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Census of India: Location Code structure
general pattern followed in coding of any geographical unit was a
serpentine one, beginning from the Northwest corner and completing at
the farthest Southeast corner within the defined higher level of the
geographical hierarchy. In so far as the state/union territory is
concerned Jammu & Kashmir has code number 01 and code number 35 has
been allotted to the union territory of Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
Generally, the administrative jurisdiction below a district is a
sub-district, for example, a tahsil or a taluk. However, in certain
states and union territories exceptions had to be made since the
nomenclature for sub-districts is not uniform throughout the country.
For example, in Orissa Police station is the sub-district, in West
Bengal it is the community Development Block and so on.
In Assam, Mizoram and Orissa there are a few sub-districts which
cut across the district jurisdictions: In such situations the
sub-districts have been provided a separate series of code numbers viz.
9000, 9001 and so on.
One of the major initiatives taken in the Census 2001 was the allotment
of Permanent Location Code Number (PLCN) to each and every village
within the State and not within a tahsil as in the earlier censuses.
PLCN was thus assigned as one continuous number from the first village
in the first district to the last village in the last district. PLCN is
an eight digit unique location code number with the first six digits
representing the code number of the village and the last two digits
depicting two zeros '00'. These zeros are reserved as buffer to be used
for coding any new village(s) that may come up between two villages in
future. For example, if a new village comes up between two villages
with PLCNs 01254600 and 01254700, the new village will be allotted PLCN
_PHONE_ and so on..
The location code number for a town is also an eight digit number
starting with the digit 4 situated at the extreme left acting as the
unique identifier. The next two digits depict the code number of the
district in which the town falls followed by two digits representing
the town serial number in the district. There are three zeros at the
end as buffer, mainly to meet the requirement for bringing the number
of digits to eight to match the number of digits in the PLCN for the
villages. Thus a town location code number 40305000 represents the town
serial number 5 of the district number 03 in a State.
The out-growths of towns have not been given any independent location
code numbers. These have been given notional ward codes after the last
ward code of the respective towns.


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How it works
The UK federation facilitates access control for web resources, by using a set of standards called SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language). The federation is software agnostic, although the most widely-deployed software products are developed by the Shibboleth Project.
- What is Identity Federation? - a 5 minute introductory video from one of the pioneers of the UK federation (now working at GÉANT)
- The Shibboleth Concepts pages provide information about SAML Single Sign-On. Much of the "Understanding the Basics" and "More Concepts" sections are software agnostic.
- How to benefit from interfederating through eduGAIN describes how the UK federation and other Research and Education federations interoperate.
- UK federation Service documents - in-depth documents about the UK federation.

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Hate Crime FAQ's
What is a hate crime?
A hate crime is an act motivated by prejudice or bias. To be a hate crime, the act must be criminal - not a mere expression of an intolerant opinion. Certain offenses become hate crimes because of what motivated the criminal act. When certain crimes are committed because of a victim's real or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, gender or gender identity, a hate crime has been committed in Pennsylvania.
What should I do if I am a victim of a hate crime?
Contact the police immediately by calling 911 or go to your local police station. Call the Police Conflict Prevention and Resolution Unit (CPR) at _PHONE_ or go to their offices located at 100 East Lehigh Avenue. The CPR Unit was established by the Philadelphia Police Department to investigate hate crimes and to assist victims.
How are charges filed and what will happen to the case?
The police will investigate, prepare a report, and, where possible, arrest the perpetrator. When the police have completed their investigation, the case will be reviewed by the District Attorney's Office, which will determine the appropriate charges and prosecute the case. A judge will set bail for the defendant and prescribe conditions to protect you and others. After a preliminary hearing, the case will be assigned to a trial judge. An assistant district attorney is often assigned to specially prosecute the case and trained victim services coordinators will assist you at every stage of the proceedings.
What other help is available besides criminal prosecution?
Since a victim of a hate crime may bring a civil suit for damages - regardless of a criminal prosecution - you may wish to discuss your case with a private attorney or legal services agency.
The Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations (PCHR) can provide preventative services and can help victims deal with the aftermath and consequences of a hate crime. To reach PCHR, call _PHONE_. There are also private agencies in Philadelphia that can help you. PCHR, The Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR) Unit _PHONE_, and the victim services coordinators in the District Attorney's Office _PHONE_, can refer you to an appropriate private agency.
Does the law treat hate crimes differently than other crimes?
Yes. For example, under the Ethnic Intimidation Act (Act 154 of 1982, 18 Pa. C.S. sec2710) crimes motivated by bias or hate can effectively be elevated to a more serious crime with a more severe penalty.
What are examples of possible hate crimes?
 - Physical assault
 - Destruction of Property
 - Cross Burnings
 - Criminal Trespass
 - Arson or Firebombing
 - Terroristic Threats
 - Vandalism
 - Harassment
 - Stalking
 - Harassment by Telephone


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Hello everyone. My first post here.
I have this problem I am trying to work through, please.
Free market. The equations S=5000+200x and D=9500-100x express the supply S and the
demand D, respectively, for a popular compact disc brand in terms of its price x (in dollars).
a) Graph the equations on the same coordinate system.
b) What happens to the supply as the price increases?
c) What happens to the demand as the price increases?
d) The price at which supply and demand are equal is called the equilibrium price. What is the equilibrium
I have already figured out 'd)' as x = 15. I reached this conclusion by:
Since S=5000+200x and D=9500-100x
I still need to figure out a, b, and c. I know I can use a slope-intercept to figure out the graph using the equation of y=mx+b. This is where I start losing it.
I know that: x = 15. I know the slope-intercept formula is y=mx+b.
Using S=5000+200x, D=9500-100x I would assume these would represent x,y. So, would I assume x=8000, y=8000 and graph them as 8000,8000? So then I would start the problem out as 8000=m(8000)+b?
Your help with the remaining letters is much appreciated.

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Bringing Them Home name index – Fact sheet 175
The National Archives of Australia holds many records that contain information about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their history. The Archives has created an index of names that appear in the most relevant of these records in response to the recommendations of Bringing Them Home, the report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families, released in 1997.
The Bringing Them Home (BTH) name index aims to help Indigenous people find information about themselves, their families and their country. The index contains:
- names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
- names of non-Indigenous people related to or associated with Indigenous people
- names of missions and institutions where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were placed
- places where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have lived or visited
The index does not contain information about the people named. To see this information you will need to view the original records (files, papers and photographs) or photocopies of them.
Requesting a search of the BTH name index
On request, National Archives reference staff will search the index for you. To assist us to undertake a thorough search, it helps if you provide as many details as possible, including:
- name of the person you are researching – this includes any variations in the spelling of given names, nicknames, forgotten names, or Indigenous names
- family connections – the names of any siblings, children or other relatives
- language group, country or homeland – which were sometimes used to identify people
- place – where the person was born, lived, worked, or was sent to
- date of birth, age at events, or date of death of the person
- date ranges – year or period the person was in a certain place or area, such as the period they worked on a particular cattle station
- significant events that may have occurred in the person's life, such as being evacuated because of natural disaster or war
You may not be able to supply all of these details about the person you are seeking but, the more information you provide, the easier it will be for us to determine if there are references to the person or family you are researching in the Archives' holdings.
You can ask for the BTH name index to be searched by contacting the Archives' National Reference Service:
National Reference Service
National Archives of Australia
PO Box 7425
CANBERRA BC ACT 2610
Using information from the BTH name index to find records
If a search of the name index locates entries relating to the person you are researching, we will send you a list of the names found in the index. You will then be able to:
- ask for photocopies of the pages of the original records that mention the name, or
- view the records in the National Archives reading room of the office in which they are held
Reference officers will be able to advise you where the records are located.
In some instances the records may contain distressing or offensive information. The records were created many years ago and are written in the language of the day. Some personally sensitive information in the records is withheld from general access under the provisions of the Archives Act 1983.
If the reason for seeking access is to obtain information for the purpose of re-establishing family and community links, under the Memoranda of Understanding between the Archives and Northern Territory, Victorian and South Australian Indigenous communities you may look at information normally restricted from public access.
Record holdings on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
The BTH name index is not the only information resource available to researchers of Indigenous family history.
While most government records relating to Aboriginal affairs before 1970 were created and maintained by state governments, the National Archives holds large quantities of records relevant to Northern Territory and Victorian Indigenous people.
A number of fact sheets and guides to the Archives' records on Indigenous people are available.
The Victorian Koorie Records Taskforce, in association with the Public Record Office of Victoria, has developed 'Finding your story' website.


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Neurophysiological and Behavioral Responses of Gypsy Moth Larvae to Insect Repellents: DEET, IR3535, and Picaridin
TOWSON UNIV MD
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The interactions between insect repellents and the olfactory system have been widely studied, however relatively little is known about the effects of repellents on the gustatory system of insects. In this study, we show that the gustatory receptor neuron GRN located in the medial styloconic sensilla on the maxillary palps of gypsy moth larvae, and known to be sensitive to feeding deterrents, also responds to the insect repellents DEET, IR3535, and picaridin. These repellents did not elicit responses in the lateral styloconic sensilla. Moreover, behavioral studies demonstrated that each repellent deterred feeding. This is the first study to show perception of insect repellents by the gustatory system of a lepidopteran larva and suggests that detection of a range of bitter or aversive compounds may be a broadly conserved feature among insects.
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Sky culture is a term used by Stellarium referring to the way a culture describing the sky and celestial objects. In the field of astronomy, the point of concern about a sky culture is how stars are named and related to each other within this culture.
As of version 0.8.1, Stellarium contains 4 different sets of sky cultures: Western, Chinese, Ancient Egyptian, and Polynesian.
Like other cultural categories as well, Western sky culture remains the dominant sky culture in modern-day astronomy.
The Western culture divides the celestial sphere into 88 areas of various sizes called constellations, each with precise boundary, issued by the International Astronomical Union. These constellations have become the standard way to describe the sky, replacing similar sets in other sky cultures exhaustively in daily usage.
Most of traditional western star names came from Arabic. In astronomy, Bayer/Flamsteed designations and other star catalogues are widely used instead of traditional names except few cases where the traditional names are more famous than the designations.
Alternative asterism files for Stellarium
Asterisms by H.A. Rey, from his book "The Stars: A New Way To See Them", by tleemans
- Constellation article at Wikipedia
- Star Catalogue article at Wikipedia
- Constellation image library of the U.S. Naval Observatory and the Space Telescope Science Institute. Johannes Hevelius Engravings.
The Chinese culture keeps one of the most detailed observation data of the celestial before 18th century, when Western astronomy began having breakthrough discoveries with the help of scientific method.
Stellarium currently provides roughly one third of Chinese Xingguan (Chinese: 星官; pinyin: xīngguān) sets, and is without any Chinese star names. A project conducted by community member G.S.K.Lee is now underway to construct a complete Chinese sky culture set for Stellarium based on the information inside Yixiangkaocheng (Chinese: 儀象考成; pinyin: yíxiàngkǎochéng), an imperial record of astronomy finished in 1756, which is the major reference to the traditional Chinese Xingguans and star names used today.
The major difference between Xingguan and constellation is that while constellation refers to a definite area upon the celestial sphere, Xingguan only refers to a pattern of stars. Its closest term in Western culture might be asterism, though unlike asterisms, Xingguans have their official status. The number of Xingguan varies along different eras of Chinese history; new Xingguans were made when fainter stars were observed, and some old Xingguans were abolished when the pattern could no longer be observed (mainly due to proper motions). Xingguans near southern celestial pole were created following the introdution of Western constellations into China by Catholic missionaries.
Yixiangkaocheng has 300 Xingguans in total.
Edged out by Western constellations, Xingguans were no longer in active usage today by the Chinese.
Traditional Chinese star names were given with a systematical method, by combining the name of Xingguan this star is in with a number, usually reflecting the star's position within this Xingguan. When fainter stars where observed with better instruments in the era of Yixiangkaocheng, they were named by combining the name of Xingguan this star is nearest to with an augmentation number.
Yixiangkaocheng has 3083 Xingguans in total. A complete list which corresponding all 3083 stars into any modern star catalogues or designations is yet to exist.
Unlike Xingguans, traditional Chinese star names are still in common usage today, even more common than Bayer/Flamsteed designations.
Traditionally, Chinese do not have similar expressions like constellation arts in the Western cultures. If any, clouds were sometimes added to each Xingguan's background on the starcharts in astrology books, but seldom be seen inside astronomically oriented works.
- Perhaps it would be a good idea to indicate the extent of the four symbols with Xingguan arts?
As stated, Xingguans are not related with areas, hence they have no definite boundaries.
- constellation_names.fab: Chinese: Completed; English translations: Incomplete.
- star_names.fab: 228 out of 3083 stars have been entered into the conversion list.
- constellationship.fab: (Major star names need to be completed first)
Some developers need to come here and explain to us where they got those ambiguous constellation
names which beat the translators to the ground, doh.
Late Egyption astronomy/astrology follows that of Greco/Roman culture. The belief that the stars could influence human destiny does not appear to have reached Egypt until the Ptolemaic period. The temple of Hathor at Denderah dates from Ptolemaic times, probably the first century BCE, and has a wonderful illustration of the sky that illustrates this point.
However there were differences in names. For example, Cancer the Crab is represented by the Scarab Beetle. The figure of the Lion near the Scales (which is not the zodiacal Lion) is the constellation Centaurus.
This is a partial archaic variant of Western Sky image conserved on its medieval level, including so far 117 names of different celestial objects. It was used up to recently (19th century) by Adriatic islanders in navigation and fisheries, for their orientation and determination of nocturnal hours. It was not officially standardised, being transferred chiefly by oral traditions in Chakavian tongue and by scarce notes in Glagolitic script.
Its main constellations are almost founded on ancient Mediterranean traditions of Greco-Roman origin, and their recent names are partly Chakavian translation calques of these ones. However, individual star names are mostly earlier pre-Roman, descending from proto-historic star names of Liburnian navigators in early Adriatic (1/3 ones), and also 1/4 star names of Oriental origin from early Mesopotamia. This Chakavian sky nomenclature was the richest and completed to 12th cent. A.D., and from 16th cent. it was gradually pauperised. It has rigid grammatical rules how to name constellations, and their main and minor stars.
This sky culture now covers 31 named constellations partly comparable with Western ones, but 1/3 of them are wider including two adjacent ones with one collective name, so covering about 50 official constellations of the sky visible from Adriatic. All constellation names there are in plural forms.
So far names of 59 major stars here are conserved and noted. The main star in each constellation (usually alpha) is always in augmentative and feminine form, and other minor ones are in diminutive and masculine forms.
For difference of other cultures, Chakavian nomenclature in Adriatic has 13 specific names for all visible nebulae plus some details of Via Lactea, because their visibility (or absence) is widely used here for weekly weather prognoses. Moreover, Chakavian folk naming of dozen visible details on Moon is among the most precise ones, because up to recently they observed them as a Selenoscope, i.e. determining of fate and future by Moon in 56 annual weeks (not by usual solar horoscope of Zoodiac).
Short naming survey
- 1. Bakodlãk (Taurus): Vlahÿnica (alpha), Mikùla (eta), Vlahÿtje (Pleiades), Malÿtje (Hyades).
- 2. Baršÿtje (Draco): named stars are Baršÿna (alpha) & Baršadÿn (beta).
- 3. Divÿce (Virgo): main star named is Dÿva (Spica).
- 4. Gâta (Cassiopeia): named stars Krolèvić (alpha) i Krolèvica (beta).
- 5. Goncÿne (Bootes): main star named is Ostàn (Arcturus).
- 6. Hayebâje (Aquarius + Capricornus): main star named is Buÿmer (Algiedi).
- 7. Kàške (Ophiuchus): Scemerÿna (Rasalgeti) & Kaškÿna (Rasalhague).
- 8. Kosÿre (Leo): Kosirÿć (Regul) & Kosirÿka (Kosirica, Denebola).
- 9. Kozlÿtje (Auriga): named Kozlàrica (Capella) & Kozlâk (Elnath).
- 10. Križevâli (Cygnus): main star named is Križnÿca (Deneb).
- 11. Mântre (Hydra): main star named is Mantràtja (Alphard).
- 12. Mićakrÿš (Perseus): main star named is Križàc (Algol).
- 13. Navi-Matâne (Argo Navis): Marjakÿr (zeta) & Navakÿr (omicron).
- 14. Orkulÿtje (Cetus): named Orkulÿna (Mira) & Sion


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The code to check the dropdown list is more or less the same as for radio buttons. Here it is:
The only difference is in the IF Statement. Between the round brackets we have the following:
Dropdown lists have a selected property at the end. This means whether an item was selected from the list or not. Again, we're looping over all of the items. Whichever item was chosen will be placed in the variable called chosen. But it's the value property we want to place in the variable. This gets you the text of the item on the list.
We want to detect if the user has left it on the default option of "None". If so, it's an error and we can ask the user to try again.
Test your code out. Don't select an item from the list. When you click the submit button you should see this:
Select an item and then click the button again. The error message will vanish.


Significado de deflation en en Inglés
Pronunciación /dɪˈfleɪʃ(ə)n/
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mass noun
 - 1The action or process of deflating or being deflated.
 'the deflation of the illusion that the 1960s were a perpetual party'
 - 2Economía
 Reduction of the general level of prices in an economy.
 'a time of high unemployment and deflation'
 - 'a long deflation lasted until about 1896'
 - ''Growth (in Japan) has recently been constrained by persistent deflations and high levels of nonperforming loans that restrain bank lending,' she said.'
 - 'The last section provides three studies that explore the behavior of asset prices during deflations.'
 - 'They moved to reduce debt and their actions contributed to recession and more price deflation.'
 anticlimax, let-down, bathos, disappointment, disillusionment, deflation, decline, setback, reversal
 - 3Geología
 The removal of particles of rock, sand, etc. by the wind.
 'If the lake bed became completely dry, material could have been lost through wind erosion or deflation.'
 - 'Wind deflation probably destroyed the original soil that formed on the upper Oliver Platform.'
Late 19th century (in the sense 'release of air from something inflated'): from deflate; deflation (sense 3) via German from Latin deflat- 'blown away', from the verb deflare.


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Department of Agriculture
Master of Science
Isolates of Citrus Tristeza Virus (CTV) in Belize may be causing inverse stem pitting, stunting, and slow decline on sweet and sour orange rootstock combination on field trees. One isolate on Cleopatra mandarin rootstock expressed no field symptoms but may be a possible source of a detrimental isolate to more susceptible citrus rootstock combinations. Field plants and field source inoculated indicator plants were used in this study. The first objective was to determine whether field trees of sweet Valencia orange trees that expressed symptoms of CTV would test positive to a polyclonal (mild and severe symptoms) and a monoclonal (severe decline) antibody. Of the 81 trees tested, 56% tested positive to a polyclonal antibody G-604. None of the trees tested positive to the monoclonal antibody MCA-13. The second objective was to determine the biological and serological reactivity on host indicator plants of some of the most symptomatic trees having highest optical density value readings from the ELISA test. Mexican lime showed mild to moderate vein clearing on three of the isolates tested, while sweet orange showed mild to moderate translucent veins on two of the isolates tested. Four isolates from the indicator host plants tested positive to polyclonal antibody G-604 but none tested positive to MCA-13. The third objective was to determine if there were any differences among the nucleotide sequences of three CTV isolates. The CTV coat protein gene (CPG) of isolates which reacted to a polyclonal antibody G-604 but not to monoclonal antibody (MCA-13) was selectively amplified by polymerase chain reaction from infected tissue extracts and sequenced using negative sense CN 407 primer. All three isolates revealed between ninety-eight and ninety percent significant identities to known CTV isolates previously characterized from citrus growing regions around the world.
Agriculture | Agronomy and Crop Sciences
Sabal, Harry, "Molecular Characterization of Citrus Tristeza Virus Isolates in Commercial Citrus Grown in Belize" (2001). Masters Theses & Specialist Projects. Paper 699.


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Principal's Blog, The traits of a super teacher, Friday 22nd March 2019March 22nd, 2019
I came across an interesting article by John Dabell, entitled "The traits of a super teacher". In it he essentially suggests that there is no such thing as a super teacher, but that all teachers should recognise their own talents and bravely enjoy progressing into better versions of themselves.
His traits included:
- Organised and are always thinking ahead.
- Prioritisers and do the important stuff first.
- Accountable and take ownership of mistakes and short-comings.
- Explainers and can clearly articulate their thoughts, ideas and explanations.
- Patient and understand that learning is full of mistakes and something can't be rushed or happen by "magic".
- Optimistic and believes that all students can learn and get better.
- A listener and really tuned into what people are saying.
- Creative and is able to produce memorable and exciting learning moments.
- Versatile, flexible and always editing their feelings and responses.
- Assertive and say "no" if they have to, not least in order to protect their wellbeing.
- Networkers who surround themselves with successful people and role models.
- Self-monitors who invest heavily in their own personal and professional development.
- Risk-takers who spearhead new ways of working and battle classroom complacency
- Believers who nurture themselves by being confident practitioners.
He talks about the importance of balance, confidence and accepting our own humanity as teachers. I agree with him whole heartedly about the importance of school leaders and governors in creating a climate for teachers to become amazing versions of themselves. Avoiding becoming some grey version of normal or impossible version of perfect, instead focusing on evolving into an amazing version of themselves.
I read the article on the same day as receiving two emails from parents praising staff and another letter from a student doing the same. I know how much these small acts of recognition had meant to the staff involved. It made me think about the power of parents and students in creating the culture for teachers to be amazing as well as the teachers creating it for the students a great example of a virtuous spiral. A reminder of the importance of community, a reminder of how lucky we are to be part of the Hazeley and 5 Dimensions communities.


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Glacier Bay Crabs
The Life and Times of Dungeness Crabs in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve
Life history of Dungeness crabs; distribution of Dungeness crabs throughout Glacier Bay; animal ecology; the effectiveness of a marine preserve for protecting species, such as Dungeness crab; special adaptations to a marine environment
Dungeness crabs are an important benthic species of Glacier Bay. Glacier Bay was closed in 1999 to all commercial fishing of Dungeness crabs because of the possibility of a collapse of Alaska's Dungeness fisheries. Preliminary studies indicate that this closure will increase the size and abundance of this important species, as well as improve its genetic biodiversity.
What factors are important to maintaining a strong population of Dungeness crab in Southeast Alaska?
Students will know...
- The life history of Dungeness crabs
- The place of the Dungeness crab in the food web of Glacier Bay's marine environment
- The physiological adaptations that allow crabs to thrive in the extreme conditions of Glacier Bay
- The relationship between a thriving fishery and marine preserves
Students will be able to...
- Compare and contrast the life histories of human beings and Dungeness crabs.
- Create displays to share information on Dungeness crabs.
- Build models to compare and contrast members, both terrestrial and marine, of the Arthropoda Phylum.
- Research and illustrate the place of the Dungeness crab in the food web of its marine environment.
- Analyze data from a study on the distribution of Dungeness crabs in Glacier Bay to draw conclusions about the animal and its ability to adapt to the extreme conditions of the environment.
- Examine a brief history of the commercial Dungeness crab fishery in southeast Alaska and its effect on the population of Dungeness crabs.
- Assess the effectiveness of a marine preserve on the continued health of a commercially important population of animals.
- Crabs in Glacier Bay
- Unit Outline
- Instructional Resources
- Activity #1
- Activity #2
Dungeness Crabs at home in Glacier Bay
- Activity #3
The economic significance of a crab refuge
- National Standards
Science, English/Language Arts, Geography, Mathematics, Social Studies
- Grade Levels:
- Fifth Grade-Eighth Grade
- Biology: Animals, Conservation, Marine Biology, Oceanography, Wildlife Management
- National/State Standards:
- Science as Inquiry, Life Science, Science in Personal & Social Perspectives, History & Nature of Science, Data Analysis and Probability, Environment & Society, The Uses of Geography


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When some important data a re deleted from your iPhone or iPad, what do you usually do to recover them? For example, you just delete some text messages from your close friends accidentally, and you need to get those deleted text messages back. How? At this point, iFonebox is able to do you a favor to recover deleted data from your iPhone. While the new released version of iFonebox 2.1.3 adds more functions and you can better experience iFonebox now. You can scroll down to watch the video about iFonebox 2.1.3 directly.
iFonebox 2.1.3 has supported to recover deleted WhatsApp text messages and attachments from your iPhone. Of course, other bugs related to voice memos and notes are fixes. Some people may be not familiar with iFonebox. So what is iFonebox? What can iFonebox do for you?
What is iFonebox?
As is known that iFonebox is a professional iOS data recovery which is able to recover deleted data like contacts, messages, notes and more than 11 type from your iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch. Also, iFonebox supports to extract and restore lost data from iTunes or iCloud backup. If you want to selectively restore data from your backup, iFonebox is your best choice. Plus, now, iFonebox empowers you to recover lost contacts and notes back to your iDevice directly. Cool.
What's new in iFonebox 2.1.3?
1.Added the function of recovering WhatsApp messages and WhatsApp Attachments;
2.Fixed the iCloud related bugs;
3.Optimized the interface and improved user experience;
4.Fixed the bug related to jailbroken devices;
5.Fixed some known bugs related to Notes, Voice Memos.
How to recover deleted from iDevice with iFonebox?
It is necessary to download and install iFonebox as the first step. There are two versions accessible: Windows version and Mac version. Also, you can install Free Trial Version (Win and Mac) to have a check. Now, you can follow the next 3 steps to recover deleted data from iDevice:
- Launch iFonebox. Choose Recover from iOS Device mode. Please connect your iDevice to the computer so as to scan data from it.
- Scan data from iPhone or iPad.
- Preview and select deleted data to recover.
Notes: if you have an iTunes or iCloud backup for your lost data, you can also choose Recover from iTunes/iCloud Backup mode.
It is quite convenient and functional to recover deleted data from iPhone or iPad with iFonebox, especially the new version of iFonebox 2.1.3. Next is a video shows you more about iFonebox 2.1.3.


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Each of these poems is based on the theme of trains travelling across the landscape to their destination.
The time and setting of a poem is very important to the reader. Each of these poems was written in a different century and country.
Night Mail was written by a man, in the 1940s, set in England. In Night Mail, the train is travelling from England to all around Scotland in the middle of the night. The train is delivering letters to Scotland.
The Train's author is a woman, and the poem is set in Wild West America during the 1800s. The train in Dickinson's poem would have been an 'Iron Horse' train, a very large American train, which carries coal and cargo across the west.
The length of the poems differs. Night Mail is very lengthily and is in keeping with the fact that its journey was very long and tedious.
The first thing that most people notice about a poem is its rhythm and rhyme. Night Mail has a fast and regular rhythm, and is written in rhyming couplets. The Train uses a fast but irregular rhythm, and consecutive rhyming is used in each stanza. Each poem has a fast rhythm. This helps us to imagine the speeding train quickly racing across the railway lines.
"And stop to feed itself at tanks".
Dickinson writes as if she is in amazement with the train. She makes it sound like the train is totally independent and can do everything itself without any human interference.
Auden, however, does not become so amazed when describing the night train, but still talks of its determination of travelling to its destination.
"Sheep dogs cannot turn her course".
Auden also suggests reliability.
"The gradient's against her but she's on time" From the previous passage...


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Tsunami and Mental Health: What Can We Expect?
Tsunami and Mental Health: What Can We Expect?
Following the tsunami in Southern Asia, we were aware of the staggering scope of the destruction of this disaster. The damage, confusion and chaos caused by the tsunami were reflected in news reports that scrambled to convey the enormity of the event.
Early reports were of a tsunami that had killed thousands of people, but later, the toll still rising, it was confirmed that the tsunami had killed over 200,000. Whole towns and villages have been wiped off the coast of Indonesia, victims count in the millions, communities have lost entire economic livelihoods and families have been broken apart by death, many children dead and orphaned. Dozens of countries have been affected.
The tsunami has not only killed thousands of people, destroyed buildings and towns and damaged the physical health of survivors but has also severely affected their psychological well-being. Faced with the overwhelming knowledge of this vast devastation it is natural to wonder how the survivors of disasters will cope as a result, what they are at risk for psychologically and how they can be helped.
Mental illness and risk factors
What research has shown
Millions of people have been directly affected by this tsunami and yet according to percentages, the vast majority of them will recover due to the resiliency of human nature. At the same time, many of those people will develop psychological disorders such as major depression, generalized anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder. Many more will experience non-specific distress, somatic complaints and other medical health conditions.
If the rate of psychological problems turns out similar to previous severe natural disasters studied (e.g., Armenian earthquake, mudslides in Mexico, Hurricane Andrew in the United States) 50% or more of those effected could suffer from clinically significant distress or psychopathology.
Although we do not have extensive knowledge of the mental health consequences of tsunamis in particular, we do know from other large-scale disasters (such as the earthquakes in Asia, floods, volcanoes, and hurricanes in North and Central America) that the impact on the mental health of survivors is sometimes enormous. Thus the mental health consequences of a disaster on the scale of this tsunami promise to be massive and severe. Studies of these other natural disasters have identified the following factors that indicate individuals more at risk
Severity of exposure
The amount of exposure to the disaster is highly related to risk of future mental problems. Both individual and community exposure will play a role. Those that directly experienced the tsunami, followed by those in close contact with victims will experience more lasting impact than those who only had indirect experiences, such as news of the enormity of the devastation. The current literature shows that injury and life threat are most predictive of likelihood of psychological impairment.
Gender and family variables
Almost always, women or girls were affected more adversely than were men or boys. The presence of children in the home increases the stressfulness of disaster recovery. Marital stress has been found to increase after disasters.
At least 30% of the survivors of the tsunami are children. Past research on the reactions of children to natural disasters is limited, yet this proportion of children survivors is especially troubling since children generally exhibit more severe distress after disasters than do adults. This is an especially relevant concern for the tsunami disaster where the United Nations estimates 50,000 children have died in the disaster and that tens of thousands have been orphaned. In some countries hit by the tsunami half the population affected is under 19 years old.
Individual risk factors
We know also that the rates of mental illness could potentially be even higher than from other disasters studied previously because the victims of the 2004 tsunami are likely to have experienced multiple intense stressors. Pre-disaster functioning, secondary stressors and psychological resources are important in determining resilience.
Factors such as bereavement, injury to self or another family member, life threat, panic or similar emotions during the disaster, horror, separation from family (especially among youth), extensive loss of property, and displacement have been found to predict adverse outcomes.
Higher risk for developing countries
Compounding these individual risk factors is the fact that disasters occurring in developing countries cause more numerous and severe mental health consequences than do disasters in developed countries.
After completing a comprehensive review of the literature on disasters, Dr. Fran Norris said, "The location of the disaster had an even stronger influence on the severity of its psychosocial outcomes than did its type. On average, natural disasters in developing countries had more severe effects than did incidents of mass violence in developed countries although usually human-caused disasters are thought of as being more serious." Most areas affected by this tsunami were economically underdeveloped.
Social support is one of the key ingredients to recovery. Yet throughout Asia the various systems and structures of social support have been damaged by this tsunami. Whole communities were pulled apart, families and friends lost and separated, physical community centers and hospitals destroyed, and roads to connect people washed away. It will be even more difficult for communities to rally around survivors and aid in recovery.
"Attending to the social needs of disaster victims could go a long way towards protecting them from long-term adverse psychological consequences," Dr. Norris said.
Despite these estimates we still do not know the exact numbers that will develop serious and entrenched psychological problems or the number of individuals that will recover in the next few months.
Based on previous studies of disasters human resilience dictates that a large number of individuals will naturally recover from the event and move on, without experiencing debilitating mental health issues.
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Top 5 Vegetables High in Calcium
From a young age, we are told that we should take good care of our teeth. We are taught how to floss, how to brush properly and to see our dentist at least once a year. These lessons deal with proper dental hygiene only from the outside, however. To truly take care of your teeth, you should also watch what you eat and strive for a nutritious diet, particularly one that is high in calcium. This is because calcium plays a vital role in keeping the teeth and gums strong and healthy. With that said, here are the top five vegetables that are high in calcium:
1. Kale – Some people don't like eating kale because of its bitter taste. But eating this leafy vegetable is worth it, as every 100 grams of kale gives you 150 mg of calcium. Plus, a serving of kale gives you 133% of your daily Vitamin A requirement as well.
2. Mustard greens – Mustard greens are a favorite among health-conscious people and for good reason—you get 115 mg of calcium for every 100 grams of mustard greens. Additionally, you get 524% of your daily Vitamin K requirement. Whether you steam it, boil it, or eat it raw, you're sure to get ample amounts of nutrients and vitamins.
3. Spinach – Spinach, like kale and mustard greens, has a slightly bitter taste to it that keeps kids away. However, this mighty vegetable packs 99 mg of calcium for every 100 grams, making it one of the best sources of calcium among vegetables. Aside from calcium, you also get a significant amount of micronutrients from spinach, such as manganese, folate, and Vitamins A, C, and K.
4. Okra – Before you write off this vegetable because of its slimy texture, hear this out first – you get 82 mg of calcium for every 100 grams of okra. This humble vegetable also boasts a number of health benefits such as helping improve your digestive health and lowering cholesterol levels.
5. Broccoli – Next on the list is broccoli, one of the vegetables your parents likely forced you to eat as a kid. This vegetable with a large flowering head gives 47 mg of calcium for every 100 grams. If you have unpleasant memories with broccoli from when you were a kid, just think about the health benefits this vegetable can give you. You may even be surprised that it's actually quite tasty.
In the end, it is in your best interest to have a well-balanced diet, one that includes green leafy vegetables on the menu.


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Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 3 (1997), Issue 3, Pages 217-241
Nonlinear unsteady supersonic flow analysis for slender bodies of revolution: Theory
Department of Engineering Science, Section of Mechanics, National Technical University of Athens, Athens GR-157 73, Hellas, Greece
Received 7 March 1996
Copyright © 1997 D. E. Panayotounakos and M. Markakis. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
We construct analytical solutions for the problem of nonlinear supersonic flow past slender bodies of revolution due to small amplitude oscillations. The method employed is based on the splitting of the time dependent small perturbation equation to a nonlinear time independent partial differential equation (P.D.E.) concerning the steady flow, and a linear time dependent one, concerning the unsteady flow. Solutions in the form of three parameters family of surfaces for the first equation are constructed, while solutions including one arbitrary function for the second equation are extracted. As an application the evaluation of the small perturbation velocity resultants for a flow past a right circular cone is obtained making use of convenient boundary and initial conditions in accordance with the physical problem.


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Researchers say three of Switzerland's most iconic animal species spend more time at higher elevations each autumn than they did in the past due to climate warming.This content was published on July 1, 2017 - 15:00
An international research team led by the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) studied data for the Swiss ibex, goat-like chamois, and red deer from 1991 to 2013.
They found the animals lived an average of 135, 90 and 80 metres higher, respectively, than previously recorded.
The data published in the journal Ecosphere in April came from the canton of Graubünden's Hunting and Fishing Authority, which kept records for 230,000 locations where the species were hunted.
The researchers concluded the animals took to higher elevations because of rising temperatures. In the past two decades, average temperatures in the prime hunting months of September and October rose 1.3°C in Graubünden.
It's normal for animal behaviour to vary from year to year, because of hunters, weather or climate. Dry, warmer winters make it easier on the animals, even at higher elevations.
Until now, scientists found mostly reptiles and insects shifting to higher, cooler habitats in response to climate change.
"This data set is unique and shows that even large, warm-blooded species react to rising ambient temperatures", said study co-author Kurt Bollmann of WSL's Conservation Biology research group in a statement on Thursday.
While these data suggest that the ibex, chamois and red deer are responding behaviourally in reaction to climate change in Switzerland, it's not yet known what the long-term consequences of such a trend might be in terms of populations.
However, as study co-author Hannes Jenny of Graubünden's Hunting and Fishing Authority pointed out in a statement: "Consistent, precise and continuous documentation of kill sites is an important and valuable basis for future research on the impact of climate change on large game species".
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Not every shotgun or rifle uses a pump, right? Right. So what's that thingy (for lack of a better term for now) worked back and forth that's sort of like a pump when characters use fully automatic and semi-automatic rifles and shotguns?
That thingy is called a charging handle or cocking handle. They're worked manually to load the first round into the chamber when ammunition is initially inserted into the firearm. After the first shot, the firearm automatically reloads a fresh round. They're present on the following firearms (yes, some of these terms mean the same thing).
- Fully automatic rifles
- Submachine guns
- Machine guns
- Assault rifles
- Semi-automatic rifles
- Fully automatic shotguns
- Semi-automatic shotguns
There's no need to work the charging handle again if the character pauses during a shootout before the ammunition runs out.
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When you follow the rules and guidelines on how to use your 529 plan, money in the account does not count as income on your taxes. You do not report the distributions as income. However, if you accidentally use the funds on ineligible expenses or make a withdrawal, the 529 distribution may be subject to a penalty fee and taxes.
The following are cases in which your distribution may be counted as income.
The Distribution is Spent on Ineligible Expenses
Tuition, books, computers, printers, internet, necessary school equipment, and room and board are considered qualified expenses for the 529 plan. Purchases that are not considered eligible expenses include sports and club memberships, insurance, transportation, and mobile phone fees. For example, let's say that your membership in an intramural sports team is listed among the fees and expenses on your tuition bill. If a portion of your distribution is used to pay for the sports membership, it's an ineligible expense and that amount is considered taxable income.
You Withdraw Money and it is Not Contributed to a Qualifying 529 Plan Within 60 days
If you wish to rollover a 529 account or close your account and open a new plan, you can withdraw the funds and send a check for that amount to the new plan. However, if the money is not deposited into a 529 plan within 60 days, the amount will be regarded as taxable income.
You Exceed Qualified Higher Education Expenses (QHEE)
Perhaps the most innocent way that a distribution would qualify as income is by exceeding your Qualified Higher Education Expenses (QHEE). Each year your college estimates the cost of attendance, which includes tuition and fees and estimates for room and board. Two ways that account holders inadvertently exceed this expense:
 - The 529 plan is used to purchase off-campus housing that exceeds the university's estimate for room and board. 529 plans can be used for off-campus housing, but the cost must not exceed university estimates.
 - Tax-free aid such as grants and scholarships are not deducted from expenses. After calculating expenses based on tuition and fees, room and board, and other qualifying costs, you must deduct the amount of any grants, such as the Federal Pell Grant or scholarships. The remaining amount can be paid with the 529 plan.
In this case, the beneficiary of the 529 plan would receive an IRS Form 1099-Q and would be responsible for paying the taxes on the amount that exceeds the QHEE. In most cases, the beneficiary will have a lower tax bracket than the account holder, so the tax is not substantial.
You Take too Many Credits
In addition to using the 529 plan, you may take the Lifetime Learning Credit or the American Opportunity Tax Credit (AOTC) for qualifying educational expenses. However, taking either credit can lead to a surplus that exceeds your QHEE. If you exceed the qualified expenses, the money withdrawn from the 529 plan may be subject to income tax.
What are the Taxes and Penalties?
Distributions that are not spent on qualifying expenses through one of the scenarios above will be subject to a 10% federal tax penalty and subject to both state and federal income taxes. The tax penalties are waived if the beneficiary receives a scholarship, attends a military academy, is disabled, or dies. In these cases, the distribution is considered taxable income. It's also important to note that income taxes are not levied on the entire distribution, but only the earnings portion. Because 529 contributions are made with after-tax dollars, they cannot be taxed. Therefore the amount of tax due depends on the earnings on the account.
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Critical Slowing Down
I realize that it's been a long while since I've written a post, so the topic of this one, while unintentionally so, is quite apt.
Among the more universal themes in studying phase transitions is the notion of critical slowing down. Most students are introduced to this idea in the context of second order phase transitions, but it has turned out to be a useful concept in a wide range of systems beyond this narrow framework and into subjects well outside the purview of the average condensed matter physicist.
Stated simply, critical slowing down refers to the phenomenon observed near phase transitions where a slight perturbation or disturbance away from equilibrium takes a really long time to decay back to equilibrium. Why is this the case?
The main idea can be explained within the Landau theory of phase transitions, and I'll take that approach here since it's quite intuitive. As you can see in the images below, when the Landau potential is far from T_c, the potential well can be approximated by a parabolic form. However, this is not possible for the potential near T_c.
Mathematically, this can be explained by considering a simple form of the Landau potential:
V(\phi) = \alpha (T-T_c) x^2 + \beta x^4
Near T_c, the parabolic term vanishes, and we are left with only the quartic one. Although it's clear from the images why the dynamics slow down near T_c, it helps to spell out the math a little.
Firstly, imagine that the potential is filled with some sort of viscous fluid, something akin to honey, and that the dynamics of the ball represents that of the order parameter. This puts us in the "overdamped" limit, where the order parameter reaches the equilibrium point without executing any sort of oscillatory motion. Far from T_c, as aforementioned, we can approximate the dynamics with a parabolic form of the potential (using the equation for the overdamped limit, \dot{x} = -dV/dx):
\dot{x} = -\gamma(T) x
The solution to this differential equation is of exponential form, i.e. x(t) = x(0)e^{-\gamma(T) t}, and the relaxation back to equilibrium is therefore characterized by a temperature-dependent timescale \tau =1/\gamma(T).
However, near T_c, the parabolic approximation breaks down, as the parabolic term gets very small, and we have to take into consideration the quartic term. The order parameter dynamics then get described by:
\dot{x} = -\beta x^3,
which has a solution of the form x(t) \sim 1/\sqrt{\beta t}. Noticeably, the dynamics of the order parameter obey a much slower power law decay near T_c, as illustrated below:
At this point, one would naively think, "okay, so this is some weird thing that happens near a critical point at a phase transition…so what?"
Well, it turns out that critical slowing down can actually serve as a precursor of an oncoming phase transition in all sorts of contexts, and can even be predictive! Here are a pair of illuminating papers which show that critical slowing down occurs near a population collapse in microbial communities (from the Scheffer group and from the Gore group). As an aside, the Gore group used the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae in their experiments, which is the yeast used in most beers (I wonder if their lab has tasting parties, and if so, can I get an invitation?).
Here is another recent paper showing critical slowing down in a snap-through instability of an elastic rod. I could go on and on listing the different contexts where critical slowing down has been observed, but I think it's better that I cite this review article.
Surprisingly, critical slowing down has been observed at continuous, first-order and far-from-equilibrium phase transitions! As a consequence of this generality, the observation of critical slowing down can therefore be predictive. If the appropriate measurements could be made, one may be able to see how close the earth's climate is to a "tipping point" from which it will be very difficult to return (due to hysteresic effects) (see this paper which shows some form of critical slowing down in previous climatic changes in the earth's history). But for now, it's just interesting to look for critical slowing down in other contexts that are a little easier to predict and where perhaps the consequences aren't as dire.
*Thanks to Alfred Zong who introduced me to many of the above papers
**Also, a shout out to Brian Skinner who caught repeated noise patterns in a recent preprint on room temperature superconductivity. Great courage and good job!


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Definition of synchronic in English:
Concerned with something, especially a language, as it exists at one point in time: synchronic linguistics Often contrasted with diachronic.
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- Currently, linguists generally prefer the synchronic study of spoken language to the diachronic comparison of words in texts, and have tended to regard philology as pre-scientific.
- From a diachronic viewpoint, languages seem to change from being more pragmatic to more syntactic; from a synchronic perspective, different languages may simply be at different stages of this evolutional circle.
- One of the tenets of sociolinguistics is that synchronic variation of the type illustrated here and in the examples in Chapter 3 represents a stage in long-term change.
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- Part of the problem in making extrapolations from these patterns to build a theory is that the relationship between language and social structure may vary considerably, both synchronically and diachronically.
- Each can be studied synchronically or diachronically and the order in which they have been dealt with within a grammar has fluctuated over the years.
- Reading Scripture diachronically and synchronically, all views provided by the canon would be considered as in a kind of dialogue.
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Restraint and Restraint Factors of Concrete
If movement (expansion and/or contraction) is restricted within a young concrete element, tensile stresses will develop which will lead to cracking. This restriction to movement is normally referred to as restraint. Restraints may be internal or external to the element. Internal restraint occurs due to differential temperature changes within a mass concrete element and can cause surface and/or internal cracking. However, it is only significant in very thick sections (1000 mm or more). Internal restraints are not considered in this article.
External restraints are due to the support/casting condition of the concrete. However, external restraints take two basic forms;
(1) End restraints
(2) Edge restraints
End restraint
End restraints occurs when the edges of a young concrete are prevented from movement (see Figure below). This typically occurs in suspended slab cast between rigid cores, walls or columns, in infill bays, ground slab cast on piles, large area ground slabs restrained locally, e.g. by piles, columns or column foundations or by a build up of friction, walls cast against secant, contiguous concrete or steel sheet piled walls etc (CIRIA C660).
Schematic model of end restraint in concrete
Edge restraint
This typically occurs where the young concrete section (say a wall) is cast on a hardened concrete base (see Figure below). This means that restriction is only in one direction, and there is interaction between the old and new concrete in terms of distribution of cracks. Edge restraint is different from end restraint because the crack width is a function of restrained strain rather than the tensile capacity of the concrete.
Schematic model of edge restraint in concrete
In some cases also, there can be combination of end restraint and edge restraint.
Restraint Factors
The level of restraint in a young concrete imposed by adjoining element is commonly described using restraint factors. The degree of restraint, R, is generally defined as the ratio between the actual stress in a contracting body and the stress imposed under full restraint.
Degree of restraint R = Actual imposed stress / Imposed stress at full restraint
It is recognised that is difficult to determine the degree of restraint correctly, but it is important to obtain restraint factors that are as accurate as possible. According to CIRIA C660, the restraint factors given by BS 8110-2 and HA BD 28/87 reflects true restraint values, while the restraint factors from BS 8007 and EN 1992-3 has a modification factor of 0.5 to account for creep under sustained loading.
ACI (1990) (cited by CIRIA C660) developed method for estimating edge restraint based on the relative geometry and stiffness of the old and new concrete. The equation is given by;
Restraint at the joint Rj = 1/(1 + AnEn/AoEo)
An is Cross-sectional area of the new (restrained) pour
Ao is the cross-sectional area of the old concrete
En is the modulus of elasticity of the new pour concrete
Eo is the modulus of elasticity of the old concrete
However, CIRIA C660 identified that the relative areas of influence of Ao and An may be difficult to define. Therefore the following simple rules were recommended;
 1. For a wall cast at the edge of a slab (An/Ao) = (hn/ho) (thickness of new concrete/thickness of old concrete)
 2. For wall cast remote from the edge of the slab (An/Ao) = (hn/2ho)
 3. En/Eo ranges from 0.7 to 0.8 (but 0.8 is recommended)
Based on CIRIA C660, the values in Table 1 can be used for edge restraint based on An/Ao or An/2Ao ratio.
Table 1: Values of Edge Restraint Factors (According to CIRIA C660)
The values of restraint factors for different conditions as given by different codes is summarised in the Table 2.
Table 2: Values of Restraint Factors (BS 8110-2 and EN 1992-3)
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I was asked by students and other people interested: "Is there a big difference between Parisian French and Canadian French? Or are they quite similar? "
The difference in pronunciation between Quebec French and Parisian French can be quite dramatic, depending on where people learned it.
This goes with all accents and dialects. You will find in the country a thicker accent, very close to a dialect. In Montreal, standard French is much more used. In some French colonies, people learned standard French, proof is that people living in some countries of Africa use a clean, standard language, because that is what they learned there.
Quebec French is a variation of Standard French. What I teach is Parisian, Standard French; once you master this, you can put on any accent on top of it and you would know what you are doing. Moreover, the Standard French is understood by all the French speakers, but if you learn a dialect or a language with a strong accent, you may have problems making yourself understood.
Why Parisian French?
In reality, what everybody calls "Parisian" French is to be accepted as meaning "Standard", "Without an accent", "Academic". The reason I say this is because in Paris the language evolved on its own and it is not exactly academic :) But having the knowledge of the standard language, gives you the leverage to adjust to any accents or variations of the language around the world. Not quite the other way round.
A small observation I made: if you watch TV5 Montreal, which is broadcast internationally, you will see that the presenters use a clean, standard language. When you watch a more local TV show, then it is when the presenters are using a more Quebec accent. The more local, the thicker the accent used.
More on the Parisian (Standard) French on Wikipedia.org
Because Parisian French relies on rules of pronunciation, knowing it, you will:
1- easily pronounce unknown words
2- learn how to read faster and without help (once you know the few rules of pronunciation)
3- learn how to write faster, as the pronunciation will tell you the spelling
4- make yourself well understood all over the world
5- be able to "put on" any other accent if you so wish
In conclusion, Parisian (standard) French is the one that is well understood all over the world, in the trips you want to make, the bilingual job you want to have, the business contacts you want to make. And I deliver just that: bilingualism. I assist you to access and keep the lifestyle you want to have.
This might give you an idea about the broad horizon that the standard language gives you :)
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Pregnant women with an acute abdomen present a critical issue due to the necessity for an immediate diagnosis and treatment; in fact, a diagnostic delay could worsen the outcome for both the mother and the fetus. There is evidence that emergencies during pregnancy are subject to mismanagement; however, the percentage of errors in the diagnosis of emergencies in pregnancy has not been studied in depth. The purpose of this article is to review the most common imaging error emergencies. The topics covered are divided into gynecological and non-gynecological entities and, for each pathology, possible errors have been dealt with in the diagnostic pathway, the possible technical errors in the exam execution, and finally the possible errors in the interpretation of the images. These last two entities are often connected owing to a substandard examination, which can cause errors in the interpretation. Consequently, the systemization of errors reduces the possibility of reoccurrences in the future by providing a valid approach in helping to learn from these errors.
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|Titolo:||Errors in imaging the pregnant patient with acute abdomen|
|Citazione:||Casciani, E., De Vincentiis, C., MAZZEI, M.A., Masselli, G., GUERRINI, S., Polettini, E., et al. (2015). Errors in imaging the pregnant patient with acute abdomen. ABDOMINAL IMAGING, 40(7), 2112-2126.|
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Watchers – Fallen Angels
Written By: CK Quarterman - Oct• 13•11
Adam and Eve
Watchers Were in the Garden
Watchers are the Fallen Angels and the "sons of god", also known as the BeneyElohim
Now the serpent was in the Garden of Delight as well as the Beney Elohim. These "sons of God" (Beney 'Elohim) had access to the garden and were known to Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve were familiar with these other worldly beings known as gods, and they were spectacular creatures to behold in their goings and comings; the serpent used these spectacular beings to tempt Adam. These beings were at first called "Watchers."
The Watchers were humanoids, composed of a physical and spiritual nature. They are specific angels given charge to watch over humanity. Watchers ( Angels) originally were physical, but they attained ascension and immortally upon their home world sometime in the vast eons past and were given by God the ability to convert themselves to energy for interstellar travel.
The Watchers undertook the task at God's command to observe the inhabitants of the Earth, but this undertaking would eventually lead to the downfall of some of them. Each Watcher possessed vast mental, physical, and energy-manipulating powers. They had the power to manipulate energy even in the electromagnetic spectrum.
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A relic of a once prosperous past can be viewed near the shores of the Atlantic in Puerto Rico's Porta del Sol region. El Túnel de Guajataca stands as a remnant of the island's not so distant past when steam engines rolled into this tunnel and out, bridging the distance between opposing coasts with speeds hitherto unseen.
Begun by the Spanish in the late 19th Century and expanded further by the American Railroad Company of New York, the railroad facilitated the transport of sugarcane and passengers around the island. The trains that ran along the now disappeared tracks were an essential cog in the development of the sugarcane plantation economy that dominated Puerto Rico since the arrival of the United States in 1898 until the train's last ride on September 20th, 1953.
Now just a curiosity bored unto the side of the region's majestic karst hills, visitors can walk through the tunnel, following the old railroad's path along Quebradillas's rocky coast. A nearby beach offers the chance to gaze out into the endless horizon while surrounded by the forceful, crashing waves and the uninterrupted trade winds coming in from the open sea.


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1. Install Python and set Environment variable for python
2. Run the following command to create a virtual environment with the same version as the global python implementation.
python3 -m venv tutorial-env
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If multiple versions of python installed, then python version can be entered while creating new virtual environment.
python36 -m venv tutorial-env
This is assuming python 3.6 is installed and Home path is set in environment variable.
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Is Quartz a Master Healing Crystal?
Healing Crystals 101: Quartz (Woo-Woo Optional)
Crystals are said to contain metaphysical properties that can align your chakras and heal your body in ways you could never imagine. Curious? Consider this an introduction to quartz's many rumored properties.
Quartz History
Stone quartz is considered one of the most powerful healing crystals and is also one of the most commonly known. Quartz contains all the colors of the spectrum when held to the light.
Quartz Forms
Quartz comes in two different forms: macrocrystalline quartz and cryptocrystalline quartz (or microcrystalline quartz). Macrocrystalline quart is made of visible crystals or grains, such as in smoky quartz, rose quartz, and quartz grains in sandstone. Cryptocrystalline quartz is comprised of a dense and compact accumulation of microscopic quartz crystals and crystallites, such as in flint, agate, and radiolarite chert.
The Gist of Healing Crystals
The healing benefits of crystals, including quartz, come down to the stones' unique composition. Because of the way they are structured, crystals like quartz respond to the input of all kinds of energies surrounding them, causing the crystals to oscillate and emit specific vibratory frequencies. The crystal matrix is balanced and orderly, so the energy it gives off stays consistent – when dissonant energy is put into the crystal, that energy becomes balanced and harmonic.
Crystal enthusiasts say that this balancing of energies is why crystals are healing to the body and its chakra: crystals take what is "off" and bring it back into harmony. Of course, none of the healing benefits of quartz and other crystals are scientifically proven. That's the clincher. Even so, it hasn't put the crystal industry out of business, if the recent shenanigans of Spencer Pratt are anything to judge by.
And, indeed, there's something to be said of ancient traditional practices. If healing crystals have withstood centuries, there must be something there.
Quartz Benefits
If you ask an experienced crystal collector and/or crystology practitioner, you'll likely be suggested to purchase clear quartz as your first stone. The silicon and oxygen-containing crystal is considered a "master healer" that can be used to treat just about any condition. It's the go-to crystal.
Clear quartz is said to balance and revitalize the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual planes as well as to cleanse the organs and soul, enhance psychic abilities, aid in concentration, boost memory, and stimulate the immune system.
How to Use Quartz
There are many ways to employ quartz into your everyday life. Here are four basic ways to start:
1. Keep a quartz crystal with you
Wear quartz in a pouch around your neck or as part of your jewelry. You could also keep the crystal in your pocket.
2. Sleep with quartz at night
Hold a quartz crystal in your hand while you sleep or tuck it under your pillow.
3. Target a chakra
Clear quartz connects you to the spiritual aspects of life, so placing the crystal on your head (standing up) or forehead (lying down), near your pineal gland, best activates and opens your crown chakra.
How to Care for Quartz
To benefit from quartz, it is important to keep the stone clean. In fact, many take the cleansing of crystals as seriously as they do their application.
Here's how to clean your quartz crystals:
1. Wash them thoroughly under faucet water.
2. Lay them out just after sunset, somewhere where they will get direct moonlight.
3. Let the crystals stay out just through sunrise. It is important they receive sun, but not too much.
4. Charge crystals with your intentions. As you transfer your crystals to their usual resting place, imagine your intentions or even say them out loud. Charge them with whatever emotion you hope to cultivate in your life, such as love, forgiveness, awareness, health, and so on.
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Bees' flight secrets revealed
11 Sep 2013
Honeybees use a combination of what they feel and see to streamline their bodies and gain maximum 'fuel efficiency' during flight, a world first study has found.
Scientists at the University of Queensland's (UQ) Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) have found that bees use their antennae as well as their eyes to calculate the best position of their bodies for swift flight. The discovery could help in the development of robot aircraft, such as small insect-like flying machines, say QBI's Mr Gavin Taylor and Professor Mandyam Srinivasan.
"Honeybees often have to travel very long distances with only a small amount of nectar, so they have to be as 'fuel-efficient' as possible," says Professor Srinivasan.
Previous research has found that honeybees use their eyes to sense the airspeed and move their abdomens accordingly, Mr Taylor says.
"When we trick a honeybee into thinking that it's 'flying' forward by running background images past its eyes, the bee will move its body into a flying position despite being tethered."
Now, QBI researchers have further unravelled the honeybee's flight secrets by adding airflow to the bee's environment.
"We created a headwind and ran background images simultaneously," says Mr Taylor.
Prof. Srinivasan explains that the honeybee senses airflow with its antenna: "As soon as we immobilised the bee's antenna, its streamlining response was reduced as it relied only on its eyes.
Using information from several senses to control their flight is more effective as it helps bees respond more quickly to changes in the environment, Mr Taylor says.
"As we start to build more robot aircraft, such as 'robotbees' with tiny flapping wings, a better understanding of how these creatures fly takes us one step further towards perfecting these flying machines," says Professor Srinivasan.
"For instance, we can place battery packs on small unmanned flying vehicles that mimic the bee's abdomen. The vehicle can streamline itself when performing long distance, cruising flights – or stabilise itself by letting the 'abdomen' droop when needed.
"These bees are living proof that it's possible to engineer airborne vehicles that are agile, navigationally competent, weigh less than 100 milligrams, and can fly around the world using the energy given by an ounce of honey."
The study "Vision and airflow combine to streamline flying honeybees" by Gavin J. Taylor, Tien Luu, David Ball and Mandyam V. Srinivasan has been published in Scientific Reports.


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The following are interactive educational tools programmed with Processing that demonstrate and automate many of the structural analysis tasks taught in university structures classes in architecture schools. The goal is to create a foundation of basic tools that allow architecture students to learn to make higher-level design decisions about structures without the burden of manual calculation. To do this, architecture students need a set of interactive tools that provide direct, quantitative feedback, much like an engineer would during a design process.
All of these applets require a Java plugin. If you're a Windows or Linux user, you can get it at this this download page or here at all Java downloads. Each tool has the source code available if you want to hack them. You must download the Processing development package to do so.1
Interactive Shear and Moment Diagrams
A utility that draws and calculates shear and moment diagrams for a loading condition of your choice. Add point loads and uniformly distributed loads, change support locations and beam length, and watch the diagrams below update as you change them. It will also find a selection of steel sections appropriate for that loading condition as determined by the flexure formula only (i.e. horizontal shear stress, lateral bracing, etc. are ignored).
Moment of Inertia Painter
Paint a cross-section and this applet will determine the centroid and calculate the moment of inertia of the shape along the x and y axes through the centroid. This can be an analysis tool to teach moment of inertia as well as a design tool for learning beam design.
This is the first of many applets to help with the addition of vectors. This one takes two vectors (one red and the other blue) and adds them together to obtain the resultant (violet). The angles are measured from the axis without the handle, and you can rotate the reference coordinate system by dragging the handle on the other.
This applet allows you to build and analyze a statically determinant truss. Add nodes in 'Edit' mode, then click two nodes to make an element between them. You must add one roller and one pinned support, and at least one force. In 'Solve' mode, the applet colors and sizes the elements according to the internal forces. Red is compression; blue is tension. Mouse over any force or element to find the value of the force. No units are present so you can use whatever units you like.
This applet enables you to select columns given a length, load, and desired slenderness ratio. It distinguishes between short, intermediate, and long columns. Selection of intermediate columns is not yet supported. After inputing the load and length, move the slenderness ratio handle to get selections with a ratio in the vicinity of the ratio you select.
Copyright © 2008-9 William Martin ().


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- the act or an instance of motivating.
- the state or condition of being motivated.
- something that motivates; inducement; incentive.
Even a little would be nice.
|1.||the normal, non warring condition of a nation, group of nations, or the world.|
|2.||an agreement or treaty between warring or antagonistic nations, groups, etc., to end hostilities and abstain from further fighting or antagonism: the Peace of Ryswick.|
|3.||a state of mutual harmony between people or groups, esp. in personal relations: Try to live in peace with your neighbors.|
|4.||the normal freedom from civil commotion and violence of a community; public order and security: He was arrested for being drunk and disturbing the peace.|
|5.||cessation of or freedom from any strife or dissension.|
|6.||freedom of the mind from annoyance, distraction, anxiety, an obsession, etc.; tranquility; serenity.|
|7.||a state of tranquility or serenity: May he rest in peace.|
|8.||a state or condition conducive to, proceeding from, or characterized by tranquillity: the peace of a mountain resort.|
|9.||silence; stillness: The cawing of a crow broke the afternoon's peace.|
|10.||) a comedy (421 b.c.) by Aristophanes.|
|11.||(used to express greeting or farewell or to request quietness or silence).|
|12.||Obsolete. to be or become silent.|
|13.||at peace, |
|14.||hold or keep one's peace, to refrain from or cease speaking; keep silent: He told her to hold her peace until he had finished.|
|15.||keep the peace, to maintain order; cause to refrain from creating a disturbance: Several officers of the law were on hand to keep the peace.|
|16.||make one's peace with, to become reconciled with: He repaired the fence he had broken and made his peace with the neighbor on whose property it stood.|
|17.||make peace, to ask for or arrange a cessation of hostilities or antagonism|
For much of the past seven years, President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have waged a clandestine operation inside the White House. It has involved thousands of military personnel, private presidential letters and meetings that were kept off their public calendars or sometimes left the news media in the dark.
Their mission: to comfort the families of soldiers who died fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and to lift the spirits of those wounded in the service of their country.
On Monday, the president is set to make a more common public trip - with reporters in tow - to Walter Reed Army Medical Center, home to many of the wounded and a symbol of controversy earlier in his presidency over the quality of care the veterans were receiving.
But the size and scope of Mr. Bush's and Mr. Cheney's private endeavors to meet with wounded soldiers and families of the fallen far exceed anything that has been witnessed publicly, according to interviews with more than a dozen officials familiar with the effort.
"People say, 'Why would you do that?'" the president said in an Oval Office interview with The Washington Times on Friday. "And the answer is: This is my duty. The president is commander in chief, but the president is often comforter in chief, as well. It is my duty to be - to try to comfort as best as I humanly can a loved one who is in anguish.
Mr. Bush, for instance, has sent personal letters to the families of every one of the more than 4,000 troops who have died in the two wars, an enormous personal effort that consumed hours of his time and escaped public notice. The task, along with meeting family members of troops killed in action, has been so wrenching - balancing the anger, grief and pride of families coping with the loss symbolized by a flag-draped coffin - that the president often leaned on his wife, Laura, for emotional support.
"I lean on the Almighty and Laura," Mr. Bush said in the interview. "She has been very reassuring, very calming."
Mr. Bush also has met privately with more than 500 families of troops killed in action and with more than 950 wounded veterans, according to White House spokesman Carlton Carroll. Many of those meetings were outside the presence of the news media at the White House or at private sessions during official travel stops, officials said.
The first lady said those private visits, many of which she also attended, took a heavy emotional toll, not just on the president, but on her as well.
|1.||any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.|
|2.||an aggregate of such filaments, as that covering the human head or forming the coat of most mammals.|
|3.||a similar fine, filamentous outgrowth from the body of insects, spiders, etc.|
|4.||Botany. a filamentous outgrowth of the epidermis.|
|5.||cloth made of hair from animals, as camel and alpaca.|
|6.||a very small amount, degree, measure, magnitude, etc.; a fraction, as of time or space: He lost the race by a hair.|
|7.||get in someone's hair, Slang. to annoy or bother someone: Their snobbishness gets in my hair.|
|8.||hair of the dog, Informal. a drink of liquor, supposed to relieve a hangover: Even a hair of the dog didn't help his aching head. Also, hair of the dog that bit one.|
|9.||let one's hair down, Informal. |
|10.||make one's hair stand on end, to strike or fill with horror; terrify: The tales of the jungle made our hair stand on end.|
|11.||split hairs, to make unnecessarily fine or petty distinctions: To argue about whether they arrived at two o'clock or at 2:01 is just splitting hairs.|
|12.||tear one's hair, to manifest extreme anxiety, grief, or anger: He's tearing his hair over the way he was treated by them. Also, tear one's hair out.|
|13.||to a hair, perfect to the smallest detail; exactly: The reproduction matched the original to a hair.|
|14.||without turning a hair, without showing the least excitement or emotion. Also, not turn a hair.|
You Are a Haunted House
You are a deeply complicated and sometimes deeply disturbed person.
You can't help but be attracted to the dark side of life - even when it's pretty gruesome.
In relationships, you are honest and real. So real that it's definitely a little scary.
You don't fake it or play along just to get along. And people either respect this... or deeply resent it
Your life is thoughtful, deep, and even philosophical at times.
You see the world as it is. You don't sugar coat anything.
Facing and fighting your fears is important to you. You believe that too much of life is whitewashed.
You're not too morbid... you just believe that you can't enjoy life without exorcising a few demons first!
At your best, you are brave, intense, and fearless.
Not only do you face the abyss head on - you challenge your friends to do the same.
At your worst, you are depressed and morose.
If you're not careful, your thoughts take over your mind... and they aren't pretty!
Joseph Martin Luther Gardner was pronounced dead at 6:15 p.m. Friday in the state's death chamber in Columbia. He did not make a final statement, but did mouth the words "Thank you. I'm OK," to a relative who witnessed his death.
Gardner was convicted in the 1992 kidnapping, rape and slaying of 25-year-old Melissa "Missi" McLauchlin.
Police said Gardner and his co-defendants decided to kill a white woman as retribution for slavery. But the victim's family and Gardner's attorneys say they don't think the killing had anything to do with racial revenge. Source.
|1.||doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention: to speak with ambiguity; an ambiguity of manner.|
|2.||an unclear, indefinite, or equivocal word, expression, meaning, etc.: a contract free of ambiguities; the ambiguities of modern poetry.|


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Question: "Why did God sometimes change a person's name in the Bible?"
Answer: When God changed a person's name and gave him a new name, it was usually to establish a new identity. God changed Abram's "high father" name to "Abraham," "father of a multitude" (Genesis 17:5) and his wife's name from "Sarai," "my princess," to "Sarah," "mother of nations" (Genesis 17:15). We know from history that the descendants of Abraham and Sarah formed many nations, including the Jews' and Muslims'.
God changed Jacob's "supplanter" name to "Israel," "having power with God" (Genesis 32:28). He changed Simon's "God has heard" name to "Peter," "rock" (John 1:42). Why did Jesus occasionally call Peter "Simon" after He had changed His name to "Peter"? Probably because Simon sometimes acted like his old self instead of the rock God called him to be. The same is true for Jacob. God continued to call him "Jacob" to remind him of his past and to remind him to depend on God's strength.
Why did God choose new names for some people? The Bible doesn't give us His reasons, but perhaps it was to let them know they were destined for a new mission in life. The new name was a way to let them in on the divine plan and also to assure them that God's plan would be fulfilled in them.
© Copyright 2002-2013 Got Questions Ministries.


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Ideal random AB copolymers with degree of polymerization N are mixtures of N+1 types of chains with different compositions (fractions fi of A monomers). Conditions for single phase and multiphase equilibria are studied using Flory-Huggins free energy of mixing with χ representing the A-B interaction parameter. The spinodal for one phase instability is given by χs=[2f(1-f)]-1 for all N, where f is the average A fraction in the system. The transition from one to two phases is continuous at χ=χs when f=0.5 and discontinuous at χ<χ s when f≠0.5. Three, four, and more phases become stable at larger values of χ. Our numerical solution suggests that the stability range for multiple phases approaches Δχ≈0.15 at large (but finite) N. Macroscopically and microscopically phase separated states are investigated with the Landau approach of Fredrickson, Milner and Leibler. The Landau method gives reasonable but inexact results for two macroscopic phases when the random copolymer has compositional symmetry (f=0.5). A disordered mesophase is expected to be the most stable state at least over a range Δχ≈0.15 above the critical point when N≫1. The Landau approach with a single order parameter cannot be used for discontinuous transitions in random copolymers (f≠0.5).
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Physics and Astronomy(all)
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry


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bio man page
bio — Barry Input / Output
bio -i [input args] -o [output args] [-o ...]
bio is a command line tool that treats devices, backups, and data streams as input and output. bio supports the following types of IO (actual type name shown in bold):
tar (backup files)
boost (serialization files and streams)
human readable and hex text dump
sha1 sum output
cstore for extracting Content Store records
Each command line consists of at least one input and output option, along with their switches. More than one output can be used, as long as they do not conflict with each other. For example, it is not possible to read and write from the same device PIN.
This tool combines a lot of the functionality of btool, btardump, brecsum, and bs11nread, but does it more flexibly, and improves functionality in some cases, such as Boost archives being able to contain more than one database.
Device Type Options
The device type is used to read or write from a device connected via USB. Some of the options below are valid only in one input or output mode, some in both.
- -d db
Name of database to load, when using the device type as input. Can be used multiple times. See btool -t for a list of databases on the device.
Selects all databases found on the device, instead of adding them manually via the -d option.
- -p pin
PIN of device to talk to. Valid for both input and output. Only needed if you have more than one Blackberry connected at once.
- -P password
Simplistic method to specify device password. In a real application, this would be done using a more secure prompt.
- -w mode
Set write mode when using the device type in output mode. This must be specified, or nothing will be written. Can be one of: erase, overwrite, addonly, addnew.
erase Erases all records from existing database and adds all new records to the device, using their Unique IDs, if available. This is what you would normally use to restore a backup.
overwrite Adds any new records, and for records with Unique IDs that already exist on the device, overwrite them.
addonly Adds any new records, but if a record exists in the device with the same Unique ID, skip that record and don't write it to the device.
addnew Adds all incoming records as brand new records, generating a new Unique ID for each one, and leaving any existing records intact. This may cause data duplication if you're restoring data that initially came from this same device. Use this for copying data from another device, while keeping your existing records.
Tar Type Options
The tar type is used to read or write from a backup file created by btool or the backup GUI.
- -d db
Name of database to load, when using the tar type as input. Can be used multiple times. Note that if no -d options are specified, bio defaults to reading all available databases.
- -f file
The tar backup file to read or write from. Bio uses gzip compressed tar files, so suitable extensions would be.tgz and.tar.gz. Unfortunately, due to internal limitations, an actual file must be specified here, and not - for stdin / stdout.
Boost Type Options
The boost type is used to read and write parsable records in Boost Serialization format. These files were historically written and read by btool and bs11nread. Bio is more flexible, in that it can contain multiple databases in one serialization archive.
- -f file
Filename to read from or write to. Use - to specify stdin or stdout. If not specified for input, defaults to stdin, but since output can contain non-ASCII chars, you must use -f - if you want to write to stdout.
Ldif Type Options
The ldif type is used to read or write ldif output, like the output of the LDAP command line tool ldapsearch.
- -c dn
When using ldif as output, specify the base DN.
- -C dnattr
Again, for output, specify the attribute name to use when building the FQDN.
Mime Type Options
The mime type is used to read or write VCARD, VEVENT, VTODO, or VJOURNAL records based on the Address Book, Calendar, Tasks, or Memos databases respectively.
- -f file
Filename to read from or write to. Defaults to - for stdin or stdout.
Dump Type Options
The dump type is used only for output, and sends human readable record data to stdout. Parsable records are parsed; unknown records are dumped in hex format.
Use hex format for all records.
Show only the names of the databases.
Sha1 Type Options
The sha1 type is used to mimic the behaviour of the brecsum command. It calculates a SHA1 sum on the raw record data and sends the sum to stdout.
Include the DB Name, Type, and Unique record ID in the checksum for each record.
Cstore Type Options
The cstore type is used to parse Content Store records.
List the filenames and folders found in the Content Store database.
- -f file
Select a filename from the above list to extract and save locally. Specify the entire path as shown in the -l list. If the file is found in the device, it will be written to the current directory, using the base filename as the name. If a file by that name exists already, the filename will be modified to avoid overwriting local files.
Displays a detailed summary of command line options.
- -I cs
Set the international charset for string conversions. Valid values here are available with iconv --list
Show list of supported database parsers and builders.
Dump verbose low level protocol data during USB operations, to stdout.
- 1) Backup a full device to tar backup:
bio -i device -A -o tar -f mybackup.tar.gz
- 2) Read a backup file and convert the Address Book to MIME
bio -i tar -f mybackup.tar.gz -d "Address Book" -o mime
- 3) Restore a single database to a device
bio -i tar -f mybackup.tar.gz -d "Address Book" -o device -w erase
- 4) Copy the Calendar from one device to another, and dump
the records to stdout in human readable format at the same time
bio -i device -p 3009efe3 -d Calendar -o device -p 204062f3 -w erase -o dump
- 5) Read LDIF input and convert the contacts to MIME format
ldapsearch -x | bio -i ldif -o mime
- 6) Test the record code by running the Tasks database through
the Boost storage and back to human readable
bio -i device -d Tasks -o dump
bio -i device -d Tasks -o boost -f - | bio -i boost -f - -o dump
bio is part of the Barry project.


When consumers pay with plastic, they buy more unhealthy foods
Yet another health risk associated with plastic? Yup. Apparently when shoppers buy groceries with cards versus cash, they tend to put more unhealthy items in their carts, says a recent study in the Journal of Consumer Research.
The study followed 1 thousand single-member household shoppers for six months. When these shoppers used a credit or debit card to pay, they had more junk in their baskets like cakes and cookies.
I found it interesting that their findings were true for debit purchases as well (but then again I have a line of credit on my debit card, don't you?). But perhaps most compelling is how buying with plastic negatively affects the way we shop. Other research shows that when we buy with credit we buy more (even if we can't afford it). Once again it appears that when humans disconnect from an original source (in this case money), our response goes awry--in this case a values response.
As our society transitions to an essentially cashless one, how will this play out? Like with what we eat will there be a backto- basics financial movement?
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