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English section (Nigeria Education Statistical Book, 2005).
1. PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
The main objectives of this study are to:
i. Find out the factors responsible for mass failure of students in English language in Egor Local Government Area.
ii. Find out the ways of improving the performance of students in English language among secondary school in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State.
1. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The knowledge of English is more critical as well as important in the context of the global marketplace, the knowledge of society and in the age of digital information technology. Dr. Mohamamad Farashuddin (2011), said, ''proficiency in English is a must for the nation to abolish poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy and indignity.'' This research is aimed at making contributions towards the quality improvements of English education in secondary schools in Nigeria. By clarifying the factors that influence students' English achievement, this study attempts to suggest a way of how to improve achievement and effective policy input.
The results of this study can be used for a variety of purposes. Principally, it will help teacher-trainers, educational administrators, policy makers, researchers and teachers in Nigeria to identify the factors likely to increase students' English achievement. Here, this study will try to point out some areas where steps may be taken to promote English teaching and learning conditions in Nigeria, encompassing the secondary-level students, rural as well as suburban.
1. RESEARCH QUESTIONS
1. What are the factors affecting students' performance in English language at the secondary levels of Egor Local Government Area of Edo State?
2. What is the actual situation of students' English achievement at the secondary level in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State?
3. Which policy inputs are useful in improving students' English achievement in Egor Local Government Area?
2. SCOPE OF THE STUDY
The study is delimited to five secondary schools in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State. The teachers and students in the research study are representative sample for the study in the study area.
1.8 DEFINITION OF TERMS
Factors: A circumstance, fact, or influence that contributes to a result.
Achievement: A thing done successfully with effort, skill, or courage.
Cognition: Has to do with how a person understands and acts in the world. It is the set of abilities or processes that are part of nearly every human action.
Cognitive abilities are brain-based skills we need to carry out any task from the simplest to the most complex.
Affective: Denoting or relating to mental disorders in which disturbance of mood is the primary symptom.


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The French Revolution: A History
Title: The French Revolution: a history.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the... Show synopsis Title: The French Revolution: a history.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORICAL WORKS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection contains works in both French and English highlighting the history of the Girondists and the Jacobins, the storming of the Bastille, the Napoleonic Wars, restorations of the monarchy, the spread of secularism, and the role of women. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Carlyle, Thomas; 1837. 3 vol.; 8. 1059.e.22-24.

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- 1 Translingual
- 2 Cantonese
- 3 Japanese
- 4 Korean
- 5 Mandarin
- 6 Middle Chinese
- 7 Vietnamese
- KangXi: page 343, character 24
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9242
- Dae Jaweon: page 653, character 12
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 873, character 20
- Unihan data for U+5E8A
床 (Yale chong4)
According to the 和句解 (Wakuge), published in 1668 by early Edo-period scholar Matsunaga Teitoku (松永貞徳; see Wikipedia:ja:松永貞徳), derives from ゆか (yuka) as the 未然形 (mizenkei, "irrealis form") stem of the verb 行く (yuku, "to go") of an original meaning similar to "not going", in reference to a place where one sits down to rest.
- The floor (the bottom surface of a room).
- A bed.
- (theater) A raised area of a stage where a presenter or musician sits.
- A raised platform erected along the Kamo River in Kyōto in summer, used as an outdoor tea shop or restaurant.
- A raised platform roughly 30cm tall used in dirt-floored rooms as a seat.
- A raised area on which to sleep: a bed.
- The floor.
- Tatami mats.
- The seat of an oxcart.
- Short for 床間 / 床の間 (toko no ma): An alcove with a raised floor along one wall of a traditional Japanese living room.
- An alcove with a raised floor used as a study: see 付書院 (tsukeshoin).
- A box seat, such as at a parade, theater, or stadium.
- Short for 床店 (tokomise): A stall with a raised floor used as a store.
- Short for 床屋 (tokoya): A barbershop, from how such shops were historically often tokomise.
- Short for 床船梁 (tokofunabari), 舵床 (kajidoko): The large wooden beam at the very aft of a traditional wood-hulled Japanese ship, upon which the rudder is seated.
- The heel of a plough; the part of the bottom of a plough that touches the ground and guides the ploughshare.
- Short for 苗床 (naedoko): A seedbed.
- Short for 鉄床, 金床 (kanatoko): An anvil.
From Middle Chinese.
床 (hangeul 상, revised sang, McCune-Reischauer sang)

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Chylothorax is a rare but serious complication of cardiac surgery. A 64-year-old man with three-vessel disease underwent coronary artery bypass grafting. Ten days later he developed left pleural effusion. An intercostal drain was inserted and 1600 ml of pale pink, milky fluid were obtained. The results of biochemical analysis were consistent with chyle. The diagnosis of a left chylothorax was made. Conservative treatment consisting of total parenteral nutrition and pleural drainage was successfully employed. In the literature we found 17 cases in which the development of chylothorax after a coronary revascularization procedure is described.
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|Journal||Italian Heart Journal|
|Publication status||Published - 2001|
- Coronary artery bypass grafting
- Internal thoracic artery
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- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine


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Emission Prediction with Detailed Chemistry 2019-01-2215
Numerical modeling of engine combustion products requires detailed chemistry and therefore large computational resources and time. This becomes a constraint when engine optimization at system level is desired. In this paper, a 1D modeling approach is proposed for fast computation to predict emission level at various engine running conditions. A new chemical solver within 1D framework is developed along with suitable reduced chemical mechanism. The reduced reaction scheme is validated against detailed chemistry on 0D and 1D reactors. It is confirmed that the new fast 1D solver achieves more than 100X speed improvement. Now larger mechanisms can be used for better accuracy with reasonable turnaround time. This methodology allows virtual engine emission map generation, with a refined emission map completed within 12 hours of computational time. When a transient response is considered, the critical first 600 seconds of FTP driving cycle is calculated within 1 hour, based on a reduced fast running 1D model.


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Magnetic flow meters are increasingly taking the place of traditional mechanical flow meter designs. While they both measure the flow of a liquid in a pipe, they do so in different ways.
The most common mechanical flow meters are inserted into a pipe and use a turbine, wheel or paddle to measure velocity and then calculate volumetric flow by knowing the cross section area of the pipe in which they are installed. The most common type of the above listed mechanical flow meters utilizes a turbine that rotates as the flow of water applies a force to the blades. The rotation of the turbine is proportional to the velocity of the fluid moving past it. Once the velocity is known, the flow can be calculated.
Other mechanical meters use the same basic mechanical principles to measure flow. They operate most effectively when used in a full pipe and in an area with stable flow and little-to-no turbulence. Mechanical flow meters will operate in all types of liquids, but are prone to clogging and deteriorating performance due to solids accumulating on the turbine blades. They also obstruct a portion of the flow and require regular maintenance of the gears and moving parts.
Magnetic flow meters calculate the velocity of a moving substance using Faraday's Law. The meter body consists of a coil system, which is external to the process, but encapsulated in the meter body wrapping around the outside of the internal pipe wall, and operate by creating a magnetic field across the section of pipe. As the fluidflows through the magnetic field, conductive particles in the fluid create changes in voltage across the magnetic field.
This variation can be measured and used to calculate the velocity of the material flowing through the pipe. Like mechanical flow meters, magnetic flow meters operate effectively only if the pipe is full and in areas where the flow pattern is stable. Magnetic flow meters are effective when used with any concentration of wastewater and with other water-based liquids. However, magnetic flow meters are not designed for use in distilled water, oil and other hydrocarbons, and most non-water based substances.
Magnetic flow meters are superior to mechanical flow meters because they don't impede flow, don't become clogged with solids and have no moving parts to maintain or replace.


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Russian painter, printmaker, decorative artist and writer of Ukranian birth. One of the pioneers of abstract art, Malevich was a central figure in a succession of avant-garde movements during the period of the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917 and immediately after. The style of severe geometric abstraction with which he is most closely associated, SUPREMATISM, was a leading force in the development of CONSTRUCTIVISM, the repercussions of which continued to be felt throughout the 20th century. His work was suppressed in Soviet Russia in the 1930s and remained little known during the following two decades. The reassessment of his reputation in the West from the mid-1950s was matched by the renewed influence of his work on the paintings of Ad Reinhardt and on developments Related Paintings of Kazimir Malevich :. | peasant woman | cow and violin | painterly realism | suprematism | head of a peasant |
Related Artists:Edmund Blair Leighton
Leighton was the son of the artist Charles Blair Leighton. He was educated at University College School, before becoming a student at the Royal Academy Schools. He married Katherine Nash in 1885 and they went on to have a son and daughter. He exhibited annually at the Royal Academy from 1878 to 1920.
Leighton was a fastidious craftsman, producing highly-finished, decorative pictures. It would appear that he left no diaries, and though he exhibited at the Royal Academy for over forty years, he was never an Academician or an Associate.Francois Lemoyne
Paris 1688-1737Florentine School
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Definitions for absorbanceæbˈsɔr bəns, -ˈzɔrRandom House Webster's College Dictionary
ab•sorb•ance*æbˈsɔr bəns, -ˈzɔr-(n.)
the capacity of a substance to absorb radiation.
Origin of absorbance:
A logarithmic measure of the amount of light that is absorbed when passing through a substance.


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In the olden times small - big, holed earthen pots are kept on one another in front of the Goddess on the first night. A lamp with four lit wicks was placed in the first pot and the lamp was uninterruptedly kept lit. Rounds of dance were performed around the lamp. There are two types of folk dances performed during 'Garba'. The dance preformed by the males standing in a circle singing while clapping with simple feet movement is called as 'Garbi' and the dance performed by females with delicate body gesticulations is called as 'Garba'. The songs praising Amba, Kalika, Randalmaa and other goddess are sung during 'Garba'. At that time in order to generate chivalry instruments like drum and clarion are used. Over a period of time there was dance on songs based on Krishnaleela, composed by saints, description of seasons, or related to social issues. Instead of claps and pinches there was use of instruments like Khanjiri, Manjiri and stack of lamps being used in the dance.
The organizer of Garba program for the last 55 years Shri. Nyaas from Kolhapur in this context says 'Mother Goddess protected us by slaying the Demon. We cannot pay her back; so in order to gratify her, to please her, this dance is performed. This dance is a form of worship to please the goddess like Kirtan and Bhajan'.


HMS Orlando (1858)
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For other ships of the same name, see HMS Orlando.
Career RN Ensign
Ordered: 31 March 1855
Builder: Pembroke Dockyard
Cost: £187,042
Laid down: November 1856
Launched: 16 June 1858
Completed: 21 April 1859 at Portsmouth Dockyard
Commissioned: 17 December 1861
Fate: Sold for breaking up 15 June 1871
General characteristics
Displacement: 5,493 tons
Tons burthen: 3,740 tons BM
Length: 336 ft 9 in (102.64 m) overall, 300 ft 0.5 in (91.453 m) gundeck, 264 ft 3.25 in (80.5498 m) keel
Beam: 52 ft 1 in (15.88 m)
Draught: 29 ft (8.8 m)
Depth of hold: 19 ft 10 in (6.05 m)
Propulsion: sails; 1000 shp auxiliary steam engine.
Speed: 13.290kts on trial
Endurance: 145 hours at full steam
Complement: around 600
Armament: 1859:
Upper deck: 12 x 8in/68-pounder shell guns
Main Deck: 28 x 10in shell guns
HMS Orlando was a Mersey-class wooden-hulled steam-powered (although fully rigged with sails) screw frigate built for the Royal Navy from 1856 to 1858 but not commissioned until 1861. The Orlando and her sister ship the Mersey were the longest wooden warships built for the Royal Navy. At 336 feet in length, HMS Orlando was nearly twice the length of HMS Victory, the flagship of Admiral Horatio Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar. At 5,643 tons displacement, she was certainly a large and impressive looking ship in her day. She was heavily armed, and in comparison to many of her counterparts was quite fast with an approximate speed of 12½ knots, achieving 13½ on trials.
The length, the unique aspect of the ship, was actually an Achilles' heel of the Mersey and Orlando. The extreme length of the ship put enormous strains on her hull due to the unusual merging of heavy machinery, and a lengthy wooden hull, resulting in her seams opening up. They were pushing the limits of what was possible in wooden ship construction:
Britain had built two long frigates in 1858 - HMS Mersey and HMS Orlando - the longest, largest and most powerful single-decked wooden fighting ships. Over 335 feet long, they suffered from the strain of their length, proving too weak to face a ship of the line in close quarters.[2]
In 1866 the Orlando was laid up and was sold for breaking in 1871.
 1. ^ Asia's Undersea Archeology, Richard Gould, NOVA, PBS Television article
 2. ^ HMS Warrior, h2g2, BBC Television.
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In 1865, a star was added, representing Nevada, bringing the total number of stars on the U.S. flag to 36. There were thirteen stripes representing the thirteen original colonies.
The 1929 design was altered in 1987 so the name "NEVADA" is placed under the star, not spaced all around it.
Motto of state is "BATTLE BORN" reflecting the formation of the state during the Civil War.
The background color on Nevada flags is officially "cobalt blue", best matched at RGB 0-51-153.
Clay Moss, 28 March 2009
Nevada Revised Statutes
NRS 235.020 State flag. The official flag of the State of Nevada is hereby created. The body of the flag must be of solid cobalt blue. On the field in the upper left quarter thereof must be two sprays of sagebrush with the stems crossed at the bottom to form a half wreath. Within the sprays must be a five-pointed silver star with one point up. The word "Nevada" must also be inscribed below the star and above the sprays, in a semicircular pattern with the letters spaced apart in equal increments, in the same style of letters as the words "Battle Born." Above the wreath, and touching the tips thereof, must be a scroll bearing the words "Battle Born." The scroll and the word "Nevada" must be golden-yellow. The lettering on the scroll must be black-colored sans serif gothic capital letters.
Joe McMillan, 16 February 2000
"The County Flag Array came about as a result of the Nevada Centennial in 1964. It was the brainchild of the Music Director at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, Mr. Antonio Morelli. His suggestion was passed to the Chairman of the Nevada Centennial Commission Mr. Thomas C. Wilson. He requested that the county commissioners of all 17 Nevada counties consider adopting flags.James J. Ferrigan III, 5 January 2001
As a result all of Nevada's counties began to solicit designs from schools, local artists, and designers. All the counties adopted official flags in time for their display on Nevada Day 1964. On that day a U.S. Marine Corps Honor Guard from the U.S. Navy Ammunition Depot at Hawthorne marched the new flags into the West portico of the capitol in Carson City and presented them to Governor Grant Sawyer in the name of the people of Nevada. Since then they have been used at the capitol building as well in numerous Nevada Day parades."
image by Clay Moss, 25 March 2009
There are two flags of the Governor of Nevada, one military and the other civil. The military version was updated in 1991 when the specifications were created for the state flag in 1991.
James J. Ferrigan III, 17 April 2001
While official, the Governor's flag has apparently fallen into disuse as the Governor's office according to Jim doesn't even know that the flag exists.
Clay Moss, 25 March 2009
image by Clay Moss, 25 March 2009
The previous governor's flag had the letters NEVADA wrapped around the central star.
Nevada's state seal has mountains, a mine, a railroad crossing a bridge, a plow, etc. The star and sagebrush badge was designed specifically for the flag.
Joe McMillan, 5 February 2001
image by Joe McMillan, 21 April 2000
The state military crest, which is the crest used in the coats of arms of units of the National Guard, as granted by the precursor organizations of what is now the Army Institute of Heraldry. The official Institute of Heraldry blazon is
"Within a garland of sagebrush a sledge and miner's drill crossed in saltire behind a pickaxe in pale proper."
Joe McMillan, 21 April 2000
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Paola Favaretto, MathWorks
Metagenomics is the study of the taxonomic composition of a sample of organisms obtained from a common habitat. It usually consists of the comparison of the sequence samples against databases of known sequences and the use of taxonomy information to classify the sample species. The main goals of a metagenomic analysis include the quantification of the relative abundance of known species and the identification of unknown sequences for which no relatives have yet been identified.
Due to the exploratory nature of this research and the lack of customized software solutions for metagenomics, there are many challenges in this field. In this webinar, you will learn how MATLAB can help with metagenomics research. You will learn how MATLAB can be used for prototyping and customizing metagenomics solutions; you will see that MATLAB is interactive and supports an integrated environment which is ideal for exploratory research; and you will see built-in functions for graphics, statistics, and bioinformatics that are useful for metagenomics.
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Feed forward nonlinear error correction of loudspeakers can improve sound quality. For creating a realistic feed forward strategy identification of the loudspeaker parameters is needed. The strategy of the compensator is that the nonlinear behaviour of the loudspeakers has relatively small drift and only the linear loudspeaker parameters must be identified. This can in music systems be done with online transducer-less system identification using the voice coil current as feedback from the loudspeaker (plant). This is investigated in a simulation study for finding useful system identification algorithms. Two different identification techniques (ARMA and FIR) are compared. The stability of the nonlinearities and linear loudspeaker parameters are tested in a measurement series.
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text: China has a tradition of poetic education, and Chant Verse is a significant historical link sustaining Chinese ritual civilization. Reciting the Book of Songs and Historical Records with intonation and expression is the obligation of musical officers in the Chun Guan, which is one of the articles of Zhou Li. Much more can be said about the social formation and function of Chant Verse in the Zhou Dynasty based on its official position, like identifying and tracing the obligation and studying the cultural function of musical officers, who are usually blind. Meanwhile, the comparisons between the great masters of Six Teaching Poetry and the musical officers, who educate people in musical language, can also be made and analyzed. This research will contribute to our understanding of Chant Verse: its source, its early cultural origin, its social patterns, and its historical value.


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Yay for pollution! According to this Scientific American article, airborne particle pollutants are responsible for wonderful sunsets:
To get a red sky, you need aerosols, explains A. R. Ravishankara, director of chemical sciences at the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colo. Aerosols are solid or liquid particles suspended in the air that originate from both natural processes and human activity.
Natural aerosols come from forest fires, mineral dust kicked up by sandstorms, sea spray and volcanic eruptions, among other things. Volcanoes, which have produced some of the most spectacular sunsets in history, can inject sulfuric acid droplets into the stratosphere, the layer of the atmosphere between 10 to 35 miles in altitude. These droplets can be swept across the globe, painting brilliant crimson twilights wherever they go. Following the 1883 eruption of Indonesia's Krakatoa, brilliant sunsets appeared around the world, one of which is said to have inspired Norwegian artist Edvard Munch's painting, The Scream.


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The Lou-Lan state
Buddhism in Mongolia (4th to 6th century)
From: Buddhism in Mongolia (Historical Survey), Ulaanbaatar 1981 By: Section of Studies of Gandantegchenlin Monastery
The Lou-Lan state the Mongol origin existed on the present-day territory of the Mongolia. Its original name was "Mongol" or "Tatar", and it adopted Buddhism as a state religion. A monk named Dharmapriya (Za Ai), who lived in the Western part of the present Kansu in 420-450 and who possessed a profound knowledge of religious sutras, shastras and astrology was promoted to the post of the state teacher (in Sanskrit Purohita). Ordinary people too, for example, the bestowed people of Dharmapriya, began to believe in Buddhism, and the ancient Indian principles of unity of the state and religion, dating back to the time of Asoka of India and Kaniska of Kusan, began to be recognized among the nomads.
Chounu, the Khan of Lou-Lan, in 511 sent to the emperor of the Toba Dynasty a pearl statue of Buddha by a shraman named Hung Hsuan. It appears that the statue had come from Central Asia, namely from Khotan. In 475, a monk Shih-Fa-hsian (died in 494), came to Khotan through Lou-Lan, and from where he brought a Buddha's tooth (in Sanskrit deladi) and other relics. A fragment of "Saddharmapundarika sutra" (White Lotus of the Good Lord), was dated by the 5th year of "Young Kang" (468) of the Lou-Lan state. At that time Turfan was ruled by the Lou-Lan state, and the sutra was dated this way.
Buddhism spread to Lou-Lan from the Tarim River basin, Khotan (Yutien), Karashahr (Yanchi), and the Sulei states. The spread of Buddhism was promoted by contacts between people from Lou-Lan and India, which also promoted the spread of secular culture from India to Mongolia. In 552, Narenda-Yasa, a monk from Northern India, together with his 6 friends travelled to the territory of Lou-Lan, Ratanamanti (Lenamanti) a shraman from India, lived in the Yunning temple of Loyang town, the capital of Toba. He was well familiar with the five Indian sciences (Panca vidya sthana) and art (Silpasthana vidiya). A Lou-Lan pilgrim, who got acquainted with that Indian shraman when he lived in Central Asia, in Loyang, met him every day and talked with him all day long, laughing and clapping his hands. A Chinese official, who did not know what language they were talking in, asked the shraman why he was talking to this northern barbarian with such respect, the shraman answered: "You would not be able to defeat this Lou-Lan, although you've read thousands of books". The arrogant Chinese official betted to give the Lou-Lan his horse if the Lou-Lan could give the exact number of ripe fruits on a plum-tree. The Lou-Lan took out a tool with five colours of thread and measured the tree from all sides, calculating the exact number of ripe fruits. The Chinese lost the bet and he had to part with his horse.
No monuments of Lou-Lan Buddhism have been found yet on the territory of the Mongolia. However, scholars believe that brahma monuments (stone inscriptions) found on the territory of Mongolia may belong to the time of the Lou-Lan state.


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This is a good way to find out if other people are signing in to your Facebook account, and knowing the location and timing of those connections!
Check the latest Login to Facebook
Follow these steps,
1. Log into your Facebook account.
2. Go to the dropdown menu, and Click Settings.
3. In the left column, click Security
4. Click Where You're Logged in. You can view your old or active connections, and view the location, time, and connection devices used.
5. Click End Activity to block an active connection. If you see suspicious connections, stop them and change your password.


Music Can Help You Lose Weight!
music and weight lossMusic greatly affects the mind and body. Scientists all over the world agreed that music affects hormone production which might be directly associated with our feelings. You are influenced by music constantly if you think about it.
Music has a direct relation on how you think. Consider the last time you've watched a horror film. Remember music really made your heart race faster. Music doctors in Japan and China help people heal through music aid packages.
Music can't only boost your overall health, it can also assist you to lose weight! Eating dinner while hearing Mozart helps to enhance food digestion and your metabolism.
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If you eat while playing the rock music you automatically eat faster. Because of this you swallow larger pieces making it harder for your stomach to absorb the meals.
Traditional music or Mozart music helps you minimize food consumption. Traditional music helps you to unconsciously get a picture of luxury, money and class. It increases our temper, and makes us consider our time and eat enjoying food.
Subliminal Weight Loss – Lose weight easy & never fail again
Exercising or training while playing the traditional music enables you to slim down faster than hearing exercise that is noisy pop music. Why? Research have shown that an initial group of people playing Vivaldi music exercised on the stationary bicycle half an hour longer than the team who had been playing the pop music.
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If you are not a fan of classical music, there is no harm in trying. The only thing you have to lose is body fat and slimmer body to gain.


Thursday, 1 January 2009
Assen is 750 years old
750 years ago, some time around 1258, a new location was needed for the Maria in Campis monastery. A village and then a town grew up around this location, which was named Assen.
200 years ago, in 1809, city rights were granted by Lodewijk Napoleon, brother of the more famous Boneparte, who was King of Holland at the time.
Why is this of interest in a cycling blog? I have often heard British people excusing less than excellent accommodation for bicycles on the grounds that British cities are too old to have been designed for bicycles. I've even known Americans make similar excuses, somehow imagining that Dutch cities were all razed to the ground in the 1990s and rebuilt around cycle paths. They weren't. Dutch cities are every bit as old as British cities and generally much older than American cities, or indeed than the United States of America itself. Of course, some have been changed dramatically and others are amongst the newest cities in the world and have only existed since the latter half of the 20th century. However, either way, bicycles are part of the transport policy.
Assen is an example of an older city. The centre has existed since long before either bicycles or cars were invented and as the city continues to expand quickly, the planning style dates from every time between 750 years ago and "right now". The city centre was not designed around bicycles, nor around cars for that matter, but nevertheless it is now wonderful for cycling and also for walking. This could also be seen as a good example of how to accommodate cyclists well in a "pedestrianized" space.
Back in the 1950s and 60s, even the early 70s, motor vehicles were king. Streets in the centre of the city looked much as in the first photo, which was taken in the mid 1960s. Note the narrow pavements and lack of specific space for bicycles. The city had been given over to the motor vehicle.
Move along to 2007 and the same street looks like the second photo. This second view is of the city which was attractive enough that we decided to make it our home.
The street is only for use by motor vehicles at specific times of the day and then for access only. This is an example of the action that has been taken in Assen to transform it into a bicycle, and human, friendly space. It didn't happen by chance, but was deliberately engineered. As there has been some confusion about this, please note that this is (thankfully) not shared space. It's closed to motor vehicles except for access at particular times of the day. A second revolution on the streets made this possible.
If you live somewhere which is less pleasant to cycle around and would like to see it transformed as this city has been, come on one of our study tours, or send your elected representatives.
Another blog post shows what it is like to cycle to this city centre and another is about the type of policy which brought this about.
Elsewhere on this blog you'll find many more before and after photos showing what Assen used to look like and what it looks like now. The picture at the top is from an advert in the local paper giving details of the Burgemeester's new year presentation on the 5th of January.
Dave Feucht said...
I think the big problem in American cities is not so much that the infrastructure was developed before bicycles, but that it was developed specifically for cars, in a lot of cases. Portland is certainly an example of that (especially outside the main city center, which is older and was probably designed for horse carts).
Thankfully there's at least starting to be a lot of talk about changing that in places, so hopefully the talk will turn into action. At least it's nice to know that city government is very interested in doing so.
njh said...
It's hard to believe they really the same location! The buildings are different, the road width is different (in the first it diverges towards the camera) the building on the left has been changed and the end of the street is completely invisible. It's amazing what 40 years can do to a streetscape. But I think I prefer the look of the buildings in the 60s photo.


The importance of feedback in the recruitment process
Written by
Changeboard Team
16 Aug 2010
16 Aug 2010 • by Changeboard Team
Not the right 'cultural fit'?
Imagine being a candidate who has just been through two interview processes and just missed out on both jobs. So thats two sets of research; two briefing calls with recruitment agents; six interviews; maybe two lots of preparation time if the client wants a PowerPoint presentation (very often these days) so about 15 hours of time invested.
Imagine being told at the end of all this by one firm that you werent quite the right 'cultural fit', and by the other firm that you 'were just edged out by another candidate'. Most people would find that rather infuriating.
The importance of honest feedback
Over the last couple of years, market conditions and employer and jobseeker behaviour has changed in a number of ways, as our previous Changeboard article outlined. There has always been an imbalance between the amount of effort and commitment a candidate puts into a process and the feedback (or lack of it) they often get at the end, but this imbalance seems to have magnified in recent times.
As organisations have become more rigorous in their selection processes, the candidates applying for available positions are often expected to do more research; meet more people; do presentations; jump through more hoops. If they're ultimately successful and get the job, then great and good on them. If they are not successful, they will be keen to get something out of the process, apart from the feelings of disappointment and frustration. As one candidate said to us recently: what I really want is honesty, how else can you learn from your experiences if feedback (however harsh) is not honest?
What does useful feedback look like?
The dictionary definition of the word feedback is: knowledge of the Results of any behaviour considered as influencing or modifying further performance.
Being told you are not the right cultural fit is therefore not feedback, it's a cop out (the definition of cop out by the way is 'evasion'). Being told, as one of our candidates was told last week, that: you were great and strong but we don't wish to take things forward is not feedback either.
In fact, this same candidate had three interviews for one firm, was told he was down to the final two and was then told they went with the other candidate and never heard another thing. He is assuming he was the wrong cultural fit.
Reasons for evasive feedback
So why do firms not give better feedback on so many occasions? Here are some possible theories:
 1. The employer switches off when they find the correct employee and deem that mission accomplished? So, they forget.
 2. They dont think it's important and certainly not a priority?
 3. It's too difficult to either get the feedback from the hiring manager, or too difficult to articulate it?
 4. They dont want to give negative feedback in case the candidate gets the hump with their firm?
It is a bit of all of the above. The reality is that a candidate will think more highly of a firm if they give feedback, even negative, than if they dont get any at all. The candidate mentioned above was left with a sour taste in his mouth about a firm he was hoping to join and has really liked until that point.
Good feedback really counts
Another interesting aspect is that when some HR/recruitment managers do give good feedback - and some are very good at it - it really does stand out and makes a huge difference to how the candidate, and the recruitment consultancy involved, views that person and firm.
You really do see which HR/recruitment professionals have been involved in the process and decision making and those that havent; which HR people have a personal view and input and those that havent; which people care about the person and those that dont.
It really is very interesting what you learn about a senior HR person from how they manage a recruitment process and subsequently deal with the fall out from of the process - good and bad.
What does good feedback look like?
Constructive and useful feedback can come in many shapes and sizes, but could include:
 - How the candidate came across and any concerns that this raised with the interviewers.
 - Gaps in experience that the interviewers spotted and have deemed important.
 - Questions they didn't answer well; gaps the interviewers spotted in the candidate's knowledge or research.
 - Skills that other candidates had that put other people ahead of them.
 - Advice as to how they could approach things differently in future interviews.
A candidate will perceive they come across in a certain way and have a view as to how an interview went - sometimes they read it right and sometimes they don't. Knowing what others think of how you came across and performed is invaluable, and any of the above information can help mould future behaviour and really help, as well as leaving the candidate with the feeling that they got something out of the process, even if it wasnt a job.
Feedback please!
At First Counsel, two of us have worked as in-house recruitment managers so we know how difficult it can be to find the time to drag feedback out of line managers and pass it down the line.
However, it's also not easy for candidates to find time to get out of work to attend interviews, do research and write presentations at weekends etc. So when they do find such time they deserve good, constructive feedback.
If you dont like this article, please do tell us, and tell us why. Please dont just say it was the wrong cultural fit, or that you have read better.


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Are World Heritage concepts of integrity and authenticity lacking in dynamism? A critical approach to Mediterranean autotopic landscapes
- García-Esparza, Juan A.
- Landscape research 2018 v.43 no.6 pp. 817-830
- cultural landscape, habitats, rural areas, Mediterranean region
- This paper examines how contemporary on-going and lively debate on Critical Heritage Studies merges with previous discourses on World Heritage Cultural Landscapes and rural societies. The scholarly approach to authenticity and integrity, and the critical point of static and dynamic approaches to these terms allow the author to challenge previous World Heritage (WH) discourses with a view to obtaining innovative insight into abandoned vernacular landscapes. Two main arguments are thus developed in this study. The first of these is an overview of the dynamics of abandoned cultural landscapes on an international scale. The second is an inside view aiming to provide an accurate interpretation of how these landscapes should be scrutinised and understood. To do this, autotopias and heterotopias broach the fundamental issue of how the Outstanding Universal Value of attributes in abandoned cultural landscapes needs to be understood, enhanced, experienced, and managed in an innovative WH approach. In conclusion, complex proposals for these heritage landscapes should rely on understanding the dynamics of the material and the social construct of the habitats they contain in order to assess them effectively from the standpoint of a World Heritage Cultural Process Assemblage rather than that of Outstanding Material Stratification.


The Indigenous Worldview and Healing as a Process
jannworkboardThe traditional ancient teachings of Indigenous cultures are providing profound healing methods and perspectives to those on their healing journey. This workshop can be applied to the healing of many topics: sexual abuse, abandonment, grief and loss, violence, fostering and adoption, couple relationships, residential school trauma, emotions especially anger and depression. Details of the workshop will be finalized with those requesting it.


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Its source is Alis, an Old French name meaning "Exalted nature."
The name Alishia ranked 3004th in popularity for females of all ages in a sample of the 1990 US Census.
Though this name appears on the 1990 U.S. Census lists, it is used by only a small percentage of the general population.
Alice's strongest association is with a blonde seven-year-old in a blue pinafore who fell down a rabbit hole. Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass were written in the 1860s and 1870s to entertain Alice Liddell, a young girl of his acquaintance.
Carroll was a mathematician who combined his delight in games and wordplay with a profound understanding of childhood's complex fascinations. While his books continue to delight little ones, they are also analyzed in philosophic works such as Douglas Hofstader's 1980 Pulitzer Prize winner Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.
Alice's linguisitic family tree features cousin Adelaide (traced through its Germanic grandparent Adalheit) and child Allison (meaning ''Alice's son'').


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The plant that doesn't feel the cold
7 January 2010
Scientists at the John Innes Centre, an institute of BBSRC, have discovered that plants have a built-in thermometer that they use to control their development.
Plants are exposed to huge variations in temperature through the seasons as well as big differences between night and day. To cope with this, they sense the temperature around them, and adjust their growth accordingly. Publishing in the journal Cell, they have now identified a thermometer gene, which could be crucial for breeding crops able to cope with the effects of climate change.
Plants can sense differences of just 1ºC, and climate change has already had significant effects, bringing forward when some plants flower and changing global distributions of species. While the effect of temperature on plants has been known for hundreds of years, it has been a mystery until now how temperature is sensed.
To solve this problem, Vinod Kumar and Phil Wigge at the John Innes Centre looked at all of the genes in the model plant Arabidopsis to see which are switched on by warmer temperature. They connected one of these genes to a luminescent gene to create plants that give off light when the temperature is increased. In this way, the team could screen for mutants that could no longer sense the proper temperature. One mutant was particularly interesting, since it lost the ability to sense temperature correctly. The plant behaved as though it was hot all the time, and the scientists could see this as the plant was luminescent when it was warm and cold.
"It was amazing to see the plants," said Dr Vinod Kumar, who discovered the mutant plant. "They grew like plants at high temperature even when we turned the temperature right down."
This plant has a single defect that affects how a special version of a histone protein works. Histone proteins bind to DNA and wrap it around them, and so control which genes are switched on. Remarkably, when this specialised histone is no longer incorporated into DNA, plants express all their genes as if they are at a high temperature, even when it is cold. This told the scientists that this specialised histone is a key regulator of temperature responses.
The histone variant works as a thermometer by binding to the plant's DNA more tightly at lower temperatures, blocking the gene from being switched on. As the temperature increases, the histone loses its grip and starts to drop off the DNA, allowing the gene to be switched on.
The temperature sensing histone variant was found to control a gene that has helped some plant species adapt to climate change by rapidly accelerating their flowering. Species that do not adjust their flowering time are going locally extinct at a high rate. Plants must continually adapt to their environment as they are unable to move around, and understanding how plants use temperature sensing will enable scientists to examine how different species will respond to further increases in global temperatures.
"We may be able to use these genes to change how crops sense temperature," said Dr Wigge. "If we can do that then we may be able to breed crops that are resistant to climate change."
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Reference: H2A.Z-Containing Nucleosomes Mediate the Thermosensory Response in Arabidopsis Vinod Kumar and Philip Wigge, Cell 2010, 140(1) to be published 8 January 2010
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A Short History of PC Power Supply Voltage Rails
Let's clear up any confusion about the term "rail". A voltage "rail" refers to a single voltage provided by the PSU (short for power supply - actually it stands for power supply unit). An ATX PSU has one 3.3 volt rail. It also has one 5 volt rail. The 3.3 volt rail has its own circuitry in the PSU which generates the voltage. It also has a lot of wires and connectors to distribute the 3.3 volts to any hardware which needs it. The 5 volt rail has its own separate set of circuitry, wires, and connectors to deliver 5 volts. Modern ATX12V PSUs may have as many as four separate 12 volt rails. Each 12 volt rail has its own set of wires and connectors just like the 3.3 and 5 volt rails. The 12 volt rails just happen to be generating the same voltage as each other.
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During the 1980s and 1990s, archaeology went through a transitional period where researchers began to wonder how their presence affected the local people through the work they were conducting. In her forthcoming book, archeologist Allison Mickel examines the history of archaeology, how it has been done in the Middle East and how it affects the communities located near dig sites.
Mickel's fieldwork in Jordan and Turkey has examined the impact of tourism and archaeological research on local communities and forms the basis of her book Why Those Who Shovel Are Silent: The Unknown Experts of Archaeology. Based on seven years of ethnographic and oral history research at Petra in Jordan and at Catalhoyuk in Turkey, Mickel reveals the untapped expertise that site workers on these projects have developed from their years of participation in excavation.
"In the Middle East, we have decades and decades of hiring, especially men, from the local communities," says Mickel, assistant professor of anthropology in the department of sociology and anthropology. "You essentially have these villages of archaeological experts. But students and volunteers are brought in to supervise and document the excavation. This means there's knowledge missing, since you don't have the same people doing the recording who are doing the digging."
Mickel employed network analysis to systematically compare the workers' oral historical record to the site archives from the two sites, demonstrating how the two bodies of information overlap, conflict or complement one another. Despite the evident professional knowledge and skills that locally hired laborers at Petra and Catalhoyuk possess regarding archaeological finds, methods and analysis, she posits that local laborers are valued purely for their manual expertise. The economic realities of how archaeological labor is organized make it financially beneficial for local community members to disavow their privileged expertise about archaeological work.
She found that workers are not paid to be experts, but rather to pretend like they are not skillful. Because archaeologists are working on a budget and overtly won't recognize this expertise the workers possess, they want people who are going to be quiet, amiable, obedient workers, she says. Workers neglect to fully share their knowledge because it puts them at risk if they share the full extent of their knowledge. And because their work is seen as unskilled, they are paid very low wages.
"Many of these workers are seasonal hires who work in strenuous, often dangerous environments, and there is no assistance for a worker who is injured on the job. There's a health cost and an economic cost to doing this kind of work," Mickel says. "It is better for a worker to say, 'I don't know anything about archaeology. I need to learn from you. I want you to teach me,' even if that worker has been working in archaeology for 30 or 40 years."


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Housing solves homelessness; a simple answer to a complex problem, but no less true for its simplicity. Yet, questions still remain. How do we get someone into housing? What kinds of supports are needed? How do we engage newly housed people in meaningful activities? What issues do people from specific populations face? These questions and more are explored in our Solutions section.


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I write about the future of science, technology, and culture.
Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who many political observers think has a strong shot to be a 2016 Presidential candidate, just finished a lengthy interview with GQ that you can read here. One thing that struck my interest here, as someone who often reports on science, was Rubio's answer when he was asked the question, "How old do you think the Earth is."
In response, Rubio told GQ that, "I'm not a scientist, man. I can tell you what recorded history says, I can tell you what the Bible says, but I think that's a dispute amongst theologians and I think it has nothing to do with the gross domestic product or economic growth of the United States. I think the age of the universe has zero to do with how our economy is going to grow. I'm not a scientist. I don't think I'm qualified to answer a question like that. At the end of the day, I think there are multiple theories out there on how the universe was created and I think this is a country where people should have the opportunity to teach them all. I think parents should be able to teach their kids what their faith says, what science says. Whether the Earth was created in 7 days, or 7 actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one of the great mysteries."
The emphasis in Rubio's statement is mine. I say that because the age of the universe has a lot to do with how our economy is going to grow. That's because large parts of the economy absolutely depend on scientists being right about either the age of the Universe or the laws of the Universe that allow scientists to determine its age. For example, astronomers recently discovered a galaxy that is over 13 billion light years away from Earth. That is, at its distance, it took the light from the Galaxy over 13 billion years to reach us.
Now, Marco Rubio's Republican colleague Representative Paul Broun, who sits on the House Committee on Science and Technology, recently stated that it was his belief that the Universe is only 9,000 years old. Well, if Broun is right and physicists are wrong, then we have a real problem. Virtually all modern technology relies on optics in some way, shape or form. And in the science of optics, the fact that the speed of light is constant in a vacuum is taken for granted. But the speed of light must not be constant if the universe is only 9,000 years old. It must be capable of being much, much faster. That means that the fundamental physics underlying the Internet, DVDs, laser surgery, and many many more critical parts of the economy are based on bad science. The consequences of that could be drastic, given our dependence on optics for our economic growth.
Here's an even more disturbing thought – scientists currently believe that the Earth is about 4.54 billion years old because radioactive substances decay at generally stable rates. Accordingly, by observing how much of a radioactive substance has decayed, scientists are able to determine how old that substance is. However, if the Earth is only 9,000 years old, then radioactive decay rates are unstable and subject to rapid acceleration under completely unknown circumstances. This poses an enormous danger to the country's nuclear power plants, which could undergo an unanticipated meltdown at any time due to currently unpredictable circumstances. Likewise, accelerated decay could lead to the detonation of our nuclear weapons, and cause injuries and death to people undergoing radioactive treatments in hospitals. Any of these circumstances would obviously have a large economic impact.
If the Earth is really 9,000 years old, as Paul Broun believes and Rubio is willing to remain ignorant about, it becomes imperative to shut down our nuclear plants and dismantle our nuclear stockpiles now until such time as scientists are able to ascertain what circumstances exist that could cause deadly acceleration of radioactive decay and determine how to prevent it from happening.
The bottom line is that this economy, at its root, is built on a web of scientific knowledge from physics to chemistry to biology. It's impossible to just cherry pick out parts we don't like. If the Earth is 9,000 years old, then virtually the entire construct of modern science is simply wrong. Not only that, most of the technology that we rely on most likely wouldn't work – as they're dependent on science that operates on the same physical laws that demonstrate the age of the universe.
Now, this doesn't mean that our representatives to the Congress and to the Senate should be scientific experts. But if they hold ideas about the world around us that are fundamentally at odds with scientific evidence, then that will ultimately infringe on their ability to make reasoned judgments about a host of issues where the economy touches technology. And that could end up harming the economy as a whole.
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Young Geun Kim, Minyong Kim, and Sung Woo Chung, "Enhancing Energy Efficiency of Multimedia Applications in Heterogeneous Mobile Multi-core Processors", IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 66, no. 11, pp. _PHONE_, November 2017.
Recent smart devices have adopted heterogeneous multi-core processors which have high-performance big cores and low-power small cores. Unfortunately, the conventional task scheduler for heterogeneous multi-core processors does not provide appropriate amount of CPU resources for multimedia applications (whose QoS is important to users), resulting in energy waste; it often executes multimedia applications and non-multimedia applications on the same core. In this paper, we propose an advanced task scheduler for heterogeneous multi-core processors, which provides appropriate amount of CPU resources for multimedia applications. Our proposed task scheduler isolates multimedia applications from non-multimedia applications at runtime, exploiting the fact that multimedia applications have a specific thread for video/audio playback (to play video/audio, a multimedia application should use a function that generates the specific thread). Since multimedia applications usually require a smaller amount of CPU resources than non-multimedia applications due to dedicated hardware decoders, our proposed task scheduler allocates the former to the small cores and the latter to the big cores. In our experiments on an Android-based development board, our proposed task scheduler saves system-wide (not just CPU) energy consumption by 8.9%, on average, compared to the conventional task scheduler, preserving QoS of multimedia applications. In addition, it improves performance of non-multimedia applications by 13.7%, on average, compared to the conventional task scheduler.


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Sharing skills and knowledge
National Museums share skills and knowledge about collections and museum practice with colleagues in museums, galleries, heritage organisations and higher education institutions across the UK.
This forms an important part of their engagement with UK partners. The sharing of skills and knowledge can be achieved through specific projects and programmes, by co-ordinating groups of UK experts, via structured training programmes, by focusing on particular objects or through the development of long-term partnerships. It may also be done online.
In 2011, NMDC commissioned a survey of its members to establish how members share knowledge and skills. This survey informed future NMDC-facilitated activity and a summary of this is available here.
NMDC is part of the Sharing Expertise Group and this has received funding from the Esmee Fairburn Foundation to consider how better to share knowledge and skills across the museum sector.
To find out more about NMDC members' sharing skills and knowledge activity, click on the links below.
IWM (Imperial War Museums)
Projects and Partnerships
The Gallery Nationwide
Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service co-ordinate the Share Museums East programme.
National Museums Scotland
Tyne and Wear Museums and Archives Museum Development
The Museum of London developed longer-term partnerships and exchanged knowledge through special exhibitions. Details are in this blog. The Museum of London also has a specific role in museum development in London and this includes the sharing of skills and knowledge as well as training for volunteers. More details are available here.
NMDC members also contribute to other networks via the Subject Specialist Networks (SSNs). Some NMDC members co-ordinate an SSN and individuals from our members are involved in many more including the Dress and Textile Specialists, Museum Ethnographers Group, Pre 1900 European Paintings, Human Remains, NATSCA - Natural Sciences Collections Association, Money and Medals, Theatre Information Group, Posters, Social History Curators Group, Contemporary Studio Ceramics, Chinese Collections Network, Geological Curators Group, Scottish Transport and Industrial Collections, Screen Heritage Network, and the Association of Performing Arts Collections.
Further information about training and professional development opportunities in the museums sector can be found on the training pages of the Museums Association website. Other sources of information which have contributions from NMDC members include the London Museums Group and the Guardian Culture Professionals Network.


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If you're having issues setting up your Ring Video Doorbell or Security Camera – such as with connecting to the temporary Ring network or your home wifi network – try the troubleshooting steps below.
Is your router physically blocked in some way?
Moving your router is often the quickest fix. Try moving it into an open, unblocked space if it's in a secluded place like behind your sofa or inside a cupboard.
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Can't connect to Ring's temporary access point during setup?
Your Ring device creates a temporary "network" that you will use as an access point only during setup, before you connect it to your home wifi network. If you can't connect to the Ring network, try the following steps. The first few are specific to device type, so scroll to the ones that apply to you.
Try these Apple/iOS fixes:
- Reboot your device (shut it off completely), then try setting up again.
- Change your cellular data setting. If you don't see your home wifi network when you're setting up your device, one of your mobile device settings may be preventing setup. You can always switch your settings back after. Learn how to access your cellular data.
- Change wifi settings. This often helps when you're trying to connect to the Ring network.
- Tap Settings (the gear icon), then tap Wifi.
- Under this setting, you'll see a list of different network names. Below that list, tap Ask to Join Networks, then tap Ask.
- Try setup again to see if the Ring temporary network appears.
Try these Android fixes:
If you're using an Android device and can't connect to the Ring network, you may need to adjust the Smart Network Switch.
Fully charge your battery.
If you're setting up a new battery-powered Ring device, your battery will be only partially charged due to safety restrictions on shipping lithium batteries. You may need to fully charge it prior to setup.
Your battery can take around 5-10 hours to fully charge, depending on whether the USB cable is plugged into a USB port or a wall outlet. Once you've completed setup, you'll be able to see your battery charge percentage in the Ring app.
Try setup on another device.
Use another mobile device to log into the Ring app and set up from there. Keep in mind you'll need to be logged in with your username and password if you want to be the owner of the new Ring device.
Can't connect to your home wifi network?
If you have issues related to your home wifi, try the following steps below.
Do some basic wifi troubleshooting.
- Make sure you're entering the correct password. Passwords are case sensitive and do not include spaces. Your network password can often be found on the bottom of your router.
- Make sure your password doesn't have any special characters. If your password contains characters like an asterisk (*), hash sign (#), or exclamation mark (!), remove them by changing the password in your router's settings. Or, contact your internet provider to change your password.
- Make sure you have a 5 GHz compatible Ring device if you're trying to connect to a 5 GHz network. If you do have a 5 GHz compatible device but still have issues, connect to a 2.4 GHz network first – then switch to the 5 GHz network after setup is complete. You can do so via the Device Health section of the Ring app.
Conduct a distance test.
Your Ring device may be too far from your router. If your Ring device is battery-powered, or if you can move it from the mounting location, try bringing it a few feet closer to your router before setup. Plus, consider the following:
- Sometimes wifi interference can cause setup to fail. Learn more about common causes here.
- If the above steps don't work, you may need to add a wifi extender such as the Ring Chime Pro.
- If your home is larger than 1500 sq. feet or has multiple levels, you may need a mesh network to get a consistent wifi signal.
Reboot your modem or router.
For optimal performance, we suggest rebooting once a month.
- Unplug your router and/or modem from its power supply.
- If your router and modem are separate devices, unplug both of them.
- Wait at least 30 seconds, then plug back in.
- Wait 30 seconds to one minute for your router and/or modem to boot up.
- Confirm that your internet is back on by connecting another device to your wifi network and trying to access a website. Then repeat the setup process.
A few notes on modems and routers:
- Routers older than 4-5 years may have exceeded their lifespan and might need to be replaced.
- Ring devices are not compatible with WPA3.
- If you're using a Wifi 6 (802.11 ax) router, click here for troubleshooting steps.
How to perform a reset/restore on your Ring device
WARNING: DO NOT use any of these steps with any Ring Alarm device.
If you're still having issues, try performing a reset/restore on your Ring device by holding down its reset button for 20 seconds and then releasing it. Before you reset your device, make sure to download any videos in your account.
If you're not sure what Ring doorbell or camera you have and you've set it up before, find the Product Name in the Device Health section of the Ring app. If you have a new device, look for the product name on the box.
Here are the reset button locations on various Ring devices:
- Ring Video Doorbell (1st Generation): Orange button on the back.
- Ring Video Doorbell (2nd Generation): Orange button on the back.
- Ring Video Doorbell 2: Small black button on the front under the faceplate.
- Ring Video Doorbell 3, 3 Plus, 4 and Ring Battery Video Doorbell Plus: Small black button with orange dot under the faceplate.
- Ring Video Doorbell Wired: Small black button with orange dot under the faceplate.
- Ring Video Doorbell Pro: Small black button on the right side of the device.
- Note: You will need to wait until the light turns off which can take up to 60 seconds.
- Ring Video Doorbell Pro 2: Small black button on the right of the device.
- Ring Video Doorbell Elite: Small black button on the front.
- Ring Spotlight Cams/Ring Floodlight Cams: Button on top of the camera.
- Ring Stick Up Cams: White or orange button on the bottom of the camera, under the bottom cover.
- Ring Indoor Cams: White button on the top of the camera.
After performing a reset/restore, wait 1-2 minutes and attempt setup again, making sure that:
- You're entering the correct password for your wifi network. Passwords are case sensitive.
- You're not too far away from your wifi router.
- Your internet is not down.


Has the U.S. Been Too Strict With Kidney Donations?
— Organ discards twice as common than in France; did this cost American patients' lives?
From 2004 to 2014, the U.S. was twice as likely to discard potential donor kidneys than was France, with researchers suggesting the latter country had the better approach.
In a head-to-head comparison, the U.S. discard rate for deceased-donor kidneys during this period was 17.9% versus 9.1% in France, reported Alexandre Loupy, MD, PhD, of the Paris Translational Research Center for Organ Transplantation, and colleagues.
Utilizing a French-based allocation prediction model, the researchers determined that 62% of the discarded kidneys in the U.S. would have been transplanted in France. This translated to nearly 17,500 missed opportunities for kidney transplantation, they wrote in JAMA Internal Medicine.
"This finding indicates that the U.S. kidney transplantation system, which has driven innovations in donor utilization in the domains of kidneys obtained after cardiac death and from hepatitis C virus-infected donors, still has substantial potential for growth by accepting more organs from donors who are older and have comorbidities including diabetes and hypertension," the researchers stated.
This more liberal approach "could provide major survival benefits to the population of U.S. wait-listed patients," they added.
"In the U.S. alone, approximately 95,000 individuals are waiting for a kidney transplant. New, creative solutions to address this concern are needed," co-author Olivier Aubert, MD, PhD, told MedPage Today in 2018 when preliminary findings were presented at Kidney Week. "The French transplant system offers a useful contrast, because French transplant programs face less regulatory scrutiny than U.S. programs and do not use donor kidney biopsies in organ acceptance decisions."
Notably, however, U.S. procedures governing kidney donations were changed in 2012 and again in 2014, introducing use of the Kidney Donor Risk Index (KDRI) and making lower-quality kidneys available to more areas of the country. But the French researchers cited data that suggest no subsequent reduction in the discard rate had occurred by 2016.
The study looked at validated registries of kidneys recovered from donors dying from either circulatory or brain death for the intention of transplantation. Living donor transplants, kidneys offered to transplants centers that were not harvested, and recipients of multi-organ transplants were excluded from the analysis.
During 2004-2014, there were 78,517 deceased U.S. donors, resulting in 156,089 kidneys harvested for potential transplant. Only 128,102 kidneys were actually transplanted, whereas nearly 28,000 kidneys were discarded. During the same period in France, there were 15,500 deceased donors, resulting in nearly 30,000 kidneys recovered, of which 27,252 were eventually transplanted and 2,732 discarded.
Comparing donor kidneys transplanted in the two countries, U.S. donors were significantly younger (mean 37 vs 51 in France over the full study period; 39 vs 56 in 2014) and they were significantly less likely to have hypertension or die from cerebrovascular causes.
Trends in the KDRI -- in which lower numbers reflect higher organ quality -- indicated a steady increase over the 10-year period in France, suggesting a move towards more aggressive donor kidney use (1.37 in 2004 vs 1.74 in 2014). On the other hand, the U.S. didn't show significant change in the KDRI during this time, with values suggesting stricter standards for quality (1.30 in 2004 vs 1.32 in 2014).
In an accompanying commentary, Ryoichi Maenosono, MD, and Stefan Tullius, MD, PhD, both of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, pointed out that population differences could account for the disparity in discard rates.
"The U.S. donor population has a different racial mix, with more African Americans, more donors after circulatory death, and more hepatitis C-positive donors," the commentators noted.
Notably, they pointed out that, due to the 2014 change in U.S. organ allocations, "younger recipients with a longer estimated post-transplant survival have a higher probability of receiving a younger organ, increasing the likelihood that older recipients would receive an older organ."
Maenosono and Tullius also suggested that "regulatory, financial, or medical assessments appear to be the driving force" of this high discard rate in the U.S., as some hospitals may be averse to more aggressive organ use, for fear it could hurt their publicized rankings.
"[W]e should focus more on the needs of the potential recipients and less on the donor kidneys," the pair concluded.
The study was supported in part by French national research agency ATIP Avenir, Fondation Bettencourt Schueller and the French organ allocation authority, the Agence de la Biomédecine, and in part by the Health Resources and Services Administration.
Aubert reported no disclosures. Other study authors did report disclosures.
Commentary authors Maenosono and Tullius reported grants from the National Institutes of Health.


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The material system contains many components. Artists should just care about telling actors to use appropriate materials, and occasionally creating new material XML files by copying old ones and tweaking the uniforms. Graphical programmers might care about all the various shader files.
- Models are a single mesh with a single material and texture. (Actor XML files define how meshes and materials and textures are combined to make models. Actors can use props to combine multiple models for use by a single unit, but props are completely independent as far as the rendering is concerned, so we don't need to worry about them further.)
- Shader programs contain the low-level GPU code that performs per-vertex and per-fragment computation. (These might be implemented with GLSL, or with ARB assembly programs, or with fixed-function multitexturing code - the choice of implementation language is hidden from the rest of the system.)
- Attributes are the per-vertex data that shader programs use: vertex positions, normal vectors, colors, etc. The rendering engine computes all this data.
- Uniforms are the global or per-model data that shader programs use: camera position, sun color, specular highlight power, player color, etc. Some uniforms are computed by the rendering engine; others are specified by material definitions.
- Defines are name/value strings that control the behaviour of shader programs, e.g. USE_SPECULAR=1 to activate the code that computes specular lighting. Some defines come from the rendering engine; others from materials.
- Materials refer to a shader effect and specify various defines and uniforms.
- Shader techniques define how to combine one or more shader programs and other OpenGL state (e.g. alpha-blending behaviour) to render a model. (Usually a technique only uses a single program, but sometimes it needs to perform multiple passes over each model with a different program each time.)
- Rendering modes are the different ways the renderer processes each model. E.g. first it draws each model in the shadowmap generation mode to compute shadows, and later it draws each model in the standard textured lit mode.
- Shader effects control which shader technique to use in each different context, depending on rendering mode, hardware capabilities, user-selected graphics options, etc.
Located in art/materials/. Example:

Materials can contain:
- - refers to one of the effect XML files.
- - required if using a shader effect that uses alpha-blending. (This causes the engine to render the model twice, in ALPHABLEND_PASS_OPAQUE and ALPHABLEND_PASS_BLEND passes, to get correct blending relative to transparent water.)
- - specifies a name/value define that is used when loading the shader. The value is typically "1" to enable an effect.
- - specifies a uniform value that is used when rendering models using this material. The value is between 1 and 4 space-separated decimal numbers, e.g. value="16" or value="1.0 1.0 0.0 0.5".
Set globally by engine code:
- USE_SHADOW - 1 when shadows are supported by the hardware and enabled by the user.
- USE_FP_SHADOW - 1 when GL_ARB_fragment_program_shadow is supported and enabled.
- USE_SHADOW_PCF - 1 when shadow PCF filtering is enabled.
- USE_SHADOW_SAMPLER - 1 when sampler2DShadow etc is supported in GLSL. (Unavailable on OpenGL ES.)
- SYS_HAS_ARB - 1 when GL_ARB_vertex_program/GL_ARB_fragment_program are supported, and the renderer is in shader mode.
- SYS_HAS_GLSL - 1 when GL_ARB_vertex_shader/GL_ARB_fragment_shader are supported, and the renderer is in shader mode.
- SYS_PREFER_GLSL - 1 when the preferGLSL option is enabled. (On by default on OpenGL ES.)
Set by engine code in different renderer modes:
- MODE_SHADOWCAST - 1 when rendering objects onto the shadow map. Only depth is needed, no color data.
- MODE_SILHOUETTEOCCLUDER - 1 when rendering objects that silhouettes may be displayed behind. Only depth is needed, no color data.
- MODE_SILHOUETTEDISPLAY - 1 when rendering objects that may be displayed as silhouettes. Should draw solid color playerColor.
- MODE_WIREFRAME - 1 when rendering wireframe or edged-face versions of models, for debugging.
- ALPHABLEND_PASS_OPAQUE - 1 when rendering the opaque alpha-tested pass of transparent models before water.
- ALPHABLEND_PASS_BLEND - 1 when rendering the alpha-blended pass of transparent models after water.
Set per model by engine code:
- IGNORE_LOS - 1 when the Vision component has the AlwaysVisible flag, meaning the LOS texture should not be used.
Set by materials:
- USE_OBJECTCOLOR - 1 when the objectColor uniform should be used.
- USE_PLAYERCOLOR - 1 when the playerColor uniform should be used. (Mutually exclusive with USE_OBJECTCOLOR.)
- USE_SPECULAR - 1 when specular lighting should be rendered. Requires the following uniforms:
- float specularPower - sharpness of specular highlights.
- vec3 specularColor - color and brightness (components can be larger than 1.0).
- USE_TRANSPARENT - 1 when the texture's alpha channel should be output by the fragment shader.
- DISABLE_RECEIVE_SHADOWS - 1 when shadows should not be cast onto this object.


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Who: Secondary school teachers, instructional primes, career & technology directors and curriculum directors in the United States and Canada interested in bringing game design programs into their classrooms or who currently have graphics and/or animation programs.
What: "Introducing Game Design in Your High School" Webinar
When: This webinar is now available on demand. View Now
- Learn methods to bring game design programs to students in grades 6 – 12
- Perfect addition to existing animation and/or design programs
- Review the gaming industry and the career path opportunities for students
- Discover tools for game development
- See a demonstration of the Unity 3D game development tool
- Get an understanding of how easily 3D content from Autodesk 3ds Max can be transformed into interactive simulations or video games (or anything other 3D content creation packages and animation systems such as Autodesk Maya, Softimage, etc.)
- Explore teaching and training resources for game design
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Here's one more unexpected challenge for space travel: drugs crucial for treating everything from a mild headache to a serious infection don't work properly in the radically different environment away from Earth...and yes, radiation might be part of the problem.
On Earth, medicine can generally remain effective for about two years, as long as it's stored correctly. Proper storage generally involves keeping it away from direct sunlight and in a cool, dry space. But there are plenty of conditions that we take for granted on Earth that are nothing like those we find in space, where "radiation, excessive vibrations, microgravity, a carbon dioxide rich environment and variations in humidity and temperature" are all potential issues.
To figure out what effect all that might have on medicine, the researchers sent up four boxes of drugs containing 35 different medications up to the International Space Station. At the same time, they kept the same set of drugs in ideal conditions at the Johnson Space Center. The space drugs came back at different times - some just a couple weeks later, some more than two years later - but they all consistently showed reduced effectiveness at much faster rates than if they had remained on Earth.
This means that Earth-made medicines may not be useful on long-term space missions, such as a first crewed mission to Mars. In all likelihood, the drugs will need to be modified to take into account the vastly different conditions of space. Still, space drugs can have their advantages, as Dr. Colin Cable, the science information adviser at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, explains:
"On Earth, medicines are tested to assess the effects of, for example, temperature, moisture, oxygen and light, and are packaged and stored to ensure they remain stable and effective over their shelf life. Repackaging of medicines into containers that do not give the medicines the protection required to moisture, oxygen and light can have a detrimental effect on their stability. One potential benefit of keeping medicines in a Space Station is that the medicines will be exposed to a carbon dioxide-rich environment, this may help minimise the degradation of those medicines prone to oxidation, such as adrenaline, vitamin C and vitamin A."
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A European species of deer (Cervus dama), much smaller than the red deer. In summer both sexes are spotted with white. It is common in England, where it is often domesticated in the parks.
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Please be aware of the following issues with using the bodyweight indicator alone when selecting your mask:
- Your weight maybe not be typical; you may have more muscle mass or perhaps weigh heavier/ lighter than average, but it doesn't affect the size of your face.
- Body types (ectomorphic, endomorphic, and mesomorphic) are very difficult to factor in.
- Your height and weight may not correlate at all with face sizes – this can often be seen in very tall people with ectomorphic body types.
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What Is Nominal GDP?
What is difference between nominal and real GDP?
The main difference between nominal GDP and real GDP is the adjustment for inflation.
Since nominal GDP is calculated using current prices, it does not require any adjustments for inflation.
Using a GDP price deflator, real GDP reflects GDP on a per quantity basis..
Why is nominal GDP used?
What is the nominal GDP for Year 1?
GDP that has been adjusted for price changes is called real GDP. If GDP isn't adjusted for price changes, we call it nominal GDP. For example, if real GDP in Year 1 = $1,000 and in Year 2 = $1,028, then the output growth rate from Year 1 to Year 2 is 2.8%; (1,028-1,000)/1,000 =.
What is nominal GDP quizlet?
Nominal GDP. the total value of all finals goods and services produced in the economy during a given year, calculated with the prices current in the year in which the output is produced.
Why Real GDP is important?
What is real and nominal?
Definition: The nominal value of a good is its value in terms of money. The real value is its value in terms of some other good, service, or bundle of goods. Examples: Nominal: That CD costs $18. Japan's science and technology spending is about 3 trillion yen per year.
What is nominal GDP in simple terms?
Nominal GDP is an assessment of economic production in an economy but includes the current prices of goods and services in its calculation. GDP is typically measured as the monetary value of goods and services produced.
What is included in nominal GDP?
Nominal GDP is GDP evaluated at current market prices. Therefore, nominal GDP will include all of the changes in market prices that have occurred during the current year due to inflation or deflation. … Real GDP is GDP evaluated at the market prices of some base year.
Why is nominal GDP misleading?
What happens when nominal GDP increases?
What is the difference between actual GDP and potential GDP?
An output gap is a difference between the actual output of an economy and the maximum potential output of an economy expressed as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP). The output gap is a comparison between actual GDP (output) and potential GDP (maximum-efficiency output).
Why is nominal GDP higher than real?
What does real GDP mean?
What GDP means?
GDP, short for Gross Domestic Product, is defined as the total market value of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given period.
What is difference between nominal GDP and PPP GDP?
Nominal GDP does not take into account differences in the cost of living in different countries. … To account for the differences in the cost of living between countries, we use the PPP exchange rate for conversion. The PPP exchange rate is the ratio of the currencies' purchasing power.
What is nominal GDP with example?
The nominal GDP is the value of all the final goods and services that an economy produced during a given year. … For example, a nominal value can change due to shifts in quantity and price. The nominal GDP takes into account all of the changes that occurred for all goods and services produced during a given year.
How do I calculate nominal GDP?
How is Nominal GDP Calculated?C – Private consumption.I – Gross investment.G – Government investment.X – Exports.M – Imports.GDPD – GDP Deflator.
What is GDP example?
Can real GDP rise while nominal falls?
If real GDP rises while nominal GDP falls, then prices on average have: … Nominal GDP falling would mean either prices have fallen or real GDP has fallen (or both). Since Real GDP has not fallen, prices must have fallen.
How does real GDP increase?


All About SAP BDC | Batch Data Communication
This tutorial will cover the following topics-
 1. Introduction to BDC.
 2. Method of Batch Input.
 3. Batch Data Procedures.
 4. Writing BDC programs.
 5. Creating Batch input Session.
 6. Batch Input Recording.
Lets Begin!
Introduction to Batch input
Batch input is typically used to transfer data from non-R/3 systems to R/3 systems or to transfer data between R/3 systems.
It is a data transfer technique that allows you to transfer datasets automatically to screens belonging to transactions, and thus to an SAP system. Batch input is controlled by a batch input session.
Batch input session
Groups a series of transaction calls together with input data and user actions. A batch input session can be used to execute a dialog transaction in batch input, where some or all the screens are processed by the session. Batch input sessions are stored in the database as database tables and can be used within a program as internal tables when accessing transactions.
Points to note
 - BDI works by carrying out normal SAP transactions just as a user would but it execute the transaction automatically.All the screen validations and business logic validation will be done while using Batch Data Input.
 - It is suitable for entering large amount of data.
 - No manual interaction is required
Methods of Batch Input
SAP provide two basic methods for transferring legacy data in to the R/3 System.
 1. Classical Batch Input method.
 2. Call Transaction Method.
Classical Batch Input method
In this method an ABAP/4 program reads the external data to the SAP System and stores in a batch input session.
After creating the session, you can run the session to execute the SAP transaction in it.
This method uses the function modules BDC_ OPEN, BDC_INSERT and BDC_CLOSE
Batch Input Session can be process in 3 ways
 1. In the foreground
 2. In the background
 3. During processing, with error display
You should process batch input sessions in the foreground or using the error display if you want to test the data transfer.
If you want to execute the data transfer or test its performance, you should process the sessions in the background.
Points to note about Classical Batch Input method
 - Asynchronous processing
 - Transfer data for multiple transactions.
 - Synchronous database update.
 - A batch input process log is generated for each session.
 - Session cannot be generated in parallel.
Call Transaction Method.
In this method ABAP/4 program uses CALL TRANSACTION USING statement to run an SAP transaction.
Entire batch input process takes place online in the program
Points to Note:
 - Faster processing of data
 - Synchronous processing
 - Transfer data for a single transaction.
 - No batch input processing log is generated.
Batch Input Procedures
You will typically observe the following sequence of steps to develop Batch Input for your organization
 1. Analysis of the legacy data. Determine how the data to be transferred is to be mapped in to the SAP Structure. Also take note of necessary data type or data length conversions.
 2. Generate SAP data structures for using in export programs.
 3. Export the data in to a sequential file. Note that character format is required by predefined SAP batch input programs.
 4. If the SAP supplied BDC programs are not used, code your own batch input program. Choose an appropriate batch input method according to the situation.
 5. Process the data and add it to the SAP System.
 6. Analyze the process log. For the CALL TRANSACTION method, where no proper log is created, use the messages collected by your program.
 7. From the results of the process analysis, correct and reprocess the erroneous data.
Writing BDC program
You may observe the following process to write your BDC program
 1. Analyze the transaction(s) to process batch input data.
 2. Decide on the batch input method to use.
 3. Read data from a sequential file
 4. Perform data conversion or error checking.
 5. Storing the data in the batch input structure,BDCDATA.
 6. Generate a batch input session for classical batch input,or process the data directly with CALL TRANSACTION USING statement.
Batch Input Data Structure
Declaration of batch input data structure
DATA : BEGIN OF < bdc table>
OCCURS .
DATA:END OF .
Field name Type Length Description
PROGRAM CHAR 8 Module pool
DYNPRO NUMC 4 Dynpro number
DYNBEGIN CHAR 1 Starting a dynpro
FNAM CHAR 35 Field name
FVAL CHAR 80 Field value
The order of fields within the data for a particular screen is not of any significance
Points to Note
 - While populating the BDC Data make sure that you take into consideration the user settings. This is specially relevant for filling fields which involves numbers ( Like quantity, amount ). It is the user setting which decides on what is the grouping character for numbers E.g.: A number fifty thousand can be written as 50,000.00 or 50.000,00 based on the user setting.
 - Condense the FVAL field for amount and quantity fields so that they are left aligned.
 - Note that all the fields that you are populating through BDC should be treated as character type fields while populating the BDC Data table.
 - In some screens when you are populating values in a table control using BDC you have to note how many number of rows are present on a default size of the screen and code for as many rows. If you have to populate more rows then you have to code for "Page down" functionality as you would do when you are populating the table control manually.
 - Number of lines that would appear in the above scenario will differ based on the screen size that the user uses. So always code for standard screen size and make your BDC work always in standard screen size irrespective of what the user keeps his screen size as.
Creating Batch Input Session
 1. Open the batch input session session using function module BDC_OPEN_GROUP.
 2. For each transaction in the session:
 - Fill the BDCDATA with values for all screens and fields processed in the transaction.
 - Transfer the transaction to the session with BDC_INSERT.
 3. Close the batch input session with BDC_CLOSE_GROUP
Batch Input Recorder
Batch input recorder (System > Services > Batch input > Recorder) records transactions which are manually entered and creates a batch input session which can be executed later using SM35.
 - Begin the batch input recorder by selecting the Recording pushbutton from the batch input initial screen.
 - The recording name is a user defined name and can match the batch input session name which can be created from the recording.
 - Enter a SAP transaction and begin posting the transaction.
 - After you have completed posting a SAP transaction you either choose Get Transaction and Save to end the recording or Next Transaction and post another transaction.
 - Once you have saved the recording you can create a batch input session from the recording and/or generate a batch input program from the recording.
 - The batch input session you created can now be analyzed just like any other batch input session.
 - The program which is generated by the function of the batch input recorder is a powerful tool for the data interface programmer. It provides a solid base which can then be altered according to customer requirements.
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Helen Steiner Rice's poem "When I Must Leave You" gives her loved ones instructions for living on after the speaker's death – to be happy and smile, to be useful and active instead of giving into loneliness, and to wait to be reunited in the afterlife. The poem is example of her inspirational occasional verse dealing with the death of a loved one.Continue Reading
Known as the poet laureate of inspirational verse, Helen Steiner Rice often wrote of deep religious faith, briefly alluded to in the phrase, "For a little while" in the second line of the poem. This dovetails with the closing lines of the poem, "And never, never / Be afraid to die, / For I am waiting for you in the sky!" – references to loved ones reunited after death in heaven.
Following in the tradition of Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti – author of such devotional poems as "When I Am Dead, My Dearest " and "Remember" – Rice's speaker hopes that her survivors don't mourn long, asking that they not "shed wild tears / And hug your sorrow to you / Through the years." Instead, the speaker asks for her sake that they "live on and do / All things the same," and on days when they're feeling lonely for her, stay busy and be productive to honor her life.Learn more about Poetry


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On this page, we will provide you with a Binge Eating Disorder Worksheet. It will help you to learn everything about binge eating disorders.
What is Binge Eating Disorder Worksheet?
Binge eating disorder psychological disorder in which there are multiple repeated episodes of large quantities of food intake in a very short span of time. Later on, after the intake of food, these episodes are followed by guilt, shame, and psychological distress. It is a kind of emotional, stress eating that can be triggered by any kind of stress or emotional issue. It is a kind of problematic eating problem in which you either starve yourself or indulge in over-eating. Basically, you make food your stress buster. It is an eating disorder in which the individual either restricts or purges the food and has a distorted self-image and low self-esteem. This can be life-threatening too.
How Binge Eating Disorder Worksheet will help?
In this type of eating your food becomes your comfort food. By getting to know about binge eating disorder you will be able to deal with the symptoms of it and also help someone in need.
Instructions on how to use Binge Eating Disorder Worksheet?
This worksheet has the definition, symptoms, causes, and cycle of binge eating disorder, use this as an information guide to deal with it.
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This beautiful set of sculptures consists of eight figures - a bear, an owl, a bird, a whale, a fish, an elephant, a mouse and a rabbit (measuring between 26-75mm high). Age 2+
These beautiful sculptures will charm the children with their tactile nature and are ideal for sensory play. The set consists of eight figures - a bear, an owl, a bird, a whale, a fish, an elephant, a mouse and a rabbit (measuring between 26-75mm high). Once discovered, the animals can be sorted and matched by different criteria including colour, habitat and characteristics, promoting language and discussion.
Why not explore and build habitats for the animals: a nest for the bird, a river for the fish, an icy ocean for the bear? Children will enjoy creating characters for each creature making the set ideal for storytelling activities and small world play.
These engaging animals will be a great springboard to learning more about life in the wild, what animals are in your own environment and how the children might better care for them. Age 2+


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October 22, 2011 – Thursday was The National Day on Writing and it passed me by without my knowledge. Therefore, I'm celebrating today.
Selecting a day to honor the written word began as a project by the National Council of English Teachers to encourage people to share why they write. If you visit their website you can view video clips of several popular writers commenting on this topic.
The site also asked writers to tweet why they write. Here are a few responses that caught my eye:
1. "It's cheaper than a shrink."
2. "I can't always say what I want to be heard."
3. "To retain sanity."
4. "To become a better person."
5. "It's the first thing I was good at."
6. "There are restless characters clamoring to get out."
7. "Because I can lie things into existence."
8. "It comes out a heck of a lot better than when I speak."
9. "It's the least destructive addiction I could find."
10. "Who says I have a choice?"
While I can relate to most many of these responses, especially #8, my answer is a little more simplistic. I write because it makes me happy.