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Congress Authorizes $3 Million for Preservation of Freedmen's Bureau Papers
Congress has authorized an appropriation of $3 million for safeguarding the records of the Freedmen's Bureau. (See the October 2000 Perspectives for the background on this legislation.) The Freedmen's Bureau records document the activities of a federal agency that sought to help freedpeople and war refugees adjust to life after the Civil War and slave emancipation. After considering a $1.5 million appropriation, Congress arrived at the $3 million figure because of the magnitude of the effort required to prepare and microfilm the bureau's records, which total over 1,100 cubic feet.
Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald (D-Calif.), a sponsor of the Freedmen's Bureau Records Preservation Act of 2000, reminded her congressional colleagues that Congress itself had become "engaged in the overwhelming challenge of moving millions of slaves from bondage to freedom" when it established the Freedmen's Bureau in 1865. The bureau's records are now crucial for African American genealogists, Millender-McDonald argued. She said that just "as ship manifests are the vital link between European-Americans and their European ancestors, the Freedmen's Bureau records are the link for African-Americans to their slave and African ancestors."
Pearl-Alice Marsh, a spokesperson for Millender-McDonald, said preserving the Freedmen's Bureau papers is only the beginning of a much larger effort. Citing decaying paper and fading ink, she said Congress should quickly turn its attention to preserving other Civil War-era records such as the papers of the Freedmen's Bank.
The act designates the National Archives as administrator of the new funds and specifies Howard University and other institutions as partners in the preservation project. Marsh said the archives might choose to work with genealogy groups, historical societies, or other colleges and universities. Howard University, named for Freedmen's Bureau director Oliver Otis Howard, originated in the post-Civil War era as an offshoot of the Freedmen's Bureau.
Reginald Washington, an archivist who specializes in African American genealogical resources at the National Archives, heralded the act as a "win/win situation" that will help the archives in its goals of preserving and disseminating its holdings. Filmed copies of the Freedmen's Bureau papers can be distributed to the archives' regional branches and made available for loan to other institutions.
Several hurdles remain, however. The new act only authorizes funding; if an appropriation is not made this fall, the act will be held over and the appropriation proposed again in 2001. Additionally, staff at the National Archives must stretch to find space to prepare and film the records in a 1930s building stuffed with federal records and undergoing a multiyear renovation.
Kate Masur is a PhD student in American Studies at the University of Michigan and is on the staff of the AHA.
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What is abstraction in computing? Give an example of how it works.
Abstraction is when functionality of some parts of a system are hidden from other parts of the system. For example, when a driver starts his car - he does not need to know about the inner workings of a combustion engine, he simply turns his key and the ignition starts. In this example the engines functionality is hidden from the driver.
If you would like to explain to someone how your day has been, which tense would you use? What are the three tenses?
I would speak in the past tense. The 3 tenses are past, present and future.
What is a pre-processor directive in C# and how would you use one?
A pre-processor directive indicates code that should be executed before compilation begins. We indicate pre-processor directives by following a line of white space with a # character.


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For many people on Earth — baseball is a favorite pastime. But how different would it be if home plate were on the moon? A reader from Texas asked, "If baseball were played on the moon, how far would the home run fences have to be from home plate?"
Well, the moon's gravity pulls with only about one-sixth the pull of earthly gravity. So a batter on the moon could send a baseball six times farther than the same baseball hit on Earth. If this were the only effect, the center field fence in a typical baseball stadium would have to be about six times farther away.
But the moon doesn't have an appreciable atmosphere — so there's little or no air resistance on the moon. A baseball hit in our atmosphere travels only 60% as far as one hit in a vacuum. Since the moon's atmosphere approximates a vacuum, you can increase the range of the ball hit on the moon again — this time by a factor of about 2.
So a typical center field fence on the moon would need to be about 12 times farther than on Earth. What's more, the tension might mount in lunar baseball when it came time to throw a pitch. Without air resistance, a fast ball would be really fast! On the other hand, a space suit might hinder a good wind up — and curve balls, which rely on air resistance, wouldn't be possible.
If you want to learn more about the mechanics of baseball this is an excellent book: Adair, Robert Kemp. The Physics of Baseball. (HarperCollins: New York, 1995).


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Mouseless is an invisible computer mouse. It provides the familiarity of interaction of a physical mouse without actually needing a real hardware mouse.
As the computer mouse has remained largely unchanged over the last decades, we have become increasingly proficient at operating the two-button mouse. Recently, various multitouch and gestural interaction technologies have been explored as means to implement alternative methods to interact with a computer. Despite these advances in computing hardware technologies, the two-button computer mouse has remained the predominant means to interact with a computer. The Mouseless invention removes the requirement of having a physical mouse altogether but still provides the intuitive interaction of a physical mouse that we are familiar with.
Mouseless consists of an Infrared (IR) laser beam and an Infrared camera. Both IR laser and IR camera are embedded in the computer. The laser beam module is modified with a line cap and placed such that it creates a plane of IR laser just above the surface the computer sits on. The user cups their hand, as if a physical mouse was present underneath, and the laser beam lights up the hand which is in contact with the surface. The IR camera detects those bright IR blobs using computer vision. The change in the position and arrangements of these blobs are interpreted as mouse cursor movement and mouse clicks. As the user moves their hand the cursor on screen moves accordingly. When the user taps their index finger, the size of the blob changes and the camera recognizes the intended mouse click.
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In this solution:
- "Availability Zone" as a Failure Domain
- "Availability Zone" as a Cloud Concept
- AZs Based on Host Aggregates
- Attaching Instances to Logical AZs
The term "Availability Zone" has two definitions in Metacloud, and this can cause confusion. It is helpful to know the context for each definition so that you can:
- Understand the purposes and capabilities of Availability Zones (AZs) in each context.
- Troubleshoot and manage AZs in each context.
- Communicate more clearly with Metacloud Support about AZs in each context.
Note: In Metacloud, "Availability Zone" is used differently from Amazon Web Services (AWS), where it refers to an isolated location within a geographical region.
"Availability Zone" as a Failure Domain
In the context of Metacloud physical infrastructure, an AZ is a failure domain, or a physical cluster of machines in your datacenter that host the processes running in your cloud. This includes Metacloud Control Planes (MCPs), Metacloud Hypervisors (MHVs), routers, and switches, as well as external storage devices if your organization uses them.
When Metacloud Support communicates with you about maintaining or troubleshooting AZs in this context, they may refer to them as "clusters" or "environments".
"Availability Zone" as a Cloud Concept
In the context of Metacloud operations, AZs are logical groupings of devices assembled for various purposes. Metacloud administrators can view these groupings in the Metacloud Dashboard or by using the command-line interface (CLI) or Metacloud API.
Internal and Default AZs
Your initial view of your Metacloud environment includes two logical AZs created by the Metacloud Support Team during the build process. Only Support can alter these two AZs in any way:
- The internal AZ, includes the Metacloud Control Planes (MCPs), which handle the scheduling and orchestration functions of your cloud.
- The default AZ contains the Metacloud Hypervisors (MHVs), which run the instances created in your environment. The name of this AZ typically contains three to five letters selected by your organization.
The following screenshot shows these two AZs in a Metacloud Dashboard:
AZs Based on Host Aggregates
Metacloud administrators can add logical AZs, which are actually host aggregates, to your virtual environment. A host aggregate is a unique grouping of MHVs with associated metadata that an administrator can define for various purposes. One application might be to support different device grouping subsets.
For example, your organization could have one host aggregate for instances running Solid State Drive (SSD) storage and another for instances running Hard Disk Drive (HDD) storage. Or you can associate host aggregates with specific flavors or images, depending on their varying capacities or operating systems. Then, users can launch instances based on those flavors or images.
Host aggregates are not visible in Metacloud to non-administrative users; however, administrators can "expose" a host aggregate by labeling it an "Availability Zone," using the Compute service (Nova). For more information, see Creating and Managing Host Aggregates.
The following screenshot shows two host aggregates that have been labeled as AZs and two that have not.
Note: An MHV can be associated with multiple host aggregates, but it can be associated with only one AZ that is based on a host aggregate. As the following screenshot shows, mhv3* and mhv5* are included in two host aggregates that are not tagged as AZs (host_agg_mg_3 and host_agg_mg_4). They are only included in one AZ that is based on a host aggregate, az_mg_2.
As mentioned earlier, your newly delivered cloud includes a default AZ, which contains all the MHVs to be used for hosting instances.
Attaching Instances to Logical AZs
When launching instances, non-administrative users can associate them with the default AZ or any AZs associated with host aggregates. If a user associates an instance with a specific AZ when launching it, that AZ is permanently associated with the record of the instance in the Metacloud database.
If a user selects the option for Any Availability Zone when using the Dashboard to launch an instance, or does not specify an AZ when using the command-line interface (CLI), the Compute service "assigns" the instance to the AZ with the most available hosting resources; however, the instance shows a value of NULL for Availability Zone in the database and is not permanently associated with any AZ.
The following screenshot shows the launching of an instance in the Dashboard with Any Availability Zone selected.
For more information about how host aggregates and AZs work with instances, see Troubleshooting VMs From Deleted Host Aggregates Tagged as AZs.
If you are a Metacloud administrator, and you are reporting issues to Support regarding AZs created with the Compute service, it is helpful to refer to them as "host aggregates" to distinguish them from the default AZ.


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of the fire.
Although these two heats may be one in kind, they are multiple with regard to their existence in the external world. What is meant by unity pertaining to this principle [of the impossibility of a circle of causes] is individual unity, not conceptual unity. In reality, this problem is a result of confusion between conceptual unity and the unity of instances, or is a result of confusion between two meanings of unity.
Other inconsequential problems have been presented by some materialists and Marxists, which need not be mentioned if attention is paid to the concepts of the principle [of the impossibility of a circle of causes] and the answers to the problems mentioned above.
The literal meaning of regress (tasalsul) is cases following one another in a chain, whether the links in this chain are finite or infinite, and whether or not there is a causal relation among them. However, the technical meaning is restricted to cases in which one or both directions of the chain are infinite.
Philosophers consider an infinite regress to be impossible under two conditions: First is that among the links of the chain there should be a real ordering, such that each link should follow another in reality, not conventionally; the other is that all of the links should exist at the same time, not such that when one is destroyed another comes into existence following it. For this reason, an infinite sequence of events in time is not considered to be essentially impossible.
At the same time, in the common parlance of philosophy, an infinite regress is not restricted to causal regresses, and many reasons which are given for the impossibility of a regress include regresses in which there is no causal relation among the links, such as the proofs advanced against actual infinity (Burhan-e Musamatah, Burhan-e Tatbiq, and Burhan-e Sullami) which are mentioned in the detailed books of philosophy. In these proofs, some mathematical premises are employed, although there is dispute about them.
However, some proofs are specific to causal regresses, such as the proof given by Farabi known as Burhan- e Asadd Akhsar ('the firmest and most concise proof'), and it may be stated as follows: If it is supposed that each link in a chain of existents is dependent upon another, such that if a prior link does not exist, the dependent link would also fail to occur, this implies that this regress as a whole is dependent on another existent, for it is supposed that all of its links have this feature (of being dependent on another), and there is no alternative but to suppose that there is an existent at the head of the chain which is not itself dependent on something else. Until that existent occurs, the links of the chain will not come into existence in succession.
Hence, such a chain cannot be infinite in the direction of its beginning. In other words, an infinite regress of causes is impossible. Similar to this is a proof which is founded on the basis of the principles established by Sadr al-Muta'allihin in his transcendent philosophy for the impossibility of a regress of existence-giving causes.
It may be presented as follows: According to the fundamentality of existence and the relatedness of the existence of the effect to the existence-giving cause, every effect in relation to its creative cause is just that relation and dependence itself. It has no independence of its own. If a given cause is an effect in relation to a prior cause, it will have that same state (of dependence) to the prior cause.
Thus, if a chain of causes and effects is assumed, each of whose causes is the effect of another cause, it will be a chain of relations and dependencies. It is self-evident that dependent existence cannot occur without the occurrence of an independent existence upon which the former depends. Thus, inevitably there must be an independent existence beyond this chain of relations and dependencies in the light of which all of them occur. Therefore, this series cannot be considered to be without a beginning and without an absolutely independent member.
The difference between these two proofs lies in the fact that the first proof covers all real causes (causes which must necessarily exist with their effects), while the second proof is restricted to existence-giving causes, and which also covers complete causes, as they include existence-giving causes.


View Full Version : Chimps Reveal Origins of Sharing & Fair Play
Scarlet Ibis
01-15-2013, 04:43 AM
The human tendency to share may have more ancient evolutionary routes than previously thought.
This is according to a study of the performance of chimpanzees in a test called the "ultimatum game".
Traditionally, the game is employed as a test of economics; two people decide how to divide a sum of money.
This modified game, in which two chimps decided how to divide a portion of banana slices, seems to have revealed the primates' generous side.
The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was part of an effort to uncover the evolutionary routes of why we share, even when it does not make economic sense.
Scientists say this innate fairness is an important foundation of co-operative societies like ours....
...Dr Proctor and her colleagues trained their chimp participants to play a similar game, using coloured tokens to represent a reward.
"We tried to abstract it a little - to make it a bit like money," Dr Proctor explained.
"We trained them with two different tokens.
"If they took [a white token], they would be able to split the food equally, and taking the other [blue] token meant that the first chimp would get more food than the partner."
The researchers presented both tokens to the first chimp, which would then choose one and offer it to its partner.
As with the human version of the game, if the partner accepted the token, both animals received their reward.
Three pairs of chimps played this game, and the results revealed that the animals had a tendency to offer a fair and equal share of the food reward.
In another experiment, the team repeated the test with 20 children between the ages of two and seven. They discovered that both young children and chimps "responded like humans typically do" - tending to opt for an equal division of the prize.
"What we're trying to get at is the evolutionary route of why humans share," explained Dr Proctor.
"So it's likely that this [fairness] was needed in the evolution of cooperation....
Scarlet Ibis
01-15-2013, 04:44 AM
Here is the part I found most interesting about the article:
[i]Dr Susanne Schultz from the University of Manchester said the study was very interesting and showed "the potential for chimps to be aware of fair offers".
"It is interesting that changing the study design - primarily by not using food rewards it seems - one can elicit fairness behaviour in chimps," she told the BBC.
So I'm assuming food seems to bring out selfishness in primates.
01-19-2013, 08:10 AM
I assume that refers to the part of the linked story basically saying "when rewards are direct (as if with mere food), chimps are selfish; but with the tokens, chimps will cooperate"? Or am I misreading something?


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Can Birds Eat Peanut Butter?
A Good Snack for Birds - Or Is It?
Peanut Butter on Bread
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Peanuts are a familiar and popular food for backyard birds, but can birds eat peanut butter? Checking the ingredient list on a peanut butter jar reveals hydrogenated vegetable oil, salt, molasses, sugar, and a range of other additives. Birders may worry about how healthy peanut butter can be for birds, but it can actually be a great treat to add to a backyard buffet.
About Peanut Butter
Despite minor additives in most peanut butter (the exact composition varies by brand) the main ingredient is always peanuts. Peanuts are an ideal source of fat, calories, and protein for birds, providing good energy for all their active needs. Peanut butter also has other nutritious components, including:
 - Iron
 - Potassium
 - Calcium
 - Magnesium
While these vitamins and minerals may only be present in small amounts, they are still essential for a bird's healthy diet and peanut butter can provide them.
Birds That Eat Peanut Butter
Most birds that eat nuts or suet will also happily eat peanut butter. It is favored by smaller birds since peanut butter is easier to collect in small bills and doesn't need to be cracked, shelled, or broken to be eaten. The most popular birds that will snack on peanut butter include:
 - Chickadees, tits, and titmice
 - Wrens, nuthatches, and creepers
 - Woodpeckers, especially smaller species
Larger nut-loving birds, including thrashers, grackles, starlings, blackbirds, jays, and other corvids may also try peanut butter. Larger species, however, are more likely to enjoy whole or shelled nuts rather than softer butters, leaving this treat for smaller birds. This can be ideal for birders who hope to encourage both large and small birds to visit their feeders, as offering both whole nuts as well as peanut butter will attract different species.
Best Peanut Butter for Birds
Any peanut butter that is safe for human consumption can also be safely fed to birds, but the most ideal options are peanut butter brands with the fewest additives or extra ingredients. Organic or fresh peanut butters are best, and many wild bird supply stores or nature centers offer peanut or other nut butters specially formulated with fewer additives for feeding birds. Other peanut butter brands can also be offered to birds, including generic store brands. Birds can have peanut butter that is past its best by date, but no butter that is rancid, moldy, or spoiled should be available to birds, as it could be toxic or dangerous.
Both creamy and crunchy peanut butter blends are equally attractive to birds. Peanut-butter-and-jelly products are not recommended, however, since different birds enjoy jelly and don't necessarily eat peanut butter. Similarly, peanut butters that are blended with other products, such as marshmallow fluff or cookie pieces, are also not good for birds. Sugar-free or low-fat peanut butters are not suitable for birds either, as they lack the nutritional composition birds need, and sugar substitutes can be dangerous for birds. When available, low-salt peanut butters are ideal, as it is uncertain whether too much salt is bad for birds. Conscientious backyard birders will not want to take chances by offering birds excess salt.
Of course, no peanut butter products such as cookies, cakes, candies, or fudge should ever be offered to birds. No matter how much peanut butter they may contain, the extra ingredients in these snacks are not healthy for a bird's diet.
Offering Peanut Butter to Backyard Birds
There are many different ways to make peanut butter accessible to hungry birds. Smaller jars can be hung as basic feeders for birds to enjoy, or peanut butter can be smeared on a tree, post, or fence. Take care, however, since the oil in peanut butter can easily stain wood or other permeable surfaces. Instead, peanut butter dollops can be added to small dishes or platform feeders for easy feeding and convenient cleanup.
Peanut butter is often used for simple do-it-yourself feeders, such as pine cone bird feeders. Homemade feeders often use peanut butter mixed with birdseed to be even more attractive to birds, or peanut butter can be added to homemade suet as well.
Because peanut butter can go rancid and may get soft and runny when it is warm, it is best to offer peanut butter only in shady areas out of direct sunlight. Offering the butter in smaller quantities can help keep it from going bad before birds can eat it all. It may also be necessary to take steps to squirrel-proof bird feeders to discourage other critters from enjoying the treat before the birds find it.
Myths About Peanut Butter
Despite how good peanut butter can be for birds and how easy it is to add to a backyard buffet, there are several persistent myths that surround this nutritious treat.
 - Birds can choke on sticky peanut butter.
 There have been no recorded, verified instances of birds getting peanut butter stuck in their throats or bills, or otherwise choking on peanut butter. Birds have different mouth, throat, and tongue structures than humans, and they are easily capable of eating peanut butter without problems. To completely eliminate any risk of sticky peanut butter, no matter how small, the butter can be mixed with flour, cornmeal, or dry oatmeal. This will make the peanut butter drier and more crumbly, which will be easier for birds to break apart and consume.
 - Peanut butter can coat feathers and make it harder to fly.
 While this is certainly possible, it is highly unlikely and has not been noted as a regular problem even among birds that are fanatics for peanut butter. To get coated with peanut butter, birds would have to rub on or roll in the butter, which they do not typically do. Even if they were coated, preening would easily remove the peanut butter without harming the birds. To avoid even the smallest risk, keeping peanut butter cooler or choosing brands with less oil content will make it more difficult for the butter to coat birds' feathers. Mixing the butter with drying ingredients such as flour and cornmeal can also reduce any potential problems with birds' plumage.
Peanut butter is a great treat for birds, and while there can be some minor problems with offering it in the yard or garden, it is easy to overcome those difficulties to offer birds a nutritious and delicious treat.


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Cable-Stayed Bridge Concept for Longer Spans
|Issue:||Journal of Bridge Engineering (ASCE)", August 1996, n. 3, v. 1|
Achieving larger maximum spans by inventing new bridge systems has always been a fascinating intellectual challenge. Several concepts of modified cable-supported bridges have been proposed in the past that promise to surpass the more traditional cable-supported bridges in terms of maximum span length. Some of these concepts are recalled in this paper. An alternative concept derived from the classical cable-stayed bridge system is presented. Instead of vertical pylons, pairs of inclined pylon legs, spreading out longitudinally and connected at the top by horizontal ties, are used. The merits and shortcomings of such a system are discussed. Based on a comparative analysis of forces, quantities, and costs, it is concluded that the alternative concept presented in this paper not only allows the achievement of larger maximum spans, but also can lead to an economically advantageous designeven within the span-length range of the classical cable-stayed bridge system.


Hair Density: How "Thick" Are You?
What exactly is hair density and what does it have to do with black natural afro-textured hair? well to sum things up, hair density measures the thickness (or lack thereof) of your hair. It is the number of hair strands found in one square inch (2.5cm) of your scalp at any given time.
Density is labeled as Fine, Medium, or, Course
When someone refers to your hair as "thick" they are actually referring to a course density level. The same goes for thin hair, it means your hair density falls in the fine category. It is highly important to know your density because it makes the world of a difference when it comes to handling and styling your hair.
Thick or course density hair is well suited for layered styles, while thin or fine density hair is often better suited for more blunt styles. Learning about your particular hair density also helps you to properly care and cater to its specific need and function. This plays a major role to the realistic goal of growing your hair long, beautiful and healthy.
Improving Your Hair Density
Your hair's density is predetermined by genetics and sometimes we can't always help what we are born with but it is possible for you to avoid your natural hair density and when treated and cared for improperly you can even change and alter it in a negative way.
Although you may have neglected proper care of your hair, there is still hope at the end of the tunnel. There are many ways in which you can improve or even increase your hair's density through proper procedures and maintenance of your hair.
Hair Remedies
Nutrition is one of the first place to start when it comes to hair improvement and overall being for that matter. Vitamin A rich foods help to combat thin hair.
Vitamins & Supplements are also another great way of not only improving your hair density alone, but also acts as a natural growth aid in hopes of achieving your longer stronger healthier hair.
Products are specifically designed to help aid in thicknening, giving your hair that voluminous quality it deserves.
Do-It-Yourself Remedies
* Banana and avocado together make a great hair pack for thin hair. Mash equal parts of banana and avocado together until it becomes a smooth creamy spread. Apply to the scalp and the entire length of hair and cover with a shower cap. Leave the hair pack on for 20 minutes and rinse well.
* Make a shampoo by mixing 100g each of amla (Indian goose berry), reetha and shikakai powder and boil in two liters of water until the liquid reduces to half. Use this shampoo for your hair for at least one month. Your hair will become thick.
* Beat a raw egg and massage it into your scalp, using a wide tooth comb work through the entire length of your hair to ensure that it saturates each strand. Eggs contain vitamins A, D, and E as well as a variety of B vitamins and protein. These vitamins and protein are essential for hair strength and protection.
* Rinse hair with a mixture of ACV (Apple Cider Vinegar)and Sage Tea to help hair grow naturally thick and strong.
* Make a paste by mixing Olive Oil, honey,and cinnamon powder.Massage on the scalp and leave it for 15 minutes. Wash with a mild shampoo. Repeat it for 3-4 times a week.
* Oat flour thickens hair when added to your conditioner. Either add 2 tablespoons of oat flour to your conditioner or make oat flour water to pour and work into hair right before using your conditioner. The lipids in oat flour create luster and thickness for brittle hair.
* Massaging your hair and scalp regularly with 100% Organic Extra Virgin Coconut Oil or 100% Pure Castor Oilis one of the best methods to get thicker hair naturally. Warm the coconut oil or castor oil and apply it to your scalp as you lightly rub the pad of your fingers on the scalp.
You can also do this method with other oils of your choosing. Once you have massaged the oil in, place a warm towel on your hair for about 15 min. Following this procedure at least one day in a week helps in making the scalp stronger, thus leading to thick and shiny hair.
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I just blogged that beet seeds are actually seed pods so when you plant what you think is one beet seed you actually plant a cluster of seeds. If more than one seed germinates from the cluster, you get two or more plants with very tangled seeds. Dividing them is difficult from cell packs. It can be done. Beets are very hardy and if the weather is cool, a damaged plant can survive. A damaged plant is typically a plant with like a single strand of root.
|Beet Transplants - The Rusted Garden: Gary Pilarchik|
|Beet Root Cluster - The Rusted Garden: Gary Pilarchik|
Even the roots of beets are red. This cluster is several beets. Tear from the bottom until you reach the leave and plant cluster. Make a wish a break the best you can. You are just breaking the clump one time. Don't try and break every plant out. Even if some plant die you will have beets. You can also harvest the leaves for salads.
|Splitting Beet Transplants in Two: Gary Pilarchik|
Plant them in a hole the is deeper than the roots and back fill. Gently press the soil around the plant and water daily for several days, especially if it is sunny and in the 70's. You can see more than two plants in the picture below.
|Transplanting Beets - The Rusted Garden: Gary Pilarchik|
|A Row of Transplanted Beets: Gary Pilarchik|


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Last week, as Theo and I were leaving a shopping center, we spotted this aboriginal man on his bicycle with a didgeridoo. I love the modern and traditional elements going on here.
So what's a didgeridoo, you ask? It's a wind instrument developed by indigenous Australians a thousand years or so ago. It's made out of a hollow tree that is cleaned out and shaped. Beeswax may be applied to the mouthpiece end and the instrument may be painted or left natural. The didgeridoo is played using a special breathing technique to continuously vibrate the lips and produce a drone.
The didgeridoo is not just a musical instrument. It's also a ceremonial instrument that traditionally only men play; women sometimes play it informally. Some indigenous Australians believe it's cultural theft for non-indigenous Australians to play or even touch it, but it's quite a popular product in tourist shops, like the ones shown above from the Queen Victoria Market.


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The End of the Trail
James Earle Fraser (_PHONE_)
Plaster (approximately 17' x 14' x 5')
National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City
Sculpted by American-born artist James Earle Fraser, The End of the Trail has endured to become one of the most recognizable images in the United States. Many people are familiar with this representation of an American Indian on horseback, but few actually know the history of the piece. Originally, it was more than just an image on a postcard, belt buckle or beaded bracelet. It was a major sculptural work. And for its creator, it was more than just a sculpture. It was a meaningful reminder of a childhood spent on the American frontier.
About the Artist
James Earle Fraser grew up on the plains in Mitchell, South Dakota. There he had unique encounters with pioneers, hunters and fur trappers, and he befriended many of the Plains Natives. He often heard stories about the "doomed fate" of the Native people and sympathized with their suffering as westward expansion threatened to consume their lands. The experience of watching a young man in Mitchell carve chalkstone into different forms encouraged Fraser to begin sculpting. He later acknowledged that this significantly influenced his art career.
In the late 1880s, the Fraser family left their prairie life behind and moved to Minneapolis, a landscape that was much different from the flat, vast expanses of the West. The hills, lakes and trees provided the young Fraser with fresh subject matter for his artwork. His family then soon moved to Chicago, where at the age of 13, Fraser began his studies at the Art Institute. During this time, he was able to assist in the installation of sculpture at the World's Fair of 1893. Combined with his boyhood experiences on the plains of South Dakota, the sculptures of the American Indians featured at the Fair further encouraged Fraser to produce the image he had envisioned for The End of the Trail. He began making the model for the piece shortly afterwards.
Though Fraser won many awards for his work at the Art
Institute, his father did not support his plan to continue his studies
as an artist. He contacted Sir William Van Horne, a major railroad tycoon
who was also a close family friend and a collector of great works of
art, for his advice in assessing his son's artistic abilities. Van Horne
encouraged Fraser's studies in art, and his father agreed with the decision,
allowing the young student to travel to Paris, France in 1897.
Fraser took a small, bronze version of The End of the Trail with him overseas, and in 1898 he won the John Wanamaker prize for the work at the American Artists Association exhibition in Paris. This prestigious award brought him the opportunity to study at the Beaux Arts school in Paris and the chance to assist Augustus Saint-Gaudens, the leading sculptor in the United States who had a strong influence on the development of Fraser's style.
Above all, Fraser held the highest admiration for the work of Michelangelo, whose sculptures he had studied while at the Beaux-Arts school. But it was on a trip taken to Italy during his last year in Paris that Fraser encountered the classic works of this Renaissance master in person. The awe-inspiring journey encouraged Fraser to produce works on a monumental scale, and he kept this experience in mind as he returned to the United States in 1900. Working with Saint-Gaudens, Fraser found ways of rendering his forms in bronze and plaster with the same sense of emotion as Michelangelo.
In 1901 Fraser completed his first commission, the Saint-Gaudens Medal, for the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. This work helped to establish the artist and brought further commissions, including his most famous piece, a monumental version of The End of the Trail created exclusively for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, California.
About the Artwork
After returning to the United States, Fraser made several changes to his small bronze of The End of the Trail for the 1915 sculpture. The artist struggled with which image of the Native American would be the most appropriate to depict--a vanishing race of savage warriors or the transformation of proud, spiritual people into the next century.
Choosing the latter option, Fraser replaced the buffalo shield that appeared in earlier versions of the piece with a medicine bag. Combined with the presence of a strong wind whisking behind the figure and his horse, these details represent the spiritual side of the Native people. Another prominent change made specifically for this piece was the removal of part of the buffalo hide robe, exposing the musculature of the figure and representing the strength of the Native American.
Placed in the Court of Palms at the entrance to the Expo, this compelling image greeted almost 19 million visitors. Fraser's piece was such a great success that he was awarded the gold medal for sculpture, and The End of the Trail quickly gained widespread recognition. Following the conclusion of the Exposition, many artists wished to have their sculptures cast in bronze, but this was not possible since the United States entered into World War I, and the materials for making bronze became very scarce. Thus, the plaster sculptures were tossed into a mud pit at Marina Park.
Residents of Tulare County, California, rescued The End of Trail in 1919 and relocated the piece to Mooney Grove Park, near Visalia, California. In 1968 the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum acquired the plaster piece, had the plaster piece cast in bronze, and returned the cast sculpture to Mooney Grove Park.


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_TAG_ struct tm* localtime_r( const time_t* timer, struct tm* result );
- A pointer to a time_t object that contains the calendar time that you want to convert.
- A pointer to a tm structure where the function can store the converted time.
Use the -l c option to qcc to link against this library. This library is usually included automatically.
The localtime_r() function converts the calendar time pointed to by timer into local time, storing the information in the struct tm that result points to. Whenever you call localtime_r(), it calls tzset().
You typically get a calendar time by calling time(). That time is Coordinated Universal Time (UTC, formerly known as Greenwich Mean Time or GMT).
You typically use the date command to set the computer's internal clock using Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Use the TZ environment variable or _CS_TIMEZONE configuration string to establish the local time zone.
A pointer to result, the struct tm.


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For a web application located at:
With an SSL certificate issued to "_URL_",
What is are the proper rewrite rules, DNS settings, or combination of both which makes each of the below urls redirect seemlessly to
1. _URL_ 2. _URL_ 3. _URL_
The difficulty is really with #3.
_URL_ tends to cause browser security messages. How do the major HTTPS sites do this? Take Paypal.com, for instance.
As some more assistance for item 3, and maybe 2 as well, how about using Server Name Indication to use two certs on the same host. (ie: _URL_ and domain.com) Apache's Wiki has some info on the specifics.
- Apache rewrite rules behind a nginx proxy
- Apache module "mod_jk". Setup rewrite condition for using https for specific url/context
- domain not getting resolved without www. Despite appropriate apache settings and DNS records
- Why do some rewrite rules fail while AJP is serving all of my requests to Tomcat?
- Apache server rewrite rules: how to avoid "implicitly forcing redirect (rc=302)"?


Facebook to help test'six degrees of separation'
Posted by Emma Woollacott
In 1967, the Harvard sociologist Stanley Milgram conducted the experiment that led to what's become known as the'six degrees of separation' theory.
But despite its popularity - it's even been used as the basis of a successful film - the theory's never been put to a proper scientific test - until now.
Milgram's original experiment was very small in scale. He sent around 300 letters to randomly selected people in Omaha, Nebraska, asking them to get the letter to a single 'target' individual - a stockbroker in Boston.
The senders were given some basic onformation about their target, and asked to send the letter to the person they believed was most likely to be closer to the target than they.
He found that those letters that reached their target did it in an average of six stages. However, only about 60 of the original 300 letters did actually succeed, making it a dubious theory to say the least.
"Unfortunately, absence of proof is not proof of absence, and until now there has been no way to resolve this argument one way or the other," says Yahoo.
"Because Facebook allows us to know not only the friends that people choose to send their messages to, but also the entire social graph of the 750M+ Facebook users, we can now test the hypothesis rigorously."
Yahoo is asking people to volunteer as either senders or targets, and will then ask senders to pass their messages via their Facebook friends. You can apply to take part here.
There are various rules - people must stick to using the Facebook friends they have already, for instance, rather than trying to friend people they think might be more useful.
What Yahoo doesn't explain is how it chooses its targets, beyond saying that a number will be recruited from volunteers. If it picks them at random, rather than selecting them to conform to world demographics, it won't tell us much about anything.
It might not seem that way, but most of the world doesn't actually have a Facebook account; Tuareg tribespeople aren't that likely to apply.


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So, as a conclusion, to create the.xo file, you should:
- Launch the build for the Mono application
- Create a Mono bundle
- Build a.zip file with all binaries and config files
- Rename the file from.zip to.xo
The deploy script included with the source file of the project automatically builds the.XO file. You should launch it at the end of each build.
At the end of the script, a LabActivity-1.xo is generated:
Run the Activity
Our Activity can be installed on the Sugar emulator. A shortcut for this emulator is available on the Ubuntu desktop from the virtual machine included with this article.
Once launched, the Sugar emulator displays the Sugar home page:
To install a new Activity, first click on the Terminal Activity (icon square with an included dollar). Then launch the command line sugar-install-bundle
on the ".xo" file. This system command unzips the package and adds the Activity.
The icon's Activity is now visible at the top of the desktop (the little white square).
A click on the icon launches our Activity:
Note that Gtk controls are slightly different on Sugar than on Ubuntu: buttons are rounded.
If you have the luck to get a XO machine, you could install the Activity with a USB key where you previously put the.XO file or use the Browse Activity
if you have previously deployed the.XO file on a website. The resulting window is exactly the same as the one in the emulator.
Sugarize your application
The previous part of this article shows you how you can write a new Activity from scratch. Alternatively, you could be interested in porting an existing application.
It's what we call "Sugarize" an application. Torello Querci has done a great job to sugarize the existing Mono Gbrainy application.
Gbrainy is a collection of little games based on memory. The following screen capture shows you the application on the XO.
Gbrainy was initially wrote in pure Gtk. Gbrainy is also an interesting application because it uses two advanced Mono features: Glade and Gettext.
Glade is a window design tool for Gtk. Glade comes with a dedicated designing tool and uses a file format based on XML to store resources.
Gettext is the localization tool for Gnome. The
Mono.Unix namespace allows calls to Gettext from
your C# application. Note that both Gettext and the standard localization mechanism of.NET are usable from Mono. The main advantage of Gettext is to be supported by a large
community of developers and to be compliant with a lot of common tools like the Pootle server
or the Poedit editor.
The following source code comes from the Sugarized Gbrainy application. You could see the Sugar features, the use of Glade properties (
and some calls to localization methods (
public class gbrainy
[Glade.Widget("gbrainy")] Gtk.Window app_window;
[Glade.Widget] Box drawing_vbox;
[Glade.Widget] Gtk.Label question_label;
[Glade.Widget] Gtk.Label solution_label;
[Glade.Widget] Gtk.Entry answer_entry;
[Glade.Widget] Gtk.Button answer_button;
[Glade.Widget] Gtk.Button tip_button;
[Glade.Widget] Gtk.Button next_button;
[Glade.Widget] Gtk.Statusbar statusbar;
[Glade.Widget] Gtk.Toolbar toolbar;
const int ok_buttonid = -5;
public gbrainy (string args, params object props)
Catalog.Init ("gbrainy", Defines.GNOME_LOCALE_DIR);
IconFactory icon_factory = new IconFactory ();
AddIcon (icon_factory, "math-games", "math-games-32.png");
AddIcon (icon_factory, "memory-games", "memory-games-32.png");
AddIcon (icon_factory, "pause", "pause-32.png");
AddIcon (icon_factory, "resume", "resume-32.png");
AddIcon (icon_factory, "endgame", "endgame-32.png");
AddIcon (icon_factory, "allgames", "allgames-32.png");
AddIcon (icon_factory, "endprogram", "endprogram-32.png");
Glade.XML gXML = new Glade.XML (null, "gbrainy.glade",
Sugar.Activity activity =
new Sugar.Activity(app_window, activityId, bundleId);
activity.SetActiveEvent += activeChanged;
toolbar.IconSize = Gtk.IconSize.Dnd;
Tooltips tooltips = new Tooltips ();
ToolButton button = new ToolButton ("allgames");
Catalog.GetString ("Play all the games"), null);
button.Label = Catalog.GetString ("All");
button.Clicked += OnAllGames;
toolbar.Insert (button, -1);
This article is an introduction to Sugar development using Mono. Mono allows you to use your.NET and C# skills to create software for the XO laptop, to contribute
to the OLPC project, and then to provide educative material for the world's poorest children. Why not take this chance?
This article comes from a full tutorial on the SugarLabs wiki. A French version is also available
on the TechHead Brothers website. Do not hesitate to contact me for more information on the OLPC project.


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CiTi - Center for integrative Traffic investigation
By establishing the Profile Area Mobility & Transport Engineering (MTE), RWTH Aachen University hopes make a significant scientific contribution to the development, design, and research of sustainable mobility. The initial basis for this is the existing and emerging infrastructure at RWTH Aachen University, e.g. the driving simulator at the Institute for Automotive Engineering and the Center for Research on European Mobility (CERM) set up at the Aldenhoven Testing Center (ATC).
In order to research the potential of connected technologies holistically, the competencies of the different institutes involved in traffic simulation must be promoted and connected further. Only in this way can the interdisciplinary, cross-faculty research result in credible statements on the traffic effects of innovative technologies. The development of sustainable mobility faces four core challenges which are also key research areas for future mobility: increasing traffic safety, transport efficiency, energy efficiency, and urban quality of life.
Aims of the project
Project CiTi aims to create the technological data and simulation requirements to predict the effectiveness of innovative measures and technologies, especially regarding research on connected mobility at RWTH Aachen University. This supports the long-term goal of the Profile Area, which is to establish a Cluster for Mobility Research at RWTH Aachen University as a special institute lateral to the faculties to systematically promote the profiling of the university and to advance internationally visible and relevant mobility research.
In the course of the project, the level of total traffic will be opened up for future research using connected and automated systems in order to assess primarily their impact on transport efficiency and traffic flow, but also on traffic safety in cooperation with CERM.
Project contents and structure
The "Center for integrative Traffic investigation" (CiTi) seeks to establish the following three components at RWTH Aachen University to enable future research using complex transport systems:
I. Setting up a traffic data centre
II. Multiscale modelling
III. Extrapolation to entire transport networks
The first step of the project is to set up a traffic database. This step not only includes the concept and the implementation of the traffic database and the traffic data server, but also the connection to the existing wireless sensor networks of cities/regions/states, the analysis of the available data, and the abstraction of the data into a generic traffic description.
The second component comprises the creation of a suitable traffic simulation environment including the transformation and integration of the data from the traffic data centre as a prerequisite of the analysis and assessment of innovative technologies such as connected transport management strategies.
In the third step, the impact of new connected technologies and measures on entire traffic areas for which there is only macroscopic data available will be assessed in a simulation. For example, CERM findings on the impact of specific traffic scenarios can be extrapolated to entire traffic areas.Citi
The project is funded by the Strategy Fund of RWTH Aachen University.
October 2015 – September 2018
- Institute for Automotive Engineering
- Institute of Automatic Control
- Chair of Computer Science 11 – Embedded Software
- Chair of Operations Management


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The fireball was observed by a Spanish scientific project at a speed of 227,000 kilometers per hour. It was destroyed over the Évora district, but it was possible to see it in Porto.
A fireball passed on Monday morning in the sky in the south of Portugal, where the light, caused by a meteorite, ended up extinguishing. The fireball, which traveled through the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula, was observed by a Spanish scientific project at a speed of 227,000 kilometers per hour. To Rádio Observador, the astrophysicist who observed the phenomenon explains that the fireball was destroyed over the district of Évora, but guarantees that it was possible to observe it in Porto.
The event was detected by the sensors of the SMART project, of the Andalusian Astrophysics Institute (IAA-CSIC), of the astronomical observatories of Calar Alto (Almeria), Seville and La Hita (Toledo). According to the analysis of the principal investigator of the SMART project, José María Madiedo, from IAA-CSIC, the fireball was registered at 3:49 am on Monday. Those responsible for the project recorded the event in a video, where they show some images of the fireball and explain the location where it was possible to observe it.
The phenomenon occurred when a rock from an asteroid entered the Earth's atmosphere at a speed of about 227,000 kilometers per hour and, due to its great luminosity, could be seen in a large part of southern and central Spain. On social media, Madiedo says that "the most spectacular images were recorded in Seville" where it was possible to see the rock in a "bluish-green" color.
To Radio Observador, the Spanish astrophysicist claims that the fireball was destroyed over the district of Évora but it was possible to see it even in Porto.
At 2:49 am, Portugal time, there was a very bright fireball that lit up the night sky, especially in the southern part of the Iberian Peninsula. In that area, it was much brighter than in the rest. It was so bright that it could be seen in almost the entire Iberian Peninsula. ", He said.
José María Madiedo explains that the fireball appeared at an altitude of about 132 kilometers west of Andalusia and advanced from Spain to the south of Portugal, where it was destroyed 61 kilometers high in the district of Évora.
The brightness caused by the explosion "was so huge that the night became a day" in the south of the two countries and it was possible to observe it "at a distance of 500 kilometers".
Until Porto, it was certainly seen [the explosion]. Because the fireball was so big that it had to be seen at a distance of more than 500 kilometers. Most likely it was seen all over Portugal ", he praises.
The astrophysicist guarantees that the rock was completely destroyed at high altitude, thus there being no "dangerous remains" on Portuguese soil.
The SMART project detectors operate within the scope of the Meteorological and Earth Observation Network of Southwest Europe (SWEMN), which aims to continuously monitor the sky, in order to record and study the impact on the Earth's atmosphere of rocks from different objects in the System Solar.
Fireballs have been common in Spain, but not in Portugal
In recent weeks, these events have not been uncommon in the Spanish sky. On November 7, the Valpuesta station in Burgos detected a fireball flying over the Media Zone of Navarra at around 11:51 pm (10:51 pm in Lisbon time) at 115,000 kilometers per hour, according to the local newspaper Diario de Navarre. About two weeks ago, on November 1, the SMART project detected another fireball flying over Spain at around 19h53 locals. According to the Diario de Cadiz, it was possible to observe it in the region of Castile-La Mancha.
However, according to José María Madiedo, what distinguishes the phenomenon observed at dawn on Monday is its "brilliance" .
Already in Portugal, as big fireballs are rare, explains astro-photographer Observatory Dark Sky Alqueva, Miguel Claro, the Radio Observer. Despite the Observatory registering "several phenomena" in other countries, in Portugal it is rare to observe "fireballs and bolides".
Sometimes they are small debris, it can even be a small pebble, it can even be the size of a grain of sand. When we are talking about a fireball, it is already a relatively larger stone that causes an impact on the atmosphere, which causes that friction and that spectacularity that we can see in the video ", he explains.
Miguel Claro, who was working during the night, does not guarantee that he saw the fireball in question but admits that he saw something that caught his attention: "a very bright star that left a trail of smoke".
In turn, the former director of the Observatory, Rui Agostinho, explains that this phenomenon occurs every year at the same time but is not usually recorded on video and published on social networks. This fireball is part of a shower of shooting stars, the Leonids. In the coming nights, it will be possible to observe more fireballs related to this phenomenon.
This meteor shower is known to produce some of these much brighter meteors, popularly also called fireballs. So, if you have time at night, go to the countryside. If we escape the bright sky of a city, it is possible to see more of them [meteors] ", he says.
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A Timeline for Structures at Jamestown Related to the Chiles Family
Colonial NHP Collection
In 1638-9, Richard Kemp, who served as Secretary of the Virginia colony during the tenure of the irascible Sir John Harvey, built his "brick house" on 3 ½ acres of land to the east of the present-day Ambler ruins. This "brick house" was designated S44 by NPS archeologists; it is the building that would eventually pass into Walter Chiles I's hands. Governor Sir John Harvey identified Kemp's house as the first brick dwelling at Jamestown and two eyewitnesses used the word "faire" to describe the house. Governor Harvey himself referred to Kemp's house as "the fairest that ever was knowen in this countrye for substance and uniformity."
Archeological evidence (excavations done in the 1930's and 1990's) indicate that structure 44 was a oneor possibly two-story home raised on a shallow footing of brickbats. A central, H-shaped chimney was shared by two rooms on the ground floor. Both rooms may have been paved with brick or tile.
Empy Jones, the lead excavator during the 1934-35 dig, kept a daily logbook and produced a freehand sketch (illustrated above) of the foundations laid bare. Jones' sketch indicated that S44 was about 23 feet long. S44 is also depicted in NPS archeologist John Cotter's 1958 base map of the Jamestown townsite.
Richard Kemp was a close associate of the unpopular Governor Harvey, who had been thrust out of office by his fellow Virginians and then briefly reinstated by the Crown. When Sir John's replacement Sir Francis Wyatt arrived in Virginia in 1639, he appointed a new Council, suspending Kemp as Secretary.
Colonial NHP collection
William Kemp sold S44 to Governor Wyatt in 1641, perhaps under duress, and moved to Rich Neck Plantation on the mainland. He would not recover his old post until Governor Sir William Berkeley replaced Wyatt in 1642. Sir Francis Wyatt built the "Country House" (S38) on a half-acre lot to the west of S44. (S38 is illustrated to the left in a conjectural painting by NPS artist Sydney King.)
Around 1644, Governor Sir William Berkeley purchased the S44 property with its brick house. The deed turning the property over to Sir William referred to the "mansion house, together with All gardens, orchards, yard Backsides, out houses, buildings … late in ye tenure and occupacon of Richd Kemp esq. and by him Conveyed unto Sr. ffrancis Wyatt Kt." This was at the same time that Berkeley was building his Green Spring estate, located a few miles away on the mainland. Although Sir William owned other houses in town, he may have lived in S44 at one time or another.
In 1649, Berkeley sold S44 and its acreage to merchant and Burgess Walter Chiles I. Sometime prior to his death in 1653, Walter Chiles I acquired 70 acres at Black Point, located near the easternmost tip of Jamestown Island. When Walter Chiles I died, his widow Elizabeth retained a dower interest and remained in S44. His son Walter Chiles II inherited the estate from his father.
Walter Chiles II married Mary Page, daughter of wealthy York County merchant John Page. The couple may well have lived with the widow Elizabeth for awhile before building their own 38- X 24-foot house sometime in the 1650's. This new house is referred to in site maps as S138 and was situated located directly in front of S44.
S138 was made of brick and likely consisted of two rooms, heated by a fireplace in the west gable. (The detail from a conjectural drawing of colonial Jamestown, illustrated to the right, depicts both S138 and S44, located next to the "Ambler House.")
Colonial NHP Collection
Recent archeology has indicated that a structure had stood previously on the site of S138. In 2005, NPS archeologist Dr. Andrew Veech found evidence of a post-in-the-ground structure (S178) when excavating S138. S178 appeared to be a timber building 10 feet wide and at least 24 feet long and was perhaps part of Kemp's construction efforts after 1638. It is very likely that S178 stood at the time of the Chiles family's ownership.
When Mary Chiles died, her husband Walter Chiles II married Suzanna (no last name?). When Chiles died, Suzanna wed the Reverend James Wadding and moved elsewhere. Suzanna and her husband the minister sold the lot with S44 and S138 on it to John Page, the father of Walter Chiles II's first wife Mary. John Page was a York County merchant and resident of Bruton Parrish at Middle Plantation (the site of present-day Williamsburg), where he dwelt in a brick house he had built in 1662.
Sometime before September 1676, John Page tore down S44 and built S53 behind S138; archeological evidence indicates strongly that it was a wing of S138. (These structures are depicted in a 1664 plat drawn by John Underhill, illustrated to the left.)
In 1676, there was mention of looting of S53's cellar; pipes of wine were stolen during Bacon's Rebellion. Both S138 and S53 were burned down or at least badly damaged during the rebellion.
Colonial NHP collection
By 1682, both S138 and S53 were either rebuilt or repaired by William Sherwood, who had bought the property sometime before that year. (Sherwood had been purchasing property near the center of town to renovate and improve old structures, then leasing them out to burgesses and Lord Culpepper's Council.)
Sherwood's improvements to S138 and S53 were impressive. In 2005, excavators found evidence of a porch tower raised around the front doorway, probably constructed after 1676. A "porch chamber" was on the second story of the 16'3" X 13'10" porch.
When Sherwood rebuilt S138 and S53, he followed the footprint of the Chiles house, but enlarged it and probably built the aforementioned porch tower. In government leases of the property, there is mention of a "great hall" and "Dining-Room" (probably the front rooms in S138) and "a back room on the same floor" (S53) and a "cellar" (under S53).
In excavations from the 1930's (illustrated above is a 1935 NPS dig at the Chiles/Sherwood property holdings), NPS excavators H.C. Forman and Summerfield Day found about 50,000 pieces of ornamental molded plaster across the entire Ambler complex site. These were recognized by the archeologists as destruction debris used to fill in cellar holes, leveling the old building sites in preparation for construction of the Ambler mansion in the 1750's. The vast majority of ornamental plasterwork fragments (nearly 700 pieces) were associated with S138; nearly 300 were from the excavation of the cellar of S53.
Cherub faces, a foot, a hand holding a book (illustrated to the left), mastiff heads and acanthus leaves were amongst the plasterwork debris excavated. There was no evidence of strapwork, which was typical of the first half of the 17th century. According to historian Cary Carson's report in the National Park Service's Evaluation of Previous Archeology (a document associated with its Jamestown Archeological Assessment project), the plaster fragments "were as fashionably up-to-date as any 1670-1690s plasterwork in far grander buildings in England." Carson continues: "So far as architectural historians know, S138/53 became the most dignified and fashionable public building in England's North American colonies until the Capitol at Williamsburg and the Governor's Palace were built 40 years later."
In 1697, William Sherwood died; his widow Rachel continued to lease out her property for government business.
Rachel Sherwood married Edward Jaquelin about 1699 and his eldest daughter Elizabeth (from a later marriage) would inherit his Jamestown Island plantation. She wed Richard Ambler, who built the Ambler mansion (illustrated to the right by a photograph taken before the 1895 fire that destroyed the building) and demolished S138/53, S31 and S58. It is very likely that bricks from the earlier structures were incorporated into the Ambler Mansion.
Carson, Cary (Senior Principal Investigator). Evaluation of Previous Archaeology (part of the Jamestown Archaeological Assessment study conducted between 1992 and 1996). Williamsburg, Virginia, 2006.
Cotter, John. Archeological Excavations at Jamestown. Washington, D. C.: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1958.
Cotter, John and J. Paul Hudson. New Discoveries at Jamestown. Washington, D. C.:U. S. Government Printing Office, 1957.
Forman, Henry Chandlee. Jamestown and St. Mary's: Buried Cities of Romance. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1938.
---. Jamestown Archeological Assessment. Washington, D. C.: U. S. Government Printing Office, (no date).
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Distinguish between efficiency in production and efficiency in output. Can an industry achieve efficiency in production and still produce at an inefficient output level? Explain.
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Attorney for Accidents caused by Drunk Drivers
The legal limit for adult blood alcohol is 0.08% in Washington state. Many studies have been done on drunk driving accidents and, in general, it appears that:
- Drunk drivers are more likely to be male than female;
- They're more likely to be younger than older;
- Of the motorcycle riders killed in traffic accidents, about a third of them have blood alcohol greater than 0.08%;
- Of the children killed each year in traffic accidents, about 14% die from alcohol-related accidents;
- About a fifth of road accident deaths involve drugs such as cocaine or marijuana as well as alcohol;
- Most drivers convicted of drunk driving are habitually heavy drinkers or outright alcoholics (alcohol-dependent).
- In 2010, US adults drove impaired about 112 million times.
Drunk Driver Auto Accident Injuries
Whether and how badly you might be injured in a traffic accident depends on many factors:
- Force of the impact
- Direction and location of the impact on your vehicle
- Type of vehicles involved
- Position of your headrest
- Direction you were facing relative to the impact
- Whether you saw the crash coming or not
- Whether you were thrown from your seat at all and hit against the interior of the car
The severity of injury can also be affected by many factors, such as:
- How quickly medical help arrives,
- Whether anybody tries to move you and inadvertently worsens your condition
- Your basic health
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The most dangerous injuries are those to the head and spinal cord, because injury to the central nervous system can impair such important abilities as sight, speech, memory, movement and sensation. Burn injuries are also very dangerous, as they're slow to heal, tend to leave large scars, and can impair movement and sensation.
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can avoid it or as in this case, store only index keys to keep it as small as possible.
When I've started this project, DynamoDB transactions were not available, so in order to make ACID possible, on each transaction, I'm storing an array of events.
In most cases, that array contains a single event:
Fig. 4— DynamoDB Item with a single event
But there are times a transaction is completed by storing multiple events:
Fig. 5— DynamoDB Item with multiple events
Storing data like this ensures "all or none" events are saved for every command, but it also means that events must be "flatted" when retrieved.
Projections & Process Managers
After an event is stored in a database, that information must be propagated to event handlers, which are used in two ways:
 - as projections — for updating additional databases or services like "getStream"
 - as process managers (or "sagas") — for side effects like sending emails or completing payments via 3rd party services
In both cases, it's preferable to send events in a fault tolerable and reliable way in the same order in which they are stored.
If an error occurs in an event handler, it shouldn't continue receiving new events until it's resolved. Also, each event handler must be isolated, so an error in one handler doesn't affect others.
For those reasons, every projection or process manager consumes events by using a FIFO (First-In-First-Out) message queue.
A message queue provides a buffer which temporarily stores messages sent by a "producer" and keeps them stored on the queue until a "consumer" retrieves it and, in the end, deletes it. In a FIFO queue, only after a message is deleted, the next one can be processed.
Fig. 6— message queue (source)
DynamoDB Streams to SQS
A lambda function which sends a message into an SQS queue is triggered when a new event is stored, using DynamoDB Streams.
Since it's not advisable to use multiple lambdas connected to a DynamoDB Stream, a single lambda function forwards the event metadata into multiple SQS queues — one for each event handler (B1 in fig. 3).
Additionally, an array of events received from the stream (committed transaction) must be broken down so that for each event in an array, a separated SQS message is sent.
If an error occurs in any step of that process, DynamoDB stream will retry sending the same table item until it succeeds. This opens up a possibility of sending duplicate messages, which is why I'm also using deduplication option on each FIFO queue.
SQS to Event handlers
To get a message from an SQS queue, there must be an external service which polls it. B̶u̶t̶ ̶b̶e̶c̶a̶u̶s̶e̶ ̶L̶a̶m̶b̶d̶a̶ ̶f̶u̶n̶c̶t̶i̶o̶n̶s̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶s̶u̶p̶p̶o̶r̶t̶ ̶F̶I̶F̶O̶ ̶q̶u̶e̶u̶e̶s̶ ̶a̶s̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶s̶o̶u̶r̶c̶e̶s̶ ̶(̶a̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶m̶o̶m̶e̶n̶t̶)̶,̶ ̶I̶'̶m̶ ̶u̶s̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶a̶n̶ ̶E̶C̶2̶ ̶i̶n̶s̶t̶a̶n̶c̶e̶.̶
T̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶o̶n̶l̶y̶ ̶"̶n̶o̶n̶-̶s̶e̶r̶v̶e̶r̶l̶e̶s̶s̶"̶ ̶p̶a̶r̶t̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶a̶r̶c̶h̶i̶t̶e̶c̶t̶u̶r̶e̶,̶ ̶b̶u̶t̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶t̶u̶n̶a̶t̶e̶l̶y̶,̶ ̶i̶t̶'̶s̶ ̶a̶ ̶"̶c̶h̶e̶a̶p̶"̶ ̶o̶n̶e̶.̶ ̶A̶ ̶s̶i̶n̶g̶l̶e̶ ̶m̶i̶c̶r̶o̶ ̶(̶o̶r̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶n̶a̶n̶o̶)̶ ̶i̶n̶s̶t̶a̶n̶c̶e̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶s̶u̶f̶f̶i̶c̶i̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶a̶ ̶t̶a̶s̶k̶ ̶w̶h̶i̶c̶h̶ ̶c̶o̶n̶s̶i̶s̶t̶s̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶g̶e̶t̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶a̶ ̶m̶e̶s̶s̶a̶g̶e̶ ̶f̶r̶o̶m̶ ̶S̶Q̶S̶ ̶c̶o̶n̶t̶a̶i̶n̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶i̶d̶ ̶(̶B̶2̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶f̶i̶g̶.̶ ̶3̶)̶,̶ ̶r̶e̶t̶r̶i̶e̶v̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶a̶n̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶d̶a̶t̶a̶ ̶f̶r̶o̶m̶ ̶D̶y̶n̶a̶m̶o̶D̶B̶ ̶u̶s̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶i̶d̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶i̶n̶v̶o̶k̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶a̶ ̶L̶a̶m̶b̶d̶a̶ ̶f̶u̶n̶c̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶(̶B̶3̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶f̶i̶g̶.̶ ̶3̶)̶.̶
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Beachworld FAQ
BEACHWORLD - Bio Spheres
Basic Instructions.
 1- You must give your biosphere natural or artificial light each day to allow the vital
processes to take place. Neon, flourescent lights, ordinary light bulbs or even better,
Bio Spheres - Beachworlds lamps (which can be purchased from either the us selling our products
or through Globus direct) are all okay to use. It is important to ensure the lights do not
make the spheres warm.
There is no scientific formula dictating the exact amount of light per day the Beachworlds
need to remain healthy. If your home is very dark, we suggest five to six hours artificial
light per day. If your home gets plenty of natural daylight then this is probably all the
Beachworld needs. It is important to remember that if the shrimps are very orange/red
and are resting on the coral, walking on the pebbles or swimming around slowly,
whatever you are doing is perfect!
 2- NEVER expose your biosphere to direct sunlight. Placing your biosphere on a
window sill is fine providing it does not get direct sunlight.
 3- For the first month, check your biosphere daily. Ensure your shrimps have an
orange/red hue and are calm. They should be resting on the pebbles or coral. If your
shrimps are almost transparent and are racing around the sphere, this probably indicates
that they are getting too much or too little light. To rectify this problem, place the
biosphere elsewhere within your home until you find the perfect place.
 4- If you have been using artificial light to maintain your Beachworld and are going
away for more than two days, either give it to a friend to care for or use a timer light.
 5- During the summer place your Beachworld in a controlled temperature area
between 13° and 27° C. In extreme conditions place your biosphere in a sink with water
to cool it down. You can also call GLOBUS Customer Service for advice on:
0039 0182 559 495.
 Do not:
 - Place your BW in direct sunlight
 - Shake your BW
 - Place your BW outside
 - Place your BW in a room where the temperature goes above 27° or below 13°.
Light Exposure
Bulb Distance
40 Watt 15 cm.
60 Watt 25 cm.
100 Watt 30 cm.
Neon Distance
Up to 30 Watt 40 cm.
More than 30 Watt 65 cm.
Sunlight Lamp GLOBUS
Distance between 5 and 10 cm.
 Our planet is a closed system in which living organisms thrive: a biosphere
where nothing enters or exists except sunlight. Your BW is a miniature biosphere,
encapsulating the fundamental workings of our own Earth.
 Inside your BW, shrimps are sustained in a marine environment. You do not
have to feed the shrimps or change their water. It's the perfect pet! Nothing enters or
leaves the container, such as food, air, water or waste. The only elements required are
light and heat. The light causes the micro algae to produce the oxygen and food for the
shrimps, which in turn produce carbon dioxide and nutrients for the algae to grow.
 The BW gives us the opportunity to bring the beach indoors! The BW was created
by a space station engineer and two of the original Biosphere2 crew members. The two
Biosphere2 researchers lived and worked for two years inside the large sealed ecosystem
in Arizona without leaving the structure. The glass and steel sealed building covers 3,15
acres and contains several different environments including a rain forrest, savanna,
desert, marsh and ocean. Columbia University manages Biosphere2, where scientists
research the global changes that take place.
 The creators of the BW have completed a ten day space experiment on the U.S. Shuttle
and twice have done a four month experiment on board the Russian Space Station MIR
with sealed closed ecosystems similar to that of the BW.
 The residents of your BW are shrimps that are found only on certain Pacific
Ocean's islands. These shrimps inhabit the inland pools that are found in lava rock. Deep
red layers of algae line the walls of these pools, along with other types of macro algae.
The shrimps does not eat the algae, but rather maintains it, eating the micro algae and
bacteria that grows on the layers of algae. They are literally the gardeners of their
environment, maintaining the balance within the pools, keeping them clean so that the
large algae can thrive.
 In your BW you can see the shrimps grazing and grooming themselves and even
carrying the odd piece of sand! If the shrimps are disturbed they tend to temporarily
loose their bright red colour in an attempt to blend in with their background. Once they
have settled they will return to their original state.
 Unlike their natural habitat, there are no predators in the BW, so the life span of the
shrimps can be extremely long - up to10 years. They usually do not produce offspring in
the BW as they like dark, secluded places in which to breed. The BW are too small to
sustain an increasing number of shrimps, therefore we do not provide a breeding place.
The BW is expected to live 3 years, but they have been known to live for as long as 12
 There is also algae in your BW, in order to help keep the water clean and provide
oxygen for the shrimps.
 Setting up your BeachWorld
 STEP 1: Take the BeachWorld immediately out of its box. Be sure that the
BeachWorld is positioned the right side up. Very gently vibrate your Beachworld to free
any shrimps that might be trapped under the sand during transportation.
 STEP 2: Inspect your BW after you have taken it out of the box. Your BW might
be a little cloudy for the first day or two. This will clear up.
 STEP 3: Place your BW in a location that receives enough light. Never allow
your BW to receive direct sunlight. The room temperature needs to be between 13° and
 STEP 4: Watch your BW closely during the first month to make sure it is in an
appropriate location. Lighting is the primary consideration as long as the temperature
remains within the ranges quoted in Step 3. The BW thrives in natural or fluorescent
light. If there is too much light, algae will grow prolifically on the glass (however the
shrimps will love it!). Whenever you change the location of your BW, check it every few
days for several weeks to make sure that the location is appropriate.
 STEP 5: Fill out your BW's registration card within 30 days and send it along
with proof of purchase to Globus Scientific at the address below.
On receipt of your registration card Globus will send you a guarantee/ replacement
voucher for use in the unlikely event that your Beachworld dies.
 Algae on the glass. A small amount of algae on the glass is good as indicates that
the BW is getting ample light. However, if it becomes unsightly place the BW in an area
that receives slightly less light. The algae often clears up within a few days to a couple of
weeks. If it is very stubborn and does not recede in its new location after couple of weeks
move it to a slightly darker location yet, or use the attached magnet to clean smoothly the
 Milky water. This is a sign of bacteria in the water. if this occurs put the BW in a
well lit location for several days until the water clears up (but not in the direct sunlight).
 Dead shrimps. Over several years the shrimps will die of natural causes. If you
see several dead shrimps within your BW sometime within the first week of your having
the BW this might indicate a problem during transportation. If a shrimp dies and the BW
is crystal clear, there is no algae on the glass or on any of the shells in the sand, then you
probably need to give the BW a little more light. Never shake the BW as this could harm
the shrimps, and even kill them.
Through the process of photosynthesis, the algae provides the shrimps with the oxygen
they need to live.
 Swimming skeletons. Inside the ecosystem you may find small transparent
objects (skeletons) that look like shrimps, but which move rather slowly and irregularly.
These are the discarded skins of the shrimps. The shrimps changing their skin is another
proof of the animals' good state of health.
In the unlikely event that the majority of the shrimps die within one year of the purchase
date, you can return the product to GLOBUS UK for a replacement on condition that it
had not been subjected to modification or misuse and that all the instructions regarding
the care of your Beachworld have been observed. You MUST send the Beachworld
guarantee card to validate your claim.
Your Beachworld will be replaced using the replacement voucher provided the customer
returns the


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Assessing pupil size - Sounds simple, but...
 1. 0
 I have worked at two equally well recognized teaching hospitals in an ICU setting. Most everything is the same, but I've noticed a difference in how pupil size is assessed.
 Hosp#1 - Assess size of pupil as it reacts to pen light so as to eliminate variation in room lighting.
 Hosp#2 - Assess size of pupil upon initial inspection, regardless of room lighting, etc. (and before using pen light).
 I do look at the pt's pupils initially, but I make my measurement based on the size to which they constrict.
 So I am wondering - how does everyone else do it?
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 Your assessment should include both. For example if pupils are constricted or dilated without stimulation - and - do they constrict with stimulation - and - are they equal/unequal in both situations.
 4. 2
 I check the pupils without the pen light, say they are a 4, they constrict to a 3 with the pen light, so I will say pupils reactive 4->3
 ktliz and netglow like this.
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 I assess the size of them in regular lighting, how fast they react to my pen light is the ERRL part.
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 In response to the above replies:
 But how do you standardize on "regular lighting"? Day vs night, different light switches (we have about 8 lighting options in each room - it's ridiculous), if pt's eyes were open or closed prior to exam?
 That's what I'm getting at. If we report the size upon initial inspection that can be incredibly variable based on external factors. Do your units have a standard set for this? I know mine doesn't and the results are all over the place.
 I don't have any issues with the reactivity and regularity... it's just a specific question of timing that pupil size is measured.
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 You adopt a relative know that completely dilated pupils in any light is know if one pupil is larger than the other that's not know what size pupils should be based on what meds the patient is receiving. There's no hard and fast rule.
 8. 4
 I think you're making it out to be a bit harder than it really is.
 netglow, Esme12, Altra, and 1 other like this.
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 It should be based on what size they are without a bright light being shined right in them. Yes, it can be a little variable.
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 You are over thinking the issue. If you are checking the pupils at 0800 the "norm" is that it is daylight. YOu look at the pupils in ambient light comparing size and shape. Are the irregular in size? are they unequal? Do they both react equally and at the same time to light?(accommodation). Pupillary response changes can be, and usually is, a late sign of increasing intracranial pressure and there should be other more subtle signs of increasing pressure such as confusion and lethargy or agitation. The checking of pupils is obtaining a baseline and reporting changes. People who have had cataract surgery will not have much of a pupillary response and there is an anomaly the can be normal, anisocoria.
 Get a base line, look for differences.....the subtle changes due to time of day are understood.
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1640s, from L. ambidexter, lit. "right-handed on both sides," from ambi- "both" (see ambi-) + dexter "right-handed" (see dexterity). Its opposite, ambilevous "left-handed on both sides, clumsy" (1640s) is rare. Ambidexter "one who takes bribes
from both sides" is attested from 1530s and is the earliest form of the word in Eng.; its sense of "one who uses both hands equally well" appears by 1590s.


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Anders Retzius (Lund October 13, 1796 – Stockholm April 18, 1860), was a Swedish professor of anatomy and a supervisor at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.
He enrolled at Lund University in 1812 where he studied medicine, and alternated with studies in Copenhagen, until he in 1818 became a licensed doctor of medicine. Through his friendship with Jöns Jakob Berzelius, he as early as 1824 was appointed temporary professor of anatomy at the Karolinska Institute, an institute to which he dedicated much of his strength for many years. In 1830 he was also appointed temporary supervisor there, and in 1840 he was appointed both permanent professor and supervisor.
During the next decades he made many anatomical discoveries, for instance about the finer parts of the teeth, of the skull, of the muscles and of the nervous system. He was also an anthropologist, whose studies of the human cranium led to the classifications dolichocephalic and brachycephalic. He was considered to be very knowledgeable and was elected into many of the scientific academies at the time. He is credited with defining the cephalic index, which is the ratio of width to length of one's head.
Retzius was a polygenist. Retzius studied many different skull types from different races, because the skulls were so different from each race he believed that the races had a separate origin.[1]
The retropubic space of Retzius is named after him. The peritoneum lies deep to the posterior layer of transversalis fascia and is very adherent to it. Distally, this close contact remains in the area lateral to the epigastrics. Medially, however, the peritoneum reflects on the roof of the bladder and runs sharply dorsally, away from the deep layer of transversalis fascia. The separation of transversalis fascia and peritoneum contains loose fatty tissue allowing for the filling of the bladder. This space is called the retropubic space of Retzius (from the Clinic of Digestive Surgery, University Hospital St-Pierre, Brussels).
Retzius also engaged himself in the battle against the Swedish drinking habits – which at this time had a significant impact on the Swedish society – with works on the harmful effects liquor has on the body.
In 1826, he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
He was the father of Gustaf Retzius.
See also[edit]
 1. ^ Peter Rowley-Conwy, From Genesis to Prehistory: The Archaeological Three Age System and its Contested Reception in Denmark, Britain, and Ireland, 2007, p. 120


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A popular misconception we often encounter when answering questions, is the notion that in order to simulate an effect A that looks somewhat similar to another algorithm we built to simulate effect B, all you need to do is tweak a few parameters.
While true in a few circumstannces, there's a fundamental difference in tweaking an algorithm's parameters and designing an algorithm to simulate a specific behaviour.
Even more so, there's a fundamental difference in designing an algorithm and implementing it.
In this video, Mo goes covers the three (or four) things you're gonna go through when creating an algorithm and implementing it:
– The Concept
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– The Implementation
– The Parameter Space (Tweaking Values)


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- What is known about Shakespeare's life?
a. what AND known AND Shakespeare AND life
b. Shakespeare AND bio*
c. Shakespeare AND biograph*
d. life AND Shakespeare
- Do we learn better if we eat breakfast?
a. breakfast AND cognition
b. (learning OR cognition) AND (diet OR nutrition OR breakfast)
c. (learning AND diet) OR (learning AND breakfast) OR (learning AND nutrition)
d. learning AND nutrition
- Is reasearch involving the use of embryos to clone human beings ethically acceptable?
a. embryo* AND cloning AND humans
b. embryo* AND cloning AND involv* AND ethic* AND human
c. (embryo OR embryonic) AND cloning AND ethics
d. embryo* AND (clone OR cloning) AND ethic*