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Our team is working on a model editor based on JME and we are using the XMLExporter to create the project files.
The XMLExporter uses DOMOutputCapsule to write each Savable object, in particular Vector3f instances.
When a Spatial is saved, the "transform" object is saved and if its "translation" (vector3f instance) is (0,0,0), it isn't written in the XML output (I suppose to save space).
The problem happens when we read the XML file to load the saved project:
The XMLImporter uses DOMInputCapsule to read the Spatial and create the "transform", but it won't find any "translation" vector so it will load the default one, which is Vector3f.ZERO. You can see this in com.jme3.math.Transform#read:
translation = (Vector3f)capsule.readSavable("translation", Vector3f.ZERO);
This behaviour is heavily wrong as every Spatial will have the same translation vector (ie. Vector3f.ZERO) and will cause several bugs as Vector3f.ZERO mustn't be edited at all.
The solution is pretty easy, just replace the previous line with:
translation = (Vector3f)capsule.readSavable("translation", new Vector3f(0,0,0));
or maybe you can also use Vector3f.ZERO.clone().
Until the official fix, our workaround is a field reflection.
Hope to be helpful,


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Religious offerings in our RIVERS
Hindus believe that water is sacred because it is the foundation for the growth of plant, animal and human life. The act of placing organic offerings in water after Pooja represents a return to origins. Hindu religious offerings are being found in local rivers in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).
The religious offerings include: Flowers and leaves, coconuts, lemons, and other fruits, jewellery or coins, cloth or clothing
Credit Valley Conservation (CVC) and Toronto and Region Conservation (TRCA) know that religious offerings are important to many cultures. CVC and TRCA are working closely with the Hindu community to find other means to placing offerings in the river, while also exploring similar cultural and religious offering practices.
What does this mean to the ENVIRONMENT?
While religious offerings are not the largest source of water pollution, anything not found naturally in the river can harm water quality and the homes of wildlife.
When flowers, leaves, lemons, coconuts and other plant materials are put into the water, they immediately begin to break down and use up oxygen. Some plants and animals are very sensitive to the amount of oxygen in the water and cannot survive when there is not enough.
Coconuts, lemons and other fruits may cause health and disease problems if eaten by wildlife. This is because these fruits do not grow in Canada and are not the typical food that wildlife in this country would eat.
Clothing, jewellery, money, plastic bags, containers and wrappers may cause harm if wildlife get caught in them or eat them.
What can I do?
Flowers and leaves may be placed in local rivers, however only a small handful should be release a t one time. Extra flowers can be composted.
Fruits such as coconuts may be eaten, composted or buried with the permission of the landowner.
Offering such as clothing, jewellery or money should not be placed in or near rivers. These offering may be donated to your local temple.
Plastic bags or wrappers must be recycled or placed in the garbage.
Who do I contact for more information?

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I have a column (lets assume the width is 40px) and there I have some rows. The height of the rows depends on the length of text (if the text is long then there is a break line and therefore the height increases).
Now I want to display an icon in each row next to the text to show the user for example that he has already completed something in that tab. So I was trying to solve this by using only css. So if the user completes a tab then I change the css of that row. However, I'm not able to add to that row an image without that the image is being repeated.
I'm using this css code:
padding: 0 8px; padding-top: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; overflow: hidden; zoom: 1; text-align: left; font-size: 13px; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Arial,Sans; line-height: 24px; color: black; border-bottom: solid 1px _TAG_; background-color: white; background-image: url('images/checked.gif'); background-repeat-x: no-repeat; background-repeat-y: no-repeat;
Does anyone know how to do that?

source: openbmb/Ultra-FineWeb


Portable computerized polysomnography in attended and unattended settings
Icanka J. Mykijtijn, Dimitar Sajkov, Allster M. Neill, R. Douglas McEvoy
Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review
43 Citations (Scopus)
Study objective: We compared the validity of a new portable polysomnographic recorder against a laboratory-based polysomnographic system from the same manufacturer. Design and patients: Simultaneous, full polysomnographic recordings from the portable device (PSGP) and the laboratory-based system (PSGL) were obtained using separate sets of sensors on 20 patients referred for investigation of sleep apnea. Setting: After initial optimization of signals, the portable device was left unattended in 10 of the patients (to simulate home studies), while in the other 10 the signals were reviewed on a laptop computer screen and adjustments to electrode or sensor placement made as needed during the studies. Recordings were manually scored by a technologist blinded to the origin of the data. Measurements and results: The quality of signals was comparable between the PSGP and PSGL studies, apart from a slight decrease in respiratory signal quality during PSGP studies that led to reduced confidence in respiratory event scoring. SaO2 signal loss was also greater in unattended PSGP. There was good agreement between PSGP and PSGL for sleep variables and the apneahypopnea index (r = 0.99). The periodic limb movement index was slightly lower during unattended PSGP. Blinded physician assessment of the records led to a recommendation for repeat studies due to poor signal quality in one (10%) attended and one (10%) unattended portable recording. There was no significant discordance between PSGP and PSGL in the final diagnostic formulations. Conclusion: Portable polysomnography is a viable alternative to laboratory-based polysomnography and may be improved further by better sensor attachment.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)114-122
Number of pages9
Issue number1
Publication statusPublished - Jan 1999
Externally publishedYes
 - Home monitoring
 - Portable polysomnography
 - Sleep apnea
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Exercise 1: Write a complete program to read a string of characters from the standard input and insert them in the stack. Print the size of the stack when you are done after the stack is filled out. Then, print out to the screen all the vowels in reverse order.
Use classes and functions to do the above program.
Exercise 2: Write a program that takes marks of 10 students and store them in the stack then take out these from the stack and print the average of all the marks of 10 students.
Hint : make sure that every time you do a push operation you should check if the stack is not full and in pop operation you should check if the stack is not empty.


San Francisco Public Library
The Sisters Brothers Read-Alikes
If you enjoyed The Sisters Brothers, you might like some more intense historical fiction. Check out:
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Lyndsay Faye
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Gerald Kolpan
Kolpan envisions the remarkable life of beautiful, elusive, and refined Etta Place, who captivated the nation at the turn of the last century as she dodged the law with the Wild Bunch, led by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Her true identity and fate have remained a mystery that has tantalized historians for decades.
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Dennis Lehane
In 1926, during the Prohibition, Joe Coughlin defies his strict law-and-order upbringing by climbing a ladder of organized crime that takes him from Boston to Cuba where he encounters a dangerous cast of characters who are all fighting for their piece of the American dream.
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Lois Leveen
Based on a remarkable true story of Mary El, the tenacious Virginian slave turned spy, The Secrets of Mary Bowser is an inspiring tale of one daring woman's willingness to sacrifice her own freedom to change the course of history.
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Trees are the tallest and oldest plants, and the Blean is the largest ancient woodland in Kent. However, it is the smaller plants we would like to celebrate here, as we take a closer look at some of the typical woodland flowers seasonally found beside the paths, rides and amongst the trees. One of the great pleasures of walking through the Blean is seeing carpets of flowers in the spring. However wild flowers provide so much more, including information!
How old is the Blean?
Bluebells, wood sorrel, wood anemone and yellow archangel rarely grow outside of ancient woodlands (woodland that has existed on a site since 1600 or before).
What lies underground?
Wildflowers tell us about site conditions, soils and the underlying geology. For example lesser celandines are found in wetter areas, and bluebells and primroses in the brighter coppiced areas. Acidic soils have produced the right conditions for heather and gorse to thrive in Church Woods.
Who needs wildflowers?
Well apart from their beauty, native wildflowers are an important part of the incredibly rich biodiversity of the woods. They provide food and habitat for a wide range of insects and other creatures, including the nationally rare heath fritillary butterfly that feeds on the common cow-wheat growing on the wide rides and coppiced woodland of the Blean. Bats and birds feed on the insects, and the nightjar, a rare wonderful bird of southern heaths and open woodland glades, nests in between the clumps of heather in specially created and managed heathland areas.
Flowers we don't need!
Sadly not all flowers are a welcome sight. A number of vigorous non-native species have escaped gardens or mistakenly been introduced into woodland areas. In parts of the Blean plants such as rhododendron and Spanish bluebells threaten to overwhelm our native species and so reduce biodiversity.
Please enjoy the flowers with your eyes, noses and cameras only! It is for all of the above reasons that it is a criminal offence to pick or dig up native wild flowers without express permission from the owners.


I just recently blocked all incoming traffic(all local ports and all external ips) in my windows 7 firewall and I understand that will not stop me from accessing websites as browsing needs outbound connection. That was fine with me.
However, though I'm not able to access any shared files or rdp to this computer from local networks, I find I can VOIP or chat in Internet. I wonder how it's possible.
According to my understanding, to send messages we need incoming ports open which I have blocked then why I can still chat or VOIP.
Most communication nowadays is done via remote servers. So clients connect to a central server and the server manages communication between clients. Blocking listening ports with a firewall will not stop this communication.
But some services require direct (Peer to Peer) communication for decreased latency and increased bandwidth. VoIP and other services can still communicate without having local ports open.
By combining the client-server model with the P2P model, new ways of establishing connections were invented:
 - UDP hole punching is a commonly used technique employed in network address translator (NAT) applications for maintaining User Datagram Protocol (UDP) packet streams that traverse the NAT. NAT traversal techniques are typically required for client-to-client networking applications on the Internet involving hosts connected in private networks, especially in peer-to-peer and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) deployments.
 - TCP hole punching is a commonly used NAT traversal technique, for sending 2-way messages between nodes in an Internet computer network. The term "NAT traversal" is a general term for techniques that establish and maintain TCP/IP network and/or TCP connections traversing network-address-translation (NAT) gateways.
 - STUN (Session Traversal Utilities for NAT) is a standardized set of methods and a network protocol to allow an end host to discover its public IP address if it is located behind a NAT. It is used to permit NAT traversal for applications of real-time voice, video, messaging, and other interactive IP communications. It is documented in RFC 5389
Skype uses UDP hole punching to get around firewalls.
Firewalls typically work by blocking unrequested traffic. Let's say you visit a web page (stackexchange.com which has an IP address with your web browser. You make a three-way TCP handshake with before any information is transmitted. That is your web browser first requests a SYN (SYNchronize) with a random 32-bit sequence number to the web server say (x=850003392). The web server replies with a SYN ACK (ACKnowledgment) that returns your sequence number (incremented by 1) as an ACK (x+1=850003393) along with its on random sequence number (y=_PHONE_), and then your client sends back an ACK (x+1, y+1) to complete the three-way handshake. The handshake ensures that both web server and client agree on numbers.
Then over the established TCP connection your browser sends an HTTP request to port 80 to from some random port from your computer (say port 35235) that's not being used at the moment. A port is just a number between 0 and 65535 (216 -1) that allows your ethernet card to have multiple different distinct conversations at the same time; so you can visit multiple webpages simulatenously and have multiple internet applications open; each with a separate connection. Every packet contains a source IP address and port, destination IP address and port). Your firewall sees that you just made a request for information from on and then allows the IP address to send an HTTP response (with the HTML web page; images; etc) back to your IP address on port 35235 which your operating system will then pass to your web browser.
Its similar for UDP except there's no TCP handshake.
 - //, This is a much better answer than the top one, for the simple reason that it goes into more of the "why" and underlying assumptions, terminology and examples more than the others. Much servers. Much Doctor. All it needs now is a little ASCII diagram: unix.stackexchange.com/questions/126630/… – Nathan Basanese Jun 10 '15 at 5:57
An established TCP connection works by using packets which travel in both directions, and when a firewall "allows outbound connections only", it really means that the firewall allows all packets except the incoming packet which tries to open a new connection (i.e. the first packet of an inbound connection).
VoIP typically uses UDP, not TCP, and has its own rules. The equivalent to the TCP blocking system would be a firewall which allows incoming UDP packets only when they are "in response" of a previous outgoing packet (i.e. an incoming packet with source address s and source port p, and destination port q on the local machine, allowed by the firewall because it first saw an outgoing packet with destination address s and destination port p, and source port q).
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- Place and utensils you can boil the Parsley leaves in
- Boil the parsley leaves on water
- Allow them to cool down
- Then once they are warm, take the leaves and wrap them in a piece of cloth round use it as a poultice on and around the boil
Apple Cider Vinegar
Apple cider vinegar has acetic acid that helps kill the bacteria causing the boil, it soothes the boil, reduces pain and it also helps balance the pH levels thus preventing the bacteria from thriving. The best time to use is overnight
- Apple cider vinegar
- A Cotton ball or buds
- Use the cotton buds to soak in the vinegar
- Rub the cotton buds gently on and around the boil
- Then cover it with a bandage
- Repeat this once a day until the boil ripens
Cornmeal will help relieve you from the discomfort of boils and can also be used as a natural absorbent in helping to treat boils.
- Half Cup of boiled water
- Piece of clean cloth
- Add cornmeal to the half cup of boiled water to make it a paste
- Apply the paste around and on the boil
- Then cover with the piece of cloth
- Repeat this once daily until the boil softens and the infection drains
Best for boils on buttocks or inner thighs because it has natural antiseptic and antibacterial qualities
- Take a handful of Neem leaves wash to clean and crush them to make a paste
- Apply it on the boil and let it be for at least 30 minutes before washing off
- Repeat this once or twice a day
The boil should be kept clean, dry, and protected. As a result, the boil will heal in a few days or weeks depending on its location or size.
How to Pop a Boil
Sometimes if the boil isn't that big or there are limited risks, popping your boil is possible. Most people would like to wait for the boil to burst by itself but you can do this by yourself if the boil has ripened thus avoiding chances of getting a secondary infection.
A ripe boil has a softened lump head with yellow pus that can be seen through the skin.
- A Bandage
- A safety pin
- Clean piece of cloth
- Hydrogen Peroxide
- Antiseptic Soap
- Antibiotics soap
- Antibiotic cream
What to do;
- You need washed hands. So scrubbed them with the antiseptic soap then dry them with the fresh piece of cloth
- Place a warm part of fabric gently on the boil then leave it for about 10 minutes
- Use the candle to heat up the safety pins pointy side "this is to cleanse it." Then let the safety pin cool down. Some people like to use thorns because they are easier to get and can't cause tetanus, but it isn't advisable because some thorns can be poisonous "unless you know ones that are not" and the safety pin will be heated so it will be purified.
- Gently prick the head of the boil with the pointy cleansed side of the safety pin
- Use your finger to squeeze the boil from the sides. If it's in a position you can't do so you may need assistance from a trusted friend, and he or she must have clean hands.
- Although it's a painful process, you need to harder and harder so that you can eliminate all the pus. You will know all the discharge is out when you see only blood coming out from the boil, but it's good to feel the sides of the boil too.
- After removing pus from the boil. Clean it using hydrogen peroxide to avoid secondary infections and kill any germs in the area.
- Apply the antibiotic cream on the open boil; it will help heal and protect the boil from further infection
- After all of this cover the field with a bandage. The bandage should be changed once or twice a day while checking if the affected area is healing properly.
If it's a big boil or if the boil has a hard head that is difficult to pop you need to seek medical attention from a doctor.
Possible Complications of Boils
On infrequent occasions, boils may bring about difficulties in the human body.
- Permanent scarring after healing
- Spread of Staphylococcus to other parts of the skin
- Sepsis infection of the tissues or blood
- Boils forming in a cluster form
- Swelling and disease of the heart valve tissues
- Abscess of the spinal cord, skin, kidneys, brain or other organs
When to Seek Medical Care for Boil
- If the boil last more than three weeks
- The pain becomes severe
- If the original boil comes back
- High levels of Fever
- Other boils start appearing
- If you have swollen lymph nodes
- The boil doesn't drain
- Repeated outbreak of oil
- If the boil doesn't ripen
- If the boil is too big
Prevention Measures for Boils
- Make sure to practice good hygiene
- Use antibacterial soap and bath regularly. It will help prevent infection
- Clean minor wounds and treat them
- Wash clothes, towels and bed linen
- Regular skin exfoliation. It reduces chances of boils by unclogging sweat ducts.
- Stay hydrated and eats nutritional meals to improve your immune system


Are Stick Insects Good Pets?
Vietnamese Stick Insect
Written by Anthony
I am a content creator by profession but exotic animals are one of my great passions in life. Over the course of my adulthood, I have had the pleasure of looking after stick insects, terrapins, an Egyptian tortoise, giant African land snails, a crested gecko, a Chilean rose tarantula, a couple of curly-haired tarantulas, and a selection of millipedes, centipedes and worms!
Last Updated on January 11, 2021
When most people think of pets, cute and cuddly animals such as dogs, cats, and rabbits usually spring to mind. They might even think about fish, hamsters, or gerbils. Nevertheless, very few people consider insects as pets. When it comes to first pets for children though, certain insects can be the perfect choice.
For example, you may be pondering the question are stick insects good pets.
Yes, stick insects can make for very good pets, particularly if you are looking for something low maintenance. Indeed, stick insects are quiet, clean, and easy to care for, making them the perfect pet. They are also fascinating to watch.
Such a pet can teach kids the value of life and a level of responsibility without placing too much pressure on them or yourself. As well as this, because of these insects' relatively short lifespans, children get to see how these creatures progress from egg to nymph to adulthood in a short space of time. It is for this reason that stick insects are often chosen as a class pet in schools.
For more advice and information on keeping and looking after stick insects, check out my ebook on Amazon click here (opens in a new tab).
What are Stick Insects Like?
If you are looking for a pet that requires very little investment and very little maintenance, stick insects are ideal. All they really need is a safe and warm environment and access to fresh leaves, and they will be content.
Most people have an idea of what stick insects are like but very few realise that there are actually over 3,000 different species of stick insect across the world. Moreover, they can vary quite dramatically in appearance as well. The most common stick insect is the Indian, or laboratory as it is sometimes known, stick insect. This stick insect species eventually grows to around eight centimetres and resembles a twig. It is typically a brown or green colour and can expertly camouflage itself in trees and bushes.
The Indian stick insect is nocturnal for the most part, but it does move about during the day from time to time. Like many other species of stick insect, the female Indian stick insect can lay eggs without mating with a male. These are known as parthenogenic insects and have the ability to lay eggs that will eventually hatch into female nymphs. These nymphs are clones of their mothers.
How to Care for Stick Insects
If you have been wondering are stick insects good pets, then you know by now from reading thus far that the answer is a resounding yes. However, it is important to create the perfect environment for them to live in. For the most part, stick insects thrive in a warm and humid environment. Ideally, the temperature needs to be between 20oC and 30oC. The good thing about the Indian stick insect is that they are very hardy and are comfortable at normal room temperature.
If you are thinking of a stick insect(s) for a pet, you will need to have an enclosure made from glass or plastic. You can buy suitable containers or tanks in a pet store or online. It is important that whatever tank you place the stick insects is well ventilated. Ideally, it will have a mesh screen at the top; this offers the required ventilation and somewhere for the stick insects to hang from when shedding their skin.
New Guinea Spiny Stick Insect
New Guinea Spiny Stick Insect
Stick insects shed numerous times before reaching adulthood, and they require plenty of height in their enclosure to do so. So based on this, it is therefore important that any tank is at the very least three times as high as the length of a fully grown adult; in the case of the Indian stick insect, this would mean having a tank that is at least 24cm high.
To keep the environment humid, a spray bottle is necessary to mist the enclosure every couple of days or so. Your stick insects require a little humidity to shed their skins more easily. If the atmosphere is too dry, they are likely to find it hard to shed properly, which could cause harm to the insect. There is the possibility that the stick insect will be unable to free itself from its skin if the environment is not humid, which could then result in lost limbs or, in extreme cases, death.
While your stick insects will be fine in a tank that is warm, humid, and contains fresh food, including some decorative items is also a good idea. Stick insects enjoy climbing and blending in with their surroundings, so placing sticks, branches, and twigs in the tank will give them places to rest and climb and will, at the end of the day, make for happier sticks.
What do Stick Insects Eat?
There is no need to purchase expensive food for stick insects as they eat fresh leaves. This means that you can find their favourite food source for free in your surrounding area. Although they survive on a diet of fresh leaves, they do not eat all types of leaf. They do have their favourites.
In the wild, stick insects will, obviously, avoid leaves that are toxic to them. The same is true of stick insects in captivity; they will only eat the leaves that they like, no matter how hungry they are. Their favourite foods are privet, bramble, oak, hawthorn, ivy, and rose leaves.
rose leaves with water droplets
Stick insects like older leaves and will not eat young, bright green leaves. They will also only eat fresh leaves, so it is important to place a water source in the container as a place for the stems of the leaves to be placed to keep them fresh for longer.
What to Do if Your Stick Insect Lays Eggs?
As previously mentioned, Indian stick insects lay eggs that can hatch into female nymphs. Stick insect eggs are typically around 2mm in diameter and resemble small seeds. Adult females can lay around two or three of these eggs each day; over the course of their lifespan this can equate to hundreds of eggs, all of which could hatch into nymphs. It is important, therefore, that you learn how to manage these eggs.
It is up to you to decide what to do with any eggs that your stick insect lays. You can allow them to hatch to increase your population of stick insects, you could sell or donate the eggs, or you can dispose of them. If you choose to dispose of the eggs, we highly recommended that you do so humanely. This means freezing any unwanted eggs before getting rid of them.
Sunny Stick Insect Eggs
Stick insect eggs can take a number of months to hatch. How long this process takes depends on the type of stick insect species you have. Some people choose to move the eggs out of the main tank until they have hatched. If you do this, you will need a small, ventilated container. You should place the eggs on tissue paper within this container and make sure that you mist the eggs regularly. You should not allow them to get too wet, but they should not get too dry either. If they are too dry, it can prevent the nymphs from hatching; being too wet can result in mould and fungi growth, which will be detrimental to the eggs.
Once the nymphs hatch, you can move them to the main tank, where they will start to feed and grow. Nymphs do require a little bit of help in terms of feeding in that they find it difficult to eat undamaged leaves. If there are older nymphs or adults in the container, you will not need to worry. Otherwise, you will need to tear or cut the leaves to allow the nymphs to feed properly.
You should also be aware that nymphs have been known to fall in containers of water and quickly drown, so it will be essential to cover the water container. You can roll up pieces of paper to place on the top of the water, or better still, cover the container with a piece of net or mesh. This will allow you to put the stem of the leaves through without the nymphs being able to fall in.
How Long Will Your Stick Insects Live For?
Indian stick insects live for between one and two years. They usually moult around five times before reaching adulthood. It is only when they shed their skin that they grow. They typically take around six months to reach adulthood and will then live for a further six to twelve months as adults. They make great starter pets for children and will enable parents to teach responsibility when looking after a pet.
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cannabis also features chemical compound CBD, which has numerous medical benefits without causing intoxication. Now, you must be wondering what can cause a false positive for thc? Well, some products that contain hemp oil may lead to fake results.
Vitamin B Supplements
Some group of vitamins and supplements, specifically B2, or Riboflavin, is made with hemp seed oil. It's what can cause a false positive drug test for thc. Hemp contains traces of THC, which is a psychoactive component of marijuana.
We all know that weed is part of standard drug screenings, so you must be careful when taking these vitamins.
Snack Bars
You must think it's weird that a regular snack bar can cause you to fail your opioid test. But it's true. Scientists have discovered that KIND brand granola bar has hemp seeds.
This ingredient contains lower traces of tetrahydrocannabinol. Even though KIND granola can add extra protein to your diet, it can also expose your body to irregular test results.
So, make sure to read the ingredient list before you decide to eat similar snacks.
Tonic Water
You must be surprised to hear that tonic water can cause you to fail your drug screening. It contains traces of quinine, which is a medicine used to treat malaria. In some cases, quinine is combined with street drugs, which can lead authorities to suspect illegal actions.
A 1989 study confirmed that tonic water could generate a false positive for opiates.
Passive Marijuana Smoke
In extreme cases, secondhand marijuana smoke can cause irregularities in a drug test. However, that's not always something you should be afraid of or avoid people who smoke weed.
For example, based on a study conducted in 2015, six people smoked marijuana in a sealed room, while six non-smokers sat next to them. The experiment lasted for one hour, and several non-smokers were tested positive for pot.
The closed space, proximity, and amount of smoke are what can cause a false positive for thc. In this particular case, the test subjects had a concentration of nearly 50 nanograms per millimeter. These results show that extreme secondhand cannabis exposure could temper with your upcoming screening.
On the other hand, the researchers also noted that these positive tests in real life are scarce. You need to spend hours in a closed chamber to suffer from passive marijuana smoke.
Passive Marijuana Smoke
Factors That May Cause Fake Positives
There are a couple of things which can affect the approaching opioid screening:
- The time of the test
- The type of detection technique, as well as the sensitivity
- Whether there is or not metabolic products of the actual drug
How to Prevent It?
Usually, it's only people who consume drugs have to worry about screening results. On the other hand, individuals who stay away can relax, knowing there is no way for tests to come back positive. Right?
However, what if you are 100% sure that you didn't take drugs, but your test results show otherwise. Here are a few things that might mess up with your screening:
 - Over the counter medication – when you're sick, go see a doctor, and don't act like one. Countless medicines, nearly 250 of them, contain a chemical ingredient which may cause a fake positive urine drug screen.
 - Limit a specific food and drink intake – as you already know particular foods such as poppy seeds, or coca tea can make a mess in your body. So, you better avoid them if you have an upcoming opioid examination.
 - Check your blood sugar level – diabetes, or kidney, and liver disease can lead to a fake positive.
False Negatives
This is probably what the majority of marijuana users want to hear! A false negative can happen, but it means that someone deliberately altered the results.
Nowadays, there is a lot of speculation online on how to pass any drug test. However, on our website, you can find plenty of articles dedicated to this subject, and they all have a high success rate.
Due to many alterations, lab technician, and laboratories have tightened the rule, so now it's nearly impossible to tamper with samples. But, with the appropriate method, you can beat even the most challening screening.
Can Energy Drinks Cause a False Positive?
If you are a fan of Monster brand energy drink, then you might test positive on drugs. It happens that this drink contains Riboflavin, which is a form of vitamin B. As we already explained, specific vitamins and supplements can cause issues with opioid screening.
What Happens If I Fail a Drug Test While Pregnant?
A urine test on pregnant women can produce a surprisingly high rate of fake positives, especially of opiates and methamphetamines. On the other hand, the baby's first stool is used to determine whether the mother used drugs or not in the past couple of months.
How to Dispute a False Positive?
There aren't not a lot of things you can do. But, with the help of a lawyer, you can always request the second screening, to dispute the results.
A false positive drug screening can change your life in a matter of seconds. You can lose your job, face criminal charges, and even end up in jail.
However, before you start panicking and do something reckless, review your previous actions and ask yourself how did you get in content with drugs.
Maybe you got sick, and you took the wrong medicine, or perhaps you had your favorite snack bar, without realizing it contains "suspicious" ingredients?
Whatever the case is, make sure to ask for additional tests, and try to determine factors which led you to have fake positive. Remember, it's not the end of the world, even though it might seem like that.
Use all recourse to prove your innocence and to get back to normal life.


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wikiHow to Identify Baby Birds
Three Parts:Determining if the Baby Bird is a Nestling or FledglingObserving a Baby Bird's Physical Characteristics and NestKnowing What to Do With the Baby BirdCommunity Q&A
Baby birds can certainly tug at your heartstrings. They're tiny, defenseless, and can look especially vulnerable if you happen to see one out of its nest. Before getting any closer to it, though, take some time to identify it from a distance. Identifying the baby bird will help you not only determine its species and general age, but also decide if it needs your help.
Part 1
Determining if the Baby Bird is a Nestling or Fledgling
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 Check the baby bird's feathering. A baby bird is classified as either a nestling or fledgling, depending on its age. A nestling is a very young baby bird that doesn't have much feathering.[1] A fledgling is older than a nestling and has more feathers, but does not yet know how to use his wing feathers to fly.[2]
 - Nestlings should not be out of their nests, since they are unable to fly or grip a perch.[3]
 - Nestlings are altricial, meaning they are completely dependent on their parents and must stay in the nest.[4] Song birds and perching birds are born as altricial chicks.[5]
 - Fledglings tend to look a little scruffy overall.[6]
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 Observe the baby bird's behavior. If the baby bird is a fledgling, it will probably be prancing or scurrying about on the ground, since it hasn't learned how to use its muscles and feathers to fly.[7] Chances are that the fledgling fell out of its nest—fledglings can become impatient with getting out the nest, but end up falling out rather than gracefully flying out.
 - Although nestlings cannot move around on the ground, they will stretch their mouths wide open to ask for food, and will even chirp if you don't give them any![8]
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 Put the nestling back in its nest. Before trying to identify the species of the baby bird, you should move it out of harm's way, especially if it is a nestling. If you can locate the nest from which the nestling fell, gently pick the nestling up (bare hands or with a towel) and place it back in the nest.[9] If you cannot find the nest, you can make one.
 - To make your own nest, line a shoebox or woven basket with hay or dry leaves. Place the makeshift nest off the ground with the baby bird inside of it and wait for about an hour for the parents to return.[10]
 - If the parents do not return, you will need to start making plans to take the baby bird to a wildlife rehabilitation center.[11]
 - It is only a myth that handling a baby bird will cause it to be rejected by its parents.[12]
 - If the nestling feels cold to the touch, warm it in your hands before returning it to the nest (or your makeshift nest). A parent returning to the nest may push out a cold nestling to prevent the other eggs or nestlings from becoming cold.[13]
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 Place the fledgling onto a perch. Although out of the nest, a fledgling does not need to return to its nest. Since fledglings are able to use their feet to grip, hold out your index finger like a perch and use a bird treat to encourage the fledgling to perch on your finger. Once the fledgling is on your finger, gently place it on some shrubbery or a tree branch.[14]
 - If the fledgling does not want to perch on your finger, try gently wrapping it in a towel to pick it up and place it on higher ground.
 - If you try to place the fledgling back in its nest, it will likely fall out of the nest again.[15]
 - The fledgling needs to be above the ground to protect it from predators.
Part 2
Observing a Baby Bird's Physical Characteristics and Nest
 1. 1
 Recognize the challenge of identifying the species of the baby bird. It is often difficult to determine the species of a baby bird. Baby birds typically do not resemble their adult counterparts, particularly in terms of feather color and length. In addition, a baby bird's feather color and lengths can change in a matter of days, making identification even more difficult.[16]
 - Despite the challenges, do your best to identify the species. When you contact a wildlife rehabilitation center, you can provide them with this information so the staff will have a good idea of what type of baby bird you will be bringing them.
 - If you need to care for the baby bird before transferring care over to a wildlife rehabilitation center, you can provide the bird with general support regardless of its species. For example, you can keep it warm by placing it in a tissue-filled shoebox (make sure to cut holes in the lid) and setting a heating pad set on 'low' underneath the box.[17] You could also feed it.
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 Look at the baby bird's bill. Often, a baby's bird bill will be large and out of proportion to the size of its head. This is because the baby bird's head has not yet fully formed. Essentially, the head will have to catch up to the size of the bill.[18]
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 Observe the feather length and color. A baby bird's feathers are typically stubby, fluffy, and not very well organized. Sometimes, the feather coloring will resemble that of an adult of the same species, especially for the wing and tail feathers. Most times, though, the coloring will be very drab to conceal the baby bird from predators.[19]
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 Identify other interesting physical features. With so many species of birds, there are many variations on physical characteristics. Some other physical features to look for include eye size, the presence of a hooked beak, and spiked feathers on the head.[20] Be mindful that telltale physical features of a particular species may not be easily noticeable on a baby bird.
 - The orientation of the toes (how many face forward and how many face backward) can also help you identify the species.[21]
 5. 5
 Use a picture database to identify the baby bird's species. Take a few pictures of the baby bird and spend some time researching online databases to see if you can identify the species. There are many helpful online resources, such as, that contain numerous pictures of baby birds. Another website,, features a short quiz that will give you potential species based on how you answer the questions.
 6. 6
 Observe the nest type to identify the species. If you were able to locate the nestling's or fledgling's original nest, you could use the nest's characteristics to determine the baby bird's species. For example, sparrows will make their nests close to the ground and wrens will build their nests in bushes or shrubs with dense foliage. Also, owls and wrens will make their nests in cavities of old trees.[22]
 - You can also look at how the nest is made. For example, American robins will have cup-shaped nests, Barn swallows will make their nests out of mud, and hummingbirds will make their nests out of lichens and spiderwebs.[23]
 - There are many types of nests, so do not become discouraged if you cannot identify the baby bird's species according to its nest. A wildlife rehabilitation expert can help you.
Part 3
Knowing What to Do With the Baby Bird
 1. 1
 Determine if the baby bird needs your help. More times than not, it is best to leave a baby bird alone.[24] Even if you do not see its parents around, chances are that the parents are not far off and will return to the nest (or ground) to feed it. However, if you see evidence of physical trauma (e.g., broken beak, missing or injured feet, puncture wounds), you should transport the baby bird to a veterinarian or wildlife rehabilitation center.[25]
 - For a nestling, you may need to take the baby bird for further care if the parents have not returned in an hour. Keep in mind, though, that the parents may not approach the nest if you are too close. Stay at least 100 feet (about 30 meters) from the nest.[26]
 2. 2
 Do not hand raise a baby bird. This cannot be emphasized enough! Unless you are a licensed wildlife rehabilitator, it is illegal to hand raise wild animals in captivity. In addition to being unlawful, hand raising a wild baby bird is extremely time intensive—nestlings need to be fed every 15 to 20 minutes.[27]
 - Even with the best of intentions, it is unlikely that you will do a better job of raising a baby bird than its parents or a wildlife rehabilitator.
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 Contact a veterinarian or wildlife rehabilitation center. If you choose to take the baby bird to a veterinarian, find one that specializes in birds and wildlife. If you do not know the wildlife veterinarians in your area, your local zoo or ASPCA can give you recommendations.[28]


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The captive husbandry and reproduction of the pink-eared turtle (Emydura victoriae) at Perth Zoo
Article first published online: 5 APR 2010
© 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
Volume 30, Issue 1, pages 79–94, January/February 2011
How to Cite
Gaikhorst, G.S., Clarke, B.R., McPharlin, M., Larkin, B., McLaughlin, J. and Mayes, J. (2011), The captive husbandry and reproduction of the pink-eared turtle (Emydura victoriae) at Perth Zoo. Zoo Biol., 30: 79–94. doi: 10.1002/zoo.20317
- Issue published online: 11 FEB 2011
- Article first published online: 5 APR 2010
- Manuscript Accepted: 10 FEB 2010
- Manuscript Revised: 18 JAN 2010
- Manuscript Received: 8 JAN 2009
In 1997, Perth Zoo acquired six pink-eared turtles (Emydura victoriae) from the wild for display in the reptile facility. There is very little documented information on pink-eared turtles in captivity. This article looks at the reproductive biology, ecology, behavior, diet, and captive husbandry of the species. Eight clutches of eggs were documented over a 2-year period with an average clutch size of 10 eggs. Egg size was recorded with three clutches incubated to hatching. Ten hatchlings were maintained for a growth and development study. Measurements of weight, carapace length, width, height, and plastron length were recorded weekly for about 12 months, and then monthly for approximately 2 years. The data were analyzed and showed positive growth curves in all animals. Sexual dimorphism was observed after 20 weeks and sexual maturity in males observed after 2 years. Zoo Biol 30:79–94, 2011. © 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc.


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GLG User's Manual and Builder Reference
This book provides information about creating and animating GLG drawings, using the GLG Graphics Builder and editing GLG objects. It contains the following chapters:
- Table of Contents
- Introduction to GLG
An overview of the GLG Toolkit and its components.
- Structure of a GLG Drawing
A description of the internal structure of a GLG drawing. The material in this and the next chapter are important for anybody who wants to edit or create a GLG drawing.
- GLG Objects
A description of each of the objects that make up a GLG drawing.
- Integrated Features of the GLG Drawing
A description of the integrated features of the GLG drawing such as zooming and panning, object tooltips, custom selection events and commands, as well as other integrated features.
- Input Objects
A description of the interaction handlers and input objects.
- Using the GLG Graphics Builder
An introduction to the use of the GLG Graphics Builder. This program is used to create, edit, and test GLG drawings.
- GLG Graphics Builder Menus
A reference for the GLG Graphics Builder menus and dialogs.
This guide assumes that you are conversant with the basic concepts of computer graphics programming. For a comprehensive discussion of three dimensional computer graphics, we recommend Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice, Foley, Van Dam, Feiner, and Hughes. Second edition, 1990; Addison-Wesley, Reading MA.
Please note that although the illustrations in this document represent the UNIX version of the GLG Graphics Builder, the information it contains is equally relevant to Microsoft Windows users. The two versions present the same functionality in equivalent user interfaces, with minimal, cosmetic differences caused by the different platforms.
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by Victor A. Requena
Debugging your web applications with Visual Studio Code makes you more efficient. It helps you save a lot of time and keeps your code cleaner. This is because you don't have to write a bunch of console.logs and you can go through your code execution line by line. But if you're here, you probably know the benefits of debugging web applications. So let's begin…
Getting set up
The first thing you need to do is install the Debugger for Chrome extension. After you've installed it, you're almost ready to go. The next thing you need to do is create a launch file for the Visual Studio Code Debugger. This file contains the debugger's different configurations for your project.
You can create the launch file by going to the debug section in the Activity Bar and clicking the gear icon.
This gear icon.
A list of options will prompt you to select the "Chrome" one.
Like this.
After you've done this, you're going to have a.vscode directory with a launch.json file.
There are two kinds of Chrome debugging configurations: launch and attach. You can set this in the request option inside every configuration object.
The launch configuration launches a Chrome instance running a specified file or URL. If you specify a URL, you have to set webRoot to the directory that files are served from. This can be either an absolute path or a path using the ${workspaceFolder} resolver. This is the folder opened in your Visual Studio Code workspace.
Note: Be careful while setting webRoot, this is used to resolve URLs to a file on your computer.
You can see an example of two launch configurations: One launching against a local server and the other launching against a local file.
If you have a Chrome instance running, the one launched by the debugger will use a temporary session. This means that you won't have your extensions or opened tabs. If you want to launch a Chrome instance with your user and extensions, you have to close every running instance first.
Note: When you stop the debugger, this will close the Chrome window.
I personally prefer using this one… This configuration attaches the debugger to a running instance of Chrome. But in order for this option to work, you need to launch Chrome with remote debugging enabled. Launching a Chrome instance with remote debugging varies depending on your OS.
There are two ways to launch Chrome with remote debugging in Windows. The simplest one is to right-click on the Google Chrome shortcut. Select the properties option and append the following command in the target field.
Note: This will launch Chrome with remote debugging enabled every time you click on the shortcut.
The other way is to open the command prompt and execute this command replacing the with the actual location of your Chrome installation.
\chrome.exe --remote-debugging-port=9222
Open the terminal and execute the following command:
Launch your terminal and run this command:
google-chrome --remote-debugging-port=9222
What this does — no matter what OS — is open Chrome with a flag, in this case: --remote-debugging-port, and sets it to 9222. You can read more about this here.
Note: If you have other Chrome instances running with no remote debugging, make sure to close them before launching a new one.
Here's a sample attach configuration.
Note: If you do not set the "url" option, a list will be prompted with your open tabs.
This extension have a lot of very useful options that you can use to adapt the configurations to your project. You can read the documentation of some of them here.
Congratulations! You've learned how to install and set up the debugger for Chrome in Visual Studio Code. You also learned how to launch Google Chrome with remote debugging enabled. Now it's time for you to explore and expand your new knowledge… I highly recommend you to take a look at the extension's repository.
I hope you enjoyed this post. You can find me on Twitter _USER_.?


text: Self-hypnosis training represents a rapid, cost-effective, nonaddictive and safe alternative to medication for the treatment of anxiety-related conditions. Here we provide a review of the experimental literature on the use of self-hypnosis in the treatment of anxiety and stress-related disorders, including anxiety associated with cancer, surgery, burns and medical/dental procedures. An overview of research is also provided with regard to self-hypnotic treatment of anxiety-related disorders, such as tension headaches, migraines and irritable bowel syndrome. The tremendous volume of research provides compelling evidence that hypnosis is an efficacious treatment for state anxiety (e.g., prior to tests, surgery and medical procedures) and anxiety-related disorders, such as headaches and irritable bowel syndrome. Although six studies demonstrate changes in trait anxiety, this review recommends that further randomized controlled outcome studies are needed on the hypnotic treatment of generalized anxiety disorder and in documenting changes in trait anxiety. Recommendations are made for selecting clinical referral sources.


Christianity, Culture, Politics, Social Justice
Some thoughts on intersectionality and "activist science"
I've been doing some reading on intersectionality1 recently, and I came across an article by a feminist psychologist named Stephanie Shields. She argues that intersectionality should be an urgent concern for behavioral scientists and should determine the outcomes of their research. Shields writes:
"Intersectionality is an urgent issue because it is critical to the effective, activist science that feminist psychology should be. The goal of activist science itself is not to create policy, but to inform it. Research undertaken from an intersectionality perspective does originate from a point of view which includes an agenda for positive social change, but the agenda requires data to support it. This approach reflects a belief that science can be beneficial to society and that it is our obligation to study scientifically those problems and issues that bear on real people's lived experience."
-Stephanie A. Shields, "Gender: An Intersectionality Perspective," Sex Roles 59 (2008): 309.
Thomas Kuhn famously said that science is theory-laden. If Shields is correct, intersectional science seems theory-burdened, or theory-predetermined. Shields contends for "activist science." In other words, it's not merely that the scientist has biases that inevitably (though perhaps unintentionally) shape his research. Shields is arguing that the behavioral scientist should have a bias for intersectional theory, and that the theory should function as an agenda in search of facts to support it.
To the degree that behavioral sciences are being conducted in this way and to the degree that they become an apology for intersectional theory, we should not be surprised to find conflict between such "science" and traditional religious perspectives (including Christianity). But it is crucial to note that the conflict is not between real science and Christianity, but between a thinly veiled feminist theory and Christianity. The feminist theory masquerades as "science," but it is not really that at all. It is a religion of first principles predetermining which facts are relevant and which ones need to be suppressed or discarded because they don't support intersectional theory.
This is just a reminder that not all "science" is true science. The discerning reader will understand that there is a difference between facts and evidence and the evaluation of facts and evidence. Sometimes there are agendas at work shaping the way researchers construe the evidence. Oftentimes, it is the evaluation of the facts and evidence that reveals that underlying worldview of the researcher.
For example, in 2013 the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Psychiatric Disorders removed "Gender Identity Disorder" from its list of psychiatric disorders and replaced it with "Gender Dysphoria." Did they remove it because scientists had uncovered some new facts or evidence showing it no longer to be a disorder? No, that is not why they did it. As I have pointed out before in this space, the diagnosis was changed to remove the stigma of transgender identities being labeled as a "disorder." Consider also, for example, how the scientific community has responded to the research of Mark Regnerus and Paul McHugh. Has the negative response been based on facts and evidence? Or has it been based on the fact that these men sometimes reach conclusions that depart from predetermined outcomes?


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On Friday, October 21, 2005, the Cape St. George Light collapsed into the Gulf of Mexico. On Monday, December 1, 2008, the reconstructed lighthouse was opened to the public. Built in 1852 on what is now Little St. George Island, the Light finally succumbed to beach erosion and pounding waves. Working with state and federal government support, the St. George Lighthouse Association spearheaded the effort to salvage the pieces of the Light. Volunteers cleaned the mortar off thousands of the old bricks. The original plans were obtained from the National Archives in Washington, D.C. and the lighthouse was reconstructed on St. George Island, using as much of the original materials as possible.
Please browse the accompanying pages to read about the Light's history and to see photos of the Light through the years, including extensive coverage of the reconstruction effort. Take a look at our merchandise and membership opportunities, and the calendar of upcoming events. And come visit and climb the 92 stairs to the top of the Light. Your continued support of the Cape St. George Light is important to help maintain our historic lighthouse for future generations!
The Cape St. George Light is located at 2 East Gulf Beach Drive, St. George Island, FL 32328.


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text: If you are like me, you practice at home, have a large dog, and he makes regular visits for attention while you are working. ALWAYS wash your hands after touching your pet during practice (on a string instrument). Sounds silly but not at all!! Many dogs possess a coat rich in oils for protective purposes. When these oils emulsify with the moisture from your hands, the result is a grease that forms between the windings of your strings, and will instantaneously stifle the string's resonance.


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The upper (suprarostral) and lower (infrarostral) supportive jaw cartilages have pigmented and keratinized jaw sheaths. The relative amount of dark keratinization (width in longitudinal dimension) of a sheath sometimes is useful for distinguishing among tadpoles.
Narrow Sheaths-dark for less than half the width
Medium Sheaths-dark for about half the width
Wide Sheaths-dark for nearly the entire width
Other jaw sheath characteristics are sometimes useful to distinguish among species.
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By using Time machine is possible to:
 - Recognize that function ask requires interactive mode by adding annotation like this to the function header: allowed_time(mode(interactive)).
 - Recognize when a function is invoked at the wrong time frame, based on annotations.
 - Reorder a code in such a way so that functions are executed at appropriate moments of a time. At the time of actual invocation it just returns already computed result.
In other words, it's a way to support Incremental Programming - technique to adapt a code by adding new functionality to the end(or to the beginning) without modifying existing code, thus simplifying versioning, testing, catching regressions, etc.
Language's drawbacks and disadvantages
Peculiarities that need special care to conceal and mitigate:
 - Compilation time. The compiler clearly trades off execution efficiency against compilation time. Compilation time is cheaper in a sense that software is compiled once on a developer's machine but run multiple times on multiple users' machines. However, Transcend being just designation of a SAT logic solver backend has the same inefficiency as always. Thus usual AI measures apply. Such as limited depth of a searched space, etc.
 - Everything is rewritten, reordered, transformed, adapted and silently decided. A whole lot of the different things done under the hood. Great amount of added complexity. This can be targeted by "Why" subsystem to allow a developer to know what's going on at any given moment.
 - Unexpected decision changes.
Language's distinctive possible applications and selling points
 - Convergent and spread out software. Software with the same/similar functionality can be packed in different forms: mobile application, desktop, self-hosted locally, cloud based, single/multi user interface, etc. Xreate can be useful to handle this on 2 levels:
 - GUI. A Full fledged logic solver is particularly suited to process declarative data such as GUI. By writing GUI as Transcend data it's possible to transform it into several forms for a desktop, mobile, etc interface. Also a static analysis can be run against GUI to check an interaction sequence to ensure, for example, that specific GUI states(such as the main screen) are always reachable no matter what user clicks. FOL Logic solver can possibly substitute whole range of endlessly multiplying technologies such as HTML/CSS/JS/REACT, XML/XSLT/XPATH/XQUERY, whatever.
 - Virtualization and Supervision. Virtualization reasoning is able to apply different virtualization strategies for different code parts. Those strategies are as lightweight as possible just enough to ensure required safety level. On the other hand, Supervision can optimize and provide more safety of software for a given platform without recompilation.
 - Combinatorial libraries. Software factories. In essence Transcend picks up appropriate specializations from a range of available ones while building client software. This can be conceptualized as a software factory that builds client software from isolated blocks that satisfy the given requirements. Containers reasoning tries to decide which container's implementation to choose based on how the container is used in the code. The can be a foundation for a full fledged database that can be compiled just for a single client or a set of clients in a particular form such as relational DB, document oriented, graph oriented, embedded or client-server based, with or without transactions based solely on client's needs, queries and processed data.
 - Low-end hardware. IoT. Low-end hardware has hard computational power limit due to electricity consumption and battery life. Most developers would be glad to code using convenient languages like Python but performance issues are not well suited for low end hardware. Xreate can be possible a solution blending features of different languages.
 - Software that can not be written by professional developers. Scientific software and massive computations. Scientific software is written by scientists that have no time(and desire) to learn how to code effectively. Thus they use very simple script languages to perform AI related and other massive computations that suffer from severe performance issues. That can be also a stimulus to develop language like Xreate targeting this niche.
The compiler is under Mozilla's MPL 2.0. This means that the code can be combined with a GPL'ed code as well as with a proprietary code(under condition that MPL'ed and proprietary parts reside in different files). The intention is to make the compiler clearly FOSS project with an ability to use it with proprietary plugins, extensions, IDE, etc as a very remote but possible option. To make this possible, the contributors are free to assign their own licenses for their respective parts as long as license in question is at least as permissive as MPL(which is expected) or MIT or something of this sort. Anyway, not a single stroke will be used without a fully informed contributor's consent should any controversies arise.
GPL license: due to the reasons above, a source code of the core components may not be GPL'ed. However there are still legitimate uses for GPL(or other restrictive licenses). The compiler has two distinctive backends(or rather three):
 - Brute byte code generation backend. Class LLVMLayer (and all the files in compilation folder) - are responsible for producing a byte code (currently LLVM). If someone adds an interface to a different backend, notably GCC, it surely may have a different, respective backend's compatible license.
 - A logic solver backend. Class TranscendLayer(and files in analysis folder) - compile logic programs for an external solver(currently Clasp) to process and send a solution back. There are many different solvers out there, so the same considerations apply.
 - A foreign interface backend - an interface to different languages. Currently it's clang to use external C functions in Xreate. Different languages' bridges may require different licenses.
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What does Menthol do for congestion?
Menthol (l-menthol) is a naturally-occurring cold receptor agonist commonly used to provide symptomatic relief for upper airway congestion.
Menthol can also reduce the sensation of dyspnea..
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Camphor, which is another common ingredient in nasal inhalers can be poisonous if ingested. According to a report, swallowing a few teaspoons of camphor can cause fatal poisoning in toddlers. Camphor absorbed through mucous membranes or broken skin can also be toxic.
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Side effects of Vicks Action 500 Extra Tablet: These tablets are usually safe and don't cause any side effects when taken as per the doctor's recommendation. However, an overdose of paracetamol can cause severe life-threatening liver injury as a serious side effect.
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The celestial sphere with the zenith and almucantar marked in red, the horizon in green, and the path of a star or the Sun in blue.
An almucantar (also spelled almucantarat or almacantara) is a circle on the celestial sphere parallel to the horizon. Two stars that lie on the same almucantar have the same altitude. The term was introduced into European astronomy by monastic astronomer Hermann Contractus of Reichenau, from the Arabic word al-muqantarat, meaning "crooked, bow-like."
Almucantar staff[edit]
An almucantar staff is an instrument chiefly used to determine the time of sunrise and sunset, in order to find the amplitude and consequently the variations of the compass. Usually made of pear tree or boxwood, with an arch of 15° to 30°,[1] it is an example of a backstaff.
This is a drawing of an almucantar staff. There are three vanes - the horizon vane (A), the shadow vane (B) and the sighting vane (C).
The sun casts that shadow of a vane (B in the image at the right) on a horizon vane (A). The horizon vane has a slit or hole to allow the observer to see the horizon in the distance. The observer aligns the horizon and shadow so they show at the same point on the horizon vane and sets the sighting vane (C) to align his line of sight with the horizon. The altitude of the sun is the angle between the shadow vane and the sighting vane.
Solar almucantar[edit]
The almucantar plane that contains the Sun is used to characterize multiple scattering of aerosols. Measurements are carried out rapidly at several angle at both sides of the Sun using a spectroradiometer or a photometer. There are several models to obtain aerosol properties from the solar almucantar. The most relevant were developed by Oleg Dubovik and used in the NASA AERONET network and by Teruyuki Nakajima (named SKYRAD.PACK).
 - Adelaide Observatory: Almucantar graphs of hour angles, Adelaide, R. E. E. Rogers, Govt. printer, 1927.
 - Chandler, Seth Carlo, (1846–1913): The almucantar, Cambridge, J. Wilson and Son, 1887.
 - Dubovik, O. and M. D. King, 2000: A flexible inversion algorithm for retrieval of aerosol optical properties from Sun and sky radiance measurements," Journal of Geophysical Research, 105, 20 673-20 696 pdf version
 - Nakajima T, Tonna G, Rao RZ, et al.:Use of sky brightness measurements from ground for remote sensing of particulate polydispersions, Applied Optics 35 (15), 2672–2686, 1996
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text: Empirical evidence has shown that international adoptees present physical growth delays, precocious puberty, behavioral problems, and mental health referrals more often than non-adoptees. We hypothesized that the higher prevalence of (mental) health problems in adoptees is accompanied by elevated consumption of prescription drugs, including antidepressants, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medication, and medication for growth inhibition/stimulation. In an archival, population-based Dutch cohort study, data on medication use were available from the Health Care Insurance Board by Statistics Netherlands from 2006 to 2011. The Dutch population born between 1994 and 2005 and alive during the period of measurement was included (2,360,450 including 10,602 international adoptees, of which 4447 from China). Their mean age was 6.5 years at start (range 1-12 years) and 11.5 years at the end of the measurement period (range 6-17 years). Chinese female adoptees used less medication for precocious puberty (as treatment for precocious puberty; odds ratio (OR) = 0.57, effect size Cohen's d = -0.31) and contraception (OR = 0.65, d = -0.24) than non-adoptees. For both males and females, non-Chinese adoptees used more medication for ADHD than non-adoptees (males: OR = 1.22, females: OR = 1.32), but the effect was small (males: d = 0.11, females: d = 0.15).


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In late spring, and every time the sun appears after rain, a crown of clouds caps the mountaintop. Hence its name: White Cloud Mountain. A scenic destination since ancient times, it is actually a range of 30 peaks, the most famous of which is the Moxing Ridge. Its summit is about 382 metres above sea level, and from it you have a splendid view of the city and the Pearl River.
Among its many treasures is the Nine Dragon Spring in the 16,000-square-metre Forest of Steles, which was built in the Qing Dynasty and is now a cultural relics protection unit of Guangzhou City, and the tomb of Zhang Yuqiao, a Ming Dynasty singer. You can get to this mountain from Guangzhou by bus or subway, but you probably won't have time to see everything, so settle for these two: Yuntai Garden, an extraordinary flower garden;and Jinye Pond in Luhu Park, where the water is so clear the trees and hills are perfectly reflected in them. Lean over the water to see your portrait, as clear as a photograph.


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Everything you need to understand or teach Penrod by Booth Tarkington.
In the tradition of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn, Penrod offers an engaging story about a young boy's daydreams, schemes, and desires.
The experiences of twelve-year-old Penrod Schofield present true-to-life challenges that a young person of his time might conceivably face. While not full of the life-threatening adventure of Twain's books, Penrod is a humorous, thoughtful account of growing up in the Midwest early in the twentieth century.
Tarkington has preserved the manners and morals, the talk and the popular pastimes, that made up life for a young person during a particular era of American history.(read more)


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BATTCOCK, Clementina. Garcilaso and Olivia: two views, two readings of the war between Incas and Chancas. Latinoamérica [online]. 2011, n.52, pp. 53-70. ISSN _PHONE_.
This paper comparatively analyzes the works of the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and the Jesuit Giovanni Anello Oliva, particularly the version they provide on the war between the Incas and the Chancas. Traditionally, both writers have been attributed the same interpretation of this conflict and the coincidence about who was the Inca that carried out this conflict and emerged victorious, ie Viracocha Inca. Therefore, our proposal resides in the careful revision of the commonalities in both works and the analysis of where their stories differ on the transcendental facts for the consolidation of the Tawantinsuyu in the central Andes.
Palabras llave : Chancas; Incas; War; Oracle; Tawantinsuyu.


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What are the best standards of usage for the help and information icons? (I'm unable to post an image because I am a new user, but the icons are either a? or an i in a circle, most commonly)
The method I propose, that seems most consistent is (it is terribly inconcistent in use across applications and websites):
The help icon should be used when:
 - it links directly to or launches application/site help
 - Detailed information is necessary, requiring more than one sentance for clarification.
The information icon should be used when:
 - A small amount of helpful text is appropriate
 - May live in the UI or
 - May reveal on rollover
What standards do you put into use? How would you define the proper usages of these? Is there a difference between the i and? icon, or do you need only one or the other?
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While our User Experience team has not defined this down to the last possible aspect we do provide some reach into these different standards. More specifically we refer to these as Messages and Contextual Help.
The "i" informational symbol is currently being used as part of our set of message elements (See image below). Because our User Experience team works with both internal and external facing applications we have developed for a wide range of possible messages. Depending on the content, developers are allowed to choice the message style that makes the most sense. For the most part the "i" informational message is the most used as it best represents generic messages.
Different message types
These message elements are specifically made for informational purposes only. Meaning that something is important; and the users should be informed. The different styling is to better emphasized specific message types. We find in some cases using the "i" symbol is to generic and these other message styles better reflect the type of content needing to be conveyed.
For the "?" icon we use it as reference for contextual help (See image below). Our contextual help for the moment is tied to the Qtips 2 jQuery plugin. This way users can reveal the contextual help as they need it. This is most commonly used on forms but developers are not limited to linking the icon to another web page.
Example of contextual help from guide
The two icon defiantly have different meaning. The "?" icon has been the long believed defacto standard for help. The "i" informational symbol to my knowledge is slightly newer but has also become a said standard. I would hesitate from using any other icon symbol to reflect either.
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I think the method you proposed is the most universal and proper way to tackle the issue. There definitely is a difference between the! And? Icons though. I wouldn't use them interchangeably. A! Can be used more frequently and would provide a quick insight or clarification to an input field, or something similar. A? Would link to a knowledge base with question and answer type format. Also you can use colored icons with the symbols which may mean different things. A blue! Would indicate general information. A yellow! Would indicate something you need to read as caution. And red! Let's you know that there is an error and to refer to the message for clarification. You would never use a red? Would you?
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You don't cite any reasoning as to why these icons and shapes have different uses. Is this just your subjective opinion? If you can provide links to studies related to colour meaning and uses that would improve this answer, but currently it comes across as just your own opinion. – JonW May 9 '12 at 6:06
He does however state the standard colours and symbols associated with the most common message types, why are references needed when it's a standard that is so global. – Daniel Imms May 11 '12 at 5:31
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text: EU milk quota deregulation has forced many farmers to reconsider the factors that will limit milk production into the future. Factors other than milk quota such as land, labour, capital, stock, etc. will become the limiting factor for many in a post-EU milk quota scenario. While it can be postulated what the limits to production will be in a post-quota scenario, how farmers react will determine the future direction of the industry. In order to determine the future attitudes and intentions and to identify the key factors influencing farmers who intend to expand, exit, remain static or contract their businesses in the future, a survey of a large group of Irish commercial dairy farmers was carried out. The telephone survey sample was chosen randomly, based on a proportional representation of suppliers to the largest milk processor in Ireland. The sample (780 suppliers) was broken down by quota size (five quota categories, Q1–Q5), supplier region and system of production. The sample was analysed to determine the effect of key survey variables on the future intentions of dairy farmers. The survey was completed by 659 suppliers (0·82 of the sample). The proportions of farmers intending to expand were 0·28, 0·47, 0·61, 0·61 and 0·56, respectively, for Q1–Q5, while the proportions intending to exit were 0·27, 0·18, 0·08, 0·09 and 0·08, respectively. Farmers who were intent on expanding had larger total farm areas, larger milk tank capacity per litre of milk quota, more modern milking facilities, more available cow housing and more housing that could be converted at a relatively low cost and were more likely to have a successor. Of those expanding, 0·60 wanted milk quotas abolished, while 0·36 of those planning to exit wanted milk quotas abolished. The level of expansion was affected by business scale, dairy stocking rate, the additional labour required with expansion and total and milking platform farm size.


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The Arroyo Seco, Spanish for "dry gulch", refers to both the stream course and the canyon that spans eight miles through the western portion of the City of Pasadena. Surrounded by urban development, the Arroyo Seco supports thriving natural ecosystems that include several native plant communities and provides shelter, food and nesting sites for hundreds of wildlife species. Efforts are underway by the city and local community organizations to protect, enhance and restore these ecosystems. Affectionately known to locals as simply "the Arroyo", the Arroyo Seco in Pasadena is protected parkland and open space with 22 miles of trails and myriad recreational opportunities. The Arroyo Seco was recently included in the National Register of Historic Places, placing it among the nation's top cultural resources.
Affectionately known to locals as simply "the Arroyo", the Arroyo Seco in Pasadena is protected parkland and open space with 22 miles of trails and myriad recreation opportunities.
There are things to do, places to visit, and beauty to be discovered in the Arroyo.
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Positioned within an ever expanding urban landscape, the Arroyo Seco is crucial to maintaining the ecological health of the Los Angeles area.
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Caring for the Arroyo Seco and managing the resources of this natural landscape requires the collaboration of local and regional agencies, community organizations, residents, visitors, and friends of the Arroyo like you.
Images and media including a film prepared for the City of Pasadena featuring the Arroyo Seco.
The striking fruitful landscape of the Arroyo Seco has nourished and inspired those living near the Arroyo for centuries.
Located on the western side of Pasadena near CA-134 & I-210 freeways, many roads lead to the Arroyo Seco Natural Park. Three main entrances provide automobile access to the park and numerous trails along the eastern and western edges of the park provide additional access from neighborhoods and surrounding communities.
Directions to Arroyo Seco Natural Park provided by GoogleMaps


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Being a musician isn't just all fun and games. There's learnin' to do. Scroll through our gallery of education related memes and get inspired!
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Dalton McGuinty's decision to use his minority position to prorogue (i.e. suspend) Ontario's legislature is the latest in a series of disturbing tactics by Canadian politicians that threaten our democracy.
The act of proroguing a legislature supposed to be used to end one session of a parliament so that another can be started under a new legislative agenda.
- The new session starts with a Speech to the Throne that outlines the legislation that a government plans to bring forward during that session.
- The session normally ends when the government has met its stated legislative objectives and needs to table a new agenda.
- Prorogation is used to provide the time required to prepare the new agenda.
Prorogation is not intended to be used to abrogate democracy. Both McGuinty and Stephen Harper have used loopholes in the prorogation procedure to escape public enquiry that might lead to a vote of non-confidence in their minority governments.
Just because something is legal doesn't make it right.
The date of the next session of parliament / legislature should be announced when the previous session is prorogued. The amount of time between sessions should be reasonable (60 to 90 days) so that a new legislative agenda can be prepared.
Unfortunately the Ontario Legislative Assembly Act does not require the date for the new session to be announced at the time of prorogation, and allows the Assembly to be suspended for up to a year.
The Ontario government doesn't pay teachers for not teaching during the summer, or doctors who don't see patients, so why do we pay our elected representatives for not representing us?
It's time we closed these gaps in our democracy by amending the Legislative Assembly Act:
- Members of the Assembly should be paid only when the Assembly is in session or is prorogued for less than 90 days.
- The Lieutenant Governor should be required to proclaim the date of the next session at the time of proroguing the current session of the legislature.
- In the event that a minority government requests prorogation before completing all of their objectives as declared in their most recent Speech to the Throne, the Lieutenant Governor should be required to ask the other leaders in the Assembly if they can form a government which can carry out its objectives. Only if no other leader can form a government should premature prorogation be granted to a minority leader.
If every legislature and parliament in Canada made similar amendments, the likes of McGuinty or Harper would think twice about using prorogation to escape the democratic process.


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Accumulated taxable income refers to income of a corporation. This income is adjusted for certain items such as excess charitable contributions. It is reduced from the dividends paid deduction and the accumulated earnings credit. Accumulated taxable income also serves as the base upon which the accumulated earnings tax is imposed.
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