with this information in order to facilitate open communication at home to ensure the safety of our students," said Dr. Frank Garritano of the Phoenixville School District.

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Shocking Disaster at Cambridge [Newspaper Article]
This particular news report is drawn from a collection gathered by a Waikato University undergraduate student, Pauline Hunt, when investigating the hazards of life for colonial children during the 1880s. Her unpublished study concentrated on two regional newspapers, the New Zealand Herald, published in Auckland; and the Waikato Times, printed in Hamilton. The types of accidents, fatal and non-fatal, reported during this decade included: drownings; injuries involving horses; burns from fire and scalding water; poisonings, frequently from youngsters chewing the phosphorus head on matches; falls from trees, over cliffs, into disused mine shafts, and off a house balcony; gunshot accidents; attacks by animals; and work-related injuries or death involving machinery or moving vehicles, such as tramcars or horse-drawn drays. Water, horses, and fire were the three most common causes of accidental injury or death for those under 15 years of age. (Disease, infanticide, neglect, cruelty, or assault were not included in the research project.)
Only a very few reports made reference to Maori children; the majority dealt with Pakeha whose communities were, by the 1880s, becoming dominant in the region. Daily or weekly papers were the principal means of disseminating local, national, and international news. The columns devoted to accidents gave a wealth of medical detail, including explicit descriptions of the injuries, and sometimes concluded with an expression of sympathy for the family. Warnings or words of advice were frequently printed as well. Both language and content reflect contemporary attitudes concerning the need to keep children safe. Communities as well as parents needed to protect the "social capital" that their youngsters represented.
Waikato Times, "Shocking Disaster at Cambridge: Three Children Burned to Death." November 8, 1884, p. 2, col. 5. Annotated by Jeanine Graham.
Primary Source Text
SHOCKING DISASTER AT CAMBRIDGE
Three Children Burned to Death
One of the saddest fatalities that have ever shocked the senses of the people of this district occurred at Cambridge on Thursday afternoon, resulting in the burning to death of three young children, Hedley James Osborne, aged four years, Julietta Alice Osborne, aged two years, and Mary Agnes Osborne, aged five months....
Mrs Osborne, having some shopping to do in the town, put her infant child to bed, and locked it up by itself in the bedroom, so that it should not be disturbed by the other two children. Seeing that everything was safe, there being no fire in the house since breakfast time, she shut up the boy and the girl in the kitchen, and proceeded to town on her business. When leaving her home in this way, it was a usual thing for Mrs Osborne to shut up her children, believing that did she not do so they would find their way to the river, only a few chains distant, or to a deep well adjoining....
"I was in the habit of leaving my children at home by themselves about once a week. I was generally away from about one to two hours. I very often took the baby with me.... There was neither fire nor ashes in the stove when I left home at twenty minutes to one. I forgot to put the matches away. The matches were on the ledge over the mantelpiece, and the boy must have got the broom and knocked them down. I have seen the boy get the matches frequently and try to light his father's pipe... I was generally careful in keeping the matches out of his way. There was some paper underneath the sofa, and under the cushion of the chair there was a Weekly News. The children were in the habit of reading the paper and playing with it. The inside of the house was papered... I usually keep the matches in the bedroom, and the children saw me put them above the fireplace before I left."
The Coroner then summed up. He referred to the boy's habit of using matches as described by the mother, and he had no doubt but that the fire originated by the boy getting hold of the matches on this occasion, and in some way setting fire to their clothes or some paper that may have been lying about.... He thought that the children might have been left with some neighbour.
A juryman informed the coroner that there were no neighbours in the vicinity, and the unfortunate people were not in a position to employ a girl to look after the house in their absence.
A verdict of accidental death by burning was returned.
How to Cite This Source
"Shocking Disaster at Cambridge [Newspaper Article]," in Children and Youth in History, Item #73, _URL_ (accessed June 20, 2013). Annotated by Jeanine Graham


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We don't see the walking dead in this shot
from "The Walking Dead," but we do see
a flock of animated birds.
In The Atlantic, Brian Thill wrote a short essay on the meaning of artificial birds in film:
Do you ever wonder about those flocks of computer-generated birds flitting across the screens of so many of your favorite shows and films? I do. I'll be watching your average contemporary Hollywood film or TV show, but when I'm supposed to be gazing at the planet-destroying starship, giant robot, mythical behemoth, or fantastical cityscape, my attention always gets pulled elsewhere, focusing instead on much smaller things within the frame — usually, those confounded digital birds flying around.
And they are everywhere, once you start noticing them: initially invisible, tucked into the branches of trees or snuggled under a derelict underpass. We didn't even know they were there; and then they burst into flight, flap and turn and are gone in a skittering black rush of wings. They cut across the barren Atlanta highways of TV's The Walking Dead. They soar from the middle heights of Peter Jackson's Isengard. In Man of Steel, some vast and sublime Kryptonian space-thing crashes into the Kansas fields, and there they are yet again, reliably fanning out from the crash site like the spray from an impact crater, a dark flurry of black birds erupting from the fields and flying swiftly away from danger and out of frame. In the midst of all the ornate action on screen, they're perhaps the least consequential objects in the frame. And yet I find myself seeing and thinking about them constantly. Like the overstuffed grocery bag and the unlocked door, fake birds are so common, and yet so inconsequential in modern Hollywood film. What are these things? What are they doing there?
The short answer: they're an easy way to show us "Nature" amidst the majestic scale of the incredible computer-animated scenes we're seeing. But there are other reasons, too.
Read the rest: Fake Birds on Film, The Atlantic>>


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This cool page designed that I designed will tell you all about my study!
The Effects of Background Music on Shopping Behavior
Many marketing practitioners have accepted the notion that
music affects human beings in various ways.Music is increasingly used as
a stimulus in the retail environment as well as in radio and television
advertising to evoke responses advertisers want to see. This paper reviews
literature concerning the effects that various types of background music
have on individuals while shopping online. Past research has shown individuals
to react differently while listening to background music in a store settings.
It was hypothesized that background music does effect several areas of
individual shopping behavior on the internet also.
(note: all important numbers are blue)
experiment was designed to determine whether background music effected
online shopping behaviors. It was hypothesized that background music
would lead to and increase in product likability, increase in the number
of items purchased, increase in the amount amount of money spent
and an increase in the amount of time shopping online.
Independent sample t-tests were used to calculate the results of this study. The hypothesis of background music affecting product likability was not supported T(18)=1.23,p=.233.
Although, the product likability hypothesis was not supported, the results do show background music to have some effect on other aspects of shopping behavior.
However, the hypothesis that background music would lead to an increase in the number of items purchased was supported. On average, participants who were exposed to background music did purchase more items (M=5.50) than those who were not exposed to background music (M=3.60).
difference of only an average of 2 items, substantiated over a number of
customers, is significant
As shown in figure 3, on average participants who were exposed to background music while shopping online, spent more time online (M=13.50 minutes) than those without background music (M=7.50 minutes). These participants were given the option to stop shopping at any time during the experiment and still, the experimental group with the background music stayed online for a longer period of time.
the hypothesis that background music would lead to an increase in the amount
of money spent was not supported T(18)=.589,p=.563.
The background music did not seem to have an effect on the amount of money
spent, but only the amount of products purchased.
examining the average amount per item spent per group, significance was
not found. The experimental group spent an average of $81.75
per item and the control group averages $80.67.
These dollar amounts are too close to be significant.
Although not every finding supported the hypothesis that background music affects shopping behavior, two aspects of shopping behavior were found to be significantly different. Both amount of time spent shopping online and number of items purchased were affected by the music. However, this research shows that money and product likability do not seem to be affected by background music.
The main findings were as follows: as hypothesized, background music did not have an effect on how much individuals liked the products they purchased. However, background music did lead to an in an increase in the amount of products purchased along with an increase in the amount of time spent online. Although more items were purchased while background music was playing, a less amount of money was spent while listening to background music. These findings indicate background music does affect different aspects of online shopping behavior.
some significance was found with the data, there were also several limitations
to this study. The mixed results may have been the cause of the participants
not actually purchasing the products but rather just placing the items
in the shopping cart. If the purchase intentions were real, the participants
may have been more conscientious of what they were buying and how music
money they were spending. There may have been many underlying reasons why
participants purchased more items with background music than those without
music. Impulse shopping behavior may have played a role in this study.
The findings indicate that increased time spent online resulted in an increase
in the number of items purchased. This may be a result of participants
jumping at the first item they see and buying it. How much the participant
liked the background music should have been assessed to see if music preference
played a role in the purchasing of the items. Also, computer literacy among
participants was not measured and may have played a role in how quickly
individuals shopped online.
Also, past experience with shopping online may have caused some participants to move around online quicker than others.
Maturation may have also played a role in the shopping behavior. Individuals who caught on faster by the end of the experiment probably were able to purchase more items than those who never understood the directions on how to shop online. Likability for computers and the Internet may have been a confound variable in this study. Participants who prefer to use computer programs may have felt more comfortable and at ease in front of the computer than those who do not feel comfortable with computers.
To avoid some of these confounding variables, future experimenters may want to access the participantís computer literacy and whether or not they feel comfortable shopping online, along with other demographic variables of the participants.
Although only some significance was found in this study, this data does expand our knowledge of background music and online shopping behavior. This study helps us to understand why some shopping online networks get more business. If online shopping networks included background music on their shopping homepages, increases in time spent online and amount of produce purchased could be hypothesized for these big online shopping networks.


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Gas Turbine Alternator RTDs Meaning and Explanation
Hello everyone,
We are in operation of 19.6 MW GE make gas turbine (Mark Vie control system) with Brush make alternators. There are nine RTDs installed for alternator i.e. :
1. Stator coupling end : 3 nos, (DTGSF1, DTGSF2, DTGSF3)
2. Stator collector end : 3 nos : (DTGSA4, DTGSA5, DTGSA6)
3. Cold gas TE : 1 no ( DTGGC10)
4. Hot air TE & CE: 2 nos (DTGGH18. DTGGH19)
Can anyone explain what are meaning of the tags, its functions and its importance?
Thanks and regards
>1. Stator coupling end : 3 nos, (DTGSF1, DTGSF2, DTGSF3)
DTGSF1 Detector, Temperature-Generator Stator Forward #1
DTGSF1 Detector, Temperature-Generator Stator Forward #2
DTGSF1 Detector, Temperature-Generator Stator Forward #3
There are three RTDs, embedded in the generator stator at the "forward" end of the generator (also referred to as the turbine end, or the drive end, or the driven end), usually one RTD in each phase (of the 3-phase generator)
>2. Stator collector end : 3 nos : (DTGSA4, DTGSA5, DTGSA6)
Detector, Temperature-Generator Stator Aft #4
Detector, Temperature-Generator Stator Aft #5
Detector, Temperature-Generator Stator Aft #6
There are also usually three RTDs, embedded in the generator stator at the "aft" end of the generator (also referred to as the collector end, the non-drive end, the non-driven end), usually one RTD in each phase (of the 3-phase generator); I have always presumed DTGSA4 is measuring the temperature of the same phase as DTGSF1, and DTGSA5 is measuring the same temperature as DTGSF2, and so on
>3. Cold gas TE : 1 no ( DTGGC10)
DTGGC10 Detector, Temperature-Generator Gas Cold #10
This RTD measures the temperature of the cold "gas" (air in an air-cooled generator; hydrogen in a hydrogen-cooled generator--the cooling "gas")
>4. Hot air TE & CE: 2 nos (DTGGH18. DTGGH19)
DTGGH18 Detector, Temperature-Generator Gas Hot #18
DTGGH19 Detector, Temperature-Generator Gas Hot #19
There is usually an RTD at each "exit" of the air cooling the generator, one at the turbine end (the "forward" end) and one at the collector end (the "aft" end)
Should a high temperature develop in the generator stator (turbine end or collector end), the embedded RTDs could help in detecting the high temperature. Again, as was mentioned in another thread--operators should always be "trending" readings like these, because if they rise, and the rate of rise, can be an indication of a problem--possibly a serious problem if the rate of temperature rise is very quick.
By monitoring the temperature of the air entering and leaving the generator one can also gauge the effectiveness of the cooling of the generator. Again--trending these temperatures is key to spotting a problem BEFORE it becomes a serious problem.
Hope this helps!
Hello CSA...
Yes this will help. recently the RTD DTGSA-4 was increasing gradually till 96 deg C (normal 70-74 deg C) and operator raised alarm. While troubleshooting b instrument engineer, the GT got somehow tripped. Later we came to know its trip setting is 120 deg C.
Now I have a query.... will it really require to set the particular temp at collector end to be set at 120 Deg C. I think it is not.
But anyway thank you CSA sir for the explanation and help
Would it surprise you to know that most generators supplied with a unit packaged by GE don't have trips configured for the generator RTDs? Alarms, yes; but trips, no.
GE's philosophy as a packager is that an alarm should alert a conscious operator to a problem--which might be or become a serious problem--and the operator can raise the issue with the operations supervisor or other plant personnel to decide what corrective action to take.
This is a good philosophy--because when the turbine control system is configured to alarm AND trip for just about every possible condition then the unit becomes unreliable. In the case you are describing if only one stator RTD is indicating a problem the plant personnel should be able to decide how to handle the situation. In your case, it seems the I&C technician was troubleshooting the issue without understanding how the Mark VIe handles RTDs and what can happen when an RTD is disconnected or the wiring is otherwise "disturbed"--and probably was also unaware that a single out-of-range RTD signal (high in this case) would also result in a turbine trip (if the scenario you described is actually what happened--a LOT of times trips are incorrectly attributed to something OTHER than what really tripped the turbine by people who should know better, but don't--the Trip History and the Alarm Display have the required information to be able to say precisely what tripped the turbine!). And, so, if what you say happened actually happened, this is another case of making the unit unreliable by trying to make it trip for any and all conditions and taking the ability of operators and their supervisors to make appropriate decisions.
Now, if the unit was not configured/programmed to trip on a single high stator temperature and the tech caused an out-of-range signal which would have resulted in a trip had it been configured/programmed to trip on a high-high value then all that would have happened is that the signal would have been out of range and the unit would have continued to run (which is probably what the tech thought would happen because it appears he didn't check to see if the unit would trip on a high value--which should have been done).
So, trying to use the automated turbine control system to protect the unit in just about any or every case can actually have undesired results. And, guess what gets the blame? The Mark* turbine control system! Because it tripped the turbine! And, someone thinks--now--the turbine should not trip on a single high-high generator stator temperature (real or caused by an instrument tech). BUT, when the unit was built and ordered someone in the organization that was purchasing the unit decided the unit SHOULD trip on high-high generator stator temperatures, and so it was configured/programmed that way. And that person is probably long gone and no longer associated with the unit, and now someone (you, included) doesn't believe the unit should trip on a single high-high generator stator temperature reading.
Can you see what the issue here is? It's trying to substitute machine intelligence (that of the Mark* turbine control) for operator and operator supervisor intelligence. And, more and more sites are thinking this way, and this is leading to more and more turbine trips and blame being incorrectly attributed to the Mark*. Because owners and managers don't want to pay operators and technicians to be properly trained and want to let the hero turbine control system make all the decisions about whether or not to trip the turbine to protect it from inexperienced operators and technicians.
Yes; it happens everywhere around the world. Not so much in Europe, but pretty much just about everywhere else. Cut training budgets; pay operators and technicians less; and let the hero turbine control system make all of these decisions instead of trained, experienced operators, technicians and their supervisors. (Most operations supervisors get promoted to that position from a job as an operator. And, if they didn't get much, if any, training as an operator how does that make them a good supervisor? Learning by mistake is not the best way to learn how to run a turbine-generator or a power plant.)
As for the trip value of a reading--120 deg C is about 250 deg F. And, that's a fairly high temperature for a normal, air-cooled generator being operated properly (with a good supply of clean, dry cooling air, an unobstructed air way, a clean generator stator and clean generator cooling fan blades).
Here's the deal: It's not uncommon for embedded generator stator RTDs to fail over time. And it's made worse when generators are operated at high stator temperatures for long periods of time. Now, sometimes, it's just the wiring that gets damaged, but sometimes it's the stator insulation. And, it's very difficult to replace most embedded generator stator RTDs. So, they just get left "open" circuited in most cases. I'm NOT saying that has happened or was happening at your site (you didn't tell us what the results of the tech's checks were, which should have been completed after the turbine tripped and before it was re-started). I'm just saying this is not an uncommon occurrence for many generators around the world.
Finally, RTD wiring is very confusing to most people. VERY confusing. It's actually very simple, but it can appear very complicated. And, the Mark* turbine controls will react differently when one wire is removed as opposed to another (most Mark* RTD inputs require three wires, not just two). (And, that's not documented in


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Everyone uses letter pads these days. Letter pads are the medium of written communication in both the corporate and creative worlds. Be it a lone individual or a business enterprise, everyone needs a letter pad. And why? It's time we know.
What are letter pads?
Letter pads are a bunch of loose letter papers bound together and backed by a cardboard sheet. They come as a "pad" or collection of loose sheets.
Letter pads are a part of both professional and personal stationery. They are designed attractively and printed on high -quality paper.
What is the difference between a letter pad and a letterhead?
A letter pad is a collection of sheets of paper while a letterhead refers to a single sheet. A letter pad is often a sheet of blank paper with minimal design. when the letter pads papers are embossed or printed with the company logo, they become the company's letterheads.
A letterhead is a product with company branding while the letter pad may or may not be branded with the company logo.
Letter pads are a part of the company's stationery items that are very much needed for office use.
Why do we need letter pads?
Every office or individual needs letter pads for the following reasons.
- Letter pads are used to take work notes and circulate it in the office
At the office, letter pads are used quickly jot down notes during meetings or discussions and circulate it to others in the team. Since the letter pads are of A4 size, they can contain a lot of information.
- Letter pads can be used to hand over instructions to others
When important instructions are to be given, they are often typed o written in the official letter pad. When the communication comes on the official letter pad, it carries more weight and is taken seriously.
- Letterpads are ideal for personal communication
People of high stature and status often have their own custom letterpads for their personal communication. These letterpads come embossed with their initials or crest to indicate their identity.
- Letterpads can be used to express one's creativity
Artists and fashion designers need a medium to express their creativity. And that is their own specially-designed letter pad. They can use the letter pad to unleash their creativity. They can express their artistic talent with aesthetic borders and designs on the outline of the letter pad.
- Letterpads can be used to indicate the professional status
Doctors, lawyers, and chartered accountants need their own customized letterpads. These letterpads must be printed with their name, professional qualification, license number, accreditation, etc. Such letterpads are a must for these professionals as they add dignity to their profession.
Now that we are convinced that letterpads are a must for any profession, let us look at some tips in printing high-quality letterpads.
Tips to print the best letterpads
- Decide whether you are going to design your own letter pad or get it designed from a professional print provider.
- Identify an expert print provider with an in-house design facility.
- Choose from their range of available templates or ask them to design one especially for you at extra cost.
- Provide all the details like name, address, etc
- Send the logos in.png format with high resolution.
- Double-check and proof-read all details before printing
- Choose a good quality paper like Bond paper for printing your letter pads
- Print letter pads in minimal quantity at first for trial. After you are satisfied, you can print them in bulk at marginal cost.
Letter pads are the right stationery to act as your medium for business communication and branding.


Don't mix await and compound assignment
The 5.0 release of C# introduced the await keyword which makes it extremely easy to use Task in a non-blocking fashion. This allows developers to replace either blocking calls to Task.Wait() or complicated combinations of ContinueWith and callbacks with a nice simple, straight forward expression
 Task task =...;
 int local = await task;
What most people don't consider is the implications of this non-blocking support. At the point the "await task" expression executes the program can do one of two things. If task is resolved the await expression will complete and the method will continue executing immediately. If it's not then the method will pause and some other part of the program will wake up and start running. This other code interleaves with with the execution of this method. This means subtle timing changes in when Task values are resolved can drastically alter the order in which a program executes.
These method interleavings can be the source of many subtle bugs in the program. They are typically timing related and hence often don't predictably reproduce and possibly don't show up at all until the program is executing on a customers machine. One of the most common bugs I see is when developers mistakenly combine compound assignment with the await keyword
 x += await y;
The C# compiler will rewrite this code into roughly the following [1]
 x = x + await y;
And it executes in the following steps
 1. load x onto the stack
 2. await y
 3. Push result of "await y" onto the stack
 4. Add the stack values
 5. Store into x
In the case where "y" isn't resolved the execution of this code will stop at step #2. At which point some other code will begin executing in its place. If "x" is a local there isn't much danger here but what if "x" represents a field that is accessible to another part of the program? And what if that field is modified while this expression is paused at #2? When this statement resumes it will never re-read the value of "x" and hence any writes to it which occurred during the pause will be erased once the expression completes. Or in other words, it will quite simply ignore the other write.
I most frequently see this problem with accumulator scenarios. A collection of tasks are spun up and the results are tallied up as they complete
 class Accumulator
 private int m_sum;
 public int Sum
 get { return m_sum; }
 public async Task Add(Task value)
 m_sum += await value;
This code is fundamentally incorrect because it invites this very problem. Consider the following scenario
 1. Call to Add is made with an unresolved Task. Add pauses on the task having already read m_sum onto the stack
 2. Call to Add is made with a resolved Task with a value of 4. Add completes and m_sum is now 4
 3. Task from step 1 resolves with a value of 2. The value on the stack for m_sum is still 0 so m_sum is written out as 2 instead of 6
The way to avoid this problem is to simply not mix await and the compound operator. Instead store the await value into a temp and then do the assignment without the risk of interleavings.
 public async Task Add(Task value)
 var temp = await value;
 m_sum += temp;
Here is a sample which will demonstrate the bug in a deterministic fashion.
 var accumulator = new Accumulator();
 var taskCompletionSource1 = new TaskCompletionSource();
 var taskCompletionSource2 = new TaskCompletionSource();
 var task1 = accumulator.Add(taskCompletionSource1.Task);
 var task2 = accumulator.Add(taskCompletionSource2.Task);
 await task1;
 await task2;
This code will print out 2 instead of the expected 5
[1] I use "roughly" here because it the compiler actually does a more complicated rewrite. It ensures that the side effects of "x" happen exactly once during the execution of this method. For locals though this is roughly the code that is generated and serves fine for this example
Comments (7)
 1. Ian Obermiller says:
 Since you are referencing multi-threading bugs, isn't the example with a temporary value still unsafe? The first add could get preempted after it reads m_sum, and the second thread could run and update m_sum, and then the first thread would trample the second thread's update. So the correct code would need some kind of synchronization, like Interlocked.Add.
 The main point though is a good one, and problems like this are becoming much easier with await.
 2. jaredpar says:
 This is actually a bug which happens equally as well for single threaded and multi-threaded code. The repro code I showed all executes on a single thread.
 3. Oh, right. That is what makes it even more interesting (and deadly) I suppose. Thanks!
 4. Leonid Tcarev says:
 >The first add could get preempted after it reads m_sum, and the second thread could run and update >m_sum, and then the first thread would trample the second thread's update.
 Adding of something to int32 bit variable (not property) should be atomic at x86
 5. jaredpar says:
 _USER_ the write of the int32 value is atomic but the read of the original value can occur on a separate turn from the write. This is what makes it unsafe
 6. Leonid Tcarev says:
 _USER_, why?
 add m_sum, eax is atomic.
 7. jaredpar says:
 _USER_ it is indeed atomic but that's not the code that is executed here. If you look at the IL it's essentially
 ldfield m_sum
 await y
 stfield m_sum
 The "add" IL instruction operates on the 2 values which are pushed on the IL stack. The m_sum value is pushed atomically but it is also cached on the stack. While waiting for 'await y' to finish, it's very possible that another operation will start running which modifies m_sum. This will modify the field only and not the value which is cached on the stack. Hence when it resumes it will add the previous value of m_sum to 'await y' and erase the intermediate m_sum value


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The UK in 1940 is not comparable to the UK in 2020
Robert Henderson
Comparisons between the UK in 1940 and the UK in 2020 are understandable but mistaken because these are two very different societies.
To begin with the psychological/sociological situations are different. The threat is 1940 was one that everyone could understand, large numbers from their experience in the Great War. There was a clear enemy in 1940.
The coronavirus threat is an open ended one which the ordinary person cannot do much to protect themselves, not least because the virus is subject to mutation.
The war in 1940 brought full employment. For a generation which had gone through the privations of the 1930s and the Great Depression this was both an opportunity to bring in a decent regular wage and to have their days filled with useful work, the latter playing into the sense of a collective war effort. Today people +are experiencing the reverse with fears of lost work and much of the work done being done is not done in the workplace but in the home. That is isolating.
Another big difference between then and now is that far from neglecting the Nazi threat in the 1930s, the UK government had made considerable preparations for war, for example the development and manufacture of high performance fights (Spitfires and Hurricanes), the development of radar and four engines heavy bombers (Lancaster, (entered service 1942) Stirling (entered service 1941), Halifax (entered service 1940. It is worth noting that the Germans never developed a reliable heavy bomber, the nearest they got to it was the ill fated Heinkel Greif (Griffin) 177.
Equally important was the rationing system for food and other essentials which was up and running in 1939. The British state was much better prepared to meet the 1940 emergency than it is to meet the coronavirus.
But the greatest difference between 1940 and now is the composition and mentality of the British population. In 1940 the only sizeable minority was the Jewish one. The country was very homogeneous.
Today the UK population is divided by the various large ethnic and racial minorities (whose separateness is encouraged by the purveyors of multiculturalism) and other divisions wrought by political correctness such those based on gender, sexual inclination and a faux idea of equality which promotes the interests not of all but the groups protected by political correctness. Because of this country is now noticeably heterogeneous in race, culture and mentality.
To these differences must be added the effects of the UK's 47 year membership of what became the EU and the divisions it has created throughout our membership and Brexit.,
Finally, devolution since the Blair reformation has resulted in the Celtic Fringe gaining more and more powers and especially in Scotland there is serious agitation for independence while Wales and Northern Ireland play at independence forever point scoring at England's expense. England meanwhile has been ignored in the devolution stakes despite the fact she heavily subsidises Scotland, Wales and N Ireland. The upshot of these changes to the UK population has become vastly more divided than it was in 1940. In 1940 there was a real sense of common purpose. Today that has become impossible.
Cornavirus outcomes are similar
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Robert Henderson
Professor Johan Giesecke of Sweden made the prediction in April 2020 that in the long run it would not make much difference how Governments of similar states responded to the virus because the result would be broadly the same. – see
There is solid evidence to support his prediction. Here are the deaths per million for major first world countries
Australia 36 deaths per million
Austria 738 deaths per million
Belgium 1736 deaths per million
Canada 441 deaths per million
France 994 deaths per million
Germany 450 deaths per million
Italy 1272 deaths per million
Netherlands 702 deaths per million
Poland 791 deaths per million
Spain 1101 deaths per million
Sweden 882 deaths per million
Switzerland 951 deaths per million
UK 1163 deaths per million
USA 1098 deaths per million
Stats taken from
on 6 January 2021
I have only looked first world countries because the rest are either incapable of producing accurate statistics because of a want of administrative capacity or are authoritarian states which cannot be trusted to tell the truth. In addition comparing say the UK with Nigeria would be l like comparing apples to oranges.
There are two striking things about the deaths statistics above. The first is how small a part of the total populations of each country are the deaths. The second is the considerable similarity of outcome in the majority of countries.
Of the 14 counties 11 fall into the range 702 – 1736 deaths with only Australia, Canada and Germany falling outside that range.
Australia is the only really serious outlier but that may be explained in part to it possessing huge physical territory with a small population.
The degree of similarity is impressive because the various countries adopted widely different approaches to dealing with the coronavirus, ranging from the libertarian Swedes to the chaotic Italians to the make your mind up UK to the strict lockdowns of the French and Germans.
The really worrying thing is that politicians throughout the world are placing everything on vaccines to be the magic bullet to end the crisis. This is far from certain because (1) we do not know how much immunity is gained from infection or from a vaccine and (2) a mutation can come along at any moment and upset the apple cart. Nor is it reasonable to imagine that enough people in the developing world will be vaccinated to provide universal herd immunity.
If the vaccines do not solve the problem political elites throughout the world will have nowhere to go.
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Change inches to centimeters and vice versa
To change measurement units in Word, do the following:
1. On the File tab, click Options:
2. In the Word Options dialog box, on the Advanced tab, under Display, in the Show measurements in units of drop-down list, choose the measurement units you need:
3. Click OK.
Note: Be careful, 1 cm = 0.3937 inch and 1 inch = 2.54 cm. By default, Word uses 1-inch margins and 2.5 cm. So, after changing the measurement units from centimeters to inches, you will see 0.98 inch, not 1 inch.
See also this tip in French: Comment changer les centimètres en pouces et vice versa.


A Sauerkraut Thanksgiving
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THE RECIPE: Sauerkraut with Gin and Caraway
I am not one of those people who can boast a storybook grandfather, the kind of man who could whittle a tree branch into a toy horse or whistle the national anthem through a blade of grass. I was born too late to even meet my paternal grandfather, a Polish immigrant named Ely who passed away in 1962, leaving an inheritance of thick eyebrows and even thicker lips. My mother's father, Joe, was around until I was 13, but he and my grandmother lived in Baltimore, a long way from our home in Oklahoma City, and we saw him only once or twice a year, usually around the holidays. He was thin and quiet, with a white mustache and crooked thumbs, and though he didn't say a lot, he was kind. He was also responsible for the perennial presence of sauerkraut on our Thanksgiving table. It wasn't a toy horse, but I came around to it. It tasted better.
Growing up, I had no idea that sauerkraut is not, to most Americans, a traditional Thanksgiving dish. It was always there, on the sideboard, as inevitable as turkey. That's part of the condition of being a kid: Your family, no matter the oddities or inconsistencies, still seems perfectly normal. Adulthood came late for me, because it was only five years ago when I learned that my family's sauerkraut could be considered weird, when the man who is now my husband spent his first holiday with us staring in puzzlement at the bowl of it.
I didn't know what to say that day to explain our tradition, but I've since done some research, and I now know where it comes from: Baltimore. Serving sauerkraut at Thanksgiving is an old tradition there, rooted in the homes of the city's German immigrants. In 1863, when Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday, about a quarter of Baltimore's population was German. Sauerkraut was a given on their celebratory table, and so it became a common part of Thanksgiving meals across the city. Over time, it didn't even matter if you came from German stock: Sauerkraut became a Baltimore thing. My grandfather's family was as Irish as they come—Mack was their surname, a shortened version of Macgillycuddy—but he grew up on the Chesapeake Bay, eating sauerkraut on the fourth Thursday of every November.
When Joe Mack started a family of his own, he continued the tradition. In 1943, while serving as a first lieutenant in the United States Army at Fort Hood, Texas, he was invited to a fellow officer's house for dinner, and he fell hard for the officer's little sister, Elaine. She was a sprite of a woman, petite and pretty and quick to laugh, a debutante visiting from Dedham, Massachusetts. Joe was clean-cut and handsome, with dark hair that he wore slicked back, the way Elvis would wear his ten years later. He was engaged to someone else at the time, and I don't envy her, whoever she was, because that was the end of that. Joe and Elaine were married two months later. They set up house in Baltimore, and over the eight years that followed, they had seven children, including two sets of twins born eleven months apart. My mother was one of those twins, and she and her siblings grew up, like their father, eating sauerkraut on the fourth Thursday of every November.
There are a lot of ways to serve sauerkraut: straight from the jar, braised with bacon, warmed in stock with juniper berries and caraway, even stuffed inside the Thanksgiving turkey. To be honest, I don't know exactly how Joe liked his, and it's too late to ask, because he passed away in 1992. Elaine must have devised her own favored method, but I can't ask her either, because she followed him last April. (I like to think that wherever they are, they're reunited, and that there's an all-you-can-eat buffet of Maryland blue crab.) My mother's twin sister, Tina, our unofficial family historian, is fairly certain that the sauerkraut of her youth was simmered in stock and seasoned with caraway seeds, and that's as close as I will ever get to any sort of Mack family recipe.
That said, and with all due respect, it doesn't matter too much to me. Because somewhere along the line, my father—who was neither German nor a native Baltimorean, but spent a good part of his adult life by the Chesapeake Bay—did something spectacular to the Macks' Thanksgiving sauerkraut: He swapped out the stock for the better part of a bottle of London dry gin. From that day forward, our family sauerkraut was, and probably will always be, simmered in gin and seasoned with caraway seeds.
It makes a lot of sense, if you think about it. Sauerkraut is often cooked with dried juniper berries, whose piney taste and fragrance complement the briny cabbage. It's not a great leap to guess, then, that gin, which is distilled with juniper berries, would also be right at home in a pot of kraut. If that sounds like some sort of nightmarish cocktail, hang in there: Put the pot on the stove and let it simmer. The alcohol will cook off, leaving behind a surprisingly subtle flavor, one that's hard to put your finger on. It's complex, even a little floral. I'm happy to eat the sauerkraut just like that, but when I think of it, I also like to stir in some butter at the very end of the cooking time, to smooth and soften the flavors. It helps the kraut to play nicely with the other dishes on the table.
Of course, if you're a member of the Mack family, you'll take it one step further. My mother and her twin sister would like me to advise you to nestle your helping of sauerkraut between your mashed potatoes and your turkey, and then bathe that entire quadrant of the plate in hot giblet gravy. Joe would be proud.
THE RECIPE: Sauerkraut with Gin and Caraway
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Al-Jassani, ban Adil, Urquhart, Neil B and Almaini, A E A (2011) State assignment for sequential circuits using multi-objective genetic algorithm. IET Computers & Digital Techniques, 5 (4). pp. 296-305. ISSN _PHONE_
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In this study, a new approach using a multi-objective genetic algorithm (MOGA) is proposed to determine the optimal state assignment with less area and power dissipations for completely and incompletely specified sequential circuits. The goal is to find the best assignments which reduce the component count and switching activity. The MOGA employs a Pareto ranking scheme and produces a set of state assignments, which are optimal in both objectives. The ESPRESSO tool is used to optimise the combinational parts of the sequential circuits. Experimental results are given using a personal computer with an Intel CPU of 2.4 GHz and 2 GB RAM. The algorithm is implemented using C++ and fully tested with benchmark examples. The experimental results show that saving in components and switching activity are achieved in most of the benchmarks tested compared with recent published research.
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Free Strategy Games
The two games below are related to strategic thinking, which means that you don't play for immediate results, instead you should think ahead of time to plan for a chain of movements before doing anything. How to play the first game:
- Wait for the game to load.
- Press Start from the main menu, and again inside the game.
- You will be in control of a ball, by moving your keyboard arrows up/down, left/right.
- The ball can only push boxes, and cannot pull them.
- The objective is to move it to the end target (which looks like a hole filled with water), once you go inside that hole, you will be transported to the next level, with the help of your creativity you can find a way to pass the level you're playing, remember that the silver ball can only push boxes and not pull them, there are 25 levels in the SilverSphere game can you pass them all? Good luck in improving your brain strategy skills.


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The Spacecraft Bus
The Mars Express spacecraft has been designed to take a payload of seven state-of-the-art scientific instruments and one lander to the red planet and allow them to record data for at least one Martian year, or 687 Earth days. The spacecraft also carries a data relay system for communicating with Earth.
Exploded Diagram of Mars Express
The mission is a test case for new working methods to speed up spacecraft production and minimise mission costs. These new methods have had two major impacts on spacecraft design. Weight was kept to an absolute minimum: 116 kg was allowed for the seven instruments and 60 kg for the lander. And off-the-shelf technology, or technology developed for the Rosetta mission to a comet, was used wherever possible.
The instruments sit inside the spacecraft bus which is a honeycomb aluminium box just 1.5 m long by 1.8 m wide by 1.4 m high. The lander, Beagle 2, was attached to the outside of the bus. Payload, lander, spacecraft and on-board fuel weighed 1223 kg at launch.
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1 doc.: IEEE 802.15- doc.: IEEE Project: IEEE P Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs)Submission Title: [Resolution for PHY Type Descriptor Comment - LB70]Date Submitted: [May 11, 2011]Source: [Larry Taylor]Company: [DTC (UK)]Address: Voice: Re: [Comment Resolution for TG4g LB70 draft]Abstract: The presentation proposes resolution for LB70 PHY Type Descriptor commentsPurpose: Presented to the g SUN Task Group for consideration and discussionNotice: This document has been prepared to assist the IEEE P It is offered as a basis for discussion and is not binding on the contributing individual(s) or organization(s). The material in this document is subject to change in form and content after further study. The contributor(s) reserve(s) the right to add, amend or withdraw material contained herein.Release: The contributor acknowledges and accepts that this contribution becomes the property of IEEE and may be made publicly available by P,
2 doc.: IEEE 802.15- doc.: IEEE Comment to be ResolvedComments on PHY Type Descriptor:CID# 33,
3 Comments & Proposed Resolution CID# 16:Comment (Annex D, D7.2.1a, Page 124, Line 12):The same field name "Frequency Bands Supported" used twice for two different fields in Figure 55b and in Figure 55e. One is used for all PHY Type Descriptors and the other is used for each individual PHY Type Descriptor, the names should be slightly different.Proposed Change:Use different field names.Recommend Resolution: Accept in principle. Proposed text changes as in following slideResolution:As in following slide
4 Proposed replacement text Change 'Frequency Bands Supported' to 'Specific Frequency Bands' in Figure 55eThe PHY Type Descriptor consists of 4 fields as shown in Figure 55e.The PHY Type field is an unsigned integer whose value identifies a PHY Type defined in Table 4c.All Frequency Bands is a 1-bit field which indicates whether the optional Specific Frequency Bands field is present. If set to 1the optional Specific Frequency Bands field is absent and the PHY Type is supported in all frequency bands declared as supported in the Frequency Bands Supported field of the SUN PHY Capabilities IE. If set to 0 the optional Specific Frequency Bands field is present and the PHY Type is only supported in the frequency bands declared in the Specific Frequency Bands field of this PHY Type Descriptor.The PHY Modes Supported field is a bitmap indicating which PHY modes are supported for the PHY Type. The PHY modes for each possible PHY Type are defined in Table 4d, Table 4e, Table 4f, Table 4g, Table 4h, and Table 4i. A bit set to 1 at position n in the bitmap indicates that the PHY Mode in row n the table of PHY Modes corresponding to the PHY Type is supported, otherwise it is not supported.The optional Specific Frequency Bands field is encoded in the same manner as the Frequency Bands Supported field of the SUN PHY Capabilities IE.


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Adaptation of the Proximal Femur to Skeletal Reloading After Long-Duration Spaceflight
Lang, Thomas F., et al. (2006). "Adaptation of the Proximal Femur to Skeletal Reloading After Long-Duration Spaceflight." Journal of Bone and Mineral Research 21 8: _PHONE_
We studied the effect of re-exposure to Earth's gravity on the proximal femoral BMD and structure of astronauts 1 year after missions lasting 4–6 months. We observed that the readaptation of the proximal femur to Earth's gravity entailed an increase in bone size and an incomplete recovery of volumetric BMD. Introduction: Bone loss is a well-known result of skeletal unloading in long-duration spaceflight, with the most severe losses occurring in the proximal femur. However, there is little information about the recovery of bone loss after mission completion and no information about effect of reloading on the structure of load-bearing bone. To address these questions, we carried out a study of the effect of re-exposure to Earth's gravity on the BMD and structure of the proximal femur 1 year after missions lasting 4–6 months. Materials and Methods: In 16 crew members of the International Space Station (ISS) making flights of 4.5–6 months, we used QCT imaging to measure the total, trabecular, and cortical volumetric BMD (vBMD) of the proximal femur. In addition to vBMD, we also quantified BMC, bone volume, femoral neck cross-sectional area (CSA), and femoral neck indices of compressive and bending strength at three time-points: preflight, postflight, and 1 year after mission. Results: Proximal femoral bone mass was substantially recovered in the year after spaceflight, but measures of vBMD and estimated bone strength showed only partial recovery. The recovery of BMC, in the absence of a comparable increase in vBMD, was explained by increases in bone volume and CSA during the year after spaceflight. Conclusions: Adaptation of the proximal femur to reloading entailed an increase in bone size and an incomplete recovery of vBMD. The data indicate that recovery of skeletal density after long-duration space missions may exceed 1 year and supports the evidence in the aging literature for periosteal apposition as a compensatory response for bone loss. The extent to which this compensatory effect protects against fracture remains to be seen.


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Land and marine iguanas and giant tortoises living close to human settlements or tourist sites in the Galapagos islands were more likely to harbor antibiotic-resistant bacteria than those living in more remote or protected sites on the islands, researchers report. Many of the reptiles harbor E. coli bacteria that are resistant to ampicillin, doxycycline, tetracycline, and trimethoprin/sulfamethoxazole.
- Patterns of antibiotic-resistant bacteria found in Galapagos reptilesMon, 23 Jan 2012, 15:21:55 EST
- Wild sharks, redfish harbor antibiotic-resistant bacteriaWed, 16 Jun 2010, 16:04:19 EDT
- Honeybees harbor antibiotic-resistance genes Tue, 30 Oct 2012, 7:33:04 EDT
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How to - Gardening Basics
Eco-friendly gardening on a brand new lot
Tend your yard in an environmentally sensitive way with tips from an Okotoks, Alberta gardener
Dig holes the right depth
Trees are an eco-friendly addition to any new lot, offering shade and incomparable beauty. But they need to be carefully planted to give them a healthy start. "I would ensure any areas that would be for shrubs or perennials would be deep enough to support their growth," says Unger. "Usually 600 millimetres is enough." (However, she also warns against over-excavating holes for shrubs and perennial beds, as this will create a water-logged clay "dish" underneath.) "When planting trees always ensure that the diameter of the hole is at least twice as large as the rootball going in," she adds.
Realistically, in a new yard you won't be able to eliminate water usage unless you have a particularly rainy growing season, but you can intelligently manage how you use water. "Water conservation is of paramount importance here in Okotoks and surrounding areas," Unger says. A number of measures, which you can easily undertake, too, are in place in various Canadian municipalities to help homeowners do just that. Okotoks encourages the use of drip irrigation, rain barrels, mulch around shrub and tree beds, and choosing drought-tolerant species wherever possible. As a new homeowner, you can implement many of these conservation efforts at a minimal extra cost. Plus, many new homes have water meters, so saving water by buying a rainbarrel at a nominal cost from your municipality, or installing a drip irrigation system means you'll save money in the long-run.
Deal with animals
Keep in mind animals, such as rabbits and deer, have been nibbling vegetation near your land for longer than you've been living there. "If you're in an area adjacent to a natural area you will always have these challenges, so plant enough of whatever you like the most, knowing that if a pest comes and damages some of it there will still be some left over for you to enjoy," suggests Unger. "Dealing with urban deer is really difficult because they have become so conditioned to dealing with the human invasion of their territory," she says. One trick is to place temporary fencing around a tree and remove it once it gets a good start, she says. Community veggie gardens in Okotoks, for instance, have an eight-foot fence around them. "If deer and rabbits are a problem for a vegetable garden, the only way to keep them out is a fence. Not so pretty perhaps, but effective nonetheless," she says. Some folksy methods Unger has heard of include using human urine and hair to deter animals, using motion sensors that trigger music instead of light, and hanging strips of mirror from cloths. She hasn't tried them, but for repeat visitors of the four-legged kind, these are relatively gentle, eco-friendly strategies that might be worth a try.
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I'm looking for a clean way to do this in Python:
Let's say I have two iterators "iter1" and "iter2": perhaps a prime number generator, and itertools.count(). I know a priori that both are are infinite and monotonically increasing. Now I want to take some simple operation of two args "op" (perhaps operator.add or operator.mul), and calculate every element of the first iterator with every element of the next, using said operation, then yield them one at a time, sorted. Obviously, this is an infinite sequence itself. (As mentioned in comment by _USER_: this would be called the Cartesian Product of these sequences... or, more exactly, the 1d-sort of that product.)
What is the best way to:
 - wrap-up "iter1", "iter2", and "op" in an iterable that itself yields the values in monotonically increasing output.
Allowable simplifying assumptions:
 - If it helps, we can assume op(a,b) >= a and op(a,b) >= b.
 - If it helps, we can assume op(a,b) > op(a,c) for all b > c.
Also allowable:
 - Also acceptable would be an iterator that yields values in "generally increasing" order... by which I mean the iterable could occasionally give me a number less than a previous one, but it would somehow make "side information" available (as via a method on the object) that would say "I'm not guarenteeing the next value I give you will be greater than the one I just gave you, but I AM SURE that all future values will at least be greater than N.".... and "N" itself is monotonically increasing.
The only way I can think to do this is a sort of "diagonalization" process, where I keep an increasing number of partially processed iterables around, and "look ahead" for the minimum of all the possible next() values, and yield that. But this weird agglomeration of a heapq and a bunch of deques just seems outlandish, even before I start to code it.
Please: do not base your answer on the fact that my examples mentioned primes or count().... I have several uses for this very concept that are NOT related to primes and count().
UPDATE: OMG! What a great discussion! And some great answers with really thorough explanations. Thanks so much. StackOverflow rocks; you guys rock.
I'm going to delve in to each answer more thoroughly soon, and give the sample code a kick in the tires. From what I've read so far, my original suspicions are confirmed that there is no "simple Python idiom" to do this. Rather, by one way or another, I can't escape keeping all yielded values of iter1 and iter2 around indefinitely.
FWIW: here's an official "test case" if you want to try your solutions.
import operator
def powers_of_ten():
 n = 0
 while True:
 yield 10**n
 n += 1
def series_of_nines():
 yield 1
 n = 1
 while True:
 yield int("9"*n)
 n += 1
op = operator.mul
iter1 = powers_of_ten()
iter2 = series_of_nines()
# given (iter1, iter2, op), create an iterator that yields:
# [1, 9, 10, 90, 99, 100, 900, 990, 999, 1000, 9000, 9900, 9990, 9999, 10000,...]
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So then a merge sort of infinite sequences? – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams May 9 '11 at 14:33
I have a bad English, but do you want something like "for i in (operator.add(i,j) for i,j in zip (range(10),range(10))): print(i) "? – utdemir May 9 '11 at 14:43
No, sorry. The "zip" in your example keeps i=j. I want something like this: operator.add(a, b) for all a in iter1() for all b in iter2()... and I want them sorted (low to high) as they are yielded. – Dan H May 9 '11 at 19:19
Is assuming op(b,a) > op(c,a) for all b > c also allowed? (Is op(a,b) = op(b,a) like for add&mul?) – Baffe Boyois May 9 '11 at 19:26
_USER_ H: You totally overgeneralized the question. If op is (+) then the diagonalization algorithm you outlined would work. On the other hand, if you merge with lambda *args:random.choice(args) then you have no chance to merge at all... Ask your real problem. – Jochen Ritzel May 9 '11 at 19:33
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import heapq
import itertools
import operator
def increasing(fn, left, right):
 Given two never decreasing iterators produce another iterator
 resulting from passing the value from left and right to fn.
 This iterator should also be never decreasing.
 # Imagine an infinite 2D-grid.
 # Each column corresponds to an entry from right
 # Each row corresponds to an entry from left
 # Each cell correspond to apply fn to those two values
 # If the number of columns were finite, then we could easily solve
 # this problem by keeping track of our current position in each column
 # in each iteration, we'd take the smallest value report it, and then
 # move down in that column. This works because the values must increase
 # as we move down the column. That means the current set of values
 # under consideration must include the lowest value not yet reported
 # To extend this to infinite columns, at any point we always track a finite
 # number of columns. The last column current tracked is always in the top row
 # if it moves down from the top row, we add a new column which starts at the top row
 # because the values are increasing as we move to the right, we know that
 # this last column is always lower then any columns that come after it
 # Due to infinities, we need to keep track of all
 # items we've ever seen. So we put them in this list
 # The list contains the first part of the incoming iterators that
 # we have explored
 left_items = [next(left)]
 right_items = [next(right)]
 # we use a heap data structure, it allows us to efficiently
 # find the lowest of all value under consideration
 heap = []
 def add_value(left_index, right_index):
 Add the value result from combining the indexed attributes
 from the two iterators. Assumes that the values have already
 been copied into the lists
 value = fn( left_items[left_index], right_items[right_index] )
 # the value on the heap has the index and value.
 # since the value is first, low values will be "first" on the heap
 heapq.heappush( heap, (value, left_index, right_index) )
 # we know that every other value must be larger then
 # this one.
 # I assume the incoming iterators are infinite
 while True:
 # fetch the lowest of all values under consideration
 value, left_index, right_index = heapq.heappop(heap)
 # produce it
 yield value
 # add moving down the column
 if left_index + 1 == len(left_items):
 add_value(left_index+1, right_index)
 # if this was the first row in this column, add another column
 if left_index == 0:
 right_items.append( next(right) )
 add_value(0, right_index+1)
def fib():
 a = 1
 b = 1
 while True:
 yield a
 a,b = b,a+b
r = increasing(operator.add, fib(), itertools.count() )
for x in range(100):
 print next(r)
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This is the same as my answer, only with code, so it's better. – Ryan Thompson May 10 '11 at 1:25
This doesn't always work because you don't know that when you generate the next column the first value will be >= the previous column's first value. e.g. the first grid of outputs can look like this: [[1,666,5],[666,666,666],[666,666,666],[666,666,666]]. you only know op(a,b) > op(a,c) if b>c, you don't know that op(g,i)>op(h,i) if g>h. all you know is op(a,b)>=a and op(a,b)>=b, or min(a,b)<=op(a,b), which is what I was getting at in my answer. so you have to generate columns until the leftmost input into the op is >= the value you want to yield. – Claudiu May 10 '11 at 2:14
it is a great solution if that were true, but until then it is misleading.. unless


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2Corn growing and people working Or dancing for their harvest. Beauty is seenIn the sunlight,The trees, the birds,Corn growing and people workingOr dancing for their harvest.
3Wind sighing, rain falling, Beauty is heardIn the night,Wind sighing, rain falling,Or a singer chantingAnything in earnest..
4Good deeds, happy thoughts That repeat themselves In your dreams, Bauty is in yourself.Good deeds, happy thoughtsThat repeat themselvesIn your dreams,In your work,And even in your rest
5E Yeh Shure and his poem "Beauty" are trying to tell you that beauty is everything in life. Beauty can be heard and seen everywhere you go and can be anything you do.In "Beauty", E Yeh Shure uses metaphors t show what beauty is. He says "Beauty is seen in sunlight, the trees." He's saying that beauty can be everywhere you lookSummary
6. E Yeh Shure repeats the line "Beauty is…" and in that line, he tells you what and where beauty is from "Corn growing and people working" to "wind sighing, rain falling."
7Beauty" by E Yeh Shure makes me feel happy and confident because he says "Beauty is in yourself" and that beauty is within you. The poem says that beauty is everywhere and everything in life.
8Beauty is seen ……………………for their harvest Ques : What is the name of the poet? Ans : The name of the poet is E-Yeh-Shure. Ques : Where can we see beauty? Ans : We can see beauty in the sunlight, the trees, and the Birds. Ques : Why are people dancing? Ans : People are dancing for their harvest.
9Beauty is heared………………Any thing earnest Ques : Beauty is heared ……. In the night or during the dayAns : In the nightQues : What is the wind doing?Ans : The wind is sighingQues : What is the rain doing?Ans : The rain is fallingQues : What is singer doing?Ans : The singer is chanting
10Beauty is in yourself ………………. even your rest Ques : where is beauty foundAns : Beauty is found in our good deeds and goodthoughtsQues : What we can be seen in our dreamsAns : Beauty can be seen in our dreamsQues : What can we see in our workAns : We can see beauty in our workQues : Can we see beauty while restingAns : Yes we can see beauty while resting
11.The message of the poem, Beauty is that beauty is everywhere in different forms. Some examples that the author E Yeh Shure gives are the sunlight, people working, rain falling, and good deeds. The poem also states that beauty can be seen, heard, and is in yourself. I think that reading this poem creates images, sounds, and memories in the reader's mind. The author wants the readers to feel about beauty is that there is beauty in all things and that people should appreciate it.Message
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The first street lamps were used by Roman and Greek civilization for security to avoid falling, tripping or being robbed. Oil lamps were predominantly used and are surprisingly the predecessors to an OLED street light. The oil lamps were manually lighted, sometimes by slaves.
Gas lighting was later used cities which also required manual lighting. Later they used ignition devices that lit the lamp when the gas supply was activated. Arc lamps were the first electric street lighting developed in 1875 by the Russian Pavel Yablochkov. By 1980, arc lighting was used in the United States.
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Prevailing speed of traffic on the street
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From: Doctor Jacques
Subject: Re: Discrete Maths, specifically, relations
Hi John,
Indeed, you cannot assume that p and q are empty. Given any strings a
and b, you have to ask if there exist strings p and q that verify the
relation - these strings will depend on the particular strings a and
We must assume that S is the set of _finite_ strings over the given
alphabet, because, if we allow infinite strings, we can no longer
concatenate them. (What would it mean to write a string at the end of
an infinite string?)
It may be useful to try to see if the relation has an intuitive
meaning. As I explained before, this will not always be the case
(relations can be defined arbitrarily). However, in this case and in
plain English, (a,b) in R means that a is a substring of b. You would
not use that as such in a formal proof (well, maybe...), but it helps
understanding what one is talking about.
Is R reflexive? We must check that, for every string a, we can find
strings p and q such that a = paq. Of course, we may take p and q as
the empty string, and this shows that R is reflexive.
R is not symmetric. To prove it, it is sufficient to exhibit two
strings a and b such that (a,b) is in R and (b,a) is not. We can take,
for example, a = x and b = xy.
To check for transitivity, we assume that R contains (a,b) and (b,c).
This means that there exist strings p,q,r,s such that:
 b = paq
 c = rbs
and we must check that R contains (a,c), i.e. that there exist
strings u and v such that
 c = uav
This is indeed the case, as we can write c = rpaqs, and we can take
u = rp and v = qs.
Let us now check for antisymmetry.
Each string has a length, i.e. an integer >= 0 and equal to the number
of characters in the string.
If R contains (a,b), we have b = paq. This shows that length(b) >=
length(a). More precisely, we can write:
 L(b) = L(paq) = L(p) + L(a) + L(q)
Assume that R contains (a,b) and (b,a), i.e. we have:
 b = paq
 a = rbs
This shows that:
 L(b) = L(p) + L(a) + L(q)
 L(a) = L(r) + L(b) + L(s)
and, adding these relations together:
 0 = L(p) + L(q) + L(r) + L(s)
and, as lengths are non-negative, this shows that all lengths are 0,
i.e. p, q, r, s are empty strings, and a = b.
To summarize, we have shown that, if R contains (a,b) and (b,a), then
a = b; i.e. R is antisymmetric.
Does this make sense?
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The Lesson
Powers can be multiplied together. To multiply powers, add the exponents together.
a to the m times a to the n equals a to the m plus n This is a law of exponents.
How to Multiply Powers in Algebra
Multiplying powers in algebra is easy.
Use the law of exponents to multiply the powers below.
x squared times x cubed
Check that the bases of the powers are the same. In our example, the bases are both x.
x is the base of both powers
Find the exponents of the powers
 - Find the exponent of the first power. In our example, the first power has an exponent of 2.
 - Find the exponent of the second power. In our example, the second power has an exponent of 3.
Add the exponents from Step 2 (2 and 3).
2 + 3 = 5
Make the answer from Step 3 (5) the exponent of the base of the powers that have been multiplied.
x to the 5
We have multiplied the powers together.
x squared times x cubed equals x to the 5
Understanding Multiplying Powers in Algebra
Let us look at the rule for multiplying powers in algebra:
bases and exponents
 - We are multiplying powers. am, an and am + n are powers.
 - The base in each power is a. This law of exponents only applies when the bases are the same.
 - The exponents in each power are m, n and m + n. This law of exponents applies even when the exponents are different.
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Consider the example below.
a squared times a cubed Each term is given by:
a squared equals a times a. a cubed equals a times a times a Multiplying the two together gives:
a times a times a times a times a equals a to the five This shows why the formula given works.
The Bases Must Be The Same
The law of exponents discussed here only works when the bases are the same. The multiplication below cannot be simplified, and must be left as it is:
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The Daily Telegraph (and other media channels) reported that the actress Mo'Nique caused quite a stir at the Golden Globe Awards, not only for winning an award, but also for her 'fashion faux pas'. That is, she had hairy legs. Such reactions tell us something about gendered identities and specifically about cultural notions of what is means to be a woman.
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You want CSS, not PHP. – drudge Feb 9 '11 at 0:41
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You would actually use HTML and CSS to do that. :)
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You don't center objects using PHP. You position them using CSS. Read this for further info.
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You cannot do layout with PHP, it is for programming logic. To do layout you use CSS and HTML. To center text you can use the text-align tag that jdhartley showed above. To center a block like a table or div you use the following CSS:
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PHP is just a scripting language that performs data manipulation and such. You process that information and output HTML (usually.) Something you can do is just close the PHP and drop some HTML into it like this:
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