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For this first title of the Endangered Music Project, Mickey Hart explored the vast repositories of the Library of Congress' American Folklife Center, sorting through hundreds of hours of tapes representing rainforest cultures of the New World. The album, originally released in 1993, represents musics of seven tribal cultures: the Garifune of Belize; the Choco Indians of Panama and Colombia; the Shipibo and the Ashaninka, both of Peru; the Aluku of French Guiana; the Wayana of Suriname, and the Maroons of Jamaica. The music is integrally connected to settings where healing, spiritual forces, and practical knowledge of the forest converge. The Spirit Cries: Music from the Rainforests of South America & the Caribbean was issued in 1993 as part of "THE WORLD" series (now part of the Mickey Hart Collection made available by Smithsonian Folkways).
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Black and Hispanic children with asthma are less likely than their white counterparts to be taking daily medication meant to prevent asthma attacks, a U.S. study shows.
The findings, published in the medical journal Chest, suggest one reason for the generally poorer asthma control among minority children.
The study found that among 1,485 asthmatic children from four U.S. states, black children were twice as likely as white children to have gone to the emergency room for an asthma attack in the past year. Overall, 39 percent of black children had visited the ER, compared with 18 percent of white children.
Hispanic children fell in between, with 24 percent of parents reporting an ER visit in the past year.
Some clues to the disparity emerged when the researchers looked at the children's medication use. Both black and Hispanic children were less likely to be taking inhaled corticosteroids -- daily medication that is recommended for preventing attacks of breathlessness and wheezing in people with persistent asthma.
Among white children, one-third had used inhaled corticosteroids in the past 3 months. Those figures were 21 percent and 22 percent among black and Hispanic children, respectively.
Minority children were also more likely to be overusing quick-acting drugs designed to treat an asthma attack in progress: 26 percent of black children used such "rescue" inhalers on a daily basis, as did 19 percent of Hispanic children. That compared with 12 percent of white children.
The findings suggest that underuse of preventive medication may be a "significant factor" in the racial and ethnic disparities in children's rates of ER visits and hospitalization for asthma, write the researchers, led by Dr. Deidre Crocker of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
It is not entirely clear why the racial disparities exist, according to Crocker's team.
Even after the researchers weighed factors like family income and insurance coverage, household smoking and children's weight, race itself was still a factor in asthma control and medication use.
One potential reason, Crocker and her colleagues write, is the fact that black and Hispanic children are more likely than white children to get their medical care in an emergency room -- where prescriptions for preventive asthma medication are less likely, compared with a doctor's office.
However, they add, research also suggests that doctors may be less likely to prescribe inhaled corticosteroids to minority patients, and that minority parents tend to be more skeptical about the drugs' safety than white parents are.
Whatever the reasons for the findings, Crocker's team concludes, they show that more needs to be done to increase the use of preventive asthma medication among minority children and decrease their reliance on rescue inhalers.
SOURCE: Chest, October 2009.
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10 Wonderful Ways To Say Thank You In Lithuanian
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Lithuania is a beautiful country that has lots of things to be thankful for. So, if you plan to travel to Lithuania, you must learn how to say Thank you in Lithuanian (ačiū). Thank you (ačiū) in Lithuanian is one of the basic phrases that you need to learn because it is beneficial in different situations. For example, you can use this in asking for directions, ordering food, shopping, and other daily conversations. It is also a sign of politeness and respect for the locals and their culture.
Why Say Thank You?
How To Say Thank You In Lithuanian?
Lithuanian is one of the oldest languages in the world. It is a Baltic language spoken mainly in Lithuania. It may not be one of the most spoken languages worldwide and in Europe like German and French, but learning Lithuanian is worth it in the long run, especially when you get to travel to their beautiful country. So, If you want to know how to say Thank you in Lithuanian, check the words and phrases below.
1. Ačiū
The first thing that you need to learn is ačiū. It might sound like you are sneezing, but this is the Lithuanian translation of Thank you. This is the most common way to say Thank you in Lithuanian. This two-word phrase is as important as saying hello (labas) and sorry (atsiprasau) because it is typically used in daily conversations.
2. Dėkoju
If you want a bit less formal, you can say dėkoju, which means Thanks in English. There are situations when people want it to be short, like in text messages and chat. Of course, if you are a beginner and a non-native speaker, you should still go with ačiū.
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3. Labai Ačiū
If you have received help from someone and express your deep gratitude towards that person, you can say labai ačiū. Yes, ačiū is already enough to express your gratitude but going a little extra will make it more sincere.
4. Vertinu Tai, Ką Padarei
Being appreciated is one of the best feelings in the world. So if you appreciate someone who did something nice to you, don't hesitate to let them know how you feel. You can say Vertinu tai, ką Padarei.
5. Milijonas Jūsų Dėka
Call it exaggerating but, if you are really thankful to someone who did something way past your expectations, you can express it this way. Saying Milijonas jūsų dėka is like saying, "I would never get tired of saying. Thank you over and over again."
6. Ačiū Tau Už Viską
You will probably be hearing this a lot during farewells, the end of classes, and even break up. However, the phrase Ačiū tau už viską has a wider and deeper ranger than just the word "Thank you." It encompasses lots of moments that other person spent time to help you. So, to express how thankful you are, you can say Ačiū tau už viską.
7. Aš Tau Vieną Skolingas
There are other ways to say Thank you without using the word Thanks or Thank you. This is an example of these phrases. Of course, if you help someone out, you won't expect returns, but people sometimes say, "I owe you one." (aš tau vieną skolingas) to express their deep gratitude. It is also like saying, "I'm here if ever you're the one in need."
8. Aš Būsiu Amžinai Dėkinga
There are times when you will be indebted to someone, and there's nothing wrong with that. But, unfortunately, some people are shy to be indebted to others. Living in this world is hard when you are always on your own. So, accept help from other people. You can express your gratitude by saying, "Aš būsiu amžinai dėkinga." You don't have to be humiliated by accepting help from others. Just think that one day, they might be needing your help too, and that's your opportunity to give back.
9. Priimk Mano Giliausią Dėkingumą
If you want to go a little formal and Priimk mano giliausią dėkingumą is an expression you should learn. Formal expressions like this are usually used in written communication or emails.
10. Man Tai Daug Reiškia
The last way to say Thank you in Lithuanian that you will be learning in this post is Man tai daug reiškia. This phrase is sometimes used with ačiū, just like in other languages. But, it can stand alone, and people will still understand its meaning when it has been said to them.
So, there you have it! You now have different words and phrases that you can use to say Thank you In Lithuanian. Just like what is said above, Lithuania is a wonderful country. So, if you want to travel and visit the country, you will surely be saying, "Thank you, Lithuania!" or "Ačiū, Lietuva." This fantastic country and people will really give you a memorable trip that you'll always cherish.
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- This article is about the phenomenon where a liquid can exist in a metastable state above its boiling point. See superheated water for pressurized water above 100 °C. See superheater for the device used in steam engines.
In physics, superheating (sometimes referred to as boiling retardation, or boiling delay) is the phenomenon in which a liquid is heated to a temperature higher than its boiling point, without boiling. This is a so-called metastable state or metastate, where boiling might occur at any time, induced by external or internal effects. Superheating is achieved by heating a homogeneous substance in a clean container, free of nucleation sites, while taking care not to disturb the liquid.
Water is said to "boil" when bubbles of water vapor grow without bound, bursting at the surface. For a vapor bubble to expand, the temperature must be high enough that the vapor pressure exceeds the ambient pressure (the atmospheric pressure, primarily). Below that temperature, a water vapor bubble will shrink and vanish.
Superheating is an exception to this simple rule; a liquid is sometimes observed not to boil even though its vapor pressure does exceed the ambient pressure. The cause is an additional force, the surface tension, which suppresses the growth of bubbles.
Surface tension makes the bubble act like a rubber balloon (more precisely, one that is under-inflated so that the rubber is still elastic). The pressure inside is raised slightly by the "skin" attempting to contract. For the bubble to expand, the temperature must be raised slightly above the boiling point to generate enough vapor pressure to overcome both surface tension and ambient pressure.
What makes superheating so explosive is that a larger bubble is easier to inflate than a small one; just as when blowing up a balloon, the hardest part is getting started. It turns out the excess pressure due to surface tension is inversely proportional to the diameter of the bubble. This means if the largest bubbles in a container are only a few micrometres in diameter, overcoming the surface tension may require exceeding the boiling point by several degrees Celsius. Once a bubble does begin to grow, the pressure due to the surface tension reduces, so it expands explosively. In practice, most containers have scratches or other imperfections which trap pockets of air that provide starting bubbles. But a container of liquid with only microscopic bubbles can superheat dramatically.
Occurrence via microwave oven
Superheating can occur when an undisturbed container of water is heated in a microwave oven. At the time the container is removed, the lack of nucleation sites prevents boiling, leaving the surface calm. However, once the water is disturbed, some of it violently flashes to steam, potentially spraying boiling water out of the container. The boiling can be triggered by jostling the cup, inserting a stirring device, or adding a substance like instant coffee or sugar. The chance of superheating is greater with smooth containers, because scratches or chips can house small pockets of air, which serve as nucleation points. Superheating is more likely after repeated heating and cooling cycles of an undisturbed container, as when a forgotten coffee cup is re-heated without being removed from a microwave oven. This is due to heating cycles releasing dissolved gases such as oxygen and nitrogen from the solvent. There are ways to prevent superheating in a microwave oven, such as putting a popsicle stick in the glass or using a scratched container.
Superheating of hydrogen liquid is used in bubble chambers.
There is a common belief that superheating can occur only in pure substances. This is untrue, as superheating has been observed in coffee and other impure liquids. Impurities do prevent superheating if they introduce nucleation sites (rough areas where gas is trapped); for example, sand tends to suppress superheating in water. Dissolved gas can also provide nucleation sites when it comes out of solution and forms bubbles. However, an impurity such as salt or sugar, dissolved in water to form a homogeneous solution, does not prevent superheating. Other liquids are known to superheat including 2% milk and almond milk.[unreliable source?]
- Debenedetti, P.G.Metastable Liquids: Concepts and Principles; Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, USA, 1996.
- Maris, H., Balibar, S. (2000) "Negative Pressures and Cavitation in Liquid Helium" Physics Today 53, 29
- Critical Droplets and Nucleation, Cornell Solid State Lab
- Atmosphere-ocean Interaction By Eric Bradshaw Kraus, Joost A. Businger Published by Oxford University Press US, 1994 ISBN 0-19-506618-9, pg 60.
- Urban Legends Reference Pages: Superheated Microwaved Water
- Beaty, William & U. Washington. "Impure water can also undergo superheating. Any superheated liquid can be dangerous so when superheating exercise caution". Retrieved 2007-11-24.
- Video of superheated water in a microwave explosively flash boiling, why it happens, and why it's dangerous.
- Bloomfield, Louis A. "A series of superheated water with oil film experiments done in the microwave by Louis A. Bloomfield, physics professor at the University of Virginia. Experiment #13 proceeds with surprising violence". Archived from the original on 2 June 2008.
- Video of superheated water in a pot.

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In the new work, the researchers show that the talpid2 strain of chicken harbors a genetic change that permits tooth formation in both the upper and lower jaw of embryonic birds. These teeth show similar developmental position as mammalian teeth and are associated with similar molecular instructions. Furthermore, when comparing the initial development of the structures, the researchers realized that the teeth forming in the chicken did not look like mammalian teeth, but resembled those of the alligator, the closest living relative of modern birds.
The findings strongly suggest that the birds were initiating developmental programs similar to those of their reptilian ancestors. In addition, the authors found that the capacity to form teeth still resides in normal chickens and can be triggered experimentally by molecular signals. Taken together, the new findings indicate that even though modern birds lost teeth millions of years ago, the potential to form them persists.
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What to do when tail biting occurs?
Almost all conventional pig producers will be familiar with tail bitten pigs. It's called a tail biting outbreak when biting leads to multiple victims per pen, or even spreads throughout the barn. Outbreaks are hard to stop – here is how it is possible to overcome an outbreak successfully.
Tail-bitten pigs are often noticed only at an advanced stage, when there is shortening of the tail. At this stage it is likely that most other pigs in the pen have noticed the blood and been attracted to it. That may motivate them to bite and to create new victims.
Ideally, tail biting is noticed at an early stage, before there is blood on the tail and before the tail length is reduced. This can be through either noticing the biter or noticing the victim. When a pig is repeatedly biting tails, the pig can be observed for ten to 15 minutes to see if it continues biting. If this is the case it might be better to remove the potential problem causer.
Ropes are chewable, destructible, somewhat edible. Photo: J-Y. Chou
Tail posture as indicator
Victims can be recognised at an early stage by looking at tail posture. A tail almost permanently tucked between the legs indicates it is being bitten. A briefly tucked tail can, however, be in response to other social interactions such as displacement. A good time to check tail posture is at the feeder. If the feeding is synchronised, it is easy to check all tails together. Even at an individual feeding station, if pigs are constantly seen with tucked tails when feeding, there may be a biting problem in the pen. A tucked tail should be inspected closely; if injuries are present, then it is better to act immediately rather than wait until it gets worse.
Burlap sacks can be used by more pigs simultaneously. Photo: W.W. Ursinus
What to do?
Action to address tail biting can be through providing distraction to the group or by removing biters or victims when it is more severe. Almost anything can be used to distract pigs, but they easily lose interest. It is therefore more important to change enrichment regularly than to necessarily have the best type of enrichment. However, enrichment should be safe for the animals and not pose risks for food safety.
Good enrichment materials for pigs are chewable, destructible and edible and can be manipulated by multiple pigs at the same time. Loose materials such as straw, hay and sawdust are most used by pigs, but if the housing limits the provision of these, there are other alternatives. Examples are ropes, large feed pellets (beetroot pellets), soft rubber hoses and jute sacks (burlap sacks).
What to do when tail biting occurs?
Using a step-wise protocol
Straw is one of the best materials to occupy pigs. However, for several reasons straw may not be a suitable option or possibility, especially on fully slatted floors. In Ireland about 80% of farms have fully slatted floors. A recent study conducted on a farm in Ireland showed that tail-biting outbreaks can still be effectively reduced using a set protocol. In this protocol three types of intervention were used in a random order:
A. Putting three ropes in a pen of 12-14 pigs
B. Removing the victim
C. Removing the biter.
If after 72 hours blood was detected on one of the pigs in the pen, then the next step was taken. When an option was applied but was not successful, then the next one was applied until all three options had been used. Victims or biters that had been removed were later introduced back in the group as described in the protocol in the box. This resulted in no overt aggression between the pigs when the removed pigs were reintroduced to the original group.
Figure 1 – Step wise plan for overcoming tail biting problems in a pen.
What to do when tail biting occurs?
80% of outbreaks can be solved
The study showed that 80% of severe tail-biting outbreaks could be stopped, even when removed pigs are reintroduced to their original groups. Adding ropes could shorten the duration of an outbreak, since it may take longer to remove and reintroduce pigs. Removing victims or biters was as effective as adding ropes in stopping an outbreak. All pigs were reintroduced to their original groups, which saved the need to have extra space to permanently house removed pigs. Based on the outcomes, the following stepwise plan was recommended (see Figure 1).
Figure 2 – The chance of reducing a tail biting outbreak 'likelihood of success' depends on the number of victims and biters per pen.
The need to respond quickly
The results also showed the importance of responding quickly to the occurrence of tail biting. The chance of successfully reducing a tail-biting outbreak depends on the number of affected pigs in the pen. Figure 2 shows that if more than 50% of the pigs are victims of tail biting, the chance of success in overcoming the outbreak can still be around 60%. But if 33% of pigs are biters, then the chance of stopping the outbreak is only 30%. Thus, the more biters in the pen, the smaller the chance that the outbreak can be stopped.
How to remove and reintroduce pigs from a group?
1. Determine which pig to remove to gain most benefit.
2. Remove the selected pig together with at least one other pig.
3. Write down the pen number from which they are removed and date of removal.
4. Provide a recovery pen without mixing with other unfamiliar pigs.
5. When the pigs have recovered, or at least within seven days, return the pigs together to the original pen.
6. Provide ropes in the pen at the time of reintroduction.
7. Use scent marking spray such as diluted Dettol when pigs are returned.
Have a tail-biting first aid kit
This protocol worked successfully at the farm, which is a conventional farm with fully slatted floors. This does not mean that the protocol will be successful under different conditions. We encourage others to try it but to have other safety measures ready as well. We recommend having a stock of different enrichment objects and products that are directly available whenever an outbreak occurs. Such a 'tail-biting first aid kit' can include ropes, straw, toys, large feed pellets (beetroot pellets), rubber hoses and jute sacks (burlap sacks).
By Irene Camerlink, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria and Jen-Yun Chou, Teagasc, Ireland


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Nature of Disruption: Digital twin, mobile app builder, adaptive slotting, IoT, and digital labeling are the five fundamental components of Synkrato. The AR-driven warehouse can be used to build digital twins, VR versions of real-world facilities. Users can utilize a digital twin to create a 3D digital twin of their facility using inventory and operational data, and then apply adaptive slotting to optimize warehouse space and resource allocation. The platform's no-code mobile app builder enables businesses of any size to easily create iOS and Android apps. Companies using ERP (enterprise resource planning) can create a mobile form, fill it out, and send it to their ERP system, and also firms without ERP systems can access Synkrato's inventory management system. Synkrato's IoT component connects all IoT devices in real-time, allowing businesses to track basic information such as product locations as well as particular data such as temperature, which is critical for items such as produce and medications throughout storage and transportation. Its digital labeling management component guarantees that everyone in the supply chain has access to up-to-date, accurate label templates at all times.
Outlook: Synkrato aims to make logistics more reliable, flexible, and scalable. It can assist users in creating a digital twin of their warehouses so that they can run what-if scenarios for shifting supply and demand patterns. Alternatively, businesses can leverage adaptive warehouse slotting functionality to improve picking and put-away operations. Synkrato discards disparate solutions requirements with a single platform that delivers a comprehensive view of logistical processes. The platform digitizes the supply chain label lifecycle and ensures that label templates are always up to date and accurate. It also helps boost efficiency by optimizing space and directing material flow.
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Wheat Flour Price Shocks and Household Food Security in Afghanistan
by Anna D'Souza
Economic Research Report No. (ERR-121) 35 pp, July 2011
To investigate the impact of rising staple food prices on household food security, we use a unique nationally representative household survey from Afghanistan, one of the world's poorest, most food-insecure countries. The econometric framework allows us to control for household, district, and province factors to isolate the effects of the 2008 sudden rise in wheat flour prices on several measures of household well-being related to food security. The results show large declines in food consumption and dietary diversity, but smaller declines in calories consumed. The evidence suggests that households choose to trade off quality for quantity, as they moved toward staple foods and away from micronutrient-rich foods, such as meat and vegetables. Additionally, for urban areas, the evidence suggests that wheat is a Giffen good; that is, as the price of wheat flour increases, demand for wheat products also increases. These findings may provide useful information for domestic and international policymakers and development agencies as they continue to confront the challenges of improving food security in this conflict-affected country.
Keywords: Food security, high food prices, nutrition, poverty, Afghanistan
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Our world is full of unsightly views: construction sites that mar our streets, condos that block our view of the skyline, an inconveniently positioned air conditioner. We've resigned ourselves to these things, but there might be a solution on the way thanks to a new project from MIT that's exploring how to banish eyesores with custom camouflage.
MIT's big idea is to create printable camouflage coverings using algorithms. These algorithms pull in environmental data via photographs and construct an image that best blends an object in with its surroundings. Think of it as an invisibility cloak for the stuff you don't want to see.
The problem with camouflaging objects is that while they remain stationary, we humans are seeing them from various angles.
It sounds easy enough—just slap a brick covering on the utility box outside your apartment building and call it good—but it's much more complicated than that. Inanimate objects don't have the luxury of blending like a cuttlefish; it takes a totally new way of thinking about computer vision to hide an object in plain sight.
For so long, the computer vision field has been laser focused on teaching computers how to see things. MIT's algorithm does the exact opposite. "Often these algorithms work by searching for specific cues—for example they might look for the contours of the object or for distinctive textures," explains Andrew Owens, an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science who authored the paper. "With camouflage, you want to avoid these cues; you don't want the object's contours to be visible or for its texture to be very distinctive."
The problem with camouflaging objects is that while they remain stationary, we humans are seeing them from various angles. Maybe you're looking at the utility box head-on, but the person next to you will be seeing it from a slightly different angle. Accounting for these different vantage points is a complex problem for an algorithm to solve. "If you knew exactly where the viewer would be standing then the problem would be solved," says Owens.
MIT's algorithm begins by taking eight to 20 photographs from different angles around the object it wants to hide. Once it has this data, the algorithms go to work, finding ways to blend the object into its surroundings from each viewpoint. It's nearly impossible to match the background from every vantage point; what works from one will make the camouflaged object look totally obvious from another.
This meant the algorithm needed to make tradeoffs on considerations like: How well does an object's border blend into its background? How distorted is the object's texture? Can you reduce the seams from as many camera angles as possible to minimize those visual transitions? You can't win on every account, says Bill Freeman, a professor of computer science and one of Owens' thesis advisors. "We're trying to explore computationally what the different tradeoffs are."
In a real-world example, Owens' team wrapped a camouflage covering of a bookshelf around a cube. From most angles the cube blends in nicely, but every so often you catch a glimpse of a book spine split in a 90-degree angle. It's the type of thing you'd casually stroll by without giving a second thought, but once you notice it, it becomes obvious. Visual glitches like these are inevitable, but it's MIT's goal to produce an algorithm that has as few as possible. As Freeman puts it: "You have this 3-D mass you want to put down somewhere and paint it to look like there isn't a big blob there. That's hard to do."Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.


Discussion Questions for the Bible Project's Esther video
Discussion Questions for the Bible Project's Esther video
The Bible Project created an animated overview of Esther as part of their Read Scripture series. Please feel free to use these questions to discuss the video as part of your small group, Sunday school, Bible study, or personal time. GroupLeaders.org has also created a discussion guide.
Study & Application Questions:
 1. When you think of the book of Esther, what do you typically think of?
 2. Did anything from the Bible Project video of Esther change how you think about this book?
 3. If Esther takes place "100 years after Babylonian exile", in what setting does it take place?
 4. What do you think of the Bible Project's depiction of the King of Persia, Ahasuerus?
 5. Haman, the bad guy in the story, is an Agagite, a Canaanite. Read 1 Samuel 15:1-3, 7-9, 32-33. How might Haman's understanding of his own history have influenced the way he treated Mordecai? How might it have influenced Mordecai's response to Haman?
 6. What do you think of Mordecai and Esther's conversation? What does it show us about their trust in God? How might we express faith in God in the circumstances in which he has placed us?
 1. The story pivots when Haman is humbled and Mordecai is exalted. Why do you think this is the central hinge of the book? What else do you notice about the structure? What surprises you about the parallels in Esther?
 2. Jesus said it Matthew 23:12, "Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted." How do we see this played out in the story of Haman and Mordecai? Proverbs 29:23 (ESV) says, "One's pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor."
 3. Have you ever been a part of a Feast of Purim celebration? It "Commemorates the Jews' deliverance from destruction." Watch What is Purim? An introduction to the Jewish Holiday
 4. Why do you think "God is never mentioned" in the book of Esther? The Bible Project sees it as an "Invitation to look for God's activity." How might that encourage us when our plans are interrupted or we experience hardship? Does it give us hope when we can't see what God is doing?
 5. The Bible Project points out there is "a lot of drinking, sex and murder" which are all "violations of Torah commands" and yet "Despite exile, 'God's absence' and Israel's moral compromise, God has not abandoned his promises." How might that encourage you today?
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The Entrance
Free Module 2: Shapes & Form Feng Shui
Chapter 17: The Entrance
The House:-
Avoid the following bad influences on a house:-
1. A 'T' or 'Y' shaped road in front of the house.
2. A house at the dead-end of a road.
3. An inverted 'U' shaped which acts like a knife' slicing the house.
4. A river in front of the house.
5. House must not face or next to a:-
- cemetery.
- funeral parlor.
- any religious prayer sites.
- brothel.
- police station.
- buildings in the shape of a fire element e.g. sharp pointed roofs.
5. A big tree or a single lamb post facing the house.
6. Look out for the corner of a neighbour's roof pointing to the front of the house.
7. A canal or river at the back of the house.
8. House must not face a bridge or an overpass.
9. An expressway 'cutting/slicing' into the house.
10. Avoid a house built on a former cemetery site or an area where massacre happened.
For those living next to a cemetery or places with concentration of YIN, one remedy is to brightly lit that side of the house or paint that side of the wall red or pink to activate the 'YANG' element.
11. Avoid having an opening (open air courtyard) or windows in the centre ceiling of the house.
12. Avoid having the toilet in the center of the house.
13. The house should be higher than the road.
14. Avoid a 'U' shaped house.
15. A house should not be 'sandwiched' between two tall buildings.
16. Do not place the water tank on the roof in the centre of the house.
17. Public sewerage pipes must not pass under the house.
18. Do not have the fire place in the centre of the house.
19. Avoid having a pond in the centre of the house.
1. Avoid having fencing with varying heights.
2. The fence or brick wall should not be too close to the house.
3. Fence or brick wall should not be higher than the house else it acts like a 'prison' environment.
4. For the garage, do not have the master bedroom above the garage.
5. The driveway should not directly face the main house's door.
6. Do not install barbed wires over the top of the main gate. (For goodness sake your house is not an army camp or a gangster's hideout!)
For exterior of the Main Door:-
1. It should not face a tree or a lamp post.
2. It should not face any corner, chimney, or water storage tank.
3. It should not face a neighbour's gate, main door or driveway.
For interior of the Main Door:-
1. It should not face the staircase or a 'sharp' corner pointing towards the door.
2. It should not be immediately blocked by a wall.
3. It should not face the back door.
4. It should not face a wash basin, sink or water pipe.
5. It should not face any bedroom, toilet or kitchen or fireplace.
6. The backdoor must be smaller than the main door.
7. The size of the main door should be proportional to the size of the house.
8. If the main door is made of two panels, both panels must be of equal size.
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Maps 1 & 2
Table of
Locating the Site
Map 3: Independence Hall and the
Liberty Bell Pavilion.
[Graphic] Map 3 with link to higher quality map.
(Based on National Park Service map)
Since 1976 the Liberty Bell has been exhibited in a glass pavilion where it can be viewed by the public 24 hours a day.
Questions for Map 3
1. Note the location of Independence Hall (the renamed Pennsylvania State House) and the Liberty Bell Pavilion. What separates the two sites today?
2. Why do you think the bell was moved from Independence Hall to its present location? What are the advantages of having the Liberty Bell placed in a glass pavilion? What are the disadvantages?
3. Do you think the bell is more effective as a symbol in its present location, or when it was inside Independence Hall? What event occured in 1976 that prompted the relocation of the bell?
Comments or Questions
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The book Effective Java and other sources provide a pretty good explanation on how and when to use the readObject() method when working with serializable Java classes. The readResolve() method, on the other hand, remains a bit of a mystery. Basically all documents I found either mention only one of the two or mention both only individually.
Questions that remain unanswered are:
 - What is the difference between the two methods?
 - When should which method be implemented?
 - How should readResolve() be used, especially in terms of returning what?
I hope you can shed some light on this matter.
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readResolve is used for replacing the object read from the stream. The only use I've ever seen for this is enforcing singletons; when an object is read, replace it with the singleton instance. This ensures that nobody can create another instance by serializing and deserializing the singleton.
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There is a number of way for malicious code (or even data) to get around that. – Tom Hawtin - tackline Jul 22 '09 at 21:33
Yes, please explain. Flyweight patterns rely on this working, so how can it break? – Steve Armstrong Mar 18 '10 at 15:46
Josh Bloch talks about the conditions under which this breaks in effective Java 2nd ed. Item 77. He mentions about this in this talk he gave in Google IO couple of years back (some times towards the end of the talk): youtube.com/watch?v=pi_I7oD_uGI – calvinkrishy Sep 18 '10 at 3:26
Book page mentioned by _USER_: books.google.co.uk/… – TWiStErRob Jun 2 at 21:42
readResolve is called after readObject has returned (conversely writeReplace is called before writeObject and probably on a different object). The object the method returns replaces this object returned to the user of ObjectInputStream.readObject and any further back references to the object in the stream. It is mostly used for serial proxies (see Effective Java, 2nd Ed, IIRC).
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readResolve() will ensure the singleton contract while serialization.
Please refer
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readResolve can be used to change the data that is serialized through readObject method. For e.g. xstream API uses this feature to initialize some attributes that were not in the XML to be deserialized.
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XML and Xstream aren't relevant to a question about Java Serialization, and the question was answered correctly years ago. -1 – EJP May 5 '13 at 0:45
The accepted answer states that readResolve is used to replace an object. This answer provides the useful additional information that it can be used to modify an object during deserialization. XStream was given as an example, not as the only possible library in which that happens. – Enwired Feb 26 at 1:00
readResolve is for when you may need to return an existing object, e.g. because you're checking for duplicate inputs that should be merged, or (e.g. in eventually-consistent distributed systems) because it's an update that may arrive before you're aware of any older versions.
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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth: An Epidemic of Homelessness
Estimates of homeless youth who identify as GLBTQ range from 20-40%, compared to 3-5% of the total U.S. population. Ray and contributing authors have compiled a comprehensive report on the state of homeless GLBTQ youth for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. The report covers the literature on topics including the state of youth homelessness today, federal response to youth homelessness, and the experiences of homeless youth. Several exemplary programs that serve homeless GLBTQ youth are highlighted.
Through a comprehensive review of the available academic research and professional literature, we answer some basic questions, including why so many LGBT youth are becoming and remaining homeless. We report on the harassment and violence that many of these youth experience in the shelter system and we summarize research on critical problems affecting them, including mental health issues, substance abuse and risky sexual behavior. We also analyze the federal government's response to youth homelessness, including the specific impact on LGBT homeless youth of increased federal funding for faith-based service providers.
We also partnered with five social service agencies who have written sections that detail model programs they have developed to improve service delivery to LGBT homeless youth. In order to put a face to all of this research and data, we also include profiles of LGBT homeless youth, many of which were collected through focus groups we conducted at service providers around the country. Finally, in consultation with a number of youth advocacy organizations, we conclude with a series of state-, federaland practitioner-level policy recommendations that can help to curb this epidemic. (Author)
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The nodes of the Moon, also known as the Dragon's Head and Dragon's Tail belong to one of the more elusive astrological factors. They are the knots, nodus in latin means knot, where the Moon crosses the ecliptic. These particular knots are made by the mythical dragon that eats either the Sun or Moon during a solar or lunar eclipse. The Dragon's Head or north node is the point on the ecliptic where the Moon changes from south to north latitude. The south node or Dragon's Tail is exactly the opposite. Here the Moon changes from north to south latitude. This is important as a change to north latitude strengthens a planet. The higher, the stronger. The opposite is true for a change into south latitude, and if we remember that it is the Moon, that planet with the most visible change from poverty of light to fullness of light, that crosses the ecliptic, it is not surprising that the Dragon's Head is associated with increase and the Dragon's Tail with decrease. This is what the 46th Aphorism of the Centiloquium of Hermes Trismegistus describes:
"The Dragons head with the Infortunes, denotes terrible mischiefs, for he increases their Malice, but with the Fortunes he works good and augments their benignity. But the significations of the Dragons tayl are to be noted the contrary way."
This simply means that the Dragon's Tail decreases the influence of any planet whether fortunate or not. It does not mean that the Infortunes suddenly become benign and the Fortunes malefic. I had a good example of this in a recent horary where the question was: "Will hurricane Florence reach the United States coastline?" The answer was no. Among other testimonies Mercury was exactly conjunct the south node. Mercury of course siginifies among other things winds. And in this context the hurricane. This means that the hurricane will diminish, which it is now slowly doing. In three days hurricane Florence will be absorbed as according to the latest meteorological forecast her wind speeds are progressively slowing down. She will soon be classified as extratropical.
The change from north to south latitude belongs to another monthly cycle of the Moon. One look in an ephemeris shows this. For example this month (September 2006) the Moon is at 5S03 latitude at the beginning of the month. When she reaches the position of the north node at 25 Pisces on September 8th she is at 0 latitude and will increase in north latitude reaching her highest latitude of 5N18 on the 15th at about 28 Gemini. Afterwards she begins decreasing in north latitude until she reaches the position of the south node on the 21st of September. The change from north to south latitiude along with reaching the highest and lowest latitude is not identical with the phases. A Full or New Moon can take place in north or south latitude.
Both nodes are without latitude as they are on the ecliptic and remain there. An important point to note, as they are without body and hence can only show a direction, give a tendancy. This is why an eclipse can only take place near one of the nodes. The Moon is then close to the ecliptic, the Sun's path, and so when full, falls within the earths shadow and is eclipsed (as it did just recently on September 7th) or when new, is between the Earth and the Sun, eclipsing the Sun. At any other time the Moon has latitude and so is not in the Sun's path. An eclipse cannot occur.


Harry M. Markowitz
Harry M. Markowitz
Markowitz studied at the University of Chicago (Bachelor of Philosophy, 1947; M.A., 1950; Ph.D., 1954) and then was on the research staff of Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, Calif. (1952-60, 1961-63), where he met Sharpe. He then held various positions with Consolidated Analysis Centers, Inc., Santa Monica (1963-68), the University of California at Los Angeles (1968-69), Arbitrage Management Company, New York City (1969-72), and IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Hills, N.Y. (1974-83) before becoming a professor of finance at Baruch College of the City University of New York (from 1982).
The research that earned Markowitz the Nobel Prize involved his "portfolio theory," which sought to prove that a diversified, or "optimal," portfolio--that is, one that mixes assets so as to maximize return and minimize risk--could be practical. His techniques for measuring risk associated with various assets and his techniques for mixing assets became routine investment methods. He also developed a computer language called Simscript, used to write economic-analysis programs.


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MAC's new book written by Marilyn Arons and illustrated by Sanja Angeli
The Adventures of Wonderkid and the Big Idea/ A Parent's Introduction to Special Education is a fun read, told from the viewpoint of the child who may go into special education. It explains the basic process leading to referral, testing eligibility, and placement with suggestions from the child as to what Mommy and Daddy should do as they learn the vocabulary of special education and how the system works. Drawings are provided on each page to illustrate concepts. It makes special education understandable, takes away the fear factor, and answers basic questions.with humor and good will. The artist is Sanja Angeli, and the author is Marilyn Arons. Wonderkid is 28 pages in length, with a Table of Contents, as well as a page for taking notes. It explains basic IDEA vocabulary, what Mommy and Daddy need to know, the special education ladder from referral; through eligibility, testing, visible and invisible disabilities, eligibility. Section 504, the IEP, least restrictive environment, annual review, and procedural safeguards.


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This speciesis classified as Vulnerable because remote-sensing data indicate that there has been a dramatic loss of lowland forest across its range and that it is therefore likely to be undergoing a rapid population decline.
Distribution and population
Ninox odiosa is endemic to the island of New Britain Papua New Guinea where although it is rather poorly known, it appears to be not uncommon in suitable habitat. It is suspected to have declined rapidly in recent years owing to ongoing clearance of lowland forest (Buchananet al. 2008).
The population is estimated to be in the band 10,000-19,999 mature individuals, equating to 15,000-29,999 individuals in total, rounded here to 15,000-30,000 individuals.
Buchanan et al. (2008) calculated the rate of forest loss within the species's range on New Britain as 33.8% over three generations. Hence, this decline is expected to continue.
It inhabits lowland rainforest up to 1,200 m. It is thought to tolerate some degree of habitat degradation.
Lowland forest clearance on New Britain for conversion to oil palm plantations has been intense in recent decades and the island accounts for approximately half of Papua New Guinea's timber exports (Buchanan et al. 2008). Over 30% of suitable habitat has been cleared in the last 10 years and this trend is ongoing (Buchanan et al. 2008).
Conservation actions underway
None is known.
Conservation actions proposed
Identify and effectively protect a network of reserves, including some containing large areas of unlogged lowland forest, on New Britain. Continue to monitor trends in forest loss. Research its tolerance of degraded forest. Monitor populations in a number of primary forest and degraded forest sites across the island.
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Coat of Arms of Natlin
Coat of Arms
"Live free or die oppressed"
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Natalanian claims in red.
Natalanian claims in red.
and largest city
Official languagesNone
Recognised national languagesEnglish, Dutch
GovernmentFederal presidential constitutional republic
- President
Jacob D. Deceuninckvancapelle
- Vice President
Stephen Santiago
- House Speaker
Dakota Wells
LegislatureCongress of the United Provinces of Natlin
Independence from the United States
- First federal republic established
24 November 2016
- Second federal republic established
17 July 2018
CurrencyUnited States dollar
Date formatdd-mm-yyyy
Drives on theright
The United Provinces of Natlin, also abbreviated as UPN or simply Natlin, is a micronation comprising 10 provinces, a federal district, five territories, and various possessions. The capital is Wasusu, and the largest city by area is Owenia. The country is located contiguously in North America, while most borders touch the United States of America.
Natlin is not currently recognized by any nation within the United Nations and is a member of the Micronational Assembly, being an apart of the council. The United Provinces of Natlin is a federal republic and has approximately 26 citizens, of which 21 live in Natalanian territory.
The first known use of the name "Natlin" dates back to 2015 when it appeared on a map of St. Mary's County, Maryland created by Jacob Deceuninckvancapelle. The name "Natlin" is an acronym for the words notable, approachable, traditional, luster, incorruptible and nurturing. The name was officially chosen as the name of the nation in 2016 after Natlin had declared independence from the United States.
Map of the United Provinces of Natlin in its original location.
On 24 November 2016, Natlin officially declared independence from the United States of America and wrote the Natalanian Constitution establishing a federal republic on the principle of creating beneficial checks and balances in the government. Jacob D. Deceuninckvancapelle was the first elected president of Natlin.
Natalanian Oblivian War
Fort that was attacked by Oblivian soldiers in Wasusu
On 8 December 2016, the Kingdom of Oblivia had made an official declaration of war on Natlin. Oblivia demanded all of the land Natlin resided in. The first battle of the war took place on 9 December when Oblivian troops marched into Wasusu and took fort Wasusu, the Battle of Wasusu began and lasted for 1 day, it resulted in an Oblivian victory. However, 2 days later after the Armed Forces were officially organized and equipped, Natalanian forces had retaken Wasusu. On December 23, Oblivia officially surrendered to Natlin after they had taken the Oblivian capital city.
Dissolving and Second Independence
In July 2017, the Natalanian-Oblivian Empire would dissolve after everyone in the government started to move away. Natlin would be re-establish on 17 July 2018 as a federal republic again, however, the entire nation was moved to a more urban neighborhood. Natlin without having any diplomatic ties with any other entity prompted Natlin to start finding more through online social media
Micronational YouTube Community (2018-2020)
North Divine War
After the unjustified declarations of war on the Kingdom of the Saugeen, the Federal States of Delphia, the United Ocean States, and the Republic of South Divine made by the People's Republic of North Divine, Natlin promptly along with East Michigan and the Buckeye Republic declared war on North Divine. The conflict lasted from 10 July 2019, up until 22 August 2019 after defeating the North Divine armed forces at the Battle of Learton.
Ernish-Mountain States War
Natlin entered into the Ernish-Mountain States War on August 25th, 2019. Natlin joined the war in support of Union of Mountain States, declaring war on the Ernish Union the day it had declared war on Mountain States. Being aligned to Mountain States, Natlin played a large role in the war against the communist bloc. This would be the beginning of the long-standing alliance between Natlin and Union of Mountain States, lasting up until the dissolution of Mountain States. Natalanian intervention in the war was a key deciding factor in the outcome of the conflict, eventually leading to a victory for Natlin and Mountain States on October 6th, 2019.
Mobzen Independence
Chairman status in the Micronational Assembly
Seldavian War
2020 - Present day
Hougoumount Campaign
Natlin's most recent conflict was the Hougoumont Campaign, lasting from May 3rd to May 6th, 2020. The war initially started due to the Kingdom of Johnnyland issuing an ultimatum to the United Provinces of Natlin and Natalanian allies to surrender within the next 24 hours of said ultimatum. Natlin then declined such demands, and thus began the Hougoumont Campaign. The war was relatively short with Johnny and his associates being swiftly defeated in a matter of days.
Natlin is a representative democracy, similar to that of the government of the United States. The government is maintained by a system of checks and balances defined by the constitution.
The federal government of Natlin comprises of three branches:
 - Legislative: The Natalanian Congress which is made up of the Senate and House of Representatives declares war, creates federal laws, approves treaties, and has the power of impeachment, by which it can remove sitting members of the government such as the president.
 - Executive: The president is the commander and chief of the entire Natalanian armed forces, can veto legislative bills before they become law, and appoints the members of the Cabinet with the consent of the senate.
 - Judicial: The Supreme Court and lower federal courts, whose judges are appointed by the president with Senate approval, interpret laws and checks to see if actions of the legislative and executive branches are constitutional or not.
The United Provinces of Natlin has foreign relations with the following nations:
Nations that Natlin recognizes as sovereign Countries:
Defunct Nations
Nations that Natlin recognized or had relations with, defunct or not:
Alliances and Organizations
Organizations/Alliances that Natlin was in.


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Every Child Counts helps schools to make the best use of their teaching assistants
Most ECC interventions are designed so that a teaching assistant or teacher can deliver them to pupils. In practice, it is usually a teaching assistant (TA). This helps schools in two ways.
1. A structured ECC intervention enables TAs to raise pupils' attainment.
The Education Endowment Foundation's Making Best Use of Teaching Assistants report stated that, while the typical deployment of TAs in schools often has little impact on pupil attainment, "the area of research showing the strongest evidence for TAs having a positive impact on pupil attainment focuses on their role in delivering structured interventions in one-to-one or small group settings."
ECC meets all of the EEF's criteria for an effective intervention, including:
1stClass@Number is the best programme we have ever had for teaching assistants. It was not only effective but children gained an enthusiasm for their maths work.
Nikki de Palma, Deputy Head Teacher, Redlands Primary School, Tower Hamlets
2. The high quality of ECC training helps TAs to become more effective in their wider roles.
The training focuses on subject knowledge that help TAs to understand the difficulties that many children experience with literacy or mathematics and how to overcome them, and they give guidance on generic teaching strategies. It includes extensive discussion of TAs' own experiences, helping them to develop independent problem-solving skills for the benefit of their pupils.
All of these elements enable TAs to become more knowledgeable, skilful and confident at supporting pupils' learning throughout their work at school, not just during the interventions.


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[PPS06-P07] Examination of potential microphysical drivers of NIR emitted radiance variations on the Venus night side
Keywords:Venus, Akatsuki, Meteorology, Atmosphere
In a separate work, I had shown that plausible changes in microphysical properties produce observable variations in the distribution of the cloud mass and cloud particle sizes. Most notably, a two-regime quasi-steady state cloud was found in the simulations. The most notable difference between the two regimes was the presence and absence of a 1-2 km thick cloud layer near cloud base. This layer bears some similarity to the intermittently observed lower cloud deck between 48-50 km that is believed to be responsible for much of the observed NIR radiance emission on the night side of Venus. Here, I calculate the radiance variations that these changes can produce, specifically considering the spectral ranges observable using the Akatsuki IR2 camera and its associated filters.


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|Zoological name :||Ficus Benghalensis|
|Found In :||Ranthambore National Park and Corbett National Park|
Other names : Bargad, Bor, Ber, Ala and Pedda mari, Nayagrodha, Ala mara, Bar, Vad, Vatnam, Bahupada, Peddamarri, Al are the other names used for the Banyan tree. Indians call it a wish fulfilling tree.
Description : Banyan tree is a huge tree with very extensive branches. It is said that at one time more than 10, 000 people can sit under its shade at one time. It is a evergreen tree. It branches spread out and send trunk like roots to the ground in order to support itself. It grows to a height of more than 21 meters and lives for many years. The leaves are 10 -20 cm long and has many aerial roots. The leaves are broad, oval and glossy. White milky fluid oozes out of leaves, if broken. It can grow in to the gaint tree covering several hectares.
Other Species : F. aurea, F. benghalensis, F. citrifolia, F. macrophylla, F. microcarpa, F.pertusa, F. rubiginosa are the other related species of the Banyan tree.
Location : Found in almost all the parts of India, Banyan tree is the National tree of India. It is grown throughout the subHimalayan region and in the deciduous forests. One can Banyan Tree in the Botanical Garden of Calcutta. They are widely grown in the Ranthambore National Park and Corbett National Park in India.
Cultivation methods :Banyan tree is easily propagated by root tip cuttings or the eye cuttings. Cut apiece of the stem about half a inch below and above the leaf. Insert the stem piece and a little of the leaf stalk into the rooting medium. To reduce evaporation from the leaf surface, you can roll the leaf and secure with a rubber band. In a couple weeks roots and a new shoot will start developing. It can grow in any type of soil.
Medicinal uses : The Banyan tree also has several medicinal properties. Its leaf, bark, seeds and fig are used for the variety of disorders like diarrhea, polyuria, dental, diabetes and urine disorders. The wood of the Banyan tree is used in making door panels, boxes and the other items. Its bark is used for making paper and ropes. The milky latex that comes from its leaves and stems is used in many Ayurvedic medicines.
Other uses : In India its edible leaves are used as the plates. It is planted for the soil conservation. Wood is used for well curbs, door panels, boxes, furniture etc. It is suitable for paper pulp. The wood of the aerial roots is stronger and is used for the tent poles and cart yokes.
Cultural importance : Banyan tree is respected and is considered as sacred by the people in India. In the sacred Hindu Book 'Bhagwad Gita' Lord Krishna has sung praises on the Banyan tree. People in India grow Banyan tree closer to the Peepal tree. As Banyan tree is considered as the male plant closely related to the Peepal tree. It symbolize Trimurti with Vishnu as the barl, Shiva as the branches and Brahma as the roots. Indians considered Banyan tree as 'Kalpa Vriksha' the tree that fulfill all your wishes.The mighty Banyan Tree is considered as immortal and has always been the focal point for the village communities in India. It is probably the biggest and friendliest of all trees. Banyan tree is the tree of knowledge and tree of life.


Improved Wide Operating Temperature Range of Li-Ion Cells
Applications include electric vehicles, where high-energy-density and high-power batteries are needed that can operate at low temperature.
Future NASA missions aimed at exploring the Moon, Mars, and the outer planets require rechargeable batteries that can operate over a wide temperature range (–60 to +60 ºC) to satisfy the requirements of various applications including landers, rovers, penetrators, CEV, CLV, etc. This work addresses the need for robust rechargeable batteries that can operate well over a wide temperature range.
The Department of Energy (DoE) has identified a number of technical barriers associated with the development of Li-ion rechargeable batteries for PHEVs. For this reason, DoE has interest in the development of advanced electrolytes that will improve performance over a wide range of temperatures, and lead to long life characteristics (5,000 cycles over a 10-year life span). There is also interest in improving the high-voltage stability of these candidate electrolyte systems to enable the operation of up to 5 V with high specific energy cathode materials.
Currently, the state-of-the-art lithium-ion system has been demonstrated to operate over a wide range of temperatures (–40 to +40 ºC); however, the rate capability at the lower temperatures is very poor. In addition, the low-temperature performance typically deteriorates rapidly upon being exposed to high temperatures.
A number of electrolyte formulations were developed that incorporate the use of electrolyte additives to improve the high-temperature resilience, low-temperature power capability, and life characteristics of methyl propionate (MP)-based electrolyte solutions. These electrolyte additives include mono-fluoroethylene carbonate (FEC), lithium oxalate, vinylene carbonate (VC), and lithium bis(oxalate borate) (LiBOB), which have previously been shown to result in improved high-temperature resilience of all carbonate-based electrolytes. These MP-based electrolytes with additives have been shown to have improved performance in experiments with MCMB-LiNiCoAlO2 cells.
A number of lithium-ion electrolytes having improved temperature range of operation were demonstrated. LiPF6-based mixed carbonate electrolyte formulations that contain ester cosolvents have been optimized for operation at low temperature, while still providing reasonable performance at high temperature. In earlier work [see "Optimized Carbonate and Ester-Based Li-Ion Electrolytes" (NPO-44974) NASA Tech Briefs, Vol. 32, No. 4 (April 2008), p. 56], ester co-solvents, including methyl propionate (MP), ethyl propionate (EP), methyl butyrate (MB), ethyl butyrate (EB), propyl butyrate (PB), and butyl butyrate (BB), were investigated in multi-component electrolytes of the following composition: 1.0 M LiPF6 in ethylene carbonate (EC) + ethyl methyl carbonate (EMC) + X (20:60:20 v/v %) [where X = ester co-solvent]. Focusing upon improved rate capability at low temperatures (i.e., –20 to –40 ºC), this approach was optimized further [see "Li-Ion Cells Employing Electrolytes With Methyl Propionate and Ethyl Butyrate Co-Solvents" (NPO-46976), NASA Tech Briefs, Vol. 35, No. 10 (October 2011), p. 47], which resulted in the development of 1.20M LiPF6 in EC+EMC+MP (20:20:60 v/v %) and 1.20M LiPF6 in EC+EMC+EB (20:20:60 v/v %), which were demonstrated to operate well over a wide temperature range in MCMB-LiNiCoA1O2 and Li4Ti5O12-LiNiCoA1O2 prototype cells. In the current work, improved high temperature resilience, low temperature power capability, and life characteristics have been provided with methyl propionate-based electrolyte solutions [i.e., 1.20M LiPF6 in EC+EMC+MP (20:20:60 v/v%)] possessing the additives described above.
This work was done by Marshall C. Smart and Ratnakumar V. Bugga of Caltech for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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Mechanisms for acute changes in sensory maps
Many studies have examined changes in the topographic representations of the special senses in cerebral cortex following partial peripheral deafferentations. This approach has demonstrated the shortmedium- and long-term aspects of plasticity. However, the extensive capacity for immediate plasticity, while first demonstrated more than 15 years ago, still challenges explanation. What such studies indicate is that each locus in sensory cortex receives viable input from a far wider area of the sensory epithelium than is represented in the normal receptive field, with the implication that much of this input is normally inhibited. Consideration of the geometric and temporal aspects of receptive field plasticity suggests that this inhibition must be tonic and must derive its driving input from a tonically active periphery.


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In fall quarter 2016, first-year students in Professor Molly Loberg's History 100 course were given one parameter for their first assignment: research the 1960s and 1970s at Cal Poly using historic records uncovered in the University Archives.
During those two decades, Cal Poly experienced an unprecedented rate of change, growing from 6,000 students in 1960 to 16,000 by 1980. After having been excluded since 1930, women were allowed to return as students in 1957. The passage of the California Master Plan for Higher Education in 1960 led Cal Poly to join the California State College system (now the California State University). The Pomona campus separated from Cal Poly in 1966, the same year president Robert E. Kennedy succeeded longtime president Julian McPhee.
The History 100 students used a range of primary sources from the University Archives, including the student newspaper, yearbooks, course catalogs, and records created by students, staff, faculty and presidents. They analyzed Vietnam War protests, the impact of the Civil Rights Movement, and the university administration's stance on the rights of women and minorities. They examined the establishment of organizations representing the diversity of students at Cal Poly, including the Black Student Union, the United Mexican American Students, the Gay Student Union, and Students for New Action Politics. They also explored student and faculty responses to the Diablo Canyon Power Plant in the 1970s, organizations that formed to protect victims of sexual assault, the impact of alcohol on campus, and the musical groups that performed on campus.
Opportunities to do hands-on archival research in their first year is an important way for students to practice Cal Poly's Learn by Doing philosophy, but it also has a deeper impact on how students view themselves. "In History 100, students learn both how to think as historians and as people living through and shaping history," said Loberg. "When researching individuals who studied and worked at Cal Poly 40 or 50 years ago, students have the opportunity to imagine the legacy they themselves want to leave and how they want this time and their own contributions to be remembered in the future."
Read excerpts from student research below, along with the primary sources they uncovered.
Do you have your own history to share? Do you have questions to ask the archivists or History 100 students? Submit your information to University Archives or email your question to _EMAIL_.
FEATURED STUDENT RESEARCH
Students gather in front of Mott Gym to protest the suspension of students, 1963.
An interview with President Kennedy, part of a special issue of the Mustang Daily published for Kennedy's inauguration ceremony. Read the full issue here.
Aerial view of campus in 1961, looking east toward the Poly P. The photograph captures the construction of Engineering West, the Dexter Library addition, the Graphic Communication Building, and the English Building.


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- Organize and conduct two impressive opening and closing ceremonies for your ship.
- Submit an essay of 500 to 1,000 words on how our nation's maritime history has contributed to our way of life.
- Active Membership
- Attend at least 75 percent of your ship's meetings and special activities for one year. Note: Check with your ship's yeoman.
- Prepare and present a program on Sea Scouts for a Boy Scout troop, Venturing crew, Venturing Officers' Association meeting, school class, or other youth group. Your presentation should last a minimum of 15 minutes and describe the activities of your ship and Sea Scouts.
Either serve and fulfill the responsibilities of a crew leader or an elected officer of your ship, or serve as an activity chair for two major ship events. Responsibilities should include planning, directing, and evaluating the event. (These events are in addition to the Ordinary requirement.)
Pass all requirements for the BSA's Lifesaving merit badge.
- Develop and use a customized vessel safety checklist for a boat used by your ship.
- Demonstrate your understanding of fire prevention on vessels.
- Know the classes of fires and the substances that will extinguish each type of fire.
- In a safe place, under adult supervision, demonstrate your ability to successfully extinguish a class A and a class B fire with an approved fire extinguisher. See that the fire extinguisher used is properly recharged or replaced.
- Conduct a fire safety inspection of the vessel normally used by your ship or of your ship's meeting place. Note any fire hazards and report them to your ship's adult leaders.
- Complete the American Red Cross Standard First Aid course.
- Obtain CPR certification from a certified agency.
- Demonstrate the Heimlich maneuver and tell when it is used.
- Marlinspike Seamanship
- Complete a back splice, eye splice, short splice, long splice, and a palm-and-needle whipping.
- Sew a flat seam, round seam, and grommet eye in canvas or sail material. Describe how each is used in construction of and the care of sails.
- Describe the parts of a block and explain how blocks are sized. Describe the following types of tackle: luff, gun, double purchase, single whip, and runner. With the help of another shipmate, reeve a double purchase tackle.
- Boat Handling
- Demonstrate your ability to properly operate a small boat equipped with a motor. Included should be fueling, starting, leaving a dock, maneuvering, and coming alongside.
- Know the names and functions of lines used to secure a vessel to a wharf or pier. Understand and execute docking commands used in handling lines on your ship's primary vessel.
- Describe the various kinds of anchor rode and the advantages and disadvantages of each type.
- Identify the parts of the anchor cable starting with the anchor and ending at the vessel.
- Describe the methods of marking chain and demonstrate that you know the chain markings on your ship's vessel.
- While on a cruise assist in the construction of an anchor watch schedule and stand one watch.
- Identify a capstan or windlass and explain its use in handling line, wire rope, or chain.
- Navigation Rules
- Demonstrate a working knowledge of Navigation Rules, International and Inland.
- Explain vessel lights for the following: towing (astern, alongside, pushing ahead, and cannot deviate), fishing, trawling, restricted maneuverability, underwater operations, constrained by draft, and aground.
- Describe special lights and day shapes deployed on the following vessels: not under command, restricted by ability to maneuver, constrained by draft, fishing (trawling), and sailing vessels under power.
- Understand the system of aids to navigation employed in your area. Include buoys, lights, and daymarks, and their significance and corresponding chart symbols.
- Read in detail a National Ocean Service (NOS) chart, preferably for the area normally cruised by your ship, identifying all marks on it.
- Explain the use of tide tables, current tables, light lists, and how to update a chart using the Notice to Mariners.
- Piloting and Navigation
- Describe the deck log kept aboard your ship's principal craft. Keep a complete log for three cruises.
- Lay a course of at least three legs and execute it using dead reckoning.
- Demonstrate your ability to fix your position by the following methods: taking bearings from two known objects, running fix, and estimated position.
- Establish distance from a known object using "double the angle on the bow" and explain how to set a danger angle.
- Discuss how GPS (Global Positioning System) operates and the purpose of waypoints. While underway, demonstrate your ability to use a GPS using three different waypoints.
- Discuss the method of establishing a radar fix.
- Practical Deck Seamanship
- Demonstrate your knowledge of personal safety equipment needed while cleaning, maintaining, or repairing your vessel.
- Know the names, uses, sizes, and proper care of the common hand tools used by your ship.
- Identify and explain the use of the following: thimble, shackle, turnbuckle, pelican hook, and other ship's hardware and fittings commonly used aboard your ship's vessels. Describe how each is sized.
- Demonstrate proper surface and coating preparation, coating techniques, care of stored coatings, and cleaning of brushes and tools used to maintain surfaces on your ship's vessel.
- Explain techniques used for the maintenance, protection, and repair of hulls and decks on your ship's vessel.
- Demonstrate your knowledge of local environmental laws related to the proper storage, disposal, and cleanup of maritime coating materials, fuels, and other environmentally sensitive materials.
- Discuss with an adult leader the dumping of garbage in the marine environment. Review the contents of the MARPOL placard and locate it aboard your ship's vessels.
- Write a 500-word report on a marine endangered species (mammal, bird, fish, or reptile). The report should include a description of the species, its habitat, history, current population numbers, and current steps being employed to help
Earn the Long Cruise badge.
- Electives - Do any three of the following.
- Sailing: While leading a crew of not less than two other persons, demonstrate your ability to sail a sloop or another suitable vessel correctly and safely over a triangular course (leeward, windward, reaching marks), demonstrating beating, reaching, running, and the proper commands.
- Vessels: Teach and lead a crew under oar using a boat pulling at least four oars singleor double-banked. Perform the following maneuvers: get underway, maneuver ahead and back, turn the boat in its own length, dock, and secure.
- Drill: Demonstrate your ability to give and execute commands in close-order drill.
- Understand the safe and proper procedures for the use of gasoline and diesel inboard engines, including fueling, pre-start checks, ventilation, starting, running, periodic checks while running, securing, postoperative checks, and keeping an engine log.
- Using the type of engine aboard the vessel you most frequently use, demonstrate your understanding of basic troubleshooting and the preventive maintenance schedule recommended by the manufacturer.
- Yacht Racing:
- Demonstrate your understanding of the shapes, flag hoists, gun, and horn signals used in yacht racing as well as a working knowledge of the racing rules of the International Sailing Federation.
- Serve as helmsman, with one or more additional crew members, of a sloop-rigged or other suitable boat with a spinnaker in a race sailed under ISAF racing rules.
- Maritime History: Know the highlights of maritime history from the earliest times to the present. Include the evolution of vessel construction and propulsion, important voyages of exploration and development, the origin of maritime traditions, and the achievements of notable maritime leaders in U.S. sea history.
- Ornamental Ropework: Demonstrate your ability to fashion the following items of ornamental ropework: four-strand Turk's head, coach whipping, cockscombing, round braid, flat sennit braid, wall knot, and crown knot. Make a useful item such as a boatswain's lanyard, rigging knife lanyard, bell rope, etc., or decorate a portion of your ship's equipment such as a stanchion, rail, lifeline, tiller, etc.
- Fiberglass Repair and Maintenance: Demonstrate your proficiency and knowledge of fiberglass repair and gel coating while working on your ship's vessel or other similar vessel.
- Specialty Proficiency: Become a certified scuba diver or become proficient in boardsailing, surfing, kayaking, or whitewater rafting/canoeing.
- USPS: As an apprentice member of the United States Power Squadrons complete the Seamanship and Piloting courses.
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By E. L. Lancaster and Gayle Kowalchyk / David Carr Glover
Piano - Glover Method
Sight reading and ear training are two of the most important skills for any musician. Consequently, they should be developed systematically with performance, technical and theoretical skills from the time that keyboard study begins. As new concepts are introduced in the LESSONS book, they are reinforced visually and aurally in SIGHT READING AND EAR TRAINING. These books can be used with equal success in private and group lessons. The reading exercises are based on the premise that students develop secure reading skills by first playing in specific patterns and gradually moving out of these patterns. The recognition of intervals is crucial to the development of good reading habits. In addition, students must be able to quickly identify individual notes and patterns (melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic).


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the stinky smell in the coming off the vents is usually caused by:
1. dirt deposits on the cabin microfilter : change it. takes 15-45 mins to replace depending on your mcgiver skills.
2. clogged drain. locate where the drain is under your car. try blowing compressed air into it.
3. condensation in your a/c evaporator (the alluminum fins inside the box under the dash where cold refrigerant passes). when the room temp gets hotter, the condensate becomes a breeding ground for bacteria and the bad smell. just like what happens to your damp socks sitting inside a plastic bag for days. the solution is to run your fan high, turn your heater up and recirculate the air for 15 mins with all doors and windows closed. this will dry up your evaporator. then practise the habit of turning off the A/C and leaving the fan on about 15 minutes before reaching your destination to prevent bacteria buildup. see _URL_
for more info. they also have this antibacterial spray that you need get into where the cabin microfilter sits. this spray places a coating on the evaporator that prevents it from holding water.
bear, spraying lysol at the air intake does not do much since the spray will only be trapped by the intervening cabin filter in models where it is present. except, of course, if you meant that you need to remove the cabin filter first before spraying.


application, especially on high-end machines (Spec A and Spec B). This is due to the effect of MultiProc build. When building in the IDE, the Build system will use the total number of cores on your machine by default. You can also modify multi-proc build by going to Tools -> Options -> Projects and Solutions -> Build and Run, changing the setting for "Maximum number of Parallel Project Builds". If you are building on the command line, pass in /m:n (n is the numbers of processes you would like to use). The default when building with MSBuild on the command line is 1. As mentioned earlier, although building with 4 or more procs might give you better performance, for this particular application, setting MSBuild to 2 proc build (/m:2) gives the performance that is close to 4 or 8 proc build. In addition, you can also set /MP per project or per file to take advantage of compiler level multi-process build. For additional suggestions on how to further tune your build, you can take a look of this blog.
Use Pre-Compiled Headers (PCH)
C++ library headers represent a collection of living, evolving libraries, and they tend to increase in size from release to release. In VS11, for example, the windows headers increased in raw size by 13%. This is due to adding more API functions and types related to Windows 8. The new Windows headers will add more compile time when the PCH is created, not when it is used. Once built, there are many more compiles that use the PCH, whose build time are affected only a tiny amount, if at all. Proper use of precompiled headers continues to be the most effective way to reduce overall build times. If your application uses template extensively, you may also consider pre-instantiate the template types in PCH files.
A small experiment shows the difference using PCH achieves for a single project with around 200 files. Each file has around a hundred lines of code. Various library headers are included in the PCH.
Figure 5: PCH impact of minimizing the effect of size increase of library headers
Use Managed Incremental Build
If you have a managed application, you may take advantage of the managed incremental build to avoid doing a full build when the referenced assemblies have insignificant change. For more information, you can read this blog.
We have made significant throughput improvements to the Compiler Back-end and Linker build phases. If you have an application that is not a heavy user of STL and spend a lot of time in optimization, you should see the build time improvement.
The increase of template types will play a dominant role in the overall build throughput for applications with extensive templates. Applications that use the STL extensively may experience longer build times due to changes mandated by the C++11 Standard. You may also experience slightly longer build time due to the increased number of total headers files in VS11 and Windows 8.
To improve the overall build time, you can take advantage of the multiple cores on your machines to do multiproc builds. Also make sure to use Pre-Compiled headers (PCH). For managed C++ application, be sure to have managed incremental build turned on to improve incremental build performance.
Let Us Know!
We are interested in getting your build throughput performance data if you see any improvement, or slowdown beyond what you might expect from some amount of growth in header files or usage of STL templates when migrating your applications to VS11. You may reply to the blog or send email to lishao at Microsoft dot com.
In addition to capturing the overall build time, you can get compiler and linker time for each compiler/linker instance by passing /Bt to Compiler and /Time to Linker.
· When building in the IDE, you can set /Bt as the additional options for compiler and /Time as the additional options for linker. Make sure you build the application with "Detailed" verbosity. To set the verbosity, you can go to Tools -> Options -> Project and Solutions -> Build and Run, set "MSBuild Project Build Verbosity" to "Detailed".
· For command line build, you can set _CL_=/Bt and _LINK_=/Time in the build environment and build with MSBuild /v:d option.
In your build log, you will see the time spent in C1.dll (FE), C1xx.dll (FE), C2.dll (BE) and linker for each instance of the compiler and linker. You may need to write a simple script to add up those numbers. Please let us know if you would like us to post a script that can do the work. Alternatively, you can enable MSBuild "Diagnostic" logging. It will give you the time spent in Compiler task and linker task, which is close to the compiler and linker time.
We hope that this blog can help you understand more about C++ desktop application build throughput in VS11. If you are interested in C++ Metro Style Application build throughput, which are new for VS11, you can take a look at this blog to get an overview. Note that, we continue to make improvement in C++ Metro Style application build throughput. You should see about 20% overall build throughput improvement compared to Beta in the upcoming release.
Please let us know if you have any feedback. We appreciate your input to help us improve build performance.
 - So, basically, you are saying that build times are going to be even worse than they were in VS10. I am wondering, what kind of response are you hoping to get? Are people supposed to be happy? Are you simply trying to prevent the predictable outcries related to the build times getting worse, not better? It won't work, you know.
 I really don't want to be negative, but each new post on this blog is just... I don't know...
 - The performance downgrade is obviously not nice, but the explanation with the templates is not completely absurd (in contrast to the downgrades concerning XP-Support, new User Interface and Express Edition). I am writing on a static code analyzer and I know, that template parsing takes a lot of time. Additionally, this blog post isn't written in marketing language, so its easier to understand and less offending to the users. Pointing out problems in clear language and with giving reasons usually works fine, if the user base hadn't been made angry before.
 However, if you compiler team had worked on variadic templates, your Macro-Hack wouldn't be necessary. If I understood your STL guy correctly, it is a major performance problem.
 - Why the fu** does this matter when we can't use it due to ~30% of the users on XP? And no VC++ 11 Express..
 - Please, improve link time of native C++. We switch from VS 2005 to VS 2010 recently and link time is faster (thanks for this improvement) but it is still to slow.
 Here is what I had posted on connect many years ago and it is still true with VS 2010 : connect.microsoft.com/.../optimize-link-time-in-real-developers-environment
 We have 24 GB of RAM, you should use it.
 - This is clearly good for game devs since they always need a Release build and probably use LTCG. Not sure if it'll help the rest of us...
 Do you have results for a large application which includes both Managed and Native code? For those cases, will we finally be able to re-enable Incremental Linking?? pretty please!!!! Linking is sooo slow w/o it.
 - This is disappointing. Link time is killing us, and the lack of distributed builds is killing us. Our product runs on Windows and Mac. Building the same C++ code under XCode with distributed builds absolutely flies compared to Visual Studio. It wouldn't matter that compile time is a little slower if it were being distributed across 20 or 30 machines like our XCode builds are.
 - So what you're basically saying is that while you've decided never ever to build a C compiler in terms of language (C99) support, you've nevertheless optimized your C++ compiler for C-like workloads (minimal use of C++ language features such as templates, and the C++ standard library)... Great...
 And this comes on top of ripping out XP support and "forgetting" about C++11 support... I don't want to be too harsh, but can you see why it sometimes appears that Microsoft's compiler team is basically a bunch of monkeys running around in a cage? Is there a *single* thing that your customers care about, that you haven't wrecked or ignored in this release? Has the project properties dialog been made resizable, at least?
 Or are you really planning to sell us a slower compiler, which supports fewer platforms, and doesn't even improve language support apart from fixing a bug in your lambda implementation?
 Perhaps, since template instantiations make your compiler crawl, you should improve how templates are handled in your compiler. I understand GCC 4.7 did some pretty impressive work on that front. And Clang, obviously, was *designed* as a C++ compiler, rather than a C one. And as a result, is blazing fast.
 Perhaps it's time you followed in the footsteps of *every other C++ compiler*, and started designing your compiler for modern C++ code, instead of 1970-style C. We're going to have a lot of templates. Deal with it. We're going to have a lot of code in headers. That's just what the world looks like. We are, in fact, going to write C++ code, and include C++ libraries. If your compiler can't handle that


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Storing and Fueling the Gigantic Online Universe
The digital universe is doubling in size every two years. It currently hold 7.38 billion pages. Where is it all stored?
Where is it all stored?
- Most mega websites store data on servers like a model SDR-TX850-A (144 Terabytes).
- 1024 Gigbytes = 1 Terabyte
- 1 Terabyte = 64 16GB iPhones
- Facebook - 189,000 servers
- Amazon.com - 450,000 servers
- Google - 900,000 servers
How Much Energy is Used?
- 50% for storing info and 50% for cooling and electrical efficiency
- Twitter - 8MW -$240,000/yr
- Zynga - 9MW - $279,000/yr
- Facebook - 27MW - $840,000/yr
- Google - 228MW - $6,600,000/yr
- The Internet uses more power per day than Russia with its 141,900,000 people.
- But data center servers account for less than 2%of the world's energy consumption.
The Power of a Google Search
- Google users perform 4.717 billion searches per day.
- 1 Google search uses the same amount of energy the human body burns in 10 seconds.
- 100 Google searches use enough power to iron a shirt.
- 1 month of Google searches could run five freezers for 1,000 years.
How About Emissions?
- Google 168,000 tons of CO2 produced per year.
- Facebook 257,00 tons of CO2 produced per year.
- Average Home 17 tons of CO2 produced per year.
- Average Car 12 tons of CO2 produced per year.
What is the Fuel?
- Facebook - 38% clean, 62% coal and nuclear.
- Amazon.com - 100% coal and nuclear.
- Google - 33% clean, 67% coal and nuclear.