to draw other shapes by using the PLOT command. This is described in Appendix 3.
Adding Colour
Although we've tried out the rudiments of making pretty pictures, it still looks rather boring, doesn't it, because everything is in white on a black background. Let's try bringing a little colour into our lives!
We've been experimenting in graphics using mode 27 or mode 12, either of which is capable of displaying 16 colours at once. If you consult the list of screen modes in your machine's User Guide, you'll see that various modes have 2, 4, 16 or 256 colours. Modern RISC OS computers are capable of displaying up to 16 million colours but for drawing purposes, we're going to restrict ourselves to these screen modes.
Colours are referred to by numbers and you can change the colour with the COLOUR command for text and the GCOL command for graphics. Let's experiment with a four-colour mode first, for simplicity, in Colours4.
When you run the program, you will see that the first line of text is invisible. This is for a very good reason - it's in black on a black background! You can see that the colours in four colour modes are:
 - black
 - red
 - yellow
 - white
Now try the same experiment in a 16 colour mode. In Colours16, the first four lines of the program have been changed, so the whole program looks like this:
Are You Feeling Dizzy?
Depending on how your machine is set up, you may find that the result of running this program is that you feel a little dizzy, as half the display seems to be jumping up and down and behaving like a chameleon! This is because colours 8 to 15 are defined as flashing colours and, to make matters worse, colour 8 flashes black-and-white as colour 15 flashes white-and-black.
The Basic prompt is also flashing because the last line left the colour defined as flashing black and white. If you want to stop it flashing, type COLOUR 7 to select white. Better still, change mode to get rid of the whole lot!
To save you from having to run it again to see what the colours were, here is a list of the colours in 16 colour modes:
 - 0:black
 - 1:red
 - 2:green
 - 3:yellow
 - 4:blue
 - 5:magenta
 - 6:cyan
 - 7:white
 - 8:flashing black-white
 - 9:flashing red-cyan
 - 10:flashing green-magenta
 - 11:flashing yellow-blue
 - 12:flashing blue-yellow
 - 13:flashing magenta-green
 - 14:flashing cyan-red
 - 15:flashing white-black
If the colours didn't flash, you may find that colours 8 to 15 are one of the two colours shown.
As you will gather, COLOUR changes the colour of any text printed on the screen after the command is given. You can experiment with this by typing COLOUR followed by a number and see the Basic prompt and whatever you type in next change colour.
Changing the Background Colour
When you print text, you actually put two colours on the screen, the foreground and background colours. These are set to white and black respectively when you change screen mode, but they can both be changed. We've seen how to change the foreground colour; to change the background colour, you use the COLOUR command in exactly the same way, except that you add 128 to the colour number.
You can demonstrate this easily by typing:
 COLOUR 128+1
or COLOUR 129, if you prefer. The Basic prompt and any text you print acquires a red background. If you type CLS to clear the screen, the whole screen turns red. This is because the screen is cleared by filling it with the current background colour.
There is another command, CLG, which clears the screen to the current graphics background colour.
To show all the coloured backgrounds, we need to print some text in a colour that will show up against them. Take a look at the file BackCols. We already know what a black background looks like so let's set the text to black and show backgrounds in all the other colours, starting with red.
Graphics Colours
You can set the colour of graphics in the same way as for text, by using the GCOL command, which stands for Graphics COLour. We can illustrate this in Boxes by drawing overlapping rectangles in each colour, though we'll stick to the ones that don't flash!
The star (*) symbol in line 70 is the way we show a multiplication sign in Basic. The program follows the usual rules of mathematics, which is to work out anything inside brackets first, then do multiplication and division before addition and subtraction. Thus in the first part of line 70, colour% is multiplied by 60 and the result subtracted from 600.
Line 50 gives us an example of the STEP keyword in a FOR... NEXT loop. In this case, colour% is decreased by 1 each time we go round the loop, because the number following STEP is -1. The program draws progressively smaller rectangles on top of each other, then sets the graphics foreground colour back to white (7) and draws a circle over the whole lot.
If you type this program in, keep it safely because we make use of it later in the guide.
Redefining Colours
You're probably thinking that the colours we've used so far are a bit gaudy. In fact, they're all produced by turning the red, green and blue guns in your monitor fully on or fully off - a technique that was used on computers such as the BBC Model B in the early 1980s! You may also have realised that modes 12 and 27 are used by the desktop, which has far more subtle colours.
... progressively smaller rectangles...
... progressively smaller rectangles...
We can redefine any colour by using the COLOUR command followed by either two or four figures or variables. At its simplest, this can be used to replace any colour by any other one, using numbers taken from the list of colours used by 16 colour modes.
Mode 0 and 25 are two colour modes, so naturally the colours are numbered 0 and 1. When you start up this mode, colour 0, as always, is black and colour 1 is white.
You can replace the white by, say, yellow. First enter mode 25 (mode 0 if you have a standard resolution monitor), then type:
 COLOUR 1,3
The 1 is the logical colour, that is the number by which we refer to the colour and 3 is the physical colour, that is the colour which actually appears on the screen.
The Basic prompt and any text already on the screen will turn yellow. The effect is instant because you're not redrawing any characters - you are redefining the actual colour in which they are displayed.
Now type:
 COLOUR 0,4
and the background, which is colour 0, will turn blue. You are still in a two colour mode; your text is still colour 1 and the background colour 0, but you now have yellow text on a blue background.
A Greater Choice of Colours
So far, so good, but this still hasn't got us away from the gaudy colours. Your RISC OS machine is capable of far more than this! We should be able to define any colour in terms of how much red, green and blue it has in it.
We do this with the COLOUR command followed by four numbers. The first is the colour number and the other three are the amounts of red, green and blue respectively.
For technical reasons, these numbers have to lie in the range from 0 to 255. Each colour can be set to one of 16 levels, so these levels are numbered in steps of 16 - level 0 is number 0, level 1 is 16 and so on up to level 15 which is 240. If you use a number between these figures, it will be rounded down. The reason for all this will become apparent in Section 9.
If we set the red, green and blue of colour 0 to half their maximum levels, we will get a grey background. We can do this by typing:
 COLOUR 0,128,128,128
Now try:
 COLOUR 0,240,144,0
This sets red to maximum, green to a little more than half and blue to zero, which will give you an orange background.
You can alter the colour of the text by redefining colour 1 in the same way and, of course, in modes 12 and 27 you have 16 colours to play with in this way!
256 Colour Modes
In a 256 colour mode, such as mode 15 (or mode 28, for VGA monitors), we do not use logical colour numbers like the other modes; instead we define the colour directly with the colour number.
This is a little complicated and may not appear to make much sense at the moment. All will be revealed when we get to the section entitled Bits, Bytes and Binary Numbers.
Red, green and blue each have four possible levels, which are given numbers 0 to 3. Having chosen them, you need to do the following:
 - Leave the'red' number as it is
 - Multiply the 'green' number by


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As a philanthropic foundation, KR Foundation typically engages in areas where neither governments nor markets actors seem to have incentives to act. Not restricted by short-term considerations and profit concerns, KR Foundation engages in non-profit activities with long-term impact on our climate and environment.
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This guide shows you how to run a TensorFlow model using Arm NN.
This guide uses Arm NN to run a model following these steps:
- Load and parse the MNIST test set.
- Import graph.
- Optimize and load onto compute device.
- Run graph on device.
The complete example with source code, data and model is available here on GitHub. The guide explains each step of the example code to help you understand each stage of the process.
At the end of this guide you will be able to run the complete example yourself and use the knowledge you have gained to build and run your own models using Arm NN.


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How Hydrostats invented rigid body motion (#190)
The worm C. elegans and the human tongue exhibit movement behaviors that are quite different from each other, as we would expect from the wide phyletic separation between nematodes and vertebrates. C. elegans undulates sinusoidally to search for food, while the human tongue swallows, masticates, and serves as the main lingual organ that accomplishes the differentiation of the many hundreds of consonants and vowels of the world's languages. Yet underlying the enormous difference in purpose and behavior, these two movement systems are known to be hydrostats, movement systems that rely on volume conservation to accomplish movement in the world. In this paper I discuss the similarity of motor control principles involved in C. elegans locomotion and human speech production that is due to their hydrostatic nature. The analysis of 80 movies of wild-type C. elegans and dynamic MRI data from speakers of Tamil, English, and French will be presented to support the idea that even though there are no rigid bodies in the worm or tongue, hydrostat motor control principles accomplish an overall motion of the deformable media of the hydrostats to accomplish translation and rotation, the signatures kinematics of rigid bodies. Analysis of the data together with a theoretical simulation of the data using finite element models will show how simulation of rigid bodies achieves an enormous reduction in degrees of freedom implicit in the deformable bodies and allows, therefore, for controllability of these media through the specification of very few degrees of freedom, like displacement and angle, the generalized degrees of freedom for rigid bodies. The implications of these results for general models of motor control of behavior for invertebrates and vertebrates will be discussed, emphasizing how the results here add to the existing literature on commonalities between invertebrate and vertebrate motor behavior.


Shell Grit for Chickens
by Natural Poultry Essentials
A must-have for laying pullets and hens!
Why do your chickens need shell grit?
Chickens don't have teeth! Therefore ensuring they have a supply of grit is critical to the health of their gizzard. It's also a critical source of calcium for strong bones and egg shells.
What is shell grit?
Natural Poultry Essentials Shell Grit is literally broken up seashells. It's 100% real, natural and Australian. It's a mixture of fine and medium textures, perfect for laying hens and pullets.
How to use shell grit for chickens
Chooks love shell grit when it's clean and shiny, so keep half a cup at a time in a container that they can't scratch in. Allow them to "free choice", meaning rather than mixing it into their feed, offer it to them to peck as they please.
A small birdcage-style feeder hooked on the side of their coop or run (out of the weather), is perfect. Wet slightly if it's losing its lustre.


Grokbase Groups Pig user March 2009
Thanks for the response... unfortunately the output I get is:
(, 1, 1)
(w, 1, 1)
(x, 3, 3) <--- $2 should be a '2' not a '3'.
(y, 1, 1)
(z, 1, 1)
Desired results:
x,3,2 <--- $2 should be a '2' and not a '3' because the values for 'x' are (a,b,b) and so there are only 2 distinct values.
I was able to get the output of (x,3,3) via another way
A = load 'test.csv' using PigStorage(',') as (a1,a2,a3);
B = group A by $0;
C = distinct B;
D = foreach C generate group, COUNT(A.a2), COUNT(A.a3);
...but to make it work as a distinct count I would like to achieve (x,3,2) not (x,3,3).
Would I need to write a UDF called COUNT_DISTINCT based mostly on the COUNT function? If so how?
Would replacing...
public void exec(Tuple input, DataAtom output) throws IOException {
output.setValue(count(input)); <--- I suppose this should return a count of hash keys or something???
} sufficient?
Thanks in advance,
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Gates
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 2:56 PM
Subject: Re: count distinct using pig?
B = group A by $0;
C = foreach B {
D1 = A.a2;
D2 = distinct D1;
E1 = A.a3;
E2 = distinct D2;
generate group, COUNT(D2), COUNT(E2);
store C into 'output';
On Mar 18, 2009, at 1:43 PM, Avram Aelony wrote:
Hello Pig list,
several categorical variables a1-a3 and am seeking to compute
distinct counts of fields a2 and a3 by field a1.
How can I get distinct counts?
For example:
dump A;
(x, X, a)
(y, Y, b)
(x, XX, b)
(z, Z, c)
(w, X, )
(, W, d)
(x,, b)
B = group A by $0;
dump B;
(, {(, W, d)})
(w, {(w, X, )})
(x, {(x, X, a), (x, XX, b), (x,, b)})
(y, {(y, Y, b)})
(z, {(z, Z, c)})
# how do I get distinct counts by $0??
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Many thanks,
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The data shown in the figure represent the average values (n=3-5 per pair of tires) of a subset of all such experiments I have performed, including only those where the temperature was between 15 and 25 deg C (ambient temperature for the experiments shown was 19.9 +/- 2.1 deg C). When mismatched pairs of tires were tested, I used the average value obtained during Al's roller tests, i.e., I assumed that my weight was equally distributed on the front and rear wheels of my TT bike. Finally, since I tested the Continental Ultra 2000 clincher tires using butyl tubes, whereas Al tested these (my) tires using latex tubes, I have adjusted the value he obtained upward by 0.00038, i.e., the average difference he has obtained in his roller tests when comparing butyl vs. latex tubes.
As can be seen in the figure, the roller and field test data agree quite closely, even though they have been performed by different individuals using different equipment and procedures. As might be expected, however, the Crr values I have obtained on an asphalt road are higher than what Al has measured using plastic rollers. Part of this difference, of course, is almost certainly due to differences in the two surfaces, and in fact when testing on aluminum rollers I have consistently obtained Crr values that are 18% lower than those found by Al, even when using identical procedures. It is also possible, however, that other factors contribute to the difference between the field-test and roller data, e.g., differences in the calibrations of our power meters (or scales), small biases in the values assumed for chain friction (field tests) or bearing friction (roller tests), etc.
The most important "take home" message, however, is the high correlation found between the roller and field test data (over a wide range of Crr values), which strongly supports the validity of the former as an approach for differentiating between the Crr of different tires. Indeed, the precision of roller testing is so much greater (i.e., by a factor of ~10x, in my experience) that it should be considered the method of choice for anyone who owns a power meter (and rollers).
(Note: I have previously posted the above plot to various web fora. If it differs from such prior versions, it is the result of more meticulously examining the data to spot errors, make certain that the brand, model, and width of tire that I tested was exactly the same as that tested by Al, etc.)


How to Get More Out of a Short Story
The short story: do not cancel your GRE exam. Period. Another thing with the choice is that the logic behind it does not make much sense. If the GRE was so terrible that you needed to cancel your exam then how come you just made it all the way through? And just about any other legitimate reason to cancellation your exam would stop you from taking the next step because you would not have made it to the end in the first place.
First off, let's examine the test itself. It is a test of general reasoning and problem solving abilities. You should expect to get an average grade in this course, depending on how well you have prepared yourself. Most students in this situation do not know what to expect in this class and will make silly decisions based on their lack of knowledge and preparation.
I suggest you look into how much prep time you have, and where you stand at this point in your learning curve. This will help you decide if you can afford to take another GRE exam or if you should focus on other areas of study. It would also help you determine if it would be worth it to pay for a new GRE prep course or whether you should move on.
The second issue is that the logic to cancel your exam really does not make much sense. Why would you take the next step? Your chances are not that great and you will not improve enough on the previous test to make it into the next level anyway.
In short, it is your GRE examination that is the important one, not the short story. If you take the next step and get into the next level of GRE studying, it will be a lot more beneficial to your GRE studying.
If you want to get more out of your GRE test, you should start looking for ways to get more out of it. If you focus on the real test, you will be prepared for it and you will get more out of it. If you start focusing on studying, you can see more improvement than ever before and you will be ready to take a GRE prep course.
There are a few places to look when you are looking for GRE prep courses or GRE courses online. Some of them will give you a full list of questions you have to answer and will show you how to get answers and move through each section. Others will give you free access to the actual GRE material and you can practice and do practice tests on them. Either of these options should be used.
When you are getting ready for your next test you should always remember that there is a difference between test taking and preparing. Many people think they know what they are doing and get the job done in the short story. They think they know how to prepare and think that the next test will come easy and they will be able to pass it without any trouble. When you are looking for answers, remember that GRE prep is different than your short story.
When you go to a book store and pick up a short story and read the first few pages, it should feel natural and comfortable. When you are going to a class, you are not sitting there for an hour listening to a professor explain your problem or answer all the time. You are going to learn by asking questions and having real life conversations and using the information you hear.
When you study for the GRE, you can find that the short story may be perfect for you but the best way to find the material that works for you is to look for short stories that are similar to what you want to accomplish with your GRE exam. You will be surprised at how many different topics are covered. and how simple and useful some of them can be to use as a source for your study.
When you want to get better at your GRE, you will have to go and study, but you will have to remember that GRE prep is something entirely different from studying for a short story. Make sure you find ways to get more out of your GRE exam.


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Rhyll McMaster established her considerable reputation as a poet in the 1970s and 1980s. Feather Man is her début novel. In a first-person narrative, the protagonist recounts her life story from the time when she was a child living in suburban Brisbane in the 1950s until her emergence as a painter in London in the 1970s. It is a Kunstleroman divided into four parts, each named for a significant male character who shapes her relationship to art. The narrator's name is withheld until near the end, when we learn that, somewhat ambiguously, her classically educated father named her 'Lyce', from Horace's Odes on Love.


and information about the terminal's capabilities into the shell's environment. This is done using the \fB\-s\fR option..PP When the \fB\-s\fR option is specified, the commands to enter the information into the shell's environment are written to the standard output. If the \fBSHELL\fR environmental variable ends in \*(''csh\*('', the commands are for \fBcsh\fR, otherwise, they are for \fBsh\fR. Note, the \fBcsh\fR commands set and unset the shell variable \fBnoglob\fR, leaving it unset. The following line in the \fB.login\fR or \fB.profile\fR files will initialize the environment correctly:.sp eval \'_USER_@ \-s options... \'..SH TERMINAL TYPE MAPPING When the terminal is not hardwired into the system (or the current system information is incorrect) the terminal type derived from the \fI/etc/ttys\fR file or the \fBTERM\fR environmental variable is often something generic like \fBnetwork\fR, \fBdialup\fR, or \fBunknown\fR. When \fB@TSET@\fR is used in a startup script it is often desirable to provide information about the type of terminal used on such ports..PP The \fB\-m\fR options maps from some set of conditions to a terminal type, that is, to tell \fB@TSET@\fR \*(''If I'm on this port at a particular speed, guess that I'm on that kind of terminal\*(''..PP The argument to the \fB\-m\fR option consists of an optional port type, an optional operator, an optional baud rate specification, an optional colon (\*('':\*('') character and a terminal type. The port type is a string (delimited by either the operator or the colon character). The operator may be any combination of \*(''>\*('', \*(''<\*('', \*(''@\*('', and \*(''!\*(''; \*(''>\*('' means greater than, \*(''<\*('' means less than, \*(''@\*('' means equal to and \*(''!\*('' inverts the sense of the test. The baud rate is specified as a number and is compared with the speed of the standard error output (which should be the control terminal). The terminal type is a string..PP If the terminal type is not specified on the command line, the \fB\-m\fR mappings are applied to the terminal type. If the port type and baud rate match the mapping, the terminal type specified in the mapping replaces the current type. If more than one mapping is specified, the first applicable mapping is used..PP For example, consider the following mapping: \fBdialup>9600:vt100\fR. The port type is dialup, the operator is >, the baud rate specification is 9600, and the terminal type is vt100. The result of this mapping is to specify that if the terminal type is \fBdialup\fR, and the baud rate is greater than 9600 baud, a terminal type of \fBvt100\fR will be used..PP If no baud rate is specified, the terminal type will match any baud rate. If no port type is specified, the terminal type will match any port type. For example, \fB\-m dialup:vt100 \-m :?xterm\fR will cause any dialup port, regardless of baud rate, to match the terminal type vt100, and any non-dialup port type to match the terminal type?xterm. Note, because of the leading question mark, the user will be queried on a default port as to whether they are actually using an xterm terminal..PP No whitespace characters are permitted in the \fB\-m\fR option argument. Also, to avoid problems with meta-characters, it is suggested that the entire \fB\-m\fR option argument be placed within single quote characters, and that \fBcsh\fR users insert a backslash character (\*(''\e\*('') before any exclamation marks (\*(''!\*('')..SH HISTORY.PP A \fBreset\fP command appeared in 2BSD (April 1979), written by Kurt Shoens. This program set the \fIerase\fP and \fIkill\fP characters to \fB^H\fP (backspace) and \fB@\fP respectively. Mark Horton improved that in 3BSD (October 1979), adding \fIintr\fP, \fIquit\fP, \fIstart\fP/\fIstop\fP and \fIeof\fP characters as well as changing the program to avoid modifying any user settings..PP Later in 4.1BSD (December 1980), Mark Horton added a call to the \fBtset\fP program using the \fB\-I\fP and \fB\-Q\fP options, i.e., using that to improve the terminal modes. With those options, that version of \fBreset\fP did not use the termcap database..PP A separate \fBtset\fP command was provided in 2BSD by Eric Allman. While the oldest published source (from 1979) provides both \fBtset\fP and \fBreset\fP, Allman's comments in the 2BSD source code indicate that he began work in October 1977, continuing development over the next few years..PP In September 1980, Eric Allman modified \fBtset\fP, adding the code from the existing \*(lqreset\*(rq feature when \fBtset\fP was invoked as \fBreset\fP. Rather than simply copying the existing program, in this merged version, \fBtset\fP used the termcap database to do additional (re)initialization of the terminal. This version appeared in 4.1cBSD, late in 1982..PP Other developers (e.g., Keith Bostic and Jim Bloom) continued to modify \fBtset\fP until 4.4BSD was released in 1993..PP The \fBncurses\fR implementation was lightly adapted from the 4.4BSD sources for a terminfo environment by Eric S. Raymond..SH COMPATIBILITY.PP Neither IEEE Std 1003.1/The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7 (POSIX.1-2008) nor X/Open Curses Issue 7 documents \fB@TSET@\fP or \fB@RESET@\fP..PP The AT&T \fBtput\fP utility (AIX, HPUX, Solaris) incorporated the terminal-mode manipulation as well as termcap-based features such as resetting tabstops from \fBtset\fP in BSD (4.1c), presumably with the intention of making \fBtset\fP obsolete. However, each of those systems still provides \fBtset\fP. In fact, the commonly-used \fBreset\fP utility is always an alias for \fBtset\fP..PP The \fB@TSET@\fR utility provides for backward-compatibility with BSD environments (under most modern UNIXes, \fB/etc/inittab\fR and \fIgetty\fR(1) can set \fBTERM\fR appropriately for each dial-up line; this obviates what was \fB@TSET@\fR's most important use). This implementation behaves like 4.4BSD \fBtset\fP, with a few exceptions specified here..PP A few options are different because the \fBTERMCAP\fR variable is no longer supported under terminfo-based \fBncurses\fR:.bP The \fB\-S\fR option of BSD \fBtset\fP no longer works; it prints an error message to the standard error and dies..bP The \fB\-s\fR option only sets \fBTERM\fR, not \fBTERMCAP\fP..PP There was an undocumented 4.4BSD feature that invoking \fBtset\fP via a link named \*(''TSET\*('' (or via any other name beginning with an upper-case letter) set the terminal to use upper-case only. This feature has been omitted..PP The \fB\-A\fR, \fB\-E\fR, \fB\-h\fR, \fB\-u\fR and \fB\-v\fR options were deleted from the \fB@TSET@\fR utility in 4.4BSD. None of them were documented in 4.3BSD and all are of limited utility at best. The \fB\-a\fR, \fB\-d\fR, and \fB\-p\fR options are similarly not documented or useful, but were retained as they appear to be in widespread use. It is strongly recommended that any usage of these three options be changed to use the \fB\-m\fR option instead. The


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Learning Communities (LCs) are team-taught, interdisciplinary courses that take a common theme and view it through the lens of multiple disciplines. For example, the LC, "Exploring Inequality: The Causes and Consequences of Hunger and Homelessness," was co-taught by instructors from the English and economics departments, providing students with the opportunity to consider the problem through at least two different perspectives. Students collaborate on research and group projects, developing peer support networks that foster teamwork and encourage friendships through the exploration of shared interests.
There is strong quantitative and qualitative evidence that LCs help underprepared students to prepare, prepared students to advance, and advanced students to excel, while providing a transformational professional development opportunity for LC faculty. The LC program also functions as a platform for innovation regarding new interdisciplinary curriculum, e.g., Sustainability Studies and Women's Studies Programs, and new pedagogies, such as transdisciplinary and documentation practices. At HCC, learning communities have played a critical role in supporting the college mission along with leading the campus in innovation, collaboration, and inclusion.


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What Is It?
Social Studies, History, Information Technology
Change, Ways of life
- Mail-order catalogues on this site
- Photographs of artifacts from Eaton's catalogues (links
- Teacher hints (below)
- Ask students to select an object from the list of photographs below.
- By using the historical catalogue pages
from this site, and with the help of the indexes, students must find out
it was used, what it was used for, and what it cost.
- Foot warmer
- Shoe and harness repair kit
- Pair of sad iron handles and bases
- Meat grinder
- Foot-powered sewing machine
- Electric toaster
- Electric washing machine.
Foot warmer, ca?
On a cold winter's night in a home heated by a
a stoneware foot warmer filled with hot water would have been a welcome
to a bed. Foot warmers were also used in carriages and in early
didn't have heaters.
Shoe and harness repair kit, ca 1900
This "Combination Family Cobbler/Tinker &
contained the tools required to perform repairs to shoes and horse
in this kit were childrenand adult-sized lasts, or shoe forms, a
hammer, a tack hammer, a leather punch, and a variety of nails.
Pair of sad iron bases and handles, ca 1900-50
Before women used electric irons to press clothes and
they used sad irons. Sad irons were usually sold as sets with one
wooden handle and three cast iron bases. Women heated two or three bases
wood stove at a time. They attached the handle to one preheated base, used
to iron until it cooled down, and then replaced it with a heated base from
Meat grinder, ca 1910-50
At a time when people raised their own livestock and did
own butchering, many people made their own sausages and ground meats by
a hand-powered meat grinder. After clamping the grinder to a table, they
drop chunks of meat into the funnel-like hopper and turn the handle. An
blade inside would grind up the meat and the resulting ground meat would
out through the opening on the side into a sausage casing or a bowl.
Foot-powered sewing machine, ca 1910-50
Eaton's offered its own brand of sewing machine in
catalogues. This Eatonia sewing machine would have been fastened to a
cabinet with a foot-pedal underneath. By pumping the pedal with her foot
guiding the fabric with her hands, a woman could have sewn clothing that
modeled on the latest catalogue fashions.
Electric toaster, ca 1920
This electric "turn-over" toaster was used to
one piece of bread at a time. When one side was toasted, the user flipped
bread over so the other side could be toasted too.
Electric washing machine, 1926
"All the old, wearying, back-breaking rubbing and
of wash-tub days done away with for you," boasted the advertisement
this electric washing machine in the Eaton's spring-and-summer 1926
However, most Canadian homes did not yet have electricity in 1926 and
continue to do the laundry using washtubs, washboards, and their own
for a few more decades.

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About These Notebooks
Unlike the online Tellurium documentation, which is intended to work in both Jupyter and the Tellurium notebook viewer, these example notebooks are specialized for the Tellurium's notebook viewer. This allows you to use Tellurium's special notebook cells. Whereas regular Jupyter notebooks only contain Python code, Tellurium allows you to incorporate the community standards SBML and COMBINE archives directly in your notebook.
Simple Example
This example shows how to set up a simple model in Tellurium and solve it as an ODE. Tellurium uses a human-readable representation of SBML models called Antimony. The following notebook cell is actually Antimony code - the Tellurium notebook viewer allows you to configure notebook cells as either Antimony, Python, or COMBINE archives. To create Antimony cells, simply select "Convert to Model Cell" from the dropdown in the upper right of a code cell.
When you run the cell below, it will create an instance of the RoadRunner simulator. You can use this instance to simulate the model by running the simulate function with the start time, end time, and number of points.
In [1]:
model simple()
 S1 -> S2; k1*S1
 k1 = 0.1
 S1 = 10
In [2]:
simple.simulate(0, 50, 100)
More Complex Example
Tellurium can also handle stochastic models. This example shows how to select Tellurium's stochastic solver. The underlying simulation engine used by Tellurium implements a Gibson direct method for simulating this model.
In this example, we run multiple simulations of a stochastic model. Then, we average the simulation trajectories and plot the average trajectory along with the ensemble.
In [3]:
model stochastic()
 J1: S1 -> S2; k1*S1;
 J2: S2 -> S3; k2*S2 - k3*S3
 J3: S3 -> S4; k4*S3;
 k1 = 0.1; k2 = 0.5; k3 = 0.5; k4 = 0.5;
 S1 = 100;
In [4]:
import tellurium as te, numpy as np
# use a stochastic solver
stochastic.integrator = 'gillespie'
stochastic.integrator.seed = 1234
# selections specifies the output variables in a simulation
selections = ['time'] + stochastic.getBoundarySpeciesIds() + stochastic.getFloatingSpeciesIds()
stochastic.integrator.variable_step_size = False
# run repeated simulation
Ncol = len(stochastic.selections)
Nsim = 30
points = 101
s_sum = np.zeros(shape=[points, Ncol])
for k in range(Nsim):
 s = stochastic.simulate(0, 50, points, selections=selections)
 s_sum += s
 # use show=False to add traces to the current plot
 # instead of starting a new one, equivalent to MATLAB hold on
 stochastic.plot(s, alpha=0.5, show=False)
# add mean curve, legend, show everything and set labels, titles,...
fig = te.plot(s[:,0], s_sum[:,1:]/Nsim, names=[x +'(mean)' for x in selections[1:]], title="Stochastic simulation", xtitle="time", ytitle="concentration")


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Now, odours can be rated on scale of pleasantness!Published On: Mon, Oct 3rd, 2011 | Neurobiology | By BioNews
A new research has claimed that odours can be rated on a scale of pleasantness, which turns out to be an organizing principle for the way humans experience smell.
According to the research conducted at the Weizmenn Institute of Science, researchers could tell by measuring the nerve responses whether a subject found a smell pleasant or unpleasant.
In the experiment headed by Prof. Noam Sobel, the researchers inserted electrodes into the nasal passages of volunteers and measured the nerves' responses to different smells in various sites with each measurement capturing the response of thousands of smell receptors.
They found that the strength of the nerve signal varied from place to place on the membrane and it appeared that the receptors are not evenly distributed, but rather are grouped into distinct sites, each engaging most strongly with a particular type of scent.
Further investigation showed that the intensity of a reaction was linked to the odour's place on the pleasantness scale as the site where the nerves reacted strongly to a certain agreeable scent also showed strong reactions to other pleasing smells and vice versa.
"We uncovered a clear correlation between the pattern of nerve reaction to various smells and the pleasantness of those smells. As in sight and hearing, the receptors for our sense of smell are spatially organized in a way that reflects the nature of the sensory experience," Prof. Sobel said.
The implication of the study is that a pleasantness scale is, indeed, an organizing principle for our smell organ.
The study has been published in Nature Neuroscience.


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Hermippe or Jupiter XXX, is a moon of Jupiter. It was found by a team of astronomers from the University of Hawaii led by Scott S. Sheppard in 2001, and given the designation S/2001 J 3.
Hermippe is about 4 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Jupiter at an average distance of 21,182,000 km in 629.809 days, at an inclination of 151° to the ecliptic (149° to Jupiter's equator), with an eccentricity of 0.2290.
It was named in August 2003 by the IAU, after Hermippe, a lover of Zeus (Jupiter).
Hermippe belongs to the Ananke group, retrograde non-spherical moons which orbit Jupiter between 19,300,000 and 22,700,000 km, at inclinations of about 150°.


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September is Preparedness Month ~ Be prepared for wildfires ~
Posted on 9/2/2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Cecily Fong
September 2, 2008
Bismarck, ND - With fall fire season nearly upon us, the ND Department of Emergency Services (NDDES) reminds North Dakotans that dry conditions exist in many areas of the state and the risk of wild fire continues to be high. It is important to be aware of a few important factors that will ensure that you and your family are safe.
Learn and teach safe fire practices.
Build fires away from nearby trees or bushes.
Always have a way to extinguish the fire quickly and completely.
Never leave a fire--even a cigarette--burning unattended.
Avoid open burning completely, and especially during dry season.
Always be ready for an emergency evacuation.
Know where to go and what to bring with you.
Plan several escape routes in case roads are blocked by a wildfire.
Children should be aware of evacuation routes and families should practice them together.
Know how to report a fire.
Be aware of your surroundings so you can give a good and accurate location.
Give an approximate size and describe any homes or structures that may be threatened.
Stay on the line to help give further information as requested.


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The compounds, 9-keto-8,9-dihydro-damascones or damascenones, are used as the ingredients in the production of perfumes and aromas. Since these compounds are able to be converted into damascones and damascenones. 9-keto-8,9-dihydro-α-damascone [2,6,6-trimethyl-1-(1,3-dioxobutyl)cyclohex-2-ene] (I) may be considered as a precursor of α-damascone. Until now, (I) and its analogues were synthesized by the multistep reactions.
The authors synthesized (I) by a simple reaction of α-cyclogeranoyl chloride(II) and the carbanion(III) which was prepared from acetone with base.
(II) was prepared from α-cyclogeranoic acid by the action of thionyl chloride (bp 43-45°C/0.4 mm Hg, 81% yield).
The reaction procedure was as follows: Sodium amide(15 mmol) was suspended in ether(10 ml) and refluxed for 30 minutes under nitrogen. Into this suspension, acetone(8.6 mmol) was dropped at room temperature with stirring. After 20 minutes, (II) (2.7 mmol) in dry ether(l.5 ml) was added at once to the mixhne at 0°C and stirred vigorously for 5 minutes, and for 15 minutes at 20°C. Then the reaction mixture was poured into ice water and extracted with ether. Column chromatography (silica gel/benzene) of the extract gave (I) (1.07 mmol). The spectroscopic data agreed with those in the literature. The aqueous layer was acidified with phosphoric acid, and α-cyclogeranoic acid was recovered(l.4 mmol).


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Off Campus Programs and Services has the following forms and information to assist students with their housing needs.
- New York State Tenant's Rights Guide
- New Student's Guide to Living off Campus
Information for transfer, graduate or international students planning to live off campus in the Binghamton area.
- Housing Search Checklist
Take this handy checklist with you when you go to inspect a prospective apartment. It itemizes a list of major and minor issues that may present problems in the future.
- Damage Checklist
Use this form when you move into your home as a protection against the loss of your security deposit. NOTE: If you sign a lease while another tenant currently resides at the dwelling, add a statement to your lease explaining the damage checklist is a part of the agreement when you move in.
- Co-Tenancy Agreement
Use this form to clearly establish the relationship among all housemates, for instance, how you will equally share expenses, or how you will divide household chores. This agreement is also known as the "Friendship Saver."
- Rental Agreement
If you are interested in renting from month-to-month rather than leasing for the year, the Rental Agreement is an example of a fair and reasonable contract. It is not necessarily the same contract your landlord uses, but the Rental Agreement contains protection for both you and your landlord during the rental period.
- Sample Lease
While the landowner from whom you rent may use a different lease, the sample lease is an example of a fair and equitable contract. You may wish to compare it with any you consider.
- Consent to Sublease
You may wish to sublet your apartment or home at some time during your tenancy. Use this Consent to Sublease form to protect your rights as a primary tenant.


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A sequence stratigraphic analysis of Campanian to middle Miocene sediments of the Sable Island area: Offshore Nova Scotia, eastern Canada
Long, Martin Troy
Vail, Peter R.
Master of Arts
The continental shelf offshore Nova Scotia is within a passive margin setting and is an excellent area to study the sequence stratigraphy of late Cretaceous and Tertiary sediments. Hydrocarbon exploration offshore Nova Scotia over the past twenty years has produced a substantial amount of well log data. This study integrates the well log data with seismic and biostratigraphic data to create a sequence stratigraphic framework of late Cretaceouse to middle Miocene strata. Sigma Exploration of Calgary has donated access to a large grid of 2D seismic data, covering the outer modern shelf. To help constrain the ages of the sequences, a biostratigraphic analysis of the well Marmora C-34 was performed. Twelve sequences from Campanian to middle Miocene are resolved by integrating the data. Global correlation of results suggest that eustasy is the primary factor in the formation of sequences within the Scotian Basin between lower Eocene and middle Miocene sediments.


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Date of Award
Physical Therapy (M.S.)
The purpose of the study was to identify the accuracy and extent of knowledge among G.V.S.U. academic advisors and the sources used to obtain information regarding the physical therapy (P.T.) admission process. Surveys were distributed to 45 advisors of pre-P.T. students. Nineteen surveys were returned and six respondents were chosen for an interview. Interpretations of the data were made using a qualitative coding system.
The authors found the advisors were inaccurate in their knowledge of the weighting of G.P.A. and interview and the role that physical appearance and leadership plays in the admission process. Advisors were accurate in the number of observational hours, letters of recommendation, and choice of major. The authors found the best source of information for advising pre-P.T. students is the course catalog, and the advisors refer pre-P. T. students to members of the P.T. faculty for further information.
Irrer, Laura; Knight, Elizabeth; and Vander Wall, Joel, "Advisors' Knowledge of Requirements for Admission to the Physical Therapy Program at Grand Valley State University" (1999). Masters Theses. 343.


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Limescale (scanning electron microscopy micrograph, field of view 64 x 90 µm)
It is also often found as a similar deposit on the inner surface of old pipes and other surfaces where "hard water" has evaporated. In addition to being unsightly and hard to clean, limescale seriously impairs the operation or damages various components.[1]
The type found deposited on the heating elements of water heaters has a main component of calcium carbonate. Hard water contains calcium (and often magnesium) bicarbonate or similar ions. Calcium salts, such as calcium bicarbonate and calcium carbonate are both more soluble in hot water than cold water.[dubious ] Thus, heating water does not cause calcium carbonate to precipitate per se. However, there is an equilibrium between dissolved calcium bicarbonate and dissolved calcium carbonate:
Ca2+ + 2HCO3 Ca2+ + CO32− + CO2 + H2O
where the equilibrium is driven by the carbonate/bicarbonate, not the calcium. Note that the CO2 is dissolved in the water.
There is also an equilibrium of carbon dioxide between dissolved in water (dis) and the gaseous state (g): CO2(dis) CO2(g)
The equilibrium of CO2 also moves to the right towards gaseous CO2 when the water temperature rises. When water that contains dissolved calcium carbonate is warmed, CO2 is removed from the water as gas causing the equilibrium of bicarbonate and carbonate to shift to the right, increasing the concentration of dissolved carbonate. As the concentration of carbonate increases, calcium carbonate precipitates as the salt: Ca2+ + CO32− CaCO3.
As new cold water with dissolved calcium carbonate/bicarbonate is added and heated, CO2 gas is removed, carbonate concentration increases, and more calcium carbonate precipitates.
Descaling agents are used to remove scale. Prevention of scale build-up relies on the technologies of water softening.
Limescale buildup inside a pipe reduces both liquid flow through the pipe and thermal conduction from the liquid to the outer pipe shell. Both effects will reduce the pipe's overall thermal efficiency when used as a heat exchanger.
Related materials[edit]
Soap scum[edit]
Calcium cations from hard water can also combine with soap, which would dissolve in soft water. This combination often forms soap scum which precipitates out in a thin film on the interior surfaces of baths, sinks, and drainage pipes.
Iron components of scale[edit]
Scale is often coloured because of the presence of iron-containing compounds. The three main iron compounds are wustite (FeO), hematite (Fe2O3), and magnetite (Fe3O4).
See also[edit]
 1. ^ Hermann Weingärtner, "Water" in Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry, December 2006, Wiley–VCH, Weinheim. doi:10.1002/_PHONE_.a28_001


Title: Review of ICES sole stock MSY and reference points
Publisher: International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
Publication Year: 2011
JRC N°: JRC63782
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Type: Articles in periodicals and books
Abstract: Meta-analyses, applying generic methods within a species group, have benefits in terms of providing more stable estimates of FMSY reference points and estimates for individual stocks which by themselves may otherwise have insufficient data. Current ICES advice for seven sole stocks for which there is sufficient data gives Fmsy estimates which vary from 0.16 to 0.38, but these are specified for differing age ranges so are not directly comparable. Bpa is estimated for six of these seven stocks but Blim is available for only two. Slope at the origin estimates for HS models for the seven stocks vary from 1.32, to 4.45 largely due to observed exploitation rates. Here an evaluation using a consistent framework to compare Fmsy targets and the sensitivity of long term yield to the choice of this value across these stocks. Recruitment is modelled though stochastic multiple model based simulation for 1000 constructed ¿populations¿ for each stock by randomly sampling with replacement selection at age in the fishery, weights at age in the catch and weights at age in the stock for the period 2001-2009. S-R models were fitted in a Bayesian framework under the assumption is that sole has generic exploitation form which can be scaled to the carrying capacity for each stock, but the resilience, or slope (R/SSB) to the origin, is consistent across stocks assuming each stock retains its own estimated or assumed growth and maturation. Three models S-R models were applied, Hockey-stick, Ricker and BevertonHolt with each model formulated so that the A parameter defined the slope to the origin which was assumed to be common for all stocks, whereas the B parameter related to density dependence was assumed to be independent. The probability of each model type is selected for the set using the method described in Simmonds et al (2011). Results show that changing from only HS to multiple models has a minor impact on the estimate of Fmsy or the F that maximizes mean catch, though the range of estimates is reduced. There is a small reduction in range through standardization of F bar over the same ages (3-8). A slightly larger reduction using mean selection at age in the fishery. The largest contribution comes from the different growth of the sole in different areas. In most cases if exploitation is at Fmsy there is less than 5% probability of SSB being less than Blim, except for NS sole. For NS sole measurement error will have some impact on the results whereas for other stocks the influence is limited. The combined analysis (Table x1) shows that the range of F within which catch is within 5% of maximum catch is substantial. Only for Skagerrak-Kattegat sole is the target near the lower bound. For most stocks an F target (ages 3-8) of 0.25 is a good choice. The new Blim and Bpa values are an important change, they are coherent with the simulations contribute to the impression of safe exploitation. However they need to be considered carefully before acceptance, this further analysis would be most appropriately conducted by individuals familiar with the stocks. The higher exploitation rates for Irish Sea and Skagerrak are conditional on the growth and this need to be verified, particularly for Skagerrak-Kattegat.
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Learn Physics From Kitties
In this video, several adorable kitties get a lesson in basic physics when they become intensely fascinated with a kinetic motion desk toy. We hope you're paying attention, kitties. There will be a test later.
The toy, which is called a Newton's cradle, demonstrates conservation of momentum and energy via a series of swinging spheres suspended by wires. In particular, it proves that every action has an equal and opposite reaction, which is an important concept that Albert Einstein used when he developed the theory of relativity.
Of course, the kitties don't know any of this and probably couldn't care less about science as they bat the spheres back and forth. All they know is that it's shiny, makes an awesome clacking noise and demands to be played with. Way to go, kitties! Never let book learning kill your fun.


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If I am convicted of Theft or an offense considered in Texas to be a Crime of Moral Turpitude, what effects will it have on my in the future?
There are several considerations involved with a conviction for a Crime of Moral Turpitude Theft related Conviction.
First, there is a potential Loss of Occupational Licensing rights and employment. This means many jobs may not hire you based on this type of conviction.
Second, there is the likely Impeachment of Testimony if you ever need to testify in ANY court proceeding. This means as a defendant or witness in a crimnal case, a civil case (if you sue over a car accident), or family court for divorce or custody hearings. Conviction of a theft related crime of moral turpitude could potentially (and usually will ) be used against a witness for up to 10 years after a conviction from a Moral Turpitude or release from confinement based on a crime of Moral Turpitude in any proceeding to discredit their testimony.
For instance, if you sustain a theft related conviction that is considered a Crime of Moral Turpitude -- even a misdemeanor shoplifting theft -- that prior conviction can be used against you in any case, even unrelated and non-criminal, to discredit your testimony by showing that you are a dishonest person. This can be based solely on the conviction itself, without explaining facts or circumstances.
For more information, see Rule 609, Impeachment By Evidence Of Conviction Of Crime.
Consequences for Immigration. Federal statutes use the term "Crimes Involving Moral Turpitude" to indicate crimes which can lead a non-citizen resident alien to become deportable. If a non-citizen resident alien is charged with an offense that may be considered a crime of moral turpitude, it is extremely possible and likely that deportation proceedings will follow any criminal case.


Academic grading in France
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The French grading system is based mostly on a 20-point grading scale: it is used above all in secondary schools and universities.
The French high school diploma baccalauréat uses the 20-point scale, with the following mentions (honors):
 - 14–15.9: good (bien: B)
 - 12–13.9: satisfactory (assez bien: AB)
 - 0–9.9: fail (insuffisant)
Primary schools generally use a 10-point grading scale or a letter grade like the ECTS grading scale. French universities traditionally use the 20-point grading scale, generally in a stricter way than secondary schools, which means that students are unlikely to receive marks as high as they did in secondary school. The case of the classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles is particular in the sense that class ranking rather than marks usually reflect the student performance. An average mark of 7 can therefore be considered as a satisfactory grade if the student performs to be in the top of his class.
The ECTS grading scale is more and more common in the post-secondary education system, since it is the standard for comparing study performance throughout the European Union. The GPA grading scale is becoming more and more common as well, since it eases the comparison with American students.
Some Grandes écoles use "exotic" systems, like Ecole Centrale de Lille, which uses a three-letter scale system:
 - A: Excellent
 - S: Satisfactory (satisfaisant)
 - I: Fail (insuffisant)
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What Makes Your Pool Green?
What Makes Your Pool Green?
As a pool owner, there's nothing worse than looking out at your pool and seeing green water. It can happen even to experienced pool owners, but it's easily reversible once you know what caused the issue in the first place.
The pHin experts put together a list of reasons why pool water goes green:
#1 Not Enough Chlorine
Chlorine is important for sanitizing water from bacteria and other contaminants. Lack of chlorine is one of the most common causes of green pools. If the pool water is not balanced with proper chlorine levels, algae will start to grow, causing the water to turn green. The growth of algae also speeds up as warmer weather arrives so a regular pool care routine can keep it in check.
#2 The Weather
Depending on where you live, the weather can have an impact on your pool water clarity. When pollen levels are high, the water may turn green more frequently. Pollen is too small to be properly managed by the pool filter and it might require cleaning with a brush or skimmer. For those who live in hot and humid climates where algae thrives, a higher amount of chlorine can help prevent potential algae buildup.
#3 Unbalanced pH
pH measures the acidity of your pool water, and can fluctuate due to weather, temperature, and pool use. If the pH of the water is too high, chlorine becomes less effective, which can allow algae to grow in the water. Monitoring your pH levels, along with a regular pool care routine, can help prevent an environment where algae can grow.
#4 Pool Pumps and Filters
If your pump or filter is too small for the size of your pool, the system can't properly filter and get rid of algae and other debris that enter the pool. Or even the right size pump can't effectively clear the water if it's not running regularly. Check with your pool manufacturer for the right size and run time required for your pool to keep it safe.
Keeping an eye on your pool water conditions and equipment can prevent a cloudy green pool. pHin can help by reporting whether your pH levels need attention. It takes over 1,000 measurements a week,and will alert you through your smartphone app if your water's pH is off. When there's a problem, you're not on your own – pHin also helps out by providing chemical dosing instructions to right the imbalance before the water gets off track.
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Land Between Two Rivers: Part 2
The Wetlands: Enclosed In Change (#205)
Biologists and other experts discuss the drainage of Iowa's wetlands and how they were formed by glacial activity millions of years ago. An exploration of the cyclical change within marshes is undertaken, and the roles plants, animals and birds play are examined. [58 minutes]
Information For Teachers
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Visit the IPTV Education website to access timely, relevant resources for your classroom.
Series Description: LAND BETWEEN TWO RIVERS: PART 2 examines four biomes present in Iowa and challenges students to consider issues surrounding their continued existence. The once expansive biomes are dwindling as development takes over. Biologists and other experts expound on the plant and animal life indigenous to each system and discuss approaches to protecting them.
All Upcoming Episodes
There are no broadcasts currently planned. Please check back for future broadcast dates.
These episodes of Land Between Two Rivers: Part 2 aired in the last few months on Iowa Public Television.
- The Wetlands: Enclosed In Change (#205)
- A Prairie Conversation (#203)
- The Woodlands: It's What You Think (#201)


Weight loss at the metal surface due to oxygen exposure. Reaction products are usually generated at the metal surface when subjected to high temperatures.
For example, at above 575°C, a scale layer is formed on ferrous surfaces which consists of wüstite (FeO), changing into hematite (Fe2O3) on the outside via an intermediate layer of magnetite (Fe3O4, mill scale).
Therefore, the composition of the scale layer is clearly temperature-dependent (see Scaling).


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We have invited a special guest for this month's Freedom Toast Café. Chris Kozak from Climate Change Reality will talk about how climate change impacts our lives now and in the future and its relationship to human rights.
Let's discuss together the impact of climate change on human rights and what we can do to stop it.
We will provide English-language support if you need it, plus complimentary snacks and drinks, to create a friendly and relaxed atmosphere.
Learn about human rights, brush up your English, and connect with like-minded people.


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Wolves And Rabbits
December 1, 2009
A nearby meadow supports a large population of rabbits; the rabbits eat the grass that grows abundantly in the sunny meadow, and reproduce quickly, as rabbits do. The meadow also supports a population of wolves that eat the rabbits. As the population of rabbits grows, so does the population of wolves, until there are so many wolves that they overeat the rabbits, whereupon the wolf population begins to diminish. But once the wolf population diminishes, the rabbit population is able to begin growing again, and of course as it does so does the wolf population, in a cycle that never ends. The graph at right shows the cycles, with the predator's cycle offset and trailing the prey's cycles.
Ecologists who study such prey-predator populations have determined that there is never a stable equilibrium, but that the populations are cyclical. In the 1920s, an American demographer named Alfred Lotka and an Italian physicist name Vito Volterra, working independently, discovered the differential equations that govern the size of the prey and predator populations:
dR/dt = Rg · R – Rd · R · W
dW/dt = Wg · R · W – Wd · W
R = number of rabbits at beginning of time period
W = number of wolves at beginning of time period
Rg = growth rate of rabbits
Rd = death rate of rabbits
Wg = growth rate of wolves
Wd = death rate of wolves
dR/dt = change in rabbit population during current time period
dW/dt = change in wolf population during current time period
Your task is to write a function that models the wolf and rabbit populations; your function should take the initial populations, growth rates, and death rates of wolves and rabbits and calculate the populations at each time step. When you are finished, you are welcome to read or run a suggested solution, or to post your solution or discuss the exercise in the comments below.
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Development Team/Low-level Activity API
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Sugar activities are usually written in Python using the Python Activity API. This page documents the underlying mechanism that all activities need to conform to. Activities can be written in any language, as long as it can connect to D-Bus and provide an X11 interface. The discussion below tries to be language-agnostic.
This documentation effort was started by Bert on the OLPC wiki while implementing the Squeak-based Etoys activity. Please fill in missing pieces and correct mistakes!
See olpc:Activity Development Alternatives for an overview of various ways to develop activities.
As Sugar evolves to become compatible with ordinary X11 programs, and as services like collaboration migrate into generic X11 desktops, this document will become less and less relevant. All the special rules for "Sugar Activities" will fall by the wayside, because any X11 program will be usable with Sugar. This will greatly simplify both the job of Activity authors, and the usefulness of Sugar-based computers (which will have access to thousands of X "applications" that have never heard of Sugar and never will).
An Activity is basically a regular X11 program which communicates with the special Sugar services via D-Bus.
The Activity bundle specifies an executable. For each activity instance, that executable is run with arguments specifying the bundle id (taken from the bundle) and activity id (generated by Sugar). The instance opens an X window, putting these ids into window properties. It also needs to provide a D-Bus service to receive messages from Sugar. An activity must retrieve and store its state in the datastore, implement sharing on the mesh network, and be security compliant.
Activity Life Cycle
Please see Activity Basics for the user's point of view. The programmer's point of view is outlined here, and detailed in the following sections:
Start Up
 1. The activity is executed.
 2. It creates a D-Bus service to receive method calls from the Sugar shell.
 3. It creates an X11 window with special properties so the Sugar shell can associate an activity with its window.
 4. If an object id was passed on the command line, the activity loads that object from the Datastore. Otherwise, it creates a new Datastore object.
 5. The activity asks the Presence Service to find out if it is shared. If so, it joins the shared activity.
 1. The activity continuously handles X11 user input, as well as D-Bus messages from the Sugar shell, or signals from other sources like the Presence Service.
 2. Whenever the state of the activity was altered significantly, it should update its Datastore object to prevent data loss on an unexpected shutdown.
 3. If the user indicates wanting to share the activity, it has to announce this to the Presence Service.
 4. If the view-source key is pressed, some meta-action about the activity should be invoked, like showing its source code.
Shut Down
 1. When the activity window is closed, it updates its Datastore object with its current state.
 2. It leaves the shared activity (if shared),
 3. and then quits.
Activity Instance
When the activity instance is executed, the current working directory will be set to the bundle directory (e.g., ~/Activities/MyActivity.activity) so resource files can be accessed using relative paths. Also, its "bin" subdirectory is added to the PATH.
Command Line Arguments
The following arguments are passed to the executable:
-b, --bundle-id
Identifier of the activity bundle. Must be made available as window property.
-a, --activity-id
Unique identifier of the activity instance. Must be made available as window property, and is used to create the D-Bus service.
-o, --object-id
(optional) Identity of the journal object associated with the activity instance. When you resume an activity from the journal the object id will be passed in (see datastore).
-u, --uri
(optional) URI associated with the activity. Used when opening an external file or resource in the activity, rather than a journal object (downloads stored on the file system for example or web pages).
Environment Variables
Some environment variables are setup before the activity is launched:
Writable space for the activity, see security. Activities are prohibited from writing anywhere else in the file system.
Path to the current activity bundle (e.g., /usr/share/activities/MyActivity.activity or ~/Activities/MyActivity.activity). This is also the current working directory when the activity is started, so relative paths can be used to access files inside the bundle, rather than constructing absolute paths using this variable.
X Properties
The activity instance needs to set some properties on its top-level window, before the window is shown on the screen (see #5271):
The bundle id (e.g., my.organization.MyActivity) of type STRING as passed on the command line.
The activity id (e.g., 6f7f3acacca87886332f50bdd522d805f0abbf1f) of type STRING as passed on the command line.
The above properties need to be on the window before it pops up. This is easy when programming with raw libX11, but often difficult with high-level toolkits. E.g., in GTK you can use the "realize" event. The toolkit is likely to create and pop up the window in one operation, so you don't get a chance to set the properties. A workable solution is to piggyback on a function within the toolkit. For example, you can implement XChangeProperty in your activity. Using dlsym() with the RTLD_NEXT flag, you can obtain a function pointer to the normal XChangeProperty function in libX11. Your implementation normally just calls that. The first time your implementation is called though, it also sets up the sugar-specific properties. Essentially you are supplying a callback function to a toolkit that was never intended to call one. Once #5271 is settled, this hack is not necessary anymore
Also, some Window Manager hints need to be set:
should be set to the current activity title. It usually corresponds to the title which is displayed in the journal and advertised on the network for shared activities. See Freedesktop specification.
must be set to the activity's process id so the shell can associate memory usage with an activity. See Freedesktop specification.
D-Bus Methods
An activity instance needs to create a D-Bus service:
Service name: org.laptop.Activity6f7f3acacca87886332f50bdd522d805f0abbf1f # no dot after Activity!
Object path: /org/laptop/Activity/6f7f3acacca87886332f50bdd522d805f0abbf1f
Interface: org.laptop.Activity
(where 6f7f3acacca87886332f50bdd522d805f0abbf1f is the activity id as passed on the cmd line)
It must support the following methods:
org.laptop.Activity.SetActive(b: active)
org.laptop.Activity.Invite(s: buddy_key)
If not yet shared, share this activity privately because the user chose "invite" from the mesh view. Then, invite the buddy (see below).
The following methods are optional:
The user wants to view the source. If this method does not answer an error, the activity will handle viewing the source code itself, otherwise Sugar will show the source.
Answer the path of a document source file to view, in addition to the activity bundle itself. Sugar will delete that document when the view-source interface is closed. This method is only called when Sugar handles the source viewing.
To communicate to an activity when it needs to save data and quit, we use the X Session management protocol. The part of the protocol which deals with application restarting is not used and we don't plan to implement it.
In the Glucose 0.84 release cycle we are planning do add support for a D-Bus based protocol which is currently being developed for the GNOME desktop. You can read about it on this bugzilla report.
An Activity instance must store its complete state in the central datastore so it appears in the Journal and can be resumed later. It needs to connect to the datastore service:
Service name: org.laptop.sugar.DataStore
Object path: /org/laptop/sugar/DataStore
Interface: org.laptop.sugar.DataStore
Meta Data
An item in the datastore is referenced by an object_id, it has a dictionary of properties, and possibly a file. The properties have String keys but Variant values. Here are a few properties:
'activity': 'my.organization.MyActivity' # bundle id (determines icon and default activity)
'activity_id': '6f7f3acacca87886332f50bdd522d805f0abbf1f'
'title': 'My new project' # as shown in journal
'title_set_by_user': '0' # '1' if not default title
'keep': '0' # '1' if marked as "favorite" (star)
'ctime': '1972-05-12T18:41:08' # created (local time)
'mtime': '2007-06-16T03:42:33' # modified (local time), deprecated but still used internally so must be present
'timestamp': _PHONE_ # modified (UTC), in seconds since the UNIX epoch, must be present
'preview': ByteArray(png file data, 300x225


Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Using SelfPopulatingCache in Ehcache
Often you can notice that Ehcache is used mostly like a tool that implements highly configurable maps. Sometimes developers configure time-to-live properties, or make use of disk-store functionality, but you can rarely meet someone who has cache population/eviction process that makes sense.
In the perfect world I would expect cache to be a universal pool. I request a value for a key and would like to get it whenever it is possible and as fast as possible with just one line of code. But in reality I usually can see huge cache population code on the application startup, daemon threads that update caches in eternal loop and numerous "ifs" around cache.get() calls.
In my strive to the perfect world I've discovered a SelfPopulatingCache class in Ehcache. In this article I will describe how using SelfPopulatingCache class one can implement a cache with self creating objects with optional auto-updating. In some way this example is an implementation of ideas mentioned in Ehcache documentation.
What you will see down here:
 - A Reader that fetches an object from cache 5 times every 0.5 seconds.
 - Behind scenes cache will create a new object if there is no such object is there in cache for a key requested.
 - A daemon thread will trigger cache refresh every 2 seconds.
The most important class in this example is ExampleCacheProvider.
What it does is creating simple Ehcache (original cache) and wrapping it with SelfPopulatingCache (selfPopulatingCache). We can use this class the same way as CacheManager, so one can consider extending CacheManager, but to keep it simple here we'll stick to this kind of cache source.
While wrapping we specify updatingFactory, which can be set to one of two options: ExampleCacheEntryFactory (line 19) and ExampleUpdatingCacheEntryFactory(line 21). For the purposes of this example the choice between this two options is done based on the "com.blogspot.mikler.java.cache.factory" system property value. The difference between this two is that ExampleCacheEntryFactory implements CacheEntryFactory interface, while ExampleUpdatingCacheEntryFactory extends ExampleCacheEntryFactory and implements UpdatingCacheEntryFactory. The difference between using each of this options is explained later on. Meanwhile here is the code of both classes.
ExampleUpdatingCacheEntryFactory :
As you can see in this example as cache element's key string used, while StringBuffer is used as a value. In createEntry() method in ExampleCacheEntryFactory StringBuffer is created with leading random number. While in updateEntryValue() method of ExampleUpdatingCacheEntryFactory existing StringBuffer length is appended to the buffer itself.
And finally, here goes our Reader main class. It fetches our wrapped cache, get's value for "foo" key from it and stores it into final local variable fooOriginalBuffer, that is never changed late in Reader's code. Then it starts doing 5 iterations of getting value for "foo" key from cache, displaying debug info and stats, and sleeping for one second. The code is simple as this.
Let's run it with both updatingFactory options.
Output of running the Reader with ExampleCacheEntryFactory (-Dcom.blogspot.mikler.java.cache.factory=create)
And here how the output looks like while running Reader with ExampleUpdatingCacheEntryFactory as updatingFactory (-Dcom.blogspot.mikler.java.cache.factory=update)
As you can see the output is quite different and here are some conclusions we come to from analyzing it:
 - No NullPointerException is occurs while trying to get object from cache that is not there. It is being created in both cases.
 - If updatingFactory is instance of CacheEntryFactory (ExampleCacheEntryFactory in our case) when cache.refresh() is called each object in cache is being recreated.
 - Also when updatingFactory is instance of CacheEntryFactory final fooOriginalBuffer variable is not updated.
 - Meanwhile in case when updatingFactory is instance of CacheEntryFactory (UpdatingCacheEntryFactory in our case) when cache.refresh() is called each object in cache gets updated instead of being recreated.
 - And final fooOriginalBuffer variable value is updated as well. (Actually this variable itself is passed to updateEntryValue() method of ExampleUpdatingCacheEntryFactory)
Besides the above conclusion, one can notice that using SelfPopulatingCache reduces scattering and tangling (see my "WTF is AOP article").
As usually, you can get source code for this post by running
svn co _URL_ SelfUpdatingEhCache
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Whose cruelty do Bia and Kratus's names hint at?
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text: The understanding of the adult proficiency in recognizing and extracting information from faces is still limited despite the number of studies over the last decade. Our knowledge on the development of these capacities is even more restricted, as only a handful of such studies exist. Here we present a combined reanalysis of four ERP studies in children from 4 to 15 years of age and adults (n = 424, across the studies), which investigated face processing in implicit and explicit tasks. We restricted these analyses to what was common across studies: early ERP components and upright face processing across all four studies and the inversion effect, investigated in three of the studies. These data demonstrated that processing faces implicates very rapid neural activity, even in young children— at the P1 component—with protracted age-related change in both P1 and N170, that were sensitive to the different task demands. Inversion produced latency and amplitude effects on the P1 from the youngest group, but on N170 only starting in mid childhood. These developmental data suggest that there are functionally different sources of the P1 and N170, related to the processing of different aspects of faces.


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Definitions for capitonym
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word capitonym
A word that changes sound and meaning when the case is changed; a case-sensitive word.
Origin: capital + -onym
A capitonym is a word that changes its meaning when it is capitalized; the capitalization usually applies due to one form being a proper noun or eponym. It is a portmanteau of the word capital with the suffix -onym. A capitonym is a form of homograph and – when the two forms are pronounced differently – also of heteronym. In situations where both words should be capitalized, there will be nothing to distinguish between them except the context in which they are used. Although some pairs, such as march and March, are completely unrelated, in other cases, such as august and catholic, the capitalized form is a name that is etymologically related to the uncapitalized form. For example, August derives from the name of Imperator Augustus, who named himself after the word augustus, whence English august came. Likewise, both Catholic and catholic derive from a Greek adjective meaning "universal". Capital letters may be used to differentiate between a set of objects, and a particular example of that object. For instance in Astronomical terminology a distinction may be drawn between a moon, any natural satellite, and the Moon, to be specific the natural satellite of Earth. Likewise, Sun with a capital may be used to emphasise that the sun of Earth is under discussion.
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Want to know where Cymbeline is set? See each setting Shakespeare used in the play on the map below.
Shakespeare was 'thinking deep' in setting Cymbeline. It's set in the middle ages in a mythical England and a Rome that is very different from the Rome of Shakespeare's great Roman plays. It is more like the Renaissance cities Shakespeare creates in other plays, such as Verona in Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare reminds us all the time of the setting by referring to the two places. He uses the word Britain rather than England because in this play the idea of Empire is central. It is to some extent about the tension between the two empires of Rome and Britain, the first in a decadent state and the second beginning to flourish. The old and the new. The play's major ambiguity is that Rome is the ruler of Britain and its equal at the same time.
The map below shows all the locations Shakespeare used for Cymbeline. You can zoom in on the map for a more detailed view of an area, and click the icons on the map for more information. Text in the more info box are the specific locations Shakespeare references in his Cymbeline text.


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Vaishakha (Marathi: वैशाख) or Baisakha (Hindi: बैसाख) (Nepali: बैशाख) is a month of the Hindu calendar that corresponds to April/May in the Gregorian Calendar.[1] In the Indian national calendar Vaisakha is the second month of the year. It is the first month of the Nepali calendar (the Vikram Samvat) and the Bengali calendar (where it is called Boishakh).[2]
In the Hindu solar calendar, Vaisakha begins in mid-April in Bengal, Nepal and Punjab. In Tamil Nadu, it is known as Vaikasi and represents the second month of the Tamil solar calendar. In the Hindu lunar calendar, Vaisakha begins with the new moon in April and represents the second month of the lunar year. The name of the month is derived from the position of the Sun near the star Vishakha.[3] In the Vaishnava calendar, Madhusudana governs this month.
The month of Boishakh also marks the official start of Summer. The month is notorious for the afternoon storms called Kalboishakhi (Nor'wester).[4] The storms usually start with strong gusts from the north-western direction at the end of a hot day and cause widespread destruction.[5][6]
Pohela Boishakh celebration in Dhaka
The first day of Baishakh is celebrated as the Pôhela Boishak or Bangla New Year's Day.[7] The day is observed with cultural programs, festivals and carnivals all around the country. The day of is also the beginning of all business activities in Bangladesh and neighboring Indian state of West Bengal. The traders starts new fiscal account book called Halkhata.[8][9] The accounting in the Halkhata begins only after this day. It is celebrated with sweets and gifts with customers.[8]
The harvest festival of (Baisakhi) is celebrated in this month.
Vaisakha Purnima is celebrated as Buddha Purnima or the birthday of Gautama Buddha amongst southern Buddhists or the Theravada school. Purnima refers to the Full Moon. Known in Sinhalese as Vesak, it is observed in the full moon of May. Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place on the Punjabi New year day in Vaisakha Sukla Padyami.
Shukla Paksha Krishna Paksha
1. Prathama 1. Prathama
2. Dwitiya 2. Dwitiya
3. Tritiya 3. Tritiya
4. Chaturthi 4. Chaturthi
5. Panchami 5. Panchami
6. Shashti 6. Shashti
7. Saptami 7. Saptami
8. Ashtami 8. Ashtami
9. Navami 9. Navami
10.Dashami 10.Dashami
11.Ekadashi 11.Ekadashi
12.Dwadashi 12.Dwadashi
13.Thrayodashi 13.Thrayodashi
14.Chaturdashi 14.Chaturdashi
15.Purnima 15. Amavasya
See also[edit]
 2. ^ Boniface Mundu (2013). The Silent Short Stories: A Word of Truth. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 9781492173311.
 3. ^ "Another New Year,Another Resolution". Retrieved 1 June 2014.
 4. ^ Rajib Shaw, Fuad Mallick, Aminul Islam (2013). Disaster Risk Reduction Approaches in Bangladesh. Springer. p. 98. ISBN 978-4-431-54252-0.
 5. ^ "Kalboishakhis - Bangladesh's deadly storms". 29 April 2014. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
 6. ^ S.M. Imamul Huq, Jalal Uddin Md. Shoaib (2013). The Soils of Bangladesh. Springer. pp. 15–16. ISBN 978-94-_PHONE_-0.
 7. ^ Om Gupta (2006). Encyclopaedia of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Gyan Publishing House. p. 1904. ISBN 9788182053892.
 8. ^ a b M H Haider (8 April 2014). "HAL KHATA TIME-BOUND, YET TIMELESS". Retrieved 1 June 2014.
 9. ^ "Halkatha – An explanation". Retrieved 1 June 2014.


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5.8 Merging differences between any two revisions
With two '-j revision' flags, the update (and checkout) command can merge the differences between any two revisions into your working file.
$ cvs update -j 1.5 -j 1.3 backend.c
will undo all changes made between revision 1.3 and 1.5. Note the order of the revisions!
If you try to use this option when operating on multiple files, remember that the numeric revisions will probably be very different between the various files. You almost always use symbolic tags rather than revision numbers when operating on multiple files.
Specifying two '-j' options can also undo file removals or additions. For example, suppose you have a file named file1 which existed as revision 1.1, and you then removed it (thus adding a dead revision 1.2). Now suppose you want to add it again, with the same contents it had previously. Here is how to do it:
$ cvs update -j 1.2 -j 1.1 file1
U file1
$ cvs commit -m test
Checking in file1;
/tmp/cvs-sanity/cvsroot/first-dir/file1,v <-- file1
new revision: 1.3; previous revision: 1.2


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Welcome to FRAmes on GENder
For the first time, core feminist texts from the second wave of feminism in Europe have been made available to researchers in an easily accessible online database. The FRAGEN project brings together books, articles and pamphlets that were influential in the development of feminist ideas in 29 countries during the second half of the 20th century.
29 Countries, 29 partners select core feminist texts in EuropeThe selected texts have been digitised and made available in a database. Making this information available will allow for comparative research into the history of feminist ideas in different European countries.
The database developed in FRAGEN has two goals:
to create a database of the original texts on gender+equality frames that have emerged from feminist movements in Europe.
to organize and facilitate open access for researchers to this database.
From 2008 until 2011 European women's libraries, gender studies departments and scholars from all over Europe have been working together in the FRAGEN project.


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Build a Wren and Chickadee Box
NOTICE: Please read all directions before beginning any new woodworking project!
The 1 1/8-inch hole size is adapted to the needs of house, Bewick and Carolina wrens and chickadees. If you only want to attract house wrens, the hole can be reduced to 7/8 inch (the diameter of a quarter). The 3 1/2 x 4-inch interior dimensions are minimal, and some people prefer a 4 x 4-inch interior size.
For wrens, mount the house 6 to 8 feet high; for chickadees, it can be slightly higher, up to ten feet. If the box is nailed to a tree, use aluminum nails and leave the heads protruding 1/4 to 1/2 inch to allow for tree growth. Clean the box after each nesting. Several of these houses may be erected in a yard. Space them 20 to 50 feet apart. Wrens build two or more nests per year, but they rarely use the same box twice in a season, preferring to nest in a different box. Male wrens also sometimes attract two females into their territory. The males may put twigs in all the houses, but the females pick the box for nesting. Also, there is competition between chickadees and wrens. Chickadees nest first, and the late-arriving wrens may attempt to destroy their nests. Several houses, well spaced, help provide enough room for both species.
Wrens arrive about April 10-20, after wintering in the southern United States. Clutch size usually is six to eight eggs. Incubation is about 15 days, and age to first flight is another 15 days. Two or more broods per year are normal.
Chickadees are year-round residents of Missouri, and we have both the black-capped and Carolina chickadees. Nesting begins in late March and early April. One clutch of five to eight eggs is common. Incubation is from 11 to 13 days, and first flight is made 14 to 18 days after hatching. Chickadees prefer wooded areas.
Paper wasps or ants may be a problem. Inspect and clean vacant boxes.


There's a Crack in my Window. Should I be Worried?
Windows can be a truly stunning part of a house. The beautiful views they allow you to enjoy and how they reflect from the outside can add character to a home in a way that few other features do. That makes it all the more troubling if you happen to notice a crack in your window. It may be small now, but you may not be able to help the nagging voice in the back of your head asking if you should be more concerned about it.
What Causes a Cracked Window?
It's essential to understand what can cause cracks in windows. Though imperceptible, window glass will expand and contract with temperature fluctuations. Usually, that isn't enough to cause problems, but if your window is weakened, it can cause stress cracks. So can repeatedly shutting your windows too forcefully, for that matter. Objects impacting windows can cause them to chip and crack or even break altogether. Pressure cracks are uncommon, but they do happen and are often due to weather extremes.
Monetary Problems
Cracked glass cannot insulate your home correctly. It will let warm air out during cold months and fail to keep the cool air in during the hot ones. These drafts mean your heating and cooling systems have to work that much harder to keep your home at a comfortable temperature. If your system works harder, it's pulling more power. That, in turn, means that you're going to be paying a lot more for your electricity than you need to be. Beyond that, it can allow condensation to enter your home, causing damage to your window frames and potentially promoting mold growth. You'll need to foot the bill for the repairs, all of which can be avoided by having the broken glass repaired or replacing the glass altogether.
Security Problems
No one ever thinks they'll run afoul of a thief, but the reality is that no one is immune to being robbed. If a would-be thief notices a crack in your window, your home becomes a much more vulnerable target. Remember that thieves are looking for easy targets. Homes with whole windows, visible security, and reliable locks are less inviting to criminals. They are more likely to be passed over in favor of something more comfortable to break into. If you have a crack in your window, take steps to secure it to discourage would-be criminals from targeting your home. Better yet, have it repaired or replaced to eliminate the problem.
Safety Problems
Even a single crack in a single-window can pose a safety hazard. Shards and slivers of glass can break free from a damaged window and land on the floor or windowsill. From there, it's easy for them to become embedded in a hand or a foot where they can become irritating and painful. Because of the sheer nature of glass, tiny slivers can be challenging to find and remove. As the damage worsens and spreads, the danger becomes more significant too. It's essential to have the cracked or broken glass repaired or replaced before someone gets hurt. In the meantime, cover the inside and outside to prevent people from touching it. Applying masking tape over the crack can help prevent pieces of glass from falling out. Leave the window closed to avoid damaging it further.
What to Do About a Cracked Window
If your window is cracked, it's essential to address it now rather than later. Broken glass is fragile glass, and it will only get worse. Depending on your local conditions, it may not take much at all to go from a tiny crack to a full-blown broken window. It's possible to replace a damaged pane of glass, though that may only be a temporary solution. Your best bet is to have the window professionally replaced, so you have a perfectly intact, strong glass window.
Cracked windows can be a big deal. They can cause monetary, security, and even safety problems. Understanding what causes cracked windows can help you reduce the risk of yours cracking again. Just as importantly, you need to know what to do when you have a cracked window. If you notice a crack in any of your windows, take action to prevent it from becoming worse later.


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Pivoting is a way to change direction from one stance to another without taking a step by rotating body's center of mass around its axis. For example, one can pivot from a left lead horse stance to a right lead horse stance by pivoting the upper body. The stance may change during a pivot, such as from a left lead horse to a right lead back stance.
The pivot serves several purposes:
- Assists directional change
- Provides angular acceleration to drive strikes and throws by rotating body mass into the technique
- Assists stance/position change in that may gain distance when needed in defending or close the distance when attacking without having to take steps
- Rotates body in a way that protects vulnerable targets and draws attacker into counters
- Deflects impacts away from vulnerable internal organs as they bounce off the rotating body mass
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