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In a recent issue of our favorite Dogs Naturally Magazine, pet nutrition expert Rodney Habib wrote an eye-opening article on the use of soy in the pet food industry, Soy In Pet Foods: The Unwholesome Truth. In this article, Rodney explains why this cheap, genetically modified crop is commonly used in pet foods and why it really shouldn't be. Although it has long been touted as a health food, in reality, there is a clear link between soy and many health issues in both humans and animals.
The Carna4 take home message from this article is that it's important for owners to learn about pet food manufacturing and ingredients and become more savvy consumers. With a better understanding, you will be able to identify misleading labels that conceal undesirable ingredients, and find the type of product you actually want. For example, Rodney highlights some of the many 'aliases' of the soybean (vegetable protein, lecithin, etc.) that may appear on pet food ingredient lists and can allow soy to slip unnoticed into your pet's bowl.
Soy Hides in Places You Wouldn't Think to Look
We wondered if a well-known allergen as soy could be concealed among food ingredients, could it perhaps have also infiltrated the 'nutrient' pre-mixes (aka vitamin-mineral supplements) added to most pet foods? With a little research into how supplements are made, it is clear that in fact it has. Below is a short description of just one of the ways soy is used in nutrient supplements.
Science Vs Nature
By themselves, inorganic minerals can be difficult for the body to absorb, making them not much use in supplements. In nature, inorganic minerals come from the soil and are naturally absorbed by plants. Plants detoxify them and change them into organic forms that animals can absorb. So, animals and humans are supposed to get minerals by eating whole plants or plant-eating animals. You may have heard of this, it's called the food chain!
Nutrient supplements are made in a lab and chemically combined with organic molecules to improve absorption. This process of attaching an inorganic mineral with an organic compound is known as chelation. In pet foods, chelated minerals are bound to 'organic' protein molecules to make proteinates. Essentially, inorganic minerals are combined with proteins to mimic what naturally happens in the food chain. What is the source of the protein in these proteinates?
Several reviews of supplements in pet foods found that most supplements use hydrolyzed soy protein to make proteinates. This shouldn't be surprising as soy has become the cheapest source of protein available to food manufacturers and it is obviously much cheaper than using whole foods.
What Does This Mean & Why We Should Care
So if you thought vitamin-mineral premix contained simply vitamins and minerals, think again. They are not natural minerals at all and they cannot be considered truly hypoallergenic because they contain residual allergenic soy protein.
If you are a concerned pet owner trying to be vigilant in avoiding soy in your pet's food you may not even realize you could be feeding it in the nutrient pre-mixes your pet's food contains.
The bottom line is we don't know exactly what's in a nutrient premix and we don't know exactly how our pets will react to it. These unknowns are why people may try several kibble brands without improving their pet's health. They may have changed the food ingredients (avoiding one food ingredient after another), but they have overlooked the allergens that exist in the nutrient pre-mix.
The BEST option is to choose whole foods that offer authentic nutrition your dog's body knows how to use. You may even discover that your dog wasn't allergic to a particular food all along. He was reacting to one of the unknown additives lurking in the nutrient mix. This is why quality raw diets and other synthetic-free diets work so well. These diets are clean, and clearly label what they contain.


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increase in medical examinations among pilots over the years is due to the rapidly growing demand for aviation globally and the requirement to ensure good health in the industry. The comprehensive nature and rigor of these examinations is worthwhile, as pilot health is the most important factor in aviation safety. We should be prepared not only for the increasing number of aviation medical examinations, but also for the growing healthcare needs of aviation workers.
While males predominantly constitute the aviation sector, a gradual and positive shift towards increased female representation is evident. The progressive increase, especially in the newer generation of aviation professionals, is a testament to diversifying industry norms. Nevertheless, more encouragement and support systems for female participation are needed, and the health care of female workers in particular requires additional attention.
The findings reaffirm the medical community's commitment to aviation safety through careful medical evaluation and highlight areas for improvement and potential challenges. The dynamic nature of the aviation industry, constantly evolving medical standards, and challenges such as a global pandemic require constant adaptation, research, and improvement of screening protocols. Further research could help to establish more targeted screening criteria if it specifically identifies correlations between medical disqualifiers and age. Additionally, given the unprecedented impact of the pandemic, post-pandemic data should be closely monitored to determine the long-term impact on the medical fitness of airmen.
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
No potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported. Juwon Lim has been the editor-in-chief since 2022 and had no role in the decision to publish this article.
General characteristics of the study population
|Number||41,834 (23.6)||135,140 (76.4)||176,974 (100)|
|Male||32,314 (90.9)||92,437 (97.2)||124,751 (95.5)||<0.001|
|Female||3,222 (9.1)||2,639 (2.8)||5,861 (4.5)|
|Age group (yr)|
|<40||40,070 (95.8)||54,158 (40.1)||94,228 (53.2)||<0.001|
|40–49||1,187 (2.8)||45,531 (33.7)||46,718 (26.4)|
|50–59||529 (1.3)||28,048 (20.8)||28,577 (16.1)|
|≥60||43 (0.1)||7,394 (5.5)||7,437 (4.2)|
|1||36,637 (87.6)||130,887 (96.9)||167,524 (94.7)||<0.001|
|2||2,825 (6.8)||351 (0.3)||3,176 (1.8)|
|3||2,369 (5.7)||3,890 (2.9)||6,259 (3.5)|
|Unfit||624 (1.5)||229 (0.2)||853 (0.5)||<0.001|
|Fit||37,832 (90.4)||116,800 (86.4)||154,632 (87.4)|
|Waiver||3,076 (7.4)||18,054 (13.4)||21,130 (11.9)|
|Deferred||302 (0.7)||57 (0)||359 (0.2)|
|Date of exam (year)|
|2000–2009||2,739 (6.5)||32,003 (23.7)||34,742 (19.6)||<0.001|
|2010–2019||28,997 (69.3)||69,421 (51.4)||98,418 (55.6)|
|2020–2023||10,098 (24.1)||33,716 (24.9)||43,814 (24.8)|
|None||41,834 (100)||0 (0)||41,834 (23.6)||Not available|
|ATPL||0 (0)||72,755 (53.8)||72,755 (41.1)|
|CPL||0 (0)||54,040 (40.0)||54,040 (30.5)|
|PPL||0 (0)||4,418 (3.3)||4,418 (2.5)|
|ATC||0 (0)||3,927 (2.9)||3,927 (2.2)|
Values are presented as number (%).
ATPL: air transport pilot license, CPL: commercial pilot license, PPL: private pilot license, ATCL: air traffic controller license.
Disqualification rates of airline pilots by age group in Korea between 2010–2023
|Number of exam||Number of unfit||Disqualification rate (%)||OR (95% CI)|
|Age group (yr)||0.041|
Values are presented as number (%).
OR: odds ratio, CI: confidence interval.
- Kim JS, Han BS, Kwon YH, Lim J. A 5-year analysis of aviation medical examinations in South Korea. Aerosp Med Hum Perform 2022;93:499-506. _URL_
- Hohmann E, Pieterse R. Temporary incapacitation rates and permanent loss of medical license in commercial airline pilots. Aerosp Med Hum Perform 2023;94:113-121. _URL_
- Han BS, Kwon YH, Shin YY. Analysis of three years of airmen medical certificate for preparing aviation-related health promotion plan. Korean J Aerosp Environ Med 2020;30:40-49. _URL_
- Sykes AJ, Larsen PD, Griffiths RF, Aldington S. A study of airline pilot morbidity. Aviat Space Environ Med 2012;83:_PHONE_. _URL_
- Kwon YH. Survey of medically disqualified airline pilots in Korea: 2015~2019. Korean J Aerosp Environ Med 2020;30:70-74. _URL_

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Sweet merciful fates: this is a robot. Called a Geminoid, these things came into fame with an early version in 2005 by Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro of ATR. This new version seems completely revamped and updated and, more interesting, this is the first Geminoid from outside of Japan.
This new Geminoid comes from Aalborg University in Denmark and is considerably less complex – but much more realistic – than Ishiguro's original model. This one, called Geminoid-DK, appears to really breathe and perform involuntary muscular reactions.
In the spring of 2010, a new geminoid was created. The new robot, Geminoid-F was a simpler version of the original HI-1, and it was also more affordable, making it reasonable to acquire one for humanistic research in Human Robot Interaction.
Geminoid|DK will be the first of its kind outside of Japan, and is intended to advance android science and philosophy, in seeking answers to fundamental questions, many of which that have also occupied the Japanese researchers. The most important questions are:
- What is a human?
- What is presence?
- What is a relation?
- What is identity?

source: HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu


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1. Emergency Measures
Reopening Principles and Guidelines
On April 28, 2020, Prime Minister Trudeau released a joint statement with premiers across Canada on their shared public health approach to support reopening the economy. Governments will make decisions suited to their jurisdictions, geography, and disease activity. These decisions will be informed by experiences in other countries in Asia, Europe, and around the world – particularly those who had outbreaks earlier than Canada and who have achieved demonstrable successes. A shared key objective is to minimize the risk of another wave of COVID-19 that forces governments to re-impose severe restrictions, further damaging the social and economic fabric of communities.
The framework is guided by the following principles:
- Science and evidence-based decision-making
- Coordination and collaboration
- Accountability and transparency
- Flexibility and proportionality
The First Ministers agree that the following public health criteria will inform decisions to reopen the economy: Control the transmission of COVID-19; maintain the incidence of new cases at a level that the health care system can manage; sufficient public health capacity is in place to test; trace, and isolate new cases; expanded health care capacity for all patients, COVID-19 and non-COVID-19; supports in place for vulnerable groups/communities and key populations; workplace preventative measures; avoid risk of importation; and measures to engage and support communities in managing local disease activity.
Reopening Health and Safety Guidelines
While the Government of Canada has not outlined specific health and safety resources for the opening of the economy, the government website continues to provide helpful COVID-19 resources for businesses and workplaces.
For specific details on each province's reopening open, see links below.
Optimal approach to keep track of the latest updates.
Government sites for staying up-to-date on COVID-19:
2. State Aid
- Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) – Coverage of 75% of employee's wages – up to $847 per week for eligible employers. The CEWS will allow employers to re-hire employees and avoid layoffs during crisis. The program will be in place until August 29. Eligible employers must demonstrate an eligible reduction in revenue to receive the subsidy.
- Eligible employers include:
- individuals (including trusts)
- taxable corporations
- persons that are exempt from corporate tax (Part I of the Income Tax Act), other than public institutions:
- non-profit organizations
- agricultural organizations
- boards of trade
- chambers of commerce
- non-profit corporations for scientific research and experimental development
- labour organizations or societies
- benevolent or fraternal benefit societies or orders
- registered charities
- certain Indigenous government-owned corporations that carry on a business
- partnerships consisting of eligible employers and certain Indigenous governments
- registered Canadian amateur athletic associations
- registered journalism organizations
- private schools or private colleges, and
- partnerships consisting of eligible employers (including partnerships where at least 50% of the interests in the partnership are held by eligible employers)
- *Public institutions are not eligiblefor the subsidy. This includes municipalities and local governments, Crown corporations, public universities, colleges and schools, and hospitals.
- Eligible reductions in the revenue include:
- In order to receive the CEWS, eligible employers must show a reduction of revenues in a particular qualifying period. The required reduction in revenue has been set at 15% for March 2020 and at 30% for April and May of 2020.
- The required reduction in revenue for each qualifying period can be calculated in one of two ways:
- 2020 reference period against the same month in 2019; or
- Reference period against the average of January and February of 2020.
Currently, the three Qualifying Periods are as set out below. Additional information about the CEWS extension to August 29, 2020 is expected to be announced soon.
|Current Reference Period
||Prior Reference Period*
|March 15 to April 11
|April 12 to May 9
|May 10 to June 6
*may use an average of January and February 2020 revenue instead.
An eligible employee is someone who is Employed in Canada; Employed by the eligible entity in a qualifying period; and has not been without remuneration by the eligible entity in 14 or more consecutive days in the qualifying period.
- Temporary Wage Subsidy – The Temporary 10% Wage Subsidy is a three-month measure that allows eligible employers to reduce the amount of payroll deductions required to be remitted to the Canada Revenue Agency.
- Eligible employers include:
- individual (excluding trusts),
- non-profit organization,
- registered charity, or
- Canadian-controlled private corporation (including a cooperative corporation)**; have an existing business number and payroll program account with the CRA on March 18, 2020; and pay salary, wages, bonuses, or other remuneration to an eligible employee***.
- *Partnerships are only eligible for the subsidy if their members consist exclusively of individuals (excluding trusts), registered charities, other partnerships eligible for the subsidy, or eligible Canadian-controlled private corporations (CCPCs).
- **CCPCs are only eligible for the subsidy if they would have had a business limit for their last taxation year that ended before March 18, 2020, greater than nil (determined without reference to the passive income business limit reduction). For more information on whether your CCPC would have a business limit, see Small Business Deductionin the T2 Corporation Income Tax Guide.
- For more information on whether your corporation is a CCPC.
- ***An eligible employee is an individual who is employed in Canada.
- Extension of the Work-Sharing Program (WS) – The Government of Canada extended the maximum duration of the Work-Sharing program from 38 weeks to 76 weeks for employers affected by COVID-19. This measure will provide income support to employees eligible for Employment Insurance who agree to reduce their normal working hours because of developments beyond the control of their employers.
- Eligible employers for WS:
- be a year-round business in Canada for at least 1 year
- be a private business or a publicly held company, or
- have at least 2 employees in the WS unit
- Eligibility was also extended to:
- Government Business Enterprises (GBEs), also referred to as public corporations, and
- not-for-profit employers experiencing a shortage of work due to a reduction of business activity and/or a reduction in revenue levels due to COVID-19
- Eligible employees for WS:
- year-round, permanent, full-time or part-time employees needed to carry out the day-to-day functions of the business ("core staff")
- be eligible to receive EI benefits, and
- agree to reduce their normal working hours by the same percentage and to share the available work
- Eligibility was also extended to:
- employees considered essential to the recovery and viability of the business can now be eligible to participate in Work-Sharing (such as technical employees engaged in product development, outside sales agents, marketing agents, etc.)
- CANADA EMERGENCY RESPONSE BENEFIT (CERB)
The CERB provides income support benefits for workers who suffer income loss due to COVID-19. This benefit combines the two previously announced emergency benefits (the Emergency Care Benefit and the Emergency Support Benefit) into one overarching income support benefit. The CERB is separate and distinct from the EI program. Therefore, an individual, if eligible, may be able to receive both the CERB and EI benefits in succession. Note an individual cannot receive both the CERB and EI benefits for the same period.
The CERB is a taxable benefit of $2,000 a month for up to 4 months (i.e. 16 weeks) available between March 15, 2020 and October 3, 2020. Although taxable, the tax will not be deducted when provided. Instead, individuals must report the eceipt of the CERB when filing income tax for the 2020 year.
The CERB is available to both employees and self-employed workers who have stopped working for reasons related to COVID-19, regardless of whether they are eligible for EI. Examples of COVID-19 related reasons for work stoppage include, but is not limited to:
- Laid off from a job;
- Quarantined or sick due to COVID-19;
- Away from work to take care of others who are in quarantine and/or sick due to COVID-19; and/or
- Away from work to take care of children or other dependents whose care facility is closed due to COVID-19.
An individual who has voluntarily quit his or her employment is not eligible for the CERB. On April 15, 2020 the Federal Government expanded the eligibility requirements for the CERB. Now, individuals who are eligible for EI regular or sickness benefits are eligible for the CERB as well as individuals who received EI regular benefits between December 29, 2019 and October 3, 2020 and have exhausted all of their available entitlement or exceeded the period in which they could collect benefits. This means an individual who was out of work prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and is unable to find a job as a result may be eligible to receive the CERB.
An individual is eligible for the CERB if he or she:
- Is 15 years of age or older;
- Resides in Canada and has a valid Social Insurance Number;
- During the four week benefit period:
- Has stopped or will stop working due to reasons related to COVID-19, or;
- Are eligible for EI regular or sickness benefits, or;
- Have exhausted their EI regular benefits between December 29, 2019 and October 3, 2020
- Has not earned more


Issue a Customer Refund as a Credit
You need to issue a customer refund as a credit. This can happen for several reasons but lets use the example of a customer paid to much for an item.
To issue a Customer credit you would follow the same steps as a customer return with one exception. The only line item on the return is the REFUND item that you will need to create.
1. Create a new item called REFUND. This item will be an other charge item.
2. Create a new Customer Return. Add REFUND as your line item and enter the price of the item the same as the refund.
3. When you approve this Customer Return Order Time will create a credit memo in your accounting system.
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ordinary employment, the additional gifts, such as?100 in 1612, sound like patronage. This was Tradescant's first documented employment. Salisbury sent him on expeditions to the continent to purchase vines, trees, plants, and flowers for Hatfield House. Salisbury (Robert Cecil) died in 1612; Tradescant continued with the heir until 1614-15. Gardener to Edward Lord Wotton at Canterbury in Kent, c.1615-23. During this time he joined Sir Dudley Digges' embassy to Russia as a botanist, and brought home some plants. In 1620 he joined an expedition against the Barbary corsairs. Gardener to the Duke of Buckingham, c.1624-8. He accompanied Buckingham's expedition to La Rochelle in 1628. Buckingham arranged for Tradescant to hold the sinecure of yeoman garnetter at the Whitehalff granary (which I categorize as patronage). By the time of Buckingham's assassination, Trandescant had acquired enough to be financially independent. He set up a garden and museum (called the Ark) in South Lambeth, 1628. This was run as a commercial enterprise, with a fee to enter. It appears that he also ran the garden as a commerical nursery. Gardener to Queen Henrietta Maria with a salary of?100 (very high for a gardener), 1630 until his death. He continued to operate his own establishment in South Lambeth, and there is some evidence that he functioned as a consultant on gardens to various aristocrats associated with the court. He was appointed keeper of the new physic garden at Oxford in 1637 (?50), and held the position until his death. I include this under the category of Miscellaneous (for gardener).
8. Patronage: Aristocratic Patronage; Court Patronage; The Earl of Salisbury. Lord Wotton. The Duke of Buckingham. The King and the Queen.
9. Technological Connections: Agriculture; He introduced some new species into England.
10. Scientific Societies: Informal Connections: He set up the first botanical garden and museum in England and attracted many naturalists and botanists. Connection with the French gardeners, Jean and Vespasien Robin and René Morin.
Dictionary of National Biography (repr., London: Oxford University Press, 1949-50), 19, 1070-2. William Watson, 'Some Account of the Remains of John Tradescant's Garden at Lambeth,' Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 46 (1752), 160-1. Edward F. Rimbault, 'Family of the Tradescants,' Notes and Queries, 3 (1851), 353-5. S.W. Singer, 'Tradescants and E. Ashmole,' Notes and Queries 5 (1852), 367-8, 385-7. Richard Pulteney, Historical and Biographical Sketches of the Progress of Botany in England, (London 1790), 1, 175-9. Mea Allan, The Tradescants: Their Plants, Garden and Museum _PHONE_, (London, 1964). Don't waste your time-romantic vaporings. Prudence Leith-Ross, The John Tradescants: Gardeners to the Rose and Lily Queen, (London, 1984). Much the best source that I have found.
Tradescant, John (II)
1. Dates: Born: Meopham, Kent, 4 August 1608. At least he was baptized on 4 August. Died: South Lambeth, Surrey, 22 April 1662; Datecode: Lifespan: 54
2. Father: Mis; John (I) Tradescant, a gardener and natural historian. I categorize him as gardener (i.e., Miscellaneous). The father came to own fairly extensive property, and was clearly prosperous.
4. Education: None Known; King's School, Canterbury. No university education.
5. Religion: Anglican; Like his father, he was steadfast in his attachment to the established church.
6. Scientific Disciplines: Natural History; Botany; Like his father, Tradescant was a skilled gardener, and his claim to be a scientist is minimal. He did make three expeditions to Virginia, and he collected specimens, especially plants, while he was there. Musaeum Tradescantianum, 1656. The collection (originally assembled by John I Tradescant, the father) recorded in this publication passed, after Tradescant's death, through the hands of Ashmole to Oxford, where it bears Ashmole's name rather than Tradescant's.
7. Means of Support: Miscellaneous; Personal Means; Patronage. Secondary Means of Support: Merchant; Gardener to Queen Henrietta Maria, 1638-42 (when the Queen fled the Civil War). Tradescant succeeded his father; as with his father I categorize him both under Gardener (Miscellaneous) and under Patronage. His status appears to me as a perfect embodiment of the ambiguity of patronage relation. From his father he also inherited the museum, which continued to be run as a commercial enterprise. After the Parliamentary victory and the termination of his relation with the court, the museum was Tradescant's principal means of livelihood. Although I did not find an explicit reference, I assume that like his father he also operated the garden as a commercial nursery. There is evidence that he functioned as a merchant in overseas trading during the late 50's.
8. Patronage: Court Patronage; Medical Practioner; Queen Henrietta Maria. Add that Tradescant dedicated the second edition of Musaeum Tradescantianum, 1660, to Charles II, and that when an official tried to make Tradescant get a license to operate the museum, Charles gave him a warrant to proceed without one. Possibly Elias Ashmole should be mentioned here. He financed the publication of Musaeum in 1656. However, the conventional wisdom (which is supported by considerable evidence and thus accepted by me) is that Ashmole was then already scheming to get the collection into his own hands. I won't treat this as patronage. Tradescant dedicated the first edition to Musaeum to the President and Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians. Tradescant was growing medicinal plants for the college at this time and was negotiating with them over the establishment of a physic garden.
9. Technological Connections: Agriculture; He and his father introducted a number of new plants into England.
10. Scientific Societies: Company of Master Gardeners of London, 1634.
Trulli [Trullio, Trullius], Giovanni
1. Dates: Born: Veroli, Frosinoe province, 1598; Died: Rome, 27 December 1661; Datecode: Lifespan: 63
2. Father: Unknown; We are told only that his name was Leonardo Trulli. It may be relevant that Trulli's brother Stefano was also a physician in Rome and that Stefano's son, another Giovanni Trulli, became a lecturer in anatomy and surgery at the Sapienza. No indication about the family's financial status.
3. Nationality: Birth: Italian; Career: France; Italian; Death: Italian
4. Education: None Known; All we know of his early years is that he went to France for training in surgery. In the 17th century this would mean somewhere other than a university.
5. Religion: Catholic.
6. Discipline: Medicine; Surgery; Trulli was consulted on the blindness of Galileo, and his written opinion in response to Galileo's (lost) description of his symptoms, is the fullest medical document on the blindness. Trulli is in the DSB solely because of that opinion. However, he is not wholly lacking in modest scientific credentials even though he never published anything. In connection with the correspondence about Galileo it appears that Trulli had formulated a theory about cataracts. He developed a very high reputation as a surgeon. He proposed to publish a collection of observations and a treatise on aneurisms, although he did not in fact carry through with the plan. Severino carried on a scientific correspondence with him. He became one of the Italian supporters of the circulation of the blood.
7. Means of Support: Patronage; Medical Practioner; Secondary Means of Support: Academic; Trulli settled in Rome in 1636 as surgeon to Cardinal Francesco Barberini and to Urban VIII and later to Alexander VII. Urban established a special chair in surgery for him at the Sapienza, which he occupied until Urban's death. He was also surgeon at the Santo Spirito Hospital. A contemporary reference to him spoke of the many cures he had effected in France, Genoa, and Rome, and of 26 operations for the stone in Rome during the first two years he was there. There are other references to his medical practice in correspondence of the day.
8. Patronage: Ecclesiastic Official; Court Patronage; See above for his service to Cardinal Francesco Barberini and Popes Urban VIII and Alexandre VII (but not to Innocent X, who came between them). Urban established a chair in surgery for Trulli at the Sapienza, with a salary of 200 scudi. (The roles of the university show his actual salary as 300.) He was called upon to embalm Urban's corpse in 1644


text: Croatia's culinary traditions faithfully reflect its tumultuous history, serving an assortment of foods and wines which differ significantly between the country's regions. The hearty dishes and their spicy aftertastes on the North genuinely remind of Croatia's Germanic and Hungarian heritage, but also of cold winters and hard labor in the flatlands. The wine cellars and olive groves of Istria and Dalmatia pay a tribute to its Greek and Roman heritage, while light fish dishes with lots of vegetables serve the Adriatic sunshine on a plate. Traveling the islands, learn how different same foods or grapes can taste just one island over. Dobar tek and uzdravlje!


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Peering Deep Into Soul of a Painting
INSIDE BRUEGEL The Play of Images in 'Children's Games' by Edward Snow. North Point Press/Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 204 pages, $40
"Caress the details, the divine details" is an exhortation (from Nabokov) that appears early on in Edward Snow's "Inside Bruegel: The Play of Images in 'Children's Games,' " and it sets the tone for this thoughtful, intricate and, indeed, detail-caressing study of Pieter Bruegel's 1560 masterpiece. Following Snow's widely esteemed "A Study of Vermeer," "Bruegel" has been 20 years in the making and is a similarly percipient, sometimes difficult piece of art-historical reflection from this Rice professor of English and translator of Rilke.
To go "inside" an artist, for Snow, means to question most accepted art-historical precepts. It means to examine the informing facts and the content of a painting, yet to ponder over and over how they might (never "should") be taken. It means to look carefully at the use of color and shape, the repetition and opposition of motifs, the range of psychology and the interplay of themes. In the end, "Inside Bruegel" is a book as much about a specific canvas as about more general acts--and challenges--of reading.
Bruegel's canvas is a rich tapestry of children spinning hoops and barrels and tops, children walking on stilts, balancing on fences and playing tug of war, blind man's bluff and dozens of other simultaneously enacted games. They are set in a landscape that changes from the pastoral to the urban to (in the populous middle ground) somewhere in between. Like the conventional essayist that, in most other senses, Snow is not, he takes on the painting's earlier interpreters, who insist on seeing these children as miniature adults who depict the folly of mankind or, alternately, constitute a catalog of contemporary customs or ethical commonplaces. Snow maintains, however, that there is no evidence for such moralistic uses of children's games in art history up to Bruegel, and he feels, in any event, that the "taxonomist's delight" Bruegel takes in children's behavior is far too varied and nonjudgmental to be so narrowly applied.
Instead, Bruegel is a painter who "thinks in images" (as Cezanne put it) rather than in simple ideas or truisms. And Bruegel's image-thinking often favors antithetical pairs or echoes. Consider, for example, the top-spinners who, gathered under one arch of the painting's central building, delight in their game; in the next arch over, another boy, whose clothing alludes to a monk's robe, doesn't so much spin as flagellate his top: Bruegel depicts two incarnations of one form of play and suggests that both are valid expressions of a child's behavior. Similarly, in a game of leapfrog, dominant players vault over the backs of their passive counterparts, at first giving an impression of "two distinct classes, one of which rises and enjoys mobility at the expense of another." But since it is clear that the leapers will soon change places with the boys being leaped over, the total group "poses succinctly the ambiguities of childhood and play that are scattered throughout the painting."
Snow is exquisitely sensitive to the ambiguities and contradictions in Bruegel's work, yet he honors its lucidity as well. He sees Bruegel as a painter who imagines the body from the inside out. Snow's Bruegel is an anthropologist who recognizes that boys' games and girls' games differ, though seldom along obvious lines: A boy on stilts is ambitious and transcendent, yes, but he is also precarious and risking downfall; a girl nearby stands on her own two feet and is more earthbound, but her arms are free to "reach, cling, grasp, contend, devise, exult, assist, despair, drop sadly, register isolation and connection, express fullness of being and emptiness of self."
Snow also clearly identifies Bruegel's understanding of the prominence of victimization and persecution in children's play; the loneliness often felt by participants in games; and the way the painting takes up the question of whether play is a rehearsal for adulthood or whether adulthood is a loss of the spirit of play. In following these and dozens more threads (some of which unfortunately get knotted in places into a clumsy postmodern academic speak), Snow also manages to extend his attention to other images in Bruegel's oeuvre.
Ultimately Snow's stance is celebratory. For him, "Children's Games" is a painting that "testifies vividly to the instinctive human will to turn barren and impoverished circumstances into a multifarious, imaginatively grasped world." In a way, the same might be said of his own book, which elevates our own impoverished, cursory glances and shows us how (in a passage from Nietzsche that Snow cites admiringly) "to read slowly, deeply... with doors left open, with delicate eyes and fingers."
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Cross the River
- 5 to 10 minutes
- Thin cardboard or heavy paper
- Masking tape
- Cut out several 8- to 10-inch circles and tape them to the floor in a straight line so that they are close enough to move from one to the other in a step.
- Pretend they are stepping stones across a river and take turns crossing over the whole line of them.
- Place the circles into a gentle curve and step from one to another.
- If your toddler is able, have her alternate steps, putting only one foot on a dot.
- Play stop and go as your toddler moves about on the dots.
- Tell your toddler to lead so that you can follow.
- Move across the circles using music of different tempos.
Copyright © 2004 by Susan Kettmann. Excerpted from The 2,000 Best Games & Activities with permission of its publisher, Sourcebooks, Inc.
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ABSTRACT: Primary care physicians' knowledge of the ophthalmic effects of diabetes
OBJECTIVE:Previous studies suggest that many patients with diabetes do not receive an annual dilated eye examination because of a lack of referrals from primary care physicians (PCPs). This study aims to determine the depth of knowledge of PCPs regarding diabetic eye disease.DESIGN:Cross-sectional assessment.PARTICIPANTS:Ninety-seven PCPs.METHODS:An 8-question, multiple-choice assessment was administered over a 3-month period to 208 PCPs in attendance at continuing medical education conferences.RESULTS:Ninety-seven PCPs completed the assessment. Participants had a mean total score of 5.9 of 8 possible (73.8%). Questions regarding screening, clinical findings, and prevention were answered correctly by ≥81% of the respondents. However, questions regarding risk factors and complications were answered correctly by less than 35% of the respondents. No difference in scores was found based on the type of residency training received or the number of years in practice.CONCLUSIONS:Although PCPs may require greater education in the complications and risk factors of diabetic eye disease, study participants demonstrated a good overall depth of knowledge regarding diabetic eye disease. Thus, previous reports of only 35% to 55% of patients with diabetes receiving an annual dilated fundus examination are likely not due to a lack of physician education.


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Solid radioactive wastes should consist of dry contaminated laboratory materials, equipment, and supplies such as paper, unbroken glass, and plastic products.
HMM provides 7.5 gallon and 28 gallon yellow fiber drums for solid low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) disposal.
Segregate solid radioactive wastes by radionuclide(s). Please see the Table of Acceptable Segregation Categories for LLRW. (Use a separate drum for each category).
- Ensure yellow fiber waste drum is lined with large plastic bag prior to discarding solid wastes into fiber drum
- Fill out a Container Label (instructions) and attached to the designated location on upper side of the large yellow fiber drums (lower side of small fiber drums).
Designated location for the container label
- Fill out a LLRW Manifest (instructions).
- Perform a contamination survey on the exterior of each waste container (instructions).
- Do not discard radioactive material as normal trash.
- Do not use translucent or opaque bags (eg. Biohazard waste bags, etc.) to discard radioactive wastes into yellow fiber drums. (Note: use clear bags only).
- Do not deface or write directly on OSEH yellow fiber drums. (Note: drums are reused).
- Do not overfill and/or underfill yellow fiber drums.
- Do not discard the following materials into OSEH yellow fiber drums:
- Non-radioactive wastes (eg. paper towels, boxes, etc);
- Stock vials or other containers which contain standing liquids (>0.5 ml/container);
- LSC vials (empty or full);
- Lead, leaded materials, or large contaminated metal objects (Note: request a special collection);
- Chemicals or chemically soaked materials;
- Biological wastes (eg. carcasses, blood, tissue, organs, urine, feces, bedding, etc).


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Consider the Source: Why Was Maitreya Too Fat to Sit in Full Lotus?
In the great Buddhist grottos at Dunhuang, the unequalled repository of Buddhist statues and art in China's far west, certain Buddha figures do not sit in full lotus as one might expect. Nor do they stand erect, another common posture. Instead, they sit with their legs crossed at their ankles, a puzzling, rather uncomfortable looking position. The Chinese scholar Gu Zhengmei argues that this posture is a sure sign that these statues represent Maitreya Buddha, the "Buddha to Come" who is said to appear in the world when all have forgotten the dharma. He claims that it is consistent with discoveries of Maitreya images not just at Dunhuang, but also in Greek-influenced Gandhara, where the first icons of the Buddha were found.


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Definition - What does Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) mean?
Virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) is a technology within IP based routers that enables them to create and operate multiple instances of a routing table simultaneously. VRF enables a router to create multiple instances of router within it, each of which operates separately and has its distinct and overlapping set of IP addresses.
Techopedia explains Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF)
VRF is primarily implemented for better use of router and segregate network traffic. VRF works like a typical router with its unique routing table, table entries and routing protocols, and it works independently of the core router and other VRF created instances. VRF is similar to virtual routers but the latter uses only one routing table whereas VRF has multiple routing tables. VRF is also used to create VPN tunnels that are solely dedicated to a single client or network.
VRF is also referred to as a routing table that has multiple instances on a VPN power edge (PE) router.


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Sometimes bread machines can be tricky. We were trying to help a customer whose bread did not rise enough. It seemed that he did everything right. Come to find out, he had an older model and a brand that we were not familiar with. (Bread machines are becoming more standardized but there are still different requirements for different machines.) So we tried to help him fine tune his mix to work perfectly with his machine.
Fine tuning may be required either because the mix does not perfectly match the machine or because of environmental conditions in your kitchen—humidity, temperature, or altitude. (Since temperature is a variable, make sure that both the mix and machine are at room temperature before beginning.)Bread machines work on a timer. They mix, allow time for the bread to rise, and then bake. If the dough does not rise fast enough, then the loaf is dense with poor volume. If the dough rises too fast, it collapses with a depression in the middle. To fine tune a mix, we want to adjust the rising so that it is at peak height when the baking cycle begins. In fine tuning, there are two variables to work with. The first is hydration, the ratio of water to dry ingredients. A more hydrated dough is softer and will rise easier. If it is too firm, it won't rise enough and will be dense. If it is too soft, it will rise too quickly and collapse as baking begins. A little difference in the amount of water added will change the loaf so measure carefully with a reliable measuring cup designed for liquids. Check the dough ball at the end of the kneading cycle. Poke it with your finger. It should be soft but not too sticky. If you think it is too soft or too firm, pull it out of the machine, form a loaf, let it rise, and bake it in the oven. Then next time, add or subtract water. Usually a one tablespoon adjustment is all that is needed.The other method for fine tuning is adjusting the temperature of the water. All of our bread machine mixes are developed with water at 80 degrees and a specified water temperature range of 75 to 85 degrees. As a rule of thumb, if your kitchen is chilly, use water at 85 degrees. If hot, use water at 75 degrees. Increasing or decreasing the water temperature will change the rate of the yeast growth substantially. So if the dough ball indicates the right consistency, then you can speed or retard the rising of the bread quite handily by adjusting the water temperature--warmer water will speed the rising and cooler water will slow the rising. Usually an adjustment of ten degrees is adequate. We hope this helps you fine tune any mix for your bread machine and the conditions in your kitchen. What works for one mix, should work for all mixes of that same brand. Once you find what works, stick with it. Consistently turning out perfect loaves is usually no more difficult than carefully measuring the water and controlling water temperature.
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ImageClickEventArgs Class
Provides data for any events that occur when a user clicks an image-based ASP.NET server control, such as the HtmlInputImage or ImageButton server controls. This class cannot be inherited.
Namespace: System.Web.UI
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public sealed class ImageClickEventArgs : EventArgs
The ImageClickEventArgs type exposes the following members.
Public methodImageClickEventArgsInitializes a new instance of the ImageClickEventArgs class.
Public fieldXAn integer that represents the x-coordinate where a user clicked an image-based ASP.NET server control.
Public fieldYAn integer that represents the y-coordinate where a user clicked an image-based ASP.NET server control.
This class passes the location where a user clicked an HtmlInputImage server control or an ImageButton Web server control. Clicking an HtmlInputImage server control causes a ServerClick event to occur, while clicking an ImageButton server control causes a Click event to occur. You can then use event handlers to programmatically respond to the event based on the value of these coordinates.
The origin coordinates (0,0) are located at the upper left corner of the image.
The following code example demonstrates an ASP.NET page that uses the information provided by this class to display the coordinates of a user's click on an image.
// Define the event handler that uses coordinate information through ImageClickEventArgs.
void ImageButton_Click(object sender, ImageClickEventArgs e)
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What's Up With All the Sheep?
Lesson 4 of 14
Objective: SWBAT compare and contrast familiar features of nursery rhymes. Student Objective: I can compare the nursery rhymes about sheep.
My plan for today is to teach or for some, reteach the nursery rhymes of Mary Had a Little Lamb, Little Bo Peep, and Baa Baa Black Sheep. Rather than just teaching memorization of nursery rhymes, we are going to analyze the information on a kindergarten level of comparing and contrasting. I want to first build understanding of the vocabulary of the rhymes since some of these were "written" hundreds of years ago, and the English Language has changed a bit.
If you would please join me on the rug, I would like to share three nursery rhyme posters with you: Mary Had a Little Lamb, Little Bo Peep, and Baa Baa Black Sheep. As I read these posters, I would like you to read along with me.
Why do you think these are the posters that I chose to share today? It is because each of these rhymes have sheep in them.
Raise your hand if you have seen real sheep. What do you know about real sheep? Who takes care of sheep? Sometimes they are farmers, sometimes they are shepherds. Take a look at this picture. Do you see the shepherd's crook? This let's us know that Little Bo Peep was a shepherd. A girl shepherd is called a shepherdess.
Because nursery rhymes are fun and involve everyday activities, Kindergarten children can relate to them. Making a personal connection through nursery rhymes helps children become better readers. Many authors assume that children know nursery rhymes. These rhymes that have survived since the time of Shakespeare, and because the Common Core Standards include critical types of content for all students, including classic stories and the writings of Shakespeare, these memorizations and comparisons are the perfect venue for five-year-olds.
On the board, I have put a comparing and contrasting chart for us to fill in. Who can remember what it means to compare something? When we compare, we are looking at what is the same. So, when we compared these three rhymes earlier, we recognized that there was sheep in each rhyme. What does it mean to contrast? If compare means the same, contrast probably means...different.
Our chart has room for three nursery rhymes. We will be comparing and contrasting the three rhymes we heard today: Mary Had a Little Lamb, Little Bo Peep, and Baa Baa Black Sheep. I will be asking you some questions about the rhymes and then when you answer them, I will write your responses on the chart.
Let's talk about how these lists compare. (Two had girls, all of the sheep caused some problem, etc.) Now let's compare. (The black sheep was sharing his wool, but the others weren't, Baa Baa Black sheep didn't show his owner, etc.)
The children need to now take what they've learned and share it with the adults in the room. They will take their Nursery Rhyme booklets around to the adults and read the rhymes. The adults have been prompted to ask the children comparative questions, like "Who did a better job caring for her sheep?" "What did Mary do differently than the boy in Baa Baa Black Sheep?" "Which rhyme did you like best, and why?"
Because we have been working with nursery rhymes all week, I have made you a booklet of the nursery rhymes we have read so that you can take it home to read to your families. Won't they be surprised at how much you know?
Since we have some other adults in the room (parapro, Special Education teacher consultant, high school and parent volunteers, Title One teacher--not all at the same time, but throughout our day, we have "push-in" programs), we are going to walk from table to table and ask you to read to us. This will give you extra practice and we can listen to see if you need more help.


Chapter 5 Sanyasa Yoga Verse 25
Yatendriya manobuddhir munir mokshaparaayanah;
Vigatecchaabhaya krodho yah sadaa mukta eva sah.
With the senses, the mind and the intellect always controlled, having liberation as his supreme goal,
free from desire, fear and anger—the sage is verily liberated for ever.
This is the second part of the sloka where it talks about the way a sage gets liberation from this world. The first part says that he needs to control his eye movements and his breathing, the second part focuses on other things to control. Lord Krishna says that apart from the senses, the sage has to always control his mind and intellect. Having done that, the sage will then keep the liberation from this world as his ultimate goal and starts getting himself freed from all the desires such as fear and anger. When he ultimately wins over all this, he will get the liberation from this world forever.
Extending the Interpretation to Mankind's Life!
This is the sloka which is the last sloka of the renunciation. This talks about the combination of factors that brings liberation to an individual. Here there are two things that a person has to do. First is he needs to bring a control on his mind and intellect. Mind can be brought in control by concentrating and meditation but how to bring intellect under control? Intellect can be brought under control by changing the way we think. A person has to slowly broaden his way of thinking and should expand the scope of his thinking process as he continues to evolve spiritually.
The second aspect that he needs to focus on is he needs to built liberation as his supreme goal. Many of the sages waste a lot of time in bring themselves to accepting liberation as a goal. We all want to lead a simple life, help others. Have you ever thought why we are doing that? We dont have an answer. We think we are doing it because we like doing it. But the answer goes much beyond that. We do it because we have to be liberated. That thought many of us cannot take because liberation means losing everything and somewhere in a corner of our minds we are scared of losing everything because in a way we are still attached to some things. That feeling stops us from preparing for liberation.
Thus Lord Krishna in this chapter of renunciation talks about an important thing to end this chapter. Unless a person is not scared of liberation and fully prepares himself for liberation, he cannot attain liberation. Liberation is ever soul's ultimate goal, by postponing that we are only delaying the inevitable. If we understand that life becomes much simpler and renunciation much easier. With these thoughts we will go to the next chapter that is the Yoga of Meditation.


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This cin >> check;
takes input from the keyboard and writes it to the memory that the pointer named check is pointing at. What memory is it pointing at? Let's take a look...
Here is where the pointer is made. You are giving it no value, so it will have some random value - the random value is the location of the memory it is pointing to, so it's just pointing at some random memory somewhere. Could be anywhere.
And that's it. You never make it point to some memory. You never give this pointer a value, so when you write into the memory it points at, you are writing into some random memory somewhere. This is very, very bad. Do not write data into memory at random. If you are lucky, the random memory will be something the OS doesn't want you writing into and will segFault. If you are unlucky, it will be data that does belong to you, so the OS won't stop you and you will write over your own data.


Your vision test is complete and to your amazement, you have 20/20 vision.
In today's rating, 20/20 represents perfect vision.
But 20/20 is actually a term used for visual acuity in which the numerator refers to distance and the denominator refers to size.
20/20 vision means that you can read 20 size words from 20 feet away.
Vision is not just about what we see.
Vision equals seeing. But how we see life is bigger than having good eyesight. Yes, being able to see is vital.
But seeing life through the right focus is more vital
The age-old question; Is the glass half full or half-empty? This simple metaphor defines how we see life.
Do we see life half empty or half full? The half-empty folks live their lives with no ability to fill the glass. The half-full folks spend their lives filling their glass and the glass of others.
Wikipedia says:
"Is the glass half empty or half full?" is a common expression, a proverbial phrase, generally used rhetorically to indicate that a particular situation could be a cause for pessimism (half empty) or optimism (half full), or as a general litmus test to simply determine an individual's worldview. The purpose of the question as construed by Oliver et. al. is to demonstrate that the situation may be seen in different ways depending on one's point of view, and that there may be an opportunity in the situation as well as troubles point of view and that there may be an opportunity in the situation as well as the trouble.
How a person sees the glass determines their point of view. It is also amazing that 2 people raised in the same house under the same circumstances have different views.
— Alphonse Karr
This is a positive way to look at a not so positive reality.
Pessimist or Optimist
Optimists and pessimists are 2 sides of the same coin. They are both people. An optimist is one who looks at the brighter side of life. They are positive in all areas of life.
A pessimist looks at the negative side of life. We consider them negative. But, that is a negative view. Get it?
Neither the pessimist nor the optimist is better than the other, and we need both. Let's not concern ourselves with which is better.
We can determine how both optimists and pessimists arrive at their positions.
Both live from the way they view life. Optimists focus on positive things. An optimist focus is razor sharp and fixed on hearing, seeing, and creating a positive environment. This separates them from the pessimist.
A picture on our iPhone is proof of where we focused the phone. Whatever we focus on develops as the picture. This is true in life.
Let your eyes look straight ahead. And your eyelids look right before you. Ponder the path of your feet and let all your ways be established. Do not turn to the right or the left; Remove your foot from evil. (Proverbs 4:25–27, NKJV)
Our focus develops our future. We naturally move toward wherever we fix our focus. When focusing on the solutions, we develop a strategy to fix the problem. Focus determines the outcome.
Focusing on negatives
To focus on a negative thing is not always a bad thing. An optimist uses negatives to solve problems. An optimist consumed or focused on a negative situation will use that focus to birth change.
Some negatives are necessary
There is no reason to pretend that optimists never deal with negativity. They do. But they deal with it differently than the pessimist.
We can avoid the pessimist pitfalls.
Ayodeji Awosika said:
Life throws a lot of negativity at you. If you try to pretend, it doesn't exist and force yourself to "think positive" you will never address the root cause of your discontent in a useful way. Negative emotions are signals that something is wrong. Often, negative emotions are signaling you to act. To be better. To find a different path. Instead of ignoring negative emotions — they're not going away soon — why not use them to your advantage?
Yes. We can use negative challenges to our advantage.
"The more you choose to focus on the positive, the more positive will come into focus. The choice is yours."
― Charles F. Glassman
The goal is to view life in 2020 with 20/20 vision over life situations and expect epic outcomes.
Both the optimist and the pessimist can use their life view toward positive results.
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A needs to trigger a function in B. If app A already knows app B, then don't use signals. In this case, app A will import the needed functions from app B and make the calls directly.
When signals are useful
A good use for signals is for breaking circular dependencies between Django apps. For example, you might have app A that depends on another app B, where B also needs things from A. A signal can break that circular dependency. Another example is if you have a model of third-party apps that you have no control over, and you want to trigger a process after some event of the model. Signals are also helpful in that scenario.
url versus path
Tip: Don't define urls with regular expressions unless is neccesary.
If you search internet for help to code in Django, you'll probably find example code with the url function. And you might try to use it to solve your problem.
For an example of how the url function works, let's define a URL with this general form:
Where can be a string with any character. Whit the named function would be:
url(r'^api/v1/people/(?P[\w\-]+)/$', )
It's much easier to define the URL by using a Django dispatcher named path:
path('api/v1/people/', )
The difference between these methods is that the first one needs regular expressions. The second one has defined types that already cover the most common cases. At times, you might need to use regular expressions anyway. There's a function for that named re_path. You can learn more about URL dispatcher in the Django documentations.
Learning Django
In this blog, I shared many of the lessons I learned by programming with the Django frameworks. I also recommended good practices for developing web apps, structures, functionalities, and general programming. This information can help you improve the quality and maintainability of your code. To make things easier for you, I described some of the problems I found with these tools and provided solutions for them.
I talked first about the importance of a good structure and configuration for several environments. Then main concepts of Django related to easy ways of implementing functionalities, taking advantage of tools already implemented to solve general problems. After that, I recommended some practices for efficiency, and then APIs and packages for session management and testing. Finally I talked about things that are better to avoid, because I already faced those problems before and I would like other people could skip them while learning these tools. I still have a lot to learn about Django and Django REST framework, but I hope what I've learned so far and shared with you has been useful and interesting.
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ALIGN: A guidance tool for living wages and incomes
The The Only Way is Up! Conference marked the launch of ALIGN. ALIGN is a platform that gives access to existing resources on living wage and living income in an interactive and customised way. The portal is meant to be a guidance tool for agri-food companies aiming to reduce complexity around the topic, prioritising easy access and accountable information to build a strong understanding of living wages and income, and assessing risks in supply chains.
A needs assessment conducted by True Price in the second half of 2018 among Dutch agri-food companies, showed that in order to stimulate and facilitate action in the field of living wage/living income, agri-food companies would benefit from having access to existing knowledge, good practices and potential partners. Hence, the relevance of ALIGN as an accountable guidance tool for living wages and incomes.
The platform has two main functionalities:
- A source map where the user can access information on living wage/living income either per country or per commodity
- An action process meant to be a step-by-step guide for companies approaching the theme of living wage/living income
The tool was initially developed for a few selected countries and commodities and will expand from there. These pre-selected countries are Costa Rica, Ghana, Kenya and Ethiopia, and the pre-selected commodities are bananas, cacao, flowers and coffee.
ALIGN is the result of an ongoing partnership between Hivos, Fairfood (as part of the Living Wage Lab project) and the Rainforest Alliance, with the support of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, implemented by GIZ.


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Habitat: Although largemouths and smallmouths may live in the same rivers or lakes, they are found in different habitats. Smallmouths prefer rocky locations, more water depth and heavier current than largemouths. In Pennsylvania, smallmouth bass are found in medium to large streams and clear, deep lakes and reservoirs with a summer water temperature between 60 and 80 degrees. In lakes, they hang around downed logs, stumps, stone rubble and rock outcrops, and along the steep sides of submerged creek channels. They prefer streams with riffles flowing over gravel or boulders, where they are found in the pools, pockets behind rocks, or in the deeper moving water.
Life history: Smallmouth bass spawn in spring, May to early June, when water temperatures reach 60 to 70 degrees. The male builds the nest. The male fans a circular depression in gravel or sand with his fins. The nest is 14 to 30 inches in diameter and usually in three or four feet of water, although it may be more than 20 feet deep in clear water, as in Lake Erie. Smallmouths in lakes often move into tributary streams to spawn. Several females spawn on the same nest, adding 2,000 to 7,000 eggs per pound of body weight. Because the females spawn at different times, the eggs the male is guarding do not all hatch at the same time. Depending on water temperature, the eggs hatch in two to nine days. The young fish are ready to leave the nest five or six days after that.
In rivers and streams, flow and temperature can affect the survival of young smallmouth bass. High flows can sweep eggs and fry downriver, where they may perish. Conversely, moderate flows may lead to high fry survival. These early season events frequently lead to low or high densities of adult smallmouth bass.
Young smallmouths eat tiny crustaceans. Then they graduate to insect larvae, crayfish and fish. Smallmouths may reach 20 inches or more in length. The Pennsylvania smallmouth angling record is over eight pounds.
Species overview: The spotted bass is also called the "Kentucky" bass and is basically a southern fish. The spotted bass is uncommon in Pennsylvania, but it has been taken in the Ohio River near Pittsburgh and in the Beaver River. It is common in many Ohio River tributaries in Ohio and in the southern portion of the Mississippi watershed. Although in habitat preference and appearance it seems to be a cross between a largemouth and smallmouth bass, it is not. The spotted bass is a separate bass species. Its species name "punctulatus" means "dotted," referring to the rows of spots along its lower sides.
Identification: Spotted bass do not grow as large as either the largemouth or smallmouth bass, only to about 18 inches, and most are much smaller. The upper part of the head and back are a light to dark olive-green, its sides are silver-green and it has a whitish belly. There is a series of dark, generally diamond-shaped spots on its sides, above a splotchy dark band that runs from head to tail. Below the band are scales with dark bases that form a pattern of horizontal or small spots. The spots below the lateral band give the fish its common name. Like the smallmouth, the upper jaw in the spotted bass does not extend beyond the eye, and there are dark bands radiating backward from the eye. The eyes are reddish.
Habitat: Spotted bass prefer long, deep, silted pools in sluggish water. They can tolerate water that is more turbid than the water smallmouths prefer. In a stream, they occupy the habitat left vacant by largemouths, which like weedy coves, and smallmouths, which live in the rocky riffles.
Life history: The spotted bass spawns in early summer. Like other sunfish, the males construct the nest and guard the eggs and young fish for a time. The nests are small, not more than 15 inches in diameter. They are made over gravel or a softer bottom on the edges of pools. Young spotted bass eat zooplankton and insects, and then switch to crayfish and fishes as they mature.
Species overview: Largemouth bass were originally distributed in the Ohio River and Lake Erie watersheds in Pennsylvania. The largemouth has been established statewide in appropriate habitat. The largemouth bass is Pennsylvania's biggest sunfish. The state angling record is over 11 pounds, and the fish can grow two feet or more in length. The largest largemouths are generally females. The species name "salmoides" refers to trout ("salmo"), because the largemouth is sometimes called a "trout" in the southern United States. One nickname is "bucketmouth," which, like the common name "largemouth," is well-deserved by the fish's gaping jaw, with which it can swallow sizable prey.
Identification: Along with growing larger, the largemouth is more rotund and less flattened laterally (side to side) than other members of the sunfish family. The largemouth's head and back are a bright-green to olivegreen. Its sides are lighter green, and the belly is whitish or pale-yellow. The largemouth's upper jaw extends beyond the back edge of its eye. It has a broad black stripe or a line of broken splotches running along its side from head to tail. In the largemouth, the two sections of the dorsal fin are nearly separate.
Habitat: The largemouth bass lives throughout Pennsylvania in suitable warmwater habitat, which is usually a pond or small, weedy lake. It is also found in the shallow backwaters and coves of large lakes and in the sluggish sections of big rivers. Largemouths are almost always associated with aquatic weeds, a soft bottom or stumps and downed logs. They are rarely found over rocks or in depths of more than 20 feet.
Life history: In true sunfish style, the male largemouth fans a circular nest for spawning and aggressively defends the nest site, eggs and young fish. Largemouths spawn in spring and early summer, when water temperatures remain at 60 degrees for about three days. The typical nest is on gravel, sand or even soft mud. It is two to three feet in diameter, about six inches deep, and in one to four feet of water. Largemouths usually spawn within eight feet of a shoreline and keep their nests at least 20 feet apart.
Several largemouth bass females may spawn on one nest, each contributing 2,000 to 7,000 eggs per pound of body weight. Egg hatching takes about 10 days in 65-degree water. The young largemouths stay at the bottom of the nest for about a week, until the yolk sac is absorbed. Then they rise above the nest in a school and begin feeding. The male continues to guard them for as long as a month. Young bass feed on zooplankton, insects and small fishes, and they are cannibalistic on one another.
Frequently, spring lake conditions determine the abundance of these forage items. Thus, the abundance of these forage items also determines the abundance of young largemouth bass. The number of young largemouth bass produced each year varies according to lake conditions and ultimately leads to changes in adult largemouth bass abundance.
Adult largemouths are predators and eat mostly fish and crayfish, but they also take frogs, snakes, and even small mammals and birds, like mice and ducklings that happen onto the water's surface. Largemouth bass feed day and night.
Attention-attracting, splashy surface plugs, minnowlike lures and soft-plastic worms or other slithery imitations, snaked through the weeds, all appeal to the aggressive largemouth.
Species overview: Today the white crappie is found throughout Pennsylvania. It has been widely introduced around the United States. Biologists believe it was native to the Mississippi and Great Lakes watersheds, but not originally in Atlantic Coast watersheds. In Pennsylvania, the white crappie is less common than its cousin, the black crappie, but it is found across the state. The white crappie has a tendency sometimes to overpopulate its home waters, resulting in stunted fish. The species name "annularis" means "having rings," and probably refers to the bars on the side of the fish's body.
Identification: White crappies are wide when viewed from the side, but very compressed when observed head-on. They are olive to bright-green on the back, and silvery, with greenish or yellow hints, on the sides. The sides have about eight to 10 vertical, dark, broken bars, and other mottling. Dark spots or dark wavy lines pattern the dorsal, anal and tail fins. Males during the breeding season become darker. The white crappie is the only member of the sunfish family that has five or six spines on its dorsal fin, and a corresponding five or six spines on its anal fin. Its usual size is six to 12 inches long, but fish of 15 inches and several pounds are not uncommon. The white crappie has a large mouth, but the membrane behind the lips is thin and tears easily. This gives the fish its nickname, "papermouth."
Habitat: White crappies live in lakes, ponds and sluggish sections of streams and rivers. They tolerate, and seem to prefer, silted, turbid conditions. The fish isn't a bottom-dweller, but it does like cover, such as submerged brush, logs, stumps


O god whose only begotten son prayer
O god whose only begotten son prayer
What is the prayer after the Hail Holy Queen?
And may the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen. Hail, Holy Queen: Hail, holy Queen, Mother of mercy, our life, our sweetness, and our hope. To thee we cry, poor banished children of Eve; to thee we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears.
What is Fatima prayer in rosary?
What is the last prayer of the rosary?
Let Us Pray: O God, Whose only-begotten Son, by His life, death and resurrection, has purchased for us the rewards of eternal life, grant, we beseech You, that meditating upon these Mysteries of the Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, we may imitate what they contain, and obtain what they promise, through the same
What is today's mystery of the rosary?
Days of praying
Day of praying Standard / Traditional With the Luminous Mysteries
Monday The Joyful Mysteries The Joyful Mysteries
Tuesday The Sorrowful Mysteries The Sorrowful Mysteries
Wednesday The Glorious Mysteries The Glorious Mysteries
Thursday The Joyful Mysteries The Luminous Mysteries
What is the O My Jesus prayer?
Why do we say Hail Holy Queen?
The Hail, Holy Queen (Salve Regina) is a Catholic prayer to Mary, mother of Jesus. The origin of this prayer is unclear, but it was set in its current form at the Abbey of Cluny in the 12th century, and has been widely used in Catholic liturgy since that time. It is commonly said after the completion of the rosary.
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What are the 3 miracles of Fatima?
The three secrets of Fatima are: A vision of the souls in Hell. Prediction of the end of WWI and a prediction of the beginning of WWII as well as a request to consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. A vision of the Pope, along with other bishops, priests, religious and lay people, being killed by soldiers.
What Mary said at Fatima?
On Sept. 13, 30,000 people were present when dos Santos said the Virgin Mary told her, "In October I will perform a miracle so that all may believe." On that day, Oct. 13, 1917, the crowd of believers had swelled to 70,000.
How do I pray to Lady Fatima?
Theological Prayer My God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love You! I ask pardon of You for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love You. Meu Deus! Eu creio, adoro, espero e amo-Vos.
Why do Catholics worship Mary?
Can you pray the rosary lying down?
It doesn't matter that you are praying the Rosary while lying on bed. It is clear that, ideally, it is to pray the Holy Rosary concentrated and in a suitable place that invites PRAYER. It is a beautiful way to have Jesus and Mary as last thoughts in your mind before you sleep.
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What is the prayer before the rosary?
Prayer before the Rosary I ask it for the greater glory of God, for your own honor, and for the good of souls, especially for my own. Amen. Prayer to be said at the end of each mystery. *May the grace of this mystery come down into my soul.
Why do we say 10 Hail Marys in the rosary?
A: The ten Hail Marys are part of the evolution of the rosary. It was custom in the monastic tradition of the Middle Ages to say frequently the Psalter, i.e. 150 psalms of the Old Testament. Over time fifteen mysteries (events of Jesus' life) were retained and combined with the Hail Marys for each one of the mysteries.
What is the first mystery of the rosary?
What is the first luminous mystery of the rosary?
The Baptism of the Lord in the Jordan reveals Jesus as "Son of the Father," he is one of the Trinity. God the Father himself sheds light on the true origin of Jesus. He is the one who sends him. In turn, Jesus submits himself to the religious ritual of conversion (baptism).
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Eyelid lacerations are cuts to the eyelid caused by trauma. Your child's health care provider will examine the eye closely to make sure there is no damage to the eye itself. An ophthalmologist (doctor who specializes in comprehensive eye care) may also examine your child for further evaluation of the eye.
Specific treatment for eyelid lacerations will be determined by your child's health care provider based on:
- Your child's age, overall health, and medical history
- Extent of the injury
- Your child's tolerance for specific medications, procedures, or therapies
- Expectations for the course of the injury
- Your opinion or preference
Treatment may include:
- If the laceration is simple, as determined by your child's health care provider, the cut will be sutured (stitched). Local anesthetic drops may be placed in the eye and injected into the tissue prior to the suturing. The sutures will usually be taken out five to seven days after the injury.
- Sedation or general anesthesia may be needed for younger, uncooperative children.
- For larger lacerations, or if there is any involvement of the eye, an ophthalmologist may be consulted to evaluate and treat the wound.
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Orchestrator Quick Tip: What's the Maximum Size of Parameters?
I see this question on internal discussions list every now and then, so I thought I'd answer it here to be helpful.
The question was:
Is there a maximum length for string parameters in the Initialize Data activity?
And if the answer is "yes" – what would the maximum length for string parameters be?
Let me answer the question by showing you the various points where data transfer occurs and the limitations applied at each point.
The maximum size for any data being passed along the databus is 2GB. This is because the OBJECTINSTANCEDATA table stores the value in a field sized to nvarchar(max). Of course, I would never recommend that you try to use 2GB strings as parameters to anything since the performance is likely to suffer quite a bit.
That said, the individual activities may impose smaller field sizes than this maximum. For instance, when you use an "Initialize Data" activity to start a runbook, and the runbook is started either via the Orchestration console or the web service, Initialize Data doesn't impose any size limits, so you could allow up to 2GB per property value. However, if you use the "Invoke Runbook" activity to start the same runbook, the "Invoke Runbook" activity imposes a limit of 2000 characters on any parameter value. Likewise, the "Write to Web Page" activity imposes a 2000 character limit on most properties, except the "Text" property allows the maximum amount, while the "Write to Database" activity limits most properties to 500 characters, while allowing 4000 characters for the database query data.
One special note about activities created using the Integration Toolkit. All of these activities are generic and are stored in the QIKOBJECT table. For these activities, all of the properties are stored in XML format in a single field named ExecutionData, which is an ntext field. According to MSDN, an ntext field can store 2^30 – 1 (1,073,741,823) characters, or 1GB. So keep that in mind when creating or using Toolkit-based activities… don't go creating activities that have multiple properties that will store huge amounts of data because the combined set of properties (plus the XML surrounding them) can't be over 1GB.
These size limits are not meant to be restrictive, but to help ensure reasonable size growth in the database. Most of the time, the data you use is Published Data which is essentially an internal hyperlink to the data from a previous activity. It doesn't copy the data over and over, replicating a bunch of wasted space along the way. In this case, the text length is actually short, even though the data behind it could be huge because each activity (Initialize Data included) could have that 2GB value availability. Then again, this is really only what is stored in the database. If you choose not to save any activity-specific published data (set via the runbook properties page), then this info is saved only during runbook execution and then discarded, so it doesn't end up bloating your database.
So the answer for the general question of "how big can parameters be?" is … "it dedends". It depends on the individual settings (field sizes in the DB) for each activity, but generally it can be as high as 2GB.


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Family: Regulidae (Kinglets and firecrests)
Authority: (Linnaeus, 1758)
Red List Category
for more information about the Red List categories and criteria
Justification of Red List category
This species has an extremely large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (extent of occurrence <20,000 km2
combined with a declining or fluctuating range size, habitat extent/quality, or population size and a small number of locations or severe fragmentation). Despite the fact that the population trend appears to be decreasing, the decline is not believed to be sufficiently rapid to approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population trend criterion (>30% decline over ten years or three generations). The population size is extremely large, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population size criterion (<10,000 mature individuals with a continuing decline estimated to be >10% in ten years or three generations, or with a specified population structure). For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern.
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Modernism in "A Lost Lady" vs "Passing".
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The essence of a person lingers in one's memory even long after that person has gone away. In the two modernist novels, A Lost Lady and Passing, the authors were both concerned with that indispensable property that characterizes a person rather than their reality. Larsen and Cather tell the story of women who existed in literature primarily as an incorporeal being. By using the non-traditional topics that classify realist literature, each author builds a woman's essence around the issues of sexuality, race, gender and class. I feel that Willa Cather uses this approach to realism best to carry out the notion of "essence" in her novel. Skaggs paints out that Cather said while creating Marian Forrester in A Lost Lady she "didn't want to make a character study, but just a portrait like a thin miniature painted on ivory. A character study of Mrs. Forrester would have been very, very different."
(Skaggs, pg. 45) Cather keeps the angle the reader sees of Mrs. Forrester strictly from the outside. The reader sees her primarily from Niel, who wants so badly to know the real Marian. The same technique is used by Larsen in Passing, to create an essence for Clare. Except that, Irene, the outside narrator, doesn't want to know Clare. She distorts the image of Clare and misrepresents her true nature.
The issue of gender and sexuality is the most prominent in Cather's novel. When the reader first hears about Marian Forrester, it is from a man's point of view. Skaggs observes that Marian is placed in a male dominant society; "The novel arranges several men around Marian Forrester and uses them to characterize the social attitudes this subject is most likely to provoke. They walk around her and provide angles of vision, as around the famous jus...


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acrylic (not comparable)
derived from acrylic acid or acrylonitrile
containing an acrylic resin
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.
acrylic (plural acrylics)
- (organic chemistry) An acrylic resin.
- A paint containing an acrylic resin.
- When it comes to painting, I prefer using acrylics as my medium.
- A painting executed using such a paint.
- A thick sheet of plastic.
- A liquid coating system based on an acrylic resin
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American Foreign Affairs & America as World Power Themes
WASAH teacher lesson plans and work products exploring American foreign affairs, wars and the impact of those events on the concept of 'freedom.'
- Mike Ceman - Overthrow in Iran & Unintended Consequences (Year 1)
- Kaukauna High School teacher Mike Ceman's lesson unit project will help his 11th grade history students to explore the nature of America's interests and intentions behind it's activities in the overthrow of nationalist leaders in Iran after WW II and more recently in Iraq. Were these instances of America promoting it's own national interests? Supporting its own freedom? The freedom of citizens in those countries? Is there a difference?


Chemical Operator Ii Job
Chemical Operator Ii Job
CHEMICAL OPERATOR II JOB will do the fallowing jobs / work – 1. Tends equipment units or semiautomatic system that processes chemical substances into industrial or consumer products, such as detergents, emulsifiers, salts, bleaching agents, acids, and synthetic resins: Dumps specified amounts of solid materials into heating vessels or blending tanks; and turns valves to feed liquid and gaseous materials through equipment units, or sets controls in specified sequence on control panel to start automatic feed. 2. Turns valves or moves controls to maintain system at specified temperature, pressure, and vacuum levels. 3. Observes chemical reactions; monitors gauges, signals, and recorders; and receives notification from control laboratory, supervisor, or other workers to make specified operating adjustments. 4. Draws samples of products for laboratory analysis. 5. Maintains log of gauge readings and shift production. 6. May perform chemical tests on product to ensure conformance with specifications, using standard test equipment, materials, and procedure. 7. May be designated according to substance processed as Low-Chloride Soda Operator; Salt-Plant Operator; Sodium-Methylate Operator; equipment tended as Styrene-Dehydration-Reactor Operator; Tower Operator II; or reaction produced as Emulsification Operator; Precipitation Equipment Tender.
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 scanw, wscanw, mvscanw, mvwscanw, vwscanw, vw_scanw - convert formatted input from a curses window
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 int scanw(char *fmt,...);
 The scanw, wscanw and mvscanw routines are analogous to
 scanf [see scanf(3S)]. The effect of these routines is as
 though wgetstr were called on the window, and the resulting line used as input for sscanf(3). Fields which do not
 map to a variable in the fmt field are lost.
 The vwscanw and vw_scanw routines are analogous to vscanf.
 They perform a wscanw using a variable argument list. The
 third argument is a va_list, a pointer to a list of arguments, as defined in .
 vwscanw returns ERR on failure and an integer equal to the
 number of fields scanned on success.
 Applications may use the return value from the scanw,
 wscanw, mvscanw and mvwscanw routines to determine the
 number of fields which were mapped in the call.
 The XSI Curses standard, Issue 4 describes these functions. The function vwscanw is marked TO BE WITHDRAWN,
 and is to be replaced by a function vw_scanw using the
 interface. The Single Unix Specification, Version 2 states that vw_scanw is preferred to vwscanw since
 the latter requires including , which cannot be
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 uses for both, because that header is included
 in .
 Both XSI and The Single Unix Specification, Version 2
 state that these functions return ERR or OK. Since the
 underlying scanf can return the number of items scanned,
 and the SVr4 code was documented to use this feature, this
 is probably an editing error which was introduced in XSI,
 rather than being done intentionally. Portable applications should only test if the return value is ERR, since
 the OK value (zero) is likely to be misleading. One possible way to get useful results would be to use a "%n"
 conversion at the end of the format string to ensure that
 something was processed.
 curses(3x), curs_getstr(3x), curs_printw(3x), scanf(3S)
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The wiki on COM explains, among many other things, that COM (Component Object Model) is an older Microsoft techonology that encompasses OLE, OLE Automation, ActiveX, COM+ and DCOM. Microsoft.NET is not based on COM, but for the most part it supports it seamlessly. Scriptom lets you easily integrate these technologies into your Java/Groovy project.
Despite the fact that Visual Basic versions up through 6 were abstractions on top of COM, it's not at all simple. I won't go into the details here (the wiki does a better job than I could at explaining it all). The important point to remember is that COM is fundamentally a C/C++ based technology that was developed using pre-Java ideas of object orientation. To be specific, C/C++ apps are generally responsible for cleaning up allocated memory, and the COM threading models differ somewhat from Java.
Because C++/COM and Java aren't quite compatible, it is possible to get Scriptom to randomly crash your JVM (core-dump), use up all available memory, peg the CPU at 100% for hours on end, or prevent your Java process from exiting. If you use it correctly, though, you'll find that Scriptom is rock-solid stable.
This article is going to explain, in very simple terms, some of the differences between COM and Java, and how to deal with the issues they present in the simplest way possible.
Apartment Threads for Absolute Beginners
Sorry about this, but you have to manage COM thread apartment contexts. The good news is that this is not nearly as onerous as it sounds. You can do this using Jacob directly (giving you a lot of flexibility). Of course, this article is about the simple, safe ways to use Scriptom, so we'll leave the advanced Jacob topics for another.
Scriptom provides an even simpler and safer way that handles 95% of the cases you are likely to run into. It also tends to produce the most stable applications, making it ideal for use on the server side. All you have to do is wrap your code in a Groovy closure, like this:
When you wrap your Scriptom code using.inApartment, the thread apartment is initialized if needed, and all COM resources are released when you are done. You can do this over and over again in a thread, and you can also nest calls to.inApartment, allowing you to use it safely with other code (this addresses an issue with Jacob). You'll see this pattern time and time again in our examples and test code.
The main side-effect of this is that you have to define all your ActiveXObjects within the apartment scope (the closure). In case that doesn't work for your purposes, you can freely use Jacob to manage your COM thread contexts. However, you can't safely mix and match the Scriptom thread management with Jacob calls in the same thread.
It's NOT a Memory Leak!
It should come as no surprise that COM strings, numbers, and objects are not interchangable with Java strings, numbers, and objects (though Scriptom does a pretty good job of making them look as if they are). Every time we exchange data with a COM library, the Java data-type needs to be converted to and from a form that is suitable for COM. That form just happens to be Microsoft's (pseudo) universal data type: the Variant. Without going too deeply into the murky details, a Variant can store various forms of numbers, strings, and objects. You don't normally need to worry about this because Scriptom handles all the conversion details for you.
What you need to know about Variants is that they can't be completely reclaimed by standard Java garbage collection. There is a little "residue" that Jacob has to hold on to even after you are finished using the Variant. This is necessary to prevent random JVM crashes (it's a C/C++/JNI thing). Over a large number of calls, this residue can fill all the memory on your server.
Don't panic! It isn't a memory leak. When you exit the.inApartment closure, the COM context is released and all the memory is reclaimed.
There is one more thing you should be aware of. The clean-up process gets much slower if you make a very large number (millions) of COM calls before cleaning up. So for a long running thread, you are better off breaking up the apartment contexts rather than having one context for the whole thread.
In short:
 - Use an.inApartment closure around your COM code (more specifically, any code that uses ActiveXObject).
 - Break.inApartment closures into reasonably-sized chunks.
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A simple, yet efficient, method to create a shortcut on a desktop is to right-click an empty space on the desktop, point the mouse to New, and click Create Shortcut. Click Browse, and choose the shortcut destination.
- Right-click on an empty part of the desktop
To initiate the process, right-click on an empty part of the desktop to show multiple desktop functions.
- Point the mouse to New
To reveal the option to create a shortcut, hover your mouse on New.
- Click on Create Shortcut
While hovering your mouse on new, click on the option that says Create Shortcut.
- Click Browse
Click on Browse, which brings up your computer directory.
- Search for the shortcut destination
Browse your computer directory to find the program or file that you want your shortcut to open.
- Select the program or file
Click the program or file, then press Open.
- Press Next
Verify that the selected program is the desired destination for your shortcut, then press Next.
- Finalize the shortcut
Type the desired name for the shortcut. Depending on the operating system, click on either Finish or Next. If the Next option appears, proceed to the next screen to select an icon for the shortcut. Once the desired icon is selected, click on Finish.


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MPS issue job004067
TitleTelemetry interacts poorly with fork
Assigned userGareth Rees
DescriptionForking a process that's outputting telemetry has these problems:
1. The parent and child continue to use the same file handle, and so their telemetry output will be mixed into the same file.
2. At the point where the fork happens, there may be logged events in the telemetry buffers; these get output by both the parent and child after the fork even though they only happened in the parent.
3. Clock values (in EventClockSync events) go back to zero in the child process (see job004098).
Analysis1. Close the telemetry file in the child and open a new one. We could deduplicate these by using the process id in some way, but beware process id wrap-around.
2. Call EventSync in the prepare handler so that the buffers are empty at the point where fork happens.
How foundinspection
Created byGareth Rees
Created on2018-06-14 12:25:55
Last modified byGareth Rees
Last modified on2018-07-23 14:18:55
History2018-06-14 GDR Created.


Q. Why is the bracha on the amida of Atta Chonen, on which we pray for wisdom and understanding, be said before the bracha of Hashivenu Letoratecha or returning and keeping the Torah? Should not the observance of the Torah and mitzvos have priority?
A. Talmud (Megila 17b) explains the reason why the brocho on teshuva follows the one on wisdom, based on the posuk (Yeshayahu 6: 10) "And his heart will understand, and then he will repent and be healed." As Rashi explains "They will understand with their heart, and return to Me, and this will be their cure."
Wisdom will grant a person the will, humbleness and opportunity to do teshuva and also will direct him on the way to follow. (See Mishna Berura 115: 1).
It is also the power and holiness inherent in Torah learning that will prompt and bring a person to do teshuva.
Our sages teach in regard to why havdalah is recited on Shabbos end, in this particular brocho, because if "ein daas, havdoloh minain," without wisdom you cannot recognize and tell the difference between Shabbos and weekdays. The same principle is essential in performing teshuva.
It is interesting to note that of all the middle blessings, the only one that begins with a praise to Hashem first is "atta chonen." All others start with a supplication.
The reason may well be that in order to be successful when using our wisdom and understanding, is when we know and appreciate that it is a gift from Hashem, and only when it follows His will, it has meaning, future and opportunity.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld


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library is a graphics library that outputs text instead of pixels, so that it
can work on older video cards or text terminals. It is not unlike the famous
libcaca needs a terminal to work, thus
it should work on all Unix systems (including Mac OS X) using either the
slang library or the
ncurses library, on DOS using the
conio.h library, and on Windows systems
ncurses (through Cygwin emulation) or
libcaca, the caca libvo driver
will be built.
The differences with
16 available colors for character output (256 color pairs)
color image dithering
libcaca also has the
no support for brightness, contrast, gamma
You can use some keys in the caca window to change rendering options:
libcaca will also look for
certain environment variables:
Set recommended caca driver. e.g. ncurses, slang, x11.
Specifies the number of rows and columns. e.g. 128x50.
Specifies the font to use. e.g. fixed, nexus.
Use the -framedrop option if your computer is not fast enough to render all frames.


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Reaching the Clean Mobility Tipping Point
By May 11, 2021Blog
Reaching the Clean Mobility Tipping Point
If you're hiking up to a summit, the journey back down is much easier. Imagine a day when school districts and companies are not as intent on lowering emissions in their communities or in meeting budgets while battling rising fuel costs. A day when people are breathing easier (literally) as well.
As we transition more vehicles to advanced, clean transportation solutions, such as propane autogas and electric vehicles, reaching the summit, or tipping point, becomes more attainable. Using domestic energy sources that offer environmental and financial sustainability while creating new jobs really sweetens the deal.
While the benefits should speak for themselves, think of a day where instead of explaining these "new" fuel technologies, we are reminiscing about the yesteryears of dirty soot coming out of tailpipes. After all, there are already 20,000+ clean-operating propane school buses in over 1,000 districts in the U.S. — hopefully one day, sooner than later, schoolkids will be accustomed to the quieter, cleaner rides of these vehicles, rather than today's oil-based options.
Organizations mentioned in this newsletter are doing their part in getting us closer to that tipping point. One in Michigan plans to get their entire fleet running on propane. Another, in Pennsylvania, has cut millions of pounds of CO2, while corporations are also adopting more and more clean mobility solutions.
There are more than 37,000 vehicles equipped with ROUSH CleanTech technology on the road today, with well over 1 billion miles of data backing up their viability and reliability.
However, to make a more significant impact, we need to ask what more can we do, and what advanced clean fuel solutions can work in our fleets. Alternative fuels can also save money over conventional fuels, which should help to reach the tipping point. Let's consider that cutting emissions, a cleaner and quieter ride, and saving money will make for a more leisurely stroll back down the mountain.
Give us a call today at 800.59.ROUSH. We can help you reach the summit in your journey to alternative fuel adoption.
Enjoy the warmer and sunnier days ahead!