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Mom's Viral Photo Shows That Breast Milk Comes In Many Colors
While the milk that you pour over your cereal may always be bright white, breastmilk isn't quite so monochromatic. Depending on when it comes out, it can come in a variety of colors — not all of them are variations of white. This mom's full spectrum photo shows the many shades of breast milk because your "liquid gold" doesn't always look the same — and that's okay!
Nursing moms may not see enough of their milk to know what color it is, aside from that lovely bit that leaks out of the opposite side or comes out as spit-up post-feeding. But if you were to pump instead of just breastfeeding, you would see that milk from various stages of pumping, as well as times of day, affect the color of your milk. Diet, medication, and a number of other factors can influence the color of breast milk, according to Very Well Family, and there are a lot of different shades of "normal."
In order to raise awareness of what these colors can look like, a breastfeeding mom and the voice behind the popular Facebook and Instagram page, One Ounce at a Time, Elisabeth Anderson-Sierra, appropriately posted a photo of three bottles of her milk on July 4. These bottles all came from one pumping session, she told Cafe Mom, and were red, white, and blue respectively.
The red milk is often referred to as "strawberry milk," and as Anderson-Sierra explained it is tinted red by blood in the milk. As reported, the red tinge can come from a clog being dislodged and rupturing a blood vessel — as it was in Anderson-Sierra's case — a cracked nipple, or "rusty pipe syndrome," which is when ducts and milk supply cells grow and stretch after your baby is born. Anderson-Sierra told Romper that she "wanted to share that most likely, any color variation experienced is normal, though having blood in your milk (strawberry milk) is alarming, it is still safe to feed to your baby." However, moms may want to seek medical care to find out the source of the blood if they are concerned. She wrote:
If it is nipple damage, seek treatment options. If it's within the breast tissue, use gentle massage and a cold or warm compress depending on if you need to reduce swelling or get milk to release from ducts. Keep your milk ducts clear and empty! Blood can coagulate and cause additional clogs, leading to more serious problems.
Courtesy of Elizabeth Anderson-Sierra
Amy Barron Smolinski, MA, ALC, CLC Executive Director, Mom2Mom Global — a national nonprofit organization dedicated to support, education, and advocacy for breastfeeding military families — told Romper that pinkish or brownish tinged milk is not generally a concern, as long as it comes out of the breast that color:
The only time pink milk is a medical concern is if it comes out of the breast looking like "normal" — white, yellow, creamy, or thin bluish — and changes to a bright pink or magenta color over time after being expressed. Sometimes this is seen in bottles of expressed milk, sometimes the parents will notice the burp rags are stained with pink after baby has spit up on them. This can indicate the presence of Serratia marascens, an infectious bacteria that requires antibiotics.
The white milk shown in the photo is less surprising, and a bit of blood seems plausible for red milk, but where in the world does blue breast milk come from? Well, Anderson-Sierra has an answer for that too. She explained in her post that this blue milk is "foremilk" or the first milk to come out during a feeding session. It "can have a blue tint to it as it is lacking in the heavier fat content of hindmilk," which is the milk that comes at the end, according to her post. Additionally, she wrote that if you consume "...foods with dyes like Gatorade or colored frosting you may see the dyes affecting the color of your milk."
Smolinski told Romper that there is another possible explanation for "bluish" milk: higher water content. "[This] is common when the baby needs more hydration, such as hot weather, or desert conditions," she says. "It's usually thinner and watery." Smolinski added that "it's important for parents to realize that even though this milk has lower fat content than more yellowish or creamy milk, it is still very beneficial for the baby." Like Anderson-Sierra, Smolinski assured Romper that slightly colored milk is usually "completely within the spectrum of normal." But, if a parent has any concerns, she urges them to contact a trained lactation professional.
Along with the colors that Anderson-Sierra included in her post, Very Well Family reported that breast milk can be tinted white, yellow, clear, blue, green, pink, orange, brown, and black — wow, talk about variety. Not all of the colors of breastmilk are completely normal, though. For example, black breastmilk is the result of a particular antibiotic that should not be taken while breastfeeding, according to Very Well Family. But Anderson-Sierra is urging moms not to panic over milk that looks a little out of the ordinary. Don't throw it out just because of a little bit of red color. After all, "Breast milk is truly liquid gold and we work hard for it. A labor of love, blood, sweat, and tears."


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Often while developing an application, programmer needs an information about a value of specific variable, time needed to execute a piece of code or just plain info that some function/module has been entered/exited. Most of these information can be collected using a debugger but, debugger interrupts normal program execution (critical for communication programs) and doesn't give any time related info (for example, how long does it take to execute an SQL statement or what is the time difference between sending a command and receiving a response from a device connected to a serial port). Also, once you build a release version, you lose any debugging capabilities unless they are hard-coded into the program.
Most often, programmers use dump to file as a way to collect info but it has several limitations. You cannot view info while program is running, you lose some or all data if program crashes and it's very difficult to find something in a mass of data collected in this way.
That's were Runtime Monitoring Agent (plain Agent in further text) comes in!!!
Agent is a separate, stand-alone process which uses Win32 inter process communication facilities to receive programmer defined messages coming from a client process via an Agent DLL loaded into the client process. Agent has an Explorer like user interface. One of the requirements we set for the Agent was that it can be used with programming environments other then C++ (for example, Delphi). This is the reason why the Agent is statically linked with MFC and C++ runtime library (programmer doesn't need anything else but the Agent itself to run it on a target computer). Agent DLL is a non-MFC DLL with a very small footprint. It is used for programming environments like Delphi. For convenience and for Visual C++ projects, there is also a C++ Agent LIB library which takes care of dynamically loading the Agent DLL. It is also very small and will enable a process to work even if Agent DLL is not found or Agent is not running.
Agent monitors a System -- set of executable modules which are part of a project programmer is working on. Module is either an executable file or a DLL. Within a System, programmer defines processes. Process is equivalent to a module (executable or DLL). Process can also be a part of a module if it is convenient for a programmer (for example a special worker thread). Each process contains one or more fibers. Fiber is related to one function, algorithm or any other piece of code programmer can think of. Each fiber contains one or more messages. Message is at the lowest level and contains a user defined text (usually built with a sprintf or CString in order to contain current values of program variables) and optionally a Win32 error code. It can also contain a source code file name and a line number from which a message is sent. Agent DLL automatically adds a timestamp when the message is sent.
Some of the features of the Agent are:
Zip file (Agent.zip) contains the following:
Download Files The zip file is 248K.

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I have a table A of large yet unknown size. I need to retrieve results in batches, i.e. 100 at a time, from the table and perform operations on them. For this, I have a variable m so that I can execute the HQL equivalent of query "SELECT * from A LIMIT m,100" within a loop, which iterates m as 1, 101, 201,... and so on. What shall be the terminating condition of the loop? What is the result when the above query is executed in a condition when m > number of rows in the table?
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use select count(*) query first, this will give you total number of records. now you write java code to set limit accordingly. (count/m) int = x= number of full batches and count-x*m = rows for last batch.
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The issue you have is more known as pagination.
And your problem is how many pages you can retrieve form a table?
You must know the pages count to use pagination.
To set page count, you need to execute pre-query that will have same FROM clause but only SELECT count(*) FROM.... This will give you always correct answer.
If you can not or do not want to use extra statement. Then you should as database for pages until the result is not empty. So you execute statement for page 1, paget 2,... page n until size of result is less then page size.
int pageSize = 100;
int page = 1;
do {
 currentPage = loadPage(page, pageSize);
} while(currentPage.size() == pageSize);
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I suggest to use hibernate functions setFirstResult() and setMaxResults() to achieve your desired results e.g. below:
 Query query= session.createQuery("SELECT * from A");
 int resultSize = 100;
 List pagedResults = null;
 //use any approriate number for iterations or do a result count first to get the expected result size
 for(int m=0; ; m++){
 pagedResults = (List)query.setFirstResult(m*resultSize).setMaxResults((m+1)*resultSize).list();
 //do your processing
 if(pagedResults.isEmpty() || pagedResults.size()


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School nurse collaboration to provide evidence based flouride varnish for high caries risk students and referral for restorative dental care
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Despite improvements in public health dentistry, low-income children continue to experience dental caries at higher rates than their counterparts. Commonly cited factors that impede low-income families from obtaining dental care include difficulty getting time off from work, lack of transportation or childcare, and lack of knowledge regarding the importance of oral health care. Community-based approaches to reduce caries rates, such as school-based dental sealant programs, are gaining popularity. School nurses can have an instrumental role in improving oral health access within their schools by collaborating with personnel from these programs to perform assessments, case-finding, and fluoride varnish application with increased frequency. Utilizing dental sealant program screening data from a low-income elementary school, school nurses identified students at highest risk for dental caries (N = 98) and offered a repeat application of fluoride varnish six months following the initial screening and application. In addition, school nurses utilized the screening data to identify students with untreated decay (N = 49). Those students who had not obtained professional dental care following the initial screening were offered referral to an onsite mobile dental van for professional restorative care. The results of this project indicated that school nurses can successfully enhance fluoride protection and improve access to preventive and professional oral health care for children attending low-income schools.

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The Tinsel-Free Christmas Tree
The_Tinsel_Free_Christmas_TreeBertha and Alfred, married for twenty years, enjoy a truly science fictional life in the twenty-first century. But in spite of all the technological marvels surrounding them, an argument about how to decorate the Christmas tree escalates and threatens their marriage.
This parodistic piece is a mundane short story of 2900 words or approximately 12 print pages, written in the style of science fiction's "golden age" of the 1940s and 1950s.
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Some background information:
 - The Tinsel-Free Christmas Tree is a short story of 2800 words and part of the series Alfred and Bertha's Marvelous Twenty-First Century Life. This story is a digital premiere and has never been published previously.
 - This story was written in response to the Not Really SF Short Story Challenge by writer E.P. Beaumont. The idea was to write a completely mundane short story in the style of science fiction's "golden age" of the 1940s and 1950s, complete with clunky overexplanation of every single piece of technology with which the characters interact.
 - The challenge was a response to complaints by some more traditionally minded science fiction writers and fans that science fiction had been invaded by literary writing and that the virtues, values and scientific rigour of science fiction's so-called "golden age" had been forgotten. In response, E.P. Beaumont proposed launching a counter invasion of literary fiction by science fiction.
 - The other stories in the Alfred and Bertha series story borrow their plots from classic 1970s comedy skits by the brilliant German comedian Vicco von Bülow a.k.a. Loriot. The Tinsel-Free Christmas Tree contains some references to Loriot's classic skit Weihnachten bei den Hoppenstedts (Christmas at the Hoppenstedts), though the plot is my own.
 - The neighbour son Ricky Hoppenstedt was taken from the Loriot skit (where the kid is named Dickie), while the Build your own particle accelerator kit Ricky receives from Alfred is an updated version of the Build your own nuclear power station kit from the original skit. I do hope it is less accident prone than the Build your own nuclear power station kit.
 - Bertha's worries whether Ricky will manage to create a micro black hole in his particle accelerator are a reference to these much publicised worries which surfaced when the Large Hadron Collider was first switched on.
 - Alfred's preference for tinsel and his lament that there used to be so much more tinsel in times of old is yet another reference to the Loriot skit, where Grandpa Hoppenstedt laments that "there used to be much more tinsel". The background of the story is that tinsel has become unpopular in recent times and is now considered rather tasteless and old-fashioned. Though the Loriot skit suggests that the slow demise of tinsel dates back at least to the 1970s. And indeed, my mother is more vehemently opposed to tinsel than me.
 - Tinsel used to be made of something called Stanniol in German, which is a mixture of tin and lead foil. Tinsel containing lead was banned in the US in 1972, but in Germany it continued to be available until fairly recently. The last German factory that still produced tin and lead foil tinsel ceased production only in 2013.
 - Tin and lead foil tinsel is heavier than its Mylar (a.k.a. biaxially-oriented polyethylene terephthalate) counterpart and is prized among those who like old-style Christmas decorations.
 - The wine that the Hoppenstedts give Bertha and Alfred is another Loriot reference to the skit Vertreterbesuch (Salesmen's Visit) where Mrs. Hoppenstedt is visited by several salesmen, including one who sells wines of rather dubious origin and quality, including the Klöbener Krötenpfuhl (Klöben toad pond). An enterprising wine merchant recently offered actual bottles of the wines mentioned in the skit.
 - What is more, Alfred and Bertha's surname von Bülow was also borrowed from Loriot.
 - Bertha's Christmas Eve meal consisting of roast goose a.k.a. Anser anser domesticus, red cabbage, potato dumplings and baked apples for dessert is a traditional German Christmas meal BTW.
 - The cover is a stock photo by Wong Mei Teng. I chose it, because it resembles the abstract science fiction paperback covers of the 1960s, even though it's actually a close-up photo of a decorated Christmas tree (sans tinsel, of course).
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First Mother-to-Daughter Uterus Transplants
Two women now carry their mothers' wombs after successful transplant surgery in Sweden, the University of Gothenburg reports.
It's a major step in a research project that surgeons had been training for for years, according to the university.
NEWS: World's First Synthetic Organ Transplant
"More than 10 surgeons that had trained together on the procedure for several years took part in the complicated surgery," said team leader Mats Brännström, professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Gothenburg chief physician at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital Women's Clinic.
He described the patients as tired, but doing fine. One had her uterus removed during surgery for cancer; the other was born without one.
NEWS: Historic Face Transplant Includes Teeth and Bone
"We are not going to call it a complete success until this results in children," surgeon Michael Olausson told The Associated Press.
That won't be known for a while: Doctors will monitor the transplanted organs for a year before continuing in vitro fertilization.
There have been other uterus transplants: in 2000, a woman received a uterus from a live donor that was removed after three months due to a blood clot, and last year doctors in Turkey transplanted a womb from a deceased donor. The hope with familial transplants is that there's a lower chance of organ rejection. The emotional connection is also important, Olausson said.
Potential concerns for pregnancies in the transplanted wombs include how the immune-suppressing drugs that prevent organ rejection could affect a fetus, and how a uterus without all its original blood vessels may affect the chances of getting pregnant, doctors said.
Photo: A uterus. Credit: iStockPhoto
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Heaven may refer to the physical heavens, the sky or the seemingly endless expanse of the universe beyond. An atmosphere (from Greek ατμός - atmos, " Vapor " + σφαίρα - sphaira, " Sphere " The Universe is defined as everything that Physically Exists: the entirety of Space and Time, all forms of Matter, Energy The term is used to refer to a plane of existence (sometimes held to exist in our own universe) in religions and spiritual philosophies, typically described as the holiest possible place, accessible by people according to various standards of divinity, goodness, piety, etc. In Metaphysics and Esoteric cosmology, a plane, other than the Physical plane, is conceived as a subtle state of Consciousness that transcends The Universe is defined as everything that Physically Exists: the entirety of Space and Time, all forms of Matter, Energy A religion is a set of Tenets and practices often centered upon specific Supernatural and moral claims about Reality, the Cosmos Spirituality, in a narrow sense concerns itself with matters of the Spirit, a concept closely tied to religious belief and Faith, a transcendent reality Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence knowledge truth beauty justice validity mind and language An English Noun The English noun people has two distinct fields of application as a countable noun, a group of Humans Divinity and divine (sometimes 'the Divinity' or 'the Divine' are broadly applied but loosely defined terms used variously within different faiths and belief systems — In Religion, Ethics, and Philosophy, the phrase good and evil refers to the location of objects desires and Behaviors on a two-way In spiritual terminology piety is a Virtue. While different people may understand its meaning differently it is generally used to refer either to religious devotion
The modern English word Heaven derives from the word heven around 1150, which developed from the Old English heofon around 1000 referring to the Christianized "place where God dwells" but earlier meaning "sky, firmament" (attested from around 725 in Beowulf); this is cognate with other Germanic languages - Old Saxon heƀan ("sky, heaven"), Middle Low German heven ("sky"), Old Icelandic himinn ("sky, heaven"), Gothic himins, and possibly with the addition of an -l suffix; Old Frisian himel, himul ("sky, heaven"), Old Saxon himil, Middle Dutch and modern Dutch hemel, Old High German himil and modern German Himmel, all of which derive from the reconstructed Proto-Germanic *Hemina-. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States The historical phenomenon of Christianization (or Christianisation &mdash see spelling differences) the conversion of individuals to Christianity Beowulf is an Old English Heroic epic poem of anonymous authorship dating as recorded in the Nowell Codex manuscript from between The Germanic languages are a group of related languages that constitute a branch of the Indo-European (IE Language family. Old Saxon, also known as Old Low German ( ISO 639 -3 code osx) is the earliest recorded form of Low German, documented from the 9th century Middle Low German ( ISO 639 -3 code gml) is a Language that is the descendant of Old Saxon and is the ancestor of modern Low German. Old Norse is the North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age Gothic is an extinct Germanic language that was spoken by the Goths. Old Frisian was the West Germanic language spoken between the 8th and 16th centuries by the people who had settled in the area between the Rhine Old Saxon, also known as Old Low German ( ISO 639 -3 code osx) is the earliest recorded form of Low German, documented from the 9th century Middle Dutch is a collective name for a number of closely related West Germanic dialects (whose ancestor was Old Dutch) which were spoken and written between 1150 Dutch ( is a West Germanic language spoken by around 24 million people 22 million of which are from the Netherlands, Belgium and Suriname The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. Linguistic reconstruction is the practice of establishing the features of the unattested ancestor ( Proto-language) of one or more given languages Proto-Germanic, or Common Germanic, is the hypothetical common ancestor ( Proto-language) of all the Germanic languages such as modern English
While there are abundant and varied sources for conceptions of Heaven, the typical believer's view appears to depend largely on his religious tradition and particular sect. Some religions conceptualize Heaven as pertaining to some type of peaceful life after death related to the immortality of the soul. A religion is a set of Tenets and practices often centered upon specific Supernatural and moral claims about Reality, the Cosmos Heaven is generally construed as a place of happiness, sometimes eternal happiness. Happiness is an Emotion associated with feelings ranging from contentment and satisfaction to Bliss and intense Joy. While in the popular mind eternity often simply means existing for a limitless amount of Time, many have used it to refer to a timeless existence altogether outside of Happiness is an Emotion associated with feelings ranging from contentment and satisfaction to Bliss and intense Joy. A psychological reading of sacred religious texts across cultures and throughout history would describe it as a term signifying a state of "full aliveness" or wholeness.
In ancient Judaism, the belief in Heaven and afterlife was connected with that of Sheol (mentioned in Isaiah 38:18, Psalms 6:5 and Job 7:7-10). Judaism (from the Greek Ioudaïsmos, derived from the Hebrew יהודה Yehudah, " Judah " in Hebrew יַהֲדוּת Yahedut Sheol (pronounced "Sheh-ole" in Hebrew שאול (Sh'ol is the "abode of the dead" the " Underworld " "the common The Book of Isaiah ( Hebrew: Sefer Y'sha'yah ספר ישעיה is a book of the Bible traditionally attributed to the Prophet Isaiah, who lived Psalms ( Hebrew: Tehilim, תהילים, or "praises" is a book of the Hebrew Bible (the Christian Old Testament) included The Book of Job ( איוב) is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible. Some scholars asserted that Sheol was an earlier concept, but this theory is not universally held. One later Jewish sect that maintained belief in a Resurrection of the dead was known as the Pharisees. This article concerns itself with the belief in the final Resurrection at the End of time, commonly found in the Abrahamic religions. The word Pharisees ( lat. pharisæ|us, - i) comes from the Hebrew פרושים perushim from פרוש parush, meaning "separated" Opposed to them were the Sadducees who denied the doctrine of Resurrection (Matt. The Sadducees were members of a Jewish sect founded in the second century BC, possibly as a political party 22:23). In Christianity, heaven is either an eternally blessed life after death or a return to the pre-fallen state of humanity, a second and new Garden of Eden, in which humanity is reunited with God in a perfect and natural state of eternal existence and generally they believe this afterdeath reunion is accomplished through faith that Jesus Christ died for the sins of humanity on the cross, was resurrected and "bodily" ascended into heaven. Christianity ( Greek Χριστιανισμός from the word Xριστός ( Christ)is a monotheistic Religion centered on the life and teachings Not to be confused with Eden Gardens.The Garden of Eden ( Hebrew "pleasure" גַּן עֵדֶן Arabic: جنات عدن, Examples of the different terminology referencing the concept of "heaven", in the Christian Bible are:
the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 5:3), the kingdom of the Father (Matthew 13:43), life (Matthew 7:14), life everlasting (Matthew 19:16), the joy of the Lord (Matthew 25:21), great reward (Matthew 5:12), the kingdom of God (Mark 9:45), the kingdom of Christ (Luke 22:30), the house of the Father (John 14:2), city of God, the heavenly Jerusalem (Hebr., xii), the holy place (Hebrews 9:12; D. V. holies), paradise (2 Corinthians 12:4), incorruptible crown (1 Corinthians 9:25), crown of life (James 1:12), crown of justice (II Timothy iv, 8), crown of glory (1 Peter 5:4)
The diversity of references make it probable that the term refers to a direct experience of full spiritual aliveness or unity with God.
Some Eastern religions and some Western traditions believe in reincarnation and moksha (liberation) instead of Heaven, but some still include a concept of Heaven similar (but not necessarily the same) as the concept held by Christianity. Eastern religion is a group of Religions originating in India, China, Japan and Southeast Asia. In Indian religions, Moksha (


Interview: discussing the Convergence Movement with Fr. Kevin Daugherty
I'm excited to share my second interview with you. This morning I spoke with Fr. Kevin Daugherty. He's a Priest within the Convergence Movement (specifically the Convergent Christian Communion). Fr. Daugherty talks about how the Convergence Christian Communion brings together aspects of Christianity that are rarely found in a single expression of the religion: (1) being open and affirming; (2) being charismatic; (3) being evangelical; (4) being sacramental. For those who are familiar with the writings of Dr. Robert Webber or Dr. Thomas Oden, this movement embraces much of what they imagined Christianity might be. (FYI, in the interview, Fr. Daugherty mentions a charismatic Episcopal service on YouTube. Here's the video: Charismatic Episcopal Church in Paris.)
Here are the questions I asked during this interview:
 1. Please tell everyone why I'm talking with you about this topic. What's your relationship with the Convergence Movement?
 2. What is the Convergence Movement and where did it come from, and when did it come into existence?
 3. We're doing this interview because (1) I teach at an Episcopal School, so my students are familiar with Episcopal liturgy (experientially) and (2) my students just spent some time studying Pentecostalism. Can you explain how Anglican/Episcopal and Pentecostal spirituality intersect in the Convergence Movement?
 4. One critique many people have of Christianity, in general, is that it seems to birth new denominations daily. Why the Convergence Christian Communion (CCC)? What not being a charismatic Episcopalian or a liturgical Pentecostal assembly?
 5. On the CCC website there are four main points listed in the section on your 'identity': (1) We are open and affirming; (2) We are charismatic; (3) We are evangelical; (4) We are sacramental. Can you explain what each of these means to the CCC and why they're important?
 6. This interview is being recorded primarily for my class 'Religion in the United States'. What does the American context have to do with the formation of the Convergence Christian Movement and its particular emphasis on the aforementioned points?
 7. Finally, what's the best thing about being in the Convergence Christian Movement? What do you like most about your tradition?
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Optonova has extensive knowledge and experience of optical metrology, the science of measurement using optical methods, above all light in the visible spectrum. This is the dominant technology for non-contact measurement methods, which also include measuring with sound, electrical and magnetic methods and radioactive radiation.
Optical metrology covers numerous areas of knowledge in the measurement technology chain from light source to the finished measurement result. Here are some examples:
For example how light interacts with objects. An accurate physical description of defects and surface properties increases the scope to choose the right methods and geometries. The optical properties of a surface include light scattering, specular reflectance (gloss), polarisation, diffraction, spectral reflectance (colour) and fluorescence. Physical optics are one of the cornerstones of Optonova's business.
Optics and optical methods used include filter techniques, anamorphic optics, telecentric optics and scanning systems. We have software for designing and simulating optical systems.
Photodetectors, image sensors and cameras
We are increasingly using the new smart CMOS cameras in our vision systems. The advantages of the new technology can be summarised as "higher performance at a lower price", which manifests itself in:
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Optical measurement geometry and technology
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- Optical triangulation – methods for measuring distance, position and shape. There are 1D, 2D and 3D methods available.
- Photometric stereo – a new method for measuring surface topography.
- Photogrammetry - the traditional method for measuring topography and 3D shape. Automatic 3D sensing is possible using electronic cameras and machine vision.
- Interferometry – for very accurate measurements of flatness, contours and deviations.
- Autofocus – initially developed for CD players. Used in metrology for micro-topography measurements.
- Laser radar – used for scanning systems that measure 3D shapes. Compare with microwave radar.
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I.e. the art of choosing light sources and optics to achieve optimum lighting for an inspection task. Optonova develops complete lighting systems, for example.


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In designing these courses, we have made sure that they reflect the same standard of excellence to which we hold all of our educational programs. Each course has been created by our in-house specialist teachers to ensure that every student receives the best academic experience. In the past few years we have added many new technologies to support student learning. All courses will incorporate our latest learning technology, including our new STEAM lab, SMARTBoards, Edsby, iPads, as well as educational applications and programs (such as Mathspace, Gizmos, and Renaissance Learning), each tailored to enrich the learning experience of our students.
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, smallest was initialized to the highest possible integer. As data was read, smallest was changed only if a newer smaller value was encountered. If a larger value was read, the state variable did not change.
7. When analyzing the correctness of state variables you should consider three things.
 1. Is the state initialized?
 2. Will the state find the correct answer?
 3. Will the state maintain the correct answer?
 As first-time programmers, students will often initialize and find the state, but their code will lose the state information as the loop continues on. Learn to recognize when you are using a state variable and focus on these three parts: initialize, find, and maintain state.
8. Later on in the year we will add the strategy of developing loop boundaries using DeMorgan's law from Boolean algebra. This advanced topic will be covered in Lesson 17.
Lesson 9 Pointers
Summary/Review: This lesson provides both syntax and strategies needed to build correct while loops. The terminology of loop construction will give us tools to build and debug conditional loops. We can use terms such as "off-by-one" errors or "failure to maintain state." This is a critical topic, one which takes much time and practice to master.
Assignment: Lab Exercise, L.A.9.1, Loan
 Lab Exercise, L.A.9.2, FunLoops


access icon free Calibration of triaxial MEMS vector field measurement system
Triaxial MEMS vector field measurement system with triaxial MEMS sensors, such as accelerometer and magnetometer, is typically used to acquire navigation information in strap-down inertial navigation system (SINS). The navigation accuracy of the body is directly affected by the measurement accuracy of the measurement system. This study presents a two-step calibration algorithm for the triaxial MEMS vector field measurement system based on a detailed analysis of the measurement system error model. In the calibration procedure of this method, the first step is to calibrate the triaxial vector sensor error, including bias, scale factors and non-orthogonality using the ellipsoid fitting method; the second step is to calibrate the misalignment between the orthogonal sensor frame and the system body frame using the four-position method. Furthermore, the mathematical analysis of four-position method calibration error is done to study on the factors influencing the misalignment calibration accuracy, numerical simulation and experiments, which are performed for validating the analysis. A series of calibration experiments on a triaxial MEMS accelerometer in the measurement system show signiﬁcant enhancement of the accuracy of three components measurement data in the system body frame.
Inspec keywords: mathematical analysis; measurement errors; magnetometers; accelerometers; microsensors; calibration; inertial navigation
Other keywords: mathematical analysis; measurement system error model; system body frame; magnetometer; two-step calibration algorithm; SINS; ellipsoid fitting method; orthogonal sensor frame; triaxial MEMS vector field measurement system; strapdown inertial navigation system; accelerometer; numerical simulation; four-position method; triaxial MEMS vector sensor
Subjects: Sensing and detecting devices; Measurement standards and calibration; Measurement standards and calibration; Mathematical analysis; MEMS and NEMS device technology; Magnetic variables measurement; Velocity, acceleration and rotation measurement; Velocity, acceleration and rotation measurement; Micromechanical and nanomechanical devices and systems; Microsensors and nanosensors
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Characterization of NonR, an esterase that confers nonactin resistance
Nonactin is the parent compound of the macrotetrolide class of antibiotics, atypical cyclic polyethers, consisting of both enantiomers linked via four ester linkages in a (+)(-)(+)(-) manner. The higher macrotetrolide homologs of nonactin are made up of successive substitutions of nonactic acid with homononactate or bishomononactate. The macrotetrolides act as ionophores, forming complexes with both monovalent and divalent ions. Organisms that produce antibiotics as a defense mechanism need to protect themselves from their own biosynthesis products. Self-protection is achieved using many methods such as modification of the antibiotic itself, modification of the cellular target, removal of the produced antibiotic to specific binding proteins, or changes in the cell wall. Many species employ several of these methods simultaneously, incorporating antibiotic modification steps into the biosynthesis pathway and using the other methods to offer layers of resistance. A genetic resistance element conferred tetranactin resistance to a macrotetrolide sensitive host. The genetic element was cloned from the producer, Streptomyces griseus subsp. griseus. By sequence analysis the protein product, NonR appeared to be an esterase. This work describes the subcloning of the gene nonR, its expression in a heterlogous host, and examination of the activity of the expressed protein. Expression and purification of the protein NonR, was accomplished using an affinity tag; NonR proved to be labile, losing activity throughout the purification process. NonR hydrolyzes the the ester bonds of nonactin stereoseletively, cleaving between the acid of the (-)-nonactate and the alcohol of the (+)-nonactate. The order of hydrolysis is first the closed chain parent, nonactin, is cleaved to an open chain tetramer, followed by cleavage of the tetramer to two dimer species. Under conditions of high protein concentration, NonR will hydrolyze the dimer species to the monomer, nonactic acid. This hydrolysis causes nonactin to lose its biological activity. To meet our synthesis need we set out to increase the yields of nonactin that is produced by fermentation. By a mix of strain selection, recipe and process improvement, nonactin production was improved from 0.1 g/L in stirred tank reactors to 4 g/L.
School:The Ohio State University
School Location:USA - Ohio
Source Type:Master's Thesis
Keywords:nonr esterase self resistance nond nonl protein expression stereoselectivity nonactin
Date of Publication:01/01/2004


Summary: In this programming example, we will learn different ways to convert char* to string in C++.
In C++, char* and char array are almost identical (they both store reference), therefore we can easily convert a pointer into a string variable like we converted char array to a string.
Here are some of the methods using which we can convert a char* to string in C++:
Method 1: Using '=' Operator
Since each character in the string has an index value, using the = operator we can assign every character of the char pointer array to their same corresponding index position in the string variable.
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Method 2: Using String Constructor
The inbuilt string constructor of the String class accepts the char pointer array as an argument that implicitly changes and assigns the argument to a string value.
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These are two simple ways we can use to convert a char pointer array into a string variable in the C++ programming language.
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Hey, this is pretty cool! Here's inventor Bram Knaapen's Arduino-powered Equinox Clock, which ditches the traditional hands interface in favor of customizable LED displays. Inside, a video that demonstrates the Equinox Clock's main features, and an overview of its specs.
Here's the demo video:
And, courtesy Knaapen's web site, here are some specs:
For people interested in how the Equinox clock was made a short description:
The most important parts:
Arduino Mini Pro
USB-Serial converter
12x TLC5940PWP (SMD) Led drivers
DS1307 + battery to keep track of time
Loads of circuitboards (12 black ones and 60 white ones)
The clock works like this: In the bottom of the clock (behind the infinity symbol) is an arduino mini Pro. The Arduino is connected to the first of a total of 12 black circuitboards. These black circuitboards all have a TLC5940PWP led driver. By using Molex picoflex cables and connectors I daisy-chained 12 of these led drivers. Every black circuitboard has 5 connectors for the white LED circuitboards. Behind the infinity symbol is a touch sensitive wire (capacitive) that enables to cycle through different colors or turn it off. That's roughly it for the electronics! The body was laser cut, assembled and spray painted, the plexiglass blocks were sandblasted. The software is pretty straight forward. The arduino receives the current time from the DS1307 and calculates the color palette according to the time of day using HSV color space.
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Must A Security Be Written?
In yesterday's post, I covered some of the differences between the laundry lists of securities found in the California Corporate Securities Law of 1968 and the Securities Act of 1933. Both lists seem to contemplate instruments that are written. But what does it mean to be "written"? Before the advent of computers, email and electronics, the meaning of "written" may have been obvious. A writing was something tangible, words inked on paper or parchment, chiseled in stone or impressed into clay or wax tablets. Ball point pens being a modern invention, the word for cutting or scratching came to be the word for writing in most Indo-European languages, including English. Are electronic messages written?
Section 8 of the California Corporations Code would say "yes" so long as those messages are capable of comprehension by "ordinary visual means". Emails and text messages should generally be considered "written" under this definition. A voice-mail message, on the other hand, normally would not.
Whether an instrument is in writing is of no moment under California's definition of a "security" because California's list ends with the following sentence:
All of the foregoing are securities whether or not evidenced by a written document.
Cal. Corp. Code § 25019.


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Interesting ASEAN Reads:
1. Understanding PH Chairmanship and the ASEAN Community
2. Celebrating ASEAN 50th Anniversary in the Philippines
3. ASEAN 2017: Covering History and Blogging the Story
I'm browsing the morning news when I chanced upon this report from ABS CBN. Despite the Philippines' robust economic growth, it has failed to lift the labor market where many are trapped in low-paying and unstable jobs.
This reminded me of the press briefer held by the Philippine Marketing Association for their 47th National Marketing Conference, dubbed Hello ASEAN.
What caught my attention is how Vietnam has progressed, 50 years since ASEAN was founded, and managed to have the lowest poverty rate. Compare with the Philippines, PH is only better than Myanmar.
Hello ASEAN Poverty Rate
Furthermore, Vietnam successfully increased the IQ level of her citizens, and became 2nd only to Singapore. While Filipinos was reported to have the lowest IQ in ASEAN
Hello ASEAN IQ Level
In a business forum I attended three years ago, Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima said that the greatest asset of the Philippines is her young population. A younger population can mean higher productivity, with more wealth created to support senior citizens. Sec. Purisima further said the government will pour more funds to education to make it accessible to the underprivileged. This can lead to a higher IQ which can open opportunities to high quality and high paying jobs.
Hello ASEAN Low IQ - Low Income
Refuting the allegation that Filipinos are idiots
Reposting here an article from Reddit to refute the allegation:
It turns out that no matter where you may have seen that statistic, the source is ultimately the 2002 book IQ and the Wealth of Nations by Richard Lynn. It argues that differences in GDP between countries are explained largely by differences in average IQ. There's also a bit of racial stuff in there, and that combined with the author's history of advocating eugenics and scientific racism significantly undermines its credibility. It sort of doesn't matter though, because Lynn didn't measure IQ himself, but rather compiled and adjusted old data then ran a regression with national average IQ as an independent variable and real per capita GDP as an outcome.
And the one and only source about the Philippines cited in Flynn's book is the journal article "Some Differences in Cognitive between Selected Canadian and Filipino Students" by Flores and Evans, 1972. Here is the sci-hub link to the complete article. If you read through it, you might notice that nowhere does it estimate the national IQ. This is because such an estimate was completely outside the scope of the article, which only sampled students at two schools in Manila
With the K to 12 program rolling out this year, the quality of education is being addressed (crossed fingers). Unfortunately, free quality education for all is still a dream. And with NEDA alarmed with the high percentage of youth inactivity, we have a serious problem ahead.
If the survey result is reflective of reality, then stakeholders on education, maternal and child health should get its acts together to address this alarming report. Pointing fingers and bashing will bring no good.
credit: images lifted from the powerpoint presentation of Wilfrido V.E. Arcilla, Program Advisor of 47th National Marketing Conference.
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Dutch researchers say they have discovered a way to use mobile phone networks to measure rainfall.
Aart Overeem from the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute decided to pursue a lower-cost alternative to rain measurement after the depletion of traditional rain gauges worldwide in recent years made the collection of accurate data difficult.
Mr Overeem said researchers had wondered whether they could use the microwave radio links that transmit mobile phone calls to measure rainfall.
"It had already been known for a long time that rainfall can influence the strength of the signal in telecommunication," Mr Overeem said.
"For instance by the end of the '90s, some colleagues of mine already had what you call a research link in which they showed that the signal gets weaker in case of rainfall," he said.
"In case of a radio link, electromagnetic signals travel from the antenna of one telephone tower to the antenna of another telephone tower.
"When it starts raining the signal gets weaker, so the more rain droplets and the larger the size of the rain droplets, the larger the decrease in the received signal power that's one end of such a microwave link." In a study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Mr Overeem conducted tests across 12 days before comparing the phone network data with rainfall data collected the old fashioned way.
"It appeared to be already quite accurate, although more research is probably needed to get reliable rainfall maps all year round." Once additional work is done, Mr Overeem said the new rainfall measurement technique could become widespread very quickly.
"For instance in Africa, people often have a mobile phone, there is an infrastructure, and there are some telecommunication networks, but the number of rain gauges is quite low," he said.
"So particularly for those countries, it will be quite interesting.
"For other countries [that] do have weather radars, such as countries in Europe, the United States and Australia, this microwave link data could be interesting to adjust the radar rainfall images." He said weather radars, with their ability to provide detailed measurements over large areas, were very useful and could be used for managing the response to floods.
Researchers hoped the use of mobile phone data would receive approval by phone companies to make the information available.


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This appendix provides an alternative to host-based replication that does not use Oracle Solaris Cluster Cluster Geographic Edition. Use Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition for host-based replication to simplify the configuration and operation of host-based replication between clusters. See Understanding Data Replication.
The example in this appendix shows how to configure host-based data replication between clusters using Sun StorageTek Availability Suite 4.0 software. The example illustrates a complete cluster configuration for an NFS application that provides detailed information about how individual tasks can be performed. All tasks should be performed in the global-cluster voting node. The example does not include all of the steps that are required by other applications or other cluster configurations.
If you use role-based access control (RBAC) instead of superuser to access the cluster nodes, ensure that you can assume an RBAC role that provides authorization for all Oracle Solaris Cluster commands. This series of data replication procedures requires the following Oracle Solaris Cluster RBAC authorizations if the user is not superuser:
See the System Administration Guide: Security Services for more information about using RBAC roles. See the Oracle Solaris Cluster man pages for the RBAC authorization that each Oracle Solaris Cluster subcommand requires.
Disaster tolerance is the ability to restore an application on an alternate cluster when the primary cluster fails. Disaster tolerance is based on data replication and takeover. A takeover relocates an application service to a secondary cluster by bringing online one or more resource groups and device groups.
If data is replicated synchronously between the primary and secondary cluster, then no committed data is lost when the primary site fails. However, if data is replicated asynchronously, then some data may not have been replicated to the secondary cluster before the primary site failed, and thus is lost.
This section describes the remote mirror replication method and the point-in-time snapshot method used by Availability Suite software. This software uses the sndradm(1RPC) and iiadm(1II) commands to replicate data. For more information about these commands, see the Availability Suite documentation.
Figure A-1 shows remote mirror replication. Data from the master volume of the primary disk is replicated to the master volume of the secondary disk through a TCP/IP connection. A remote mirror bitmap tracks differences between the master volume on the primary disk and the master volume on the secondary disk.
Figure A-1 Remote Mirror Replication
Remote mirror replication can be performed synchronously in real time, or asynchronously. Each volume set in each cluster can be configured individually, for synchronous replication or asynchronous replication.
In asynchronous data replication, a write operation is confirmed as complete before the remote volume is updated. Asynchronous data replication provides greater flexibility over long distances and low bandwidth.
Figure A-2 shows point-in-time snapshot. Data from the master volume of each disk is copied to the shadow volume on the same disk. The point-in-time bitmap tracks differences between the master volume and the shadow volume. When data is copied to the shadow volume, the point-in-time bitmap is reset.
Figure A-2 Point-in-Time Snapshot
Figure A-3 illustrates how remote mirror replication and point-in-time snapshot are used in this example configuration.
Figure A-3 Replication in the Example Configuration
This section provides guidelines for configuring data replication between clusters. This section also contains tips for configuring replication resource groups and application resource groups. Use these guidelines when you are configuring data replication for your cluster.
This section discusses the following topics:
Replication resource groups collocate the device group under Availability Suite software control with the logical hostname resource. A replication resource group must have the following characteristics:
Be a failover resource group
A failover resource can run on only one node at a time. When a failover occurs, failover resources take part in the failover.
The logical hostname must be hosted by the primary cluster. After a failover, the logical hostname must be hosted by the secondary cluster. The Domain Name System (DNS) is used to associate the logical hostname with a cluster.
Have an HAStoragePlus resource
The HAStoragePlus resource enforces the failover of the device group when the replication resource group is switched over or failed over. Oracle Solaris Cluster software also enforces the failover of the replication resource group when the device group is switched over. In this way, the replication resource group and the device group are always colocated, or mastered by the same node.
The following extension properties must be defined in the HAStoragePlus resource:
AffinityOn property = True. This extension property causes the device group to switch over or fail over when the replication resource group switches over or fails over. This feature is called an affinity switchover.
ZPoolsSearchDir. This extension property is required for using ZFS file system.
For more information about HAStoragePlus, see the SUNW.HAStoragePlus(5) man page.
For example, devgrp-stor-rg.
Be online on both the primary cluster and the secondary cluster
To be highly available, an application must be managed as a resource in an application resource group. An application resource group can be configured for a failover application or a scalable application.
Application resources and application resource groups configured on the primary cluster must also be configured on the secondary cluster. Also, the data accessed by the application resource must be replicated to the secondary cluster.
This section provides guidelines for configuring the following application resource groups:
In a failover application, an application runs on one node at a time. If that node fails, the application fails over to another node in the same cluster. A resource group for a failover application must have the following characteristics:
Have an HAStoragePlus resource to enforce the failover of the file system or zpool when the application resource group is switched over or failed over.
The device group is colocated with the replication resource group and the application resource group. Therefore, the failover of the application resource group enforces the failover of the device group and replication resource group. The application resource group, the replication resource group, and the device group are mastered by the same node.
Note, however, that a failover of the device group or the replication resource group does not cause a failover of the application resource group.
If the application data is globally mounted, the presence of an HAStoragePlus resource in the application resource group is not required but is advised.
If the application data is mounted locally, the presence of an HAStoragePlus resource in the application resource group is required.
For more information about HAStoragePlus, see the SUNW.HAStoragePlus(5) man page.
Must be online on the primary cluster and offline on the secondary cluster.
The application resource group must be brought online on the secondary cluster when the secondary cluster takes over as the primary cluster.
Figure A-4 illustrates the configuration of an application resource group and a replication resource group in a failover application.
Figure A-4 Configuration of Resource Groups in a Failover Application
In a scalable application, an application runs on several nodes to create a single, logical service. If a node that is running a scalable application fails, failover does not occur. The application continues to run on the other nodes.
When a scalable application is managed as a resource in an application resource group, it is not necessary to collocate the application resource group with the device group. Therefore, it is not necessary to create an HAStoragePlus resource for the application resource group.
A resource group for a scalable application must have the following characteristics:
The nodes that are running the scalable application use the shared address to distribute incoming data.
Be online on the primary cluster and offline on the secondary cluster
Figure A-5 illustrates the configuration of resource groups in a scalable application.
Figure A-5 Configuration of Resource Groups in a Scalable Application
Clients use DNS to map an application's logical hostname to an IP address. After a takeover, where the application is moved to a secondary cluster, the DNS information must be updated to reflect the mapping between the application's logical hostname and the new IP address. Figure A-6 shows how the DNS maps a client to a cluster.
Figure A-6 DNS Mapping of a Client to a Cluster
Synchronize the primary cluster with the secondary cluster to ensure that the primary volume is up-to-date. You can achieve this by stopping the resource group on the secondary node, so that the replication data stream can drain.
Reverse the direction of data replication so that the original primary is now, once again, replicating data to the original secondary
Start the resource group on the primary cluster.
Update the DNS so that clients can access the application on the primary cluster.
Table A-1 lists the tasks in this example of how data replication was configured for an NFS application by using Availability Suite software.
Table A-1 Task Map: Example of a Data Replication Configuration
Figure A-7 illustrates the cluster configuration the example configuration uses. The secondary cluster in the example configuration contains one node, but other cluster configurations can be used.
Figure A-7 Example Cluster Configuration
Table A-2 summarizes the hardware and software that the example configuration requires. The Oracle Solaris OS, Oracle Solaris Cluster software, and volume manager software must be installed on the cluster nodes before Availability Suite software and patches are installed.
Table A-2 Required Hardware and Software
This section describes how device groups and resource groups are configured for an NFS application. For additional information, see Configuring Replication Resource Groups and Configuring Application Resource Groups.
This section contains the following procedures:
The following table lists the names of the groups and resources that are created for the example configuration.
Table A-3 Summary of the Groups and Resources in the Example Configuration
With the exception of devgrp-stor-rg, the names of the groups and resources are example


Change cache settings for the storage array
For all volumes in the storage array, you can adjust the cache memory settings for flushing and block size.
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Cache memory is an area of temporary volatile storage on the controller, which has a faster access time than the drive media. To tune cache performance, you can adjust the following settings:
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 2. Scroll down to Additional Settings, and then click Change Cache Settings.
 The Change Cache Settings dialog box opens.
 3. Adjust the following values:
 - Start demand cache flushing – Choose a percentage that is appropriate for the I/O used in your environment. If you choose a value lower than 80%, you may notice decreased performance.
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Doctor Who's Sonic Screwdriver Could Someday Be Real
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How's this for a DIY project: A team of ultrasonic engineers at Bristol University, together with The Big Bang: UK Young Scientists and Engineers Fair, are drawing up plans for how to build a real-world version of Doctor Who's famous sonic screwdriver.
Professor Bruce Drinkwater, a professor of ultrasonics that's also heading the group working with The Big Bang Fair, said that by operating the waves at frequencies way beyond the range of human hearing, you can use them to apply forces to objects.
Medicine is one of the immediate applications; researchers are developing ultrasonic force fields that can separate diseased cells from healthy cells. The trick is to see if super-powerful versions of these sound beams could actually move objects.
"Doctor Who is renowned for bending the rules of science," Drinkwater said. "But technology has radically moved on since the Doc first stepped out of his Tardis in the sixties. Whilst a fully functioning time machine may still be light years away, engineers are already experimenting with ultrasonic waves to move and manipulate small objects."
Engineers from The Big Bang Fair are trying to find a way to spin the waves at high enough speed to create a twisting force "similar to that of a miniature tornado." The first project: undo a screw, as if it were a real screwdriver. On the other side, a rotating ultrasonic force field could even act like the head of a screwdriver.
Still, a real version of the Doctor Who sonic screwdriver is still a ways off. If and when researchers do develop one, it's likely that its capabilities would be limited to small applications like the cell barrier one mentioned above. It wouldn't be able to burn holes in metal or heal wounds, for example—at least not in the beginning.
But that doesn't diminish the excitement for us; we'll take one to go along with our space-time cloak. We're just hoping the finished sonic screwdriver makes that awesome sound effect whenever you press the trigger. All it needs is a little extra speaker in it like the one in the Wii Remote, right?


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Using AJAX in Conjunction with MongoDB
Raj Madisetti
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Hello fellow Javascript coders,
In this article, we will be discussing how to implement AJAX calls into your full-stack web application that incorporates a MongoDB database.
First of all, AJAX is a method in jQuery that allows a program to send and receive data from a server (i.e. MongoDB) simultaneously without even refreshing the page. Thus, AJAX is very important for implementing applications with buttons or input from the user since it can be used in functions that are responsible for rendering text or data to the page.
Next, let's implement AJAX into an application. We need to require all of the relevant packages in the server.js or a differently named file that connects the mongoose database to your api and html routes. The file should look similar to this:
const express = require('express');
const bodyParser = require('body-parser');
const mongoose = require('mongoose');
const PORT = process.env.PORT || 3000; // any port number is acceptable
// Initialize Express
const app = express();
// Use body-parser for handling form submissions
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: true }));
// Use express.static to serve the public folder as a static directory
mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost/[name of application database]', { useNewUrlParser: true });
// Routes
// API Routes (require from routes folder and pass in Express app)
// HTML Routes (require from routes folder and pass in Express app)
// Start the server
app.listen(PORT, function() {
console.log(App running on port ${PORT});
Now, the preliminary packages are required if they weren't already. Next in a different js file, you can create functions that accesses your mongoose routes such as GET, POST, or DELETE using AJAX. Here is an example of how to formulate a render function that gets data from a mongoose database and displays it to the page:
const render = function () {
$.ajax({ url: '/[put your route here]', method: 'GET' })
.then(function (data) {
let htmlstr = '';
data.forEach(element => {
htmlstr +=${element.content};
.catch(function (err) {
In this function, the AJAX call is using the databases GET routes and, for each data entry, it creates an html h1 element with the contents of the entry and adds it to an empty div.
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Watershed Lit: Center for Literary Engagement and Publishing Practice
Watershed Lit: Center for Literary Engagement and Publishing Practice is a collective of organizations whose missions create and promote transformative experiences in the literary arts at Mason and beyond. Together, we seek to inspire love of the written word in all its forms, foster the professional development of writers, teachers and future literary leaders, and provide a platform for new and unheard voices.
Watershed Lit emerges organically from separate efforts that the Mason Creative Writing Program has spearheaded for nearly four decades: Fall for the Book, Northern Virginia Writing Project, Poetry Daily, Stillhouse Press, and the Cheuse Center for International Writers.
Watershed Lit serves as the hub for program-related initiatives outside of the classroom and across the region: an incubator for research on topics ranging from the history of the book to translation arts to burgeoning publishing technologies, and a laboratory for experiential learning for generations of Mason students to come.
The goals of Watershed Lit include:
to foster entrepreneurial initiatives related to the creation and dissemination of writing;
to explore—through the curation and presentation of events in collaboration with partners within and outside the university—critical issues confronting global citizens through the lens of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and other narrative platforms;
to support research related to the literary arts (e.g., investigating the roots of science fiction as a genre), publishing practice (e.g., history of printing technology), or any of the disciplines associated with the center (e.g., survey of literary festivals in America and their impact on reading culture or how technology has changed reading patterns); and encourage scholarship by visiting creative writers as fellows (e.g., matters of translation);
to better leverage current assets on behalf of student recruitment, program growth, and alumni support;
to provide internships, mentorships, apprenticeships, and other valuable career-path opportunities for students to become better artists and smarter authors prepared for a variety of professions—and who are prepared to navigate the publishing world.
Watershed Lit is located in Horizon Hall and endeavors to spark a greater, more holistic vision of what Mason students and faculty can accomplish together.


, 2, and 3. That is, 3 == 2^SERIAL_BITS - 1.
 In this space, the largest integer that it is meaningful to add to a
 sequence number is 2^(SERIAL_BITS - 1) - 1, or 1.
 Then, as defined 0+1 == 1, 1+1 == 2, 2+1 == 3, and 3+1 == 0.
 Further, 1 > 0, 2 > 1, 3 > 2, and 0 > 3. It is undefined whether
 2 > 0 or 0 > 2, and whether 1 > 3 or 3 > 1.
5.2. A slightly larger example
 Consider the case where SERIAL_BITS == 8. In this space the integers
 that make up the serial number space are 0, 1, 2,... 254, 255.
 255 == 2^SERIAL_BITS - 1.
 sequence number is 2^(SERIAL_BITS - 1) - 1, or 127.
 Addition is as expected in this space, for example: 255+1 == 0,
 100+100 == 200, and 200+100 == 44.
 Comparison is more interesting, 1 > 0, 44 > 0, 100 > 0, 100 > 44,
 200 > 100, 255 > 200, 0 > 255, 100 > 255, 0 > 200, and 44 > 200.
 Note that 100+100 > 100, but that (100+100)+100 < 100. Incrementing
 a serial number can cause it to become "smaller". Of course,
 incrementing by a smaller number will allow many more increments to
 be made before this occurs. However this is always something to be
 aware of, it can cause surprising errors, or be useful as it is the
 only defined way to actually cause a serial number to decrease.
 The pairs of values 0 and 128, 1 and 129, 2 and 130, etc, to 127 and
 255 are not equal, but in each pair, neither number is defined as
 being greater than, or less than, the other.
 It could be defined (arbitrarily) that 128 > 0, 129 > 1,
 130 > 2,..., 255 > 127, by changing the comparison operator
 definitions, as mentioned above. However note that that would cause
 255 > 127, while (255 + 1) < (127 + 1), as 0 < 128. Such a
 definition, apart from being arbitrary, would also be more costly to
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RFC 1982 Serial Number Arithmetic August 1996
6. Citation
 As this defined arithmetic may be useful for purposes other than for
 the DNS serial number, it may be referenced as Serial Number
 Arithmetic from RFC1982. Any such reference shall be taken as
 implying that the rules of sections 2 to 5 of this document apply to
 the stated values.
7. The DNS SOA serial number
 The serial number in the DNS SOA Resource Record is a Serial Number
 as defined above, with SERIAL_BITS being 32. That is, the serial
 number is a non negative integer with values taken from the range
 [0.. _PHONE_]. That is, a 32 bit unsigned integer.
 The maximum defined increment is _PHONE_ (2^31 - 1).
 Care should be taken that the serial number not be incremented, in
 one or more steps, by more than this maximum within the period given
 by the value of SOA.expire. Doing so may leave some secondary
 servers with out of date copies of the zone, but with a serial number
 "greater" than that of the primary server. Of course, special
 circumstances may require this rule be set aside, for example, when
 the serial number needs to be set lower for some reason. If this
 must be done, then take special care to verify that ALL servers have
 correctly succeeded in following the primary server's serial number
 changes, at each step.
 Note that each, and every, increment to the serial number must be
 treated as the start of a new sequence of increments for this
 purpose, as well as being the continuation of all previous sequences
 started within the period specified by SOA.expire.
 Caution should also be exercised before causing the serial number to
 be set to the value zero. While this value is not in any way special
 in serial number arithmetic, or to the DNS SOA serial number, many
 DNS implementations have incorrectly treated zero as a special case,
 with special properties, and unusual behaviour may be expected if
 zero is used as a DNS SOA serial number.
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RFC 1982 Serial Number Arithmetic August 1996
8. Document Updates
 RFC1034 and RFC1035 are to be treated as if the references to
 "sequence space arithmetic" therein are replaced by references to
 serial number arithmetic, as defined in this document.
9. Security Considerations
 This document does not consider security.
 It is not believed that anything in this document adds to any
 to lessen them.
 [RFC1034] Domain Names - Concepts and Facilities,
 P. Mockapetris, STD 13, ISI, November 1987.
 [RFC1035] Domain Names - Implementation and Specification
 P. Mockapetris, STD 13, ISI, November 1987
 [RFC793] Transmission Control protocol
 Information Sciences Institute, STD 7, USC, September 1981
 [IEN-74] Sequence Number Arithmetic
 William W. Plummer, BB&N Inc, September 1978
 Thanks to Rob Austein for suggesting clarification of the undefined
 comparison operators, and to Michael Patton for attempting to locate
 another reference for this procedure. Thanks also to members of the
 IETF DNSIND working group of 1995-6, in particular, Paul Mockapetris.
Authors' Addresses
 Robert Elz Randy Bush
 Computer Science RGnet, Inc.
 University of Melbourne 10361 NE Sasquatch Lane
 Parkville, Vic, 3052 Bainbridge Island, Washington, 98110
 Australia. United States.
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Sugary Drinks Increases The Risk Of Cancer: Scientist Found Obesity Causing More Cancer Death Than Smoking
French scientist has found that Sugary drinks – including fruit juice and fizzy pop – may increase the risk of cancer.
According to a study, published in the British Medical Journal, that followed more than 100,000 people for five years.
The team at Université Sorbonne Paris Cité speculate that the impact of blood sugar levels may be to blame.
However, the research is far from definitive proof and experts have called for more research.
What counts as a sugary drink?
The researchers defined it as a drink with more than 5% sugar.
That included fruit juice (even with no added sugar), soft drinks, sweetened milkshakes, energy drinks and tea or coffee with sugar stirred in.
The team also looked at diet drinks using zero-calorie artificial sweeteners instead of sugar but found no link with cancer.
How big is the cancer risk?
The study concluded that drinking an extra 100ml of sugary drinks a day – about two cans a week – would increase the risk of developing cancer by 18%.
For every 1,000 people in the study, there were 22 cancers.
So, if they all drank an extra 100ml a day, it would result in four more cancers – taking the total to 26 per 1,000 per five years, according to the researchers.
"However, this assumes that there is a genuine causal link between sugary drink intake and developing cancer and this still needs further research," said Dr Graham Wheeler, a senior statistician at Cancer Research UK.
Of the 2,193 cancers found during the study, 693 were breast cancers, 291 were prostate cancers and 166 were colorectal cancers.
Is this definitive proof?
No – the way the study was designed means it can spot patterns in the data but cannot explain them.
So, it did show that the people who drank the most (about 185ml a day) had more cancer cases than those who drank the least (less than 30ml a day).
And one possible explanation is that sugary drinks are increasing cancer risk.
But, alternatively, people who drink more sugary drinks could have other unhealthy behaviors (eating more salt and calories than then rest, for example) that raise their cancer risk and the sugary drinks themselves could be irrelevant.
So, the study cannot say that sugary drinks cause cancer.
"While this study doesn't offer a definitive causative answer about sugar and cancer, it does add to the overall picture of the importance of the current drive to reduce our sugar intake," said Dr Amelia Lake, from Teesside University.
She added: "Reducing the amount of sugar in our diet is extremely important."
Is this just about obesity?
Obesity is a major cause of some cancers – and excessive consumption of sugary drinks would increase the odds of putting on weight.
However, the study said it was not the whole story.
one of the researchers, Dr Mathilde Touvier, says "Obesity and weight gain caused by sugary-drink excessive consumption certainly played a role in the association but they did not explain the whole association,"
So what might be going on?
The French researchers say the link "was strongly driven by sugar content" and they blame blood sugar levels.
They also suggest some chemicals in the beverages, such as those that give an appealing colour, may be to blame.
However, their study does not attempt to answer this question.
"I find the biological plausibility of this difficult, given there was no significant difference between groups in relation to body weight or incidence of diabetes, which is often cited as an associated risk," Catherine Collins, an NHS dietitian, said.
What do the researchers say?
The team at Université Sorbonne Paris Cité say larger scale studies are needed to corroborate the findings.
"Sugary drinks are known to be associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases, overweight, obesity and diabetes," said Dr Touvier.
"But what we show is they are also associated, maybe, with cancer risk."
They say their research is further evidence that taxing sugary drinks is a good idea.
The UK introduced a sugar tax in 2018, with manufacturers having to pay a levy on high-sugar drinks they produce.
What do drinks companies have to say?
The British Soft Drinks Association said the study "does not provide evidence of cause, as the authors readily admit".
Its director general, Gavin Partington, added: "Soft drinks are safe to consume as part of a balanced diet.
"The soft drinks industry recognizes it has a role to play in helping to tackle obesity, which is why we have led the way in calorie and sugar reduction." –(Credit bbc news)
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- control and measuring the heating,
- determine temperature variation in various parts of the room;
- measure heat movement through the cells' fabric; and
- Monitor air movement in the roof and sub-floor spaces.
In addition, local weather conditions will be monitored and recorded.
Controlling the heating
The regulatory modelling program, AccuRate, estimates the amount of energy required to keep specific rooms at a comfortable temperature during different times of the day. To replicate this, the heater in each cell will be controlled by internal temperature sensor. Running time and energy use will be measured and recorded.
Temperature in a room is not consistent. It is influenced by height in the room, proximity of hot and cold surfaces such as walls, and draughts and other air movement. Temperature will be measured at three heights (0.6, 1.2 and 1.8 m high) at each of nine points in the cells. This is shown in Image 3 below.
Heat movement through the fabric
Heat moves through each surface of the cells, ceiling and roof, walls and floor. To measure this heat flow and the thermal performance of the construction systems, temperature sensors are positioned:
- At each material surface in the centre of the north and south walls;
- At each material surface in the centre of the ceiling and across the roof sheet on the centre of the north facing roof segment; and
- At each material surface in the centre of the floor. As the slab may use the ground under it as a heat sink, temperature is also measured one meter under ground in the centre of each cell.
Air movement under the timber sub-floors and in the roof spaces influences the flow of heat through the floor and the ceiling. Air movement sensors will be positioned in the centre of the floor and ceiling space of each module.
The collected data will be analysed to compare actual thermal performance to that predicted by AccuRate. This will provide a critical but objective comparison between the performance accessed by the rating software and the measured performance of three similar test cells.


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For any positive integer $n$ the map $p:S^1\to S^1$, defined by $p(z)=z^n$ is a covering map.
I think it's easy, but as I'm a really beginner I'm struggling to prove it. By the way, what kind of operation is that $z^n$?
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Consider $S^1$ as $\{z\in \Bbb C:|z|=1\}$ – Dominik Dec 10 '12 at 20:50
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I'm in a rush, but here's a hint:
EDIT: Now that I have more time, let me see if I can explain this better.
Let's begin by thinking of the circle as a paramaterized curve. In particular, let's consider parameterizing $S^1$ as $\gamma(t)=e^{2\pi it}$ for $t=[0,1]$. The curve $\gamma$ can be thought of as traversing the unit circle once, counterclockwise. While this parameterization will not really make any of our work any easier, it will at least make it clear that the statement is true.
Ok, so note then that if $f:z\mapsto z^n$ is the $n^{\text{th}}$ power map, then we can get a handle of what $f$ does to $S^1$ by seeing how the map $f\circ \gamma$ works--for ease of notation let's call $f\circ\gamma=h$. Now, just unraveling this, we see that, by definition, $h$ is a parameterization of $S^1$ given by $h:[0,1]\to S^1:t\mapsto e^{2\pi i n t}$. Now, the important thing to notice about $h$, is that while $\gamma$ traversed $S^1$ once, we've (in essence) "sped up" so that in our allotted time of $[0,1]$ we actually round the circle $n$ times. In particular, we see that we round the circle once in the interval $[0,\frac{1}{n}]$, again in the interval $[\frac{1}{n},\frac{2}{n}]$, and in general, once in the interval $[\frac{m}{n},\frac{m+1}{n}]$ with $m\in\{0,n-1\}$. Moreover, if we restrict to open subsets of each of these intervals, our map is a homeomorphism onto its image. Thus, we see that, at least intuitively, $h$ does cover $S^1$ "$n$-times".
Now, let's see what happens if we pick a point $p_0\in S^1$ and start looking at neighborhoods around it, and in particular, how about we consider $1\in S^1$. Now, while there are tons of neighborhoods, it makes sense to, if we are going to prove that $f$ is a covering map, restrict our attention to neighborhoods of $p_0=e^{\frac{\pi i}{3}}$ that "come" from $f$, or in our case $h$. In particular, we note that $p_0=h\left(\frac{1}{12n}\right)$. So, a good way to pick a neighborhood of $p_0$ would be to look at the image under $f$ of a neighborhood of $\frac{1}{12n}$--let's say we look at $\left(\frac{1}{13n},\frac{1}{11n}\right)$. Now, this is all valid since we know that on open subsets of each of our subintervals $[\frac{m}{n},\frac{m+1}{n}]$ the map $h$ is a homeomorphism so that $U=h\left(\frac{1}{13n},\frac{1}{11n}\right)$ really is a neighborhood of $p_0$
Now, that we have a very nice neighborhood of $p_0$, let's try to verify the conditions on $f$ that make it a covering map. Let's look at $f^{-1}(U)$. Well, let's actually being by looking at $h^{-1}(U)$, because this is easy to get a handle on. Namely, we know that $h$ just wraps around $S^1$ $n$-times and it will covering $U$ precisely during the time intervals in each interval $[\frac{m}{n},\frac{m+1}{n}]$ that "act like" $\left(\frac{1}{13n},\frac{1}{11n}\right)$. It is not hard to see that each of these subintervals are just going to be of the form $\left(\frac{1}{13n}+\frac{m}{n},\frac{1}{11n}+\frac{m}{n}\right)$ for $m\in\{0,\cdots,n-1\}$. So, now that we have a handle on what $h^{-1}(U)$ looks like, we can easily deal with $f^{-1}(U)$ by just "pushing forward" by $\gamma$. Namely, $f^{-1}(U)$ will just be the union of the sets $\gamma\left(\frac{1}{13n}+\frac{m}{n},\frac{1}{11n}+\frac{m}{n}\right)$ for each $m\in\{0,\cdots,n-1\}$ (where on the circle are these regions?). Moreover, it's clear that each of these intervals are disjoint, because $\gamma$ acts (except for the endpoints, which we aren't worrying about) injectively. Thus, we see that $f^{-1}(U)$ is a disjoint union of $n$ open subsets $\gamma\left(\frac{1}{13n}+\frac{m}{n},\frac{1}{11n}+\frac{m}{n}\right)$ of $S^1$. Moreover, since the action of $f$ on each of these subsets is just $h$ on the intervals $\left(\frac{1}{13n}+\frac{m}{n},\frac{1}{11n}+\frac{m}{n}\right)$ we know that $f$ restricted to each of these maps is a homeomorphism. Thus, we see that the covering map condition is at least at the point $p_0$.
Now, I went into way too much detail, and I'm sure you got the point half-way through, but I hope that was able to help, and I hope you can generalize this to prove that $f$ is a covering map!
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Nouns That Start With J
When's the last time you added a good, hearty J-letter into your writings? Did you dance with jubilation or toss a jab in the air? Well, why not? Nouns that start with J stir up joy all across the globe. As a matter of fact, adjectives that start with J have the same effect. Let's take a closer look and see how many J-words you can add to your everyday jargon.
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What Is a Noun?
A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea. They're often accompanied by articles, like "a," "an," and "the." They also like to serve as the subject of a sentence. For example, "The jackal chased her all through the desert."
You'll also see them functioning as the object of a sentence. That means they'll come after the verb. For example, "The police officer arrested the habitual jaywalker." Nouns can also be names, including people, cities, and more.
50 Nouns Starting With J
With that quick little review in mind, let's take a look at 50 nouns that start with J. Nothing beats a robust vocabulary and, with some of these J-words in your back pocket, you'll be well positioned to brighten up your next piece of writing.
1. Jab - a quick stab or blow
2. Jackal - a yellowish-gray wild dog of Asia and North Africa
3. Jacket - a coat extending to the waist or hips, usually with long sleeves
4. Jackpot - cumulative stakes or the highest prize, as in a slot machine
5. Jade - a hard, greenish gem used in jewelry and artistic carvings
6. Jail - a place where people who've been convicted of a crime serve out a sentence
7. Jalapeno - a spicy green chili pepper common in Mexican cooking
8. Jape - a joke or a quip
9. Jargon - the language of a particular trade or group that's meaningless to others
10. Jawbone - a bone of the jaw, especially the lower jaw
11. Jazz - a style of music that uses trumpets, a bass, and saxophones
12. Jealousy - a state or feeling of being envious
13. Jaywalker - a person who violates pedestrian traffic regulations
14. Jeep - a small, rugged automobile with four-wheel drive
15. Jellyfish - marine cnidarians with a jellylike body shaped like an umbrella
16. Jerkiness - the state of making spasmodic movements
17. Jester - one who jokes or mocks
18. Jetsetter - a person who travels frequently
19. Jewel - a precious gem
20. Jigsaw - an electric saw with a narrow blade set in a frame that cuts ornamental patterns
21. Job - the work you do to earn money
22. Jockey - a person who rides a horse in a race
23. Jogger - a person who runs at a slow, steady pace
24. Joinery - the art or craft of a cabinetmaker
25. Joker - a person who tells or plays jokes
26. Jolt - an abrupt movement or surprise shock
27. Journal - a diary you keep of daily events and your thoughts
28. Journalism - the work of finding, creating, editing, and publishing news
29. Journey - a trip from one place to another
30. Joyfulness - the state of expressing delight or happiness
31. Joyrider - a person who goes on a ride for enjoyment
32. Joystick - a manual control attached to a computer or video game
33. Jubilation - a feeling or great happiness, triumph, or joy
34. Jubilee - a special anniversary or celebration
35. Judgment - an opinion, decision, or a sentence given by a court of law
36. Jug - a large vessel with a small mouth and a handle
37. Juggler - one who juggles objects or performs other tricks of manual dexterity
38. Juice - liquid from a fruit, vegetable, or cooked meat
39. Jumble - a mixed combination of items
40. Jumbo - a large person, animal, or thing
41. Jumper - a personal, animal, or thing that jumps
42. Jumpsuit - a one-piece garment with a shirt attached to the slacks
43. June - the sixth month of the year
44. Jungle - an undeveloped land area with thick trees, plants, and brush
45. Junior - a description for a son with the same name as his father
46. Junk - garbage, trash, or worthless items
47. Junkyard - a yard or lot to store junk, such as scrap metal or resalable car parts
48. Jury - a group of people appointed to decide a verdict
49. Justice - the use of power as appointed by law to support fair treatment and due reward
50. Jute - a strong fiber made from a plant
Types of Nouns
Nouns wear many hats. In fact, there are over 10 different types of nouns. If they're referring to a person or place, they're probably acting as a proper noun (e.g. Rex, Denver, Washington, Russia, and the Coliseum). An example of that would be, "Jerry is a very funny guy."
The opposite of a proper noun is a common noun. These nouns refer to general, unspecified things. In the example above, Jerry is a proper noun. But, if that line simply read, "The jester is a very funny guy," you'd know the subject was a common noun. Common nouns aren't capitalized or specific.
Then, there are compound nouns (e.g., jawbreaker and jailbird), countable nouns, possessive nouns, and pronouns. It's quite common to see both nouns and pronouns in a single sentence: "Janine raced up the stairs to find him."
10 Example Sentences With J
Nouns are dotted across millions of sentences a day. Take a look at the examples below. Notice that some of them are acting as subjects, others as objects. Click on the link in each sentence to see more example sentences containing that J-noun:
 1. She hit the jackpot when she married him.
 2. Don't use too much jargon in your next speech.
 3. Oceanside jellyfish are dangerous little creatures.
 4. It's not your job to worry about him.
 5. The price tag on those shoes gave her a jolt.
 6. She switched college majors from business to journalism.
 7. Her new handbag filled her with jubilation.
 8. How am I supposed to find my shoes in this jumble?
 9. The jungle is Mowgli's home.
 10. He'll never stop seeking justice for this crime.
Beyond Just Nouns
Don't limit yourself to nouns! Further explore this letter by reviewing a more extensive selection of words that begin with J on WordFinder by YourDictionary, where you'll find many interesting terms organized by word length. Use the simple on-screen search field to create your customized collection of J-words. You can opt to see words that have a specific number of letters as well as terms that begin, end with or have certain letters.
Journaling Jubilation
Ready to take your new J-words and start a new journal entry? Hopefully, you can make journaling a part of your everyday routine. Take a look at the many benefits of emotional journal writing.


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Bonito - Sarda Orientalis
Occurs in tropical and temperate waters of the Atlantic Ocean from Argentina to Nova Scotia and from South Africa to Norway. It is apparently rare in the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, and is common in the Mediterranean and Black Seas. It is replaced in the Pacific by other Sarda species. The Atlantic bonito is often confused with the skipjack or with other Atlantic Scombroid species. The bonitos have stripes on the back, not the belly. The first dorsal fin has 20 23 spines. The second dorsal fin consists of 13 18 rays followed by 7 10 finlets. The anal fin consists of 14 17 rays followed by 6 8 finlets. The caudal peduncle has a lateral keel on either side. As with all Scombroid fishes, there are also two smaller keels farther back, above and below the main keel. The Sarda species have no teeth on the tongue and no swim bladder. Also, the intestine is straight, rather than folded in the middle. There is a total of 16 23 gill rakers on the first gill arch. The back is steel blue or blue green. The lower flanks and belly are silvery.
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