an error only if it can't find ls in any of those directories. This is also great for multiplatform support -- your program doesn't have to be coded to know about the different CPU names, it just finds the executable.
What if you do something like this?
Does it search the environment? No. You told execlp() to use an explicit pathname, which overrides the normal PATH searching rule. If it doesn't find ls in /bin that's it, no other attempts are made (this is identical to the way execl() works in this case).
Is it dangerous to mix an explicit path with a plain command name (e.g., the path argument /bin/ls, and the command name argument ls, instead of /bin/ls)? This is usually pretty safe, because:
The only compelling reason for specifying the full pathname for the first argument is that the program can print out diagnostics including this first argument, which can instantly tell you where the program was invoked from. This may be important when the program can be found in multiple locations along the PATH.
The spawn() functions all have an extra parameter; in all the above examples, I've always specified P_WAIT. There are four flags you can pass to spawn() to change its behavior:
The calling process (your program) is blocked until the newly created program has run to completion and exited.
The calling program doesn't block while the newly created program runs. This allows you to start a program in the background, and continue running while the other program does its thing.
Identical to P_NOWAIT, except that the SPAWN_NOZOMBIE flag is set, meaning that you don't have to worry about doing a waitpid() to clear the process's exit code.
This flag turns the spawn() call into the corresponding exec() call! Your program transforms into the specified program, with no change in process ID.
It's generally clearer to use the exec() call if that's what you meant -- it saves the maintainer of the software from having to look up P_OVERLAY in the C Library Reference!
"plain" spawn()
As we mentioned above, all spawn() functions eventually call the plain spawn() function. Here's the prototype for the spawn() function:
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 int fd_count,
 const int fd_map [],
 const struct inheritance *inherit,
 char * const argv [],
 char * const envp []);
We can immediately dispense with the path, argv, and envp parameters -- we've already seen those above as representing the location of the executable (the path member), the argument vector (argv), and the environment (envp).
The fd_count and fd_map parameters go together. If you specify zero for fd_count, then fd_map is ignored, and it means that all file descriptors (except those modified by fcntl()'s FD_CLOEXEC flag) will be inherited in the newly created process. If the fd_count is non-zero, then it indicates the number of file descriptors contained in fd_map; only the specified ones will be inherited.
The inherit parameter is a pointer to a structure that contains a set of flags, signal masks, and so on. For more details, you should consult the Neutrino Library Reference.
Starting a process with the fork() call
Suppose you want to create a new process that's identical to the currently running process and have it run concurrently. You could approach this with a spawn() (and the P_NOWAIT parameter), giving the newly created process enough information about the exact state of your process so it could set itself up. However, this can be extremely complicated; describing the "current state" of the process can involve lots of data.
There is an easier way -- the fork() function, which duplicates the current process. All the code is the same, and the data is the same as the creating (or parent) process's data.
Of course, it's impossible to create a process that's identical in every way to the parent process. Why? The most obvious difference between these two processes is going to be the process ID -- we can't create two processes with the same process ID. If you look at fork()'s documentation in the Neutrino Library Reference, you'll see that there is a list of differences between the two processes. You should read this list to be sure that you know these differences if you plan to use fork().
If both sides of a fork() look alike, how do you tell them apart? When you call fork(), you create another process executing the same code at the same location (i.e., both are about to return from the fork() call) as the parent process. Let's look at some sample code:
int main (int argc, char **argv)
 int retval;
 printf ("This is most definitely the parent process\n");
 fflush (stdout);
 retval = fork ();
 printf ("Which process printed this?\n");
 return (EXIT_SUCCESS);
After the fork() call, both processes are going to execute the second printf() call! If you run this program, it prints something like this:
This is most definitely the parent process
Which process printed this?
Which process printed this?
Both processes print the second line.
The only way to tell the two processes apart is the fork() return value in retval. In the newly created child process, retval is zero; in the parent process, retval is the child's process ID.
Clear as mud? Here's another code snippet to clarify:
printf ("The parent is pid %d\n", getpid ());
fflush (stdout);
if (child_pid = fork ()) {
 printf ("This is the parent, child pid is %d\n",
} else {
 printf ("This is the child, pid is %d\n",
 getpid ());
This program will print something like:
The parent is pid 4496
This is the parent, child pid is 8197
This is the child, pid is 8197
You can tell which process you are (the parent or the child) after the fork() by looking at fork()'s return value.
Starting a process with the vfork() call
The vfork() function can be a lot less resource intensive than the plain fork(), because it shares the parent's address space.
The vfork() function creates a child, but then suspends the parent thread until the child calls exec() or exits (via exit() and friends). Additionally, vfork() will work on physical memory model systems, whereas fork() can't -- fork() needs to create the same address space, which just isn't possible in a physical memory model.
Process creation and threads
Suppose you have a process and you haven't created any threads yet (i.e., you're running with one thread, the one that called main()). When you call fork(), another process is created, also with one thread. This is the simple case.
Now suppose that in your process, you've called pthread_create() to create another thread. When you call fork(), it will now return ENOSYS (meaning that the function is not supported)! Why?
Well, believe it or not, this is POSIX compatible -- POSIX says that fork() can return ENOSYS. What actually happens is this: the Neutrino C library isn't built to handle the forking of a process with threads. When you call pthread_create(), the pthread_create() function sets a flag, effectively saying, "Don't let this process fork(), because I'm not prepared to handle it." Then, in the library fork() function, this flag is checked, and, if set, causes fork() to return ENOSYS.
The reason this is intentionally done has to do with threads and mutexes. If this restriction weren't in place (and it may be lifted in a future release) the newly created process would have the same number of threads as the original process. This is what you'd expect. However, the complication occurs because some of the original threads may own mutexes. Since the newly created process has the identical contents of the data space of the original process, the library would have to keep track of which mutexes were owned by which threads in the original process, and then duplicate that ownership in the new process. This isn't impossible -- there's a function called pthread_atfork() that allows a process to deal with this; however, the functionality of calling pthread_atfork() isn't being used by all the mutexes in the Neutrino C library as of this writing.
So what should you use?
Obviously, if you're porting existing code, you'll want to use whatever the existing code uses. For new code, you should avoid fork() if at all possible. Here's why:
The choice between vfork() and the spawn() family boils down to portability, and what you want the child and parent to be doing. The vfork() function will pause until the child calls exec() or exits, whereas the spawn() family of functions can allow both to run concurrently. The vfork() function, however, is subtly different between operating systems.
Starting a thread
Now that we've seen how to start another process, let's see how to start another thread.
Any thread can create another thread in the same process; there are no restrictions (short of memory space, of course!). The most common way of doing this is via the POSIX pthread_create() call:
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pthread_create (pthread_t *thread,
 const pthread_attr_t *attr,
 void *(*start_routine) (void *),
 void *arg);
The pthread_create() function takes four arguments:
a pointer to a pthread_t where the thread ID is stored
an attributes structure
the routine where the thread begins
an argument passed to the thread's


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Artist Statement - Poppy Transitory (2016)
Artist Statement - Poppy Transitory
Poppy Transitory investigates the sincere absurdity of processing loss with decorative memorials, themselves transitory tokens of grief. Based in a fiercely personal, yet oddly abstract pain, the series considers the story-infused space of mourning—colorful, obsessive layers behave like memory extracts.
Conflating the mysterious Mojave Desert deaths of my sister Cindy Adams (1972) and musician Gram Parsons (1973), I ask what it means to "know" someone through location-tied story; to "understand" events via embellished clues, just as I "knew" both individuals through family narrative. What does it mean to assuage loss through well-meaning transference? Do gifts for the dead resolve our perplexity?
To engage this, I use transparent layers to suggest recalled memory, story cycles, and the deluge of tokens posthumously offered to Cindy and Gram. I deconstruct and reframe the language of the Mojave Desert, the visual vocabulary of memorial shrines, and personal iconography from Cindy and Gram's clothing, whirling them into a sensitive system of overlaid shapes. The desert they loved represents and consumes them.
Aware of its own artificiality, the work earnestly embraces our candy-colored attempts to mediate the space of grief with flowers, cards, and condolences—the physical trappings of a cultural process of mourning, often our only recourse in grappling with the unexplained. Poppy Transitory is itself a fragile, momentary monument to the passage of imprints, the trace of Cindy and Gram, and to our moment, an undeniable passage of its own.

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Before publishing your tour, you'll need to test it. Testing your tour is an important step in the process as it allows us to pick up on issues, and this saves you from re-recording sections of your tour later on. This is why we test the tour before you start recording the audio for your tour.
Once the script has been edited, we'll add dummy audio to your tour for you so that you can experience your tour like any other user would. We use a fairly realistic robotic voice and provide you with a test walk report sheet. We'll also provide you with a coupon code so that you can test your tour with family and friends. When you walk the route, pay attention to three things:
 1. The directions: If the directions aren't clear, or they're too long this can confuse the listener and can cause them to get lost. Directions need to be as clear and simple as possible.
 2. How long the audio plays: If the audio for one location is still playing when another location's audio is supposed to start, then the audio in the other location won't trigger and start playing. In this case, you'll need to cut some of it or change the instructions you give to listeners. This generally doesn't require a new recording, because you can edit parts of the existing audio out.
 3. Where the audio starts: A track can start too early, too later or it might not play at all. If it starts too early or too late, ask your editor to move the location. Try to be specific, by suggesting that the location is moved ten metres forward or five metres to the left, for example, or to a particular landmark. A track might not play at all if it wasn't triggered due to the length of the previous track. If the length wasn't an issue and the track simply isn't playing, we'll then need to troubleshoot this.
You can also test the tour once all your recorded audio has been submitted and uploaded to the tour. You can do this by logging into VoiceMap's mobile apps using the same account you are using to create the route. Your unpublished walk will be listed along with all the others in your city, but will only be visible to you. This is usually the final test we run before publishing the tour. It allows us to pick up on any minor issues that may have been missed before hand and it's also a great way for you to experience your tour like any other user.
Troubleshooting #
While testing you might run into the following issues:
 - Some locations aren't playing audio at all
 - Some tracks aren't starting when/where they should
 - You receive our Lost Warning
In most cases, we can determine what the issue is if you send us a screen recording of what is happening in the app while you're out testing the tour. Most new phones have a built in screen recorder and you'll find it in the pull-down menu at the top of your screen. If you're unsure if your phone has one, a quick google search using your phone's model will determine if you have one or not. If you don't have one, there are plenty of screen recording apps for Android and iOS that you can install such as AZ Screen Recorder for Android and Record it! for iOS.
When recording your screen, please turn the volume up and make sure you've turned off VoiceMap's pocket mode as this will help us see the screen. You won't need to send us a recording of the entire tour, just the section that is problematic. You can also send us screenshots of what is happening on the screen but this is usually less effective in helping us determine what is causing the problem.
Some locations aren't playing audio
If this occurs, the first step is to determine whether the track before is still playing when you reach the trigger for the problematic track. You can figure this out while on the test walk. If you're in the trigger zone for the next track and the previous track is still playing, then it is too long. If you're unsure, you can ask your editor to check if the track before the problematic one is over the word count. If it is the length of the previous track is the problem, you can always remove a few sentences or get the listener to stop.
If the length of the previous track isn't the problem, then try listening to the tour at home in continuous playback mode. To do this, simply go to the start screen but instead of pressing Start Tour, select Continuous Play. You can then skip to the track before the problematic one and see if any audio plays. If audio does play, then please record your screen while out testing the walk. If no audio plays, let your editor know and they will check that the audio has been uploaded correctly.
Some tracks aren't starting when/where they should
The GPS tracking is accurate up to the size of the location marker. This means that it won't always start exactly where you want it to and where it starts can differ from device to device. If a track is playing a few meters too early or too late, it is best to ask yourself whether it affects the narration. In most cases, a couple of meters won't affect the narration. If it does affect the narration, then ask your editor to move the location marker 10 metres forward, 30 metres backwards or 5 metres to the left.
Tall buildings and narrow streets can also interfere with the GPS signal which can cause a delay in the audio playing. You can determine whether there is GPS interference by looking at the map on your screen when you're testing the walk. If the blue dot is bouncing around the screen, is lagging or where it is doesn't correspond with where you are, then the likelihood is that there was an issue with the GPS. In this case, it's best to record your screen and send your editor the recording. We'll then enlarge the trigger zone and potentially move the location marker slightly.
You receive our Lost Warning
Our Lost Warning is an audio notification letting the listener know that they've gone off track and are no longer following the route line. It should only play when they've gone off track but sometimes due to GPS interference, it can play even when they're following the route line perfectly. GPS interference can be caused by tall buildings, narrow streets or bad weather.
If, while testing the tour, you hear our Lost Warning then look at the map on your screen to determine whether where the blue dot is corresponds with your current location. If it doesn't correspond and it's a block or two from your actual location, then you're probably hearing our Lost Warning because of GPS interference. Send your editor a screen recording and a detailed description of what occurred as this will help us determine the best cause of action.
In some cases, we may determine that the best cause of action is to disable the Lost Warning. We'll usually do this for tours that go through tunnels or follow a narrow, walled pathway that only goes in one direction.


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Melbourne: If reading and re-reading text was still not enough for you to remember it during exams, researchers have devised a new font to help make the process bit more reliable.
Researchers at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) have developed a new font which tricks the human brain into using deeper cognitive processing to remember the text written in it.
As Cnet reports, the font, ironically called Sans Forgetica, is a sans serif style typeface which slants to the left, an usual design principle in typography, and has holes in it.
The unusual features are exactly what make the font use cognitive psychology and make one better remember the text written in it. The psychological learning principle is known as 'desirable difficulty' making the obstruction (holes) work towards better memory retention.


You hear a lot of talk in the media about mindfulness, and the tea ceremony is a mindfulness practice. Participating in a tea ceremony is a way to slow down and focus in the moment you are given. Since most of us live in fast-paced urban environments, we often take nature for granted. The tea ceremony allows us to slow down, focus on our intentions, and connect with the spirit of the earth.
Starting your own tea practice is very simple and you don't need much. Begin with reliable organic tea and clay cups or bowls that are non-toxic and pleasing to you.
You will need:
Organic tea
A teakettle
A nontoxic clay teapot
Nontoxic clay teacups
Spring water
An offering (like a flower in a vase) that helps to decorate the space for the ceremony
To prepare the tea:
Heat the water in a traditional teakettle until it is just about to boil, the transfer it to the teapot that you will use for the ceremony.
Put a few tea leaves in each cup/bowl, and watch them unfurl when you pour in the hot water. As with every practice, preparing tea becomes a ritual when you bring in mindfulness and intention. As the tea blossoms, really take in the history of what you are drinking. Sit outside if you can, and empty your mind of everything else by paying attention to what is a round you: the sounds of nature, the feel of the warm cup in your hand, and the taste of the tea on your tongue. Sip in silence. When you are done, make an offering to tea and the earth by tossing your leaves on the ground, rather than in the trash.
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The Basic Data: Haubstadt, Indiana
Haubstadt, IN is found in Gibson county, andHaubstadt, IN is found in Gibson county, and has a populace of 1697, and exists within the higher metropolitan region. The median age is 35.2, with 16.2% for the community under ten many years of age, 10.6% between ten-19 several years of age, 13.1% of residents in their 20's, 15.7% in their thirties, 10.2% in their 40's, 12% in their 50's, 10.5% in their 60's, 7.5% in their 70's, and 4.4% age 80 or older. 50.6% of residents are men, 49.4% women. 63.1% of residents are recorded as married married, with 8.5% divorced and 21.1% never wedded. The % of citizens confirmed as widowed is 7.4%.
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Water Garden Characteristics You need to realize that all water landscapes have the same characteristics, regardless of whether they are ponds or lakes. Even if there isn't a waterfall, you can still hear water trickling. A pond or water garden can often be a point that is focal the area, and help to calm your brain. The sound of flowing water is background music, but noise that is also white. While you are out of the water, there is no real method to hear next-door neighbors or cars. You can choose from many things to relax in the water gardens. You could find a waterfall, a fountain or intricate rockwork in water gardens. Many of these gardens are lit at night so that you can visit the lake. Amazing scents are made by the water gardens. There are many different smells to the pond, depending on which blooms you choose. Even the creatures like the Koi don't smell always. Water gardens can make everything flow. A pond in your backyard is a great idea. Most people choose to have a pond in their backyard. However, water gardens can either be installed inside or outside the house. You will enjoy tranquil sounds and also see animals and plants. A pond can also produce water smells and flowers. People use liquid gardens that have actually a lagoon to relax and reduce blood circulation pressure. The right can be chosen by you goods to create your paradise. It may be that the pond becomes your sanctuary after it has been constructed. It really is a great option for people who live hectic lives. The pond can be visited for short or distances that are long. You can even invest more time at the pond if your not working. It is possible to meditate, think, and enjoy the beauty of nature. This is certainly a result of the unique characteristics for the pond.
The average family size in Haubstadt, IN is 3.03 residential members, with 82.5% owning their own domiciles. The mean home value is $168550. For people leasing, they pay on average $647 monthly. 63.3% of homes have dual sources of income, and an average domestic income of $71477. Average individual income is $37401. 4.7% of residents live at or beneath the poverty line, and 12.7% are disabled. 4.9% of citizens are veterans for the military.


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From A Wiki of Ice and Fire
A food taster is a person tasked with ingesting food or drinks that have been prepared for someone else, to confirm they are safe to eat or drink and devoid of poisons.
Known food tasters
- Ummet, for King Aegon II Targaryen
- Gaemon Palehair, for King Aegon III Targaryen
- King Aerys II Targaryen's food taster, who was forced to suckle at the teats of Prince Viserys's wet nurse before he could be fed.
- Ser Boros Blount, for King Tommen I Baratheon
I begged Lord Arryn to use a taster, in this very room I begged him, but he would not hear of it. Only one who was less than a man would even think of such a thing, he told me.—Varys, to Eddard Stark
- ↑ Fire & Blood, The Dying of the Dragons—The Short, Sad Reign of Aegon II.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Aegon II.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 67, Jaime VIII.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 30, Eddard VII.


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Welcome back for Part Two of Quantum Physics, Essential Oils & the Mind-Body Connection! We're doing SCIENCE! and I LOVE IT!!
Today continues a five part series based on Dr David Stewart's article from The Raindrop Messenger.
Part Two gives a brief history and overview of the difference between Classical and Quantum Physics.
In our last post, we looked at the chemistry of oils and learned how each essential oil is made up of hundreds if not thousands of compounds, most of which have not even been identified! We also learned about how essential oils exists as both matter and energy. Today we will learn some basics of classical and quantum physics! –DT
Quantum Physics 101
Now, let's talk about quantum physics and show how essential oils employ the laws of both chemistry and modern physics, not just chemistry.
As a science, there are two fundamental forms of physics. There is "Classical physics" and there is "Quantum physics." Both are necessary to describe the world around us and the ways in which essential oils work. The principal laws of classical physics were first articulated by Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727). Classical physics has to do with things large enough to experience or measure with our five senses. Classical physics provides the laws by which engineers can build bridges across rivers, design cars to ride in, and send rockets into outer space. Classical physics deals with phenomena involving dimensions the size of an atom or larger. The principles of quantum physics were first articulated at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th by men such as Max Planck (1858–1947), Erwin Schroedinger (_PHONE_), and Werner Heisenberg (_PHONE_). Quantum physics has to do with things too small to experience or measure with our five senses. Quantum physics explains things like electric eyes, solar panels, and spectrometers and how they work. Quantum physics deals with the behavior of things with dimensions smaller than an atom. These include electrons, protons, neutrons, quarks, neutrinos, mesons, and other subatomic particles.
As human experimenters, we can study the objects of classical physics as objective observers, separated and apart from the phenomena we study. This is not so in quantum physics, where the experimenter is always part of the experiment.
For example, light is known to manifest is either a wave, described by frequency, amplitude, and phase, or it can manifest as a stream of particles with properties of discrete quanta described by size, momentum, and mass. These quantum particles are called photons. While light can appear as either a continuous wave or a stream of discrete photons in any given situation, it can never be both at the same time. It was in 1900 that Max Planck discovered the minimum unit of energy for a photon, expressed as a "quantum" and measured by Planck's constant.
An interesting series of experiments were performed during the 1980s, by scientists working independently in Germany and the United States. They sought to explore the relationship, if any, between certain observed phenomena and the observers. These were the so-called "Double Slit, Delayed Choice" experiments. Scientists were able to show by releasing a light beam from a common source, aiming it through a pair of vertical slits, that as the light traveled to targets where it was to be recorded or observed, they could make a decision as to whether it would show up as a wave or a series of particles. Their decision, made while the beam was passing between its source and its recording point, determined the outcome of the experiment. If their decision were for the light to manifest as a continuous wave, it would record as a wave on the photographic plate. If their decision were for the light to manifest as discrete particles, it would record as particles.
The question arose, "What is light beam in flight on its way to being observed? Is it a wave or is it a stream of particles?" The answer scientists came to conclude is that a light beam in transit is neither a wave nor a particle. It does not exist as light until it is recorded or observed. As a beam travels the distance between its source and its target, it is not yet light, but only "a bundle of possibilities" or "a packet of probabilities" as yet unmanifested. Which possibility it will manifest at the recording site is up to the decision of the observer. In other words, the experimenter is unavoidably a part of the experiment and a determining element of the recorded outcome.
Come back for Part Three when we explore the nature of light, it's properties as both energy and matter,a nd how that relates to essential oils! –DT
Today's post was written by David Stewart, PhD, author of Healing Oils Of The Bible, Chemistry Of Essential Oils Made Simple: GOD'S LOVE MANIFEST IN MOLECULES, and many many other books on essential oils, science, theology, earthquakes, breastfeeding and other varied topics. It first appeared in it's entirety in Volume 7, Number 1 Jan – Feb 2009 issue of The Raindrop Messenger, and is reprinted here with permission from Dr. Stewart. To subscribe or download back issues, visit _URL_.
To purchase Young Living's Therapeutic Grade Essential Oils or enroll as a distributor, visit my website!

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HTML search and replace in Clojure
In Clojure, data structures are mostly built from a handful of core data structures such as lists, vectors, maps, and sets.
This means that most data structures can leverage all of the generic data transformation and querying functions built for the core data structures instead of having to rebuild the same functionality for each data structure.
This feature in combination with Clojure's rich standard library makes Clojure very attractive for solving data munching problems from other domains.
In this article, I'm going to demonstrate these capabilities for solving HTML transformations using Clojure.
First, I'm going to describe how HTML can be represented in Clojure.
With this representation in mind, I'll demonstrate how we can transform HTML documents in Clojure.
Finally, I'll tie the transformations together with the HTML parsing and formatting to produce a complete solution.


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Science Museum unwraps a "sweet" exhibition
A "tasty" exhibition to reveal the biology, chemistry, physiology and psychology of the world of candy was unwrapped at the Hong Kong Science Museum today (June 26) and will run until October 28.
"Candy Unwrapped", featuring 17 groups of interactive exhibits, will satisfy the mind of visitors even as it tickles their taste buds through looking at, smelling and tasting the exhibits.
Speaking at the opening ceremony of the exhibition today, the Assistant Director (Heritage and Museums) of Leisure and Cultural Services, Dr Louis Ng, said the Hong Kong Science Museum organised this exhibition to give children an educational and entertaining experience for the summer holidays.
"Candy is not only for kids. Chocolate is also a favourite of ladies. With stories about romantic memories and magical powers of chocolate, visitors will learn about the rich history and culture of candy and other yummy treats from around the world. We believe the exhibition will enable all family members, young and old, to discover the fun and the science and psychology behind the candy," Dr Ng said.
Produced by the Ontario Science Centre in collaboration with Ybrick Design 3D Inc, "Candy Unwrapped" invites visitors to bring their taste buds for some sensational sugary science. Visitors can examine the structure and many uses of sugar, which is more than just a sweet treat and has qualities that are useful in many things. They can see how sugar has been used to preserve food, bind concrete and even heal wounds. They are also invited to walk across the face of an enlarged sugar crystal to learn about the various phases of crystallisation, the beauty of nature's final design, and what sugar crystals have in common with stacks of oranges in a supermarket.
Visitors can explore how taste and other senses, such as sight and smell, are used by the human body to determine what tastes good. Using their taste buds, they can learn the biological point of puckering by experiencing the super sour challenge, and discover the difference between taste and flavour through participating in a jelly bean test.
The rich history and cultural diversity of candy and other treats from around the world are featured in the exhibition. Visitors can discover the fascinating stories behind treats from a dozen countries, from Chinese ginger candies to Nigerian puff-puffs. Some unusual past and present candies are also on display, and visitors will learn through the exhibits why some of them are still popular in modern times.
The exhibition will detail the history of chocolate, including different forms of chocolate that have emerged over thousands of years and how chocolate bars are made. Visitors can also experience how candies bring back romantic memories, and find out whether chocolate is always associated with romance, or is it simply a psychological effect? Visitors can discover more by entering into a boudoir to learn about the cultural legacy and intriguing chemical properties of chocolate.
Visitors can jump on the energy burn bike and pedal for one minute to find out the calories of a sugar cube and how many calories they can burn off in 60 seconds. They will learn about the way their body creates and uses energy and which types of food energy work best for them. Kids can design and draw their own candy wrapper or jump on the cushy giant tongue and learn about the sensory complexity of the human tongue.
Admission to "Candy Unwrapped" is $35 with half-price concession for full-time students, people with disabilities and senior citizens aged 60 or above. "Free Admission on Wednesdays" and the Museum Weekly Pass will not apply to this exhibition.
The Science Museum is located at 2 Science Museum Road, Tsim Sha Tsui East, Kowloon. It is open from 1pm to 9pm from Monday to Friday, and from 10am to 9pm on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays. It is closed on Thursdays (except public holidays).
For details of the exhibition and related programmes, visit the Science Museum's website (hk.science.museum). For enquiries, please call 2732 3232.
Ends/Friday, June 26, 2009
Climbing up an enlarged sugar crystal, the "Crystal Mountain", visitors can learn about the various phases of crystallisation and the beauty of nature's final design.
The exhibit, "Delectable Delights", allows visitors to learn about treats from around the world and how some of these treats taste surprisingly like some of our familiar foods.
Jumping on the "Taste Bud Tango", a cushy giant tongue, visitors can learn about the sensory complexity of the human tongue.
"A Bar is Born" details the history of chocolate, including different forms of chocolate that have emerged over thousands of years and how chocolate bars are made.
Chocolate has long been considered an aphrodisiac. Is this a scientific fact or sexy myth? Visitors can discover more by entering into "Romancing the Bean" to learn about the cultural legacy and intriguing chemical properties of chocolate.


Quasi-Spectral Characterization of Strongly Distance-Regular Graphs
M. A. Fiol
A graph $\Gamma$ with diameter $d$ is strongly distance-regular if $\Gamma$ is distance-regular and its distance-$d$ graph $\Gamma _d$ is strongly regular. The known examples are all the connected strongly regular graphs (i.e. $d=2$), all the antipodal distance-regular graphs, and some distance-regular graphs with diameter $d=3$. The main result in this paper is a characterization of these graphs (among regular graphs with $d$ distinct eigenvalues), in terms of the eigenvalues, the sum of the multiplicities corresponding to the eigenvalues with (non-zero) even subindex, and the harmonic mean of the degrees of the distance-$d$ graph.
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Researchers at the University of Sydney have come up with a mathematical model verified by software implementation that can more than halve the energy consumption of processors in data centres at little or no operational cost.
The Energy Conscious Scheduling algorithm (ECS) has been patented by Dr Young Choon Leeand Professor Albert Zomaya at the university's Centre for Distributed and High Performance Computing. Dr Lee and Professor Zomaya are now developing an ECS prototype, with a view to commercialising their research by 2011.
Power consumption by servers has more than doubled since 2000; estimates suggest electricity use for servers worldwide cost about $US7.2 billion in 2005. Companies are increasingly looking to curb these energy costs and their ensuing greenhouse gas as demand for computing and data storage capacities continues to grow exponentially.
"The growing popularity of cloud computing will help IT managers reduce data centre energy costs, but more research needs to be done before large organisations can fully entrust their precious data in cloud technology," says Professor Zomaya.
"ECS will work well on cloud systems as they mature but will give a more immediate means for organisations to reduce their data centre's energy consumption. With demand for computing and data storage capacities growing exponentially, this world first will make a valuable contribution to both the environment to and organisations' bottom line."
ECS uses processors" so-called Dynamic Voltage Scaling capability to map computational tasks such as those arising in scientific, engineering and business applications (eg astronomy, chemistry, life sciences and financial forecasting) in order to minimise completion time and energy use.
"Computations are typically comprised of interdependent tasks, so the need to wait for a parent task to complete can create slack and therefore wastage," Professor Zomaya says. "When ECS is employed with the help of DVS capability, mapping decisions between processors, supply voltages, and tasks are streamlined to significantly lower the amount of energy required at any given time.
"This reduces slack and creates energy savings of between 10-60 per cent."


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Tax forum: GST needs changing, so let's debate it
Is it time to reform the GST? AAP
A broad and comprehensive GST tax base along the lines of the New Zealand model would provide gains in efficiency and simplicity.
Recycling revenue gains from a broader base GST and an increase in the GST rate to replace more distorting state stamp duties and some income tax would provide further efficiency gains.
A larger revenue-earning GST would help reduce vertical fiscal imbalance and some of the inefficiencies of current commonwealth-state financial relations.
An approximate aggregate revenue-neutral package of improved indirect taxes, with a larger GST replacing more distorting stamp duties and income tax, can be designed so that most taxpayers are winners with a more productive economy.
Because of exemptions from the GST tax base, it is only 60% of a comprehensive general consumption tax base, such as that of New Zealand.
Exempt items include basic food, water and sewage, health, education and child care, and a lower effective rate applies to financial services.
The exemptions distort purchase decisions, for example between the necessities of water and electricity, and the organisation of service providers, such as the inclusion in-house of ancillary services of food preparation and business services by education and health suppliers.
Greater complexity and lack of transparency follows the often artificial distinctions between GST taxed and not-taxed items.
A more comprehensive New Zealand tax base would mean less distortions, less complexity, and more revenue.
The current Australian GST rate at 10% is low compared with New Zealand at 15%, and many European countries have a basic VAT rate of 20% or higher.
A larger revenue yielding GST would enable completion of the original idea of the GST at the time of its introduction in 2000 to replace existing selective and distorting indirect taxes.
According to the Henry Tax Review estimates, the marginal social cost of stamp duties on insurance at 68 cents per dollar of revenue and conveyance duty on property transfers of 35 cents far exceed the eight cents for GST.
Stamp duties are part of the reason for the observed high rates of non-insurance and of under-insurance, particularly among those on low incomes, revealed by recent natural disasters.
Conveyance duty acts as a disincentive to change houses when one's employment changes or when family size expands and contracts.
Since these inefficient taxes are state levied taxes, a higher revenue GST is an especially attractive revenue replacement option.
A tax mix change involving a higher rate of GST to fund a lower rate of income taxation in an approximate revenue neutral and distribution neutral package has several efficiency benefits.
Such a package would represent an extension of the ideas of the reforms of 2000; of the 10% GST, about eight percentage points replaced more distorting wholesale sales tax and some state indirect taxes on financial transactions, and the remainder funded lower income tax rates and higher social security payments.
More recently, New Zealand and the UK in 2010 implemented similar tax mix change reforms. A shift from income taxation to consumption taxation reduces the former's distortions to saving versus consumption decisions.
More importantly, the lower income tax rates reduce the magnitude of distortions and loss of efficiency to the choice of mix of saving and investment options caused by the hybrid tax system with its very different effective income tax rates on different choice options.
In the context of Australia as a open small country, as part of a wider and larger global economy, a consumption for income tax mix change represents a shift from a production base falling on some internationally mobile capital and labour inputs to a consumption base which is less mobile geographically.
Such a shift is in accord with optimal tax theory for reducing taxation distortions by placing relatively higher tax rates on the less price responsive decisions.
Under current commonwealth-state financial relations, the states depend on the commonwealth for nearly a half of their revenue.
Even then, the GST is collected by the commonwealth, and then redistributed in full to the states as untied transfers. For many, the vertical fiscal imbalance is an important reason for the blame game, wasteful rent seeking behaviour and inefficient government.
A higher revenue yielding GST is one of the better options for increasing the states' own source of revenue to improve inter-government arrangements and general accountability of the different levels of government.
A new and cooperative arrangement between the commonwealth and the states is a necessary prerequisite for changes to the GST, and in particular as part of packages to reduce current highly inefficient state stamp duties and to reduce vertical fiscal imbalance.
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Migration Routes of the Wood River Valley| 2007
community mapping commissioned by the Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Idaho. Locally specific, the map shows overlapping patterns of movement and migration over time by Native Americans, mining and railroad industries, sheepherders, domestic workers, second-home owners, and wild animals. It was researched through interviews with and map-surveys by Wood River Valley residents, visitors, workers, advocates, business owners, and students. The finished map was distributed at the Center for the Arts, in schools, and at tourist centers.
The outside face of the map consists of Wood River Valley residents' answer to the questions "where do you live" and "where is home"? The inside face shows historic and contemporary patterns of migration through the physical geography of the valley; where those migrating populations follow each other as the Valley's demographics and economies change; and where they come into conflict with each other (for example when residential development encroaches on seasonal wildlife migration areas.)


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The artwork is presented through a cross-cultural perspective that represents past, present, and future. Each piece is inspired in equal parts by American & Nigerian culture, thus representing the artist's social and cultural upbringing. Nigeria represents his past: his roots, his origin, his biological composition while and the America represents the present: his current location, socialization, and upbringing. Each piece communicates the cross between both cultures, just as the artist himself communicates a cross between both cultures. The artist chose his own family as the subjects because they each have unique characteristics that have shaped the way the artist thinks. They have also deposited a piece of themselves in his heart and life. The artist's parents emigrated from Nigeria decades ago bringing with them a wildly unique way of communicating, connecting, and living. The Nigerian style of parenting juxtaposed with the American style of child rearing left the artist at an intersection, excited to share how both sides of his world has shaped his thinking and artistic expression. Embracing this double-edged journey has helped the artist develop and grow into the man he is today.
The artist used a mix of graphic design and fine arts techniques to produce the pieces. He transferred the process of layering, which is a popular technique in graphic design programs, to his portrait pieces by utilizing cross-hatching. Cross-hatching brings out the layers and creates a sense of movement and life. Fine point pens, markers, paint brushes, and fingers were used to produce the pieces.
The overall experience enabled the artists to bring his two worlds together and better understand himself. The name of the latest project is the PZay Experience.


Adding the last bit to a mask that covers everything but an image of the iPhone...
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2020-02-10 01:07:49
Struggling to get everything outside a photo of the iPhone not to show. Learning about masks but not great at it.
Seems like there should be a way to select the extra bit with a wand, but even when I merge all the layers so I can do that, and copy the resulting bit, I don't know how to add that bit to the mask. I describe the problem in this little video:
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Hi ajg23.
There are two ways of commonly masking things: masks (a.k.a. opacity masks, layer masks) and clipping masks. They work in different ways but achieve similar results. Although I'm a big fan of clipping masks, I'll stick to layer masks here as they are (in my opinion) a little easier to use.
A layer mask is a supplementary bitmap added to a layer (or group) that modifies its opacity. Where the mask is white, the layer (or group) is opaque, where it is black the layer (or group) is transparent.
Let's start with your unmasked image. Here's my 1 minute mock-up:
Let's add a mask to the group of objects. When you create a mask, it is affected by any active selections, so let's deselect before we do anything.
1. Cmd-D to deleclect.
2. Right-click on the group of objects and select Add Mask.
Now, you can paint on the mask itself.
3. In the layers palette click one the mask so that it is selected and in the canvas, with a sharp-edged black brush, paint out the bits you don't want.
Job done. If you go to far and paint out something you want to keep, switch to a white brush and paint it back in.
That's it, that's all you need to get this done, but I did mention something earlier about selections. If you have a selection active when you create a mask, rather than creating an all-white mask, Pixelmator will create a mask that is white where the selection was active and black everywhere else.
If you have a bit of time on your hands, now is the time try it. To remove your mask, right click on it in the layers panel and Remove Mask. Make the selection that you want then right-click and Add Mask again. If this isn't exactly what you want, you can always paint in/out more of the mask later. You may need to deselect first, though, as a selection will affect where you can/cannot paint.
Hope this helps. If anything is unclear, just come back and I (or someone else) will be bound to come back and help.
- Stef.


text: Heister, Lorenz (1683–1758), German anatomist and surgeon. Heister was one of the founders of scientific surgery. His works on medicine, anatomy, and surgery were widely read for several generations. His main work, a general treatise on surgery, was originally published in 1718 and eventually translated into seven languages. Another major work was an illustrated compendium of anatomical structures first published in 1717. It includes the description of the spiral valve sometimes known as the valve of Heister.


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A major informational site is wikipedia.org, the online encyclopedia. It is unique, because it allows visitors to contribute and edit articles. Now your small business may not want such a comprehensive site, but if you have information to share of sell, an informational website would fill the bill.
Suppose you have a landscaping business. You could create a website that lists plants wit their definitions and planting and caring instructions. This would be helpful to people, and you would use it to lead people to your nursery.


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Since the publication of the first edition of Grasses: Panicum to Danthonia in 1973, twenty additional taxa of grasses have been discovered in Illinois that are properly placed in this volume. In addition, numerous nomenclatural changes have occurred for plants already known from the state, and many distributional records have been added. This second edition updates the status of grasses in Illinois. Paul W. Nelson has provided illustrations for all of the additions.
Because the nature of grass structures is generally so different from that of other flowering plants, a special terminology is applied to them. In his introduction, Robert H. Mohlenbrock cites these terms, with descriptions that make the identification of unknown specimens possible. Mohlenbrock's division of the grass family into subfamilies and tribes is a major departure from the sequence usually found in most floristic works in North America.
Synonyms that have been applied to species in the northeastern United States are given under each species. A description based primarily on Illinois material covers the more important features of the species. The common names—Paflic Grass, Billion Dollar Grass or Japanese Millett, Thread Love Grass, and Goose Grass—are the ones used locally in the state. The habitat designation and dot maps showing county distribution of each grass are provided only for grasses in Illinois, but the overall range for each species is also given.


Question: How Do You Greet Someone In Igbo?
Which is correct Igbo or Ibo?
Igbo, also called Ibo, people living chiefly in southeastern Nigeria who speak Igbo, a language of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family.
The Igbo may be grouped into the following main cultural divisions: northern, southern, western, eastern or Cross River, and northeastern..
Is ukwuani a Igbo?
The Ukwuani is one of the three sub groups that make up the Igbo west of the River Niger; the others are Enuani and Ika. These three sub groups are now collectively regarded as Anioma (Good Land), geo-politically located in Nigeria's Delta State.
What is an Igbo girl?
Igbo girls, a sect of Nigerian girls from the south-eastern parts of the country, are one of the most beautiful and intelligent women in the world. However, they have other unique quirks which impact their marriages considerably.
What does Igbo Amaka mean?
203) Amaka (f): Short form of female name Chiamaka meaning "God is beautiful" (p. 78)
What does Obi mean in Igbo?
heart of godobi is a short form of obinna, an igbo name, or sometimes surname. the name's origin is from the igbo, located in south eastern nigeria, and is usually male. though people from other cultures may bear the name. the direct english translation is, "father's heart, heart of god".
How do igbos greet elders?
Greeting Elders For example, certain tribes require a female to kneel on the floor or curtsy to greet an elder, while males are expected to prostrate, squat, or bow completely to the ground.
Which tribe is richest in Nigeria?
The Igbos, Yorubas and the Hausas are the richest tribes in Nigeria.
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How does Igbo greet?
Notes. In Igbo tradition there are no specific greetings for afternoon and evening – ndeewo or daalụ are the traditional Igbo greetings during the day. Mgbedeọma / ụtụtụọma / ehihieọma are a modern trend by some people who made literal translations of the English greetings good morning / good afternoon / good evening).
How do you say hi in Nigeria?
Ẹ n lẹ means hello in this part of Nigeria.
Who are the real Igbos?
Igboland (Standard Igbo: Àlà Ị̀gbò, also known as Southeastern Nigeria, is the indigenous homeland of the Igbo people. It is a cultural and common linguistic region in southern Nigeria. Geographically, it is divided by the lower Niger River into two sections: an eastern (the larger of the two) and a western one.
How do you say good morning in Nigeria?
Igbo is one of the major languages spoken in Nigeria.
What is KEDU in Igbo?
Kedu ka ọdị Fine, thank you/ I'm fine.
How do you say love in Nigerian?
Love means ifunanya or ihunanya. There are as Other "sweet names" that basically conveys your love to your SO; words like akwa m' : my egg..
What does Oya mean in Nigeria?
no definite'Oya' is one Nigerian slang that has no definite meaning, however, it is used in a given context which could mean come, let's go, start or basically just an endearment to begin something or respond. It is commonly used across the nation and in some neighbouring countries too.
What is Igbo attire called?
IsiaguModern traditional attire Isiagu (or Ishi agu) is usually patterned with lions heads embroidered over the clothing, It can also be plain, (usually black).
What is Igbo known for?
Igbos are well known for their variety of soups, made from locally grown vegetables, fruits and seeds. The most popular Igbo soups are oha, nsala, akwu, okazi and ofe owerri. The Igbo people have a traditional religious belief that there is one creator, called 'Chineke' or 'Chukwu'.
How long does it take to learn Igbo?
Generally, a beginner undertaking up to two and a half hours of Igbo classes per week combined with personal study and practice would be able to express themselves in Igbo language within a month of learning. The more time devoted to learning, the better the results.
What is Ofuma in Igbo?


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What makes the Rocky Talkie different from other radios?
The Rocky Talkie is designed for athletes to push their limits in the outdoors. Unlike the fragile plastic belt clips of other radios, our radio easily secures to backpacks and harnesses using an ultra-light carabiner. For extreme terrain, a back-up leash is included to prevent drops. We find that this system is the difference between actively using the radio and keeping it in a backpack for emergencies.
In addition to the convenience offered, the Rocky Talkie includes a shatterproof LED screen (no-glass) and a thermoplastic covering to protect the electronics. The radio is ready to use out of the box and requires zero configuration. The electronics are simple and reliable - we cut out all of the superfluous radio features that kill battery life. The radio has 5 buttons that are easy to understand and still support the critical advanced features (such as privacy codes to prevent outside interference).
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Conserving water to sustain human needs and ensure the health of fish and aquatic ecosystems is a central challenge in the Kettle River watershed. By carefully managing water quantity, our communities will be able to improve water security during drought, reduce infrastructure and water treatment costs, and improve overall stewardship of the watershed. Learning how to conserve water and adopting appropriate strategies will build our ability to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change.
Discussion Paper 1 proposed three overall goals with nine sub-goals in support of aquatic ecosystems, healthy communities, and sustainable economy and food system. It proposed several strategies to be developed in the Kettle River Watershed Management Plan, one of which is to "Improve the quality, reliability and security of water supplies through sustainable management of water resources." Water supplies are also tightly linked to the integrity of riparian, wetland and upland systems (Discussion Paper 5, forthcoming) and the capacity of the community to plan for and adapt to watershed issues (Discussion Paper 2).
This discussion paper is the third of five papers presenting strategies and actions to be included in the Watershed Management Plan, which will be finalized in the summer of 2014. The Advisory Group invites a broader network of stakeholders and public to consider the issues, strategies and actions presented in these discussion papers and provide feedback towards the Watershed Management Plan.
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Peter's Confession
I've been wondering why we always say Peter was the first one to recognize Jesus as the son of God while, in John 1:49, clearly shows Nathanael pointed the truth out before Peter did.
There were several prior statements by the disciples and others identifying Jesus as the Son of God and Israel's Messiah. Jesus chose to emphasize Peter's because it was revealed to him by God and not just the conclusion of a man. Some believe that this makes Peter's confession first in importance, although as you point out, it was not first in time.


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|Title:||Noise reduction approach for Arabic phonemes articulated by Malay speakers||Authors:||Almisreb, A.A.
|Issue Date:||2018||Abstract:||Noise reduction in speech signal is significant due to its worthy applications like VoIP, Speech Recognition and Cellular calls. In this paper, a method for noise reduction in Arabic phonemes speech waveforms based on corpus collected from nonnative Arabic speakers is investigate, specifically Malay. Firstly, each speaker is required to articulate the 28 Arabic alphabets without any pre-training. The proposed method combines both Gamma correction function and Negative function, in order to eliminate and reduce the unvoiced signals. In addition, a modified equation of the Gamma correction function is proposed to be used separately from the negative function. Results attained showed that the proposed method capable to enhance the quality and the computational time as well. Based on the spectrogram, the proposed method has shown advantages as compared to Zero-Crossing Rate approach. Experimental results showed that reduction in noise is attained by increasing the gamma value. © 2018 IEEE.||DOI:||10.1109/CSPA.2018._PHONE_|
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In this lesson, our instructor Evren Edler gives an introduction to tempo operations. He starts by discussing tempo events, enable conductor, tempo change and option click. He then moves on to snap to bar and tempo operations: constant, linear, parabolic, s-curved, scale, stretch, & pencil tool.
Graphic Tempo Editor: to view
the tempo operations, click the little arrow in the tempo ruler.
Tempo events are visible when
the conductor icon is enabled on transport window.
Tempo Change: In order to make
tempo changes, we need to always enable the "conductor" icon in
the Transport Window.
Once we type the changes on
certain cars, we can drag the "Tempo Change" icon in the Tempo
ruler up to go faster or drag down to slow down.
Option Click: gets rid of
tempo changes in a similar way we work with our markers or we can
select the tempo change icons and delete them by delete/backspace
key or clearing them under Edit Menu or short cut of (Com B).
Tempo Operations: We can also
apply tempo changes to a time selection using the Tempo Operations
under the Event menu.
There are 6-sub menu you will
see under Tempo Operations.
Pencil Tool: You can draw in
the new tempo events, replacing existing ones, using the pencil tool
The Free hand tool lets you
draw freely by moving the mouse, producing a series of steps that
depends on the Tempo Edit Density settings.
Parabolic & S-Curve Tools
lets you draw the best possible curve to fit your freehand drawing,
again producing a series of steps that depend on the Tempo Edit
The Triangle, Square &
Random Pencil tool cannot be used to create tempo events!
Lecture Slides are screen-captured images of important points in the lecture. Students can download and print out these lecture slide images to do practice problems as well as take notes while watching the lecture.


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How to Store Cilantro
Cilantro is one of the essential ingredients in a lot of recipes that pays to always have on hand so here are various methods to preserve them.
Cilantro is an amazing cooking herb that is healthy and matches well with a lot of dishes, so it's good to know how you can store cilantro to make sure you'll always have a supply for tasty cooking escapades. There are better ways of storing cilantro than just popping it directly in the fridge (you can, but that doesn't make it last very long). Here are 7 simple ways on how to Store Cilantro to last you a week or more.
Storing Cilantro Method 1: Store in the Fridge
First up is the simplest way to store cilantro and is also the most basic way of keeping it fresh for kitchen use. Make no mistake, this is not a plop it and go situation. Here's how to properly store cilantro in your refrigerator:
 1. Put freshly cut cilantro stems in a container filled with water.
 2. Cover the top loosely with a plastic bag.
 3. Store in the fridge. Set it, but don't forget it entirely. You don't have to watch your stored cilantro like a hawk, but every so often, keep an eye on the leaves and cut them off as they wilt. Also, check the water if the color starts to change and replace it.
Storing Cilantro Method 2: Use an Airtight Container
To go with this cilantro storage method is to go the hydrophobic route. Keep your bunch away from water and DO NOT wash the cilantro! The goal is to try and remove the excess moisture.
 1. Using some paper towels, pat to dry off the cilantro.
 2. After gently patting the bunch, wrap the cilantro with new paper towels.
 3. Store the wrapped cilantro inside an airtight container. Every time you use this type of stored cilantro, try to check for wilted leaves and take those out. Watch out! You should only wash cilantro if you'll be using it straight away because it wilts easy.
Storing Cilantro Method 3: Blanch and Freeze
This method of storing cilantro embraces the use of water more than the previous one because it involves a blanching method.
 1. To blanch, boil some hot water in a pot.
 2. Add in the cilantro until wilted (should be a few seconds).
 3. When done, take out the boiled cilantro and plunge it into a bowl of ice water for a maximum of 30 seconds.
 4. Take out the blanched cilantro bunch and give it a little shake or slight squeeze to remove excess water.
 5. Get some paper towels ready and pat the cilantro dry.
 6. Remove the stems of the cilantro and store the leaves inside a Ziplock bag for freezing. Try to remove excess air from the bag to keep it flat for storage.
Storing Cilantro Method 4: Store as Cubes
Think of this method as cryonics, but a little less morbid with cilantro leaves and water.
 1. Wash the cilantro.
 2. After that, take it aside and allow water to drip off it to dry.
 3. Get some paper towels and pat to remove more moisture.
 4. Coarsely chop the cilantro and transfer that directly to an ice tray. When you split the chopped cilantro for the sections of the ice tray, you may choose to "listen to your ancestors" and go by feeling, or you could take a more measured approach by setting a specific amount for each section so you know how much you are using when you cook with it.
 5. Fill the tray with water and freeze.
Storing Cilantro Method 5: Liquify to Cubify (More Freezing)
Consider this storing technique if you're not particular about preserving the original shape of the cilantro herb, yet want to keep the taste. With this storing method, you can choose to wash or blanch your cilantro before proceeding with the steps below.
 1. Coarsely chop the cilantro.
 2. Place the chopped cilantro inside a food processor or blender and add some olive oil.
 3. Puree the mixture.
 4. Get an ice tray and transfer the liquified cilantro to it for freezing. Again, you can go by feeling or measure a specific amount for each cube.
Storing Cilantro Method 6: Make it Butter
Make it better with butter! You can choose to preserve and enhance the taste of cilantro by storing it like butter. Cilantro butter might sound weird, but boy is it flavorful and really easy to do. All you need are 2-3 cups of finely chopped cilantro leaves for every stick of butter.
 1. First, you have to soften the butter stick by leaving it out at room temperature.
 2. While that's happening, go on ahead and finely chop the cilantro leaves (add lemon zest for a little zing).
 3. When everything is ready, put all ingredients in a bowl and mash them all together (add in some salt if preferred).
 4. Scoop the mashed butter into the baking paper.
 5. Shape the cilantro butter into a regular butter stick or cylinder and wrap it with the baking paper.
 6. Refrigerate the butter and use sit how you would regular butter.
Storing Cilantro Method 7: Dehydrated Cilantro
Dry your cilantro for storage by use of a convection oven or a microwave. Consider this storing technique if you want the longest shelf life possible for your stored cilantro (up to a year!). Although it keeps the original shape of the cilantro, you might have to sacrifice losing a bit of the taste.
 1. To start, preheat your convection oven to 250-300 °F.
 2. Make sure you have clean cilantro by washing it and letting it drip to dry.
 3. For good measure, get some paper towels and pat the cilantro bunch dry.
 4. You'll only be using the leaves so you have to strip or cut them off from the stem using a kitchen knife of scissors.
 5. Get microwave-safe paper towels or regular baking sheets on a tray and lay out the leaves on top as you would when baking cookies.
 6. Place the sheet in a convection oven for 25 minutes or so, keeping an eye on the color. Careful to not let them turn brown.
*If you are using a microwave oven, place the sheet inside and microwave for about 2 minutes. If you aren't happy with the color, continue to microwave in increments if 10-20 seconds.
 1. Take out the tray or sheet and allow the leaves to cool for a few minutes.
 2. Carefully transfer the dried cilantro leaves into a jar using your preferred utensil. You can store them as dried cilantro leaves or crushed cilantro.
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Acronyms that contain the term NEC
What does NEC mean? This page is about the various possible meanings of the acronym, abbreviation, shorthand or slang term: NEC.
What does NEC mean?
- necrotizing enterocolitis, NEC(noun)
- an acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants; necrosis of intestinal tissue may follow


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As we explore the faith-science relationship, part of the challenge is helping students see connections they did not suspect existed. Building a sense of how things are connected is a major part of learning. Making a leap in thinking to connect things we thought were different can be a powerful learning experience. FASTly activities look for ways to help students see various kinds of connections. For example, we want them to see:
- that doing science and caring for others can be connected through the ways we interact as we study, the ways we relate our learning to the wider community and the uses to which we put scientific understanding.
- that scientific disciplines and virtues can be connected as we exercise humility, honesty, and kindness during learning and in the practice of science.
- that the "sacred" and the "secular" are connected as we explore what faith has to do with daily workings in the science classroom and the big questions raised by modern science.
- that learning and life are connected as we consider how what is learned about science illuminates our choices and impacts our lifestyles outside the classroom.
Making these connections helps guard against reducing science to facts and learning information. It helps resist the temptation to reduce our understanding of the world to knowledge of material processes. Making connections offers a chance to glimpse the coherence of God's world and how it hangs together as a whole with all the parts working together.
FASTly activities offer a variety of strategies for making connections. These include:
- having students investigate multiple perspectives on the same phenomena by, for example, comparing scientific and non-scientific accounts of the same scenario. Activity: Photo Scrapbook
- providing tasks that ask students to relate their science learning to choices outside the classroom, such as relating learning about sustainable chemistry to choices about waste disposal. Activity: Labs, Scarcity and Choices
- working to help students see connections across different curriculum areas by, for instance, having them consider in Bible class how the early church handled major disagreements and what that says to present day faith and science disputes. Activity: The Jerusalem Council
- asking students to sort collections of disparate information and reflect on what their decisions reveal about what they see as related and unrelated. Activity: Adam and Eve: Full Maturity or Child-like Innocence?
We invite you to explore the links and consider what further strategies you can use to help students see rich connections, instead of fragmentation, in their learning.


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It doesn't take long when learning to weave until you encounter your first drafts, and it took me a while to figure out what they were and how they worked. I thought I'd write about how I learned to understand a weaving draft.
A draft can be considered to be the equivalent of a knitting pattern. Actually, not really. It's more like a chart in a knitting pattern. Its not enough information for a weaver to start a particular project – details such as sett, yardage, material, finished project dimensions are all absent, but it provides information on how to set the loom up and work it to produce a cloth with a particular interlacement.
Drafts are usually divided into four quadrants. In the draft below of a 2/2 twill, I've labelled the quadrants A to D.
The Threading (A)
This section shows how the harnesses/shafts of a loom must be threaded. (Editor's note: I used the term shafts and harnesses interchangeably without realizing and didn't have time to fix it.) A harnesses job is to raise the threads that are assigned to it so that the weft yarn can pass underneath them. This section tells the weaver what threads each harness lifts and in what order.
The horizontal lines represent each individual harness. The bottom line is the harness closest to you if you're sitting in front of the loom. You can also tell how many shafts your loom has to have to weave the draft by looking at how many rows are in this section.
Though there are many ways to thread the loom, two common ways to thread is straight threading and point threading.
In straight threading, a warp yarn goes through harness 1, the next yarn goes to harness 2 and so on. After you thread a heddle on the last harness, you go back to harness 1 and continue.
In point threading, you also thread harnesses 1 at a time. When you reach the end however, you change direction and thread the harnesses in the reverse order instead of starting back at harness 1. The original draft is shown below, with the only thing changed is the threading from straight to point threading. The diagonal stripes become horizontal zig zags.
The Tie Up (B)
Treadles (the floor pedals of a loom) are used to raise 1 or more shafts at the same time. The treadles on most loomes are usually fully configurable and can be set up to raise any combination of shafts you want it to. By doing so, the treadles provide the weaver a way to quickly raise combinations of shafts that form a pattern without having to think in terms of indiviaual harnesses (which is the case for my table loom). This section tells the weaver how to connect the treadles to the shafts.
Each column in quadrant B represents a treadle. Column 1 is for the first treadle and so on. If a row of that column is marked with a figure (usually an 'O' or its filled in), it means that the treadle needs to be connected to the shaft it is next to.
The Treadling (C)
This section simply tells you what order to press the pedals in to form a particular pattern the cloth. Like the threading, common treadlings are straight and point treadlings – they operate in the same way.
In the example of our 2/2 twill above, if we change the treadling from straight to point, we now get diamond patterns:
You can probably notice by now that by using a point pattern on the threading, treadling, or both, introduces a lines of horizontal and vertical symmetry into the cloth. You can also see in drafts such as this that the pattern in the cloth can be seen in the the tie-up quadrant of the draft.
A final note about our example, you'll notice that in this draft, the threading and the treadling order is exactly the same. You'll see the instruction "tromp as writ" come up from time to time, sometimes in drafts where the treadling is absent. This means to simply treadle in the same order as is threaded, I imagine its an old way of saying "treadle as written".
The Drawdown (D)
This section gives you an idea what the finished cloth pattern will look like – it basically shows you the resulting interesction of the warp and weft yarns, usually with the implicit assumption that the warp is a black yarn and the weft is a white yarn.
Sometimes, more than one repeat is shown in either direction so you can see how one repeat connects with one another when they are laid side by side.
In the diagram below, you can see how you can figure out how to draw this section if you know what's in the other three. I show how the second pick (weft row) is drawn in our 2/2 point twill draft:
- First you look at the tie up associated with the treadle that is being pressed and determine which shafts are being raised.
- Next you look across the shafts and every column that is filled with a number represents the threads that that are being lifted
- Finally, in the current pick that is being drawn, you darken each square that is directly below the squares being lifted.Continue the process for each pick and you're done.
One last note before signing off – what you're seeing in quadrant D is a drawdown, the key word being down. When we weave however, the cloth is actually formed in the other direction (from bottom to top). For that reason, sometimes you'll see drafts with quadrants A and B at the bottom, which will show how the actual cloth will look as it is woven on the loom. For fully symmetrical patterns, the direction doesn't matter. But for other drafts, such as our simple 2/2 twill at the beginning of the post, this will mean that what looks like a twill that travels in the right direction in the draft will actually travel in the left direction when it is woven!


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Why is it called a sledgehammer?
All the hammers have self-explanatory names - toffee hammer, nail hammer, claw hammer, club hammer - but why is a sledgehammer so called?
Dave, London
** Joint Definitive **
Name: Barry, Battersea
Qualification: Comes from a family of shipbuilders
Answer: I originally come from Jarrow, on the River Tyne and a lot of my family work in shipbuilding. The timber racking that held the boat upright before it reached the river was called a sledge. Inside the timber were big oak wedges, which needed to be knocked out to launch the boat. These were hit with a big hammer, which was then called a sledgehammer.
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Name: Marcus
Answer: When they build big boats, they build them on big sledges that go down into the sea. They are chocced up to make sure they don't slide into the sea and they knock those big chocs out with hammers, which are called sledgehammers.


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Big Gulps, Venti coffees and super-size menu options have skewed Americans' view of portion size and contributed to the nation's obesity epidemic.
But adding edible serving size markers that act as subconscious stop signs to snack food items could re-educate Americans' on portion size and reduce tendencies to overeat, according to two experiments conducted by researchers at Cornell University.
In the [first] study, researchers divided 98 students into two groups. The students were given tubes of chips — some divided by red-dyed "stop sign" chips, others not — then settled down to watch movies. Interestingly, the chips were counted differently; in some tubes the marker chips were inserted after every 7 chips; in others after every 14 chips. The researchers, who were part of Cornell's Food and Brand Lab, then counted the number of chips each student ate.
… [Researchers] found that the students given the tubes with the marked chips ate on average half the number of chips as the students given the unmarked tubes. The students didn't receive any explanation of why some of the tubes contained red chips. Even so, the students given the marked chips ate 20 and 24 chips on average (for the seven-chip and 14-chip tubes, respectively), compared with 45 chips in the control group.
During the second study, which has not been published, the food markers were placed after every five or 10 chips. Results showed that participants' whose tubes had a marker after every five chips ate 14 chips and those with markers placed after every 10 chips ate 16 chips. But volunteers in the control group consumed 35 chips.
The investigators say additional research is needed to better understand how such segmentation cues work, why they work and whether people will compensate for the reduction in food intake by eating more later.
Previously: Stanford nutritionist offers guidelines for eating healthy on the go, Is frequent snacking to blame for Americans' growing waistlines? and The dark side of "light" snacks: study shows substitutes may contribute to weight gain and "Snack" offerings in restaurants may be on the rise
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Within the next 10 years the EU-funded Diabetes Prevention study, part of an international study called TRIGR (Trial to Reduce IDDM in the Genetically at Risk), coordinated at the University of Helsinki, Finland, will generate a definite answer to the question whether early nutritional modification may prevent type 1 diabetes later in childhood.
Type 1 diabetes is a growing health problem among European children. European data indicate that the disease incidence has increased five-six-fold among children under the age of 15 years after World War II, and there are no signs that the increase in incidence is levelling off. The most conspicuous increase has been seen among children under the age of 5 years.
The TRIGR study is the first study ever aimed at primary prevention of type 1 diabetes. The study is designed to answer to the question whether excluding cow's milk protein from the infant's diet decreases the risk of fu-ture diabetes. All subjects are followed for 10 years to get information on whether the dietary recommendations for infants at increased genetic risk of type 1 diabetes should be revised.
Starting in May 2002, 76 study centres from 15 countries (Australia, Canada, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and USA) have been recruiting families for the study. To be eligible the newborn infant has to have at least one family member (mother, father and/or sib) affected by type 1 diabetes and carry a HLA genotype conferring increased risk for type 1 diabetes. The initial recruitment target of 2032 eligible infants was reached at the be-ginning of September 2006, but the Study Group has decided to continue recruitment till the end of December 2006 (when the EU contribution will finish) to make the study even more powerful statistically.
A majority of the study participants (52%) have been recruited in Europe. The International Coordinating Cen-tre (ICC) is located at the University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland and the Data Management Unit (DMU) at the University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA. The trial has logistically been a true challenge for both the ICC and DMU. DMU has been successful in establishing a secure, real-time, web-based, interactive data management system that works extremely well. This system can be directly applied to future international mul-ticentre studies.
The TRIGR study is generating a wealth of information on breast-feeding practices, infant nutrition and growth in young children in various countries. At 2 weeks of age almost all the participating infants were breast-fed. Exclusive breast-feeding continued longer in Europe than in North America. More than one third of the infants (35 %) received other foods in addition to breast milk and/or infant formulas at the age of 4 months, while WHO recommends that supplementary food should be introduced at the earliest by the age of 6 months. In Europe the first foods to be introduced are typically vegetables and fruits, whereas gluten-free cereals are most commonly introduced in North America.
Newborn infants in Northern Europe (NE) had a higher birth weight but a shorter birth length than infants in Central and Southern Europe (CSE). The NE children remained heavier than those from CSE at least up to the age of 18 months. The NE children were also taller than the CSE children starting already from the age of 3 months up to the age of 18 months. Accelerated growth in infancy has been identified as a risk factor for type 1 diabetes later in childhood. Accordingly the observed growth pattern may contribute to the higher incidence of type 1 diabetes in NE compared to CSE.
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How to clean leather
Here are some tips on how to clean leather. First you need to identify which type of leather is to be cleaned. There are two types of leather you may find in your household. One is unfinished leather such as work boots and saddles and the other is finished leather such as furniture, luggage and clothing. Finished leather has had a protective layer applied to it so it requires less care.
 Cleaning leather can be a risky process, especially if you are not sure how to do it. Always test a small part of the leather you are cleaning before beginning the full process.
To clean finished leather:
1. Use a small amount of moisturizing soap on a damp cloth and bring it to a lather before applying to the leather. An example of a moisturizing soap is Dove.
2. Bring the damp cloth to the leather trying to keep as much water off the leather as possible.
3. Using a fresh, damp cloth, wipe away the lather. Never rinse the leather in water.
4. Finish by polishing the leather with a dry towel. Also, where possible, treat the leather using a leather conditioner after it is completely dry.
To clean unfinished leather:
1. With a damp cloth, rub saddle soap directly into the leather working the soap into a light lather.
2. Wipe away the lather with a clean, fresh cloth.
3. Allow to air dry
4. Lightly spread a leather preservative, such as mink oil, on the leather to finish and give a polished look.
For more help, try professional cleaning services
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text: The U.S. Bureau of Mines studied the hydrolysis of fe(III) in no3- and so2/4- solutions at different temperatures to determine the conditions under which dense fe(III) precipitates form. Solutions of known composition made from reagent chemicals were maintained in controlled-temperature baths, and changes in color and formation of solid phases were observed as a function of time. Solids were isolated and characterized by x-ray powder diffraction or infrared spectroscopy. Dense fe(III) precipitates are obtained in fe(no3)3 solutions especially at temperatures greater than or equal to 60 deg c in acidified solutions. At lower acidities, colloids, a cationic hydrolytic polymer, or gelatinous precipitates form. In so2/4- - containing solutions a dense amorphous basic ferric sulfate (dabfs) of compositions fe4(oh)10 so4.Xh2o (x = 2 to 3) forms at lesser than or equal to 40 deg c from solutions with so2/4- and fe3+ concentrations lesser than or equal to 0.2 M and mole ratio so2/4- /fe(III) greater than or equal to 0.5. Chemical observations showed that dabfs is related to the fe(III) cationic hydrolytic polymer.


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Multi-Scale 3D Convolution Network for Video Based Person Re-Identification
This paper proposes a two-stream convolution network to extract spatial and temporal cues for video based person ReIdentification (ReID). A temporal stream in this network is constructed by inserting several Multi-scale 3D (M3D) convolution layers into a 2D CNN network. The resulting M3D convolution network introduces a fraction of parameters into the 2D CNN, but gains the ability of multi-scale temporal feature learning. With this compact architecture, M3D convolution network is also more efficient and easier to optimize than existing 3D convolution networks. The temporal stream further involves Residual Attention Layers (RAL) to refine the temporal features. By jointly learning spatial-temporal attention masks in a residual manner, RAL identifies the discriminative spatial regions and temporal cues. The other stream in our network is implemented with a 2D CNN for spatial feature extraction. The spatial and temporal features from two streams are finally fused for the video based person ReID. Evaluations on three widely used benchmarks datasets, i.e.,MARS, PRID2011, and iLIDS-VID demonstrate the substantial advantages of our method over existing 3D convolution networks and state-of-art methods.


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NOVEL CNC GRINDING PROCESS CONTROL FOR NANOMETRIC SURFACE ROUGHNESS FOR ASPHERIC SPACE OPTICAL SURFACES
Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences, volume 21, issue 2, 2004, Pages 141~152
DOI : 10.5140/JASS.2004.21.2.141
Optics fabrication process for precision space optical parts includes bound abrasive grinding, loose abrasive lapping and polishing. The traditional bound abrasive grinding with bronze bond cupped diamond wheel leaves the machine marks of about
rms in height and the subsurface damage of about 1
rms in height to be removed by subsequent loose abrasive lapping. We explored an efficient quantitative control of precision CNC grinding. The machining parameters such as grain size, work-piece rotation speed and feed rate were altered while grinding the work-piece surfaces of 20-100 mm in diameter. The input grinding variables and the resulting surface quality data were used to build grinding prediction models using empirical and multi-variable regression analysis. The effectiveness of such grinding prediction models was then examined by running a series of precision CNC grinding operation with a set of controlled input variables and predicted output surface quality indicators. The experiment achieved the predictability down to
nm in height and the surface roughness down to 36 nm in height. This study contributed to improvement of the process efficiency reaching directly the polishing and figuring process without the need for the loose abrasive lapping stage.
LAUNCH OPPORTUNITIES FOR JUPITER MISSIONS USING THE GRAVITY ASSIST
Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences, volume 21, issue 2, 2004, Pages 153~166
DOI : 10.5140/JASS.2004.21.2.153
Interplanetary trajectories using the gravity assists are studied for future Korean interplanetary missions. Verifications of the developed softwares and results were performed by comparing data from ESA's Mars Express mission and previous results. Among the Jupiter exploration mission scenarios, multi-planet gravity assist mission to Jupiter (Earth-Mars-Earth-Jupiter Gravity Assist, EMEJGA trajectory) requires minimum launch energy (
) of 29.231
with 4.6 years flight times. Others, such as direct mission and single-planet(Mars) gravity assist mission, requires launch energy (
) of 75.656
with 2.98 years flight times and 63.590
with 2.33 years flight times, respectively. These results show that the planetary gravity assists can reduce launch energy, while EMEJGA trajectory requires the longer flight time than the other missions.


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14. Ring Intrusion, Jebel Uwaynat, Sudan/Egypt/Libya
Circular structures are always eye-catching from space since they are such unusual features of the terrestrial landscape. In this respect, the Earth is quite different from all the other terrestrial planets and satellites, on which circular impact structures are by far the most common (and sometimes the only) surface features. This elliptical feature forms the Jebel Uwaynat on the triple point of Sudan, Egypt, and Libya (the topographic feature was used to define the geographic point). The structure is the surface expression of an ancient granite intrusion intruded into the Precambrian metamorphic basement along elliptical ring fractures. The granite is clearly more resistant to erosion than the basement it intrudes, which is mantled by the sand sea of the Sahara. Structures of this sort are common in Sudan and Egypt; they were formed 600 — 700 million years ago during the so-called pan-African event, which affected much of North Africa. Little is known in detail about the Uwaynat structure, which has rarely been visited by geologists. (Uwaynat is spelled various ways, including Aouenat.)
STS-41D, August-September 1984. Picture #14-34-017.


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3 Sugar Exfoliant Recipes to Fight Dry Skin
Thanks to the texture of sugar, when you add it to other ingredients, you get a product that's perfect for dry skin. You shouldn't forget to hydrate correctly after you exfoliate.
The body's largest organ is the skin. This protects you from any outside damage. However, we don't always give it the attention it deserves. It's important to keep it hydrated and clean to prevent severe consequences.
When it has proper lubrication and moisturization, it's considered to be normal. However, if your skin is irregular, it's called something else, like dry, greasy, or mixed.
We focus on how to fight dry skin. This happens when there's a lack of oil. A lack of oil is caused by the loss of water in the stratum corneum.
This is also influenced by other factors like washing too much and quick temperature changes. While it doesn't seem like it, this is skin that's fine and delicate.
There's so much tightness that it usually causes:
- Itching or burning
- A feeling of tension
- Dull and no shine
- A lack of elasticity
- A tendency to wrinkle
- Constant irritation
- Allergy to certain soaps
- Sensitivity to the temperature
To start treating dry skin, daily hygiene is important. This is because it gets rid of defects that form because of pollutants, sweat, oil, and germs.
It's important to be careful with commercial products. This is because they have a lot of chemicals which makes them counterproductive. Because of this, we recommend that you use organic products.
What is a sugar exfoliant good for?
- Sugar can get rid of dirt that you have in your skin: pimples, blackheads, and acne
- And, it removes dead skin
- Also, exfoliants increase blood flow
- An exfoliant can increase the oxygenation of your epidermis
- It increases the texture of your skin
- Also, it helps other treatments directly absorb into your skin
In this article, we will show you several natural sugar exfoliant options for dry skin. These will help you to get rid of imperfections that get stuck in your skin.
Don't forget to do a test on a small area of skin to see if you have an allergy to the treatment.
1. Sugar and olive oil
Sugar helps to get rid of blackheads. This gives your skin a fresh, young appearance. Olive oil is a natural moisturizer. It also repairs tissues and balances oil production.
- 4 tablespoons of sugar
- 2 tablespoons of olive oil
- To start, add the sugar to a container.
- Then, add the olive oil and mix it for a minute.
- There you go! Make it for use in your shower.
How to use it
- While you're in the shower, use the sugar exfoliant all over your body.
- Then, massage with circular movements.
- Finally, rinse with warm water.
2. Sea salt and lavender
The consistency of sea salt lets you get rid of dead skin cells without damaging your skin.
Lavender has anti-inflammatory properties. These are good for fighting acne, wounds, or getting rid of bacteria.
- 1/2 cup of salt
- 4 tablespoons of coconut oil
- 1 tablespoon of dry lavender
- 16 drops of lavender essential oil
- First, mix the salt with the coconut oil.
- Then, add the dry lavender and the lavender oil.
- Lastly, mix it until all of the ingredients are well integrated.
How to use it
- Apply this in the shower using a smooth massage.
- Let it work for a few minutes.
- Rinse with a lot of water.
3. Oats and almonds
Oats are a cereal that has a high content of proteins and antihistamine compounds. This controls itching. Also, they moisturize and balance your pH level.
Almonds give you vitamin E. Together with their antioxidant effect, they help to get rid of toxins.
- 4 tablespoons of oats
- 1 tablespoon of honey
- 2 tablespoons of almond oil
- 1 apple
- Put the oats in a container and add the honey and almond oil.
- Mix it until all of the ingredients are well mixed.
- Then, chop the apple and add it to the mixture. This gives the cream an antioxidant effect.
How to use it
- Apply it to your face or other parts of your body. Use circular massages and let it work for 15 minutes.
- Then, rinse your skin until there's no residue left.
- Avoid exposure to temperature changes.
- Use sunscreen every day.
- Drink at least 8 cups of water per day.
- Take care of your diet, you should especially reduce your fat intake.
- Reduce your alcohol and tobacco consumption. These reduce the amount of collagen you have.
- Control your stress.
- Don't forget that creams are indispensable for moisturizing.
- Don't exfoliate if you have an injury.


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Sense About Science and NIHR launch new practical guide for Public Engagement
7 November 2017
Public Engagement - case study Public Engagement - report
Sense About Science, work with researchers on many of the most sensitive subjects - some fraught with misunderstanding - to improve the communication of their research findings. They only undertake such partnerships where there are high stakes for the public and communication is difficult. Communicating the survival statistics of children's heart surgery at different treatment centres in 2016 was among the toughest of these, with potentially major consequences for all involved. It is a using this experience as a case study, funded by the National Institute for Health Research, that has been used as the basis of this new practical guide.
The guide sets out a five-step guide to involve the public in communicating research, so co-designing research communications:
It doesn't cover how to involve publics in the shaping of research itself, but points to resources if that's what you're looking for.
Each chapter is dedicated to looking at each of the five steps in turn and provides an overview of the sorts of questions or steps to help you contextualise the steps within your own area of interest, whilst also providing annotated examples of how these were done for different projects, but significantly through looking through the lens of Dr Christina Pagel, a mathematician at UCL, from writing her grant to update the formula used to take into account the complexity of surgical cases in monitoring hospitals that carry out children's heart surgery through to developing a website to communicate the research and its significance.
Worth a read-through for anyone thinking of doing user-testing and audience consultations - especially if communicating tricky or complicated topics is at the heart of your work.