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- What do you call a small supermarket?
- What is the meaning of supermarket?
- What is a bodega baby?
- Why do bodegas have cats?
- What do British call groceries?
- What is another term for buy in?
- What is the difference between supermarket and hypermarket?
- What do Americans call the supermarket?
- Why are bodegas called bodegas?
- What does Bodega stand for?
- What is the best synonym for store?
- What is another word for friendly?
- What does Emporium mean in English?
- What is buy into?
- What's another word for supermarket?
- What is another word for store?
- What does it mean to buy into something?
- What's the meaning of buy in?
What do you call a small supermarket?
Small grocery stores that mainly sell fruits and vegetables are known as greengrocers (Britain) or produce markets (U.S.), and small grocery stores that predominantly sell prepared food, such as candy and snacks, are known as convenience shops or delicatessens..
What is the meaning of supermarket?
noun. a large retail market that sells food and other household goods and that is usually operated on a self-service basis. any business or company offering an unusually wide range of goods or services: a financial supermarket that sells stocks, bonds, insurance, and real estate.
What is a bodega baby?
Pusha-T's coined term "Bodega Babies" is referring to the poverty-stricken youth within food deserts of the inner city, using bodegas and corner stores as two things, the first is a food source, and the second as a place to post up and hustle.
Why do bodegas have cats?
A bodega cat serves not only to catch and kill existing rodents, but also to deter others from entering the establishment, spreading bacteria, and destroying the shop owner's goods.
What do British call groceries?
In Britain anything you can buy at the grocery shop is usually called groceries.
What is another term for buy in?
Buy-in Synonyms – WordHippo Thesaurus….What is another word for buy-in?importintroduceship insource from abroadtrade in3 more rows
What is the difference between supermarket and hypermarket?
When it comes to supermarket vs. hypermarket, the main difference is that a hypermarket is a supermarket that also offers big-ticket items such as appliances, and is also much bigger. Supermarkets are large, hypermarkets are massive. … Many hypermarkets, such as Costco, resemble large warehouses that are impersonal.
What do Americans call the supermarket?
American word or phraseEnglish translationGrocery storeSupermarketHappy HolidaysHappy ChristmasHood (of a car)BonnetIceboxRefrigerator63 more rows
Why are bodegas called bodegas?
The History of NYC Bodegas The name bodega originates from the Spanish word, which can mean "storeroom," "wine cellar," or "grocery store," because these shops first started popping up in the 1940s and '50s in Hispanic communities. … New Yorkers as a whole took to the idea, and these small shops multiplied.
What does Bodega stand for?
Bodega is the Spanish word for "warehouse." When Spanish-speaking people began arriving in New York in large numbers during the first half of the 20th Century, they brought this word with them to describe small stores selling a variety of items including packaged food, beverages, cigarettes, newspapers, and candy.
What is the best synonym for store?
department storeanchor store.chain store.dime store.discount store.five-and-dime store.outlet store.shop.store.
What is another word for friendly?
SYNONYMS FOR friendly 1 companionable, neighborly. 2 kindly, amiable, cordial, genial, affectionate, kindhearted. 3 benevolent, well-disposed, helpful, favorable; sympathetic, propitious.
What does Emporium mean in English?
noun, plural em·po·ri·ums, em·po·ri·a [em-pawr-ee-uh, -pohr-]. a large retail store, especially one selling a great variety of articles. a place, town, or city of important commerce, especially a principal center of trade: New York is one of the world's great emporiums.
What is buy into?
to buy a part of a business in order to have some control over it: They bought into a software company. If you buy into an idea or plan, you give it your support or agree with it: Parents are expected to buy into the school's philosophy when they enroll their children.
What's another word for supermarket?
What is another word for store?
What is another word for store?cachehoardreservestashquantitystockstockpilesupplywealthaccumulation215 more rows
What does it mean to buy into something?
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbuy into something phrasal verb1 informal to accept that an idea is right and allow it to influence you I never bought into this idea that you have to be thin to be attractive.
What's the meaning of buy in?
Definition of buy-in. : acceptance of and willingness to actively support and participate in something (such as a proposed new plan or policy) Without buy-in from his troops, Gruden's just another tuned-out coach.—


Extending crtests for other algorithms
Sjoerd van der Spoel
crtests intends to be an application programming interface (API) for machine learning in R. Its goal is to be a flexible and fast framework for running a regression or classification test on a data set. To achieve this, the package acts as a wrapper to algorithms like Random Forests, decision trees or support vector machines, making sure that data is in the right format for these algorithms.
Some algorithms have special requirements, such as a maximum number of predictors, a maximum number of categories for categorical predictors, or an inability to deal with certain column types. crtests standard implementation deals with some of these requirements, but gives room to deal with algorithm-specific requirements. This vignette describes how these can be implemented, by giving an example implementation for both Breiman's Random Forests and for rpart decision trees.
Default preparation steps for classification and regression
To know what to implement for a specific algorithm, it is necessary to know what is already implemented. The standard data preparation through the prepare function does the following:
Extending crtests for Random Forests & rpart
Random Forest requirements
R's implementation of Random Forests through the randomForest packages has a few specific requirements. It can for example not deal with levels in the dependent variable of the holdout set that were not in the training set, nor can it deal with NAs. These have been handled by the default prepare and its helper method prepare_data. randomForest can also not deal with categorical predictors with more than 32 categories. This needs to be addressedthrough an implementation of method_prepare.
Method-specific data preparation
method_prepare is an S3-generic that gets called with a method: a character of class method, which would be 'randomForest' in this case. The function executed depends on the method, so a function method_prepare.randomForest needs to be written.
This function should reduce the number of levels of each factor to at most 32. One way is to drop all levels that are not among the 32 most frequent. This could lead to significant loss of data (through the introduction of NAs). The other option is to group the infrequent levels (those not in the top 31) into one level called 'other'. This would not lead to data loss through NAs, so it is perhaps preferable.
crtests provides a function that handles this grouping: group_levels. This is also a generic, and can be called with a data.frame or a factors. This function does just what was stated before: any levels outside the maximum-1 most frequent are grouped into one level called other.
So, the implementation of method_prepare.randomForest could look something like this:
method_prepare.randomForest <- function(method, test, data,...){
 # Use group_levels to reduce number of factor levels to at most 32
 group_levels(data = data, maximum_levels = 32)
Now, this satisfies the core requirement for an implementation of method_prepare: it returns a list of data containing a training and holdout set. But now, there might be levels in the holdout set that are not in the training set. So, prepare_data needs to be called again to relevel the holdout factors and remove NAs. So, the complete implementation looks like this:
 data <- group_levels(data = data, maximum_levels = 32)
 # Make sure the factor levels in holdout are also in the training set, and remove NAs this introduces.
 data$holdout <- prepare_data(data$holdout, data$train)
Method-specific model training
After data preparation, crtests also provides a 'hook' to deal with method specific requirements for model training. The classification_model.default function calls the machine learning method with an x, y and the training data. This is not always sufficient, like for the decision tree package rpart: this also requires a formula argument.
Implementing this is simple by creating a classification_model.rpart function and accessing the test parameter that is passed to that function:
classification_model.rpart <- function(method, test, x, y, training_data,...){
 # extract_formula creates a formula of the form 'dependent ~.', which is an attribute of the test object
 f <- extract_formula(test)
 rpart(formula=f, data=training_data, method="class")
Method-specific model testing
The make_predictions functions is also generic, and get called with a model produced by a machine learning algorithm, providing another hook for method specific implementations. make_predictions is a wrapper to predict, so when predict.'model' needs specific arguments other than model and newdata, a new make_predictions can be implemented.
Again, rpart has specific requirements: it needs a type parameter, either class for classification or vector for regression problems. The problem can be extracted from the test parameter passed to make_predictions, so the implementation of make_predictions.rpart could look like this:
make_predictions.rpart <- function(model, data, test,...){
 type <- ""
 type <- "class"
 else if (class(test)=="regression"){
 type <- "vector"
 else {
 stop(paste("Tests of type", class(test), "are not supported by make_predictions.rpart"))
 predict(model, newdata=data$holdout, type=type,...)


mknod -- Create a Character or FIFO Special File
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mknod creates a new character special file or a FIFO special file. The path argument specifies the pathname of the special file, and the mode argument determines which type of special file is created. The following symbols can be specified as the mode argument:
Character special file
FIFO special file
A character special file is usually associated with a device, and a FIFO (first-in-first-out) special file is a named pipe that is used for communciation between two processes.
The file permissions bits of the new special file can also be initialized with the mode argument. To do this, use a bitwise OR operation to combine any of the permissions symbols described for the mode argument of the chmod function with either S_IFCHR or S_IFFIFO.
The device_id argument identifies the specific device associated with a character special file. This argument is not used with FIFO special files.
The device_id argument is one word long, with the high-order 16 bits used to identify the device driver for a class of devices, such as interactive terminals. See IBM's Application Callable Services for OpenEdition MVS (SC23-3020) for an explanation of device IDs.
mknod returns 0 if successful and -1 if it is unsuccessful.
The mknode function is useful in POSIX applications; however, it is not defined by POSIX.1 and should not be used in strictly conforming applications. POSIX.1 does not provide a way to make character special files.
The following code fragment illustrates the use of mknod to create a character special file with user read and write permissions set and a device_id of 0x00020003. (It is a slave pseudo TTY.)
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Engel says it is negotiating with OEMs to extend application of its unique Dolphin process, which allows design engineers to achieve complex geometries and undercuts in a timeand labor-saving process.
Daimler supplier SOLE (Oderzo/Italy) is using the Dolphin system to produce cockpit covers for the new Mercedes Benz Actros at the Daimler facility in Wörth, Germany.
The Dolphin process combines two-component injection molding with MuCell physical foaming and a reverse compression process. A thermoplastic substrate is molded in the first injection station using a valve gated hot-runner system. The substrate is transferred to the second injection station by rotating the center mold stack following cooling.
The substrate is then overmolded with thermoplastic elastomer (TPE), holding the wall thickness to a defined dimension (usually 2 mm) to prevent the gas from foaming. Inert gas (nitrogen or carbon dioxide) is introduced during recovery, in a supercritical state, to create a gas-saturated melt. An injection unit with MuCell is mounted on the moving platen of am Engel combi M machine.
The melt solidifies on the mold wall and forms a skin layer, which duplicates the grained surface of the cavity. The clamping unit is then opened by a defined reverse compression stroke, allowing the dissolved gas to expand. Fine and uniform foam cells form since the pressure within the cavity decreases with a gradient equal across the cavity. That's a requirement for a highly uniform and good cell structure within the part and a uniform density throughout the part. The cavity is held in the extended position until the TPE has cooled completely and crystallized.
The next substrate is already being produced on the other side of the mold. A blocking system on the second mold side makes sure that the clamping force does not decrease during the precise opening movement required to create the foam layer. A surrounding spring loaded frame seals the mold halves during the opening stroke so that neither melt nor foam can escape.
The Dolphin process requires stable and high-precision molds. The mold maker for the Daimler project is Georg Kaufmann, Busslingen, Switzerland The tolerance in the temperature-controlled and movable elements is 0.001 inch. Cooling is also difficult because the mold halves are kept at different temperatures. The substrate requires a temperature that is 95 °F higher than the TPE overmolding.
The raw-material supplier for the Actros is SO.F.TER Tecnopolimeri, Forlì, Italy.

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Start Evolves Webinar: Dan McClure on feedback loops for complex systems
07 July 2017
The Start Network's vision is a humanitarian system in which funding will be dependable and predictable, responses are based on humanitarian need and context-appropriate. For this to become reality, the Start Network needs to evolve into a global, decentralised 'network of networks'.
But what kind of organisation can help deliver such a complex system, one that can impact across the humanitarian sector? In this webinar, Dan McClure of ThoughtWorks discusses the importance of feedback loops in achieving emergent change, and how we can move away from traditional organisational structures.


Previous:, Up: NNTP [Contents][Index] Common Variables
The following variables affect the behavior of all, or several of the pre-made connection functions. When not specified, all functions are affected (the values of the following variables will be used as the default if each virtual nntp server doesn't specify those server variables individually).
A command wrapper to use when connecting through a non native connection function (all except nntp-open-network-stream, nntp-open-tls-stream, and nntp-open-ssl-stream). This is where you would put a 'SOCKS' wrapper for instance.
The address of the NNTP server.
Port number to connect to the NNTP server. The default is 'nntp'. If you use NNTP over TLS/SSL, you may want to use integer ports rather than named ports (i.e., use '563' instead of 'snews' or 'nntps'), because external TLS/SSL tools may not work with named ports.
String to use as end-of-line marker when talking to the NNTP server. This is '\r\n' by default, but should be '\n' when using a non native telnet connection function.
Command to use when connecting to the NNTP server through 'netcat'. This is not for an intermediate host. This is just for the real NNTP server. The default is 'nc'.
A list of switches to pass to nntp-netcat-command. The default is '()'.


text: Choose a fun block, give it a new twist in your layout, and see the quilt design change before your eyes like the colors of a kaleidoscope! Best-selling author Nancy Mahoney shows how the same asymmetrical block can create two strikingly different quilts when you change the colors and rotate the block to let the secondary designs emerge. An expert teacher with an extraordinary eye for design, Nancy demystifies what baffles many quilters about choosing fabrics for scrappy quilts. Learn her tips about color families, scrap plans, and construction techniques. Most of all, enjoy a burst of creativity as you give your scraps a spin and watch the magic happen!


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Using a new grid computing system, radiologists, physicians and pediatric oncologists at 40 hospitals all over North America are now quickly and securely exchanging high-resolution medical images.
One hoped-for result will be that the doctors of young cancer patients will know more quickly whose treatment is not working and be able to change course. Others include making second opinions from specialists anywhere easily available; and quicker, closer monitoring of ongoing clinical research and diagnostic practice.
"We have broken the medical image communication barrier," says Stephan Erberich, a computer scientist who is the Director of Functional Imaging and Biomedical Informatics at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles and a faculty member of both the USC Keck School of Medicine and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.
He will demonstrate the Globus MEDICUS system at the upcoming annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago every day from Sunday Nov. 26 through Thursday Nov. 30.
The Globus MEDICUS project makes pediatric cancer researchers and the medical imaging profession at large the latest in the rapidly growing number of scientific and professional communities using Globus open-source grid collaboration software developed at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering's Information Sciences Institute (ISI) and Argonne National Laboratories (ANL).
Carl Kesselman and Ann Chevernak of ISI, who worked with Erberich in creating MEDICUS, built the system basing themselves directly upon earlier work by the Digital Imaging and Communication In Media (DICOM) standards committee.
DICOM created a uniform electronic format for medical images, one that allow the whole range of commercial imaging devices -- X-ray, MRI, and CT -- to display and manage images from any other.
But DICOM's potential for transparent exchange between collaborating researchers, and physicians has so far not been realized, because of technological, administrative, and security challenges of confidential patient data, according to Erberich.
As a result, access to the interchangeable data was limited to the hospital where the images are acquired -- not even available to a patient's point-of-care facility, if different, unless physically carried there.
"Today if you leave the hospital, you either leave your digitized images behind or you have to carry them on a CDROM," said Erberich. "This is not the 21st century healthcare we need in a networked society. All kinds of other fields, from banking to air travel now rely on instant information exchange and decision making online. We should be able expect the same level of sophistication in healthcare."
That day has now arrived, says the scientist. Using the DICOM Grid Interface Service (DGIS) DICOM records at medical facility anywhere are now easily accessible and exchangeable over Grid-secured Internet connections.
The MEDICUS project began when Erberich approached ISI grid experts Kesselman and Chervenak asking them "to translate DICOM into Grid," as Erberich described it.
Kesselman had, as part of the Globus project previously helped more than a dozen scientific communities ranging from high-energy physicists to earthquake simulating engineers and geologists share instruments and data, securely and easily.
He immediately saw that the need was a perfect fit for Globus open-source Grid solution. "There had to be new code developed to handle the medical-specific things like DICOM translation and patient confidentiality assurance," Kesselman said, "but the cool thing is this leverages all of the existing underlying Globus technology that we use in so many other projects."
In creating key grid components for MEDICUS, ISI research scientist Chervenak and Kesselman, who is director of the center for grid technologies at ISI and a research associate professor of computer science in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering worked with Manasee Bhandekar, a computer engineer at the USC Alfred E. Mann Institute. ISI researchers Robert Schuler, Shishir Bharathi and Gaurang Mehta also made significant contributions.
Erberich developed the DICOM to Grid interface and led the inter-disciplinary collaboration between the engineering and clinical teams, working with Childrens Hospital radiologist-in-chief and Chairman Marvin D. Nelson.
The system has been in place since September, and as Nelson describes it, "it's totally transparent. Each facility is now connected to the Grid, using its own interface -- you only have to one interface at the hospital, and that serves the whole hospital, reusing the hospital's capital investment in DICOM visualization devices."
The cost of installing a DGIS node is "trivial," said Erberich: on the order of $1000 for a Grid gateway, attached to a high-bandwidth net connection. The gateway provides two-way access to the Grid, allowing upload of local images (after de-identification) and also continuing access to a catalog of archived DICOM records. "The nice thing, " said Nelson, "if a researcher has authorization for a specific record in the catalog, it can be downloaded for use on her own image display."
One dramatic change in practice will be the ease of review. Researchers can look at observations made anywhere on the grid without leaving their offices.
"We store the images here in the Data Center, " said Erberich, "but the people who have been assigned to review images, can review them from virtually anywhere."
"Before" he continued "when we were documenting a research study, it meant that radiologists would have to physically come to a single facility and look through a file cabinet full of physical images. Now, radiologists all over the planet can look at the images at their leisure in their own offices, on their own favorite commercial medical imaging system."
One critical advantage of this is elimination of backlogs reviewing images, with potentially life-saving results for patients in studies. "We'll probably have a more timely review of scans," said Robert C. Seeger, M.D., of the Saban Research Institute of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, a specialist in neuroblastoma who is part of one of the research groups now using the system.
Besides the 13-institution New Approaches in Neuroblastoma Therapy group (NANT.org) that Seeger is part of, the 27-member Children's Oncology Group (CURESEARCH.org) is now active.
Both the doctors and the computer scientists involved expect this number to skyrocket in coming years, because the entry cost is so low and the possibilities are only beginning to be tapped. Other advantages include:
Greatly increased ease of radiological consultation and study. Any radiologist practicing on rare or unusual conditions can now see only see the small fraction of the total cases that present in one place. Now, "he could sit in Boston and potentially review every single case, from anywhere in the country," says Seeger.
Imaging research. Scientists studying new techniques will be able to exchange samples instantly. And "we can develop expertise not just for reading, but also processing images," said Erberich.
Drug development. New techniques depend on imaging experimental animals, typically mice, using bioluminescent markers. Analysis of large bodies of such images requires great computing power. Grid techniques can both share images and the computing power necessary to extract their meaning.
The Globus Alliance is a community of organizations and individuals developing fundamental technologies behind the "Grid," which lets people share computing power, databases, instruments, and other on-line tools securely across corporate, institutional, and geographic boundaries without sacrificing local autonomy.
Grid computing work has been named one of "Ten Technologies that Will Change the World" by M.I.T. Technology Review, and has received a "Top 100" award as well as a "Most Promising New Technology" honor from R&D Magazine.
The Globus MEDICUS project was supported by the Children's Oncology Group Phase-I Consortium, NIH (grant UO1-BA97452), and the NANT Cancer Foundation.
AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert! system.

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Energy Therapies and Diabetes Mellitus
People with diabetes require multiple interventions to reach their glycemic goals. Energy therapies have been a useful aid in improving health and well-being. Clinical interventions involve energy exchange in some form. This article focuses on energy therapies that involve the presence of a therapist, whether local or long distance, to support and aid in the healing process. The literature on diabetes and healing therapies is sparse, but there is potential for energy therapy to assist individuals with diabetes in reaching goals for normoglycemia and high quality of life.
Energy is all around us, within us, interacting internally and externally. The influence of disease on body energy fields and the influence of body energy fields on disease are areas just being explored in Western medicine. Western allopathic medicine has typically focused on illness, whereas energetic healing focuses on the connection of mind, body, and spirit. Energy medicine may be useful as a complementary therapy and adjunct to standard allopathic medical approaches.
The influence of elevated or below-normal blood glucose on perceived or available energy is easy to surmise. Diabetes is a systemic condition that influences all body systems. A wide range of symptoms, from lowered cognitive function to irritability, depression, and lethargy are all indications of altered energy responses.
Energy medicine is any interpersonal, nonpharmacological intervention that brings about changes in heat, cold, congestion, circulation, or sensory processes. It may or may not involve the felt perceptions of the individual client. The presence and/or hands of the therapist initiate an alteration in heat, cold, or congestion and act in altering the client's experience of pain or other ailments that might deal with circulation.
Do energy or healing therapies, such as Therapeutic Touch (TT), Reiki, massage, and acupuncture, have a place in diabetes management? Can energy therapies aid in restoring balance, health, and normalized blood glucose levels? Definitive answers to these questions are pending. But before reviewing the available research, let us first summarize the theories related to the field of energy therapy.
Theories of Energy
The concept that living matter is composed of energy fields is not new. Most Eastern philosophies and systems of medicine are based on these ideas.1
Western science and medicine, however, is firmly rooted in Newtonian theory.2 Newton viewed the body as a machine composed of levers and pulleys, wherein every action had an equal but opposite reaction. In Newtonian theory, matter is thought to physically affect other matter in this way.
However, many common experiences do not seem to be governed by this mechanistic concept. Some objects seem to have an effect on other objects without even touching them. The newer science of quantum physics supports the idea of energy fields and what can be called the mind-body-spirit connection. Physicists today describe a concept of "non-local reality" that may explain distance healing. For example, Targ and Katra3 as well as Dossey4 in their books talk about distance healing as "non-local healing." Byrd's classic study5 relates the positive effects of intercessory prayer offered not at a patient's bedside, but from various locations.
Observations of phenomena like these have given rise to a new concept of energy fields that surround certain types of materials. To illustrate this concept, one could take a bar-shaped magnet, cover it with a piece of paper, and then sprinkle fine metallic dust on the paper. Some "invisible" force would organize the dust into bowed lines connecting the two ends at the poles of the magnet. Although the magnetic field could not be seen, its presence could be detected and measured by its effect on the metallic dust. Another, more common example is the recognition of radio waves. One can tune into a local radio station and hear voices from all over the world. Thus, the concept of invisible force fields has been added to classical physics theory.
Around the beginning of the 20th century, a now-famous patent clerk provided a new way of perceiving the universe. Einstein stated that all matter, energy, time, and space are relative to each other. His elegant formula, e=mc2, shows not only that energy can be derived from matter, but also that matter is just very slow-moving energy.
Einstein also demonstrated that these elements were inextricably related to the observer. Because one has to observe any change of time, space, or matter through the senses, the observer's perspective is always part of any observation. This hypothesis is often referred to as the "experimenter effect": any experiment is affected by the perceptions, limitations, attitudes, expectations, and intentions of the experimenter. This new view offered some explanation for the vast differences noted between observers trained in Western science and medicine and those steeped in Eastern traditions.
Einstein's theories changed the world and our way of understanding it, and other scientists then delved further into the subatomic definition of matter and energy. A group of these theoretical physicists began studying the effects of the smallest building blocks of our atomic world—the quanta of single photons or packets of energy. These quantum physicists provided new insight into the interaction of fields at the lowest level of the energy spectrum.
There have been many interpretations of reality at the quantum level.1 Most interpreters agree that the physical world is being constructed moment by moment through an interaction of energy forces and systems, including our own, that frame and guide the physical world we all share. Some quantum theorists describe this interaction as defined and sequential. Others theorize that there may not always be a direct cause and effect or that the interaction of energy forces and systems may be a manifestation of chaos theory.
Another concept of central importance to energy therapies is the "code of the heart." Electrical energy, delivered through the nervous system, is needed to keep the heart functioning. In his book The Heart's Code,6 Pearsall discusses the amount of energy released and needed by the heart. If this energy is not present or blocked, a myocardial infarction occurs. Often, people with cardiovascular disease, just as people with high blood glucose levels, are said to feel tired all of the time. Tiredness may indicate that energy levels are lowered or depleted.
Our energy system is composed of our respiratory, circulatory, endocrine, nervous, reproductive, digestive, musculoskeletal, lymphatic, and immune systems. Many other (non-Western) systems of medicine view these systems as expressions of a life force energy known as "chi," or "Qi" (Chinese), "ki" (Japanese), or "prana" (Hindu).
In traditional Eastern medicine systems, meridians are the energy pathways or transportation systems that connect and integrate the whole body. The points along the meridian are thought to be reservoirs of energy, from subtle (low) to heat (high) energy sources. The acupuncture points on the skin are the surface representations for the full energy system, and associated meridians are found deep inside the body. There are 12 major meridians that connect to the skin surface in 12 locations. These represent 12 organs or systems of the body.
In research using radioisotopes injected into acupuncture points,7 the extremely small ductile tubules of the body were found to follow the previously described meridian pathways. The use of infrared photography has also shown the existence of these pathways.8 One can alter responses along these meridians through the use of acupuncture and acupressure, or by tapping, exercising, stretching, or massaging the meridians.
"Chakras" are found on the major meridians and act as energy stations. The word "chakra" means disc-shaped or circular (such as a wheel) and describes vortexes or centers for major energy exchange with the environment. There are seven noted chakras: the root (base of the spine), the sacral (over the genital area), the solar plexus (upper abdomen), the heart, the throat, the "third eye" or pituitary (middle of the forehead), and the crown or pineal (top of the head). These same areas are each represented by a specific color, from red (root chakra) to white or lavender (crown chakra), and by a single musical note on the scale.9
Electromagnetic frequency measurements recorded at each chakra vary in oscillations from 100 to 1,600 cycles per second (each chakra functions within a certain frequency range) in a physically, mentally, and spiritually healthy person.10 In an extremely ill person, there may be little oscillation detected at one or more of the chakra sites. The third chakra should hold the most interest for people with diabetes because it includes the area in which the pancreas is found.
The "aura," defined as energy radiating from the body, is a multi-layered field found around the body. Dr. Valerie Hunt, a respected neurophysiologist, has studied these fields over many years at the University of California at Los Angeles. Aura layers can contract or expand, change color, and resonate with various types of music or other influences depending on the individual's response and the surrounding environment. For example, in an environment that is perceived as stressful, the auric fields are known to diminish, whereas in a loving atmosphere, these fields have actually been photographed expanding.11
A meta-analysis of healing as a therapy for disease found 59 randomized clinical trials comparing healing with traditional practices in a variety of diseases. Forty-eight percent of the completed trials reported a significant effect of healing in comparison to controls. Some of the other studies had small sample sizes or were not reported adequately. Because of these problems and others, the conclusion reached by Abbot12 was that no firm statements could be made as to whether healing should be recognized as a therapy. In the analysis, the skew


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In BriefResearchers have discovered that wax worms eat through polyethylene plastic, biodegrading it. If the scientists can determine how the process works, they may be able to devise an industrial-scale solution for plastic waste management.
Caterpillar vs. Plastic
Scientists have discovered that wax worms can eat and biodegrade polyethylene, the rugged, common plastic used to make the shopping bags that are currently glutting landfill sites. The discovery was serendipitous. In an attempt to remove the pesky parasites from her honeycombs, an amateur beekeeper placed the worms into shopping bags, only to find that they'd begun to eat their way out.
Fortunately, that amateur beekeeper is a professional scientist: Federica Bertocchini of the Institute of Biomedicine and Biotechnology of Cantabria (IBBTEC) in Spain.
Bertocchini teamed up with colleagues Christopher Howe and Paolo Bombelli from the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge to conduct a timed experiment based on her observations. The researchers exposed a plastic shopping bag from a supermarket in the U.K. to approximately 100 wax worms. After 40 minutes, holes began to appear in the bag, and after 12 hours, the scientists observed a 92mg reduction in plastic mass.
Though unexpected, this isn't entirely surprising, as the composition of the bags isn't that different from the worms' natural food source, beeswax. "Wax is a polymer, a sort of 'natural plastic,' and has a chemical structure not dissimilar to polyethylene," said Bertocchini in a University of Cambridge news release.
The researchers proved that the chemical bonds in the plastic were breaking via spectroscopic analysis. They observed un-bonded "monomer" molecules, the result of the worms biodegrading the polyethylene into ethylene glycol. This was more than a chewing action because smearing mashed-up worms onto bags had the same effect.
"If a single enzyme is responsible for this chemical process, its reproduction on a large scale using biotechnological methods should be achievable," according to Bombelli.
Compared to other recent discoveries, the worms' rate of degradation is extremely fast. For example, in 2016, scientists reported that a strain of bacteria called PET could biodegrade some plastics, but it did so at a rate of only 0.13mg a day.
Humans create approximately 78 million tons of plastic from packaging alone in a single year, and 32 percent of it ends up in the waters of the planet — that's about one garbage truck of plastic every minute. Plastic cups, bags, and cutlery have all been banned in Delhi, India, and all of France will follow suit starting in 2020. Almost 75 percent of beaches in the U.K. are covered with "nurdles," tiny plastic beads that are used in the manufacturing of larger plastic goods. These beads are harmful to wildlife and release toxic chemicals as they slowly degrade.
The Earth's oceans contain 269,000 tons of plastic. That's about 5.25 trillion pieces that are destroying ecosystems around the world. In fact, experts estimate that there will be more plastic than fish in the world's oceans by 2050. Polyethylene, in particular, is mostly used in packaging, which means almost all of it ends up in landfills. Globally, about a trillion plastic bags are used every single year.
As the research team working with wax worms unravels the molecular details of the biodegradation process, they hope to devise an industrial-scale biotechnological solution for managing polyethylene waste. The other part of the solution is also clear: decreased demand for polyethylene will result in less waste. We need to find better solutions for packaging and make smarter choices as consumers.


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(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite scientific evidence of climate change, it will take a significant cultural shift in attitudes to address the situation, says a University of Michigan researcher
The shift would be much like what has happened with recent cigarette smoking bans and even similar to the abolition of slavery in the 19th century.
"The present reality is that we tend to overlook the social dimensions of environmental issues and focus strictly on their technological and economic aspects," said Andy Hoffman, the Holcim (U.S.) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the Ross School of Business and School of Natural Resources and Environment. "To properly address climate change, we must change the way we structure our organizations and the way we think as individuals.
"It requires a shift in our values to reflect what scientists have been telling us for years. The certainty of climate change must shift from that of being a'scientific fact' to that of being a'social fact.'"
In an article published in the current issue of the journal Organizational Dynamics, Hoffman compares the current cultural attitudes toward climate change to historical societal views on smoking and slavery.
For years, scientists pointed to data that would suggest that smoking causes lung cancer, but the general public consciousness ignored that fact, he says.
"And yet, the general public now accepts belief that smoking and second-hand smoke cause lung cancer," said Hoffman, who is also associate director of the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise. "They have become'social facts' and with that shift, action becomes possible."
Hoffman says that climate change today still resides in the "pre-social" fact phase, awaiting public acceptance. He points to the abolition of slavery as an example of the magnitude of the cultural and moral shift it will take in order for climate change to become a social fact.'"
During the 1700s, slavery was a primary source of energy and wealth around the world, especially in the British Empire. Abolitionism was seen as a challenge to the way of life in Great Britain, leading to the collapse of its economy. It would eventually take about 100 years to abolish slavery.
"Just as few people saw a moral problem with slavery in the 18th century, few people in the 21st century see a moral problem with the burning of fossil fuels," Hoffman said. "Will people in 100 years look at us with the same incomprehension we feel toward 18th-century defenders of slavery? If we are to address the problem adequately, the answer to that question must be yesour common atmosphere will no longer be seen as a free dumping ground for greenhouse gases and other pollutants."
But Hoffman says this value shift will require people to come to terms with a new cultural reality: first, that we have grown to such numbers and our technologies have grown to such a capacity that we can, and do, alter the Earth's ecological systems on a planetary scale; and second, that we share a collective responsibility and require global cooperation to solve it.
According to Hoffman, research and experience support the conclusion that there is a range of individualand organizational-level biases that operate to maintain current behaviors that do not support sustainability.
Organizations must augment the development of new protocols for carbon accounting or economic incentives to reduce emissions in order to overcome these obstacles and to change the culture and values of the organization, he says.
"These alterations must integrate sustainability concerns into the existing routines by which business strategies are constructed, recasting them in ways that are mutually beneficial to the objectives of individuals, organizations and the sustainability of the ecosystem on which they depend," he said. "The solutions to climate change within the organization must emerge from an alteration of the organizational system, reaching deep into the levels of the core beliefs and values that members hold toward the relationship among the organization, the market and the natural environment. It involves the unlearning of what has been ingrained."
Hoffman says that organizations must develop a climate strategy by conducting an emissions profile assessment, gauging risks and opportunities, evaluating options, and setting goals and targets. Once a strategy is established, organizations must create financial mechanisms to support climate programs and get employee buy-in by educating and rewarding its work force. Finally, organizations must be aware of regulatory policy options that would most benefit their own business strategies and ideally "gain a seat at the table" when future regulations are designed.
"For business, the rules of the game are changing, and companies are finding that the implications of these changes have deep cultural significance for their organizational purpose and objectives," Hoffman said. "No solution to climate change will ever be found if we do not spend time changing the culture and values by which we make and implement our decisions."


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Proving?R² Using Chains, a Ruler, and Sixty Seconds
In this brief video, Minute Physics shows a visual proof demonstrating why?R² gets you the area of a circle. By using various lengths of chain laid into a circular shape, you can make a triangle from the circle -- and from there it's a hop, skip, and a trigonometry jump to proof of your circle's area. Check it:
As Minute Physics explains in the YouTube video description, this video is based on a paper by Russell Jay Hendel of Dowling College: Proof Without Words: Area of a Disk is?R² (PDF link).


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Enumerations in Java are treated as proper objects.
Iterating Over A Enum
An enum can be iterated over by using a for in the following way:
for(MyEnum myEnum: MyEnum.values()) {
 // Your code here
Indexing An Array Using An Enum
Because enumerations are proper objects, there is no way to directly use an enumeration as a index to a array (or any type of Collection for that matter). This is unlike C++, in where an enum is essentially a integer, and can be treated as such.
The recommended way is not use a enum as an array index at all, but rather replace the use of the array with a EnumMap instead.
O.K., so you really, really want to use an enum as an array index? This is not recommended, but you can use a Java enum as an array index by using the method enum.toOrdinal().
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|Peking Duck sliced and prepared|
|Literal meaning||Beijing Roast Duck|
The dish is prized for the thin, crisp skin, with authentic versions of the dish serving mostly the skin and little meat, sliced in front of the diners by the cook. Ducks bred specially for the dish are slaughtered after 65 days and seasoned before being roasted in a closed or hung oven. The meat is eaten with pancakes, scallion, and hoisin sauce or sweet bean sauce. The two most notable restaurants in Beijing which serve this dish are Quanjude and Bianyifang, two centuries-old establishments which have become household names.
Duck has been roasted in China since the Southern and Northern Dynasties. A variation of roast duck was prepared for the Emperor of China in the Yuan Dynasty. The dish, originally named "Shaoyazi" (燒鴨子), was mentioned in the Complete Recipes for Dishes and Beverages (飲膳正要) manual in 1330 by Hu Sihui (忽思慧), an inspector of the imperial kitchen. The Peking Roast Duck that came to be associated with the term was fully developed during the later Ming Dynasty, and by then, Peking Duck was one of the main dishes on imperial court menus. The first restaurant specialising in Peking Duck, Bianyifang, was established in the Xianyukou, Qianmen area of Beijing in 1416.
By the Qianlong Period (1736–1796) of the Qing Dynasty, the popularity of Peking Duck spread to the upper classes, inspiring poetry from poets and scholars who enjoyed the dish. For instance, one of the verses of Duan Zhu Zhi Ci, a collection of Beijing poems was, "Fill your plates with roast duck and suckling pig". In 1864, the Quanjude (全聚德) restaurant was established in Beijing. Yang Quanren (楊全仁), the founder of Quanjude, developed the hung oven to roast ducks. With its innovations and efficient management, the restaurant became well known in China, introducing the Peking Duck to the rest of the world.
By the mid-20th century, Peking Duck had become a national symbol of China, favored by tourists and diplomats alike. For example, Henry Kissinger, the Secretary of State of the United States, met Premier Zhou Enlai in the Great Hall of the People on July 10, during his first visit to China. After a round of inconclusive talks in the morning, the delegation was served Peking Duck for lunch, which became Kissinger's favourite. The Americans and Chinese issued a joint statement the following day, inviting President Richard Nixon to visit China in 1972. Peking Duck was hence considered one of the factors behind the rapprochement of the United States to China in the 1970s. Following Zhou's death in 1976, Kissinger paid another visit to Beijing to savor Peking Duck. Peking Duck, at the Quanjude in particular, has also been a favorite dish for various political leaders ranging from Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro to former German chancellor Helmut Kohl.
Raising the duck
The ducks used to prepare Peking Duck originated in Nanjing. They were small, had black feathers, and lived in the canals around the city linking major waterways. With the relocation of the Chinese capital to Beijing, supply barge traffic increased in the area. Often these barges would spill grain into the canals, providing food for the ducks. By the Five Dynasties, the new species of duck had been domesticated by Chinese farmers. Nowadays, Peking Duck is prepared from the Pekin duck (Anas platyrhynchos domestica). Newborn ducks are raised in a free range environment for the first 45 days of their lives, and force fed 4 times a day for the next 15–20 days, resulting in ducks that weigh 5–7 kg (11–15 lbs). The force feeding of the ducks led to an alternate name for the dish, Peking Stuffed Duck (simplified Chinese: 北京填鸭; traditional Chinese: 北京填鴨; pinyin: běijīng tián yā).
Fattened ducks are slaughtered, plucked, eviscerated and rinsed thoroughly with water. Air is pumped under the skin through the neck cavity to separate the skin from the fat. The duck is then soaked in boiling water for a short while before it is hung up to dry. While it is hung, the duck is glazed with a layer of maltose syrup, and the inside is rinsed once more with water. Having been left to stand for 24 hours, the duck is roasted in an oven until it turns shiny brown.
Peking Duck is traditionally roasted in either a closed oven or hung oven. The closed oven is built of brick and fitted with metal griddles (Chinese: 箅子; pinyin: bì zi). The oven is preheated by burning Gaoliang sorghum straw (Chinese: 秫秸; pinyin: shú jiē) at the base. The duck is placed in the oven immediately after the fire burns out, allowing the meat to be slowly cooked through the convection of heat within the oven.
The hung oven was developed in the imperial kitchens during the Qing Dynasty and adopted by the Quanjude restaurant chain. It is designed to roast up to 20 ducks at the same time with an open fire fueled by hardwood from peach or pear trees. The ducks are hung on hooks above the fire and roasted at a temperature of 270 °C (525 °F) for 30–40 minutes. While the ducks are cooking, the chef may use a pole to dangle each duck closer to the fire for 30 second intervals. Almost every part of a duck can be cooked. The Quanjude Restaurant even served their customers the "All Duck Banquet" in which they cooked the bones of ducks with vegetables.
The cooked Peking Duck is traditionally carved in front of the diners and served in three stages. First, the skin is served dipped in sugar and garlic sauce. The meat is then served with steamed pancakes (simplified Chinese: 春饼; traditional Chinese: 春餅; pinyin: chūn bǐng), spring onions and sweet bean sauce. Several vegetable dishes are provided to accompany the meat, typically cucumber sticks. The diners spread sauce, and optionally sugar, over the pancake. The pancake is wrapped around the meat with the vegetables and eaten by hand. The remaining fat, meat and bones may be made into a broth, served as is, or the meat chopped up and stir fried with sweet bean sauce. Otherwise, they are packed up to be taken home by the customers.
Whole Peking Ducks can be ordered as takeaways. The ducks can be reheated at home with an oven, grill or boiling oil. When an oven is used, the duck is heated at a temperature of 150 °C (300 °F) for 20 minutes, and then at 160 °C (325 °F) for another 10 minutes. The grilling method involves filling the duck with boiling water before placing it on a griddle, 70 cm (28 in) above the cooking fire. The boiling water is replaced every 3–4 minutes until the duck's skin is piping hot. To reheat the Peking Duck with oil, the duck is sliced into thin pieces and placed in a strainer held over a wok of boiling oil. The duck is then rinsed several times with the oil.
Notable restaurants
A number of restaurants in Beijing specialise in Peking Duck. Examples include Quanjude, Bianyifang, Changan Yihao (長安一號), Beijing Xiaowangfu (北京小王府) and Dadong Kaoyadian (大董烤鴨店). Some restaurants, in particular Quanjude and Bianyifang, have long histories of serving high quality duck that they are now household names, or laozihao (老字號), literally "old brand name". In addition, Quanjude has received worldwide recognition, having been named a China Renowned Trademark in 1999. Duck Chang's Restaurant, established in 1975 in Virginia, USA, was the first Chinese restaurant to prepare and serve Peking Duck without a 24 hour advanced notice.
Crispy aromatic duck
See also
- Chinese cuisine
- Mandarin cuisine
- Pekin duck, which is the animal used for Peking Duck, and, which is also served as "Long Island duck" in the USA
- Peking duck, the popular playground game
- Roast goose
- Zhangcha duck
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- "品味北京五大百年名吃 (500 year old delicacies of Beijing)". Xingchen Food Network (in Traditional Chinese). China News Information Centre. 2006-09-22. Retrieved 2007-09-10.
- "北京特產 (Specialties of Beijing)" (in Traditional Chinese). Xinhua. 2004-04-08. Retrieved 2007-09-10.
- "Slicing through the secrets of Peking Duck". Adelaide Review. 2005. Retrieved 2007-09-10.
- "Peking duck". Encyclopædia Britannica.
- "A Cultural Classic: Peking Duck". Globe Trekker.
- "History of the Peking Duck". SilkRoad. Archived from the original on 2007-08


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Ceiling from the Palacio de Altamira, Torrijos
(detail of Enriquez coat of arms)
Museum no. _PHONE_
Spain was part of the Islamic world for nearly 800 years, so Islamic ornament was prevalent there through the continuity of local traditions, rather than the import of exotic art from the East. After the conquest of Granada in 1492 Islamic styles and techniques remained popular with the ruling elite. Luxurious palaces were created in which the architecture and furnishings were covered with Islamic designs. Sometimes rooms were crowned by magnificent marquetry ceilings like this one. Their construction method as well as their decoration continued an Islamic architectural form which emerged under the Nasrids, who installed many such ceilings in the Alhambra palace.


The State of Container Security
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Containers and security—What do you need to know? Is it safe for you and your business to rely on the security of containers, or should you wait before switching to a container-based platform? In this post, we'll take a look at the current state of container security, and what it means for your business.
Containers vs VMs
First, though, let's do a quick recap of containers vs. virtual machines.
Depending on who's doing the talking, containers are either the next stage in the evolution of software deployment, supplanting virtual machines, or they are the stripped-down alternative to virtual machines, to be deployed when and where circumstances warrant their use.
While a virtual machine is effectively encapsulated and walled off from the host system, containing both the operating system and the software to be delivered, a container consists of the software payload plus the resources to which it needs to have direct access, relying on the host system for most other resources.
A virtual machine hypervisor manages deployment and at the same time functions as a firewall between VMs and the host system, while a container engine manages not only deployment, but also each container's access to host resources.
The most obvious advantage of containers is that they are lightweight. They don't require a guest operating system, and they contain only the binaries and libraries required by the payload application. They take up less space in memory than virtual machines, and they are quicker to deploy. A container can be spawned for a specific purpose, then destroyed immediately after it has carried out the required operation.
Security Issues
From a security point of view, the major disadvantage of containers in comparison to virtual machines is that they are dependent on the resources of the host system. A container engine can manage the interactions between the container and the host OS, but it does not lend itself easily to the kind of firewall functions that are a basic part of a VM hypervisor.
There is also the matter of technological maturity. Virtual machine technology has been around long enough that most of its basic security issues have been defined, analyzed, and addressed. Containers are still new enough so that some security questions, at least, are still in the definition-and-analysis phase. Consider the following:
 - Direct interaction with the host OS. Because containers are dependent on the host operating system's resources, they provide attackers with a potential point of entry into the host system. Since containers can be created from images stored in a library, the security and quality of a container is only as good as that of the library from which it was drawn.
 - Potentially greater vulnerability to attack through the container engine. By necessity, the container engine has a high level of interaction with the container's internal processes (as opposed to a virtual machine's hypervisor, which can effectively insulate the virtual machine from the host OS). Every point of contact between the container's internal processes and the host's resources is a potential target of attack.
 - Less inter-application isolation. This represents another kind of vulnerability which arises largely out of the container's dependence on the host OS. When containers share host resources, a vulnerability on one container can become a point of entry for an attack on other containers.
Container Security Now
At this point, however, container security has progressed to the point where many of the key issues can be addressed on a practical level, even if their full ramifications are still being worked out. There are three major factors which have led to improved container security:
 - Greater security built into (or packaged with) container engine systems. Docker, for example, has put in place a variety of measures to tighten container security. These include signed images, a repository-scanning system, and namespaces, which provide tight security controls for container payloads. Other container-management platforms have instituted their own security systems, including CoreOS' Distributed Trust Computing, which uses cryptography-based checks of container and system integrity.
 - Adaption of existing security applications and features to cover containers. In many ways, this trend is as important as the development of new/system-specific container security features. Linux and other host systems have their own, often very rich security and authentication resources, and it is only natural that container-management systems would become increasingly integrated with such standard authentication features. Docker has incorporated Linux's seccomp, which allows processes and applications to be firewalled from system resources, and Docker is involved in an ongoing effort to integrate widely used authentication mechanisms such as LDAP and Kerberos. As this process continues, container security will come to more closely resemble VM security, and system security as a whole.
 - Third-party security solutions designed specifically for containers. Third-party vendors have been working on a number of applications designed to address security needs that are specific to containers. These include systems for scanning containers indepth for security issues, as well as comprehensive systems for monitoring deployed containers and payloads, enforcing container security standards, and providing real-time protection for deployed containers.
Ready or Not?
How does this all add up in terms of security for your business and your software? Is container security ready for prime time, or is it better to wait a bit longer before switching to a comprehensive container-based solution?
Ultimately, of course, the decision must be based on the specific circumstances and security needs of your business. Overall, however, container security is good, and getting better. Docker, for example, includes seccomp filtering, container image signing, and root capability dropping as defaults, and allows namespaces as an option, which provide a solid basis for effective security, with resources in place for both strong container isolation and container/image verification.
Combined with the existing third-party applications for scanning, monitoring, and protecting deployed containers, current container security features are more than adequate for the needs of both business and institutional container users.
Containers and security—The tools are in place and ready to use. If you've been waiting for the right moment to shift to containers, now may be the time to move.
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what are the difference between haveli bungalow
I think both are similar to each other.
And Bungalow is the modern name of Haveli.
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actually even i thought, but the teacher asked us 2 define us!!!!!!!!!!
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What's the difference between the life of a kid living in a haveli and a kid living in a bungalow?
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Havelis are multi storey buildings in which a number of people lived while colonial bungalows were single storey meant for nuclear families. Havelis are very large spreaded over to about 100 acres while colonial bungalows are spread to 1 or 2 acres only.
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 Bungalows in the Inman Parkneighbourhood of Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
Neighbourhoods of only bungalows offer more privacy than similar neighbourhoods with two-story houses
Havelis were large, walled compounds with mansions, courtyards and fountains where as colonial bungalow where large single storied structure with a pitched roof, and usually set in one or two acres of open ground.
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Technique used for: forming thought-experiments, lateral thinking provocations.
Technique in a nutshell: You take a simple fact (example: cinemas show films) and imagine there was a time when that idea was actually created and considered to be a good idea. You then ask what was before that. So, with the cinema example you could conclude that cinemas showed TV programmes, play music etc (before they showed films), and thus 'cinemas show TV programmes' becomes a thought experiment (or provocation).
Forming lateral thinking provocations and thought experiments
I've been toying with this approach to form lateral thinking provocations. It's also a possible way to use the escape method.
I start by finding a subject and then naming a fact about it. So, with the subject 'wedding' I list a simple fact:
A wedding has a couple
Then I pretend there was a time when this was actually an idea (maybe even a eureka! moment for somebody) maybe worded as:
Wouldn't it be a good idea if weddings had a couple?
and then consider what was pre-idea: that is, the situation that existed before the 'great' idea. Maybe:
A wedding has one person
and that is the provocation.
Fact: A wedding occurs in a church. Pre-idea/provocation = A wedding occurs anywhere you want
Fact: A wedding has vows. Pre-idea/provocation = A wedding is silent
Fact: A wedding has people. Pre-idea/provocation = nobody goes to a wedding


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Don't Eat (or Drink) Your Feelings
Recognizing what triggers your bad habits is important, especially around the holidays, says Day. Many people use "HALT" an acronym for "Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired" to remember that these feelings often cause relapses. Anger, especially, is one of the biggest triggers for recovering addicts and it's not unusual for it to surface during the holidays, says Jones. "People expect family gatherings to be great and wonderful, and then they get angry when they turn out to be stressful, which triggers unhealthy habits," he says. If you train yourself to recognize these triggers before you start eating or drinking, you can slow down to realize that you are letting your emotions get the best of you.


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Educators and researchers are always looking for ways to improve learning outcomes and keep students engaged with learning. Because of this, the education field is crowded with different theories about learning styles (now learning preferences) teaching styles, and other methods on how students learn.
It's important to understand the different types of learning preferences and prevailing theories when building online school and homeschool lessons, and when helping student's study effectively to master difficult concepts. While one learning preference or theory won't work for all students, learning about them can still help you identify your own student's strengths and weaknesses. Some overtime have been met with criticism, but that's not to say we can't test some of their practices out to find out how our students best prefer to learn and study. They're still popular today for a reason!
Here is an overview of some of the popular learning theories and different learning preferences to help every student achieve success.
The Multiple Intelligences Theory
Some researchers believe in the Multiple Intelligences Theory, which claims that people have eight independent ways of processing information:
- Verbal-linguistic: (Word smart)
- Logical-mathematical: (Logic smart)
- Visual-spatial: (Picture smart)
- Auditory-musical: (Music smart)
- Bodily-kinesthetic: (Body smart)
- Interpersonal: (People smart)
- Intrapersonal: (Self smart)
- Naturalistic: (Nature smart)
It's more accurate to think of the eight intelligences as abilities or strengths. The human brain is extremely complex, and all of these types of "smarts" work together. Your student may have several of these strengths.
How to use the Multiple Intelligences Theory
To apply the Multiple Intelligences Theory to online school, teachers and Learning Coaches can use activities based on the intelligences to help students develop all of their learning strengths. Some activities help develop more than one strength at a time, offering a holistic way to support different types of learners. Here are some activities to engage your student:
- Taking photos for the online school yearbook to exercise "picture smarts"
- Making crystals to build "nature smarts"
- Drawing a map to scale to exercise "logic smarts" and "picture smarts"
- Spending 10 minutes writing about one of their best attributes to integrate "word smarts" and "intrapersonal smarts"
Learning preferences focus on how students process information using their senses to absorb and retain what is being taught. While many people may say they have a "learning style," they really have learning preferences, or ways they prefer to have lessons delivered to them. Students actually learn and retain more educational content when it is delivered – or taught – to them in a variety of different ways as opposed to only one way, even if that way is their preferred way to learn.
Below are three different types of learning preferences to keep in mind when building online school or homeschool lessons. If your student is struggling with a difficult concept, you can also use these preferences as a guide to find a different way to deliver the learning content to them to help make things click.
- Visual learners: Those who prefer to learn through images, graphs, maps, and drawings
- Auditory learners: Students who prefer to learn by hearing and speaking new information
- Tactile/kinesthetic learners: The student who prefers to learn by experiencing, touching, and performing tasks
With these learning preferences in mind, here are some examples of delivering learning content in ways to reach all types of learners.
- Have your student practice counting money by giving them real coins, which is a tactile/kinesthetic learner approach
- When helping young readers, point to each word as you read it aloud, which uses both auditory and visual skills
- To learn geography, study a map, which is a visual task
Physical Activities for Kinesthetic Learners
While physical activity is particularly important for kids who have a kinesthetic learning preference, taking breaks and staying active is important for all types of learners! Even if your student doesn't gravitate toward hands-on or physical activities, you can still incorporate them into their online school routine to clear the mind and relieve stress. Try these learning activities to stimulate the body as well as the brain:
- Have your student play multiplication catch or leap for measurement to practice skills through activity
- Have your student use a stability ball instead of a chair for short periods of time to improve balance, posture, and upper-body strength
- Start a family fitness challenge. Get the whole family involved in the new fitness plan, whether it's by holding indoor scavenger hunts or creating your own unique activities
- Do indoor physical education activities between lessons. Fun physical activities for grades K–12 can keep your student busy all year long, no matter what the weather is like outside
Learning Support at Home
Whether labeled as learning styles, preferences or intelligences, none of these strengths or abilities are static or fixed. They change as your student grows and matures. These approaches can be useful tools in a teacher's or Learning Coach's toolkit to add variety to your student's online school experience and support learning at home, especially when helping your student become an independent learner.
There are lots of benefits to an online school model like Connections Academy. One of them is being able to test out these learning theories for yourself with your student, while enjoying the flexibility of a custom schedule and personalized education model. Check out how an online school model really works, and see if it might be a right fit for you and your family.


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5 Ways to Monetize Free Apps
The majority of the apps we have on our mobile phone are free. However, most of the companies that make those apps have profits through them. How do they do that? Are there any strategies which you can use in your own mobile app? We will give you some tips on how to do it.
Before starting to make real money, you have to know a few things about your app:
- Who are you dealing with – it's essential to know your target: age, interests and preferences. Try to get as much information as you can.
- Who is your competition – study your competitors and find out what they're doing to get clients. What type of strategies they're using.
After having your head straight, it is time to transform something free into something profitable. We will give you some strategies on how to achieve it.
1. In-app purchases
We all know the feeling of playing a game, getting really close to the next level, but suddenly, out of nowhere, our character on the game dies. A few seconds later, it comes out a pop up window offering you a life if you pay some extra money – to this, we call in-app purchases.
We can divide in-app purchases into 3 categories:
- Consumable: features or products that the user only have access once, such as virtual coins or health points. You can find this type on in-app purchase in games, such as Candy Crush.
- Non-consumable: additional features that you only have access if you paid extra money or upgrade into a premium version, for example, ads blocking.
- Subscriptions: unlock some content or functions for a specific period of time through a subscription. NBA season or Netflix are some of the apps that use this approach.
Another common way to make profit from your app is the use of advertisements. The most formats used are banners, native and interstitial ads:
- Banners normally appear at the top or at the bottom of a screen; they are considered less obtrusive since the users are able to keep using the app.
- Native ads don't really look like ads. They are closely integrated into the mobile app, making them quite subtel.
- Interstitial ads take a whole screen and typically appear when users launch or close an application, as a form of pop-up.
3. Affiliate Income and Referral Marketing
Based on the number of clicks or installs, companies can promote or sell affiliate's services or products. This process involves promoting a third-party product or service as a way to improve revenue opportunities.
There are different types of referral marketing publishers. Check them below:
- Cost per click (CPC): you get paid for each click on the ads displayed in your app.
- Cost per view (CPV): the payout you get increases according to the number of the ad views. They are more common on video ads.
- Cost per install (CPI): you get paid whenever a user installs an advertised application.
Freemium apps allow you to test the app before you buy it. Basically, this requires the creation of two apps: the first one, only with the basic features so the user can test it; the second one is the paid version, which the user has full access to the app.
Basically, the user downloads the free app version and if the content is worth paying, gets full access to all functionalities.
Subscriptions are another option in how to monetize your app. In this case, you can choose to offer free content for a limited amount of time and then charge users for a subscription fee. For example, the users are allowed to use the app during a month (free trial period) and afterwards pay for it.
To create a free app and to get profits from it you'll require some aggressive marketing and creative advertising techniques.
You can find a lot of options on the market that let you test prototypes and explore the results using one or another option – take advantage of that to see what's the best for your case. Once you have tested your options, you can move forward and build the right app for you.
Curious to learn more about this topic? Check Pokemon Go video below to understand its success. Although the app is free, the company earned 14 million dollars in revenue in less than a week. See how they did that!


_USER_ {Bell:2005-11-01T00:00:00:0003-7028:1340, author = "Bell, Steven E. J. and Fido, Louise A. and Speers, S. James and Armstrong, W. James and Spratt, Sharon", title = "Forensic Analysis of Architectural Finishes Using Fourier Transform Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy, Part II: White Paint", journal = "Applied Spectroscopy", volume = "59", number = "11", year = "2005-11-01T00:00:00", abstract = "White household paints are commonly encountered as evidence in the forensic laboratory but they often cannot be readily distinguished by color alone so Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) microscopy is used since it can sometimes discriminate between paints prepared with different organic resins. Here we report the first comparative study of FT-IR and Raman spectroscopy for forensic analysis of white paint. Both techniques allowed the 51 white paint samples in the study to be classified by inspection as either belonging to distinct groups or as unique samples. FT-IR gave five groups and four unique samples; Raman gave seven groups and six unique samples. The basis for this discrimination was the type of resin and/or inorganic pigments/extenders present. Although this allowed approximately half of the white paints to be distinguished by inspection, the other half were all based on a similar resin and did not contain the distinctive modifiers/pigments and extenders that allowed the other samples to be identified. The experimental uncertainty in the relative band intensities measured using FT-IR was similar to the variation within this large group, so no further discrimination was possible. However, the variation in the Raman spectra was larger than the uncertainty, which allowed the large group to be divided into three subgroups and four distinct spectra, based on relative band intensities. The combination of increased discrimination and higher sample throughput means that the Raman method is superior to FT-IR for samples of this type.", pages = "_PHONE_", url = "_URL_ doi = "doi:10.1366/000370205774783232", keyword = "FORENSIC, PAINT, RAMAN" }


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5 Ways Objects Can Communicate With Each Other Heading Towards Decoupling
Object A calls a method on object B. This is clearly the simplest type of communication between two objects but is also the way which results in the highest coupling. Object A's class has a dependency upon object B's class. Wherever you try to take object A's class, object B's class (and all of its dependencies) are coming with it.
Way 2. Decouple the callee from the caller
Object A's class declares an interface and calls a method on that interface. Object B's class implements that interface. This is a step in the right direction as object A's class has no dependency on object B's class. However, something else has to create object B and introduce it to object A for it to call. So we have created the need for an additional class which has a dependency upon object B's class. We have also created a dependency from B to A. However, these can be a small price to pay if we are serious about taking object A's class off to other projects.
Way 3. Use an AdaptorÂ
Object A's class declares an interface and calls a method on that interface. An adaptor class implements the interface and wraps object B, forwarding calls to it. This frees up object B's class from being dependent on object A's class. Now we are getting closer to some real decoupling. This is particularly useful if object B's class is a third-party class which we have no control over.
Way 4. Dependency Injection
Dependency injection is used to find, create and call object B. This amounts to deferring until runtime how object A will talk to object B. This way certainly feels to have the lowest coupling, but in reality just shifts the coupling problem into the wiring realm. At least before we could rely on the compiler to ensure that there was a concrete object on the other end of each call – and furthermore we had the convenience of using the development tools to help us unpick the interaction between objects.
Way 5. Chain of command pattern
The chain of command pattern is used to allow object A to effectively say "does anyone know how to handle this call?". Object B, which is listening out for these cries for help, picks up the message and figures out for itself if it is able to respond. This approach does mean that object A has to be ready for the outcome that nobody is able to respond, however it buys us great flexibility in how the responder is implemented.
Chain of command – way 5 – is the decoupling winner and here's an example to help explain why. Let object A be a raster image file viewer, with responsibilities for allowing the user to pick the file to open, and zoom in and out on the image as it is displayed. Let object B be a loader which has the responsibility of opening a gif file and returning an array of colored pixels. Our aim is to avoid tying object A's class to object B's class because object B's class uses a third party library. Additionally, object A doesn't want to know about how the image file is interpreted, or even if it is a gif, jpg, png or whatever. In this example object B, or more likely a wrapper of object B, will declare a method which equips it to respond to any requests to open an image file. The method will respond with an array of pixels if the file is of a format it recognizes, or respond with null if it does not recognize the format. The framework then simply asks handlers in turn until one provides a non-null response.
With this framework in place we are now free to slide in more image loaders with the addition of just one more handler class. And furthermore, on the source end of the call, we can add other classes to not just view the images, but print them, edit them or manipulate them in any other way we choose.
In conclusion, we can see that decoupling can be achieved and yield flexibility, but this does not mean it is appropriate for every call from one object to another. The best thing to do is start with straight method calls, but keep cohesion in mind. Then if at a later stage it becomes necessary to swap in and out different objects it won't be too hard to extract an interface and put in place a decoupling mechanism.
(Note: Opinions expressed in this article and its replies are the opinions of their respective authors and not those of DZone, Inc.)


Is An Infinite Amount of Oil Enough?
By looking at past data, we can estimate the future oil to be discovered. We can also model the rate at which humans consume oil. Combining these two models will tell us how long the oil will last. Environmental Protection Agency
At this point in time, we (humans) really like oil. What's not to like? From oil we get gasoline. Gasoline is cheaper than milk with a higher energy density than batteries. You can put it in your car and drive 400 miles and then refuel in less than 5 minutes. Gasoline is like magic juice and humans love it.
Of course, there are problems too. The burning of oil based products produces carbon dioxide and other stuff that's not so nice. Also, there is only so much oil in the ground. Sure, the Earth keeps making more through a very slow process. But we are using it up way faster than it is being created by natural means.
So, the question is: how much oil can we find? How long will it last? Let's get started.
How Much Oil Is There?
There are several methods for estimating the amount of oil. Let me use a model that predicts the cumulative oil found based on oil found in the past. I will use the data from this very interesting and thorough publication - Giant Oil Fields - The Highway to Oil: Giant Oil Fields and their Importance for Future Oil Production (Fredrik Robelius).
In this publication, there is a plot of the volume of oil discovered as a function of year. Here is a replot of that data.
Oil Discovered as of 2005
With that data, I can just add up the amount of oil discovered each year for a cumulative total. Here is a plot of "how much oil have we found so far?"
Cumulative Oil DiscoveredAs you can see, there is a model to fit to this data with the following form:
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Yes. That is a "sideways" parabola. Why would anyone pick that function to fit this data? Even though it clearly doesn't fit data before 1955, from _PHONE_ it seems to fit fairly well. Of course this function also says that as time (t) goes to infinity so does the cumulative amount of oil. According to this fit there is INFINITE OIL. But really, no one thinks there is really an infinite amount of oil in the Earth even if we act like we will never run out. If you wanted to get more sophisticated, you could model this data with a function that "levels out" over time - but let's stick with the infinite oil model for now.
How Long Will Our Infinite Oil Last?
Here is the real question. Would infinite oil last forever? Of course the answer depends on how fast we consume the oil. This data (available on Wikipedia) shows that the world continues to use more oil each year.
Instantaneous Oil Consumed
I fit a linear function to the data from 1960 and later. Since then it seems that our use of oil increases linearly with time. Of course that makes sense. Every year there are more people on the Earth and more countries are becoming industrialized with higher demands for oil. Will this oil demand keep increasing forever? Probably not, but let's just model the oil use as a linear function. Ok, so now we have two things. First, the amount total amount of oil found is increasing (each year we find more). Second, the demand for oil is also increasing. In order to make a comparison between oil production and oil consumption, we need to first get a model for total oil used (not instantaneous oil). Since I fit a linear function to the instantaneous oil consumed, I can call this slope the rate of oil consumed. What happens when you have some function that has a constantly increasing slope (think about kinematics with a constant acceleration)? Yes, this means that the total volume of oil consumed vs. time would be a parabolic function. If I assume that in the year 1930 there was no oil consumed (just an assumption), then I get the following function. La te xi t 1 Now I can plot the both the cumulative oil produced and the cumulative oil consumed.
Cumulative Oil Found and Cumulative Oil ConsumedThese two functions meet around the year 2070. At that time, we will have consumed (used or whatever you oil people want to call it) all the oil that we have found. After that year we will have a higher demand for oil than we can find it. So, in 2070 bad things happen if we are using oil at the same increasing rate that we are using it now. Remember, this is a crude oil model for the oil "found" and oil "used". In this model, there is an infinite amount of oil but we still get to a bad place.
Important notes:
 - Clearly this isn't my idea. Other people have said what I have said here. All I did was to make some pretty graphs in plotly. The basis for these calculations comes from my colleague David Norwood and he based it on a suggestion from Webster Hubble and the works of Fredrik Robelius. I'm just a middle man for the middle man.
 - These are just rough models. I am not saying that we are going to run out of oil in 2070 (we never run out of infinite oil). Even if you pick another function to fit the data, you will still get to the point where humans use oil faster than they find it.
 - But what if we use solar power or nuclear power or wind power? What then? Yes. That would be better. The faster we can reduce our dependency on oil the better. The year 2070 is only 55 years away. That's not very much time to change the way humans use energy.
 - But what about shale oil? But what about oil that we haven't figured out how to get yet? Maybe we will find new oil processing methods. Yes, maybe. There is in fact a WHOLE BUNCH OF OIL in the Earth - but most of it is just too difficult to get without huge prices.
 - Homework: What if we know we are going to run out of oil (we do)? What if we stop increasing our use of oil when the oil consumption rate is equal to the oil discovery rate? How long would the oil last in that case?
 - What about oil on other planets? Would oil on Mars help us last longer? Yes. We should totally go to Mars.


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How to Extend Your Induction Furnace Useful Life
One of the main challenges of purchasing an induction melting furnace is getting the one that suits your needs perfectly. However, with a little bit of research and interest, investing in one that is efficient and meets your budget is possible. However, because of the rigidity of the work it does, it is susceptible to break downs. To limit these breakdowns and ensure that it works at its optimum potential, below are some care guidelines you should know about induction furnace.
 1. Regularly Inspect The Induction Furnace
Whether you invest in a second-hand induction furnace or you are purchasing a brand new induction furnace, periodic inspection of the furnace is essential. With time, wear and tear lead to break down of the furnace lining. A defective or broken down lining exposes you to the risk or run-throughs that can lead to an explosion.
 1. Clean Your Induction Furnace Frequently
Often, an advertisement for an induction furnace for sale usually showcases a clean and tidy furnace. A simple but effective way of taking care of your furnace is aiming to keep it that way. As a rule, the charge material is to be kept dry of any liquid or material. Doing so allows cases of mistakenly introducing combustible material to the charge materials. Failure to do so leads to vaporisation and can cause an explosion or a possible boil over.
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 1. Consider The Various Melting Point Before Adding To It
Care should be taken during the introduction of new materials to the furnace as it exposes the furnace to the risk of damage by an explosion. Ideally, a safe induction furnace process should include the inspection of the materials melting point. Abrupt introduction of materials with a low melting point to high temperatures before they melt is dangerous. As it leads to vaporisation in the high-temperature bath, a boil over or explosion is a real risk.
 1. Consider The Crucibles Suitability Before Adding A Metal In The Induction Furnace
One of the main induction furnace advantages is the use of an easily replaceable crucible for melting. However, even though they manufactured in such a way that they are sturdy and efficient, they are usually designed to cater to a specific range of metals. Avoid placing items that haven't been listed in the acceptable metal list. Usually, the materials to avoid when you are unsure includes high temperatures melting metals such as nickel, ferrous materials or copper-nickel metals.
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 1. Have The Correct Safety Backup For Your Induction Furnace
Even though the induction furnace manufacturers will give you a guideline list that allows you to operate the induction furnace effectively, the information is usually insufficient. Due to this reason, it's important to garner some background knowledge for yourself. This includes knowing the chemistry of the metal you deal with. Doing so allows you to recognise and avoid unstable chemical reactions that might lead to a boil over hence putting you and your equipment in danger.
Following the above guidelines will allow you to keep your induction furnace working for longer. However, if you are unsure of how to take care of your induction melting furnace, it's better to contact your induction melting furnace manufacturer for further direction than winging it.
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- Waterproof rice can outlast the floods — Researchers have tracked down a gene that allows the plant to survive complete submersion
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